Remember – you’re just meat. You’ll heal. Every drop you bleed is a reminder you’re alive and free. Fucking use it.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Another unannounced NIN single! :: Discipline
Still touring, getting ready for Lollapalooza, further defining the YZ era, and still they have time to keep knocking out more songs. So far, since escaping the record label, Trent hasn't done so bad for himself. Ghosts, although it requires the right mood to get into, kicked off very nicely for Trent and his bankroll. Fans are eating this shit up.
And now, another new release straight to Teh Intarwebs, complete with "video".
Enter Discipline.
Not a bad song.. though it kind of sounds like the bastard love child of Only + THTF. The style of the video also reminds me of the Metallica flash parodies involving the whole Napster thing that were everywhere a few years back. Visit nin.com for the full quality mp3 download.
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Being lazy (shutup) I didn't watch the video all the way through prior to posting. WATCH IT! If you've seen the video from those lucky bastards who went to the secret "raided" LA show, you'll get it. If you haven't seen it, get off your ass already!
Not that the whole thing isn't worth viewing, but for the impatient, skip ahead to about 9:00 and just watch the last minute.
Visit OSR for more information and additional footage!
"To expand the idea of the "Ghosts" project, Nine Inch Nails is inviting anyone and everyone to create visuals to accompany the album's music. In a few months, we'll be gathering the entries we feel are particularly exceptional and highlighting them. There are no rules to this - be as creative as you like."
In the spirit of Y34rZ3R0 R3M1X3D, Nine Inch Nailsare taking video submissions set to music of Ghosts. Hit play below for an introduction to the project from Trent.
You can visit http://www.youtube.com/group/ninghosts to see current fan submissions and here for the main NIN Youtube page should there be more current news. You'll have to register to view the group videos as the content is marked for 18 and up, but so be it. If you don't want to register, you can try here but it's hit and miss whether these logins will work at any given time. To get the multitrack files for Ghosts, you'll have to register at Nin Remix and make your way to the Mix section. If you haven't heard or are looking for them, you can also find multi-tracks for Year Zero there.
I haven't fully decided what my opinion is of Ghosts. I listened to the entire thing in the car the other day, and it felt similar to if I were to queue up all of my own unfinished tracks. It seemed to go in waves. One song is un-fucking-believably mind-numbingly repetitive, the next better but not fully redeeming, and by the 3rd it seems to have made up for the last 3. This repeats in various lengths for 36 tracks. There are definitely traces of past songs that creep up, some more subtle than others. I've picked out The Becoming, Ruiner, Reptile and Help Me I'm in Hell to name a few.
It will be interesting to see what comes of the visual submissions, and the remixes. Being that Ghosts sortof comes off as an unfinished work, this may be just what it needs. You could say just as well that it is simply another marketing tactic. Either way it's done quite well for Trent, with over $1.6mil in sales in the first few days of being released.
So tonight they had a special on NatGeo on what the planet would be like if humans just disappeared. Highly entertaining. For all of the disasters, and things that in general would just suck, as long as it wasn't alone I would gladly trade the world of today for The Aftermath.
There are a few things that aren't explained very well, like the nuclear ramifications. Supposedly, after ~1 week, backup generators run out of fuel and spent fuel holding tanks all over the world start going into meltdown. There is little mention of the actual radiation effects and it seems as anything outside a 5 mile radius will be fine again by the coming spring. These tanks are normally kept filled with circulating refrigerated water. The 'spent fuel' rods kept in them will start heating to over 1000 degrees without the cooling and cause a meltdown. Now I ask you, how is this spent??? Seems to me there's still use for these things. We can fly to the moon and we can't contain a 1000 degree reaction? Come on folks.
Back on topic here. I couldn't resist that one though. Click below for short term effects. This would probably be the most interesting time to be present for. Of course, for this vacation to work, yes, I said vacation (I would eat this shit up yo!!), you would have to violate the basic rule of NO PEOPLE. But that works for my purposes, so it's exactly what we'll do here. Give me a handful of people to pick that get to live, and throw in oh, let's go with 10000 others. Keep in mind I'm talking about worldwide here. How fucking cool would that be?
Everything has been discovered, someone's been everywhere, someone's claimed everything, there's nothing left to do, nowhere left to go, except space. The second you wipe out the people, you effectively wipe out that statement with it. No jobs, no work to be done, nobody's pockets to line with money. We need some rules though. First of all, see that car? No you don't! Get your grubby hands off. We ain't doing that shit again, you got feet use 'em you lazy asshole!! Don't like it? Get your own vacation! Rule #1: If you can't make it, you can't use it. What's one of the #1 problems today? Nobody knows how to do anything. Sure we've got nuclear power plants, massive power stations, biological shit, other shit (again, my story here, don't like the wording, write your own!), but really, how many people worldwide do you think there are qualified to operate one of those things? They die, then what?
A lot of the movie somewhat resembles most post apocalyptic landscapes, usually reserved for the all popular zombie flicks. Don't hate. Everything's pretty fucked. Chaos everywhere. Dogs and wolves breeding, pigs growing fur, squirrels and skunks living together, where will it end?? All in all, I would live in this world. And it would be FUN! People watch videos from the past, when one actually had to work to survive, and all it's viewed as is that, WORK. I watch them, and just want to live there. I'm not saying I wanna build the railroad. But it'd be nice to be in a world where the only thing left to invent wasn't a better weapon than your itchy-trigger-finger-neighbor; the only undiscovered land so barren or cold you'd never want to go there anyhow. But this get out of bed and go to the store shit is getting old. Give me some land, and get the fuck away from me! Ever since I saw My side of the mountain I think I've wanted that. That is ultimate freedom, not this capitalistic pseudo existence we've got going now. Wow it's been a long time since we've had some destructive video. Very well.
Unfortunately, that's all I've got. I should re-write that music though. I could do much better! There is one major fault in the video though. The entire basis for the idea is that humans simply vanish into thin air. Regardless of whether the entire idea is far-fetched, this does not jive. The fact of the matter is you need to account for billions of dead bodies littered across the planet.
Make no mistake about it, this would be all but paradise for me. The perfect example of adapt or die. You don't get a choice in the matter. No city aid, no health insurance, no hospitals, no police, no anything. If you want it, you make it yourself. At the same time, you know that Trans Fat shit, good vs bad cholesterol, every food preservative that exists (minus salt), and every other bad thing for you, gone, instantly. Assuming you can keep your ass out of the grocery stores. Ok fine, you can go to the store only while you learn how to make the stuff, no longer though!
We can keep things like lighters too. How can I be expected to enjoy this new world I'm spending all my free time rubbing sticks together? Besides, I've already put in my time in that department. I can if I need to, can you? All those episodes logged of Survivorman would also come in fairly handy. What's that? You didn't pay attention? You thought they were boring? You die now.
That's about it. My rules are few, simple, and only what's necessary. If you don't like them, go find your own post apocalyptic heaven to play with. Now I ask you, who's coming with me?
Quite possibly the first store I ever rented a game or (horror) movie from, is closing tomorow. The place was pretty empty when i walked in today, as far as merchendise i mean. There were a fair amount of people in the store. The horror section is nonexistant currently. WTF is nastalgic about a video store??? Who knows. Guess I won't be paying that fine :) this blogging from m y phone shit is convenient as hell too!
So there's this story over here about a deer that got into some dude's house, tried to kill it's reflection, and trashed the place trying to get out. From the article "...when he approached the shattered glass and found blood smeared on the walls of the living room..." yadda yadda yadda "A second or two later, a deer poked its head around the corner." Add a few more witty comments, then we get to the jackass of the year speech. "The men tried to wrestle the deer to the ground and hoped to lead it outside -- Morgan said he didn't want Amburn to shoot the deer. It would have made a bigger mess." Now, I'm all for not killing the deer folks. But the reasoning behind this one is downright pathetic. Jerry [Morgan], if I'm ever down in Parker City, I'm coming to rob you. I'll be safe, we all know you wouldn't want to make a mess.
So it gets better, or at least stays lateral, you decide. This guy goes on to, well... "It looks like Charles Manson got loose... It looks like helter skelter."So this must be some crazy horrible shit right? Deer parts all over the place, blood soaked floors, children crying. Check it out, that picture over there, that's... Come on! I've had nose bleeds that have produced more blood than that! And that's straight from the article so you know it's the worst [best] one they've got. Granted this is probably the biggest breaking story... What's this place called.... oh yea, Parker City.. probably the biggest story Parker City's seen in 20 years, but come on guys.
One last thing there Jerry, you say "A disaster cleanup company is coming today", I say I'll wipe that shit off your wall for 1/2 what you're paying them. You have to be one lazy bastard. That or it's time to fire your photographer. Best wishes with the insurance company.
Last night's show was supposed to be in the Eagles Ballroom but got moved to the Rave instead. (I thought the whole thing was The Rave??) The Rave room is a lot smaller than the ballroom. Kindof reminds me of the MTV Live & Loud set. The band that was playing when we got there was HORRID! There is a good reason there are not more female metal singers. All I gotta say is I would NOT want to get in a screaming match with that chick. Holy shit. We were a bit late and only had to sit through 2 of their songs so that was good. They left the stage about 8:45. From then until 9:30 we just stood there. About every 10-15 minutes the crowd would start chanting "Megadeth..Megadeth" but there was no Megadeth. Not for 45 damn minutes. But they eventually came out and got on with the show. We got some old songs along with new. The set list was:
Sleepwalker
Take No Prisoners
Wake Up Dead
Skin O' My Teeth
Gears of War
She-Wolf
In My Darkest Hour
Hangar 18
Washington Is Next
Kick the Chair
A Tout Le Monde
Tornado of Souls
Reckoning Day
Peace Sells
Never Walk Alone
Symphony of Destruction Encore:
Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
That's not a complete list but it's the best I can remember and should be close to in order. The sound was pretty bad in the room. I don't know if it was just turned up too much or if it sucks for acoustics in there. Peace Sells, Symphony, A Tout Le Monde, Hangar 18 and Skin o' My Teeth were probably the clearest which was cool because of what they played those were some of the best picks. There's still some that would have been cool.. Anarchy in the U.K., Countdown, High Speed Dirt, 99 Ways to Die, among others. Oh well. Maybe they'll play Summerfest one of these years. It should sound better with an outdoor stage.
Use Google Bookmarks in your C# WinForms application
Google has a number of services available which I aim to make API's for that nothing exists for currently. The first of those being Google Bookmarks. After lots of hours spent intercepting HTTP requests I have finally created a control capable of retrieving all bookmarks for a given account. In its current version this control only has the ability to retrieve the bookmarks. It cannot create or modify yet, but this will come with a future version. To date I have not found a single piece of code outside of FireFox extensions for utilizing the Google Bookmarks service. I hope you find this of use.
The least you need to know
There are only 4 steps to implementing this control.
Add the tbsGoogleBookmarks class to your project.
Declare an instance of the class
Define a function to handle the BookmarksRefreshed event
Initialize the class with the username and password
Declare an instance
//Because we will assign an event handler to this you //will want to declare it globally tbsGoogleBookmarks gBookmarks = new tbsGoogleBookmarks();
Now we just need to initialize the class and sit back and let it all happen.
gBookmarks.Init("UserName", "Password");
When the bookmarks have been retrieved, the BookmarksRefreshed event is fired and your list is updated. This can easily be applied to a Tool Strip or other similar control to build a menu.
Yep, another one. Still working things out but I now have CodingHut.com. Finally broke down and got a hosting deal. I'd prefer to run it out of my closet as I have in the past, which is cool for personal shit, but for anything that could potentially draw a userbase I don't want to give up that bandwidth. I've always had a fairly stable connection so uptime hasn't been much of an issue. It's still a pain (and on occasion painFUL) to have to take it all down to move or something like that.
Maybe it'll turn into something cool, maybe it won't. At least I tried.
