{"id":744,"date":"2009-06-12T12:42:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T19:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=744"},"modified":"2009-06-12T12:42:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T19:42:39","slug":"back-on-the-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/back-on-the-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on the Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, after singing about the movie insessently over the years (there is a lyric about it in the Beastie Boys song &#8220;Sureshot&#8221;) without having even seen it, I finally got to watch &#8220;The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3&#8221; and I really, really enjoyed the movie.<br \/>\nI just love NYC movies and gritty 70&#8217;s ones are especially fun.  There haven&#8217;t been very many good remakes of 70&#8217;s movies though so I was on the fence about the new remake.  But, after hearing some positive reviews, I decided to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/12\/movies\/12pelham.html?hpw\">NYT Pelham review<\/a> and could not stop laughing about its closing thought:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;It has intense violence and frequent repetition of every true New Yorker\u2019s favorite word.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm, I wonder what that could ever be&#8230;<br \/>\nEven more fun was that I could easily watch the original on my PC using NetFlix&#8217;s online VOD service.  Sure, movies on a 17&#8243; LCD screen aren&#8217;t as good as 42&#8243; LCD screen but there is something to be said about the word &#8220;instant.&#8221;  I am really looking forward to when <em>everything<\/em> is instant &#8211; we are probably 5 years away from that.<br \/>\nLast, since I am just obsessed with Phish lately, here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YB_-1Iog5xQ\">Phish playing the title of this post &#8220;Back on the Train&#8221; from Hampton back in March<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, after singing about the movie insessently over the years (there is a lyric about it in the Beastie Boys song &#8220;Sureshot&#8221;) without having even seen it, I finally got to watch &#8220;The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3&#8221; and I really, really enjoyed the movie. I just love NYC movies and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[422,431,482,616],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-phish","tag-subway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}