{"id":8376,"date":"2014-05-21T21:12:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T01:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8376"},"modified":"2014-05-21T21:12:35","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T01:12:35","slug":"music-of-the-trilobites-me-in-amspec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/05\/music-of-the-trilobites-me-in-amspec.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Music of the Trilobites&#8221;: Me in AmSpec"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>not really a book review!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>I\u00a0read John Darnielle\u2019s 2011 novel Master of Reality under the unfamiliar constellations of Australia\u2014which was fitting, since the slender book is about being both physically and spiritually far from home. Master of Reality is an entry in Continuum\u2019s \u201c33 1\/3\u201d series of books about pop or rock albums. (The other books in the series tend to be straightforward critical studies.) I\u2019ve never listened to Black Sabbath\u2019s Master of Reality, but Darnielle\u2019s diary of a 1980s teenager locked in a residential psychiatric treatment facility, pleading with his counselor to get his Walkman and Black Sabbath tapes back, captured some of the deeper and darker currents in my own relationship to music.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/articles\/59224\/music-trilobites\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a> if you subscribe\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>not really a book review! I\u00a0read John Darnielle\u2019s 2011 novel Master of Reality under the unfamiliar constellations of Australia\u2014which was fitting, since the slender book is about being both physically and spiritually far from home. Master of Reality is an entry in Continuum\u2019s \u201c33 1\/3\u201d series of books about pop or rock albums. 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