nine inch nails, toronto, 7-27-14

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My 200th concert and 54th nine inch nails show. Headed up to Toronto with Jason, Eric and Adam. Adrienne and Bliss were able to go too (it was touch and go for a bit) but drove themselves, and due to the crappy insane parking situation we never ended up finding each other. So yeah, an hour on the bridge, mild traffic up to Toronto, I made the call to exit at Lake Shore and go up the lake instead of into Toronto on the Gardner, where it was backed up quite a bit. It was the right call, we got to the area of Molson Ampitheater fairly quickly, but that’s where it ended. Construction limited parking, so while we usually would just park in the lots directly in front of the venue, they were somewhat filled or VIP only. We pulled into a lot, paid $20, to find out there were no spots. By this point it’s been almost 4 hours since we left the house, we already missed the first opener (no one was crying about that), but Soundgarden was going on at 8 and we were fast approaching 8pm. I kicked everyone out of the car so they wouldn’t miss anything and went on to find parking in a ramp far away haha.

So I got into the venue during Black Hole Sun, which is really the only Soundgarden song I’m super familiar with. I can’t really judge if they were good or not because of my lack of familiarity but Eric said Chris Cornell sounded good so I’ll take his word for it. They don’t put on much of a “show” it’s just a straight performance of rock songs.

I was a bit more excited for this show than for the October show because Trent had said this tour would be more Fragile and Year Zero heavy. When he said Fragile heavy, he meant “no songs from the Fragile”….yeah. So there was that. Since this was a dual headlining tour, it was a short 18 song setlist, and sort of a “Greatest Hits” set with the return of “closer” and only 3 songs from Hesitation Marks. There were a few songs from Year Zero that we didn’t hear since Lights in the Sky tour in 08, so that was nice. The stage set up was very minimal compared to the last 2 tours, with the giant moving screens and what not. This time they relied on large squares of lights/screens that techs moved around behind the band. Jason’s opinion of this show, not being a fan, was that there was less to look at, and he’s right. Nothing wrong with that though, as I feel like trent was beginning to rely too heavily on light show effects.

The only song played that was new to me was a very heavily remixed version of “sanctify”, which was cool to finally see.

I’m a bit sad that I don’t have that much to say about it. I don’t know if it’s the getting older thing, or the 50+ show thing, but the large shows just aren’t as appealing to me anymore. I am not sad that I’m only going to 1 show this tour, where as 5 years ago it would have been a tragedy to only see one. The entire venue was seats, there was no GA pit, so we were in the 200 section, slight left of the sound board. Seats aren’t exciting. I told everyone, I may not ever want to queue again for entire days to see shows and be up front, but I still never want a seat…even if I stand in the back of the crowd on the floor, I want to be GA… it’s just not the same in a seat. I hope he ends up doing club shows again, which I would queue for, because they just feel so much better and more exciting, plus the potential for different setlists.

Soundgarden:
(missed the first 4.5 songs)
Searching With My Good Eye Closed
Spoonman
Flower
Outshined
Black Hole Sun
Jesus Christ Pose
The Day I Tried to Live
My Wave
Superunknown
Blow Up the Outside World
Fell on Black Days
A Thousand Days Before
Rusty Cage
Beyond the Wheel

Nine Inch Nails:
“Copy Of A”
“Sanctified”
“Came Back Haunted”
“1,000,000”
“March Of The Pigs”
“Piggy”
“Terrible Lie”
“Closer”
“Gave Up”
“The Warning”
“Find My Way”
“The Great Destroyer”
“Eraser”
“Wish”
“Only”
“The Hand That Feeds”
“Head Like A Hole”
“Hurt”

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dream

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crazy exploring dream: i was going to check out a new location that was supposed to be a school before my friend came into town. i googled it and the satellite view/street view made it look just like central terminal, and i was like “come on now google, that can’t be right” but then i realized it was just the same general shape as the terminal, it was located near by, but it was an actual different building. so i went by to check it out, it was late in the day, so i wasn’t going to spend much time there. i was making my way through a bunch of rubble and 2 other people showed up, these explorers i knew from instagram, and then 2 others, one gay guy and a female. i was like, well for this being a “new” location it’s pretty popular. so we found a broken open wall and went inside. and it was no school. it was an entire abandoned town inside the walls of this building. there must have been some harry potter cloaking shit going on, like hogwarts, to make it look like this entire town was just an abandoned school. the town looked like it was just completely abandoned all at once, like everyone just walked away. there were tons of cars all over, mostly 57 chevys in perfect condition, and then some vw buses. we got in one of the cars and started driving for miles through this town. i thought we were making way too much noise but no one else was worried about it. i figured someone would still hear us “inside the school” and call the cops. we drove by a bunch of row houses, all full of people’s personal stuff, but none of the buildings had windows. like all the windows had been removed and reused when the town was abandoned, not that they were all broken. because this town was perfectly intact. no one knew that it was there, no graffiti, no vandalism. so we wandered around, but i didn’t get my photo gear out since the daylight was fading and i was going to come back the next day with my friend. i took some cell phone shots but that was it. there was so much cool stuff to see, and it was so big i kept saying i was gonna come back and just camp there for a week, exploring everything. i kept being amazed that this town was sitting there unknown in the middle of buffalo. at one point we were walking around and you could see the brink of niagara falls and i was like, how is this possible that we are on the edge of the falls. then we realized there was some sort of glass we were looking through and we were actually below river level. there was some really nice ballroom we found, and the gay guy started playing a pipe organ, and again i was like, dude, not stealth, we’re making way too much noise. we finally decided to leave and ended up going out a door that ended up on the sidewalk, i turned to the others and said, we can’t tell ANYONE about this, since other explorers suck and ruin everything. of course we walk outside just as a security guard is walking by. he didn’t seem to mind that we were clearly coming out of the place, but he did say that on monday a bunch of dirt was getting delivered to bury all the entrances. we were bummed that this town was going to disappear again.

then i dreamed i was being held down in bed by invisible forces i assumed to be demons. i was trying to fight them and get them to let me go but it was too hard. then i heard my friend mary’s voice saying that i couldn’t give up and i had to fight them off.

then i dreamed that pano’s restaurant was in niagara falls and more like salvatore’s italian gardens, with these weird giant talking head statues. i was trying to find my mom’s car to put mr kitty in it while we ate and couldn’t find it. i kept wandering the parking lot that kept getting bigger and bigger, and i walked by groups of tourists who came in on buses. there were a bunch of kids trying to catch an all white flying squirrel. there were lots of power lines and a bunch of animals had gotten caught in them and were being electrocuted, and so much electricity was coming off these animals that any kids that were underneath them looking at them started getting electrocuted too.

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hell

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yesterday i spent an hour or so cleaning the house. sprayed and wiped the bathroom sink. sprayed and washed the kitchen counters and stove. vacuumed the tile floors, bathroom, bedroom and living room carpet (with one of those powdered perfume baking soda sprinkle products). Then washed the tile and bathroom floors, and bedroom hardwood with the sponge mop and lysol. then i spent an hour out in the garden pulling garlic, sweating to death. came back in, took a shower, and afterwards started getting a migraine.

visual aura started on the left visual field, a sort of big line right in the middle of my vision. i made some tea, took some excedrin, quickly tried to eat some mashed potatoes. they didn’t seem to help. the aura seemed to go away for a bit as i tried to watch some tv, but then it came back on the right side of my visual field. that’s never happened before. my head started to hurt and i knew i wouldn’t be able to go to work so i called in. tried to fight it, staying on the couch and watching tv but it got to be too much so i went to bed.

the pain kept getting worse. i kept having to go to the bathroom every 10 or 15 minutes, which is too often considering i only had a cup of tea. on one trip to the bathroom i realized my left hand and up my arm was completely numb. went back to bed where it stayed numb for a while before switching sides to the right hand/arm. my lips got tingly as well as my tongue, though not much, and then my teeth/gums. that’s new. they sort of felt like they were going to fall out. more getting up to go to the bathroom, more numbness that kept switching sides.

i figured i should see if i could still talk, so i sat on the bed and tried to say things. i couldn’t really think of anything to say. i tried to say “i can still talk” but it didn’t come out right (or maybe it did and i couldn’t hear it right). i believe i was using wrong verb tenses, like “i can still talked”. i kept trying to say it, and think of other simple sentences to say and they all had weird verb issues, or i’d put extra sounds at the end of words. i couldn’t say my boyfriend’s name, though i could spell it (i think!). i definitely was not speaking babble or jibberish like when this happened this badly in senior year of high school, but i definitely was not speaking right.

back to bed, i think i fell asleep for an hour or so. by 5 hours in the aura problems seemed to have gone away. my head really really hurt, there were some eye issues where they didn’t feel right yet, but the other things had straightened themselves out. i wasn’t very tired and couldn’t sleep so i actually did things on my phone and read. J brought me spaghettios and stayed for a few hours, went to proper sleep around 4am until 1pm. afraid to get out of bed, the pain is still hanging around, esp when i move or sneeze.

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insane dream

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dream: I had gone with my parents to this giant resort spa place that had the weirdest decor. the place was huge but it was decorated everywhere with mannequins. i was wandering around, really looking for these custom ovens i had heard about that an artist designed that looked like horror movie characters were coming out of them, cuz i wanted to tell phil about them. the place was huge, and you didn’t really stay in single rooms with the people you went with, but giant communal rooms. so i found the room the adults would stay in, and i found a room for real little children that was full of toys, and more weird mannequins. i finally found the room that teens or young adults stayed in, and i left my bag there. the beds weren’t really beds but like dental chairs, that reclined back into almost flat beds. they all had numbers, and then in the front of the room there were numbered tables where you could leave your stuff. i had picked chair 12, and then left wandering again. i found this room that was completely just a sort of exhibit with mannequins, of a 1950s beach scene, complete with water and waves made out of plaster. i left the room to go find my parents to half joke around that we were not at a spa resort, but at a wax works horror show and we were all going to be turned into the mannequins. at some certain time we were forced to go to bed, so i went back to the large young adult room, and someone had taken my chair so i had to find another one, so i took chair 16. there were almost like groups of chairs, you could barely discern one group from another but they were just ever so slightly closer together than other chairs, and i was expecting jason to show up, so i picked a chair that had vacancies near it. there was this red headed girl next to me, who i had seen around. a guy took the one in front of me, and jason did show up and took the one kitty corner. i started joking around that we were in a wax works and going to be turned into mannequins and they joked that they agreed, but you could tell we weren’t really joking. the whole place was weird. i joked that the red head girl was in on it because she was too normal, and perfect looking. this black guy walked by and he was all sort of jolly and joking around, and i was like see, we’re in a horror movie, he’s the funny black guy providing comic relief. and no one better have sex, cuz you’ll die right away. then all the lights went out for our forced bed time. it was completely pitch black. after a little bit we heard someone outside start yelling “everybody!!” and we were like wtf….and they’d yell it again. you couldn’t see anything cuz it was so dark. finally they come in, and it’s a band…some like…electronic/dance band like fatboy slim, or daft punk and they start performing. and the whole thing turns into this giant party full of debauchery. and that’s how it is every night after that. we never see any of the adults again, every night is this giant mardi gras like party full of craziness. jason and i still think it’s mega weird, a few others do too, but everyone else is like “this is the best resort ever” with secret parties the adults don’t know about blahblahblah. one morning we’re all being herded out to some activity and the whole thing feels really weird…like this is when we get sent out to become mannequins. even though i don’t remember any other activities the place provided us, it really has a cult like feel. so jason and i are walking in the big group towards this activity and he’s like, do you really want to do this, and right away i say no. then we see what it is we’re going to, those sensory deprivation pods, and i’m like NO WAY i am not going in one of those, they’re going to do something to us. so he’s like ok let’s leave. i didn’t think we’d be able to because there were security guards everywhere, but we decide to just walk by them. one of them calls my name and i just say NO at them, and they let us keep walking. we pass other groups of security guards who look like they’re going to stop us but then they just let us go. there are people near the doors handing out “swag bags” of literature on the cult, but we don’t take them even tho i am sort of interested to see what they said, for purely sociological reasons. we get outside and are in this chain link fenced in walkway, sort of like a prison, but it’s a pathway and exit, it’s just disorienting, and it doubles back on itself, and creates optical illusions while you walk. but we keep going and we see a delivery truck, or like an ice cream truck style vehicle with a rocket launcher on it, and we’re like, wow this really is a militant cult, we weren’t imagining it. and we seem to escape safely with no issues but somehow we know, we’re never going to get left alone really, we’re going to have ppl tailing us and trying to get us back into that weird resort.

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Shows 52 and 53 – NIN in Toronto and Cleveland

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So while other people took Trent’s “retirement” from NIN seriously, I always said “give him 5 years, he’ll be bored, he’ll be back”….so I was wrong, it only took 4 years, but here he is again. Hesitation Marks has really never grown on me, I feel like I’ve given it ample time and several tries, and I just don’t like it. So that being said, 2 shows supporting an album I don’t like, they’re not going to end up on my “favourites” list. But, it IS Trent Reznor we’re talking about here, and it’s impossible for him to disappoint.

So the shows brought Adam into town, and I was making Jason go to his first with me (ok so “making” isn’t the right word, he said he wanted to go, and I tried to warn him about what it meant to go to a nin show with me, and he said he got it but then…i don’t think he really “got” it hahaha cuz he hated queuing all day even though we didn’t get there til noon which is fairly “late” for us, and he hated waiting around for the crappy opener, etc etc etc). We were 20th in line, which was really far up for arriving at noon for a Toronto show. We tried to prepare Jason for what the crowd would be like, to protect his head/hat/glasses if security is in front of us for a crowd surfer, to hold onto the rail and not let go, etc then we ended up not getting touched. We got a tiny bit of jostling with March of the Pigs and Wish, and that was it. It was the most ridiculously tame GA show I’ve ever been to of any band in Toronto. U2 was worse than this LOL. So after all that prep for Jason, I felt almost embarrassed that the experience didn’t live up to the hype LOL. Though I’m pretty sure he’s ok with it haha

The show itself. Like I said, it’s Trent, it’s going to be impressive and awesome. And it was. We were at the rail in front of Robin and the new backup singers when they were on stage. The light show was along similar lines to Lights in the Sky tour, with 2 curved light screens that moved up and down. There were moving sets of lights above each band member and other areas of the stage, that had 9 sets of lights of 9 in them, that could rotate and spin and created some nice effects. Being up front you miss a lot of the light effects, so the 2nd night I spent “mid-ice” in Cleveland it was cool to see. Since the tour is supporting the new album, he played 9 new songs….too much, and they were grouped badly, with a chunk of 5 of them in the middle of the set. I hate when bands do that. I know you’re going to play new stuff, doesn’t matter if I like it or not, but spread it out, intersperse it with old familiar stuff. Ugh. So, to me, it got sorta boring. I’m happy he played the 2 songs I like from the album, but Disappointed, Find My Way and Running are too long, and fairly boring. And while the new songs did sound better live than on the record (live drums!!!), just like The Slip, I still don’t like them. The argument for the grouping of all new songs, is that they feature his new female backup singers, so perform them all together and keep them on stage…as if they can’t walk back and forth on and off the stage? Whatever. But the singers. It was a bit weird the first show, at times I couldn’t hear them that well, so I couldn’t really tell if they “worked” or not, but being mid-ice for Cleveland and I could hear them better, they do add something different to the old songs, and are fairly necessary for the new ones. I approve. I hope for a good bootleg recording that I can hear them well on.

Of course the show highlights for me will be the old songs, but in particular, Somewhat Damaged. Dear lord that song. Suddenly it makes me emotional and teary, but holy crap it’s so good. Adam said he liked it mid-set instead of as an opener, and I’m not sure I agree, but who cares, it’s amazing and I’m just glad they kept it in the set. Survivalism was too loud and distorted when we were up close, better when I was at mid-ice. In This Twilight was not mixed right either, too loud, or the bass too strong or something. Wish had some amazing lights at the end, reminiscent of the spinning lights during U2’s “Streets” on Elevation tour. In Cleveland they switched out Various Methods of Escape for Piggy and Only for Burn, and the lights on Burn were the best I’ve seen from all the shows I’ve seen that song played at. While I’m Still Here is yet another new song I find a bit boring, but it builds and goes into the instrumental Black Noise, which was pretty overwhelming and awesome.

So overall the show was good, Trent can’t be bad, but to be honest I’m glad the tickets ended up being as expensive as they were which prevented me from going berzerk and going to every show I could. Because I’d be a bit bummed if I had to go to more shows where I had to wait out that mid set of new tracks and not hear other songs that I want. If I hadn’t liked With Teeth I wouldn’t have wanted to go to 20 shows from that tour, but it was an easy decision that time since the album was out long before tickets went on sale, unlike this time. Same thing with Year Zero, and Ghosts and even The Slip. I knew I liked those records and wanted to see those songs live, so I knew to buy as many tickets as I could. So I’m ok with my decision to not go to Detroit and Pittsburgh this tour.

And I’m really completely over the queuing and waiting at the rail, suffering through openers etc. It’s just not as fun for me as it was before, and I’m totally happy and can enjoy the show from farther back, with space, and less annoyances.

So Jason said he liked the show, and I hope he’s being honest. I know it’s not his style, I didn’t think it would convert him into being a fan who’d want to listen to nin all the time. But I wanted him to be blown away and I don’t get that impression from his response. I wanted him to experience it because it’s such a big part of who I am.

In Cleveland, Adam and I got to catch up a bit with Matt who we had met at the Wave Goodbye shows in Chicago, which was nice. In general there were only 3 or 4 other people we recognized from previous tours. We had wondered who’d still be doing the travel thing. Not as many as we thought, in the end. It was an enjoyable few days, got to spend time with friends, and see some great music. Time to relax now.

Toronto Setlist:

Copy of A
1,000,000
Terrible Lie
March of the Pigs
The Frail
The Wretched
All Time Low (With barely a snippet of “Closer”)
Disappointed
Came Back Haunted
Find My Way
Various Methods of Escape
Into the Void
Survivalism
Running
A Warm Place
Somewhat Damaged
Wish
Only
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like a Hole

Encore:
Even Deeper
In This Twilight
While I’m Still Here
Black Noise (Not listed on the setlist)
Hurt

Cleveland setlist:

Copy of A
1,000,000
Terrible Lie
March of the Pigs
Piggy
All Time Low
Disappointed
Came Back Haunted
Find My Way
The Frail
The Wretched
Into the Void
Survivalism
Running
A Warm Place
Somewhat Damaged
Wish
Burn
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like a Hole

Encore:
Even Deeper
In This Twilight
While I’m Still Here
Black Noise
Hurt

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Hesitation Marks Review

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It came in the mail today so now I’m allowed to listen. I really don’t know what to say.

the eater of dreams – instrumental to start the record.

copy of a – not bad, but having heard came back haunted, it’s very very similar.

came back haunted – first listen when it was released i was like….*crickets* jason asked “was that the dance remix?” no, no it wasn’t. but i listened on repeat one day and it grew on me. it’s ok.

find my way – initially makes me think of beside you in time, or something from the end of With Teeth. and first How To Destroy Angels EP. it’s sorta boring.

all time low – i liked this one at first listen. it’s got a groove to it. a dance vibe that isn’t based on a boring drum machine, more like the vibe from god given. trent should do a funk record lol. this might end up being my fav on the album.

disappointed – moooore drum machine. yay. not. under the covers sounding vocals like right where you belong. guitar like The Slip. i think he needs to get rid of that effect pedal along with the drum machine (see below). builds into a chorus that again is similar to came back haunted.

everything – i wish someone was here listening with me so they could see my face. brows furrowed, wtf is this? it doesn’t sound like any other nin song and it doesn’t fit the vibe of the album. and trent needs to throw out that drum machine that he bought before The Slip cuz i hate it. and i will probably hate this song. (listening a 2nd time, immediate thought, WTF! i feel like it’s a joke or something.) for one second it sounds like some band (i can’t think of), then the guitar has this 80s vibe to it, then the backing vocals are just…w.t.f. then guitars like getting smaller. and it’s so loud, nothing on this record is loud except this song. then everything stops. then 80s guitar again.

satellite – i like it, but it reminds me of something from the first How To Destroy Angels EP…BBB maybe? yes.

various methods of escape – i like the chorus. i like it. nothing else to say. (yeah, definitely like it)

running – druuummm machine, african feel?…repetitive and…meh. dare i say cliche? as a 33 year old with no angst do i just not relate anymore?

i would for you – and more drum machine. “ballad” of the album? “love song”? nice transition into the next song. with teeth era sound.

in two – he has an affinity to writing songs with only a few words per line. i don’t know that i like it. or rather, i don’t dislike it, but it’s being used too much. i think i’ll end up liking this one. there is some noise in it at the end that i can’t figure out if it’s in the song or my speakers messing up…thinking it is my speakers, cuz copy of a has it too.

while i’m still here – drum machine makes me think of Zero Sum. random saxophone all of a sudden. weird.

black noise – instrumental to close. i was waiting for it to start, but it transitioned so smoothly from the previous song, i don’t actually know what this exact song was lol.

i didn’t listen to the remixes, don’t know that i ever will.

Definitely not your “typical” nin record, but then again, what does that even mean? Every album sounded different from it’s predecessor and none really repeat the sound of any previous one. The comparisons of this to Pretty Hate Machine must be based on the extensive (overuse?) of drum machines instead of live drums (I think only one song credits Ilan Rubin for “live drums”. Lots of “percussion” and “electronics” credits instead.) And the reason I’m not into electronic music is that I find drum machines and electronics to be so repetitive that it gets boring. Please throw out that drum machine! I may like it better than The Slip, but “best album since The Fragile” as someone proclaimed on the nin hotline….it certainly is not.

i have my nin records in mp3s on 2 cds for my car. the 1st is PHM through Year Zero, plus a folder of bsides and stuff. the 2nd disc is ghosts, yz remix, the slip, and this. guess which one is going to continue to get the most play?

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the tea party @ gratwick park

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hey a free tea party show down the street from my house!! while they are never disappointing, getting the same set list 3 years in a row is getting a little old. especially since they are in the studio working on a new record i thought we might get something new, the way we did before interzone mantras. but alas, no, the same setlist as the last 2 lockport shows for the most part. they didn’t even do The River, when they were on a stage 15 feet away from the freaking river! But they sounded as good as usual, and it’s always entertaining, so I can’t complain too much. Jason came with again, as well as Jeff cuz he was off on Sunday, and not knowing them at all he was very impressed. it was damn hot, and knowing the band wasn’t going on until after 9 we didn’t end up meeting kate at her dad’s house until 8:30ish and walking across the park to get in. perfect timing.

Writing’s on the Wall
The Bazaar
Lullaby
Psychopomp
The Messenger
Fire in the Head
Heaven Coming Down
Nobody’s Fault But Mine / Sun Going Down
Zahira / The Halcyon Days
Save Me / Kashmir
Temptation
Winter Solstice / Sister Awake / Paint It Black

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scott weiland @ rapids theatre

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scott weiland’s solo tour “purple to the core” rolled into rapids theatre in niagara falls on march 4th. jason volunteered to go with me even though he had no idea who scott, or stp was. a band called miggs opened, they were ok rock and roll. it made me feel old, because i was tired of standing around before they came out, tired of having to listen to opening bands i don’t care about, and then tired of standing around more during the almost hour and a half wait between miggs and scott. the future nin tour is going to suck, i’m already not wanting to queue all day, and stand around for 5 hours. haha.

anyway….scott came on late, not til 10ish, which he apologized for claiming they had a 17 hour bus ride the day before, with a broken cold bus. rapids had advertised the show as being core and purple in their entirety, which did not happen, but they did play mostly songs off those 2 albums. it was a decent show, it wasn’t mind blowing, partly because I found it hard to hear him a lot of the time. his mic could definitely have been turned up. and even though the band he was with sounded good, i feel like he is better with stp. he played a theramin for a few songs, but it was back in front of the drums, and all theramin playing should always be at the front of the stage! the show was about an hour and a half, as expected. glad i went, but since eric decided not to go, and kate never showed up, i’d say they didn’t miss much.

this is the setlist from the night before in traverse city, but it looks to be the same to me. though i don’t know “paralysis” (scott solo song?), and i don’t remember “where the river goes” but i do remember a song turning into “mountain song” so i’m guessing i just blanked on it.

Opening Jam
Crackerman (Stone Temple Pilots song)
Wicked Garden (Stone Temple Pilots song)
Paralysis
Naked Sunday (Stone Temple Pilots song)
Creep (Stone Temple Pilots song)
The Jean Genie (David Bowie cover)
Where the River Goes (Stone Temple Pilots song)
Mountain Song (Jane’s Addiction cover)
Kitchenware & Candybars (Stone Temple Pilots song)
Big Empty (Stone Temple Pilots song)
Can’t Stand Me Now (The Libertines cover)
Still Remains (Stone Temple Pilots song)
Vasoline (Stone Temple Pilots song)
Interstate Love Song (Stone Temple Pilots song)
Encore:
Roadhouse Blues (The Doors cover)
Sex Type Thing (Stone Temple Pilots song)

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dream about exploring again. this time 2 dreams about the steel plant in ohio i went to with alex last summer. we were there again, and i think almost getting caught again. we split up to try to make it out, he went alone, and i went with old friend angela. we ended up walking through a little neighborhood on site, it must have been the company town where the workers lived. supposedly it was abandoned too, but there were newish cars/trucks in every driveway still. but no people anywhere. so we’re walking through, and a car is suddenly coming toward us, so i say “it’s time to do what we normally do, and act like we belong here” and it drove by. then a security truck comes by, same thing, we just act like there is no reason for us not to be there and it ignores us. so we get back to the blast furnaces where we have to exit, alex is waiting for us, and unlike when we came in the sun had burned away the last of the rusty metal, so there are tons and tons of holes in the metal walkway that we have to go on that weren’t there when we entered. some are so big we have to find alternate ways to get around. one we couldn’t pass so i’m like, turn around and go in that room, maybe there is something we can put across to walk on. the room is a little kids bedroom, with a bed and toys and stuff. so we grab some books thinking we can layer them across the hole, as if it’s going to support our weight. at least we found tape to tape the books together haha.

and dream i was late for work because i fell asleep while driving there twice.

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dreamed i was exploring some factory with alex and coworker monika, but it was semi active and we got caught ( i think it was her fault). the security guard took us into the main office of the factory, and was going to cuff us, but for some reason didn’t. i kept thinking, this isn’t a cop, this is just a security guard so he can’t cuff us, and he can’t himself arrest us. so we’re in the office, and finally i’m like, can you please let us go, we aren’t like normal explorers who come to steal and vandalize, we’re just photographers, we weren’t harming anything. but the guy was all like shut up we don’t care we’re gonna arrest you. so we’re in the office still, and now it’s been an hour, and the manager is there, and i’m like “god it’s been an hour and you haven’t done anything yet, just let us go” and i guess he did, after a bit longer wait, cuz then we just left.

then dreamed i was exploring the richardson complex, but it too was semi active as a hospital still, and i was almost caught again. i went into some area, that used to be the chapel and used to be locked up (but it was really the chapel area from Eastern State Penitentiary that Lei and I talked our guide into letting us go in). the fact that it wasn’t locked tipped me off to the idea the area was being used. sure enough saw some people, so i had to hide. i ended up hiding in someone’s therapy group and participating in the session. after i went out nonchalantly like i belonged there, and went looking for my car. i got stopped by one of the people from the group who asked me what i thought about it, so i made stuff up about how helpful i thought it was and blahblahblah (and this guy was actually one of my white bacc players from work). i told him i lost my car and had to go to the other side to look for it, so i left before he got suspicious, but somehow ended up on a roof of the building. i had to climb through a window in a ceramics classroom (because apparently, it was also being used as a school). and the roof was covered in hay, like a thatched roof. i guess i wanted an above look at the lots for my car. so i’m on the roof and i run into another patient from the group, sitting over the edge of the roof on this part that is jutting out. i didn’t know what to do, if she was suicidal or whatever, and if i should tell someone. so i was just like, oh i’m looking for my car i think it’s that one over there cuz the bumper stickers looked familiar (obama stickers) but then i realized it wasn’t my car, so i left to go back through the window. i had to lift myself up into it though, and it was hard to do, plus there were ceramic things on the window sil that i was sure i was going to break and some kid was going to be sad, and they were going to know that someone went through the window. i managed to get in, and then i heard meowing, and mr kitty was on the roof too. he was going to have to jump a long way to get into the window, but he managed.

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