classic homer

Homer: [gasps] Tom Landry's hat, and it's autographed. "To Berman's Dry
Cleaning. Best wishes, Tom Landry."
Bart: Why don't you buy it?
Homer: I can't buy that. Only management-type guys with big salaries
like me can afford things like that.
[gasps] Guys like me! I'm a guy like me!

06/23/09 25th Birthday

Lets go back to the past, Friday the 19th was a pretty chill day- crazy storms - Jeanette and I went to daves for a bit, got some music from dave then haeded back to my house, where i had to clean up for the family party which was saturday. Saturday busy day, had a bunch of family come over, got like

$1500 from family and friends of the family. Jeanettes P's came over, it was good time, very busy, lots of food, good times- glad it all went well b/c my mom is leaving shortly and i thnk she needed it more then I did.

Saturday night went to Craigs studio in La Grange with Jeanette and her Mom to complete a class project which I think will turn out really Kick Ass! After that back to jeanettes house for sum booz'n with her Dad then back to my house to get sum rest :) Sunday was a chill day, met up with Zelenka at night and we went to a Beach by Loyola - Far North - and it was EPIC!!! drink'n and smoke'n on the rocks :) the water looked like an exotic island or something!! it was a amazing time! im glad i got to do ther, it made me smile :) breakn onto the beach at like 1am was truly peaceful and a wonderful present. Monday went to the pool and went swimming and laid in the sun for a bit :) then dinner @ cheesecake with the P's and Jeanette. All and all twas a good birthday. felt a little weird that i didnt hang out with dave and he went to go hang with his g/f and ther friend rather then hanging out w/ me but he did come out on thursday so i guess its whateva- Im very luck to have Jeanette's love and her family's as well as my family's. I am 25 now. I'm an old fuk

Last night- 6/19/2009

There was a vibe all throughout yesterday. Work was meh. Jen finally went to the dr and got some allergy stuff so hopefully she feels better now :) Went to Victor Hotel for Clockwork party, twas' craptastic, dave got me theee Worst martini EvEr!!!! like mega Yuk, the sushi was better and the prices were nice, bought two shots of tequila and it was like 20 bucks.. the music was way tooo loud, so it was pretty lame then we went to sonotheque which was ok, had some Really good beer. and just as I thought No one came out for my bday- ha Im really glad i had Jeanette there and Dave, we took sum pics at the end of the night it was a lot of fun. haha there was this guy trying to get into Sonotheque and hes like "but dude, dude, ... im a DJ. Got back and cakecups the second vomited in like 3 spots and jeanette stepped right in it when we got home around 230am. Today who knows, Jeanette has had a rough day dave is tired, prob music tho still while she does a girls night, then maybe Congress party-

Adam Freeland- We want your soul

your cellphone, your wallet, your time, your ideas
no barcode, no party, no ID, no beers
your bankcard, your licence, your thoughts, your fears
no simcard, no disco, no photo, not here

your blood, your sweat, your passions, your regrets
your profits, your time off, your fashions, your sex
your pills, your grass, your tits, your ass
your laughs, your balls, we want it all

we want your soul x 3
(in bg: your cash, your house, your phone, your life, your cash, your house, your phone, your life)

tell us your habits, your fads, your fears
give us your address, your shoe size, your years
your digits, your plans, your number, your eyes
your schedule, your desktop, your details, your life
show us your children, your photos, your home
here, take credit, take insurance, take a loan
get a job, get a pension, get a haircut, get a suit
play the lottery, play football, play the field, snort some toot

we'll show you shrinks, we'll show you spooks
we'll buy you drinks, throw away your books
we'll sell you crap, we'll charge you tax
wanna buy big guns? we'll front the cash

we want your soul x 5
(in bg: your cash, your house, your phone, your life, your cash, your house, your phone, your life)

your thoughts, your emotions, your love, your dreams
your cheque book, your essence, your sweat, your screams
your security, your sobriety, your innocence, your society
your self, your place, your distance, your space

[bill hicks]
go back to bed america your government is in control again
here watch this shut up
you are free to do as we tell you
you are free to do as we tell you
[/bill hicks]

we want your soul

here's boy bands, here's Mackers, here's Britney, here's Cola
here's pizza, here's TV, here's some rock and some roller
watch commercials, more commercials, watch Jerry, not Oprah
buy a better life from the comfort of your sofa
here's popcorn, here's magazines, here's milkshake, here's blue jeans
here's padded bras, here's armpit wax, here's football shirts, here's baseball caps
here's live talk shows, here's video games, here's cola lite, here's ten more lanes
here's filter tips, here's collagen lips, here's all night malls, here's plastic hips

we want your soul x 5
(in bg: your cash, your house, your phone, your life, your cash, your house, your phone, your life)
your soul (echo)

[bill hicks]
go back to bed America, your government is in control again
here, here's American Gladiators
watch this, shut up

go back to bed America
here's American Gladiators, here's 56 channels of it
watch these pituitary retards bang their fuckin' skulls together
and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom
here you go America
you are free to do as we tell you
you are free to do as we tell you
[/bill hicks]

we want your soul x 8
we want your soul x 8
(in bg: your cash, your house, your phone, your life, your cash, your house, your phone, your life)

no rookies, no stray, no drop-outs, no gays
no lefties, no loonies, no opinions, no way
no thinkers, no teachers, no facts, no freaks
no skaters, no tweekers, no truth, no sleep

we want your soul x6
(in bg: your cash, your house, your phone, your life, your cash, your house, your phone, your life)

here's popcorn, here's magazines, here's milkshake, here's blue jeans
here's padded bras, here's armpit wax, here's football shirts, here's baseball caps
here's very very very very very very very very very very very very long infomercials

T - 5 days left

then im 25... so got a busy thursday planned, wonder how it will turn out. Sat have a family party...ugh. I need a different Job, bad...what am I doing?... Ive wasted 5 years in a fucking cube...

06/16/09 Still 24

It's some of the last days until i am no longer 24. Truth be told, from April, these past few months have been very rock'n :) Got some events to hit up Thursday - First hitting up Sonotheque for an event and then to Victor Hotel for a ClockWorkOrange theme :)~ so it should be a night full of sexi Ultra-Violence-

Kyle has left for AZ so had a small little goodbye thing at sum sports bar on saturday, il miss that guy. Oh how life is. My mom is getting ready to move out to CA to help take care of my Grandma. It will be weird, just me and my dad. I need to find new employment. I need to research the ability of Digital Canvasing via social networking sites. Thanks tw3ak and Clickz.com

Prom @ Neo 2009

Prom Was Amazing- started the night off at my house getting all sexi'ed up

then headed up pick up DnL and ther friend Jean, then to Angels and Kings to meet up with Marcos and a few cats from Detroit/ there was Killller tunes but as most times with parties nowadays like no one was dancing which is really a shame cuz who cares what you look like dancing, you should just be embracing the music/ did sum drink'n and a lil' dancing and Jeanette was totally having a fun time with the music :) then went to Prom @ Neo which was Epic!! the music should have been a wee bit louder but Dang was it a fun night, the music, the images, the lighting, tons of people on the dancefloor !! no fights, no drama, tasty tacos, late night, I thnk we got home around 3ish Jeanette had work at 8am and made it through just fine :* Fuck these last few months have been AMAZING!!!!

06/11/2009

Been some time since I wrote in here been

Going to an 80's style Prom tonight with Jeanette. i HATE my job. I need to up my education and professionalism and move forward to bigger and better things. Nothing last forever. I try to enjoy each day for what it's worth. Youth is blessing and Aging is a gift. Dave and I have been working at getting a few tracks released. Jeanette is doing really good in school right now :) Im going to be 25 in a few weeks...Old Fuck.. Il write more later im kinda blah work has been super crappy but Prom tonight!

06/05/09

Trent: A lot of it is marketing. MTV is telling you this is what is cool. Listen to what is cool. I think that the whole situation has made music less art-y and put more emphasis on music as a product. If you buy an album today and it has two good songs on it, it's okay. Before, if you bought an album and it had two bad songs on it, well...it's still an okay album. You got your money's worth. I can't tell you how many CDs we get from bands who want to open for us, you've never heard of them so you put it on and the first song is not bad. Then, well, that one sounds like the same song, sounds like that song...with CDs you can instantly hit that little button and skip to the next track. Albums, at least, you had to go to the trouble of moving the needle. With an album you had this big piece of art, something on the inside and the vinyl. You know, it was a cool thing. CDs are ugly little pieces of shit; art's gone. What really made me think about this was discovering a few records I hadn't really listened to, like: Bowie's Low album, or _Hunky Dory_, Iggy Pop stuff I had missed. You take a record like Low, or _Hunky Dory_ where every song, to me, is awesome, different and challenging. I wish I could write one song that is as good as any song on that album. Then you compare it to what is out today. I hate to think in a retro mindset. You know, "the Beatles were the best thing.." Fuck the Beatles, I hated people who were always going on about the fuckin' Beatles. They're dead. They're ugly now. Get them out of my sight. There isn't much coming out, it seems to me, that has much depth. It's based a lot on what the trend of the second is. And I realize that we are dangerously close to that same thing. Whatever.

Eric: Soon there will be soda commercials featuring some studio guy making bad imitations of your music.

Trent: Well, there was a Gatorade commercial. I had a hundred people say "Why did you do that Gatorade commercial?" I was like, "What are you talking about?" I hadn't seen it. I finally got a copy. It was "Down In It". The beat's a little bit different. The singing has got a little bit of dis- tortion, exactly the same kind of thing as my voice. So I looked into how we can sue these fuckheads. I don't want money. I just don't want them using my song. Well, they changed it a little bit. I remember hearing a commercial and I thought, "Joe Jackson, I thought he was cool, and now he's done a fuckin' commercial for something shitty." It was that song, "Stepping Out". Someting almost exactly like that, but it wasn't him singing. I remember in an interview he said, "They approached me to do this commercial, and I said 'absolutely no way'. And they said, 'Well, we're just going to get someone who sounds like you to do it.'" Well, fuck you. And they did it. And everyone in the world thought it was him.

Josh: What are your thoughts on sampling, within the definition of copyright laws and the restrictions therein?

Trent: I think that sound is sound. If somebody sampled a bit of something in an album of mine, that's cool. I don't give a shit about that. I think it's interesting how rap groups piece together things into new sounds. I'm into that. I do think that it's totally out of control now. Asshole major label lawyers are getting in on it, and realizing they can make money by ripping people off. If M.C. Hammer looped "Head Like a Hole" and did a rap over it, it'd piss me off, and I think I should be compensated because it's my song. I think at a certain point there should be some degree of compen- sation. When it's at *that* level. Like some of these assholes: Vanilla Ice, where it's another whole song with someone talking over it. Or Dr. Dre singing Funkadelic. I've used a lot of samples, but I don't tell anyone where I got them. It's not identifiable. I'm not just looping someone else's music. I'm more interested in textures than the novelty off who or what I've appropriated.

Josh: You bury your samples. If they were taken from a song, I would never be able to recognize it.

Trent: I just produced another band, Marilyn Manson, from my label, and they have a bunch of weird obscure samples, like Charles Nelson Reilly from Lidsville, some bizarre little excerpt from one sentence and the lawyers say "Did you get permission to use that?" This is just one of fifty things on the record.

Josh: Where do you draw the line?

Trent: Well, labels now are so afraid to put a record out. There are people at major labels whose job is just to clear samples, to listen for samples and start the whole thing up. So we made a list of all the different samples that were on this thing, from that song that goes (deep voice) "I bring you fire." You know which one I'm talking about, he's got makeup on. I don't remember the name of it. Just "I bring y..." Not even that much, and it's tuned down, but everyone was terrified. Some album came out, it might have been De La Soul, I forget which rap group. They didn't clear a couple samples and got sued like a motherfucker. They had to recall the album, it cost the label millions. So everyone's terrified now. We had to call Charles Nelson Reilly's peole to see if it was okay: "Yeah, but he'd like to have five hundred dollars for that sample." It's like, "Fuck you!" You know? You would never even know that existed.

Josh: It kind of takes away from the spontaneity.

Trent: Exactly!

Eric: So, it's not all right for you to sample Charles Nelson Reilly, but it's okay for some corporation to take your music. Even if you alter Charles Nelson Reilly, you have to pay, but they can alter your stuff and not pay you for it?

Trent: Everything is set up to protect everyone but the artist. You'd be surprised at things that are in record contracts. Who writes up a record contract? The record company. Who is it looking after? Not the artist. We're on the worst label in the world.
Trent: I don't like to talk about song lyrics when I do interviews because it lessens and cheapens someone else's impression of the song. That's happened to me. I read an interview and whoever wrote [this song] is bitching: "All these people think I'm talking about this. I'm talking about blah blah blah. These people are full of shit!" Well, I'm one of those people. I realize that once it is in the store it is other people's domain to interpret. That is what is interesting about this as a medium of communications. Unless it is something I feel really strong about that is being misinterpreted. For instance, I have been accused of misogyny and shit like that. I think, "You're not getting the point." Like "Big Man With a Gun", "Oh, you're advocating..." Should I even have to comment on that?

Josh: About two years ago I read a _Mondo 2000_ interview, where you called industrial music "the misuse of technology". Could you elaborate on that?

Trent: Well, I probably did say that. I don't think I meant it in that context. I think I was describing some elements in what today is called industrial music, whatever that really means, that use technology in different ways than it was designed to be used. From an engineering standpoint; electronic instruments, recording devices, things like that. Being a programmer I find it more interesting to find how these machines can do things they weren't meant to do. Usually that is a lot more rewarding than plugging something in, reading the manual and doing just what you're told and it sounds like a Janet Jackson record.

Josh: I'd like to know how you view your own artwork. Do you see your music as an attempt to confront the chaos of the world we live in, or is it the culmination of it?

Trent: I think...I don't really sit down and analyze my music. But afterwards, I am forced to because I have to answer questions. Then I have to say, "I haven't thought about that". I am not trying to just bitch, or say that the world sucks. I don't see any point in doing that. But I am trying to come to terms with my own head in a world that is chaotic and doesn't make sense. I'm trying to deal with my own thoughts and recycle them into something that I feel better about myself by expressing. And then, I guess that if others can read their own things into. That's a good feeling. If someone says, "I know what you're talking about, I feel the same way." That's the best...You can't get a better compliment than that. And that's when it was worth sitting in that studio, or fighting with our lighting director, or doing interviews every day. That is the best reward. I'm a public servant.

06/01/2009

backtrack- 5-29/ 2009 Nine Inch Nails!!!!!! Mother Fuking NIN 2009 TOUR !!!!!!
WOW Best show I have ever seen! on a Beautiful day too! PSN and I w/ squared and L went downtown and did a little predrinking on the beach which was lovely and also heard a few Nails songs while Trent was warming up around 6ish :) Once we got inside kinda a small but nice with very decent view of Chicago- More drinking and shot from Sam Orlando and then to the concert where the opening band was meh but didnt care and didnt really pay any attention to them- Nails start and the whole performance was EPIC !!!! got a bunch of video too :) FUCKING EPIC !!!! Saturday did grilling for my mom's party and then Fischerspooner after party at Debonair which was fun - but the dj set was meh-ish but still fun and did alot of dancing and shots with sceenster ( brian ) who was kool-

- Sunday was a chill day Finally got to lay in the sun and tan!! it was the shit !! got some nice color :) today is Josh's Bday old man is turning 26! i fucking remember his 21 bday... and his 20th.. ah that means im turning 25 soon Damnit.