{"id":137,"date":"2005-04-11T05:56:44","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T11:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/137"},"modified":"2005-04-11T05:56:44","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T11:56:44","slug":"rock-rock-rock-rock-rock-rock-rock-rock-rock-rock-rock-rock-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/137","title":{"rendered":"Rock rock rock rock rock rock rock rock rock rock rock rock band"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sarificed a good night’s sleep, partial hearing, and having to spend two hours commuting to work (instead of my ususal 5 minutes) all to see “Other Jason” perform with the band Velva<\/a> at Schubas last night. They played with the High Strung<\/a> and Capitol Years.<\/p>\n

I can tell you, it was totally and completely worth it. O.Jason had been telling me about this show, how they sing a song about Swedish Fish and he plays a laser, it’s wacked out — and it was all that and more.<\/p>\n

The High Strung were the best part though. I never go to rock shows, and I usually don’t like them much. Watching the High Strung was amazing, and I didn’t feel my usual “Ehhh, I should get going” impatience. They could have been Muppets. They all wore white cowboy shirts and white Levis with palm-sized stars running down the arms and legs. The bassist smiled when he sang. The drummer looked as if he had cerebral palsy. (That sounds awful. I know. I know. It’s just that he was playing so GD hard, he looked like he had a congenital defect.)<\/p>\n

Their music was like the Beatles, only harder. I know that sounds hackneyed and eye rolling, but that’s it. They were like audio Paxil. I came in neutral, but after watching the show, I felt a little happier.<\/p>\n

(My “i hate rock shows” thing kicked in, about 11:30, and I left after hearing just two songs of Capitol Years, but they seemed to rock just as hard, and I plan on finding some of their music.)<\/p>\n

Off to catch the effing train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sarificed a good night’s sleep, partial hearing, and having to spend two hours commuting to work (instead of my ususal 5 minutes) all to see “Other Jason” perform with the band Velva at Schubas last night. They played with the High Strung and Capitol Years. I can tell you, it was totally and completely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-these-are-the-people-in-your-neighborhood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}