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ever have the worst day possible? ever have the worst day possible, but one thing makes the day look a lot brighter? i had one of those days. where everything is supposed to go wrong, but one thing did go right. i was up till very late working on a 1-2 page paper. normal people don't that long on papers so short, but i was very sick, i'm still very sick. i shouldn't really be driving half the time. i feel like i'm drunk behind the wheel. anyway, i e-mailed a bunch of people to proof-read my ridiculous paper. i woke up late this morning, after having about 5 hours of sleep. showered, rushed to my computer, logged on, and waited for 30 minutes for stupid hotmail to load up. by the time it loaded up and i fixed everything i needed to for my paper it was 11:40. There was no point in going to spanish class, because by the time i would get there the quiz would be finished. so instead of waiting to go to tower at night, i went to tower at 11:40. it turns out my tower, had some sort of extended opening last night for Kid A. it makes me mad, because i would have gone there last night if i knew. i even asked another tower records and they told me that they wouldn't do such a thing for radiohead, hinting that they weren't popular enough. my tower has radiohead written all in caps, i walk in and they're playing kid a all around the store. i mean i had no way to be sure of it, because i hadn't heard any of the songs yet, but it sounded like thom. so i buy my cd. i drive and drive... to school. as soon as i park and get out of the car, i rip all the packaging open and just gawk and admire the cd case. i see a little face peaking up at me, at the center of the disk, and knew right away it was a hidden treasure of radioheads. i'm still walking in the parking lot and all of a sudden i hear a, "is that the new radiohead cd?" and without looking at who's talking to me i exclain, "YEAH!" to my right is a stranger. a guy i've never met. he begins telling me his kid a experience; how he went to the store this morning to buy it, and how he didn't download or listen to anything pertaining to the album, because he wanted to be surprised. and i think this must have been the loudest i've ever said anything to anyone without being drunk, "ME TOO!!!!" i told him about the hidden treasure and he told me how he saw the same face peeking at him too, but he hadn't had a chance to look at it. we made some more radiohead chit chat, i don't even remember a lot of it. but he had apperently listened to the cd in his car, but i don't have a cd player in my car, let alone a stereo that works more than 50% of the time. "i'm only going to tell you this, it's as hard as ever to understand what dear thom is singing on this album." to which i probably exclaimed, "awesome! that's what i love about thom most!" and then we went different directions. i said, "enjoy your cd!" he said, "nice talking to you!" i almost felt like asking him his name, but it might have made the encounter less meaningful. i love crossing paths with people only once, who i totally relate to. it leaves a lot of mystery behind the encounter and the person. i can't believe i even had such a pleasant conversation with a person while feelings so shitty. i only went to one class today, i worked more than i hoped to. i listened to kid a every chance i could. i thought i saw ani difranco, but it was only a look-alike and sound a-like. i have a glow stick necklace. my head hurts, i'm dizzy, my throat hurts, i'm all stuffed up. but i'm listening to something i totally adore. kid a is very very very different then old radiohead. but it's so perfect. it's so right down my alley too. parts of songs remind me of air, underworld, and spiritualized. i hope this entry doesn't come of as cheesy and flighty, that's not what i want to try and convey. i want to convey how much in love with radiohead i feel right now. how long i've waited for this album, and how perfect it is, even though everything else in life doesn't seem to be. to all you radiohead fans out there, i hope you're loving kid a as much as i am!
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