I Got My Fist, I Got My Plan, I Got My...NIN Handbag?

Currently in: Kyoto, Japan (man these Japanese keyboards are weird)

Damn, can't upload pics from a public computer, so you'll see it later.

NIN in Osaka was all kinds of awesome, setlist for both nights to make you jealous:

May 23:
1. Hyperpower!
2. The Beginning of the End
3. Last (you have not lived until you've heard this live!!)
4. Survivalism (so awesome live!)
5. March of the Pigs
6. Something I Can Never Have
7. Capital G (didn't like when I first listened to YZ, but now I can't stop going "HUH HUH")
8. Burn
9. Gave Up
10. Help Me I Am In Hell
11. Me, I'm Not (One of my favorites from YZ, performed in a way you wouldn't expect live)
12. Eraser (Drummer Josh Freese is just mesmerizing to watch during this)
13. La Mer
14. Into The Void (I love this 1-2 punch)
15. The Good Soldier (Not much different than the album version)
16. Wish
17. No, You Don't
18. Mr. Self Destruct (Finally popped my MSD live cherry - didn't use a condom and loved every minute ;)
19. Only
20. Get Down Make Love (Trent said Queen was his favorite band growing up - FUCK all the Queen haters!!)
21. Dead Souls (One of 2 songs at the top of my list of songs I wanted NIN to play live that I haven't heard yet....calling me....)
22. Hurt
23. The Hand That Feeds
24. Head Like A Hole

May 24:

1. Somewhat Damaged (Still my favorite NIN opener)
2. You Know What You Are? (The crowd was so into this)
3. Terrible Lie (The best I've ever heard it done live by NIN - most likely because the crowd was so into it -- HEY GOD!!)
4. Sin (Always awesome as usual)
5. March of the Pigs
6. Piggy (Hell yes!! Always a crowdpleaser)
7. The Beginning of the End
8. Survivalism
9. Ruiner (Fuck yeah!!)
10. Burn
11. Help Me I Am In Hell
12. Me, I'm Not (extra long intro this time)
13. Reptile (The 2nd of those 2 songs I most wanna hear NIN play live...I got goosebumps during the opening beats of this)
14. The Frail (no Wretched, which was strange....he played the piano chord from The Fragile -- "I won't let you fall apart" -- I would've loved to hear that live -- The Fragile is still my fave NIN album)
15. The Good Soldier
16. Wish
17. Only
18. Capital G
19. Suck
20. Down In It (I WAS UP ABOVE IT!!! NOW I'M DOWN IN IT!!)
21. The Day The World Went Away
22. Hurt
23. The Hand That Feeds
24. Head Like A Hole

It was keyboardist Alessandro's birthday and Trent led the crowd into a nice rendition of "Happy Birthday" for him. Two scantily clad women presented him with a birthday cake and tried to throw it in his face, Alessandro ducked it though....that didn't stop Trent from picking it up off the ground and throwing it at him again though. Didn't miss that time!

Trent also spoke that being the last show of this leg of the tour, he was gonna take a couple months off and work on his next album (big crowd response, obviously).

Thanks to the Osaka crowd for being the best I've ever been to. They were loud yet polite, they jumped but never pushed. They let Trent sing Hurt without screaming during the quiet parts or clapping. The NIN diverse fanbase shows up again as you see middle-aged Japanese businessmen and even women bringing their newborns (!!). They weren't just there, they were into it too! ZEPP was also a fantastic venue, very nicely air conditioned unlike most places.

2 hours and 24 songs each night, aka HEAVEN. If you haven't seen NIN in a small venue, then you haven't seen NIN at their best.