{"id":856,"date":"2007-06-09T06:26:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T14:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=856"},"modified":"2007-06-09T06:26:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T14:26:36","slug":"thats-more-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s More Like It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the car yesterday morning I heard the kind of cover song I can get behind: a reggae version of Michael Bolton&#8217;s &#8220;A Love So Beautiful.&#8221;  Now, I am partial to this song since it&#8217;s the closest thing to an &#8220;our song&#8221; that Saint Aardvark and I have ever had but aside from that, what I really liked about the cover is that it was totally different from the original.  Which to me is the whole point of a cover tune. Otherwise it&#8217;s just karaoke.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, wait, did you see me just claim a Michael Bolton tune as a meaningful part of my relationship?  And you just ACCEPTED it and kept reading?  You guys.  <\/p>\n<p>Our relationship was built just like this city: on rock and roll.<\/p>\n<p>(Ah, not really but I like that sentence a lot and I&#8217;m not deleting it.  I guess it was built more on rock and roll than on Michael Bolton, though.)<\/p>\n<p>Way back in the way-back-ether, when we were in between dating each other, he requested this Michael Bolton tune on a radio show and had it dedicated to me for my birthday.  Then he recorded the DJ&#8217;s intro and put the recording on a mixed tape.  <\/p>\n<p>At another point in our long history, he suprised me with two tickets to POCOHONTAS ON ICE!<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, I married him to keep the world safe for the rest of you.  I am a freedom fighter for the Crazy Revolution.  <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning I found some bhangra for Trombone to dance to.  I found it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viprecords.co.uk\/\"> here<\/a>.  The artist&#8217;s name is Ranj B and you can watch one of his videos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhangraomega.com\/videos\/ranj-b-aaja-khediye-24\"> here <\/a> if you are interested.<\/p>\n<p>As all of this (including this post) happened yesterday, I would have posted this oh about 24 hours ago but I sent the video below to Youtube but YT was being a little assholish &#8211; I guess too many people are watching Paris Hilton peepee in jail &#8211; so after waiting a full day for my video to be available for viewing, I Just This Morning switched to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\"> Vimeo <\/a> for my cutebabyvideohosting needs and it seems pretty sweet so far.  Much nicer website (I love brown and blue together) &#038; interface (little things like a progress bar to tell you how much of your clip has been uploaded) and a lot less busy.  I could do without all the logos and the progress bar across the image but as long as you can see those hips a-swivelling and hear me doing my running commentary (must remember to STOP DOING THAT when I go back to the office) it&#8217;s all good, right?<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=208364\" quality=\"best\" scale=\"exactfit\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/clip:208364\">The Rhythm!  The Rhythm!<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/user:205587\">tortured potato<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/\">Vimeo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the car yesterday morning I heard the kind of cover song I can get behind: a reggae version of Michael Bolton&#8217;s &#8220;A Love So Beautiful.&#8221; Now, I am partial to this song since it&#8217;s the closest thing to an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=856\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more-about-me","category-music","category-trombone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}