{"id":54,"date":"2008-09-10T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2008-09-10T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T22:10:00","slug":"ponderings-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/ponderings-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponderings&#8230;etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people like Emo?<br \/>Apparently neutered men talking about their feelings is okay so long as you yelp the words.<\/p>\n<p>Why does there seem to be a &#8220;uniform&#8221; for people who like certain genres of music? So they&#8217;re unique &#8211; just like everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t I seem to find another musician kind of like me here in Austin, who likes a lot of the same stuff and is around my age and can play multiple instruments well, and who might be interested in collaborating with me on some music?<br \/>I guess it&#8217;s time to post an ad to Craigslist.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that I never seem to be satisfied, no matter how fun and awesome my band experiences are (like my current band, which I LOVE)?<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t an avowed agnostic or atheist even dream of winning any national political office in the USA, when it EXPLICITLY states in the Constitution that no religious test is required? Wait &#8211; that&#8217;s not a musical pondering. Moving on.<\/p>\n<p>Why does it cost so damn much to fix electronics? It cost me $147 to fix my $200 speaker (mind you, $30 of that was a rush charge &#8211; otherwise it would have taken 2 months to have it even looked at). It&#8217;s too bad they don&#8217;t have some sort of gear insurance policy or something &#8211; like a total replacement warranty.<\/p>\n<p>Well, peace and love. Playing a frat party Friday, then two weeks after that we&#8217;re back in Killeen (YAY!). Still have some serious woodshedding to do on the acoustic stuff for the wedding in October. It&#8217;s still nowhere near as good as I&#8217;d like it to be (although I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s passable).<\/p>\n<p>Until next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do people like Emo?Apparently neutered men talking about their feelings is okay so long as you yelp the words. Why does there seem to be a &#8220;uniform&#8221; for people who like certain genres of music? So they&#8217;re unique &#8211; just like everyone else. Why can&#8217;t I seem to find another musician kind of like me here in Austin, who likes a lot of the same stuff and is around my age and can play multiple instruments well, and who&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/ponderings-etc\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicalschizo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}