{"id":430,"date":"2007-06-02T07:57:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T07:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=430"},"modified":"2015-07-11T10:17:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T15:17:13","slug":"musicmemoir_lov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/musicmemoir_lov.html","title":{"rendered":"Music\/Memoir: &#8220;Love Is a Mix Tape&#8221; by Rob Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book sounded so much up my alley that I was wary of it at first.  Then I read <A HREF=\"http:\/\/fuelfriends.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/love-is-mix-tape-mix-tape.html\">this review<\/A> and I KNEW I didn&#8217;t have to worry about being disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>An elegy to his dead wife.  An elegy to the music they discovered and loved together.  A tribute to so many bands, some disbanded, some moved on.  A foundation for his future.  A hopeful look ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The writing is lovely, the music discussions are wonderful.  I&#8217;m now obsessed with checking out bands I never listened to at the time (Big Star, Pavement), and revisiting ones I did listen to but haven&#8217;t in ages.  I&#8217;m replaying mix tapes from high school and college and thinking about old friends and breakup songs and drinking songs and roadtrip songs&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I loved it.  LOVED it.<\/p>\n<p>This joins <B>&#8220;High Fidelity&#8221; by Nick Hornby<\/B> and <B>&#8220;The Wishbones&#8221; by Tom Perrotta<\/B> as my favorite music books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book sounded so much up my alley that I was wary of it at first. Then I read this review and I KNEW I didn&#8217;t have to worry about being disappointed. An elegy to his dead wife. An elegy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/06\/musicmemoir_lov.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3061,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/3061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}