NIN @ Jimmy Kimmel Live

When: Thursday, November 7, 2013
Venue: Jimmy Kimmel, Hollywood CA
Accompanied by: Cassandra
Genre: Industrial Rock

Set List: Various Methods of Escape, All Time Low, Sanctified, Came Back Haunted, Hand That Feeds

Thanks to a very special NIN-obsessed friend, I was given a heads up about the announcement of their television debut on the Jimmy Kimmel show. Now, as is with all Kimmel shows, the tickets are free, but you have to request them through 1Iota. Easy enough, but realistically, knowing this show was going to "sell out" fast, I had to get on it quick. The downside is that I was in a car on I5 making my way back home from the Bay Area after a weekend of Bridge School Benefit (yeah, I know, #firstworldproblems, right?). Luck was on my side and two priority tickets were reserved in my name. Yeah!! Life is good.

Tai & Cass

So happy to have been able to share this event with my sweet friend, Cassandra. I've known her since she was 17 and now she is 22 (which makes me....never mind). One of the last times we hung out was for a Kimmel show to see Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders, which seems like forever ago. It was a last minute "are you available" conversation, but it worked out just perfectly. 

Despite us being within the first 20 people in line (originally, we were much closer, but that's how it goes sometimes), getting to the rail was a bit of a clusterfuck. In the end it all worked out. Cass & I made it left rail, in front of Josh, which was a lovely place to be. A few other friends made it front center rail, which was all sorts of awesome, but when it became clear that we would be too many people back, we opted for the side. I honestly could not complain. I was happy.

NIN @ Kimmel
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NIN on Kimmel 11/7/13 (c) TaiDyed

Was it worth standing around for nearly 7 hours to hear five songs? Absofreakinlutely. This was the appetizer before the Staples main course and I sure as fuck did not want to miss it. After having seen this band for the first time back in September at The (mother effin') Troubadour, the idea of being anywhere other than rail for future shows will forever haunt me.