Not for sale, display, other people.You are chained and cornered,in my bundle of arms and fingers,my vision of broken color spectrums.under the sky of green,where there is no sun to see,where the voice of your past dreams,echoes in glass tunnels under the trees.scratches or wounds I accept.when you're crawling, filled with holes,broken bones, cruel & cold,broken soul, honey in your hair.bitten dog from a dogfight,looking for a home to go,where the losing bear can show its sorrow,to a pair of eyes that know,to a pair of eyes that know.
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so i haven't been on the internet and searched for new stuff for a long time. I heard about this while searching for shit that was pointless. I think this is rad to have radiohead have a site like this...i'm done with facebook and myspace now!
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Вчера был день рождения Фредди Меркьюри. По такому случаю посмотрели кое-что из концерта 1986 года на Уэмбли. Ни одна современная группа не может собрать столько зрителей. 160 тысяч.... И великолепный Фредди шутит, общается с публикой, держит все 160 тысяч у себя в кулаке. А сам уже все знает.
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a walking clusterfuck! thats what i am. an eddy in a pool. leaves and bits of people are grabbed and pulled under, spiraling to the heart and then drownded. i grab you by the hair and eyes and the next thing you know you cant stand it. i can still smell her on me.
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Anyway, the goodies are that I got my first keyboard a few weeks after the RH Glasgow Green Gig from a Charity Shop. with a statue dedicated to the town's cat outside, called 'CeasarsPalace' in Kirkcudbright. A special moment ... poignant, a buy I wouldn't have made without seeing these 'indie' bands with the occasional novelty keyboard on display.It's a Hohner 'Organetta' — 2 Octaves of 240V Blower driven organ. No amplifier, just a motor driven reed arrangement. It sounds like a cross between a 'squeeze-box' and a very loud mouth-organ. The keys are somewhat pressure sensitive, so with some measure I can vary the volume via the finger pressure. Quite a machine. I'm really hopeful of learning to play keyboard now, which I always saw as 'a bridge to far' with the full size keyboards, that overwhelm me.I paid £4, which includes a bespoke leather suitcase. On the bus back home with three passengers aboard I met a folk musician who had a look at my new baby and clarified how many octaves it has. He invited me to play at their pub-based folk night event.Anyway, my first song attempted/performed will be a retake of 'The End' by Nico (Doors, Morrison). It sounds like the instrument, though clearly isn't quite that used for the eerie atmospherics on 'The End'. Some, perhaps me included would say that It's a truly fatalistic song but there’s a big personal story behind my rapport with this song.
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RH at Nimes. August 2008. I presume this is the Nimes Amphitheatre? It looks less well maintained than below —
Last time I was at Nimes Amphitheatre, the City had been due to hold a bullfight event, which of course is a regular occurrence in this southern French Provincial Cité. But when I turned up on my bicycle possibly in 1982, en-route to my new home in the Midi-Pyrenées or perhaps some years later during an adventure outing, the whole 'stade' was closed off following flooding the day(s) before, up to 1 metre depth. I felt really angry about the bull-fighting, and thought it was some kind of 'Divine Intervention' giving some small glimpse of how things ought to be .... Cancelled & Off.
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Йорка любят те, в которых есть немножко самого Йорка. А поскольку он разный, то и эти самые "немножко" у каждого тоже разные, но все они - "йоркнутые")).И хорошо, что многие к нему относятся безразлично, а то и с непонятной для "томоголиков" ненавистью - люди всё же должны быть всякие.А представьте себе -- вы окружены со всех сторон йоркопоклонниками! Ужас... Вот скука была бы...
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Posted by Marcia Divack on September 4, 2008 at 2:30pm
TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.Large pieces of ice are seen drifting off the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf in this July file photo.Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, told The Associated Press that the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean."The Markham Ice Shelf was a big surprise because it suddenly disappeared. We went under cloud for a bit during our research and when the weather cleared up, all of a sudden there was no more ice shelf. It was a shocking event that underscores the rapidity of changes taking place in the Arctic," said Muller.Muller also said that two large sections of ice detached from the Serson Ice Shelf, shrinking that ice feature by 47 square miles -- or 60 percent -- and that the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has also continued to break up, losing an additional eight square miles.Muller reported last month that seven square miles of the 170-square-mile and 130-feet-thick Ward Hunt shelf had broken off.This comes on the heels of unusual cracks in a northern Greenland glacier, rapid melting of a southern Greenland glacier, and a near record loss for Arctic sea ice this summer. And earlier this year a 160-square mile chunk of an Antarctic ice shelf disintegrated."Reduced sea ice conditions and unusually high air temperatures have facilitated the ice shelf losses this summer," said Luke Copland, director of the Laboratory for Cryospheric Research at the University of Ottawa. "And extensive new cracks across remaining parts of the largest remaining ice shelf, the Ward Hunt, mean that it will continue to disintegrate in the coming years."Ellesmere Island was once entirely ringed by a single enormous ice shelf that broke up in the early 1900s. All that is left today are the four much smaller shelves that together cover little more than 299 square miles.Martin Jeffries of the U.S. National Science Foundation and University of Alaska Fairbanks said in a statement Tuesday that the summer's ice shelf loss is equivalent to over three times the area of Manhattan, totaling 82 square miles -- losses that have reduced Arctic Ocean ice cover to its second-biggest retreat since satellite measurements began 30 years ago."These changes are irreversible under the present climate and indicate that the environmental conditions that have kept these ice shelves in balance for thousands of years are no longer present," said Muller.During the last century, when ice shelves would break off, thick sea ice would eventually reform in their place."But today, warmer temperatures and a changing climate means there's no hope for regrowth. A scary scenario," said Muller.The loss of these ice shelves means that rare ecosystems that depend on them are on the brink of extinction, said Warwick Vincent, director of Laval University's Centre for Northern Studies and a researcher in the program ArcticNet."The Markham Ice Shelf had half the biomass for the entire Canadian Arctic Ice Shelf ecosystem as a habitat for cold, tolerant microbial life; algae that sit on top of the ice shelf and photosynthesis like plants would. Now that it's disappeared, we're looking at ecosystems on the verge of distinction,' said Muller.Along with decimating ecosystems, drifting ice shelves and warmer temperatures that will cause further melting ice pose a hazard to populated shipping routes in the Arctic region -- a phenomenon that Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper seems to welcome.Harper announced last week that he plans to expand exploration of the region's known oil and mineral deposits, a possibility that has become more evident as a result of melting sea ice. It is the burning of oil and other fossil fuels that scientists say is the chief cause of manmade warming and melting ice.Harper also said Canada would toughen reporting requirements for ships entering its waters in the Far North, where some of those territorial claims are disputed by the United States and other countries.Ok, so since the ice is melting anyway, we might as well drill for oil? Such ignorance!Read more…
We French people don't necessarily have the same opinion than our MPs... Hopefully...So... Social crisis shows up its nose, and instead of speaking of the subjects that matter, we get a bunch of useless people crap, and....a MP upset about this :
The Dutch text says Even from Afghanistan, the French bring medals.For those outside France, there's been a huge media coverage of the killing of ten French soldiers in Afghanistan, see this is the biggest loss we've had since the 1980's, it has to be overfed on tv, bla bla bla. I mean, right, OK. Ten elite army people were killed. They knew why they were there. The people killed in Haumont after the storm didn't get as much covergae... What am I asking here, press cover over deaths ? Oooh, I must be tired. I just feel bad for the instrumentalisation of people's death to justify the presence of French soldiers (under the NATO name of course, we said NO to that war, remember ????) and that's sick.btw, this is made by a guy called Zak.I find this caricature hilarious and very clever. Why sue the paper that published it ? Because, for once, the joke's on us ? We're the best when it comes to criticize other countries' reactions towards freedom of speech and suchlike (remember the Muhammad cartoons ?) but we are so easily offended...Stupid politicians.Read more…
Just thought I'd share that Radiohead came to Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio on August 4th. Obviously, I knew well before and purchased two tickets much to my excitement. I was filled with a crazy, child-like anticipation and I was ready for the concert of my life... that is until my internship suddenly needed me to go to San Diego for business and there was no way I could get out of it. So, I missed the concert. Ain't that a bitch?Jobs are fucking cruel. Radiohead, gods of music, please return to Ohio.
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CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE IN PDF window.http://www.migreurop.org/IMG/pdf/carte-fr07.pdfEach little dot on the map indicates a European Detention +/or Detainee Camp built allegedly with the specific intent of holding either 'Asylum-seekers' or 'Those awaiting repatriation' to their home countries.There are various areas in the remodelled former EEC, now known as the European Monetary Area (EMA) that under the Schengen Area protocols get to essentially treat any non-national as illegal scum if the 'Government' of the day should decide such.
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Radiohead, Muse, The Strokes, My Bloody Valentine, The Horrors, Jeff Buckley, U2, Arctic Monkeys, The Libertines, Bloc Party, Nirvana, Kasabian ETCETC
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I'm trying not to wither with each passing day,to dry up like a bundle of twigs,someone crunch and boil me into a soup,sip all the sorrow trapping my heart.so this is what they call loneliness,but all I know is too simple,I only hear echoes, for you are not hereI am not here, & we are never without one.My heart so obvious when in need of a cure.Blatantly exposing flesh, open wounds.Trying to find bits of you you left behind,like scattered pieces of wool.I search endlessly in canopies of trees,the blue sky, to hope that I can,catch a reflection in the pond nearby,hear your skin whisper in whispers again.But a sigh says it all, my memory fades,and what's left from today,gathers in the winds of yesterday.A woman sitting in front of a window,eyes straight ahead,Am I just a lingering ghost?To wait for the sun to set,the moon to rise,Where is the man by the coast?Where is the man by the coast?
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Nothing should have been able to top Night 2 at the Hollywood Bowl. Indeed, I even thought (fleetingly) about whether I really wanted to go to the Santa Barbara show, considering how bloody amazing HB Night 2 was, and considering I was going up by myself, to wait in line for the pit -- all things that were more than a wee bit disconcerting. However, it didn't take much to remind me of what I was going to see, and I went anticipating a really phenomenal show.Walking to where the pit line had already formed, I was thinking to myself that I must be mad. However, upon hopping into line, and meeting the girl who joined the line a few minutes after me, I decided perhaps I wasn't mad, after all. The girl in line after me had also come by herself, and we were quickly joined by a pair of Ateasers, who had come down from Washington state and who totally made the wait a party. Eventually, said Ateaser was telling me stories of how he had attended the Dublin shows and had actually met Jonny and Thom in a small pub in suburban Dublin, and I was positively green with envy. Eventually, our little group of 3 turned into an Ateaser crew (plus one randomly awesome MTer) of 6, and it was lovely spending the hours waiting with them. Sometime very soon after my arrival, a certain someone else also arrived -- Jonny's bus pulled into the venue, and I'm quite sure it was him -- he was silhouetted by the tinted window, but I'd know that hair anywhere... it was definitely Jonny Prettyhairs.When they finally let us hike that blasted hill to get into the pit, I quickly headed for the side between Thom and Jonny, and ended up being in the third row, along with half of my Ateaser crew (the other half went for Ed's side). We were happily positioned, right in front of Jonny, and with a good view of Thom... until the tall guy in front of me migrated directly into my line of sight. I thought all was lost until a lovely brother/sister duo and the tall guy scrunched up and made some room for me, so that I could stand next to her in the second row, with her brother behind us. That made all the difference in the world, really -- it meant I had a perfect view of Jonny, and a good window to watching Thom. It was brilliant, and it was really indicative of the kind of people I met this whole night -- everyone was super friendly, everyone was taking care of each other, telling stories, making friends -- it was really unlike anything I've done, and I'm very glad I had this experience.I put in my earplugs for Liars' set, and gave my spare set to the sister -- we needed them! It's one thing for Radiohead to make my ears ring (which they actually didn't, because their sound is so well mixed), but I wasn't going to waste my hearing on Liars. So I didn't do, and happily, their set was over quickly. I watched as the Radiohead crew set up their gear, realising for the first time just how close I would be to the guys -- ridiculously close. Not quite cognisant of what was in store for me, I anxiously awaited the set -- my last concert of this tour. Here was our set:ReckonerOptimisticThere There15 StepAll I NeedNudeTalk Show HostWeird Fishes/ArpeggiThe GloamingMorning BellNational AnthemFaust ARPNo SurprisesJigsaw Falling Into PlaceThe BendsKarma PoliceBodysnatchers----Cymbal RushHouse of CardsParanoid AndroidGo SlowlyEverything In Its Right Place----VideotapeLuckyIdiotequeIf you're thinking it looks suspiciously close to the HB Night 2 setlist, you are right -- it's nearly identical, with only 3 songs swapped (sadly, for a loss on Pyramid Song, Planet Telex, and Fake Plastic Trees). That was a little bit of a let down, I confess -- since it was the last show of the tour and since they were webcasting it, I really thought we were going to get some rare songs, or at least a few that hadn't been played in awhile. I was secretly hoping for Where I End and You Begin, You And Whose Army?, and I Might Be Wrong, but I was wrong on all 3 counts. Either way, I know how greedy it sounds for me to whinge about the setlist, considering how great a show they did put on, so I suppose that saves something for me to look forward to on the next tour.To counter the whinging, I will indulge my fangirl tendencies and let you know that I had a brilliant view of Jonny, Thom, and even Phil, who was remarkably close to us. As a result of being so close, I got a smile from Phil during a break in his drumming -- he looked at me, I gave a little wave, and he smiled. It was adorable. Also, I nearly passed out in the pit the first time Jonny's eyes wandered down to the crowd and then directly to mine -- I'm pretty sure I looked like I'd seen a ghost, and I really hope my jaw didn't drop (or he likely thinks me an idiot!), but he looked right through me -- not just once, but twice! It was brilliant and mindboggling. And finally, since Thom loves checking out the crowd, I managed to catch his eye thrice -- once, right as I was snapping a pic, for which I got a wonky smile (which shows in my snap), once after rejoicing at getting Go Slowly (because I was the only one rejoicing), and once just because -- I happened to catch his eye and got a little giggle -- I think he saw my little dance/freakout. And now for something completely serious...I was literally 15 feet away from the band, and was particularly watching Jonny play his ondes martenot on songs like The National Anthem, which was ridiculously cool. There's something really magical about actually watching how they create the music they do, especially Jonny -- all of the sampling (radioJonny is amazing!), and the techniques he uses to coax the soundscape from his guitar (and ondes, the glockenspiel, the rhodes piano, and even a proper piano) are remarkable. It was really phenomenal, being close enough to see just how talented he is. Indeed, how talented they all are -- Radiohead consistently sound amazing live. It's astonishing, really, just how amazing they sound live, every night -- they are always spot on, and that is extremely difficult to do, especially whilst touring! And Thom -- he manages perfect, extremely difficult vocals, whilst dancing around the stage like an epileptic -- it's mindboggling! I don't know how they manage it, but we are all so lucky that they do -- every show they put on is worthy of them, and that is really something.Now that my last show of the tour is over, I'm quite gobsmacked -- I managed to do this tour perfectly, starting the first night with a dear friend in the nosebleeds to enjoy the lights, moving to a boxseat for the setlist of a lifetime for the second show, and being in the pit for the last show of the tour. Really, I couldn't have done that better, and I consider myself immensely lucky that I had the chance to see them three times. After years of waiting, it was decidedly worth all of it -- trite and cliche though it may sound, Radiohead mean so much more to me than just another band, and seeing them live on this tour really cemented my admiration and immense respect for them.So to all the people I met at the Santa Barbara show, thank you for making it such a wonderful experience. To the people with whom I spent Night 2 in the HB box, thank you for sharing that moment of Radiohead history with me -- we are truly lucky people. To my dear (and Lucky!) friend Vanvan, thank you for sharing a very special night with me in the nosebleeds. To Radiohead, thank you for giving me three distinctly amazing and indelible experiences to remember from this tour -- I can't seem to find the words to say what I mean, but suffice it to say I am even more in awe now than I ever was... and I can't wait for the next tour.
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Posted by Michael Sav on September 2, 2008 at 12:48pm
So I'm wondering if the Japanese tour dates in October are going to act as the prelude to a sorely needed trip down under? Anybody know anything?Cheers allMichael
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. . .após um bom tempo sem escrever por aqui, apareço sem ideias e sem nenhuma novidade.Tô cansado, quebrado, mau humorado e com meu olho inchado.reclamo pra cacete mas, eu sei que tenho razão de alguma forma.minha cabeça dóinormalnormalnor mal
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you cant fear what you dont see! and my eyes are firmly shut. they are safe from dust and falling objects. on my hands and knees i search the ground for turnips. i search for the perfect nut. i search for a friend that stand still while i run away from them, and feed me when i crawl back.
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