Okay, some more on this... Radiohead thing I seem to have developed.

Which really is only partly an embarrassingly teen-girl like crush on Thom Yorke. Because I suppose that, in a blog devoted to a large degree to my fannish obsessions, this 'phase' deserves at least a minimum of elucidation, even if it doesn't fit the usual pattern. Or rather, especially because it doesn't fit the usual pattern.

I've loved Radiohead for a long time. OK Computer was one of the first albums that really showed me what music I could like could sound like - if that makes any sense. I'm glad I encountered it at an age when I had finally begun to work free of some really strange ideas about music that I had internalised in my teenage years. Basically, at an age when most kids begin to discover music, I felt music didn't belong to me (although it attracted me very strongly). Music - most of it, anyway - was for the cool kids, and as I was clearly not one of the cool kids, it could never be mine.

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I kinda stopped...

... at the point where it could have gotten really interesting, yesterday, didn't I? Maybe I'll continue. Sometime. Could be a few weeks, though. A, because I'm crazy busy, and B, because the picture is still shifting. Though I think it will probably keep shifting; that's what's making this so interesting to me, after all.

In the meantime...

This. This ... is so totally the reason why the internet was created. SRSLY. Best fansite ever.

(Check out that enormous, hilarious, work of loving mockery, even if you don't know Yorke from Adam and don't care about Radiohead at all. The attention to detail in some of these matchings is nothing short of amazing. To wit: the hair! The ice cream beard!)