Post: Blue-eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl...

[labyrinth2015]

...ours is a stormy kind of love.

Don't mind me, guys, I still haven't come down from my U2 kick and rediscovered adoration of the lads.

So I'm totally shipping B and the Edge, but HOW CUTE ARE B and his wife of 28 years, Ali? It seems he forgot her birthday in 1987 while in the recording studio, and he gave her this song, The Sweetest Thing, as an apology gift.

AND HOW ADORABLE IS THIS vid for "The Sweetest Thing"? It features Bono taking Ali on a carriage ride along Fitzwilliam Place and Fitzwilliam Street in Dublin. Along the way, he enlists the help of various performers and friends in an effort to apologize to her, including Boyzone (!!!), Riverdance and the Chippendales, together with the other U2 lads. OMHADORABLENESSWATCH. (duckgirlie, I assume these streets are familiar to you...)

BECAUSE NOTHING SAYS SORRY LIKE AN ELEPHANT WITH A SIGN THAT SAYS "SORRY". (And a fire truck full of hunky gyrating semi-naked men.) HAHAHAHAHA.

Other U2-relatedly, I've been mainlining "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" post Two Roads Meet. Here's is the acoustic version of the song from the Bono and the Edge show in the San Remo (I am getting to the slash, slowly!). Here, they pair it with "All I Want Is You" - if you skip past the first minute or so of Bono's passable Italian (and message to Italian policitos), the double bill is just ridiculously gorgeous, and you only get backing vox like that when you've 30 years of touring together (though I've every confidence Dave and Andy will get there).

Okay, okay, I'll be quiet now and slink back to the U2 slash ;)

Comments

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

I love the phrase too, and to me it has always had the sense of, may you keep journeying safely and happily? But for those of us who have been on a bender or two (making no admissions, o'course), this could easily have another more literal and drunken connotation...

[duckgirlie.livejournal.com]

I always liked 'nil aon thintin mar do thintin fein' (and that is not spelled right at all) which is just a cosier way of saying 'no place like home.' (No hearth fire like your own) fire)

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love that :)

[duckgirlie.livejournal.com]

There's a brand of individual sugar packets, and of matches, over here that have little sayings on the back, as gaeilge and in translation. My favourite is 'the day of the big wind is no time to thatch the roof'.