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It was 20 years ago this weekend that U2′s Achtung Baby landed in music stores like something from another planet.

I was assigned to listen to the album and turn in a music review the next day to The Falcon, the student newspaper at Seattle Pacific University. So I joined the line of U2 fans at Tower Records for the midnight album release. Then I rushed back to my dorm, put on my headphones, and listened to the album four times through. It turned in my review at 4 a.m. and then slept a couple of hours before my first class of the day.

I found that review in a file folder tonight, and read it again. I’m surprised. I agree with almost everything that that 21-year-old wrote.

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U2 are GQ’s Men of the Year. I noted this in an earlier post, but now… (more…)

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As I discovered the cover art for Brian Eno’s exciting new instrumental work Small Craft on a Milk Sea – which happens to sound like a sequel to his Passengers collaboration with U2 – I thought, Wow. That looks really familiar.

Then I remembered this… (more…)

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The prolific French director Patrice Leconte made a wonderful movie called Man on the Train several years ago about a professor and a bank robber who trade lives for a day.

A Canadian remake is now underway starring Donald Sutherland and…

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I’ve never been a soccer fan.

But this preview just might make me one… (more…)

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It’s a Nietzsche quote.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is . . . that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

It’s the title of a Eugene Peterson book on “the Psalms of Ascents”.

And if Bono gets his way… (more…)

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Members of U2 are talking again.

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The Browser: News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow. New headlines may be added as the day goes on. Stay tuned. (more…)

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The Browser: News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow. New headlines may be added as the day goes on. Stay tuned. (more…)

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Inspired by a line in the song “Get On Your Boots,” from the new U2 album No Line on the Horizon, Matthew Price put together a collage that proves the profundity of Bono’s lyric:

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