First, let it be said that I'm not complaining. I have no real problems to stress over or feel hard-done-by about. But I am a stress-head, and in the absence of real problems, my brain delights in finding lesser things to give me aneurysms over.

1. I am going to Mexico in just over a week's time.
My longest and closest friend has been living in the USA for the last ten years or so - last year she moved to Mexico City and she is getting married in two weeks. I visited her all...

As copy/pasted from the Superthread, cos I'm lazy.



Where shall I begin the tale?

Summer has arrived with a vengeance, after lulling us all into a false sense of either security (if you're Ax), or disappointment (if you think summer should be more than 20-25C).

It was 35C or something on Tuesday, and I was working from home because we had to look at a rental house (which wasn't open on weekends, wtf). The agent put off the appointment by...

I listened. And it was good. That bass...

There are things I don't like about it, mostly the lyrics - I keep seeing people say they're deeper than they seem and it's a political statement, but I can't think of any profound meaning for the "sexy boots!" line, which is the one that bugs me the most.
(Did have to chuckle at the "bossy boots" bit, though. )
So, if anyone can help me see the light with the lyrics, please do! On repeated...

Well, it's been 18 months since I posted here, and it was just a journal then. Now I'm all befuddled by seeing my avatar everywhere...

So, just in case anyone still thought I was sane, I've been avoiding GOYB since I got home. In fact, I could have heard it on TripleM before then, at the fateful moment when it was debuted on radio here, but I'd just pulled into the petrol station and I didn't want to sit there in my car for four minutes next to the pump, just listening to it and...

The suspect turned himself into the police late yesterday afternoon. I am relieved.
The police knew who they were looking for on Monday - it seems this guy has a history of violent behaviour. He is a Hell's Angel, and while I know it's a stereotype that bikies are violent thugs, this guy seems to embody that stereotype. I have heard rumours that he turned himself in because the Hell's Angels have effectively turned their backs on him, told him they wouldn't help him (good for them), and have...

http://www.theage.com.au/news/nation...018971854.html

That happened right outside where I work, an hour or two ago. Fortunately for me, I don't start until 10am and was still at home at the time, and my work has told me not to come in until it's safe. One of my co-workers didn't get in before they locked the building down, so she's stuck in a McDonalds with a mass of other trapped people.

This is frightening. Apologies to my friends...

I went out today with the goal of finding the March issue of Q, which apparently has LOADS of U2 stuff in it, but which I had yet to see in a newsagent.
The newsagent didn't have the March issue, of course, but I got the February issue, which I hadn't been able to find in February (you'd think a newsagent in a suburb called Clayton would be better at stocking U2 stuff ). While I was out, I thought I might as well see if I could find the Boston DVD, since it's been about 5 years since...

(Originally posted to Livejournal on 31 December 2006)
(Again, this is just a very long-winded, incoherent torrent of my subjective experience... I've left out all the boring stuff about waiting in the queue all day, and I apologise in advance for a truly criminal abuse of the words "awesome", "incredible" and "amazing". In my defence, I wrote this post in a marathon effort from about 4pm to 8am the next morning.)
(Positional note:...

I posted this in my LiveJournal, and reproduce it here for the sake of a back-up, and this being a slightly more appropriate place for it. Keep in mind that I wrote this for LJ where most of the people who would read it aren't U2 fans.

Sorry it's so long... but I don't think these journals have a "cut" option the way LJ does.

And incidentally, this isn't a review of the concert. It would be utterly impossible for me to be objective about those shows....

I can't believe it's been 2 years since I wrote in here. And it must have been 2 years also since I looked at Feedback until this week, and also 2 years since HTDAAB came out.

Yes, I've gotten used to the silly too-long title now. And it is better than ATYCLB, although it's no Achtung Baby.

And also, I clearly still have my subscription to Interference... although this is mostly due to me forgetting it existed until the money came out of my account. *L* I can't say...

Didn't get album for birthday...*L* Should I wait on Christmas or just go and buy the darn thing?
New tyres + big car service + rent + usual Christmas spending = me waiting on Christmas, methinks. A girl at work told me it was good... Better than ATYCLB. This gives me hope, but I can wait another few weeks.
Did "getting to know you" training at work today... *L* Quite a few ppl put down "U2" as their favourite band... good to know. One person even...

I still think it sounds a lot like Elevation.

*waits for the album as a birthday present*

As far as shortening the acronym (HTDAAB), I think I'd favour "HT" rather than "AB"...

Someone needs to write a book for U2... "How to give an album a catchy name"... they seem to have lost the knack.

Alison
not planning on renewing my Interference subscription... I guess that means...

In 2000 it was ATYCLB

Now we have HTDAAB.

It all makes me say, WTF?? By which I mean, Where's The Frog??

Oops, sorry. I mean, What The Fuck?!

No one reads this, so I won't elaborate on my feelings. But seriously, That Does It. They've lost their minds. I still badly want to meet U2, but now I just want to smack them all on the head and try to beat some SENSE into them. They have totally lost touch with reality. Give me a fucking BREAK,...

Well, I've popped by after one of my trademark disappearances. I dunno why I started this AND a LiveJournal... I oughta just put a link to my LJ in here and leave it at that.

Mind you, I haven't updated the LJ for a good long while either... but it was more recently than October last year. *RE*

Alison

Well, it’s about a week and half after the event, I guess it’s about time I wrote it all down so I remember it for more than a few weeks.

I tend to just go through things like this and try to remember everything in order, so you’ll have to put up with a lot of inconsequential trivia and boring stuff – I’ll try to keep it to a minimum.

I wound up not working that Tuesday (21 October), but I probably should have, since it would have avoided the problematic “What to...