{"id":440,"date":"2010-03-17T14:07:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=440"},"modified":"2010-03-17T14:07:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:07:27","slug":"are_you_serious_almost_always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/03\/are_you_serious_almost_always\/","title":{"rendered":"“Are you serious?” “Almost always.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> comes via fellow publicist Christina Jensen’s Twitter feed<\/a>, via the website it’s a sickness<\/a>, and is…the best thing:<\/p>\n

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From the website: <\/p>\n

obsession is everything at itsasickness. it’s what makes you interesting. every box you see is someone’s sickness. what’s YOUR sickness?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d never thought about “interesting” that way, that it’s a person’s obsessions that make them interesting, but I suppose there’s some validity to it. Of course that means that your (super)interests are what make you yourself interesting, which creates a kind of ((boom)) ((head)) situation. <\/p>\n

So, question: If my <\/i>obsession is Arrested Development<\/i>, one of Jason Bateman’s jobs, and his<\/i> obsession is classical music, my job, then does that make us…best friends<\/i>?  I’m fairly certain that’s what it makes us.<\/p>\n

And if they want classical soloists for the (um…”upcoming”?) Arrested Development <\/i>movie that we’ve all been waiting not so patiently for, I’m at amanda at firstchairpromo dot com and will help in exchange for a hand chair.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This comes via fellow publicist Christina Jensen’s Twitter feed, via the website it’s a sickness, and is…the best thing: From the website: obsession is everything at itsasickness. it’s what makes you interesting. every box you see is someone’s sickness. what’s YOUR sickness? I’d never thought about “interesting” that way, that it’s a person’s obsessions that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}