Friday, July 29, 2011

Logan's Run remake

Interesting article on IO9 about the "never seems to get anywhere" Logan's Run remake.

Monday, July 18, 2011

We're All Crazy

Slashdot has a great discussion on the over-prescription of anti-psychotic drugs in the U.S. (big pharma influencing doctors, maybe? whatever happened to professional ethics, anyway? or personal ethics, for that matter...).

And yes, this post's title refers to the great Alice Cooper song (off From the Inside).

Sunday, July 17, 2011

U2 setlist - Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia, July 14, 2011

I was in the nosebleed section, so the sound quality wasn't great. Still a good show by Bono and the gang, though unfortunately no Running to Stand Still (sigh). Also, they did not play In God's County, despite what the guy on WMMR said. Here's the setlist, mostly courtesy of U2gigs.com:

Even Better Than The Real Thing
I Will Follow
Mysterious Ways
Until The End Of The World / Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (snippet)
Get On Your Boots
Magnificent
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / The Promised Land (snippet)
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
Beautiful Day / Space Oddity (snippet)
Elevation
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Miss Sarajevo
Zooropa
City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo / It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) (snippet)
Miss You (snippet) / I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight / Discothèque (snippet) / Life During Wartime (snippet) / Psycho Killer (snippet)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Scarlet
Walk On

Encore(s):
One
Hallelujah (snippet)
Where The Streets Have No Name

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
With Or Without You
Moment of Surrender
Happy Birthday (for Nelson Mandela)