{"id":167,"date":"2008-09-03T23:08:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T22:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2008-09-03T23:08:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T22:08:24","slug":"getting-up-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2008\/getting-up-early","title":{"rendered":"Getting up early"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d noticed that I kept hearing the same songs at breakfast, so I wasn’t surprised that by getting up earlier today and eating earlier I’d hear different ones for a change.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, they played “I just called to say I love you,” which means I’ll be singing it all the way to Japan.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only that, but it modulated twice, and it was the pan flute version, with a misguided chirpy electronic accompaniment that sounded like a symphony of squeaking see-saws.\u00c2\u00a0 If it hasn’t been done yet, I’ll claim the idea of filling an orchestra pit with rusty see-saws and proclaiming myself the great ironic modern composer (perhaps with three modulations for extra irony).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

And before the performance I’ll get an ironic haircut at the N’Vague hair salon in Gangnam-ku.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I’d noticed that I kept hearing the same songs at breakfast, so I wasn’t surprised that by getting up earlier today and eating earlier I’d hear different ones for a change.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, they played “I just called to say I love you,” which means I’ll be singing it all the way to Japan.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only that, but it modulated twice, and it was the pan flute version, with a misguided chirpy electronic accompaniment that sounded like a symphony of squeaking see-saws.\u00c2\u00a0 If it hasn’t been done yet, I’ll claim the idea of filling an orchestra pit with rusty see-saws and proclaiming myself the great ironic modern composer (perhaps with three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}