{"id":561,"date":"2006-02-06T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2006-02-06T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T18:49:12","slug":"limping-along-singing-my-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Limping Along, Singing my Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should have used the foam earplug between my toes a week ago!  What blissful world is this where the earplug nestles comfortably and stays in place without the benefit of tape or glue?  Foam earplugs: not just for tuning out your neighbour&#8217;s incessant electronic music anymore!<\/p>\n<p>Gino Vanelli has made a new pop album.  <\/p>\n<p>Now, try to forget I said that!  Ha!  You can&#8217;t!  Neither can I!  I refuse to suffer alone with this knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>We kept hearing this wretched song on the radio, it was all &#8220;Jazz Choir&#8221;y, you know, like in grade 10? about how <i>it&#8217;s only love and don&#8217;t worry about it<\/i> and <i>it&#8217;s only love hey I can learn to live without it<\/i> culminating with this no-soul wail about how the singer would like us to &#8220;excuse [him] while he goes off and [dies]&#8230;&#8221; with a big long trill on the &#8220;iiiiiiiiii&#8221; part of &#8220;die&#8221; and everytime we heard it, Saint Aardvark would say, &#8220;who the hell is this again?  Is it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southparkquotes.com\/characters\/big-gay-al-quotes.html\"> Big Gay Al?&#8221;<\/a>  and I would say, &#8220;I think it must be a Canadian Idol winner&#8230; it has that desperate false showmanship about it, mixed with a voice I don&#8217;t recognize, combined with uber-frequent airplay (indicating Canadian Content)&#8230;&#8221; (only I said it much less coherently because, of late, I am much less coherent &#8211; pregnant-head is not a myth, people;  yesterday I tried locking my apartment door with the front-door key and then got really frustrated when it wouldn&#8217;t work ) but as it turns out, the singer in question is <a href=\"http:\/\/ginovannelli.tripod.com\/\"> Mr. Wild Horses himself.<\/a>  Hey, I liked Wild Horses enough.  20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>My favourite part of that fansite (other than ALL THE PHOTOS especially the crotch shot with Gino reading Walt Whitman, oh and can you imagine meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/ginovannelli.tripod.com\/newtatd\/int.html\"> this hair <\/a> in a dark alley?) is near the end and yes, this is a cheap shot as the site&#8217;s owner obviously does not speak English as a first language, but:  &#8220;Beware of new Gino Vannelli live concerts in the Winter of 2006&#8221;?  Awesome.  Thanks for the tip!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have used the foam earplug between my toes a week ago! What blissful world is this where the earplug nestles comfortably and stays in place without the benefit of tape or glue? Foam earplugs: not just for tuning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=561\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}