Current mood:	rejuvenated
Current music:	Mindless Self Indulgence - Tom Sawyer. Seriously. It's really good.

With-ah Live-ah
If you get it, cool. If you don't, it's a NIN-recent album-live show gag, of which we had the extreme pleasure of attending tonight. For various reasons, mostly centered as a "gasoline on fire inside my thighs" feeling I'm going to postpone the full-blown description of the show until later... no, it's troisbalances' birthday and we'll be going out to dinner (Thai or Italian, her choice.) Okay, make that tomorr... oh, it'll happen when it happens. I'm still working on getting back in the swing of LJ-ing on a weekly basic, nevermind daily. But I'll sum up the past two weeks thusly:

• I took a combined medical/family/"vacation" trip back to NY last week. It sucked merrily, due to none of the former - which is fairly surprising, given my medical/family/vacation issues I have. Yes, I said I have "vacation issues". Trust me, if you'd had been on the "Rafting Trip 'o Doom" this summer, you'd say the same.



• NIN did indeed rock hardcore, hometown-style (Cleveland is as early as you can get unless you're going to count Mercer, Penn.) Very energetic compared to the Fragility shows due simply to the musical direction of the current-at-the-time albums, and I wasn't half-bad sporting the "man-skirt" as well as katytowell's genius shirt in terms of gothy fashion. It was also nice to hear Jeordie "Twiggy" White take the bull by the horns and actually play formerly synth-bass parts on an actual bass with a healthy amount of distortion. Actually, more "unhealthy" but you're at a rock concert, not getting a latte enema. I have no earthly idea where that last line came from.



• Best line of the night, from troisbalances at dinner before the show: "What's the best thing about U2?..."
  
  "They're never be known as 'The Old Coldplay'"


Ouch, but the truth hurts.