{"id":707,"date":"2007-12-10T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=707"},"modified":"2007-12-10T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T20:50:11","slug":"best_of_novembe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/best_of_novembe.html","title":{"rendered":"Best of November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I kept not finishing writing things up so I had to keep putting off writing this post.  Ah, the life of a slacker&#8230;<br \/>\nThe best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2007\/12\/duff_at_the_movies_2007.html\">movie <\/a>I saw in November was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/11\/big_screen_no_c.html\">No Country for Old Men<\/a><\/strong>, with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/11\/big_screen_gone.html\">Gone Baby Gone <\/a><\/strong>a close second.  Both violent, icky, and GOOOOD.<br \/>\nThe best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2007\/12\/books_read_in_2007.html\">book <\/a>I read in November was the collection of short stories <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/fictionshort_st.html\">Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work, by Jason Brown<\/a><\/strong>.  Very subtle.  Very good.  Families, relationships, losers, loners, struggles.<br \/>\nThe best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2007\/12\/duff_does_live_music_2007.html\">gig <\/a>I went to in November was a tie between <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/11\/in_concert_athl.html\">Athlete<\/a><\/strong>, a band I have been longing to see and was so blown away by their show, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/in_concert_grif.html\">Griffin House<\/a><\/strong>, who I had no idea how good he was going to be.<br \/>\nMy favorite <strong>tunes <\/strong>in November&#8230;. hmmmm&#8230; well, my favorite album purchased in November would have to be <strong>Great Northern &#8220;Trading Twilight for Daylight&#8221;<\/strong>.  I don&#8217;t know if I had read about them somewhere (a blog? Paste? who knows?) but for some reason I was checking them out on iTunes and I&#8217;m really diggin it&#8230;  Otherwise I spent a lot of time listening to stuff from earlier in the year (Band of Horses, Travis, Rogue Wave), thinking about year-end lists, and buying lots of random singles (old Jay-Z, new <strong>Anthony Hamilton <\/strong>(American Gangster), stuff from the <strong>I&#8217;m Not There soundtrack<\/strong>)&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>Random personal highlights:<\/em> Hangin&#8217; out with the nephews, who get both more lovable and more irksome every time; <strong>Michelle <\/strong>visits! for almost a week! yay!;  Pam &#038; Steph come down for the night!.<br \/>\n<em>Lowlights? <\/em>  Fresh TV is drying up but for a few shows; FNL is wandering far from its strengths; meant to see a bunch of movies I never got to; and seem to have gotten almost nothing done all month.  <em>Man, what a whiner! Suck it up, eh?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I kept not finishing writing things up so I had to keep putting off writing this post. Ah, the life of a slacker&#8230; The best movie I saw in November was No Country for Old Men, with Gone Baby Gone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/best_of_novembe.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-707","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\/707","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=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}