What’d Harvard teach you?
Pit tickets to The Greek and a show at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, this summer is gonna be awesome.
Hey look, it’s my favorite moment of live music I witnessed in 2012, captured safely onto the internet.
I learned something from the experience…I never take vacations.
U2
“Bullet the Blue Sky”
Live in Boston, 2001“Bullet the Blue Sky” was played at pretty much every U2 show between 1987 and 2006. They change it a bit every tour – for Zoo TV it was this sort of anti-fascist/Klan thing, Edge added a Tom Morello-y funk to it for PopMart. It had an explicitly pro-gun control message on the Elevation tour. It was always the first song of the encore, and preceded by a video that mocked Charlton Heston and the NRA. The most interesting thing about this version is that it had a new coda in which Bono rattled off alarming statistics about gun-related fatalities in America and sang about the murder of John Lennon from the perspective of Mark Chapman. The staging was genuinely creepy, with Bono flashing a small light around the audience in very dim lighting. I saw one of these shows, and I remember it kinda rattling me a bit.
I remember going to these shows in Boston as a junior in high school and this was my favorite part. An arena rock band’s message to change resonated as an idealistic teenager. Depressing to think all these figures are bigger today than they were then.
This is not for you, Oh never was for you…
First order of business when home for the holidays is to dig out this card, take it to Kinkos, and have it blown up to poster size.“I’m telling ya, this machine is great! In five hours or so, this thing is gonna load up a picture of a naked girl.”
The Sabermetric Revolution began here.
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GQ Instagrams the GOP 2012 Convention:Day Two In Tampa
[Photographs by Mark Peterson]
This is a really great use of Instagram, because I would like very much to pretend this picture was not taken in the present day.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9hhdhlXSl1qe6vsbo1_400.jpg)
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GQ Instagrams the GOP 2012 Convention:
Day Two In Tampa[Photographs by Mark Peterson]
This is a really great use of Instagram, because I would like very much to pretend this picture was not taken in the present day.
It is somewhat of a relief that a Japandroids backlash has started amongst the tastemaker elite. I almost thought I was wrong about this but now I know I’m so so so right.
