{"id":1697,"date":"2014-05-31T10:54:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T18:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2014-07-04T13:53:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:53:54","slug":"ramblings-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/ramblings-viii\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramblings VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I mentioned before that I&#8217;ve only had <a title=\"#1 Record\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=986\">3 favorite albums<\/a> in my lifetime. A three day stretch in April had me revisiting the whole Nirvana catalogue for the 20th Anniversary, the release of 6 <a title=\"iTunes - Appetizer by Benji Hughes\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/appetizer\/id857140833\">new Benji Hughes songs<\/a>, and the announcement of a <a title=\"Pledge Music - Stellar Motel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pledgemusic.com\/projects\/mikedoughty2\">new Mike Doughty album<\/a>. Synergy is cool.<\/li>\n<li>In that awesome <a title=\"Meet Benji Hughes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2014\/04\/benji-hughess-infinite-songbook.html\">Vulture article<\/a> about Benji, it blows my mind that <em>A Love Extreme<\/em> album has barely sold 6,000 copies. But this part is so true:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Very few people have heard\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"color: #222222;\">A Love Extreme,<\/i><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00c2\u00a0in other words, but some inordinate percentage of those who have adore it. If you go to Hughes&#8217;s concerts, you may find just a couple hundred \u00c2\u00adpeople in the room, but they will be singing every word to every song.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>No offense to the Devics, Shurman, Sake Bombs, or H is Orange &#8211; but <a title=\"The Record Company\" href=\"http:\/\/therecordcompany.net\">The Record Company<\/a> is easily the best live local band I&#8217;ve seen over my fifteen years in LA.<\/li>\n<li>Somehow I never heard of the\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Time Traveling Robots in Space\" href=\"http:\/\/timetravelingrobotsinspace.blogspot.com\">Time Traveling Robots in Space<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0podcast until after it ended, but I love the time travel segments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned before that I&#8217;ve only had 3 favorite albums in my lifetime. A three day stretch in April had me revisiting the whole Nirvana catalogue for the 20th Anniversary, the release of 6 new Benji Hughes songs, and the announcement of a new Mike Doughty album. Synergy is cool. In that awesome Vulture article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-debris"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-rn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2083,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/new-novel-l-extreme\/","url_meta":{"origin":1697,"position":0},"title":"New Novel: L Extreme","author":"LBDG","date":"April 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been awhile but we're back with style... 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