{"id":333,"date":"2007-08-29T04:20:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T04:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/29\/i-just-cant-get-enough\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T18:13:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:13:37","slug":"i-just-cant-get-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/i-just-cant-get-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Like Depeche Mode, I just can’t get enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

So one day I was watching TV, and this Target commercial came on with a new rendition of the Beatles’ “Hello, Goodbye.” I liked the new rendition, so I Googled it and found out it was by a little-known artist called Sophia Shorai.<\/b> She has a website<\/a> and a MySpace page<\/a>, but as far as I can tell, she has no store. I listened to all her samples, and I really like her music (even the non-jingle stuff). Where can I buy her CD? Nowhere. Bummer. <\/p>\n

This past weekend, I happened to be listening to This American Life<\/i>, which has a break-up theme. One segment about a woman—who is fascinated by break-up pop songs and decides to write her own break-up pop song, enlisting the help of Phil Collins and others—intrigues me. I love her narrative voice, her writing and speaking style, her whole way of thinking. It’s very reminiscent of Sarah Vowell (another regular on This American Life<\/i>, apparently). I found out this new (to me, anyway) voice is named Starlee Kine<\/b> and about all she has is a Wikipedia entry<\/a>. Not much biography available. No pictures. No links to her books (she might be writing one now) or articles\/essays\/musings. <\/p>\n

This isn’t how things are supposed to work. You’re supposed to get a taste of an artist (visual artist, musician, writer, actor, performer), search the web, and then purchase more of the artist’s works. You are satisfied as a consumer, and the artist feels rewarded psychologically (for being appreciated) and, at least a little, monetarily. <\/p>\n

Well, at least it worked out for Sarah Vowell.<\/b> I discovered her quirky charms on the extra features of The Incredibles<\/i> and bought two of her books, checked out a couple of others from the library. <\/p>\n

But sometimes… sometimes, artists just don’t let me get enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So one day I was watching TV, and this Target commercial came on with a new rendition of the Beatles’ “Hello, Goodbye.” I liked the new rendition, so I Googled it and found out it was by a little-known artist called Sophia Shorai. She has a website and a MySpace page, but as far as… Continue reading Like Depeche Mode, I just can’t get enough<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}