This is what Dickson is watching right now, Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby".
I'm not.
I don't watch movies that manipulate me into feeling a certain way using dark lighting techniques and dramatic music. I can't - at least not since having Franklin. I have enough emotion running through my veins in a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, "cycle" that I have started to resent the Hollywood movie industry and it's emotional carnival ride.
See? I'm angry enough.
I don't need to watch boxers die.
Instead, I'm hooked up to Dickson's incredibly expensive and magnificent headphones. I bought these babies for him but I must confess that my generous gift was not solely because I know how much of a music lover he is - and let me tell you, he is one Big Music Lover. The headphones are also a reflection of how much I hate popular music playing in the house. I can't concentrate when it's on, I always feel like I'm trying to talk over somebody else's conversation and if something important is happening (like a tsunami warning siren!), I won't be able to hear it over the music. Dickson likes to listen to his music loud - by loud, I mean at a volume that is somewhat, barely audible.
Am I not a horrible partner?
Yeah okay, quit agreeing with me on that. If you are reading this blog, you are supposed to be my friend.
Ha! Why the hell did I write that?
However! Wait! Although I have no idea what I'm listening to, these earphones are orgasmic. Seriously, I'm not kidding (ha). What AM I listening to?
Let us take a peak and chance that I might be infected by an Eastwood horror for a brief moment....
Radiohead. Hail to the Thief.
I particularly like "Sit Down. Stand Up". It reminds me of my life - this song title, I mean. Other than that, I have no bloody clue what they are saying.
"The Gloaming" is doing a good little number too - especially with these headphones. I think if I could hear the entire world through these guys I might start groovin to the sound of babies crying and squeaking balloons.
That doesn't make any sense, does it...
Does anyone know of these guys? I think they are somewhat popular, right?
They aren't bad, better than Eastwood, anyway.
I'm really not all too geeky, I'm just a bit of a music dork. I've never understood the appeal of popular music but I'm not some classical/jazz/blues snob either.
I dunno. After ski-racing and listening to dayglow abortions, rem and some other stuff I can't even remember anymore, I kinda left music alone.
I usually have too much "going on" up here in my head to be able to relax enough to listen to music. I really have to concentrate when I listen to it.
See I'm not a geek, I'm just dumb.
Radiohead is big. Everytime they release an album it's like an international event. Ok, maybe I'm aggagerating a little, but they're very popular. :)
It's ok, I've turned into a sports dork. I used to be really into it, I knew all the players on all the teams in all the sports, but then two years ago, my interest waned and here I am, not knowing my hockey from my football. C'est la vie!
Ada
Email me your address or PO box and I'll send you a kick ass Radiohead mix CD. Ada
Email me your address or PO box and I'll send you a kick ass Radiohead mix CD.
You NEED it.
Radiohead is huge and has been for about 13 years. I think I bought my first radio head tape...Pablo Honey in 1994. It's still a good album. C. made a special trip to see them in Vancouver a couple years ago. It's a good thing he's huge into music or I would never keep up.
I like radiohead but seldom listen to them because they sound noisy and abrasive untill you get into their groove. You sort of have to aclimatise to them.
OH MY. Somewhere I failed as a roommate. Yes, Radiohead is popular, but they dont' act popular. I firmly believe that they'd much rather be just anonymous dudes who make excellent rock music... nay, art. (Obviously I'm a fan.. inasmuch as a true admirer of Radiohead can feel comfortable using the term "fan." I'm such a snob, eh?)
Anyhoo, I've always loved them and am happy to say that I saw them live in Dinwoodie Lounge in my 4th year -a nice, small venue with a neon palm tree border. Each album is different from the other and I love that they seem to get more and more experiemental as time goes by. Though the popular crowd didn't seem to like KidA, mostly because of it's 'experimental' sound and radio-unfriendlyness but I thought it was brilliant. Noisy, abrasive, weirdish.. art!
As much as D is a music geek (and I think I have a pretty good idea of how thorough a geek fan he is), I used to work with a guy who would make D look like a dork. (I mean no offense to D -I have a great admiration for D's musicological wisdom, this guy was just HARDCORE.) Anyway, when he first heard Radiohead (I lent him OK Computer), he said he couldn't quite make up his mind whether it was pure crap or sheer genius. As far as I'm concerned, this is the greatest compliment I've ever heard made about a band.. because it's most definitely NOT crap, of any sort.
Sorry you missed years of Radiohead (but you can easily make up for lost time, and people will think you're cool for listening to "classic" RH), but happy for your headphone-induced "eargasm!"
The only video I remember with a bullet whizzing through it is a Korn video. I met Radiohead at Dinwoodie. I was talking to the lead singer and I didn't know it until their manager mentioned that I did. Friggin' great show, they rank amoung the best for live shows from the mutitude of bands, both obscure and mainstream, that i've seen. Ada, I recall a party you held, back in the ski team days, that was enhanced with Radioheads' "The Bends," but you may have been passed out at the time.
Happy to see you back on the air (so to speak).
yeah, yeah, we've all heard of RH, but what about this Million Dollar Baby movie thing?...what rock was I hiding under? I had seen a couple of adverts for the movie but they only showed the boxing stuff. I had no idea how the story went until I saw it on TV recently. I kind of liked it because it was not what I expected at all.
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You don't know radiohead? are you serious? now, i'm pretty sure a giant rock didn't fall on victoria as i was there the other day, but...but..., what rock have you been hiding under? you really ARE geeky.