{"id":22573,"date":"2015-07-13T10:39:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22573"},"modified":"2015-07-13T10:40:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:40:22","slug":"job-tracks-3-and-4-glimmers-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/job-tracks-3-and-4-glimmers-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Job, Tracks 3 and 4: Glimmers of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Get a job!<\/p><\/div>\n

The latest from our mystery artist \u201cBD,\u201d in which glimmers of light can be seen through the Stygian work void. Or so he says.<\/p>\n

The next two tracks from the Job<\/em>\u00a0album describe the closest things our hero has to hopeful moments during his tenure at Anonymous Inc. The first of these, entitled \u201cThe Losing Side,\u201d is a track written by another member of RTH, who I will not name here. As the seeds of the Job<\/em> LP were planted in my mind, I told a few musician friends what I was up to, and this guy offered up a rough demo of a song that seemed to fit the spirit of the effort. I loved it, but, with his permission, took some liberties with melody, lyric, and structure that I thought tightened things up a bit. Today, I say to this anonymous songwriter: listening back to your original demo after 10+ years, I now question my editorial decisions, and I am sorry if I effed up your fine song.<\/p>\n

The second of the momentarily hopeful album tracks details the one thing that keeps our hero coming back to work every day: his love for\u2014or at least unhealthy obsession with\u2014an unattainable female co-worker who works in Office 242. Many thanks to the last of our anonymous Townsman collaborators, who vastly improved my original draft lyrics, and who penned this wonderful line, among many others: “How I wish it wasn\u2019t Friday, \u2018cause now I\u2019ll spend the next two days on what I did so badly, and what I wish I had the nerve to do, with the girl who works in office 242.”<\/p>\n

I appreciate your patience as we wend our way through this album. And thanks for the thoughtful comments and production suggestions \u2014 keep \u2018em coming. Stick with me \u2014 important life changes are in the works for our protagonist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Losing Side<\/a><\/p>\n

Office 242<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest from our mystery artist \u201cBD,\u201d in which glimmers of light can be seen through the Stygian work void. Or so he says. The next two tracks from the Job\u00a0album describe the closest things our hero has to hopeful moments during his tenure at Anonymous Inc. The first of these, entitled \u201cThe Losing Side,\u201d […]<\/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":[1006],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22573"}],"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=22573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}