readingthedark

Yes, I'm asleep and caught up in the NINspiracy marketing campaign for the new "Year Zero" album at the same time.

But, dear Sfnal people, let's admit that an alternate reality where quantum researchers are beaming texts from banned books back from fifteen years into the future because banned books might prevent a global ultracomservative apocalypse (that it appears they will fail to prevent) is cool.

Are Tolkien and Vonnegut (the ones used in the NINspiracy) the books I would choose to save the world? Maybe not, Peake and PKD are more revolutionary. But it's still cool. And Trent Reznor loves Clive Barker too, so Trent has taste.

And the future Hollywood got destroyed by cluster bombs on Oscar Night!

(And, yes, Sean Stewart (et al) IS cooler by a factor of eight to ten, but I love the four leaked songs -- with Saul Williams on backup for at least one song even -- and I have an industrial goth twitch that will never heal and a very soft spot for the end of the world. And work has been crazy lately so I need passive distractions.)

Lyrics to "In This Twilight"
(newest leaked NIN song, the band is lobbing USB drives into bathrooms at their concerts... lyrics transcribed by Merzbau)

watch the sun,
as it crawls across a final time
and it feels like,
like it was a friend.
it is watching us,
and the world we set on fire
do you wonder,
if it feels the same?

and the sky is filled with light
can you see it?
all the black is really white
if you believe it
as your time is running out
let me take away your doubt
you can find a better place
in this twilight

dust to dust,
ashes in your hair remind me
what it feels like
and I won't feel again
night descends
could I have been a better person
if I could only do it all again

but the sky is filled with light
can you see it?
all the black is really white
if you believe it
and the longing that you feel
you know none of this real
you will find a better a place
in this twilight