Things To Make And Do

What am I going to do in 2009, or what do I want to do in 2009... Here's a list :)


Thing To Make And Do in 1981

Thing To Make And Do in 2009
- Waiting for the new album
- Listening to the new album!!! :D
- Hope for a U2 concert in The Netherlands
- Finish reading LOTR (I'm now in the first book at +/- chapter 10)
- Read U2 - a Diary
- Finish school and going to University!
- Rereading U2 By U2
- Increase my U2 knowledge ;)
- Hopefully seeing It Might Get Loud
- Having more U2 dreams :D

That's all I can think of now...

Favourite...

Here's a list of all my favourite things of U2 (There are 39 questions!). If you miss something, want to fill in the same list, have an opinion or simply read it... feel free to leave something in the comments :)

Favourite album
No Line On The Horizon!! ;D No I love them all...
Favourite song
Aargh! Why on earth did I make this list!
Favourite dvd
I can answer this one! My favourite dvd is Popmart Live from Mexico. "Do something funky The Edge!"
Favourite concert you've been to
I haven't been to an U2 concert :'(
Favourite member
The man who's not ready to re-enter earth’s atmosphere until he’s taken a slice of the moon!
Favourite soundtrack
The Hands That Build America... I have seen Gangs of New York and thought it was a very good movie and although I really like Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me I have seen better movies than that...
Favourite album art
Achtung Baby, but that's also because I have a lot of HUGE Achtung Baby posters, so I see it everyday :D
Favourite quote (1 or from every member 1)
The Mirrorball Man/Bono: "I HAVE A VISION I HAVVE A VISION" What's the vision? "TELEVISION TELEVISION!"
Adam: "In the early days our ambition was just to end the song together!"
Larry: "It's a musical journey"
Edge: "Bass players get the weirdest fans. I tend to get the bespectacled M.I.T. students. Bono gets the poets. And Larry, unfortunately, gets the girls. We should have gotten a Ringo."
and also from Edge: "What ever you do, do not get into a car with Bono. He's not great at the old driving."
Favourite opening track (album)
Zoo Station
Favourite last track (album)
40
Favourite track to wake up with
Zooropa, it sounds to me like a city slowly waking up :)
Favourite opening track (tour)
Wake Up by Arcade Fire
Favourite song to end a concert with
How long... to sing this song.... HOW LONG.... to sing this song... HOW LONG... HOW LONG... HOW LONG TO SING THIS SONG
Favourite live song
Love Is Blindness (Live from ZooTV Sydney is brilliant)
Favourite bootleg
2001-07-31 Arnhem, Netherlands - Gelredome
Bono speaking Dutch!!! Alles goed? Prettige dag verder!
Favourite U2 site
U2.com and AtU2.com
Favourite U2 thing you own
My favourite things from U2 are my posters :) Second is my promo cd I won at @U2 with my blogpost! :D And third is my Elevation T-shirt
Favourite book
U2 By U2
Favourite Dalton Brothers song
Lucille (Lost Highway is a close second :P)
Favourite Dalton Brothers member
Alton Dalton
Favourite Passengers song
Slug (What!? you didn't already know that?! *getting suspicious* Hmmm, you haven't read all my previous posts have you?)
Favourite song you can play on piano or guitar
October! I can play the whole song on piano :) It's the only song I can play from beginning to end. Other song I can play bits of on piano are: Sunday Bloody Sunday, Streets, The Sweetest Thing, One, Love Is Blindness, All I Want Is You and New Year's Day. On guitar I can also play a bit of 40 :)
Favourite duet
U2 and Bruce Springsteen with Stand By Me
Favourite funny non-music video from U2
Difficult question! There's A Day In The Life Of The Edge, The Maffia Sketch, Edge doing a trick with his hat and many more....
Favourite music video
Possible answers: Elevation, Stuck In A Moment, Lemon, Beautiful Day, If God Will Send His Angels; Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me; One (Berlin), Electrical Storm, Numb, Window In The Skies, New Year's Day, Original Of The Species, Discothèque or Please... (and now I'm surely forgetting others!)
Favourite overall lyrics
Walk To The Water
Favourite haircut
The mullet!! ehh, well not really... My favourite is ehm... Let's put it this way: it's not Bono's mullet and it is not Larry with long hair
Favourite alter ego
Mr Macphisto
Favourite cover (song)
Happy Birthday!
Favourite karaoke from Edge
I Love You Love!
Favourite Drum part
The Refugee
Favourite Guitar part
Sorry folks, but I can't answer this question
Favourite Bass part
That has to be With Or Without You!
Favourite Piano part
October :P
Favourite opera part
Miss Sarajevo (Live From Milan), it's so beautiful... :')
Favourite U2 joke
Why did Bono fall of the stage?






He was to close to The Edge XD
Favourite Achtoon Baby
November 2007, L'il U2 and the Secret of the Tower
Favourite U2 dream
Hmm, I have now had 20 U2 dreams :D so it's difficult to pick just one... I think I'll take the one in which I had a major breakthrough :D
(the dream was longer, but this is a little bit of it)
I was making a 'math' test, but all the questions were about U2 :D I could answer all the questions except the last one. The question was: U2 already have a poet what else do they need? I pictured U2 on an deserted island (with Eno and Lanois :P) and tried to imagine what they would need. I could think of nothing, but in the last minute I came up with what I thought was the best answer in the world: 'Time' (I was so happy when I thought of that!)
Favourite U2 questionnaire I have filled in
That has to be this one ;D



Well I hope you enjoyed it :D

Unos, Dos, Edge?!

What have I been doing lately?
Well I've been busy with school (still am actually)
AND I've been enjoying the U2 Ipod commercial :D
ohhh that brings back so much fond memories of having a new U2 album!!!

I can't wait any longer
I can't wait till I'm stronger
I can't wait any longer
To hear what you hear
When you hear the new U2 album
doesn't beat the original, but completely reflects how I feel :D


I LOVE Edge in this video!
Look at him:
here: 0:18
there: 1:01
everywhere! 1:08, 1:29, 1:34 and 1:40

I didn't know that...

Did you know that there's also a band called U2, but made out of cats?
No?
Want to see pictures?

Here they are:


From left to right: Edge, Larry and Adam and Bono is at the front :)







There you are!
Learned something new today ;)

Spot the difference

Do you notice anything different since my last post?
I don't mean the fact that it is now 17 days later
or that this does not have a fact of the day
... or that this post has no video in it

Well, the difference is, that I'm a year older! Hurrah! :D

Anyway I do admit that I've been neglecting you and in exchange for that I'm going to post something special in a few days time :D

Don't want to be a slug

Aargh! I was writing a post for today, but then it said ERROR! could not blah blah blah....

Anyway Who said that?!, here's a new fact of the day:
56% of my post contain video's (hmmm 56%... think think EUREKA!!! that's 5/9!)
If you did not have this EUREKA moment, don't worry, that's perfectly normall.
If you did have it, you should consider that shouting EUREKA!!! out loud, might be a little weird for other people if they are in the room... (or building, depending on how big you're EUREKA moment was)

Anyway Who said that?! (don't get it? Watch more Monty Python!) I stumbled upon this video about two days ago. It's Slug by Passengers and it's set to Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. I have not seen that movie (yet), but what the clip shows is very beautiful...



And if you want to surprise everyone in the room with your beautiful voice here's the lyrics of Slug:

Don't want to lose my shirt
Don't want to dig the dirt
Don't want you to get hurt
Can't help that I'm a flirt
Don't want to take your drugs
Don't want to be a slug
Don't want to overdress
Don't want to make a mess
Don't want you to confess
Not under duress
Don't want to be untrue
I want to be with you
Don't want to lose my nerve
Don't want to throw the curve
Don't want to make you swerve
Don't want what I deserve
Don't want to change the frame
Don't want to be a pain
Don't want to stay the same

!!!

Interessting fact of the day:
Research has showed that 50% of my blogposts has exlamationmarks(!) in the title!

And now for something completly different... (yes I like Monty Python :P)
For those of you who don't really know Monthy Python here's one of my all time favourites:

Happy Birthday Larry!

In honour of the birthday of our favourite, most beloved drummer:



Happy Birthday Larry!

Top Rock!

Another funny video!
This time it is when U2 won an award in 2001 (Top Rock Act from Top of the Pops):

Hat Trick!

Hello blog readers!
Whaah I've switched to the lighter version of the lay-out... Don't Panic ;)
I have decided that I'm going to update my blog more often... Hurrah!
To start here's a very funny video from who other than THE EDGE:


hihi I love you Edge!!

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Now playing: U2 - Love Is Blindness
via FoxyTunes

A U2 contest at JamsBio

At JamsBio.com (a social community to share your life through music) their holding a U2 contest. First prize? 4 tickets to see U2 in concert on the band's upcoming tour! Three runners up will receive the entire U2 reissue catalog. To win you can share U2 stories, add U2 lists and play U2 games (guess from what album the song is) from now until October 14 at http://jamsbio.com/contest/u2.

This is what the site says:
In celebration of the DVD release of U2's first concert video, Live From Red Rocks, and its accompanying remastered live album, Under a Blood Red Sky, JamsBio.com partners with Universal Music Group to present U2: AN INTERACTIVE CELEBRATION. JamsBio is a new website dedicated to sharing your life through music.

Starting on September 30th, visit http://jamsbio.com/contest/U2 to share memories and reviews or create lists about one of the planet's greatest bands. U2 fans are also invited to play U2 SongBlitz, a custom game designed to test your memory of U2's complete discography. Share a U2 memory, add a U2 list or score 5,000 points on U2 SongBlitz for a chance to win 4 tickets to see the band in concert on its upcoming tour. Three runners up will receive the entire U2 reissue catalog. The more you share, the better your chances.

We're also featuring some exclusive editorial content including photos of U2's show at Red Rocks, a special video podcast featuring memories told by attendees of the show, and reviews of the Live at Red Rocks DVD and the entire re-issue catalog.

If you are entering this contest I wish you Good Luck!

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Now playing: The Blues Brothers - She Caught the Katy
via FoxyTunes

Interview with U2 - a Diary writer Matt McGee

On 13 October 2008 a new U2 book will be published called: U2 – a Diary. The book is written by @U2 founder Matt McGee. To promote his book Matt McGee organised a contest on the site of the book (www.u2diary.com). To enter you had to ask him 5 questions and post them on the internet.

This is what the book is about (from www.u2diary.com):

U2 is the biggest band in the world. They’re loved by millions of fans. Dozens of books and thousands of articles have been written about U2. Everything they do is news. Yet, there is no single, comprehensive resource that details all the relevant day-to-day history that has shaped U2 into the band it is today.

U2 - A Diary is that book. It’s a book that will present the complete history of U2 — from 1950s Dublin when Bono’s parents were married, to the birth of the band, and all the way to the present — told as it happened in an easy-to-use diary format.

But it’s more than just a timeline of dates and facts. U2 - A Diary will provide the important stories behind the “who, what, when, and where,” including stories and insights about key moments in U2’s development that have never been told before.

The interview with Matt McGee:

1 Do you keep a diary yourself (ever tried to)?
What an awesome question! I really have to jog my memory here ... I'm pretty sure that there was a period of time in my childhood that I did keep a diary/journal. I remember I used to do a lot of writing when I was a kid. It was probably not as organized as most diary-keepers, in the sense that I never wrote on a daily basis or anything like that. But I vaguely recall having sheets of paper in a desk drawer that had personal writings. Mind you -- I'm sure it wasn't anything incredibly deep or revealing. It was probably me keeping track of favorite songs, favorite sports teams, making lists of things I wanted to do when I grew up, and boy stuff like that.

2 What do you think about the cover and design of the book?
Overall, I love the design. If it were completely up to me, the cover would not show the band in concert like it does; I think concert shots should be reserved for U2 Live - A Concert Documentary, which Omnibus also publishes. So, I'd prefer a non-concert shot for the cover. But I'm glad we all managed to get the cover changed so that all four band members are on there, not just Bono and Edge as the first cover had. As far as the interior design, what I've seen is fantastic. I think the pages look great. I love the fonts they used, the way some of the quotes are pulled out and enlarged for effect, the way the photos are placed, and so forth. I can't wait to get my hands on the real thing and see it in person. The proofs I've seen look great.

Old cover: http://www.u2diary.com/tentative-cover-for-u2-a-diary/101/
Final cover: http://www.u2diary.com/final-cover-for-u2-a-diary/113/

3 What is the most interesting thing you've learned because of this book?
The most interesting U2-related factoid I learned is this: On July 3, 1986, the date of Greg Carroll's death in Dublin, Bono was in Texas and scheduled to appear the next day at the Farm Aid II concert organized by Willie Nelson. I'd never heard anything about Bono showing up at any of the Farm Aid concerts.

4 What U2 song, lyric would best describe this book?
What a fun question! I guess the most obvious choice would be "I'm documenting every detail / Every conversation" from Fast Cars. :-)

What I would say is October (the 13th) =)

5 Why should we buy this book?
Because it's the best U2 book ever written? By a fellow U2 fan?
Published in 2008? :-)
Seriously, if I'm a casual fan, I'd buy it because it'll be a great way to learn more about the band and the events that shaped them along the way. If I'm a diehard fan, I'd buy it because it'll make a great reference source to get quick information about anything and everything U2's ever done. I hope it appeals to fans at all levels of interest and knowledge about the band.

THE END (Thanks Matt!)

For more information about “U2” a Diary (book samples, where to buy etc.) go to: www.u2diary.com

If you liked my interview you can vote for me --> Anna (on Last.fm) HERE

Thanks for reading!
Anna

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Now playing: Leonard Cohen, U2 - Tower Of Song
via FoxyTunes

Happy Birthday!

This song always makes me happy when I listen to it. It's Happy Birthday from U2. 2 of U2.

Not with the annoying German voice in the beginning...

Top 10 things I love about @U2

At first I thought: "Let's make a list about all the things I love about U2! Wait. That's not about @U2..." And then chemistry happened :D (yes my holiday is over, back to school...):
"@U2" + "Make a list about the things I love about U2" --> "Make a list about the things I love about @U2" + "U2"
I took the single "U2" for writing it while listening to U2. So here I am writing the post while currently listening to Rain (Live) by U2.

Enough of the chit chat :)
Here's my top 10 things I love about @U2:

1. Achtoon Baby!!! This is definetly my favourite part of @U2. It's beautifully drawn and very funny. My favourite quote: "These kitties are hungry" from Li'l Bono (But you already knew that of course :D) Even my brother (not a U2 fan) really likes Achtoon Baby (stories with Bun and Li'l U2 are his favourites)

2. The "Your U2 dreams" thread at the forum (Personal Stories --> your U2 dreams). I love to remember dreams! (remembering dreams is about the only thing that I like doing early in the morning :P) I now had 14 U2 dreams in total of which 13 are in the forum. The 14th is just Edge playing a double guitar for a few seconds.

3. This is something that is very brilliant: The U2 album news, everything about it that has been said, rumored or otherwise about the next album. The first site I visited after a holiday (no internet) was @U2 quickly scanning the main page and then straight to the album news feature. Second thing I did after checking the news was watching the Happy Birthday song from Edge and Bono on YouTube (Absolutely Brilliant!!!)

4. Number four: Boots?! Boots!! That's right :D it's the @U2 Blog

5. The Lyrics @U2, what other site has U2 lyrics sorted by colour?

6. The yearly fan survey. This is always fun to do AND it reminds me of my birthday which is also in November "Mmm any U2 presents on my birthday?"

7. The Lay-Out. It's simple and well organised. I wrote a poem about it:

It's White...
It's Blue...
It's @U2

8. The Dublin Guide. I have never been to Ireland, but really want to (I already have a book titled Dublin about all the sights etc. There's also a picture of Bono in it (Popmart era, Bono with muscles))

9. I think this is worth mentioning: The Dalton Brothers site. I simply love them...

10. Last is the Voting Booth. It's not very regular but I like it anyway :)



Signed,
An (@)U2 fan