{"id":12,"date":"2003-01-18T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-18T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/svefn-g-englar\/"},"modified":"2003-01-18T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-18T21:34:00","slug":"svefn-g-englar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/svefn-g-englar\/","title":{"rendered":"Svefn-g-englar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I mentioned &#8220;arguably the most gorgeous ten minutes of music ever composed&#8221; &#8212; that&#8217;s a pretty bold statement, I know.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you&#8217;re curious about what that ten minutes sounds like, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/clipserve\/B00005Q60I001001\/1\/002-9383548-6810445\">download the song<\/a> and find out for yourself. It&#8217;s best if you listen with the lights off, and with patience; it won&#8217;t have much of an impact unless you concentrate and give it a chance. If you do give it a (metaphorical) spin, let me know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>After listening to the song, you might also want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insound.com\/cinema\/searchvids.cfm?query=martist&#038;search=SIGUR%20ROS\">check out the video<\/a>, itself quite stunning. It features members of the Perlan Theater Group, an Icelandic troupe of actors with Down Syndrome, dressed as angels and dancing in slow motion. If you&#8217;re willing to leave your cynicism at the door, it&#8217;s beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>The last few days have been a blur. People have left (sadly), and more people have come in. IHouse is hopping, as school starts in three days and most people have nothing to do. Of course, I do, but I&#8217;m diligently avoiding it as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Gonna hang out with Wing and Jen tomorrow. Yesssss!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago I mentioned &#8220;arguably the most gorgeous ten minutes of music ever composed&#8221; &#8212; that&#8217;s a pretty bold statement, I know. Well, if you&#8217;re curious about what that ten minutes sounds like, download the song and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/svefn-g-englar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1c91x-c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}