{"id":838,"date":"2008-04-18T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=838"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:20:01","slug":"best_of_march_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/best_of_march_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Best of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, March, I barely remember you&#8230; Ha! Kidding!<\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2008\/03\/duff_at_the_movies_2008.html\">movie <\/a>I saw in March was also the only movie I saw (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/big_screen_be_k.html\"><strong>Be Kind, Rewind<\/strong><\/a>), so good thing I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2008\/03\/books_read_in_2008.html\">book <\/a>I read in March was definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/short_stories_t.html\"><strong>The Complete Stories by David Malouf<\/strong><\/a>. Really wonderful stories.<\/p>\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/lists\/2008\/03\/duff_does_live_music_2008.html\">gig <\/a>I went to in March is harder to pin down. I was excited to finally see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/in_concert_matt.html\"><strong>Matt Nathanson<\/strong> <\/a>and (separately) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/in_concert_dan.html\"><strong>Dan le Sac<\/strong><\/a>. I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/in_concert_the_6.html\"><strong>the Raveonettes<\/strong> <\/a>sounded great. I probably enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/in_concert_grif_1.html\"><strong>Griffin House<\/strong> <\/a>the most as he was all sassy and laidback and it was a really fun night.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite <strong>tunes <\/strong>in March were lots of stuff I was already listening to from February, like new albums from <strong>Missy Higgins<\/strong>, <strong>Nada Surf<\/strong>, <strong>Scotland Yard Gospel Choir<\/strong>, <strong>Bon Iver<\/strong>, <strong>Mike Doughty <\/strong>and <strong>the Raveonettes<\/strong>; but also stuff I bought in March like new albums from <strong>Jesse Malin &#8220;Glitter in the Gutter&#8221;<\/strong> (which I lovelovelove), <strong>Stephen Malkmus &amp; the Jicks <\/strong>and <strong>Gnarls Barkley <\/strong>(DangerMouse can do no wrong)!!<\/p>\n<p><em>Random personal highlights:<\/em> Hmmm, let&#8217;s see, nine-day trip to Japan, I guess that was kind-of a highlight (I guess! Ha!); my newest\/youngest cousin was born!: Clark and I had a joint party; and I had a great long Saturday with Carlos and Shei getting back into shooting <u>film<\/u> (vs. digital).<\/p>\n<p><em>Lowlights? <\/em> Long, long, long airplane rides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, March, I barely remember you&#8230; Ha! Kidding! The best movie I saw in March was also the only movie I saw (Be Kind, Rewind), so good thing I enjoyed it. The best book I read in March was definitely &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/04\/best_of_march_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-838","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\/838","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=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3865,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/3865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}