{"id":647,"date":"2006-08-29T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T17:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2006-08-29T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T17:37:22","slug":"i-spell-it-w-a-n-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"I Spell it &#8220;W-A-N-K&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two things I heard yesterday:<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernblues.com\/review_run_neil_run.html\"> An album of instrumental covers of Neil Young songs.<\/a>  The band is &#8220;Sisters Euclid,&#8221; the album is called &#8220;Run Neil Run&#8221; and I would advise anyone within earshot to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, unless you wish to have your THOUGHTS PROVOKED.  Like with a version of &#8220;Southern Man&#8221; where the guitar howls, shrieks and accuses, while the organ plinks out &#8220;Dixie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why?  would you take perfectly good lyrical content, discard it and try to re-interpret using electric guitar?  (because you are a guitar boy) And how, how? could this have been produced? (because you are a guitar boy with PULL.)<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of self-indulgent pap, we heard Nickelback&#8217;s new single on the local easy listening radio station while we bought vegetables.  Poor Chad Kroeger.  I think we can all agree on one thing: easy listening, he&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>(Since he got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalgateway.com\/news\/read\/32810\"> arrested <\/a> on suspicion of drunk driving [he is pleading not-guilty] I have learned that his real last name isn&#8217;t even Kroeger!  It&#8217;s Turton!  Why would you change your name to Kroeger?  If you could pick a last name and you knew you were heading for adult contempo &#8211; oh, I mean ROCK &#8211; stardom, why not pick a last name like  Sanchez.  Chad Sanchez.  I like that!)  <\/p>\n<p>Tell me all about it, Chad.  Let&#8217;s hang out and you can tell me all your secrets.  And then I&#8217;ll tell the internet and you can write a song about me and say things like, &#8220;oooh she&#8217;s a skank and a bitch\/that cheeseblog witch\/she really sold me out\/she makes me shout\/ai ai ai\/I&#8217;m just a man\/she said she was a fan\/man oh man&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b>high kicks<\/b><br \/>\n<b>fireworks<\/b><br \/>\n<b>high kicks<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things I heard yesterday: An album of instrumental covers of Neil Young songs. The band is &#8220;Sisters Euclid,&#8221; the album is called &#8220;Run Neil Run&#8221; and I would advise anyone within earshot to do just that. Oh, unless you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=647\">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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}