{"id":27,"date":"2004-01-05T20:15:52","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T01:15:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-01-05T20:15:52","modified_gmt":"2004-01-06T01:15:52","slug":"independant-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"independant friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>classes, Brian Bell rant<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Looks like both of my non-independant study classes will be&#8230;more like independent study than I thought, which is great. I really like working at home as opposed to have to trudge all the way up to the 4th floor of hopkins.<\/p>\n<p>When I was in marietta town for christmas, Brian reminded me to get mp3s of the Space Twins songs. I was one of the originals who bought the limited edition space twin records when they came out. One of them even had a hand written note from Brian Bell that I still have locked away in a vault somewhere. Today, Brian sent me two of those old songs, which I actually hadn&#8217;t heard since I played them on dad&#8217;s record player in 1996. They are great&#8230;so much better than anything weezer has done in the past five years&#8230; So I was terribly disappointed when I discovered that the Twins have just released a full length cd. Why was I disappointed? Because I listened to the three 45 second clips on the website (one would assume they would put the three best songs there)..and they were &#8230;bad&#8230;boring&#8230;lame..hella lame.. It sounds just like another uninteresting weezer album.. I hate it when musicians head towards middle age and all of a sudden want to only write trite pop\/rock crap. Goddess of Love was a really great song and I wondered when the album would come out. Goddess of Love (and all the other songs on those two records) had a unique sound, like the sweater song, except more of a 60&#8217;s cheesy space feel, but the chorus would still rock out with that Brian Bell trademark anti-grunge guitar fuzz. Now on this new album all we get is Brian Bell&#8217;s lame &#8220;oh jesus, Rivers wants ANOTHER weezer album this year?!&#8221; pop riffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>classes, Brian Bell rant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}