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There’s a picture from Radiohead’s original OK Computer website which this reminds me of. “DENY OXYGEN There is nothing I can say which will come as any sort
by stochastic_monk 8y ago
There’s a picture from Radiohead’s original OK Computer website which this reminds me of.
“DENY OXYGEN
There is nothing I can say which will come as any sort of surprise to anyone. There is no work I can produce which hasn’t been done before. There is no music I can listen to which doesn’t remind me of something else. There is nothing I can do that isn’t documented in weekly magazines. My life is essentially a last-minute rush to reorder trivial, pointless, or stolen ideas into a primitive semblance of originality. Most of my time is spent crying in darkened rooms trying to remember who I was.”
The Gibson quote also reminds me of Synecdoche, New York, a stunningly beautiful film I probably can’t fully recommend because it’s so brutally depressing.
- SiempreViernes 8y agoI think that partly this is simply an effect of accumulating experience as you get older. For example, these days it feels like I don't find as much good novel music as I did before. But of course if I haven't heard any music at all, everything will be novel, and so looking where I have already looked plenty before will not turn up as much novelty. I mean, I can still find plenty of novel thing if I look outside of the top lists of the UK and the US, or look longer back in time, so its not simply that my tastes have narrowed but rather I just have a better overall knowledge, and what I would have found novel before I now recognise as inspired from something else.
- JamisonM 8y agoA link to the "DENY OXYGEN" image: http://www.radiohead.com/rh0021.html http://www.radiohead.com/rh0021.html