{"id":889,"date":"2008-08-28T21:29:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2008-08-28T21:29:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:29:48","slug":"i-liked-them-before-you-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"I Liked Them Before You Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=http:\/\/lists.topica.com\/lists\/morgueatlarge\/read\/message.html?mid=908984564&#038;sort=d&#038;start=44>a November 2003 email about 8 August of that year<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;On Friday Cal and I were wandering near the Student Union building, Teviot, and were offered free tickets to a show by Irish comedian David O&#8217;Doherty. Despite our worrying [earlier] experiences with the alleged Cream of Irish Comedy we signed on, and got an interesting show &#8211; mostly consisting of O&#8217;Doherty sitting with a keyboard on his lap playing and singing amusing ditties about<br \/>\nhow miserable and crap he was. Not bad at all, actually, and at that price how can you go wrong?&#8221;<br \/>\nFrom <a href=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2008\/aug\/24\/edinburghfestival.comedy>a Guardian report four days ago<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;David O&#8217;Doherty has taken home the main prize at the if.comedy awards &#8211; formerly known as the Perriers &#8211; in Edinburgh, the most prestigious accolade of its kind.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\nFrom <a href=http:\/\/www.additiverich.com\/morgue\/archives\/000239.html>my blog, March 9, 2004<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;I discovered today that my NZ-rock-gods-to-be Two Lane Blacktop have split up. Sucksville.&#8221;<br \/>\nFrom <a href=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2008\/jun\/09\/popandrock2>the Guardian on June 9<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re going to stick our necks out on this one and predict that Ladyhawke are going to be massive. Or rather, &#8220;is&#8221; going to be massive: Ladyhawke (the title of a 1985 fantasy film starring Sarah Jessica Parker&#8217;s hubby; not to be confused with Ladyhawk, a Canadian indie-rock band) is the vehicle for the giant (alter) ego that is the New Zealand-born Pip Brown [formerly of Two Lane Blacktop].&#8221;<br \/>\n(The first and only time I saw them play was at Indigo during the Cuba Street Carnival in Feb 2002 &#8211; Our Sophie was on the door and I popped up to see her, and stuck around to watch because the band was amazing. Sophie chatted with me about Pip afterwards; we were both well impressed. Hmm, a quick google reveals <a href=http:\/\/www.nzmusic.com\/node\/1482?page=1>the Ladyhawke Lady herself announcing that gig on NZMusic<\/a> &#8211; so it was on Feb 22.)<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\nAnyway, this clearly shows that my taste in everything is chronologically superior to your taste in everything. Sorry about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a November 2003 email about 8 August of that year: &#8220;On Friday Cal and I were wandering near the Student Union building, Teviot, and were offered free tickets to a show by Irish comedian David O&#8217;Doherty. Despite our worrying [earlier] experiences with the alleged Cream of Irish Comedy we signed on, and got an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Liked Them Before You Did<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-ish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-el","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}