{"id":1108,"date":"2006-06-04T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2006-06-04T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T00:24:08","slug":"a-lighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1108","title":{"rendered":"A lighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span> lighter note: I see that Sonic Youth (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sonic_Youth\">wikipedia<\/a>) is about to release a new LP\/CD, &#8216;Rather Ripped&#8217;, in about a couple of days. Sonic Youth&#8217;s site is actually an oasis of older stuff (<a href=\"http:\/\/sonicyouth.com\/archives\/vidselect\/index.html\">QuickTime videos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicyouth.com\/archives\/mp3-selector\/index.html\">MP3 songs<\/a>) they did, including their experimental work, like <a href=\"http:\/\/boss.streamos.com\/download\/sonicyouth\/videos\/hires\/piano.mov\">&#8216;Piano Piece #13&#8217;<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hey: The Dutch youth team just became <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nu.nl\/news\/746579\/43\/Jong_Oranje_Europees_kampioen.html\">European champions<\/a> (Warning: Dutch only).\n<\/p>\n<p>What <em>is<\/em> mentioned at the BBC, is the apparent popularity of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/5046316.stm\">Sandi Thom<\/a>. The Scottish singer demoted the &#8216;Gnarls Barkley&#8217; to the 2nd position in the UK Pop charts. No really! The big question is, why would I mention this. To be honest with you: I have no idea. Looking at the clip of that particularly hit song, I&#8217;m not impressed with missus Thom&#8217;s lyrical ability. But maybe that&#8217;s because I&#8217;m literally out of fashion and out of time. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=814\">&#8220;Ouwe zeur&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lighter note: I see that Sonic Youth (wikipedia) is about to release a new LP\/CD, &#8216;Rather Ripped&#8217;, in about a couple of days. Sonic Youth&#8217;s site is actually an oasis of older stuff (QuickTime videos, MP3 songs) they did, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1108\">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":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108"}],"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=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}