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Subject: Re: Does Trent Reznor *ever* have an original idea in his head?
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For Phone wrote:
> On Monday, June 13, 1994 at 7:41:17 AM UTC-4, Greg Earle wrote:
>> While channel-surfing late last night, I came upon some old geezer whose last
>> vital record was released in a decade that isn't the current or most recent,
>> sitting on a chair with silly horn-rim glasses on and saying "Here's the new
>> Nine Inch Nails video, `Closer'" ...
>> With that, we plunge head-long into Trent's newest video opus, and immediately
>> several things become evident; the most telling is that this guy wouldn't
>> know a new video idea if it kicked him upside the head.
>> Can we play "Name that influence"? Let's ...
>> First up, we've got a monkey on a cross! Good, Trent, my wife's album cover
>> ("Stereotaxic Device", Kk Records) only beat you to that concept by, oh, 4
>> years now. Next?
>> Oh look, a severed rotating pig's head! Been hanging out with Foetus, I see?
>> Hey look! A still-life with Trent's head depicted in a gross fashion as if he'd
>> been decapitated! The general sepiatone etched-plate motif! Guess you really
>> liked that Joel-Peter Witkin exhibit that's in L.A. now, eh Trent?
>> Why look, the whole thing's filmed in sepiatone with lotsa dust and then
>> there's the creaky pulley bit ... guess the video store finally got that
>> Brothers Quay compilation video in for Trent to rent ... and I'm sure watching
>> those Tool videos didn't hurt, either ...
>> The scary thing is that some kids out there might actually think this stuff
>> is "new" and "original" or something ...
>> Not amused,
>> -- 
>> - Greg Earle
>> Phone: (818) 353-8695 FAX: (818) 353-1877 [Call # again if
>> Internet: ea...@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US you get !FAX tone]
>> UUCP: isolar!ea...@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV a.k.a. ...!elroy!isolar!earle
> 
> Not to mention "Closer" sounds musically pretty similar to Severed Heads' "God Song"...hmm...
> 
> Coming from 30 years in the future
> 
I've been going through my records and destroyed the downward spiral.  I 
had to.  It just wasn't interesting anymore.  I listen to an all over 
the place mix of dark industrial with the occasional Aqua or Marcy 
Playground when I am feeling overwhelmed by morbidity.  But the downward 
spiral had to go because it wasn't interesting.  I feel this is 
justified.  Any thoughts?