UPDATED palahniuk, radiohead and sasha UPDATED

Radiohead Deny Film Score Claim

Chuck Palahniuk, whose 2001 book Choke has been adapted for the big screen, told BBC 6 Music that Radiohead had written the score.

But spokesperson for the band said they had only contributed a song to the film - In Rainbows track "Reckoner" - to run over the final credits.

Choke, starring Sam Rockwell, is due to open later this year.

Speaking to 6 Music's Shaun Keaveny Breakfast Show earlier this week, Palahniuk said he listened to Radiohead while writing the book, and it was "incredible" the band had written the film score.

"Clark Gregg [Choke director]... knew that I'd written Choke while listening to [Radiohead's 1993 debut album] Pablo Honey, with Creep over and over and over," he said.

"So Clark got Radiohead to contribute a song; to write a song for the very end of the movie, the final credits.

"Apparently Radiohead liked the movie so much, they've written the score."

But a spokeswoman for Radiohead said the band had not submitted any music to the film other than Reckoner.

Palahniuk's 1996 novel Fight Club was made into a film starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.

The Pixies' Where Is My Mind was used during the finale of the 1999 film.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/entertainment/7560237.stm


From the BBC's Matt Everitt comes this fantastic story:

Radiohead Score New Chuck Palahniuk Film

12 August 2008 - Controversial Fight Club and Snuff author Chuck Palahniuk has revealed Radiohead have written brand new music for the soundtrack to the new movie adaptation of his book Choke.

Speaking to 6 Music on the Shaun Keaveny Breakfast Show, Palahniuk explained it all came from his love of the band’s music, saying:

“Clark Gregg, who directed the movie version of Choke which comes out in November, he knew that I’d written Choke while listening to [Radiohead’s 1993 debut album] Pablo Honey, with Creep, over and over and over.

“So Clark got Radiohead to contribute a song; to write a song for the very end of the movie, the final credits.

“Apparently Radiohead liked the movie so much, they’ve written the score, most of the ambient music throughout it. So it’s ‘Choke – with the music of Radiohead’“

When asked if he felt honoured to have such a respected band write music solely for his film, the author laughed, “I quit believing in my own life at this point! My life is just too incredible to be believable anymore. It’s a living dream.”

Palahniuk’s work is famous associated with alternative music, with his use of Pixies’ Where Is My Mind during the finale of the feature film adaptation of his novel Fight Club.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

And Pitchfork Media's Matthew Solarski reports ...

Thom Yorke, M83, Ladytron, Apparat on Sasha DJ Mix

Sasha's Invol2ver, the follow-up to acclaimed 2004 mix Involver, descends on the world at large on September 9, thanks to Global Underground. The set packs in 13 Sasha re-workings of such gems as Ladytron's "Destroy Everything You Touch", Thom Yorke's "The Eraser", M83's very recent "Couleurs", and Apparat's very lovely "Arcadia." There's also, for some reason, a track featuring Ray LaMontagne.

Bonus! Folks who scoop up one of the first 10,000 copies of Invol2ver will get a bonus disc packing in some exclusive remixes, including a different take on Thom Yorke's "Eraser".

Invol2ver:

01 Badger: "Intro"
02 Telefon Tel Aviv: "You Are the Worst Thing in the World (Sasha Invol2ver Remix)"
03 Rone: "Flesh (Sasha Invol2ver Remix)"
04 Sasha vs. Ray LaMontagne: "Eclipse"
05 Sasha vs. Adam Parker: "Lowlife"
06 Charlie May: "Midnight"
07 Apparat: "Arcadia (Sasha Invol2ver Remix)"
08 Home Video: "That You Might (Sasha Invol2ver Remix)"
09 Ladytron: "Destroy Everything You Touch (Sasha Revol2ver Remix)"
10 M83: "Couleurs (Sasha Revol2ver Remix)"
11 Thom Yorke: "The Eraser (Sasha Invol2ver Remix)"
12 Sasha: "3 Little Piggys"
13 Engineers: "Sometimes I Realise (Sasha Invol2ver Remix)"

Bonus Disc:

01 Thom Yorke: "The Eraser (Sasha Coma Remix)"
02 Girls in Hawaii: "Flavor (Sasha Invol2ver Remix)"
03 Lostep: "Burma (Involver Dub Mix)"
04 Home Video: "Gas Tank (Sasha Invol2ver Remix)"
05 Charlie May: "Midnight (Extended Mix)
06 Sasha vs. Ray LaMontagne: "Eclipse (CM Dub Mix)"

johnny, brian and god

Brian: I don't believe that. Life can't just come to a stop.
Johnny: All right, I'm not saying that life will end, or the world will end, or the universe will cease to exist, but man will cease to exist. Just like the dinosaurs passed into extinction, the same thing will happen to us.
We're not fucking important.
We're just a crap idea.
Brian: I'm not gonna cease to exist. I'm gonna be here in the future. . . .
Johnny: Do you think the amoeba ever dreamed it would evolve into the frog?
Of course it didn't.
And when that first frog shimmied out of the water and employed its vocal chords in order to attract a mate or to retard a predator, do you think that frog ever imagined that that incipient croak would evolve into all the languages of the world, into all the literature in the world?
Of course it fucking didn't.
And just as that froggy could never possibly have conceived of Shakespeare, so we can never possibly imagine our destiny.
Brian: I know what my destiny is.
Johnny: Yeah, but what you're experiencing, as far as I can gather with all these manifestations of, uh, regression and precognition and transmigratory astral fucking chatterings is just the equivalent of that first primeval grunt, because evolution isn't over. Man isn't the be-all and end-all.
Look, if you take the whole of time, represented by one year we're only in the first few moments of the first of January. There's a long way to go. Only now we're not going to sprout extra limbs and wings and fins, because evolution itself is evolving. . . . One day you'll realize that you've had not just one or two past or future existences, but that you were, and are, everybody and everything that has ever been or will ever be. . . .
You see, the thing is, Brian, that God is a hateful god. Must be. If God is good, then why is there evil in the world? Why is there pain and hate and greed and war? Doesn't make sense. But if God is a nasty bastard, then you can say, "Why is there good in the world? Why is there love and hope and joy?"
Well, let's face it. Good exists in order to be fucked up by evil. The very existence of good enables evil to flourish. Therefore, God is bad. And it doesn't matter how many past or future existences you have, because they're all gonna be riddled with grief and anguish and sickness and death.
You see, Brian, God doesn't love you.
God despises you.
So there's no hope, and mankind is just a component of the device by which the devil creates itself. . . .
You can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggs, and humanity is just a cracked egg.
And the omelet stinks.
Brian: [Sighs] Yeah.

* From Mike Leigh's brilliant film Naked