7.20.2006

Well, I still haven't grown tired of the new Thom Yorke album, in fact its haunting inside my head continues to grow. If you havent heard it, check it out right now. Unreal.

Radiohead has been in my all time top three bands for as long as I can remember..well, actually...I remember it very clearly. It was 2000 and I was in a Benigans in Blue Ash, Ohio. I had heard the tune once before, it was inside that bar also. The song was Optimistic. I walked over to the jukebox, and searched frantically for the now playing area. I saw it, i turned the pages feverishly to find out whatever number it had told me find. It was then I saw Radiohead. Kid A.

I had heard of Radiohead, but until that song, I had never known an actual song by them. Years later, as I was rounding out my collection..I found the song"Creep". An instantly recognizable tune, that I would have never associated with the groups later efforts. Radiohead is amazing.

I will admit that the first time you hear it, it is as if the songs are hidden inside of a fog. It is with each listen that the haunting grows, the fog fades, and you begin to absorb the lyrics of Thom Yorke. They toured this year lightly in the US. I missed them. They actually didnt come within 4 hours of me, and that is my concert radius I am willing to travel.

Unless, it's NIN. With Trent and CO., there is no limit to the miles I would travel to witness a NIN show.

I will look forward to the day I see Radiohead live. I will hope it happens.

Apparently, they have a new album coming out. The full cast of Radiohead, and not just Thom Yorke. In the mean time, The Eraser..by Thom Yorke is a nice appetizer to hold me over.

I am well.
EJ Wasson