{"id":155,"date":"2005-10-28T01:25:55","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T01:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/an_aha_moment\/"},"modified":"2005-10-28T01:25:55","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T01:25:55","slug":"an_aha_moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/music\/an_aha_moment\/","title":{"rendered":"An &#8220;a-ha&#8221; Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=300,height=219,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/only_clip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"73\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/only_clip.jpg\" title=\"Only_clip\" alt=\"Only_clip\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>MTV is finally playing the Nine Inch Nails video for &quot;Only.&quot; (It&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/nin.com\/visuals\/\" target=\"_blank\">on NIN&#8217;s website<\/a> since July.) And boy is it Mactastic! <\/p>\n<p>But seriously, do the VMA&#8217;s have an award for best use of iTunes and the desktop accessory lineup of Spencer Gifts in a metal\/industrial video?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine &quot;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Take_on_Me_%28music_video%29\">Take on Me<\/a>&quot;, but instead of comic book panels you have one of those pin grid thingies that takes an impression of your hand. (Apparently it&#8217;s called a &quot;pinpression.&quot; Who knew?) You can hear Trent thinking, &quot;Help! I was at the mall and somehow I got trapped in a pinpression! Let me out! Must! Get! 80&#8217;s chick!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Shut up. He&#8217;s still more goth than you.<\/p>\n<p>More on the making of the video <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theninhotline.net\/news\/archives\/backissue\/05\/7#1120855838\">here<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theninhotline.net\/news\/archives\/backissue\/05\/8#1123063085\">here<\/a>. (It&#8217;s mostly CGI.) The director, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Fincher\">David Fincher<\/a>, is of course known for directing the films Fight Club and Alien3 and the video for Paula Abdul&#8217;s &quot;Forever Your Girl.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>And in case you haven&#8217;t heard, Fincher and Reznor are currently developing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/86917.html\">a musical based on Fight Club<\/a>. So badass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTV is finally playing the Nine Inch Nails video for &quot;Only.&quot; (It&#8217;s been on NIN&#8217;s website since July.) And boy is it Mactastic! But seriously, do the VMA&#8217;s have an award for best use of iTunes and the desktop accessory lineup of Spencer Gifts in a metal\/industrial video? Imagine &quot;Take on Me&quot;, but instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}