{"id":1636,"date":"2008-08-18T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T14:03:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-12T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:36:17","slug":"battle-royale-extremely-strange-bedfello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-extremely-strange-bedfello\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Royale: Extremely Strange Bedfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there I was, perched on the edge of the porcelain convenience, veins popping out of my forehead, heaving and straining to dislodge a particularly hideous agglomerate of Indian food, chile relleno, and soft-serv ice cream. I shifted back and forth nervously on the seat, pressed my elbows against my knees, and with one final, purple-faced cry towards the heavens, &#8220;ngggrrrgggghhhh&#8230;ALEX LIFESON!!!,&#8221; it was done.<\/p>\n<p>As the sweat dripped off my brow, I turned to contemplate my peanut-studded masterwork, floating placidly in the water below. Then, like a bolt of lightning, two thoughts smashed together in my mind: one, Mod&#8217;s recent <em>Last Man Standing<\/em> challenge to find unlikely movie stars in rock videos; and two, my cry for help to Mr. Lifeson in my hour of need. My mind raced back to a video that, while not appropriate for Mr. Mod&#8217;s challenge, inspired me to post.<\/p>\n<p>I ask this question of you: <em>Can you think of a musical collaboration stranger than this one?<\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"vvqbox vvqdailymotion\" style=\"width:480px;height:221px;\"><span id=\"vvq-1636-dailymotion-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x1vy53\">http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x1vy53<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<p>Make sure you hang around until mile marker 0:59 to see what I&#8217;m talking about here.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there I was, perched on the edge of the porcelain convenience, veins popping out of my forehead, heaving and straining to dislodge a particularly hideous agglomerate of Indian food, chile relleno, and soft-serv ice cream. I shifted back and forth nervously on the seat, pressed my elbows against my knees, and with one final, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-extremely-strange-bedfello\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}