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Apparently I have temporarily saturated my conscious and subconscious with a lot of Radiohead (well more than usual). Whenever that happens I do get Radiohead dreams. In the latest one, I somehow end up in the backseat while Mr. Yorke is driving me to school and asking me questions in an uncle-sort-of-way. This is probably symptomatic of my ongoing dissertation fever.

Well this amplified if not prompted a little day dream fantasy of mine... namely singing with Uncle Yorke or the entire band. He/They would be in DC in the spring or summer for earthday or a concert. For no reason I can really think of, he/they would decide to take in some local colour after some talks with President Obama about climate change. This local colour would best be observed in Adams Morgan. Very important for this day dream is that the day he/they go to Adams Morgan is Wednesday. He/They stumble upon Madam's Organ (a landmark in Adams Morgan, really). He/They go upstairs to the open mic for a laugh...

And there I'll be about to launch into a Radiohead cover when I see him/them, so I issue an invitation to the audience/him/them to help me sing this one...

And he/they does/do.... or he/they laugh at me....

Sigh...

How it all went down

So you're probably all familiar with the infamous vagabond Thom Yorke, and I'm sure many of you look up to him as a brilliant songwriter and musician.

Now most people would think this is a trivial matter, and I should really be devoting my time to more useful things like finding a cure for cancer, getting involved in charity work or improving my life in any shape or form.

However, as I was casually browsing deadairspace, as you do, I came across this.

'its about time you showed up for work'

This of course was written by Mr Yorke himself. There isn't an apostrophe in sight! Never mind the fact that the full stop seems to be missing. Isn't the 'I' in 'its' supposed to be capitalised?

His singing voice, his song-writing genius... It all counts for nothing. How can we trust the word of a man who can't even use the correct punctuation.

My solution?

Let's all watch reruns of X Factor instead.

Hi folks!

So it’s been almost 4 weeks since our Christmas Radiohead For Haiti DVD release, so I feel like I should give everyone some updates. What can I say – it is pretty smashing.

As of Tuesday, January 18 we have raised $16,720 from a total of 42 countries (!!) – pardon me – 41 countries and some $$ from ‘undisclosed locations’ :-)

This is stunning and amazing and profoundly awesome, and so we all need to give one huge ‘thank you’ to each other for making this happen.
But here’s what I’m thinking…. We got a really intense press attention, so we got it out there to people who love Radiohead, would love to contribute to the Haiti fund, but are not necessarily hanging out on WASTE or Atease, or even DAS. But press attention is a funny thing – it’s huge, it’s monstrously useful, incredibly flattering and – profoundly shot-lived. Kinda like an attention of a
5-year old. :) Alright, I get it, it’s their job – NEWS. The situation in Haiti sucks, it’s downright terrible if you watched any videos on youtube, but it’s just – hmm – not really ‘newsy’ enough, is it?

Now, I’m thinking, you guys are hardcore, you were the first ones to hear about our DVD project, and the fundraiser and all – way before Spin, and Consequence of Sound, and LA Times, and BBC, and Stereogum, and Rolling Stone Brazil, and Pitchfork and every other news channel that ran a column about it. You didn’t really find it out from them. In fact, I got a couple of ‘How come you didn’t tell me?!’ and ‘I had no idea!!’ emails in the last couple days which makes me think that our own ‘traditional’ grass-roots methods of just spreading the word make a big difference. Don’t you
think? We did not look for media coverage of this project – they found it, and it’s great; but now, that the media rush is mostly over - I’m asking you to perhaps forward this info on the DVD to whatever page, blog, site, facebook post – or just a bunch of friends who you think might be interested, but were not 'in the know'.

Now, because people we are talking about are NOT HERE, and we want to make it easy for them – here’s our ‘unaffiliated’ blog

http://inez4bears.blogspot.com/2010/12/radiohead-for-haiti-multi-cam-dvd.html

(identical to this http://www.waste-central.com/profiles/blogs/radiohead-for-haiti-multicam ) with all the download links… all the info and the story.

and here’s the Oxfam donations page www.oxfamamerica.org/radiohead – put it right there too, when you are emailing or posting.

Just let people know about this thing happening – they will thank you!

This is a looooong process, you know, it will take A LOT of effort and $$ to get Haiti back together. Whatever YOU, guys, do to help it is PRICELESS.

And our uploads/downloads are running – hundreds a day…. ha ha You would think $16K+ can still grow quite a bit!!!

Thanks a million for all your help. I have a total crisis at work - just can’t handle this anymore – perhaps you can take over? ;-)

inez

The OK Computer/IN Rainbows playlist, as dictated by the binary theory of Zeros and Ones, fits perfect as another alternate soundtrack to Wizard of OZ (ten letters). Same deal as Dark Side of the Moon, start playlist precisely the split second after the third lion roar before the credits.

(guardian angel)