{"id":334,"date":"2010-09-26T22:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2010-09-26T22:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T05:00:21","slug":"this-is-a-fun-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/26\/this-is-a-fun-one\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a fun one"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t do feel-good songs. I really don’t. Maybe I will someday – I’m not philosophically opposed to them or anything. I’d like to write a couple, if for no other reason than to throw everything else into sharp relief. That said, if I did write one, in the here and now, if there is hope to be found in any of my songs… it’s here. Don’t believe me? Don’t think I can? That’s okay. Listen to the music:<\/em>
\n<\/embed><a href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.bandcamp.com\/track\/stars\">Stars by Crime and the Forces of Evil<\/a><\/noembed><\/object><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never been happy with a bass line like I&#8217;m happy with this one. It was really hard to bring its levels down in the verses and other places where it needed to be, because I wanted all the notes of it right out there in front. For a few minutes, I was so much better on that bass than I actually am, and I just thank the gods that I got it recorded. Don&#8217;t ask me to do it again, tho&#8217; I&#8217;ll sure as hell be trying. Scroll up and <em>listen to the music<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I was about three days away from giving up on this song. If not for forever, at least for a long time, because bass aside, I couldn&#8217;t summon the vocal chops to make it happen. Not the way it should&#8217;ve been happening. Then, somehow, the bass line I shouldn&#8217;t&#8217;ve been able to perform pulled vocals out of me that I hadn&#8217;t been able to perform &#8211; seriously, it felt like it physically grabbed me and said <em>Do. Now.<\/em> And I did. Now I just need to be able to do it all the time.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t take my word for it. You don&#8217;t have to. <em>Listen to the music<\/em>. It&#8217;s all right here. Just hit play.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer.swf\/track=3875564325\/size=venti\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=000000\/\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer.swf\/track=3875564325\/size=venti\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=000000\/\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" quality=high allowScriptAccess=always allowNetworking=always wmode=transparent bgcolor=#FFFFFF ><\/embed><noembed><a href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.bandcamp.com\/track\/stars\">Stars by Crime and the Forces of Evil<\/a><\/noembed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t do feel-good songs. I really don&#8217;t. Maybe I will someday &#8211; I&#8217;m not philosophically opposed to them or anything. I&#8217;d like to write a couple, if for no other reason than to throw everything else into sharp relief. That said, if I did write one, in the here and now, if there is [&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}