The air quality here has been really bad due to the Canadian wildfires, and bad air quality continues into tomorrow. The air smells like burning, and I feel like I have a weight on my chest....

But I'm currently blessed with new music (and a few older choices I didn't have a good copy of). I received Liebe Macht Monster by Eisbrecher, How Do You ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

My first time hearing this: a 2009 live performance of Gary Numan fronting Nine Inch Nails to perform an excellent, thrashier version of "Cars." Numan is playing a Polymoog synthesizer from 1978.

Click to view

You can comment here or at the Dreamwidth crosspost.
( Read more... )

Nine Inch Nails have surprise-released a pair of instrumental sequels to the band’s 2008 instrumental series Ghosts: Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts. It’s all available to download for free via the NIN website.

I got such a chuckle out of this: "The new installments in the Ghosts series come 12 years after the release of Ghosts I-IV, a ( Read more... )

Recent episodes of Mr. Robot had some scenes at a taxidermy shop, making me wonder if the scenes were filmed at the one on Metropolitan Avenue across from Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery. Turns out they were, and that it's the only taxidermist in New York City, though some people are starting to take an interest in it to use it as an artistic thing ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

I've been collecting Amazon gift cards for awhile, so I gave myself some Christmas gifts. Thank you, my friends!

So Nine Inch Nails' Add Violence EP is mostly alright, though it's nothing Trent hasn't already done before, but "The Background World" is indefensible. It starts out well enough, but a little over four minutes in it keeps repeating ( Read more... )

I just finished a short Weiß Kreuz fic and am working on a Saiyuki fic for
( Read more... )

The heat and humidity here have been making my headaches much worse as well as making a lot of my old injuries hurt--my left ankle, the return of pain in my left shoulder and upper arm, my right knee, the scar on the back of my head--and seriously sapping my energy. This is the worst summer has been to me in a while. I actually ended up just paying ( Read more... )

Rolling Stone has some good picks on its "100 Best Albums of the Nineties," though of course there are some artists and genres on it I don't listen to. One cool thing is that alternative music in the 90s was often high profile enough that Rolling Stone counted some albums from it, but they didn't get it all so here are some of my choices they didn' ( Read more... )