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Sunday, March 16, 2008
The most successful unfinished album
"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?
