Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.

Mal ,'The Message'


Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan  

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.


Lyra Jane - Oct 22, 2004 5:11:59 am PDT #5506 of 10003
Up with the sun

Actually, I heard somewhere that Apple is gonna make available a special-edition black iPod that comes preloaded with every U2 album.

Sigh. I like the commercial, but I still wish they weren't doing this corporate partnership thing with Apple. It seems so Aerosmith of them.

Maybe I should just be happy the product is still music-related, and not, say, Nikes.


Sue - Oct 22, 2004 5:15:01 am PDT #5507 of 10003
hip deep in pie

October lyrics Found!!

Unfortunately they can't go back in time and make it a better album.

Apple Special events are generally related to new product announcements and introductions. Past special events have included the unveiling of the iPod and Apple Retail stores, as well as the XServe.

There's a limited edition iPod to be released with the new U2 album preloaded on it. That's probably it.

More on the briefcase thing:

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When fandoms collide: The people behind that U2 blog, are also responsible for Whedonesque.


Sue - Oct 22, 2004 5:20:33 am PDT #5508 of 10003
hip deep in pie

Sigh. I like the commercial, but I still wish they weren't doing this corporate partnership thing with Apple. It seems so Aerosmith of them.

Actually I think that U2 have some kind of small stake in Apple. IIRC they invested heavily in some small Irish tech company that has a technology partnership with Apple.


sumi - Oct 22, 2004 5:22:14 am PDT #5509 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!

Well, they have good taste.


Hayden - Oct 22, 2004 5:48:17 am PDT #5510 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Hey, congrats, Alicia!

So, were you embarrassed to be meeting Bono? I've been working on a piece about how embarrassing I find meeting admired celebrities.


msbelle - Oct 22, 2004 5:54:47 am PDT #5511 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

oh god Hayden. I was so embarrassed when I went to a Dwight Yoakam signing and he remembered me from standing in a previous line for signitures (there was a limit to # of albums to be signed and I had something like 12 there). Wanted to die, could not speak or smile or even tell him that I really enjoyed his songs, although with all but one of his albums there I guess that was obvious.

Also terribly embarassed when I met a favorite college basketball player, but I think that had more to do with people I knew screaming "She thinks you are so hot" when I was talking with him.


Hayden - Oct 22, 2004 6:12:05 am PDT #5512 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Yikes! I had Richard Thompson remember me from a particularly dumb hat I was wearing at two shows 4 months apart. I still have gotten over the embarrassment from that, and it was 12 years ago. He said, "Hey, you're that guy with that silly hat!" I realize he meant to be chummy (after all, the man sports a beret), but, y'know, goodbye cool, hello Silly Hat Guy.


Lyra Jane - Oct 22, 2004 6:29:32 am PDT #5513 of 10003
Up with the sun

I've been working on a piece about how embarrassing I find meeting admired celebrities.

I find acting like a fan incredibly embarassing -- it makes me feel vulnerable. I'm relatively okay with getting something signed when someone is there specifically to do that, but if (e.g.) Michael Stipe was sitting in front of me on the train going home tonight, I would be utterly paralyzed between not wanting to bother someone in his private life, my desire to talk to him, the fact that I doubt I have anything to say he hasn't heard at least 500 times before, and my knowledge that I'm not a cool person, and would be unlikely to handle the interaction in anything but a geeky fangirl fashion.

Luckily, I don't tend to bump into celebrities, so the issue doesn't come up often.


lisah - Oct 22, 2004 6:47:30 am PDT #5514 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate

I've been working on a piece about how embarrassing I find meeting admired celebrities.

Hee! I talked to Bob Mould last year and I'd be embarassed about how I acted except I think it was funny, too. I was all,"OHMIGOD BOB MOULD I LOVE YOU BOB MOULD I QUOTED YOU IN YEARBOOK BOB MOULD I DO PILATES BOB MOULD I SAW YOU AT ELK'S LODGE BOB MOULD A LONG LONG TIME AGO BOB MOULD."

I had a reason for telling him about the pilates...um...oh I said I saw husker du eons ago at the Elk's Lodge in Philadelphia and he said somebody else who'd been to that show had just come up to talk to him to and I said, "dag we're old." And he was like "if you're old think how old I am." And I told him how super-fit he was looking (he was! looked way fitter than he did 20-ish years ago). So he was telling me about his workout regime. So, it was funny becuase he was having a fairly normal conversation and I was all bug-eyed, sputtering, over-sharing fangurl.

My friends were laughing and laughing at me. Then I bought everything he had for sale.


Jon B. - Oct 22, 2004 6:50:03 am PDT #5515 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

You should've talked to him about professional wrestling. Mould was a writer for the WWF (or one of those groups) for a while.

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