I tried to gather the first impressions on the just released Radiohead Best of. Though it is not my review, i think it is still really interesting (probably much more interesting than my review :P)If you re interested, click here to read!
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The unassailable logic of our warped and twisted universe states that it will always piss down on a bank holiday. Fucking rain. The sky I am gazing absent-mindedly out at is indecently miserable. People could be out in the sun, the fresh air, maybe even enjoying themselves, but no... had to rain, didn't it. Instead, the populace will be reduced to traipsing glumly round shopping centres and supermarkets and garden centres, indulging in a spot of rainy-day commercialism, a retailer's wet-dream, while sincerely wishing with all their sweet little hearts that they were somewhere else. Bless 'em.The predictability of this scenario probably says something about the crushing mundanity of 21st century existence but, to be honest, the soul-sappingly depressing weather means I just can't be bothered. Ho hum. Tomorrow is fairly likely to be another day...
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Radiohead are nominated for the Ivor Novello Awards. They will compete with Stephen Fretwell and Cherry Ghost for the title of the Best album of 2008!
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Last week i listened to the Radiohead BBC concert in North Carolina at a desk looking out a window with somewhat clear and bright skies. Although a connection between "In rainbows" and the sky seems somewhat cursory, those songs in particular can really keep up with the changing face of a fast-moving cloud.One day i noticed listening to "Weird fishes" and seeing some clouds move overhead, driving I think, that looking at a cloud while you're listening to a song......possibly by any musician but certainly Radiohead, the song and the speed of the cloud are often in agreement and you might "feel" the song more than normal. "House of cards" was my favorite during the BBC concert...there was a group of very tiny clouds clustered together that sailed on by during that song and also a somewhat big clumpy one which was being moved around in a bit of a curl by the wind.Really an intriguing phenomenon between music and water. And, I suppose everyone playing the songs and even who forged the guitars and drumset were made of more than half water themselves. What a peculiar planet, this....
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but i'll have to take a plane to California to see you!, if you are not coming i have to go!i got tickets!!!!!!! yeeeeeiii!!!! August 24, 24 & 27after a tragic non sleeping morning i could get them, i just hope the sits in the Hollywood Bowl are good enough....
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#1In this school (Borgarholtsskóli) you have different people you're with in each course usually, so it happens once in a while that you don't have anyone you know well in the room to converse with. When that happens and you're a little bored in class almost anything can go as a time-spending activity.Last math class I got bored so I decided to do a little social study with the students. There were about 22 people present in the class. Out of those 22 there were 14 people wearing hoodies. Out of the 14 wearing hoodies there were 4 wearing star patterned ones. In that group of 14 I did not count the 6 people who were wearing fleece or outerwear and might have been wearing hoodies underneath. That leaves two people who were definitely not wearing hoodies but shirts or sweaters. That means we can assume, from my overly professional survey, that 60-90% of Icelanders wear the same styled clothes.God, school is boring...#2The word of the day in today's class was odd. It was "chattel" which pretty much means "object that can be moved". In addition to learning this wacky, new word we did an assignment about proverbs. Englishas well as Icelandic proverbs, actually. It was educational and fun. I wrote a short story about an unlucky person who had spilled tooth paste all over the bathroom floor, burnt his toast, been yelled at by his boss, hada stapling accident and, then to top it all off, came home to an empty apartment, having been robbed. Can you tell what proverb the story was linked to? (If you highlight the line below you'll find the answer out)Out of the frying pan and into the fireTo fill in some space here are a few Icelandic proverbs directly translated to English:-Seldom is a single wave on its own (sjaldan er ein báran stök)-Necessity teaches a naked woman to weave (Neyðin kennir naktri konu að spinna)-A burnt child avoids the fire (Brennt barn forðast eldinn)-Thanks for ending the lesson early. That's always fun and it gave me more time for... homework =(#3Back in the olden days people used to talk to their friends and write in a journal to ventilate any strong emotions that needed to be expressed. Now it's more popular to write public internet blogs, get advice from some TV show or even going to see a psychiathrist. diaries have merely turned into an old classic like the casette tape, only fashionable to new rave hipsters and the such. If you don't know what new rave is it's all those people wearing hoodies in neon colours, with star shapes on them, resembling the 80s a bit. Diaries are also getting more popular to sing about in modern music for their retroness and easiness for making a corny song surrounding that topic. Among the artists who have made songs about diaries are Britney Spears, Travis and ermm... I should have made more research for this...#4That book we're supposed to be reading now (you know that book with too long a title for me to bother writing down [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time]) scared me a lot. You see ,while reading it I discovered so many similarities between me and Christopher that I started fearing I might have some sort of Asperger's syndrome. At first I thought it was just a funny coincidence , us Christopher both loving math, being a bit aloof and hating the French, but around the part where Christopher discovered his mother's letters I was more sure than not about me having Asperger's. Thankfully my mind changed once Christopher started showing the negative side of his diagnosis on the way to his mother. I might like math but I don't crouch and moan when feeling overwhelmed, I might be aloof but I'm not afrai of touching or big crowds and I might hate the French but surely that's jsut a coincidence. The writer could have chosen Germany for all he cared, except the poor things can hardly handle any more judgement against them.#5Eralier in this book I mentioned disliking the French intensely. This might require an explenation which I will give now. The explenation might not make the most sense but it is my reason nontheless for cringing over most French things.The French are known as romantic, delicate citizens with pouty mouths, fancy cotour and shapely baguettes. That's extremely annoying to me because of their intense snobness towards it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of your country but the French take it a bit too far, thinking they are the classiest and most romantic, in the way that the Americans think they're the navel of the universe and, the smartest and the richest. Vampires and the French are the same to me. They're both interpreted as annoyingly romantic but if you met them in real life you would get bitten, or in the French's case, hit in the head with a Prada bag. Zombies and Germans I like however. They bite and shoot you maybe, but at least they don't pretend to be great and romantic while doing it.
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Radiohead Best Of PlaylistCD1:“Just”“Paranoid Android”“Karma Police”“Creep”“No Surprises”“High And Dry”“My Iron Lung”“There There”“Lucky”“Fake Plastic Trees”“Idioteque”“2+2=5″“The Bends”“Pyramid Song”“Street Spirit (Fade Out)”“Everything In Its Right Place”CD2:“Airbag”“Might Be Wrong”“Go To Sleep”“Let Down”“Planet Telex”“Exit Music (For A Film)”“The National Anthem”“Knives Out”“Talk Show Host”“You”“Anyone Can Play Guitar”“How To Disappear Completely”“True Love Waits”Click here for more info about The Radiohead Best OfRadiohead won't support this compilation, as O Brien and Selways said.. i believe i will follow their example!
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