PATTY AND I MADE it out for this year’s tour of Japan Nite. Some new bands played, like Flip, while old favorites played as well, detroit7. More as I catch up on my sleep after being late on a school night last evening.
KEYBOARDS AND GUITARS RING out in the darkness of the would be sand and surf of the opening line of U2’s new album. The lyrics swirl about the idea of girl who is like the see told from the point of a view of a traffic cop. You only know its a […]
BASED ON READING a large number of online reviews of the new U2 album (using Metacritic.com), “No Line on the Horizon”, you get to ready many different ways to say some of the same basic things.
U2 is the biggest and most pampered rock band in the world. They are great live band […]
I AM STILL WALLOWING in U2 in all their glory, bloated or otherwise, and I came across this quote in an Adam Clayton interview on Mojo.com:
What did Bono get you for Christmas?
[Laughs nervously] Actually, we don’t do Christmas presents any more. It was negotiated a few years back. We tend to pass books around.
As a […]
LOOKS like the lads will be playing just up the street tomorrow night at the Somerville Theater in Davis Square. I don’t listen to much local radio, so no luck on getting tickets.
It is weird to hear this after spending the last week listening to the new U2 album, “No Line on […]
A FRIDAY NIGHT in Rutland, Vermont brought out the middle age geeks for Zack Snyder’s Watchmen, but mostly youngsters looking for more of the same from the Snyder based on his previous movie extravaganza, 300. A.O. Scott seems to feel that movie only works for the middle age geeks who read the comic in […]
BACK ON the East Coast after a quick trip to the West Coast. I miss the friends and some of the food (I had dinner with friends at one of my old Mexican-American favorites), but Redmond, WA is such a mess of suburban sprawl at the moment. The sidewalks and roads seem too […]
