Hey Tiff!!! WTF are you doing on-line at 5:30am?!?
1st: I just looked at last night's setlist in Boston...WHOAH!!! TOTALLY WISH I WAS THERE!!! (Though, chances are, I would have missed it...they came out and did a THIRD encore, after a bunch of people had already left, thinking the show was over after Bad/40!!!)
Main Set: City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, Elevation, I Will Follow, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - In a Little While, Beautiful Day, Original of the Species, Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own, Love and Peace or Else, Sunday Bloody Sunday - Rock the Casbah, Bullet the Blue Sky, Miss Sarajevo, Pride, Where the Streets Have No Name, One
Encore(s): Until the End of the World, Mysterious Ways, With or Without You, Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of, Yahweh, Bad - 40, All Because of You, Fast Cars
Comments: Bono sings bits of 'Sgt. Pepper's' and 'Here Comes the Sun' during Beautiful Day, changing the lyrics ('there goes the sun') to reflect the cold, snowy weather outside. Bono thanks Ashley Judd, who's at the show, for her work with the ONE Campaign. During One, Bono brings about a dozen fans on stage with different national flags tied together and they stand behind Larry holding the flags up as a backdrop. U2 comes out for an unplanned 3rd encore, playing All Because of You and Fast Cars to a shocked crowd made up of fans that haven't already left. Many fans, including some getting in the GA line for tomorrow's show, miss the end of the show.
2: Thanks for the wishes of good luck, and thanks for the link to OOTS. I'll have to check it out sometime today.
3: I'm so not a Christmas person anymore. Not to be a total downer, but it's never been the same for me since Christmas-'98. My grandmother (my only grandparent, both my grandfathers died before I was born, and my grandfather on my dad's side died when I was like 3 or 4, so I don't really remember her) hadn't been doing very well (issues with high blood pressure and bad doctors that over-medicated her, so she was all screwed up). Anyway, she was in the hospital (which is bad enough on Christmas) and we show up that morning only to find out that her docter had come in earlier and told her that she had cancer. Who the F*CK does that on CHRISTMAS?!?!? She couldn't have waited until the next day? And she just told my grandmother while she was alone there in the hospital waiting for us to come visit her. So anyway, we spent pretty much the whole day there. We brought her some gifts and stuff and opened them, and ended up missing Christmas dinner at the hospital, and no place else was open...so my mom and I (when we left for a few hours late that afternoon) had hotdogs from the gas station as our Christmas dinner. After that scrumptious meal, we went to see Stepmom, and I bawled like I have
never bawled before. I don't think we knew about Sarandon's character having cancer going into it, but man...tears, upon tears, upon tears.
Anyway, sorry for the sob story. That was like 7 years ago, so it's not a huge, huge deal, but we kind of just stopped doing Christmas after that. We used to go all out with the tree, and decorating the mantle, and putting up all those little lighty houses, etc. The year after my grandmother passed away, we nixed the the little light-up houses, then the mantle the next year, then the Christmas tree...For a few years, we'd break out the Christmas lights and decorate a couple of lamps in the living room.
They looked rather cute, I must say. Last year, I didn't feel like digging into the spare room to find the actual Christmas lights, so I took a string of chili pepper lights from my room and strung up a lamp with those (hey, they're red and green!) It's just kind of meh now.
Aaaaanywaaay...go Mom this afternoon! Though I have a feeling it'd be hard to top last night's show...coming back for a two song 3rd encore with FAST CARS!!! Whoooo!!
ETA: We didn't win...shock! Some guy that requested Lemon won, and he was...less than thrilled. He was seriously the most deadpan guy I've ever heard. Even the DJ was like "wow, Matt was rather...calm" after she hung up. Their convo was pretty much: "So, what are you doing tonight?" "Nothin" "How'd you like to hear some live music?" "Ok." "Well, you just won tickets to see U2's final show in Boston tonight at the Garden!!!" "Oh, ok."...I'm not exaggerating in bitterness, I SWEAR! This guy was: ZZzzzzzz. I'd like to think he was just busy at work and he really couldn't jump up and down and get all hyped up. I mean, he did request Lemon! He's got to be a fan if he knows stuff off Zooropa! Anyway, that's all. I guess I don't have to lie to MTV now.
Well, I suppose there's always the outside shot of them doing a stadium leg this summer...I guess Australia and NZ sold out in 15 minutes, btw!!! Crazy!
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
Updated On: 12/5/05 at 08:51 AM
But I wouldn't think that synchro is just something that you'd dive (har-har) back into after not doing it for 5 months. Do good!
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