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January 9, 2011 9:33 AM

On Friday evening, Trent Reznor sat down with Jon Pareles (music critic for the NYT) for a lengthy, candid interview about his work on The Social Network soundtrack, Nine Inch Nails, How To Destroy Angels, and his creative process. The interview runs 1h15m, and is available for download in both video and audio versions.

Note: the video was captured live from the online stream, and has a few audio sync issues which quickly rectify themselves.

posted by hippybear (17 comments total)

The video is in Quicktime .mov format, and the audio is .mp3.
posted by hippybear at 9:34 AM on January 9, 2011

why on megaupload, though?
posted by empath at 9:57 AM on January 9, 2011

Anybody wanna put this on, I dunno, Vimeo?
posted by MrChowWow at 10:01 AM on January 9, 2011

[Volvo joke]
posted by paisley henosis at 10:01 AM on January 9, 2011 [1 favorite]

Trent Reznor Updates Fans On His Many Projects

posted by Artw at 10:01 AM on January 9, 2011

I assume it's on megaupload because it was captured by NIN fans. I've looked through the NYT website, and they don't seem to archive their TimesTalks live streams, or not that I could find.

I was hesitant to try to upload the video for online consumption, due to the banhammer.

There is a magnet link in the comments of that page, for those who prefer bittorrent.
posted by hippybear at 10:07 AM on January 9, 2011

I've stuck it on my site. I can't seem to embed it on the blog (anyone have code for that? everything I found on google didn't work).

You can watch it here (selflink obviously).
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 12:08 PM on January 9, 2011 [1 favorite]

Arrgh. Seems out of sync to me as well. Anyone else who downloaded it, you having a sync problem?
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 12:11 PM on January 9, 2011

You Should See The Other Guy: the person who captured and posted the video acknowledges the sync problems in that "captured by..." link above. He says he worked with the video to get it synched as well as he could, but the medium from which it was captured introduced the problems in the first place.
posted by hippybear at 12:49 PM on January 9, 2011

So... It was Broken, and couldn't be Fixed?
posted by Artw at 1:24 PM on January 9, 2011 [8 favorites]

I'd say it was Fragile to begin with, but that would just lead to a Downward Spiral of bad jokes.
posted by hippybear at 1:30 PM on January 9, 2011 [11 favorites]

My friend had a copy of ADD that included a cd that was an audio version along the same lines of this video.
posted by beardlace at 4:26 PM on January 9, 2011

Annnnnnd wrong thread. Whoops. I am a fool sometimes.
posted by beardlace at 4:57 PM on January 9, 2011

We're never going to come up with one for Pretty Hate Machine or With Teeth, are we?
posted by Artw at 11:14 PM on January 9, 2011

I had something for With Teeth but it gave me The Slip.
posted by littleredspiders at 8:07 AM on January 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

Elvis Costello seems to either make a cameo in or invade the soundtrack of 75% of all movies. It makes everything suck as bad as that original Social Network cut. I predict that some Ted Turner-like figure will "colorize" classic movies in the future by digitally erasing all this crooning indie dorkpop and replacing it with harrowing electronic dirges as the Good Lord intended.
posted by dgaicun at 9:30 AM on January 10, 2011

Artw: We're never going to come up with one for Pretty Hate Machine or With Teeth, are we

Something something Volvo something Pretty Hate Machine.
posted by paisley henosis at 10:15 AM on January 10, 2011