Comments | pphaneuf: Nine Inch Nails, boring funeral, being an idiot

pphaneuf

Nine Inch Nails, boring funeral, being an idiot

Nov 13, 2005 23:27

Saw Nine Inch Nails friday, initially with a number of friends (including pdage, who I hadn't seen in a good while), but then with gregorama and g_g_68 (who I've only sort of met, but we've shared water already (but not in that way!)). Was all right, but my suspicions are confirmed, NIN is mostly part of my history rather than of my present. They played one of my ( Read more... )

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cpirate November 14 2005, 08:29:39 UTC

What kind of cables does your TV demand? I have an old tape deck with RCA inputs hooked up as my computer speakers via a headphone-to-RCA adapter, to which I then plug in my headphones on occasion. If your TV exports RCA, and you have such an archaic beast around, you could probably get something going. Or you could just buy an RCA-to-headphone converter, I guess, which is probably simpler if you can find one. You could even make one, they're pretty damned simple!

pphaneuf November 14 2005, 18:36:09 UTC

Yeah, I have a few RCA to 1/8" male cables, but I need RCA to 1/8" female. This thing obviously has been designed to be plugged into a sound system, which you'd plug your headphones into. I've been scouring Future Shops and The Sources for those. I might end up having to make them...

cpirate November 14 2005, 18:41:38 UTC

Ah. Radio Shack (sorry, "The Source") may have what you're looking for, either a straight RCA-to-female-1/8" or a 1/8" female-female gender-bender. Or you could go to some shady surplus store at St. Laurent and Ontario and pick up a cheap tape deck :)

pphaneuf November 14 2005, 18:43:48 UTC

Yeah, I'd have thought they'd have what I'm looking for, but didn't have much luck to the one I've been to. It was kind of a small one, though.

I'm feeling rather silly at the idea of buying a whole tape deck as a gender-bender. :-)

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pphaneuf November 14 2005, 18:38:22 UTC

It's the cousin I mentioned before, but thanks anyway!

I had been to the NIN shows for The Downward Spiral (at the old Forum!) and for The Fragile, and it's definitely been a downward spiral. :-P

g_g_68 November 14 2005, 23:23:31 UTC

Pierre, it was nice meeting you, even if it was only very brief. :)

pphaneuf November 14 2005, 23:55:54 UTC

Yeah, I must seem very smart, with my inane ramblings about knitted Quake sweaters... :-)

pdage November 15 2005, 18:33:46 UTC

I sincerily think that your past, present and future all form the thing that is called you. Whatever you think about the things that compose the person you are will only be floating along side of you in a sea of un-time.

You might have enjoyed the show a bit more if you would have looked at it under a different light, not trying to find something you like but trying to find something you used to like.

Maybe you should have dressed up like Chriss.

pphaneuf November 15 2005, 21:10:39 UTC

Oh, I had a good time at the show, I was actually really happy that they played some songs (like "Burn" and "Dead Souls") that aren't really that well known but that I like a lot. But couldn't help notice that the energy of the crowd was severely lacking.

In my defense, I have been seeing a lot of really good shows these days. The Decemberists got freakin' Torontonians hipsters to dance, Front 242 kicked major ass, Kraftwerk were super-solid, Einstürzende Neubauten left me feeling like a semi truck had run me over and wondering what just happened...

But man, seeing that guy in goth get-ups, with a red Quake logo on his black knitted sweater, that was awesome! LOL!

pdage November 15 2005, 21:52:23 UTC

I kept joking to Chriss that they should have put the Quake 1 CD during before NIN's set. Now that I think about it, I don't think it would have been that geeky. I still enjoy listening to that CD, it's the closest thing you can find when it comes to "Trent Reznore Ambiance music". It would have been a great pump up before the show ( ... )