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I've just receiven an email from EMI Music, asking me if I want to see Radiohead on Saturday... it must be related to Trip Magazine.

I wonder if I'll have to interview them afterwards, like Bruno mentioned earlier?

If you have any questions you would like answered by Thom Yorke, let me know soon.

Simulated Worlds

I bought The Sims yesterday, for my Gamecube. I'd played this game before but only now do I realize what it truly means:

- The Sims are happiest when they buy stuff. Their ultimate dream is to own the most expensive items and live in the most expensive houses.

- The Sims only talk in gibberish. They somehow understand each other but I'm sure the gibberish part is some comment by its Japanese/American creator on the inessentiality of language in modern life. (haha)

- The Sims can only get crappy jobs. And they somehow like it. It's having their toilet go unflushed or not getting enough "entertainment" which really pisses them off. This must be some subliminal way of telling us to put up with our underpaid jobs and give more worth to pointless things (like OK magazine.)

- When a heterosexual Sim couple kiss, its passionate and soon there are babies on the way. A gay couple merely pecks.

- The Sims live in a bland suburban neighbourhood. You can't choose to live in a ghetto or in the countryside. We are all heading towards the same bland suburban future.

- The Sims personalities are distinguished by their zodiac signs.

- There's only three radio stations to listen to: Bluegrass, Country and Rap. And when you listen to Rap, it's actually HipHop.

- The Sims are constantly leaving garbage everywhere. Finally a game comes along and recognizes the human species as the pigs that we are.