{"id":1705,"date":"2014-03-18T12:08:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T18:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2014-03-18T12:08:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T18:08:37","slug":"birminghamlet-yes-other-cities-doing-it-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2014\/03\/18\/birminghamlet-yes-other-cities-doing-it-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Birminghamlet? Yes. Other cities doing it? Check."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/89073935\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 8px\" alt=\"birminghamletcover\" src=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/birminghamletcover.png\" width=\"375\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a>It was only a matter of time. When <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Carrie_Rachel\">Carrie Brownstein<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifc.com\/shows\/portlandia\"><em>Portlandia<\/em><\/a> partially name-checked Birmingham during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/12\/30\/carrie_brownstein_a_lot_of_these_characters_are_permutations_of_myself\/\">an interview with <em>Salon<\/em> in late 2012<\/a>, it got a little buzz. The full acknowledgement of being Portland-like in <a href=\"http:\/\/splitsider.com\/2013\/01\/talking-with-fred-armisen-and-carrie-brownstein-about-portlandia-season-3\/\">an interview with <em>Splitsider<\/em><\/a> in early 2013 caused a wild sensation locally online.<\/p>\n<p>Now, local Ian Cunningham has shown us what the opening to a similar show based in Birmingham would look like. Behold, <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/89073935\">Birminghamlet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/89073935\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For reference, here&#8217;s the Portlandia opening:<\/p>\n[youtube\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8qzsEzRPgO4?w=625]\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s not the only alternate version of the opening getting attention in recent weeks. Besides <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/37612445\">the one created for Asheville, NC<\/a> included in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/spotnews\/2014\/03\/like_portlandia_youll_love_thi.html\">yesterday&#8217;s AL.com post<\/a>, there&#8217;s this one from Homewood, IL (just outside of Chicago):<\/p>\n[youtube\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kfRrOXFnGkk?w=625]\n<p>This could take off like Tebowing &#8211; or <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+JamesSpann\/posts\/W3vpdCgE2pd\">Spanning<\/a>. It&#8217;s got to be only expanding the reach of the creator of the show&#8217;s intro theme, <a href=\"http:\/\/washedout.net\/\">Washed Out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2014\/03\/18\/birminghamlet-yes-other-cities-doing-it-check\/\"><\/a><p>We recently learned about Birminghamlet, the video locally imitating the opening to the popular IFC series, Portlandia. Now, we&#8217;re learning about others that exist &#8211; and it may only be the beginning&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2014\/03\/18\/birminghamlet-yes-other-cities-doing-it-check\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[179,570,684,920,945],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-television","tag-birminghamlet","tag-mock","tag-portlandia","tag-tribute","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4PdO-rv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}