Apple is the reason people shoplift
If you came here because you keep seeing my site come up in pings, I’m sorry. My fault. I’m screwing around with something on here and I noticed it was doing that. Will stop soon. Very soon. Sorry.
Here are some of the songs that I can remember them playing:
Open
Fascination Street
Friday I’m in Love
Just Like Heaven
A Night Like This
Love Song
Shake Dog Shake
The End of the World
Wrong Number
Alt.end
Lullaby
The Walk
One Hundred Years
Never Enough
Pictures of You
Hot Hot Hot!!!
The Figurehead
A Strange Day
And a WHOLE bunch more including some new stuff. They had been playing for 2.5 hours when we left before the first encore. We listened from outside the doors looking at t-shirts as they played these songs:
Inbetween Days Days (Encore)
Why Can’t I Be You (Encore)
Close To Me (Encore)
And reading posts on the official site I see that they actually played a second encore as well which included Forest. I love that song and wish I would have stayed for that.
Oh well, at least I got to sit on the bus back without people crammed into me. That’s something.
we are back from the concert and I have to share.
Click for a larger image. I didn’t take my camera for fear of them confiscating it so this is from a distance with my phone. If you look at the center you can make out Robert Smith.
Even though it’s been 15 or 16 years since I last saw The Cure in concert, I can honestly say that Robert Smith has lost nothing over the years. And now that they’ve regrouped as a four piece band and lost most of the techno and keyboards, they rock. I mean seriously rock. And the best parts were that they played mostly their old stuff from the biggest faves to the more obscure oldies (which I loved) and some of the funny keyboard stuff Robert or Porl were able to recreate just using their guitars.
It was an amazing show. If you are a fan and tickets go on sale for a venue near you, do yourself a favor and go. This may be the last tour ever.
Tonight is the night we try to figure out how to get to the Asia World Arena to see The Cure live in Hong Kong. It doesn’t look like they have anyone else touring with them as far as I can tell which is a shame. Last time I saw The Cure live, The Cranes opened for them. That was an awesome show and I was hooked on a band I had never heard of before then because of that show.
Also, while looking up how to get to the venue, I saw another announcement: Nine Inch Nails is going to be at the same venue on September 13, 2007. Now I had mentioned before that all I needed was for NIN and They Might Be Giants to tour Hong Kong but I never really thought one of them would actually do it. The sad thing though is that as much as I would love to see Nine Inch Nails live again, I’m afraid I maybe just too old now.
Last time I saw NIN play live it was during the Downward Spiral tour in the gymnasium of SIU-Carbondale. They had a little known band open for them called Marilyn Manson which was pretty bizarre at the time. If I remember correctly it was Reznor that gave Manson his big break. That was a long time ago though and I was much younger. It was an amazing show, but I have to admit that I was so exhausted and sweaty after that show that all I wanted to do was sleep. The last thing I wanted to do was drive an hour and a half back to St. Louis, MO to get home.
Considering the tickets for this upcoming show are all standing-only like they were back when I saw them, I have a feeling it would be the exact same thing. Only I’m not so sure I’d appreciate getting kicked in the head anymore like I used to. Damn I guess you are as old as you feel. I feel old.
Nintendo’s been saying that they’ve got some big news coming up for their golden child of a console. According to the rumor in this article though, this surprise may be a bombshell big enough to put some hurt on Sony and Microsoft. What if Nintendo sold a slightly more expensive Wii that included a Blu-Ray DVD player?
If this is true then this is going to be big. And if you think about it, it would be a seriously smart move on the part of Nintendo. How much do you think that would solidify the market against the flailing HD-DVD format (and by extension Microsoft and the XBox360)? And since you know the price of a Blu-Ray enabled Wii would be nowhere near the cost of the outrageously priced Sony PS3, how many sales would Sony lose to Nintendo? Especially when one of Sony’s big selling points was that you got the added benefit of Blu-Ray.
The only losers in this deal would be the millions who’ve scrambled to get their hands on a first gen Wii. Unless of course they also sold an add-on, but that seems unlikely as the current gen consoles have no HDMI outputs. I would assume that a new Blu-Ray version would require this to be competitive.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
It’s the end of the month and I’m looking through the statistics so far for traffic to the site. Because it’s always fun to see what shows up. First off, I’d like to say HELLO to the people from the following countries that seem to be visiting the site more often.
Whew!
Of course the bulk of my visitors still seem to be my friends and family in the United States. Ah, who am I kidding? My family doesn’t read this drivel.
There seem to be a lot of people searching for information on the Hing Lee Camera Company which is where we bought our Nikon D200 camera setup. I’m not sure what you’re all looking for but the people there were all very nice and their prices were competitive. They are located near the escalator on Lyndhurst Terrace Road in Central, Hong Kong.
There’s also a lot of people still looking for help with that messaging interface error in Outlook that I talked about. Hopefully that info helps some people.
And there are a few people who showed up after looking for stuff about The Cure playing a big live show here in Hong Kong. I posted a while back about getting tickets when they went on sale and that show is this coming Monday (July 30, 2007)!!! Tuesday morning is going to be rough….
And this marks the third month in a row that I’ve had over 600 unique visitors. Hopefully in the next month or two I’ll be able to brag about 700 but I’m not holding my breath. If you’re interested in a link exchange though, let me know.
I was checking out Wikiquote and of course noticed the section on Douglas Adams on the front page and had to check it out. And after reading this page, I realized that many of these quotes were usable and funny and more embarrasingly seem to apply to me in some ways. I’ve picked two out that I think truly apply to my life at the moment:
Now I know that I’m not on any real deadlines (well except maybe lifespan) except for those that I create for myself. These self-imposed deadlines do in fact make a bit of a sound as they fly by. But then again I do have a very vivid, and some would say delusionary, imagination.
I sometimes think that I come up with some snippet or full blown idea of story or fantasy every single day. Other days, I don’t think about it all, probably because I’m too busy daydreaming or playing out conversations in my head. Those of you who know me in real life know that unless I’m truly excited about something (and someone is actually listening), I could probably be considered mute. I’m just not a talkative person and I am not chatty. Well, unless I’ve been drinking and then I usually say too much.
At the resort there was a German chef who wandered table to table to talk to everyone every night. When he got to our table it was generally quite awkward. I joked with my wife that I need a sign to hold up that read: “I am not good at chit-chat.” I could hold this sign up immediately after the hello’s and watch the people’s confused faces as they turned and left. But it really wouldn’t work would it? People would inevitably ask me about my sign and want to chit-chat about it. In which case I would probably need to devise another sign. This would probably cause a repeating pattern that would eventually run the world out of posterboard, sticks and markers.
If at this point you were looking back up at the beginning of this post trying to figure out what the point of this all was, then you have in fact missed the point entirely. I know because I just caught myself doing the same thing.
I commented over on my friend’s site Insomnic Dreams when he was talking about the Harry Potter craze and mania over the new book. He was saying how people were intentionally spoiling the ending for people because they downloaded the book early just to piss people off. So of course, not having read the book myself, I had to add a spoiler as to how the Harry Potter story ends. And it goes a little something like this:
OK here€™s what happens:
Dumbeldoor gets caught in Macy€™s trying on some lace panties and garter set by Ron and Hermoiney. He tries to seduce them but the kids are saved by the Lord Voldamort guy only to tear off their heads and stick them on the spires of the Warthogs school. This gets Harry€™s knickers in a twist and he challenges Baldemort to a duel. Harry leads off with a Bulbasaur and Voldemert throws a Jigglypuff. An epic battle ensues. In the meantime, Pikachu snatches up the One Wicket and uses it to power the Mach 5 which he uses to destroy Malfoy€™s helicopter in mid-air. Bulbasaur and Harry beat the snot out of Jigglypuff and Volomort runs off with Snape over the rainbow. And they all live happily ever after.
So there you have it. How the series ends (at least in my messed up brain). It’s spoiled.
In other news, I did absolutely NO writing while on vacation. I meant to but I didn’t. I did however watch a lot of the National Geographic channel. We also had the unfortunate experience of watching Speed 2: Cruise Control on Star Movies. We had never seen it so we figured, what the hell. Well, I liked the original movie and I was truly shocked to see that this stinking pile of crap that was called a sequel was directed by the same person. Speed may not have been the best movie in the world but it was damn fun and entertaining. Speed 2 on the other hand was like getting a rectal exam with an entire box of steel wool and then having to sit in a tub full of lemon juice. Seriously, it was that bad. If you are like me and up till this point you’ve managed to miss this stinker, please continue to do so. Free was far too expensive.
We just got back to our flat and we immediately switched on all the air-conditioners. Freaking hot in here. It’s late and I need a shower. Will say more later.
No one commented on my story The magician. No one liked it? *sigh*
Off to the showers and then bed. G’night.
Just a quick update.
We are here on Koh Yao Noi at the resort and we are both sunburnt. Big surprise there. We severely overpaid for some after-sun lotion which kinda sucks. And we seem to have had some money stolen. Otherwise, things are going quite well. We have tons of pictures so far. And we plan to see James Bond Island (from The Man With the Golden Gun) in two days. Via kayak. Sweet.
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