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[originally posted on myspace on July 30, 2008, Wednesday]

Last night, right before going out, I saw U2's video for "Where the Streets Have No Name"...it's the one with the doc feel, on the rooftop. I hadn't seen it from its' beginning (with the cops threatening to shut it down, etc) in a long time.

Probably when I first saw it, I'm going to say I didn't get it, didn't understand why they were going through all the trouble to play on a rooftop (as I was young and pro-Establishment and didn't know my Beatles history). But future viewings make me think it was awesomely cool, to play despite the possibility of getting shut down, to play to a mixed group, to just do something different.

So, watched it last night and, I don't know, kinda teared up a smidge about the emotion, the sorta-anarchy, the documentariness of it all (and then thought, geez, look at them now compared to then)...I want to make something like that...something that still stirs emotion in a bitter little heart after 20 some years...something that still has meaning decades later...something timeless.

I would be sad if I found out any of that police stuff in the video was staged...