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thank you trent, i wasn’t excited for a “home town” show or anything, and you go cancel Darien Lake in favor of yet another show in MA…so how many is that now? did you play clubs there? I think you did, but am not sure…then Boston Nov 05, Amherst 06?, Boston ampitheatre, Worcester…so we’re looking at 6 shows in MA, and zero in Buffalo in 9 years. Thanks. Super.

oh and then on top of that, Jane’s Addiction is already doing a presale for Kansas, and the tickets are $150 or $75…WHAT? are you kidding? maybe there is something special about those tickets, some kind of package. signed up for JA’s site and presale, no mention of a VIP package at that price…really? Those are the prices for the first 2 levels of seats…well maybe there is something weird about Kansas…maybe other venues won’t be so much. Oh no wait, Vegas is $154..that’s fantastic.

Seriously? an AMPITHEATRE tour, with only 4 members in the band, stripped down, for $150!? I don’t give a SHIT that it’s a janes addiction reunion tour, who the fuck are they? They are still an “opener” and sorry, they are not special enough to justify these prices for an ampitheatre tour. Bauhaus who i’d consider to be a more important band than Janes did not warrant a price increase in 2006…Even with the increasing costs for touring, gas and travel, there is absolutely NO REASON for this tour to be 3 times as much as Lights in the Sky, or any other tour by a band at the same “level” (say depeche mode). DM’s toronto tix are 90 something, 70 something, lawn is 30 something. I would expect tickets to be near 70, but I’d also expect to be in a pit, and not be stuck in seats in the 2nd tier (or worse)!

I am hoping for a pricing miracle for Toronto but I am not holding my breath, they’re usually one of the most expensive cities on the tour. The way things are looking it may be the only show I go to, and I might not even go to that…I just can’t justify it. Ampitheatres for $150, makes me ill. Even freaking U2 is offering $30 tickets that are GENERAL ADMISSION!

I am so pissed.

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shows

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i just realized how sweet concert dates are falling so far…2 nin dates are on my days off, and u2 in toronto in sept is on a day off. i do have to figure out what i want to do about nin in detroit, because if i want to go i might as well take another week of vacation. however i didn’t want to take 2 weeks back to back…but doesn’t make alot of sense to go back to work for 2 days, off one, go back for one, off another and then my days off again. but we’ll see, it’ll depend on if adr2 plans to stay over night in detroit (if she decides to go at all) and when we’d be leaving to drive there. DTE is seats so there’d be no reason to get there early, lots of time to get there the day of (like last time).

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MJ auction goodness

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sooo….looking through the auction catalogs of michael jackson’s neverland stuff…and this is my list of things i want 🙂 oh man this is so great

caveman ninja upright arcade game – LOL caveman ninja…from 1991
luigi’s corner – some sort of coin op, don’t know what it is but it looks delightfully politically incorrect
“bat jackson”as ty dubbed it – life size statue of michael jackson dressed up in a real batman costume…he also has a 2nd full size batman statue, that is not, however, him. oh he has a life size superman too….aaand spidermans
johnny depp’s hands from edward scissor hands OMG THAT IS SO COOL
random suits of armor
plasma ball – looks like a static electricity generator thing like at spencers, but antique
monumental guilded thrown – so neat hahah

he has some really nice antique pieces but his taste in furniture was fairly boring and not my style, and he apparently didn’t have a thing for weird medical items or things in jars…sad. 🙂 he does have a scary lladro abraham lincoln with children figurine…creepy. and not in a good way.

and completely unrelated, i bought Dr Mario Online for the Wii and I’m addicted. You can play against ppl over intarwebs, so i actually lose sometimes 🙂

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u2 on latenight

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i wonder how bono is going to do a tour when his voice is so weak…”magnficient” is not what I’d consider a hard song for him to sing, pitch wise, and he still has issues. sad, tho people would argue he never COULD sing haha

must remember to watch letterman tonight, however that would require WATCHING letterman, and i find him annoying. and paul schaffer makes me want to stab myself.

an aside, i figured out you can turn of those stupid bubble messages people put in their youtube videos, it’s called annotations.

*edit* letterman tonight was “i’ll go crazy if i don’t go crazy tonight”…booo. still don’t like the song. but u2 also did the top ten which was amusing, especially edge’s #5

 

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shooows

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first set of nin tour dates announced. looking at 3 for sure, toronto, darien lake (!!) and pittsburgh, and maybe detroit. there is a big chunk of dates out in new jersey but i really really don’t want to drive out there again. so this should be good. 3 shows with no need for hotels, and in detroit there is family if needed.

i am very nervous about u2 playing stadiums…even if bono says they’re going to keep prices low for ppl effected by the economy, and then have really expensive tix for rich people…there is no way the cheap seats are going to still be GA, and the $$ seats be lower bowl in a stadium. i am not paying over $50 to see them from stadium nosebleeds…

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No Line On The Horizon

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“no line on the horizon” officially was released today so i headed out to bestbuy to pick it up. they had all 4 versions on sale, the box set for $64 so i gave in and got that one. when standing in line at “media” stores i always check out what other people are buying. the guy in front of me bought the watchmen dvd and vicky christina barcelona. the old guy behind me, all i could see was u2’s slane castle dvd…then he notices that i’m buying the box set, so he asks me if it was for my daughter or did i like u2? daughter? why would he think i had a daughter? so he says he likes u2 alot too, and shows me his other items…under a blood red sky dvd and the new one, and says “i bought everything they had”…that was all they had? haha i think he would have talked to me for ages if i didn’t get to go to the next cashier.

the box set is very nice. they advertise that the digipack comes with a poster…which it does, but it is GLUED into the cd packaging. what the hell! it folds out but one square is glued into the digipack so you can’t cut it out to display it at all. stupid stupid. the box set has another regular poster, but it’s just the album cover on one side and a shot of the band on the other, while the one glued to the cd is really nice with 9 different b&w photos on one side, and fez on the other (i assume). the hard cover book is full of photos, hand written lyrics, and an interview with the 4 guys. it’s nice but i find myself completely uninterested in reading it haha.

i need someplace to display these box sets i’ve purchased without them getting filthy…ghosts was black cloth, and nloth is all white. neither one good for dust and cat hair haha

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U2 “Cedars of Lebanon” review

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Cedars of Lebanon: Another storytelling song, but very reminiscent of “If You Wear That Velvet Dress” or “Your Blue Room”…talking over low music, not subject mater. And then it just ends…The whole album just ends. That was odd. Ok the song…it’s really almost just spoken word, apparently about a war reporter. Another grown up sort of song, and again not something I’d usually be very into, but it’s well done.

Grade: B – it’s interesting, will have to listen more

As a whole….At first few listens, it’s not awful. It’s still U2, but it doesn’t sound like cookie cutter, U2 by numbers, like the last album (or 2). I wouldn’t call it ground breaking the way Eno/Lanois/U2 have been describing it. It certainly is not “molten metal from mars” and maybe Bono should not be allowed to talk about their recordings before the album comes out haha. Despite what other reviews say, there is not much sonic adventure, which I think would be necessary for something to be “ground breaking” (unless you count organs and random horns for no reason). I really can’t hear ANY sort of musical experimentation in any of the songs.

In a way it also doesn’t seem like a lot of fun either. It has peppier songs, but it seems very heavy for some reason. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, there is no overarching sound that wraps everything into a cohesive album. I was reminded that it was recorded in 4 locations, so maybe that’s it. You can group songs together….”White as snow” and “cedars of lebanon”…”unknown caller” and “crazy”…”breathe”, “magnificent”, “stand up comedy” and i guess you’d have to throw “boots” and “no line on the horizon” in that group too. “fez-being born” and “moment of surrender” are sort of both on their own. There doesn’t seem to be any strong singles, I can’t really imagine any of the songs on the radio – even the ones that I like. I figure they’ll go with “unknown caller” and “crazy” as singles because they are “safe”.

It’s going to take a few more listens to make a final decision as to if this is going to sit on the shelf along side Bomb and All That You Can’t Leave Behind. I have to remember that in my past experiences with U2, I have to let albums sit unlistened to and then go back to them to really appreciate them (though that didn’t work with Bomb, it’s still not good).

the end.

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U2 “Breathe” review

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Breathe: Rocking guitars, absolute “Rattle and Hum” feel to it. I sort of expect a harmonica in there like “Trip through your wires” or “Desire”. Vocals are quick and monotone, in a good way, but I could do without singing about cockatoos and joo joo man LOL. Nice piano work. Part of the guitar makes me think of recent Depeche Mode too. “the people we meet will not be drowned out. There’s nothing you have that I need, I can breathe.” “the war that lies on the other side of silence”…very nice. I do absolutely hate, in all recent u2 songs, Bono’s need to sing part of the chorus in a forced high note, it’s unnecessary. The music is so good, the piano would be great if someone (ie Bono) really plays it live. Really love the piano.

Grade: A – best song on the album

And speaking of depeche mode, they apparently have an album coming out in april. first single “wrong”…video was released the other day. it’s sorta creepy but neat. the singing of the word “wrong” throughout the song sounds like marilyn manson. it’s not bad tho. they’re playing toronto in july, molson ampitheatre, so i should be able to afford lawn tix this time around.

tomorrow, the last song “cedars of lebanon”

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lol simpsons. lisa to marge about her learning how to use the internet “you’re like christopher columbus, you discovered something millions of people already knew about” hahahahahaha

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U2 “White as Snow” review

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White As Snow: Definitely a story telling song. Minimal music to begin. A bit of a grown up song. I was about to say there is a little country twinge to it, barely, but there (Cassie says it’s Johnny Cash sounding)…but then weird horns come in for no reason. They quickly go away again so that’s ok. The storytelling feel continues throughout. It sorta makes me think of the Joshua Tree as well.

Grade: B, it’s not typically something that i would really get into, but it is nice and well done. i think i really like it. i think.

tomorrow, the best song on the album, Breathe!

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