I think he'll take a short break then he'll come back as a producer. I expect a NIN resurrection in a few years though.

Muse's Black Holes got more votes than their Absolution? Wow.

I agree that musicians can use a lot of 'weird' things, for example cacophony (sp?) for artistic reasons, to express something. But if you use it, use it with professionalism. Dream Theater's often playing  in chromatic (like where every note can be played), but it's not the same as Robin's going off-key. I don't know what Axl's intention was with the TIL solo, but it's horrible. Only if he wanted to ruin the song can I accept it as a successful move.

I don't know whether it's fake or legit, but looks much better than the original, for sure.

Anyway, as far as I remember Prostitute wasn't only credited to Axl in the old booklet. Not that it'd mean anything.

I wouldn't use the word 'journey' for UYI, but your post made me think... and I think this is a good summary, although I'd add it's like a very special journey, when you try to discover a metropolis and you have 4 very different guys, each who show you what they like the most in that city. I hope you get what I mean.