{"id":222,"date":"2005-08-28T23:17:42","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T04:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=222"},"modified":"2005-08-28T23:19:59","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T04:19:59","slug":"gotta-see-the-polka-dude-discover-zydeco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/08\/28\/gotta-see-the-polka-dude-discover-zydeco\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotta see the polka dude discover zydeco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schultzegetstheblues.de\/en\/\"><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-content\/images\/blues.jpg?w=840&#038;ssl=1' alt='Promo still from \\&#39;Schultze gets the blues\\&#39;' align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis week <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/frontpage\">Ebert<\/a> choose &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.schultzegetstheblues.de\/en\/\">Schultze gets the blues<\/a>&#8221; as his video pick of the week.  I&#8217;d never heard of the film before, but now I&#8217;ve just <em>got<\/em> to see it.  A German polka accordionist who discovers a love for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zydeco\">zydeco<\/a> late in life through a chance snippet on the radio?  And travels from Germany to the bayou to check it out?!?<\/p>\n<p>This is <em>so<\/em> cool it makes me all incoherently happy.  It comes out Tuesday on DVD and I&#8217;m already arranging to get a copy to watch with my FYS students.<\/p>\n<p>Rock, rock on!<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/video\/\" title=\"Video\">Video<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/09\/11\/you-have-to-either-laugh-or-cry-and-ill-help-you-do-both\/\" title=\"You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both) (11 Sep 08)\">You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both)<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/04\/06\/you-folks-are-super-generous\/\" title=\"You folks are super generous! (6 Apr 07)\">You folks are super generous!<\/a> (2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Ebert choose &#8220;Schultze gets the blues&#8221; as his video pick of the week. I&#8217;d never heard of the film before, but now I&#8217;ve just got to see it. A German polka accordionist who discovers a love for zydeco late in life through a chance snippet on the radio? And travels from Germany to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/08\/28\/gotta-see-the-polka-dude-discover-zydeco\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gotta see the polka dude discover zydeco&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[17,10,2],"tags":[876],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-3A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":235,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/09\/16\/shultze-rocked-but-very-quietly\/","url_meta":{"origin":222,"position":0},"title":"Shultze rocked (but very quietly)","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"16 Sep 05","format":false,"excerpt":"A few weeks ago I babbled incoherently about the film Shultze gets the blues and, as promised, we invited my FYS students over to the house to eatch the film with us. 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