{"id":2466,"date":"2010-06-06T14:43:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T21:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2010-06-07T01:35:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T08:35:20","slug":"ben-johnson-plays-it-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2010\/06\/06\/ben-johnson-plays-it-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Johnson Plays It Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Video Interview]<\/i><\/p>\n

“I Don’t Judge People”<\/h2>\n

“I was never a glass of wine with dinner…”<\/h4>\n

Ben Johnson of The Long and Short Of It, Hostile Combover, a new rap project and The Casbah, talks with Reviewer Rob at The Living Room Coffee Shop in Point Loma, on 6\/5\/10, about his band’s videos, his bassist being paralyzed from the waist down, his sobriety and his interest sci fi fiction and the possibility of the supernatural.<\/p>\n

But… Ben, according to Wikipedia, “Telekinesis is a term used in parapsychology as either an alternate for psychokinesis or as the name of a specialty ability under the umbrella term of psychokinesis to refer to using the power of the mind to cause the movement of matter at a distance.”<\/p>\n

Regardless, Ben’s interpretations are always entertaining.<\/p>\n

For the whole, unedited video in Quicktime, click reviewermagazine.com\/video\/ben.johnson.video.breakdown.6.5.10.MOV<\/a>.
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