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Half a dozen things I might write about if only I could convince my brain they're important enough to actually merit, er, wrting about... eh.

Instead, some pictures; not a very photogenic weather, but a rather authentic Vienna November afternoon... It's finally starting to act like the time of the year.





( a couple more under the cut )

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Random pettinesses I don't really want to post anyway. Aliens made me do it!

- I never voted for either of the parties currently in government here, and on any normal day would like to see them gone sooner rather than later, but what with the over-our-dead-bodies noises the ÖVP (for the non-Austrians: conservatives with equally conservative religious tendencies) has been making recently, it would deeply satisfy me to see them in power just long enough to be forced - kicking, screaming, foaming at the mouth and predicting den Untergang des Abendlandes -, either by the European Court of Justice, or our own Verwaltungsgerichtshof, to legalise gay marriage.

- Confessions of an ex-nin fan. I'm very glad I went through my nin phase in the Fragile period. I can't (could. don't want to.) begin to describe how off-putting I find this fanclub thing, and frankly, I preferred it when Trent was more elusive, but at least democratically so. Undoubtedly nin.com:access sucked, but it sucked for everyone equally, excepting perhaps the two dozen regulars who'd turned it into their living room and had fun terrorising unsuspecting newbies. Still, I suspect my dislike isn't entirely rational, and I probably would be less hard on the whole venture if I could like With Teeth a little more. I don't; I felt obliged to, tried and failed. It isn't just growing out of/away from this kind of music - I recently listened to The Fragile again, and I still love every moment and wouldn't see anything changed. I can't quite put my finger on it; the closest I've come to pinpointing my aversion is that from TF I'm getting a sense of urgency, that this, all of it, needed to be made, and for this reason I'm - not forgiving, but not even noticing those moments people tend to complain about on boards, the songs they dislike, occasionally clumsy lyrics and what not. Starfuckers is just as much a part of it as The Great Below. From WT I'm getting... nothing like that. Weariness, rehashed lyrics, evoking an anger and depression that isn't there any longer, or that he's very tired of; a sense of being stuck between places, neither having entirely departed from the nin past, not yet arrived anywhere. The only part I still like, or actually can listen to, is the Sunspots to Right Where It Belongs block, and I keep wondering if it's because it's close to TF.

I never wanted to be one of those fans who forever whine about how much better things were before, and it's not repetition I want, either, and I'm the last person to wish continued depression on anyone. Rather, WT makes me wish for a cleaner, more definite cut. Saying this is probably tantamount to heresy, pun not intended, but listening to WT makes me wish Trent had taken time to work through his issues, and then taken yet some more time to make and think through the new album, instead of going all Bleedthrough, no, wait, With Teeth.



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