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Category: pettifogging
petty; trivial
In the notes for a print on Slowly Downward, Stanley Donwood writes:
In a book called “Brought to Light” by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz the numbers of people killed by CIA-sponsored state terrorism is measured in swimming pools. The average human body holds a gallon of blood. An Olympic swimming pool holds fifty gallons. The pools mount up through the book’s narrative, reaching a number I no longer wish to recall. This image haunted me throughout Radiohead’s Kid A project, and here I’ve coupled it with a scary bear; the record’s iconic image, and a symbol of looming danger and shattered expectations.
The mentioned book, Brought to Light, was published in 1989. The swimming pool image Donwood references appears in the artwork for Kid A as well as in this antivideo.
Unclear: http://youandwhosewiki.com/.
AngryApe, a music news site reports that Jonny Greenwood “is to release a compilation album this Spring [sic] of reggae songs.” Glide Magazine reports the same.
The Trojan Records website confirms the release here: “FEBRUARY 2007 … TJCCD345 – VARIOUS ARTISTS – JONNY GREENWOOD IS THE CONTROLLER.”
This is no doubt a result of this September 23, 2005 post to Dead Air Space.
Update, 10 January 2007: This banner ad arrived today from the good folks at W.A.S.T.E.:
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Message 262: Latitude, Longitude
On Radiohead.com today appeared latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates.
These coordinates, 37 25.818 N, 122 05.36 W, point to an area near Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California and related to or a part of Shoreline Golf Links. Strange? Indeed.
Dead Children Playing: Paintings Etc. by Stanley Donwood and Dr. Tchock at the Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona.
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).
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Message 256: Superabundance
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:
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Message 254: The Loophole
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.
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Message 252: Fatar, E-mu Systems
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.