Here’s another music meme I found on the interwebs!

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List 10 musical artists (or bands) you like, in no specific order. Do this before reading the questions below. Really, don’t read the questions below until you pick your ten artists.

1. Nine Inch Nails
2. Apoptygma Berzerk
3. Fokofpolisiekar
4. Placebo
5. Carter USM
6. Neuroticfish
7. Pet Shop Boys
8. Rammstein
9. Korn
10. Bush

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Saw it on the interwebs, couldn’t help myself.

Hereth begins a song meme.

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IF SOMEONE SAYS ‘ARE YOU OKAY’ YOU SAY [I AM]?
is there no-one that can save us from today? [snog]

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
i never chose you. [neuroticfish]

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
love comes quickly [pet shop boys]

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
the yuppie shall inherit the earth [snog]

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
go down [the bloodhound gang]

WHAT’S YOUR MOTTO?
new whirl odor [public enemy]

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i got into aggrotech a bit more this year (thanks to emusic, we recently discovered bands Grendel and Psyclon Nine, and a new album from Wumpscut!)

and i got really into some bands / songs that we’ve had for ages, but i’d just never taken the time to really listen to

and i went to see NIN in concert in March which meant i listened to NIN way more than usual

and Patrick Swayze died, so i listened to his song heaps ’cause i’m really lame :)

so my soundtrack for 2009* is as follows:

Pop Will Eat Itself - Wake Up, Time To Die
Chemlab - Force Quit
Grendel - Zombienation (v2k5)
Public Enemy w/ Anthrax - Bring The Noise
Root! - Home?
Chemlab - Codeine, Glue and You
Papa Roach - Blood Brothers
the Dismemberment Plan - I Love a Magician
Grendel - Soilbleed (v3)
NIN - Terrible Lie
Chemlab - Queen of Despair (Ode to the Diode)
Psyclon Nine - INRI
Machines of Loving Grace - Albert Speer
She Wants Revenge - Love to Sleep
Negativland -  Aluminum or Glass : the Memo
David Bowie - Life on Mars?
Skinny Puppy - Worlock (Rhys Fulber remix)
Apoptygma Berzerk - In This Together
Patrick Swayze - She’s Like The Wind
NIN - Reptile

* now with mouseovers over the song names with some of my favourite lyrics and samples!

so anyway, I saw NIN at the Hordern Pav like, 6 months ago.

here’s what i wrote about it just after the fact (that i forgot to publish) :

“it was amazing. i’m so pleased i went. turns out it may be the last tour for a while, too, so i am doubly pleased. i missed Trent when i was grumpy at him for making With Teeth. but I am glad I got over it.  still don’t like With Teeth though. But Ghosts I-IV more than makes up for it.

I think the issue I had really stemmed from the fact that I was just a kid when I started liking NIN. I mean, I had the full obsession thing going on. And so I felt kinda betrayed I guess when Trent made something I didn’t like. I never expected not to like something Trent did.  but now i’m over that. i’m able to see in my (relatively newly developed) maturity that it doesn’t really matter anyway. and Trent can do what he likes, even if it is release music I don’t like. and if I don’t like it, I don’t have to buy it just because i used to be obsessed about collecting all the Halo releases :)

man, I remember at high school, my girlfriends and I all being so defined by the bands we liked, and you couldn’t have the same favourite band at someone else in the group … god, there were so many stupid rules to everything. my favourite band was Red Hot Chili Peppers for a long time, and then NIN from 1995 (i was in year 9) onwards.

you know, i have so many distinct NIN related memories:

- sitting on my school bus listening to Closer for the first time on my girlfriend’s discman and gasping because of how rude it was :)

- when i was about 15, going by myself into the city to go to Utopia to buy Pretty Hate Machine + my NIN shirt (my very favourite long sleeved shirt that’s falling apart)

- bonding over NIN with a guy I had a crush on and later going to his house to watch the Closure video

- a cute petite girlfriend of mine having the most ridiculously long Downward Spiral shirt i have ever seen

- one of my girlfriends gave everyone their own painted wine glass at our year 12 formal, and mine has the NIN logo on it … that was my most defining feature at school, that I was obsessed with NIN :)

- seeing NIN at the Big Day Out in early 2000 and getting to the front of the mosh pit by myself. i started crying when Trent came out on the stage. then i got my arse kicked thoroughly in the mosh pit and had to leave, so i stood at the back of the crowd sobbing to myself for almost the whole set.

(which, while very lame, is not unusual for that time in my life. when i saw the Phantom Menace at the cinema, I started bawling the second the Star Wars logo came up, because I was so overwhelmed - i just never imagined I’d get to see a movie from one of my favourite series’ at the movies)

And now I have this concert to add to my list of memories. Things like

- sharing the experience with good friends

- standing in line to buy shirts (this was a first for me)

- enduring the experience of buying overpriced water and vodka in plastic cups (something i haven’t done for a fairly long time)

- going absolutely mental to March of the Pigs (woohoo!!! \m/)

- sitting for 45 mins in the Hordern with only the emergency lighting on, no air conditioning or anything, because NIN rocked so hard there was a blackout (both sitting down at the Hordern, and enduring a blackout there are firsts for me as well)

- having a truly delicious meal beforehand at a restaurant i’d never been to before

- experiencing the awesomeness that is the Love Sac.

I was very very pleased they played March of the Pigs, Reptile, Terrible Lie, Something I Can Never Have, Gave Up and Wish. I was not expecting the Perfect Drug or Into The Void but it would’ve been nice :) I don’t remember what else they played. Oh, Survivalism, 1 000 000, The Hand That Feeds and Discipline. and some other stuff.

[sigh] It was nice being in the same room with him again, if only just for a few hours. :)”

[/fangirl]

i’ve gotten over the Trent obsession since then. partly due to all his carry-on recently in Twitter, and partly because that’s just what I do. however, I would definitely love to see NIN in concert again, if they ever tour again. it was a great night :)

whenever i can work up the motivation to go for a walk, it is a Good Thing. the mix of the fresh air, the solitude, the sunshine, the single focus, the exercise, and the fact i listen to my favourite songs on my ipod - it clears my head as well as making me feel physically better.

but working up the motivation to go for a walk is hard. not because i don’t enjoy it - because 9 times out of 10 i really do - but because there’s always something *fun* i could be doing, like playing computer games, or catching up on the websites i read, or watching a movie - something that doesn’t require moving. and while i enjoy going for a walk, i wouldn’t necessarily describe it as fun.

plus - and i can admit it - i am a Lazy Person.

something else i’ve always had trouble with is, for me, walking has always been about _getting somewhere_. never before in my life have i been interested in walking “just because” - it’s only the last couple of years that i have started doing this, and i think it’s got a bit to do with the fact that before moving to our current apartment building, i had to walk further / more often to get around, so i didn’t have to motivate myself especially to get a particular result.

so sometimes i still have to convince myself it is worth it and i will enjoy it, and not to listen to the very old voice inside my head that says it’s a waste of time.

but the best thing about geting out and going for walks is that i listen to my ipod. i hate walking anywhere by myself without listening to my music. it’s so boring.

for me, the best songs to listen to when going for a walk are ones that are musically upbeat / kinda fast, something that you can sort of walk in time with and be really moving. and it has to be something i can lose myself in, otherwise i start looking around and losing myself in random thoughts, like “i wonder how many people live there” and “i wonder if they have any dogs, or cats, or … oh is that a rabbit hutch? “. that is really distracting and then i start dawdling, which is no good for anything.

some of the songs i listen to, when walking:

In This Together - Apoptygma Berzerk
Shimmer - Fuel
Slide - Goo Goo Dolls
Like You Madly - Just Jinger
Breaking the Habit - Linkin Park
Bring The Noise - Public Enemy w/ Anthrax
Infest - Papa Roach
Timekiller - Project Pitchfork

title from Cesspools in Eden by Dead Kennedys