My House MD U2 song spoof!

It’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve been busy :)

Watching 4 series of Jeeves And Wooster and watching lots and lots of Q.I. episodes takes some time :P

I’ve also been busy with making a House+U2 video and monday I finished it! I had the idea in my head for months (after first seeing other House MD song spoofs) and last week I decided to try and make it… It’s my very first video I’ve ever made and I’m rather proud of it :)

EDIT:
I made a second one!

Carpenters!

Sometimes I wonder whether everyone is laughing as hard as me at some jokes Bono/Edge/Larry/Adam are making… Is it the fan in me or are they really so incredibly funny? Hmm, I think it’s a combination of both.
I watched Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man and I could not help myself, but I had to watch the bit where Bono says: “Some people… make doors, carpenters!” over and over again :D The way he says “carpenters!” and smiles is so funny! :P

More things I can watch over and over and still think it’s incredibly funny:

• “It’s a musical journey!”
• Adam trying to make an answer in Rattle and Hum whilst Larry is acting funny XD
• A day in the life of The Edge
• Mr. Macphisto making phonecalls
• “I have a VISION!!!”
• “Do something funky The Edge!”
• The Dalton Brothers!!!
• and countless other things

The carpenters! bit is at 10:20

Bono Ate A Birthdaycake

Bono, now forty-nine
Bono, that age is just fine
Bono, allergic to red wine
Bono is the person with whom I would love to dine

Bono, the famous singer
Bono, is it settled? You and me, a dinner?
Bono, with boxing always the winner
Bono, sometimes needs to get slimmer

Bono, coming to me in July
Bono, I’ll love you till I die
Bono, The Fly
Bono, whose albums I always buy

Bono, I love your harmonica
Bono, sings “Aha Shala”
Bono, wearing sunglasses
Bono, easy to recognize in the masses

Bono, born in Ireland
Bono, is in a famous band
Bono, I would always lend you a hand
Bono, his lyrics are sometimes hard to understand

Bono, has a lot of fans
Bono, does not always know how to dance
Bono, spends his holidays in France
Bono, Chris Martin has no chance

Bono, you can not call him tall
Bono, his legs are just small
Bono, is the best singer on earth
Bono, that title is a lot worth

“Bono, sexy person”
Bono, no one can stand with you in comparison
Bono, is never grim
Bono ate his birthdaycake, before the birthdaycake ate him

Bono, Adam
Bono, Larry
Bono, Anna
Bono, Edge
Bono, Elvis
Bono, MacPhisto
Bono, Ali

Bono, this might seem like a long way to say
“Bono, have a nice birthday!”
Bono

by Anna (inspired by Elvis Ate America by Passengers)

May Your Dreams Be Realised…

Since U2 announced that they were coming to Amsterdam I’ve had more U2 dreams! :D

I write all my U2 dreams down in the @U2 forum (http://forum.atu2.com/index.php/topic,75.0.html) and before it got renewed I saved all my old dreams, so here they are!

My favourites: 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 18, 25, 28, 29 but I actually like them all
I have to say that I was very surprised that I could give such a (brilliant) answer to the question in 5 :P

The old @U2 forum

1. Bono and Edge were holding a talent contest. If you won, they would teach you how to play guitar. I came into the room and I saw Bono and Edge sitting on a couch with a large window behind them. I told a story and I won!!!! Bono was laughing and Edge started to play guitar.
2. I woke up (in my dream) and went downstairs. I opened the door and I saw Adam behind the computer. I acted like it was the most normal thing in the world and sat next to him. When I really woke up I walked quickly downstairs hoping that Adam would be there, but that did not come true…
3. A few weeks for my birthday I dreamt that U2 were coming to play in the Netherlands (where I live) on my birthday. I really looked forward to the concert, but then I woke up. (I had this dream 6 times! :O)
4. I am in my old school playing golf with Larry, Bono and Adam. That’s not so weird to me, but we are playing golf in a small room with computers in it. There is one computer standing in the middle. Larry smiles a lot and looks like he is REALLY good at golf. Adam goes first and hits a computer on the right and then the computer in the middle. Then it’s my turn and Bono helps me. I have exactly the same shot as Adam and I feel really proud. Then I think “where is Edge?”. That’s when I woke up with a big smile on my face.
5. This one is also weird. I am in Math class and my teacher asks: “who is a big U2 fan?”. I raise my hand immediately and he asks me what my favourite songs are. I tell him that I love all their songs, but also say that I like One and Love Is Blindness the best. Then he starts to explain Love Is Blindness(!!!!!!). He draws triangles and I think “yes that makes sense, that’s Love Is Blindness!”. Then we have to make a test and the only question I can remember is: “U2 already have a poet, what do they need more?” I answered all the other questions, but got stuck on this one. Then I finally have an answer and think it is the best answer on the world: time…
6. I am in a street (with no traffic) and I see Adam and Edge on the other side of the road. Then Bono runs past us and he’s chased by the PopMart Bono (the muscle Bono). Adam is laughing and then Edge get chased by the PopMart Edge. I start laughing and that was the end of that dream. When I woke up I almost forgot it, but luckily I remembered it :P
7. I was in my room and saw the book U2 by U2. So I sat down and opened the book. But when I saw the first page I thought there must be something wrong with the book, because it began with the title “Stuck in a moment” and was about the ATYCLB album. I thought this was very weird and went looking for the beginning of the book. I found the boy era at the middle of the book and then I thought the book was OK (I thought for a few seconds it might show the future of U2, but with the boy era in the middle I knew that it could not be so) and started with the first page of the book. When I had read that (can’t remember anything) I turned the page and there was on the right a page called: “Rattle and Hum Special”. I thought “Wow, I did not notice this the last time I read this!” I read it and then my dream ended.
8. I was in the car with my mum and dad on my way to U23D in Amsterdam. Then my dad asks where it is and I am a bit worried, because I don’t know what the address is. We drive past a lot of IMAX theatres, but not the one from Amsterdam. Then my dad says “Ohh, we need to go to Amsterdam!”. I thought he already knew that, but I was very relieved. My mum says “I don’t know if we should go to U23D, I read somewhere that it was dangerous to watch the movie”(!!!) all I can think is “NOOOOOOOOO I WANT TO GO!!!!!”, but we turn around and went home.
9. I was in a building (a sort of sports hall) and there was going to be a Lenny Kravitz concert. I knew that U2 was going to be the support act and that was the only reason that I was there. I waited and finally it started. I saw Edge and I was the only person who looked at him (all the others looked at Lenny), I started waving at him and he saw me and he smiled I was so happy when he saw me, it all looked very realistic and it took me a while to realise it was just a dream. I thought “Wow, I have seen Edge and he smiled at me!….. Ohh right it was only a dream…”
10. We (U2 and me) are in a small red room. Bono is playing drums very enthusiasticly and Larry is standing behind him playing guitar. Larry watches Bono all the time (to make sure that Bono isn’t damaging his drums). I’m standing between Edge and Adam and are very happy that I’m hearing U2 play. The only thing that I can remember about the song is that it was an instrumental song (Bono can’t sing when he is so busy drumming).
11. I was watching a daily Dutch soccer quiz on tv called “Play like a Champion”. Suddenly I see that Bono is one of the guests. I’m very surprised and think myself very lucky for watching it exactly the same day as Bono is a guest. My luck didn’t last very long, because in the commercial break (the real show hasn’t got any commercial breaks) my tv broke down. I ran downstairs and turned on the tv. I’m looking everywhere for the same channel, but I couldn’t find it any more…
12. I was in Rotterdam at a U2 concert, but I was very early in that building (there were about 20 other U2 fans). There were big screens everywhere and then a man from the crew came to us and explained what the screens did. “On the right is the Bono screen and there’s Edge, Adam and Larry” I was standing on a sort of high platform in the middle so I could see all the screens. The man of the screens moved on and went to the other U2 fans to explain about the screens. Then someone else from the crew told me that with the Live From Milan dvd Bono doubted between putting the Miss Sarajevo from Milan on the dvd or the Miss Sarajevo from Rotterdam on the dvd. I asked why, because I loved the Live from Milan version. He then showed it to me (I was there at the concert :S) and when Bono ended the song every single one in the crowd started to sing 40 (starting with: “I waited patiently for the Lord”) I was now standing next to Bono and we were both just standing there not believing or ears. I could understand why Bono doubted between Milan and Rotterdam. I was back with the member of the crew and he told me that Bono liked the Rotterdam version better, but that it would be weird to put Miss Sarajevo Live From Rotterdam on a dvd that said Live From Milan.
    Then I woke up and looked at my watch and thought “11 O’Clock…” and in my head I could hear bono say: “TICK TOCK” The concert had started! :)
13. U2 are playing a song and then a man hands Edge a flute. Edge says he has never played flute before but would like to try it. He starts and the man stands next to him explains where to put his fingers. Edge doesn’t need much help and is “on fire”. I was surprised that Edge could play flute so good, but the rest of the band did not seem surprised and they just played on…
14. In my dream Bono was playing drums (again! but this time he was able to sing at the same time). Bono was on his own in a the middle of a stadium. I felt like I was a cameraman, because I could get really close and there were no fans around me. Bono was playing drums really well, but I could not help thinking Larry could do this better. When I woke up I totally forgot it but then it slowly came back to me and I tried to remember the song he was playing and I now think that it was Pride.
15. I found out that the new album was to be delayed at 22:00 so when I went to bed that was all I could think of. My dream of that night went like this: It was morning, and when I went into the living room my mother says something like “Have you heard the news?” and I said “Yes I know the new album is delayed to early 2009″ but then my mum says (very surprised) “No I meant the new U2 movie” I: “What?!!!!!” “U2 have made a concert movie. A sort of Rattle and Hum, I thought you knew that…” I started panicking because I did not have tickets for the première of the movie. So I quickly went to the site where you could get tickets and I see that there are 38 tickets left, I’m now panicking even more, because I thought that every second the tickets would all be sold out… I did manage to get tickets, but my ticket said that I could get in 1 hour after the movie started. It said: “enter after 1 hour, when a man in a big T-shirt interviews U2″ I then wondered whether it was going to be in 3D, but I knew the answer myself: it was not in 3D but it was going to be in HD quality and I thought: “Well HD is also very cool” END
16. I always wake up with a CD and this time I had HTDAAB in my stereo, so that Vertigo was going to wake me up. I dreamt that my alarm went of, so I heard Vertigo (very clearly!) in my dream. I woke up for real but found out it wasn’t my stereo but a dream. I found this funny but went to sleep again since I could sleep for more than an hour before my real alarm went of. Then I dreamt again that I heard Vertigo and it woke me up again, I did not think it that funny any more and went back to sleep. After that I had the same dream again! Then I started to think it all very ridiculous. I now had a few more minutes before my alarm really went of and then I could listen to Vertigo all over again.
17. I’m talking to Edge, but that’s about all I can remember. He said something smart about Staring At The Sun and something very funny about Bono and I thought “I really have to remember this line!” but I didn’t…

From the ‘new’ @U2 forum

18. I’m in a small house (in a forest) and U2 will be holding a concert there. I’m waiting with 12 other U2 fans and then the organiser tells us that U2 is not going to play a 3 hour concert but a 1.5 hour concert and after that they will go to a big stadium where they will do two shows of 3 hours (in a row). We (the other fans and me) get a bit angry, because we paid for a 3 hour concert. Then the organiser gets confused, because he thinks a 1.5 hour concert is better than a 3 hour concert… U2 arrive and we’re all very happy. There’s no stage and we can actually touch them. I remember that they played Walk On and Wake Up Dead Man. Then the show ends and they go into another room. I follow them into that room and they’re staring at me like “What is she doing here?” I realise that I have to say something and say “Oh, I’m sorry to interrupt, but I have a question.” I did not have one, but quickly thought of one and I asked Bono “Can I give you a hug?” (that was the best I could come up with :D) Bono said: “Yes of course!” and he gives me such a tight hug that he almost broke my shoulders. I remember that I thought: “Who else could say that their shoulders were broken by Bono?” :D and then I gave Larry a kiss on his cheek and then I went to Adam who told me that his guitar tasted like cherry. I was a little surprised and asked if I could taste his guitar and it did taste like cherry! :D
19. In the next dream U2 are holding a show in China and Bono asks a sweet little girl (about 8 years old) on stage. The girl did not walk to him but held out her hand (as if asking for money) Bono walks to her and the girl says: “People in Africa need money” Bono did not expect this but he was very much touched by this. Suddenly I’m backstage and someone says: “Bill, put all Bono’s money on the bank now!” (because if that wasn’t done quick Bono would give all his money to Africa)
20. Larry picked me up with his car at ‘my school’ (it wasn’t my school, but I thought so in my dream) We had a long drive and I was very happy. I can’t remember that we talked, but after a long time we arrived at a summer house (I don’t think it was from Larry) There were other people in there and it was a very small and weird house. There were only two rooms, one with a kitchen and bed in one room and no windows and the other room was also very weird. So all of us made plans to move the furniture and we were very busy making drawings of how it was going to look. And that’s about it :P
21. I see that I have 50 mails from my mailing lists and it turns out that Bono is in the hospital, because he has lost his voice (nothing serious)
22. I get a new cd and dvd from Passengers, but it takes ages to take the plastic of… At least it looked nice ;)
23. I am sitting on a very little chair on the front row listening to U2 :)
24. Adam and Edge are wearing black Allstars (yes that was all :P)
25. There is an Monty Python sketch where they perform movies and speak in morse and things like that
    
    it really starts after 1 minute :P
    And in my dream Adam was going to play in the Wuthering Heights bit and John Cleese gave him a tour around the set.
26. Two of my friends have been to an U2 furniture sale (apparently that exists :D)
    I ask (a little sad) “Why haven’t you not told me there was one? I knew nothing of it” :(
    Then they say “Oh, but why should we tell you? You don’t need furniture do you! And what on earth would you do there?!” “Well… I could look at it… I would love to have seen U2 furniture…”
    “That’s just silly and stupid!!” I almost started crying  :(
27. It was 27 February and I was racing home to hear the new album. I got there really late (around 18:00) (how on earth did I manage to need 4 hours to get home?) I went to my room, put the cd in the cd-player and pressed the play button… The song started with a heavy bass line and some drums where added after that. It reminded me a little of ‘Sixty Seconds In Kingdom Come’ I was really excited and it sounded very VERY great, but then my dad comes in my room and asks a silly question. I give an answer and he goes away. A few seconds later he’s interrupting me again and again and again, so I could not hear more than the first 10 seconds… (but it sounded great!!! :P)
28. I went to a U2 concert in my dream! but it was very weird…
    I was on the front row and my dad stole my ticket! (he’s not even going) but no one checked if you had tickets so it didn’t matter after all… After some time U2 came on stage, but all they were doing was drinking Orange Juice…  all the time… :S
29. I dreamt that I was filming the videoclip for Magnificent!
    I was in a white room and I was filming with a simple camera. I remember thinking “Now I have to film Edge with Infinity is a great place to start on the background” but it never got to that point…
30. I dreamt that I finally knew who the support act for 20 and 21 July was going to be… It started with an J, but I wasn´t very happy with it…

and of course my two GOYB dreams
(http://u2isdebest.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/getting-on-your-boots/)

31. In the first dream (13 January) I heard it in my dream and when I woke up I tried to put it into words and I described it as: Quick! Very U2ish and similar to Vertigo. I remember that I really liked it.
32. But in the second dream I heard it again (about 2 days later) and I didn’t like it any more, so I did not know what to expect after all…

EDIT: two forgotten dreams

33. I get a U2 iPod on my birthday :D
34. There’s a U2 special on television at 00:30 but I forget it! Luckily they are repeating it the next day, so I can still see it.  Edge is the only one who is appearing in the special and he is explaining some things about the new album: “When is the new album going to be released?” Edge: “December, January, February, March.” They are recording the album in Zeewolde (a town in The Netherlands) and I find it incredibly funny that Zeewolde would appear on the album credits next to Fez, Dublin, New York and London… XD

Wow! 34 U2 dreams! (in +- 3 years) :D

Wants some stats?                        …I know I do… XD

Dreams with:
Adam: 6
Bono: 9
Edge: 9
Larry: 3
U2 concert: 5
Bono drumming: 2

Bono, you’re (EDIT: No longer!) the (only) winner of this dream survey! ;)
You now have to share the top spot with Edge :P (I hope you don’t mind) XD

I forgot ‘my dream’ from my NLOTH ‘review’ XD
Here it is:

Watch more television!
U2 knock on my door and ask if I’ve got a television. I’m very shocked and surprised that U2 should knock on my door, so I stare at them for a few moments. Then I say: “Yeah, I’ve got a television… Do you want to see it?” Larry: “No, well actually we want to use it. You see, Edge said in the Letterman show that he sucks at guitar hero, well that was a joke, but we sort of made a bet that we can all be better than Edge at guitar hero.” This is the last thing that I expected, but I say: “Well, you’re more than welcome to test that here!” So they come into the house, install the wii thing and the guitar. Edge has to go first and is a bit nervous, because he has never played guitar hero before and really wants to beat the rest at it. Edge picks a Jimi Hendrix song. Bono and Adam are making a lot of jokes “If you play Jimi Hendrix you’ll have to demolish your guitar at the end of the song!” Edge tries not to laugh at these jokes. He made a few mistakes, but he has a very high score (86%). It’s Adams turn and he is really really good at it. He’s about halfway through and has not yet made any mistake, but then Edge stands up and whispers something in his ear and they just can’t stop laughing. Bono and me are very curious after that joke, but they can’t speak any sense for minutes, so it’s Bono turn. Bono is playing really well, but he’s also very distracted by Edge and Adam rolling over the floor, so Bono scores 78%. Now Larry says to me that it’s my turn, so I play a song and score 95%!  Larry is not very much impressed by my score and is ready to beat it. Bono and me are now watching Larry play the song flawless and Bono says to me: “we have to distract him, but with what?” Edge and Adam are obviously not distracting him so we’re both thinking of a better joke. Then right before the end I say: “Wenn ist das numstuck git und Slotmeyer? Ja… Beiherhund oder die Flipperwalt gersput” Larry survives The Killer Joke, but he does make some mistakes at guitar hero, so in the end he has a score of 92% I realise I have won and I am cheering. Larry congratulates me and makes a bow and Bono says to me “Thank you so much! It’s almost impossible to bear a Larry who has won a game.” Adam and Edge have stopped laughing and everyone is leaving. I’m at the door waving at them and then Edge walks back and whispers into my ear: “Beachball…”

(Fan) Review: No Line On The Horizon

Well sort of..

And I have to warn you, this is a fan speaking, so it shall be utterly positive :P
I wanted to write a normal album review, but I think I have read too many of them already… So this ‘review’ shall be a little bit different… :)

I have not consciously waited for a U2 album before, so I had no idea it would be so though… I read several mailing lists and because of that, I had read a lot of album reviews from lucky journalists who got a chance to hear the album weeks before I could! (maybe it’s better that I was not one of them, because I know it would be very hard for me to be content with only one listen to the album :P) I can now tell you from experience that it can be really annoying to read that No Line On The Horizon is being compared to Achtung Baby and The Joshua Tree, given 5 stars and read that Brian Eno thinks that Breathe is their best song ever, when you’re waiting for the album.

I heard the album much earlier than I thought I would be…  I heard the album at the day of the leak (how could anyone expect me to wait two more weeks?) and when I had it in iTunes and clicked on play, I really did not know how to sit anymore…  I had no idea that I could sit in so many crazy ways. When I could bear it no longer I grabbed my pillow and gave it a big hug XD Yes it’s really good that I was not one of those journalists, because me hearing a U2 album for the first time looks really really silly!!!
So, I survived the first listen and continued the next. I managed to loosen the hold of my pillow and my brain started working again.
I really really liked Unknown Caller after only one listen!  It was the only song I had an opinion of after the first listen. I knew not what to think of the rest…

My NLOTH listening history:
Beach Clips
30 second preview of Get On Your Boots
Get On Your Boots
30 second previews of the whole album
No Line On The Horizon version 2
Leak! :O
Box edition arrives!!! :D –> Winter!!!

Songs:
1. No Line On The Horizon
2. Magnificent
3. Moment Of Surrender
4. Unknown Caller
5. I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
6. Get On Your Boots
7. Stand Up Comedy
8. Fez-Being Born
9. White As Snow
10. Breathe
11. Cedars Of Lebanon

No Line On The Horizon
I heard the No Line On The Horizon 2 version first (a week earlier?) and I already loved that song. But when I heard the album, I was really blown away! The beginning is brilliant!!! I don’t know if I have said so in an earlier post, but I always wake up with the cd that’s in my stereo. So I wake up every morning with a U2 cd. The first song on the album is therefore the song I usually wake up with (I can program my stereo to start with another song, but I usually think that’s too much trouble :P). My favourite song to wake up with is Zooropa. When I listen to the song it just brings up an image of waking up in a big city, so I can imagine myself waking up in New York or Berlin. If someone would ask: “How does a city that wakes up sound?” The answer is Zooropa (remember! :P). Other favourite wake up songs are I Will Follow and Zoo Station. I used Vertigo for a long time, but it’s not as pleasant as Zooropa. Oh no, I’m rattling away :P What I wanted to say is that No Line On The Horizon is a brilliant song to wake up with! It is actually the best song of the album to wake up with! I tried Unknown Caller one morning, but it did not have a great effect :P I was still half sleeping and did not even notice that it changed to I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight, while I’m almost immediately awake when I hear No Line On The Horizon…

Magnificent
A brilliant song! Already classic. More words needed? Nah… …  Maybe just one more: Magnificent!

Moment Of Surrender
I did not know what to expect after such positive reviews, but I absolutely love it! When Bono sings “I tied myself with wire!” I just melt on the spot… I hope that they shall play this on the tour :) hint hint :P

Unknown Caller
No matter what Edge and Bono said in the Absolute Radio interview, I did hear the OhooohhOOhhOOoohOho (if you have better spelling suggestions, please post them in the comments) from Unknown Caller in the beach clips… And that ohhohhoh has been stuck in my head months(!) before the album got released.

Fact:
It’s annoying to have a bit of song stuck in your head and don’t know how the song continues and have to wait months before you’ll know.

Anyway, I loved that bit and hoped that it would make it to the album. I hoped that the ohhohhoh would be from Sexy Boots, because that was most likely going to be the single. But alas, it was not from Get On Your Boots, so I had to wait for the album after all…
And I loved Unknown Caller after the first listen. It’s still among my favourites of the album. Sunshine! Sunshine!!! Edge I love your voice :)

I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
Hmm, it has a silly long title… I like it already!!! :P
I would not say that it’s too long, Question! What U2 song has the longest title (in letters)?
Haha no I’m not giving you a multiple choice on this one… :P

This song starts really good with the crazy “crazy tonight” from Bono. It is also brilliant after Unknown Caller.

And after listening to it for the first time it has succeeded to end up stuck in my head with the lines:
“Every beauty needs to go out with an idiot
How can you stand next to the truth and not see it?”

Really stuck in my head. I could not (well ok, let’s be fair: barely) sleep the night after I first heard the album. I was turning and twisting (I even tried to turn 180 degrees (to no succes)), but I just could not sleep…

Tell him what a dreadful state I am in, — that I am frightened out of my wits; and have such tremblings, such flutterings, all over me, such spasms in my side, and pains in my head, and such beatings at heart, that I can get no rest by night nor by day.
Pride and Prejudice

Ok, it was not as bad as that from Mrs. Bennet, but pretty bad enough I grant you. (Hahaha, you probably didn’t get it, but that was very funny for a Jane Austen fan like me :P)
So you could say that I had a lot of time to think about the album, but unfortunately my thoughts went more in the direction of “What is the meaning of life?” Haha no kidding! That would be too easy a question. It is a well known fact that the answer to life, the universe and everything 42 is. In fact I do not think I had any useful thoughts that night, only things like “I’m tired” or “I’m very *yawn* tired”. And all the while bits of the new song ring through my head (my only comfort). Hmm, I now realise that I have written this ((not very) interesting) bit of not having had much sleep under the song I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight… Oh no! In a certain sense I went crazy that night, because I could not sleep… So what would have happened if I had not gone crazy? Yes I would have gone crazy! In my dreams, because I would not have done something crazy before that and therefore I would have been asleep and dreaming! So I would have gone crazy in my dreams! Oh, I’m very sorry to have missed that! Very very sorry if this would have been my crazy dream:

U2 knock on my door and ask if I’ve got a television. I’m very shocked and surprised that U2 should knock on my door, so I stare at them for a few moments. Then I say: “Yeah, I’ve got a television… Do you want to see it?” Larry: “No, well actually we want to use it. You see, Edge said in the Letterman show that he sucks at guitar hero, well that was a joke, but we sort of made a bet that we can all be better than Edge at guitar hero.” This is the last thing that I expected, but I say: “Well, you’re more than welcome to test that here!” So they come into the house, install the wii thing and the guitar. Edge has to go first and is a bit nervous, because he has never played guitar hero before and really wants to beat the rest at it. Edge picks a Jimi Hendrix song. Bono and Adam are making a lot of jokes “If you play Jimi Hendrix you’ll have to demolish your guitar at the end of the song!” Edge tries not to laugh at these jokes. He made a few mistakes, but he has a very high score (86%). It’s Adams turn and he is really really good at it. He’s about halfway through and has not yet made any mistake, but then Edge stands up and whispers something in his ear and they just can’t stop laughing. Bono and me are very curious after that joke, but they can’t speak any sense for minutes, so it’s Bono turn. Bono is playing really well, but he’s also very distracted by Edge and Adam rolling over the floor, so Bono scores 78%. Now Larry says to me that it’s my turn, so I play a song and score 95%!  Larry is not very much impressed by my score and is ready to beat it. Bono and me are now watching Larry play the song flawless and Bono says to me: “we have to distract him, but with what?” Edge and Adam are obviously not distracting him so we’re both thinking of a better joke. Then right before the end I say: “Wenn ist das numstuck git und Slotmeyer? Ja… Beiherhund oder die Flipperwalt gersput” Larry survives The Killer Joke, but he does make some mistakes at guitar hero, so in the end he has a score of 92% I realise I have won and I am cheering. Larry congratulates me and makes a bow and Bono says to me “Thank you so much! It’s almost impossible to bear a Larry who has won a game.” Adam and Edge have stopped laughing and everyone is leaving. I’m at the door waving at them and then Edge walks back and whispers into my ear: “Beachball…”

Hahahahaha Oh no, :’D I think it’s better that I did not have that dream… I think I would have woken up the whole street with my laughter XD

I know I know, my theory is not really correct, because it would imply that everytime that you CAN sleep, you have crazy dreams… And although dreams are often crazy, there is always a (small) chance that you have non-crazy dreams, so I’m sorry, but the theory above is a waste of time :P

Get On Your Boots
GOYB
Gravy On Your Broccoli?
No thank you.
I already made a post about this earlier in my blog :P
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Stand Up Comedy
What to expect with such a title?
“Stand up to rock stars, Napoleon is in high heels
Josephine, be careful of small men with big ideas”
??? Who on earth could he mean? ;D
Sorry Edge I know you’ve heard it more than any fan ever could, but it’s not my favourite song of the album… But I think that in time we shall grow more alike I shall like it more. (Hurrah! I think I’ve just made the first U2 review with 3 Jane Austen references in it… )

Fez-Being Born
I was very very curious about this song, after I listened to the 30 seconds previews.  It sounded of all the previews the most new. When I did hear it, it was not as I expected, but very good! very good… yes… <— (a Lady Catherine de Bourgh imitation)

White As Snow
My least favourite song at first. I did not like the title very much, but I love it now so very dearly… (Hah! that makes 5!)

Breathe
At first this was not my favourite song of the album, I did not see why U2 fans called this their favourite song, but I do like it now :P
The image of Bono walking with his arms out on the streets or running down the road like loose electricity is very appealing ;)
I’m very curious what the clip for this song is going to be like. Bono, if you’re reading this, I would like to see you running down the road like loose electricity :) please? I am willing to play as one of the extra’s on that street :P

Cedars Of Lebanon
A very nice slow song to end the album with. I did not like the album cover very much, but I must say that it has grown on me after hearing the album. Yep, it’s a good cover.

I just noticed: This song has in my opinion the nicest last word of a song on a U2 album: “friends”
And if you’re now wandering what the other last words are here they are (quiz! connect the words with the right album =P):

1) all                                                                      a) boy
2) blindness                                                       b) october
3) break                                                               c) war
4) everything                                                    d) the unforgettable fire
5) friends                                                             e) the joshua tree
6) he                                                                       f) rattle and hum
7) man                                                                 g) achtung baby
8) rainfall                                                            h) zooropa
9) song                                                                  i) pop
10) tall                                                                  j) all that you can’t leave behind
11) wandering                                                   k) how to dismantle an atomic bomb
12) you                                                                 l) no line on the horizon

Bonus question: What is the last word from Original Soundtracks 1?

Download:
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Rating:
42!
the answer to everything…

I have had A LOT of fun writing this and I want to thank you for reading this! You shall have to wait a few months before you can read another lengthy review from me, because over exactly 3 days and 4 months I’m going to a U2 concert!!!

2450 words! We’ve got a new record!