U2 Tour Dates - Now Official!- Page 125

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 9:45pm

1. Patronus, I'll never let you go, Jack! I'll never let you...DAMMIT! Someone put on Bambi so I can watch it and laugh!

2. Brooklyn seems like a reasonable place to live. Have you looked into Harlem as well?

3. I talked to the union rep today - she told me the pharmacy employers can't touch me until the time has come for me to actually leave for the trip, in which case I should give notice. But that shouldn't happen until at EARLIEST late-Nov! She's coming into the store tomorrow while I'm there, and is going to talk to the employers. I have to admit I'm a bit worried still. Even if I don't lose my job, she's even warned me that the dynamic will likely get worse between me and the bosses, and that they might make it "hell" for me.

4. On the slightly brighter side, if I miss U2 in October (NO! CAN'T! THINK! NEGATIVE! THOUGHTS!), I can always try to come to New York when my hubby, Chris is performing! (Oh, I hope if he does the show, it'll coincide with Julia Roberts's play as well! Imagine, attack of the Runaway Bride stars!)

5. Alanis is opening for the Stones? Mabel, I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU!! You get to see all the good shows, and what am I stuck with? Oasis, The Killers and Destiny's Child?? WTF?? (Not that there's anything wrong with them, but GAH!) Hopefully Alanis won't be cracking out the JLP acoustic set again.

6. Keane-zzzz.... But after the threat of Kanye West, I'm all for Keane now! (*snooze*)

[mabel]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 9:46pm

Hey Elphie!!!

Uber-bored here! I'm trying to throw together some sort of "writing sample" for that internship at Theatre Talk, but I just don't think I have it in me...damn Pace for changing their mail system. All I had in my inbox was a 7 page paper from my journalism class about the Tribeca Film Festival, and I really don't want to go to the effort of hacking that down to a reasonable length to send to them. Even though I really didn't want to send the paper from my Beats, Bongos, and Buddhism class, it was only a page or so, and it would have done in a pinch.


No idea when they're going to announce November, but I would think they'd be announcing it, and the rest of the tour soon. I mean, they only have a few more weeks before the leg starts! It'd have to be sometime soon. I hope you get someone quasi-decent!!!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 9:51pm

I'm going to hack out a "New York Budget" plan right now, and see exactly how much I'll have to spend when I'm there. Terrified to bring this up with my folks - they don't even know about my impending termination yet, and they're already getting on my ass about the moolah problem.

[mabel]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 9:57pm

Didn't they know about the fact that you'd have to quit for good when you left to go on your family cruise? And that would have only bought you a couple more weeks past late-November, right?

Also, how would taking a week off in October affect your situation? Would they use that as an excuse to terminate you sooner, or do you have x-amount of time to take off as long as it's not in the allotted no-time-off zone, no matter if you're on thin ice or not??

And I don't care. I'm a loser and I moderately like Keane...so *raspberry* to you.

And yay for 1 1/2 days until I go home! I'm so ready to start breaking stuff here! I've stayed long enough, thank you very much.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:02pm

Keane is like the poor boy's Coldplay. (And give me Chris Martin ANY DAY!) How can you hate Maroon 5 and like Keane? (Okay, okay, apples and oranges.--And just to be fair, yes I saw Maroon 5, but it was way back when their stuff was still new, and dammit if their fast songs aren't catchy the first 5 times you hear it!)

Yeah, I'd have to quit for good when I go on the cruise, because it breaches union agreements to book any time off for Oct-Dec, so for them to "temporarily fire" me would probably cause other employees to use the same tactic whenever they want to take time off. Technically I'm not allowed to book ANY time off until I've been working there for a year, so I don't even know how October will play into this. I've restricted my hours to just doing Saturday and Sunday shifts starting in September, so I'll have to switch shifts with someone on the sly for those two days when I'm gone!

How long are you home for? Oh! And do you have any Zoo TV DVDs by any chance? (I don't remember which ones you were going to send me.)

[Ellie3]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:06pm

Keane suck.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:07pm

How does happy hour on Saturday night sound instead, El? (Milk for you, vodka for me?)

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:07pm

YOYOYOYOYOYOYO!!

I'm a fISH!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:08pm

Holy CRAP, I haven't seen that poster yet, CQ!!!

*creams*

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:09pm

I KNOW!!!!! *squeaks* ITS SOO TI-IGHT!!

HAHA... i'm such a harry potter nerd!

wussup tiff?

[Ellie3]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:11pm

Seriously. There's no way I'm sitting through Keane.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:11pm

check out my first ever bio!!

Sam Mayer is currently a fish at Lamar high school. This is his TUTS debut (believe it or not) and he is very proud to be making it with The World Goes Round. He has assumed numerous roles, each less important than the next and aspires to be a director and/or writer. Other theatrical experiences include: Board Operator (WHAT Theater), Bye Bye Birdie (ensemble), and assorted plays and scenes. Mkay?

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:12pm

Nothing much, hun! Gimme a sec - downloading the GoF trailer right now!

[mabel]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:13pm

I copied my roommates copy of Songs About Jane, but I just can't listen to it because I find what's his face's voice SO SHRILL! I agree that Keane is pretty much a poor man's Coldplay, but then again, I rather like Coldplay, so...Whatever, I at least expect to be able to make out a lyric or two, which already puts them at a bit of an advantage over KOL. Though, I did kind of like their music...I guess the singer really can make make or break it for me.

I'm sending your ZooTV Sydney, Joshua Tree LA, and a Boy concert. And I've got PopMart for Ellie, and another copy of the Boy concert/a slightly screwed up version of the Elevation concert for Elphie and I've still got groupie's Brooklyn Bridge and her San Diego show (bad, bad, bad). I really do wish that I had easier access to a burner so I could have copied everything I have for everyone in the group...maybe some day, but I snuck as many copies as I could at work, and then I'd have to go from DVD->VHS->DVD here at home, and they just started looking pretty crappy, so I stopped after the 2 Boy DVDs I made. Some day, my friends...Some day I shall invest in a real burner!

Oh yeah...*raspberry* to Ellie too! Maybe I'll just keep that PopMart DVD

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:15pm

oh and Tiff- i'm seeing Billy Elliot this WINTER!!!! AAAGHH!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:23pm

CQ, go and download the Goblet trailer NOW! It's f*cking amazing!! (Watch it on the largest setting you can for the best effect!)

Ellie, to be fair, after sitting through Kings of Leon, I would have welcomed Willie Nelson as an opener. So anything, by comparison, is better! (The KOL singer has the mumblyness of Bob Dylan, without the music or charisma to back him up.)

Oh yay, so I AM getting a Zoo TV dvd! Now that I'm re-listening to the '80s classic, Achtung Baby (just testing you there), it occurred to me that Zoo TV would have been an awesome concert!

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:24pm

OH Tiff... i've seen it (thrice) i am SO in love with it... i'm more excited than ive ever been!

[mabel]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:27pm

Yeah...twould have been!!!

Actually, I think I've got an extra copy of the Brooklyn Bridge show, so I guess Ellie and Elphie could spat amongst themselves for that. Pat, you're a newbie. I'll get to you in good time. Maybe a couple of CDs first, if you're intersted, to get ya started!

The KOL singer was really something else. He really was like current, mumbley, nonsensical Dylan x100. And I thought it was hard to make out what he was saying on the CD!!! I wish I could just edit him out, or super-impose someone else in.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 11:09pm

Is it Interference that's threatening---I mean, suggesting---that Keane will be opening?

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 11:42pm

Keane's website has it, so it's official.
And Mabs, you know you love me more than SmEllie.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 12:11am

F*CK!!

Updated On: 8/25/05 at 12:11 AM

[Patronus]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 12:23am

You can't mention the Goblet of Fire without a Patronus appearance.

I am really excited for the film also. I'll be there for the midnight showing!

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 1:03am

Count me in among the Harry Potter freaks on this thread! I can't wait for this movie.

Folks, I am now officially on mid-semester break! And my family arrives tomorrow! And I'm excited!

[mabel]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 8:49am

Hey, Elphie! I'm so exctied that you're excited that you're getting company in NZ!!! How fun! Has your family been to NZ before? Are you going anywhere fun and exciting?

Ok, I listend to Hopes and Fears again last night before I went to bed (shut up!) and while I will heartily concede that they aren't the most interesting choice to open for U2, they still HAVE to be better than KOL. Sure, I think they'd be better suited to some divey little club in the Village than opening for U2 in an arena (or a stadium, eep) but again...they HAVE TO BE BETTER THAN KOL!!!!

Last full day at work! Woke up super-late...oops! And I've got to get going, trying to polish off the last 6,000 thingies in my document. Hooray for going home for a week! I've never been more excited about not-so-exciting food in an even less exciting town in my ENTIRE LIFE!!!

Not looking forward to moving in to the dorms though. I realized last night that, counting last summer, I've moved 5 times in the last year!!! For my summer job, to my room for the fall semester, to my room for the spring semester, to my summer place again, and now back to school. I think I've officially had enough. Well, I'll save that until Tuesday the 6th, when I'll be officially all moved in and "settled" in my dorm, then it'll be official.

Oh, and to add one more little notch on the "mabel's a freak" tally. I haven't read a single Harry Potter book. I honestly think if I wasn't your one stop shop for all your footwear needs, you guys would just disown me!

Back to work. *waves*

Updated On: 8/28/05 at 08:49 AM

[Patronus]

Posted: 8/25/05 at 9:50am

"Pat, you're a newbie. I'll get to you in good time. Maybe a couple of CDs first, if you're intersted, to get ya started! "

Ah, definately interested. Free discussion about sgeltoob. Very cool. Tons of musicals, not a ton of rock shows. I'll wait patiently.

Keane's website isn't cooperating with me this morning. Are they confirmed for Oct, Nov or both?