{"id":1779,"date":"2009-08-15T17:03:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T17:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2009-08-15T17:03:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T17:03:50","slug":"drawing_a_blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/15\/drawing_a_blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing a Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working today on a little project that&#8217;s led to me rediscover some music from deep in my CD collection that I&#8217;ve not listened to in a very long while. One of those albums is <i>Songs from Ally McBeal<\/i>, a soundtrack comprising mostly covers of 1960s pop tunes, with a few original tracks, all performed by the lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/vondashepard.com\/\">Vonda Shepard<\/a>. I&#8217;m finding that I still enjoy this music as much, if not a little more, than I did when it was current; Vonda has a warm and powerful voice, and her arrangements of old chestnuts are interestingly different from the familiar versions. Also, the whole album has a kind of pleasantly melancholy feel that&#8217;s very agreeable to me as I putter around the house.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s the weird thing: I cannot for the life of me recall any specifics about the TV show these songs are from. I used to watch <i>Ally McBeal<\/i> pretty regularly, too, and it seems like I was as emotionally invested in it as in any program I follow. But I&#8217;ll be damned if I can summon up the plot of a single episode, or any character names beyond Ally herself, or much of anything really, aside from a few faces and that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4ZyidTmhSEY\">spooky CG baby<\/a> that popped up from time to time. How is it possible that I still remember specific scenes and even lines of dialogue from shows I saw once when I was 12, but a series that&#8217;s only 10 years or so old has become a complete blank for me? And does this phenomenon say more about my mental state or the series itself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working today on a little project that&#8217;s led to me rediscover some music from deep in my CD collection that I&#8217;ve not listened to in a very long while. One of those albums is Songs from Ally McBeal, a soundtrack comprising mostly covers of 1960s pop tunes, with a few original tracks, all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}