{"id":1040,"date":"2007-12-05T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T18:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2007-12-05T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T18:31:07","slug":"alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/12\/alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>problems with my itunes has me reloading the music that&#8217;s on my computer back into the player.<\/p>\n<p>That is a treacherous path down memory lane. I have an odd assortment of music on the computer.<\/p>\n<p>Gin Blossoms. WOW, that&#8217;s memory lane. it&#8217;s under the genre heading Alternative &#038; Punk.<\/p>\n<p>Alternative. I remember asking what that was supposed to mean.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like Heavy metal, but about how your life sucks&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else remember the Flannel shirt days of seattle music like me? I haven&#8217;t met anyone who does in a long time. But the GBs were from that time, and I am <em>there<\/em> again.<\/p>\n<p>Nirvana can follow Cobain to wherever he went, they were never my anthems. But the Gin Blossoms, a million weird college bands never to be heard from again&#8230;They Might be Giants, Linda Perry&#8217; screaming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mXcQGsoDkDk\">&#8220;WHAT&#8221;S GOING ON?&#8221; <\/a>and the doc marten shod cranberries<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BPLXJAWUnwI\">&#8230;&#8221;Do you have to&#8230;do you have to&#8230;?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YWmeUmj6U_U\">Step out the front door like a ghost into a fog<br \/>\nwhere no on notices the contrast of white on white<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That slammed me in the gut..the struggle for selfhood and to be noticed in the big wide world of other people&#8217;s importance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I remember beign grateful that huge clothing and torn jeans were in, because the homeless look was just about all I could afford at the time. I was POOR.<\/p>\n<p>way poor<\/p>\n<p>and then in &#8217;95 I moved to California, and that&#8217; about when I met Alanis. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BXCCv5ngyI0\">SHE <\/a>let me know just how pissed off I was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I dont&#8217; mean to pick you apart you see<br \/>\nbut I can&#8217;t help it&#8230;<br \/>\n..all I really want is some patience..<br \/>\na way to calm the angry voice&#8230;<br \/>\nand all i really want is deliverance&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those were the days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>problems with my itunes has me reloading the music that&#8217;s on my computer back into the player. That is a treacherous path down memory lane. I have an odd assortment of music on the computer. Gin Blossoms. WOW, that&#8217;s memory &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/12\/alternative\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2007\/12\/alternative\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}