it's a miracle!

the kings have traded jason labarbera (aka lolbarbera aka labarbera streisand aka clownshoes aka laflopera) to the canucks for a 7th round draft pick.

let's just hope ersberg can stay healthy and quick's recent amazingness (three total goals allowed in four games) isn't just beginner's luck. that's a lot of faith to put in the kid. i'm sure things will be ok. i like what i've seen. it's amazing watching a tense situation and NOT having the goalie scrambling around like a fish out of water. quick doesn't overcommit or overreact, he plays his size and has good positioning. oh and his rebound control is pretty damn good too.

i'm honestly surprised any team was willing to pick up labarbera.


~~~

this year is almost done. next year will be about proving that i can do better than i did this year. hopefully i can make it through without making any stunningly bad decisions and maybe i'll even find a little bit of direction. because right now it's all a big mess. and hopefully the process will be punctuated by trent shows. :D

~~~

i feel sick. this better be gone by tomorrow!

ok everyone. have a good day tomorrow and be safe and don't drink and drive and see you later!

ouch part two

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i'll stop soon. i promise.

if clits could talk

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from the road

We're an hour into the drive home, and it has been nothing but creedence the whole way. GodDAMN I hate creedence clearwater revival!!
...And my ipod is dead :(

This was the weirdest christmas. It was the first time (ever) I wasn't home and didn't do the traditional christmas eve business with entire family. I didn't think I'd care, but now I'm kind of sad about it. But I guess it was for a good cause.

...And I wonder still I wonder whooo stooooopped the raaaaaaaain. OMG JOHN FOGERTY SHUT UP!!! I wish I could stop HIM.

omg

katie is a goddess. best. calendar. ever.





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oh, and miguel coming through with the power adapter for my computer!!!! i now have access to my mac for the first time in months. i get to update my ipod and look at pictures and otherwise get the hell away from windows vista, which frustrates me on a daily basis. AND the super amazing flatiron that dries and straightens wet hair. which is awesome.

seriously, best christmas ever.

ouch

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awww

two of my favorite things :)




seriously, men + cute dogs... and then all the girls turn to putty.

ps: peek is so much cuter than that dog. just sayin'...

what??

betty page died a week ago and i had no idea!

:(

omg why won't it die?

the rage/nin rumor won't go away! my heart actually aches at the thought of this. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO US?! i get trent is a fan of this band, and that's fabulous, whatever, but the two crowds... that's going to be a nightmare. :(

i was so looking forward to doing pit for a few of these shows...

ok i really hope i'm overreacting and this rumor goes away.

3 or 4 days gone

i don't even remember how long it has been. i have so much i should be doing. but i've been busy looking at footage from the shows, organizing my pictures and otherwise wasting time. and just when i thought i had run out of ways to waste time, katie finds the finck appreciation thread. then, when that's done, i find the trent reznor appreciation and photo thread. it's page after page of absolute GOLD, and i'm on page 24 and i just discovered there are 238 pages. :(

damn the internet!

so i still have like 200 pages of photos and hilarious fangirl comments to look at (and maybe agree with). chaonatic still has like 75% of the show to put up.

...and the kings play the redwings tomorrow. and miguel gets back.

i really don't foresee anything productive happening this weekend.

rumor

that nin will be touring with rage against the machine in the spring.

...dear god i hope not. :(

no more youtube for a long time!!!

youtube is soooo slooooooow. but anyhow, i finished uploading all of the best snippets of robin's awesomeness. if you're going to watch these (and you should, particularly the one from gave up) then you should definitely watch them in high quality. i hate youtube and how they make the quality so crappy. it looks so much better in the original file :(

in order, these are clips from terrible lie, wish, the good soldier, god given (including the fast whisper part) and gave up (where he's alone in front of the screen at the end of the song).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwFcPVQP7tQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-fYjj4MQvg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxyXOYa2M3k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOUVCRmMl8E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaa0B_eEt24

~~~

also:

lol (i now kind of know what this is like. it's not cute.):


and, shouldn't the goalie be like, standing up? why yes, he should!!!! I HATE YOU LABARBERA! (i love how the crowd behind him is so. not. amused.)




finally, i had to post this because drew doughty and oscar moller are so damn cute. even if moller is missing a tooth.

my sentiments exactly

tonight's kings game was so incredibly frustrating. my entire family (including an uncle!) actually sat around to watch it because it was SUCH A GOOD FUCKING GAME!! it completely looked like a playoff game. and i was so proud of my boys for ruling at life. and, of course, labarbera ruined it for us. so i went over to lgk and, as usual, cbgb expressed my feelings better than i ever could. it made me laugh so hard that i decided to post it here so i could look back on it any and every time lolbarbera ruins my life (no profanity allowed on the boards so nevermind all the ***. i actually think that makes it funnier):


Mother***ing LaBarbera!!!!

The Kings DOMINATED the game!

You let f******ing ROSZIVAL beat you TWICE!!!?!?!?!?!?!?


You c****ksucking worthless piece of fu**ing SH**

If LaBarbera is EVER in goal for the Kings, I'm not going.

Why this horrible excuse for a goaltender exists on the Kings.... I'm so funkinh angry my head is about to explode. I wish I had a toothless crack head wife so I could beat the crap out of her just for existing.

The Kings were BEAUTIFUL.

The Kings BATTLED

The Kings DESERVED to win.

But that mother*****er let us down AGAIN.

I'm not going. If this turd is in net, I'm not giving the Kings my money.

Let Quick and Bernier or Zatkoff take the chance.

This turd is not an NHL goaltender.

ROSZIVAL????

TWICE?????????

I can't even say his name. I want to vomit. I want to puke all over myself I'm so disgusted. Jason the f***kstain is the worst excuse for a goaltender EVER. Yes, even worse than Beachball. The Kings played their ASS off and what does this jackalope do?

As long as LaBarbera is starting, I'm not going. I can't support this sh----t

pictures and stuff

ok finally finished uploading my videos. i hate that youtube takes so long and that vimeo gives you so little space. but whatever. the sound on these is pretty awful, but i kept my arm steady for the most part and they're still fun to watch.

edit: just watched them again. trent is a very thick little man. and robin is such a sexy fucking beast. that part in echoplex starting at like 2:16 where he's playing he's in a trance. i could watch that all day, every day. yummmm.

here's closer:

NIN Closer in Sacramento December 12 from missroseline on Vimeo.

and for youtube, don't forget to watch them in hq if you can:

echoplex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aw8hvUlKZ4
(robin is such a badass in that last guitar part!)

wretched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmF5ImNIIQU

head down (particularly bad sound): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VuDf0lkI64

the rest of my videos are just random clips of robin moments i love but nobody was going to capture but me. i haven't uploaded them yet but i'm not sure anyone would really care to see them except katie.

~~~

and here be my photos:


and the rest of the acceptable ones

cal clutterbuttpuppies or nin causes sleep deprivation which in turn makes the strangest things hilarious

ok, wow. i haven't slept enough since last wednesday night and it was a very long, very cold journey but it was well worth it.

sacramento:
this was the worst venue of all time. they wouldn't let us park on property until 6 pm (wtf?) and they kept acting surprised that people were showing up early to stand in line. we were moved around quite a bit, threatened and yelled at that we were trespassing and to leave, but whatever. katie and i got there at like, 6:30-ish and walked through the thickest fog of all time so nobody who worked there saw us. that's how we got away with it. we checked the entrances and nobody else was there, so we decided on one to start the line at. we had already been told we couldn't be there, but fuck that. so we just sat silently for like, what, an hour and a half? before anyone else showed up. then, you know, more and more people showed up and complained that they had been there earlier but were kicked out. but nobody challenged our first-ness. so YAY! we were first! and in all the times we've done this, we've never been first. it was a pretty good feeling. it was fucking freezing. omg. OMG.

but whatever. so the nin.com presale ticket experience was amazing. they took such good care of us. i wish they had their shit together like this all the other times before this tour, but whatever. they lined us up, making sure to keep the order of the line (which means so much because we've been fucked over before), we were given our tickets and then walked into the arena. a security man told us that if we ran we'd be kicked out. so for the first time in history i got to calmly stroll up to the barricade and decide precisely where i wanted to be instead of the mad rush and scramble to even get a spot. it felt so amazing to have our long, cold wait pay off like that. so i decided where robin was going to be and planted myself there. then security made sure the front row was all presale people by checking our wristbands. and throughout the show this really awesome security guard named shannon (is that how you spell the boy version of that name?) gave us water on cue. like i said, we were really taken care of. where was shannon the water boy all the other times i needed him in the pit?!

so the pit wasn't bad in terms of moshing or crowd surfing, which was nice. on my right, there was a really strong guy holding back the crowd, so my right side was fine but the left side was completely different. obviously, the closer you are to the center (tr) the worse the going. i took a lot of elbows and lots of crushing, but eh, it was ok. i've been through worse. it was just funny after the show because my left side hurt so badly but the right was ok. oh, and the girl next to me was about to be kicked in the head by a crowd surfer wearing combat boots, so i covered her head and pushed it off to the side and took the kick to the hand. so that actually still hurts. but the strangest thing that happened was that i experienced my first credit card. you know when someone slides their hand between your buttcheeks and says "credit card" ? well she didn't say it and i'm pretty sure it was an accident (though i don't know how this happens on accident) but some girl stuck her hand up my skirt and in my butt. WHAT??!! i was actually filming closer at the time so when you watch the clip i'm going to post later, at about 1:02 you hear me yelp and see the camera go nuts for a minute. it was SHOCKING.

so the actual show: was a good one. i've dreamed of being on the barricade right in front of robin pretty much since the first time i saw the dude perform, and he didn't disappoint. i felt bad because i was staring at him pretty much the whole time and most of my pictures and videos focus on him. i couldn't help it! he's captivating! and he does a lot of very strange dances that you don't really notice if you're sitting far away. like there was one point where he was pretty much doing a samba in the corner. it was so funny. i sincerely hope that i get the opportunity to do rail in front of robin again. as usual i didn't pay any attention to justin and i noticed alessandro looked really over it and bored.

the set was good. it was the standard one plus wretched (YES!!!!) and the good soldier. and the big electronica party was vessel and warning. and we got big comedown (which has been rotating in and out). overall i was very pleased with the setlist (disappointed not to have reptile or great destroyer, but you can't win them all) and the show.

vegas:
we were expecting SO MUCH from this show. we were worried that it was going to be a huge letdown. we got there late because the strip and parking were a nightmare, but luckily for us they started really late. our seats were pretty good. middle section, almost exactly in the middle of the theater, and maybe 12 rows back? i'm not sure. on the way in we saw billy howerdel and charlie clouser. it was kind of weird seeing them standing in line picking up tickets like anybody else. you'd think they'd get the hook-up.

so after 1,000,000 all of my concerns were assuaged. all i could say was "wow. fucking wow." trent came out with SO MUCH ENERGY and aggression and passion. already the show was so much better than the night before. tr stole my attention right back from robin and i was like YES! HERE is my rock star. also, the sound was brutal. i hear that other parts of the theater had kind of crappy sound, but from where i sat, it was a-mazing. really loud but also the whole band just sounded fantastic. and josh was showboating his ass off because it was his last show. fancy drumming galore. seriously, after every song people all around us kept saying "wow wow wow" because it was such a YES!!!!!! performance. i even got tricked into clapping because i was so into it. then i caught myself and stopped. i don't clap. but anyhow, this show was easily the best one i saw from this tour. considering the perfectionist that trent is, and that the music sounds spot on every night, it's hard to imagine the songs sounding better from one night to the next. but in vegas, the songs sounded like perfection. i've heard head like a hole SO MANY TIMES but i fell in love with it all over again. all of the songs. just PERFECT. it's like all the musicians were competing with one another to sound the best.

this time we got the great destroyer and REPTILE and good soldier again. it was great.

i got really emotional at this show because it felt like an ending. tr even hinted that it was going to be the last for at least quite a while. and i also got emotional because the music was so gorgeous. but whatever. anyhow, during his speech he announced a us tour next year with a 4-piece band that (thankfully) will include robin and justin. it felt like he gave me a hug because i felt so much better. at least i can worry about the end next year instead of now. he also surprised everyone by announcing that alessandro was leaving too. and alessandro surprised the crowd by giving one very lucky fan his keyboard.

overall vegas was a very satisfying show and completely lived up to my expectations. it was good to see tr so on his game. it was nice seeing this huge production for the last time. and i look forward to the new 4-piece "deconstructed" approach. i'm hoping that he busts out some old songs we haven't heard in a while. and maybe they'll finally play and all that could have been!

i got some video that i'll post later. the sound isn't good but the video itself is. and i'll post pictures too.

k bye. :)

hmph

it's time for trent! i'm excited but... then that means after this weekend it's over. for who knows how long! :(

yay for being in the pit again. i'll finally get to experience robin's super coolness up close.

but i can't find my camera! where did it go?!?!?!

k bye.

who wears short shorts?

evgeni malkin wears short shorts! lol wow. those are reeeeeally short dude.

daily peek

i've been doing these for noelle, and it occurred to me that i should post them here so i can have a record. because i delete them from my phone once i've sent them. so anyhow, here are a few of the best from the past few days. peek is so cute :)

daily peek: post-bath edition


babushka peek:






more HERE

oh, yuck.

smashing pumpkins version of "landslide." billy corgan's voice sounds so unbelievably shitty. so, so bad.


on another note: having rhapsody rules. :)

so funny

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

what i get for trying to be normal

since i'm now working with some regularity, i decided it's about time that i start going to bed at a more reasonable hour. so tonight at around 10 i was playing sudoku (yes, i'm a loser like that) and i started feeling sleepy. so i seized the opportunity and went to bed. then i woke up at 3:00. and i tried, but i can't go back to sleep. so now it's 4, and i don't know what to do. this sucks.

:(

thanks to the folks at lgk.com

you see, THIS is why jason labarbera angers me so. yeah he can make a big save from time to time, but then things like this happen:







he'll over-commit to a potential shot or randomly go far out of the net for no reason! i cannot think of another goaltender who does this with the same regularity that jlb does. it makes me crazy. JUST STAY IN THE NET!!!

(for those of you not in the know, you see that overhead shot? it's a really bad thing if the defending team's goaltender can't be seen in an overhead shot of the net.... really, really bad.)