First off, let us begin with a qualifier. I am a huge Radiohead fan. The first section of this post may not make sense to you if you are not a Radiohead fan. Which means it will make sense to Dan and probably not many of the other three people that read this :P. Now let's get to it.
When I get bored with whatever music I happen to be listening to on any given day I have a few backup artists that I know I can always go to. The Mars Volta, Tool, The Bad Plus, David Crowder, and most of all, Radiohead. The other day I got bored of folk. I had been listening to folk for a few straight days and needed some quality alt-rock. So I popped on Radiohead's entire discography. I always listen to it chronologically, starting with The Bends (I don't particularly enjoy Pablo Honey), moving on to OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail To The Thief, and finally In Rainbows. On Thursday I was listening to OK Computer in my earphones. While the song "Let Down" was on (a personal favorite) I had a rather esoteric moment. I realized that by listening to music through my headphones, wearing sunglasses, and ignoring the people around me, I was being the lyrics of that song. It was uncanny. One of the overarching lyrical themes on OK Computer is isolation; modern man living in a stupor, searching for significance but ending up with nothing. I had never actually looked up the lyrics to "Let Down" before, but knew by the feel of the song and some of the intelligible lyrics the general idea of the song. After I looked them up I realized how much the song was about me in that moment. Here's a snippet:
Transport, motorways and tramlines
Starting and then stopping
Taking off and landing
The emptiest of feelings
Disappointed people clinging on to bottles
And when it comes it's so so disappointing
It was a very interesting moment.
Not too much sporting observations to report, other than the DALLAS STARS finally won an OT game. The Stars comeback win over the San Jose Fishies was a great win with great goaltending, great offense, great defense, and most of all a clutch-tastic SO goal by Robidas when the game was on the line. This team is scrappy and is really starting to gel in Marc Crawford's system of offense first. When you think of the defensive style the Stars have played for the past two decades and consider the age of our team, it is a great sign that the players have bought into Crawford's new way. Also, James Neal is a special player. I predict that in 4 years he will be the NHL points champ for that season. He is a great attacker, he can split defenders, he is aggressive with rebounds and he can facilitate, as we saw with his sweet pass to Mikey Mo last night. Love it.
That's all for now. Mavs won again, hope the 'Boys will do the same on Sunday.
-Christian
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