Nine Inch Nails - 2013 Tours - Full Set Videos

Saw the Tension 2013 tour in Portland a few nights after the L. A. show, at the bottom here, was filmed.  I know some people thought Trent was getting a little too mellow and sedate, trying to hide behind the light show, but I loved it.  First time I've ever seen Nine Inch Nails live.

I actually was meh on Trent for a long time (like 20 years) and only recently got back into NIN.  The full concert video from Lollapalooza was responsible for that.

We were sitting pretty high and to the left of the stage for the Portland show, so while the lights were pretty cool, we missed some of the full effects, so I am happy to see that there is a well shot, pro video of the show so I can see what we missed.

Full Set at 2013 Fuji Rocks Festival:

Full Set at Lollapalooza 2013:

Full Set from Tension 2013 Tour in L.A. on November 8, 2013:

Post by Retrovirus Lab.

Ha Ha Tonka & Samantha Crain @ Doug Fir

Didn’t get much in the way of pictures at this show, wasn’t in the mood to mess with the camera. 

In short…  Ha Ha Tonka killed it, though there was only 20 to 30 or so people there.  Samantha Crain opened, was really good, and talked about how she lived in Portland for a while. 

When she mentioned this, she expected some cheers and was met with crickets, which surprised her.  Surprised me, too, really.  I think my reaction, though, was that she looked and sounded a lot like a Portlander so it really wasn’t that suprising.  My reaction was more along the lines of, “Ok, then.  I can see that.”

Good though.  Great show.  Wish more people saw it.  Here’s some videos of these folks, though not from last night. 

 

 

 

http://www.hahatonkamusic.com

Lessons (New Album):

Amazon - http://amzn.to/1fyrRPH
iTunes (w/ bonus track) - http://bit.ly/17F6zvj

http://www.facebook.com/hahatonka

http://www.last.fm/music/Ha+Ha+Tonka

http://www.samanthacrain.com/

http://www.facebook.com/Samanthacrainmusic

"St. Nick on the Fourth in a Fervor" & "Caney Mountain" by Ha Ha Tonka

 Let’s get one thing straight from the get-go
This glimpse of brilliance is much better than a long look at mediocrity
…

I own all of my ideas
I stole just one or two
…

I owe all of my ideas
To the ones I stole from you

Pretty much my theme song right now for those lyrics up there above the clip.   This has been stuck in the van’s CD player for awhile.  I keep thinking it’s time to switch it out, and then this song, or another one or two on the album, will come on and I decide to let it play through one more time.

"Caney Mountain" is a good song too, but I really love this video…  Saw this after initially posting this, and I had to throw it in too!

Can he climb old Caney Mountain?
Can he outrun this Crusading mob of men
who aim to kill him with the Crucifix theyd fished out of Hodgsons Mill.
They drug her cold, blue body from its depths.
That old relic served to drown her as a millstone round her neck.

Can he clear that western wall which looms large out the Ozarks side?
Calls of men and dogs are closer as is the end of his life.
Could he ever find forgiveness from those gospels he came to preach.
held her down as he baptized her so that heaven she might reach.

High shined sequined buckle in that Bible belt
High shined sequined buckle in the middle of that Bible belt

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/caney_mountain_lyrics_ha_ha_tonka.html
All about Ha Ha+Tonka: http://www.musictory.com/music/Ha+Ha+Tonka

 

       

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What I Am Listening To Now: Denim Wedding

Looking at my post dates…  Well, back from summer vacation, it appears!  I was posting a lot on the YouTube playlists and on the Facebook page, but not here…

Anyway,  these guys inspired me to post again after they popped up on my shuffle play a little bit ago.  I found them last winter and then kind of forgot about them.  This summer, they played a show or two around town, and I remembered the name and that I liked them, but I didn’t remember them well enough to get off my ass and to one of their shows.  Kicking myself now…

This is the song that got me all fired up today, “The Buoyancy Test”.  Yeah, it’s a lot Neil Young-ish (through the Swans, maybe?), but that is okay.  There is room for more of this! 

The rest of their songs from ReverbNation…

 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Denim-Wedding/136817396367841

https://www.reverbnation.com/denimwedding

http://www.myspace.com/denimwedding

http://denimwedding.com/

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Songs of the Long Walk… “Frank’s Wild Years” by Tom Waits

Live on Letterman...

At least once a week I have a very long walk taking care of one chore or another involving the boys.  Usually these walks seem to land on the grayest and rainiest days of the week.  Wet and cold with too much time to think, I find myself hitting the repeat button on certain songs over and over again.  Each walk seems to find its own theme song.

Frank settled down in the Valley,
and he hung his wild years on a
nail that he drove through his
wife's forehead.

He sold used office furniture out
there on San Fernando Road and
assumed a $30,000 loan at
15 1/4 % and put a down payment
on a little two bedroom place.

His wife was a spent piece of used jet trash
Made good bloody-marys, kept her mouth
shut most of the time, had a little Chihuahua
named Carlos that had some kind of skin
disease and was totally blind.

They had a thoroughly modern kitchen;
self-cleaning oven (the whole bit)
Frank drove a little sedan.
They were so happy.

One night Frank was on his way home
from work, stopped at the liquor store,
picked up a couple of Mickey's Big Mouth’s.
Drank 'em in the car on his way to the
Shell station; he got a gallon of gas in a can.

Drove home, doused everything in
the house, torched it.
Parked across the street laughing,
watching it burn, all Halloween
orange and chimney red.

Frank put on a top forty station,
got on the Hollywood Freeway
headed North.

Never could stand that dog.

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"Plant White Roses" by Kelly Hogan

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Songs of the long walk… “Blue” by A Perfect Circle

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A little sunnier this week, but many, many, too many miles.

I didn't want to know
I just didn't want to know
Best to keep things in the shallow end
Cause I never quite learned how to swim

I just didn't want to know
Didn't want
Didn't want
Didn't want
Didn't want

Close my eyes just to look at you
Taken by the seamless vision

I close my eyes
Ignore the smoke
Ignore the smoke
Ignore the smoke

Call an optimist, she's turning blue
Such a lovely color for you
Call it aftermath, she's turning blue
While I just sit and stare at you

Because I don't want to know
I didn't want to know
I just didn't want to know
I just didn't want

Mistook their nods for an approval
Just ignore the smoke and smile

Call an optimist, she's turning blue
Such a lovely color for you
Call an optimist, she's turning blue
Such a perfect color for your eyes
Call an optimist , she's turning blue
Such a lovely color for you
Call an optimist, she's turning blue
While I just sit and stare at you

I don't want to know

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Songs of the Long Walk… “Waiting for the Miracle” by Leonard Cohen

 

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Baby, I've been waiting,
I've been waiting night and day.
I didn't see the time,
I waited half my life away.
There were lots of invitations
and I know you sent me some,
but I was waiting
for the miracle, for the miracle to come.
I know you really loved me.
but, you see, my hands were tied.
I know it must have hurt you,
it must have hurt your pride
to have to stand beneath my window
with your bugle and your drum,
and me I'm up there waiting
for the miracle, for the miracle to come.

Ah I don't believe you'd like it,
You wouldn't like it here.
There ain't no entertainment
and the judgements are severe.
The Maestro says it's Mozart
but it sounds like bubble gum
when you're waiting
for the miracle, for the miracle to come.

Waiting for the miracle
There's nothing left to do.
I haven't been this happy
since the end of World War II.
Nothing left to do
when you know that you've been taken.
Nothing left to do
when you're begging for a crumb

Nothing left to do
when you've got to go on waiting
waiting for the miracle to come.

I dreamed about you, baby.
It was just the other night.
Most of you was naked
Ah but some of you was light.
The sands of time were falling
from your fingers and your thumb,
and you were waiting
for the miracle, for the miracle to come

Ah baby, let's get married,
we've been alone too long.
Let's be alone together.
Let's see if we're that strong.
Yeah let's do something crazy,
something absolutely wrong
while we're waiting
for the miracle, for the miracle to come.

Nothing left to do ...

When you've fallen on the highway
and you're lying in the rain,
and they ask you how you're doing
of course you'll say you can't complain --
If you're squeezed for information,
that's when you've got to play it dumb:
You just say you're out there waiting
for the miracle, for the miracle to come.

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Songs of the Long Walk… “Piece by Piece” by Murder By Death

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I think the season of the long walk is over.  Arranging life in such a way was tolerable for a while, but heading into the spring and the final couple months of the boys’ school, I just do not have the time or energy.  Still have a few songs left from those walks though.

This is one of them.  Hell, I think this is my theme song for life these days.

Songwriters: Matt Armstrong, Sarah Balliet, Dagan Thogerson, Adam Turla

You wouldn't believe all the things that I've done
You just can't see 'cause you're young
I've paid my dues and I had my fun
You'll have yours too, son
You'll have yours too, son

You wouldn't believe how fast they can take it away
You're walking 'round free and in chains the next day
Time has a way of breaking you down
Piece by piece from your tooth to your claw

Oh, trust me my son
'Cause you're still young

You wouldn't believe all the things that I've seen
The girls I have known and places I've been
But you don't see shit when you look at me

I don't look much different from a vagabond
I know you don't think much of me
But in time, you'll see
In time, my son 'cause you're still young

Don't do what I've done
When I was young

I've got some wisdom
From the time that I've done
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Songs of the long walk… “Jesus of the Moon” by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

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It’s been a few weeks since I’ve had to take one of these walks, but this track has been a recurring theme over the winter.

I stepped out of the St. James hotel
And I left you behind curled up like a child
A change is gonna come
And as the door whispered shut
I walked on down the high-windowed hall

You lay sleeping on the unmade bed
The weatherman on the television in the St. James hotel said
That the rains are gonna come
And I stepped out on the streets
All sparkling clean with the early morning dew

Maybe it was you or maybe it was me?
You came on like a punch in the heart
Lying there with the light on your hair
Like a Jesus of the moon
A Jesus of the planets and the stars

Well, I kept thinking about what the weatherman said
And if the voices of the living can be heard by the dead
Well, the day is gonna come when we find out
And in some kind of way I take a little comfort from that
Now and then

'Cause people often talk about being scared of change
But for me I'm more afraid of things staying the same
'Cause the game is never won
By standing in any one place
For too long

Maybe it was you or maybe it was me?
But there was a chord in you that I could not find to strike
You lying there with all the light in your hair
Like a Jesus of the moon
A Jesus of the planets and the stars

I see the many girls walking down the empty streets
Maybe once or twice one of them smiles at me
You can't blame anyone for saying hello
I say hey
I say hello… I say hello…

Will it be me or will it be you?
One must stay and one must depart
You lying there in the St. James hotel bed
Like a Jesus of the moon
A Jesus of the planets and the stars

I say hello... hello... hello...

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“Everybody Knows” performed by Concrete Blonde

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Songs of the long walk… “Together” by The Raconteurs

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The volume on this video is a little quiet, but it was the clip I liked the best out of the ones available for this song on YouTube.

You and me forever
We belong together
And we'll always endeavor
Throughout any type of weather

You want everything to be just like
The stories that you read but never write
You gotta learn to live and live and learn
You gotta learn to give and wait your turn
Or you'll get burned

You wrote our names down on the sidewalk
The rain came and washed 'em off
So we should write 'em again on wet cement
So maybe people a long time from now will know what we meant

You want every morning to be just like
The stories that you read but never write
You gotta learn to live and live and learn
You gotta learn to give and wait your turn
My only concern

I'm adding something new to the mixture
So there's a different hue to your picture
A different ending to this fairytale
When the sunset into which we sail

You want everything to be just like
The stories that you read but you can't write
You gotta learn to live and live and learn
You gotta learn to give and wait your turn
Or you'll get burned

“We Can’t Have Nice Things” by Kelly Hogan

 

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“Love Interruption” by Jack White

Comment on YouTube for this video… “The only problem with this song is that it's too short.”

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Songs of the long walk… “3rd Planet” by Modest Mouse

At least once a week I have a very long walk taking care of one chore or another involving the boys.  Usually these walks seem to land on the grayest and rainiest days of the  week.  Wet and cold with too much time to think, I find myself hitting the repeat button on certain songs over and over again.  Each walk seems to find its own theme song.

This was one such song.  I have no idea what it was about this song that spoke to me that day, something in the way the words and music intersected with the weather and mood.  There was no single line in the song that stood out, but looking at the lyrics below, I can see many that would have fit the mood on these long walks.

I’ve been meaning to post these songs for a while but life has been interfering, as usual.

Everything that keeps me together is falling apart/i've got
This thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over.
My boss just quit the job says he's goin out to find blind
Spots and he'll do it.
The 3rd planet is sure that they're being watched by an
Eye in the sky that can't be stopped.
When you get to the promise land your gonna shake that
Eyes hand.
Your heart felt good it was drippin pitch and made of wood.
And your hands and knees felt cold and wet on the grass to me.
Outside naked, shiverin looking blue, from the cold
Sunlight that's reflected off the moon.
Baby cum angels fly around you reminding you we used
To be three and not just two.
And that's how the world began.
And that's how the world will end.
A 3rd had just been made and we were swimming in the
Water, didn't know then was it a son was it a daughter.
When it occurred to me that the animals are swimming
Around in the water in the oceans in our bodies and
Another had been found another ocean on the planet
Given that our blood is just like the atlantic.
And how.
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth if you go
Straight long enough you'll end up where you were.
Your heart felt good it was drippin pitch and made of wood.
And your hands and knees felt cold and wet on the grass to me.
Outside naked, shiverin looking blue, from the cold
Sunlight that's reflected off the moon.
Baby cum angels fly around you reminding you we used
To be three and not just two.
And that's how the world began.
And that's how the world will end.

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“The Well” by Charlie Musselwhite; Cyndi Lauper & Mohammed Alidu & The Bizung Family on eTown

Heard this story and song on eTown this weekend.

Cyndi Lauper / Charlie Musselwhite / Mohammed Alidu | etown:

eTown brings back an eclectic show for your listening pleasure. Joining hosts Nick & Helen Forster in eTown is Grammy winning, pop music icon Cyndi Lauper. Cyndi continues to mix things up as she’s always done in her career; most recently she’s been reinventing herself as a blues singer, and she comes with songs from her CD project, Memphis Blues. Also taking the stage, (both with Cyndi as a member of her blues band and in his own separate segment) is eTown favorite and iconic bluesman Charlie Musselwhite. Charlie shares his world-class harmonica skills and great vocals in original songs (off his CD called The Well), layered in deep-country blues. Nick and Helen and the eTones provide great back up support for him too. The show is rounded out with a brief visit by world music beat masters Mohammed Alidu & The Bizung Family and an inspiring E-Chievement Award interview. It’s another memorable week, right here in eTown.

eTown webisode 39 - Cyndi Lauper, Charlie Musselwhite and Mohammed Alidu show finale from eTown on Vimeo.

etown webisode 36 - Cyndi Lauper performs "Shattered Dreams" from eTown on Vimeo.

 

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Talkdemonic: A Mini-Documentary & "Midcentury Motion"

Talkdemonic Mini-Documentary + "Midcentury Motion" Video - YouTube:

A short film by Brian Vernor about Talkdemonic, including a music video for "Midcentury Motion." Here is the idea that motivated the film via Director Brian Vernor:

I really like these guys.  Here is a link to my Spotify Playlist for them:

http://open.spotify.com/user/121904621/playlist/3jGBr6MSiFvJga7h28C9ta

 

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What I Am Listening To Now: “To Bring You My Love” by PJ Harvey

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What I Am Listening To Now: “Nine While Nine” by The Sisters of Mercy

This was the song stuck in my mind on a long walk through the rain to the little one’s school yesterday…

…and I'm
Looking for a life for me and I'm
Looking for a life for you and I'm
Talking to myself again and it's
So damn cold it's just not true and I'm
Walking through the rain
Trying to hold on waiting for the train and I'm
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And I'm waiting
And I wait in vain
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Florida… (yawn)

Note: Cross posted from Democracy In Distress.

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There’s this…

Florida Primary 2012 Results: Election Reporting By County (MAP, REAL-TIME DATA):

According to the latest polls going into election day, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney held a commanding lead, with 42.3 percent of the vote. Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, who won in South Carolina just over a week ago, had 29 percent of the vote heading into Tuesday, while former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Rep. Ron Paul trailed with roughly 11 percent of the vote each.

Still, by the end of tonight's race, only 5 percent of the delegates will have been rewarded.

Or this…

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