the mel's here!

track 69 was a track from a movie with mel gibson in it, just like track 68! now the two are linked. ho-ho!

there was a time when i considered all things u2 as holy. i think it started when i accidentally checked achtung baby! out from the pocatello public library when i was 15 or so. it didn't have a cover on it and i thought it was another album...howard jones, maybe. as you may or may not know, achtung baby! is a kick-ass album. i will never apologize for loving it. so you can imagine what followed, concerts, midnight release parties, watching and re-watching the zoo tv from sydney show with my girlfriend, making bono-shaped candles to burn in my dorm room, etc.

zooropa is awesome. pop i still like. from there on out...mostly shite. i realized i had turned a corner when i saw this and laughed at everything on it without feeling like i was betraying anybody. i suspect that whoever wrote that little infographic went through a process very similar to my own.

anyway, my obsession was just starting to wind down when million-dollar hotel came out. a bono-written script you say? well, maybe i'll check it out when it comes out on dvd. it's not that bad of a movie, but did we really need milla jovovich's caterwauling on the soundtrack? you tell me.

track 70 was also written by lou reed, and was also sung by a woman with an unpleasant voice.

track 71
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