{"id":2521,"date":"2009-02-11T22:30:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T03:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2009-02-11T22:30:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T03:30:28","slug":"midweek-makeover-just-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/02\/11\/midweek-makeover-just-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Makeover: Just Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cure&#8217;s US breakout hit Just Like Heaven belongs to me, and me alone &#8211; just like a few million other people.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I am entirely uninterested in covers of it, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_1FIZDwB714\">painfully misconceived<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BsI5fs-GVEU\">anesthetized pablum<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Because there is simply no way you could ever improve on this:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"343\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/media.imeem.com\/v\/s3k6PraX0e\/aus=false\/pv=2\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/media.imeem.com\/v\/s3k6PraX0e\/aus=false\/pv=2\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"343\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And yet, I find myself hitting repeat on this, a mashup which lays the Cure&#8217;s vocals over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FFHbGuSRAwg\">Commodore&#8217;s Easy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:300px;\"><object width=\"300\" height=\"110\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/media.imeem.com\/m\/zo59QUOW-x\/aus=false\/\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/media.imeem.com\/m\/zo59QUOW-x\/aus=false\/\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#E6E6E6;padding:1px;\">\n<div style=\"float:left;padding:4px 4px 0 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imeem.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imeem.com\/embedsearch\/E6E6E6\/\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Strange what works, sometimes.  (I suspect it just won&#8217;t, for many of you.  Good thing you still have your copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kiss_Me,_Kiss_Me,_Kiss_Me\">Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me<\/a>, eh?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cure&#8217;s US breakout hit Just Like Heaven belongs to me, and me alone &#8211; just like a few million other people.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I am entirely uninterested in covers of it, from the painfully misconceived to the anesthetized pablum.\u00c2\u00a0 Because there is simply no way you could ever improve on this: And yet, I find myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}