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Welcome to the blog about my book: I’m a Fan: How I married U2 into my life without going to the altar. I invite you to sit back and read the insights, general discussion and of course a good sum of U2 here on the blog page. Thank you for stopping by.

Jamie, my Achtung Baby connection

October 31, 2010
by Eric
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Sometimes in life, things happen for a reason. Like the day I walked aimlessly into Rose Records in downtown Evanston in the early fall of 1991. I was quiet and shy back then. You’d never know that today but I did have a quiet streak or at least it happened when I first meet someone.
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U2 went into the studio 20 years to “dream it all up again.”

October 27, 2010
by Eric
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In October 1990, I was out of college for five months and living in Chicago, actually Evanston to be precise. America was headed to a Middle East war and the economy was going south. I was a newly minted graphic designer, who disembarked the Greyhound bus in the Windy City two months
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23 years ago tonight, U2 played Iowa City, Iowa.

October 21, 2010
by Eric
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I remember the day tickets were announced to the show. I was aimlessly flipping through The Daily Iowa, our student newspaper delivered daily to our room, as I ambled my way to the dining room in Burge Residence Hall for breakfast. Suddenly, my eyes caught a display ad – 1 night only
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The quotable Bono

October 14, 2010
by Eric
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We all do it. We regurgitate what Bono says. I’ve been known to repeat, or re-craft, those infamous statements he says which are embedded in our DVD collections of U2’s live shows, movies and videos. It’s charming and a challenge to take a brilliant statement and try to work it to you
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My dad, the audiophile.

October 06, 2010
by Eric
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So much of my book focuses on my stepfather and it’s not fair to cut out my real dad, the audiophile. I say that because he never jumped onto the CD craze nor the cassette. My father is old school. He’s a reel-to-reel man who cruised Des Moines, Iowa in deep sky blue 1972 Thunderbird
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How did a pair of mannequin legs become my inspiration?

September 27, 2010
by Eric
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I was going to use the word muse instead of inspiration but it would be the wrong word choice. So typical of us Shivvers’ who have a tendency to chop up the English language. Let’s stay on track about the mannequin legs, which initially resided in my aunt’s Glencoe artist’s studio. Th
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U2 are about to break the album tour mode, again.

September 23, 2010
by Eric
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Songs of the Ascent, the quieter sister of No Line on the Horizon, is about to see the light of day, in November, as U2 traipses across Europe, South America and Australia. For those of you who have seen the 360 tour, you’ve heard a snippet of Soon, a track from the new album, as the
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What’s it like to give your spouse the first look at your rough draft?

September 21, 2010
by Eric
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One word sums it up – terrifying. Trust me, turning my written work over to my wife was exciting and nervous at the same time. I saw my mom and stepfather share their work together on countless occasions. Naturally, they were one another’s editors. I asked myself, “Why couldn’t I do t
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Why did I hop the Greyhound bus and move to Chicago after college?

September 17, 2010
by Eric
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If I told you it was for anything other than U2, I would be lying. Actually, that is a half-truth. Chicago is the Midwest Mecca of advertising and I wanted to break into the biz. The city is closer to Iowa than New York plus I had family here who I could bunk in with if I needed to. M
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