U2 Tour Dates - Now Official!- Page 108

[mabel]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 6:56pm

Yeah, I've written my sob story letter. We'll see if they deem me worthy of taking pity on. I have my doubts.

I feel really bad about my bitching about DMB, but I guess since my friend is safe (other than some bumps and bruises) I can pout a little. Oh well, there's $60 towards my now non-existant grant!

And Elphie, you little minx! Good luck w/ that Kiwi! I'm jealous!!! Hell, even if the Vermonter isn't for you, at least it sounds like he's pretty to look at...better'n nothin, right?!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 7:03pm

That's absolutely SH*TTY about your grant! I would cry! In the US, how much does $4000 really do towards paying off your tuition, anyway? Cheap bastards. You sound like you're having a terrible day. (Even worse because Ellie's back, right?)

[mabel]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 7:38pm

The $4000 is sizable enough that it'll seriously screw me up. Besides, it's a grant! I don't want to take out $4000 more in loans to cover it, and have to pay that back. It's so nice of them to tell me less than 2 weeks before the payment is due, so there really isn't any time to scrounge around and come up w/ $$ to replace it. It just sucks. Blech!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 7:45pm

I just re-read my post. I meant to say that I couldn't believe they would take away $4000 from your grant, as if making that much by working would effectively pay off all of your tuition and fees! (I just realized my post could have sounded as though I was saying to cheer up because $4000 isn't a lot anyway, which isn't what I meant.)

Why is your deadline so early?

[mabel]

Posted: 7/11/05 at 8:07pm

Ahhh, I see it now...eh, you can scratch that last post. Though I was kind of wondering. Yeah, school's super expensive, but every little bit helps!

I don't think it's all due in a couple of weeks, but still. They totally wait until the last minute, leaving very little time to sort it out...not that there's much sorting to do. They basically said "sucks to be you." We'll see what happens w/ the scholarship extension. *fingers crossed*

[mabel]

Posted: 7/13/05 at 7:51am

AHAHAHHAAHAHAH!!!!!



ETA: Doesn't sound like it's true, but that would certainly make for an interesting show!!!...especially considering there were rumblings about a DVD being shot in Amsterdam!!!
U2 concert in the buff!!

Updated On: 7/13/05 at 07:51 AM

[Ellie3]

Posted: 7/13/05 at 4:26pm

Whee, naked people.

Aw, Mabel, I hope you have better luck soon! Maybe you could take a leaf out of Tiff's book and sell your body to help cover costs? Admittedly, that didn't really work out for poor Tiff when she found that nobody wanted her for the old rumpy-pumpy, but I hear she's doing a roaring trade in the obesity reseach clinics.

And I can't let an earlier Tiff post pass without comment...

'I'm the one who's more likely to see Paul McCartney before you do! Mwahahahahaha!'

a) I saw Paul McCartney in concert three years ago. (At the very same show as Mabel, as I recall.)

b) The restraining order taken out against you prevents you from coming within three miles of the McCartney family, as you well know.

c) Is that cod I smell?

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 7/13/05 at 6:09pm

That news would interest me a lot more if U2 were in the buff! Still sounds pretty funny, though.


Ellie: 1, Tiff: 0

[mabel]

Posted: 7/13/05 at 6:21pm

Funny you should mention that, Elphie!!! Check out interference's Amsterdam setlist party page 21!...I think it's 21. Hang on, I'll put a link...Bono, bare-assed! AHAHAHHA! And I thought I was pastey!


Brace yourselves!!!

Updated On: 7/13/05 at 06:21 PM

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 7/13/05 at 6:41pm

HAHAHAHA.
I sure asked for it, didn't I. That's hilarious!
(by the way, my slow connection is really annoying...it took about 10 minutes for that page to load. But it was definitely worth it!)

[mabel]

Posted: 7/13/05 at 7:02pm

Twas quite humorous! Pity I couldn't read the article. I wonder what it said??? I was bored at work, so I was following the setlist, and that popped up. Needless to say, I closed it VERY quickly!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:13pm

The photos have already been taken down.


Oh, and smEllie, who'll have seen U2 3 times to your 1 by the time she's left New York? AND be of age to go clubbing at the trendy nightspots while the young'uns are drinking milk in the hotel room? *smug*

Ellie - 1 Tiff - 4

[mabel]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 7:56pm

Damn...I'm sorry you missed out Tiff...Well, it wasn't a pretty sight, so I don't think you really missed much of anything!

No spatting, ladies! I'll have none of that!

It seemed like I had some U2-related news, but I can't think of it for the life of me! Oh well.

ETA: This isn't it, but I just downloaded a show from Feb. 1980 (featuring many a song that I've never even heard of...I only listened to a couple second to see how the sound quality was, but) I must say, it sounds rather amusing!!! Huzzah for "Pete the Chop"!!!

Updated On: 7/14/05 at 07:56 PM

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 11:38pm

Pete the Chop?? I can't imagine how that song got lost on the cutting room floor! It sounds like a surefire hit!
And Tiff, if you want to see the photo, let me know and I'll email it to ya. I saved it. It was too funny not to save when I had a feeling it would disappear.

[mabel]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 7:17am

Ooooh, hooray for saving it, Elphie! I was tempted, but I didn't, because I don't have my computer hooked up, and I don't need it saved on my desktop at work (or my friend's at home for that matter). Have you seen the pix of Bono working out in his tighty-whities?? They're from the Boy-era, I'd wager. Tres amusant! Oh the things you find when you're perusing PLEBA!!!

Gotta run. We didn't have hot water for the past two days (I took one cold shower, but passed yesterday)...Yay for washing my hair!!! Huzzah!!!

ETA: (I just couldn't see bumping this again, so I'm adding it here)

Stars Flock to "Entourage"

By Gary Strauss, USA TODAY
Fri Jul 15, 7:44 AM ET

In Hollywood, it's cool to join an Entourage.

Celebrities increasingly are turning up in cameos on HBO's Entourage (Sunday, 10 p.m. ET/PT). The hip movie-industry satire centers on a rising young star and his close New York buddies as they taste L.A.'s fast-lane life.

In Entourage's second season, several actors have played twisted versions of themselves. Bob Saget dissolved his saccharine Full House reputation appearing as the bong-toking, prostitute-chasing neighbor of actor Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier). Ralph Macchio, guesting as an old buddy of Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon), riffed on his Karate Kid persona.

Sunday, Titanic director James Cameron - central to this season's plot - shows up at the Sundance Film Festival and orders Sour Patch Kids candy at a concession stand. The Station Agent's Peter Dinklage appears as a foul-mouthed bar patron. Future cameos will include Bono, Mandy Moore and Brooke Shields.

"Whenever we run into people, they say they want to do the show," series creator Doug Ellin says. "It often provides them a different take on who they are."

Entourage was inspired by actor Mark Wahlberg, the show's executive producer. It's filled with disparaging references to A-listers, most delivered with dead-on aplomb by super-agent Ari Gold ( Jeremy Piven, nominated Thursday for an Emmy).

Mixing in cameos - Larry David, Scarlett Johansson, Anthony Anderson, Jessica Alba, Jaime Pressley, Gary Busey and Hugh Hefner also have appeared - adds to Entourage's behind-the-scenes authenticity, Ellin says.

Not all play themselves. Last season, Val Kilmer, in waist-length wig and ZZ Top-style beard, was unrecognizable as a mystical pot dealer. Last week, Bai Ling was an amorous martial arts trainer.

For Saget and others, the exposure is more than a fun gig. "The show is brilliant," Saget says. "Doing it helps people take me more seriously as an actor."

Macchio had been asked to spoof his Karate Kid image for years, but he didn't agree until Entourage. Cameos "always seemed cheesy, but Hollywood watches, so it seemed like a smart idea," says Macchio, now filming the independent film Beer League. "I thought it would be cool to poke fun at myself."

And psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers, who appears in a future episode as a supermarket shopper who has her box of Froot Loops stolen by Entourage's entourage, says, "Professionally, it helps me enormously to show up in things that attract young people."

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I never really got into Entourage, but I'll have to watch this. Sunday will be a must-see...I love Peter Dinklage! (So glad I caught him in Richard III!) I'll keep my eyes peeled for when Bono's guest spot is supposed to be on. Could be highly amusing!

Updated On: 7/15/05 at 07:17 AM

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 7/15/05 at 7:47pm

I've never seen that show, but it sounds really funny. I don't think we get it here. I wonder what Bono's episode will involve?

[mabel]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 8:54pm

AmsterdamIII SPOILERS BELOW!!! A BIG surpise addition...I have my doubts that they'll play it again, so you may want to peek!












































After about 8 straight concerts with the exact same setlist (minus the occasional swapping out of OOC for IWF) U2 FINALLY broke out a decent/stirred up setlist. Tonight they played WGRYWH, a full band version of Original of the Species for the first time (I guess they got some guy to play keyboards and Edge played guitar) AND they dusted off Miss Sarajevo!! Full song, full band!!! It's only the second time they've played it in a concert!!! I guess there was one other for a benefit. I can't believe they played that!!! I wish they'd make this a trend and start adding more rarities! There should be one dusted off song in each (I'd say show, but that's never going to happen, so each) city!!!...AND, for the first time in Europe (I think) they didn't do Vertigo2!!! It was nice as an occasional surprise, but lately they've been knocking the setlist down to 21-22 songs, including 2 Vertigos! CRAZY!!! Anwyay, I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for a boot of AmsterdamIII!!!

























End of Spoilers!!! Did ya peek?? C'mon, you know you want to!!!

Updated On: 7/16/05 at 08:54 PM

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 1:32am

I didn't peek and I'm not going to (I have very strong will-power), so don't go spoiling your spoilers again!

[mabel]

Posted: 7/17/05 at 9:20am

Awwwww, Elphie!!! You're missing out!!!! I don't know what I'm going to do when the 3rd leg comes around. I'll try not to peek, but damn, it'll be hard!!! Oh well, once school starts, I won't have such a plethora of free time on my hands. Setlist watching has become a sad little ritual that gets me through the afternoons at work!...I'll just say that it was a SUPER rare song. And we'll leave it at that, and see just how strong your will-power is! I must say I'm very impressed thus far!!!

Hope all is well in NZ...it is POURING here.



Here's the link to the first performance of "Pete the Chop" in 25+ years!!!...Just kidding!

Scroll down for surprise song...

Updated On: 7/17/05 at 09:20 AM

[mabel]

Posted: 7/18/05 at 7:30pm

Maybe I'm glad I didn't score tix to McCartney!!
Here's the (rumored) proposed setlist:

Band on the Run
Big Barn Bed
A Love For You
I Saw Her Standing There
Hi Hi Hi
Junior’s Farm
Twenty Flight Rock
Little Woman Love
Momma’s Little Girl
Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
Name and Address
I’m Carrying
Yesterday
Venus and Mars/Rock Show
Spin It On
Jet
Live and Let Die
Letting Go
Maybe I’m Amazed
Yvonne’s the One
Dear Boy
So Bad
Arrow Through Me
My Brave Face
Off the Ground
Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five
Beautiful Night
Let It Be
Hey Jude

Apparently I'm not that big a fan, because I've never even heard of half of these!!! I think I'll just enjoy my memories of Ellie and my Beatles/Wings heavy concert from 2002, thank you very much!

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 5:26pm

I don't have anything at all to add, but I thought this needed a bump. We can't let it get TOO far back!
I don't know a lot of those songs either, mabel.
I saw this band last night. Supposedly they're the biggest (most well known) punk band in the country (not that that's saying much considering the size of the country). They're called Kitsch, and I advise you to run the other way when anyone mentions them. They weren't THAT bad, but I guess I'm just not into that kind of music. I went because it was free for people in a program that I'm involved in, so at least I didn't spend any money on it.

[mabel]

Posted: 7/20/05 at 6:30pm

*hugs Elphie*

I was going to bump it up at work today, but I thought 3 in a row from me would make me look rather pathetic!

I was going to post a link to an audio clip of Bono on his plane flying into Amsterdam, since the blub on it sounded rather amusing, but it was up on U2.com, and you have to be a member to log in/hear it...Alas, I am not a member. "‘Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away...’ sings Bono, clearly not bothered at his latest multi-tasking exercise. ’From the south of France to Amsterdam, there’s no place we’d rather fly.’"

Sigh, I'm going to post this, even though I know I should wait until tomorrow or something so I'd have an excuse to bump it back up...oh well.

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 7/25/05 at 10:57pm

Bump

This was on, like, the 10th page and I don't want us to lose it! And I miss y'all. Mabs and Tiff, how are your jobs going? Ellie, do you have a job this summer or are you being a bum like I was? Anyone have any news to share? Seen/going to see any good concerts lately? Sorry, I'm bored.

[mabel]

Posted: 7/26/05 at 2:16pm

Thanks, Elphie!! I didn't realize it was so far back! Eeek!

I totally should save my reply until tomorrow or Friday to bump again, but I have no will power! I've been tempted to just bump this up during the week putting on random musings from when I'm bored at work...well, I guess that's what I'm going to end up doing now anyway. Sorry! Go ahead, read it all...I dare you! Maybe you'll get a laugh or two out of my super luck!!!

Let's see...Concerts...I'm going to see Crosby, Stills, and Nash on Aug 2nd (pity Neil Young isn't going to be there!). The DMN/BNL concert is Saturday, but I don't think I'll be going to that (unless I find some insanely cheap tix that someone's looking to unload). I think that's about it for the rest of the summer. I'm going to try to camp out and listen to the Jack Johnson and (hopefully) Arcade Fire concerts in Central Park in September. Arcade Fire will be a bit of a stretch though, because it's on a Thursday at 7 and I have class from 6-8:45. Pity it wasn't a week earlier, as that would have been my first class, and I doubt he'd keep us the whole time...or better yet, pity it couldn't have been on a Monday/Wednesday/Friday (I also have a film class on Tuesday night. It was so nice of them to schedule half of the English major courses at night. I refuse to have more than 2 night classes though! It royally screws up what little social life I have!

Work: Yeah, it's still pretty boring! Oh well. What can you do? I've been stuck doing these spread sheets where I have to abbreviate job titles for various people. I think I said something about this last week. There were 26,000+ in the file I was working on at the time. Well, I finished that last Friday (after spending the ENTIRE day scouring through the file looking for any "Assistants"...there were FOUR in the 26,000!) Anyway, I found out Friday afternoon that there are more similar files that I have to go through. Come to find out, each of those had more people than the last. I added them all up, and there were just a shade under a half million of them!!! Can you believe that?!?!? It was 485,000 or something like that! I guess I know what I'll be doing for my last month here...there's no way I'll be able to do it all.

I've moved desks for a couple of weeks while someone's on vacation (doing some of the work I did last year). So, yesterday, I got the software for my miserable project dl'ed on this computer, but the 5,000 I did on Friday didn't transfer, and after doing a few hundred over again, I accidentally stepped on the power strip under the desk turning my entire computer off (yeah, they didn't get saved)!!! Who keeps the power strip right where your feet are?!?!? That (on top of the fact that school's pissing me off again...more ranting on that later) just put me over the edge yesterday. I seriously thought I was going to get up and scream right at my desk! It's just gotten incredibly tiresome, tedious, frustrating, etc, etc, etc.

So, Pace...PU (hmmm, how appropos!) is on the rampage again! My parents called me saying they got something in the mail saying that I owed $30,000! Ummm...WHAT?!?!?! I started freaking out, worrying that they didn't get my acceptances of my scholarships and the new loans I had to take out to make up for the grant they STOLE from me. They gave us like 10 days to accept everything, get it signed, and have it arrive back in NYC. Keep in mind, they sent it to NH, so that meant my folks had to send it to me in NY, so I could sign it and mail it out to the school (oh and 4th of July weekend was in there, just to make things extra interesting!) I guess it was just a mistake on their part, because the people in Financial Aid today said I was set. I guess. You never know w/ them! I checked it out online and they said I was delinquent on a loan, but when I called they said "ooooh, that's just because we haven't sent you the paperwork for that yet." WTF?!?!? They made it look like I was the one to screw up on my FA profile online! God, they're pissing me off!



I'm also in the process of applying for fall internships. I've sent in a bunch for various postitions at New Line Cinema (which I really, really, REALLY want!) that I realized after I sent them that I screwed something up on the cover letter(s). I rechecked what I'd written 3-4 times, and decided I wanted to add a word in...didn't read it again until after I sent it, and subsequently realized made ZERO gramatical sense afterwards! *headdesk* I'm also finishing up a cover letter for an internship at Conan O'Brien (that I think is probably too late anyway...there was no application deadline, but it isn't online anymore...oh well, I'll send it in tomorrow anyway) and another at CBS Sports (which would be more fun if I still lived in New England...I hate the Yankees!!!)



Anyway, I guess that's it (it's not really it, but it's enough! I'll spare you the rest)...did anyone actually read this?!?!

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 7/26/05 at 7:12pm

*raises hand*
I read it! Every single word!
I like your long updates, keep them up. They somehow make me feel more connected to home and to the US and to New York, and I miss all that. I feel so isolated out here. I love it, and I'm not exactly homesick, but...I can't really explain it. I just feel like I'm missing a lot, so I like hearing about anything at all that's going on back there.

I love Jack Johnson, I'm jealous that you'll get to hear him! Hopefully you'll catch Arcade Fire, too; that's a really long class you have! I wouldn't be able to sit still for almost 3 hours. Anyway, if the concert starts at 7, Arcade Fire probably won't go on 'til 8, which means you should be able to catch some of it, right? Crosby, Stills & Nash sounds great, too.

Does your temporary desk get you away from the creepy guy for a while?

Sorry about all the stupid PU stuff; it sounds like they need to get their act together, which I'm sure they will do eventually. Don't stress out too much about it.

Your internship prospects sound great! I would love to do any of those, I wish I lived in the city.

I don't have any news here, just keeping busy with classes and trying not to turn into an ice cube. Oh, I have my first official stalker! It's actually kind of scary. He called me 7 times yesterday, he told me that he loved me...I've done absolutely nothing to lead him on, I told him I have a boyfriend at home (I lied; I only wish I had a boyfriend), and I told him I don't like him, but he keeps bothering me. The bad thing is that he's ruining my favorite class ever because he's in it (the Music Industry). No matter where I sit, he'll find a way to pull up a desk right up against mine and sit next to me and try to talk to me, even though I try to ignore him. Any suggestions as to how to get rid of him?