{"id":5945,"date":"2010-07-01T00:29:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T07:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2010-07-01T00:33:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T07:33:09","slug":"5945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=5945","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I went and saw Bret Easton Ellis read tonight at the Elliott Bay Book Company. I’d last met him at a reading in college over 10 years ago. I believe he was promoting Glamorama. I thought he was super narcissistic. This time, he was different. Mellowed out. More open. It’s amazing what can go on inside a human hemisphere over 10 years. <\/p>\n

The most interesting thing was he claimed his publishers had him put together a song list related to each of his books, in response to a question about what music he listened to that marked each book. <\/p>\n

I couldn’t find it, but I did find this list:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.viceland.com\/blogs\/en\/2010\/02\/02\/a-musical-journey-to-the-center-of-bret-easton-ellis\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The playlist is worth listening to, if only to get a sense for what moves the soul of the man behind American Psycho and Less Than Zero. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went and saw Bret Easton Ellis read tonight at the Elliott Bay Book Company. I’d last met him at a reading in college over 10 years ago. I believe he was promoting Glamorama. I thought he was super narcissistic. This time, he was different. Mellowed out. More open. It’s amazing what can go on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbl5mn-5945","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5947,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions\/5947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}