Winner of the "I Went to LA and All I Got Was This Lousy Crack Buzz" award goes to Ed O'Brien of Radiohead, who went to a forest on top of a mountain and apparently had some wicked bad hallucinations. Now, I have been to Griffith Park and looked down from the observatory there and I remember being way impressed at this big-ass forest and mountain range right in the middle of a huge city. Sure, there's a view of L.A. -- but it's in no way reminscent of any scene in Blade Runner, a movie I have seen several times. Look -- here's a picture. Here's another. I don't remember wide vistas and sunny skies in Blade Runner.
Posted by Andrea Harris at June 10, 2003 01:38 AMYou remember right about Bladerunner, Andrea. The only time the sun shines in that movie, (my all-time favorite, btw), is at the very end when he's leaving on the train with his replicant girl friend.
Posted by: roscoe at June 10, 2003 at 04:01 AMYou remember right about Bladerunner, Andrea. The only time the sun shines in that movie, (my all-time favorite, btw), is at the very end when he's leaving on the train with his replicant girl friend.
Posted by: roscoe at June 10, 2003 at 04:02 AMHMmmmm..wow...and they next thing they'll say is Houston is horribly polluted...
oh wait...they've already said that, despite the fact that I can stand on the Brazos River Bridge and see downtown Houston 40 miles away clear as a bell 90% of the year.
Too bad we don't have mountains though. All we have is Memorial Park and a lot of bayous and marshes.
Posted by: Sharon Ferguson at June 10, 2003 at 10:55 AMSorry Andrea,
That isn't a mountain. It's a hill. Come up here to Idaho and I'll show you a mountain.
8^}
Posted by: Don at June 10, 2003 at 12:21 PMI'm from Florida. I'm impressed by speed bumps.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at June 10, 2003 at 12:53 PMWell, color me confused. I don't see anything said by anyone in Radiohead in the article on the LA Examiner site, or in the article Ken linked to there. Am I blind? Is it in the lyrics to the songs? It's not worth it to fire up a Windows machine and listen to songs by some crappy band just to find out what y'all are talking about.
However, I'll point out that in Blade Runner there are some scenes in the penthouse of the Whatsis Corporation building which show that it enjoys sunlight while there is only rain and darkness below.
I did find this fun quote about LA:
Posted by: Angie Schultz at June 10, 2003 at 01:36 PM
But it wasn't so much the sun as the complete lack of any reality whatsoever. We were there during the Earth Summit and there was nothing about it anywhere. We were there during 11 September and there was a load of sanctimonious drivel on the telly. There was no reality, no nothing.
You know, when rock stars complain about a "lack of reality," they never fail to reveal that they are completely out of touch with...reality.
Posted by: susan b. at June 10, 2003 at 02:34 PMBlade Runner is one of my fave films, hovering near number 1 (well if you discount Holy Grail & Life of Brian). Well this Radiohead arsehole has been a part of album that basically bleats on about Bush being illigitimate and the Florida recount. What a wanker...
Posted by: Andrew Ian Castel-Dodge at June 10, 2003 at 05:46 PMThat explains why their new song is so boring. It's mostly about four minutes of Thom Yorke moaning.
Posted by: Andrea Harris at June 10, 2003 at 10:30 PMI have no idea who these people are but I can tell they'd be more interesting if they were made to scream once in a while.
But my therapist says I shouldn't do that anymore.
Posted by: McGehee at June 10, 2003 at 11:09 PMWell, you know what they say :
"video killed the radio star..."
har har har....
Posted by: Sharon Ferguson at June 12, 2003 at 02:02 AM