NIN/JA Skillz

[kingfuraday]

I know I haven't posted part II of my Coachella trip but I wanted to put up a few pics and talk about my experience at the NINJA show on Saturday first.

For a lot of you young pups you might wanna sit down and listen to Uncle Brian for a sec. See, back in the roarin' mid to late 90s there was a full blown explosion of all things "alternative". See

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[p00kitty]

I remember when my old bff Aaron went to the first Lollapalooza and introduced me to Jane's Addiction and NIN. I got 'Nothing's Shocking" from a Columbia House mailorder CD thing (which I think now, based on that cover, is unheard of) and when he played NIN 'Pretty Hate Machine' that pretty much clinched it for me. Love, and still love NIN. Trent is brilliant in my book

[kingfuraday]

I am so going to bust out Downward Spiral and do the as well. It remains just about my fav NIN album apart from Pretty Hate Machine. Then again, I feel like I've been a NIN tourist for a few years now. Just plucking up the singles. Not to mention my gripe about Trent's song writing at times... where he takes a killer phrase and says it over and over and over (hand that feeds, perfect drug, etc). Instead of "every day is exactly the same" I started singing "every song is exactly the same".

But yeah, then I see him play live like on Saturday and I pretty much have to chuck that critique out the f'ing door. The man makes insanely good music. End of story.

[kingfuraday]

I missed that Lolla... matter of fact the only ones I went to were '91 and then '94 (Smashing Pumpkins and Beastie Boys with a little snotty punk band named Green Day opening).

And The Pixies live are truly fantastic... if you can catch NIN before they sunset I would HIGHLY recommend it.