everyone so intimately rearranged (music)
listening these days:
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i love both of these songs by silversun pickups:
/when you see yourself in a crowded room
do your fingers itch are you pistol whipped
will you step in line or release the glitch
can you fall asleep with a panic switch/
+ lazy eye
/everyone so intimately rearranged/
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i don’t generally like bands like this. i mean, i really do not like postal service or death cab for cutie, but i think they have similar sound. but i could be wrong and comparing dissimilar things here. maybe SSPU remind me more of smashing pumpkins.
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anyway! i do still really like Sleepy Sun from SF and have i mentioned enough how much i still love the song Marina? listen to them! If you are in California they on tour there starting next week on May 1 in SF and if i were you i would go.
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mike doughty: pleasure on credit:
/Well, I’m a coaster, you’re a flume
Yes, I blossom, yes, I bloom
Get wide because I’m spacious
Got words but not loquacious/
{smart girl, not the crazy one}
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nirvana: bleach (1989). i like to do yoga to this after i’ve had a big cup of black coffee. because that’s how i stretch. cobain allegedly hated this first album saying they were forced into being grung(ier) (they do sound more like pearl jam here i think) and that the lyrics suck, and i agree it’s not the best, but 1. about a girl 2. and there’s something raw about it that i like despite its very bad poetry.
/i need an easy friend/
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and also, upset with trent reznor for saying coachella is “the coolest festival” in this vid from How To Destroy Angels @ coachella2013. if by “coolest” you mean “most popular”, then yeah. it’s objectively popular. but that’s what it is: coachella is a consumerfest of angst and popular opinion. i mean, watch the Jimmy Kimmel show interview Coachella hipsters about fake bands. sorry trent. i think you lost me there.
Filed in music | Tagged with NIN | Comment (0)need teleporter. quick.
i wish i would have known about the sasquatch festival memorial day weekend @ the Gorge (possibly my most favorite music venue ever) earlier. the yeah yeah yeahs, the decemberists, the kings of leon, TV on the radio, calexico, the airborne toxic event, natalie portman’s shaved head, ben harper, king kahn & the shrines, gogol bordello, santigold, ERYKAH BADU, and NINE INCH NAILS/JANES ADDICTION? all in one place? these are all bands that i really love and really want to see, plus there are 2 dozen other bands listed i’ve never heard of but given this line-up, i’m betting i would really like. srsly – this is one of the most intriguing line-ups i’ve seen for a music festival in years. indie-rock fantasticness. with the super awesome $750 VIP tickets i could be standing on the stage next to all of these artists, sipping champagne and hanging out in the VIP lounge, and i’d rather do that than spend the same amount to go to burning man.
unfortunately, before i heard about this, i committed to something else memorial day weekend. le sigh.
presale tix for the NIN/JA show @ shoreline go on sale tuesday. i’m pretty resigned to going there since it’s the only date/venue i can really swing, but i’m still not very happy about it. AT ALL.
Filed in music | Tagged with NIN, NIN-JA | Comment (1)dear trent: it’s resonating so hard i’m vibrating
http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?9,484360
Filed in music | Tagged with NIN | Comments (2)Towards the beginning of my career in Nine Inch Nails, our biggest break came in the form of an invitation to perform a series of shows with Jane’s Addiction. These performances essentially created and defined the term “alternative” rock in the US, created an ongoing festival franchise that is still thriving (Lollapalooza), set the stage for Nirvana to shift popular taste a few months later, and were really fucking FUN to play and attend – truly the best times I’ve had. The shows were epic. So epic, they propelled NIN to the “next level” (whatever that means), but caused Jane’s to implode. The band broke up at the end of that tour.
Fast forward to the present. Corporate rock STILL sucks. A friend tells me they saw the original Jane’s lineup play a tiny show in LA that was unbelievable. I break out my Jane’s records and am amazed by how vital they sound. These guys were the real deal and in this current climate mostly dominated by poseurs and pussies it was refreshing to hear something that sounded dangerous, volatile, beautiful and SINCERE.
Emails were sent, phone calls were made, dinner was arranged, ideas were discussed and the next thing I know we’re in the studio experimenting. We laugh, we get to know each other, we cry, we yell, we almost quit, we record LOTS of guitar solos, we discuss, we actually begin to all communicate, we yell some more, we become FRIENDS, we laugh again and we do some great things. I get to see first hand why they broke up all those years ago but I also get the chance to see four distinct personalities that become an INCREDIBLE band when they’re in the same room.
In NIN world, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of our first releases. I’ve been thinking for some time now it’s time to make NIN disappear for a while. Last year’s “Lights in the Sky” tour was something I’m quite proud of and seems like the culmination of what I could pull off in terms of an elaborate production. It was also quite difficult to pull off technically and physically night after night and left us all a bit dazed. After some thought, we decided to book a last run of shows across the globe this year. The approach to these shows is quite different from last year – much more raw, spontaneous and less scripted. Fun for us and a different way for you to see us and wave goodbye. I reached out to Jane’s to see if they’d want to join us across the US and we all felt it could be a great thing. Will it work? Will it resonate in the marketplace? Who knows. Are there big record label marketing dollars to convince you to attend? Nope. Does it feel right to us and does it seem like it will be fun for us and you? Yes it does.
Look for tour dates soon and I hope to see you out there.
Trent
one of my (wet)dreams just came true
or at least a little bit closer to true.
trent reznor + dave navarro = well, RIDICULOUS HOTNESS for sure, but also THE MUSIC OF MY DREAMS.
i would pay a lot of money for that.
a lot.
liquid tapestry
i don’t know why i have such a block about writing about things we’ve done lately – i have a queue of events that have not been written up yet, from burning man to the MMW show last month – but it just seems so hard to put my life into words these days. it also takes a lot of concentration and memory to write these autobiographical posts (as opposed to offhand commentary about a link/some cultural event/thing written somewhere else), and sometimes i just don’t have it in me. this, however, is fresh and so i’m just going to bite the bullet and do it now. plus, inquiring minds want to know.
we left for vegas on friday at 6:30pm and arrived in the MGM hotel around 9:00. as there were 5 of us (me, jay, ben, whit, nicole), we booked a 2 room suite. one of the odd things about vegas is that even when you get a suite, you don’t have things like a coffee maker or the standard amenities you would have in any motel 6 in the room. they want you to have the leave the room for everything.
friday night is hard when you’ve worked all week and then traveled to get to your location. we considered trying to find a place to go dancing, but for us jaded ex-raver/club kids/DJs who’ve been to vegas several (if not dozens) of times (this is us in vegas in 1998!), the prospect of paying $150 for the 5 of us to get into some tourist club full of amateurs and 22-year-old OC-types with horrible house music was just not appealing. so we wandered around and just hit the in-casino bars at the hotels within walking distance, including an irish bar where we settled into some guinness and a live band. we were able to amuse ourselves until 3 or 4 am, so it’s not like we crashed, but when nicole’s sister texted to ask what we did, the response was something to the effect of “you’re in vegas: step it up or go home.”
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there was something so perfect about hearing the crowd sing/scream along to Terrible Lie in the middle of las vegas that i have trouble even forming words around it all. or maybe it’s because i’ve been up since saturday morning that i can’t form words. in any case: AWESOME.
more photos and all the news that’s fit to print later.
Filed in events, music, photos, travel | Tagged with NIN, vegas | Comments (3)goth vegas
we are going to Vegas to see Nine Inch Nails in 6 hours.
i have packed: a lot of black, and glitter.
in fact, i have my black glitter boots on right now.
ready. to. rock.
Filed in events, music, travel | Tagged with NIN, vegas | Comment (1)kinda i want to
we just bought tickets to see Nine Inch Nails in Las Vegas on 12/13 and i’m superfuckingexcited (that’s what i spent my birthday money on mom!)
not only have i been wanting to see them for, um…. 15 years, check out this Wired article about how spectacular the show is. not to mention that the extreme dissonance that will be caused by seeing trent reznor scream about death and capitalism in america in the heart of las vegas is just too good to pass up.
you can download the latest NIN album, the slip, for free.
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