{"id":34,"date":"2003-08-22T07:16:52","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T19:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=34"},"modified":"2005-04-16T21:20:38","modified_gmt":"2005-04-16T08:20:38","slug":"don-mcglashan-is-a-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/34","title":{"rendered":"Don McGlashan is a genius"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always like hearing these lines in the Mutton Birds song, As Close As This:<\/p>\n

\nI have no habits, as I always say
\nBut I reached for you you like the first cigarette of the very first day\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Their ‘best of’ compilation Flock<\/a> is probably worth getting just for this:<\/p>\n

\nA Thing Well Made<\/strong>
\nShe’s wearing her don’t talk to me face as she makes the kids’ lunches
\nI oblige and quietly close the front door as I leave
\nI drive into town before the fog lifts
\nI sell sporting goods
\nYes I’ve got a shop not far from Cathedral Square
\nI like to open up early so fellas can come in on their way to work
\nAnd daydream around the rods and reels
\nWhile their breakfast’s still warm inside them
\nGo on have yourself a look
\nI’m proud of my shop
\nAlmost everything’s from overseas
\nYou won’t find a better selection <\/p>\n

Look at the way this gun fits the crook of your arm
\nTo make a thing like that you’d need to know what you were about
\nYou’d need to know where you were going and go there in a straight line
\nAnd everything else you’d have to shut right out <\/p>\n

Can you see the man who made that?
\nCan you see him putting it down and standing back?
\nCan you see the moment when he said, “that’s it, that’s perfect”?
\nAt a time like that you wouldn’t care about your job
\nOr your mortgage or the fight you had with your wife
\n‘Cause when a man holds a thing well made there’s connection
\nThere’s completeness when a man holds a thing well made <\/p>\n

It’s Wednesday so I do the mail orders
\nNothing much, some oilskins and a 303 for a hunter over in Westland
\nAnd oh yes. One of those AK47’s
\nFor some collector down the line.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I always like hearing these lines in the Mutton Birds song, As Close As This: I have no habits, as I always say But I reached for you you like the first cigarette of the very first day Their ‘best of’ compilation Flock is probably worth getting just for this: A Thing Well Made She’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}