{"id":2853,"date":"2014-05-23T11:55:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T15:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2014-05-22T23:24:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T03:24:59","slug":"good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink, Ben Cook, Wild Smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>It&#8217;s a simple yet sublime pleasure, and just thinking about it can make you feel a little calmer, a little more content. Imagine: You bring out one of the good rocks glasses (or your favorite mug or a special occasion tea cup) and pour a couple fingers of amber liquid (or something dark and strong or just some whole milk). You drop the needle on the jazz platter (or pull up a blues album on your mp3 player or dig out that mixtape from college). Ensconcing yourself in the coziest seat in the house, you crack the spine on a classic (or find your place in that sci-fi paperback or pull up a biography on your e-book reader). And then, you go away for a while. Ah, bliss.<\/p>\n<p>In this series, some of NTSIB&#8217;s friends share beloved albums, books and drinks to recommend or inspire.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wildsmiles.co.uk\/home-live\/\">Wild Smiles<\/a> are from Southampton, England; this is the video for <i>Fool For You<\/i>, which is a perfect song for a summer crush and\/or driving around in a convertible with the top down, and will probably get stuck in your head like it got stuck in mine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_9KjE_gy9yMI\"><div id=\"lyte_9KjE_gy9yMI\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/9KjE_gy9yMI\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/9KjE_gy9yMI\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/9KjE_gy9yMI\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>And now, I&#8217;ll turn the floor over to Ben Cook (drums; on the right, in the picture below) of Wild Smiles, who joins us today to share a favorite book, record and drink.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_2854\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/wildsmiles\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2854\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2854\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Steve Gullick\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2854\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles-500x333.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles-225x150.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles-900x599.jpg 900w, http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles.jpg 1358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Steve Gullick<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<strong>A Good Read<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve tried to avoid reading as much as possible since Literature A level, the book I&#8217;ve most enjoyed is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/1-9780316034418-21\"><em>Life<\/em><\/a>, by Keith Richards. Seemingly an honest and surprisingly well remembered account of Richards&#8217; and the bands&#8217; road to success through to present day, close and not-so close shaves with the law, writing and recording and telling John Lennon the bathroom tiles are in fact not spinning. A recommended read for anyone interested in music not just Stones fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Good Listen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ty-segall.com\/\">Ty Segall<\/a> &#8211; <em>Melted<\/em> (2010) &#8211; Skull-fucking San Francisco garage rock with catchy choruses, one of the first albums collectively loved by the band and a regular soundtrack in the van. Opening track <em>Finger<\/em> is a firm favourite. <\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Ty Segall Band - &amp;#039;Finger&amp;#039;\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_DWTT6vOdMQs\"><div id=\"lyte_DWTT6vOdMQs\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/DWTT6vOdMQs\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">Ty Segall Band - &#039;Finger&#039;<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/DWTT6vOdMQs\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/DWTT6vOdMQs\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Ty Segall Band - &amp;#039;Finger&amp;#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Good Drink<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Wild Smiles are fuelled by Diet Coke. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a simple yet sublime pleasure, and just thinking about it can make you feel a little calmer, a little more content. Imagine: You bring out one of the good rocks glasses (or your favorite mug or a special occasion tea cup) and pour a couple fingers of amber liquid &#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1510,3],"tags":[870,1679],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-good-read","category-video","tag-a-good-read-a-good-listen-and-a-good-drink","tag-wild-smiles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink, Ben Cook, Wild Smiles -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink with Ben Cook of Wild Smiles.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink, Ben Cook, Wild Smiles -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink with Ben Cook of Wild Smiles.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-05-23T15:55:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1358\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"905\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jennifer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jennifer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/\",\"name\":\"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink, Ben Cook, Wild Smiles -\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-05-23T15:55:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/#\/schema\/person\/9c47b0a9ef322a35e475c353a0080dfa\"},\"description\":\"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink with Ben Cook of Wild Smiles.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles.jpg\",\"width\":1358,\"height\":905,\"caption\":\"Photo by Steve Gullick\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink, Ben Cook, Wild Smiles\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/\",\"name\":\"\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/#\/schema\/person\/9c47b0a9ef322a35e475c353a0080dfa\",\"name\":\"Jennifer\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/author\/jennifer\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink, Ben Cook, Wild Smiles -","description":"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink with Ben Cook of Wild Smiles.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink, Ben Cook, Wild Smiles -","og_description":"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink with Ben Cook of Wild Smiles.","og_url":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/","article_published_time":"2014-05-23T15:55:25+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1358,"height":905,"url":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Jennifer","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jennifer","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/","url":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/","name":"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink, Ben Cook, Wild Smiles -","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles.jpg","datePublished":"2014-05-23T15:55:25+00:00","author":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/#\/schema\/person\/9c47b0a9ef322a35e475c353a0080dfa"},"description":"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink with Ben Cook of Wild Smiles.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/wildsmiles.jpg","width":1358,"height":905,"caption":"Photo by Steve Gullick"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2014\/05\/23\/good-read-good-listen-good-drink-ben-cook-wild-smiles\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"A Good Read A Good Listen and a Good Drink, Ben Cook, Wild Smiles"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/#website","url":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/","name":"","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/#\/schema\/person\/9c47b0a9ef322a35e475c353a0080dfa","name":"Jennifer","url":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/author\/jennifer\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}