{"id":93110,"date":"2016-01-01T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=93110"},"modified":"2015-12-21T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T17:54:08","slug":"days-of-wine-and-curry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/01\/days-of-wine-and-curry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Days of Wine and Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We\u2019re away until January 4, but we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year!<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92818\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/stephcurry.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92818\" class=\"wp-image-92818 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/stephcurry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/stephcurry.png 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/stephcurry-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-92818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steph Curry goes Super Saiyan.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Watching Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When Nina Simone first sings the title of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oHs98TEYecM\">Feeling Good<\/a>,\u201d her voice has been alone for thirty-nine seconds. The solitary singer: there\u2019s always something fiat lux about it. Resolute, the individual moves through the void. You know the accompaniment is coming, but the voice, all by itself, makes you care about it: form turns into feeling. This is how the artist passes on her exuberance. You\u2019re affected by her immediate present, implicated in her future, and interested in her past. This is how the strut between you two starts: \u201cand I\u2019m feeling good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The instruments come to life right after Simone sings those words, as though her voice has just confirmed that the coast is clear\u2014a new dawn, a new day, a new life\u2014the brass begins with those gravel-and-booze notes down low, the piano like morning birdsong, light and constant, up top. The world is being made, and you feel good enough to sing as if you yourself were making it. And maybe you are: the experience heats up, the experience becomes porous, and you don\u2019t know anymore where you end and it begins. Is she feeling good? Am I feeling good? Am I being told to feel good? We\u2019re feeling good. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/11\/days-of-wine-and-curry\/\">Read More &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re away until January 4, but we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year! Watching Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors. When Nina Simone first sings the title of \u201cFeeling Good,\u201d her voice has been alone for thirty-nine seconds. The solitary singer: there\u2019s always something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20653],"tags":[382,20535,46,642,16237,5009,20536,85,20534,19689,14427],"class_list":["post-93110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-2015","tag-basketball","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-music","tag-nina-simone","tag-physics","tag-rowan-ricardo-phillips","tag-shooting","tag-sports","tag-steph-curry","tag-strategy","tag-winning"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rowan Ricardo Phillips on Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why is Steph Curry so good?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/01\/days-of-wine-and-curry-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Days of Wine and Curry by Rowan Ricardo Phillips\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January 1, 2016 \u2013 We\u2019re away until January 4, but we\u2019re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. 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