{"id":1535,"date":"2007-07-22T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2007-07-22T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T07:01:00","slug":"my-week-%e2%80%94-in-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/musings\/my-week-%e2%80%94-in-video\/","title":{"rendered":"My week \u2014 in video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mbdbvO-WJhI\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The first time I ever heard this song*, it stressed me out. It was just so loosely bound together that I wasn&#8217;t sure if it was going to hold tight until the end. It&#8217;s the opposite of tight and predictable; actually its irregularity becomes so predictable by the end that it&#8217;s predictable. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve had the kind of uncertain, low week that would be perfectly set in montage form to this song. I hate that \u2014 thinking of my life in film montage form \u2014 but I do it all the time. It&#8217;s gotten even worse since I got an iPod and can literally program a soundtrack to my life. How did people think about their lives before the advent of moving pictures? Did they imagine themselves in scenarios from their favorite hefty novels or pulp magazines? Or their favorite cave paintings?<\/p>\n<p>*<font size=\"1\">I wish I could find a better quality version of the song than the one in the YouTube video. There are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peekaboorecords.com\/mp3\/The_Octopus_Project_What_They_Found_clip.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">short MP3 clips<\/a> I&#8217;ve been able to find. But the whole song? No clue. Too bad. I really love this song now. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I ever heard this song*, it stressed me out. It was just so loosely bound together that I wasn&#8217;t sure if it was going to hold tight until the end. It&#8217;s the opposite of tight and predictable; actually its irregularity becomes so predictable by the end that it&#8217;s predictable. Anyway, I&#8217;ve had the kind of uncertain, low week that would be perfectly set in montage form to this song. I hate that&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[46,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-oL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}