{"id":1899,"date":"2009-11-05T14:05:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T22:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2009-11-05T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T22:06:08","slug":"1899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2009\/11\/05\/1899\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Sn&uuml;zz live in concert solo only once, last year, while I was living in North Carolina with Jon and Amanda.  It was some kind of multi-band benefit thing, and the Brasfields, ardent fans of his, convinced me to go and take a cute girl from OKCupid.<\/p>\n<p>The show (like the date) was a mixed success.  It introduced me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/midtowndickens\" title=\"Shit, they've finally got a new album out!\">Midtown Dickens<\/a>, my favorite lo-fi act, but while Sn&uuml;zz was great, he only played for about twenty minutes.  Afterwards he sat next to us in the audience, and I mentioned that I was a friend of Jon&#8217;s; he smiled broadly and said hey, yeah, Jon and Amanda were awesome, he hoped to see them again sometime.  Then I said I&#8217;d enjoyed the show but wished it had been longer.  He opened his mouth, hesitated, then smiled (less broadly) and just said thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out he was probably forced to stop early by the symptoms of his then-undiagnosed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotriad.com\/content\/2009\/11\/04\/article\/musician_wont_let_disease_get_him_down\">lymphoma<\/a>.  I wish I&#8217;d known to say something more tactful.  He&#8217;s holding the second of a couple benefit concerts himself now; the first was to raise funds for his medical bills, and this one for a group that helps buffer cancer victims against unforeseen costs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like I have many non-Brasfield contacts in North Carolina, but hey, if you like good music you should go and toss some money in the hat.  It&#8217;s this Sunday night at the Blind Tiger in Greensboro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw Sn&uuml;zz live in concert solo only once, last year, while I was living in North Carolina with Jon and Amanda. It was some kind of multi-band benefit thing, and the Brasfields, ardent fans of his, convinced me to go and take a cute girl from OKCupid. The show (like the date) was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25,47,56,42,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-connections","category-jon-and-amanda","category-music","category-naivete","category-plugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}