{"id":31890,"date":"2013-03-18T21:01:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/?p=31890"},"modified":"2013-03-18T21:06:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:06:23","slug":"oh-what-a-fool-i-have-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/oh-what-a-fool-i-have-been\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Oh what a fool I have been&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pStL2wkOoTk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jeg har netop ved et tilf\u00e6lde opdaget at den amerikanske sanger og sangskriver Jason Molina d\u00f8de i l\u00f8rdags. Molina var manden bag alt-country-bandet Magnolia Electric Co. der i 2009 lavede albummet <em>Josephine<\/em>, som jeg var meget begejstret for. Men han var ogs\u00e5 alkoholiker, og det var det, der tog livet af ham. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chunklet.com\/index.cfm?ID=707&#038;section=blogs\">I 2011 skrev hans ven Henry Owings et trist og meget sigende indl\u00e6g p\u00e5 sin blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About a year ago, it became abundantly aware to me what was going on. Jason is an addict.<\/p>\n<p>It weighed heavy on me. I&#8217;d call his bandmates and mutual friends to get to the bottom of &#8220;what&#8217;s up with Jason.&#8221; It appears that his drinking had caught up with him in monumental fashion. Rehab in England. Getting arrested. Drinking. Being flown back to the states by friends in Chicago so they could keep an eye on him.<\/p>\n<p>It was then (about six months ago) that the calls from Jason became&#8230;..just&#8230;..desperate. Without knowing that he was even in Chicago (he was still using his UK phone), I&#8217;d get disjointed calls. He&#8217;d sing new songs to me. He&#8217;d cry. He&#8217;d pass out. He&#8217;d laugh. He&#8217;d remember some stupid random story about us singing a song together on stage in Virginia. More crying. Dead air. Drifting. And again, this wasn&#8217;t the JMo I knew. It bothered me then as it does now.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Det er sv\u00e6rt ikke at h\u00f8re sangen ovenfor som en slags farvel og en slags selverkendelse. Det triste er at kun den, der har misbrugsproblemet, selv kan redde sig. Jason Molinas familie pr\u00f8vede, og de pr\u00f8vede vedholdende. Men det lykkedes ikke. (Det hjalp sikkert heller ikke, at Jason Molina som mange andre i USA ikke havde nogen privat sygeforsikring.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/oh-what-a-fool-i-have-been\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/oh-what-a-fool-i-have-been\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeg har netop ved et tilf\u00e6lde opdaget at den amerikanske sanger og sangskriver Jason Molina d\u00f8de i l\u00f8rdags. Molina var manden bag alt-country-bandet Magnolia Electric Co. der i 2009 lavede albummet Josephine, som jeg var meget begejstret for. Men han var ogs\u00e5 alkoholiker, og det var det, der tog livet af ham. I 2011 skrev &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/oh-what-a-fool-i-have-been\/\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s videre <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Oh what a fool I have been&#8230;&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/oh-what-a-fool-i-have-been\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/oh-what-a-fool-i-have-been\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-drikke-for-at-glemme","category-countrywestern","category-sorgelige-sange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}