{"id":1366,"date":"2011-11-04T01:18:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T08:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2016-06-17T00:58:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T07:58:45","slug":"this-should-be-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/04\/this-should-be-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"This should be fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re reading this on Friday, listen up: I&#8217;m playing <em>tonight<\/em>, providing some instrumental backup for <a href=\"http:\/\/leannansidhe.bandcamp.com\">Leannan Sidhe<\/a>, at a house concert at 13309 23rd Ave. NE in Seattle. RSVP info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=279800855375090\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s mostly their show, of course, but Leannan Sidhe&#8217;s lead singer has also asked me to perform one of mine: <a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/track\/my-boyfriend\">My Boyfriend<\/a>, which is my political Sailor Moon song about writing out queer characters in US translation. (If you don&#8217;t know the <a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/track\/my-boyfriend-spoken-intro\">story<\/a>, listen to it before the song.) This is pretty much the opposite of her and her music &#8211; so really, I&#8217;m there to throw her into sharp relief. XD<\/p>\n<p>But the request got me thinking, &#8220;Y&#8217;know, this song is missing something, live.&#8221; Of course, what it&#8217;s missing is a drum kit. But aside from that, I realised that I think it&#8217;s <em>also<\/em> missing a really terrible costume change mid-show.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/d\/de\/Sailorneptune.jpg\/220px-Sailorneptune.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2011-11\/sailor-necktie.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><i>I have taken <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gFaZyHxQGYQ\">possibly disturbing<\/a> steps to rectify this situation.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then tomorrow, all the way down in the wilds north of Olympia, in the South Sound, I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=272339172805837\">Spooky Action at a Distance<\/a>, where I&#8217;m contributing a set and Juli will be doing a short reading and hopefully some glasswork and maybe some other things! All of which I hope happen. It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve done anything Seriously Arty. One way or another, THERE WILL BE ART!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the latest Trad o&#8217; th&#8217; Month, <a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/track\/red-is-the-rose-with-leannan-sidhe\">Red is the Rose (with Leannan Sidhe)<\/a> is, like the rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/music.crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/album\/cracksman-betty\">Cracksman Betty<\/a> project, a free\/pay-what-you-want download.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a couple of people say they feel bad about downloading without hitting the tip jar, so don&#8217;t download free things. Really, if I minded, I&#8217;d put a price on it. This is what <i>Cracksman Betty<\/i> is <em>for<\/em>, along with experimentation and learning. Put another way: I need ears more than I need a dollar. NOT THAT BOTH WOULDN&#8217;T BE GOOD. But if I want your money that much? Don&#8217;t worry. I&#8217;ll steal it from you. XD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re reading this on Friday, listen up: I&#8217;m playing tonight, providing some instrumental backup for Leannan Sidhe, at a house concert at 13309 23rd Ave. NE in Seattle. RSVP info here. It&#8217;s mostly their show, of course, but Leannan Sidhe&#8217;s lead singer has also asked me to perform one of mine: My Boyfriend, which [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows","category-songs","category-tours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9391,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/9391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}