Let Down

So for some reason I felt the need to take a jab at Radiohead in my previous post. I really dislike them due in part to the fact that I used to like them so much. I still do like them, or rather I still like an era of them. My window of Radiohead fandom runs from Pablo Honey all the way up to track 5 of OK Computer. And it pretty much falls off the map from that point on.

It is therefore a little bit ironic that one of the last times I got high, so very very long ago, Radiohead played a prominent role. For several reasons, actually one overarching reason, my dalliences with drug experimentation never made it past smoking a little weed in college so I remember some of those occasion quite vividly. One in particular involved smoking way too much, coming home to eat a peanut butter sandwich and half a bag of BBQ chips, and then locking myself in my darkened bedroom where I had programmed my stereo to play "Subterranean Homesick Alien" and "Let Down" over and over again while I laid in my bed. I thought that was just about the coolest thing ever and for 90 minutes it was.

College was a long time ago and now I hate Radiohead for several reasons, actually one overarching reason, but I still listen to those old albums and fondly recall days gone by.