MOG

I remember getting my first apartment all to myself back in '99. This meant, of course, doing whatever I wanted whenever I wanted to cuz there were no parentals around, and this was exciting. Every night was a party. Nightly events included playing Kings and drinking Keystone Ice right out of the can + jamming until midnight or later. This would eventually get me evicted, but man, those were the days.

One of these nights in particular I decided to whip out my VHS copy of 7 Television Commercials by Radiohead. I remember jaws dropping and hearing a few "wtf?'s" when the video for "Paranoid Android" came on...

My friend David, a stranger to the band's music and bizarre videos, suddenly turned blue and ran out to the front steps. He was bent over, clutching his stomach with a ghost-like look on his face. At first we thought he was just wasted, but then he said "turn it off...turn off the music...I can't take it". The video actually made him ill, and to this day I still get a chuckle when I watch it (and it's a totally awesome song, too).

Does anyone have a clue what the video is about? The guy washing his eyes out with shampoo? The guy dancing on the table at the bar with another head poking out of his stomach? The mermaids wrapping up the de-limbed politician and putting him in a tree? I have no idea.

David eventually came to love the band, but his reaction was priceless. Ahhh, I miss those days...