I was heading home from dinner with friends last night when I noticed that someone had emailed me on my cell phone.
"I wonder who it is," I thought as I opened my phone on the train.
Imagine my surprise when I opened my inbox to find an email from "Bono" with the subject "Message from Bono"!
The message read:
"Hi, this is Bono... Thanks for emailing... We had a great time in Tokyo. We love this city... If you want to join the campaign to make poverty history, please sign up at http://www.hottokenai.jp/. The more people that join, the more difference we can make in the fight against extreme stupid poverty... Japanese leadership on this issue could change the world. Thanks for reading."
No, Bono and I are not personal friends and no, I didn't email him per se. I got this thanks to the U2 concert I attended last week in Tokyo! I invited the lovely Ms. Tari, who wrote about the concert on her blog here. At one point in the concert, the lights in the arena were turned down and Bono asked everyone to get out their cell phones and open them. He said it looked like a Christmas tree, and it was very cool (made you realize that everyone in Japan has a cell phone!). He then said that at Christmas he wants everyone to remember those in the world who have less than us, and flashed an email address on the screen and asked everyone to email their names to it. Later on in the concert, some of the names emailed were put up on the screen (including Tari's, which was very cool!), and obviously these email addresses are also being used to spread the word about Bono's cause.
Anyway, I got a bit of a thrill out of getting an email from Bono in my inbox. :-)
The concert, by the way, was fabulous!! Unfortunately Bono and the gang are not that tall and the stage was not very high, so it was nearly impossible to see them for most of the concert. This is the best it got (and this is a very bad photo taken with my cell phone...I didn't think they would allow cameras, so I didn't take mine!):
But ever since the concert, I just can't get enough of U2...can't leave the house without my iPod!
1 comments:
Man, I wish you'd brought your camera. After my Chicago debacle (3rd row U2 concert, no camera), I say just ignore the tickets... they can't take every person's cell phone from them, can they? (BTW, I got around it by giving my meishi to every person around me and asking them to email me with pictures, except that fat girl that I almost got into a fight with.)
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