so forgive me, for last night i didn’t watch the super bowl but i did watch u2 perform during the half-time show.
and i loved their performance apart from two things…and i’m sorry to complain, but these two things troubled me.
during ‘where the streets have no name’ they were scrolling the list of names of people who were killed on 9/11, and i thought that it was very moving. but then they would cut to shots of people in the audience cheering and hollering and partying, and it seemed like a distasteful juxtaposition.
i can’t imagine that if i were in the audience i would be capable of partying as the names of 3,400 innocent terrorist victims scrolled in front of me. that put a bad taste in my mouth and it seemed disrespectful.
the other thing that bothered me was when the giant screen cascaded down.
it was way too reminiscent of the twin towers falling down and it actually made me gasp in a shell-shocked survivor sort of way.
but i love u2 and i thought that there performance was great. i just wish that the audience could have been a little bit more respectful as the names of the terrorist victims scrolled in front of them. seeing the list of the terrorist victims reopened my feelings of great sadness and anger. i really do aspire to forgiveness and love, but i hate the terrorists so much that it troubles me.
ok, i don’t want to get bogged down in such negativity. i’m eating rice and tempeh and my new album is finished and i have a bottle of juice in front of me, so it seems foolish to focus on hatred.
i hope that you all had a nice weekend.
-moby