General strangeness

Do you ever get the feeling that the world is a bit freaky?

Today I have been looking at a technical solution offered by our content management system at work that doesn't work correctly. So I've reached out to the IT Helpdesk for an assist. No sooner have I sent that email that I see on our local communication tool that someone is asking the exact same question about the exact same thing.

And then after emailing Fox, explaining what our "Friendship Day" is at work week after next, and how I intend to translate motivational quotes into German using Google Translate as part of my contribution, no sooner do I press EMAIL: SEND than our lead designer comes out talking to a colleague explaining how to use Google Translate to do something completely unrelated.

And if that's not something to get a girl feeling like she's dropped into some kind of deep web of secret connections in universe, she feels hungry and looks up and god damn! It's lunchtime!

Life is a strange animal at times, isn't it.

Radiohead - Vector Arena, Auckland

Oh dear God - what an amazing concert at Vector Arena (Auckland) tonight. Amazing in it's layers of colours and instruments and voices and wave after wave of sound. 

At times those waves were curlicuing around the arena on gorgeous melodies; other times they were gigantic walls of sound, tectonic drum rhythms and piercing electronic cliffs - like looking up the sheer face of a wave that's building overhead about to crash over all of us with factures of light and strobing video panels. At one point I felt like my body was soaking in all the sound and all the light - all of it. Like being imprinted right through skin and layering itself into DNA.

Radiohead are not your parent's rock band - they are still oh so very of tomorrow, relevant, rigourous, with an incredibly solid catalogue of work. 

Holy crap balls; that was a great, great evening of music.

 

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