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I WENT TO GO SEE NIN! I CAN HAZ NIN! OBVIOUSLY, L0LLERSKATES.
It COULD be the air conditioning, but I swear that typing that sent a chill down my spine. Horrible. The same way I hate butchering Portuguese by saying words with a terrible, anglicized accent makes me want to wash myself inside and out because I feel so dirty....I also hate butchering English because any language deserves so much better than that. ANY LANGUAGE. Yes....even the crazy type of English the folks up in Newfoundland speak.
Anyhow. So I went to see Nine Inch Nails last night at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto and I loved it. Plain and simple. It was perfect and the crowd wasn't one extreme or the other, thankfully. No assholes ruined "Hurt" (thank you fellow Canadians) no one flipped out on stage despite a few tech issues. Although watching Robin to see what he was going to do when his guitar was crapping out at the beginning of "The Big Comedown" was interesting.
This is the first show that I've ever been so close to, seat wise, and I'm glad I popped my awesome seat cherry at a NIN show. WHAT I would give to just be able to hit nearly every show on this tour and follow them around North America. Accursed money!!! Or lack thereof.
It's so difficult for me to actually just quickly and nonchalantly type some sort of real review on the internet for some strange reason. The only things I can spit out seem relatively fangirly I guess. I loved Robin. He was incredible to watch and I found myself watching him for most of the show. I never thought I'd like anyone more than Aaron North, but it turns out that's not the case. In my opinion, Robin tops Aaron in a heartbeat. He's got him topped in everything from skill and presence to style and temperament. I'm very glad I was seated stage Robin, the show was really great from that side. JMJ is a great addition to the band and he is VERY talented. In fact, I love all of the multi talent in each and every one of the musicians which shined through especially well on all the Ghosts songs. Someone over at the Echoing the Sound forums had mentioned that they wouldn't mind being treated to an all Ghosts live experience, and I've gotta say that I wouldn't mind that either. In fact, I am going to request that. All Ghosts live show? Please?
I don't know if I mentioned this earlier but I was really happy with the section I was in. Despite the girl to my left who seemed awfully tanked after 2 cups of beer, and even she amused me more than anything. EXCEPT for the 2 or so times she INSISTED on YELLING "I LOVE YOU TRENT REZNOR!!!" Christ. You're a grown woman. Must you insist on yelling such things? It was actually a mix of people sitting and standing, but no one was stupid. Most of the sitting happened during Ghosts, and I sat to, mainly because I was in way too much awe of everything that was assaulting my eyes in front of me. It was beautiful. Hence why I would like a full 2+ hours of Ghosts, Ghosts, Ghosts.
Anyhow, I think I may actually sit down and pen a proper review one day. Actually write it out, which is what I'm prone to doing before creating any sort of digital file. I prefer it and I feel like it helps me write and organize my thoughts better.
To close, I left with 2 shirts, a generic NIN/Year Zero girl shirt (because I've wanted a NIN girl shirt for so, so long and the girl shirts at the 2006 show were hideous, in my opinion) and a tour date shirt. I went in originally just wanting to get a tour date shirt because I didn't think they'd have any girl shirts (they didn't at the previous shows in this tour) then when I saw they had both...well, I got both. Unfortunately, the ONE tour shirt that I had absoloutely zero hesitation in wanting only started at size medium. I'm always told, "oh, don't worry, it'll shrink, it'll shrink!" Yeah, fuck off. It never shrinks enough to actually fit me you cunts. So whenever a sales person tells me that, I kind of mentally roll my eyes and ignore that part of their sales pitch because it never works on me. I'm a stick you people, you can see that, this medium will never shrink to fit me the way a small would. Anyhow...I'm getting off track. However, I decided I'd splurge and get the size medium tour date shirt as well. The only other tour date shirt that came in small, while cool, I had already seen it in pictures and had original doubts about buying. Meanwhile, the red stripe/The Slip tour date shirt that I ended up buying was the one shirt that upon seeing I knew I'd get for sure. So despite being a size too large, I'm quite happy with myself for getting it. Besides, if it ends up being ridiculously big on me (which it isn't) I could always just give it to Tiago and then he'd have a NIN shirt to wear! Yay!
I took a SHIT TON of pictures during the show, of which only 14 turned out presentable to human eyes.
I have them up on my Flickr, check them out!
And if you haven't already, head on over to nin.com and download their latest album The Slip today! It's a great album and the perfect step forward in their musical direction. Every day I'm hooked on a new song, today it's "Echoplex."
OH! And one more thing, super quickly, before I bring this to an end. I NOW know my people go to multiple shows throughout certain tours. Now I want to go to all of the other shows nearby, I want to see EVERY song they've played at all the other shows but didn't play last night. I just want to see that amazing light show over and over and over.
I WENT TO GO SEE NIN! I CAN HAZ NIN! OBVIOUSLY, L0LLERSKATES.
It COULD be the air conditioning, but I swear that typing that sent a chill down my spine. Horrible. The same way I hate butchering Portuguese by saying words with a terrible, anglicized accent makes me want to wash myself inside and out because I feel so dirty....I also hate butchering English because any language deserves so much better than that. ANY LANGUAGE. Yes....even the crazy type of English the folks up in Newfoundland speak.
Anyhow. So I went to see Nine Inch Nails last night at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto and I loved it. Plain and simple. It was perfect and the crowd wasn't one extreme or the other, thankfully. No assholes ruined "Hurt" (thank you fellow Canadians) no one flipped out on stage despite a few tech issues. Although watching Robin to see what he was going to do when his guitar was crapping out at the beginning of "The Big Comedown" was interesting.
This is the first show that I've ever been so close to, seat wise, and I'm glad I popped my awesome seat cherry at a NIN show. WHAT I would give to just be able to hit nearly every show on this tour and follow them around North America. Accursed money!!! Or lack thereof.
It's so difficult for me to actually just quickly and nonchalantly type some sort of real review on the internet for some strange reason. The only things I can spit out seem relatively fangirly I guess. I loved Robin. He was incredible to watch and I found myself watching him for most of the show. I never thought I'd like anyone more than Aaron North, but it turns out that's not the case. In my opinion, Robin tops Aaron in a heartbeat. He's got him topped in everything from skill and presence to style and temperament. I'm very glad I was seated stage Robin, the show was really great from that side. JMJ is a great addition to the band and he is VERY talented. In fact, I love all of the multi talent in each and every one of the musicians which shined through especially well on all the Ghosts songs. Someone over at the Echoing the Sound forums had mentioned that they wouldn't mind being treated to an all Ghosts live experience, and I've gotta say that I wouldn't mind that either. In fact, I am going to request that. All Ghosts live show? Please?
I don't know if I mentioned this earlier but I was really happy with the section I was in. Despite the girl to my left who seemed awfully tanked after 2 cups of beer, and even she amused me more than anything. EXCEPT for the 2 or so times she INSISTED on YELLING "I LOVE YOU TRENT REZNOR!!!" Christ. You're a grown woman. Must you insist on yelling such things? It was actually a mix of people sitting and standing, but no one was stupid. Most of the sitting happened during Ghosts, and I sat to, mainly because I was in way too much awe of everything that was assaulting my eyes in front of me. It was beautiful. Hence why I would like a full 2+ hours of Ghosts, Ghosts, Ghosts.
Anyhow, I think I may actually sit down and pen a proper review one day. Actually write it out, which is what I'm prone to doing before creating any sort of digital file. I prefer it and I feel like it helps me write and organize my thoughts better.
To close, I left with 2 shirts, a generic NIN/Year Zero girl shirt (because I've wanted a NIN girl shirt for so, so long and the girl shirts at the 2006 show were hideous, in my opinion) and a tour date shirt. I went in originally just wanting to get a tour date shirt because I didn't think they'd have any girl shirts (they didn't at the previous shows in this tour) then when I saw they had both...well, I got both. Unfortunately, the ONE tour shirt that I had absoloutely zero hesitation in wanting only started at size medium. I'm always told, "oh, don't worry, it'll shrink, it'll shrink!" Yeah, fuck off. It never shrinks enough to actually fit me you cunts. So whenever a sales person tells me that, I kind of mentally roll my eyes and ignore that part of their sales pitch because it never works on me. I'm a stick you people, you can see that, this medium will never shrink to fit me the way a small would. Anyhow...I'm getting off track. However, I decided I'd splurge and get the size medium tour date shirt as well. The only other tour date shirt that came in small, while cool, I had already seen it in pictures and had original doubts about buying. Meanwhile, the red stripe/The Slip tour date shirt that I ended up buying was the one shirt that upon seeing I knew I'd get for sure. So despite being a size too large, I'm quite happy with myself for getting it. Besides, if it ends up being ridiculously big on me (which it isn't) I could always just give it to Tiago and then he'd have a NIN shirt to wear! Yay!
I took a SHIT TON of pictures during the show, of which only 14 turned out presentable to human eyes.
I have them up on my Flickr, check them out!
And if you haven't already, head on over to nin.com and download their latest album The Slip today! It's a great album and the perfect step forward in their musical direction. Every day I'm hooked on a new song, today it's "Echoplex."
OH! And one more thing, super quickly, before I bring this to an end. I NOW know my people go to multiple shows throughout certain tours. Now I want to go to all of the other shows nearby, I want to see EVERY song they've played at all the other shows but didn't play last night. I just want to see that amazing light show over and over and over.