This post made me un-tired!
I'm getting so tired....and I have swimming at 8, and should really go (but maybe I won't...I'm already missing Wednesday and next Monday, but I also skipped the week before spring break...so should I put in one appearance, or miss like 2 1/2 weeks in a row? goddammit.) See, the problem is, I'm downloading tonight's Arrested Development. I desperately want to see it again...(*the hotness, oh my god, such hotness*). It's at 85%, and thinks it'll take another 33 minutes (as of 1:15 a.m.).
The U2 concert two nights ago was great. I was freaking out 'cause rosesrred and I were going to go there together, and she was taking her sweet-ass time getting to the hotel (j/k, T, you know it's all good!), and it was like 3:00 p.m. and I was sitting there thinking, I need to get there NOW. But it ended up just fine...she didn't get to the hotel 'till like 4:40, allowing me to see most of 360 (yea! the only time all week I got any Anderson action--and he was damn hot that evening too), and we got to the stadium maybe at 5:15(?) and found the gen. admission line pretty easily. We guessed there were 300 people ahead of us. They didn't pat me down/ask about the big bluge in the pocket on my right quad...so I got to take pictures (yea!). Yet another reason why not using a purse at concerts is a good idea. We ended up about 5 rows of people back from the extended/walkway part of the stage (apparently this tour, as opposed to the Elevation tour, rather than the first X number of people in line getting to be in the center of the walkway/right by the main stage, it was random GA people. they scanned our tix a second time just inside the doors, and on a laptop it said "proceed to main floor"...and apparently for every 3rd or 4th person, it said something *else* and they got to go to the kick ass CLOSE main floor area. But whatever. We were really close to the walkway at least, and got to see 'em close-up, like 5-7 feet, when they walked by. Um, well, I did at least. Poor poor T got sick during Kings of Leon and had to abandon her spot. :( She did get to dance though--I didn't have room.)
Anyway, concert was very exciting & good. One bitter moment came when they showed the Geneva Convention stuff on human rights on a screen, and I thought of how our lovely new attorney general called it, specifically the part about torture, old-fashioned and "quaint". There was no naming names or anything "controversial", we were in a red state, after all, but that's all I could think when I saw that. One touching moment was when Bono implored us to make our voices heard about the conditions in Africa, and people could text message their names to a number, then their names went across the screen...which I didn't notice at first as I was taken in by everyone holding out their phones in solidarity--all other lights were extinguished. Those things that, at concerts, annoy me to no end nearly made me cry. Wow. They played so many awesome songs, and my legs were killing me, but I could have easily gone for another couple hours. My only complaint was that they didn't play "With or Without You", but one of the guys I was talking to said that on the last tour, if they played "One", they didn't play "With or Without You", and vise-versa. Oh, and "Vertigo", a song that, previously, I thought was ok at best, is SO good live. I now love it.
I bought two shirts (with the help of a dollar from T...thanks!!). I need to get my film developed...oh yeah, I realized, after taking 9-10 pics, that the last time I used the camera (at Berkeley) I'd taken a panoramic pic (of the Golden Gate bridge from the clock tower), and since I was holding the camera high above my head/not using the viewfinder, I forgot. Heh, so we'll see how much this roll costs to develop...hopefully I don't have torso shots. :/
I'm pretty much over it now, but the next night (last night) through this morning I had this post-concert depression. Embarrassing and a tad frightening (I don't remember it ever happening before...). I came home last night from a disappointing outing to an art show-thing around 12, and just got really depressed. No U2. It's like I was on such a high from the show, and then it was ripped away. Ugh. And also like I didn't get properly excited for the show...and then it was over so fast. Ah well, a friend from MN finally got back to me today, and we had a good chat. Then I got to talk to the sis, and the awesomeness of Arrested Development happened. So it's all(most) all good again. Speaking of, it's done downloading now. :) Wonderful.
The U2 concert two nights ago was great. I was freaking out 'cause rosesrred and I were going to go there together, and she was taking her sweet-ass time getting to the hotel (j/k, T, you know it's all good!), and it was like 3:00 p.m. and I was sitting there thinking, I need to get there NOW. But it ended up just fine...she didn't get to the hotel 'till like 4:40, allowing me to see most of 360 (yea! the only time all week I got any Anderson action--and he was damn hot that evening too), and we got to the stadium maybe at 5:15(?) and found the gen. admission line pretty easily. We guessed there were 300 people ahead of us. They didn't pat me down/ask about the big bluge in the pocket on my right quad...so I got to take pictures (yea!). Yet another reason why not using a purse at concerts is a good idea. We ended up about 5 rows of people back from the extended/walkway part of the stage (apparently this tour, as opposed to the Elevation tour, rather than the first X number of people in line getting to be in the center of the walkway/right by the main stage, it was random GA people. they scanned our tix a second time just inside the doors, and on a laptop it said "proceed to main floor"...and apparently for every 3rd or 4th person, it said something *else* and they got to go to the kick ass CLOSE main floor area. But whatever. We were really close to the walkway at least, and got to see 'em close-up, like 5-7 feet, when they walked by. Um, well, I did at least. Poor poor T got sick during Kings of Leon and had to abandon her spot. :( She did get to dance though--I didn't have room.)
Anyway, concert was very exciting & good. One bitter moment came when they showed the Geneva Convention stuff on human rights on a screen, and I thought of how our lovely new attorney general called it, specifically the part about torture, old-fashioned and "quaint". There was no naming names or anything "controversial", we were in a red state, after all, but that's all I could think when I saw that. One touching moment was when Bono implored us to make our voices heard about the conditions in Africa, and people could text message their names to a number, then their names went across the screen...which I didn't notice at first as I was taken in by everyone holding out their phones in solidarity--all other lights were extinguished. Those things that, at concerts, annoy me to no end nearly made me cry. Wow. They played so many awesome songs, and my legs were killing me, but I could have easily gone for another couple hours. My only complaint was that they didn't play "With or Without You", but one of the guys I was talking to said that on the last tour, if they played "One", they didn't play "With or Without You", and vise-versa. Oh, and "Vertigo", a song that, previously, I thought was ok at best, is SO good live. I now love it.
I bought two shirts (with the help of a dollar from T...thanks!!). I need to get my film developed...oh yeah, I realized, after taking 9-10 pics, that the last time I used the camera (at Berkeley) I'd taken a panoramic pic (of the Golden Gate bridge from the clock tower), and since I was holding the camera high above my head/not using the viewfinder, I forgot. Heh, so we'll see how much this roll costs to develop...hopefully I don't have torso shots. :/
I'm pretty much over it now, but the next night (last night) through this morning I had this post-concert depression. Embarrassing and a tad frightening (I don't remember it ever happening before...). I came home last night from a disappointing outing to an art show-thing around 12, and just got really depressed. No U2. It's like I was on such a high from the show, and then it was ripped away. Ugh. And also like I didn't get properly excited for the show...and then it was over so fast. Ah well, a friend from MN finally got back to me today, and we had a good chat. Then I got to talk to the sis, and the awesomeness of Arrested Development happened. So it's all(most) all good again. Speaking of, it's done downloading now. :) Wonderful.