{"id":2261,"date":"2011-05-20T16:18:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2011-05-23T03:00:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T03:00:34","slug":"defy-expectations-think-creatively-be-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/defy-expectations-think-creatively-be-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"defy expectations, think creatively, be alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/michael-azerrad-on-our-band-could-be-your-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">awesome interview with michael azerrad<\/a>, who wrote <em>our band could be your life<\/em>, which chad gave me years ago, which makes me feel entwined with the book, the bands, the ethos.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Also, much of what the bands in this book did was to make very  unconventional music that attracted unconventional people\u2014or maybe even  showed conventional people a different mode of thinking. Not necessarily  because of anything in the lyrics, but just because of how challenging  and unorthodox the music was.<\/p>\n<p>I think a lot of indie bands now are similarly elevating and  challenging people\u2019s minds, just by the nature of the music they make.  The Dirty Projectors are a great example, or Animal Collective. <strong>I really  believe in the power of music\u2014and I mean literally the power of musical  tones\u2014to rearrange the way you can think.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>awesome interview with michael azerrad, who wrote our band could be your life, which chad gave me years ago, which makes me feel entwined with the book, the bands, the ethos. Also, much of what the bands in this book did was to make very unconventional music that attracted unconventional people\u2014or maybe even showed conventional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}