just the bang and the clatter
Because all the cool kids are doing it, and apparently I'm 18% herdlike:
So, supplyship, your LiveJournal reveals…
You are… 3% unique (blame, for example, your interest in sg-3), 8% peculiar, 40% interesting, 31% normal and 18% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy writing). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting strangers. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.
Your overall weirdness is: 17
(The average level of weirdness is: 28.
You are weirder than 37% of other LJers.)
Find out what your weirdness level is!
Frankly, I think that weirdness score is on the conservative side. ;p
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U2 concert report w/pictures!
OK, just to provide some context. Here in the Evergreen State we've been running about 6-10 degrees below normal this spring and setting all kinds of not nice weather records like "Wettest May" and "Coldest April" etc. So when Seattle's 360° Tour date got rescheduled from late June 2010 to early June 2011, in an open roof stadium, I thought we were screwed. But God is obviously the biggest U2 fan of us all because it was 78° F on Saturday, our highest temp in nine months. Even Bono remarked "The city looked like it had come out of a washing machine and hung out on a clothesline. It looked brand-spanking new." No kidding. Freaking gorgeous.
I saw this tour in Vancouver, 2009, and two years later - same tour - it's a completely different show. Fewer songs from "No Line of the Horizon"; more mellow feeling overall. In 2009 we were still campaigning for Aung San Suu Kyi's release and Gabby Giffords was unknown to most of the world. In this show we got a wonderful and inspiring taped message from the freed Suu Kyi, plus an amazing video "Hello Seattle from the International Space Station" from Commander Mark Kelly of the Endeavour crew after Bono dedicated "Beautiful Day" to Rep. Giffords. I honest-to-God teared up during all that. It was really something special.
Setlist:
Even Better Than The Real Thing
I Will Follow
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways / Norwegian Wood (snippet)
Elevation
Until The End Of The World / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (snippet) / Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (snippet)
All I Want Is You
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Beautiful Day / Space Oddity (snippet)
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Miss Sarajevo
Zooropa
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Crazy Tonight / Discothèque (snippet) / Life During Wartime (snippet) / Psycho Killer (snippet)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Scarlet
Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (snippet)
Encore(s):
One
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name / All You Need Is Love (snippet)
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
With Or Without You
Moment of Surrender
On to the pics - which were taken with my cell phone, so not the best ever...
Pre-show, after Lenny Kravitz (who was really good - probably the best opening act I've seen for U2). Sun's setting and reflecting off of the downtown skyline:
The boys entering "The Claw" or "The Space Station" as Bono calls it (I think it looks like a Replicator ship):
Our seats were technically "behind" the stage, but all of the boys went traveling around a lot, and they had a dual drum kit set up, so several times Larry just swiveled 180 degrees and faced us while playing. So I didn't feel like we missed a thing by not facing the front.
Midshow:
The screen transforms!
Seattle doing its impression of the Milky Way ala cell phone light:
Leaving the stage after a little over two hours of continuous play:
At the end of the show my (15 year old) nephew turned to me and said, "This was the best birthday/Christmas present EVER." I think I've spoiled him for future rock shows! :S As for me, if you made me pick which show I liked better, I'd give the edge to Vancouver, but it'd be close really close.
So, supplyship, your LiveJournal reveals…
You are… 3% unique (blame, for example, your interest in sg-3), 8% peculiar, 40% interesting, 31% normal and 18% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy writing). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting strangers. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.
Your overall weirdness is: 17
(The average level of weirdness is: 28.
You are weirder than 37% of other LJers.)
Find out what your weirdness level is!
Frankly, I think that weirdness score is on the conservative side. ;p
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U2 concert report w/pictures!
OK, just to provide some context. Here in the Evergreen State we've been running about 6-10 degrees below normal this spring and setting all kinds of not nice weather records like "Wettest May" and "Coldest April" etc. So when Seattle's 360° Tour date got rescheduled from late June 2010 to early June 2011, in an open roof stadium, I thought we were screwed. But God is obviously the biggest U2 fan of us all because it was 78° F on Saturday, our highest temp in nine months. Even Bono remarked "The city looked like it had come out of a washing machine and hung out on a clothesline. It looked brand-spanking new." No kidding. Freaking gorgeous.
I saw this tour in Vancouver, 2009, and two years later - same tour - it's a completely different show. Fewer songs from "No Line of the Horizon"; more mellow feeling overall. In 2009 we were still campaigning for Aung San Suu Kyi's release and Gabby Giffords was unknown to most of the world. In this show we got a wonderful and inspiring taped message from the freed Suu Kyi, plus an amazing video "Hello Seattle from the International Space Station" from Commander Mark Kelly of the Endeavour crew after Bono dedicated "Beautiful Day" to Rep. Giffords. I honest-to-God teared up during all that. It was really something special.
Setlist:
Even Better Than The Real Thing
I Will Follow
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
Mysterious Ways / Norwegian Wood (snippet)
Elevation
Until The End Of The World / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (snippet) / Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (snippet)
All I Want Is You
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Beautiful Day / Space Oddity (snippet)
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Miss Sarajevo
Zooropa
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Crazy Tonight / Discothèque (snippet) / Life During Wartime (snippet) / Psycho Killer (snippet)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Scarlet
Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (snippet)
Encore(s):
One
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (snippet) / Where The Streets Have No Name / All You Need Is Love (snippet)
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
With Or Without You
Moment of Surrender
On to the pics - which were taken with my cell phone, so not the best ever...
Pre-show, after Lenny Kravitz (who was really good - probably the best opening act I've seen for U2). Sun's setting and reflecting off of the downtown skyline:
The boys entering "The Claw" or "The Space Station" as Bono calls it (I think it looks like a Replicator ship):
Our seats were technically "behind" the stage, but all of the boys went traveling around a lot, and they had a dual drum kit set up, so several times Larry just swiveled 180 degrees and faced us while playing. So I didn't feel like we missed a thing by not facing the front.
Midshow:
The screen transforms!
Seattle doing its impression of the Milky Way ala cell phone light:
Leaving the stage after a little over two hours of continuous play:
At the end of the show my (15 year old) nephew turned to me and said, "This was the best birthday/Christmas present EVER." I think I've spoiled him for future rock shows! :S As for me, if you made me pick which show I liked better, I'd give the edge to Vancouver, but it'd be close really close.