Comments on: Win all three Radiohead reissues, with a little artistic speculation

By: Rich Martin

Rich Martin — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:31:59 +0000

“The capitalist financial system of the western world is a house of cards that most certainly will collapse in the year 2008 even just as a rainbow of hope spreads across the land.”

By: browneheather

browneheather — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:18:53 +0000

Contest closed yesterday! I’ve sent an email off to the winner

Thanks for playing guys. It was fun.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:21:38 +0000

“Why am I here? Why are you here? Why are we all here? I think it was Jean-Paul Sarte who said… How do you spell Sarte?”
[WHACK]
“Why do you keep hitting me, this guy’s going to cut off my finger!”

By: Trent

Trent — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:26:19 +0000

14 years from now, the band that is currently playing 8 stories above us will reissue the album for which this video was created to promote. Our lives and our reality is actually just a creation of someone’s artistic imagination captured in a 4 minute video, and is otherwise meaningless. Oh the postmodernity!!!!

…Now lay with me.

By: jason

jason — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:09:00 +0000

‘if i lay here, if i just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world’

By: ann

ann — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:29:25 +0000

“i’m lying down because i’m tired of these reissues”. okay, that was kind of mean.. but i want these anyway

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:27:17 +0000

“You want to know? I’ll tell you…this is it…this is all there really is. And there is nothing new, nothing better out there…no point to it all…Just this.”

Really it doesn’t matter what he said…the various answers bouncing round in our heads are likely more devastating than anything the video could’ve revealed.

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:29:26 +0000

I believe he says,

“You know I laughed when she (Heather Browne) left, but now I know, I know I only hurt myself…”

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:32:07 +0000

I am feeling quasi-philosophical at the moment. First, let me say that I am a student and check your blog every friday night after I complete my studies for the week – it’s kinda a ritual

Getting to the contest, at the risk of this response being pedestrian, Radiohead’s Just has always represented to me that we make our own way in the world. Although others may seem to dictate our lives and life-paths, no one ultimately makes those choices except the individual. The people in the video, in my opinion, represent outside forces in our lives that have tendency to have an effect on our perception of what we should or should not do. If that is the case, it doesn’t really matter what he says … it’s the realization of the original man laying down that others have no power over him that causes them to lay down. In my mind, he is not actually saying anything. I analogize it to a person sleeping and mouthing words while thinking something. If you wake the person up and ask them what they said they may not know, but the thought and feeling associated with that thought can be recalled. The words are not as important as the realization. Therefore, the first man fell because he was helpless and the others fell because the man who originally fell realized that he, and only he, had the ultimate power to help himself.

I love your blog! I hope you can keep it going for years to come! If my response is ridiculous, I apologize, but I thank you for the opportunity to win this fantastic prize. I look forward to finding out the winning answer!

Highest regards,
Tom – from Chicago

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:00:16 +0000

He says “This is the way I see the world”