U2 Tour Dates - Now Official!- Page 175

[mabel]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 10:26pm

Ooooh!!! Someone on U2tours has a single GA for each of the MSG shows. She just posted yesterday. I shot her an email. I'm sure they're either gone or she's selling them for $300, but it's worth a shot. If she does happen to still have both singles for face, maybe I could take the 11/21 and Elphie, you could take 11/22. Why am I even entertaining the notion that this would work out?!? I'm only setting myself (er, both of us) up for disappointment!)

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 10:31pm

Posted yesterday? Not gonna happen. But you can dream! As for me, I'm winning $15m in the lottery on Friday. Just as a head's up.

(It's strange how I never waste my money on lottery, but losing this week has made me MORE determined to buy tickets for next week. What the hell?)

BTW, you never told me how the Lance/Sheryl SNL was! It's an SNL Commercials Special this weekend, right?

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 10:37pm

Ooh, really, Mabs!? How do you find things like that and I never do?! I'll keep my fingers crossed!

Tiff, I know I've told the story here before! Anyway, here it is:
I was in the Capitol building in Washington D.C. in the senate offices, and I was walking past an office with a wall that was a window (you know what I mean, right?). I looked inside, and there he was, just standing there behind that piece of glass. He had his blue sunglasses on and was surprisingly short. He was talking to this guy who I think was the Senator of Wisconsin. I just stood outside the office, my feet frozen to the ground. Bono glanced out the window and saw me, and he smiled. I stared. He then walked out of the office after shaking hands with the man, and he walked right by me. He said "Hi" and gave me a peace sign with a huge grin on his face, and all I could do was raise my hand in an attempt to wave as I uttered a weak "hi" that was probably inaudible to him. And he walked on, looking back once. And my feet and my mouth couldn't move.

[mabel]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 10:38pm

Shut up and let me have my fun, dammit! *starts pawing through clothes to pick out what I should wear for when Bono yanks me up on stage for some good old fashioned man-handling...hmmm, while I'm at it, I'd better learn how to play the guitar so I can wow the crowd w/ my impressive strumming skills while I'm at it!*

SNL was pretty bad, though there was an amusing post-Weekend Update sketch w/ Lance playing these hideously bad songs for Sheryl on the piano. They were so embarassingly bad that it was actually quasi-funny.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 10:40pm

Oh right! I didn't know he looked back! Looking back is significant! If he just said "hi" because you were in eye-line, that would be one thing. But for him to look back afterwards is a sign that either: a) he was doing a double-take at your immense beauty (and was contemplating firing Lucy Matthew); b) he wanted to see your reaction, meaning he cared about you and what you thought of him! (The miliseconds are totally irrelevant.)

God, lucky.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 10:43pm

I would so love to see Lance serenading Sheryl with "All I Wanna Do (Is Have Some Fun)" or, better yet, "Sherry", totally off-key. She looks better than ever now, but for some reason, they just totally irk me.

You know, on PLEBA there was a thread asking for the guitar tabs to some U2 songs, and it occurred to me that while this is pathetic fangirling, it would actually be very useful in case you actually WERE pulled on stage, had the opportunity to play with them but then was escorted back to your seat because you don't know the three cords of I Will Follow.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 10:43pm

So you best learn the Edge's part to "I Will Follow" and "Stuck" acoustic, like, NOW!

(And then have Adam hand you his bass, and you don't have a freakin' clue what to do.)

Updated On: 10/31/05 at 10:43 PM

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 10:46pm

haha. Thanks, Tiff, I'll be delusional and choose to believe your explanations about why he looked back rather than what is probably the truth (he was wondering why some freak was staring at him with her mouth wide open).

I think I tried to learn One on the guitar once, but it didn't work so well and I gave up.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 10:47pm

he was wondering why some freak was staring at him with her mouth wide open

What did he think it was? A preview?

[mabel]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 10:53pm

You know, I'd trade you your dumbstruck moment for my ratty caught between oodles of crazed fans (including several dozen NYU students who really couldn't have cared less about Bono/U2 and just happened to be walking by) pushing/shoving/screaming. Claire, you had a quality (well, sort of) one-on-one moment w/ Bono. I think it's fair to say, you're the only one of the lot of us that's ever going to be able to say that!

I've wanted to teach myself how to play the guitar for years! Ugh! Note to self: need to get a guitar first. I'm convinced that I could muddle my way through learning a song if I painstakingly wrote out all of the chords, etc. I've even got these nifty cheat-sheets that you can put on the neck so that it shows you exactly where to put your fingers for the chords (and yet, I still don't actually have a guitar). I could do it. It wouldn't be pretty, but still! I swear, if that chick wrote back and still had that GA, I'd seriously consider buying myself a cheap guitar off craigslist, having my mom ship me the cheat-sheets, and huddle up, spending an entire weekend teaching myself...something that the interferencers agreed was the easiest song to play.

[mabel]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 10:56pm

Tiff, you saucy, saucy wench!

*off to find the tabs to IWF* Hmm...I think I just might have an Electric Co in me yet. Yeah!

<----Is dillusional...But I think we all knew that.

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 10:59pm

Tiff, LOL.

I guess you're right, my 'moment' is better than nothing.

And yes, Mabs, start learning to play the guitar! (start learning now, though, because I guarantee you it'll take a while to get it down. I'm still miserably bad and I've taken a whole year of classes).

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 11:00pm

You know, IWF really IS three cords, isn't it?

I would trade your dumbstruck moment and the NYU moment for my moment where I'm struggling to get a clear photo of Bono outside of MSG and my hands were trembling so much (from the COLD) that all I have are some blurs. I couldn't even scream a "B-B-Bono, c-c-c-can you pl-pl-pleassse ssssign my al-l-lbummmmm?"

But I wouldn't trade anything for my moment with Adam at Seattle II. That sold me on him for life. (I overlooked his Naomi Campbell transgression, dammit!)

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 11:01pm

You better learn too, Claire! The last thing you want is, "Would you like to accompany us to The Fly?" "Yes, I'll sleep with you, Bono!"

[mabel]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 11:02pm

Yep, once I get my guitar, and my cheat-sheets, I'll have all of...hmmm...a week to teach myself how to play the guitar, an instrument people have mastered over many, many decades. Yes, I, mabel, shall learn to play the guitar (or scrape my way through a song) in the mere spanse of a week! Pfffffttt!!!! HAHAHHAHAAHH!!!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 11:04pm

I'd suggest you learn the drums instead so no one will see your befuddled look, but evidently, Bono can't even get through Party Girl without Larry, so...


I Will Follow. Seriously, three chords:


(E5) (A)

E ---0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|---0--0--0-12-12-12--0--0--|
B --12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12--|--10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10--|
G ---9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--|---9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--|
D ---------------------------|---------------------------|
A ---------------------------|---------------------------|
E ---------------------------|---------------------------|

Updated On: 10/31/05 at 11:04 PM

[mabel]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 11:06pm

Well, IWF may or may not be quasi-learnable, but I'm at least being *surpresses laughter* "realistic" in my crazed (sickness-induced?) musings about playing w/ the lads. They only take people to play acoustic songs (as noted w/ that special little surprise Houston ditty...shhhhh!!!) Actually, I think that's what I'd want to do, if I got a GA, got scanned into the elipse, was in the front row, and had miraculously taught myself how to play the guitar in the course of 2 1/2 weeks. All of MSG would LOOOOOVE me!

ETA:

Yeah, thanks for killing my dreams, Tiff! I don't know what the F*CK that means!!!???!!! A bunch of nonsensical letters, numbers and dashes. *pouts* I think I'll need more than 2 weeks.

Updated On: 10/31/05 at 11:06 PM

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 11:08pm

Good point. The Houston ditty would bring down the house!!


ETA: Woman! Tabs! So easy! The top line is the top string, and so on. Then the numbers represent the fret you need to stick your finger on when you strum.

ETA: The Houston ditty actually looks really easy. I won't post it here because all the Google searches include the lyrics to this song, but rest assured that the Houston guy probably doesn't know too much about guitar if THAT'S what he requested to play!

Updated On: 10/31/05 at 11:08 PM

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 11:12pm

Ooh, I can play that! Probably too slowly, though. Oh well, I guess I'll have to stick to the "Yes, I'll sleep with you, Bono!" line and see how that goes over instead.

eta: I've been online forever and I know one of my flatmates is going to be banging on my door any second now to tell me to quit hogging the Internet, so I'm off. Tiff, have fun on your date! Updated On: 10/31/05 at 11:12 PM

[mabel]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 11:15pm

Or was it Dallas? Whatever, the "simple" three chord IWF has left me thoroughly depressed. What is that nonsense. I swear only math geniuses could ever understand how to read music. It's the same type of thing, I think. Just doesn't make sense to moi. *raspberry* Good thing I don't have GAs. I'd have to be left to my own feminine attributes to lure Bono into plucking me up for a dance. Pppffffttt! *glances at bespectacled "nearly-A" self wearing ratty-ass jeans*

Oh, and I almost had a heart attack when I saw that I had a new e-mail...No dice. Just my AMC buddy telling me she won an eBay auction she was eyeing because the high-bidder was a derelict who didn't pay. Good for her, though not exactly the e-mail I was hoping for.

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 11:18pm

I would love to see how Bono goes along with Claire playing too slowly, and unevenly. "I will...lll...follow. WalkawaywalkawaySTOP!walkawaywalkaway............[you there?] I will...uh...flw."

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 11:20pm

Ciao, Claire! Learn your tabs! (Maybe "Waltzing Matilda" to start? Or do Kiwis get defensive when people sing Aussie folk songs?)

[mabel]

Posted: 10/31/05 at 11:23pm

Bye, Claire! Have a good one...Nice to see you around here every once in a while!

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 4:04am

Date was a bust. We got along fine. Unfortunately, so did the buffer friends we both called in. Oy.

And so the quest continues...

[mabel]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 9:13am

Awww, I'm sorry, Tiff. It sounds like you at least got along though. Is he someone that you'd get together w/ to hang out, even if there were no sparks? I suppose an OK guy w/ no sparks flying is better than a complete and utter creep, right!?!

Gotta get running to class...Next time, Tiff!