{"id":24508,"date":"2019-05-03T12:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24508"},"modified":"2019-05-03T12:05:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:05:38","slug":"a-triple-f-musical-throwdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/03\/a-triple-f-musical-throwdown\/","title":{"rendered":"A Triple F Musical Throwdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Faltermeyer was quite the instrumentalist for movie soundtracks in the 1980s, including two from that movie that had a <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> alum portraying the title character, an investigator who assumes various comic roles as part of his investigation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking about <em>Fletch<\/em>, of course.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KzmidE4wFsc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking about Axel Foley, of course.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qx2gvHjNhQ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I prefer the former due to racism, of course.  Also, because it is a little more than the synth progressions of the &#8220;Axel F Theme&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It also made me start enumerating the films where a <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> alum starred as a wise-cracking cop or investigator.  Between the Fletch and <em>Beverly Hills Cop<\/em> movies, we&#8217;re already up to five.  Throw in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taxi_(2004_film)\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Taxi<\/em><\/a>, and we&#8217;re up to six.  Surely there are more, which I&#8217;ll give far too much thought and investigation to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harold Faltermeyer was quite the instrumentalist for movie soundtracks in the 1980s, including two from that movie that had a Saturday Night Live alum portraying the title character, an investigator who assumes various comic roles as part of his investigation. I&#8217;m talking about Fletch, of course. I&#8217;m talking about Axel Foley, of course. I prefer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24509,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24508\/revisions\/24509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}