{"id":254598,"date":"2023-03-03T11:59:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T16:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=254598"},"modified":"2023-03-03T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T16:59:35","slug":"rilo-kiley-jenny-lewis-and-corey-haim-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/03\/03\/rilo-kiley-jenny-lewis-and-corey-haim-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, and Corey Haim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are of a certain age, you might remember a pop band called Rilo Kiley, although I didn&#8217;t discover them until much later via Spotify (possibly because I am old). The lead singer was named Jenny Lewis, and I have listened to a lot of her solo music as well since I discovered the band. How did she get into music? Therein lies a tale, as they say. According to a New York Times piece from 2014, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/27\/magazine\/the-jenny-lewis-experience.html\">Lewis was a child actor whose work in commercials, TV shows<\/a> (Mr. Belvedere, Golden Girls, etc.), and movies helped pay the rent for her family. Her mother had split from her father after years performing with him in a traveling Sonny and Cher-style music act called (ironically) Love&#8217;s Way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently there was a club called Alphy&#8217;s Soda Pop Club that catered exclusively to child actors and other performers, and at a party there when Lewis was 10 years old, she met Corey Haim &#8212; the Canadian actor who starred in the movie Lost Boys and other more forgettable tripe, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biography.com\/actors\/corey-haim\">died after years of struggling with drug abuse<\/a>. Haim gave her a mixed cassette tape he had made with Run DMC on one side and The Beastie Boys on the other.  \u201cThere have been a couple of cassette tapes that have changed my life,\u201d Lewis told Rolling Stone, \u201cand that was the first one.\u201d Lewis not only cofounded Rilo Kiley (with Blake Sennett, a fellow child actor known for Boy Meets World), but also went on to create Postal Service with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"295\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-109.png?resize=525%2C295&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-254599\"\/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are of a certain age, you might remember a pop band called Rilo Kiley, although I didn&#8217;t discover them until much later via Spotify (possibly because I am old). The lead singer was named Jenny Lewis, and I have listened to a lot of her solo music as well since I discovered the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2023\/03\/03\/rilo-kiley-jenny-lewis-and-corey-haim-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, and Corey Haim&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}