{"id":1860,"date":"2008-09-12T11:06:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T16:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/09\/12\/friday-tunes-squeeze\/"},"modified":"2008-09-12T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T16:06:19","slug":"friday-tunes-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/12\/friday-tunes-squeeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Tunes:  Squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday night we walked over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laorpheum.com\/\">Orpheum<\/a> &#8212; a wonderful theater from the 1920&#8217;s, recently refurbished to its former glory &#8212; to catch a concert by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squeezeofficial.com\/\">Squeeze<\/a> &#8212; one of my favorite bands from high school, who have recently been refurbished to something like their former glory.  Which is to say, they put on a great show of classic tunes played with crowd-pleasing gusto.  And we had the unexpected pleasure of being recognized by CV reader David and his wife (Sarah?  I didn&#8217;t catch her name, sorry).  Scientists are kind of a big deal in this town.<\/p>\n<p>So here is <em>Up the Junction<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Note how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/s\/squeeze\/up+the+junction_20129285.html\">lyrics<\/a> play with the notion of chronology.  The temporal point of view shifts gradually throughout the narrative.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This morning at 4:50<br \/>\nI took her rather nifty<br \/>\nDown to an incubator<br \/>\nWhere thirty minutes later<br \/>\nShe gave birth to a daughter<br \/>\nWithin a year a walker<br \/>\nShe looked just like her mother<br \/>\nIf there could be another<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, I couldn&#8217;t find a decent video of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WSCP_RdA36w\">Slaughtered, Gutted and Heartbroken<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday night we walked over to the Orpheum &#8212; a wonderful theater from the 1920&#8217;s, recently refurbished to its former glory &#8212; to catch a concert by Squeeze &#8212; one of my favorite bands from high school, who have recently been refurbished to something like their former glory. Which is to say, they put on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}