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It’s 4:47 AM and I’m right now listening to Radiohead’s live webcast of their last tour show. That is how much big of a fan I am.

Here’s the link: http://www.radiohead.tv/

Finally I’ve found out what Radiohead are doing lately, through one of my “usually-first-click” feeds on Google Reader: dead air space.  To sum it up, they have opened up a website that fully reflects the openness that the modern Web itself has lately managed to prove to have and that Radiohead simply understands:  you can buy samples from their In Rainbow’s second single, “Nude”, and mix them all up in your favourite fashion. Then you can upload them in order to participate in an online public voting. Pure social media.

So, all the separate tracks (actually, they call them stems) from “Nude” are being distributed through iTunes, namely bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. I don’t think that I’ll give it a shot, I’m not very handy with these sort of things.

I have no doubt whatsoever that these guys are transforming the music just like the people that are really behind Web 2.0 have changed the way we face the Web.

It reminds me of an excerpt from a favourtie movie:

I like that. It’s like there’s this whole telepathic thing going on that we’re all a part of, whether we’re conscious of it or not. That would explain why there are all these seemingly spontaneous worldwide innovative leaps in science and the arts, you know, like the same results popping up everywhere independent of each other.

on Waking Life, Jesse and Celine talking.

There’s a new Radiohead album coming up! It’s called In Rainbows. And nothing more need to be said.

Last.FM has come up with some nice Widgets for anyone to show the world what they’re listening to.

My personal favorite is the top album Quilt. Here’s mine:

On the past April 4 I completed 20 years of existence, and got a sparkling new record player from my beloved girlfriend. My eyes glazed as I ravaged through the humble package to find a Roadstar TTR-8630 inside, fully featured with - what do you know - a turntable for vinyl records, radio, built-in speakers, line-out for external amplification and a handful of cuteness. The gift also included the A Crow Left Of The Murder… by Incubus LP, but I had to return it because it was skipping ahead too many times, while playing.

It has been a fetish of mine to own such a device and collect some records, and I started immediately. Here’s my first acquisitions:

• Nouvelle Vague’s single The Killing Moon (with Dancing With Myself on side B);
• Green Day’s single Jesus Of Suburbia (with the live version of St. Jimmy) - limited edition yellow vinyl;
• Jet’s single Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (with Snap Your Fingers on side B) - pink vinyl;
• Radiohead’s single Knives Out (with Cuttooth and Life In A Glasshouse - (Full Length Version) on side B);
• Air - Talkie Walkie LP;
• Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better LP.

I’m loving this little toy very very much, and I’ll try to keep a good solid collection and update you guys when I get more records.

- thanks Sara!

NOTE: I’ll be using my Flickr gallery for my record covers.