I Saw U2 Live Twice's definitions

neocon

the "con" is just that - a con artist. Neocons claim that they stand for morality, Christian standards, and "family values" when they cheat on their wives, steal money and lust for power and influence so that can swindle the citizenry and control every aspect of their lives. A neocon is described by Rage Against the Machine as a "snake charmer". A neocon can be a Republican, Democrat or something else entirely. They are, as RATM has put it "you, interested in you". A complete bonehead.

Check out "Sweet Neocon" on the recent album "A Bigger Bang" by the Rolling Stones.

"You say you're a Christian
Well I say you're a hypocrite
You call yourself a patriot
Well I think you're a crock of shit...
... how can you be so wrong
my sweet neocon ...

by I Saw U2 Live Twice January 18, 2008

Funky Town

1. a 1980 number one hit for the R&B/funk/post-discogroup Lipps,Inc. (pronounced "lip synch" - yes, that's how U say it). They were basically a one hit wonder.

2. a Top 10 hit in 1987 for the Australian New Wave group Pseudo Echo. It has a harder-edged sound than the original seven years before. A genuine butt kicker. Pseudo Echo also scored a hit with their own "Living in a Dream" earlier in 1987.

3. because of their playing the Pseudo Echo hit, San Francisco radio stations gave the nickname "Funky Town" to their city itself.

1. ... won't you take me to
Funky Town!

2. "Funky Town" was riding high on the charts in the summer of 1987.

3.
Carl: Let's go to Funky Town and see the Chinese New Year parade in Chinatown! Then we can eat some Peking duck at the Golden Dragon restaurant.

Phil: Alright!

by I Saw U2 Live Twice January 3, 2008

People of the Book

a term used by Muslims to describe adherents of other faiths who worship the same God as they do. Specifically this means people of monotheistic beliefs like Christianity and Judaism.

The Quran says that Christians and Jews are to be respected being that they are people of the book because all three religions share the same deity and the same Abrahamic traditions, such as the Ten Commandments.

by I Saw U2 Live Twice January 19, 2009

Krystal

the Southern U.S. counterpart to what is called White Castle in the Midwest and other regions like New Jersey. Like White Castle restaurants Krystal burger shacks are open 24 hours and the burgers (also called "slyders" because of their extreme greasiness) are cheap. You can get them in a bag of 10. They are square and have holes and are sometimes nicknamed "belly bombs" just like they are in the Northern U.S.

I was with some friends in Mike's Volvo and we were cruising around Orlando, Florida listening to some heavy metal music one night. Mike had on a Triumph tape in the player, later we had on some Van Halen. We stopped at a Krystal burger joint and got some root beers and a bag of 10 slyders. Me and Freddy ate most of them in the back seat of the car, the grease was just dripping from the little slyders. After about 40 minutes or so me and Freddy asked Mike to pull over and stop. Me and Freddy got out of the car and went to the edge of a ditch. It was Barf City for us. It was all too much.

by I Saw U2 Live Twice January 25, 2008

Tom Morello

a new guitar hero 'god' for today. This guy was in Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave and has been in supergroup rap-rock bands, session appearances and solo. He is WHACK and innovative. He can make his guitar sound like everything from whistling, turntable scratching, a vacuum cleaner, a Moog synthesizer, R2-D2 and more! he is NUTS! After the passing of Eddie Van Halen in 2020, he and Mdou Moctar now carry the torch of guitar gods for guitar 'geek' hobbyists to learn from. Rock'n'roll FOREVER!

1. In 2014 i saw Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for the third time. Since Little Steven Van Zandt was contracted to play on the 'Sopranos' TV show, Tom Morello subbed in. During the usual band member introductions Bruce gives, he mentioned Tom Morello and Tom played a totally crazy wild electrifying freaky guitar solo like you've never seen. And he made it look so EASY.

2. I saw Eddie Van Halen (RIP) in 1986, Tom Morello in 2014 and Nigerien guitarist Mdou Moctar in 2019. Three of the greatest guitarists of my life. An if you don't know about the latter one yet, you will.

by I Saw U2 Live Twice April 18, 2022

Snoopy

Snoopy is a beagle dog that cartoonist Charles Schwartz features in the most popular comic strip in the world, "Peanuts". Snoopy has also been featured in movies, songs, etc. and is now an American icon. His independent nature has also made him a symbol of the "free spirit" attitude as well as what is good about America and its culture.

1. I've seen "Peanuts" strips in several languages like German, French, Arabic, Russian, Japanese, Greek and many more.

2. In college I saw a collection of items used in Roman Catholic parishes thruout the world. One item of note was a hymnal smuggled from communist China, where religious practices of any kind generally aren't allowed. Each page had Chinese musical notation and the lyrics to a song (of course, I couldn't read the words!). At the bottom of each hymn page was a sketched drawing of Snoopy. He was always looking sad, sitting on a swing and crying, or looking out a window, or in some other sad or melancholy state. No doubt this was a relection of the total lack of liberties and freedoms in China today. In this case Snoopy represents joy, cheer, happiness and freedom, and in a totalitarian state there are none of those things.

by I Saw U2 Live Twice March 24, 2009

Dirty Diana

1. a woman who will do anything to get her hands on all "members of the band" and seduce them. She stalks stars and uses and abuses them. She's a very aggressive starfucker.

2. a #1 hit by Michael Jackson that hit the top during the spring and summer of 1988. It's the fifth #1 hit from his "Bad" album. It details a sort of paranoia edge.

1. When I was leaving the arena after a Van Halen concert there were two young cheap tarts who were in tight black dresses and had 10 gallon drums worth of make-up piled on their faces. A stage hand packing up equipment yelled to the two Dirty Diana wannabes: "They're all married. You can't get up here. Go home!". They turnedaround and left in a huffy way. Aw RATS!

2. Steve Stephens, guitarist for Billy Idol plays a "laser beam" effect solo on "Dirty Diana".

3. Dirty Diana, nah

Come on!

by I Saw U2 Live Twice July 5, 2009