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For She's a jolly good lady... 🤐

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Hiding me as if I'm nothing to lose

Not a single post on my birthday

guess to you it's just another

Tuesday

Call me yours, or don't bother calling at all

(yay all the Pisces, boo turning one year older)

2 + 2 = 5 stars! Radiohead on TV!

New to the Spotify Channel  While on tour with his band mates Thom Yorke is in a tour bus crash. Fortunately an Airbag saves his life but his bones are still seriously inured. Using the newest advanced technology a mysterious organisation known as the Karma Police rebuild him with bionic technology. Is he the new Six Million dollar man or just dollars and cents gone to waste? Lucky to be alive and assigned a plucky female partner, the earnest Ms. Honey Pablo, Thom uses his new senses to solve crimes while touring the world. Enhanced abilities, such as climbing up walls, innumerable calculations in his scatterbrain and with a new iron lung the melancholic singer fights for what is right and Just.  This is: NEW YORKE, NEW YORKE Created by Donald P. Bellisario                    & Glen. A. Larson While generally fitter and happier this new agent codenamed, the King of Limbs, must face a plethora of new threats, bodysnatchers, the mysterious spy (over)dubbed the Creep and a criminal kingpin known only as Mr. Magpie. Has Thom become a super enhanced  human or is he just a Paranoid Android in a shaky House of Cards? "Bullet Proof I wish I was."  HE IS NOW! Episode 1: "Everything in its right place" Newly re-built and operating at pitch perfect levels Thom's first case involves protecting a child prodigy known only as Kid A from the clutches of assassin The Eraser. Episode 2: "Hail to the Thief" A case involving corporate espionage as an Electioneering process goes awry for a high up political leader plagued by a campaign informant. Thom and Ms. Honey resolve to not let down their newest client. Episode 3: "How to Disappear Completely" People are going missing at Radiohead concerts and Thom is optimistic he can solve the case. Will he need to call on his OK Computer hacker friend Idio-Tech to help him out? Episode 4: "Life in a Glasshouse" Abducted by a foreign government, Thom is forced into gladiatorial contests against Hunting Bears to test his feral abilities. (Part 1) Episode 5: "You and Whose Army?" Concluding part. Thom is liberated by army forces and must discuss his time in Limbo with a new psychiatrist a Ms. Sarah Treefingers. (Special guest star Bjork) Episode 6: " Fake Plastic Trees" The band find themselves in a mysteriously perfect town while promoting their newest album. What dark secrets are concealed in this town when the band go to sleep?  Episode 7: " We Suck Young Blood" A Halloween Special as Thom faces an industrious vampire cult who are mass-producing victims in a warehouse packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box. Episode 8: "Amnesiac" Following an Amp explosion Thom loses his memory and joins Muse as a backing musician. Can the band convince him that anyone can play guitar for Muse and that he certainly doesn't belong there there?

Episode 9: "Jigsaw Falling into Place" The identity of the Mysterious Mr. Magpie is revealed at last as...Phil Selway!? Yes Radioheads most underestimated member has his knives out and attacks our hero. Episode 10: "Blurring the Lines"  Part of Spotify Channel crossover week. The band tour with secret agent act Blur. An Al-barn storming action packed episode. Episode 11: "Where I end and you begin" Having long denied his feelings for Honey, Thom must find a way to serenade his beloved or be left high and dry when she settles down with her mystery fiance.  Episode 12: "Exit Music (for a tv series)" The season finale sees Ed O'Briens career hang in the balance as Thom and Phil have a bitter fight that culminates in a Punch Up at a wedding... Honeys wedding to Johnny Greenwood!! Will Thom stop whispering his feelings for her and tell her the truth before it's too late? "No Surprises this is a show that won't make you sulk, as pleasant as a (nice dream) but with enough bends in the plot to keep you guessing. True love waits and it was worth the wait in this case!"-  Tuning(in)fork (not affiliated with Pitchfork) Authors Note: This is a dedicated to Paula Larkin for her birthday! one of the biggest Radiohead Heads I know!

ONE DAY I AM GONNA GROW WINGS

A CHEMICAL REACTION

HYSTERICAL AND USELESS

"One day I am gonna grow wings."

Harry - I will get out of this place if it's the last thing I do, I will get better even If I have to claw off my own flesh.

Snape - I'm going to die, maybe then my soul can escape.

Loving you  is just another way of self-harm

radiohead 🌟⭐️🌟⭐️

I, Carrion (Icarian) / Let Down

Ok so hear me out ‘cause I’m going insane over this, but the parallelisms between Let Down by Radiohead and I, Carrion (Icarian) by Hozier????

The "protagonists" of the two songs start from two diametrically opposite situations: while Icarus flies high and free in the sky (he has “reached a rarer height”), Radiohead’s alienated is grotesquely compared to a bug crushed on the ground (“shell smashed, juices flowing / wings twitch, legs are going”).

Both these situations result, among other things, from the words that others have said to them. Words full of love that become the wind under Icarus’s wings, they’re what makes him fly, but also what distracts him from realising he’s falling towards his death (“and though I burn, how could I fall / when I am lifted by every word you say to me?”). On the other hand, the verse “let down again” and all its variations indicate how the ‘bug’ has always been disappointed by other people. We can assume that the words it’s used to hear are a lot of things but uplifting, but maybe it’s also what makes it so much more aware of what surrounds it than Icarus.

These different experiences have led them to have very different values/ideas. In fact, the ‘bug’ says “don't get sentimental / it always ends up drivel”: it warns itself against hope because it knows that if it starts getting “sentimental” the fall that’ll follow will be that much worse.

On the contrary Icarus is all about 'sentimentalism' (which is also given by the way Hozier writes) and this is because he has the support of the one he loves, who holds up his sky (“once I had wondered what was holdin' up the ground / but I can see that all along, love, it was you all the way down”).

In a sense then we could think that the ‘bug’ was right: Icarus does fall. However, for him the sheer euphoria and the all consuming love he felt while flying are worth the fall – he has no regrets and just one wish: to fall besides with his lover.

This is the exact opposite of what the ‘bug’ thinks: for it the risk of getting hurt even more is just not worth it – it only knows pain and that’s why the rational side of him warns him against hope since it’ll cause even more pain. However, there’s also a side of it (the “hysterical and useless” one) that cannot help feeling hopeful: it feels like “one day it’s gonna grow wings”, that one day a “chemical reaction” (which could refer to the idea of 'to have chemistry' and so could mean love - obviously not necessarily romantic love, but in a more general sense) will get it out of its hole.

But then the “floor collapsed” also for the ‘bug’, even if it already was on the ground: a ‘from bad to worse’ type of situation.

In conclusion, we could say that both Icarus and the ‘bug’ fall because they try to be more than human (in very different ways). Icarus is not a god and so he doesn’t have wings (“I do not have wings, love, I never will”): instead of getting down to the grown and build something stable with his lover who’s carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders all alone (“while you're as heavy as the world / that you hold your hands beneath”), he recklessly keeps flying higher and higher until the sun finally burns his wings to ashes.

On the other hand, the ‘bug’ just allows itself to fall because, by refusing to feel “sentimental”, it tries to eliminate its humanity since a fundamental part of being human is to feel emotions. Precisely because it tries to lock away their 'sentimentalism', it falls a second time – something that might have been avoided if only the ‘bug’ followed that hope and actually tried to make its situation better.

Ok, so does anyone else see my vision? Are these the signs? No but really, I hope this makes sense.