{"id":959,"date":"2008-05-23T20:38:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T01:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2008-05-23T20:38:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T01:38:57","slug":"friday-night-music-life-in-the-bush-of-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Music: Life in the Bush of Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been a bit slow at work lately. As I cruised the net during some down time I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.davidbyrne.com\/\">David Byrne&#8217;s blog<\/a>, from which I followed a few links and discovered that <em>My Life in the Bush of Ghosts<\/em>, an album he did paired with Brian Eno, is now available in a remastered and improved (by the authors) edition. Somewhere along the way I lost my copy of what is one of the greatest albums of all time, so I will be getting the new version soon.<\/p>\n<p>This stuff is not to everyone&#8217;s taste, so be warned.<\/p>\n<p>One would not expect a concert video from this album. However, a filmmaker named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Conner\">Bruce Conner<\/a> made some authorized videos in the early &#8217;80s. Bear in mind this music was made before the age of computers. Here&#8217;s <em>America is Waiting<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m1-Q8ly8iKE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>and <em>Mea Culpa<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8QLXTsviMxk&#038;feature=related[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been a bit slow at work lately. As I cruised the net during some down time I came across David Byrne&#8217;s blog, from which I followed a few links and discovered that My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, an album he did paired with Brian Eno, is now available in a remastered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}