{"id":676,"date":"2007-11-15T07:55:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T07:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=676"},"modified":"2011-09-17T16:30:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T21:30:51","slug":"best_of_october-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/11\/best_of_october-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Best of October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best <strong>movie <\/strong>I saw in October was <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/12\/big_screen_15_f.html\"><strong>Control<\/strong><\/a>, the Ian Curtis\/Joy Division biopic that I actually went to twice.  Beautifully filmed, powerfully acted, with great tunes.<\/p>\n<p>The best <strong>book <\/strong>I read in October was &#8230; a three-way tie?  Hmmmm, OK the one I&#8217;ve thought about the most since reading it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/mysteryfiction.html\"><strong>&#8220;In the Woods&#8221; by Tana French<\/strong><\/a>.  But I thought both the new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/fiction_the_use.html\">Haven Kimmel <\/a><\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/fiction_the_rai.html\">Jonathan Coe <\/a><\/strong>were really, really good as well.<\/p>\n<p>The best <strong>gig <\/strong>I went to in October was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/in_concert_rogu.html\"><strong>Rogue Wave<\/strong><\/a>.   Really compelling and the lead singer has such a distinctive voice.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite <strong>tunes <\/strong>in October were the latest albums by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/first_impressio.html\">Band of Horses<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Mr. Hudson &#038; The Library<\/strong>, <strong>Joe Purdy<\/strong>,  and singles from <strong>Nada Surf <\/strong>&#8220;See These Bones&#8221; (via <a href=\"http:\/\/fuelfriends.blogspot.com\/\">Fuel\/Friends<\/a>) and folksinger <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/in_concert_tom.html\">Tom Paxton <\/a><\/strong>&#8220;George W Told the Nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Random personal highlights:<\/em> Brunch with MaryKay!; Chicago Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lowlights? <\/em>  White Stripes concert cancelled, thank you Meg&#8217;s stupid internet sex tape; Steph&#8217;s visit cancelled, thank you stupid airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a slow month, doesn&#8217;t it?  But October is very busy at work for me, so there you go.  Stupid work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best movie I saw in October was Control, the Ian Curtis\/Joy Division biopic that I actually went to twice. Beautifully filmed, powerfully acted, with great tunes. The best book I read in October was &#8230; a three-way tie? Hmmmm, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/11\/best_of_october-2.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":[28,13,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best_of","category-books","category-flicks","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}