{"id":512,"date":"2007-05-11T14:30:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T21:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/512"},"modified":"2007-05-11T14:30:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T21:30:02","slug":"are-you-here-to-rescue-or-kill-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":""Are you here to rescue or kill me?""},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I was very excited to be connected in some way to the latest issue of Geek magazine – you might however imagine my chagrin when I found out my pal Toren had trumped me by being quoted AND having his picture published. I’ve complained to the editor, but I don’t think he cares.<\/p>\n

The magazine missed out however on the next chapter in the rock nerdity that is The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. They wisely chose The Thickets as a high watermark in geek rock (they’re the only HP Lovecraft inspired band I know that make madness something to danceable), but were too early to cover the new album, due any minute now – The Shadow Out of Tim. Imagine a whole album that retells Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time. It goes to eleven as well as being educational.<\/p>\n

If anyone wants a taste, they’ve posted the first track, Marine Biologist (technically second, but it’s the first “chapter” of the story), on their MySpace page<\/a> – there’s a link for the mp3, somewhere, for those of you that want to rock out in a portable fashion.<\/p>\n

I knew the album was solid – I’ve heard it and it’s gooood. But I knew it was going to be a hit when they made Marine Biology seem badass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was very excited to be connected in some way to the latest issue of Geek magazine – you might however imagine my chagrin when I found out my pal Toren had trumped me by being quoted AND having his picture published. I’ve complained to the editor, but I don’t think he cares. The magazine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}