{"id":9509,"date":"2010-01-11T23:35:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T05:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=9509"},"modified":"2010-01-11T23:36:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T05:36:15","slug":"music-monday-bands-as-people-collected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/music-monday-bands-as-people-collected\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday: Bands as People, Collected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.questionablecontent.net\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Questionable Content<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jephjacques\" class=\"external external_icon\">Jeph Jacques<\/a> did a wonderful tweetspammy thing. He created a list of band similes. That is if the bands in his iTunes, or wherever, were walking around and being horrible\/wonderful to you.:<\/p>\n<p>Below lay 15 of our favorites\/bands we&#8217;ve heard and agree with the definition.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Dragonforce is the guy\/girl in theater who thinks they&#8217;re hot shit and all the nerds fawn over them while normal people can&#8217;t stand them<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Muse gave you a mediocre handjob and then shat the bed<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Disturbed is a dog giving itself a blowjob<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Hum is your high school sweetheart who left you in college and then died in a car accident and you still miss her<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 AC\/DC is a schoolbus driver<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The Decemberists are that group of drama kids who never talk to anyone outside their clique and have tons of inside jokes you don&#8217;t get<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 LED ZEPPELIN IS YOUR IMMORTAL STONER GRANDPA<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Sigur Ros is that exchange student you thought might have had a crush on you but would just blush and run away if you tried to talk to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 nickelback is the guy who tried to pass off his genital warts as a &#8220;body modification, it&#8217;s all the rage in, like, europe right now&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 DAFT PUNK IS THE ORGASM THAT KILLS YOU<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Weezer is your best friend from high school who you lost touch with in college, and when you finally bump into him again after graduation he has somehow become a total fucking douchebag.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Radiohead is the girl who was absolutely stunning back in college and you pretend you don&#8217;t still have a crush on her but every time she comes in to starbucks your heart skips a beat.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Mogwai is your best friend&#8217;s girlfriend who frankly has put on quite a few pounds in the past couple years but they&#8217;re happy so who are you to judge.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Portishead spent hours in the bathroom, carving intricate spirals into her thighs and forearms with a razor blade. Years after you broke up, you run into her at a party. She is entirely covered in scar-tissue swirls, and radiant.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Yeah Yeah Yeahs are the girl all your friends think is AMAZING she is just so BRILLIANT and FIERCE and INTELLIGENT but as far as you can tell she&#8217;s just a boring twat with a goofy haircut.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For all of them visit Jeph Jacques&#8217; LJ:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/qcjeph.livejournal.com\/112588.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">TWEETSPAM: BAND SIMILE EDITION<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/qcjeph.livejournal.com\/112666.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">More &#8220;bands as people&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Questionable Content&#8216;s Jeph Jacques did a wonderful tweetspammy thing. He created a list of band similes. That is if the bands in his iTunes, or wherever, were walking around and being horrible\/wonderful to you.: Below lay 15 of our favorites\/bands we&#8217;ve heard and agree with the definition. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Dragonforce is the guy\/girl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,60],"tags":[1835,103,1836,1834,1833,1470,1832,36,420,1837],"class_list":["post-9509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-freaking-neat","category-music","tag-amazing","tag-awesome","tag-band-similes","tag-bands-as-people","tag-jeph-jacques","tag-music-monday","tag-questionable-content","tag-quotables","tag-tweeted-info","tag-tweetspam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9512,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions\/9512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}