Present Imperfect
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Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman
“Now, please do not misinterpret my thoughts on this album; I am not saying that we should have been warned by it, or that John Ashcroft should have played Kid A in spring 2001 and said, “You know, we really need to ramp up airport security.” I am also not suggesting that Thom Yorke is some kind of pop Nostradamus; in fact, the opposite is probably true. When composing this album in the wake of Radiohead’s OK Computer, Yorke had a severe case of writer’s block and resorted to scribbling discarded lyrics on scraps of paper, throwing them all into a top hat and withdrawing them at random, one line at a time...Lyrically, there is no conscious structure to Kid A’s songs at all. Which is, of course, the only way this could have happened. A genius can be a genius by trying to be a genius: a visionary can only have a vision by accident.” Read more...