{"id":359,"date":"2007-07-10T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T17:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2007-07-10T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T17:38:59","slug":"wherein-i-spare-you-the-details-of-my-schoolgirl-crush-on-paul-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Wherein I spare you the details of my schoolgirl crush on Paul Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Interpol CD came out today and, because he&#8217;s the best husband ever, GTB downloaded it before we left for work. We&#8217;re carpooling these days and traffic sucked this morning, so we got to listen to the album in its entirety on the way to work&#8211;a silver lining to the hour-long commute cloud.<\/p>\n<p>At about track 5, I said to GTB &#8220;You know, it&#8217;s a sad state for the music industry when my favorite band in the whole world comes out with a CD and the fact that it doesn&#8217;t suck brings tears to my eyes.&#8221; GTB replied, &#8220;Yeah, it sounds pretty much just like their first two CDs.&#8221; I said, &#8220;Which is all that I ask of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few songs later, GTB said, &#8220;Yeah, not only does this CD not suck, but Carlos D. no longer looks like a Nazi storm trooper. He&#8217;s sporting a Deadwood look now.&#8221; I guess that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Paul lets himself actually sing a few times. I don&#8217;t know song titles yet, but there is this one where he says something like, &#8220;I select you&#8230;&#8221; and it&#8217;s a little shocking how great he sounds. I mean, I&#8217;ve always loved his voice, but when someone who has long wallowed comfortably in the bowels of his own octive range reaches like that&#8230;well, let&#8217;s just say I got tingly. Paul&#8230;sigh.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s my glowing endorsement for the new Interpol CD. It would be impossible for me to overstate how much I love this band so I have a hard time not oozing appreciations all over this blog. I&#8217;d end by telling you to go out and buy it but, according to something GTB heard on Live Earth, it&#8217;s more eco-friendly to pay to download it. Saves fossil fuels and keeps all that plastic out of our landfills or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Interpol CD came out today and, because he&#8217;s the best husband ever, GTB downloaded it before we left for work. We&#8217;re carpooling these days and traffic sucked this morning, so we got to listen to the album in its entirety on the way to work&#8211;a silver lining to the hour-long commute cloud. At [&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\/359"}],"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=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}