This blog needs more fangirling.
Feb. 2nd, 2012 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hmpfHere, have my favourite-ever pic of Thom Yorke.
This is still my favourite, after nearly a year of this. I like how serene and lost in the music he looks, like he's on another planet entirely. Also, Ed O'Brien and Jonny Greenwood doing guitar stuff in the background (playing into each other's pickups to create some effect, I think? Not enough of a guitar nerd yet to understand all this stuff.) And his untidy hair - you can just tell he's buried his hands in it recently (he's always doing that. Also, rubbing his beard, scratching his nose, massaging his face... it's a nervous tic, I think.) But yeah, it's mainly the expression on his face that gets me. I get nearly the same charge of vicarious serenity out of it as I get out of watching a sleeping cat.
BTW, I know nearly exactly what moment in what song during what concert this is. That's how much of a Radiohead live video geek I've become. :D
Here's the concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW8bYybUQQM ; and it's somewhere between 9:10 and 9:30 or so. So, okay, a 20 second interval, not the exact moment... Speaking of nervousness and strange behaviour resulting from it, check the song starting at 33:25 for an amazing display of acute shyness on stage by Jonny Greenwood. Seriously, sometimes it's hard to believe that these guys have been on stage for something like 20 years. And after reading and watching a lot of interviews, I really can't believe that scenes like that are just for show. I think they really are this deeply weird and shy. (Although I also do think that they're savvy enough to milk their peculiarities, to some degree. But not to the point where it's all show.)
Oh, may as well go the whole hog now. Here's Thom Yorke oscillating between annoyingly and endearingly unprofessional during an interview. Also, calling himself "the hairy mascot" of Friends of the Earth. :D - Count the face/head/neck-touching behaviours! ;-)
This is still my favourite, after nearly a year of this. I like how serene and lost in the music he looks, like he's on another planet entirely. Also, Ed O'Brien and Jonny Greenwood doing guitar stuff in the background (playing into each other's pickups to create some effect, I think? Not enough of a guitar nerd yet to understand all this stuff.) And his untidy hair - you can just tell he's buried his hands in it recently (he's always doing that. Also, rubbing his beard, scratching his nose, massaging his face... it's a nervous tic, I think.) But yeah, it's mainly the expression on his face that gets me. I get nearly the same charge of vicarious serenity out of it as I get out of watching a sleeping cat.
BTW, I know nearly exactly what moment in what song during what concert this is. That's how much of a Radiohead live video geek I've become. :D
Here's the concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW8bYybUQQM ; and it's somewhere between 9:10 and 9:30 or so. So, okay, a 20 second interval, not the exact moment... Speaking of nervousness and strange behaviour resulting from it, check the song starting at 33:25 for an amazing display of acute shyness on stage by Jonny Greenwood. Seriously, sometimes it's hard to believe that these guys have been on stage for something like 20 years. And after reading and watching a lot of interviews, I really can't believe that scenes like that are just for show. I think they really are this deeply weird and shy. (Although I also do think that they're savvy enough to milk their peculiarities, to some degree. But not to the point where it's all show.)
Oh, may as well go the whole hog now. Here's Thom Yorke oscillating between annoyingly and endearingly unprofessional during an interview. Also, calling himself "the hairy mascot" of Friends of the Earth. :D - Count the face/head/neck-touching behaviours! ;-)
