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"Apple’s face and voice actually transforming with the meaning of each line, at a genuinely staggering level of emotional sensitivity — one line an accusatory grimace, the next a sudden open-eyed ecstasy, the next an anguished slump, the next a kind of bitter internal laugh. I am rhapsodizing a little here, but I’m not sure I’ve ever been in a room watching a singer do this quite so well, bending herself that far to the emotional nuance of every phrase. Some people I talked to found it hard to tell how much Apple was performing and how much she was really just letting herself be an exposed nerve on stage — and while there’s surely plenty of each happening, one important clue might be the fact that she was able to channel a similar intensity through songs written two decades ago as well as the new material. Maybe not with the exact same nervy, tremulous hush surrounding some of her new songs (an album’s planned for this summer) — the hits from the first phase of her career are a little too languorous and moany for that — but the same level of feeling. At the ends of several songs she seemed to blink and return to the room, as if pleasantly surprised to find the audience still there. Then a quick pause for some tea, or throat spray, or to inform us that her hair was held up by “the top band of some baby sweatpants I found in the garbage and washed.” (I have so many questions about this.)"
— Nitsuh Abebe. Excerpted from his fantastic Vulture post on Fiona Apple’s soon to be legendary SXSW performances. (via infectedworldmind)
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"That’s been Greenwood’s role ever since — he’s the guy who can take an abstract Thom Yorke notion and master the tools required to execute it in the real world. The most recent Radiohead album, “King of Limbs,” sounds as if it has less Greenwood on it than ever, until you learn that a lot of the music was pieced together using a bit of sound-looping software that Greenwood programmed. Post-“Kid A,” Greenwood says, Radiohead has evolved into a band of arrangers. They start with an idea — usually some chords, a melody and some kind of a speed — and figure out how to orchestrate it. Recording a song by playing it together in a room has become just one of several options they can pursue while recording: a setting on the machine that is Radiohead.
“Jonny likes having the ground pulled out from under him, musically,” Yorke says. “More than any of us. Which is a constant source of relief to me, because I’m the same way, but I don’t know how to get there, usually.”
“I think, were a stranger to come and watch us,” Greenwood says, “he’d be surprised how — not exactly amateur we are, but how uncertain, the whole time. There’s never that certainty, at the start of each song or project or piece of music, that it’s going to work. And that hasn’t changed."
“Jonny likes having the ground pulled out from under him, musically,” Yorke says. “More than any of us. Which is a constant source of relief to me, because I’m the same way, but I don’t know how to get there, usually.”
“I think, were a stranger to come and watch us,” Greenwood says, “he’d be surprised how — not exactly amateur we are, but how uncertain, the whole time. There’s never that certainty, at the start of each song or project or piece of music, that it’s going to work. And that hasn’t changed."
— Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead’s Runaway Guitarist - NYTimes.com (via lienatik)
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March 8, 2012
The more you fight, the more nervous you will be, because the more you fight, the more it will disturb you. Open up, accept it; noise too is part of life. And once you start accepting it, you will be surprised: it will no longer disturb you. Disturbance does not come from the noise; it comes from our attitude toward the noise. The noise is not the disturbance; it is the attitude that is the disturbance. If you are antagonistic to it, you are disturbed; if you are not antagonistic to it, you are not disturbed.
And where will you go? Wherever you go some kind of noise is bound to be there; the whole world is noisy. Even if you can find a cave in the Himalayas and sit there, you will miss life. Noise will not be there, but all the growth possibilities that life makes available will not be there, either, and soon the silence will look dull and dead.
I am not saying don’t enjoy silence. Enjoy silence; but know that silence is not against noise. Silence can exist in noise. In fact, when it exists in noise only then is it real silence. The silence that you feel in the Himalayas is not your silence; it belongs to the Himalayas. But if in the marketplace you can feel silence, you can be utterly at ease and relaxed, and it is yours. Then you have the Himalayas in your heart, and that’s the true thing!Osho.
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Sick sweater/cardigan. Doc on Monday, boo. Finally get to see hunger games this weekend.puh so slow to come across seas.
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My new main squeeze, though in need of a name. Ideas? Shmuah my darling dear
Ps hairs cut. Should quit school and just cut hair.Grr enjoy psy...
