{"id":476,"date":"2010-05-27T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T13:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=476"},"modified":"2010-05-27T13:33:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T13:33:43","slug":"strange_bedfellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/05\/strange_bedfellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Bedfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iTunes = Cool. <\/p>\n<p>This is a Known Thing. <\/p>\n<p>Even the <i>classical<\/i> section is cool (can you imagine??) which is why I was surprised by the homepage yesterday and today:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/iTunes1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"313\" width=\"500\" \/>The first album-ish thing featured is the Leif Ove Andsnes ((swoon)) <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/itunes-live-at-upper-west-side\/id371285266\">Live from the Upper Westside Apple Store concert<\/a>, but the second album featured is this gem:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/iTunes2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"323\" width=\"500\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/iTunes3.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"380\" width=\"500\" \/> &#8220;Homework Hits Vol. 1: The Classical Study Hall&#8221;??? <i>Reader&#8217;s Digest?<\/i> I&#8217;m not entirely sure I even remember what <i>Reader&#8217;s Digest<\/i> is. So not only is iTunes promoting (1) something called &#8220;Homework Hits&#8221; and (2) something by <i>Reader&#8217;s Digest<\/i>, but they&#8217;re promoting (3) something that came out in 2007? How very Microsoft.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The good news is, this all gave me the opportunity to search for the JOCK JAMS font, which then gave me the opportunity to listen to the amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O8bg_jxWFgA\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s Get Ready to Rumble Remix.&#8221;<\/a> Be. Aggressive. B. E. Aggressive. <\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JockJamsCD.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/JockJamsCD.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" \/> Whoop, there it is. <\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m not entirely sure we need two Chopin sonatas discs with blond women looking to the right, but that&#8217;s hardly iTunes&#8217; fault. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chopin1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/Chopin1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"318\" width=\"500\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chopin2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/Chopin2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"312\" width=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iTunes = Cool. This is a Known Thing. Even the classical section is cool (can you imagine??) which is why I was surprised by the homepage yesterday and today: The first album-ish thing featured is the Leif Ove Andsnes ((swoon)) Live from the Upper Westside Apple Store concert, but the second album featured is this [&hellip;]<\/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-476","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\/476","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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}