ha the cover of the year zero remix album is all in H4x0r language
haha aaron
oh aaron north…
what gear do you play on: Ruiner
The song always kicks in, and I go, “DAMMIT… what are the words I hafta scream really fast again? ‘The Ruiner knows Phil Spector, he likes wearing sweaters’ Right?”” hahahaha
what gear do you play on: The Perfect Drug
AN: That’s easy, only cos I remember finger-fucking the arrangement on that sucker forever. I know I play a Jazzmaster in drop D tuning, and make lotsa weird noises. It sounds cool, and is fun to play actually. Maybe we’ll even perform it live someday. Eh. Prolly not.
Trent made it clear from the get-go that he wasn’t really interested in me trying to sound like any of the old dudes anyway. He was like, “Instead of copying something Robin just copied from Richard, do what you want”… And to the dismay of kids everywhere with shaved eyebrows and those weird shoes with the big soles on them, I did.
man i still find it hard to believe aaron is 3 years younger than me…
cuuuute
is that trent laying down next to aaron? how freaking adorable haha
dream
2 dreams
1. trent rereleased all the halos with new packaging that went along with year zero. the packaging was just black, with the halo number on the front, but had little subliminal things on them, and when you bought all the halos and put them together there were hidden messages that would show up. also when you put 3-6 together a secret song would play. so i was at a store and saw the new ones and started picking them up, in order, they were 2.99 each. i couldn’t find halo 9.
2. i was in the finals of america’s next top model (again). the final challenge wasn’t the normal runway show like on tv, but it was…a luge. so we’re all dressed up and looking fierce and we have to go down the luge. we were waiting for all these other people to go first – apparently there was a next top male model too. we’re waiting for them to finish for so long that the hour is almost over, and we were going to have to wait until the next week to finish the show. but instead of making us all wait til next time, they tell me to go in the remaining time. i was like wtf, that’s not fair to make me go and then let the others have a week to practice etc still. so i go, and i don’t do that great, and while tyra is there, one of the judges is also my high school calculus teacher mrs fleming. wtf.
not a dream – there is this new matchmaker show on a&e, which is apparently based out of buffalo. i guess this matchmaker gives you dating advice so you can go on better dates or something. the episode last night i didn’t get to see, but some at work did, and it featured one of our cocktail waitresses. the best part, is that this waitress is one of the most hideous people i’ve ever seen in my life. i have to modify that though – she think’s she’s hot shit, and there are probably plenty of guys who think she’s hot too. but she is way too tan, fake baking, hair extensions, way too much make up. i just think she’s horrible. and apparently the matchmaker told her all this LOL, that she should stop tanning cuz shes going to look like an old lady, and that she looks like the kind of girl who is easy to take home on the first date hahahahahahah. i so need to see this episode. hahahahahahah
nin, translated and retranslated
seriously. this is amusing me to no end. so for my own amusement….i continue
“closer”
– permits the fact, that the holiness which permits the thing which is pierced is polluted, as for me, who permit the fact that you violate the damage
– with my all existence, which I like and obtains with God, the close animal inside, we would like to have sexual intercourse
– where as for me, with you, I have lived on the wood inside my stomach, which can be rubbed
– due to God, through all forests we would like to have sexual intercourse
“the becoming”
– and the blood stops the pump in order to make me rot
– you do not think that me who bound by my with the string murder
– but to elbowroom while being possible
– everything am bad is damaged hiding in my rear, I feel
“burn”
– me me, where I swallow with the fire, am your rescue person of degradation
“down in it”
– you can be concerned that my eye where method, at this point in time, looked at me excessively long
– everything which is not liked under any condition
– it crawls because now it can amuse
– but as for the needle of weight of my eye, and the all worlds, there is already my back section
“eraser”
-Dream you need you me where you hate me the pulverization where I turn off me the being broken eye which is lost the sexual intercourse which is used for damaging the discovery which is tasted
“gave up”
– me look, you took, you took, my remainder which you took and is broken to the part which is broken with respect to my everything which is broken
– Being covered with desire, and the vaseline which are not known because I who was broken and am broken
– you burn with the organizational decrease
“hurt”
– only factual quality in order to kill that entirely
– to see am old and am well known
– did I who damage by yourself become something?
– for the second time I maintain by myself I find method
haaaaa
1: Find the lyrics to your favorite song
2: Go to http://babelfish.altavista.com
3: Run the song through the English to Japanese translator
4: Copy it and then run it through the translator again, this time from Japanese to English.
5: Post the song (title and performer included please) along with these directions in your own journal.
As for her as for her to whom she leaves the road of the honey in order somewhere she who expands the insect which permits her herself who was opened sufficiently is to show in me from in the blood of the insects under kind of her skin from thousand other things Ohio state which drips exactly and possesses as for liar Ohio state my valuable prostitute my sickness my contagion me where I am beautiful as for the demon which very is impure as for the depth where I reach being limitless from the contact which necessity of my caress which she pollutes in order to lighten this loneliness which I now have known is infected the angel Bleed Ohio state which the method of stating clearly you speak liar Ohio state my valuable prostitute my sickness my contagion I where I am beautiful very am impure
LOL wtf is with the “ohio state” stuff hahahahaha……hahahah “ohio state, my valuable prostitute” hahahahahah
when people complain about “hulk” trent, beefed up, short hair – no longer the skinny angsty long black haired white goth boy….i just think, look at robert smith from the cure. he really needs to give it up. at some point, you have to grow up. trent is over 40 now, do you really expect him to be “the perfect drug” trent at 42? people would be laughing at him the way i look at robert smith and laugh. hahahahahha
my birthday this year falls on my day off. what to do, what to do…
Rant page 263: “In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it’s stunning how little imagination most people display.”
the life you didn’t lead
wow…the south park Michael Jackson/Blanket/Framing Rich Black Men episode…dear lord LOL!!!! the “shamons” are classic
“the life you didn’t lead” (unreleased With Teeth song)
Home
Returning
From somewhere
To someplace safe
And for once
As you watch
The color of the sunset
As it paints the walls
And you are not living in a memory
You are vital and alive
You are at peace
You are godlike
And you are safe
And that moment will last
In a place
In your mind
There is no pain
And you forget what it feels like
And you can see
How it could be
dream i had last night. my parents had bought tickets for some apparently very classy and exclusive play at sheas – for me, them and their friend. however none of our seats were together, and sheas had a strange reverse seating part where your back was to the stage and you had to watch it on tv screens. that’s where my seat was. there was an opening act for this play, and it was britney spears….wtf. i’m sitting there by myself waiting, and who shows up and happens to have the seat next to me? dan. he apparently came in from minn. to see this play and small world sat next to me. so britney comes on and you hear just a wave of laughter through the crowd. the performance was ridiculous and the whole time i kept thinking about the review i was going to write about it to send to perez hilton. she changed outfits and wigs every song, and wasn’t in shape, still had baby fat, sometimes she was singing because she was in the aisle near us and we could hear her real voice, sometimes she was lip synching. and dan was flabbergasted that i was interested to see the performance, and i was like I DONT LIKE HER I JUST WANT TO BE ON PEREZ!!! these 2 gay guys next to dan then started being all, oooh i love perez, that’s so awesome!! haha. i dunno. weird.
in other news, my scanner is smart enough to know when it’s scanning money, and it tells you you’re not allowed to print it hahahah noreasoniwasscanningmoney
part of the year zero ARG is openresistance.net which advertised a meeting last week or 2 weeks ago, and fans who went got these neat looking kits, some with cell phones…
from ninhotline: “Remember how last week a bunch of people in LA got AIR kits with cell phones from some dudes in a van somewhere? Well, these lucky fans got calls on their phones telling them to show up at a certain location last night, and what began as an AIR meeting led to a secret Nine Inch Nails performance that was prematurely ended by the local SWAT team. You can watch video of the meeting on OSR.net and you can read more about the events here on ETS. Make sure you digg the story, too. And, NO FAIR WHAT ABOUT THE EAST COAST WAAAAAAH. ”
so fucking cool. so jealous. LOL
and only somewhat related http://www.myspace.com/renegadeartshow pass it on
year zero
year zero = love. I don’t know why I get scared about new NIN releases because Trent never fails us. Even having heard it at the pre-show listening party in London, I couldn’t decide if I liked it or not. I don’t like it, I love it. It really is an incredible album, nothing at all like With Teeth, or even like any old NIN stuff. There are elements of Downward, and elements of the Fragile, but still completely different. I can’t pick out a single weak song on the album – and even the best albums, like Achtung Baby which I think is one of the best recordings of all time, has weak songs. But with the exception of 3 seconds on the album, which I’ll get to later, it’s absolutely fantastic. It’s really an album that you have to listen to all at once to really appreciate. When I gave in and listened to Survivalism and My Violent Heart on myspace I didn’t really like them. But on the album, as part of the whole package, they’re great. And be sure to call the phone number on the back.
1. Hyperpower – instrumental, Josh on drums. Energizing, good intro.
2. The Beginning of the End – great song despite it sounding like My Sharona 🙂 Having heard it live helps to get into the song.
3. Survivalism – When I listened on myspace I thought it was ok, but overall wasn’t super impressed. Seeing it live made it totally awesome. “lost our faith along the way and found ourselves believing your lies” incredible lyric.
4. The Good Soldier – Alex and I had been scared that this song was about christianity and Trent finding god. It’s not. It’s about (the) war, and belief in the war cause. Includes a xylophone. ha!
5. Vessel – at this point, my favourite song on the album. I can’t really explain why, or really even describe the song. Loud and seemingly disorganized. Planned chaos. Fantastic.
6. Me, I’m Not – love. Kinda chill, still NIN.
7. Capital G – very catchy, definite single potential. Features Trent’s new found love of singing staccato.
8. My Violent Heart – wasn’t sure I liked the song when I first heard it on myspace, but in the context of the whole album it’s great. Also, gotta love Trent just speaking the words. *hot*
9. The Warning – apparently I have nothing to say about this song ha.
10. God Given – along with Vessel, favourite song on the album. Very, very dancable. You can picture it being played in clubs. It sort of sounds like a Danny Lohner remix, it has that kind of timbaland type groove to it. I swear the blurry picture with the lyrics in the booklet is Michael Jackson.
11. Meet Your Master – I can’t help but think of “master of puppets”, because there just aren’t many words that rhyme with master ha. Doesn’t sound like metallica in the slightest bit tho. Could have single potential too. I can imagine hearing it on the radio – you know, if i ever listened to the radio.
12. The Greater Good – reminiscent of the fragile.
13. The Great Destroyer – massive massive problem with the song. It goes along quite well and continues quite well except for the…horrifying…let’s call it “epic vocal flourish” of the last line of the song. God it makes me cringe. It is just so not nine inch nails, and it’s so not trent reznor. It’s…bad 80s metal. Leighanne used to turn the volume down at the beginning of Bowie’s “cat people” because she hated the way he sang “with gasoline” but I completely understand now. That last “the great destroyer” is just so awful. It is the only flaw on Year Zero. Or maybe I’m just missing something – like that it conveys a certain meaning to the song and album. But…no. just. no.
14. Another Version of the Truth – piano! it still exists! An instrumental very reminiscent of the fragile, and “a warm place”. very nice. A calm after the storm or nuclear winter. Whichever you prefer.
15. In This Twilight – a very noisy pretty song. Strangely optimistic. Makes you wonder what comes after year zero. Both literally as in the next album, and as the next part to unfold in the “world of year zero”.
16. Zero-sum – Background piano and spoken word very reminiscent of “the downward spiral”. Really really gorgeous song. The lyrics are just beautiful and really “make” the song. Gah. My reaction right now came as a complete surprise, after reading the lyrics along with the song. Very impressed with it suddenly.
One one hand you can hear the Saul Williams influence on the album – the spoken word, the “hip hop” groove – but on the other hand, the spoken words parts are very reminiscent of The Downward Spiral as well. It doesn’t say alot about who actually played instruments, other than Josh on drums, but the album seems to reflect Aaron’s manic sort of guitar playing.
Just…go buy it!