i got the apartment so it looks like i’ll be moving next month. now who wants to help?
and if anyone wants 3 arcade game cases, and a chicken egg vending machine that doesn’t work, let me know.
sabres 1 point back from ottawa…gah! must win saturday!
oh and my dad somewhat randomly decided to buy me a new printer. so yay. i’ll be able to print in black again.
i filled out an application for the apartment. it is owned by one of NTHS’s most popular teachers. it has some poor wallpaper choices, but it’s nice enough. it’ll be good if i get it. and he said kitty is ok. so we’ll see.
i think i figured out who i’m taking to the terminal…but it appears that he wants to go on friday now…not over the weekend…
i wish i could be a heartless bitch. cuz phill said he was going to the casino tonight, and he would give me half of whatever he ended up with to fund the summer tour. but i totally cannot take his money. i totally should. poor kid i’m sure he gets it all the time. but no. i’m too nice. dammit!
and speaking of being a heartless bitch, i talked to tommy yesterday. he called again on monday to see if i was home from nin week. so i actually called him back when i was at the store and it was almost nice to talk to him. we sorta had things to say, it wasn’t just complete dead silence like it was in november. he had to go back to work (shock he’s actually doing his community service finally) so he said he’d call back, and he did, but i didn’t answer cuz i didn’t really have anything else to talk about at this point. but whatever. he didn’t mention the girlfriend. as if i care hahaha. i mentioned my trent molesting of course, and he was actually sort of excited about it – or he faked it real well. whatever.
i feel really really sick again…
dream. i was somewhere, and i was leaving whatever this place was on a scooter type vehicle. me and ang from high school were waiting in the driveway for a train to go by. it was going really fast which was sort of weird. then suddenly a fire extinguisher rolls onto the road right next to the tracks. i had this thought that it was going to get caught under the train or on something and explode. so i start backing my scooter up this hill away from the tracks. she starts to do the same but then stops. the extinguisher does get caught by this piece of metal and we can see it denting the canister. so i back up even more, to the top of this hill waiting for the impending explosion. all these other people realize what’s going on now and they are trying to get away. finally it does explode, and it takes off the top half of the empire state building. everyone is running away and freaking out and i decide to go to the airport because it was safe there. there were all kinds of planes almost crashing, and flying weird, and all this stuff. so i was like wtf is going on. i kept trying to get a hold of ang, but apparently she went somewhere else, or died in the explosion. i was in this shelter area where my parents could come find me, and when i looked out the window i could see the exploded top half of the empire state building, all decayed and pretty. so i wanted to take pics of it. i could frame my pic so that i got the building, and the hollywood sign all in the same shot. i was excited.
could i have had anymore of a stress dream? throw trent into there and it would be the stress dream to end all stress dreams.
if only i felt stressed about anything…hmm.
oh jesus christ trent, you really are trying to make us declare bankruptcy aren’t you? nin summer amphitheatre tour with bauhaus. i see at least 14 doable dates. most of them are…”we’ll if we go to this one, we’ll already be right there for the next one, and then the next one…” i can picture virginia beach, dc, camden nj, holmdel nj, wantagh, ny (which crap is on tony’s wedding day), saratoga ny, hartford ct, boston, toronto, detroit, cleveland, columbus, pittsburgh, chicago…oh hey, columbus is on my birthday. happy birthday to me, my own mini tour again, all through june. jesus christ i really just need to take a leave of absense that month. seriously. all the presales are in or around vegas…crap. i could take out virginia beach and dc…stick to nj and new england. could take out chicago to but the flights are so cheap! gah
so i guess that means that i really better like the apartment i’m going to look at in NT on wednesday. it’s a lower of a really nice looking house on Ward. $550, includes water. Right there, that’s like a $400 a month cut if gas and electric keeps this shit up. no pets, but we just won’t mention kitty. with my tax return my bank account looks more healthy so i should be able to afford the deposit and first rent, and not have 0 dollars left. i just hope that i get this security deposit back, that’ll help. but i’m not getting my hopes up. who knows what this place will look like. i just really need cheaper rent, i got ANOTHER tour to fund.
this week filled up fast, something going on every day now this week. next week is filling too, and i need a haircut before vegas. a bunch of us are going to patronize the restaurant of one of my most hated players, so we can make a mess, treat them like shit, and not tip. siu is supposed to call me about it, and wow that’s gonna be a train wreck. i can barely understand what she says on person, let alone on a phone where i have trouble understanding good english. should be a fun time though. i plan to start smoking that day, so i can smoke in the restaurant and ash all over the floor.
i bought a shadow box for the tambourine today, but the only ones that it fit into that weren’t completely hideous were unfinished wood. so now i get to paint it. which could be cool…but i couldn’t find any good paint/weathering kits at the store, everything was spray paint, and i can’t remove the plexi to spray it… so i dunno…michael’s has 50% off custom framing, so i should probably get the Toronto litho framed finally. it would be neat to be able to get the 2 to match but i’m not that good at painting wood unless i just get a plain black or silver frame. hrmph. we’ll see i guess.
blah. work was whatever, but around midnight i started to feel sick. it sorta felt like i had a lump growing in my stomach, and i was going to give birth to a gremlin or something haha. then it moved to right under my sternum. i tried to count tokes last night, but i just felt so awful i left before they were finished. i felt bad but i really needed to go to the store to get something. i figured it was the ulcer or something, so i just got mylanta and went home. i almost slept for a bit before it moved more and got really bad. it felt like something was traveling through my stomach and intestines. i think i threw up a bunch of bile. there was nothing in my stomach to throw up. managed to sleep through the pain and i didn’t wake up til 5. so i called in. it feels ok right now but i can forsee it getting bad again. dunno what it is. blah.
the ottawa show was officially cancelled so i got refunded for that ticket. i’m not too distraught, tho it would have been cool to see a new city. maybe if i’m feeling up to it later i’ll talk about the conversation adr2 and i had on the way home from watertown the day it was cancelled.
i survived the downtime of my 10-6 shift last night with thoughts of the show. i did about 20 minutes of work an hour, so i had alot of time to sit and think and realize that it was probably the first time ever i sat at work smiling. i’d laugh for no reason and remind myself that people would start to stare haha. this week was just so much fun, and so amazing, and the time with all my friends was great. the depression will hit soon 🙂
my mom wanted to see the tambourine haha. she told my dad and neighbor that i got it from my idol hahahah
Nine Inch Nails – Rochester, NY
Absolutely amazing night.
*warning* this post will be totally fangirl */warning*
amira, the adrs and i headed out to rochester pretty early, got to the arena around 9 and there were 5 people ahead of us. the weather was crap, chilly and rainy but we got to sit under an overhang, and then in a vestibule for a while. so it wasn’t too bad. we got moved outside again, but luckily enough, to another overhang. the weather got better, it stopped raining, and it actually turned into a decent, no need of coats, day. cassie and beth met up with us a bit later, and eric joined in early afternoon. the wait went by pretty fast all things considered. no soundcheck, but the venue was way more organized than the others, and we got in with no problem and all of us ended up at the rail in the center out towards aaron. amira was 1 back behind the girl and her mom (i forget their names, it’s only been 4 shows with them haha), but got to the rail when they were thrown out. the rest of us were all lined up at the rail. it was so great to look down and see all of us there.
anyway. saul williams continues to impress. it’s still so very different that i don’t think the majority of the crowd really gets it, but he is really good. cassie totally got love from him as she rocked out the whole time.
nin…ok wow. we were back to the new flesh/love is not enough/you know what you are type of setlist. got the standards plus “the day the world went away” which we hadn’t seen since…reno? maybe the club shows. piggy was moved from after the “break” to after “march of the pigs” like it used to be. and holy crap.
piggy…not a favourite song and i was not happy it seemed to replace “with teeth” after the break, but trent DOES come down every time during piggy. considering we were right in the center, he came down right to us. as soon as he got down he grabbed my hand, and he was standing right in front of me. so there i was, holding hands with trent fucking reznor the entire time he was there, my face in his stomach, my other hand up the back of his shirt LOL (his bodyguard moved my hand at one point hahah damn). i totally forgot about the entire rest of the crowd. i have no idea if i was being crushed, i have no idea if he was still singing, i had no idea what the adrs on both sides of me were doing. then he was leaning over us and his weight was totally on my head, face in the crotch LOL (and seriously i did not have dirty thoughts). when he pulled back away, adr2 starts yelling to me not to let him go LOL so we have our arms around his legs hahaha. he got down off the ledge and moved to the left of us, and suddenly me and both adrs have our arms linked, totally freaking out. it was so fucking amazing. it was just. oh.my.god. just an incredible experience. no idea what happened the rest of the song.
so we’re gawking at trent’s hotness through the whole show, and it seemed to me, and what i could gather from the adrs, that trent was totally fucking with us. it was like “i know i’m hot, and i know they’re totally digging me, so i’m going to be as hot as ever”. talking to the others later, they all thought the same thing, he was totally playing to us. and i know that sounds so totally lame, but seriously that’s what it seemed like. later in the show he started talking about running into a friend of his earlier in the day that he hadn’t seen since the self destruct tour. they talked about how they survived that tour and how much things had changed for them. he started to mention how he had gone away for a while to fix himself and how great it was to be back on stage…and the next part we’re not sure what he really said. it totally sounded like he said it was great to be back on stage with a front row who was totally into the show. and of course, that’s what we all want it to be. but he could have said it was great to be back on stage with a full arena of people into the show. either way, it was totally sweet and somewhat unexpected (especially since the show wasn’t particularly rough, i didn’t know how into the show the rest of the crowd was).
so we rock out the whole time, and we get to “everyday is exactly the same”…time for tambourine hotness haha. typically trent had been throwing the tambourine into the audience after the spoken part where he starts to use it. but he didn’t. and adr2 and i looked at eachother. ok whatever. he finishes the song, picks up the tambourine and throws it to me. like, totally lobbed it softly right to me. holyfuckingshit! i had it right away, and we all start screaming for security to get me out. he didn’t quite get it, since there had been no struggle or any sign that any of us would want to get out. it took him a bit to get that i seriously wanted out. so i got pulled again hahah but this time for a good reason. omg. i totally skipped the entire way to the back of the arena, and danced around like a lunatic to the next song “suck”.
“hurt” was up so i went to the lobby to see if i could get a bag for my tambourine, and i ran into saul williams dj, cxkidtronic. so i talked to him really breifly because he couldn’t hear me at all haha. went back onto the floor and got a message from amy, so her and alex came and found me and we rocked out to “the hand that feeds” (which has really cool looking lighting, never noticed up front) and “head like a hole”. it was funny, cuz i had told them i was front and center before the show started. we were talking after, and alex said that when trent left the stage during “piggy” amy asked where he went, and alex replied “he’s on top of sara” and he so totally was LOL. talked to them for a bit before finding everyone else by the soundboard. it was insane everyone was so hyper and happy about the tambourine and it was so great. patrick from work found me and he was totally psyched about the show. he said he can’t believe he had waited so long to see NIN. everyone seemed to have a really good time.
new flesh/pinion
love is not enough
you know what you are
terrible lie
line begins to blue
march of the pigs
piggy
frail/wretched
closer
burn
gave up
eraser
right where it belongs
beside you in time
the day the world went away
wish
only
every day is exactly the same
suck
hurt
hand that feeds
head like a hole
i was so flying after the show i couldn’t feel a thing. nothing hurt, nothing could go wrong. now…haha. no real bad injuries, my left knee is completely done, more weird bruises i think from getting pulled out because my feet got stuck so it apparently was not as elegant as erie 😛 haha. additional hip bruises, and i did get crushed over the barrier when a crowd surfer fell on me. (which reminds me we had the funniest security guard ever. reminded me and adr1 of Tony from ctrc.)
it was adr1’s first ever nin show and i knew she would completely freak at the total hotness of trent. and she did hahah i am really really glad she got to go to an arena show and see it from up front because the spiral and vegas shows are going to be so different. eric said he enjoyed it.
talking with cassie and beth after, we all agreed this was the perfect show to end this mini tour. it was the last one that we’d all be at together for a while, and to have us all up front, all recognized by trent…it was the perfect perfect ending. it couldn’t have gotten any better.
!!! i have trent reznor’s tambourine…!!!
so after discovering nin.com being updated from buffalo with a photo of the falls, amira and i took off to investigate. adr2 was on her way so we headed to my casino looking for the busses. no luck, and we figured rob took the pic of the falls from the canadian side so we went over there. checked around the nice hotels and then i had the brilliant thought that they were probably at a strip club. so we went by all the ones i know of, with no luck. headed back home to meet up with adr2.
she was pulled over on grand island. great. turns out she bought the cop coffee and didn’t get a ticket. so she got to my house and we decided to head downtown to check the hyatt and adam’s mark. and wouldn’t you know adr2 gets pulled over AGAIN near my house when we left…this time she got a ticket. it was destiny i guess.
we resumed the trip downtown, drove around and somehow came up with the idea to call the front desk of the casino hotel and ask for jeordie white. we thought it was a less known name then asking for trent reznor, who they might have heard of. so 1. i cant remember the phone number of the casino 2. adr2 calls information to get it and totally chokes, “seneca niagara falls casino and hotel resort” LOL 3. amira calls and adr2 and i are trying to stiffle our complete hysterical laughter 4. amira chokes on the name and starts coughing to disguise her laughter as she spells his name for the woman on the phone 5. the woman actually connects her to a room LOL
so we decide to go back to the falls and look again. along the way i mention the only girl i know at the hotel desk, marni, who i know knows nine inch nails. and it turns out marni was the one amira spoke to on the phone LOL.
we go to the casino anyway and ask marni if she remembered the call for jeordie. and she did but thought it was george. so we called someone named george white hahaha small world that there would be a person of similar name there.
and it turns out they’re at the hyatt in rochester hahahhaa
omg it was so much fun. we are so lame.
quote of the night: “jeordie fucking white better be at this casino” – amira
off to rochester bright and early. gotta try to get 3 hrs of sleep before we go haha yeah right
the title of this file is holyfuckingshit.jpg
because HOLYFUCKINGSHIT trent reznor is in niagara falls/buffalo. and we are totally going to stalk him
