U2 Tour Dates - Now Official!- Page 167

[Ellie3]

Posted: 10/20/05 at 8:05pm

Missing K***e - the one plus. I wouldn't have been able to sit through them, honestly. You may have been faintly annoyed, or vaguely repulsed, but I would have had a nervous breakdown. I truly do despise them with every fibre of my being.

And the tour isn't over, so there's hope for me yet. I hope to make Hartford. Thanks for inspiring me, mabs!

[mabel]

Posted: 10/20/05 at 8:58pm

OMG, Tiff! I think I need to PM Elphie and tell her to just stay away from the thread until she goes to her show! I hate to be such a wench, but I'd hate for her to have gotten this far only to get spoiled a month from go-time! She hasn't been looking at setlists since, what, June?!?!

Anyway, 10/10 is up on interference. I'm going to try to DL it now...well, what's up from it. They're track by track and only through 14, I think. Hmm...maybe I'll just wait and see if someone posts them in zipped files. Oh, and my friggin DellPod is screwed up (aaaaand I almost left it in my Feature Writing class! *headdesk!*) Actually, it's not the DellPod that's screwed up, it's the software. I dl'd it onto my computer the day I moved in, and then a week or so later, my computer started acting really funky (very, very slow; MS Word wouldn't open, etc, etc) so I set my computer back to the day before I moved in, and it wiped out the software (which I didn't realize until last night when I tried to upload 10/14 onto it, and the software was no longer there...which also explained the lack of Adobe Acrobat while you were here, Tiff, since I installed them together)...ANYWAY, I re-downloaded the software, but when I went to install the plug-in, it wouldn't take, and when I reopened Musicmatch, it came up w/ some update, so I clicked OK, but then, mid-stream, I decided I didn't want an update, that I just wanted to get it working and I'd deal w/ updates later. So, I reboot my computer, and now I've got some Y! Music 10.1 on my computer in place of Musicmatch 10.0, and NOTHING works! F*CK ME!!!

So, I'm waiting for 9pm to roll around (only a couple minutes away) and I'll try calling Dell and see if someone there can talk me through this! BLAST!

[Ellie3]

Posted: 10/20/05 at 9:07pm

Blast?

Are you an Enid Blyton character?

[mabel]

Posted: 10/20/05 at 9:18pm

....ummm...maybe....

[Ellie3]

Posted: 10/20/05 at 9:24pm

I'd try to help you, alas I'm also clueless when it comes to computers. Clueless.

'I re-downloaded the software, and went to install the plug-in...

You know more than me. Good luck, though!

[mabel]

Posted: 10/20/05 at 10:45pm

I talked to a very nice guy from Dell for over an hour!!! And he taught me a new way to do everything (uploading from the internet and from CDs)...I'm kind of pissed that I can't just do it the way I used to, but this seems to be working. I just downloaded 10/14 on to my computer and then onto my DellPod and renamed all the tracks/album/artist info.

Off to see if someone's put up a zipped version of 10/10 on interference!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 3:46am

You so totally lost me about your Dell problems, but I'll sympathize anyway. If, out of all of that, you're still unable to burn a copy, I can send you the one I made last night. (It was frigging impossible to just transfer the zipped files onto my iPod, so I had to burn it, then re-load the burned songs back onto my computer, then load them onto the iPod - long story short, I've got a burned copy of 10/14 that I no longer need.)

Any luck with 10/10? I'll hop over there and see what's goin' down.

[mabel]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 9:32am

I now seem to have no problem *knock on wood* w/ my DellPod. Musicmatch was all frigged up, but I've uninstalled it, and I ripped a CD, converting tracks to MP3 w/ WMP and then cut and pasted my zipped tracks directly from the folder in my music into my "music library" for my DellPod (in a folder/program that I didn't even know existed!!) So, all is good. Also, in uninstalling Musicmatch, the 10/14 show was converted back to WMP files, rather than Musicmatch. I haven't tried burning it to CD now, since I was plugging away w/ the other stuff until after midnight, but I'm thinking it might work now. And even if it doesn't, at least I've got both 10/14 and 10/10 on my DellPod.

*Pfew*

Anyway, now if only a copy of 10/8 would show up!!! *fingers crossed*

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 5:06pm

Honestly, Mabs? You seriously lost me at "Musicmatch". Wuh? "Ripped a CD?" Strong arms! I haven't a CLUE what you just said. But I DID grasp that you've got 10/10 and 10/14 on your DellPod and for that, yay! (Can you send or link me to 10/10 somehow?) Still waiting for 10/8!

And how selfish of me to not have commented on Elphie - are we doing THAT badly with spoilers? I changed my earlier post that contained the DC setlist already! Maybe we should just tell her not to read the thread, but to pop on to say hi when she's around and we'll change the font or something for things related to her so she'll know which ones are safe?

Okay, so it's been almost a week since I left and things are still good in NY, right? Right?? I wonder if my bad luck has followed me (9/11, NorCal, London), caught up with me (NY last week) and is now preceding me (hurricanes in Mexico/Carib/FL two months before my vacation). What gives???

[mabel]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 9:49pm

I have no idea how to send you links to my own downloaded versions of 10/10...Like my own Yousendit links. The track by track listings are up on interference, under Vertigo Tour, Audio/Video. I have no idea if the links will have expired by now or not though.

I PMd Elphie "warning" her of the potential spoilers, and she said she's probably just going to avoid the thread for the most part...I guess she's got finals and stuff coming up anyway.

Saw Capote and Shopgirl today (for free! YAY!) Both were very good. Jason Schwartzman was A-MAZING in Shopgirl! Beyond hilarious. And I didn't even hate Claire Danes!

No worries in NYC. *knock on wood* Maybe it's one of those "they go in three's" sort of deal, and I'll be good to go.

The roomies are here, so I'm probably going to go in the bedroom and read. No cartoons, but I'm still not keen on listening to the TV blasting not-so-funny comedies.

Later!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:11pm

Don't tell me they're subjecting you to an Everyone Loves Raymond marathon! Run away, little fishie! Run away!!

No worries on 10/10, I downloaded it this afternoon so it's all good. (I'm surprised it hasn't expired yet. Isn't YSI a "7 days max or first x number of people, whichever comes first" sort of deal? The quality's pretty good. Haven't listened to 10/14 yet, but I want to transcribe the Spaceman Rant on here for Ellie, Patronus and #1Elphie to see.

How was Capote? And you know, you mentioned In My Life briefly but didn't really get into it - tell me how it was! After seeing all these threads on the main board, it seems like the worst trainwreck EVER! Like, BKLYN x 1000! (At least some people LIKED BKLYN.)

[mabel]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:18pm

Ok...I'm back. The chair in the bedroom is really uncomfortable, so if I've got someone to chat w/ I'll put up w/ the bad, loud TV.

I was very surprised the MD speech was only two minutes long. It shouldn't take too long to transcribe.

If you're still here, I'll put a more detailed IML review, though there's one on the main board (from someone who's friend e-mailed it to them) that's about as spot on as you're going to get!)

ETA:


Pretty much everything you need to know about IML!!!

Updated On: 10/21/05 at 10:18 PM

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:34pm

Okay, because I have no lofe, I'm transcribing the Miracle Drug speech now. (I keep thinking it's from One, but that's only because I tend to tune out before both of those songs. Oh, and Win Wenders - the director from Million Dollar Hotel - was given a shout-out!) It needs to be seen to be believed, but this'll do. (And the audio's pretty clear so I think I've got most of this down verbatim - so imagine a giant [sic] enveloping this whole quote and Bono's mangled tangent, okay?)

If anyone saw the Edge on The Conan O'Brien Show, I call this extraordinary, is when the Edge dressed as a spaceman and [indistinguishable - "bought a ticket to Norway"?]. And that's because the Edge is a spaceman. That's the Edge. He's travelled...in fact he's not just a spaceman. The Edge is actually the kung-fu future. And in this spaceship...and lead this spaceship up to the north side of Dublin. It's true. It's [indistinguishable] And myself, and Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen are standing there and the door opened to this spaceship and this man walked out. Except he wasn't a man. He was...a spaceman. And Larry walked up to him and said, Who are you? And he said, [pause] I am the Edge. [cheers] [pause] And Adam said, Where are you from? And he said, [pause] I'm from the future. And Larry came up and said, What's that like? And Edge said...it's better. This is "Miracle Drug".

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:38pm

I read that thread already. Are you telling me that's seriously what happens?? I thought that was a joke thread! You're serious???

Yeah, it took longer to transcribe than I thought - mainly because he was so incoherent that I wasn't sure if I heard correctly. (The stuff I wrote is pretty much what I was sure of, though.) The most important bits: "kung-fu future" and the freakish hypothetical dialogue between the band sans Bono. (I mean, dude's standing outside a futuristic spaceship in the north part of Dublin and he lets freakin' LARRY do the talking? I didn't know we were ALSO on a parallel universe! As if.)

[mabel]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:40pm

Ahhh...now I'm compelled to listen to it and see if I can make anything out in the couple rough spots you had...what a psycho!

Oooh, and good news! The roomies left...though I'm not so thrilled that he was laying on the couch w/ his feet on my pillow! Bastard...oh, and I went to the bathroom shortly after he came out, and the door knob was wet. Was it evil of me to wipe it down w/ her hand towel? If it was water? No damage done. If it wasn't...he's her boyfriend! The fact that he left one square of TP on the roll was the deciding factor on using her towel to wipe the knob.

[mabel]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:43pm

The Edge is actually the kung-fu future. HAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!! (I need one of those interference smiley things that has the head laughing and pounding on the ground)

I think he said "The Edge has actually come from the future!

HAHAHAHAHAH!!!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:43pm

Go listen to it! Those rough patches are driving me crazy and I don't recall from when we actually heard it live. (In all fairness, probably because those were times we turned to each other and went, "What...the...fuuuuuck?")

1. Feet on pillow? Ew. Strike one.
2. Wet doorknob? Ew. Strike two.
3. Unfunny sitcoms on your TV? Three strikes. He's out! (See, I do know baseball.)
4. I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE LEAVE ONE SQUARE OF TP ON THE ROLL. Serious, serious petpeeve. But the big question is--did you refill it with one of your rolls or did she put back the econostash where it belongs?
5. Next time, use her face towel to wipe down the doorknob.

[BEKA531]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:45pm

hey guys, what's shaking?

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:45pm

...are you serious? It's "come from the future"? I could've SWORN it was "kung-fu future", which is why people were laughing so much in the audio. (Of course, it could be the same WTF laughter that we had.) Don't make me go listen to this again!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:46pm

Hey Beks, nothing much. Go bump Bitches! What happened to it??

(And did you guys wanna see the BWW HH pics? I made notice of them on the BWW HH thread.)

Updated On: 10/21/05 at 10:46 PM

[BEKA531]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:47pm

erm, idk. it's in my favorites somewhere.

edit - yes, of COURSE i want to see pictures!

i'm gonna be in the city tomorrow & sunday, again...
Updated On: 10/21/05 at 10:47 PM

[mabel]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:48pm

Yeah...That review was pretty much right on w/ the glory that is In My Life. It was really bad. But sadly, there weren't enough laugh out loud funny/bad moments. Maybe it would depend on the audience you're seeing it w/ though. Though my friend and I did have a couple of times when we just couldn't stop laughing. One was the flaming angel talking to someone (in heaven, mind you) w/ an iPod on, and he said something about "You and your high-tech be-bop plugs" or something to that effect. There was something about the "be-bop" plugs (or whatever he said...actually, I don't think it was plugs) that just got us giggling, and we couldn't stop for a good minute (and considering the fact that we thought Bono's speech was 5 minutes minimum, a whole minute of failed-to-be-repressed giggling is a long time!)

[mabel]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:51pm

The econopack of TP is gone, never to return. I'm sure it's up in his room. Whatever. They probably didn't even think to look in under the sink for extra rolls when it ran out. Shock! What a novel idea!

Pretty sure it's Edge came from the future...nothing to do w/ Kung-Fu (though considering the rest of the speech, I don't think anything's too strange to be true!)

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:55pm

That's such a Chuckles-the-clown-Mary-Tyler-Moore inappropriate-laughter moment! What seats did you have again? Pity it wasn't even, like, RHPS-type bad - but repressed laughter means SOMETHING was amusing, even if it was unintentionally so!

DO NOT PUT A NEW ROLL INTO THE DISPENSER, MABEL. Don't do it. If you need to pee, take a roll in with you and take it out. Let that evil bitch deal with it when she gets bad later on tonight/tomorrow.

Beka, how often do you go into the city??

[BEKA531]

Posted: 10/21/05 at 11:00pm

once or twice a month. at the most, 3 or 4 times.

I WANT PICTURES!