yesterday found itself graced by an extended texting conversation* with the below mentioned radiohead fan (two posts down). i'm glad i asked the following. i think i was anticipating a yes/no response with perhaps a little bit of explanation. needless to say, i was more than pleasantly surprised.
nat: is radiohead your favorite band? or do you follow others around like you do rh?
mike: for the last ten years i have followed them. on multiple levels, thematic and compositional complexity, integrity of social awareness, they are the ultimate modern artists of our time. there is no band today that has such a deep and wide gestalt imo. i cannot get bored with them. that is the beauty of it. after all the layers of kid a and amnesiac we get an amazing work that touches us so deeply about human relationships. amazing really that they take something as complex as how we interact and can sythesize this into something as sublime and pure as videotape. we are lucky to have experienced what we have over the last couple weeks. very hard to explain to someone who hasn't emmersed themselves into rh or seen them before.
*and by conversation, i mean with all the substance that the word "conversation" implies. very few responses were any less than 160 characters (for the moms and aunts out there, that's the maximum response you can send in one text, bolded here to give a sense of length) and most were three +/- sections large.
currently listening to: analyse - thom yorke (the fast didn't last that long. five days?)
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