For those of you who like weird art....

Sculptress Patricia Piccinini's work is both amazingly accomplished and amazingly eerie. Her piece entitled The Young Family depicts a bizarre human/sow hybrid and her three piglets and is beyond any shadow of a doubt the creepiest thing I've ever seen, seconded only by her other sculpture Still Life with Stem Cells.

Right where it belongs....

NIN's "Right Where It Belongs" is the coolest song Reznor has ever done.

See the animal in his cage that you built
Are you sure what side you're on?
Better not look him too closely in the eye
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on?

See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart
And it's all right where it belongs

What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection
Is that all you want to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself, find yourself afraid to see?

What if all the world's inside of your head?
Just creations of your own
Your devils and your gods, all the living and the dead
And you're really all alone?

You could live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can't find the words
Are you hiding in the trees?

What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you used to know
Was an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection
Is that all you want to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself, find yourself afraid to see?

I still wish the song was better produced, though. I like the low-passed, lo-fi way in which the song starts and then gradually grows clearer--but, honestly, with a song as pretty as this, I would've only used such an effect in the intro and then let the music shine as it should from thence forward.

Also...I've been doing more and more writing on Pegritz.com, so if you're not registered there or haven't checked it out lately, get thee ass there for your necessary Pegritz fix, goddamn it!