{"id":205,"date":"2007-03-15T17:37:34","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T21:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/a-toast-to-filthy-beasts\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T02:35:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T06:35:56","slug":"a-toast-to-filthy-beasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/a-toast-to-filthy-beasts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Toast to Filthy Beasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/www.fantagraphics.com\/blog\/\">Fantagraphics<\/a> store hosted Filthy Beasts, featuring artwork by close-personal-friend-of-mine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimblanchard.com\/\">Jim Blanchard<\/a> and a h-h-hot set from hard-soul band the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.estrus.com\/bands\/dts\/\">Dt&#8217;s<\/a> (featuring close-personal-friend-of-mine lead singer Diana Young-Blanchard. Her name is Di Young. Is that a rock star name or what??). Everyone drank beer and marvelled to Jim&#8217;s new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beasts-Priests-Portraiture-Jim-Blanchard\/dp\/1560977035\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-5498835-0508859?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1173993324&#038;sr=1-1\">Beasts and Priests<\/a> and the Dt&#8217;s new CD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thedts\">Filthy Habits<\/a> (song samples on that link). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/\">Stranger<\/a> videographer Kelly O (close-personal-friend-of-mine) asked me to interview them for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/blog\/\">Slog<\/a>, the Stranger&#8217;s blog. I managed to come up with some terribly witty questions (&#8220;How long have the two of you been married?&#8221;) and here are the results.<\/p>\n<p>I interview Jim and Di:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HS2fW4lfhDw\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image204\" alt=\"fantastorejimdiinterview.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/fantastorejimdiinterview.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Saturday, the Fantagraphics store hosted Filthy Beasts, featuring artwork by close-personal-friend-of-mine Jim Blanchard and a h-h-hot set from hard-soul band the Dt&#8217;s (featuring close-personal-friend-of-mine lead singer Diana Young-Blanchard. Her name is Di Young. Is that a rock star name or what??). Everyone drank beer and marvelled to Jim&#8217;s new book Beasts and Priests &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/15\/a-toast-to-filthy-beasts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Toast to Filthy Beasts&#8221;<\/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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenforney.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}