I wish it was about 12 hours from now, so I am going to kill time by blogging. Probably for quite some time. So while it may say that this was posted at 10:07pm, my bets are going to be that it's actually around 11 when I finally hit the 'publish' button.

Oh right, the concert on thursday. I guess I'll start out by telling all about that....

I left school at around 2:40 and headed home to meet up with Chad/Father to start driving to TO. Well, after a few complications, we were out the door at around 3:45....yeah whatever. We waited in line for a while, surprisingly not long, because I think we got to the ACC around 5:30. We got in, got felt up by security, and picked out a nice spot in front of the sound booth, because 1. good view and 2. best sound in the whole place.

Death From Above 1979 came on first. While I have to give them credit for being interesting and making only drums and bass sound kind of cool...they were really fucking boring to watch. I was almost jelous that Chad got to go outside and smoke for their last 2 songs, fuck they were annoying. Get off the stage you emo fucker.

Queens of the Stone Age were next. Their singer made some really funny remarks about how the concert was totally dry (no alcohol was being sold at all). So if I remember correctly, it went something like this:

"This is a fucking rock show, I don't know why they aren't selling alcohol. There's probably some guy upstairs jerking off going 'Yeah, no booze. No booze at all. I'm so horny!'" -Singer...at least it was something like that

I thought it was funny at least. They played a really really good set, ending off with a fucking awesome live version of 'No One Knows' with some FUCKING AMAZING guitar solos. Chad was especially impressed, he wanted to go buy their cd. So yeah, their set being over, I suddenly realized that it was a matter of minutes until I was going to see Nine Inch Nails....holy fuck. You can ask Chad how excited I was, I don't think it's possible to describe on here.

The lights go down...I hear the first song....Love Is Not Enough...and I look up and see Trent...I nearly fucking came in my pants. It was so intense. I know I've heard the song about a thousand times, but it was so much hearing it live. There was so much sound, and it was just surrounding me, it was amazing.

Now I'm not even going to try and remember all the songs they played, but I know they played quite a few off With Teeth, almost all of Broken, a TON off the Fragile (which I was so fucking happy about), a couple from the Downward Spiral, and even a few from Pretty Hate Machine. I was amazed at how wide the spread of the set list was, and even more amazing, was how into the songs they were, despite the fact that they've probably played them countless countless times. Even when they played Terrible Lie, they were so into it, it was crazy.

Lets see...I'm trying to think of the songs that Chad was really happy to hear...March of the Pigs, Gave Up and Wish were his favourites I think. Chad's favourite song too, Something I Can Never have, I was really happy they played it so that Chad could hear it, and hold up his lighter which nearly killed us. They played Closer which surprised the hell out of me. And the biggest shock of the night, they actually played Dead Souls, oh my god, I felt so lucky. It got really quiet at one point, and Trent was by himself playing the Frail on the piano, and it just flowed right into the Wretched, so fucking good.

A really memorable part of the set was about halfway through when a screen came up, and they played Eraser (polite) and Right Where it Belongs almost as background tracks for this really really well done stock footage film. Travis said they do it at every show, and I can see why. Trent played Hurt alone on a piano, it was so fucking moving, I told myself not to cry like an emo kid, but I really wanted to. The way everyone was singing along to the song and felt so deep the pain and sadness in the lyrics, it was intense.

The last few songs were mostly off the new album. The Collector, The Line Begins to Blur, Only (which I loved), the Hand That Feeds, it was really cool and fast paced. The last song totally surprised me. They ended off with Head Like A Hole, a really really hardcore fast crazy version of it, it was awesome.

So needless to say, it was a fucking awesome experience. I got to see Trent Reznor in person in all his sexy glory, along with Jeordie White (aka. Twiggy Remirez, aka. Bassist for Manson and A Perfect Circle), and Aaron North. I guess it was a little too much to hope for them to play Into The Void, but oh well, it was by far the best concert I've ever seen in my life. It was WELL worth the money I paid for the tickets.

So now my life seems boring after such an experience.

Like yesterday, I went to school, hockey (we won, I got a goal, woot), and work. Today I went to work and then handed out some resumes...yeah. The highlight of my day was getting a candy cane hot chocolate at the mall.

I really wish I could've talked to Chad a little longer tonight. Oh well, I get to see him in about 12 hours, so it's ok I guess. I'm going to go shower now and do some knitting.

Right Where It Belongs
~Addy

P.S. I'm so happy for Jocelyn right now. Jocey + Phil Junior = less than 3
- posted by Eddie @ 10:07 PM