{"id":766,"date":"2006-11-24T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T10:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2014-08-28T18:11:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T18:11:20","slug":"are-you-a-musician-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Are you a musician? Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I kinda forgot this bit from the previous “Are you a musician?<\/a><\/b>” blog entry. Here goes:<\/p>\n

Shel<\/b>: Are you a musician?
\nAlbert<\/b>: Yeah, I play guitar…
\nShel<\/b>: Do you play bass?
\nAlbert<\/b>: Yeah, I can play bass too…
\nLisa<\/b>: Ooh! What are your favorite bands?
\nAlbert<\/b>: Oh, uh… Red Hot Chili Peppers? Incubus, Faith No More, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Jimi Hendrix… but as of late I’ve diversified into a lot of different genres.
\nLisa<\/b>: What about Queen?
\nAlbert<\/b>: OH YEAH! QUEEN! How could I forget! My current favorite band! I can be walking down the street when I get a Jack Black moment and start singing a Brian May solo aloud. (I wasn’t making this up to impress her; name a Queen song and I’ll do a Jack Black for you.)
\nLisa<\/b>: Oooh! I think Freddie Mercury’s death date just passed! I wanted to blast Queen songs out loud in memory of him!<\/p>\n

I silently whipped out my phone, and Googled “Freddie Mercury death<\/i>“. It said November 24th 1991.<\/p>\n

Albert<\/b>: Well, I’d learn a song. I’ve been doing that with some parts of Bohemian Rhapsody and some other songs, but their songs are quite complex.
\nLisa<\/b>: Yeah, but I only know basic guitar…
\nAlbert<\/b>: Oh, and you’re not too late; he died on November 24th, 1991.
\nLisa<\/b>: Alright! I shall remember that and blast his music then.
\nAlbert<\/b>: Oh, and you know, as I was going up the lift, realizing I was in the Ritz Carlton, the lyrics, “Dining at the Ritz, we’ll meet at nine precisely<\/i>” played in my head.<\/p>\n

Brokeback Mountain did not make me cry<\/a>. Jim Hutton’s story (click here and look for “Wembley”<\/a>), now that<\/b> was a tearjerker. I read its entirety on my phone in a minor bout of insomnia. Beautiful, beautiful story.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, his autobiography would make a great movie. I’d watch it even if it was 3 hours long. (They should leave out those<\/b> bits, though.)<\/p>\n

Did you know? He was born on the 5th of September, 1946 as Farrokh Bulsara<\/b>, in Zanzibar<\/b>! (Yes, such a place exists; it’s an African island.)<\/p>\n

Oh, and here’s another very recent “musician” picture:<\/p>\n

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Hello peacock<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I kinda forgot this bit from the previous “Are you a musician?” blog entry. Here goes: Shel: Are you a musician? Albert: Yeah, I play guitar… Shel: Do you play bass? Albert: Yeah, I can play bass too… Lisa: Ooh! What are your favorite bands? Albert: Oh, uh… Red Hot Chili Peppers? Incubus, Faith No […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7462,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/7462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}