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.
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.
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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.”
The work of Banksy.
“The National Anthem.� Performed on Saturday Night Live, Saturday October 14, 2000, episode 488.
“Idioteque.” Performed on Saturday Night Live, Saturday October 14, 2000, episode 488.
