i sneeze & it's an exocet

first post of the new blog. this will essentially be a public aggregate for all the cool/interesting stuff i find on the blagonet.
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just acquired kid a for probably the seventh time since my first computer crashed in twelfth grade and i had to reacquire my life in its entirety. this particular download came with six photos apparently from a hidden booklet behind the disc in the cd version:













true radiohead artwork, fragmented up the wazoo and overloading your senses with quasi-nonsense.
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thom yorke included a quote from thomas pynchon's "v" in the liner notes of hail to the thief regarding "scatterbrain:"

"It was one in the morning, a wind had risen and something curious too had happened; as if everyone in the city, simultaneously, had become sick of news of any kind; for thousands of newspaper pages blew through the small park on the way crosstown, blundered like pale bats against the trees, tangled themselves around the feet of Rooney and Rachel, and of a bum sleeping across the way. Millions of unread and useless words had come to a kind of life in Sheridan Square; while the two on the bench wove cross-talk of their own, oblivious, among them."

apparently radiohead is influenced by pynchon; their merchandise website is called "W.A.S.T.E.", which is a reference to "the calling of lot 49" by pynchon.

via
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related: chuck klosterman explains how kid a portended the events of 9/11.

also related: klosterman's book notes for "killing yourself to live" via largeheartedboy

"'Crazy in Love' was all over the radio while I was driving across the country that particular summer, so I needed to include that single. One of the book’s chapters is subtitled Dear Catastrophe Waitress, which I why I incorporated Belle & Sebastian (and I picked 'I'm a Cuckoo' because it’s an homage to Thin Lizzy). 'Downtown' has a specific significance to one of the female characters in this story, and 'The National Anthem' relates to a section that outlines how (and why) Radiohead’s Kid A can be experienced as the soundtrack to 9/11. I visited the location of the Skynyrd plane crash, so that’s what they’re integrated here; I threw in a T. Rex song just because Marc Bolan is dead. 'Layla' plays a central role for in a dream sequence near the middle of the narrative. Fleetwood Mac is awesome."
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John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfect memory of falling in love.


a brief digression on matters of lost time on ted
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let wiki teach you about wine:

Population studies have observed a J curve association between wine consumption and the risk of heart disease. This means that heavy drinkers have an elevated risk, while moderate drinkers have a lower risk than non-drinkers. Studies have also found that moderate consumption of other alcoholic beverages may be cardioprotective, although the association is considerably stronger for wine. Also, the studies have found increased health benefits for red wine over white wine, including cancer protection. Researchers suspect that this may be because red wine contains more polyphenols than white wine.

wiki also offers a glossary of wine terms and wine tasting descriptors.
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seared sushi grade tuna and (not sushi grade, but lovely nonetheless) blue marlin cooked in an all-clad pan and served on a green plastic plate. it was delicious, mostly on account of the plate. tip: don't use serrated knives to cut fish, raw or cooked.