http://u2.interference.com/blogs/ U2 - We are an online community where thousands of U2 fans talk about the band U2, their lyrics, tour dates, upcoming album releases, Bono and the rest of the band, pop culture and socially responsibile living. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:00:24 GMT vBulletin 60 http://u2.interference.com/images/misc/rss.jpg http://u2.interference.com/blogs/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/tiger+edge/the-new-beautiful-foram-blog-poast-39111/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:29:09 GMT http://yfrog.com/j9interferencerandommoviep :dance:]]> http://yfrog.com/j9interferencerandommoviep

:dance: ]]> Tiger Edge http://u2.interference.com/blogs/tiger+edge/the-new-beautiful-foram-blog-poast-39111/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/mickey/perfect-strangers-39110/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:07:41 GMT Recently I find myself communicating with a stranger. Maybe I startle her with the intensity and fortitude I put into correspondence but I will take... Recently I find myself communicating with a stranger. Maybe I startle her with the intensity and fortitude I put into correspondence but I will take what she says at face value - a desire for upfront honesty. Every fault, flaw, untempered thought to be explored to its fullest. I am a person of ideas - not a minute goes by without a hundred different thoughts crossing my mind, all making sense. It's maddening. I have come to appreciate how rare an opportunity it is for two people to connect. And connect we seem to be doing through her efforts and mine. I am proud of this accomplishment as it's an act of simplistic beauty where we can comfortably put aside common spoilers such as ego, pride, insecurity and appearances. ]]> mickey http://u2.interference.com/blogs/mickey/perfect-strangers-39110/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/liesje/kind-of-a-sucky-week-but-maybe-not-39109/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:09:54 GMT Sucktastic:

* Phil's grandma dying
* stressful travel for the funeral
* friend's father/husband hanging himself
* general rain and gloom
* Kenya eating a sextuple dose of a powerful anti-convulsant intended for a 200lb person
* drama at the dog training club and the trainer throwing in the towel


Fantastic:

* all Chicago U2 tix are in hand
* two MSU U2 tix are on their way
* I get to borrow a little puppy for the holidays ]]> Liesje http://u2.interference.com/blogs/liesje/kind-of-a-sucky-week-but-maybe-not-39109/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/mickey/odometer-39107/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:17:09 GMT My love is in league with the freeway. Its passion will ride, as the cities fly by and, the tail-lights dissolve, in the coming of night. The... My love is in league with the freeway. Its passion will ride, as the cities fly by and, the tail-lights dissolve, in the coming of night. The questions in thousands take flight. My love is miles in the waiting. The eyes that just stare, and the glance at the clock and the secret that burns, and the pain that grows dark and it's you once again. Leading me on - leading me down the road. Driving beyond - driving me down that road.

My love is exceedingly vivid. Red-eyed and fevered with the hum of the miles. Distance and longing, my thoughts do provide. Should I rest for a while at the side? Your love is cradled in knowing. Eyes in the mirror, still expecting they'll come, sensing too well when the journey is done. There is no turning back - no. There is no turning back - when you're on the run.

My love is in league with the freeway. Oh the freeway,

and the coming of night-time. ]]> mickey http://u2.interference.com/blogs/mickey/odometer-39107/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/tiger+edge/best-news-ever-39106/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:13:08 GMT http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402344/ :hyper:]]> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402344/

:hyper: ]]> Tiger Edge http://u2.interference.com/blogs/tiger+edge/best-news-ever-39106/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/chelleu2/18-years-old-39104/ Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:53:44 GMT Feels like I've had an uneventful life but not really thinking back. Really happy made it 18 years and to be this age at the same time as Achtung Baby even more cooler ha. I'm now legal to drink alcohol. What a great accommplishment :|. Anyway my 18th year has been a great one. Saw The Killers for the first time,went to Florida, about to go to Dublin for the first time and the big one - seeing U2 for the first time ever amazing and inspiring waited four years for it to happen :D. And looking back on my other blogs from forever ago shows me how much I've grown up. I'm now an adult now and can finally vote! Thats the bonus for me. Had to get this off my chest ha. ]]> chelleu2 http://u2.interference.com/blogs/chelleu2/18-years-old-39104/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/greeneyedgirl/way-to-welcome-a-guy-home-39103/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:19:22 GMT My friend has just returned from his second tour in Iraq and I was one of the first to see him :hug:

But his wife won't let him in the house or see his baby (that he only got to be with for 2 months on his last time home) because she has been cheating on him and thinks he will hurt her.

Well, she couldn't expect him to be happy about it! And if she would have just kept her mouth shut about it he prob wouldn't have known about it.

So she is staying at her friends and has filed a restraining order against him :huh:
How can she do that without him even being here???? He's been in Iraq for 11 months!!!

F**king B##ch!! If I see her, I'm gonna cut off her hair.

Whats worse is that his parents have been taking care of the baby 2-3 times a week and they've been cut off too!

I'm just so pissed for all of them :angry: ]]> greeneyedgirl http://u2.interference.com/blogs/greeneyedgirl/way-to-welcome-a-guy-home-39103/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/bono_212/audience-research-project-last-day-39101/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:54:52 GMT I appreciate all of the responses I've received off of this site. Today is the last day we're taking responses, so I'm bumping this up as one final hurrah, so to speak. If you have the time and haven't already done so, filling it out would be greatly appreciated.

Ashley

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?s...hR4wDlcw_3d_3d ]]> bono_212 http://u2.interference.com/blogs/bono_212/audience-research-project-last-day-39101/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/mickey/female-attention-39098/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:03:55 GMT More insanity. Just when I don't want any, it comes from so many directions. Don't get me wrong, its nice. Given recent events, even welcomed. But this is a time I need to focus inward:

Applab.
Harvard.
Portugal.
Tennis.
Business.
Friends

As my old economics teacher - Mr. Quartermain - used to caution me, women are a distraction. A wonderful, incredible, beautiful, distraction.

Don't I know it.

But there's so much I need to do.

Rightly buggered.

Love the freedoms that come with being single and, adore comforts of bonding with that certain someone.

Small wonder everybody says "mick needs a really, really, special person" ]]> mickey http://u2.interference.com/blogs/mickey/female-attention-39098/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/mickey/special-people-39097/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:18:21 GMT Special People I've had the fortune to connect with over the years.

Dad
Showed me the importance of being responsible.
Empowered me with a sense of independence. Financially, emotionally, ethically.

Sameer
Showed me the importance of being carefree and reckless.

Minni
Showed me the importance of resilience.

Megha
Showed me the importance of the self.

Cinthya
Showed me the importance of patience.

Stefan
Showed me the importance of being young.

Wendy
Showed me the importance of loyalty.

Anita
Showed me the importance of paying attention to other people.


I am glad to have learned what I have from these people through the years. ]]> mickey http://u2.interference.com/blogs/mickey/special-people-39097/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/mickey/closure-39096/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:54:57 GMT closure. Peculiar sentiment. Like most people, I am not immune to doing whatever necessary in achieving it. I suppose the lengths I go to may be... closure.

Peculiar sentiment. Like most people, I am not immune to doing whatever necessary in achieving it. I suppose the lengths I go to may be bizarre for some but, I strongly believe the only way of having healthy closure is to embrace the deluge of emotions that come at the end of a relationship. You can't run away from such feelings, all you can ever hope is to find ways of living with them. I've recently splayed red across this journal - emotions are all powerful and mustn't be ignored. Extrapolate and you will find more often than not, there is only love.

If, like me, you've given yourself (body, mind, spirit etc) to another, there's no shying away from the fact I loved my ex partner.

And it would be a great mistake to distance yourself from such truths. All you'd be doing is hurting yourself in the process. At best you'll come around to realizing it at some point in the future. At worst? You might need self-protection in future endeavors, making it difficult on others to love you to their fullest. Sagely observation? There's nothing to fear. In fact, pain of such sort is beautiful in a kind of melancholy, human, way. Its one of the few times you'll appreciate how fragile life can be. Its a sad fact of being human, we must take for granted that which we believe to be secure.

In my own case, I've found closure in a most unusual way. The past few months I've:

Ended things cleanly
Hated her
Abandoned her
Asked for time
Apologized a week later some things said when emotions were fully charged.
Embraced the emotions of her moving on
Attempted being friends
Exercised patience. A lot of it.

And no denying, through it all, Ms. Megha Jandhyala is/was elusive. Calls, little notes reassuring me I'm still relevant/important etc. I know, standard protocol would be to leave the person alone, let things go blah blah. But, this is a special person. Don't know about others but I am unwilling to let go of such people. You don't talk/argue/share everyday for 4 years without achieving something of note. I have to forego pride/ego/the past and, focus on the few things that matter: a) its over b) I need to move on c) I love her d) I value her. I don't and might never get answers as to why she decided to let it go quite in this manner. All I have to work with are a few cursory lines sent my way every few days.

There's a responsibility to the few people you've had fortune to bond with that doesn't end if things venture south. I would say, if the person across isn't grasping what they're doing, you need to help them see it. Comically, many believe this is putting yourself squarely in harm's way. Books on such issues and Dear Abby columns would caution against such behavior.

I say, pish tosh.

There's something more important that needs protecting when circumstances make it horrifyingly easy to turn inward for self preservation.

The sanctity and hallowed tenets of the bond.

Expression.

If you can't express yourself - every ridiculous and clumsy sentiment - with people you've bonded in that special way, what have you truly got?

So I elect to express in this circumstance - probably, to the malaise of my former partner.

The only way I find myself getting healthy closure at the end of such expression, is by faith/hope and love.

Faith/hope/love in her.
Faith/hope/love in me.

We've both earned this much. And though she's treating our special bond somewhat carelessly, I remain hopeful my best friend finds her way back someday.

I need the comfort of this feeling to move forward.

For all that it offers, the joys of life may be found in the simplest of things. ]]> mickey http://u2.interference.com/blogs/mickey/closure-39096/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/wolfeden/been-awhile-39094/ Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:42:39 GMT Saw the boys in Foxboro, good show. I missed the indoor feel, but the songs they played truly knocked me on my arse. Your Blue Room??!!?!?!?! Oh my... Saw the boys in Foxboro, good show. I missed the indoor feel, but the songs they played truly knocked me on my arse. Your Blue Room??!!?!?!?! Oh my goooooddddd... ]]> wolfeden http://u2.interference.com/blogs/wolfeden/been-awhile-39094/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/mickey/bring-it-all-back-to-me-39093/ Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:32:31 GMT I've been carving you,
To see what form you'd take.
You held me in avarice.
I just wanted to free your shape.

Bringing me down,
its too quiet to breathe
Who wants to hear,
their heart beat?

Oh, it's gotta be here.
In your spider-web alphabets.
Am I reading it wrong?
Or have I just not gotten it yet?

You got what you want.
You wanted release.
Can you be appeased?

Can you bring it all back to me?

Bringing me down.
The obvious turned out to be true.
All that I couldn't see,
...how it was turning me on.

I don't want to pare you down.
No, I don't want to wear you down.
I don't want any more than what's here,
No, I don't want to pare you down.


It's all that I want.
It's all that I need. ]]> mickey http://u2.interference.com/blogs/mickey/bring-it-all-back-to-me-39093/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/got+philk%3F/i-have-decided-i-cant-win-39092/ Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:27:51 GMT I have a dilemma. I have a mom. She likes to control everything. I also have a wife. She actually at times will describe herself as a control... I have a dilemma. I have a mom. She likes to control everything. I also have a wife. She actually at times will describe herself as a control freak.

Then, there are these things like holidays. Usually, this means togetherness and family right? Well, yes...but then my mom wants us to come this day...we can't do that for reasons on this end...I end up having two (wonderful) women getting frustrated at me. So, I try to please one, and then the other gets more upset....and so on....

What the hell do I do? I can't win! Thanksgiving and Christmas can wait in my book. :grumpy: ]]> Got Philk? http://u2.interference.com/blogs/got+philk%3F/i-have-decided-i-cant-win-39092/ http://u2.interference.com/blogs/saracene/tori-amos-regent-theatre-november-12-and-13-39091/ Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:37:03 GMT So happy that I got tickets for both Melbourne dates; just like the last time I've enjoyed the second night so much more than the first one.

I thought it was fun to see Tori with the full band the last time she played Melbourne, but IMO she's at her most magical when it's just her alone onstage. The setlist on Thursday wasn't the favourite I've heard - way too many vapid mid-tempo songs that have been cluttering her albums for the last decade. Still, Tori is such a compelling, magnetic live performer that I was never bored. The highlights for me were Blood Roses (Tori sounded like she was exorcising a demon), China, I Can't See New York (which had me sitting there bawling my eyes out like I've never done at any concert), Barons of Suburbia, and a lovely cover of Leonard Cohen's Suzanne. She also did a cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit - I frankly had found it an excruciating listening when I had previously looked it up on YouTube but I didn't mind it at the show.

It took me bloody half an hour to get out of the :censored: car park because there was something wrong with the paying box thing at the exit and I was stuck in a giant queue of cars. Not amused!

The second night was amazing! :hyper: My seat was closer to the stage, even Tori's outfit was better than the other night (mixing black and scarlet with red hair doesn't quite work). Apart from Blood Roses, Barons of Suburbia, I Can't See New York we also got Little Earthquakes, Leather, Pretty Good Year, Concertina, Hey Jupiter, Mr Zebra, The Beekeeper, Flying Dutchman. I did notice that Tori didn't feel particularly chatty - apart from your standard hello there was no in-between banter - but she looked like she was totally into the music and playing and that's what matters in the end. No stupid delays at the carpark either, thank god.

Lots of arty/alternative types in the audience, got to see some interesting fashions :D On the second night, I sat next to an Asian girl with an awesome black mohawk. ]]> Saracene http://u2.interference.com/blogs/saracene/tori-amos-regent-theatre-november-12-and-13-39091/