Thank fuck for credit cards. U2 ticket hit pre-sale tomorrow morning. Two nights in Twickenham for what should be massive gigs. Dublin has been confirmed. Croke Park for four nights running in what are the only Irish gigs of the tour. And yes, they are the same dates as Glastonbury. Tickets on general sale in staggered dates from this coming Friday.
Pre-sales start tomorrow morning. I’m in with them, I don’t know if I have any sort of limits on what I can buy with them (short of my plastic) but if there are, then I’ll be booking Dublin first and as many as I can get. Then Twickenham and again as many as I can get.
It’s a good thing that nothing I’ve heard line-up wise about Glastonbury is exiting me this year. I’ll get the Dublin tickets safe in the knowledge if I don’t go I’ll be easily able to pass them on. Will have to be for at least two nights to justify the travel and missing Glastonbury. Although I have just had the mad thought of going to Glastonbury and flying home the Monday afternoon to get to Croke Park that evening. I’d be completely shattered but it might be worth it. Hmm, now that’s well worth thinking about.
I can be back at the flat from the festival by around 12 I reckon if I’m up and out early early early. Then shower, drop stuff off and I can be at Heathrow by 3 or 4 and then straight from Dublin airport to the gig. Get my parents to collect my luggage. Tuesday I could then sleep.
I really like the sound of that and it is completely the best of both worlds. Complete madness but worth a whole lot of thinking about. Seeing them in Twickenham will be a great great day but seeing them in Dublin, in Croke Park of all places will be something else.
Anyway. Saturday night I missed V-Mas as I was off in lovely Hammersmith. I really hate Hammersmith and it’s horrible having to do the same journey I do to get to work on a Saturday, nevermind going to some of the same bars beforehand. Still it was a good cause, Velvet Revolver were playing in the Apollo. It was an excellent gig. They came on stage about an hour late with apologies as they “were off saving the world” but man it was an entrance. Great gig.
Sunday was quiet enough. I headed down to Camden with Tim for some shopping. A few comics, some books and some more blank dvds. Most of the afternoon and indeed evening was spent in CoH bagging some Winter Lords and other fun stuff. Very glad to report that I had respecs waiting on all my characters. So on my Katana/DA main I dropped a couple of attacks (I had too many anyway) and the DA cloaking thing and respeced in Kick (cause I had to), Tough and Weave giving me 4 defensive toggles. I have good defence. Did a lovely lovely level 39 mission last night with a Winter Lord hunting team and wasn’t sidekicked. I could hit, not well, but I could hit. Lots of nice XP from them but far more importantly 14k XP for the complete. I love it. So um yeah I’m back.
Took a break to head out with Alex to see Mean Streets at the NFT. Very enjoyable with the usual high standard of performances that Scorsese brings out. Alex nailed some of it on the head with a comparison to Bendis dialogue which I like so that was good too.
This week has gone from quiet enough to not so. Drinks tomorrow night in the Washington for Alex’s artist collection <:)> leading up to a couple of friends from Dublin staying the weekend which includes a birthday party which is going to run late on Saturday night and Planxty in the Barbican on Sunday. I’m really looking forward to that one. The usual Thursday in between then and whatever tourist stuff is gotten up to around all that. I may take a day off next week. I have some to use up and now I’m thinking about what I’m going to do with them. I was thinking Dublin for a bit but Paris has been calling for a long time now and it’s almost as cheap to go there for a midweek break. I would have to get a new camera before then so that adds things up a bit.
I’m using http://www.tadalist.com/ to track stuff. So far it’s for purchases and cinema trips. It’s not got half the functionality that I want but it’s new and shiny and on the web and so like a sheep I am following it. I could do it a whole lot better in an excel sheet but I don’t like excel and I’d have to load it and save it somewhere that I can access from home and work and I am inherently lazy. I’ll upgrade them into something better sometime when I can be bothered and really have the need to do so.
Lets see, oh yes. I finished off The Time Traveler’s Wife and it was stunning. One of the best books I’ve ever read. I wasn’t able to start another book for two days afterward and I feel like I’m betraying it by having started off on another one. No book has ever made me feel like that before.
A fairly nice long lunch today for a birthday and it’s going on 4pm already. I like days that suddenly disappear like that.