For those of you who get easily excited over short funny films (like me!), you’ll be happy to know that the next [Channel 102](http://www.channel102.net/) screening will be on January 30th at 8:30PM, at Anthology Film Archives.
If you’re in NYC, you have no excuse not to come. [Mark that you’re coming](http://upcoming.org/event/48833) on upcoming or drop me a note, as it’s more fun with a friend.
My replacement camera charger coming back couldn’t have happened at a better time, as I had tickets to the Ted Leo show last night at the “new” Webster Hall. The show rocked, as expected. My pictures came out oddly – somewhat ruined due to the shaking floor and quick band movements, but artistically interesting. And at least I didn’t have to force them to B&W this time.
Ithaca Festival, 1996. A young unsuspecting fiften year old boy walks into the horribly-named “Sounds Fine” on the Commons and, on the recommendation of a close online friend, purchases The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails. He takes it home and listens to it.
This was the point in his life that his musical tastes would change forever, swinging from – well, let’s be honest here, mostly crap, to industrial rock and a wide range of electronic music. He would obsessively collect every album by Nine Inch Nails, even the obscure (both halves of the Closer single) and the mundane (the Down In It single with a whopping three tracks, all repeated on the Head Like A Hole single). T-shirts were purchased and worn proudly. Bumper stickers were put on cars. Lyrics were memorized.
You get the picture.
Tonight, after nearly ten years of on-again off-again fan-worship and countless money spent, this slightly older, much more cynical twenty-five year old man will walk into Madison Square Garden to finally see the band he’s been obsessing about for all this time.
Excited? You bet your goddamn life I’m excited.