new nin!!

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another new nin song…”echoplex”…distributed by way of iLike.com. just like leaked songs before year zero…if we are getting a new album, perhaps on monday, i really need to listen to the album in full. i didn’t have much of an opinion on “survivalism” and “my violent heart” when they were leaked for the arg, but as part of the whole album i love them. i think the same about “discipline” and now “echoplex”….they’re both “ok”. sorta dancy, “echoplex” makes me think of all the “80s” like openers trent has had on the tour the last 3 years. do i particularly like that style? no. but i didn’t really like year zero leaks, and i didn’t really like “the hand that feeds” and i thought “the day the world went away” was boring, but in the end always, always, like the full albums.

presale info was posted, toronto tuesday. a bunch more wednesday, then 1 each the following 2 weeks.

i went to see Avenue Q on thursday with jenn and jeff at Shea’s. HILARIOUS! for those who don’t know what it is, it is a musical that is basically Sesame Street on crack. adult themed puppets. i enjoyed it much more than Spamalot, as it was something pretty novel. the songs are very funny, most of the dialog too. one character is japanese complete with broken english and the r/l mispronunciation. she was quite funny to us because she sounded just like all our players at work. the best puppets were the “bad idea bears” ha!!! yeah. it was great. highly recommend it.

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for the 7 shows in august, looks like we’ll be seeing a band called “deerhunter” open on 3 of them, and a band called “does it offend you, yeah?” open for 4 shows. deerhunter sounds very boring, does it offend you, yeah? sounds very 80s and more interesting. all and all neither are surprising based on openers trent has had over the last 3 years. fits in the same “mold”. there are 3 other bands on the tour on dates we’re not going to. wonder what happened to saul tho, since an interview the other day had saul stating he’d be opening for trent this summer…and related, i put in for vacation, and ended up taking a full week to cover cleveland/detroit and nj/philly despite there being 4 days between the 2 stints….hoping for an additional show so i’m not wasting my vacation days. we don’t need 4 days to drive from detroit to nj.

and for anyone using the nin.com system for presales. i registered my email yesterday as instructed, but when i was asked to create an account, i tried my usual “elegant” username…and it was taken. i created a new one, but i suspected that our previous music today/spiral accounts did transfer, so for shits and giggles i tried just now to buy tickets for the KY show logging on with elegant and password and yep, it worked. and with tickets on sale for and hour and a half now, they are still available (and $45), so i’m less stressed about the “extremely limited quantity” and demand.

finally went to the falafel bar on elmwood, yum yum. i also went to the mall just to go to the new tea store, and they convinced me to buy the “perfect tea maker” thing…off to try it.

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half asleep during the “night” i got up to go to the bathroom, and somehow smashed my head on the doors. it wasn’t closed, i just somehow managed to walk into it. with my head. no other part of me hit the door. and just now, fully awake, walking to the bathroom i smashed my toes against the door. wtf.

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john cameron mitchell told perez hilton that there is a possibility of a hedwig revival on broadway. gaaaaaah. would have to spend tons of money to go see it for sure!!

wacky dream about this new “weight loss pill” that was being given to people as an “experiment”, or them being used as test subject to see if it worked. i knew alot of people taking it, and i didn’t know how they were getting it or what it was at the time. they told me, the government was giving it to them and then eric was there saying that he is the one in charge of giving it to his co-workers at his racino. then i went to work and all these coworkers of mine were taking the pill. finally someone gave it to me and wanted me to take it but i wouldn’t. i kept asking all these questions about what it was, and the bosses who were in charge of distributing it to me wouldn’t tell me. i asked what it did to you and they wouldn’t say. i asked if it made you high and they wouldn’t say. i kept holding it in hopes i’d find someone to tell me the truth but i couldn’t find anyone, even my so called friends who i trusted wouldn’t give me straight answers. so then i was trying to spread the word to people not to take it because the government was trying to drug us into submission but no one would listen to me.

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cassie and i, for some reason, had a discussion about metallica yesterday. which lead to me reading their wiki article and getting really irritated. i tried to make my case that lars is a total douchebag, but she thought hetfield was the main asshole. well speak of the devil…lars today tells rolling stone that metallica is considering giving their new album away for free on the internet, that they’ve been paying attention to what was done by radiohead and nin. WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the band that killed napster and sues their fansites is now going to let fans have their music for free afterall. fuck metallica. fuck em all!

it amuses me that trent blogged meathead’s flash video for “discipline” as “leaked pre-production ideas for stage sets” hah what a sense of humor.

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discipline

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of course, you can officially download “discipline” at nin.com….and here is the embedded artwork

wtf….did rob get bored and decide to draw on it with a red marker? not the most interesting thing in the world. more proof that i need his job. 🙂

and boooo philly won game 7. so next round is rangers/pittsburg and montreal/philly. both should be interesting series, and i hope pitts and montreal come out on top.

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new nin whaaaaat?!?

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new nin song on radio today…called “discipline”…1:50 min clip to download at tpb. full song available in the ETS thread pg 16 (and many many other pages now). god trent is busy…i kinda like this independent business, and trent’s willingness to release things as soon as they’re done. this song was supposedly mastered yesterday…

makes me think of janet jackson though, since her new album is called discipline too ha

doesn’t sound like her tho haha good thing. at first listen, it was eh. very pop, very “with teeth” era, reminiscent of only. but like the with teeth album, it has grown on me. it’s catchy, but people who want balls to the wall, loud, broken type NIN…this isn’t for you.

 

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baseball sucks

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nin.com says “2 weeks” again…the last time it said that, we got a surprise new album.

incase anyone didn’t know…it’s playoff hockey time. it’s almost the 2nd round. and what did i have to watch at work today instead of the 3rd period of the montreal game? the cubs/mets game. because yes, the 3rd week of baseball is far more important than playoffs. and dear god, i only had to watch the 8th and 9th innings, which took the entire length of the 3rd period and then some, and even with 5 cubs runs it was THE most boring thing in the world. one guy..fukudome or something spent 15 minutes at the plate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jesusfuckingchrist. i can’t imagine those poor people having to watch a 22 inning game last week, 6.5 hrs…wtf i’d kill myself. especially since they cut off beer sales in the 7th.

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rock band is finally being release for the wii…but you can’t download extra songs…which seems sorta retarded, given the wii is on the internet anyway. and since i’m sure it’ll be expensive, i wonder if it’ll include an expansion pack of some sort to compensate for the un-download-ability. i want to try to make my arms fall off playing the perfect drug on rock band drums damnit! mario kart for wii is coming too 🙂 i still need a “classic” or game cube controller if anyone has some they want to donate to me.

i’m off of work today, again, and have nothing to do, again. i got an IM from leah last night that they are in town so i’m hoping she pops back online as she said and i can meet her someplace. it’s 80 out and i should do something outside but i have no ideas. i don’t lay out in the sun, i have no porch furniture to just sit there and read, and while i want to explore i don’t go alone and i’m also completely bored with locations in buffalo. i don’t know of anything “new” and i don’t want to go to the same places for the 100th time. i also don’t have a hose so i can’t wash my car as i wanted to.

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