{"id":2631,"date":"2007-07-23T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2007-07-23T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T01:58:00","slug":"2631","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2631","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">From Nathan Rabin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/blog\/my_year_of_flops_case_file_51_sgt\">review<\/a> of <i>Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/i> (the movie, not the album):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Beatles explored a sonic and emotional template unprecedented in the history of pop music. There&#8217;s infinite variety and unparalleled sophistication just in the band&#8217;s humor alone. There was McCartney&#8217;s cornball dance-hall baggy pants broadness, but also his love for Monty Python and goofball absurdism, as well as John Lennon&#8217;s vitriolic black humor, Peter Sellers worship, and stinging social satire.<\/p>\n<p>{ <i>snip<\/i> }<\/p>\n<p>Just because something works spectacularly in one context doesn&#8217;t mean it will succeed equally well in a wildly different form. James Brown may have been a spectacular entertainer, but that doesn&#8217;t mean he should have hit cleanup for the Yankees or been the Secretary of Agriculture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes. Clearly, Brown would have been head of the Department of Health &#038; Human Services.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Nathan Rabin&#8217;s review of Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band (the movie, not the album): The Beatles explored a sonic and emotional template unprecedented in the history of pop music. There&#8217;s infinite variety and unparalleled sophistication just in the band&#8217;s humor alone. There was McCartney&#8217;s cornball dance-hall baggy pants broadness, but also his love &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2631\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}