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preface: I CANT HELP IT!!!!!!!! THIS IS BEYOND MY CONTROL! wait, isn’t that a line from a u2 song? shit i didn’t even mean that.. no wait maybe it’s not.. lol yeah i think i’m thinking about something else…

time for another installment of bono quotes… maybe u2 quotes in general, we’ll see how far i get before i get tired lol
bono quotes:
“Hope you like it, ’cause you payed for it.”

“Let’s be the band that loves its music and the people that are attracted to its music. And even the ones that aren’t, maybe, as well.”

“I can remember as a child looking in a mirror and thinking, ‘I don’t like that!’ It’s wrong. You’re bombarded with all these images and nobody’s like that. The effect is total disillusionment with yourself. You put on a mask and hide from yourself, from your own soul, from what you’ve got to offer. It’s a reaction away from the individual, and we stand for individualism.”

“The Edge is a really, really intense guy, he’s got this incredibly high IQ, he’s great at sorting out issues of worldly importance, it’s just that he forgets the everyday things, like the chords of songs, where he is and so on.”

“Now they know why we always look so grim[in photographs]. Cause its [photo shoots] just so (photographer approaches so Bono places his hand over his mouth and whispers to Edge) just so boring! [Edge smiles in agreement][Photographer asks] Are you bored?[Bono replies] No, no. [Edge laughs, Bono tries his best to look serious and innocent…he is not successful]”

i want to say that i hate this quote. but it’s sorta amusing. but i hate it – don’t ask me why. “We make music you can have sex to”

“When you are 16 you think you can take on the world…..and sometimes you are right!”

“Everyone argues then we all do what I say”

“I dance much better horizontally than vertically.”

“I’ve got a book….I’ve written poems but I don’t know if I’ll publish them. If I do I’ll call it ‘FUCK OFF!! Volume 1’. I get annoyed when people expect me to be a great all-arounder.”

“Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching.” (i think someone else said this before bono did…)

“Making records is like making sausages, you’ll probably enjoy them more if you don’t see how they’re done.” ROFL

“You only get disillusioned if you had illusions to begin with.”

“No matter how much we wrap it up in tinsel and television, I’m still the geezer with the white flag.”

“Having gone through the trouble of selling out, you’d expect to at least knock Michael Jackson off the top.” omg i love bono so much

“We’ve made a career out of our personality crises, well, certainly I have.”

“The house functions better without him I think! You have no idea what he’s like. He hasn’t changed. He’s still the same as he always was. He’s cute in his own way. It’s the old story.” – Bob Hewson (bono’s dad)

“I remember when he was about 3, only a toddler. He was out in the back garden. He went over to a flower with a bee. He put it on his finger, lifted the bee up, talked to the bee, and put it back again. He probably doesn’t remember it, I don’t think I ever mentioned it, but I can remember to this day the horror of my wife and myself. He could go from flower to flower picking up bees and never got stung. Amazing, isn’t it?” – Bob Hewson

Adam quotes:
“I certainly like looking at the Spice Girls.”

“I don’t know what will happen to Hanson when their voices break.”

“I’ll tell you, you learn alot about women from dressing up in women’s clothes! You learn that when a woman asks you “Do I look alright?” what she’s really saying is “I have just spent alot of time making myself uncomfortable. If I go out in this condition will I look foolish, or is it worth it?”. When you ask a woman to go out to dinner it’s not like sking one of your mates. She has to stop and think, “Hmm, dinner. That will be four hours of being uncomfortable.” And if she says yes and then after four hours you say, “Lets go dancing, let’s go to a club,” and she says “No, I want to go home,” it’s because she has figured on four hours and now those four hours are up and she can only think of getting home and out of those clothes!”

Question: If a Martian landed and was introduced to you and asked you what do you do, what would you say? Adam: I simulate love-making by beating a piece of wood with a metal wire on which it vibrates.”

“There was a brief moment when it(achtung baby)might have been called Adam(laughs).Depending on the photography (laughs again) there might have been a much larger 5th member on the album sleeve” some copies of achtung baby feature a naked adam clayton on the cover

“I think the psychology of the bass player is interesting. If you’ve chosen that instrument you’ve decided in a way that your role is to support, to make everyone else feel confident”

Edge quotes:
“It’s a real drag if you don’t like yourself, ‘cos you do spend a lot of time with yourself.”

“I have a terrible habit of finding really unimportant, trivial, manual things to do. I’ll go mow the lawn, or find some piece of furniture that needs varnishing, or…paint the cat.”

EDGE: I just want to be respected for who I am.
OBNOXIOUS WOMAN: And who are you, Dave Evans?
EDGE: A Big Rich Famous Rock Star!

“I’m still very nervous about the ‘christian’ label. I have no trouble with christ, but I have trouble with alot of christians.”

“Oh, I hate to see cows playing tag. Makes you think the hamburger you’re eating may have been playing kiss-and-run the day before.”

Larry quotes:
“I invented cool…and you’re on a boat with me.”

“It doesn’t matter what songs we sing. I’m a drummer. Chicks dig me.”

“I look cool….I dunno about the other three….I look cool, I am cool.”

“Well, it could have been an artichoke, but we wanted a more practical fruit.”
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“Bono, if you still haven’t found what you’re looking for, look behind the drum kit.” – Boy George

“Bass players get the weirdest fans. I tend to get the bespectacled M.I.T. students. Bono gets the poets. And Larry, unfortunately, gets the girls. We should have gotten a Ringo.” – Edge

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OOOOOOOH yeah the most important revelation of the day. I’ve named my car!!!!

finally, after a long and hard search that lasted approximately 4 months, i’ve settled on a name

in honour of the first cd ever to be played in my car – u2’s pop – my car is now named…..

*drum roll*

TOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂

now everyone needs to feel honoured that they get to ride (in) Tom

this post was mainly intended for the enjoyment of carolyn 🙂 and anyone else who knows what the hell i may be talking about LOL

 

not sure if i mentioned lately but i love bono.

and i’ve been thinking about it, cuz i’ve had nothing better to do (ahem, neuropsych), i have no idea why i love him so much. everytime i see him on tv, or pics of him, they just scream LOVE ME! and so i do.

 

 

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*HUGE GRIN*
how cute WAS bono on letterman?!?!?! don’t think he could get much more adorable than that…

u know, it really was my first time seeing bono in an interview (if u could even call the 2 minutes an interview) but it makes me wanna go bizerk and get every single little interview clip i can find with him in it…omg. good thing no one was sitting there watching it with me or i would have made a fool out of myself. there i sat, with a huge dumb grin on my face. omg he was so cute.

i’ve realized i now laff at tv…at commercials, at stupid jokes by david letterman…i think it’s a side effect of my happiness LOL

i wanna go back and rewind my tape and watch letterman again, but i know that would be crazy and obsessive lol

 

from yahoo.com “A famous episode of the hit sitcom ”Seinfeld” — in which the fiancee of one of the characters dies after licking envelopes — has been pulled from syndication over sensitivity about the recent anthrax scare, a spokeswoman for the syndicators said on Monday.”

THAT IS BULLSHIT!

 

 

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i’m having some michael jackson issues.
1. for the first time i’m having a hard time conceptualizing that the person who made thriller is the same person who is in the media lens now. the other day me and danielle watched mj on mtv for a while, they showed billie jean and for the first time in my life/my mj fandom it occured to me that he used to be black and now he’s not. i was like woah, this is amazing, cuz it’s a black man who made a video that broke barriers etc…all the stuff he gets praised for as an 80s artist…i was just completely impressed. i just had a really strange progression of thoughts when i saw that video the other day.
2. there is something about him that makes me really uneasy lately. i mean, he really looks bad. and it’s not just the plasticness of his face and all that i joke about. there is something else, which makes me think he really doesn’t want to do any of this anymore. it’s like he’s tired. and scared. so i was reading the mj article in the bono Details magazine and there was a quote in it about his tribute concerts. “when Jackson finally pulls up in some customized black limo-cum-Popemobile (he’s wearing a silvery, sparkly blazer and, on his arm, the inevitable Liz Taylor) he doesn’t look unhealthy or even particularly odd. But his eyes have a disturbingly empty, even fearful, quality about them.”….THAT IS EXACTLY IT! that is really what is bothering me about his appearance.. not the unmovable upper lip, not the inability to express emotions – it’s that his eyes are dead. he doesn’t look like he is happy at all, it doesn’t look, even on stage, like he is having fun..and that makes me very sad.

i’m having a hard time coming to terms with my “relationship” with michael lately…i don’t know what it is. there are times when his flashes of brilliance blow me away, and then there are times where sometimes i question my sanity. he is a genuis and is incredibly talented. and i love him even if i dont like pop music, and never in my life like pop music again. there is no question he started it all, and all that. but i’m so scared for him and i don’t know why. i think he’s going to die soon – some kind of tragic-princess diana-esque kind of death. and while i will mourn in some way for the loss, i’ll also be somewhat…”happy”…because i think it’s his time to go. i’m not making sense in my own head, so i can’t imagine how this makes sense. and i also realize that no one who reads this can relate at all to what i’m saying since only a few of my friends are mj fans. and those that are dont share my feelings about mj’s death. lol. mj cant get old. big stars should not be allowed to get old. james dean is remembered as the rebel without a cause, and marilyn monroe is remembered in the white dress over the subway vent. michael jackson needs to be remembered as the musical genius in the sparkly black jacket and sequined white glove. if he gets old, and i’m talking like 60s+, he’s not going to be remembered that way. and i’m scared of that.

danielle and i went pumpkin hunting today and listened to Dangerous in the car. we discussed a future MJ tour of the US and the possibility of a Buffalo date at the arena…i got so excited at the thought of camping out in line over night/tailgating…seeing all my mj fan friends again, thinking of who all would come to Buffalo to see the show with me…just how much fun it would be. god i hope that happens.

stars that shouldn’t have aged:
1. marlon brando
2. al pachino

stars that haven’t aged in years:
1. david bowie

stars that are better now that they have aged
1. steve tyler and joe perry
2. keith richards lol

i forget the rest of the people i had in those categories.

have i mentioned recently that i want bono’s flag jacket? i want it more now than ever due to these pics of him in it in Details…it is seriously the coolest jacket ever and not just cuz it’s bono’s.

 

 

as if i could be any more in love with bono i go and read the details magazine article and i’m just omg. it was just so entirely cute. it showed he was human and caring, and even though it’s a in-print interview with some journalist, he is so charming…omg omg omg.

people say bono has a big ego, which is probably true. everyone famous has an ego…but i think part of it is the whole self mocking ego bit that i do, as well as eric and carolyn LOL….a lot of bonos ego-ness is a stage thing i think…of course i dont know him, so LOL….but there is nothing wrong with having an ego when you can also laugh about yourself, which it is so clear that bono can do and does often.

i think, as of now, if i was to meet any of my fav celebrities, i’d have the most personally embarassing reaction to meeting bono. i wouldn’t faint, i’m so not like that…but i’d probably act like a complete retard, and he’d be like, ok ur dumb, bye. hah…

why is everyone i like shorter than me…bono is 5 freaking 7…ug. trent is like 5’6″ or 5’7″….that’s so incredibly akward to be a girl meeting your fav singer and being taller than them. how are they supposed to lean down and kiss you if your taller than them?!?! LOL i guess jay gordon makes up for all the short people i like lol.

ok i need to stop. so what did i do today? me and danielle drove to avon in search of pumpkins and to go to Tops market (since we’re stuck shopping at wegmans :P)…we found pumpkins but were driving to fast to stop, so we kept going to find the Tops first. We were so excited to be going to tops YAY we’re dorks. it was the cutest little Tops ever. And they had Details magazine so it was all good. then we went back to pumpkin guy. he was nice, funny, missing teeth townie LOL…cheap pumpkins tho. Danielle got a big one for 3 bucks, i got a bit smaller one for 2…her pumpkin would have been like 7 bucks at Wegmans. so tonight is pumpkin carving night while the hockey game is on…

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pylon man love – please dont ask me why it’s called that, cuz i actually have NO clue…i saw the pic, someone else had posted “pylon man love”….

Pylon Man Love

Pylon Man Love

and the story behind it:
Sunday August 3rd, 1997

Later on a classic U2 moment occurred when Bono and a few other folks went out for the evening. The band had been pestered by a couple of paparazzi photographers all day, so for the evening’s outing we went by car to avoid any further hassle – after all, the gig was yesterday, so theoretically the fuss should have died down to some extent. Anyhow, our paparazzi friends were not to be deterred and jumped into their car to follow. The result was of course a car chase through the streets of Gothenburg, which got increasingly out of hand. Coming down a side street, Bono spotted a pile of red traffic cones by the side of the road. Without a word he pulled the car over and signaled everyone to assemble a road-block with them as the paparazzi car appeared around the corner. Mayhem ensued, with people running all over the place wielding traffic cones and the photographers taking aim as best they could. Then the fatal blow. As the photographers got out of their car to get a closer view, Howie B. circled round, ran past their car and in one graceful motion swooped in and stole the car keys. Everyone jumped back into our vehicle and sped off, leaving the photographers gutted to find their steed disabled. I can still hear Howie laughing now.

Monday August 4th

This morning’s headline in the Gothenburg daily paper was by a picture of the two photographers from last night and said (in Swedish) “Can we have our car keys back?”. Actually, we;d already left the stolen keys at the reception of the hotel (where they knew we were staying), so they’d eventually find them. Besides which they did get a couple of classic snapshots of Bono wrestling with these giant red traffic cones, so they had got some kind of result. It was all very funny, but all the same it was probably a good time to leave town.
from u2.com

why this is significant:
we currently have 2 orange pylons in our storage room, that we liberated from the parking lot this weekend… along with a curious george doll with no eyes, that we found sitting on the stair well….a pumpkin from the corn maze….my rad “the history of the music video in the 80s” poster advertisement for the lecture that is on tuesday night (featuring none other than michael jackson and u2)…and the 2 parking lot closed signs that we liberated 2 weeks ago 🙂 we tried to liberate the sign on the outside of a porta potty, but it was a sticker – wouldn’t come off….we might have liberated something else this weekend, but i can’t remember what it was….the pumpkin liberation was a drive by…LOL. carolyn did the dirty work, we drove by with the car for a quick get away 🙂 hoodlums, all of us

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people have gotten to used to the “happy sara” and now that i’m more back to my “normal” self, ppl are having issues 😛 haha

totally spaced out in class again today. IT’S SO BORING! Thank god i don’t have to take any more sociology courses, i couldn’t stand sitting in another one….but anyway, spaced out again… not about u2 or mj this time (although there were periods of that, just the main space out wasn’t dealing with either of them)….i started thinking about how me and danielle cheated at the fish game at the canal fest in 2000. i totally forgot we did until she mentioned it in a survey she filled out when the word association was fish. we didn’t cheat in like, we told them we got a ping pong ball in the bowl when we didn’t. but we paid for our ping pong balls, and then started picking them up off the ground near where we were standing when they weren’t looking to get extra tries we didn’t pay for HAHA. we won 3 fish. but so i’m thinking about this, and almost started laffing in the middle of class. hah oops.

so i came back from class and went through my now daily routine of checking the u2 interference msg board…there was a thread posting the pictures from the new Vanity Fair mag, and there is one of all 4 of the guys…and i’m like wow bono looks like a woman in that picture…actually he looks like michael jackson for some reason…and i’m like ok yeah i’m weird, it’s just me being stupid…so i go through the replies to the pictures, and get to one where this girl is like “call me a cow but that picture looks like bono took a trip to michael jackson’s plastic surgeon” LOL…and another reply from someone saying she thought the same thing…someone else who said first reaction was that bono looked like a woman SO IT’S NOT JUST ME! hahaha i really don’t know what it is about the picture that makes him look like a woman…i think it’s the hair…i dunno, it just occured to me to be very funny…

well i got email from residence life regarding the shit ass closet doors…she will contact the contractors and see what can be done about them… they must have a form mail that they cut and paste to everyone with a complaint haha….i guess someone did come to look at danielle’s leaking window…apparantly since she’s on the corner of the building she’s going to have a problem (not quite sure why that is) but that it is leaking because not a single window on any of the buildings has been caulked yet…BRILLIANT! well when the fuck are you gonna do it since it’s going to snow any day now!?!?! and what about our front door that doesn’t shut/seal correctly? i put in a work order for that the first week we moved in….

nap time

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well i woke up today in a less than happy mood…then i got sorta more depressed that PCD could be setting in. BUT I AM STILL SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW! it went away!!! yaaaaay!!!!

so i was really tired in class today, and it’s so boring..i totally tuned out for who knows how long, and i dont even know what i was thinking about. ok obviously, it started out as thinking about u2/bono…but then it totally somehow morphed into thinking about michael jackson, and his new album that comes out in 2 weeks FINALLY!…and then i realized, wow i’m really not paying attention. so i kept trying to not tune out, but i kept tuning out into trying to figure out how i started thinking about bono and ended up with mj…i also was thinking about how i’m not as happy today as i was yesterday…

then i came home, and got my stupid ass computer to work finally…and what is the first thing i did (besides check email)…go travel to read the u2 interference msg board LOL…and it made me so happy again!!! there is a thread that somehow went from looking for bootlegs of the hamilton show, to everyone talking about how they’re from upstate NY LOL….it was just kinda cool that these ppl are in the area, a bunch from rochester, some from buffalo and UB…i feel like i’m becoming part of the “u2 interference family”….why this is important to me, i’m really not sure LOL.

it’s kinda weird… cuz this obsession/whatever is really alot different than my MJ one in a lot of ways…the way it started, the progression…the fact that i have self control (sometimes) and that i’m currently not going to let myself become this full blown u2 collector….and it’s totally not making me feel the way that MJ did….i dont think that’s because this is any less of an obsession/whatever than mj was…i just think the time in my life that the whole mj stuff occured…it was like, during the whole i’m a teenager, need to find my idenity stuff…MJ really helped me define who I am, even if just to myself. and during alot of the whole MJ thing, i was really unhappy…it really didn’t make me happy until i started going on the internet, and found other people who were in the same place as i was….after that, it was great, mj made me happy etc….With this U2 stuff…i’m just giddy…none of the whole, finding who i am stuff has anything to do with why i’m so into them right now… i guess you might be able to interpret it in that way, since my entire life is about to change in the next 8 months. but i don’t think that’s it…i’m stoping this train of thought right now.

don’t worry adrienne, PCD will be averted when you get here this weekend if it has set in or is about to….and if for some reason it cant be averted, sit me in front of the tv and make me watch the ZooTV video 🙂 hope u did good on ur test

 

“all that you can’t leave behind” is one of the most uplifting records i have ever heard….i honestly think it’s the only cd i have that makes me happy…i have so many cds that i LOVE and could not live without, but they don’t make me so entirely happy to be listening to them… they act as a release of frustration, or relaxation, or are just brilliant etc…and this isn’t just a happy reaction due to the fact i love u2 so much at the moment…because i have 3 u2 cds in my stereo right now, and this is the only one that i sit here with a smile on my face, even tho it’s definitely not as good of a record as say…achtung baby….its just… uplifting!

in the words of carolyn – it’s “niagara falls-ing” outside right now

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I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve NEVER, EVER been as happy as i am right now….i’m sitting in class thinking, omg i am so happy i want to get up and dance around and scream! Of course, i didn’t LOL….and it’s like i’m suddenly super enthusiastic about EVERYTHING!

so this is what it feels like to be HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and the movie that makes me think of terrorists when i see VW mini busses is Back To The Future…thanks to eric for thinking of it for me!

 

i found a picture of bono going through mcdonald’s drive thru….so of course i had to show amanda, since it would be a dream come true for both of us if it had happened to us…here is the conversation that insued (ensued?)

amanda: AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
sara: I KNO
sara: CAN U IMAGINE IF THAT HAPPENED TO US?!
amanda: what McDs???!!!???
amanda: I would die!!
sara: LOL I KNOW
sara: i’d like be shaking so bad
sara: id drop the drink tray all over him
sara: and hed be pissed
amanda: LOL
amanda: we’d hold up the entire line just to talk to him
sara: omg i know
sara: i’d be like FUCK THE DRIVE THRU TIMES
sara: ITS FUCKING BONO AND IM GOING TO TALK TO HIM!
amanda: youd have to call me and I would RUN from home to McDs
sara: TOTALLY
sara: id be like BONO U CANT LEAVE YET UR FOODS NOT READY
sara: just to give u time to get there LOL
sara: and i expect the same from u, if i wasnt working lol
amanda: oh yeah
sara: lol
amanda: when something like that happens..you need to share it with someone
sara: i headr the story behind the photo on saturday…apparantly bono is a terrible driver
sara: and just like took a car, and other tour ppl were following behind him
sara: when he suddenly turned into mcds and was like i want drive thru lol
amanda: LOL
sara: hahah
amanda: dammit…why didnt he come to our McDs!!??!!
sara: and i didnt search for the picture, i just happened to find it today lol
sara: and i’m like MUST SHOW AMANDA
amanda: we should write him a letter “Dear Bono: My friend and i work at McDonalds. We like your music very much. Please come through our drive thru.”
sara: HAHAHAHAH
amanda: its alot better then saying “My friend and I are obsessed with you. If you came through our drive thru we’d ask you to give us your burger wrapper just beacuse you touched it”
sara: HAHAHAHA
amanda: “then we’d rub it all over our bodies…….”
sara: ROFL
sara: carolyn had a different idea for our letter
sara: dear bono: my friend and i work in mcdonalds and we heard about your drivethru experience. i for one would like to say that i’d love to flip your burger any day. come to my drive thru because,like our motto says, we love to see you smile – and id do everything i could to make that happen.”
sara: lol
amanda: ROFL
amanda: “Dear Bono: Please come through my drive thru so i can fuck you in a large vat of our pickles that we keep on the stockroom shelves”
sara: ROFL
amanda: “or if you prefer something a little more irish…a big vat of our Shamrock Shake”

i’m being really selfish and conceited now, but i think i have every right to be. and i think what i’ve been saying that i’m going to paste here i have every right to say….as a preface, this is in regards to the fact i’m incredibly irritated talking to a certain person right now…and it’s ruining my u2 high even tho i just watched the “one” video twice LOL that brought it back a bit…

me: cuz everyone else who has immed me
me: asked about the show
me: and i did the whole OMFG AMAZING ETC
me: but for him it really was like he wasnt interested
me: so that really irritated me
carolyn: yeah just asking for sake of asking
me: cuz ppl should be interested in the fact that i had the greatest day of my life yesterday
me: even tho that sounds so conceited

once again, people only ask you about their weekend so they can tell you about theirs….that’s what has happened in that conversation with the person who is irritating me and i’m not giving in, cuz i don’t really give a shit….i’m really mean sometimes

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

it takes 4 men from IRELAND to spark a bit of patriotism in me….

bono hugged an american flag for a good 2 minutes on stage. a girl at the outside tip of the heart had it, he took it, hugged it, gave it back….

am going to write it all up now, will post tomorrow…er later today.

current mood: AEURSLIDFAKNWERA AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

i really need to write my paper but how the hell am i supposed to concentrate?!?!

something is wrong with me. i was driving back to school a few hours ago, listening to “achtung baby”….”one” came on, started to cry in the car as i drove 75 down the thruway…(an aside: kinda weird, adrienne’s blog lists her as listening to “one”, thinking of me cuz i was at the show…and i’m driving and crying and listening to “one” lol…i really thank god i have new memories associated with that song)

this has nothing to do with u2…
word association:
volkswagen bus – arab terrorists

why is the first thing i think of when i see a VW mini bus is terrorists?…there must be a reason i think this way, i’m thinking some movie…so if you know what movie it is that would make me automatically think of that, let me know…most ppl see a VW mini bus and think of hippies…

 

i so love u2

 

oh my GOD u2 makes me so happy

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u2 – hamilton, ontario – october 13, 2001

best show i’ve ever seen

I got up at 7:30 to get ready to leave for Hamitlon. Wanted to leave at 8:30, cuz i needed to get there by 10:30 to pick up my ticket from the person i bought it from. Yahoo directions said it would take me close to 2 hours to get to Copps from NT, plus the border hassel due to all the crap going on, i left around 8:15….what time did I get to Hamilton? 9:30….haha. it took me an hour. border was no problem, i stopped and exchanged money, all that…the way home my trunk got searched at the border, had to show ID…good to know they’re protecting us!! 😛

so i got in line, and got a number (314) and then later got my ticket. I didn’t get lost, it was all good. Ended up talking to these 2 girls and a guy in line, played cards with them etc. I let the girls store their crap in my car since they had taken the bus and had no where to put it.

So after about 8 hours we got let into Copps. Well before that we had gotten wrist bands that guaranteed a floor spot…dunno what the difference is if you have a GA ticket but whatever. I got a cool wrist band! So…we got frisked, etc, got into Copps. It’s really small in there, probably the size of the Rochester arena…the first 350 people got let into the heart, which although my number was 314…yeah didn’t get in the heart. NOT A PROBLEM!!! I ended up barrier on outside of the heart, on edge’s side….probably halfway from stage to tip of the heart. could see perfectly (when the security guard wasn’t in my way)
sooo…garbage played, yeah. (i totally forgot they had played until i was about 10 minutes from my house on the way home lol). they were good….1323534635 times better than PJ Harvey. They played their hits…only happy when it rains, stupid girl, #1crush… i was happy they played that, cuz i totally forgot it was their song and i really like it. yeah shirley manson is perfect looking.
so after that, waited around more, painful lol but whatever. u2 came on around quarter to 9. opened with “elevation” and “beautiful day” like in buffalo (they had done something different earlier in the week, so no one knew what to expect for our show). they changed the set list up ALOT, which is good, cuz it means i didn’t see the exact same show. While I prefer the buffalo setlist, this show was by far better. there was so much extra “special” stuff that made it way better.
1. bono hugged an american flag for a good 2 minutes. a girl at the outside tip of the heart had an american flag. i forget which song was ending when bono took the flag and hugged it for a very long time. he hid his face in the flag as he hugged it, and stood there. (someone said he was crying, and was wiping his tears with it) millions of pictures were taken obviously, need to find some. it was really special. kinda sad that it takes 4 irish men to spark a bit of patriotism in me… there were also other people with american flags, a sign that had a flag on it and said “thank you for caring” on it…..i dunno. the whole fact that i was an american in canada, and ppl being so supportive..it was really touching.
2. bono brought up some kid who had made a sign that said he wanted to play guitar with the band. they brought the kid an acoustic guitar and bono and the edge stayed at the tip of the heart with the kid as he played. however, the kid had no idea what he was doing! he sucked badly cuz he was so nervous, he was shaking, so bono was telling him what chords to play, where his fingers should be, the rhythm etc as edge played it and the rest of the band played….then bono and edge left the tip back to the stage and the kid followed them, and then bono gave him the microphone, and took the guitar and the kid sang the song as bono played. it was so great!
3. they played “out of control”…and while i don’t see how great of a thing this is, i guess it’s rare for them to play it, since it was their first single ever….so that was cool
4. yeah ok, i admit, i cried…I SAID I WOULD! but not for the reason i said i would… almost cried during “kite”….was too dehydrated to form tears LOL. bono was talking about how he originially wrote the song for his children, but now he thinks his dad wrote it for him…sad…but i did cry during the last encore…they played “one”, and the screens behind them read off the names of all the people who died in the 4 hijacked planes a month ago…which went into “peace on earth” and “walk on”…yeah…cried…it was bad. but i wasn’t alone so hehe
5. bono shined the spot light right in my face during “bullet the blue sky”….like, he was standing right in front of me, light in my face, could not see…not like just the edge of the spotlight kinda shining on my face, no like THE DIRECT BEAM! lol….oh and while singing “jacob wrestled the angel and the angel was overcome” he was all hugging himself, and i was like omg you are so beautiful.

6. acoustic version of “staring at the sun” by bono and edge… so great.

i was SO happy they played “bullet the blue sky” and “new york” because i was unsure they were going to…esp bullet, cuz they didn’t the other night…i am obsessed with that song as of late, so i was really happy i could see it from the front of the stage and not the back. they changed the intro to the song, took out the singing, and the NRA/Heston part…just went right into the song…it’s so haunting…the spotlight bit is a nice touch…during “new york”, bono comes on to the heart, stops right in front of where i was, where he sings in front of a screen thing. well they changed the words to the song, and the security guy came and put them on the stage in front of where bono would be since he doesn’t know them…so it was kinda rad to see bono reading the words from the sheet….bono kissed edge during “until the end of the world” haha it was so cute

didn’t play “mysterious ways” or “the fly”….the fly, not so much a shock as mysterious ways…i figured that was a staple of the show…but that’s ok. whatever.

setlist:
elevation
beautiful day
until the end of the world
new years day
out of control
sunday bloody sunday (i believe this is when bono took the flag)
when will i see you again/stuck in a moment
kite
angel of harlem
people get ready (with the kid on the guitar)
staring at the sun (acoustic)
bad
where the streets have no name
still haven’t found…
pride

encore 1:
bullet the blue sky
what’s going on
new york
with or without you (with extra verse)

encore 2:
one
peace on earth
walk on

that might not be right….the u2tours.com setlist was missing new years day…so tried to find another one, this one came from ppl on the interference board

i totally just remembered (10-22-01) out of no where, that bono was doing this ultra cute thing, making his hands into a heart shape and holding them in front of his chest…for an example, click here for a photo – don’t think from hamilton…. it was TOO cute…love bono…

ok thats all i can remember right now…

the 2 girls are supposed to send me the pictures they took…will post them if/whenever i get them. not looking like i am getting them.

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