No Line on the Horizon

So U2’s new album, No Line on the Horizon, got ‘accidentally’ leaked yesterday. Have been listening to it. My first response was that it was a bit disappointing and naff, but it might be growing on me.

‘Get On Your Boots’

U2’s new single. Listen here.

Birthday tea

After work today Dad came over and had a look at our garden. Then Mum and Adam and Justin came in on the train, and Nomes got back from the beach and we had Chinese food for tea. Adam gave me a bootleg of the U2 show we went to. Justin gave me some [...]

What happened during the G20 – day 3

I got back to the embassy after the concert at about twelve thirty. There wasn’t really any space left for me to lie down and go to sleep, so I just sat against the barricade. Ben turned up on his rollerblades, with two containers of rice that he’d cooked for us.
I ended up not actually [...]

What happened during the G20 – day 2

Saturday morning I found the embassy right at the bottom of Russell Street, which was where all of the cars and buses and police where entering and exiting the blockaded area.

This guy called Lorian turned up, and said that he’d heard about what we were doing and wanted to join us. A couple [...]

Fire escape films

I managed to set up the dataprojector on the fire escape, to project onto the adjacent building. Tested it with Zoo TV Live from Sydney, and took these pictures:

Then we watched this video that we made early in the year of Jono (an ex-resident from Urban Seed) playing some of the [...]

Pop art and street art

Moved my stuff to the new backpackers. Seems a lot cleaner and tidier, and it doesn’t smell. There seems to be a lot of students staying there.
Ended up wandering around Surry Hills today, and eventaully finding Paddington. Was a lot of street art in Paddington, compared to anywhere else I’ve been in Sydney.

Found [...]

U2 ticket

Monday morning I got a ticket to see U2 in March. Hurrah.

‘Wake Up’

by Arcade Fire
from Funeral

Somethin’
Filled up
My heart
With nothin’
Someone
Told me
Not to cry
But now that
I’m older
My heart’s
Colder
And I
Can
See that it’s a lie
Children
Wake up
Hold your
Mistake up
Before they
Turn the
Summer into dust
If the children
Don’t grow up
Our bodies get
Bigger
But
Our hearts get torn up
We’re just
A million little gods causing rain storms
Turning every good thing to rust
I guess
We’ll just have to adjust
With my lighning [...]

Death

Just found this on the U2 Sermons Blog, from Easter Sunday:

I am death
the mighty destroyer
of the world