Nine Inch Nails, boring funeral, being an idiot

[pphaneuf]

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 favourite songs, "Burn", for example, and it seems almost no one in the audience picked up on it, they were all sort of "what's that song?".

The funeral service for my cousin yesterday was very boring. I counted the burnt out lightbulbs in the (ugly) church during the service. azrhey pointed out that the statue of Jesus on the cross had his wound on the wrong side, haha! Made me feel proud of what we put together for denizsarikaya, it was very unique and amazing. My mom was to be seen, trafficking scissors and being as colourful as ever! Took a ferry across the Richelieu, and azrhey went through the Hippolyte-Lafontaine tunnel for what I think is the first time? Ah, crazy times we live in. Stopped by the Galeries d'Anjou and picked up a few rather nice shirts, with the ninja-like shopping skills of azrhey at my side. Had "marrons chaud", whee!

Was pointed out that I'm an idiot sometimes, and acknowledged. Knowing about these things is important! I didn't mean to be, but it doesn't change that I was. Oh well, live and learn!

One of the shirts I picked up yesterday had a small defect, so I went back and had it exchanged. I hunted for some adapters that would allow me to hook up headphones to my television (Sony, why, oh why can't you put headphone jacks on your televisions?), to no avail. Did groceries, cooked myself some meat and potatoes that haven't killed me yet (but they filled me up something fierce!), did laundry, cleaned the bathtub (as I was tired of the smarty arse comments the life forms developing in it were giving me). Found out the closest decent video club, and it's not all that close... Bleh.

Comments

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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...

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

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

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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. :-)

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

If I wasn't using mine (and you didn't mind absolutely appalling sound quality) I'd lend it to you, since yeah, it's otherwise a bit useless :)

Maybe this can be motivation for me to finally get myself some sensible speakers.

[g-g-68.livejournal.com]

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

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

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

[pdage.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.

I can't say the show was amazing either. Thruth is, I mostly felt like I was sitting in a huge arena where some guys where playing some very good music. The visuals where more impressive to me. That sounds harsh, it should not be. The music was good, it's just that I was in no mood to jump around.

I've seen a fuck ton of shows myself, I think you know this too. It takes alot ot make my juices flow now because I also know the very inner workings of such events. They have very little mystisism to me. I will be the last guy happy to go see a concert. That surely did not help.

You know, I'm still curious to know how they pulled off that weird lighting trick with the vertical teeth like things :)

It's not the music that creates a good show, it's the band behind it. Case in point, I think the worst concert I've ever seen had to be Nirvana. Yeah I said it! Three months before he shot his head off I was there with Zoulou and a few other people from the Cegep gang at the Verdun Arena. If you would have told me after the show that the guy was going to kill himself in a few weeks time I would have said "I believe you".