Radiohead LP9 Anticipation, Fangirling and random Cheesecake Thread (Do not read if you hate Radiohead or us)

This is gonna bug me now, it's like 1 in the morning and I can't sleep, all these old memories stirred up in my head.

I'm trying to remember if I even started Entertain Me in 95 or 96, but it was on Geocities (LOL prehistory of the web) before I got mine own server space, it never even had its own domain. It was first! *stamps feet* It was before fanfiction.net, it was before fandomination - we were only beaten to publishing by the lovely blue planet of There by a few months, but they wouldn't host dirty stuff and we would, so I win.

Forever!

So there.

(feeling quite defensive now, can you tell?)

There are very few accomplishments in my life that I'm really proud of, but founding E-Me and getting it discussed in, like, Rolling Stone, and getting music fan fiction and slash into the discourse like that, that's one of the things that I really want to point my finger to and say "I did that, that was me."

Of all the little tiny scratches in the markings of pop culture history, FFS, let me be proud of just that damn one.

This is so completely not about Radioshack at all any more. Humph.

It might be on web.archive.org if you can remember the exact url.

Radioshack?

Christ, I am lost in the past. I need to sleep, but there's just too much static in my head, I hate this.

Bits of the Escape site are on the Wayback Machine, but the earlier stuff, the Geocities stuff, that's just gone. I'm fucked if I can remember the zip code or however it was divvied up, they had the most confusing addressing system of all time.

Maybe you can find really old fansites that still link to it to get the exact address? I wish google still had their 2001 index up, I used that to find so many old websites. But it takes some commitment and a lot of waybacking.

It's probably all for the best. Some of the authors went on to become proper published novelists, they'd be embarrassed if their juvenilia came out like that. ;-)

I've obviously still got most of the stuff that I wrote, but obv that was only a fraction of it. Irony being, "Radioshack" weren't even that popular a slash combo. Not like "Slur" and "Sirhan Sirhan" and even Sloan - I can't even remember what Sloan's fake name was any more. LOL 90s.

Everyone has backed away slowly from this thread but us now, oh the hilarity.

God my life is pathetic now. ;_;

'90s fansite minutiae is pretty boring unless you were there, to be fair. x-post

I dunno, I'm sorry to be so defensive over "but this was a THING! this HAPPENED!" but I've avoided RH official fandom and RH as people for, like, 15 years now or whatever because of that encounter. It's weird how you can work up things in your head to be so much more of a bigger deal than they ever were to the other side.

Are you saying they're OK with fan fiction now? Or, well, forever?

I do just distinctly remember Phil being like "ew, gross" about it.

But then again even bands were split down the middle, like half of Blur were ok with it and obv Graham being a total freak.

If I don't sleep soon my head will explode and I'll start hallucinating. :-(

Yeah, I don't know. They leave it alon. I do remember a few overly enthusiastic types mentioning the slash to them on the message boards years ago and they just joked about it? I think the internet has changed so much in the past 15 years or so though that most fanfic is left alone as an inevitable side effect of fandom on the internet. I mean, I have to say that neither cheesecake nor slash has ever been my primary focus in fandom at all, just a nice distraction every once in a while, but I do know the people who have run various archives and such and none of them have ever gotten any trouble for it as far as I know.

alone*

Oh god I should put a breathalyser on my Fucken phone, WTF?

I can't believe I'm actually seeing Radiohead on Saturday. I haven't seen them for three years!

Oh god, I would be in an utter state. I have to live vicariously, I'm fairly certain I'll never see them again.

If they play some smallish place around where you live again, I will find a way to make it happen.

Yeah, but "smallish" for them is, like, the O2 Centre. Unless you can persuade them to put on a secret show at, like, the Brixton Windmill, and I don't think even your RH powers are that great. ;-)

(Why didn't I go see them at 93 Feet East? Oh yeah, coz I was working and couldn't get off to go down and queue. I should have quit that job back then.)

They periodically do theatre tours. When we met I was going to see them at Shepherd's Bush Empire! And they were just as capable of selling out O2 then.

my mate saw them at king tuts supporting um kitchens of convenience? and again on their own

Yeah, I remember. x-post But even the Empire is too much for me these days. I want seats. I want them to play the South Bank Centre. So I can get a box and rap my fan along in time.

Kitchens of Distinction?

Kings of Convenience is a different band, but wrong era.

Seated shows are great when you actually have good tickets, but you miss out on all the queuing socialization. And seated shows are terrible when you're even 10 rows back. 10 rows is my limit before I feel like I might as well be watching it on TV.

I should be in bed. Someone tell me to go to bed.

Are you still up? That's absurd! Go to bed! (I need to get out of bed, but that's another story in this time zone.)

I've been up packing, and it sapped all the tired out of me and replaced it with a headache and restless energy.

That's been me for the past 3 days, and I'm not even going to any shows.

Okay, I'm going to bed.

Kitchens of Distinction thats it

I can officially No Longer Cope.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7197/6798773436_06c8e12f57_b.jpg

This obsession must end.

Now I'm interested to know if any of the Radiohead members are aware of this and what they think of it.

RHMB inside joke, but i'd guess the answer is something like

*VLTF*

Melissa is probably on a plane to California, so she probably won't see this, but this is a much much MUCH better version of Cut A Hole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6zOVumLCY&feature=youtu.be

Why is he so sexay? Why? Why, god, why? What is it about that funny little man that turns fangirls' reproductive organs to complete mush?

Not hating on RH or anything, but to me Yorke looks more and more like the guy behind the counter in a head shop.

The female half of RH's fanbase could not disagree more.

Eh, not the entire half. Thom's singing sends occasional shivers down my spine but I just don't find him attractive. The Greenwoods sure, and sometimes Ed, but Yorke? Nope, don't get it. But hey, we all have our thing.

Day-um.

OK, maybe it's just one of those chemical things, like hating the taste of cilantro or being unable to smell asparagus - that either you *get* the sexual appeal of Yorke or you just don't. Like, he's one of those people that, on paper, it's just... no. But then you see him perform, and it's the way he *moves* and it is this completely animal reaction. Just... I want to put that in my vagina.

When is Melissa back from Texas or California or wherever she's got to?

We need to discuss how Thom has turned into AN ACTUAL PISKIE

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ds6y0t471qbq8uso1_500.gif

Skirting on the Surface and the Amazing sound of Orgy got their live radiohead debuts at Dallas today. Amazing sound of orgy sounded thin but there were some substitute arrangements that made it interesting, would have loved to hear that one. Skirting on the Surface sounds like an outtake from The Bends / OKC. I think it was actually written back then, they keep digging that OKC vault, proves how incredibly fruitful that era was to the group.

when's LIFT coming out?

Dates in Manchester Evening News Arena and O2 London in October. I've never been to either, which is best?

Never been to O2, but the MEN is a dreadful shed and I cannot think that O2 can possibly be worse (given that it's much more modern).

I'm leaning towards London, but they're midweek and Manchester is on a Saturday so..

This is when I reconcile myself once again to the fact that I will never see Radiohead live again.

At least when Big Arena Concerts were still at Wembley, even though it was a fucking shed with horrible sound, you could at least get home easily. Going to the O2 means that you'll be 4 hours on a night bus.

I'm not going to bitch and moan too much, I knew this was going to happen, I was reconciled to it, but I do just want to growl. Sod it, I hate going to gigs these days anyways, even when they're little gigs in reasonable sit-down theatres, because I'm old and I've lost all sense of fun and I physically cannot stand for 3 hours.

There's vids posted in The Other Place so I'm going to watch HD YouTubes of B-sides I never thought would be played live and not get my knickers in a twist and try to go back to not caring.

I'm sorry, can I just...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f69I--5K9oo

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can't. cope.

Maybe you could make, like, lots of vid representations of these tracks and post them on thom's wall!

He'd like that..

Fuck off.