{"id":201,"date":"2006-05-23T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T09:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2006-05-23T10:33:35","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T09:33:35","slug":"checking-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"checking in .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">folks.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so here i&nbsp;am back in front of a keyboard.  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">feels weird considering the last&nbsp;10 days or  so. first things first. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">chicago is a gorgeous place to visit &#8211; i cannot  recommend it enough if anyone gets the opportunity. stunning skyline, warm  atmosphere, <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">i met so many cool\/interesting  people, of whom i will be in touch with shortly, if they happen to chance upon  this part of my world.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so, to the music side of things. well despite being  in the city of the home of the blues, acid house and wax trax, i&nbsp;actually  managed to catch uk synth pop genius <STRONG>thomas dolby<\/STRONG> live in a  small packed out venue called martyrs. the gig was fantastic. thomas has decided  to re-enter the pop music world, and for me personally the night was very  special.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">i hope to get that written up in a more enjoyable  form over the next few days, so please bear with me as i have to attack the pile  of cds that greeted me upon my homecoming.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">aside from yet another grizzly england world cup  song (featuring sham 69 and graham coxon !), the pile was full of stuff that i  need to check out : <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">new <STRONG>sonic youth<\/STRONG> album,  <STRONG>boykillboy<\/STRONG> album (initial play didn&#8217;t reveal too much beyond it  being a direct rip off of bloc party\/the departure\/franz ferdy and their brand  of revised new wave), new release from <STRONG>new flesh<\/STRONG>, and i may  even try out the dirty pretty things record, but lets not get too carried  away.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">in reality all i would like to do is check out a  new <STRONG>shining <\/STRONG>ep on the bleeporama label <A href=\"http:\/\/www.dustscience.com\/\">dust science<\/A>, <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">by someone called <STRONG>dan curtin<\/STRONG>.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so, when things settle down, i&#8217;ll hopefully get the  ball rolling again..<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">onwards<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">mark e<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG><EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk\">ireallylovemusic<\/A><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>folks. so here i&nbsp;am back in front of a keyboard. feels weird considering the last&nbsp;10 days or so. first things first. chicago is a gorgeous place to visit &#8211; i cannot recommend it enough if anyone gets the opportunity. stunning skyline, warm atmosphere, i met so many cool\/interesting people, of whom i will be in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}