{"id":13984,"date":"2013-06-05T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=13984"},"modified":"2017-04-05T06:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T10:30:59","slug":"midweek-music-break-the-coup-and-patton-oswalt-the-magic-clap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/midweek-music-break-the-coup-and-patton-oswalt-the-magic-clap\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Music Break: The Coup (and Patton Oswalt), &#8220;The Magic Clap&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-light\" style=\"font-size:2em\">I<\/span> have a &#8220;real&#8221; <em>Midweek Music Break<\/em> in the pipeline, but it&#8217;ll have to wait another week; it&#8217;s taking (to my surprise) way too much time in the research for me to finish today. In the meanwhile, here&#8217;s a hilarious video in which comedian Patton Oswalt acts out the lyrics to The Coup&#8217;s new single &#8220;The Magic Clap.&#8221;\u00a0<a title=\"Paste: Patton Oswalt in the Coup's New 'The Magic Clap'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/blogs\/awesome_of_the_day\/2013\/06\/watch-patton-oswalt-in-the-coups-new-video-for-magic-clap.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Paste<\/em><\/a>, where I saw it, describes this as &#8220;an awesomely spastic video&#8221; &#8212; which says pretty much all there is to say about it. (No lyrics provided, for what will be obvious reasons.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"intrinsic-container intrinsic-container-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-YpNidqsBhI?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"601\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever listened to anything by The Coup before, and probably will find excuses not to do so again. But this was too entertaining to keep to myself. I&#8217;ve always thought of Patton Oswalt as one of the most interesting and consistently watchable comedians in the business &#8212; the video sort of cements that impression in my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>have a &#8220;real&#8221; Midweek Music Break in the pipeline, but it&#8217;ll have to wait another week; it&#8217;s taking (to my surprise) way too much time in the research for me to finish today. 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