{"id":1434,"date":"2005-11-06T19:12:17","date_gmt":"2005-11-06T23:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2005\/11\/06\/why-i-love-them\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:58:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:58:03","slug":"why-i-love-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/06\/why-i-love-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Why i love them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lets-do-this.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/always-take-subway.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/img\/music\/arcadefireunionsquare.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update: catch a video of their <i>The Cure<\/i> cover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/archives\/2005\/11\/the_arcade_fire_5.html\">here<\/a> &#8211; \u00e9mouvant.<\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nHow would you react if you suddenly bumped into an improvised <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arcade_Fire\">Arcade Fire<\/a> gig on Union Square? I would most probably freak out <a href=\"http:\/\/lets-do-this.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/always-take-subway.html\">as this guy did<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We&#8217;re walking up the stairs from the N,R at Union Square, bout 2a.m. Sat night. Couple street musicians are banging out some tune when we get up to the park.<\/p>\n<p>Holy fucking shit.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Arcade Fire.<\/p>\n<p>Covering New Order. Win and Will on guitars. Regine on guitar-case-as-percussion. Why the fuck not? It&#8217;s a nice night in New York, why not blow the dozen wanderers&#8217; minds who&#8217;ve magically stumbled upon this scene?<\/p>\n<p>Cover a couple more, then wrap it up with Tunnels.<\/p>\n<p>Holy fucking shit.<br \/>\nNew York is magic.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/\">via Brooklynvegan<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: catch a video of their The Cure cover here &#8211; \u00e9mouvant. * How would you react if you suddenly bumped into an improvised Arcade Fire gig on Union Square? I would most probably freak out as this guy did: &#8220;We&#8217;re walking up the stairs from the N,R at Union Square, bout 2a.m. Sat night.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/06\/why-i-love-them\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why i love them<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9450,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/9450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}