Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich answer teenage girls’ questions, courtesy of Rookie magazine. Brilliant!
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"In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable."
—John Steinbeck
"You have to be all too basely in love with yourself to write about yourself without shame. My only excuse is that I'm not writing for the same reason everyone else writes, that is, for the sake of the reader's praises."
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent
"A writer needs three things: experience, observation, and imagination. Any two of which—at times any one of which—can supply the lack of the others."
—William Faulkner
"One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot."
—James Joyce
Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich answer teenage girls’ questions, courtesy of Rookie magazine. Brilliant!
Great Interview
This is the best interview with Thom Yorke I’ve ever heard, and it’s conducted by… Alec Baldwin! His radio program on NPR, called Here’s the Thing, had Thom on the show this week to discuss his latest new project (Atoms For Peace), the band he’s helmed since he was sixteen (Radiohead), and numerous other interesting tidbits of information that Thom is usually hesitant to reveal in normal interviews (including about his parents, his kids, and his childhood).
Here’s what is says:
The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe’s history.
It’s something Camille Flammarion once wrote.
(Source: whathaveyoudonetomyface)
“The Present Tense:” my favorite unreleased Radiohead track. I fuckin’ love this song. It better be on their ninth album. This video is from the Latitude Festival back in 2009. Love this version.
IT’S MOTHERFUCKIN’ OFFICIAL!
I’m going to see them (left) there (right). So last April, Radiohead on their The King of Limbs tour came to Santa Barbara, and I wasn’t able to get tickets because I’m an idiot, and TicketMaster blows. I ended up trying to sneak into the concert with a friend, and failed, but it was a great experience, and I was still able to hear the music perfectly as the rain lightly drizzled down on us.
Today was my second chance to get to see Thom Yorke, through his amazing band Atoms For Peace… . and I got a ticket! This is too exciting. Thom is my biggest hero, and although I’ve heard his voice live, I haven’t seen him in person. I can’t wait.
October 17th can’t come sooner.
"[On working with Jonny Greenwood] I’d love to work with Jonny Greenwood for as long as he’d like to work with me. I feel privileged to know him and work with him. Amazing composer who, you know, looks like he doesn’t know what he’s doing but actually does. It’s my honor to have him making music for what we’re doing. It’s great, amazing."
Paul Thomas Anderson during a Q&A on THE MASTER
A beautiful performance of “Prospector’s Quartet,” a song off the score for THERE WILL BE BLOOD, composed, of course, by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead. Great soundtrack!
(Source: tkol2)
February 22, 1993. Released twenty years ago today, my favorite band’s first album Pablo Honey paved the way for their success. Although it’s my least favorite album by Radiohead, I still love and respect it for what it is: great music.
This is beautiful. A conversation with Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood (but mostly Thom).
This fucking album is crazy-stupendous. “Before Your Very Eyes…” is my favorite. AMOK is just another reason why Thom Yorke is my biggest hero.
(Source: jevonmartin, via rainyohead)
Well, at least this is confirmation there will be an LP9 and it’ll be out within the next year.