the dreaming tree

first off, u2 was beyond amazing. best concert i will ever see. ever. they’re as perfect live as a band can get. incredible. here’s the setlist, which i located at u2setlists.com…

City Of Blinding Lights, Vertigo / Rockaway Beach (snippet) / Rock ‘N’ Roll Nigger (snippet), Elevation, The Electric Co. / Bullet With Butterfly Wings (snippet) / See Me, Feel Me (snippet), The Ocean, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For / Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting (snippet) / In A Little While (snippet), Beautiful Day / Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (snippet), Miracle Drug, Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own / The Black Hills of Dakota (snippet), Love And Peace Or Else, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Bullet The Blue Sky / The Hands That Built America (snippet) / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet), Miss Sarajevo, Pride (In The Name Of Love), Where The Streets Have No Name, One / Ol’ Man River (snippet)
encores: The First Time, Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of, Angel Of Harlem, With Or Without You, All Because Of You, Yahweh, 40

at the end, everyone was singing the chorus to “40″ as the band exited one-by-one: first bono, then adam clayton, then the edge, and finally larry mullen, jr. also, on that tune, the edge played bass and adam played guitar. and then everyone kept singing for a few minutes, and as we were leaving the building, i’d hear people here and there still singing. it was a really cool ending to a stunning night.

secondly, i finally went to a doctor about my hand. it is broken: a spiral fracture on the third metacarpal. i’m going to see a specialist next wednesday…hopefully it won’t require surgery or something drastic. right now i have a removeable splint/cast thing running up most of my forearm, and only my index finger and thumb are usable. but don’t worry, michael and zach, i’ve been playing guitar for the past couple weeks in this state, so i’ll be good for the show, i promise.

thirdly, i watched crash again tonight, and it hit me as hard as it did the first time. just an excellent movie that everyone should see.