After rummaging through 900 storyboards, 236 video clips, 13 semi-finalists and five finalists, Radiohead has finally chosen its music video winners. You may remember we covered this in April when the contest was gearing up. Basically, Radiohead allowed the fans to produce the music videos off its most recent album, “In Rainbows.”

The winner was chosen last month, but what better time than now to take them all in. Over time, they’ve actually managed to grow on me, so I thought I’d share them with you.

Although some may appear to be knockoffs of Radiohead’s hugely successful animated video for “Paranoid Android,” they still have a great deal to offer. Many entries are incredibly original, with some requiring months of storyboarding and detailed animation work.

What’s great about these videos is the fact that even though some are rough or unfinished, most are better than any other music video out there today. Music videos in general are a dying art form nowadays, considering there isn’t a channel playing them at the moment.

The videos for “16 Tracks vs. Videotape” and “Reckoner” are the real standouts. Both have the beautiful/creepy sounds combined with beautiful/creepy visuals that have defined great Radiohead videos in the past.

If you approach them with an open mind and prepare yourself for a few wasted minutes of wading through some filler, then you’ll probably enjoy these entries. That is, of course, if you like Radiohead. If Thom Yorke’s voice is like nails on a chalkboard to you, following this link will be like sitting in a room with a guy scraping his nails against a chalkboard.

http://www.aniboom.com/Radiohead

Last week, I managed to attend the Brewgrass festival in Asheville with a certain entertainment writer and his family. For those not in the know, Brewgrass consists of many beer vendors giving away samples of beer while bluegrass bands perform on stage.

It was a magical time. I can honestly say I didn’t want to leave and I don’t even particularly love bluegrass music. But the one thing that stands out to me was the beer vendors and their amazing supplies of T-shirts, stickers and vast arrays of merchandise.

At one point, I saw a guy walking out of the festival with cargo pockets full of T-shirts. By my count, he was carrying at least eight shirts. These vendors were selling T-shirts for an average of $20, and even I fell victim and purchased a couple of them.

But, being the glutton for punishment I am, I had to see how much these same shirts would be online. Sure enough, those same shirts are selling for dirt-cheap on sites like thegreatstateofbeer.com. This is a great site for beer enthusiasts. While you’re there, be sure to pick up some beer pong supplies, hats, bar tools and home brewing kits.

If the great state of beer were a place, I would live there.

http://thegreatstateofbeer.com/store/

URBAN DICTIONARY WORD OF THE DAY

Thom Yorke (adj.) – When a person looks sleepy all the time but isn’t. Also see Jim Brewer.