dream: nine inch nails had performed on the daily show years ago, it was to introduce twiggy as bass player to the world, but robin was still in the band too. don’t know which song they played but by the end of it they were covered in soap suds and robin looked really cute. then jon stewart comes out to remind the world they have a cd out…a cd titled “we just got engaged” by phil collins and nine inch nails….which was actually part of one of the nin hotline’s april fools day pranks (tho not in real life, who would ever believe nin plus phil collins LOL).
Dan Lacey, my favourite painter
ok this is too good not to post about. i have a new favourite painter on earth and his name is dan lacey. i really don’t know anything about him, his site is kinda confusing, he apparently paints pictures of people with pancakes on their head…but check this shit out…
dear god. that is so…there are no words, but i almost need it. it is a shame that dan lacey does not sell prints. then on his site, i find a whole page full of MJ paintings, including…
holy.fucking.shit.
see the rest at: http://www.faithmouse.com/art_of_michael_jackson_artwork.html there is a nice one of MJ with tupac. in his blog he promises a new MJ portrait, of him holding an oil covered pelican! i can’t wait!
and then there is a whole page of paintings of obama riding unicorns ROFL. my personal favourite is obama riding a unicorn which is stabbing a…bull? buffalo? that sarah palin is riding LOL. omg. so much brilliance i can hardly breathe. and the one with obama, stalin and…house? lol!
and you probably think this post is full of sarcasm, but i am totally serious, this guy is my new hero.
OH WAIT HE DOES SELL PRINTS! i’m in trouble now, how do i choose which to get?!?!
a special thanks to leighanne for directing me to regretsy.com, where i discovered the jacko and jesus painting. i don’t know what i did without knowing this artist LOL
last minute addition….definitely need
dream
dream: the end of the world was coming, in the form of a giant hurricane that was going to last a month and cause all kind of flooding. people were trying to prepare for it (this was all cuz i’m reading Lucifer’s Hammer before bed ha). i still had to go to work the night before the imminent landfall of the hurricane. i debating calling in because 1. most people would be calling in and 2. no one was going to be there playing since we were all about to die. then i realized, no, people will be there because they are degenerates. then i was in some sort of camp in the woods with people from work, still waiting for this hurricane. there was also a subway (train, not the sandwich shop) in the woods, that we kept taking to no where really, for no real reason. i realized that this hurricane was going to cause all this rain and floods yet no one had made the obvious connection to the bible and noah’s ark. then i suddenly had an ipad and was trying to use it to show meredith my photos of Jackson Sanitarium, (because apparently we were in/near Dansville and the “castle on the hill” came up in conversation), and it was a giant piece of crap. it was nearly impossible to type on it without making a mistake, and then the auto correct would suggest the most retarded words that were no where near ever correct. it was clunky and difficult to hold on to, and just very frustrating to use. then i guess i was back at work again, looking out the hotel doors to see how bad the hurricane was, and it was hurricane-ing snow. i thought that was weird, but hey it was the end of the world, anything can happen.
lady gaga toronto
headed up to toronto with steph, meredith and laura to see lady gaga at the air canada center. stopped for dinner at the village idiot pub, checked into the hotel, then a few more drinks at elephant and castle before cabbing it to the ACC. it is weird to me to go to a show where i haven’t sat in line all day, so that when you get there you don’t know what gate or entrance you’re supposed to go to haha. got in and staked a claim on spots about 25 feet from the stage.
semi precious weapons opened, and they were freaking fabulous bowie/hedwig type glam rock. very entertaining.
gaga…everyone seemed surprised that i’d go see her, but i find her songs to be pretty good pop songs, and she is interesting to me. first impression, her face is still funny looking in person and she’s pretty short. but she sang live, with backup singers and some recorded back up, and i give credit to that. pretty much no one sings live anymore if they dance or have an active stage presence. she had a whole crew of dancers which made me think of janet jackson and her “kids”. it had been a long time since i’d seen a pop show, so much was reminiscent of MJ and Madonna (and janet), but i guess probably all pop shows are. she had a ton of costume changes, and set changes as the sort of “story” of the Monster Ball unfolded. i’m pretty sure this setlist is not right, as after speechless she did a new song I think she said was called “you and i”, and i don’t know if that replaced “so happy i could die”, or if she played that too. but the rest is probably spot on.
Dance in the Dark
Glitter and Grease
Just Dance
Beautiful, Dirty, Rich
Vanity
The Fame
Love Game
Boys Boys Boys
Money Honey
Telephone
Brown Eyes
Speechless
So Happy I Could Die Play Video
Monster
Teeth
Alejandro
Pokerface
Paparazzi
Bad Romance
overall, it was a good pop show. the people watching was great, many dressed up in gaga outfits, or just dressed up glittery and feathery and fab.
after the show we hit up the hotel again before going out. went someplace in the gayborhood that was like a sauna inside, and you couldn’t take drinks onto the patio so we only stayed for one, and then went off to the bovine sex club (relax it’s just a bar!), because semi precious weapons had said they’d be doing another set there after the main show. not knowing what time they were going to be there at, we actually only saw their last song, but it was a pretty cool place so we stayed there til it closed. kinda biker-y type place with all kinds of creepy crap hanging all over the walls and ceiling. my kind of place. got some cheap yummy falafel at a 24 hr place down the street before calling it a night.
good times good times!
365 days of 30
i decided to start a 365 photo project, for my 31st year of living. so far i’ve made it a week. woo!! i decided not to cross post them here, they are at flickr, and cross posted to facebook. but here is the link if anyone would like to follow or check in from time to time:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fragilemidnight/sets/72157624388803294/
my main concerns about the project
1. it’ll be so completely boring
2. i know i won’t keep up with it if i use a “real” camera, so unfortunately the quality is going to suffer by using my motorola droid phone camera. tho i do have photoshop on my phone haha…
3. when i force myself to be creative i fail, so…back to point #1
we’ll see if i can go the whole year
earthquake!!
i have a picture frame on top of my cable box that makes a funny noise when people (or kitty) walk near it, cuz it’s not entirely stable.
i was sitting on the couch and the frame started making that noise, which was weird because kitty was with me, no one else is here to make vibrations. it was a bit disconcerting, and i had the thought that my cable box was about to blow up.
then the couch started shaking, and the pictures on my wall next to me, and the water in my glass was moving. earthquake.
my best guess was the picture was making noise for at least a minute before i was able to feel the shaking, and i could feel it for at least a minute. the shaking definitely lessened, i could still feel it, and the water was still moving for a bit after that.
it’s such a creepy feeling, and this was really nothing. i can’t imagine what it must be like to be in a “real” earthquake. the USGS website is reporting 5.5 magnitude near the ontario-quebec border. it reminds me of the quake i felt as a kid that was centered near montreal, and the one when i was home from college that woke me up (my bed started swaying, but my parents who were already up didn’t feel it), also centered in quebec i believe.
dream
more school dreams: i had to write a 10 page paper on the accomplishments of women in american history for mr zayatz (who was actually my 12th grade english teacher). i forgot about it until sunday night, when it was due on a monday. i didn’t even know what the paper was supposed to be about. i tried calling people to find out what it was about, and ended up trying to get into the school to get my stuff out of my locker. then i tried to write the paper and couldn’t think of any important women, and looking in my text book i was having a hard time. then i was in school still trying to write it, i only had one page, but everyone else was having trouble too cuz our textbook was pretty terrible.
How To Destroy Angels – EP
my attempt at an unbiased review
the whole album is NIN with a chick. trent + atticus and this is the music you get (which is great as expected), but a girl sings on it. and i don’t like chick singers most of the time. over all i think most of these could have been ghost instrumentals, and would be better that way.
1. The Space In Between – it’s ok. sleepy chick singing. it’s a little on the boring side, but it does build. as far as the video goes, let’s hope life doesn’t imitate art.
2. Parasite – the one i like the most on the album. no, not just cuz trent sings on it. i do think their voices mesh well in this context.
3. Fur Lined – hate. it’s obnoxious. it sounds like a With Teeth reject, same drum machine as “only” and a strong baseline creates the same feel. and the vocals, ugh, seriously they hurt my ears. no thanks.
4. BBB – it’s amusing, it got stuck in my head before i had even finished listening to the whole song. the end sounds like people meowing in the background. haha
5. The Believers – a definite instrumental, that disappontingly isn’t. a shorter version could have easily fit in anywhere on Ghosts. anyone can whisper, this isn’t a special talent.
6. A Drowning – this song makes me sad, because if this was a NIN song with trent singing, it would be a “classic” along the lines of hurt/the day the world went away/right where it belongs/in this twilight. anyone else singing with the slightest bit of emotion would make this song incredible. but sadly we get quiet emotionless singing. it’s very “year zero” to me, musically.
listening again, GOD it’s just SO NIN but…disappointing that it’s not really. i don’t know that trent could ever do anything seriously different than NIN, that’s just who he is and the sound he produces. i can’t stand whispery girl singing, no matter who is doing it, it’s just so boring. it can’t convey any emotion, and anyone can do it. i feel like i have to buy it though, because i have listened more than twice and i can see myself listening again. i don’t hate it, but it’s not great. i need the multitracks to make instrumental versions 😉
dream
i have reoccurring dreams about being in school and having not gone to a certain class for months, or the whole semester or even year because i forgot i was in the class.
dream: once again i was in school and had forgotten about not one but 2 classes that i was in. i got my report card, right before final exams, and saw that i had no grade for my english class, bringing my years average down to a 33, and i had also not gone to my cognitive psych class, where i now had a 27 average. that was killing my total average and GPA and i started freaking out. there was a big project due in english that i hadn’t even started, since i had forgotten i was in the class. so i was trying to make up a plan to go to these teachers and ask if i could do some extra work before the final exam to bring my average up. i knew they weren’t going to “buy” the fact that i had forgotten i was in the class, but i figured i had to do SOMETHING or i was going to fail out of school
dream
dream: i was at artpark again seeing alice cooper, but i was by myself for some reason. after the show i went to walk outside and i ran into jeff, which was good cuz i didn’t want to walk by myself to my car cuz it was parked in a scary dark gravel lot. i had no shoes on, which wasn’t good for walking on gravel, and when i got to my car i had a giant piece of glass sticking out of my foot that i had to pull out. i got into the car and none of the traffic would let me back out and get in line, and they kept almost hitting me, or actually hitting me. i finally got out a bit, and then backed away from the traffic so i’d have room to sneak in. there was some sort of commotion with a group of drunk people (3 girls, 2 guys) and a security guard there was trying to break it up or something. she reached into my car and turned it off, and told me to get out. she commandeered my car as if she was a cop, to try to get the people to disperse, but instead she was trying to run them over and i was like wtf is going on. and i still had no shoes on. so i ended up in this other building with these drunk people, since i had to wait to get my car back. there was a vendor inside trying to sell big fleece kiss blankets even tho it wasn’t a kiss show.