Ed O'Brien April 29, 2011 posted by Adriaan Pels 45 Comments

Ed O’Brien on Jay Griffiths’ book ‘Wild’

Ed O’Brien just posted on Dead Air Space, plugging a book by Jay Griffiths. The book, entitled ‘Wilout for several years now. You might know Jay Griffiths from her contribution to Radiohead’s newspaper ‘The Universal Sigh’.

I want to spread the word about a book that I read almost exactly a year ago, which I think some of you will adore/recognise/need. Its a book called Wild and its written by Jay Griffiths and 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 planets citizens and the earth that we all live on.Nothing new then?! ..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 . I dont normally recommend books on DAS, but seeing as Ive given away probably 20 or so copies of it to friends and family, I thought some of you should know about this Good luck

Ed

Radiohead news on this day..

Thom Yorke to guest on Jonathan Ross show – 2013
Atoms For Peace drop new track Magic Beanz – 2013
Radiohead 2012 World Tour: Leg 2 breakdown – 2012
More artists added to Daydream Festival – 2008
More artists confirmed for Daydream Festival – 2008
VH1 broadcast Radiohead From The Basement – 2008
‘Music and Art of Radiohead’ update – 2005
Trey Anastasio covers ‘Knives Out’ – 2005
Radiohead’s Glastonbury gig voted best ever – 2004
Thom on Tom – 2003

TheyTurnMe

Ed.
If you’re ever depressed; you know where I am.
Same goes for the rest of you.
House of Lords

I pretty much want to read everything that has in any way influenced Radiohead so um…off to Amazon I go.
lepantrut

nice DAS ed ‘
and yes man . . . next time call brother . you have another friend here .

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut

and i am sure the list is endlessly . remember that next time as well .
lazy eye

i can’t read.
lepantrut

list for Ed for next time .

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
english breakfast

i am on as well
pntrs

list for Ed for next time .

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
4- english breakfast adds on
God is on your side

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
4- english breakfast adds on
5- Jesus Christ
pntrs

Ed’s available friends for depression and low moments :

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
4- english breakfast adds on
5- Jesus Christ
6- God is on your side

and counting . . .
People who still care

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
4- english breakfast adds on
5- Jesus Christ
6- God is on your side
7- pntrs

why life is worth living…
Dig

This post by Ed relates to that picture of him standing near a sign post looking rather down about something. I can’t imagine Ed ever feeling depressed about anything but obviously he is/was.
pntrs

i was already there as lepantrut . no cheating

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
4- english breakfast adds on
5- Jesus Christ
6- God is on your side
Foetus C

Ed on Jay Griffith’s book “Wild”.

That’s nice, because Ed isn’t on TKOL.
poisoned_dwarf

Wow, Foetus, you were there in the recording studio? That’s cool.
Foetus C

No, I was never in the recording studio. Ed has been living in my bed for the past three years.
http://www.myspace.com/kyostimusic kyosti

K on the list?
pntrs

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
4- english breakfast adds on
5- Jesus Christ
6- God is on your side
7- K
Done.

Ordered my copy of the book, had a little preview read on Amazon, sounds incredible.

And I really like TKOL :/
Surfsoul66

Ed, It’s called the Holy Bible…
kidj

I thought we were trying to make Ed not depressed.
C_H_RI_S

Cww is ther awswell ED
lifeistao

Thanks for posting this, and Ed’s recommendation. Will check it out.

This is some part of editorial review from Amazon —

*** Griffiths’s central thesis—that by developing and destroying our last wildernesses we are impoverishing our lives—is not an original one, but she brings fierce conviction and impressive scholarship to her work. Although Griffiths has great erudition and a real sensitivity to language, her ultraromantic perspective, in which civilization is always bad and nature always idyllic, lacks nuance. For someone so inspired by nature, Griffiths doesn’t allow her observations to speak for themselves; instead, every event becomes another opportunity to condemn modern man ***

I’ll have to read it to see it.
No Harm in Love

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
4- english breakfast adds on
5- Jesus Christ
6- God is on your side
7- K
8- SurfSoul66

The list keeps growing with Love
askival

& me
always a friend for ed

list for Ed :

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
4- english breakfast adds on
5- Jesus Christ
6- God is on your side
7- K
8- SurfSoul66
9- askival
lifeistao

Haha…. these are the most loving pleasant posts I’ve seen so far, on atease.
love @ atease

atease is changing . the revolution of love is here . we are love .

ps : lifeistao should you be add it to the list ?
lifeistao

list for Ed :
@ love@atease,

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
4- english breakfast adds on
5- Jesus Christ
6- God is on your side
7- K
8- SurfSoul66
9- askival
10. lifeistao

Done!
Done is NEVER Complete

There are too many people in this world that want Love.
Lets keep it going. ALL of you are beautiful and wonderful.
I am so glad that I get to share my life with all of you.

Radiohead makes me very happy and to see them go would truly hurt me. I have had so many days and moments filled with joy because a Radiohead song has filled the room with Love.

And I think that’s what ALL of you do. You fill my existence with moments of happiness and joy. Thank you Radiohead fans for building a wonderful existence for me.

Thank you Atease for your website and ALL the wonderful fans you bring to it. I Love you Atease and the pleasant website you give us.
love @ atease

list for Ed :
@ love@atease

it s getting bigger :

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
4- english breakfast adds on
5- Jesus Christ
6- God is on your side
7- K
8- SurfSoul66
9- askival
10- lifeistao
11- Done is NEVER Complete [ up for love ]
lifeistao

Radiohead + fans + love = Priceless

For everything else, there’s MasterCard/Visa/American Express………

@ Done is NEVER Complete

your words are priceless!
Neto

Bin Laden is Dead!!! America fuck yea!
lifeistao

The Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tsu
81 Chapters

Chapter 30

Whenever you advise a ruler in the way of tao,
Counsel him not to use force to conquer the universe.
For this would only cause resistance.
Thorn bushes spring up wherever the army has passed.
Lean years follow the wake of a great war.
Just do what needs to be done.
Never take advantage of power.

Achieve results,
But never glory in them.
Achieve results,
But never boast.
Achieve results,
But never be proud.
Achieve results,
Because this is the natural way.
Achieve results,
But not through violence.

Force is followed by loss of strength.
This is not the way of Tao.
That which goes against the Tao
comes to an early end.

Chapter 31

Good weapons are instruments of fear; all creatures hate them.
Therefore followers of Tao never use them.
The wise man prefers the left.
The man of war prefers the right.

Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man’s tools.
He uses them only when he has no choice.
Peace and quiet are dear to his heart,
and victory no cause for rejoicing.
If you rejoice in victory, then you delight in killing;
If you delight in killing, you cannot fulfill yourself.

On happy occasions precedence is given to the left,
On sad occasions to the right.
In the army the general stands on the left,
The commander-in-chief on the right.
This means that war is conducted like a funeral.
When many people are being killed,
They should be mourned in heartfelt sorrow.
That is why a victory must be observed like a funeral.
pntrs

@lifeistao :

well done . enough words .
Gonzster1

We need a giant love supercollider so we can be smashed into a giant gob of lovely goo.
Neto

Whatever.
Neto

If you breath you are stealing the oxygen from others
If you are happy then you dont understand the woes of the world
If some motherfucker blew up the Big Ben and killed 3,000 or your citizens you cannot seek justice cause you will be evil
bunch of bullshit!
askival

Neto, what a nice guy.
Cww

New list for Ed :
@ love@atease

it s getting bigger :

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
4- english breakfast adds on
5- Jesus Christ
6- God is on your side
7- K
8- SurfSoul66
9- askival
10- lifeistao
11- Done is NEVER Complete [ up for love ]
12- Cww

Love is life.
pntrs

and because love is life we get TKOL performed live . for all the lovely people who said it was a thom solo type of work and where asking where the band was . now watch ! !

ahhhhhh

love is like to the fullest i might add . fuck july come soon man .
Cww

Yasss get in ther PNTRS.

http://www.worldscreen.com/articles/display/29644

Love is life and Live Radiohead
lifeistao

New list for Ed :

it s getting bigger :

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
4- english breakfast adds on
5- Jesus Christ
6- God is on your side
7- K
8- SurfSoul66
9- askival
10- lifeistao
11- Done is NEVER Complete [ up for love ]
12- Cww
13- pntrs
lifeistao

@ Neto,

*** If you breath you are stealing the oxygen from others
If you are happy then you dont understand the woes of the world
If some motherfucker blew up the Big Ben and killed 3,000 or your citizens you cannot seek justice cause you will be evil
bunch of bullshit! ***

I know, all these Tao gibberish sounded like bunch of bullshit to me too, years ago…..

At time, you might see translation in using “evil” in Tao Te Ching, but it’s not in original meaning, it means “ill”, Taoism does not preach good and evil, but about fulfilment of self peace. So, no, it’s not evil to seek justice, but justice should be a gateway to better, less ill future, not for feeding our vengeful mind that leads to more future resistance.

Anyway, there’s no way anyone’s mind can be forcefully persuaded, that will be against the way of Tao (our natural path), we only change when we have to, or willing and ready.
Not Friendly

life feeds on life.

the only peace ‘you’ will ‘know’ is in obliteration.[at one with the dark matter of your soul]

the only peace the universe will know is when life ceases to be.

we are an aberration – beautiful in our imperfection and quaint in our feebleness, but ultimately unimportant and meaningless.[displacing the elements
in your stride]

suffering is the currency upon which we are valued.[a quick fantasy
to prevent it from commiting to memory]

struggling in the dark, blindly seeking a knife to end this atrocity.

that is all.

1- TheyTurnMe
2- lepantrut
3- lazy eye [ that is what he meant ]
4- english breakfast adds on
5- Jesus Christ
6- God is on your side
7- K
8- SurfSoul66
9- askival
10- lifeistao
11- Done is NEVER Complete [ up for love ]
12- Cww
13- pntrs
14-Not Friendly

[if i close my eyes
i might just disappear altogether]
http://www.friv10.co/ friv 10

Thank you for what you have shared, I think later I will find that book and understand what here.

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Ed O’Brien just posted on Dead Air Space, plugging a book by Jay Griffiths. The book, entitled ‘Wilout for several years now. You might know Jay Griffiths from her contribution to Radiohead’s newspaper ‘The Universal Sigh’.

Radiohead news on this day..

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