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[[Image:Ntae_cover.jpg|thumb|200px|Halo 29: ''Not The Actual Events''<br />[http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dnine%2520inch%2520nails%2520not%2520the%2520actual%2520events%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=thniinnawi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 Find on Amazon] - [http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574848848&toolid=10001&campid=5336384580&customid=&icep_uq=nine+inch+nails+not+the+actual+events&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg Find on eBay]]][[Image:NTAEvinyl.jpg|thumb|200px|Vinyl cover art]][[Image:Ntae_physical_component.jpg|thumb|200px|Physical component]]'''''Not The Actual Events''''' (also known as '''''[[Halo numbers|Halo 29]]''''') is the second proper EP from [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It was released digitally on December 23, 2016, though pre-orders through [[nin.com]] allowed for a download one day early. This EP acts as the first installment of a '''[[The Trilogy|trilogy]]''', preceding the 2017 release of ''[[Add Violence]]'' and the 2018 release of ''[[Bad Witch]]''. This is the first release to include [[Atticus Ross]] as an official member of NIN.

In addition to a wide digital release, the EP was offered through nin.com in two other formats. One was a single-sided : vinyl, and the other was a digital + "physical component for you to deal with" version. The physical component includes included thick card stock papers containing song lyrics, various images , and soot black powder that will would cover your hands upon opening. Many different unique variants have been reported. The EP was released on CD on November 17, 2017.

Side B of the vinyl version features 3 reversed versions of three additional, unlisted tracks from ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]]'' in reverse: "[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]", "[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]" and "[[Reptile]]". The vinyl also had a small amount of the black dust powder in its package, with smudges and fingerprints already on the sleeve and the record. There are also two variants of the lyric sheet/inner sleeve, with one in blue and one in red. The vinyl comes with a digital download card. ==Associated websites====="Schizophreniasdiary"===[[Image:bboneshidden1.jpg|thumb|200px|Hidden lyrics example 1]][[Image:bboneshidden2.jpg|thumb|200px|Hidden lyrics example 2]]A [https://schizophreniasdiary.wordpress.com Wordpress website] was discovered, seemingly originating from 2011, which shares lines and lyrical themes from the EP/LP trilogy; most notably the line "cocksucking chicken wing," which can be found amongst the extra, layered lyrics of "Branches/Bones" printed on the physical vinyl version release. It remains unclear how the two are connected, though it is generally agreed that the correlations are too specific to be deemed coincidental.

=="Schizophrenia Is A Diary"=youdidntevennotice===In 2022, [[Image:bboneshidden1.jpg|thumb|Hidden lyrics example 1John Crawford]]left a message on [[Image:bboneshidden2.jpg|thumb|Hidden lyrics example 2Discordance]]A [https://schizophreniasdiarywhere he asked if fans had found a message that he had hidden in the album artwork that could only be found by having both the CD and vinyl.wordpressOn the last page of the CD booklet, above the blue bar at the bottom, there is text that says "you didn't even notice".com Wordpress website] was discoveredBelow the bar on the corresponding area of the vinyl lyric sleeve, seemingly originating from 2011, which shares lines along and lyrical themes from under the EP/LP trilogy; most notably the line fold, there is text that says "cocksucking chicken wing,dot com slash ntae" which can be found amongst (on the extra, layered lyrics of blue sleeve) or "Branches/Bonesdot com slash halo29" printed (on the physical vinyl version releasered sleeve). It remains unclear how As neither package has the two complete text, both are connectedneeded to complete the message. When you visit the full URL, you ended up at a mostly blank site that said "YOU NOTICED BUT YOU WEREN’T THE FIRST. DON'T MISS THE WINDOW NEXT TIME, though it SIGN UP TO RECEIVE NIN NEWS FIRST." and had a sign up area below. It is generally agreed that not currently known what content was there for the correlations are far too vast first visitor to be deemed coincidentalthe website.

<blockquote>"It's an unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make. It's an EP because that ended up being the proper length to tell that story".</blockquote>

<blockquote>"PART ONE OF A THREE EP TRILOGY OF RECORDS. UNAPOLOGETIC, UNFRIENDLY, DENSE, LYRICALLY COMPLEX, SO-FAR-BEHIND-THE-TIMES-IT’S-AHEAD-OF-ITS-TIME, HIPSTER-REPELLING UNCOMPROMISING MUSIC SMART PEOPLE CAN FUCK TO. IT MAY NOT BE FOR YOU."</blockquote>

In an interview with Lizzy Goodman posted on nin.com, Reznor explains the trilogy’s concept in detail: <blockquote>"But to be clear, the record isn’t about Trump, it’s about making sense of the world. The first recordEP's title, ''Not the The Actual Events'', was more of an internal fantasy of what if I lit a match to my life and just embraced burning is derived from the whole fucking thing down. You know? All of this is an illusion and I really should be dead or lying in a ditch somewhere. Who I descrambled lyrics found within "Branches/Bones": ''really'' am is an addict that self-destructs. That’s my true nature and this is an illusion and some borrowed time. It wasn’t a pleasant thing, but it felt like, that’s a story to tell. And if felt like something I needed to internally process. And that supported other things that were interesting to us like aggressive music and a sense of the self-referential, looking back at other albums and pilfering bits of the art design to confuse people and also because I was thinking about those records. To try picking up a guitar, which I told Allowing myself I would never do again for whatever reason and finding, you know what? It sounds fucking good. Listening back and going, you know what? That was a good song from 25 years ago, it’s not bad to play something like that. There are no rules. That was the first record. 
It wasn’t fully mapped out but it was meant to feel like if we broke up one big record – if it was ''Downward Spiral'', which has acts, if we do an album like that, but release one act at a time, it will be more immediate and the level sense of adrenaline and momentum will be higher. And maybe it will be consumed in a way that feels more digestible to an outside world that doesn’t have long attention spans anymore. With the second one, ''Add Violence'', the idea was, loosely, to zoom out, to be more global and to imply that maybe we’re all comfort in a simulated reality. And that might introduce the concept of meaninglessness but also provide a safe container to explain why everything feels offpast.  By Not the time we got to the third one, we had an idea in mind actual events but it felt … rehearsed. Predictable. In the end, what felt true was to say that we as a society and as a species are probably an accident, a mutation. Really what we are is fucking animals. And the illusion was enlightenment. The more we’ve connected with each other the dumber we’ve gotten and the more we decide we want to kill each other. We’re not some elevated transcendent beings, we’re bacteria in a jar. way I wanted the art direction of Bad Witch choose to feel like shadows on a cave wall and we’re trying to figure out what it is and really there’s no nice, clean, safe scientific explanation. We’re just an accident. String theory remember them and quantum physics is a fucking trick. And we’re not going to suddenly elevate ourselves into transcendent beings. We’re kidding ourselves. I know this will be an unsatisfying conclusion for some people. It isn’t what they want. They want it to be full matrix virtual reality, and this is the opposite of that, this is dirt and a broken computer chip and everything you believe in is really just bullshit."</blockquote>''

==EP titleLive Representation==The EP's title, All songs from ''Not The Actual Events'', is derived from the descrambled lyrics found within have been played live except "Branches/BonesThe Idea Of You": ''Allowing myself to feel a sense of comfort in the past. Not the actual events but the way I choose to remember them and you.''

The cover artwork harks back is a direct reference to that of [[David Carson]]'s designs for ''[[And All That Could Have Been (halo)|And All That Could Have Been]]'' and ''[[Still]]''. One alternate cover is re-purposed ''Still'' cover art, in a possible nod to [[David Bowie]]'s re-purposed cover art on ''The Next Day''. The "scratch marks" that appear on the main cover are also present in the upper right hand corner of the ''Add Violence'' front cover and the ''Bad Witch'' back cover. There are seven known variants of the digital art, including the final version.