Free mp3: Radiohead

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Digital download pioneers Radiohead have released a free song through their website.

The song, titled “These are my Twisted Words” is available here. If you want to read some text about it first, go here. If you want to read the Rolling Stone coverage about it, go here. (Summary: “It was leaked last week anyway, so we might as well give it away …”). If you’re interested in anything else about it, google it yourself.

You gotta respect Radiohead a little. This is the band that let people choose how much to pay for an album, even if that was $0. It seems their philosophy is “If you’re into our music, you’ll buy it; if you want to taste it before you buy it, here.”

Of course, they already have the financial and fan base to be so cavalier about it.

Anyway, I was going to include the audio of the new song, but I figure that if you’re interested, you’ll get it, whether you listen to it first or not. But you should. I believe the more people take advantage of the free stuff, the less uptight companies will be about giving it away. It is, after all, a marketing tool.

Since I didn’t include the new audio, I included the video for “House of Cards.” It’s trippy.

From You Tube:
In Radiohead’s video for “House of Cards”, no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.

Jack Black can’t always get what he wants

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Finally, here’s a song on Yo Gabba Gabba I can really get into!

You can’t always get what you want,
but if you try sometimes,
you just might find,
you mash what you need …

Watching Jack Black dance in an orange jump suit is AWE-SOMMME!

Other mashups here and here.

Hilarious. Literally.

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This is from the “Wish-I’d-Thought-of-That” file. That’s a subsidiary of the “Too-Much-Time-on-Their-Hands” file.

The premise reads like this: “Ever wish songs just sang what was happening in the music video? Well now they do.”

There’s plenty of them out there, but this one really captures the spirit of the 80s.

Enjoy.

Twoting all over the place

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I’m about a month into the whole Twitter phase and was introduced to this hilarious video by some ultra-hipsters. (Always late to the party, it seems.)

So, I thought it’d be time to stop and take stock of this whole twitter deal. Especially in light of all the news coverage the twitter phenomenon has gotten lately. From the Today show to ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption to my local morning newscast with the anchor that gets on my nerves; everyone seems to be jumping on board.

But, really, what IS the point of Twitter?

Here’s the way I see it:

Twitter is to texting as Facebook is to creating web pages.

That’s it. Facebook involves pictures and polls and adjusting and updating. Twitter involves writing 160-character messages. They work together (my Twitter is tied to my Facebook, so that when I update Twitter, I update Facebook). Facebook updated its layout to be more like Twitter.

However, both could be said to shouting into the darkness, hoping someone hears. Both could be said to provide the resemblence of relationships without substance.

But, then again, who has time for substantive relationships anyway? We’re all amusing ourselves to death in a ever-crushing Technopoly (thanks, Postman).

Besides, we’re all too busy trolling YouTube looking for videos to post for relationships anyway.

Some people …

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Some people have too much time on their hands. And we love them when those people do stuff like this!

I first saw the Hitler mash-up as it related to Nashville’s run on gasoline last summer. A buddy sent it along then. (Look it up.)

And now it has resurfaced here. It’s a cool mashup and I only wish I could clear enough time on my schedule to take a crack on something similar.

But I only get 10 minutes at a time.

Notes:

1. This video has some salty [textual] language.
2. I have no idea the name of the source video.
3. I got this from a twitter contact. I guess there’s some use for that site after all.