{"id":1696,"date":"2008-07-12T03:46:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2009-01-03T11:56:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T02:56:21","slug":"music-connoisseurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/12\/music-connoisseurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Connoisseurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Location: Hair of the Dog<\/i>, Golden Gai’s one and only true punk bar.
\nYi and I having a heavily inebriated wednesday evening night out, group of young Japanese boys discussing their band’s next club night on the other side of the bar, \u6642\u8a08\u3058\u304b\u3051\u306e\u30aa\u30ec\u30f3\u30b8<\/a> projecting to the tiny corner screen, random punk score blaring through the speakers…<\/p>\n

\nBarmaid:<\/strong> [handing a menu-like list of all-time punk records]<\/i> Please pick anything you would like to hear from that list.<\/p>\n

Dave:<\/strong> Huh… let’s see… I don’t know… how about Japanese punk…?<\/p>\n

Yi:<\/strong> [showing rather random entry in the list] Hey! that Japanese punk band’s called So-Do-Mu!!! Tee hee hee…<\/p>\n

Dave:<\/strong> Yay for Sodomu…<\/p>\n

Yi:<\/strong> Tee hee hee…<\/p>\n

Dave:<\/strong> [to the barmaid] How about playing some “Sodomu”…<\/p>\n

Barmaid:<\/strong> Sure, Right on its way…<\/p>\n

[couple minutes of fumbling around the mp3 collection on the computer, then finally the track changes…]<\/i><\/p>\n

Yi:<\/strong> Hey! that doesn’t sound so bad actually…<\/p>\n

Dave:<\/strong> Yea, I’m not sure that part is really their own… Probably an intro of sorts…<\/p>\n

[Young japanese guys mumbling things about ongoing music in their corner]<\/i><\/p>\n

Young Japanese Guy #1:<\/strong> Blahblahblah<\/i>, right?<\/p>\n

Young Japanese Guy #2:<\/strong> Blahblahblah<\/i>… No, I don’t think so, this must
\nbe Chopin…<\/p>\n

Young Japanese Guy #3:<\/strong> Chopin? Mmmnnn… Blahblahblah<\/i>…<\/p>\n

Dave:<\/strong> Actually, that’s Beethoven… Moonlight sonata. <\/p>\n

Young Japanese Guy #1:<\/strong> Really? Oh… maybe…<\/p>\n

Young Japanese Guy #2:<\/strong> Oh yea! of course…<\/p>\n

Young Japanese Guy #3:<\/strong> Definitely Beethoven!<\/p>\n

[All three guys: swooning to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata’s first movement<\/a>, Adagio Sostenuto]<\/i><\/p>\n

Dave:<\/strong> …<\/p>\n

Dave:<\/strong> So yea… this is one of Tokyo’s most hardcore punk bar.<\/p>\n

Dave:<\/strong> …<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Location: Hair of the Dog, Golden Gai’s one and only true punk bar. Yi and I having a heavily inebriated wednesday evening night out, group of young Japanese boys discussing their band’s next club night on the other side of the bar, \u6642\u8a08\u3058\u304b\u3051\u306e\u30aa\u30ec\u30f3\u30b8 projecting to the tiny corner screen, random punk score blaring through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-only-in-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}