{"id":1436,"date":"2012-07-05T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2024-04-12T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T23:44:10","slug":"eye-gifts-unwrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Eye gifts, unwrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/6574629-01.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>On and Off Bass<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Watt is (and has always been) the consummate bass player for the ages. Over the years he\u2019s not only added a definitive, low-end rumble to bands such as the Stooges, Firehose and the Minutemen, he\u2019s also proven himself quite the introspective sort. And, as evidenced in his latest book, the aptly titled\u00a0<em>On and Off Bass<\/em>\u00a0(Three Rooms Press, $25), he\u2019s also a skilled, still-life photographer with a keen eye for capturing what he calls \u201ceye gifts.\u201d This full-color collection of pictures chronicles, among other visuals, many of Watt\u2019s kayak excursions near his hometown of San Pedro in SoCal, complete with some mighty-fine narrative, however brief. Short, journal-like entries from different countries and cities reflect his ever-changing states of mind. A must-read-and-see affair.\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.threeroomspress.com\/\">www.threeroomspress.com<\/a><\/em>.<br>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On and Off Bass Mike Watt is (and has always been) the consummate bass player for the ages. Over the years he\u2019s not only added a definitive, low-end rumble to bands such as the Stooges, Firehose and the Minutemen, he\u2019s also proven himself quite the introspective sort. And, as evidenced in his latest book, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}