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My Tragic Radiohead Experience... or lack of.

I am an Australian living in Hong Kong. When I discovered that Radiohead were going on tour this year, I quickly checked to see if they were playing in Hong Kong.

I saw that they weren't and checked where else they were playing. I saw that they were going to Tai Wan, and I asked my parents if we could fly over. My parents, being fans too, attempted to book tickets on the Tai Wan site, which is only in Chinese. After hours of looking for an english translation and clicking on every possible link on the site, we gave up.

My mother then saw that Radiohead was playing in Rome during my school holidays and spent days planning a trip there. Unfortunately, the tickets were sold out. We found a site that said they had some spare and spent thousands and thousands of dollars on these tickets which were meant to be mailed to us. Just weeks before we were due to leave to Rome, we discovered that the site was fake and we had lost all of our money and were about to go to Rome, without Radiohead tickets. My mother quickly emailed a friend living in Rome to arrange tickets and luckily, he had spares! 

I had finally relaxed, after months of stressing over whether or not I was going to see my favourite band. I was on my last day of school when I found out about the Toronto incident. On my way to the airport I checked the Radiohead tour dates site and, that was when I saw that the Rome concert had been postponed.

Don't get me wrong, I went to Rome anyway and has a wonderful time, and it really is horrible about what happened in Canada, so I blame no one. It was just an amazingly long series of unfortunate events. I suppose it's fate that I could never see my favourite band. Anyway, I hope to catch them next time and hopefully they will reconsider coming to Hong Kong.

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tickets, help

Hey guys, 

 

My friend and I were trying to get tickets to the Broomfield show in CO on March 13th, and we waited in line outside the venue for over an hour. It sold out 6 people in front of us. We are super bummed and tickets are already going for $200. Let us know if you have any extra or can help us out because we both need tickets. Trying to avoid the stupid bullshit with scalpers. Thanks 

 

Brandon,

630-621-7906

brandon.jay@ucdenver.edu

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Lights Out for Earth

Please join the City of Atlanta and 200 other cities around the world in this year's "Lights Out" event on March 28, 2009. The event is intended to send a message to world leaders about the need to reduce emissions and curb global warming. If you live on the U.S. eastern seaboard, please turn off your lights and all other electronics from 8:30 to 9:30 PM EST. This year's event is predicted to be the largest planned power outage in history. Atlanta will go dark from it's power stations, but if your city is not cutting power, please support this event and turn off your lights and electronics on your own.The event will begin at 8 p.m. local time in Christchurch, New Zealand, and flow through 14 time zones, concluding in San Francisco, where the lights on the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges will turn off along with all other non-essential lighting.Skylines will go dark in Suva, Fiji, and Calgary as well as Atlanta. Major league sports arenas will dim their lights in Phoenix. And in New York City, it will be lights out for Coca-Cola's Times Square billboard for the first time in its history.To check out the countdown visit: http://www.worldwildlife.org/
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Running. Sex. Philosophy.

Running. Sex. Philosophy.Category: Goals, Plans, HopesI came upon a remarkable epiphany recently.Working out and running are two of the most important things in my life. Oddly enough, I realized that I have some of my most imaginative and passionate thoughts when I am running and working out. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I feel like I have learned more about myself. I don't exist for the sake of escaping pain or avoiding punishment. Neither fear nor vanity are my incentives. I just want to understand the nature of things and reap the earnings of my efforts.I've also had some of my most romantic thoughts while running. Once, I was in love with a woman. I thought about her the most when the pain from a run was throbbing through my body. Everything in me wanted her so much so that sex was only a slight fraction of my complete desire. It was the single most concentrated and intense love I have ever felt, but she lived far away and I didn't see her very often. Working out was a healthy way of dealing with the loneliness.To this day, when I work out I usually listen to the ballads of musicians like Sam Cooke, Sigur Ros and The Postal Service. Despite these feelings, I swear that I will never live for the sake of another woman, nor ask another woman to live for my sake. Relationships and things of that nature degrade into a waste of emotional reserve. If the idea of "love" is a response to our highest values than I can have nothing to do with most people's relationships. Every person is an end in themselves, not a means to the ends in others.I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the workout has for me and contemplate things. Learning about what you're made of is always time well spent, and I have found no better teacher. Working out and running have taught me how to live. Everything is an act of philosophy.Life, consumerism, social constraints, barrages of media from all directions. They are all capable of driving you out of your mind. Uncontested absurdities are accepted as slogans of belief. The way it all comes down these days, it's some kind of miracle if you're not insane or depressed. Most people have become habitually estranged and separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole.I see Americans shuffle from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They get stressed out and irritable constantly. They lose sleep. They shovel disgusting garbage into their mouths. They develop futile phobias and obsessions. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke.Through the years, I have tried to combine reading, self expression and working out into a single strength. I believe that when a person's body is strong, the mind thinks and expresses powerful thoughts. Time spent away from working out makes my mind degenerate. I flounder in a thick depression. My body locks up my mind. Running is the best antidepressant I have ever come across. There is no better way to fight difficulties and limitations than with mental and physical strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.A workout never lies to you. You can walk around and listen to all kinds of conversations, get told that you're unbelievable or a total douche bag. A work out will always kick you into reality. Friends may come and go. But 8 miles is always 8 miles. A hundred pounds is always a hundred pounds.- PFC Ariel Garza
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