Lights in the Sky over Seattle, Washington

I know, I know. I didn't get the opportunity to sit down and write about it until now - my week ended up being a lot busier than I thought it would be.

So, the setlist:

999,999
1,000,000
Letting You
Discipline
March of the Pigs
Head Down
The Frail
Closer
Gave Up
The Warning
The Great Destroyer
1 Ghosts I
25 Ghosts I
19 Ghosts III
Piggy
The Greater Good
Wish
Terrible Lie
Survivalism
The Big Come Down
31 Ghosts IV
Only
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole

Encore:
Echoplex
The Beginning of the End
The Good Soldier
Hurt
In This Twilight

And it was perfect. Seriously, this was just an amazing, amazing show. I couldn't have asked for anything more (except La Mer.) Personal highlights were:

1,000,000: I love this song sooooo much and experiencing it while being crushed in the pit was a lot of fun. Everyone's just going completely nuts and I'm having that moment that I always do at concerts when I'm still processing the fact that "omg [so-and-so, in this case TR] is actually RIGHT THERE playing this song". Whee!
Discipline: This is probably my second favorite song on The Slip and I am completely unashamed. I love when NIN does gay disco anthems. I am disappointed that I didn't see anybody take their shirt off and dance, but it's okay because it was still awesome.
Head Down: Most-wanted song, and I got it!! I wasn't too impressed by the DVD rehearsal vid, but it sounded like the band finally had it down. Also, the tambourine made its triumphant appearance, and I was pleased.


1 Ghosts I: This was AMAZING. This is where I mention that this was as much a lights show as a music show - the visuals were absolutely stunning. I was kind of wondering before the show started how they were going to integrate the Ghosts stuff with the rest of the show, but they did it.


The Good Soldier: The other song I really really wanted to hear, hooray! And more tambourine.
In This Twilight: I FREAKED because I knew he'd never played it before. It was really beautiful, especially the piano outro. The show ended on the perfect note.



I'm really lucky to be a NIN fan at this point in time - now that Trent's got himself straightened out he's churning out amazing material and putting on equally amazing shows in such a short period of time. He continues to be a huge inspiration to me.

(Oh, while I'm here, Crystal Castles was awful. Like, seriously awful. And it's too bad, because they have potential, I think - some of their beats were pretty cool - but that girl needs to have her mic taken away from her until she learns how to sing. And I mean SING, not just alternate between unintelligible whisper and equally unintelligible spazzy whine.)


And now that I'm talking about epic fail, let's talk about the most epic fail of all!


As evidenced here, here, and here.

Seriously. I have no words. Except for WHY ARE THESE BOOKS POPULAR. WHYYYYY. At least they are here for me to laugh at. Just. omg. SO AWFUL.