Re: various commentary
Brendan McKennedy (suburbantourist@hotmail.com)
Tue, 03 Feb 1998 19:52:15 -0800 (PST)
>This was a very reassuring post to read. And to think, I've never
given
>Radiohead a chance!
>
I endorse Radiohead with all my heart...they are one of the truly
brilliant bands working in pop music today...
Incidentally, I got a different interpretation from those lyrics...
"I wanna live--breathe--I wanna be part of the human race..."
I seems to me that he simply wants to feel alive again, not to join in
the ratrace...
obSalinger (can someone tells me what that means, since I'm rather
blindly using it...?): Salinger writes on both sides of the Being Human
issue, but oddly, I've never really thought he addressed the issue
itself. What I mean is, we have Teddy on one side sort of discounting
the value of very intense emotion...romantic love, fear of
death...anything irrational, and yet undeniably human. And on the other
side, we have Holden and Arthur (of "Pretty Mouth") who are utter and
even terrifying personifications of these irrational emotions--hate,
fear, total confusion, romantic love (however misguided...if that's not
an implicit trait of it...), and yet they don't expound upon this
emotional extreme, nor even appear lucid to it.
Salinger never really gives us his explicit thoughts on what it means to
be human.
Any thoughts on this...? Anyone disagree...? What do you make of it?
"The emptiest of feelings...disappointing people clinging onto
bottles...and when it comes it's so so disappointing..."
--another Radiohead quote that, to me, evokes Salinger.
Brendan
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