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from email “Your dreams are the BEST! I hit your site by complete accident while looking up “tornado dreams”. I have psychotic dreams too, but yours are more interesting than mine are. I’ve told my sister, who also has cool dreams, to visit your site. Keep up the good work, this is the best read on the web.”

wasn’t that nice? and speaking of dreams… i remembered a flash of one i had last night. It’s my first WTC sept11th related dream…i mean first directly related one…I think i was actually at the WTC when it happened in the dream, and I was looking through an opening from underneath a car and i was watching the towers collapse and hit the ground. someone was with me, but i don’t know who it was.

so i went to the extra credit talk. it was this guy talking about violent media and the family…he mentioned Sept 11th news coverage towards the end, which prompted the flashback to my dream. but it was interesting. a much better look at violent tv and video games then other reports….totally didn’t point the finger and say TV = bad, get rid of TV…but he asserted the fact that it is a risk factor, and parents can totally mediate the effects by talking to their kids about what they watch etc…now i gotta write up the summaries for my 2 classes.

i also talked to dr ballard about my neuropsych paper. totally didn’t realize i had to do this 2nd part. it’s not hard, its just a table of all the articles i read…summarizing them more or less. so i’m gonna do that after i write my summaries….it’ll organize them in my mind so i can start writing the paper. ug. i hate papers.

i saw dr mounts today…he is so cute. i love him. i wish i could take more classes with him cuz he’s so funny. he doesn’t know who i am. oh and at the talk, there were no seats left except first row. whatever, so i went to sit in one of them, after i sat down i realized i was sitting next to dr lynch. great. i mean, nothing wrong with that, at least he KNOWS for definite sure that I was there, since i was right next to him LOL…but i was paranoid he was looking at what i was writing the whole time LOL. and he definitely has a batman watch LOL.

 

am i delusional to believe things that bono says?…i mean he says some of the most emotion laden things, that i really want to believe are from the heart. that he’s being sincere…. i think that if i found out he wasn’t being sincere about alot of what he says, i’d be really devastated LOL…i mean life would go on and everything. but i think part of what makes me love him so much is his sincerity. and i really do believe he means much of what he says…he works for alot of good causes, u2’s always been a political band…and why do all that if you didn’t mean it…

this was all spurred on by bono’s ramble at the end of “walk on” from NJ recently…he’s wearing the shirt of one of the fire fighters (or maybe police) who died on sept 11th, thanking him for wearing the uniform for us all his life, that he’s now singing with the angels…etc. and that would be SUCH a cliche thing to do at this point in time…from anyone else i would suspect it would be all about looking good in the media…but for him, i really think it’s something he really means, really cares about, etc….

if michael jackson did that, i’d be like “oh give it up already…”….i mean, bono cried into the US flag in Hamilton, I was touched beyond belief…michael jackson wraps himself up in the US flag during the DC concert for america thing, and I’m like “oh please, that’s so lame”…i don’t know…i’m so tired.

something is wrong with my eye. feels like it’s being stabbed LOL…i wrote the intro page to my paper. writing the rest tomorrow. so you know what that means right? lots of blogging all night long!

 

reading random blogs… found one with an entry that is so perfect!

stolen from http://echocracker.blogspot.com/

“Haven’t you read my blog?

That is what comes out of my mouth a lot lately. I am getting to the point that I don’t even talk to people anymore. If we do talk and one of us mentions something that happened in our lives and the person doesn’t know what we are talking about we say, “haven’t you read my blog?”

I worry if people don’t blog for a few days. I wonder if everything is okay. I was saying to someone today, “Is (fill in name) doing okay? They haven’t blogged in a week!” ”

LOL THATS SO GREAT!!!

i blog too much… i blog too much stupid shit, which forces the posts that are actually good, and the ones i think deserve comments, down farther….ug

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well last night was uneventful. decided to get out of the house instead of doing any homework. called adrienne from the driveway and eric from his street. went to the summit mall…hahahah. that’s a laff. then outlet mall….then i got cheap gas for 1.08!!…then walmart to find the Tom license plate…do you know how hard it is to find a Tom license plate?!?!?…walmart was out, of course…so we went to target…they don’t even carry the license plates (they’re too high class)…so i was starving so we went to dennys. after that we were heading home, but it was only 10:30…so we decided to check the other walmart to see if they had extended xmas hours. turns out they’re open 24 hrs! dunno when that happened, but yay!!!….sooo…toy department, license plates!!…but they were bad ones…blue and yellow metal ones…not the white with statue of liberty ones. at first glance NO TOM! of course…so we looked at the other side of the rack, and then back to where Tom would be… AND THERE WERE TOMS IN THE WRONG PLACE! we all saw them at the same time and were like TOOOOMMMM!!!! but they’re so ugly. it was only 97 cents so i got one anyway to hold me out for the white plate. hah didn’t go midnight bowling with joe and them. he called after i had picked up adr and eric and eric was out cuz he had to get up early. i told him we might show up and he gave me directions to the alley (which i immediately forgot lol) and i told him maybe we’d be there. by that time i had 1$ in my possession LOL…so didn’t go. oh well…

so it’s back to school tonight. still haven’t read my articles, still haven’t watched peter pan. HAVE TO DO IT TODAY! cuz i am going to start writing my paper tomorrow. I MUST! arg…hate this. i’m in serious bono withdrawl. all day yesterday. arg. it’s getting bad…

 

 

i am SOOOOOOO screwed. i’m BEYOND screwed….
1. neuropsych paper due friday – fine…i have my articles. i read all of them, unless i want to get a 7th one from the library, or unless i want to get some that are about a slightly different aspect of what i’m writing about…i can slap together a lit review in 5 hrs (i did it last year lol) so that shouldn’t be a huge problem once i get my ass in gear
2. social and personality development paper – so not fine. it’s supposed to be based on the movie Peter Pan. The paper directions are to find 15 aspects of social or personality development in the movie, discuss them with what we’ve learned, and then conclude with whether or not the movie accurately portrays development. that’d be all fine and good, NO PROBLEM AT ALL, except the movie has no social or personality development in it….i found AT MOST 3 things i could write about… maybe parenting style, maybe attachment, maybe trust vs mistrust….THATS 12 MORE I HAVE TO FIND AND THEY DON’T EXIST!!!! I don’t know what I’m going to do, because I don’t think I can change my movie….i have to talk to him tomorrow BIG TIME…that paper is due next monday. was supposed to be due friday but he gave us another weekend THANK GOD! cuz now who knows what i’m going to do. I could fast switch to a lit review instead of the movie paper and hope that i can find enough articles in the library but… yeah really don’t want to do that. omg i’m going to fail…

meanwhile i haven’t talked to danielle since wednesday night. i’ve called her like 6 times today, left a message about what time we’re going to leave at….i figured after dinner. no response…no call back…and still no one is answering her phone…dunno what to do.

 

twinkies are only good when they’re frozen *into the freezer they go*

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i need to move. i cannot come back and live in this house when i graduate. even if i don’t go to school and don’t get out of the area, i can’t live her. my parents bum me out so bad. no particular reason really at all…i just haven’t felt this bad in a long, long time…i need to watch some u2, but now the vcr is hooked up to the computer and not the tv next to me…and i’m sure my mom wont let me watch it upstairs. they kicked me out of the family room right in the middle of “bad” yesterday…didn’t even wait til a commercial. was going to maybe go midnight bowling with joe and them tonight, but i don’t know. i haven’t talked to him and i really don’t feel like doing much of anything. i know i should get out, it would be fun, i’d feel better….i wish i felt now like i did yesterday cuz i was so excited last night. especially when watching the vh1 legends show…. ok so thinking about that made me smile. they were all so cute in it….*sigh*

i’m so obsessed lol…someone was talking on the radio and said Larry… i’m like what? Larry? what? u2? lol…

 

forgot to mention. adrienne got me a lovely gift last night. she showed up with a bag from odds n ends…and in it was a set of 4 glasses (drinking glasses) with LEMONS on them!!!!!!!! hehehehe they’re so great.

 

 

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went out last night. went to Pearl St bar and grill to watch the Sabres game (FINALLY WON!!! 4-2 OVER TORONTO!)….then went to some bar on chippewa cuz they wanted to drink more. boring….yeah cuz i drove…forgot to mention that.

so today is turkey day. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

some bono interview is on fox news tonight at 10…it’s a rerun. heard it’s lovely and beautiful… 🙂 and since i’m not gonna be doing anything else, might as well watch it (and frame capture it on the other computer) LOL. then tomorrow is u2 night! woo hoo…

nothing else to say i guess… (just the same as all the rest…sorry, didn’t mean to lol…no one is gonna know what i’m talking about hah)

 

music classification annoys me. so much of what i like you can’t classify. but people call it “alternative” because it’s not boyband pop…everything not pop is alternative….well that is so wrong. people ask me what to listen to and i just choke up because i don’t know what to say. cuz i don’t consider myself to be a fan of alternative music…especially since what everyone else considers alternative, i dont….so i decided to do my little classification scheme…

alternative (or classic alternative): pearl jam, nirvana, soundgarden, alice in chains…the rest of the whole early 90s seattle scene “grunge” bands…i guess you can throw in stone temple pilots, smashing pumpkins…maybe REM only because they got big around the same time and all these bands were being played on the “alternative” radio stations at the same time…
mainstream industrial: nine inch nails…marilyn manson…stabbing westward…filter i guess….while real fans of industrial music laff at these bands, what else (holy shit trent on tv LOL) would you call them? pseudo industrial…
modern alternative/modern rock: i guess this is where i’d put all the bands i don’t care for, like creed, and our lady peace, and all the bands that have singers that all sound the same and are trying to sound like Eddie Vedder….matchbox 20….third eye blind…this is probably the category that others label alternative now….blah.
(c)rap-rock: all the limp bizkits, crazy town….linkin park…all the rest of those (c)rap-rock bands that have no talent…
pseudo-punk: all the blink 182 sound alikes that have no talent, only know how to play 3 chords, call themselves punk while the whole punk community looks down upon them much like the industrial community looks down upon the mainstream industrial bands…
the jam bands:….dave matthews band, phish, rusted root…etc. all those bands that burn outs like…LOL

i guess that’s it…almost time for turkey… and i’m freezing

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well had to get up at quarter to 9 to get ready for my eye appointment…so its only 2 but it feels like i’ve been out and doing things all day and its time for bed LOL…. i got glasses. it’s just for reading and computer stuff. apparantly i can’t see far because i can’t see close up LOL…the dr said that my eyes are working too hard to focus on stuff close to me like when i’m reading, that when i look at things far away (such as the board in class to take notes) my eyes are still focused closer….so i have these reading classes to make my eyes work less to see things close up, and it’ll improve my far away sight too….its a really really mild perscription, can barely tell it’s anything…but things are clearer now. we’ll see how they work. not entirely happy with the frames, but whatever.

went to best buy and mom bought me the U2 dvd…woo hoo. i looked all over for it, and it wasn’t there. then i finally found the endcap with the nice picture of bono and…no dvds! lol…so i had to ask the guy if they had anymore, they had to go get it from the back for me. so…can’t watch it til i get a dvd player…which will be for xmas or after…so it doesn’t matter that i can’t have the dvd til xmas…

went to the bookstore with my mom while waiting for my glasses to be made, and hinted that i want the u2 calendar too LOL. i’m like see they have it mom, seeee… its only 12$ and next week you can get 40% off…see…it’s right here on the other side of the rack…seeeeee? lol

so i guess we’re all gonna go to a bar tonight to watch the sabres game. i gotta call eric, he called me when i was at the store with my mom.

 

 

yeaaah… i hate bestbuy. they are incompetent… why is everyone who works in retail incompetent?… i mean i know I was VERY incompetent at toys r us…but really? why is that? it’s a lack of information, and training…that’s what it is.

so i go to best buy with eric and adrienne to get my stupid bonus CD that was supposed to come with the u2 DVD…i go to the girl at customer service, i bought the dvd and didn’t get the bonus cd….bonus cd?…yeah a 3 track live in boston promo cd…promo cd?…yeah i can tell you the songs on it if you want. everyone i know who bought it got the promo cd except me…i don’t know what you’re talking about, bonus cd *flips through the sales paper, finds the dvd ad, the best buy u2 exclusive*…i don’t know what you’re talking about, bonus cd….*calls a diff department*…*in walks 2 other workers*…i want the bonus cd that is the best buy exclusive with the dvd…. bonus cd?…yeah the bonus cd that everyone else who bought the dvd got…..i don’t know what you’re talking about, bonus cd….*in walks manager*….bonus cd?.. YES THE BONUS CD THAT IS THE BEST BUY EXCLUSIVE WHICH IS THE ONLY REASON I BOUGHT THE DVD TODAY….we have no bonus cd with the dvd?….yes you do, because everyone else got it except me… i rang out at least 10 of these yesterday and no one got a bonus cd…. i didn’t say people bought them here, nation wide people bought the DVD and got a bonus cd….well it’s not in the ad so we don’t have any bonus cd…. is there a number i can call to complain? yeah i can give you the customer service number…. bye.

ARRRRRRRRRRRG… *click* mean letter sent off to bestbuy….according to the u2 msg board alot of people didn’t get the cd. other people saw piles of them sitting on the floor and so they took them. others are saying the first 50-100 people who line up at best buy on friday to buy the DVD get them… NO ONE KNOWS WHATS GOING ON. i’m DEFINITELY not getting up at whatever butt time of dawn to get a stupid promo cd….i can dl the stupid tracks. BUT THE WHOLE REASON I BOUGHT THE GODDAMN DVD TODAY WAS TO GET THE GODDAMN PROMO CD!

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things i would do, and places i would go, if i had a time machine
1. first nuclear bomb test
2. fall of the berlin wall
3. first moon walk
4. motown 25 (first moonwalk lol)
5. u2 zoo tv tour concert
6. nin – self destruct tour concert
7. mj – bad tour concert
8. march on washington

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well tonight (er last night i guess lol) was the econoline show. i think this was the biggest stretch of time this year between EC shows..it was weird because i had forgotten how happy they make me. so it was really cool seeing them again. didn’t talk to them at all really. saw trevor, said hi, shook hands, but that was it. the show was at a really crappy bar in a crappy hotel on the blvd. got there around 6… joe had just gotten back from taking trevor to the mall LOL…yeah. he took Trevor to the mall. then we went inside and sat at the bar for 2 hrs. doors were at 8, we ended up on the guest list even tho dan wasn’t there…trevor got 5 of us in. THANKS TREVOR! anyway…there were 2 opening bands… Lucid and um..i forget the other bands name… Mudmen…anyway. it was Lucid’s first show ever…but they seemed way too professional to have never played together live before..whatever. the Mudmen were…interesting. they had 2 huge ogre fat men playing bag pipes…then their sound was kinda punkish, kinda hard…i can only say interesting. since the show was at this bar, the stage was only 2 feet off the ground, no barrier. so we were standing there against the stage. it was like, if i had gotten pushed i would have been on stage. it was really weird to be THAT close…cuz i was really selfconscious about what i was doing, and it was hard to do any of the whole arm waving, clapping, etc kind of thing without hitting the singer LOL…ANYWAY…the mudmen singer, he was kinda cute…and like twice he was singing at me. no lie, this isn’t one of those “omg he looked at me” kind of things. this is like, 2 times, he kinda stooped down and stared right at me and sang…it was strange, cuz like i didn’t know what to do. it wasn’t like i knew the band, and could sing along and have a “moment” with the singer…so i kinda just laffed at him LOL. the 2nd time i saw adrienne lean over and look at me while the singer dude was singing at me. but yeah, they were interesting.

EC was great as always. FINALLY PLAYED A FULL SET! lol…16 songs i think. yeah…no razorblades  but it was good… played home, and riverside, and all the songs i would have wanted to hear besides razorblades and the songs that i know they’d never in a million years play (stuff off affliction)…yeah trevor’s crotch was right at face level the entire time…not complaining LOL but kinda awkward sometimes. it was weird being so close. johnny and mark had sparkles all over them, it was cute lol…anyway, good show as always. happy happy

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ROFLMAO….omg totally LOLing right now…we have a small crisis on our hands… our shower head fell off ROFLMAO

danielle was taking a shower. gets out…shes still in the bathroom. i hear a bang.. figure she dropped something. she comes out of the bathroom and goes “um i think we have a problem” and she’s holding the shower head ROFLMAO

i tried to smoosh it back on the pipe, but wont go on ROFL…

what next?!?!

meanwhile me and carolyn are having total PLP…we both just blogged the exact same conversations on our blog, like 4 times hahahaha

 

ok one of my friend’s is having serious issues because his girlfriend broke up with him. this just confirms my point of view that the whole dating thing isn’t worth it. because it ends, and people are upset and heart broken… and knowing me and my track record in relationships in general, i would get hurt cuz that’s how it always ends up. so i’ll just continue to be unattached emotionally to anyone…

i just deleted a few sentences i typed and i’m typing this instead… realized i was getting way too personal on this blog…saying things that dont need to be known by other people ROFL

 

acoustic version of “Razorblades and bandaids” by ec….ahhhhhh

and speaking of acoustic tracks, it’s so funny how u2’s “please” acoustic is so amazing, yet i still hate the album version on pop…

 

yeah i forgot something else. in the last 10 hours i did something to my finger and now it’s messed up. i noticed when i was in the shower. my left ring finger 2nd knuckle is all purple. and if you touch it, it hurts alot. it sorta feels like i bent it back way too much or something. or jammed it on something. but it hurts. blah.

 

forgot to mention how much i HATE the stp kid. stp kid is this boy who was at the STP concert at UB last october. he was behind us, he had a sign that said “still remains” he was way annoying. well turns out he’s an EC fan and he’s at every buffalo area show we go to. and he thinks he’s friends with us, or at least joe, so he pushes up through the crowd to find us cuz we’re always up front and then is so annoying. he’s the reason i lost my space at artvoice, and then david let me in front of him so i could see…and then last night, he comes barging through, jumps on joe and is like “its not a party without joey joe!” or something. i was like HELL NO you are NOT gonna get up here next to me, no fucking way. not like it was crowded or anything, it’s the whole principle of if. joe had been there since like 2pm, we all got there at 6 and sat at the bar for hours…and he shows up at 11 in time for EC. no. u are not getting up next to me and being annoying. then this DJ from 97.7 comes and says something about how howard stern sucks…this prompts STP kid to start BOOOOING at the top of his lungs, in my ear, and shouting HOWARD HOWARD over and over… and then even at the end of the show before EC’s encore, he starts yelling HOWARD! I’m like WTF SHUT THE HELL UP. i’m sorta deaf in my right ear, but it’s not from the show, it’s from him. he is such a know it all, it’s like ooommmgggg i hate youuuu. he’s standing there saying that EC wasn’t gonna play all 16 songs on the setlist, that once they saw the size of the crowd they’d cut it short etc.. and he’s like, so is it the same setlist we all know and love, and yeah it was, so he’s like, u’d think that they play so much here they’d change it up a bit for us.. it’s like STOP FUCKING COMPLAINING. IF YOU DONT LIKE IT WHY THE HELL DID YOU COME?!? i just wanted to punch him. so instead i just kept making glaring faces at joe cuz i hate that kid so much LOL.

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alright, alright… mj on trl…how long was he on for, like a whole 30 seconds?!?! lol. carson seemed like in TOTAL awe, and carson keeps his cool pretty good usually.

i was really excited about the whole thing, cuz really…mj on trl?!? could you get a bigger star? i think not. so i’m really, overall, very happy he was on. everyone was really excited… and o-town was funny – they took over hosting TRL so Carson could go talk to MJ..they were so funny, cuz they were really excited to be witnessing the whole thing…

mj seemed totally clueless tho, like he didn’t know what was going on. he seemed drugged LOL. he wasn’t paying attention to carson when he was talking…i dunno. to me it’s like he’s changed SO much since HIStory…and i’m really not just talking about his face and lack of lips now….it’s like he seems SO utterly unhappy. seemed like he totally didn’t want to be there, didn’t want to talk to carson. and maybe it is cuz he can’t express emotion on his face anymore…but i dunno. it really hurts me to see him that way. god he just seems so tired of everything.

to me i get the impression that he doesn’t want to be doing this anymore…being in the public eye, etc…but then part of him is like, i’m michael jackson, this is my job, i need to be out there. but i’m kinda torn cuz like…if he’s so unhappy, and everything, then why bother? he should have just retired with HIStory, and been happy with what he has accomplished. but i know how he is, and that if he’s going to go out, he’s gonna go out with a bang….

i just get a really bad feeling from all of this, from seeing him like that… i dunno. maybe i’m making it all up in my head

mj… i love you sweetheart but…if you want to wear an athletic suit, be all cool, fine, but u need to wear different kind of shoes.. like sneakers, and the pants can’t be all tapered at the bottom… lol.

about now is the time where i insert my feelings about mj needing to die soon…but i think everyone is tired of me talking about that…so i’ll spare you.

 

 

i would not, in a million years, for anything, want to be michael jackson. i would not trade places with him to save my life. i used to think, “Yeah it’d be great to be michael jackson, even if ppl think he’s weird, and he has such a bizzare life due to everyone wanting a piece of him”…but now, no way.

i was watching the making of thriller on vh1 today during lunch. he is so incredible. he is so talented. he is just amazing. he has done so much and accomplished so many things. and i think, wow, it’d be awesome to really know what it’s like to be him, to have done everything he has done, to see things through his eyes.

yet i would not trade places with him.

if you’ve seen “The Crow” then you know The Crow had the powers to see things through the eyes of other people by touching them. He could also give them what he’s seen, and what he’s taken from others. He “sees” his wife dying in the hospital through the eyes of the police man, and then gives all of his wife’s pain to the bad guy at the end through touch. if i could do that with MJ, if i could touch him and see everything he’s seen, and all that he’s done i would, in a second. but i would never want to actually be him.

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i took a way too hot shower this morning. now i feel like crap. when i was a kid i used to take baths that were way too hot, and i’d get out and lay on the floor for hours because it made me so sick. i’d usually throw up after that. after they turned our hot water back on this last time, they turned it up and now its scalding hot all the time.

i said that stuff below about not knowing if bono is a pot head or not, cuz u2 hasn’t ever been known as a druggie band…but bono writes about heroin alot. and i read an interview where the guy asked bono if he used heroin and he wouldn’t say either way because if he said “yeah i’ve tried heroin” it would make alot of people who couldn’t afford the drug, or afford the consequence start using. i don’t know why he didn’t just say no, because that would lead almost everyone to believe that yeah he’s used heroin. i should go and read his answer again…ANYWAY even if you were to assume u2 used drugs it was Adam who was the addict with all the issues not Bono so…yeah. Bono just drinks alot lol. He’s irish

when are the people who make the new english dictionaries just going to add “alot” to it so that i can use it with good conscience.

i had a whole bunch of u2 dreams last night but i don’t remember much of them at all. i remember something with Adam and a car.

 

 

MJ: The ’60s generation celebrated both sex and drugs as liberating. Nowadays there has been a lot of bashing of both as evil. You present a fairly chaste image…

BONO: We don’t.

MJ: In the movie we never even see you take a drink. We never see you doing drugs…

BONO: The idea that we would hide the drink from the camera is idiotic beyond belief. It’s another cliché that redundant minds throw at U2. “You present a chaste image.” Oh god!

MJ: Do you like being intoxicated?

BONO: (Raises a finger) ‘Tis better to be drunk on the spirit; however, a bottle of Jack Daniel’s is sometimes handier.

MJ: Do you ever find intoxicants, including psychedelics, creatively useful?

BONO: I am already on drugs. I am the sort of person who needs to take drugs to make me normal. (laughs) I have experimented. No, I don’t think that it is something that everybody has to do, one, just to be alive, or two, to write great songs.

MJ: I don’t mean “have to.” But do you have a positive attitude towards drugs?

BONO: I’m not going to tell you that I have a positive attitude towards people who are hurting themselves. Drug abuse is a very negative thing.

MJ: Do you believe there is such a thing as drug use as opposed to abuse?

BONO: I do believe there could be.

MJ: In your own life, have you experienced…

BONO: I don’t want to talk about that. I’ll give you just one example of why it would be irresponsible for me to answer your question in a certain way: I’ve written so many songs using heroin as an image, it might be interesting for me to tell you that, say, “I’ve had experiences with the drug heroin.” It might be interesting for me to do it, and to own up to it. If it were misconstrued, somebody who, for whatever reason, respects me, that might lead them to get into it. OK. If I become addicted to heroin, I can afford the trappings. I can afford the Betty Ford clinic. I can afford to have my blood changed. I can afford the trappings of being an addict. But there is some guy who lives in a room in Dublin who can’t. And nobody gives a shit about his addiction! So it is highly irresponsible for rock ‘n’ roll people to perpetuate the myth of drug addiction. One of the things that I get a good feeling that U2 has done is to break open the mythology of rock ‘n’ roll. The mythology that wearing a safety pin in your nose means you’re a rebel. Shaving your head does not mean you’re a rebel.

MJ: You’re saying those trappings have nothing to do with the true rebellious soul of rock ‘n’ roll…

BONO: Yeah, the rebellious soul. The mythology of “live-fast-die-young” sickens me. I just want to throw up on these bastards! That’s because in our city, Dublin City, I’ve seen the place truly ravaged by drug addiction. People seriously fucked up, and people inspired by this idea of “living close to the edge.”

i just want to say that when i first read this article i freaked out because i finally found the origin of one of my most favourite quotes. it was originially printed in this rock n roll quote book i had, and i always liked it….. bono’s “the mythology of “live-fast-die-young” sickens me. I just want to throw up on these bastards!” hahahaha i was like YAY I FINALLY FOUND WHERE THAT CAME FROM! also, that whole “shaving your head does not mean your a rebel”… i always loved that quote too cuz it was in the book i had, but now it’s such a fight club thing “sticking feathers up your ass does not make you a chicken” lol

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