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On Songs & Albums

U2: Rattle and Hum is 25 Years Old! Share Your Concert Film Memories...

Phil Joanou's groundbreaking concert film U2: Rattle and Hum opened during my senior year of high school, on the birthday of my lifelong friend and musical co-conspirator Todd Fadel. And I was so jealous. Todd would automatically have the most awesome birthday party ever. And he pretty much

On Songs & Albums

Happy 30th Anniversary to a Man and a Woman!

Last Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the marriage of Paul Hewson and Ali Stewart. If those names aren't familiar to you, then you're probably not much of a U2 fan. Here's an article about the two of them published last year at this

On Songs & Albums

20 Years Ago, U2 Moved in New and Mysterious Ways

It was 20 years ago this weekend that U2's Achtung Baby landed in music stores like something from another planet. I was assigned to listen to the album and turn in a music review the next day to The Falcon, the student newspaper at Seattle Pacific University. So

Looking Elsewhere

Fingertips: Anonymous; Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson; The Fantastic Mr. Star Fox; Woody Allen and Ethan Coen; Tom Waits; U2; Sara Zarr

Are you excited about Anonymous, the movie that's going to shock the world by revealing the shocking truth? No, me either. Check this out, from a New York Times take-down of the film: ... By bringing this unsubstantiated version of history to the screen, a lot of facts — theatrical

On Songs & Albums

U2 GQ

U2 are GQ's Men of the Year. I noted this in an earlier post, but now... ...you can peruse the full article here.

Looking Elsewhere

Fingertips: Wendell Berry; Submarine and Buck; U2 documentary; Feist; Ollabelle; Favorite Film of 2010 now on Blu-Ray; Philip Seymour Hoffman; Cinderella; and more.

Here are several fingertips, poking at you until you poke at the links I've discovered... Thanks to Mike Morrell for tweeting this: Wendell Berryhttp://t.co/1DWUpfS • I'm enjoying the new film reviews by Lauren Wilford, who published a review of Submarine at Image, and a

On Movies & Media

U2 fans: Ready for "Killing Bono"?

/Film has details and a trailer for the upcoming film about the early days of U2. It looks like it could be a lot of fun. And maybe it'll help us during the long wait for the next U2 album... which is supposed to arrive in May 2011

On Songs & Albums

Eno Déjà Vu

As I discovered the cover art for Brian Eno's exciting new instrumental work Small Craft on a Milk Sea - which happens to sound like a sequel to his Passengers collaboration with U2 - I thought, Wow. That looks really familiar. Then I remembered this... Perhaps Eno'

On Songs & Albums

U2 and Julie Taymor are bringing on the webslinger

Want more? Here you go with a song... ... a song that sounds suspiciously like the song U2 did for Batman Forever.

On Songs & Albums

The New U2 Song "Soon"

Here's the new U2 song: "Soon" This is the song they played to pump up the crowds before their shows on the U2360 tour. Painfully short, but intriguing. I suspect it's just a piece of a song that will show up on their upcoming

On Songs & Albums

Get on your boots.

This June, as I get in line for my second encounter with the U2360 tour, fans will be enjoying the DVD of their Rose Bowl show. Here's the trailer...

On Movies & Media

Remake and Hum

The prolific French director Patrice Leconte made a wonderful movie called Man on the Train several years ago about a professor and a bank robber who trade lives for a day. A Canadian remake is now underway starring Donald Sutherland and... wait... really? LARRY MULLEN JR.?

On Songs & Albums

World Cup 2010

I've never been a soccer fan. But this preview just might make me one... httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXlBSlyU8xY

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"A Long Obedience in the Same Direction."

It's a Nietzsche quote. The essential thing 'in heaven and earth' is . . . that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living. It's the title of