{"id":369,"date":"2006-07-23T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=369"},"modified":"2010-01-09T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T16:36:24","slug":"filler-by-proxy-xxxviii-billy-joel-american-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/07\/filler-by-proxy-xxxviii-billy-joel-american-idiot.html","title":{"rendered":"Filler by Proxy XXXVIII: Billy Joel &#8211; American Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/02\/filler-by-proxy-xxx-billy-stewart.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/manybillys.jpg\" title=\"Wait! One Billy too many.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emily at <a href=\"http:\/\/progressiveboink.com\/\">Progressive Boink<\/a> analyses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00005RT35\/103-8020677-4301430?v=glance&#038;n=130\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Billy Joel &#8211; The Essential Video Collection<\/span><\/a> and reaches some<a href=\"http:\/\/progressiveboink.com\/archive\/billyjoel.html\"> conclusions about what makes a video [or Billy Joel] essential:<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">1) The song must feature an Important Life Lesson. This lesson can usually be summed up on a single sentence, and often ends in an exclamation point.  <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">2) Billy and\/or his band (also known as The Black Hole of Rockin&#8217;) must in some way remind the viewer of another band\/another celebrity\/some irrelevant piece of pop culture history. You&#8217;ll be surprised how often this happens.  <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">3) There must be celebrity guest stars. Not every video features a guest star, but when they do, you can almost count of them being 80&#8217;s specific.  <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">4) Perhaps most important in determining how essential a video is, is where it falls on the BJ Jew Fro Scale.  <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">. . .Oh, and it always helps if a video has hilariously out-of-place black people.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Convincing scientific analysis of a dozen or so case studies follows.  I think it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestandingroom.com\/blog\/\">The Standing Room&#8217;s<\/a> overzealous del.icio.us feed that brought this important information to my attention.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily at Progressive Boink analyses Billy Joel &#8211; The Essential Video Collection and reaches some conclusions about what makes a video [or Billy Joel] essential: 1) The song must feature an Important Life Lesson. This lesson can usually be summed up on a single sentence, and often ends in an exclamation point. 2) Billy and\/or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}