{"id":431,"date":"2006-12-17T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=431"},"modified":"2010-01-02T23:32:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T23:32:12","slug":"zen-and-the-art-of-magic-693","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/12\/zen-and-the-art-of-magic-693.html","title":{"rendered":"Zen and the art of Magic 693"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Circa 1.00 am on Monday (local time) Magic <s>693<\/s> 1278, <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/11\/magic-693-listening-test.html\">the world&#8217;s greatest radio station<\/a>, played the following set of songs, keeping shift-workers alert with the mental whiplash-inducing combination of:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Everly Brothers: Cathy&#8217;s Clown<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nana Mouskouri: Four and Twenty Hours<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elmo and Patsy: Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Southern Sons: Hold Me In Your Arms<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scott McKenzie:  San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deodato: Also Sprach Zarathustra <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Someone at Magic has obviously grasped the concepts of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">henka<\/span> (change) and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">atarashimi<\/span> (newness, refraining from stepping back) as practiced by ancient masters of the Japanese <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renga\">renga<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">To cap this off, they followed with a plug for their traffic reports (generously sponsored by Mobility Aids Australia) which was backed by <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/11\/magic-693-listening-test.html#comments\">everybody&#8217;s favourite<\/a>, &#8220;Tijuana Taxi&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately, they later blew it by playing <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/03\/small-man-syndrome.html\">Johnny Farnham&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;I Saw Mommy <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">[sic]<\/span> Kissing Santa Claus&#8221;, adding insult to injury by referring to him as an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/02\/south-australian-icons-rich-noble.html\">Aussie Icon<\/a>&#8220;. And by calling him &#8220;John Farnham&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Gene Pitney Watch:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HGfvSPLqYFs\">I&#8217;m Gonna Be Strong<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 1.00 am on Monday (local time) Magic 693 1278, the world&#8217;s greatest radio station, played the following set of songs, keeping shift-workers alert with the mental whiplash-inducing combination of: The Everly Brothers: Cathy&#8217;s Clown Nana Mouskouri: Four and Twenty Hours Elmo and Patsy: Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer Southern Sons: Hold Me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}