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May 13, 2005
Stuck in a moment
As you can probably tell from reading this web site, I idolize Bono. Yesterday I finally saw Bono and the rest of U2 in concert, at the United Center. It was an interesting show. I've never been a fan of shows in gigantic arenas - Bono was but a speck in the distance from where we stood, which was about the farthest away one could be from the stage.
Bono did his typical world peace and debt forgiveness shtick, and he ended the night by having people pledge to work towards peace by sending a text message with your name to a special number. The names were then played on a screen during the encore. I wonder how long it took them to come up with that idea?
I especially enjoyed one particular bit of the show: how, throughout the entire concert, you could see hundreds of glowing lights throughout the arena. They were cell phones, held into the sky to give the person on the other end of the line a short snippet of U2. At times it seemed like every person in the arena was making a phone call like that. Whatever happened to absorbing the moment?
Posted by oz115 at May 13, 2005 07:22 AM