{"id":1848,"date":"2008-12-05T14:48:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T19:48:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T15:48:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T15:48:29","slug":"last-man-standing-rock-n-roll-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-rock-n-roll-related\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Rock &#8216;n Roll-Related Lines Uttered by a Character in a Movie That Isn&#8217;t Specifically About Rock &#8216;n Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The subject line should be self-explanatory, but in case it&#8217;s not clear enough, this <strong>rules out<\/strong> lines from <em>Spinal Tap<\/em>, <em>School of Rock<\/em>, <em>That Thing You Do<\/em>, and that movie starring Paul Simon (with Lou Reed!), <em>One-Trick Pony<\/em>. On the other hand, I can think of killer lines about rock &#8216;n roll in movies like <em>Repo Man<\/em> and <em>Fast Times at Ridgemont High<\/em>, two movies that embrace rock &#8216;n roll culture but are NOT about rock &#8216;n roll in any way.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could find the full rant from <strong>Martin Donovan<\/strong>&#8216;s character in <strong>Hal Hartley<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Simple Men<\/em>, but this brief excerpt give you an idea of what I have in mind to kick things off:<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_BOp4luu40o?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>And oh how they danced&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5R3OB_j7IlA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The subject line should be self-explanatory, but in case it&#8217;s not clear enough, this rules out lines from Spinal Tap, School of Rock, That Thing You Do, and that movie starring Paul Simon (with Lou Reed!), One-Trick Pony. On the other hand, I can think of killer lines about rock &#8216;n roll in movies like <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-rock-n-roll-related\/' 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":[55,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848"}],"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=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}