{"id":2362,"date":"2007-07-29T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/07\/29\/somethingsomething-the-bees-knees-somethingsomething-try-to-please\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T16:40:00","slug":"somethingsomething-the-bees-knees-somethingsomething-try-to-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/07\/29\/somethingsomething-the-bees-knees-somethingsomething-try-to-please\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;somethingsomething the bees knees somethingsomething try to please&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/921567415\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1400\/921567415_22ae3c00e9_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/921567415\/\">the photographer&#8217;s frazetta<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/foxtongue\/\">Foxtongue<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/olpc.com\/\">The One Laptop Per Child Foundation&#8217;s beginning production.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fourty-five minutes until freedom. There&#8217;s a loud show downstairs, lacing the air with frantic piano, lathering the foyer with a nervous energy. Some student thing. It&#8217;s the sort of music I would choose to unsettle an audience with, as if I wanted to dislodge their perception of time, kick it disjointed and paste filters all over the lights. In my head, the dancers are testaments to fanciful make-up and Cirque-style motions. They kick, scream, and astonish. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually a ballet performance. Something bleach-blonde and mild, culturally appropriate for the family and friends in attendance, many of whom were too old for the stairs. Many of which, I&#8217;m sure, are currently wincing at the thrashing rock music that&#8217;s replaced the piano, that&#8217;s begging for big hair and glittery tight pants lined-up outside of cheap bars where the floors are perpetually sticky with spilled and stolen beer. Of course, any minute now, this will all segue into something hideously classical.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, there it went. French baroque, rather, and overcooked, dreaming of soulful arpeggios that might travel barefoot on horseback in the rain along the Seine into the sunset. And it didn&#8217;t do the dishes, either.<\/p>\n<p>Oops, no. Now it&#8217;s faux-traditional Irish rock, a la Riverdance. Mixed with beat-mix 60&#8217;s remixed retro-pop.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five minutes until freedom.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the photographer&#8217;s frazetta Originally uploaded by Foxtongue. The One Laptop Per Child Foundation&#8217;s beginning production. Fourty-five minutes until freedom. There&#8217;s a loud show downstairs, lacing the air with frantic piano, lathering the foyer with a nervous energy. Some student thing. It&#8217;s the sort of music I would choose to unsettle an audience with, as if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/07\/29\/somethingsomething-the-bees-knees-somethingsomething-try-to-please\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;somethingsomething the bees knees somethingsomething try to please&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,1462,444,27,22],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flickr","tag-frazetta","tag-lung","tag-mishka","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}