Feeling to Float

Wild: An Elemental Journey
by Jay Griffiths (2006)

Radiohead Connection:
“It is an astonishing piece of writing and it was exactly what I needed to read….I was not in the greatest of places .. I was feeling low, getting increasingly disturbed and frustrated by the state of pretty much everything in the 21st century, which, can be simply summarised as the inability of the vast majority of our business and political leaders to truly look after the welfare of the vast majority of this planet’s citizens and the earth that we all live in […] Well… this book was truly medicinal and like all great music, it helped to lift me up and pull me out of this low level depression… Reading it, felt like one of those amazing moments in life where one feels an overwhelming sense of relief and amazement that someone could actually be writing about the very things that seemed to be affecting oneself ….. It makes you feel less alone….And it does this in such a beautiful, passionate and raw way …. If you got a copy of ‘The Universal Sigh’, you will notice that Jay Griffiths contributed a piece to it.” - Ed (x)

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“I took seven years over this work, spent all I had, my time, money and energy. Part of the journey was a green riot and part a deathly bleakness. I got ill, I got well. I went to the freedom fighters of West Papua and sang my head off in their highlands. I met cannibals infinitely kinder and more trustworthy than the murderous missionaries who evangelize them. I anchored a boat to an iceberg where polar bears slept; ate witchetty grubs and visited sea gypsies. I found a paradox of wildness in the glinting softness of its charisma, for what is savage is in the deepest sense gentle and what is wild is kind. In the end - a strangely sweet result - I came back to a wild home.”

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JFC, One Direction has more plays than Radiohead… IDK HOW THIS HAPPENED, YOU GUYS.

I am a legit One Direction fan. I’m there. There’s no denying it.

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
by Douglas Coupland (1991)

Radiohead Connection:
“Douglas Coupland’s Generation X is one of the few books of recent times that can be described as epochal. The book’s promised sense of protest clearly shares much with Radiohead. ‘I read Generation X and thought: I’ve got this sussed,’ Thom has said.” (x)

• Listed as one of Jonny’s favourite books. (x)

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Generation X is Douglas Coupland’s acclaimed salute to the generation born in the late 1950s and 1960s — a generation known vaguely up to then as “twentysomething.”

Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit “pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause” in their respective hometowns and cut themselves adrift on the California desert. In search of the drastic changes that will lend meaning to their lives, they’ve mired themselves in the detritus of American cultural memory. Refugees from history, the three develop an ascetic regime of story-telling, boozing, and working McJobs — “low-pay, low-prestige, low-benefit, no-future jobs in the service industry.” They create modern fables of love and death among the cosmetic surgery parlors and cocktail bars of Palm Springs, disturbingly funny tales of nuclear waste, historical overdosing, and mall culture.

A dark snapshot of the trio’s highly fortressed inner world quickly emerges—landscapes peopled with dead TV shows, “Elvis moments,” and semi-disposable Swedish furniture. And from these landscapes, deeper portraits emerge, those of fanatically independent individuals, pathologically ambivalent about the future and brimming with unsatisfied longings for permanence, for love, and for their own home. Andy, Dag, and Claire are underemployed, overeducated, intensely private, and unpredictable. Like the group they mirror, they have nowhere to assuage their fears, and no culture to replace their anomie.

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