Radiohead: the Zeros & Ones...

A recent post on Puddleglum.net has stirred a bit of buzz. Check it out before you read the rest of this, as I'll be developing on some of their ideas.

My friend Jason Silverman AKA fflook e-mailed me earlier with an interesting discovery.

...I put together the alternations of the tracklisting (assigning 0 for OK and 1 for IR) and got 0101010101001010101010 . I googled this and got this page: http://www.industriassafor.net/logo.swf . I posted the find on both ask.metafilter and puddlegum, but check it out, it's a weird site with a pulsing flash splash page and that's it. weird huh?

Very strange indeed. Also take a look at the content page of industriassafor. I can't read (what is presumably?) Portuguese but I get the feeling that this is not related to Radiohead at all. If it is, someone could do some digging in the site, perhaps a translation would be nice!

Not being convinced by this result I googled 01010101010101010101010 and found some links I wasn't comfortable clicking, like hackermaster.da.ur for example. Anyone who wants to take the plunge and surf these links, please report below.

It also occured to me that In Rainbows and Ok Computer are the same number of letters. I spliced them alternatingly in a few different methods to arrive at 1. "oikn rcaoimnpbuotwesr", 2. "ionk rcaoimnpbtoewrs", 3. "oskw ocbonmipaurt enri", 4. "sowko bcnoimapru tneir", 5. "irne truapimnobco wkso", and 6. "rient urpamioncb okwos". All of which is a bunch of nonsensical gibberish. It turns out I over-thinked the entire thing, since only the first means anything to google.

sorta...

In fact, the first returns a google suggestion, "Did you mean: on rcaoimnpbuotwesr". Um... yeah sure? But surprisingly there is only one result... and it somehow links to a radiohead video on youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vnN9TbMUDkM. Try it yourself. I can't figure out why it links to this.

I haven't listened to the combined In Rainbows/Ok Computer mix yet, but I will soon. I still think there must be more to it.

Is Pandora.com Down?

Ran into this blank pandora window! Oh No! It isn't just Camino that's showing this page, it is also showing up like so on Safari, checked on multiple computers! Check it for yourself, let me know if it is showing the player and please post your type of computer, operating system (and version if possible), browser results (and versions if possible) and location (if you're outside the US you sadly cannot listen to Pandora because of the Really Insidious Association of America).

The News are Good

Well after that little inspirational bit I've written one of the best tracks I've made in a few years. And Jordan Rosenberg called, he's moving near me. I feel very good. Last night after writing the song I was really just elated.

The world has rotated, the morning sun has peeked its first glance over the sprawling new horizon.

No Title

I'm an introspective guy (not exclusively so) but I haven't been able to identify why I haven't been satisfied with a majority of the music I've produced over the past two years.

I'm in the middle of watching this video that got dugg. Ricky Gervais "interviewing" Larry David. Ricky says something and it opens my eyes. If I transcribed here the grammatical person would be a little bit confusing so suffice to say that I've been compromising my art for the benefit of others and it is time to end that.

"In art you're allowed to be a complete fascist."

Song of the Unrequited E-mail

for Ariana

I try to be short, I try to be fun,
but nothing seems to impress you much, hon.
It's breaking my heart, it's cramping my brain
and I don't even know how I can explain.
"My life is so busy, my life's far away,"
is all that I think you would say anyway,
All that I want is to keep you in range;
in order to do that, we need an exchange.
I've tried being long, I try to be true,
I try to be witty, or angry, or blue.
I'm not making fun, not trying to taunt
But what the hell is it? What do you want?

2004

i was emo before emo existed

blue

pulled out of my seat, i’m forced to dance—
just play the game and fuck romance.
forget her eyes, tell her lies;
watch how her hair glows and flies
in the blacklight skies.
she spins my spirit on a wheel—
i hardly remember how to feel,
but fooling myself always helps.

all love is psychosomatic—
my heart skips to break the static.
drinking till the light is biting,
i’m automatically reciting,
simultaneous cigarettes igniting.
getting closer now, a pause;
forget the flaws!
inhale, crush, exhale, and enter.

“sure, light a candle, whatever”
(just let me forget her forever)
but i remember how it begins—
dark music playing, the room spins;
behind my eyes, i feel the acrid pins.
rushing out, skipping a stair,
tripping into the night air

i wanted to dance and dream in blue.
i wanted to find something new
but i still return to your familiar door
and wonder what for?
i just need someone to kiss—
for what passes for bliss is bliss.

1998-1999