{"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":"https:\/\/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&#8217;ll 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&#8211;whole 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":"https:\/\/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":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}