{"id":106,"date":"2008-02-09T20:46:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T03:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2009-03-20T20:25:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T03:25:50","slug":"favorite-video-of-the-week-boards-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Video of the Week: Boards of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F7bKe_Zgk4o&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F7bKe_Zgk4o&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong><em>Music is Math<\/em>-Boards of Canada<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was a very brief time, a few years ago, when I felt overwhelmed by sadness and despair. Rather than try and make myself feel &#8216;better&#8217; I decided to go with the flow and wallow in it. Surprisingly, wallowing in despair is much more enjoyable than faking happiness or denying such overwhelming feelings. In any case, I feel it is part of my tradition and my cultural right as a woman of Mexican descent to experience emotions in a very obvious way. Those telenovelas characters weren&#8217;t created from scratch, right?  The perfect accompaniment to this bit of self indulgent dramatics was a weekend listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardsofcanada.com\">Boards of Canada&#8217;s<\/a> album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Boards+of+Canada\/Geogaddi\">Geogaddi<\/a><\/em> while reading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Ware\">Chris Ware&#8217;s<\/a> visually beautiful but tragic story of loneliness and alienation, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/pantheon\/graphicnovels\/corrigan.html\">Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth<\/a><\/em>. Something about the combination of this music and story was just the right salve for a sadness like mine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music is Math-Boards of Canada There was a very brief time, a few years ago, when I felt overwhelmed by sadness and despair. Rather than try and make myself feel &#8216;better&#8217; I decided to go with the flow and wallow in it. Surprisingly, wallowing in despair is much more enjoyable than faking happiness or denying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite Video of the Week: Boards of Canada<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}