Below are direct links to the Radiohead.tv episodes. These are large files (approx. 100 megabytes each) that may be downloaded and saved to your computer as well:
The above links were found via videos.antville.org. Another link found via videos.antville.org: the video for Knives Out.
UPDATE, 1/30/05: the above links are dead.
I would like to publish on Pulk-Pull* a review and/or other comments on the performance Radiohead did with Merce Cunningham. If any readers would like to contribute, please email joseph@pulk-pull.org.
Thom Yorke wants to know where 28 pages went (RealOne Player required). Those 28 pages are mentioned in a CBS News article. The missing pages (as reported here) are said to deal “with Saudi Arabia’s links to terrorism.” The report is available in full (minus 28 pages of course) here.
Stanley Donwood is a bit worried. The soundtrack would be: CNN CNN CNN CNN.
The first lines of “Optimistic”, the sixth song on Kid A reads:
Flies are buzzing round my head
Vultures circling the dead
Picking up every last crumb
The big fish eat the little ones
Big fish eat the little ones
Not my problem, give me some
The phrase “Big fish eat the little ones” is proverbial (according to Morris Tilley’s A Dictionary of the Proverbs in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) and appears in Shakespeare’s play Pericles, Prince of Tyre published in 1609. The third fisherman, in Act 2, Scene 1, asks the first fisherman: “Maister, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea?” The first fisherman responds: “Why, as men do a-land, the great ones eat up the little ones.”
According to Justin Francazio, who recently wrote to Pulk-Pull*, there is a character named Marvin the Paranoid Android in the series of books titled The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. The book also mentions myxamatosis, according to Francazio.
You can visit the BBC web site on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. There is also an entry (with links) on Marvin the Paranoid Android in the Wikipedia. These same references are discussed in this blog, Polytropos.
Howard Zinn and Thom Yorke were interviewed together by Sarah Burton of ZNet. You can read the interview here.
I was interviewed for this article on Radiohead in Atlanta’s Creative Loafing.
For those interested, the book I am editing, The Music and Art of Radiohead, is being delivered to the publisher tomorrow. Two parting shots of the manuscript:
Once the book is in the publisher’s hands, I will then have a better idea of when the book will be published. It will likely not be available until late 2004 or early 2005. An update will be posted here as soon as more is known.
A subsidiary web site that will be launched soon: Myxomatosis.