[kj] More Comedy Gold From Trent Reznor

[Brendan Quinn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CykTEffKHA4

This one's worth listening through right til the end, tell me that doesn't
raise your eyebrows a tad. Totally on-topic as well, the song was written to
deride the celeb trend at the time of full-page magazine spreads in the
'Jesus Christ Pose'. Shame the get-over-yourself message has been lost in
the last coupla years, but hey. 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of The Mighty TB
Sent: Sunday, 7 June 2009 5:41 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: [kj] More Comedy Gold From Trent Reznor


>From everyone's pal, Trent Reznor:


There's many problems at work here, not the least of which is the nature of 
the internet and the culture it spawns. Perhaps when and if I feel up to it 
I'll write an essay on the matter from my perspective. In the meantime, the 
replies are not going to get read, nor the PMs or forums. It's too draining 
to attempt to communicate with a mob and ultimately utterly pointless. Any 
community that grows to a certain size will implode as the lowest common 
denominator takes over. I try to stay personally engaged but it's either 
truly mentally unstable types constantly spamming my PMs (100s per day), or 
self-righteous entitlement from "fans", or random cowardly snipes from 
hate-driven scum of the fucking earth that need something to define their 
utterly meaningless lives by attacking someone from the shadows.
It makes me resent people, resent my work, resent fans and resent any 
interaction whatsoever with the "community". Of course this is not aimed at 
everybody and BY FAR most of you are decent and cool people. BUT, for those 
wondering why I occasionally lash out, often with some scolding advice for 
me... You have NO IDEA the amount and intensity of bullshit that comes my 
way from the "community". You do not experience this in your life, and you 
don't know what it's like. You just don't. And MOST of it is coming from 
people who are your FANS?
When this tour ends, so does any accessibility to me and I really can't wait

at this point.

+++++

A link explaining Trent's problem with one fan in particular

http://www.thrashhits.com/2009/05/trent-reznor-crushes-all-that-oppose-him-o
n-twitter-at-least/

And that "fans" website (she's pretty cracked):

http://www.angiez.net/blog/?p=606

T.B. 

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