{"id":38588,"date":"2018-01-22T10:38:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=38588"},"modified":"2018-01-22T16:01:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T21:01:09","slug":"too-much-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/too-much-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Too much culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a month&#8217;s accumulation of video timewasters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/83R53tX0ts8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>One of my Christmas gifts was <i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eight-Days-Week-Touring-Years\/dp\/B01NA7F5E2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eight Days a Week<\/a><\/b><\/i>, an account of the early years of that band from Liverpool. It reminded me of the story of a certain other band. Bonus: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4AeuJYbFRys\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Innes vs. the Beatles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GP987mljouI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A biography of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gingergeezer.net\/Articles\/independent.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of the great British eccentrics<\/a>. (Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3hcZ4s9cvpw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">uninterrupted performance<\/a> of one of the musical numbers.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5TfhlJqWv7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For those with certain, um, <em>unusual<\/em> tastes, here&#8217;s a documentary on the Shmenge Brothers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nXsWXgOJ0Q8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It looks like <strong><em>Batman Ninja<\/em><\/strong> will be, at the very least, a good-looking movie, but what interests me is the writer, one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/people.php?id=57806\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kazuki Nakashima<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now for some high culture:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mVUpKIFHqZk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aHbGqJ_MonU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MDy_XrWfxHY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And finally, the only version I can tolerate of a certain overly-popular baroque piece, performed by the idiosyncratic Jun Togawa.<span id='easy-footnote-1-38588' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/too-much-culture\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-38588' title='I see that I&amp;#8217;ve mentioned this before, but I&amp;#8217;m leaving the video up for those who desperately need an antidote to Pachelbel.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-uxpylXf5fQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a month&#8217;s accumulation of video timewasters. One of my Christmas gifts was Eight Days a Week, an account of the early years of that band from Liverpool. It reminded me of the story of a certain other band. Bonus: Neil Innes vs. the Beatles. A biography of one of the great British eccentrics. (Here&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/too-much-culture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Too much culture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-humor-and-horror","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-a2o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38588"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42290,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38588\/revisions\/42290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}