U of A Marching Radioheadcats

Every morning I wake up with my right ankle in serious pain. It's the top/front of my ankle, above the foot. Once I get up and walk around, I'm fine, but it hurts like a bitch when I wake up. I really don't know what's causing the pain. It seems to be a relatively recent thing. I still have pretty constant numbness in my hands, too. Not severe or anything; just numb enough to know it's going on. Feet, too, I guess.

Because I've spent so much time carrying around my backpack for over two months, I now have a really horrible sense of balance whenever I walk without the backpack. When I walk without the backpack, I'm a total klutz. I spend so much time both with the backpack on and off, my body just can't figure out which is the normal state.

I should be getting out of here (Jeff's place) within a couple hours. Don is going to take me to a truck stop north of Madison whenever he gets back and I get ready. (Jeff is at work; Don doesn't have a job right now because he is studying for the Wisconsin Bar Exam.) But even though I am trying to get out west ASAP, don't be surprised if I end up hanging around through tomorrow. Jeff has tomorrow off, which might justify hanging around a little longer.



I stumbled upon this video earlier today. It is Part 1 of the University of Arizona marching band playing a Radiohead show. Nearly the entire repertoire is taken from the album OK Computer, but there is also a song from Kid A. It's a good show, but it's pretty sloppy and it's obvious they had some drum corps nuts writing, designing, and interpreting the show (particularly the drill). Ten years ago I would have thought that was a good thing, but drum corps has become mostly boring and predictable, with drill that hasn't evolved much since the early or mid 90s.

Radiohead could be a spectacular marching show, but it would require a lot more thought, better arrangements, more rehearsal time, and more innovative design (like Radiohead's videos).

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