Luke says:
that guys playing the goat
mic says:
playing the goat
indeed
he plays the best goat I think you’ll agree
have you ever played goat?
Luke says:
no, i wouldn’t know how to hold one
hahaha.. cracked me up.. although we had both just had a shot of espresso shortly beforehand!
Just came across a play which will be airing this Friday (19th October 2007) based on a story to accompany the album, “Ok Computer”. The play will be on BBC 4 Friday night, a show called “Friday Play”, and is written by Joel Horwood, Chris Perkins, Al Smith and Chris Thorpe, and here’s the basis:
“A man wakes up in a hospital in Berlin. He has no memory of who he is, or where he comes from. Once the details of his life are recovered, he is repatriated to Britain and into his former life. But he is haunted by the suspicion that this is not his real life at all.
The play celebrates Radiohead’s seminal 1997 album OK Computer and draws on themes from each of its 12 tracks.”
Sounds like a great foundation for a film to be directed by the likes of Spike Jonze (adaptation | http://imdb.com/title/tt0268126/) or Peter Weir (The Truman Show | http://imdb.com/title/tt0120382/).
It’s funny, as when I listen to the album as a whole, I get a really similiar feeling which overcomes me. The feeling of being lost, without cause, or that there’s more to life than this reality, a bigger picture, etc.
Might check this out, here’s the link which will give you the info you need to listen live (or to stream for up to a week afterwards):
BBC 4 – Friday Play… If anything it’s an excuse to listen to the album again :p
For anyone who hasn’t yet discovered the simple pleasures of Twitter, it’s the original ‘blog-a-minute’ web application, allowing you to post a 140 character limited caption about, well.. whatever you like. You can add friends (yup, it’s all about social communities and UGC [user generated content]), and follow other users who share your interests. You can setup your mobile phone to send / receive SMS updates to and from your friends.
*This can prove a great feature – if you wanted to text a whole bunch of people (spending say “12p per text” X “number of friends” = “££££”), you simply send one text to Twitter, and all your friends can automatically receive this to their phones in real-time. A couple of us at work use this a lot, great for keeping in touch, and sharing random thoughts, etc 
ANYWAY… so, recently Twitter released some new functionality in their web app – the ability to track trends / keywords. The concept is great, it allows anyone to hear what any twitter user is saying about a specific keyword.
I was interested to hear what others were saying about Radiohead’s brand spanking new “In Rainbows” album, so I tried this out last night by sending “track in rainbows” to twitter from my phone. Within minutes my phone memory was full, and I had “10 messages waiting” – I kind of panicked so quickly cancelled this track by texting “untrack in rainbows”.. job done
I scrawled through this new info that my phone had just sucked out of the ether, and was pretty blown away. People from all over the world (quite a few were foreign) commenting on the album, I was reading other peoples reviews and thoughts right from my own phone – without even searching for these people.
I guess the concept here is pretty interesting. Being able to ’suck’ this information from other users directly to your phone, and read what could be reviews about your new record, service, or product, or even utilize the data as a [user generated] stream of updated, keyword specific content for your site. <-- although the Twitter API doesn't allow for the track service yet, I'm sure it soon will do, and another family of mashups will be born
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