december 10, 2005
los angeles
trent renzor & aaron north of
nine inch nails
perform at the *kroq almost acoustic christmas*

enjoy!
pinion.wish
terrible lie
sin
march of the pigs
something i can never have
closer
you know what you are
burn
only
gave up
hurt
the hand that feeds
starfuckers, inc
head like a hole

images. by karl walter

while everyone is creating their beautiful and amazing top lists of the year, im dedicated to the fact that i have no idea what to choose. ive learned so much about why i love what i love that im overwhelmed.all i know is i’d like to live here.

there would be my own private flat, lots of colored walls full of every piece of art that i stare at and cant get out of my head plus the scent of nag champa incense, calming soft candles and icicle white christmas lights along the walls. the entire place would perfectly glow and the music would be excellent.

in london, this place resides as XL recordings, home of thom yorke’s the eraser, one of my very favorite releases of this year.

a mastermind behind the artwork is the man hidden under the alias stanley donwood, who has been creating radiohead’s beautiful album covers over the years. winning a grammy for the design and packaging of amnesiac, donwood has been a forever special childhood friend of thom yorke’s growing up.

originally started in 2005 and unbeknownst to even the makings of the eraser, this artwork entitled *london waves* created secret meanings unveiling the threat of global warming and the rapture of floods that entered london years ago… but if you look even deeper, many have depicted that it feels like the entire state of this world.images. thankyou to andrew fox and green plastic

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might generate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.” [Anais Nin]

during the year of 1995, radiohead delivered their second album *the bends* and shared in what would make them today known as one of those very special bands. they were just beginning the road to success… and thom’s pure voice truly goes to beautifully prove that from this raw quality performance of just him and jonny acoustically at the cat’s paw radio studios in atlanta, ga.

street spirit
lucky
bulletproof… i wish i was
you
subterranean homesick alien
fake plastic trees