another one bites the dust
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deerhoof - lemon & little lemon
so president bush's pal karen hughes, under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, was in nyc yesterday speaking at the council on foreign relations. this portion of her remarks was interesting:
read the full text of her remarks here.
i'm not even going to make a snide political comment. it's just too easy. really. how precious.
finally, if you haven't seen it:
go check out @u2's interview with marc marot.
the interview has some fresh insight into the inner workings of the band. marot is an industry exec who oversaw the worldwide marketing of u2's re-invention in the '90s, and was very involved in the band's business strategy for many years. i was particularly struck by marot's blunt and open remarks regarding passengers and the million dollar hotel.
most fans know larry hated passengers, but marot seems to say that 3 (!) members of the band actually weren't too keen on it. and regarding million dollar hotel, marot basically recounts the moment he had to tell bono that he could not release a single off the soundtrack to that movie because that would draw attention to the fact that bono wrote the story for the flick - and that would be an embarrassment! the best part is bono's reaction, which went something like this: "okay."
love it.
deerhoof - lemon & little lemon
so president bush's pal karen hughes, under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, was in nyc yesterday speaking at the council on foreign relations. this portion of her remarks was interesting:
I was in Dallas last Friday, to meet with Bono and talk about the work he's doing to fight poverty and AIDS and how it intersects with what I'm trying to do as we discuss across the world the compassion of America. I've never heard Bono's band in person, but I heard him give a speech Friday night and I realized he's a fabulous communicator even without music. He speaks very eloquently about America and it's interesting to watch this Irish rock star speak very eloquently about America. "Being more than a country," he says, "America is an idea." And people around the world want to look to that idea. He talks about the idea -- the inspiration of America in ways that occurred to me that too often we as Americans don't. He heralds the good that we're doing around the world, even as he challenges us to do even more, makes the point that -- he asked me, "Isn't compassion one of the best ways to demonstrate your values, to communicate your values and isn't it an investment in a safer world?"
read the full text of her remarks here.
i'm not even going to make a snide political comment. it's just too easy. really. how precious.
finally, if you haven't seen it:
go check out @u2's interview with marc marot.
the interview has some fresh insight into the inner workings of the band. marot is an industry exec who oversaw the worldwide marketing of u2's re-invention in the '90s, and was very involved in the band's business strategy for many years. i was particularly struck by marot's blunt and open remarks regarding passengers and the million dollar hotel.
most fans know larry hated passengers, but marot seems to say that 3 (!) members of the band actually weren't too keen on it. and regarding million dollar hotel, marot basically recounts the moment he had to tell bono that he could not release a single off the soundtrack to that movie because that would draw attention to the fact that bono wrote the story for the flick - and that would be an embarrassment! the best part is bono's reaction, which went something like this: "okay."
love it.
posted by c at 10:50 AM
3 Comments:
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHh Just an "okay" ???
That is amazing! I don´t recall Bono ope his mouth just to say ONE SINGLE WORD ABOUT ANYTHING ::)))
Hmmm. Did anyone actually see MDH? I was just looking at the IMDb listing for it. There's no "screenplay by" credit. Bono shares a "story" credit which isn't the same thing. I know a few good stories that were turned into bad movies. Bono has a producing credit but probably had very little control over what happened once he wrote the story. Maybe that's why his reaction was only one word. I'd love to read the story he wrote.
i saw the movie. it's a tad boring :(
bono says it is about “the redemptive power of love.”
the script was written by a man named nicholas klein. bono did not write the script and it is hard to tell how much he contributed to it. but there are lines from that film that have appeared in bono-speak recently (particularly his comments about the edge & the future "what's it like?" "it's better" - straight from the film).
either way, it’s too bad ground beneath her feet never got released as a single. to me that is one of the most interesting songs u2 has done in the past decade, and way too many people have never even heard it.
but what i loved about bono just saying "okay" to all that is that it just shows that he is not a spoiled brat. it's like, he takes the punch and moves on. that's all. stud.
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