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TORONTO Rainbows... thank god there is a Greyhound bus afterall....!

Posted by inez on August 18, 2008 at 11:30pm

So it’s over now. The Toronto gig. The East Coast leg. Which is why making it (and the most out of it) has reached a ‘no matter what’ priority level… as I was watching flight cancellations at JFK for 6 nerve-wrecking hrs, I have long departed the land of reason. THANK YOU ALL for numerous ‘keep safe’ messages in response to my Greyhound Bus blog!! It really isn’t (WASN’T) that bad in my particular case. Exhausting – yes. And COLD. I wasn’t exactly dressed for a spontaneous overnight trip. No sleep. Arrived in Toronto around 9AM, I dropped of the bag at my brother’s… He wanted to drive me downtown, but I figured - YOU HEAR THAT, THOM? - I figured, I was conscious enough for a subway/tram combo. And, while we are at it: in theory (hmmm), I did NOT travel long distance JUST for the gig. I have lots of family here and my parents arrived from overseas… blah-blah-blah. True, I may have blown off this reunion because of the crazy work schedule… (should my family be thanking RH for the pleasure of seeing me…?) But I DID have an unrelated perfectly legitimate reason for being here… ARE WE ALRIGHT ON THIS ONE, THOM? ;-)12:45pm – perhaps 30-35 pit people at Molson closed doors. Was ok. A few people were a bit neurotic at line-watching – which really is a pointless endeavor as those first 80 will invariably get reshuffled through the security checks etc, and will ultimately end up at the rail anyway. I understand: sitting there since 8am and all… I’ve been on the road for 22hrs and had no energy for being neurotic (which would otherwise be the baseline). I settled with a nice group and embraced myself for a 5 hr wait. The rumor spread that the doors open at 5:30pm, earlier than expected. So things were fine, until nature started fucking with us. The sky was getting progressively more intimidating and finally exploded with a storm. Within seconds, it was pouring. Not everyone had umbrellas, newspapers were soaked instantly. A little gift shop 20 ft away sold umbrellas and ponchos – so while holding each other’s stuff and places in line we all made trips there – still, we were drenched. Forget rain, it started HAILING (!) - “fucking special”, indeed! I took pix of a rather miserable bunch under pouring rain → on my page. I was amused at how this whole adventure seemed to be someone’s revenge on too easy a time I had getting to All Points West! Besides, a healthy sense of humor kinda helped us through it - fortunately, it stopped raining before the latter drowned completely ;-). I quite appreciate the Canadian crowd immediately around me (coming from the South of the Border ;-) ) – we chatted about all kinds of things to pass the time. The sound check started around 4pm (right??). Morning Bell, Talk Show Host, Like Spinning Plates... - definitely lifted the spirits triggering a round of applause after each song, as if they could hear us ;-)… Finally at 5:30pm, like a clock, Molson people tightened the line (a couple of hundred people by then?) and set up security stands. I have to say, I admired Canadian organization! For at least half hour prior, they were making sure that every person in line was standing for the pit, picking out and relocating those who were seated elsewhere… I hear stories of some US venues, when after standing in line all fucking day, people are suddenly told that they have to RUN (whoever’s fastest?!?) to an altogether different entrance... Then, everything went into a VERY HECTIC motion; security checks: some go right through, others get stuck – which is why WHERE EXACTLY you are within the first 100 is kinda meaningless. THOSE ON THE WEST COAST: No problems with umbrellas or (at least little) cameras – no matter what the venue ticket says. Everything WAS allowed in. Now, just HOW MANY GODDAMN DOORS AND BARRIERS are there in Molson?! We must have been channeled through a dozen! But –that was it!! A bunch of ecstatic people at the rail, a few feet from the stage. Some RH equipment boxes were piled up – I could read weights, dimensions and a fucking small print on the shipping labels! I took a few snapshots just for the hell of it ;-)Grizzly Bear came on at 7:30pm. “We are just a support band”… They were really sweet. Half way through their gig, I noticed Jonny at the far right end of the stage watching them. I pointed it out to a couple of guys around me, and everyone got so psyched and eager to take pix of jonny that they completely forgot about the Bears. I actually felt bad… Between the songs, I looked back at the crowd behind us; it was raining on the lawn again (most of the seated area at Molson is covered) and the sun was peaking out – and THERE IT F*CKING WAS! – a BRIGHT RAINBOW crossing the sky. It soon doubled. In fact, that rainbow again attracted so much attention that the Bears had every reason to be upset. They seem to have taken it well though. Even announced the aforementioned rainbow for those missing it! All in all, they played a rather short act – 45min or so…Ok, now, I shouldn’t really be describing RH gig itself. I mean, you can go to the Toronto page and find a dozen descriptions and I’m sure they are all correct. And everyone experiences these things through their own personal lens… skin? heart? Afterall, this is not a critical review – neither is it a fine piece of literature. This is just me, spilling over feelings and emotions that end up being so profound that it has taken me days to recover… so… In my opinion, the set-list (I posted a picture of the actual physical entity thrown off stage at the end) was incredible. Not just because the non-obligatory (non In Rainbows) part of it varied wildly from that at APW2 I saw a week earlier, and not only because the two songs I craved almost physically (Climbing Up The Walls and The Wolf…) both made it to the main set (YES!!), but the whole feel and the compound energy was a knockout. The sheer intensity of it. You can’t really swallow Jigsaw ---> Idioteque ---> Climbing up the Walls sequence and expect to retain any level of sanity and a normal pulse rate. The Walls alone with thom screaming into his guitar and the green evil lights breaking into bloody red – I mean, this is OUT THERE, who needs drugs?! Same goes for The Gloaming ---> Wolf at the Door or Airbag ---> Talk Show Host ‘combos’. Curiously, the printed set-list left an option of doing Talk Show Host OR I Might Be Wrong – they picked the former ;-) And the mood of the gig was …odd, unexpected. Idioteque 'delivery' was like I've never seen before. Instead of frantic dancing, thom froze in place, completely MOTIONLESS for that entire segment – which was freaky in its own right! Through the gig, he did not speak, almost AT ALL, till the encores… But his singing was outrageous. Several songs featured vocal outbursts different not just from recorded versions, but from his ‘traditional’ live delivery. And god, there was so much fucking raw power in this – it blew my mind. It really seemed as though he embraced the Toronto audience, he must have gotten something out of it (I sure hope so!) and whatever he felt was expressed through music only, no chatting no talking… I think (and I could be totally off base!) that there was this openness in his singing, the “all in” emotional commitment that does not happen every gig. I cried to Street Spirit.Now, standing at the rail directly in front of jonny was a treat. We all know he’s amazing, but my god, he looks ICONIC, I can’t find a better word to describe it! (Sorry, Jonny, but you MUST have heard this enough times by now to just accept it as a fact of life). Seeing him in action is unbelievable. AND HE SPOKE! (Thom: “Jonny speaks!!”) He thanked Grizzly Bear (he also wore a Grizzly Bear T-shirt /as did Coz/ with a 3-eyed cat on it, and it took me some time to grasp what the heck was wrong with it… I’m slow). How many of us heard jonny say ANYTHING at a gig?!I am also thrilled by what this gig turned into ‘cause of the Morning Bell incident early on when the organ thom was playing began to die. ...he repeatedly tried fixing the plug on the keyboard while singing, motioned to jonny for help (who tried and failed as well), then the roadie ran onto the stage, started messing with the cable on the side… they played the song to the end, but thom’s distress was anything but subtle... seeing it ‘close and personal’ was painful and it freaked ME out big time – as if I was right up there (oh shit… oh, no! what will this do?). Of course, these things do happen, and they can sure handle them (and most of the crowd likely didn’t notice a thing!), but I was relieved that it didn’t color the rest of the gig. Hope not. Isn’t it peculiar how we feel so connected with these guys that we go through the motions and feel for them as we would for our close friends?? ;-)OK... On this note, guys, I will stop. Tons of pix and videos on my page… hope you like the pix, 'cause I was torn between photographing and simply absorbing IT with every cell of my body – so I feel like I stole something from myself… Was it worth it? THANKS to you all.

STUPID!!!!!!! People!!

Posted by Vanessa Vasquez on August 18, 2008 at 4:00pm

I have a t-shirt that can gauge the stupidity of everyone around me. It's accurate within a three percent margin. And it never fails to point out the stupid people in the crowd.I was walking with a friend the other day and wearing the shirt. People were pointing at my shirt and laughing. (I think they were laughing at the shirt and not me) Then they would mutter what they thought it said, "I'm with Stupid."There it is above!. What does it say? Careful now, read it again and say it out loud.Are You Stupid? My friend looked at me with incredulity because of the conversation we just had moments earlier. Here's how it went:(After he walked up to me and stared at my shirt)Him: What does your shirt say?Me (raising an eyebrow): What do you think it says?Him (narrowing his eyes): You tell me.Me (smiling): No, you tell me.This went on for two full minutes before I interjected some Abbott and Costello. Finally, I gave in and told him it said, "I'm with Stuppid." Pronouncing it the way I had intended when I designed it, like in the word UP.What's truly funny about this shirt is how many people don't actually read it. Either that or they just can't spell the word: stupid. (It has one P, not two as in my shirt) It's a social experiment in the greatest way. Sometimes the people can't spell and sometimes they're just plain stupid. Proves my point either way.I told my friend that my little experiment was running a 60-70% stupid person score. Yes, 60-70% of the people who remarked about my shirt pronounced the word: Stupid. Not Stuppid.He didn't believe me until we were walking along and people muttered or pointed out the shirt to their friends, saying "I'm with Stupid" under their breath. Laughing with each other. While silently I laughed inside my own head. Stupid.My experiment is a success and my hypothesis is proven. I've always said this but now I have undeniable proof. Stupid people are at an all-time high.

Tatau

Posted by Marine on August 18, 2008 at 1:00pm

Tattoos are not necessarily my thing, but these are great :

I particularly love this one... Bubble Bobble was indeed one of my favourite games on the Master System, AND I NEVER FINISHED IT !!!!!!! It's too complicated, I never found the necessary items to access the last level of the game. And that's highly frustrating. I am beginning again on an emulator I found, so it's a bit easier, and hopefully, three years from now I might finish it.And my favourite...

It's a shame that it's a BSOD and not a GNU* prompt, but it's still fine.

Update from the road...

Posted by Jordan Khajavipour on August 18, 2008 at 5:02am

I didn't bring a laptop nor a camera so it'll be too difficult to update after each show. A lot of amazing memories from this tour, which I could, but I'm going to write out a tour blog after the tour is over and I'm settle back at my house. There will be a lot of details missing because of the delay but it'll give me time to reflect before another semester begins.jordan.

Reality is a BITCH

Posted by Vanessa Vasquez on August 18, 2008 at 12:36am

it's funny to me how people don't see you for what you are. or they don't want to see. if people let their guard down and actually looked at me and saw depression, pain, loss, and instability, then they would be forced to realize that they are living in a bubble. i suppose that is the beauty of "the outward self" as i like to call it. the person you allow others to see. but no matter who you are, who you are in a relationship with, or who you are the most comfortable with (even a therapist)...there is a "you" that no one sees. that is secret and caged and that is why no matter what...we are all inherently alone and always will be. i feel pain because of that. there is nothing i can do to really let someone in and i wish i could REALLY take comfort in the mantra i tell myself : "i don't need anyone. i am not needy. i am not dependent."

August 17, 2008 Seattle Hempfest Day : The Mind Tour Journals.... Low Earth Orbiter.

Posted by Daniel Bennett Kieneker on August 17, 2008 at 8:42pm

Hello Radiohead people.I'm posting here as a move of honest stature.I tried to include Trent Reznor today by posting on his site, and my admission is I am not techie enough to read through the quick and easy barriers... and for that I respect what I read Trent respond to in Rolling Stone Magazine about the different platforms of distribution... although I am not sure he's gonna get any of the "muesings and mind solving lyric shit I spit out on the walks away from " NIN to Dave Mattews" an obvious look in from reddit.I was admonished on Peter Gabriel's site once for using this kind of platform personally... and that's why I tried to spread the wealth of minutia in flagrante' ...observa-ble' almost a lazy nod tothe band Rush in the fish eye lens sort of mode. Thanks Geddy and Neal and Alex.I like the idea of people sharing the stories but let me "scream about it again.... " ....you can take the explosion and shove it back into the free zone instead of fighting over it in my head and then charge the wi-fi mind double for penetrating what once use to be every bodies peace of mind with fees and more fees that " require ARTISTS and Labels and HUGE INSURANCE TRUSTS TO SPONSOR REHAB WITH LIES AND BULLSHIT FOR THE measals of the poor... those who don't have what it takes to inspire the likes of infighting between songwriters and brainwave readers.I had a good groove going on on the walk away from gasworks and mixed it up right thru the zones after my " pick on Dick Cheney and hope the Supreme court doesn't cave in to Coropustulance... you know... steal the congressional seats in favor of rap**** the vote of the voters to ( fill in the blank here ) vote or understand what is needed for what they what by taking what you have and giving to who they whom.I'll give the outline notes to the Stranger again... yet that is no garuntee that any filming of my insurrection will make it to any place affective.... you see someone once explained to me that delusion and fantasy often conspire to leave the effected in a hazy dream state of unre-quiet ed........almost a special olympic standard to lack of Diplomacy.Any way I often act out my operatic training as I work through my walks and the styled block watch programs of the neighborhood... and this time the stroll through the park of the Political signs in waiting for the upcoming election here in Washington for the falling apart of our sytmatic recoveries in space loops and budget freefalls is more SO clear ... PAINFULLY clear without the ENEBRIEATING SUBSTANCES THAT MY INSURANCE USE TO PAY FOR.... I was addicted to Seroquell and IT'S compulsive sideeffects that were unmanagable.... and I fear that the reason my Doctors property tax locality zone in the NORTHWEST REGION OF OUR NATION became so expensive is becaus I didn't join in the modest settlement account of CLASS ACTION lawsuits that of course were all ready in some sort or kind of slidiing scale of receivership.Please excuse this post Colin and Ed... as you both have the same names as my family and friends... name recognition is difficult these days in a culture of rich and poor better and worse.Note to Webmaster.. again I had all large caps on my I as in ME instead of small letter i, and strange weird stuff happens when I scream at the city about their parks and HOMELAND SECURITY. I had to go back and change some letters in this post that had changed to small from caps....I think it is because the seattle Library sytem and the King County Library system and Metro and the Braille Library have something going on with the reverse 9-11 crisi clinic hotlines.I'm gonna have to go now... it's a weird day if this doesn't post sue, (as in LAWSUIT) the FCC and this state and nation for breach of trust in our constitution because Radiohead and Trent Reznor and Peter Gabriel pay alot in fees to work here and I support their work.

need your help! constructive feedback!!

Posted by beta.beta on August 17, 2008 at 5:26pm

Hello everyone at w.a.s.t.e central i am doing a new band and need your input!you can listen to our ep at my w.a.s.t.e profile.let me know what you guys think!i am trying to hear just more then ...."don't quite your day job", "id rather die"....you get my drift.I'd figure i would post here because you guys have great taste in music =)beta.betahttp://myspace.com/bhedabheda

The sands on the beach in vancouver

Posted by Prosody on August 17, 2008 at 5:22pm

i love this campy lil hotel with the round bar where the sun feels like a ray gunin the sunset.http://www.bestwesternbc.com/hotels/best-western-sands/we checked into place on a friday and heard outside a hippie on a megaphoneannouncing a normal rally or pot protest, wow i guess we've arrived.We heard it so loud out our window so we had to go check it out, a few stepsaway a park, a dj in the back of a smal. truck and vancouvers' best . it isa vacation highlight and i sure would love to be there for radiohead tonight.I love vancouver b.c. so much and stanley park on a sunday morning is justheavenly.

Stronghead 2008

Posted by Caroline Jean on August 17, 2008 at 7:30am

- The ultimate musician model you would like to work with [to paint], the journalist asked me.
- Thom Yorke, I answered, without hesitation.

ICI
Édition du 03 au 09 JAN 2008
http://www.icimontreal.com

Orwell's blog

Posted by in rainbow shoes on August 17, 2008 at 12:30am

Previously unpublished George Orwell diaries are being released online as a daily blog. He began keeping a series of diaries on 9th August 1938. From 9th August 2008, Orwell’s domestic and political diaries will be posted in "real-time", exactly 70 years after the entries were written..."What I have most wanted to do… is to make political writing into an art." George Orwell.www.theorwellprize.co.uk

The Death Of Low Earth Orbiter

Posted by Daniel Bennett Kieneker on August 16, 2008 at 9:03pm

Thom,I have been on record in the past for saying I would kill my band before giving in to Dick Cheney and his Mind Control Politics.Apparently, post 9-11 I did not fufill my duties and responsibly become clean and sober fast enough to stay competative.In the event that history says I all ever acheived was noisy catterwalling for the preamble of an allready diseased system I would consider it an honor if your group would take up arms and gift our songs to audiences in a platform that befits "live performance".I suggest that you consider taliking with your mates about Radiohead doing The Devils Henchmen and Our Flames.Trent Reznor could do Taking on the Titan and The Giant FallsThe ticket...that's the Peter song.....and well as for the rest of the bequethment...i don't think I'll worry about walking into whiteriver as cheney or the mad rocket scientists will just order an SDI attack on heating up the granite so that it won't fity the SLEDGEHAMMER sizing or light the Makah stick on FIRE to turn it into matchsticks for anti fishing and water treaties.ThanksDan

Beaver Dams....

Posted by Daniel Bennett Kieneker on August 16, 2008 at 6:35pm

Somewhere past the sun.... this morning from gasworks I had to spit it out... the talk comes rapidly these days like this because there is a fleet moment of recognition where I do not have to pretend where my favorite words are residing... and who was the last toggle on the dial to repeat what inspired them in the first place.Ross Lake Washington today ..... in the Seattle newspapers a story on Hempfest no less..... about 48 million dollars worth of cultivation spotted from a pilot whos job was to look away lest the confiscation crew was the requirement for Richard B. Cheney... reported Vice President of The United Statesof America to swap oil receipts for legalization of hemp manufacturing and medical marijuana in America... as ZZ top says... ......"NATIONWIDE".Here it is linguists... the key to the reversal of fortunes and a fruedian mess in syntax.The story resides of course in the confrontation of peaceful assembly of dissention and internation normalcy of reasonable discourse.Ask yourself this question.If, when the energy policy was formulated in 2000 pre 9-11 and the emergancy " don't get caught with the eveidence in your treasury bill was..." I'm the decider... just sign..." and the signature voice said, " Last time they impeached our office there was money left in the system so I plan to drain the bank and make sure that we have completely left manuverability for Putin to start up in the Georgian States to continue depleating the old shells... then they can't take us out before we finish our million dollar memoirs to leave us in the vicarious position of affluent dogma to satelite in our illegal legal lease of Hemp oil conversion kits and we will maintain authority over all the disparaged factions of economic infighting."That of course in my opinion is what Dick Cheney and George Bush will NEVER admit...The real possibility that they would use The Supreme Court sorting preocess of 2012 to foil the dualisms of nabbing the crown jewals away from the English Pound to reinflate the dollar economy before 2015.Trent Reznor and Jonny Greenwood I rest my case for the action portion of reclaiming the Granite and wood to present to Peter Gabriel by transfer of handshake and eyecontact from Me to Thom at Whiteriver.I have seen the power lines in the old paintings... just ask Jen.Chris.... Vida Vida please lookout over the French coastal plans with Ed.

RADIOHEAD NIGHT VOL.9

Posted by yasco on August 16, 2008 at 8:30am

22nd FEB 2009 18.00-22.30@ SuperDeluxe (Nishiazabu - Tokyo)....about Radiohead Night

Stain

Posted by Luis Pink on August 16, 2008 at 4:00am

Lo que quedo de mi arco de violin....

BUT I CAN´T SEE OUTSIDE..................................................................................................................................................................................._______________________.____________.

vi/deos_ from 8/9/08 APW

Posted by Diana on August 16, 2008 at 2:00am

i taped small segments of the concert on 8/9/08 of radiohead of course.
but i can't add it to this site because it doesn't work..
and when i add it to youtube and comes out in horrible quality.
thankfully when i added it to facebook it came out in beautful quality (not the best, but better than watching it on my phone)

so i thought i'd just point that out

love
diana

paff

Posted by mijael on August 15, 2008 at 11:30pm

tome un tiempo para pensar. que se puede hacer salvo hacer peliculas como decia charly

despues me di cuenta que nada que ver... estaba sentado comiendo papas fritas dibujando pulpos y mantarayas en una hoja donde estan los apuntes que se suponia que estaba leyendo de semiologia....bue---me como el garron de que no soy charly garcia

Hidden

Posted by PrttyBrd on August 15, 2008 at 5:30pm

Waves crashing on rocksFoamy water ebbsChurned up residueClings to the surfaceObscuring the beauty beneath the sludge

My version of the FUCKING BUS

Posted by inez on August 15, 2008 at 11:30am

6:40am on 13 August 2008, Thom Yorke said…after philadelphia30 000 peopleturned onwhere are we?on a fucking bus-----------------My version is worse though, not entirely planned for... ok, EVERY FLIGHT out of JFK to Toronto cancelled, weather.... storms... at 9pm, grabbed a cab from the airport back into the city, the next to last GREYHOUND BUS (for those of you who don't know.... well, I won't bother explaining) - haven't done an overnight Greyhound in the past DECADE. ...6:30am, cold, sitting at CANDADIAN BORDER, for over an hour now, waiting for some questionable folks to pass Immigration... By the time I get to Molson pit I'll be more dead than alive - oh well ;-)whose internet connection am I pirating? US or Canadian?more later...

I Don't Care About You

Posted by Cyndell Fenell on August 15, 2008 at 1:36am

(autowriting)but secretly yes I doshe is the way.how long do I have to wait for him? only he can grow me.only he can show me the truth and he, he is not here, he is not me.....so I wait with an empty calender date. she waits for the open heart gate. I wait.

Hello

Posted by Stéphane on August 15, 2008 at 1:19am

I discovered Radiohead in1995 with creep and i decided to buy the bends after that, since i follow the most ican that you do.It is my favourite music to listen in good or bad times i have because it makes me happy, make me sing or play air guitar ah ah ah!I saw the gig in Paris/ St-Denis under the "chapiteau" with my old brother, it was a magic moment for us to have this chance; and i saw the one in Vaison-la-romaine with my wife, it stay as one of the best day we have(after our 3 children of course ah ah ah! what funny i am hum hum). we have another memorable moment that day and i swear it is true : we made love by the river before the gig!!!forgive me for my scolary english and mistakes, i will write other posts later, please still create!!!

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