{"id":9,"date":"2005-10-16T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=9"},"modified":"2005-10-16T22:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T03:47:00","slug":"i-found-the-tom-waits-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2005\/10\/16\/i-found-the-tom-waits-song\/","title":{"rendered":"I found the Tom Waits song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFollowing from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2005\/10\/15\/la_veillee_des_abysses\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>: I&#8217;ve now found the Tom Waits &#8220;song&#8221; that I was looking for. It was &#8220;Russian Dance&#8221; from <i>The Black Rider<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI wonder what the theatre show looks like. I&#8217;m imagining something dark and bizarre and twisted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt took me years, literally, to get used to Tom Waits. It&#8217;s an acquired taste, sort of like whiskey or spicy food. Give any of those to a child and they&#8217;ll spit it out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the beginning I really disliked his music, but Eric liked it, so I kept hearing it again and again. With time, I got used to it, and after a while grew to really enjoy it. It grows on you. By now, some of his songs are among my absolute favourites &#8211; and I like them even more because in my head they are inextricably linked to Eric. To me, Tom Waits is Eric&#8217;s music (not that Eric&#8217;s dark and bizarre and twisted!) and listening to them always makes me think of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2005\/10\/15\/la_veillee_des_abysses\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>: I&#8217;ve now found the Tom Waits &#8220;song&#8221; that I was looking for. It was <i>Russian Dance<\/i> from &#8220;The Black Rider&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}