Does anyone else find it ironic that the music video to Radiohead's "Creep" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk) features the lead singer singing about being "a creep, a weirdo", in a lively club with colourful artificial lights, and the audience jumping, raving and generally moshing to this?
Anyway, I'm thinking about using the music video to Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" (1995) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKd06s1LNik) for extension 1. I wonder what the Ultimate One would say. I think it works well as a related text to The Shipping News, in that it almost shows the alternative side to Quoyle's story - the emotional artificiality of losing touch with what really matters; the direction Quoyle was heading towards before moving to Newfoundland.
Quoyle annoys me, but yeah, that text might work nicely.
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