{"id":56,"date":"2003-08-13T23:46:43","date_gmt":"2003-08-14T03:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2006-06-27T23:15:54","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T03:15:54","slug":"they-call-me-kevin-kevin-kevin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"They call me Kevin, Kevin, Kevin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Something non-war related<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Thursday marks 10 years of marriage for Laureen and me.<\/p>\n<p>2. I&#8217;m still ridiculously in love with her.<\/p>\n<p>3. I have no clue why she puts up with some of the stupid things I do (no, I won&#8217;t elaborate on that).<\/p>\n<p>We went and saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueman.com\">Blue Man Group<\/a> at Nextstage last night. That was a great show. Battling LED signs, embarrassed audience members, a camera peering into a guy&#8217;s mouth (thank God he&#8217;d brushed his teeth). The only major disappointment was the vapidity of the second act. They were a group called <strong>venus<\/strong>hum. It was two guys and a female singer. The gentleman on the left had two keyboards in front of him. One of them was the bass &#8220;let&#8217;s see if we can make the walls shake&#8221; setting. He used it. A lot. The guy on the right (introduced as &#8220;Tony Miracle&#8221;) had two keyboards, a Mac powerbook that seemed to be running all of the actual music, and a guitar that he cradled in his arms like a newborn baby while he was playing it. The lead singer&#8217;s voice could be best described as &#8220;I haven&#8217;t quite gotten out of the teenage angst mode of wailing words when actual lyrics might have made a better impact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Techno music. Slow techno music, not fast enough to exercise to, not slow enough to be decently danceable. Lots of wailing. WOOOOOAAAAOAOAOOAAOAOAOOAAOAOAA. That type of thing.<\/p>\n<p>The lead singer&#8217;s movements consisted of sort-of-dancing. She looked pretty much out of place. They had pretty pictures of a hummingbird on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>BMG were incredible. If you get to see Complex, go and see it. You will not be disappointed. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exhibit13.com\">Exhibit 13<\/a> before you go.<\/p>\n<p>Rock movement #43943: The fawning praise on blogs around the world.<\/p>\n<p>A few sites to keep momentum going:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouseforsale.org\">Ralph Nader gets revenge for the pie in the face<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planecrashinfo.com\/lastwords.htm\">Last words from plane crashes<\/a>. Train-wreck fascination. I couldn&#8217;t help but read some of the transcripts.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good day, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something non-war related 1. Thursday marks 10 years of marriage for Laureen and me. 2. I&#8217;m still ridiculously in love with her. 3. I have no clue why she puts up with some of the stupid things I do (no, I won&#8217;t elaborate on that). We went and saw Blue Man Group at Nextstage last &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=56\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They call me Kevin, Kevin, Kevin&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}