{"id":718,"date":"2008-03-04T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/?p=718"},"modified":"2008-03-04T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T07:50:00","slug":"718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Took a flight to the bay area last weekend, and caught <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/theheliosequence\" target=\"_blank\">Helio Sequence<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentsf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Independent<\/a> as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noisepop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Noisepop Festival<\/a>.  Pleasantly surprised with the gig, in a really intimate setting, and great acts to boot.  HS was pretty impressive live, and just sounded gigantic onstage despite being a two-piece.  I was on antibiotics for the past few days to combat the stubborn cough, and therefore couldn't imbibe wonderful nectar of beer lest I destroy my liver, but still had a lot of fun nevertheless.<\/p>\n<p>I rode the Vespa to catch my flight, and cut through rush hour traffic like a hot knife through butter.  Got to the airport, and scored front-row parking right in front of the terminal for FREE.  So let's see, saved an hour and a half on the commute, $30++ on parking fees, plus the time it takes to shuttle to\/from outlier pay parking robbery structures.  Wind on my face, the excitement of a throttle in hand, and mind engaged over subtleties of the experience (versus grappling with parking-lot-AKA-the-four-oh-five road rage).  Vespa, I love you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took a flight to the bay area last weekend, and caught Helio Sequence at the Independent as part of the Noisepop Festival. Pleasantly surprised with the gig, in a really intimate setting, and great acts to boot. HS was pretty impressive live, and just sounded gigantic onstage despite being a two-piece. I was on antibiotics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gigs","category-vespa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}