I did my nails, which didn't take the whole two hours, but I took my time.
Like most rock kids of his generation, from an early age he had a working knowledge of electronic music through listening to industrial bands such as Nine Inch Nails, and an obsession with "IDM" ("intelligent dance music"), in particular "anything on Warp Records".
The press will write about Brown biting his nails and twitching with impatience unless it has war stories to tell about the ideological battle.
"I'm just like everyone else: if it's in my area I don't think it's a penalty; if it's in theirs, I do" – Athletic Bilbao manager Ernesto Valverde nails it.
Then came the complete, unexpurgated Grimm's Fairy Tales, which my parents ordered by mail, unaware that it would contain so many red-hot shoes, barrels full of nails and mangled bodies.
On the one hand they were the big draw at festivals – the lure of White Noise helped block walkways at Glastonbury, pack tents at Field Day, and, improbably, steal the Nine Inch Nails crowd at Reading and Leeds.
Click here to watch There was a notable absence of rock at this year's Grammys, but thankfully Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor took centre stage for the gnarly closer, performing Copy of A from his 2013 album Hesitation Marks, joined on stage by Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, Dave Grohl and Josh Homme.
When The Dresden Dolls were invited to open up for Nine Inch Nails' summer tour in 2005, we were ecstatic.
Meanwhile, he was sarcastically impressed by one story on the awards ceremony pull-out, which mentioned his damning reports on Rangers FC in its second par, as if they were relevant: "Magnificent work guys: Scottish Sun finally nails the link between Rangers and Ebola".
"It's basically like a shop fit-out," says Ranald McInnes, head of heritage management at Historic Scotland, picking at the charred nails that now protrude from these black stumps.
On Godard's first feature film, Breathless, he quietly photographed the director's initial meeting in a cafe with the American star Jean Seberg, who bit her nails nervously when she heard just how Godard intended to work.
