Hey, did you know Bono is the new op-ed columnist for the New York Times?
Yeah, here's some jewels from his first piece, where he visits an Irish Pub and talks about Frank Sinatra.
"Glasses clinking clicking, clashing crashing in Gaelic revelry: swinging doors, sweethearts falling in and out of the season’s blessings, family feuds subsumed or resumed. Malt joy and ginger despair are all in the queue to be served on this, the quarter-of-a-millennium mark since Arthur Guinness first put velvety blackness in a pint glass."
"A call to believability.
A voice that says, “Don’t lie to me now.”
That says, “Baby, if there’s someone else, tell me now.” Fabulous, not fabulist. Honesty to hang your hat on. As the year rolls over (and with it many carousers), the emotion in the room tussles between hope and fear, expectation and trepidation. Wherever you end up, his voice takes you by the hand."
"Singers, more than other musicians, depend on what they know — as opposed to what they don’t want to know about the world. While there is a danger in this — the loss of naïveté, for instance, which holds its own certain power — interpretive skills generally gain in the course of a life well abused."
Did I mention I hate Bono more than ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD? I'm pretty sure if we dumped him somewhere off the Florida Keys, the dolphins would "take care" of him for us. I don't know, I just have this feeling that it's natural for every animal, tree, and person with a heart to want to tear him limb from limb and feed him to their offspring.
That is-- pretty apalling.
ReplyDeleteIt's nowhere as cool as your headgear, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteI can't stand Bono!!!
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