April 11, 2005
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The Daily News
1 Mysterious Ways: U2's weekend concert at the Tank officially has me jealous of anyone who got to go. I saw it advertised on the marquee a few weeks ago and couldn't wait to get tickets. I made room in my budget to be able to afford a ticket, but they sold out so fast I was unable to get one. O, the humanity! The show clearly was one of those rare concerts that actually reached people's souls. Curses!
2 I should have tried; Brad Kava's review this morning deemed it "...a masterpiece", one of the best shows ever, and saluted U2 as aguably the greatest rock band in the world. This would, of course, dethrone the reigning champs, the Rolling Stones, who are touring as we speak. The Stones declared themselves The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World years ago, and have continued to rock and to prove it.
But the U2 show, which had songs moving from the brand new Vertigo to Elevation in one slick move, and continuing up and down their awesome legacy, may have given everyone else a run for the money. Besides numerous tunes from their past two amazing albums, their songs included New Year's Day, Running to Stand Still (dedicated to the "brave men and women of the United States military"), and in a surprise salute to the late rock-centered radio station KSJO, they burst into The Electric Co., allowing Bono time to speak of how "we felt so cool" when we heard it on KSJO in 1980. Hey, Sannozay, we ARE somebody!
Rounding out the great mix were a "clear snippet" of the Beatles' Blackbird, thrown in the middle of Beautiful Day, which "rang with the same chords", and When Johnny Comes Marching Home as a part of Bullet the Blue Sky, all culminating in a classic rock concert, by anyone's standards. Tickets, I'm told, are still available for their November shows. I'm penciling them in. You ought to as well. Good review by Kava, by the way. Everything I just wrote was copped from his work, so you know.
3 How come some roses smell nice and others not at all? Just wondering. Pretty random, but I just walked over to a vase of roses in my house, and while beautiful, they simply don't smell nice. They don't smell at all. Why is that?
4 Almost-Darwin Award Dept. The guy who got out of his car on the Golden Gate Bridge, argued with the toll booth gal, tried to rob her, and then was brought down himself by guards. How smart that guy is! He not only tries to rob one of the most heavily guarded places on the planet, he made a scene and THEN did harm to an employee. He got shot in the leg, and the victim evidently is okay and recovering. The idiotic robber is living proof that you don't have to pass a test to walk, or in this case, to drive around.
5 Yesterday's Merc News had a headline Record gas price gets meek reaction. Yeah? From whom? I took one look at the price of gas yesterday and almost bought those shoes that have little wheels on the backs of them. I think I'm finally beginning to understand those things.
6 If you go out to the stage today, you might be somewhat stunned. On Saturday, a group of us went in and TOTALLY cleared out stage left, and almost cleaned out stage right. I got word on Thursday of last week that we needed to get the entire stage floor free of everything. So we went in on Saturday and did it.
7 It was really an amazing tech day, because we have purged the Theatre before, but this was the first time since we put A Love Letter to bed. I had a tough time going into the Theatre after that, and especially after the musical just...stopped. We would have gone on this coming weekend. That's a huge memory that never happened. It's a tough one to explain to people, but Saturday was actually very nice to me. In some ways, it's fitting that I would begin today's DN with a piece on U2; their music build many of our sets through the years. Saturday night, the Theatre turned magic. It does that sometimes...
8 It felt as though every Show we ever did had been hiding back stage, and I called all of them out for one final bow. Yeah, that sounds a little sentimental, but that's what it felt like, especially later in the evening when we had music from our Midsummer sound track playing, the stage lit down, the mirror ball dancing off pieces of seemingly every Show we ever did, dazzlingly magic, and making me smile sweetly. It was like pulling out an old photo album to me; the memories swirled and danced with the music, and all was well.
9 It was peaceful.
10 Sometimes you just know when things are peaceful that there's more to it than all of this.
11 That's what it felt like. Sort of spiritual, like looking up in the sky and smiling along, like you're now in on the joke.
12 I don't know if that makes any sense, but let's just say that it sort of brought "closure". That's the closest modern concept I could come up with, but even that is a bit too definitive. It was much more spiritual than a mere word.
13 I don't know if it can be explained.
14 The word "peaceful" keeps coming to mind.
15 A lot of memories in that Theatre; a LOT of memories...
16 I think I'll leave now.
17 It's a beautiful day. Don't let it get away.
18 Peace.
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