Kieran McConville
ONE love, blood, life
I've just realised, reading between the lines of allusions made here and there, that I am probably considerably older than you all. Ah well, it is what it is.
For what it's worth, Kieran, I've assumed you're late thirties.
(I'm 28.)
You're spot on. For a while I thought you were too, but then you said something somewhere about being a kid when Popmart was touring. So yeah.
For the record I don't feel profoundly different than I did when I was in my early twenties. A lot less optimistic, but not fundamentally a different person, much less, that ghastly phrase 'grown up'.
HTDAAB really was the last meaningful influx of youth to Interference, and I think when you lose that, you lose a forum. Interference is fortunate that it at least has a large userbase, so it will tick along for some time yet (most other messageboards I posted on have long since perished). But you need new blood and new ideas, which usually comes from the younger cohort - even if the real fruits of that aren't realised until they've been around for a few years and stop being obsessive nutjobs. At this stage, without implying anybody in particular, most of the new blood on Interference are misfits.
As for the whole Salesforce thing, it reminds you that U2 is a business first and foremost. Whatever aspect of it is a creative endeavour has long since taken a back seat.
We only had to pay $110 or so for the entire gear, and this was the first year that the trencher was given to graduates after the ceremony (which had the fortunate consequence of not having staff scrutinising us about throwing it in the air...and also of a hat fight emerging in the Ancient History department...)
True enough. On the other hand, don't write u2girl off yet!\
The people who send my blood pressure through the roof are the ones who insist it was always so, and that there's no such thing as bad publicity. Bollocks. Outside of their legacy, this band's reputation is in tatters.
yes, ugh. it doesn't help that nearly everyone i'm friends with is younger than me, like 10 or so years younger. the positive was whenever the topic of ages gets brought up, i can reveal my real age and freak the fuck out of people.I keep being Confused when people ask me how old I am. My answer is almost always 25, and then I stop to think for a moment and it's like, "Oh.. Dear... No, that's not correct." less frequently I catch myself still thinking I'm 21,. which is certainly wrong.
The US is still where it's at for them, culturally. Never mind the cash they could probably make if they really did heavily tour the Mediterranean coastline and maybe a few other places.
yeah, exactly. this has caused some weird thing where i feel as mature as someone in my early 30s, yet as immature as someone in their early 20s. it makes no sense but is somehow really accurate.It bugs me that I'm older than everyone I work with, as it's a constant reminder that I wasted three or four years of my working life that I could've spent doing more important things towards my future, but oh well.
It bugs me that I'm older than everyone I work with, as it's a constant reminder that I wasted three or four years of my working life that I could've spent doing more important things towards my future, but oh well.
If U2's goal is to sell a gazillion tickets, why did they totally ignore the Southeast US on this tour?