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05/29/2009: "A Bittersweet Ending..."
»Listening: NIN - Something I Can Never Have«
»Feeling: melancholy «
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If you know anything about me, you'll know I've been back in NIN land for a little over a year now. I love Jaye so HARD for that. I listened to Pretty Hate Machine so much in high school. Something I Can Never Have is my song. I got to see NIN live in '95. On the rail. Thanks to my ADHD I don't remember shit. Another reason I love Jaye so hard? She found live audio of the show. I had no idea what songs I heard. I didn't even remember Trent and Bowie sang together. Sometime after Lost Highway I wandered off, for lack of a better phrase. Like I've said before in a vlog: "If it's not 'OOOH! Trent shiney!' I'm gonna go 'Ooh, what's that over there?'"
I knew the singles but I missed The Fragility era, With Teeth, and all the fun of Year Zero. But, I'm ok with that. I am glad that I got to experience 3 shows since last year. I am grateful that Trent and Co. didn't skip over Missouri, like other acts tend to do. Though we would have found a way to drive out to another state to see a show.
I love the NINternet! Thanks to it I got to meet great and generous people. Like the guy who sent me a shirt, like my beloved one I wore to death in high school, no money asked. Or the guy who let our friend use his extra pre-sale ticket in Columbia, so she wouldn't have to wait in the regular line and be separated from us. Suzanne! She went to Rob Sheridan's garage sale and got a crap-ton of NIN freebies. She sent most of that out to the NINternet. She sent Staci, Rob's biggest fan, autographed gummi bear lamps. Jaye got a patch for her hat. I got another cool sticker for The Slip Car. I love my twitterbitches, who can always cheer me up and make me laugh.
The current NINJA tour is NIN's last. We knew come hell or high water we'd be at a show. We've been on a NINJA high since we got our tickets. When I sold my car we finally got a chance to do things we'd been planning forever. Like our tattoos. I knew I wanted something NIN related. I didn't want a straight up logo. It's too... common. I wanted something a little deeper. So, after some thinking I settled on the lyric that I kept coming back to. I opened up Adobe Illustrator and made it my own. And I'm quite happy with it:
The tatt was sooo cheap that we decided to get another tatt:
To commemorate the one that got away. Really, the drama from the show was so stupid. How could we not poke a little fun at ourselves? I was a little worried it might offend Erin, the woman who got the tambourine. We called a truce a while back. But, luckily she thought it was funny.
We also got to do something I've been wanting to do with my car for a long time now. I was wanting to change the color of my car completely since I got it. Didn't get to choose the color. But sometime after The Slip came out I looked at the car and thought.. "Hmm... how cool will that look?" So here it is:
Jaye did an amazing job. We just bought paint and tape and she taped it off and painted it on. The people that do get it, love it.
So basically, I know NIN will go away now. If not for good, for a while. But the cool and sweet people I met through my being a NIN fan will not. Right? <3
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