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MS 3.13.16
And when she feels her hand in his
World disappears and pain stops.
The endless smile rolls out within
She does not want it ever end.
To stop the moment,
Freeze the frame,
To hit ‘rewind’ again, again….
Oh, silly – push yourself ahead:
For you – the core
For him – just step.
Now, shake yourself back to mundane:
Another empty tired game.
Another try to have a flame…
Do tell, why should she not give up?
It makes no sense to keep it up!
Enough, it’s done, she closed the door.
Oh heck with it… a bit funny though…..
I knew all this heavy rain had something to do with Radiohead coming over for their 2016 tour. I thought it might be because of Thom singing "Broken hearts make it rain" or maybe Ed in "Paranoid Android" when he asks for "Rain down on me", but as always the less likely is always the culprit : Colin did it.
I know now what my mouth is for--
I see the world in metaphor,
But get caught up on the subtleties
Till I forget I have to breathe.
I see myself before the sea,
Adrift in my uncertainty--
I may die if I dive the depths,
But I know I'll die if I forget.
Well I guess I'm the witch
and you've tried burning me for a long, long time
but I've got all the secrets
if you learn to listen to rhyme.
The ground starts to shift
and I know it can make you quite frightened, dear
but I've been here before
We just have to make sense of our fear.
You've got the hammer,
but I give you reason to swing.
I'll tell you the rest soon
but I don't know where to begin.
PLAYTIME x Babylon N°2
RADIOHEAD – A MOON SHAPED POOL (52'31") [Vinyl LP]
+ Special PLAYTIME Prolog:
DAYDREAMING Music Video (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Exclusive Cinema Screening / 35mm Analog Print
»VINYL ALBUM RELEASE DAY«
Friday 17. June 2016, 23:00 h
BABYLON, Kino 1
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
Tickets at box office or at www.babylonberlin.de
When was the last time we listened to music with full attention? Without any distraction or disruption. No song skipping and no shuffle mode. A whole album from beginning to end. Like in old times, when that was the only possible way due to technical limitations.
Times are changing but we still love music for the exact same reason: We are totally captivated once we push the PLAY button.
It's time for PLAYTIME. One Album. One Evening.
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-PART ONE-
tl;dr In Rainbows is about a human life and about life itself. The album itself completes a circle of life, one complete human life cycle. It begins with a human's birth and progresses chronologically through that human's life. (There is a separate, side storyline within, involving animals.) The human conceives and gives birth to a second human and dies.
I have tons of actual lyrical corroboration for this nutty theory. Here are the nuts and bolts first...
Birth is quite literal, simply the physical embodiment of a soul. Life involves aging, procreation, and most of all, a passionate spiritual struggle between a dark side of confusion and emptiness, and a light side of spirituality and aligning with the Universal Deity.
Here's where it gets a bit tricky: a secondary, parallel narrative emerges at the end of song 4 and lasts for two songs. To distinguish, I label the original first one "Allegory" and the second, new one "Literal". The aforementioned dark/light duality in life is echoed in the middle two songs by these dual narratives of human life (allegory) and animal life (literal). The secondary storyline resolves to completion at the end of song 6.
We then return to the human who then faces mortality, procreates via the act of sex, and gives birth to a child. Finally, after giving birth, the protagonist's Death is also quite literally represented as the end, the completion of this cycle. ...That's the gist. Here we go!
So 15 Step and Bodysnatchers depict the beginning: birth and early life.
"how come I end up where I started?" = when I die I return to the void of wherever it is I was before I was born
"reel me out" and "cut the string" = the birth event and the severing of the umbilical cord, but also eventually the cutting of the string of life (death).
"did your string come undone?" = your string is your umbilical cord attachment to your mother. The question here is "were you born?" and the answer to "what happened?" in the previous line is, yes, you were born. Thom is breaking the fourth wall here so to speak and engaging his listeners directly on the matter of our own individual births. This is supported by the following "us" as he is talking about himself and all of us listeners.
"sheer drop" = emerging from or dropping out of the womb to be born, but also the drop of death (see the later drop to the bottom of the ocean).
"I do not understand what it is, I've done wrong" = refers to original sin (see next part of the narrative for corroboration). Humans being born are not (fully) aware about the nature of original sin or the "fact" that they have inherited it when they were born.
"full of holes" = tricky. The first thought might be bullet holes or something, but this simply refers to the windows of consciousness, i.e. the eyes, ears, mouth all being holes in a person's head/skull. The line "blink your eyes" connects to and supports this interpretation.
"I've no idea what I am talking about" = young babies use their mouth to make sounds, and they can in a sense talk, but the sounds are not rendered in a sensible manner to themselves, because the referents in the world to which they attempt to refer to haven't been grasped by their consciousness yet.
"I'm trapped in this body" = My soul or spirit has been physically embodied into the body within which it resides and others see as 'me'
"the sound" = the sound of the mother's heartbeat when inside the womb, prior to birth. That sound has been killed because I am born and do not hear it anymore.
Nude & Weird Fishes+ are general descriptions of a spiritual struggle followed by an acquiescence.
(Nude) the psychic struggles during life...
"don't get any big ideas, they're not gonna happen" = being ambitious and failing
"there'll be something missing" = the feeling of emptiness
"you'll go to hell for..." = the fear of condemnation
"...you've found it, it's gone" & "...you feel it, you don't" = confusion
(Weird Fishes) ...leading to a symbolic "death to the world" acheived through a ritualistic baptism (see also TKOL-Codex)
"why should I stay here?" = indecision and inaction about Earthly life ("here" being Earth)
"I'd be crazy not to follow where you lead" = the Deity/Great Spirit/God/Jesus/etc. is the guide (the way) to heaven
"turn" = convert. Jesus's eyes (or another follower's or believer's eyes) convert the person into becoming a believer.
"phantoms" = the Holy Ghost/Saints/angels/my personal guardian angel
"this is my chance (to leave)" = to pass from this Earthly realm onto heaven. "this" is the initiation or conversion (a "turning" towards God/the Deity/etc.)
+At this point, to be precise, right when the drums stop and the line "I get eaten by the worms" is sung, I suggest a temporary split into two separate narrative interpretations that lasts the next two songs. The first allegorically begins with the depiction of a vivid escapism fantasy but no death, and the second begins literally with an actual death by drowning or ashes being scattered into the ocean and being eaten by worms and fishes. The allegory continues with the human's spiritual quest, and the literal story relates successive animal birth-death reincarnations. The lyrical quote lists below primarily follow the allegory storyline (A), but literal interpretations (L) are given as well.
All I Need advances the dual narrative introduced above.
Allegorically: the person who has been "baptized" (initiated) reaches the point of maturing towards active seeking of union with the Deity/God/Great Spirit/etc. Some spiritual struggle is still present, due to a lingering emptiness carried over from the previous song's lyrics, i.e. the baptised/initiated/converted/'turned' is nevertheless still human with all of its associated weaknesses and frailties.
Literally: the protagonist has actually died, the body has been eaten by worms and fishes at the bottom of the ocean, and the soul has re-incarnated and emerges as, of all things, a moth who gets stuck inside of a hot car.
"animal" = Literally: moths are animals, literally living things that possess an agency of motion. The protagonist who was born and died is now a moth, literally.
"you are all I need" = Allegorically: I have reduced my material attachments and desires to only seeking and sticking with God
"just want(s) to share your light" = A: the only desire I have is to be in (mystical) union with the Deity/God // L: the line shows how moths always fly towards light/heat sources.
"there are no others" = the person is "sticking" with God because there are no other gods, i.e. there is only one God.
Faust Arp shows a person aging, and at the same time shows a living thing (moth) being reincarnated as an elephant.
Allegorically: Yet further maturing but this time more physical, i.e. aging, now to the point of borderline insanity or senility.
Literally: the moth dies and gets repeatedly reincarnated into various lifeforms ("on again, off again"; the constant thrice repetition of words in the song) finally as an elephant whose head ("from the neck up") gets taxidermied ("stuffed") and mounted on a wall and whose body becomes a consumable product of some kind ("butter"). This completes the literal interpretation narrative. (Worm or fish -> moth -> ? etc. -> elephant)
"wakey wakey, rise and shine" = A: when people get very old, memory is weakened, so all successive days become hyper-repetitive and blur into each other. L: Rebirths over and over again.
"it's on again, off again, on again" = A: people with senility have their mind ("it") go in and out of clarity and confusion. L: being born again, dying again, being born again.
"dead from the neck up" = A: still alive in the body (from the neck down) but the lights have gone out for me now. L: see above literal description about the elephant.
"what you ought to, reasonable and sensible" = A: you are told (or tell yourself) that you're supposed to be reasonable and sensible, but you're not. You're senile or have developed insanity. L: the what you reasonably and sensibly ought to do is the Eastern philosophy (Buddhist) notion of escaping the wheel of samsara (existence) by ceasing birth and death.
"take a bow" = what happens at the end of a performance, symbolizing what I would do at the end of my life i.e. "bow out".
"exactly where do you get off?" = contemplating particularly when it might be when I will die.
==END of PART ONE == Coming up: Part Two with concluding analysis==
Preview:
Reckoner and House Of Cards are respectively about facing death while conceiving and procreating through the act of sexual intercourse (framed in a social context).
These are fairly obvious I think, but if need be I can comment or even post a second time with clear and thorough lyric quote intepretations. Plus I'm getting tired and maybe you guys can fill in these blanks!
Jigsaw Falling Into Place and Videotape are respectively about giving birth to a child, and dying.
Again, fairly obvious but if need be I will certainly elaborate on exactly why I put forth this interpretation. Perhaps at this point if you have bought into this thing you could pick out stuff that I have found, or point out stuff I haven't. One vital example is "when I'm at the pearly gates" = I have died and my spirit is reaching one of the typical symbolic imageries associated with heaven.
3.13.16 M.S.
Oh, tender ignorance of youth!
So sure you know what is truth…
Your life will change,
You’ll feel the pain,
You’ll doubt the intricate domain.
Sometimes you’ll want to fold and leave
To stop, and simply not to be…
Deep down you know - no such a choice
You must keep going, that’s the point.
I am looking back,
I crack a smile:
So innocent, so well-defined,
So critical, assertive, bold…
Well, time does show it to us all.
“The way a festival is treated the disabled people reflects the spirit and the organisation of it!”
My dear Radiohead bend,
Thank you so much for the wonderful concert you gave yesterday to Barcelona.
Even if I could not see that much people could receive your love through your wonderful new and old tracks.
This festival is a shame. Space for disabled people were crowded, pregnant women, people in wheelchair had to be behind walls as it was not possible to access to the platform for disabled.
-Some disabled seemed to have come 5 hours before the beginning of the concert to be sure to get a space in the disable space area. This should not be happening-
People in wheelchair and sick person should get a reasonable space not crowded to see the concert.
Musicians : please help the awareness of this problems in festivals.. Disabled are often treated without consideration.
The way a festival is treated the disabled people reflects the spirit and the organization of it.
The sound was very low, check reviews: https://www.facebook.com/primaverasoundfestivals/photos/a.416589928155.208119.156656398155/10154270334913156/?type=3&theater
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Radiohead, Parc del Fòrum (Barcelona), 03.06.2016
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Setlist: 3 June 2016 / Primavera Sound Festival / Barcelona, Spain
01. Burn the Witch
02. Daydreaming
03. Decks Dark
04. Desert Island Disk
05. Ful Stop
06. The National Anthem
07. Talk Show Host
08. Lotus Flower
09. No Surprises
10. Pyramid Song
11. The Numbers
12. Karma Police
13. Weird Fishes / Arpeggi
14. Everything In Its Right Place
15. Idioteque
16. Bodysnatchers
17. Street Spirit [Fade Out]
encore
18. Bloom
19. Paranoid Android
20. Nude
21. 2+2=5
22. There There
encore 2
23. Creep
so much thanks for streaming
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O Radiohead lançou A Moon Shaped Pool no dia 08 de maio e, desde então, não consegui parar de revisitar a obra da banda que gosto muito. Sempre tem aquelas mesmas músicas que eu não canso de ouvir a vida inteira, mas desde In Rainbows que eu não me envolvia, não me identificava com as coisas que eles vinham lançando desde então. O novo álbum serviu para resgatar isso, minha completa admiração pelo som, pela banda em si, pelas letras, por Thom Yorke. Sempre que penso em Thom Yorke, lembro de uma conversa idiota que tive com um ex-namorado, e talvez seja overshare dizer aqui: eu dizia o quando achava a voz dele um tesão, ele respondia que “um tesão é o meu c****** enorme”. Enfim.
De qualquer maneira, a re-audição das coisas antigas despertou meu lado Radiohead-freak de novo. Me vejo respondendo mentalmente às críticas que pipocam nas timelines das redes sociais e me vejo completamente tocada novamente. A Moon Shaped Pool, dizem alguns, pode ser o último álbum do Radiohead. Se for, é uma bela maneira de suspender a produção: o álbum é cativante, é o que o Radiohead sabe fazer de melhor e isso está de bom tamanho. É um álbum que mostra uma banda à vontade, curtindo seu próprio trabalho sem grande estardalhaço. Minha preferida é a faixa 04, “Desert Island Disk”, mas há grandes momentos ali: “Burn The Witch”, “Identikit”, “Decks Dark”, “The Numbers”, “True Love Waits”. O primeiro show da turnê - e o primeiro desde 2012 - foi dia 20 de maio, em Amsterdã, e está disponível para ser assistido na íntegra aqui.
E aí fica a torcida para que um dia eles voltem ao Brasil. Me lembro quando o show foi anunciado, eu estava sem dinheiro para comprar o ingresso na época e (sim) chorei de frustração com a possibilidade de perder. Não perdi. O show aconteceu no dia 20 de março, bem no dia do meu aniversário, e nem estava tão cheio quanto eu esperava. No início fiquei de cara para Jonny Greenwood, mas aos pouquinhos consegui me aproximar de Thom Yorke, o máximo que dava, o máximo que deu. Não tocaram “Lucky”, mas foi lindo. O problema é que minha memória é ruim e eu lembro de poucas coisas. Uma das coisas que eu me lembro é que meu ex-namorado fez biquinho, porque eu queria ver o show e quando eu digo isso, significa que eu estava hipnotizada, olhando para o palco, querendo ver e ouvir as músicas mas o mala queria atenção, queria “curtir comigo”. Não queria respeitar o meu momento. Ele é assim, e como não gostava da banda na época (agora é fã, risos), não entendia que eu não queria curtir nada com ninguém. Era eu e eles ali. Não chegou a estragar, mas está aí a lembrança ruim, contaminando o que era pra ter sido uma noite unicamente boa.
Eu me lembro a primeira vez que ouvi Radiohead. Tinha uns 14 anos, estava deitada no sofá da sala, com as luzes apagadas, ouvindo a Rádio Cidade. E tocou “Creep”. Mexeu alguma coisa dentro doida e logo corri pra conseguir gravar a música em uma fita K7. Depois, comprei OK Computer e The Bends no escuro, nenhum deles tinha “Creep” e eu não tinha me dado ao trabalho de olhar a tracklist. Fiquei chateada, achei estranho, depois descobri que havia um álbum chamado Pablo Honey, que eu nunca tinha ouvido falar e que as pessoas diziam que era ruim. Achei metade das músicas desses discos estranhas, um saco. Mas a outra metade, não. A outra metade falou fundo. Foi “Lucky” e “Street Spirit” e “No Surprises” e “Karma Police” e “High and Dry”, as baladinhas todas, que primeiro me sugaram em direção ao Radiohead. De “Fake Plastic Trees” eu nunca gostei muito.
E daí é de assustar um pouco o quanto o tempo tenha passado rápido. Eu tinha 14, hoje tenho 31. O show foi em 2009, há quase 10 anos. Thom Yorke parece mais envelhecido do que nunca, e tem apenas 47 anos. Provavelmente o divórcio de um relacionamento de 23 anos tenha acabado um pouco com ele, por mais que tudo já tivesse terminado há um tempo. Inclusive os fãs acham que “Daydreaming” e seu vídeo dirigido por Paul Thomas Anderson pode incluir mensagens ocultas sobre a separação: colocaram o clipe de trás pra frente na tentativa de achar pistas. E não é que a maneira como Yorke abre as portas no original se encaixa muito bem com ele fechando no reverso? São 23 portas, afinal. E naquela voz distorcida que ele fala no final, alguns pescaram que, ao contrário, ele pode estar falando “half of my life” ou “I’ve found my love”. Nessa matéria da Flavorwire, eles juntam algumas peças levantadas por fãs para falar sobre como o vídeo parece uma alegoria em que Thom Yorke passeia pelo passado da banda, enquanto reflete sobre sua vida.
“O vídeo de ‘Daydreaming’ acompanha Thom Yorke enquanto ele passa de cenário em cenário através de vários portais, cada um sem conexão com o outro. Enquanto atravessa os espaços, ninguém fala com ele, e nem ele interage com ninguém. Seu caminho e direção mudam constantemente e seu olhar é o de quem procura por alguma coisa. (…) Ele está familiarizado com esses cenários, e está procurando por algo específico. Há momentos em que no rosto de Yorke aparece um meio sorriso aparentemente involuntário. Todos nós já experimentamos isso, o momento em que você revive uma lembrança, e ela te leva a um instante de alegria, apenas para rapidamente desvanecer em seguida. Colocado no contexto de um amor perdido, é de partir do coração.”
E de amor, Yorke parece entender. Em um vídeo de 2013, ele aparece inusitadamente dando (bons) conselhos amorosos a adolescentes ao lado de Nigel Godrich. É interessante que ele fala sobre si mesmo no contexto amoroso, inclusive sobre como sua deficiência física no olho afetou sua autoestima. São 17 minutos absolutamente deliciosos! Aproveitando a indicação de entrevistas com Thom Yorke, a melhor que eu li até agora foi a que ele concedeu por telefone a ninguém menos que Daniel Craig para a Interview Magazine, também em 2013. Craig já começa admitindo que nunca havia entrevistado ninguém, mas acaba se saindo melhor que muito jornalista experiente: como fã de Radiohead e também como um artista acostumado a lidar com o showbiz, entrevistas e afins, o papo entre os dois britânicos é cheio de conteúdo adulto, de política a música, boas piadas, boa empatia e mostra muito como funciona o ponto de vista de ambos. Recomendo fortemente para quem é fã e para quem não é, é uma entrevista realmente muito boa (e longa!).
E daí que revisitando entrevistas, vídeos, shows, músicas e tudo mais, percebo como Thom Yorke parece uma pessoa mais relaxada, mais à vontade consigo mesmo, embora ainda muito sério e sensível. Mas menos altivo. Entendo muito pouco porque as pessoas o chamam de difícil; mas talvez porque eu esteja acostumada a meu cunhado também europeu, que é uma pessoa muito série e muito franca e que não tem a menor paciência para fazer média, socializar e fazer cerimônia. E assim eu vejo o Yorke. Como alguém que não está a fim de jogar o jogo da celebridade e emprestar sua imagem para alimentar essa cultura. E pensando sobre isso, sobre esse aspecto do “não quero fazer parte disso”, eu percebi o quanto me identifico com ele. Sempre fui uma pessoa de transitar bem por todos os grupos, sem fazer parte de nenhum, E, cada vez mais, percebo que não quero fazer parte de nenhuma cena, nenhuma aglomeração - o que, por não ser uma pessoa brilhante como Yorke, me deixa isolada e talvez até atrapalhe profissionalmente em termos de networking. Não tenho paciência para fazer amigos na internet e viver em panelas de Twitter, nem tenho muito interesse em ser amiga das “pessoas de tal grupinho”. Não tem nada a ver com desprezo; admiro muitas dessas pessoas, as acompanho e muitas me influenciam diretamente. De algumas eu me tornei colega ou até amiga e com muito gosto. Não é esse o ponto. O ponto é não querer me fechar dentro de um grupo específico, de ter que me esforçar para fazer parte de algo quando o meu interesse não é fazer parte de algo - é apenas fazer o que eu gosto. Não quero ter que necessariamente ser amiga de alguém para que prestem atenção ou respeitem o que eu faço. Não quero ter que competir com ninguém, também. Não faz sentido. Dessa forma, ter uma referência como Thom Yorke é uma espécie de alívio. A partir de então, secretamente passo a adotar para mim mesma a referência de Yorkiana: é uma bobagem, eu sei, mas acho que diz tudo.
~ disfrutar de una noche hermosa ~ música hermosa ~
<3 <3
I notice some of Radiohead's music is being used in Peaky Blinders. This surprised me I have to say. It's a not-bad show - don't get me wrong - but it's used rather out of context. As are tracks by Tom Waits and the Artic Monkeys. Hmm.
It reminded me that I met a member of Lemonjelly some years ago [Fred] who told me how hacked off he was that the BBC was using their music throughout a cookery show without permission. He said it was because the BBC has a deal with all the major record companies. He had no choice in the matter and got paid very little for the dubious honour. Seems very wrong to me. Can this really be the case with Radiohead now - surely not. Are they fans of the show? Anyone know?
Cheers - D.
- 17.06.2000 : Les Arènes : Fréjus
- 19.09.2000 & 20.09.2000 : Chapiteau : Saint-Denis
- 28.05.2001 : Théâtre Romain : Vaison-La-Romaine
- 04.07.2003 : Eurockéennes de Belfort
- 14.07.2003 : Les Arènes : Nîmes
- 17.07.2003 : Paris : Bercy Palais Omnisports
- 15.08.2006 : Rock oz arènes : Avenches
- 09.06.2008 & 10.06.2008 : Palais Omnisports de Bercy : Paris
- 14.06.2008 & 15.06.2008 : Les Arènes : Nîmes
- 06.07.2008 : Grand Place : Main Square Festival : Arras
- 23.08.2009 : Vystaviste Bruselska Cesta : Prague
- 10.07.2012 & 11.07.2012 : Les Arènes : Nîmes
- 29.09.2012 & 30.09.2012 : Kindl-Bühne Wulheide : Berlin
- 11.10.2012 & 12.10.2012 : Palais Omnisports de Bercy : Paris
- 16.10.2012 : Le Zénith : Strasbourg
- 23.05.2016 & 24.05.2016 : Le Zénith : Paris
- 01.06.2016 : Théâtre antique : Lyon
- 08.07.2016 : Nos Alive : Lisboa Portugal !
The 25th but not the last I hope <3
Tuesday night my neighbor's body was found in her home, 58 y/o. I knew her and her husband for over 20 years. He is in a psychiatric jail and she drank herself to death..... So fucking depressing and sad to watch people just lose it. I feel sick to my stomach and I feel guilt and shame that I had to let go of her over three years ago. You can't help someone who doesn't want help. I am holding on by a thread, listening to AMSP. Sleep depravation isn't helping..... Good thoughts, prayers, chants, anything would be appreciated at this time. TY
