U2 3D
Whoo hoo! Wow, it was totally amazing! We had dinner at Chili’s w/some friends and drove up to Sac to the Imax Theater and saw the late, late showing. OMG! It was so good! It some ways I can imagine that it was as good if not better than being at an actual concert. Better probably because the sound is better and you’re so much closer to the action and you don’t have to smell sweaty bodies crushing you in the crowd. They filmed this concert in Argentina and there were probably 100,000 people there. The crowd was unbelievable. Bono was off the hook! The 3D thing is crazy, I’ve never seen that before on that scale. Most of the time Bono and the boys were so close you could actually count the whiskers on their face and it felt as if you were right there on stage w/them. The first time they did a close-up of Bono I actually reached out to try to touch him. It was almost creepy. Anyway, the setlist was a good mix of old and new stuff and they closed with Yahweh. Absolute sensory overload when they did “The Fly” and very emotional when they did “One”. Lots of 3D graphic stuff going on that was layered and totally cool. Anyway, I’m planning to go and see it again. Even if you’re not a huge U2 fan this would be hugely entertaining. If you’re a U2 fan, like me, it’s a must see.
(funny story: At Chili’s I saw an old friend from my former UPC church. Ultra-con chick with no brains, and her husband. Anyway, I got little perverse kick out of telling them we were going to see U2 and made a point to show her my U2 T-shirt I was wearing. She acted liked she’d never heard of U2. I mentioned that he was really instrumental in bringing attention to the AIDS crisis in Africa. Without missing a beat she immediately crinkled up her face and said “Do they have a homosexual problem over there? I heard they have a Bi problem too.” I almost burst out laughing. Her husband is a little more balanced and gave this look like, “Dude, just let it go. I know, she’s dumb as a rock.” He winked at me when I walked off. haha.