snarl

what?! i leave town for a few days and a dead monster washes up near my mom's house? yeah right.


rosie and i are pretty pissed about the montauk monster (read all about it). rosie lives at my mom's house. in montauk. she would not only know if there was a dead monster corpse there, she would be the CAUSE of it. and bono would also know, obvs.

monster creator scammer: we are counting how many more annoying idiots enter our town due to your actions. when rosie is ready, she will deal with you. she has jet li moves. (just a warning.)

this is rosie:



(monster photo: jenna hewitt)

(tough mofo rosie photo: my cellphone)

related:

what on earth washed up in montauk?

the montauk monster: legend or latex?

expert claims the montauk monster is a raccoon

rosie claims she will fuck you up

packaging

u2: how they have stayed on top of the world

pattern buffer

i drank that last night. it was yummy. it had melon liquer, coconut rum, banana liquer and juices. it simulates the effect of a transporter without actually beaming you anywhere, don't you know. what the freak? yeah, exactly.

due to its close proximity to the las vegas convention center, i have been in the las vegas hilton more times than is healthy in the last eight years. yet i had NEVER been to the star trek part of the place. so last night i had two hours to kill and went in there for kicks.

every time one of the "in character" peeps came over to say things like "i wish you much success with your inebriation", i pretended to be busy by texting a pretend person or taking photos of the bar:



i never went in there because i figured it was lame, but after downing a couple drinks, it sort of became amusing and fun.

i am not a trekkie. at all. i have never really watched star trek. i just don't get it. but still, i was sad to learn, while i was chilling at the bar, trying to avoid talking to the random klingon guy, that star trek the experience is closing on september 1, 2008.

apparently the ride and "experience" part of it are outdated. maybe it does seem like time to bring in something new. but the las vegas hilton hotel overall does not have much going for it except for its proximity to the convention center and the star trek thing. maybe they are sick of the star trek crowd. maybe the crowd is shrinking. maybe the hilton is lame. maybe they are as scared of this thing as i am:

jet blue > delta

oh man, and i thought i had a bad flight yesterday! i was not on that plane, but was on a different flight out of the same airport, and we did have to wait about six hours for take off, but at least we were waiting in the terminal and not on the plane.

i'm in vegas for a few days. *totally* here to hang with this guy:



he's my new favorite artist and i am following him all over to see all his shows. this is easy since he has a residency in vegas. and who doesn't LOVE being in vegas in mid-summer. whores (not just the literal kind) and hot weather. damn i really am *so* happy to be here.

here's some bands giving away free mp3s you should check out if you haven't already:

conor oberst

kings of leon

fleet foxes

cold war kids

here's some awesome hype:

Matt Bellamy has been talking exclusively to Hot Press about the new Muse album – and how it’s influenced by a certain Dublin four-piece.

“There’s definitely a little bit of U2 creeping in there I’d say,” he admits. “A little whisper of early U2. I can hear a bit of that in there. We’ve got a song that sounds a little like ‘New Year’s Day’.”

What, punky, new wave sort of stuff?

“No,” Bellamy explains, “there’s something about the rhythm section. I think in U2’s early stuff they had a lot of really good minimal rhythm section stuff – you know, quite simple guitar parts and bass and drums. Not too many cymbals – more toms and drums. That’s what definitely we’re aiming for. A bit more primal and bit more stripped down.”

Not the usual Muse way of doing things. . .

“No, it probably won’t sound that way by the time we’re finished! What else do we have, though? Oh yeah, we’ve got a bit of glam rock creeping in there as well, a bit of Mark Bolan-style. Which I think is a bit of fun, really. I think we can get away with that at this stage.”

(thanks h!)

dave stewart: american prayer

update: click here for the barack obama video

american prayer, it's your lucky day (soon), you are getting released on an actual album...


the song american prayer is sort of like a utility player that just keeps getting thrown at whatever spot it *might* fit. bono started singing bits of it in 2002. edge, bono, dave stewart and beyonce performed it in south africa in 2003. the nfl (thankfully) passed on having bono and j-lo (!) perform it at the super bowl back in 2004. then last year, it even showed up on american idol.

in all of these instances, this song was a vehicle for aids awareness, making poverty history awareness, africa awareness, that type of thing.

now, dave stewart (ex eurythmics), who co-wrote this song with bono, is releasing a version of it (sans bono) on his new album the dave stewart songbook (out on august 5). stewart's version includes excerpts of martin luther king jr. speaking. he is giving it away on his website, as part of a 4-song freebie download.

[buy]
american prayer - dave stewart and his rock fabulous orchestra


the chicago sun times reports that the above version of american prayer will be used in a video to support barack obama's presidential campaign. the video is "built around american prayer" and "includes a wide range of people singing the song, both celebrities and regular obama supporters... the obama video showcases a number of singers framed inside a series of television sets, from the 1950s to more contemporary models. among the well-known obama backers seen singing in the video are oprah winfrey (with her arm around a pensive-looking beyonce), cyndi lauper, macy gray, margaret cho and whoopi goldberg as well as stewart."

the sun times also adds in a clarification that "while bono did indeed co-author the american prayer anthem in the upcoming barack obama video, he was not involved with creating that video. that project is the brainchild of the song's co-writer dave stewart, who wanted to boost obama's bid for the presidency."

< DO NOT insert snark here >

i can't say i am a fan of this song, but this song won't die. it means something to these guys who wrote it, and hell if they aren't gonna keep playing it and trying to make it mean something to other people, too.

there is an essay archived on u2log that highlights some of the lyrical references in american prayer.

rock stars

spotted at nice jazz festival.

waving that white flag

laying low. this is an interesting tactic, U2.

this song is not a rabbi song

wilco doing a u2 cover (sort of). when i saw sunday bloody sunday on that list, i sort of thought it was a joke. and then i clicked on the mp3 ... and it sort of is. i guess.

arachnid hero

dear old guys: i need some clarification on this - Having composed the music for the forthcoming Broadway production of Spider-Man, Bono and the Edge will release a U2 album based on their musical adaptation of the comic books.

have u2 recorded this album already? if not, when will they? where do larry and adam fit into this album? will i want to kill myself you two when i hear it?

let me know

xo

love is for peasants

love is for peasants. that is a good line from the mean lady in this movie:



i totally had to watch that last night with my niece. painfully lame.

also, i SUCK at wii.

~ latez ~

there's nothing u2 like better than a pretty woman

^^ from steve lillywhite, the quote machine. bbc article: u2's producer reveals studio secrets. (lillywhite talking about the first three albums)

the drummer playing drums (new clip)

unrelated: lemon marshmallows!

ne me quitte pas

someone emailed me last week looking for a good live version of bad, the song by, ummmm, u2. so i was, like, well, how do you pick one? i'll pick two or three. and then i realized, how do you pick two or three? so, this zip file ended up with nine.

[zip] nine live versions of bad.
syracuse 1987, live aid 1985, rattle and hum dvd rip, stockholm 1992, boston 2001 dvd rip, chile 1998, cleveland 2001, dortmund 1984, sydney 1989.

i really really like the 1984 dortmund version. the whole 1984 dortmund set is awesome quality: get it here

i didn't put this one below on the zip because it is not a 5/5 audio quality, more like 3/5. but it has something none of the others do - the bono parlezing francais. i'm gonna (not) surprise you by saying: that is HOT.

[mp3] bad (ne me quitte pas) - u2
live at man ray, paris, 2000, all that you can't leave behind promo show.

~ ne me quitte pas ~

walk on

cool photo

listen to the deluxe edition u2 bonus tracks on imeem right NOW

click here immediately

angels too tied to the ground is the first one i clicked on.

YAY!