the song is full and tragic and beautiful and i love it's metallic and rollicking percussion at the entry and the humming crescendo around the 3:20 mark.
i'm gearing up to see radiohead next week.
radiohead has been a constant in my music collection since mid-high school. a lot of people find them depressing which has always been puzzling to me. their music, while melancholy overall, simply has the effect of heightening whatever mood i am in currently. they are the mallet that strikes the tuning fork inside of me. yet another form (and one of the biggest and most consistent) of resonance i am endlessly searching for.
and at the center of it all is thom, who is probably my biggest artistic hero of all time. he lives himself so fully and truthfully and densely. i've always felt he was a conduit, tapping into something beyond the human experience, and selflessly letting himself resonate with whatever comes through and to him. i don't mean this in the sense of kitchy new age speak, just something simple and beyond the boundaries the rest of us abide by. it was really gratifying after all these years of thinking the above to hear him say as much in an interview. he said he doesn't know where it comes from, he just plugs himself in and goes for it {http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWOKtktYfP0}.
they say einstein's brain was massive and heavy and that there were signs of use in places the rest of us simply don't have access. makes me wonder if thom yorke's emotional circuitry is more complex than the average human being - how many other people can make the act of writing their name on their water bottle such a distinct and lovely act of self-expression? he just stands out in how purely he moves through time and space and i will spend the rest of my life striving to do the same.
almost all my morals would go out the window to get my hands on the above water bottle...
currently listening to: reckoner - radiohead
photo credit: radiohead website
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