Reactionary

Read this.

I’m sitting at my desk open-mouthed. It’s a bit too real life. Yes, I admire them. Yes, I’m jealous (at least I can admit it). But this article’s a bit close to home. I loved reading it, but… There’s always this “but”! I don’t know. I’m not making sense. They’re so real, in a way I never really wanted to see. I guess I prefer being a deluded rock fan. It brings certain things into sharp focus when Bono’s 15-year-old daughter calls him “boring” and then the next moment says he sometimes wears nothing but a bathrobe when he drives them to school. Imagine having Bono for your father. And then she talks about the famous people she’s met. And then Ali notes her daughter’s eyes are “like her father’s”. WHAT? I’m having a hard time getting my delusional brain around this. I liked being delusional. How weird. Oh, my God, maybe my issue with the latest album is an age thing. That’s mildly reassuring and terribly alarming at the same time.

I don’t even know what to do right now. I’m just sitting here with the spinning CD not making any sense. Good things sometimes happen to good people. You can get there through hard work. Some of them will stick and not be pulled away by the supermodels and the drugs and the money.

But it’s easier to maintain, with articles like this, that they’re not “just ordinary” people. The so-called ordinary, average, standard would have been torn to pieces by fame. Yes, they’re extraordinary and have taken charge of their fate rather than the other way around.

I post that only because if you’ve agreed for Entertainment Weekly to print it, you can’t mind too much. I’m befuddled, not so much by Ali but by the kid. How can you say Bono’s your father? How much of a headfuck is that? Think leather clad Fly… father. I don’t know how I feel about that quite yet. But then, I’m just a selfish, delusional rock fan.

Posted on March 2nd, 2005 under Tunes •  Print •  Email • RSS 2.0 feed • Both comments and pings are currently closed