{"id":1234,"date":"2023-02-16T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2023-02-16T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T22:44:00","slug":"i-re-watched-almost-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/?p=1234","title":{"rendered":"I re-watched Almost Famous"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\"><em>I keep writing poetry about myself, and the<\/em><em>n I have to share it. It must be some terrible illness.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">I&#8217;ve re-watched Almost Famous<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s been more than 10 years now, but fuck<br \/>\nsome things just don&#8217;t go away, now, do they?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I never doubted I was Penny Lane,<br \/>\nbut back then, back when I fell in love<br \/>\nwith you<br \/>\nagain and again,<br \/>\nI kept thinking you were the Enemy, the journalist,<br \/>\nthe uncool kid in a land of rock stars<br \/>\nthe uncool kid I myself wished to be<br \/>\nBecause wasn&#8217;t it sad to be used<br \/>\nby you<br \/>\nagain and again<br \/>\nwhen really, you styled yourself a Russell,<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It&#8217;s like that <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/humungus\/the-erotics-of-trent-reznor-efabd2fe2195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NIN piece<\/a> I read a few months back:<br \/>\nteenage girls know where it&#8217;s at.<br \/>\nThey love with their entire heart<br \/>\nand don&#8217;t look back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But I grew up.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t think I would, I did my best<br \/>\nto flirt and fuck with Death at every turn<br \/>\nNoxious and nauseus, I survived. But didn&#8217;t thrive<br \/>\nno, not until somebody said,<br \/>\nActually, you deserve better.<br \/>\nActually, better is the bare minimum.<br \/>\nActually, you don&#8217;t need to crawl and beg.<br \/>\nfor every scrap of kindness and affect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It blew my mind, it really did<br \/>\nMore than any Led Zep riff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Like all my life defining moments,<br \/>\nAlmost Famous is about a man&#8217;s journey<br \/>\nBut in between one&#8217;s growing up and the other&#8217;s taking responsibility,<br \/>\nthere stand the women, and the gay man, and the roadies<br \/>\nThe capital O Other, the none, the contrast<br \/>\nI mostly identify with ballast<br \/>\nAnd some might think that&#8217;s sad, but I remain steadfast<br \/>\nBecause being a protagonist sounds so exhausting<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather move and anchor stories with my weight<br \/>\nand for that, I can&#8217;t die at 27, nor can I be a waif.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep writing poetry about myself, and then I have to share it. It must be some terrible illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,89,113],"tags":[147,148,16,17],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-english","category-poem","tag-almost-famous","tag-growing-up","tag-music","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbavolant.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}