I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.
—Vita Sackville West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf dated 21 January 1926. (via zipitrudolph)
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The sad thing is, if an issue is laughed at and patronised by mainstream media, then it’s up against it big-time. I read some journalist recently lecturing the anti-globalisation lobby, saying, ‘This is the way capitalism works, all capitalism is exploitation and to make it try and do something else, it’s never gonna happen.’ And it’s like, yeah, but where does that leave us? This is somehow God’s will? All this? It’s God’s will that we sit in traffic? It’s God’s will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it’s not! It’s like some deranged sacrificial altar, the high priests of the global economy holding up these millions of children each year, like (Arms aloft) ‘We wish to please you! Oh Gods of free trade!’ It’s like… give us all a fucking break! If there is a Devil at work, then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that we’re all utterly powerless, that’s the Devil at work.
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Thom Yorke
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take a walk in the park. listen to the birds. the vehicles reversing the vehicles reversing. the petals in the rose garden. think of autumn. of traffic. of cold winter nights snuggled up to soft and warm. rumours are rumours. leave the house. even only for ten minutes. the feeling of your own footsteps. the angry looking nutter with the long beard and trench coat who looks right through you. the wind blowing down your neck.
—Thom Yorke, October 20th, 1999
| Kaspar Oja, Estonia: | What are your favourite computer games right now? |
| Jonny Greenwood: | I'm among friends here, right? Well… we're touring so I'm limited to Mac laptop games. It isn't the best platform for gaming, as I'm sure you know. Or would know, if you were a nerdy gamer. l finished Portal 2 on the first American tour - which was perfect, because all those sports arenas are exactly like Portal test chambers: dark corridors, gigantic windowless concrete boxes: it was a confusing time going from Portal and back to reality. Good game, though! I'd gone off FPS games, but was missing the exploration side of those games - so the two Portals were just right for me. What else? Limbo's a good game. Ski Safari is very well written. So is Plants Vs Zombies. And I've just started to go through Braid for the second time… love the time-shifting idea. Really makes my head ache. |
| Interviewer: | Did you get into a lot of trouble? |
| Thom: | I was fond of missing lessons. I'd go into town, which just meant I'd wind up in fights. Well, they really weren't fights, because the other guys'd hit me and I'd fall over. |
| Interviewer: | At home, are you capable of not thinking of music? |
| Thom: | Two years ago, before my computer was forbidden by the missus, I went through a critical era: I couldn't be without it... It was always on my lap, I was speaking with my children, but I really wasn't listening to them. That was me for more than a year... Jonny does the same thing in his place. I don’t know what he does to get away with it... |
| Interviewer: | Under what conditions was this album recorded in? |
| Thom: | We started in my house next to the sea, a place that I find happy and enjoyable, where I wrote some of my best songs. Last summer, we spent a fortnight over there. I was trying to convince Nigel to go surfing or to drive my old Land Rover across the sand dunes... I asked my partner Rachel if I could go out and she said: “Get out of here, take your stuff and go instead of hanging around here thinking of those songs.” We started at 18 o'clock, we worked all night, and sometimes went on the roof to watch the moon with my telescope... That’s how I like working: two hours on a song, then a little dreaming on the roof... |
| Q: | Quite, anything but actually reflecting the life around is... |
| Thom: | Yes, absolutely absurd! You'd have to give up. One of the biggest kicks I get is when my son Noah comes in and starts mucking around with the synthesizers and we're having a laugh making stupid drum sounds. I love that. I think that's just brilliant. |
| Q: | What's his favourite album? |
| Thom: | He really likes that Stephen Malkmus album, "Tell the Truth". And he likes that a lot (his solo album). But obviously he listens to that when I'm not around. Cause I've heard it. He really likes "Harrowdown Hill". He sings it in the bath. |
| Interviewer: | How about The Eraser? Would you... are you still listening to it? |
| Thom: | I'm—I'm forced to listen to it because my kids like it. So I have to listen to it in the car which is a [laughs] very weird... experience. ‘Cause I've, you know... by the time it's mastered and gone out to people, you just don't want to hear it again. And there I am, stuck in the car listening to it. |
I am obsessed at nights with the idea of my own worthlessness, and if it were only to turn a light on to save my life I think I would not do it. These are the last footprints of a headache I suppose. Do you ever feel that? - like an old weed in a stream. What do you feel, lying in bed? I daresay you are visited by sublime thoughts. Dearest, do write to me; for I long for your words. Do tell me you wish to see me.
—Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West dated 18 August 1929. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
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