. . . . .
fitter. happier. more productive.
COMFORTABLE.
not drinking too much. regular exercize at the gym [three days a week]. getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries.
AT EASE. EATING WELL.
[no more microwave dinners and saturated fats]
A PATIENT BETTER DRIVER. A SAFER CAR [BABY SMILING IN BACKSEAT].
sleeping well. [no bad dreams] no paranoia. careful to all animals. [never washing spiders down the plughole] keep in contact with old friends, enjoy a drink now and then. will frequently check credit at
[MORAL] BANK
[HOLE IN WALL]
favors for favors.
FOND BUT NOT IN LOVE.
charity standing orders. on sundays ring-road supermarket. no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants. car wash, also on sundays.
NO LONGER AFRAID OF THE DARK OR MIDDAY SHADOWS.
nothing so ridiculously
teenage and desperate, nothing so childish. at a better pace:
S L O W E R AND MORE CALCULATED.
no chance of escape. now self-employed. concerned, but powerless. [an empowered and informed member of society]
PRAGMATISM
NOT IDEALISM.
will not cry in public. less chance of illness. tyres that grip in the wet. [shot of baby strapped in backseat]
A GOOD MEMORY.
STILL CRIES AT A GOOD FILM. STILL KISSES WITH SALIVA.
NO LONGER EMPTY AND FRANTIC
like a cat tied to a stick that's driven into frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)
CALM
FITTER, HEALTHIER AND MORE PRODUCTIVE
a pig in a cage on antibiotics.
. . . . .
can you make any sense of this? i think of it as a list of ways for the human race to better itself. find your own meaning, but let it come to you. i've been listening to that track for 4 years now and any sort of meaning of it didnt pop into mind until just a few days ago. it's amazing what you can discover about things if you leave them alone for a while.
the first thing i remember about radiohead was seeing their video, "just" in fifth grade. you remember kennedy? that frizzy-headed, four-eyed mtv vj chic? well, she introduced the video and after i saw it, i was mesmerized. it wasn't until after i saw that video that i found out "creep" was by radiohead, too. a few weeks later, i caught the "high and dry" video.
i went into best buy all the time after that, always planning on buying "the bends", but never doing so. it was really cheap, too.. like $7.99 or something, but i kept postponing my purchase of it.
in eighth grade, my pal, stephanie let me borrow "ok computer". i was instantly hooked. i would have to say that to this day, that is probably my favorite radiohead album. after i bought "ok computer", the rest of the albums followed... along with the "7 television commercials" video.
[best thing, though.. this past summer, at camp, on the boy's floor below ours, every guy in that hallway liked radiohead to some extent. i'd always see the death bear and the crying devil being drawn everywheres. ja.]
[why the hell do you like this band?]
radiohead?
well, they have this sortof gloomy, air-tunnel... grey day wires and circuits..
er- they have this artificial feel. and it's a very nice, solemn feeling. once again, this is a band that's not trying to kick everyone's asses and they're not a whiny band [despite some of yorke's lyrics and singing.. heh].
the lyrics in most radiohead
songs are sentimental and pull at the heartstrings [or mine at least], but
some are not easy to decipher. i.e. "you want me?/fuckin' well come
and find me/i'll be waitin'/with a gun and a pack of sandwiches/"...
some of the song lyrics just give you a visual image of some sort of situation.
SPEAKING
of visual images..
radiohead's music videos leave a lasting impression as well. most of their
video storylines are mysterious. you're not sure why thom yorke is sitting
inside a burning car, or you're not sure why he's in a water tank, either,
but you lean back and accept it.
and well, sometimes
you just feel "let down and hanging around/
crushed like a bug in the ground/"
SONGS TO GET YOU STARTED:
From The Bends -
"just"
"high & dry"
"street spirit (fade out)"
From OK Computer -
"karma police"
"paranoid android"
"let down"
From Kid A -
"idioteque"
"how to disappear completely"
"everything in its right place"
"motion picture soundtrack"
i want you to know/he's not coming back
