I Am Not A Goth. No, Really.

Are you kidding? I'm too loopy to be a Goth. I have Goth friends and I love the culture, but me? Okay, fine, I'm wearing black today and my picket fence is black and my favorite romantic couple is Gomez and Morticia but that's about as far as it goes with me. I wouldn't even be a decent perky Goth.

This is, of course, excepting my weakness for the biceps music of Trent Reznor. I'm not a huge Nine Inch Nails fan but what I like I like a lot, you know? And I am fully aware that I'm going to get emails that go into excruciating detail about the difference between Goth and Industrial music and I'm telling you now to save it. If they played it at the Catwalk, it was Goth. Anyway, Trent Reznor's, um, music. Wait, didn't I promise JasRangoon a rockerboy picspam (my spellcheck just resigned after I typed that sentence, by the way)? Like, in November of last year? Jas, this is your picspam.

So going way way back, Nine Inch Nails released the album Pretty Hate Machine in 1989, which makes one of the defining albums of the 90s an 80s record. That's always odd to me, like one of my favorite Jane's Addiction songs, "Jane Says," was originally released in May 1987, the same week Cutting Crew's "(I Just) Died In Your Arms" was at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Isn't that weird? Maybe that one's just me. What else is weird is the label that NIN's groundbreaking record was on, the very independent TVT Records. TVT is short for TeeVee Toons, as in the people who brought you compilations of television theme songs in the 80s and 90s. I'm not really clear on what happened there but the Urban Legend I've always heard is that Interscope Records bought TVT Records just to get their hands on NIN. Whatever the truth of that is, Reznor is now with Columbia. Way back then, though, he looked like this.

Goth Girl Teen Dream
Courtesy of splintr.com

In the mid-90s, in addition to EPs, albums and tours, NIN started doing music for video games and movies including David Lynch's Lost Highway, for which he wrote the single "The Perfect Drug." The video is one of my favorites of all time but isn't on YouTube anymore which is a pity because Reznor out-serioused Sirius Black.

T is for Trent who...what was I saying?
Courtesy of last.fm

Anyway, so I like a lot of their early stuff and I know I should listen to their more recent work but I have a question. When, exactly, did this happen?

Holy biceps, Batman!
Courtesy rottentomatoes.com

I mean, that's like...um...he's married, I can't get too crazy here. But, really, um...his wife is a lucky lucky woman. Anyway, this brings me to the whole point of this post (other than as a picspam for Jas). This morning my friend L posted this on Facebook and I haven't stopped laughing. Have a great rest of your Saturday.