{"id":2287,"date":"2016-03-25T04:42:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T04:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefallssociety.com\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2016-03-25T04:42:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T04:42:14","slug":"an-odd-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefallssociety.com\/?p=2287","title":{"rendered":"An Odd Turn&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Spotify playlist just took me on an Expected Journey.<\/p>\n<p>I just Took a trip from Footloose to Country Roads.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, that&#8217;s from Kevin Bacon dancing for FREEDOM, all the way to John Denver singing about how country roads are taking him home, and to his&#8230;like&#8230;past&#8230;or something? \u00a0Let&#8217;s take a CLOSER look!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Footloose - Kenny Loggins\" width=\"770\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wFWDGTVYqE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 1985 or so, my mom married a guy named Mark. \u00a0She divorced him in 1992. \u00a0This song more than any other reminds me of that part of my life and that guy who was my stepdad. \u00a0I have a clear memory of standing on the stairs looking down onto the hardwood floored &#8220;music&#8221; room (Mark had a rule about my sister and I NOT going into the &#8220;music&#8221; room), and this song playing. \u00a0Fucking FOOTLOOSE. \u00a0Mark loved contemporary music. \u00a0I have some good memories of Mark, I&#8217;m not trying to slam Mark too much, BUT&#8230;you know&#8230;he was never my father, and I think he may have hit my mom once. \u00a0One time they had this fight and she had to go to the hospital with a sprained wrist&#8230; \u00a0So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>COUNTRY ROADS-<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"770\" height=\"434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7uYag4yPdlA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love John Denver? \u00a0Voice of a generation, or voice of America or something. \u00a0I grew up with this shit. \u00a0I remember when he died in that plane wreck. \u00a0Totally shitty. \u00a0I broke up with a girl once, and I left home for a bit. \u00a0When I got home, she had packed up and gone, and left me a note, saying she didn&#8217;t know what happened, but she loved me. \u00a0I played this song and I fucking WEPT.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s look at some ass. \u00a0Thick. \u00a0Ass.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nicki Minaj - Anaconda\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LDZX4ooRsWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">My Spotify playlist just took me on an Expected Journey. I just Took a trip from Footloose to Country Roads. To be clear, that&#8217;s from Kevin Bacon dancing for FREEDOM, all the way to John Denver singing about how country roads are taking him home, and to his&#8230;like&#8230;past&#8230;or something? \u00a0Let&#8217;s take a CLOSER look! 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