{"id":1698,"date":"2017-03-29T10:51:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2017-03-29T10:51:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T14:51:11","slug":"kickstarters-johnny-angel-wendell-makes-some-noise-about-sex-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/03\/29\/kickstarters-johnny-angel-wendell-makes-some-noise-about-sex-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarters: Johnny Angel Wendell Makes Some Noise About Sex and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musician\/novelist\/radio host Johnny Angel Wendell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1802310935\/smut-and-politics\/description\" target=\"_blank\">created a Kickstarter campaign for his new project, an EP called <em>Smut and Politics<\/em><\/a>, on March 20, and it had already beaten its fundraising goal just over a week later. He\u2019ll record four new songs, two of them about sex (\u201cSIZE!\u201d and \u201cEternal Bliss\/Satan\u2019s Kiss\u201d) and two of them about politics (\u201cHunker Down\u201d and \u201cGuillotine\u201d), working at home with a producer and fleshing out an acoustic sound with bass, percussion, and electric guitar. <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re friends or a fan of Wendell\u2019s on Facebook, you know he is no fan of President Donald Trump, whom he calls \u201cPresident Pig Bladder.\u201d Trump inspired the two political songs. \u201cI\u2019ll say this for Trump,\u201d says Wendell, \u201che can really re-light a muse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When I got in touch yesterday, he already had plans for the excess cash he\u2019s sure to raise. \u201cExtra money would go to making a video for \u2018SIZE!\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cThe concept is unique\u2013whole song would be a woman going about day doing normal stuff but singing the tune.\u201d Some of the money will also go to promote the final product. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a video demo of \u201cEternal Bliss\/Satan\u2019s Kiss.\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QqU_JklkT8c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician\/novelist\/radio host Johnny Angel Wendell created a Kickstarter campaign for his new project, an EP called Smut and Politics, on March 20, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1699,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[455,1226,105],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-donald-trump","tag-johnny-angel-wendell","tag-kickstarter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kickstarter_JohnnyAngelWendell.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-ro","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}