what's up ?
So we've been back from NIN's performance tour since roughly two weeks...back from driving 19062 km (and flying some peanuts 810 km) of LBburgoslisbonmadridbilbaobarcelonaparislillemanchesterglasgownottinhambirminghamlondondüsselorfkölndüsseldorfdortmundtilburgbrusselsamsterdamberlinstuttgartmunichviennamilanzurichfrankfurtcopenhagenoslostockholmhelsinkilübeckangersLB.
However I would try to sum up and capture the brillance and beauty of these two months in words, it would be cruelly inadequate...so I won't even try.
Maybe just so much...I had my mind blown in places I wouldn't have expected it somehow...like Bilbao, Nottingham, Manchester, Brussels, Vienna, Berlin and was pretty disappointed in places I thought would be killer...like Amsterdam and London.
I ran into people having sex in the toilet of a Burger King.
I got death threats in the pit twice: "Gonna fuck you up and fuck you up the ass" (Manchester) and "Gonna stab you in the back, you fat piece of shit" (Helsinki)...without any injust manoeuvres on my side may I add.
Our rental car got crashed (Brixton), an attempt was made to break into it (Amsterdam), I myself wrecked it (Brussels)...and we got several tickets for unlawful parking.
I learned how nervewrecking europe really is for travellers...expensive highway fees in switzerland; no highway existing between oslo and stockholm; road paralysis in every major downtown; retarded currencies in norway, denmark, sweden, switzerland; no freaking laundromats anywhere (there's exactly ONE in the whole of vienna); no places to eat after 11 pm (apart from Paris, Lisbon, London, Vienna and Berlin). There's way too few Starbucks in europe, too...
So we've been back and I expected a hell of a comedown...which didn't happen at all...we watched all these sorta depressing (but nonetheless very worthy) movies featuring blonde chicks doing a lot of staring into the void...
...and I was still fairly cheery...even after having Radiohead (Bends), JAMC and Joy Division on high rotation...nothing. We took long walks in the sun, finally played some guitar again (God is in the radio and Cigarettes and Alcohol for me), hung out with the tiny people and all was good.
Then after a week nin.world comes and ruins everything... Tour plans involving direct connections as Oslo to Bratislava ? Support slots to the Foo Fighters ?? Festivals that sell either one day passes at 100 euro or 3 day only passes at 200 euro ? firecrackers and swat teams of unemployed hollywood actors in ware houses ? A 10 $ sellout campaign with Hot Topic giving you the badge along with the cd ? AIR and OS is the art form, not the music ? (if you don't have a clue what these acros mean, consider yourself lucky..)
A billboard web page phrased it best, when they said "guerilla marketing strategies were employed to raise awareness for the upcoming release of Year Zero".
Have you ever noticed, how if you take the ART out of MARkeTing you get Me King ? If you take the ART out of ResiTAnce you get Nieces ? If you take the ART out of ARmpiT you get Mpi ? And if you paste all this ART together (and fuck the letters up a bit...)....you get TARRRATATA.
But that might just be my inner Kurt Schwitters blowing a fuse...then again it IS resistance, right ?
However I would try to sum up and capture the brillance and beauty of these two months in words, it would be cruelly inadequate...so I won't even try.
Maybe just so much...I had my mind blown in places I wouldn't have expected it somehow...like Bilbao, Nottingham, Manchester, Brussels, Vienna, Berlin and was pretty disappointed in places I thought would be killer...like Amsterdam and London.
I ran into people having sex in the toilet of a Burger King.
I got death threats in the pit twice: "Gonna fuck you up and fuck you up the ass" (Manchester) and "Gonna stab you in the back, you fat piece of shit" (Helsinki)...without any injust manoeuvres on my side may I add.
Our rental car got crashed (Brixton), an attempt was made to break into it (Amsterdam), I myself wrecked it (Brussels)...and we got several tickets for unlawful parking.
I learned how nervewrecking europe really is for travellers...expensive highway fees in switzerland; no highway existing between oslo and stockholm; road paralysis in every major downtown; retarded currencies in norway, denmark, sweden, switzerland; no freaking laundromats anywhere (there's exactly ONE in the whole of vienna); no places to eat after 11 pm (apart from Paris, Lisbon, London, Vienna and Berlin). There's way too few Starbucks in europe, too...
So we've been back and I expected a hell of a comedown...which didn't happen at all...we watched all these sorta depressing (but nonetheless very worthy) movies featuring blonde chicks doing a lot of staring into the void...
...and I was still fairly cheery...even after having Radiohead (Bends), JAMC and Joy Division on high rotation...nothing. We took long walks in the sun, finally played some guitar again (God is in the radio and Cigarettes and Alcohol for me), hung out with the tiny people and all was good.
Then after a week nin.world comes and ruins everything... Tour plans involving direct connections as Oslo to Bratislava ? Support slots to the Foo Fighters ?? Festivals that sell either one day passes at 100 euro or 3 day only passes at 200 euro ? firecrackers and swat teams of unemployed hollywood actors in ware houses ? A 10 $ sellout campaign with Hot Topic giving you the badge along with the cd ? AIR and OS is the art form, not the music ? (if you don't have a clue what these acros mean, consider yourself lucky..)
A billboard web page phrased it best, when they said "guerilla marketing strategies were employed to raise awareness for the upcoming release of Year Zero".
Have you ever noticed, how if you take the ART out of MARkeTing you get Me King ? If you take the ART out of ResiTAnce you get Nieces ? If you take the ART out of ARmpiT you get Mpi ? And if you paste all this ART together (and fuck the letters up a bit...)....you get TARRRATATA.
But that might just be my inner Kurt Schwitters blowing a fuse...then again it IS resistance, right ?