WIDE AWAKE, I’M NOT SLEEPING
I’m unhappy but I’m not. It isn’t the “January Blues” or SAD. Truth be told, I can’t pinpoint it, but I’ve known for sometime now that I need to love myself more by eliminating the things that rob my life of joy. Either way, I’m heading home to the Island for the weekend and unplugging the computer while turning off my cell phone for 48 hours.
In the meantime, I’ve discovered, there are some things that I can do to increase my joy. One of those things being that I can re-discover the things that brought me a lot of happiness in my younger days. For as long as I can remember, since my age was most definitely in the single digits, I’ve held a personal affinity to U2. I’m not talking about U2 now, but everything prior to 1988 was formative to my childhood years. To this day, ‘The Unforgettable Fire‘ is still my favourite album of all time with the track ‘Bad‘ being the one song I love more than any other song ever written. In fact, were someone to tell me that I could only ever listen to one song for the rest of my life, I would choose ‘Bad’ without any hesitation.
That being said, last night I popped in a DVD that I’d bought a few months ago but had yet to watch: ‘Rattle and Hum.’ I rented this movie incessantly during my junior high years. Now 20 years old, ‘Rattle and Hum’ follows the band through middle America, primarily through stylized black and white concert footage. I’ve never been much of one to enjoy watching concert footage on the screen, but this film is nothing short of pure comfort to me when I seem to most need it.
Below I’ve included the live clip of ‘Bad’ from the movie, along with a few other songs below if you’re interested.
‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For‘
‘Silver and Gold‘ (this includes an amazing guitar solo by the Edge around the 6-minute mark)
All this being said, and considering that I’m unplugging for the weekend, this will be my last post until Sunday evening at the earliest. I won’t be checking phone messages, Facebook, e-mail or comment moderation until that time. Have a good weekend, everyone.
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I dreamed of you last night. You stood there on the other side of the gate; your sandy hair unkempt as I like it, your smile just as warm as I remember. You took me away and I forgot about everything that was on my side of the gate.
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I agree. Old-School U2 was amazing. The Joshua-Tree era.
You know, I somehow stumbled upon a write-up about Kurt Cobain the other night and have been itching to find all my Nirvana CDs and play them all ever since.
Dang, I was just thinking about buying “Rattle and Hum” myself!
I LOVE the title track of your favorite U2 album.
When they were rehearsing in Vancouver many of their management and sound people were coming thru the airport. When I found out they were with U2 I always made it a point to say that I liked the band BEFORE the sunglasses.