Second single from “Amnesiac” (2001), by Radiohead.
Directed by Michel Gondry.
The whole video was shot in one take in the same set (quite remarkable considering the scene changes required).
Director Michel Gondry said the video was autobiographical, about himself and a girlfriend once he had. However, Thom Yorke said the lyrics were about cannibalism.
This video features Emma de Caunes as Thom’s girlfriend.
The video tryed to interpret the surreal imagery and fit it with the song lyrics. Nevertheless, Radiohead vetoed this video from the Director’s DVD release because it was about Gondry’s personal life and loosely based on the song.
The song was developed during the 18-month Kid A and Amnesiac sessions, and it is legendary for supposedly “having taken 373 days to record”. Although “Knives Out” is not similar to Radiohead’s earlier rock style as featured on The Bends (1995), it is usually noted as one of the most traditional guitar songs the band has done since 2000.
L Y R I C S
I want you to know
He’s not coming back
Look into my eyes
I’m not coming back
So knives out
Catch the mouse
Don’t look down
Shove it in your mouth
If you’d been a dog
They would’ve drowned you at birth
Look into my eyes
It’s the only way you’ll know I’m telling the truth
So knives out
Cook him up
Squash his head
Put him in the pot
I want you to know
He’s not coming back
He’s bloated and frozen
Still there’s no point in letting it go to waste
So knives out
Catch the mouse
Squash his head
Put him in the pot
tonight for date night we went to movie tavern. i love this place! eating and watching movies??? stellar idea!! we saw baby mama tonight. sooooo funny!!!! tina fey and amy poehler have great chemistry together. the only thing that made me cringe was in the movie, when tina’s character can’t get pregnant and she is telling her mom about surrogacy and other options like adoption…her mom says ‘just don’t get a black baby’….oooooohhhhh….
the mom then says something about ‘all these celebrities showing up with black babies just to have people look at them’ or something like that….so i turn to clayton and i’m like, ’should we walk out??’
we stayed and we still think the movie is hilarious….i mean the mom was apparently a waspy character and she has a right to her opinion and oh yeah…it’s just a movie!!!!!!
right now i’m on a conference call with tom davis and 50 people/churches/organizations that want to do something in ETHIOPIA! it’s called the red letter campaign. i reviewed the book red letters here… I’ll link and post stuff later on tonight. check it out.
yesterday at work i was eating lunch with 4 little friends. 3 boys and 1 girl ages 4-5. one little boy out of the clear blue said, “i’m voting for barack obama”. then the other little boy said something like “i don’t like hillary clinton”. so i asked why the first little boy was voting for obama and he said, “because he is a boy.” and you really can’t argue with that logic. obama is in fact a boy.
i don’t have any exciting news…but i just wanted to post something other than radiohead on here. the most exciting thing is probably that it was crazy sock day at deacon’s mdo today…check out his crazy socks!!! ok, in case you can’t tell, they are blue camo…that is as crazy as we got.
i also shot some video today and yesterday b/c we haven’t had a good deacon movie in a while, but our ‘good’ camera is all broken so we have to use the cheap camera and the film quality is bushly. but, deacon was watching the little clips of video of himself and when he saw a particular 45 second shot of himself playing with a bat he cracked up!!!! i mean laughing out loud, screaming and pointing and belly laughing at himself on the screen. i think i’m going to try and get him to watch it again while i record him with the isight camera so you can see that. it was so funny.
also, our screen saver is on random pictures..and that is fun b/c you get to see pictures that you’ve forgotten about. here are some that i forgot about that are so cute…
If you are not a fan of Radiohead, you need to be. In anticipation of the upcoming concert, I’ll be posting some songs/videos from them. If you don’t want to be exposed to brilliant music, skip over these posts.
today people kept wishing me ‘happy first mother’s day’…then they’d stop and try to mentally calculate how long deacon has been around. i’d mention that actually last year was my first mother’s day and we celebrated in ethiopia! so technically, this is my first american mother’s day.
i’m milking it for all it’s worth and it has turned into mother’s day weekend!!! clayton has been good to me. donuts brought to me this morning, chili’s for lunch and a nap yesterday and maybe one today!! not to mention a little shopping spree yesterday! all in all a great day!
here he is a year ago on my first mother’s day…
and here he is this year at his mother’s day celebration at grace place…
