I'm getting Pizza tonight from Little Sleazers for my parents birthday party. On a side note, I worked at LC in high school. I got promoted to Assisstant Manager until the Manager found out I was not 18 and could not legally run the bread dough mixer, I forget what that thing is called. The Berkle maybe? LC is cheap and easy but not that good in my opinion.
One of my fondest memories is being poor, just married, and splitting a crazy bread with my new wife for lunch. We could not afford Crazy Sauce, just the bread with a 99 cent coupon. This was in Logan while we were both finishing our last year of college. After class we would take it back to our attic apartment where we could only stand up straight in the kitchen, not in the TV room or bedroom, and we had no shower, only a bath. That was a great time in my life. I would give anything to live that simply again. Maybe someday.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
You Too
Something that really influenced me a lot as a young man was the film "U2's Rattle and Hum". I recorded it the other day from TV and have really enjoyed watching it again. There was a time I used to come home every day from high school and as I did my homework I would pop that in the VCR. A VCR is a video recording device from the 80's..... never mind.
I started to wish I could listen to it in my car so using the latest in high technology, me and Courtney went to Mundt's house and recorded the whole movie on to a VHS tape. A VHS tape is a recording device for audio.... forget it.
So I would watch the movie at home and listen to the tape in the car. I used to mark down how many times I had seen the movie, I think I was in the 50's in just a few weeks when I stopped counting. I knew every word of not only the songs but the dialogue of the film in between the songs. If you know the saying, "If I had a head like yours I'd bleedin bury it" then you know what I am talking about. I was the fan that got mad when people said they liked U2 because I felt like I liked them more or before they were huge. I took it personally at times.
I can't pinpoint what it was about the film that I loved so much, I guess I just loved the band and the music. But there were parts in that film that were super awesome to me. The part in Tempe with the red background when they start with "Where the Streets have no Name" was super awesome, I would always get chills. I remember dreaming of what it must have been there to be at that concert. I really wanted to see them live.
Before my mission they were coming to Arizona and me and some friends decided to go. We got on the phone, this was 1992 before Al Gore made the internet, and on the morning the tickets went on sale we called. For some reason, however, they would not accept our call because it was outside of Arizona. I don't remember all the details but I remember being with someone and we drove south on I-15 to the point of entry on the Arizona side and called from a pay phone and we were too late or it still did not work. I was so bummed.
So after that missed opportunity I finally got the chance to go in 1997 when I was at USU and they came to Salt Lake. It was May 3, I remember, because I had just gone on my first date with my wife and it was her birthday and I got her a t-shirt and I remember coming home from this concert and she had decorated my room with those glow in the dark star stickers that were so huge in the 1990's. That was awesome of her.
Unfortunately, the concert was not as awesome. I had spent like 10 years building up this moment in my mind and it was nothing like I had hoped. It was barely even mediocre. I think the highlight was The Edge singing "Daydream Believer" by the Monkees. By the way Josh, you still owe me $50 for that concert!
I started to wish I could listen to it in my car so using the latest in high technology, me and Courtney went to Mundt's house and recorded the whole movie on to a VHS tape. A VHS tape is a recording device for audio.... forget it.
So I would watch the movie at home and listen to the tape in the car. I used to mark down how many times I had seen the movie, I think I was in the 50's in just a few weeks when I stopped counting. I knew every word of not only the songs but the dialogue of the film in between the songs. If you know the saying, "If I had a head like yours I'd bleedin bury it" then you know what I am talking about. I was the fan that got mad when people said they liked U2 because I felt like I liked them more or before they were huge. I took it personally at times.
I can't pinpoint what it was about the film that I loved so much, I guess I just loved the band and the music. But there were parts in that film that were super awesome to me. The part in Tempe with the red background when they start with "Where the Streets have no Name" was super awesome, I would always get chills. I remember dreaming of what it must have been there to be at that concert. I really wanted to see them live.
Before my mission they were coming to Arizona and me and some friends decided to go. We got on the phone, this was 1992 before Al Gore made the internet, and on the morning the tickets went on sale we called. For some reason, however, they would not accept our call because it was outside of Arizona. I don't remember all the details but I remember being with someone and we drove south on I-15 to the point of entry on the Arizona side and called from a pay phone and we were too late or it still did not work. I was so bummed.
So after that missed opportunity I finally got the chance to go in 1997 when I was at USU and they came to Salt Lake. It was May 3, I remember, because I had just gone on my first date with my wife and it was her birthday and I got her a t-shirt and I remember coming home from this concert and she had decorated my room with those glow in the dark star stickers that were so huge in the 1990's. That was awesome of her.
Unfortunately, the concert was not as awesome. I had spent like 10 years building up this moment in my mind and it was nothing like I had hoped. It was barely even mediocre. I think the highlight was The Edge singing "Daydream Believer" by the Monkees. By the way Josh, you still owe me $50 for that concert!
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