Sunday, June 26, 2011
THE EDGE HAS GOT HIS HAT ON
Bono before his weekly addressOn Friday night, U2's performance at Glastonbury was considered a triumph - proof indeed that many a good tune is played on an old fiddle.
Zane Lowe: half dead and killin' itThey were so life-enhancingly great that BBC continuity man Zane Lowe had to be treated by paramedics for what a spokesman calls "getting too over enthusiastic too soon in the weekend, even before Tame Impala were due to play". His colleague Jo Whiley immediately became pregnant for the eleventh time.
Jo Whiley: fertileSo it is with delight that I'm able to pass on a message from U2 frontman Bono. Now safe in his tax avoidance retreat - a turreted castle halfway up a Swiss alp - he delivered these Biblical lines:
"Deep within the primordial rock 'n' roll swamp the shadows move, acting out their shadowplay. Clarence Frogman Henry walks on water but croaks his last ... Jack Kerouac gets high on life and bangs to the beat of a different generation, on the road with Neal Cassady and the Sundance Kid. Elvis had his kiss curls and his lip curls and his hip swirls, sending the girls into raptures. Take a tour to the store, don't strain your brain.
The Pope speaks to me on Skype. He says "Hi Bono, what's happening on Planet Worthy Farm? Here am I, sitting in the Vatican, far above the moon. Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do".
Ian Curtis' arms wave in space semaphore signals. He's telling us ... he's telling us that the world has torn us apart again.
There's nothing we can do but orbit in our own space.
See yer!
Lots of love,
Bono xxx
Labels: Bono, Elvis Presley, Glastonbury, Ian Curtis, Jo Whiley, over enthusiasm, Tame Impala, the Pope, U2, Zane Lowe - B Boy
Friday, January 23, 2009
IF YOU WANT TO GET AHEAD, GET A HAT
The scales have fallen from my eyes.
For the last couple of years, I've been under the impression that Barack Obama is in his late thirties.
On the day of his inauguration, I found out that he is in fact forty seven.
How could I have made this mistake? I know I live in my *own little world* but ... really ...
I should have known.
Barack Obama is a Bruce Springsteen fan.
A man who is forty seven would like Bruce Springsteen.
A man in his late thirties, however, would think that Morrissey's new album is a real return to form, from what they've heard of it.
A man who is thirty would be looking forward to Blur's reunion, and they were first in line to get the tickets to see them at Hyde Park.
A man who is fifty five would buy the most recent Neil Young album six months after it came out, inspired by the review in Uncut that says "all in all, not a classic, but a real statement of intent from the grizzled old buzzard."
Anyway, I'm relieved to find out that Barack Obama is older than me. It still lets me cling on to the last vestiges of hope that I'm not actually a grown up.
As I said over at Boz's's's', if the next Pope is younger than me, then I will be very sad indeed.
Labels: Aretha Franklin's hat takes over the world, Barack Obama, being old, grizzled old buzzards, return to form, the Pope, Uncut
