Classic or Dud: U2

Another hour, another PR victory!

“The punk rock thing to do is annoy people and get in their faces...If people have a problem with the way we released the album, I’m sure they’ve read about it online.”

fuckin step up and take a swing at bono! he's in u face! he wants you to (U2)!

all up in yo shit, the fly in your free ointment, he's almost as punk as google+

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mowgli

Prepare to buy the White Album... Again

U2's corporate connections:
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/after-tough-years-elevation-partners-profits-on-sale-of-forbes-media/
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/in-search-of-star-power-fender-enlists-members-of-u2/

marie antoinette was so punk rock

'let them listen to cake!' she said, and then everyone had 'The Distance' on their phones.

'california, i've seen for myself, there's no end to Greece' - Bono predicts to the rest of the board in California that Greece will remain solvent

No, it's "Grease", it'll be a school production staple for ever!

(full disclosure, Alice has auditioned, will report back)

"California" keeps getting stuck in my head and then turning into Prefab Sprout's "Cars and Girls"

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/09/u2s_the_edge_could_be_allowed_to_build_fivemansion_clifftop_compound_in_malibu_1.php

One thing we know about U2 in 204 is that they do not care what anyone else wants. They do not care if you want their album, they are going to make you have it, and guitarist The Edge does not care if you want his mansion development on your untouched coastal land, he is going to do whatever it takes to build it. The Edge, aka David Evans, has been trying to build five "eco-friendly" houses—including one for himself—off of Sweetwater Mesa Road in the Santa Monica Mountains since 2006 and, after years of kinda-shady machinations, has gotten the support of the California Coastal Commission staff (they've recommended the CCC approve the project at its meeting in early October, with a few changes).

The Edge submitted plans for the five houses separately, under separate names, which CCC staff originally took as an attempt to skirt environmental rules, according to the LA Times. They also found that the project "would scar a steep, undeveloped ridgeline visible from much of the coastline, cause extensive geological disturbance and destroy environmentally sensitive native vegetation." A few months later, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy suddenly switched their stance on the development from con to neutral after The Edge gave them $750,000 in cash, $250,000 worth of work by a consultant, and 97 acres of land for conservation. Then, in 2012, The Edge's "extensive team" started lobbying for a pro-development, anti-environment state bill that would've helped clear the way for the project. After passing the Assembly, it was rejected by the Senate.

Finally The Edge tried just making the plans more acceptable. Following a year of negotiations with the CCC, the path has been clearcut for a modified version of the 151-acre development; the size has been slightly reduced and plans call for less grading of the hillside; some of the houses are also shorter and together they'll be placed lower on the ridge, so they won't be as visible from below. The five houses range from 8,786 to 14,980 square feet and would be accompanied by a new 20-foot-wide access road.

the edge on the ledge

blueprint of the tunnels underneath the five houses:

http://www.lds-temple.net/6a00ccff9823bf6ea501101675fe6c860d-500pi.png

My Baja Fresh visit earlier, the playlist included Sunday Bloody Sunday, (something I can't remember), Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of, One, and then circled back to Sunday Bloody Sunday. I was basically like, "guess I won't stick around and polish off these chips".

― how's life, Thursday, September 18, 2014 12:31 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

always go for the chips first, the salsa bar's better than the burritos anyway

anyway yeah i have no idea how i didn't want to punch them all in the nuts and also the face many many many times in 2002 or whenever the atom bomb album came out. i was 14 and totally into select 80s singles but still, they're essentially the same band now but they've become literally the most punchable group of human beings in existence. whatever they were in the 80s when they had mullets, they're different now, they're inhabited by some other species, i don't wanna say aliens or demons or ghosts or w/e because that's all way too nice, i really need to convey that they are constructed from some sort of compounded anal leakage or like a combination of things used in the second round of fear factor. just seeing bono's face trying to squirm out of his head makes me fearful. how did i ever not want to punch them? but i'm scared.

i still don't know what the other two guys look like

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/12/u2-job-art-divisive-interview

"art"

I've liked waaaaay more from this band than I have ever liked, but this image makes me hate everything about them retroactively:

http://cdn.u2.com/non_secure/images/20150201/news/ie_bed_logo_9002/large.jpg

Who's the dude on the left?

beaker

no it's ridge from Bold & the Beautiful iirc

http://htmlgiant.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/bob-carol-ted-alice-1969-2.jpg

Classic, for their heavy influence on Minor Threat

ghastly though that image is, it's somehow nice to have it confirmed that the edge even wears his hat in bed

jim jarmusch looking kinda sheepish on the left there

Didn't know Michael Des Barres had joined up

Kevin Bacon in there on the left, too, closing the circle even tighter.

Love how these are lifelong pals, parents, bandmates, and yet in the photo they look awkwardly arranged like adolescent boys, tilting this way and that so as not to accidentally touch one another and turn gay. The Edge is doing that trademark immature kid "my head is over here but my butt is wayyy over there, thankyouverymuch" pose.

I'm surprised they're not posed head to toe to avoid gay contamination.

The amount of plastic surgery in the photo is horrifying

Larry, I think it's time we had a talk about buttons on shirts and what they do

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/Larry%20at%20Graceland%20aug%2016.jpg

aka, Bernard Sumner visits Ian Curtis's grave in 1981.

LOL if that was what Curtis's grave looked like.

Give it time.

does he have a walkie talkie up his ass

eheh, Clayton looks like a mix between jarmush, jim carrey and southpark (edge has a southpark vibe too).
great wtf pic anyway !

too much perspective

I wonder how this picture got the OK from all the parties involved !

too much perspective

― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Thursday, February 5, 2015 10:23 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol top 10 line in cinema history imo

so weird that college students today must see these guys the way i saw bridges to babylon-era stones.

with dangermouse as the dust brothers

I pretty much see U2 that way now.

still would love to see them from a relative distance later this year, but i doubt i will make the early wake up call tomorrow required to get the seats of interest.

Larry and Adam both look so incredibly Weekend At Bernie's that I'm questioning if they really did die last year & I forgot

Show me some men who look like old lesbians!

i got tix to see these old chaps in a couple months. good to see bono's upper body is unbroken enough that he can sing. i actually like the new album a lot. shame abt the release though.

http://www.sketchoholic.com/uploads/userfiles/16639/793e256931_Edge__U2.jpg

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/191/cover_493961992009.jpg