...earlier this year, it suddenly dawned on me (fifteen years after initially listening to the record and looking at the booklet before Ms. Vernon's English class with a certain Mr. Douglas Roark) that the artwork on the inside pages of The Downward Spiral is meant to be closeups of Icarus's wings, after he flew too close to the sun and the wax ( Read more... )

...a bit earlier, I suddenly realized that I was listening to NIN's Year Zero WHILE READING George Orwell's 1984, WHILE AT WORK. I swear I did not do this on purpose. In fact, I was wondering why my attitude about my job seemed to be getting worse, when I was feeling pretty good, before that...