On the At Ease message board, a thread appeared linking to a download of the first of “A Rat’s Nest” played backward. Unable to ever download the file, one was made: “A Rat’s Nest,” the first 43 seconds, backwards.
The single can be purchased electronically as a so-called b-side (does an mp3 have an a-side?) to “Analyse” here (purchase will benefit At Ease).
The following image appears in the Scrapbook section of Radiohead.com:
This image shows an excerpt from a book by James Howard Kunstler: Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape. Specifically the passage comes from page 37, reproduced below:
Two new songs, two new b-sides: “A Rat’s Nest” and “Iluvya.” Possible lyrics to “A Rat’s Nest”:
Clicks on the phone
I cannot help you
Caught by our words
Caught in a rat’s nestEat our young
Chew through wires
Sewn up in stitches
StitchesDeny all knowledge
Paragraph 5, Subsection B
The committee is content, content
To live in a rat’s nest
A rat’s nest: “A place of great clutter or disorder.”
The good people in the At Ease forums are working out the lyrics.
If any reader has access to the original loops used in Radiohead’s Loophole contest, could they please contact pulk-pull*? I would like to host the files here.
Thank you.
Slavoj Zizek in the Guardian:
The power that presents itself as being constantly under threat and thus merely defending itself against an invisible enemy is in danger of becoming a manipulative one. Can we really trust those in power, or are they evoking the threat to discipline and control us? Thus, the lesson is that, in combating terror, it is more crucial than ever for state politics to be democratically transparent. Unfortunately, we are now paying the price for the cobweb of lies and manipulations by the US and UK governments in the past decade that reached a climax in the tragicomedy of the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Read more.
On this page, http://www.greenplastic.com/coldstorage/gear/jonny.php (duplicated across the internet), it’s listed that Jonny Greenwood uses a “FARTAR keyboard controller running e-mu classic keys.” This should probably read: “FATAR keyboard controller using E-mu Systems Classic Keys module.”
FATAR’s midi controllors are available online via Studiologic.net. The E-mu Systems Classic Keys is described here.
Chew The Fat, a Forum. No clear direction known. Put don’t talk politics and don’t throw stones.
A store.
According to At Ease, On August 1, Thom Yorke posted a link to this article entitled ‘Daddy why did Israel do this to us?’. Later, Yorke posted the following:
(my personal opinion)
ive had enough of this
our government sitting on the fence with the US while world war 3 appears
to be breaking out in Lebanon and Northern Israel.
we must throw Tony Blair our of office NOW.
he does not represent the views of the british people.
he does not represent the views of his foreign office and officials.
he does not even represent the views of those in his cabinet.
he cares far too much about his relationship with Bush, and Murdoch.
this man is not fit to be our prime minister.
its a nice sunny day. come on lets do it. you know it makes sense.
a vote of no confidence. or something. anything..
Later, as reported my NME, “Radiohead star removes Blair comments,” the posted article and the post regarding Blair was removed. NME wrote that the removal prompted fans “to speculate widely on why the post was removed. Some fans think he could have been pressured into it, while others believe he did it himself having re-read his comments.”