{"id":2081,"date":"2007-06-07T21:50:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T02:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2012-04-17T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:12:00","slug":"i-can-get-back-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2081","title":{"rendered":"I can get back on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.torrentialequilibrium.net\/botm\/rush.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>It&#8217;s been June for a few days now, and with another week of vacation looming on the horizon, I guess there&#8217;s no better time to get the Band of the Month post done with is the present. This month? RUSH!<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s right. It&#8217;s mother fucking RUSH!!! I don&#8217;t know&#8230; I kind of get excited when talking about Rush, or listening to Rush, or thinking about Rush&#8230; Odd obsession aside, I obviously love the band. For a while back in the day I really couldn&#8217;t get why everyone seemed to like them so much, and then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I still don&#8217;t quite understand it, but Rush is up near the top of the list of my favourite bands.<\/p>\n<p>What better time to do a Band of the Month on Rush than June? The answer: May. Seven days ago May to be particular, when they released their most recent album: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Snakes And Arrows<\/span>. I only picked it up yesterday (what in God&#8217;s name took so long?), and to tell the truth, I was really looking for Harlequin&#8217;s new disc, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Waking The Jester<\/span>, but had no luck there. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Snakes and Arrows<\/span> was technically my consolation prize&#8230; Damn. It&#8217;s odd though, because I&#8217;ve heard their new single &#8220;Far Cry&#8221; on the radio tons of times, and each time I said to myself that I should go pick up the CD, but it never really happened until yesterday. Odd.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, Rush has a pretty nice place in mainstream entertainment too. Not only is &#8220;Spirit of Radio&#8221; the Trailer Park Boys Movie theme (not to mention that the Big Dirty Band was founded by Alex Lifeson and features Geddy Lee), but there was a whole episode revolving around them in season four; it remains one of my favourite episodes. The wicked instrumental piece &#8220;YYZ&#8221; is one of the most fun songs to play in Guitar Hero 2, and Fry&#8217;s &#8220;Rush mixtape&#8221; is one of my choice Futurama moments (right behind every scene with Zoidberg in it, and the entire &#8220;Roswell That Ends Well&#8221; Episode).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rush.com\/v4H.html\" target=\"_blank\">Official site<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Rush\" target=\"_blank\">Rush on Last.fm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rush_%28band%29\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia: Rush<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Dirty_Band\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia: the Big Dirty Band<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been June for a few days now, and with another week of vacation looming on the horizon, I guess there&#8217;s no better time to get the Band of the Month post done with is the present. This month? RUSH! Yeah, that&#8217;s right. It&#8217;s mother fucking RUSH!!! I don&#8217;t know&#8230; I kind of get excited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2081\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I can get back on<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,18,28,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botm","category-film","category-idiot-box","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}