Songs of the Holygrams: For those of you who are staying indoors New Year's Eve...

To be born again...

...sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly. Tat-taa! Taka-thun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love, mister, without a sigh? Baba, if you want to get born again...' Just before dawn one winter's morning, New Year's Day or thereabouts, two real, full-grown, living men fell from a great height, twenty-nine thousand and two feet, towards the English Channel, without benefit of parachutes or wings, out of a clear sky. 'I tell you, you must die, I tell you, I tell you,' and thusly and so beneath a moon of alabaster until a loud cry crossed the night, 'To the devil with your tunes,' the words hanging crystalline in the iced white night, 'in the movies you only mimed to playback singers, so spare me these infernal noises now.'

--Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

For those of you who are staying indoors New Year's Eve...

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Because I am spending this holiday season in Massachusetts, and those aquaintences who tolerated me in High School have long since ceased inviting me to parties, it is very likely that I will be ringing in the new year all by my lonesome.
Fortunately for those of us with very few local friends, Radiohead will be playing a live show which will be broadcast on radiohead.tv and Current TV this new years eve at 12:00 AM.

from Current T.V.'s web site:
"Radiohead will join us to play an exclusive live US TV performance of their new album "In Rainbows" on Current TV, all commercial free. The pre-recorded performance will include all of the tracks from 'In Rainbows' plus some 'other bits' as Thom says."

original story via boing boing