{"id":2956,"date":"2010-09-20T23:43:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T03:43:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T18:56:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T22:56:07","slug":"spotted-in-the-wild-the-brian-jonestown-massacrr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/spotted-in-the-wild-the-brian-jonestown-massacrr\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted In The Wild: The Brian Jonestown Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j5fpNXPVG1k?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI&#8217;m always jazzed when I hear an obscure song in the wild that makes me stop and go &#8220;Wait.  I know that song.  Fuck.  What is that song?  Oh yeah!  I like that song.  Haven&#8217;t heard it in a while.  I&#8217;m going to queue it up right now!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This happened throughout my favorite Edgar Wright films, <em>Shaun of the Dead<\/em> and <em>Hot Fuzz<\/em>.  When <strong>XTC<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Sgt. Rock<\/em> came on in Hot Fuzz, a song that I&#8217;m quite familiar with, it took what felt like an eternity to place it because it just isn&#8217;t a song I&#8217;d ever expect to hear anywhere in the wild.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the trailer for Shaun of the Dead.  At about 1:24 <strong>L7<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Pretend We&#8217;re Dead<\/em> kicks in.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IhBGFqldAvk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999; font-size: xx-small;\">(SIDEBAR: Start at 1:15 and watch them decide which <strong>Prince<\/strong> records are expendable)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Wes Anderson films used to do that for me too but now that I know he and I have similar musical taste I actually listen for his choices.  This took me by surprise though as it was the first Anderson films I watched.<br \/>\nyly2UDQp6fc]<\/p>\n<p>Spotted anything in the wild lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always jazzed when I hear an obscure song in the wild that makes me stop and go &#8220;Wait. I know that song. Fuck. What is that song? Oh yeah! I like that song. Haven&#8217;t heard it in a while. I&#8217;m going to queue it up right now!&#8221; This happened throughout my favorite Edgar Wright <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/spotted-in-the-wild-the-brian-jonestown-massacrr\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}