{"id":15210,"date":"2014-09-19T23:37:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T04:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15210"},"modified":"2014-09-20T04:47:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T09:47:17","slug":"nico-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15210","title":{"rendered":"Nico, revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the reviewers get it right.  On the strength of a rave review in the New York Times, I got tix for <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/15\/theater\/nico-underground-starring-tammy-faye-starlite.html target=1>Nico Underground<\/a>, a woozily surreal and dead-on recap, written by and starring Tammy Faye Starlite, of the life and times of the iconic 60&#8217;s singer and <i>object d&#8217;art<\/i> Nico.<\/p>\n<p>The entire experience was spectacular.  Starting from the fact that we truly were underground &#8212; in a cute little downstairs performance space within the bowels of the famed Theater for the New City &#8212; the show hit every eccentric and culturally resonant note with pitch perfect accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>When I wasn&#8217;t being utterly entranced by the proceedings onstage, a part of my mind was thinking &#8220;This is it.  This is what New York downtown theater is supposed to be like, and so rarely is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And for those of you who were also fortunate enough to see this wonderfully weird and appealing production, I must confess that I may never again be able think of Bob Dylan without also thinking of Joseph Goebbels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the reviewers get it right. On the strength of a rave review in the New York Times, I got tix for Nico Underground, a woozily surreal and dead-on recap, written by and starring Tammy Faye Starlite, of the life and times of the iconic 60&#8217;s singer and object d&#8217;art Nico. The entire experience was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nico, revisited&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15213,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210\/revisions\/15213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}