“Now she’s beginning to sculpt her own accretion disk, her own solar system, setting the centripetal speed and pushing all the particles in and out with her pointer…”
Month: February 2017
January has April Showers: Listening to Hail to the Thief in 2017 (Part 1)
Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief will always be seen as an anti-Bush album. Released in 2003 right around the start of the Iraq war, the album turned the paranoia of the War on Terror back onto the administration driving it, and even its kleptocratic title is an unsubtle reference to George W. Bush’s election victory despite losing the popular vote. Add in anxious lines about “the loonies taking over,” and a father-to-son passing of the torch moment like “maybe you’ll be president,” and it’s clear that Yorke had the 43rd president in mind when he penned at least some of these lyrics, despite some of them being written before the war in Iraq even started.
Pinned to the Blue Sky
“At first it glimmers in the corner of his eye like a floater.”