You can tell a lot about someone by the music they listen to. Hit shuffle on your iPod/iPhone/iTunes/media player and write down the first 10 songs.

1. "I Can't Get No Sleep" by India and Master at Work
2. "Chinese Burn" by Curve
3. "A Forest" by the Cure
4. "Talk Me Down" by Assemblage 23
5. "Words of a Fool" by Love & Rockets

Trent Reznor has restarted Nine Inch Nails, and amazon.com is offering a single song, "Copy of a," off the upcoming album for free here right now: http://amzn.to/13AxUef. And I like it!

One of the survey sites I do surveys for small cash at recently stopped having cash cards as an option--damn it--so I took an amazon.com gift certificate. I bought a sheet set since some of mine are wearing out and then bought Nine Inch Nails' 2010 re-mastered Pretty Hate Machine to get Super Saver free shipping. The re-master is good ( Read more... )

I took advantage of Trent Reznor's largesse and got a copy of his new Nine Inch Nails album, The Slip, free from his website. It's pretty good, but my brother and I wonder if the physical version to be released in July will be a more finished product. My brother, a sound engineer, thinks some songs feel like they haven't gotten enough work, it's ( Read more... )

A Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box is a 3 CD/1 DVD compilation set of gothic music cutely laced into a leatherette "corset," though that makes it somewhat hard to file with your other stuff. For whatever reason, the CD/DVD/companion book folder itself has a stylized octopus drawn in red upon its black background, so Goth approves of tentacle porn ( Read more... )

I'm listening to Nine Inch Nails' And All That Could Have Been, and every time "Gave Up" comes on it makes me think that this is the sound of the Muppets doing industrial music, just as it has since I first heard it on Broken over ten years ago. Now that would be Electric Mayhem.

Travel mix: "Oh, the places you'll go""Never Let Me Down" by Depeche Mode ( Read more... )

While talking with lunarennui, I ended up reminiscing about concerts I've seen. Even some of the crap ones have some interesting stories. It started with us complaining about doctors ( Read more... )

We Are Not Alone by Breaking Benjamin is pretty good but can get kind of repetitive. It's funny how I can listen to them and think they sound a lot like Crossfade but like Crossfade so much better. Which brings me to:

Crossfade by Crossfade, which I am liking very much. Catchy tunes and three guys who can do vocals. Though the line "I built my ( Read more... )

Am I alone in thinking that Garbage's "Bleed Like Me" is like a less funky pale shadow of Lou Reed's "Take a Walk on the Wild Side"? Then again, I keep feeling that Trent Reznor's vocal delivery on the line "Are you hiding in the trees?" in "Right Where It Belongs" is kind of Pink Floyd-like.

I hate the way Garbage's Bleed Like Me is mixed. The ( Read more... )