There will be another film adaptations of one of my favorite Kurt Vonnegut’s short story Harrison Bergeron titled 2081. The basic premiss is that everyone is supposed to be equal, those who show extrordinary skill in any particular area are given handicaps to bring them down a notch. For instance strong men wear weights, smart people get ear pieces that emit loud noises whenever they think too hard, and the beautiful wear masks. Then there is Harrison who is strong, handsome and smart and he is the one who finally stands up and fights back against the system that enforces this equality. Anyway, it’s a good story, and from the trailer it looks like they might actually do a better job than the 1995 adaptation that starred Sean Astin.

Lately it seems like I’ve been hearing Atlas on KRNU almost every time I get into my car. It’s such a great tune that I feel compelled to share it with you and you and even you. Actually the entire album is pretty great, so if you don’t have it already you might want to check it out. I can attest that whenever I’m in a particularly jaggedy mood, I pop on some Battles and it cheers me right up. I won’t go so far as to say that Battles has mystical healing properties, but more than a few people are alive and well today because of these tunes.

Just a quick weekend fix. 8-bit mashers Crystal Castles has released a zombified video for their remix of HEALTH’s Crimewave.

Crystal Castles - Crimewave (Crystal Castles VS. Health)

Nine Inch Nails added some dates to their Lights in the Sky tour last week. When I saw this I did a cursory search for any Nebraska dates, naturally there weren’t any so I went about day. I completely missed that they scheduled a show over in Omaha’s backyard, Council Bluffs. The show will be at the Mid-America Center on Wednesday, November 26—the day before Thanksgiving. It doesn’t look like there’s any ticket information available at this time, but tickets for their other midwestern dates run in the $30-$60 range so I would assume this show is about the same.
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Here’s a little something that everyone should keep in mind while you sift through your music. Deerhunter is not the same as Deerhoof. Deerhunter is an indie rock band that sounds like any other sad-bastard post-emo band out there, but has somehow become wildly popular with the skinny jeans crowd. Deerhoof, on the other hand is quirky trio, that sound a bit strange in a poppy sort of way, and features a female vocalist—Satomi Matsuzaki. Deerhoof is also playing at The Slowdown on Monday October 13.

Now, that’s one to grow on.

That’s right, Trent Reznor may finally get to realize his film aspirations. Trent has recently pitched the idea of turning his 2007 concept album Year Zero into a two season maxi-series for HBO, and from his point of view everything went well.

I just pitched it to HBO two weeks ago in L.A. It went great. Ideally, we’re trying to get them to do a two-year limited series. I prefer that over a film. We would have a second ARG tying into the second album and ties into the series and they all happen together with a budget needed to pull that all off. There would be a tour down the road. The record completes the story, the ending that no one knows. I know what happens. I knew when I started it. And it’s not what people think.

Never Wanted to Dance by Mindless Self Indulgence!

I know I should quit ragging on them eventually, but I haven’t slept a full night in about two weeks so I’m feeling even more critical than usual. So why not let it shine, right? Anyway, this is the new video from MSI’s, latest and least greatest album, If, and it is disappointing in pretty much the same manner in which the whole album was disappoointing. Give it a looksie before reading the rest of the post if you’d like.

Rollingstone has a nice little interview with Trent Reznor who’s out on his current Lights in the Sky tour. A couple gems that I got a kick out of are:

I’m just an actor playing me, Puff Daddy and the real me are on a yacht somewhere.

I didn’t go to leadership class, but I’m having to transform from being an asshole to being a full-on dick.

Check out the rest of the article here. You can also keep track of NIN’s current tour via their Flickr page which gets updated a couple of times a day.