{"id":91,"date":"2005-05-16T18:49:27","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T02:49:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:37","slug":"musical-baton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/05\/musical-baton","title":{"rendered":"Baton Ruse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is a musical baton?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, but my beard idol <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robweychert.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Weychert<\/a> and my Google-juice idol <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7nights.com\/asterisk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Robinson<\/a> just passed me one.  I will now waive it over my head and tell you all sorts of things you never asked about!<\/p>\n<h4>Total volume of music files on my computer:<\/h4>\n<p>18.05 GB&#8230; Mostly from actual pressed CDs<\/p>\n<h4>The last CD I bought was:<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;The Runaway Found&#8221; by The Veils<\/p>\n<h4>Song playing right now:<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Mojo Pin&#8221; by Jeff Buckley<\/p>\n<h4>Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Ten Years Gone<\/strong> by Led Zeppelin<br \/><em>Best group ever.  Any suggestions to the contrary will be deleted.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chloe Dancer\/Crown of Thorns<\/strong> by Mother Love Bone<br \/><em>If you live in Seattle and you&#8217;re in your 20s or 30s, this is your anthem.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Pink Life<\/strong> by Mike Doughty<br \/><em>This pick is currently in ridiculously heavy rotation. Over 50 plays in the last few months I&#8217;m sure.  And I&#8217;m seeing Doughty live tomorrow night.  Bam!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Salvation<\/strong> by Citizen Cope<br \/><em>Unclassifiable music is the most impressive music of all.  Citizen Cope and Calexico are two of the least classifiable bands I know.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bonnie and Clyde<\/strong> by Serge Gainsbourg<br \/><em>The all-time winner for song most ahead of its time.  Sounds like it was composed in 2005.  Was actually composed in 1968.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>*  Honorable mention:  Any of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shauninman.com\" target=\"_blank\">Inman&#8217;s<\/a> favorites from the &#8220;Video Game Beeping&#8221; genre.<\/p>\n<h4>Five people to whom I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m passing the baton:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designbyfire.com\" target=\"_blank\">Andrei Herasimchuk<\/a> (as a last gasp attempt to revive Design By Fire)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffcroft.com\" target=_blank\">Jeff Croft<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daringfireball.net\" target=\"_blank\">John Gruber<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestkungfu.com\" target=\"_blank\">Matt May<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.finkbuilt.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Lodefink<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a musical baton?  I don&#8217;t know, but my beard idol Rob Weychert and my Google-juice idol Keith Robinson just passed me one. I will now waive it over my head and tell you all sorts of things you never asked about!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}