I went to the opening show of U2’s tour the other night. I sat way, WAY up top.
It was a good, but not great, show. They started strong, with all pre-“Joshua Tree” songs, including the one above. They sounded great. Then they played the whole album to the “conclusion”. For the encore, aside from playing “Beautiful Day” and “One”, because he had our attention, Bono started Bono-ing, with long soliloquies in-between obscure b-sides and discarded third-side songs from “Joshua Tree”. After his third lecture, as people were waiting for one last “big” song, the light’s came up and the show was over. So, this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UigzDwT_1G8
Good thing it was a gift. Here’s the set list, if you are going to the show somewhere down the road.
NHL Western Conference Preview:
I realize Game-2 is tonight, and I should have been on this earlier, but Fridays are for teh sexy, not the hockey.
Anyway, Nashville has the goaltending to get through to the Cup. Pekka Rinne has been ridiculous this playoff season, stopping the Hawks in four and the Blues in six. His GAA is 1.41, and he has a .950 save percentage. Up front, Nashville has two solid scoring lines, and on the back end PK Subban has been the spark the Preds defence has needed to get over the hump.
Anaheim has to find a way to use their size as an advantage. They have some speed, but really need to crash the smaller Predators forwards around if they wat to make this series go longer than four games. Getzlaf & Silferberg really need to be more of a presence, and if Kevin Bieksa isn’t 100%, John Gibson, a goalie best described as “serviceable”, isn’t enough to get the Ducks to their second Cup final in team history. Plus, Fuck Ryan Kesler.
(Hopeful) Prediction: Predators in six. I hope it kills Gary Bettman whilst backhandedly validating his southern-ish expansion.
Tonight’s sports:
- NHL:
- Predators at Ducks – 7:30PM | NBCSN / Sportsnet
- MLB:
- Astros at Yankees – 7:30PM | ESPN / TSN
- MLS:
- New York Red Bulls vs. LA Galaxy – 6:00PM | FS1 / TSN2
- FC Dallas vs. New York City FC – 8:00PM | FS1
Also, what the fuck is so special about ABC’s Sunday Night programming they can’t put the real NBA Finals – Spurs-Warriors – on in the evening? The game was at 3:30ET. Do more people watch “Once Upon A Time”? WHY EVEN BOTHER?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1OflsgZbyg
Cards are happening in about ten minutes or so, if anyone wants to take some of my hard-earned fake money.
Possibly later when I get home.
I’m in but shouldn’t be
One of the two cats I’m taking care of for someone on vacation has twice tried to make out with me, more or less, today.
The old gypsy woman was right, but only technically. This isn’t the pussy I was hoping to attract.
should be 6-on-4
THAT’S WHAT SHEEEEEEEEEEEE SAID!
icing, faceoff, clear, icing. GREAT TEEVEE
“Meanwhile, Symons described Obita’s opener for Royals as a “great strike”, while he said he felt Reading goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi should have held on to Scott Malone’s cross-cum-shot.”
The last part of this sentence of a game review is odd. Maybe Scott didn’t want to hold on to it.
Yay, Rinne’s back in “Anything from the half wall goes in” mode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ow8Ci3EmBM
Have any of you ever actually seen a chicken??
http://www.avclub.com/article/jason-bateman-has-officially-signed-arrested-devel-255273
Hopefully they can get everyone around at the same time. Season 4 was a bit underwhelming with the whole “focus on one family member each episode” thing.
yes indeedy
and most DEFINITELY needs MOAR Baby Buster
I still enjoyed it. And, it was still better than 90% of anything on TV.
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/072010/1280403082_gob-and-lindsay-chicken-dance.gif
Derek Jeter Night is appropriate because of Yankees getting fucked on a national scale.
Evening. Back on the grid after a long and fun weekend in Calgary. Props to Litre for coming out for a few shots of whisky and providing party enhancing supplies. I can now confirm that one more of you is not imaginary, but I’m not sure about myself yet.
No worries bfc. Glad your lads had a good time with the ginger cookies & was a pleasure to have jamesons shots with an so called imaginary friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAI1qhGgR-E
I have to admit, I’m impressed how much of a hawkey town Nashville has become.
Have to do something with all that leftover TITANS FEVER!!!
Fuck it, stick PK Subban at cornerback and I’m sure we’d find out he’d be quite a ballhawk in the end…
so athletic!!
First guy in last guy out.
Even as a moderate to medium-large-moderate hockey fan, I have never heard of 75% of the players on these teams, and know basically nothing about the other 25%. Hmm, maybe hockey’s dispopularity when compared to say, basketball, is that fans are drawn to personality and drama more than obnoxious goal celebrations.
Evening, folks. This is quite the ice football going on right now.
Did not expect a shootout tonight, but here we is.
Flyers never should’ve dumped Bro Hymn as the goal song
Never go against Pennywise. ever.
JUST AS GOOD, RIGHT!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ-f8lcxdI4
No. Just no.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
These Nashville Predators I call them the Alchemists because they took that pass by Silfverberg and turned it into a goal(d).
Fucking whoopsie doo
/turns on ESPN
Evening lizaaaaaaahhhh this isn’t going to plan.
It is the Astros thought. If the AL Astros are the same as the NL Astros, they could be up 99-0 going into the Bottom of the 9th and the lead will still not be safe.
until game 1 of the DH, their pen had been really good this year
This is true but only once they get Morton out of there. Even Friday (which I went to) got interesting when they got to the pen. Also Aaron Judge is indeed a large man, even from the 300 level.
http://www.ep.tc/problems/60/arrangements.jpg
TIL you can watch the newest American Gods episode at like 9 am. Good shit.
I learned that today as well. Definitely makes waking up early on Sundays suck a little less.
Time for snoozies!
/Good night, people that I like
I’m in a professional development class that I paid for (“Advanced Urinal Cleaning”) and I’m fucking around on the internet.
That’s how I got through my Sophomore Year of College. I don’t have a job in my career field but the Borg was defeated and the Cowboys won 10 straight Super Bowls after my Create-a-Player bolted from the Cardinals (teach them to have my sit behind Kurt Warner for four years).
It appears that Derek Jeter may have banged Tanaka’s sister and then never called her again.
Scorn is never good.
Hey Miss USA is on and what the fuck is this?!
Hey, someone finally realized that maybe they should make helmets better, instead of incrementally making it illegal to touch an offensive player.
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/the-safest-helmet-in-football-is-set-to-make-its-nfl-debut-next-season/
Not looking good for Team Disney.
Top 10 Worst Plays According to the Patriots New Network (aka NFL Network)
10: Garo Gaff
9: Lett’s Fumble
8: Lett’s FG Touch
7: River City Relay Missed PAT
6. Colts Snapped on Swinging Gate
5. Wrong Way Marshall
4. Buttfumble
3. Miracle at Meadowlands
2. The Fumble
1. Seahawks Passed
Move Seahawks to 5, Wrong Way to to #3, Move Buttfumble to #2, Miracle to #1.
Remove the Fumble and insert Orlawsky’s safety into #4.
Due to Conflict of Interest, I won’t insert Bengals’ Clusterbungle against Steelers in Playoffs, but I nominate it for your consideration.
The FG touch could be higher, otherwise agreed
How is the bad snap to Romo in the Seattle play-off game not on this list? I mean, it’s not top 5 but it has to be top 10.
Obviously not top 10, but fuck Marlon McCree forever for not going to the ground after intercepting Brady in 2006.
If he’d have just hit the ground, Marty, Rivers, LT, Gates etc. probably would have gotten a ring that year.
#2 AND #1 were some fucking weak sauce, man…
Oh, God. I think I remember this one. If I’m right, yeah, Buttfumble got screwed.
There was around four fuckups on that play.
#2 worst play – “The Fumbre??”
That’s really unfair to Byner. It was a FREAK play, and something awesome by a scrap heap CB.
Agreed. If he was coasting in, yeah, but he was trying.
Dear Bleergh help me, I am shopping for a gently used car. It truly is an awful experience. NO I am not looking for a minivan you jerks.
Let me also say I wouldn’t watch this ESPN all-day JEETAH blowjob if there was a Hannah Davis cooch-cam
Why I hate ESPN.
Yankees beat Reds: (10 minute segment saying why the Yankees are so awesome for being a good team beating a young, rebuilding team)
Reds beat Yankees: Yankees lost today. Moving on..
Somehow the Buttfumble only made it the #4 worst play in NFL History? What’s the top 3? Did a player eat a football during a play?
The Herm Edwards TD will be #1
Herm Edwards (Miracle in the Meadowlands I) was #3
The Fumble is #2?! That wasn’t a dumb play or a mistake. It was a good play by the defense.
I’ll get the rest of the list later.
There was also the kicker Pick Six in the WAS/MIA Super Bowl.
#10
Or the Dan Orlovsky self-safety
Leave Technologies to the ladies. Also, Exhibit C for why hot women going geek is sexy.
You missed something.
What is this “NBA” of which you speak??
Smashville/Canadia would be fun. Good thing MTL ran that glory boy Subban outta town, eh?
I’ve never been fans of concerts. I used to go to a number of them when I was in Baltimore, predominately HFStival. I mean you could see some amazing bands, but nine times out of ten, by the time the band you wanted to see was up on stage, you felt like shit, and it was a 50-50 shot that the band was going to be so fucked up that the music was just awful.
I used to love it how you could bring in a bag of weed, sheets of LSD, pills, bottle water, and toilet paper and security was going to take your water and TP every fucking time.
It just always seemed insanely expensive, a huge hassle to get in and out, and usually the actual show itself was crap.
I’ve always preferred just getting fucked up with my own sounds system.
And don’t get me started on live music shows in small venues where the acts don’t seem to understand the importance of playing to the acoustics of the room as oppose to just “louder is better”.
Concerts that I have been to-
Streetheart
The Stampeders
Eddy Grant
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Dire Straits
Stevie Vaughn
Laurie Anderson
Gin Blossoms
That lady that does the sad dog ads
Bare Naked Ladies
The Skydiggers
/I pulled out of the Anderson concert because I was way too high and she was making me really itchy and uncomfortable.
//this is not an invite for a bunch of guys to list 200 different bands/acts that they’ve attended because that was their thing/lived in a place where bands would like to go to
Dire Straits
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Sarah McLachlan
Bare Naked Ladies
Are the ones we have in common; all those were at Red Rocks.
Did Laurie Anderson put something in your food or clothes to make you itchy? She’s mean that way.
I’d probably get close to 200 or so over the years, counting those that I have seen more than once.. Hardly any in the last few years; the experience just isn’t as fun. I actually like small venue or bar bands better now.
Being a recluse and both highly sensitive to loud sounds (and, ironically enough, mostly deaf in my right ear) has put me out of commission for good.
What?
I’m mostly deaf in my left ear! I can’t go to functions because all the background conversations create a wall of noise that prevents me from zeroing in/identifying the voice of the person talking to me.
Wife: “When we first met you were so out-going!”
Loud Ringing in Left Ear That Never Stops: “That guy is just trying to get by now.”
Me: “Did somebody say something?”
when the office lobby elevator bell rings, I turn around and around like a confused puppy
NIN/Bowie
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Ween (twice)
Drivin ‘n’ Cryin
Morrissey (the last one, like 10 years ago)
Led Zeppelin
Abbreviated list…
Nin, Clutch, Primus, Deftones, Manson, Ministry, Type O (all many times), QOTSA, Stabbing Westward, Kittie, three Ozzfests, multiple Summerfests, and REO Speedwagon.
Stabbing Westward is doing a mini-reunion tour right now. I’m hoping they’ll hit up San Diego so I can catch them live.
I never got to see Type O, which is one of my biggest regrets.
I’ve never been to any concerts. Probably because I don’t have any groups that are my favorite.
I have favorite songs from multiple groups, but nothing that I would put down a couple hundred to sit 1/4 mile back and listen to the two songs I like and the 8 songs I haven’t heard from echoing from a worn out speaker and putting down another hundred in a sketchy hotel 40 miles away that’s the only room available that I’ve probably seen on a video on some certain websites online but will probably end up with me waking up in a bathtub of ice with a note saying “Thanks for the kidney. You should probably call 911.”
I find it funny that they think they did two encores.
U2 is alright, but I’d never go to one of their concerts.
I have a friend who is not a huge fan of them at all and still thinks the Red Rocks concerts was one of the best she’s ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4bm5oW8qAM
the fuck was this not #1??
/wait, Terrell Davis!!
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-countdowns/09000d5d8110fb82/Top-10-Rookie-seasons
I don’t know/care-I just needed to be reminded of LT’s greatness before he fell down the cocaine rabbit hole.
He wrecked the league, the he wrecked his septum, then he wrecked an underage hooker.
The Spurs got Tonya Harding’d. Didnt she make an adult video?
I think it was a sex tape with Gillooly that he was shopping around. I don’t think she ever accepted an offer from Vivid or any of the legit companies.
Legit companies like Milf hunter or Bangbus? Or so I have been told.
It was before the celeb sextape boom started (Paris Hilton’s lone contribution to society). It was more drunken redneck home video.
Redundant. Drunk redneck.
who’d wanna fucking see THAT??