Author: joseph

In these photos from the Split Sides performance (a dance project with Sigur Rós and Merce Cunningham) Thom Yorke is wearing this No Star Wars t-shirt.

Stanley Donwood has painted a cow. For full information see Update 2 on the W.A.S.T.E updates page.

The parenthetical subtitle for “Sit Down. Stand Up.” is “Snakes & Ladders.” This page details the history of the game Snakes and Ladders, dating its origin to 2nd century BC India. The American version is commonly called Chutes and Ladders, board game still available for purchase.

For readers of the site who are interested, my wife gave birth to our baby girl at 11:01am on September 29, 2003. More information is available here.

Thom Yorke in a Guardian opinion piece: “The west is creating an extremely dangerous economic, environmental and humanitarian timebomb.” Via ateaseweb.com.

Do you have a question you would like to ask Radiohead? If so, Pulk-Pull* can now post questions to the band’s SpinWithAGrin.co.uk web site. To submit a question, send an email to Pulk-Pull* at this address: spin@pulk-pull.org. Please also include your full name (first and last) and your country of residence.

Last but not least, keep in mind that not all questions submitted will be posted.

Following are four lines from “Go to Sleep,” song 5 on Hail to the Thief:

We don’t really want a monster taking over
Tiptoe around tie him down
We don’t want the loonies taking over
Tiptoe around tie ’em down

These lyrics indirectly reference Part One of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, wherein the protagonist, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, visits and is imprisoned in the country of Lilliput. After a shipwreck, Gulliver washes up on the shore of Lilliput and falls asleep. While he is sleeping, the inhabitants, who are “not six inches high,” tie him down.

There is now a computer-animated video for “Go To Sleep (Little Man being Erased.),” the Radiohead’s next single from Hail to the Thief. This information was found via Climbing Up the Walls, a Radiohead news site.

In the video Thom Yorke sings on a park bench while business people rush hurriedly by, unaware of buildings exploding and then rebuilding themselves from their own rubble. Notably, when the buildings rebuild, their architectural style is radically different. Compare the two images below.

The first a neoclassical building exploding. The second image is of a building reconstructing itself into a more modernist structure.

The University of Washington’s student newspaper, The Daily, has an article about my forthcoming book.

The image below (courtesy of Bear Hunt) was used in the artwork for Amnesiac and can be found on a t-shirt for sale at W.A.S.T.E. Products.

The drawing above derives from the photograph below of AOL’s Steve Case (left) and Time Warner’s Gerald Levin (right):

This photograph was found and emailed to Pulk-Pull* by Koyder. More information on the merger, perhaps the largest business deal in history, is available in this CNET article and this BBC news report.

NOTE: this post was updated on June 29, 2007.