{"id":2073,"date":"2009-03-23T10:35:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T14:35:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-06T15:10:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:10:54","slug":"kid-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kid-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8J5-vJiqrw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nAs many of you know, I&#8217;m a big fan of <strong>Elvis Costello &amp; The Attractions<\/strong>. As much as I love the guy&#8217;s music (mostly that done with The Attractions but some other stuff as well), he&#8217;s not an artist whose lyrics often mean a lot to me. I usually think they&#8217;re <em>cool<\/em> and find a couple of key couplets to latch onto for meaning, guidance, and inspiration, but he&#8217;s not the sort that I&#8217;d quote in my high school yearbook, if I could go back in time, as I might any number of lyrics by <strong>Paul Weller<\/strong> or <strong>Graham Parker<\/strong>, to cite two contemporaries whose music I like a lot but otherwise find not as rich as Costello&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>One Costello lyric that might be the exception, that might be the one I would have used in my high school yearbook had I been able to make my selection when I was about 30 years old, when I had a better idea of what life was meaning to me, is from <em>Imperial Bedroom<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;Kid About It&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So what if this is a man&#8217;s world<br \/>\nI want to be a kid again about it<br \/>\nGive me back my sadness<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t hide it even if I tried girl<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had some rough emotional patches over the weekend &#8211; nothing horrible, nothing earth shattering, but the kind of stuff that puts me in touch with the kid in me. I don&#8217;t know about you, but as I&#8217;ve aged and matured, some feelings that used to be on the surface and readily available with associated artists\/albums that spoke to those emotions have become less prevalent over time. As a result, I spin those records less often than I once did, despite still loving the music as much as I ever did. The first two <strong>dB&#8217;s<\/strong> album mean less to me on a day-to-day basis these days, but this morning, hearing &#8220;Ask for Jill&#8221; pop up on my <strong>iPod<\/strong>, I was able to tap into what the band meant to me every day of my life in my early 20s. I&#8217;ve been listening to those first two albums since and enjoying revisiting those vague, hopeful, fragile feelings that the older, wiser, sometimes too-fucking-real me of today doesn&#8217;t feel as strongly as he once did. <\/p>\n<p><em>Do you ever have experiences along these lines with your maturing emotions and aging record collection?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, I&#8217;m a big fan of Elvis Costello &amp; The Attractions. As much as I love the guy&#8217;s music (mostly that done with The Attractions but some other stuff as well), he&#8217;s not an artist whose lyrics often mean a lot to me. I usually think they&#8217;re cool and find a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kid-about-it\/' 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":[10,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073"}],"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=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}