July 10, 2001
The pizza has been claimed. Please do not send me any more emails about it. Today's food offering is the end-slice of a load of bread that I purchased yesterday. I made a sandwich last night and skipped past the end-slice; if left to my own devices, I will probably use it for toast in a couple weeks, but it will be a compromise choice, made because for some reason I don't have the time or milk to invest in mac 'n cheese and I don't want to eat cat food, being a strictly people food sort of guy. So, as you can see, the end-slice is not precious to me, and it can be yours, for a low low price, if you want it because you're all worked up about missing out on the pizza.
I went downstairs to get the mail in my underwear. Hoo boy! That ruled. It would have been better if I'd had any mail, though.
I had the 'naked in a video store' dream last night. I was in the sci-fi section of That's Rentertainment, the hipster video store I frequented in college, and I covered my private bits with a VHS copy of George Lucas's THX 1138. I didn't want to rent it, though, so I was stuck. It was very awkward. Someone in the dream made a joke about renting porn videos while naked. Then I had a torrid love affair with the blonde police officer who was sent to arrest me, but it fell apart because she was part of a Christian sect that didn't believe in metaphors.
I've been sleeping too much lately.
(interview: Thom Yorke) Laptops are the new electric guitar, I reckon, but I still love electric guitars, and drums, and singing ...
Yeah! Yeah. Did you hear that? Hah. Yeah. Fuckers.
CDNOW: A number of so-called Radiohead "imitators" crept up in the last few years in the wake of OK Computer. How big a factor was that in the radical new direction taken by Kid A? Do you feel proud or dismayed by the fact that other bands are so obviously influenced by your sound and trying to make their own version of it?
YORKE: This question makes me feel ill.
I like listening to Thom Yorke's music, but I would not like to interview him. He seems rather cranky. If I was a journalist, though, and the publication was very powerful and influential, I would conduct a series of interviews - and I'd have to finish the series before any of them were published - where, instead of asking awkward questions like that one, I would poke the celebrity. I think you could learn a lot about a person from how they'd respond to a situation like that, probably more than with actual questions, especially seeing as how language is getting deconstructed and all. Did you hear about that? Man, stop it. I need language, for this thing that I'm working on. You can have it when I'm done.