My love affair with Radiohead's song Motion Picture Soundtrack began in January of this year. I bought the album Kid A online and was sitting in my room on E 118, listening and writing. As soon as the song came on, I stopped what I was doing and sat straight up in my bed. I started sobbing, and sobbed and sobbed. The song struck a very real chord in me, it felt like it had actually come out of me instead of coming from outside. It haunted me for weeks.
You can hear the original version of the song here.
The song played an integral role in the writing of
my first short film, Love Sand, and earlier in the fall I was asked by Melissa Broder to write a poem inspired by it for her
Polestar Poetry Series. The reading is Dec. 5 at Cake Shop, and there's a possibility that
Love Sand will make a real-life premiere there - I hope some of you can make it!
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