Velvet Jones
Velvet Jones aka Old nigga is a 30.16 year old boy, has been a member since September 8, 2006, has scored 2272 submissions, giving an average score of 1.72.
  Mar 08 '08 by Velvet Jones        22 Comments        Watch this
I just can't get over how intoxicating this album is.

As brilliant as their past albums are, they come out with this and I'm like... THOSE BASTARDS DID IT AGAIN!!!

If Radiohead make music well into their 50's, I wouldn't be surprised.
They just can't stop.


So who liked it, loved it, or panned it?

margolove
margolove on Mar 08 '08 at 9:10am
I haven't given it too much of a listen yet, unfortunately, although I have it! I should really do that, 'cause I've heard a ton of people say that they love it.
Velvet Jones
Velvet Jones on Mar 08 '08 at 9:18am
Well, hello there, lady;)

You should, because it will get under your skin, symbiotically attach itself to you and utterly consume you!

Seriously it's been a while since I've been able listen to an album on repeat so much.
The whole deal-lee-o is a compositional masterpiece.
Everything in its right place, if you catch my meaning.
margolove
margolove on Mar 08 '08 at 9:19am
hahaha, yes, I do. I like Kid A a lot.
Velvet Jones
Velvet Jones on Mar 08 '08 at 9:22am
KID A... uhhhhhhhhhhhh....

They can fart on keyboards and make it sound good.

Soooo, did you like KID A at 10?
margolove
margolove on Mar 08 '08 at 9:24am
HAHA. I take it you don't like it that much :P

at 10 years old? haha, I think I was thirteen or fourteen when I got it... it grew on me.
Velvet Jones
Velvet Jones on Mar 08 '08 at 9:27am
So Love,
Are you in the Phili's for teaching purposes? Volunteer work? Internship?

Either way, I think it's extremely admirable.
From the looks of your photos, you seem to be really enjoying it.
margolove
margolove on Mar 08 '08 at 9:31am
hmm, well it's part of an odd program at my school. Instead of having classes the second semester of senior year, we're supposed to go out into the community and do a service/learning exchange with a business, volunteer organization, or... something similar, haha.

I wanted to come here because we have a family friend who works with the US Embassy and I think I might be interested in a career in diplomacy (or an international career in general), but the Embassy doesn't really take high school volunteers, haha, so USAID set me up with a really amazing volunteer organization here. I go three days a week, depending on their schedule, and help out in a preschool in a really poor community. On the other days I do a variety of other stuff.. tomorrow morning I'm going to an orphanage, and I got to spend a day at the Embassy talking to people from different departments, including political and econ, which was awesome... plus I got to see forged visas and passports!

And thanks :) I've had a lot of people tell me they think it's admirable, although really I'm just having loads of fun.
Velvet Jones
Velvet Jones on Mar 08 '08 at 9:32am
-HAHA. I take it you don't like it that much :P

NOOOOOOOO NO NO NO!!!! Sorry my meaning got lost!
I adore it!
I was just referring to how they seem to effortlessly make music, and if they did fart on keyboards... it would be solid gold.

I mean, who ELSE could repeat yesterday, I woke up sucking a lemon and hypnotize you with the repetition of it all???
Velvet Jones
Velvet Jones on Mar 08 '08 at 9:40am
Embassies, diplomacy, international, forged visas and passports!
FUN?!?

You sound like a bonafide Simon Templar, there.

Well if you go into a professional career of diplomacy, I'll be your bodyguard (or hit man) and deliver my brand of diplomacy (to the right) when the talking doesn't quite do the trick.
Deal?;)

margolove
margolove on Mar 08 '08 at 9:43am
oh deal, deal for sure.

thank you for making me look up Simon Templar :P
Velvet Jones
Velvet Jones on Mar 08 '08 at 9:48am
*bows You're most welcome.



It's always a pleasure to have you drop in on my blogs.
And apparently (at this time) you're the only one remotely interested in this album.
margolove
margolove on Mar 08 '08 at 9:55am
aw, I think it's just 'cause it's early Saturday morning (if I've done my math right).

I'm wide awake because it's midnight and I took a horribly disorienting two-hour-long nap earlier, haha.
Velvet Jones
Velvet Jones on Mar 08 '08 at 10:47am
-disorienting two-hour-long nap earlier

ooooooh buuurn. When it goes past 30 minutes, it's called a zombie nap.

So besides the person you know, are there any family members with you or are they missing the heck out of you back home?
margolove
margolove on Mar 08 '08 at 10:50am
oh, they're missing the heck out of me, haha. It's just giving my parents a taste of what it's like to be empty-nesters. They're in Oregon on vacation, though, so I don't feel too bad for them at the moment.
Velvet Jones
Velvet Jones on Mar 08 '08 at 11:04am
That's good to know they're a little preoccupied.
My parents told me they cried after they dropped me off for college.

Well, be safe! I'll see you around.
margolove
margolove on Mar 08 '08 at 11:31am
thanks!

my mother will bawl when she drops me off for college. Hell, she was bawling a few days before I left for here :P
Steve The Great
Steve The Great on Mar 08 '08 at 11:33am
is it still free?

I think I should get it.
Steve The Great
Steve The Great on Mar 08 '08 at 11:34am
it's not free.
3 days later
Velvet Jones
Velvet Jones on Mar 12 '08 at 12:19am
No it's free. But you can buy it retail as well, steve.
Buy it... and you get stickers!
How punk is that?!
canceromega
canceromega on Mar 12 '08 at 12:21am
I enjoy In Rainbows quite a bit. I'm going to see Radiohead in May, and I'm excited for that.
Steve The Great
Steve The Great on Mar 12 '08 at 12:23am
it's not still free....they took it down.
Velvet Jones
Velvet Jones on Mar 12 '08 at 12:45am
No way, steve!!
why for?
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