{"id":977,"date":"2002-04-22T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-22T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=977"},"modified":"2002-04-22T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-22T16:52:00","slug":"choose-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/choose-life","title":{"rendered":"Choose Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><imporant> When reading these lyrics, remember that the music behind them is hard, driving, *alive* techno. This isn&#8217;t a suicide note, it&#8217;s a thrilled announcement of defiance, a soul awaking.<\/p>\n<p>The actual sample is from Trainspotting &#8211; and of course normally it doesn&#8217;t have a very positive message at all. But when listened to in this context, you can see &#8211; choosing something else is at the very core of coming alive.<\/p>\n<p><b>CHOOSE LIFE. <\/b><br \/>\nChoose a job.<br \/>\nChoose a career.<br \/>\nChoose a family.<br \/>\nChoose a big television,<br \/>\nchoose washing machines, cars,<br \/>\ncompact disk players and electrical tin openers\u2026<br \/>\nChoose leasurewear and matching luggage<br \/>\nchoose a three peice suite on hire-purchase in a range of fabrics<br \/>\nchoose DIY and wondering how to assemble it<br \/>\nchoose sitting on that couch watching mind numbing spirit crushing game shows<br \/>\n     stuffing junk food into your mouth<br \/>\nchoose rotting away at the end of it all in your miserable home,<br \/>\n     nothing more than a embarrassment to the selfish brats you spawn to replace yourself<br \/>\nChoose your future<br \/>\nchoose life<\/p>\n<p><i>I chose not to choose life: I chose something else!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When reading these lyrics, remember that the music behind them is hard, driving, *alive* techno. This isn&#8217;t a suicide note, it&#8217;s a thrilled announcement of defiance, a soul awaking. The actual sample is from Trainspotting &#8211; and of course normally it doesn&#8217;t have a very positive message at all. But when listened to in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}