{"id":119,"date":"2009-10-01T14:04:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:15:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:15:33","slug":"progress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/01\/progress-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A phrase from my youth I seem to remember only being used paradoxically; being sent home from school with one invariably indicated a <em>lack<\/em> of progress, and usually meant you were in trouble. I report to you now with a similar sheepishness, having promised more frequent updates than have been forthcoming, but whatever: this is NOT that kind of progress report! There is progress!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-120\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"goggles by Ratti, helmet by AGV\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pphjmf.jpg\" alt=\"pphjmf\" width=\"128\" height=\"158\" \/>Most importantly: the <em>Fangio<\/em> album is finished. More on this soon. For now, check out the fucking awesome Ratti goggles I scored on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>Second most importantly: I&#8217;m playing a show during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmj.com\/marathon\/index.php\">CMJ<\/a>, October 21 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionhallny.com\/home.php\">Union Hall<\/a>. I&#8217;m first of four; Franklin Bruno is headlining and celebrating the official release of <em>Local Currency<\/em>, and I&#8217;ll be playing with him, too. Action starts at 7, so get there early.<\/p>\n<p>Tons of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountain-goats.com\/\">Mountain Goats<\/a> stuff going on, too, obviously: new album is out Tuesday and we&#8217;re performing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/home\">The Colbert Report<\/a> to mark the occasion (!). You can preview the album on the Colbert site, too. Full band U.S. tour to follow in November so come out and say hello if you can.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, lots of how-I-spent-my-summer-vacation type stuff over on <a href=\"http:\/\/firebirdman.blogspot.com\">Firebird Man<\/a>, the one place I <em>have<\/em> been updating somewhat regularly over the past several months. Check it out if you share my fascination with awesome old race cars, gawdawful customs, and unlikely third world treasures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A phrase from my youth I seem to remember only being used paradoxically; being sent home from school with one invariably indicated a lack of progress, and usually meant you were in trouble. I report to you now with a similar sheepishness, having promised more frequent updates than have been forthcoming, but whatever: this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9,12,14,8,10,15],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live","tag-fangio","tag-franklin-bruno","tag-mountain-goats","tag-pph","tag-shows","tag-stephen-colbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fivetools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}