{"id":16204,"date":"2012-10-24T20:37:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T00:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=16204"},"modified":"2012-10-25T07:04:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T11:04:30","slug":"the-next-bohemian-rhapsody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-next-bohemian-rhapsody\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next &#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v6uIiwb94Hg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a <strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong> biography this week, <em>Mercury<\/em>. It&#8217;s pretty good. The author can actually put together a few interesting sentences in a row, which I can&#8217;t say for too many biographers. The author and the people interviewed for the book all think <strong>Queen<\/strong> was great, a really important band. I still don&#8217;t like them beyond 3 or 4 songs. I tried listening to a bunch of their stuff last night, and each song reminded me of how much I thought they were stupid when I was a kid\u2014and how stupid I thought all the kids were who were trying to convince me they were great. I will give them credit for being perhaps the most talented band that adds up to very little for me. Mercury, in particular, was an outstanding lead man. He was like <strong>Nicolas Cage<\/strong> and <strong>Laura Dern<\/strong> in <em>Wild at Heart<\/em>. Remember that turd? Nic and Laura acted their asses off to keep David Lynch&#8217;s latent effort at wearing a leather jacket halfway amusing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, the Mercury bio dedicates an entire chapter to the promotional film that launched &#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody,&#8221; one of many Queen songs that make me want to stick a fork in my mid-teens. Someone in the book even compared the video&#8217;s impact to the Kennedy assassination footage. I&#8217;m almost tempted to call that thing up on YouTube and watch it for the first time in years.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I watched this fun video made by my favorite radio personality, WFMU&#8217;s <strong>Tom Scharpling<\/strong>. I sense the impact it will have on society will be somewhere between the Zapruder film and an airing of <em>When Things Were Rotten<\/em>. The song, by <strong>Nude Beach<\/strong>, <a title=\"THIS POST FUCKING ROCKS!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/beat-this\" target=\"_blank\">fucking rocks<\/a>. Scharpling and his partner in crime, <strong>Jonny Wurster<\/strong>, bring many belly laughs to my life. I&#8217;m always happy to do my part to spread their world. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a Freddie Mercury biography this week, Mercury. It&#8217;s pretty good. The author can actually put together a few interesting sentences in a row, which I can&#8217;t say for too many biographers. The author and the people interviewed for the book all think Queen was great, a really important band. I still don&#8217;t <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-next-bohemian-rhapsody\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[159,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}