***stardust

*sigh*...I'd told myself I'd not get into any romantic-ish dilemnas this year, especially now, so close to leaving for college, when so many things will undoubtedly change...but what happens? One frickin' happens to *me*, hunts me down and knocks me to the ground...*sigh*.
But I may (or may not) get into that later...
...still distracted by being annoyed at stupid big long lecture we all just got from Dad...apparently, the house is a pigsty (which it's not, at all - *one* K-mart bag has been on the living room couch/floor for three days! oh no! it's the end of the world!...no.), we're good kids but we're not holding up our end of things...actually, this was largely launched by Dad getting a letter from the school saying my brother's failing gym. (which he says he's not, but whatever.) So, ok, he has a bit of reason to be upset...but...not totally, cos it's up to Matantis now, Dad can't make him change for gym, it's Matt's perogative to do so, it's up to him, if he wants to fail he'll have to take the consequences.
But anyway...I wasn't going to rant abuot that.
I *was* going to say once again that I love Bono. ^_^
(Btw, his b-day's tomorrow! ..turning 42...wow...doesn't seem it at *all*...I've gotta agree with Alice - the sexiest rock star of all time! ^_~)
Reason for sudden Bono-love?...article I found on youtwo.net, I posted it here on Sham's U2 blog...
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...*so* much of what Bono believes in is what I believe in...and once in a while it makes me stop and think, wait, is that my own idea, or did I get it from Bono? and sometimes I'm not sure..which's bad..very bad..but mostly..I think it just gets mixed up cos his ideas *do* match mine..only he can articulate them and act on them infinitely better than I can.
...and I really *do* need Bono right now...just started listening to U2 again (after about a week's break), got hung up on "If You Wear That Velvet Dress" last night (as I'm sure you noticed ^_~..tho it turns out that in the live version I was listening to and quoted, Bono mixed up the verses a bit, thus the descrepencies in my quote *g*), put in Pop, listened to that song, then "Please" and "Wake Up Dead Man"...and thought once again about what an awesome album Pop is...it does *not* deserve the crap rap it's gotten, even U2 slag it off a lot, and it desn't deserve it, every time I listen to it Im' more convinced, it's an *awesome* album, lyrically musically the ideas the sound the look *everything*. And maybe it's not traditional U2, but what *is* traditional U2? That's one of the things they've always gotten off on, was doing something different...
But getting back to wherever I left off...
Yeah. Fallen in love with Bono's voice and lyrics (again ^_^ - listening to new version of "Stay" right now..beautiful...), and just him as a *person*...he's awesome...so's the rest of the band...I love them so very much, and it'd piss Larry off to hear me say that cos I've never even actually met them but...almost might as *well* have, all I've read watched listened, I know them and esp. their music prolly better'n they do!
*pause*
..and I know Mackie a little *too* well, cos I just totally paraphrased one of his fav lines... "Do you know who I am? Because I know who *you* are. In fact, I know you probably even better than you know yourself."
Whoa. That's got a whole 'nother meaning behind it now!...I mean, with the amount of media etc., and just general fan devotion, and psycho-fans, there probably *were/are* people who know U2 (or, at least, certain things about them) better'n they do...
Hrm. Never thought of that angle on it before.... I mean, it's obviously really the whole devil-thing they were goin' for, but still.
Right. And I've just written up mega-long post...but, at least it got my mind into happier territory for a bit...'stead of this horrid teenage angst thing I've been caught in all day...(love triangles SUCK).

*Ananda Daydream * 3:39 PM * *

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