B and I are going to get married. We have been doing some planning around this. Activities are unfolding not in sequence but in overlapping layers, so that bits of things get done but the bulk piles high and nothing is completed to the point of being crossed off the list - and you know how I feel about that.
The latest dilemma is trying to pick a song to do the whole first dance thing. This is not my idea! B is the one married to that. (And I'm funny.)
We don't have 'A Song'. B has been scouring various sources for inspiration and each idea he presents I toss aside as sentimental or 'done' or just a lame song. Recently he suggested a bossa nova version of 'Night and Day'. 'Night and Day' is not a love song in the way that 'Every Breath You Take' is not a love song. Not that I think we should do a love song. In fact, I'd rather not. But an obsession song would be worse.
Still, it inspired me to search the various versions of 'Night and Day' recorded through the ages. There are many. I actually really like U2's version because, even though it sounds a little dated now, it really nails the crazy desperation, the anguish, the 'torment'. It doesn't disguise itself as a peppy, harmless little ditty. It sounds sinister. Then there's Billie Holiday's version. There's a sorrow to everything she sings, which makes perfect sense.
Really though, something about prancing around in front of my parents to the tune of 'let me spend my life making love to you' just does not wash with me. Sex and my parents occupy two totally different worlds and I'm okay with this situation remaining as-is.
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I wrote that a week or so ago. I have been singing 'Night and Day' on my way to work ever since, but I am no closer to wanting to dance to it whilst near the parents. But neither is B, who has moved on to other bossa nova options.
2 comments:
you're getting married?!
I forgot to mention on the phone that B and I would like whatever vegetarian option there is (fish okay). Very nice invites!
I can't stop laughing at this bossa nova thing. Why is it so funny to say bossa nova? I think it's because of the setting on my keyboard which is what I'm really imagining you dancing to. I can't wait to see what you come up with.
I like that U2 version too. From that Red Hot and Blue album? That's a really good album, so many good tunes in strange arrangements and that awesome blond Sinéad O'Connor video. My favourite is Fred Astaire which is so obvious and typical but whatever, he's so simple and awkward.
Yeah, didn't I tell you?
I will mark you two down for fish/veg.
I'm really surprised you like the U2 version. I thought you'd think it was too cheesy to like. I really like it, too. And the rest of the album. I'd buy it, if there was anywhere to buy CDs anymore!
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