{"id":107,"date":"2005-12-20T19:57:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T00:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2022-10-26T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T22:50:18","slug":"nine-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/nine-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michael Winterbottom’s Nine Songs<\/em> is explicit in more ways than one. Surprisingly, the theme is pretty much spelled out in voiceover in the first sequence: A man reflects on a past relationship in terms of concerts they went to together and the arc of their sexual life. I can only speak for myself, but those are exactly the kinds of mental landmarks that mark my past relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Winterbottom’s Nine Songs is explicit in more ways than one. Surprisingly, the theme is pretty much spelled out in voiceover in the first sequence: A man reflects on a past relationship in terms of concerts they went to together and the arc of their sexual life. I can only speak for myself, but those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[1348],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4-stars","category-movies","tag-michael-winterbottom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/9-songs.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-1J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1797,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/nine-inch-nails-janes-addiction\/","url_meta":{"origin":107,"position":0},"title":"Nine Inch Nails & Jane’s Addiction live at Jones Beach, June 7, 2009","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"June 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Street Sweeper Social Club Street Sweeper Social Club, the new band formed by Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, opened. 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