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This past week Radiohead released their ninth studio album, A Moon Shaped Pool. I still have not figured out how I will inevitably purchase the album (there are so many choices!), but all the mystery and hype surrounding the album's release got me thinking about the season in my life where I pretended to be Thom Yorke when I led the worship music in the church I grew up in.
I am a little embarrassed to admit it, but yes, in the early 2000's I used to evoke the mannerisms of Radiohead's evasive, effusive, and nearly always disgruntled (as well devoutly non-religious, except for a smattering of Buddhism and Gnosticism) lead singer while I led God's people in worship on Sunday mornings. I wanted to be Thom Yorke and the church sanctuary was my "stage", and it thus became my outlet for sycophantic mimicry. I do not believe I have given this (rather absurd and nearly sacrilegious) confession before, so consider this essay my apologetic and nostalgic explanation.
