{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "when we had to take some sort of performance class in middle school in our rich-like-John-Hughes-not-gated-community suburban...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/159669061118/", "html": "<p>when we had to take some sort of performance class in middle school in our rich-like-John-Hughes-not-gated-community suburban school district I was a percussionist; we each had a snare drum (kinda as an onramp to marching band but fuck that) but in concert we\u2019d play all sorts of shit; for the Loony Toons theme (ok Merrie Melodies, it was \u201cMerrily We Roll Along\u201d not \u201cThe Merry Go-Round Broke Down\u201d) I hit a \u201850s fire alarm bell with a triangle beater for most of it but cranked this wooden crank for a bit\n</p><p>so shit, if I kept on that track this coulda been me.</p><p>\nWe played \u201cAxel F.\u201d (the Beverly Hills Cop theme) once tho and my job was brush cymbal sixteenth notes for like 40 solid measures and rest for like 30 and fuck that </p>\n<img src=\"/media/tumblr_oojk851DAs1qeywqoo1_400_736f2072cc8d.jpg\" />", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/tumblr_oojk851DAs1qeywqoo1_400_736f2072cc8d.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 399, "thumbnail_height": 600}