{"id":66,"date":"2006-06-24T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T19:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyistheft.com\/warmnotcold\/?p=66"},"modified":"2006-06-25T12:46:31","modified_gmt":"2006-06-25T20:46:31","slug":"but-i-was-thinking-about-it-when-we-were-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyistheft.com\/warmnotcold\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"<em>but I was thinking about it when we were playing<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about political art I keep coming back to this little snippet from a post by Tobi.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then Spider and the Webs played a show with some &#8216;no folk&#8217; groups in a basement in East Olympia. We didn&#8217;t say anything about East Timor, but I was thinking about it when we were playing. Why, I don&#8217;t know. The situation of playing music in a party setting to people on a weeknight did not really seem like the right setting to talk about how terrible a place the world is. Everyone has to go to work in the morning, they are there despite that, and they want to be entertained. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"warm_box_right\">\n<strong>Audio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imagination&#8221; &#8211; Al Larsen &#8211; <a href=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/al_imagination.mp3\" target=\"_new\">mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What you call your art or your music or whatnot could be absurd, abstract, passionate, situational, confused, complex, transcendent, fleeting&#8230; still the rest of everything else factors in.  <em>&#8230;how terrible a place the world is&#8230; everyone has to go to work in the morning&#8230; they are there despite that&#8230; and they want to be entertained&#8230;<\/em> It&#8217;s true whether you are playing a show or cooking dinner. This journal entry reminds me to expand the view of what the political art is&#8230; to include the show plus the writing, the cooking plus the shopping, the protest plus the reading, the eating plus the conversation. <\/p>\n<div class=\"warm_box_full\">\n<strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumpidee.com\/jigsawonline.html\" target=\"_new\">Jigsaw #8<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/spiderandthewebs\" target=\"_new\">Spider &#038; the Webs<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tabithasays.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Tabitha Says<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumpidee.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Bumpidee<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about political art I keep coming back to this little snippet from a post by Tobi. Then Spider and the Webs played a show with some &#8216;no folk&#8217; groups in a basement in East Olympia. We didn&#8217;t say anything about East Timor, but I was thinking about it when we were playing. Why, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncateggorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertyistheft.com\/warmnotcold\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertyistheft.com\/warmnotcold\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertyistheft.com\/warmnotcold\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertyistheft.com\/warmnotcold\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertyistheft.com\/warmnotcold\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propertyistheft.com\/warmnotcold\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propertyistheft.com\/warmnotcold\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertyistheft.com\/warmnotcold\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propertyistheft.com\/warmnotcold\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}