{"id":7103,"date":"2013-09-25T01:16:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T01:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2014-01-30T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:47:08","slug":"defining-the-smallest-aspect-of-life-that-gives-you-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/25\/defining-the-smallest-aspect-of-life-that-gives-you-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"defining the smallest aspect of life that gives you pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/130618-bill-callahan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7105 aligncenter\" alt=\"Bill Callahan by Hanly Banks\" src=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/130618-bill-callahan.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/130618-bill-callahan.jpg 820w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/130618-bill-callahan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/130618-bill-callahan-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><em>Bill Callahan by Hanly Banks<\/em><\/p>\n<p>article about bill callahan in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/articles\/bill-callahan-dream-river-interview-apocalypse-documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\">spin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The music, however, represented a clear break for Callahan. With the introduction of fingerpicking (a development that has made for fluid, far less claustrophobic arrangements) and a newfound respect for his voice (whose increasing richness lends every song an immediate sense of gravity), his recordings began to favor clarity and detail. While his output was once marked by obfuscation both sonic and aesthetic, his work now bears a polish and calm belied only by willful lyrical abstraction. <strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s partially about defining things,&#8221; he says of his writing now. &#8220;Defining the smallest little aspect of life that gives you pleasure.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Callahan, predictably, is more modest. &#8220;My first records are integral because I made them, you know, and I&#8217;m going to learn from those mistakes,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait until I write a masterpiece.<strong> I have to make a bunch of mediocre things first. I think they get a little better each time.<\/strong> That&#8217;s just the way that I work \u2014 in steps.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>defining the smallest little aspect of life that gives you pleasure. a bunch of mediocre things leading to something better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Callahan by Hanly Banks article about bill callahan in spin: The music, however, represented a clear break for Callahan. With the introduction of fingerpicking (a development that has made for fluid, far less claustrophobic arrangements) and a newfound respect for his voice (whose increasing richness lends every song an immediate sense of gravity), his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103","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=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7713,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions\/7713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}