{"id":1110,"date":"2025-11-26T16:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/?page_id=1110"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:17:25","slug":"miserable-bastard-demo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/miserable-bastard-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"Miserable Bastard (demo)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Miserable Bastard&#8221; is is my love letter to the assholes I know. Let&#8217;s assume they don&#8217;t know who they are because they really have no ability to self-criticize or self-evaluate&#8230;just self-adore! I affected a pseudo-Britpop accent simply because I felt like the music called for it. This is the first recorded take of the song, and probably the first time I ever played it all the way through. I wrote it as I watched my favorite football team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, make Jon Kitna and the Cincinnati Bengals look like a bunch of kittens. Literally, this was originally posted within an hour of it being written, and it&#8217;s truly dedicated to a couple of guys I know, because they are truly miserable bastards! This song also holds the unique distinction of being the only song I ever recorded at our condo in Jacksonville (lived there Dec 2005-May 2006).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/miserablebastard.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Miserable Bastard&#8221; is is my love letter to the assholes I know. Let&#8217;s assume they don&#8217;t know who they are because they really have no ability to self-criticize or self-evaluate&#8230;just self-adore! I affected a pseudo-Britpop accent simply because I felt like the music called for it. This is the first recorded take of the song, and probably the first time I ever played it all the way through. I wrote it as I watched my favorite football team, the Pittsburgh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/miserable-bastard-demo\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1110","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1110\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}