Some videos well worth watching

[trinityvixen]

This comic pretty much sums up my frustrations with all things that require more coordination in video games beyond Dynasty Warriors/Gauntlet Legends style hitting-one-button-and-hoping-for-the-best.

But it's especially appropriate given my general hopelessness at Rock Band instruments. I stay away from the drums because it's both noisy and pathetic, as opposed to my attempts at guitar which are just pathetic.

And it happens to be perfectly in line with my new trend of posting Rock Band song videos. I wanted to post the video for "The Hand that Feeds," but that video is L-A-M-E lame. It's just, um, Trent singing in a studio with some guys playing the music around him. It doesn't even have the angry-at-the-mike hilarity or the leather-skinny-pants sexy or mesh-shirt sluttiness of "March of the Pigs." I am faced with a dilemma! What to post? Then I read the comic, and I go, "Ah-ha!"

I can't quite tell how much this gothic-romantic motif is being mocked versus embraced. It's Trent Reznor, you can't really ever know. I'm kind of disturbed at the juxtaposition of Trent moping around dejectedly, the shots of the little kid dolled up to look slightly feminine (and who is most definitely a little boy and possibly Kieran Culkin), and the lyrics that are very clearly talking about sex and fucking. Um, yeah. Naked chicks with cow skulls and pig parts on display as a guy is tied up and rubbing one off, sure. This? Erm.

Pretty though! And much more interesting to look at than this video. (There, I did my duty and posted it.) If you want a really cool video (to an equally awesome song) off a track from With Teeth, definitely check out the vid for "Only." It really emphasizes the digitalization/electronification of NIN on the whole album, which I learned via Wikipedia was originally supposed to sustain a fan-competition/activity of remixing the music, but Universal Music group killed that--I suppose they liked being the ones to own the rights to do that shit and release it in the eighty years between NIN albums. However, the master tracks "leaked." It's almost entirely a given that this was no accident (Trent Reznor being kind of an uncooperative person in that awesome way).

Best part of "Only": when the two impressions of Trent Reznor's face are looking at each other. Completely looks like he's making out with himself (and not just in his music!).

I am a NIN fan girl. Could you tell?

Comments

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Re: Hand That Feeds

I'm pretty sure it's Trent Reznor playing in a studio, backed by Trent Reznors (Reznora?).

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

No, the drummer and guitarist are shown to be obviously different people. It's a good theory, however, seeing as every NIN CD basically comes together from Trent Reznor's combined efforts on every instrument except the drums.

[negativeq.livejournal.com]

Thank you for reminding me that Trent Reznor is hot.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's true, he is. And you're welcome, of course.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Huh. I know I'm not the audience that NIN is going for, but I liked the song "Hand that Feeds" the best. And it's not like the video is bad per se. It doesn't hold a candle to the worst videos of the 1980s, for example.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh, the song is infectiously awesome, don't get me wrong. It's as close to pop-tastic as ever a NIN song got and I love it. It's not that the video is bad, I suppose. It's that it's boring. There's nothing going on except a recording. I mean, there's the obligatory bits of self-touching going on, but I have to believe that's how Trent Reznor gets through most of his recordings. Methinks he likes music that way.