one post

instead of doing four posts a day like i did yesterday, i'm going to try to think of everything i want to say right now. this is so much pressure, but it yields one. comprehensive. post. at least that's the plan, but it's so hard to execute this plan because later i'll just think of something else i want to write, and then what, THEN WHAT? okay, here are some things, perhaps they will all be tied together by this quote: after silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ aldous huxley

field day 2005 is cancelled before we even had a chance to buy tickets. this is good since last time we bought tickets it was cancelled, we got a refund, and then it was held in nj or something. i forget details. but i remember it was a mess. by "we" i'm referring to my friend lara and myself.

last week i came home sort of drunk and when this happens i often listen to radiohead. because i love them above any other band in the entire universe. even bands i haven't heard yet and bands that don't exist yet. so i was listening to radiohead and after writing in my journal about them for pages and pages i emailed my friend lara about them. since lara and myself both love them in the same way and when we lived in the same state we would listen to them over and over and over again. i wish i had enough money to bid on this piece of art by thom yorke and stanley donwood [pictured].

anyway, before radiohead there was nine inch nails. my friend perrin and i loved them, or rather loved trent reznor. a lot. in high school/college(?) we came all the way into the big city to see them play at msg. we got here and the show was cancelled because trent's dog had died and he couldn't perform. he was heartbroken. and i was heartbroken. the one man who glued together my fragile teenage being had betrayed me. my journal contained much scribble about this night, unsent letters to trent and quotes from his songs like why does it come as a surprise. to think that I was so naive. maybe didn't mean too much. but it meant everything to me. then my dad took us to see them play in worcester, mass later on that year and everything was right in the world again. my tangent has an ending, jed has posted a song from their new album and my inner seventeen year old is wanting to dye her hair with manic panic again. here is the song: with teeth.mp3 - nin

there will be more later i'm sure, my brain works in ways that doesn't make sense for this type of posting. i was dangerously close to telling the story about the time i touched the dalai lama when i met him in oregon (which means i'm blessed people, BLESSED) and then the story about my friend perrin's car in high school. which had a lot more stickers on it then my car in high school. and my car had a lot of stickers. these are stories for another time though.

update: see, it never ends.
jeff reports that nin tickets go on sale today for their hammerstein shows. FOR $45. not including ticketmaster fees. trent, why must you break my heart again and again.

Comments

[DJMonsterMo]

Thanks for the new NIN! Great site, btw.

[Smitt]

That song isn't called "With Teeth", it's called "The Line Begins to Blur".

Just a heads up.

[Saturnine]

*cough* *cough* shameful plug for the NIN Hotline *cough* *cough*

[lyla]

i got tickets to that nin show...i am sooooooooooo excited. they sold out in mere minutes. if he breaks my heart, i will break his legs.