{"id":3666,"date":"2012-08-24T09:31:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2012-08-24T09:31:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:31:24","slug":"friday-b-movie-pick-this-is-spinal-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/movies\/friday-b-movie-pick-this-is-spinal-tap\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday B-Movie Pick: This is Spinal Tap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000Y5JFN4\/eclipsswebwarren\"><strong>This Is Spinal Tap<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Set the Wayback Machine to 1984 for this classic Rock mockumenary. Rob &#8220;Meathead&#8221; Reiner was the actual directory as the fictional director in this film about the back stage antics of the Heavy Metal Hair band, Spinal Tap. A cult comedy classic complete with a string of drummers that die of various means, including re-accuring spontainous combustion. My favorite was the one who choked to death on vomit, but not his own. Who produced the vomit remains shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n<p>The fellow who played Spinal Tap will appear again, and again, in other mockumenaries, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005ALS0\/eclipsswebwarren\">Best in Show<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000ALFVD\/eclipsswebwarren\">A Mighty Wind<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/Friday_Movie_picks.html\">Friday B-Movie Pick Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Is Spinal Tap Set the Wayback Machine to 1984 for this classic Rock mockumenary. Rob &#8220;Meathead&#8221; Reiner was the actual directory as the fictional director in this film about the back stage antics of the Heavy Metal Hair band, Spinal Tap. A cult comedy classic complete with a string of drummers that die of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"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":[14,15],"tags":[344,531,538,546],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-music","tag-friday-b-movie","tag-mockumenary","tag-movie","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-X8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}