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Meeting People Is Easy // A Film by Grant Gee about Radiohead

Second part of my Radiohead final fix [until the new disc drops sometime in this young year] is a film that followed Radiohead around while they were touring in promotion of OK Computer. It is, by no means, a typical "follow a big rock group around and partake in their hijinks" film. But then, Radiohead aren't a typical hijinksy rock band. What you get here is Thom Yorke looking really bored during some dull interviews and really, really, really bored during "Creep." You get to see Colin speak French. You get to hear a lot of b-sides ["Big Ideas (Don't Get Any)" and two remixes of "Climbing up the Walls"] and then-unreleased songs ["How to Disappear Completely (and Not be Seen)" and "Life in a Glass House" ended up on Kid A and Amnesiac respectively]. You get several really good live bits. And you get a glimpse of the dull side of writing an album so worthy of my praise. At first the film may seem slow and incoherent and dreary, but I think that's the point. I feel it gives a great impression of what it must be like for those poor boys from Oxford. The inane interview questions, the blur of one city after another, the hype over "Creep." I must say that this is one of the few band documentary/concert DVDs that doesn't inspire me to pick up my guitar and follow my dreams of rockstardom. If you want that, check out Pearl Jam's Touring Band 2000 or Weezer's Video Capture Device . You might want to check those out anyway. But no, what this film made me aspire to is music journalism. Just so I can ask reasonable questions and not be another moron comparing the band to Pink Floyd and asking how they fit into the BritPop scene.