{"id":306,"date":"2010-02-06T19:27:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T02:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2010-02-07T07:59:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T14:59:46","slug":"song-of-the-day-down-rodeo-by-rage-against-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Down Rodeo” by Rage Against The Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man, these guys is angry!\u00a0 I understand the issues that Mr. de la Rocha is singing about.\u00a0 I’ve got a bookshelf full of books that make me angry.\u00a0 I can’t even read them any more, they make me too angry.\u00a0 At this phase in my life I need to be happy, and I need to carry the happiness I find with me, so I just can’t go delving deep into those depressing issues like I used to.<\/p>\n

I still read the news though.\u00a0 And I can console myself that I’ll probably be dead by the time the human race destroys itself.<\/p>\n

That’s me!\u00a0 Mr. Shimmering Optimist!<\/p>\n

Today’s ditty<\/a> is pretty.\u00a0 It’s not a nuanced, poetic argument about the state of affairs in 1996 America so much as it is just a song about driving down Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and killing rich white shoppers.\u00a0 With a shotgun.\u00a0 These people ain’t seen a brown-skinned man since their grandparents bought one.<\/p>\n

I used to hear that line as “since they grabbed hair and bought one”.\u00a0 Equally grim.\u00a0 I mentioned earlier that I can enjoy someone’s music while disagreeing with their politics.\u00a0 I’ll go one further and say that I can enjoy some music while disagreeing with the lyrical content.\u00a0 How many of us can say that we would actually approve of someone driving down a crowded shopping street and killing people?<\/p>\n

Man, this post is a drag.\u00a0 I wonder if I should shift gear on you all and just start making wacky jokes and zany observations.\u00a0 Nah.\u00a0 I think I’ll just end it.\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man, these guys is angry!\u00a0 I understand the issues that Mr. de la Rocha is singing about.\u00a0 I’ve got a bookshelf full of books that make me angry.\u00a0 I can’t even read them any more, they make me too angry.\u00a0 At this phase in my life I need to be happy, and I need to […]<\/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-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}