I guess you take away from it what you want to take away from it.

Some nice candid snaps of the London concert here. My daughter's at the Philadelphia concert, which just started a few minutes ago - can't wait to see her photos. She takes gorgeous photographs for someone with no training. There's a rumor floating around that Tom Petty will make a surprise appearance - she would die. He's her absolute favorite. She's been diehard Tom Petty since she was 8 years old (she's 19).

It's a concert. No more or less.

i find this ted stuff fascinating.
i've just been on the capitol steps one too many times listening to the kids mutter to bring on the band.
i just cringe at my pomo reaction to the ad campaigns and methodology and i can't bear to watch mtv.
i can't stop watching the girl the cafe and cry at the beautiful blind hope.
i just can't stand knowing how people choose not to pay attention to things because of the most facetious and fatuous dismissals

twenty years ago this type of thing dominated the media because there was so much less media to dominate.
i just wonder to what extent something has to be anymore to really seem world wide

eh. what's that ted stuff?

i'm confused.

also, why is it all the old crappy bands? i thought i was listening to a replay of live aid on the radio for the last hour (hey, i've got jet lag).

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i don't care why you pay attention
just that you pay attention

just do it because bill nighy is adorable
or to force some humility on bush

pardon
i have to go hoist myself on my own petard now

It'll do little for Africa but it's good to see MC-Lite again.

Because it's al about PR, for some reason I dislike it more.

Live Aid revived the careers of a lot of dinosaurs, I secretly hope Live8 will slay a lot of dead wood.

Make Poverty History? Absolutely! But let's do so without embarassing ourselves shall we...

christ on a cryptic cross, like i give a damn about bono
he passed the embarassment mark long ago
we're not really talking about preaching to the converted, are we?
the cringeworthiness is the worst part
because it's not for us.
it's for them and i'd really like to know how well it works in the end.
how hard was it to find people to get to sign?
i'm pretty damn sure i found three actual people to sign who wouldn't have known about it or bothered, who may actual find in total maybe three other people who also hadn't signed it already--
and that's it, that's about the most i can really do, because i'm not going to talk to people who are already sick to death of it or to people who really couldn't give a pope's nose--
but in a way it is almost totally symbolic
i don't even hope to get anything
i just wanna see how far it can get
and see how hard people try

now i'll throw in an ly to apply to the actual
and since you broke through my Gee ATE
i'd like to keep it at 12 unless someone's got something really good to say
syncing up these numbers ain't easy
and bloody bono on a bouncing ball--
that bjork pic was the perfect response
to the bubees sucking lot of it all
and no one got the iffy i in the LeeJay post, i'm sorely disappointed at all of you
*wags finger*

I don't care - it was worth it just to see Pink Floyd performing together again. Even if we only saw one tune and it was clear that Roger Water's voice is well past it.

Oh man you're in for it now dg!

eh, i've given up on getting the fibbonaci sequence to run under the post or anything having to do with a net wide scavenger hunt, assy

but it does give me absolutely no reason to finally get this girl in the cafe off my chest

nothing like an interstital


i knew absolutely nothing about the movie when it came on and i had no idea it had anything to do with the G8 until it popped up in the story line
and i thought, wow, didn't see that coming.
i defy anyone to find fault with bill nighy in that movie.
it's a fairy tale, a beautiful lovely magical fairy tale, set in the far away land of right now.
i miss fairy tales, myths, legends.
we've gone so far to say they were really talking about incest and current politics when muffet was tuffeting that poeple forget how cliches become cliches and morals become morals.
tell a tale of hope and magic when there is no context to demystify and deconstruct and it becomes
indestructible.

i'm currently forcing someone to watch girl the cafe and i want someone to watch it to discuss the finer points (which is btw what i love about sites like mefi)

if you've even only seen bill in love actually and not bbc
i think he personifies a "good actor" in a way, as a lot of british personalities do: part rock star, part uber geek.

yes, i am that girl in Real Genius, the one looking for the top ten. now isn't that a movie you've like to see the cast reassembled for?

I'm taking a Mefi break, but I'd say my fave bits have be the people that I've gotten to know because of it.

D'oh...wrong thread...sorry.

I don't care - it was worth it just to see Pink Floyd performing together again. Even if we only saw one tune and it was clear that Roger Water's voice is well past it. posted by dg 03 July | 18:56

I got the Pink Floyd performance from a bbc torrent, and I got four songs:
#1. Speak To Me
#2. Money
#3. Wish You Were Here
#4. Comfortably Numb

I too was surprised to see how much Water's voice was failing him...but the Gilmore smirk while he was singing made me wanna smack him. As an aside...I was shocked by how old they were. I mean, I guess it makes sense, I've been a fan for almost *mumble* years...and they were doing it 10 years before that...so they've got to be in their 60's...I guess it was just a bit of a shocker to see old guys in button down shirts doing psychedelia...ya know?