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[lauralh]

I realize a lot of ppl are worried about this, but I'm more worried about the GOA fags. I mean hello, I go out and want to ogle cute guys and possibly talk to them, not watch them hit on other men. It used to be the problem that I would not even talk to the guys for fear of gayness, but after a few of them went home with other women I got over it. Unfortunately this means I'm still wasting time talking to gay men. Which I don't mind all the time, because hey, cute guy, talking to me, but still, you have to cross them off the potentials list. And when the potentials list in general is only one or two guys, it's kinda bad. Some people would say I should try to change my standards for men, but I disagree and say that straight guys should try to come off a little more gay. In straight clubs, it can't hurt.

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I saw U2 when they had their big POPmart tour. ("We want you to be where we are. And we're at the mall, shopping.") I think that was their last good album. Granted I'm talking out my ass because I haven't bought any of their albums since then, but I thought "The Sweetest Thing" and "Beautiful Day" were fucking shitty songs so I didn't bother. I know a lot of people saw that stuff as their "comeback to rock" but I disagree. For one thing, you don't "come back" to rock and do shiny happy songs after doing dark rock and dark pseudo-electronica. Also if you move to electronica you aren't allowed to "come back" to rock. This is my rule.

Besides I totally loved Pop. I mean, Achtung Baby is a great rawk album, coherent, sassy, powerful but without any real deep meaning. And, you know, it has a good beat and you can dance to it. I can't say shit about Zooropa, except that I think "Lemon" is a super cheesy song, but then I heard "Staring at the Sun." Which is like, old U2, pre-Joshua Tree (which, I am apparently alone in thinking, is an overrated album). Desperate longing. The rest of the album doesn't feel like that song on the surface, but the soul is contained in every track. Desperate longing is the whole point of rock music. I don't think I'm at all off the mark here, whether it's longing for a girl or sex or peace or respect...
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My question is, why are there no such thing as temporary tattoos? I don't mean the things you lick and put on your arm, I just think that there would be a huge market if they had inks which dissolved after five years (like Norplant). Of course more people would get them, and get really stupid ones, but they'd be cheaper, because you could get the apprentice artists to do them more cheaply. Apparently tattoo artists have the same problem as the whole world with the experience Catch-22

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It's the Ides of March, which means there's a week till my party and eleven days till the actual date of birth. The weather here in Seattle has been getting gradually milder; last night almost felt like summer with its fifty-degree weather at midnight. Of course in summer you get clear nights at fifty-five rather than slight drizzle, but still. It's rather grand, although I suppose it means an end to skiing. In a few months it will be summer proper and the temperatures will soar from fifty at night to nearly eighty during the day. I threw out most of my shorts before moving here, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Right now out my window, I can see flowers blooming on a tall tree against the backdrop of a soap-blue sky.

Comments

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

I love Achtung's whole-ness (but especially "So Cruel", with the lazy piano line.) Zooropa reminds me of D.C. and I think it's basically a b-sides album of songs that didn't fit w/ Achtung. Their last album was soooo shit. And I would be sooooo down with a 5 year tattoo.

OMG I love U2.

[sarahbliss.livejournal.com]

They were the first band I became obsessed with. "Lemon" can never be cheesy to me because it just has too much Eno-inluence. I think it's such a beautiful song. I only liked about half of the songs on Pop, which I thought was an appropriate name for the album since it seemed to be the time my U2-lovebubble popped, and I realized their dark rock/dark electronica method wasn't meshing well enough to have anymore profound effects on me, especially lyrics-wise. Granted, the half of the songs that I did like did have that old U2 impact, where you *are* where they want you to be mood-wise, they've captured you for the entire thing, and when it's over, you feel like you've been bombarded with the kind of thoughts you've been trying to think, if that makes any sense. Anyway, they must have realized it was fading too, because look at their last album. It's reminiscent of the Joshua Tree, people said, but I didn't see it. I haven't read who produced it and helped write the songs, however, which can turn questionable songs into more tolerable ones or even ones you end up loving.

"War" is a great album too.

ah, memories

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

After I graduated college, I still lived relatively close by and would drive over on the weekends to hang out with my friends. Anyway one of the few cassettes I owned was War and I would blare it at 3 in the morning, singing along to try to avoid falling asleep.

ignorant, but willing to learn

[ex-futch238.livejournal.com]

I confess my ignorance. Please enlighten me. What exactly are GOA fags?

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

men who like other men emphatically while listening to annoyingly loud Goa-Trance music.

relevant link

[ex-futch238.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the education.

[drisrael.livejournal.com]

sorry, i missed the connection between GOA and fags.


lots of psytrance prissys in seattle?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

You mean there aren't in SF? ha!

It was the same in my college days, really; we'd go to the GOA/trance parties and there were always lots of gayboys either giving massages 'cos they were high, or just ignoring all the girls completely because, well, you know. Steve and I went to this thing Thursday where they were spinning GOA and it brought me back in more ways than just the music.

(My favorite techno is the spacey trance stuff that goes faster with hard beats under it, which Steve tells me is GOA?)

[djpekky.livejournal.com]

About U2, I agree with you... I don't like All You Can't Leave Behind that much either.

My pet peeves: Stuck in a Moment..., Walk On, Grace and, very especially, Wild Honey gets on my nerves!!!

And the 5-year-temporary tatoos are such a great idea as well!

Peace!

Pekky

BTW

[djpekky.livejournal.com]

I must confess that I hate Zooropa with passion. it is an effective cure for insomnia in my opinion!

Peace!

Pekky

One might say

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

... the band has lost its edge.

[soul4rent.livejournal.com]

regarding temporary tattoos, with what some people put on their bodies, and where, it strikes me that a lot of people don't realize that tattoos don't dissolve after five years (i.e., after they're out of their party-drinking-sex phase).