{"id":193,"date":"2006-04-17T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T21:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2006-04-21T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T16:46:51","slug":"making-my-ears-bleed-one-soap-commercial-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Making my ears bleed, one soap commercial at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/caress.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>For the drive to Hometown on Saturday morning, I asked GTB to play me something buttrock-esque. I don&#8217;t have anything like that on my iPod and he left his at home. So he grabbed his CDs and improvised. I saw him slip something into the player that said, &#8220;70s Mix.&#8221; I figured that was OK. If I couldn&#8217;t hear buttrock, some bad disco or easy-listening would tide me over. Of course, this was GTB, and 70s music to him means Iggy Pop, David Bowie, and Lou Reed. So that&#8217;s what we listened to. <\/p>\n<p>It was all going well. Singing along, doing just a little bit of car dancing. By the time we hit Longview, T-Rex came on. It was &#8220;I was dancing when I was 12&#8221; or whatever the name of that stupid song is. See, I don&#8217;t know the name of it because I hate T-Rex (except for &#8220;20th Century Boy&#8221;). Which is what I said to GTB.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t like T-Rex?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why not?&#8221; he goaded. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what it is. But listening to them is like hearing someone say the word &#8216;caress&#8217; over and over and over and over again.&#8221; I explained. <\/p>\n<p>We all have one (or two) of those words that make us cringe when we hear them. That word for me is &#8220;caress.&#8221; GTB&#8217;s is &#8220;moist.&#8221; So between us, we determined that <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to caress your moist skin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>is the most disgusting sentence in all of the English language.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we skipped over T-Rex and moved on to the next song. Which was probably by the Clash or something. It wasn&#8217;t buttrock, but at least it didn&#8217;t make my teeth hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the drive to Hometown on Saturday morning, I asked GTB to play me something buttrock-esque. I don&#8217;t have anything like that on my iPod and he left his at home. So he grabbed his CDs and improvised. I saw him slip something into the player that said, &#8220;70s Mix.&#8221; I figured that was OK. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}