{"id":7895,"date":"2011-03-16T00:07:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T05:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=7895"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:29:13","slug":"crystal-stiltskate-thomas-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=7895","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Stilts\/Kate Thomas &#8211; <em>Departure<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/03_2011\/departure.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/departure.jpg\" alt=\"Departure\"\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/03_2011\/departure.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">Departure (2009, 34 MB, 4:24 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love this video for two, apparently almost entirely independent<br \/>\n(but maybe, in some strange, deep way, connected) reasons.<br \/>\nFirst &#8211; the music is great. I listen very little popular music these<br \/>\ndays (which is why I&#8217;m 2 years late with this) as most of it, even<br \/>\n(especially!) the so called indie stuff gives the impression of<br \/>\nhaving been focus-grouped into bland submission before being let<br \/>\nlimply loose not to offend anyone.<br \/>\nThis, contrariwise, oozes life &#038; not-giving-a-fuck from every note<br \/>\n(especially the splendidly slightly out of tune vocals; but it&#8217;s all a joy).<br \/>\nSecondly, director of the video, Kate Thomas, about whom I know<br \/>\nnothing and could find out no more, had the totally brilliant idea<br \/>\nof simply stringing together some footage of French students<br \/>\nand workers standing up for themselves against the riot cops in 68.<br \/>\nIf this all doesn&#8217;t make you weep with barely suppressed joy please<br \/>\ncheck your pulse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Departure (2009, 34 MB, 4:24 min) I love this video for two, apparently almost entirely independent (but maybe, in some strange, deep way, connected) reasons. First &#8211; the music is great. I listen very little popular music these days (which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=7895\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,1,17,62,24,76,37,31,47,64,86,22,35,28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-arts","category-community","category-controversy","category-documentary","category-event","category-historical","category-music-video","category-observational","category-participatory","category-place","category-politics","category-remix","category-tv","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7895"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12183,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions\/12183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}