{"id":607,"date":"2008-10-17T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-10-17T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T21:26:08","slug":"weezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"weezer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.losanjealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/weezer_02.jpg\" width=576 height=373 border=0 alt=''><\/p>\n<p>I often say I would never see weezer today, and wish I could have in 1996 or 1997.<\/p>\n<p>From the looks of this set list from the show at the Forum earlier this month it appears they at least know not ALL the people in the audience are dumb kids who associate Weezer with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Total_Request_Live\" title=\"TRL\">TRL<\/a> instead of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/120_Minutes\" title=\"120 Minutes\">120 Minutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I see a nice selection of old songs (even Suzanne, which to my knowledge only appeared on the soundtrack to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mallrats\" title=\"Mallrats\">Mallrats<\/a> &#8211; a movie nobody under 25 has seen I&#8217;m sure) with only the TRLest juicy (crappy) pop tunes mixed in to keep the teenage girls screaming.<\/p>\n<p>My parents can chime in and remind me that back in 1995 I was even a card carrying weezer fan club member&#8230; and I still have the exclusive christmas single (1996?) to prove it &#8211; as well as the signed (by Brian Bell) Space Twins EP (was it an EP? there were only two songs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often say I would never see weezer today, and wish I could have in 1996 or 1997. From the looks of this set list from the show at the Forum earlier this month it appears they at least know not ALL the people in the audience are dumb kids who associate Weezer with TRL [&hellip;]<\/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-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}