{"id":1022,"date":"2009-06-04T13:37:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T17:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2009-06-04T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T17:42:06","slug":"why-on-earth-is-this-man-doing-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2009\/06\/why-on-earth-is-this-man-doing-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Why On Earth Is This Man Doing This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is from Johnny Depp’s list of Top 6 YouTube Videos (from his Vanity Fair interview, and digitized by Vulture<\/a>).\u00a0 I have to say the first video on the list is one of the most disturbing videos I’ve seen online.\u00a0 Not because it’s particularly graphic or gruesome or anything like that.\u00a0 But precisely because there is no explanation as to why this man (Paris’ Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore<\/a> owner George Whitman<\/span><\/a>) is cutting his hair by lighting it on fire.<\/p>\n

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What!?!?!<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Depp’s list is — as you might expect — very warped.\u00a0 But he’s got some pretty choice YouTube highlights (including a VERY VERY HIGH James Brown on CNN<\/a>).\u00a0 Check out the digitized rendering of his Top 6 on Vulture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is from Johnny Depp’s list of Top 6 YouTube Videos (from his Vanity Fair interview, and digitized by Vulture).\u00a0 I have to say the first video on the list is one of the most disturbing videos I’ve seen online.\u00a0 Not because it’s particularly graphic or gruesome or anything like that.\u00a0 But precisely because there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[236,409,410,408,280],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","tag-fire","tag-george-whitman","tag-haircut","tag-johnny-dep","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}