{"id":2202,"date":"2007-07-26T08:12:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T13:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2007-07-26T14:32:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T19:32:38","slug":"thats-me-defending-bill-shatner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/thats-me-defending-bill-shatner\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s me: Defending Bill Shatner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets4.pitchforkmedia.com\/images\/image\/16523.has-been.gif\" alt=\"Has Been cover\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dave Menconi <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.newsobserver.com\/beat\/index.php?blog=20&#038;p=11343&#038;c=1&#038;page=1&#038;more=1&#038;tb=1&#038;pb=1&#038;disp=single\">can&#8217;t get behind celebrity vanity recordings<\/a>. He forgets that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamshatner.com\/\">Bill Shatner <\/a>is a true artist whose self-awareness sets him far ahead of the pack specifically in his 2004 Ben Folds produced project &#8220;Has Been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I say in the thread to Dave and a Nimoy-defender:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn his dreams, Nimoy is half as self-aware as Shatner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchforkmedia.com\/article\/record_review\/22313-has-been?artist_title=22313-has-been\">&#8220;Has Been&#8221;<\/a> made it to number 22!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Transformed Man&#8221; well good for a yuck, but also as a template for what could be and was transformed by Folds into something unique and wonderful &#8212; &#8220;Has Been&#8221; The great Joe Jackson piano on &#8220;Common People&#8221; is worth the time to download (err buy). The guitar (Adrian Belew) on &#8220;I can&#8217;t get behind that&#8221; is as good as the Rollins-Shatner interaction. Then there is &#8220;That&#8217;s me&#8221; Lyrics by Nick Hornby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Further evidence that Shatner is the greatest: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eISBTBwWKeE\">&#8220;Common People&#8221; with Folds, Jackson and others on Conan O&#8217;Brien.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Menconi can&#8217;t get behind celebrity vanity recordings. He forgets that Bill Shatner is a true artist whose self-awareness sets him far ahead of the pack specifically in his 2004 Ben Folds produced project &#8220;Has Been.&#8221; I say in the thread to Dave and a Nimoy-defender: In his dreams, Nimoy is half as self-aware as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}