{"id":100,"date":"2005-05-07T16:52:52","date_gmt":"2005-05-07T19:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=100"},"modified":"2005-05-07T16:52:55","modified_gmt":"2005-05-07T19:52:55","slug":"which-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Which Vega?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>alking about not-wasted talent (they do exist, trust me), I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannevega.com\/\">Suzanne Vega&#8217;s<\/a> still around. I consider her one of the better lyricists around, probably on par with the other lyricist I can appreciate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leonardcohen.com\/\">Leonard Cohen<\/a>. Um, I wouldn&#8217;t really call him a singer, but you know what I mean.\n<\/p>\n<p>Vega&#8217;s official site has descriptions and meaning of several songs, so in case you&#8217;re still not sure about the background of a particular song you may, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannevega.com\/video\/interviewVideo.htm\">now might be a good time<\/a>. Only fragments of movies, but I find this one, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannevega.com\/video\/meta\/17book_and_a_cover_fast.asx\">Book and Cover (1998)<\/a> [WMV, RAM also available]  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannevega.com\/video\/musicVideos3.htm\">around this page<\/a>], a kind of out-of-time, if you know what I mean, particularly when the shot with the guy and the plane comes up. Was this really shot in 1998? [Note, although Jonathan Demme shot one of Vega&#8217;s videos, I&#8217;m actually more impressed by the video that accompanies the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannevega.com\/video\/meta\/06book_of_dreams_fast.asx\">&#8216;Book of Dreams&#8217; song<\/a> (WMV, RAM also available)].\n<\/p>\n<p>Too bad not too many artists provide complete videos, like Sonic Youth does, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about not-wasted talent (they do exist, trust me), I see that Suzanne Vega&#8217;s still around. I consider her one of the better lyricists around, probably on par with the other lyricist I can appreciate, Leonard Cohen. Um, I wouldn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}