Yes, it's Clarabelle,don't really post on the board very often these days, I don't have any tickets for the shows this summer,I now work with kids but I'm the glammest cocktail drinking nanny you ever did see - imagine Mary Poppins sipping a Martini, that's me. It is totally possible to push a buggy in high heels.Hurrah.Love, kisses, Clarabelle xxx
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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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After a week of the BBC kissing Radiohead's arse, they top off a great week by cutting of 15 Step before it's got a chance to kick in.What the hell is that all about?They never done that with any of the other bands. They should have with Morrisey. I like him, and big respect always to The Smiths, but that performance was awful.We shouldn't expect anything less from the Beeb, but we can only hope that at some point they'll get it right.
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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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Pitchfork Media will launch a new site called Pitchfork.Tv . The site will debut on Monday April 7.Radiohead will contribute with a performance of In Rainbows CD 2 Bangers & Mash. Click for more info
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So I've been thinking of how to introduce my father to Radiohead for a while. You see, he's a hardcore jazz guy. He's of the school of thought that if it isn't hard to play, it's not worth listening to, as it offers nothing to him. So I knew it was going to be a tough sell to him. I've been afraid that to him, Radiohead was just going to sound too simple, as it did not have flashy instrumentation or "chord changes" that would make him "wet his pants", as he often described his beloved Oscar Peterson.So my parents had a couple of friends we haven't seen in a while over for dinner and I joined them. After a tasty meal we adjourned to the living room, where we started talking about music. His friend was a huge blues fan, and he played us a cd of his. While listening to it, we were talking about what kinds of music we like, and I jokingly chided my father again for not listening to lyrics in music, and purely the instruments. My step-mom asked me how I had gotten into lyrics, and I said it was pretty much from a band called Radiohead. We chatted and commented on the music his friend was playing some more, as well as other things, and it was a very nice atmosphere. After 8 years, it felt like the air was finally ripe to put in Radiohead and see what my father thought.So after a few moments of silence in the conversation I meekly said "Do you guys mind if I play couple of songs for you?". They were enthusiastic and oddly receptive to the idea, so I ran out in my car and grabbed the only Radiohead I had on me at the moment, OK Computer. On my nervous walk up the walkway, I thought of how I would preface it, and which songs to play. Seeing as how Airbag is my favorite Radiohead song at the moment, I decided I'd just start at the beginning and let it play as far as it would survive.To be honest, I didn't expect my father to like it that much. Previously, he had peaceably called Sigur Ros "just too over-produced" for him, and I still had the scar from that burn. So I go in and handed the cd to my dad who was making room for it for it in his disc changer. As he was hunched over the cd player I began to explain to the adults: "Ok so, this album is called OK Computer. It means how we're allowing technology to take us over....or something like that. (silence) It's on a lot of critics top ten lists, and it was covered by a string quartet and a piano guy." They seemed mildly impressed by this, giving little nods and looks of "Hm." As my dad pressed play, I quickly thought of anything else to say and blurted out, "This is my number one desert island album." Similar reactions.As the beginning notes of Airbag started up, my dad stood up and walked into the kitchen to get something, not sitting on the couch and listening intently and enthusiastically silencing all interruptions from this utterly fascinating music, as I had hoped he would. "Well, he's just going to half listen to it and give a it placating 'It's not bad'" I thought to myself. The other three were kinda just sitting there, with subdued expressions.I explained to them, "so there's this opening guitar part, and then the song...for me at least...brings you on this sort of (circely hand motions) musical journey, then you hear the guitar part again and it sounds more mature and changed." We listened a bit more, with the adults tapping various bodyparts in time. And then I felt a hand on my shoulder, and I looked up and it was my father from the kitchen. "Ya' know...this kinda reminds me of Sgt. Pepper's", he said, and told me I should listen to that some time."Of course!" I exclaimed in my head. "The Beatles!" I had forgotten of his love for The Beatles and saw a glimmer of hope. He sat back down on the couch and crossed his legs. Airbag ended and we proceeded into Paranoid Android without any protest, which I took as another good sign. The wonderful guitar layers seemed to take the room over, and we were silent. All of a sudden my dad said, "Ya know, these aren't stock chord changes....and they actually work", sounding slightly surprised. As the song moved into the heavier parts, I sat there with shivers as Jonny's guitar cut out through the speakers. When the "Rain down" section got underway, I actually saw my dad turn his head away from his talking friend to hear the song better. He said again how good these changes were and I had chills. I couldn't believe my dad was enjoying it! I told him to keep listening.We finished Paranoid Android and started into Subterranean Homesick Alien when my father's friend said he wanted to show him an Irish band called the McKrell's. Recognizing then that my time was limited, I skipped ahead to Let Down. As we worked through that and into Karma Police, the friend went to his car to grab his cd, and I asked if we could just listen to the end of this song when he came back in. By the end, a conversation had started up again through Fitter Happier, which delayed the other cd. At the end of it, my dad's friend handed dad the cd to put into the player, when something remarkable happened. Electioneering had started up, and my dad just kinda froze on the couch holding the invading cd. He was on the edge of his seat and looking at the cd player, seemingly transfixed. During the first verse he again stated how these were not stock chords and how well the changes worked. I excitedly told him to wait for the chorus.So we got through Electioneering and seeing as how the battle was won, I pressed stop on the remote, and the McKrell's were put in. I went out for a cigarette with the noodling fiddles, penny whistles, and mandolins of the McKrell's in the background. My dad joined me after a bit as he lit up a cigarette too. "So you liked it?" I asked. "Yeah I did. Can I borrow that cd?" I told him he could have it as it was a burned copy of mine (store bought of course). I told him about the band some more, like how they spend months on just the tracklist, and how the guitar player plays every instrument under the sun and is now a composer. He complimented them on their musicianship and how they sounded like they knew what they were doing. He also said he liked their originality.So after my ultimate conversion, I sit here with relief and jubilation. However, there is something new that bothers me: How the heck am I going to explain Kid A to him?__________________
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I can't believe it's 1 month until tour offically starts! I've been slowly planning what shows I want to do and how many. Right now the plan is to drive down to Florida and do all the east coast shows in May. I'm also flying out to Texas and doing those 2 shows as well.I'm a little nervous traveling to the shows like this since it will be my first time going outside the north east to see the band. But, I have traveled all over to see other bands/artists so I guess you could say I am a touring veteran. I'm really looking forward to meeting fans from all over. I have tickets to almost all the shows thanks to waste. I still need tickets to Tampa, Charlotte, and Houston. I didn't have tickets in 06 to a few shows and it was pretty easy to get them day of. Of course if you read this and have an extra ticket to any of these shows please feel free to get in touch.I have a few things i need to do in the next few weeks to get ready for tour:1-get car checked to make sure it can handle the drive2-meet up with a poster on mortigi who will be taking the journey with me3-book hotel rooms/make sure friends places are available in certain cities4-pray that gas prices go down next month!!Now that this blog is available I will post my thoughts on the shows here, but I also have a travel blog at:http://freezingthatframe.wordpress.com/-maria
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Amazing.. once again they surprise us! The band launched a competition where the fans will try to create a Nude Remix . Nude is the second single of the band's Masterpiece In RainbowsRead more…
Hey Guys!We've remixed Radiohead; for their remix contest! Please vote for us by a simple click on the 'Vote' box on the right side of the page (next to the PLAY button, where you should naturally listen to the mix! ;) It's pretty good!Thanks for your support you guys, and please tell friends/co-workers/associates to vote for us! the more, the better!Here's the link to click on; please, pass it on. We love the support.http://radioheadremix.com/remix/?id=667Read more…
have to say that disc 6 (live 2003) is definetely my fav RH live compilation of all time. The drive of some of the tunes (The Gloaming, Backdrifts, Myxamatosis, Kid A) flows right through you. If you haven't gotten it yet, you can find it on the atease mb - multimedia forum. Dang good stuff...
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