{"id":674,"date":"2004-11-26T20:10:41","date_gmt":"2004-11-26T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=674"},"modified":"2004-11-26T20:10:41","modified_gmt":"2004-11-26T20:10:41","slug":"rock_critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Rock Critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching some of the episodes of Lost that I&#8217;ve downloaded over the last few weeks and I&#8217;m quite impressed with it so far.  The writers manage not to telegraph a lot of the twists in the plot.  Their presentation of one character&#8217;s background story was almost ingenious in its execution because of how the writers play with the assumptions of the audience.  However, I have doubts about how long a show like this can stay fresh, given the premise of everyone being stranded on a remote island.  It&#8217;s not like they can bring in a different guest star each week, at least not without turning it into Gilligan&#8217;s Island.<br \/>\nI downloaded U2&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0006399FS\/ref=pd_ts_tb_1\/103-1079557-7665447?v=glance&#038;s=music&#038;n=5174\">new album<\/a> off of iTunes earlier tonight.  My initial reaction is that it&#8217;s pretty good, but I wish the band would return to some of the experimentalism they showed in Achtung Baby and especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000001E18\/ref=m_art_li_15\/103-1079557-7665447?v=glance&#038;s=music\">Zooropa<\/a>.  Zooropa remains my favorite album of theirs.  It had a noirish, urban tone that wasn&#8217;t necessarily cynical, but it kind of felt like something you would put on while you were reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\/index.asp\">William Gibson<\/a>.  Listening to it, I could almost imagine myself walking the nighttime streets of Berlin or Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching some of the episodes of Lost that I&#8217;ve downloaded over the last few weeks and I&#8217;m quite impressed with it so far. The writers manage not to telegraph a lot of the twists in the plot. Their presentation of one character&#8217;s background story was almost ingenious in its execution because of how <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=674' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-aS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}