A Brown alumnus that lives in Naples called my house wanting to meet me for an interview. I want to - no - I will make him call Brown and say "Don't pass this one up." At least one person will deem me indispensable.
Extremely Sentimental Tacky Crap!
anonymous
January 21 2004, 10:58:03 UTC
shane this is your brother speaking its 6:00 in the morning and i just woke up after trying to sleep for a couple hours. i was unsuccessful in making it my plans for the night. this post has nothing to do with yours, but it is the post i would make if i had my own livejournal. i have never wanted to express my opinion so bad to have to resort to livejournal. but alas! this whole post is about me answering luke's absolute favorite album of all-time question. he said his was badly drawn boy - hour of the bewilderbeast because it defined this era in his life. he remembers this feeling and smell and taste with that period of his life. highschool, girlfriend, car, drive, fast, young, invincible.
well i just woke up after trying to fall asleep listening to Kid A.
let me say that lately i've been studying screenplays a lot and one important aspect of a solid screenplay is that there is a purpose to every scene, every motive of every character in that scene is revealed/relevant, and as a whole there is a change or some sort of character development that takes place. whether you watch this character make a simple choice, or several hard choices- there is a story to tell.
Radiohead isn't easy to get into, but it happened in time. and i got into them a lot. but when i first heard Kid A it sounded like the biggest cop-out and waste of talent.
Of course like all good albums, it only gets better upon repeated listenings, but the struggle of trying to understand this album is what makes it great. it was my soundtrack in this era, the same way badly drawn boy was for luke.
This album is like a perfect screenplay. every song has a motive, something new to say, another choice made, another step forward, another step backward. the lyrics and music are the perfect anti-therapy to a boy with an overactive imagination. radiohead works off of feeding you hooks. some people don't pick up on those hooks, but every song on it has a hook at this climax that floods me with memories and it gives me these eerie chills. i don't even know what my memories are of. they aren't memories of specific things that happened, but i remember what i was feeling every time i've heard this album. its like a link of consciousness to a new version of me to the older versions every time i hear it. the struggle through the cd is a document on these random blips and emotions like a video/photo documents our lives from its own perspective. the same way we whip out a picture of you naked in a bathtub when you were 2 years old, and you find it hard to believe that life was all about peeing freely into some warm water. Now life to you is about getting into college and getting out of high school. Ha.
but now i have rambled so much and i probrably seem like an obsessive fan. i don't listen to this cd often. i don't even listen to radiohead often. but every time i do it hits me just as hard as it use to. i can't say that about many other albums/bands.
Sorry if i sound crazy, but i thought i'd let you know my answer to luke's question on this night of nights when i can't sleep and i am overwhelmed by Kid A. ==== You're living in a fantasy world This beautiful world Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea I got a message I can't read Another message I can't read
its 6:00 in the morning and i just woke up after trying to sleep for a couple hours. i was unsuccessful in making it my plans for the night. this post has nothing to do with yours, but it is the post i would make if i had my own livejournal. i have never wanted to express my opinion so bad to have to resort to livejournal. but alas! this whole post is about me answering luke's absolute favorite album of all-time question. he said his was badly drawn boy - hour of the bewilderbeast because it defined this era in his life. he remembers this feeling and smell and taste with that period of his life. highschool, girlfriend, car, drive, fast, young, invincible.
well i just woke up after trying to fall asleep listening to Kid A.
let me say that lately i've been studying screenplays a lot and one important aspect of a solid screenplay is that there is a purpose to every scene, every motive of every character in that scene is revealed/relevant, and as a whole there is a change or some sort of character development that takes place. whether you watch this character make a simple choice, or several hard choices- there is a story to tell.
Radiohead isn't easy to get into, but it happened in time. and i got into them a lot. but when i first heard Kid A it sounded like the biggest cop-out and waste of talent.
Of course like all good albums, it only gets better upon repeated listenings, but the struggle of trying to understand this album is what makes it great. it was my soundtrack in this era, the same way badly drawn boy was for luke.
This album is like a perfect screenplay. every song has a motive, something new to say, another choice made, another step forward, another step backward. the lyrics and music are the perfect anti-therapy to a boy with an overactive imagination. radiohead works off of feeding you hooks. some people don't pick up on those hooks, but every song on it has a hook at this climax that floods me with memories and it gives me these eerie chills. i don't even know what my memories are of. they aren't memories of specific things that happened, but i remember what i was feeling every time i've heard this album. its like a link of consciousness to a new version of me to the older versions every time i hear it. the struggle through the cd is a document on these random blips and emotions like a video/photo documents our lives from its own perspective. the same way we whip out a picture of you naked in a bathtub when you were 2 years old, and you find it hard to believe that life was all about peeing freely into some warm water. Now life to you is about getting into college and getting out of high school. Ha.
but now i have rambled so much and i probrably seem like an obsessive fan. i don't listen to this cd often. i don't even listen to radiohead often. but every time i do it hits me just as hard as it use to. i can't say that about many other albums/bands.
Sorry if i sound crazy, but i thought i'd let you know my answer to luke's question on this night of nights when i can't sleep and i am overwhelmed by Kid A.
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You're living in a fantasy world
This beautiful world
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea
I got a message I can't read
Another message I can't read
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