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........... and hello again to you late night visitors ....... I know you are there and want to say that Willie Williams has yet another few quotes on my second fav U2 website;
www.u2.com
and it gives a lengthy quote from a new U2 book ........
"First, U2 are a band who pursue a particular, visceral intimacy with their audience. (Hence, you imagine, Bono's admiration for the Velvet Underground, Patti Smith and Morrissey.) "
Regulars will know I support U2 between albums and during the hot and interesting ones like now. I have gigged with them in the small places when they played for free or little dosh. I have taken groups of teenagers to BBC free radio broadcast gigs and pumped out U2 plasic records from club juke boxes - about thirty years ago.
I love where they are coming from and what they do.
Moving on ...... last week at this conference I had times when I felt lonely.
I want to blog about this because it is a mistake to think that vulnerability is weakness.
On a conference like that I chose not to hang around in groups with humans I work with in several locations. I tend to mix with people from different countries and always hang out with the ones who are on the fringe of the noise and maybe those who spend a little more time than others - with lingering eyes ...... Staring into their warm beer.
That leaves me sometimes between stools.
That leaves me left behind from the crowd.
That leaves me ...... feeling alone and when I am tired I feel it more.
My choice.
Also at conferences and similar events - there is always one person who takes up a central position in the bar/room and gathers humans around with strength of personality and light entertainment.
On the fringe of these humans - usually there is a few others who hang about and hesitate to join the buzzing throng.
In these small groups there is often the best L5 conversations and I love it, love it, love it.
I want to tell you who I am .......
When I got on the plane in Czechia I said to the man in seat A18 ....... I think you are sitting in my seat ....... he then read his A19 ticket out to me ...... and then, then, I spotted the empty seat in front of him, so clearly marked now, and announced "I am having trouble with imperfection ......" as the whole plane seem to laugh .... I smiled too .....
I am telling you who I am ..........
sprinklings of stardust be upon you now and forever ......
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