{"id":2951,"date":"2009-03-25T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/03\/25\/because-i-need-distraction-after-being-kicked-in-the-teeth\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T13:17:00","slug":"because-i-need-distraction-after-being-kicked-in-the-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/03\/25\/because-i-need-distraction-after-being-kicked-in-the-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"because I need distraction after being kicked in the teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Six-Word Reviews of 1,302 SXSW MP3s<\/b><br \/>\n<i>via <a href=\"http:\/\/jwz.livejournal.com\/1032377.html\">jwz<\/a>:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You know, when I listened to all of the 2007 and 2008 SXSW torrents, I thought that was kind of hardcore.<\/p>\n<p>I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/reviews\/sixword_reviews_of_763_sxsw_mp3s.php\">Paul Ford is hardcore<\/a>. He listened to all of the 2008 songs, all the way through, and <i>wrote six word reviews of each.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant reviews, even. Fun, sparkling, <i>delightful<\/i> reviews like &#8220;This guitarist has too many feelings.&#8221; rated with a well thought out yet amusingly arbitrary rating system gently broken into sections by band name anecdotes, clever charts, perceptive bon mots, and the occasional entertaining short-yet-rewarding paragraph about a particular song\/artist\/title\/genre, like, <i>&#8220;ANTHEM: This song by Born in the Flood is inexcusable. Consider: (1) It is called \u201cAnthem,\u201d and it is an anthem. (2) It sounds like Bono and the Edge riding around on Sparklehorses. (3) I can\u2019t understand the lyrics but there\u2019s a crown mentioned. It was heretofore considered impossible for any singer to overcome these cognitive challenges in order to create a distinct and memorable song. And yet this man does exactly that. Or to put it another way: When you were 23 and living alone without many friends and definitely no girlfriends, did you ever jerk off and cry at the same time? This is your song.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In a word, the article was glorious. Even better, thankfully, oh so thankfully, <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/reviews\/six-word_reviews_of_1302_sxsw_mp3s.php\">Paul Ford has done it again<\/a>.<\/b> Click. Read. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><i>ps. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmanganmusic.com\/\">Dan<\/a>&#8216;s review, four out of five stars, &#8220;It\u2019s difficult, living as an automaton.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six-Word Reviews of 1,302 SXSW MP3s via jwz: &#8220;You know, when I listened to all of the 2007 and 2008 SXSW torrents, I thought that was kind of hardcore. I was wrong. Paul Ford is hardcore. He listened to all of the 2008 songs, all the way through, and wrote six word reviews of each.&#8220; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/03\/25\/because-i-need-distraction-after-being-kicked-in-the-teeth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;because I need distraction after being kicked in the teeth&#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":[451,22,1346],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-awesome","tag-music","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","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=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}