Robbie Robinson ([email protected])
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:07:31 -0800
He really likes to swim in the nude doesn't he :) The thing that
Stipe was mourning about in the song for those that don't know it,
was no longer being able to go skinnydipping with his friends like
when he was a boy.
Bono said Stipe was in the worng band because he's never stopped
skinnydipping with his friends :)
I bet the main reason Bono had that effin' big swimming pool build
at his house was so he could do that whenever he wanted.
The water at the beach he lives on is often too cold and always
too radioactive to swim in.
> Anyway...I dreamed I was at Bono's funeral. It was in a big tent and
> everyone was there (have no idea why I was there!) everyone was crying
>
> and Michael Stipe got up to sing "Nightswimming.' I remember
> thinking..'what a weird song to sing at a funeral'...but maybe it was
> Bono's special request or something...anyway stipey did a most moving
> rendition and had tears streaming down his eyes and everyone was
> crying...I kept hearing splashing sounds so I got up from my
> seat..walked behind Stipey..(no one seemed to notice or care that I
> was
> walking around on the stage)...I went to the back of the stage and
> found
> a baptistry (for those of you who don't know a baptistry is like a
> small
> tank that can be filled with water..found in churches that practise
> baptism by complete immersion)..I lifted the lid and there was
> Bono..swimmming around completely naked. Don't ask me for graphic
> details.. I apparently didn't seem to notice or care that Bono was in
> the buff...I was mad at him for pretending to be dead and causing his
> family and friends and fans to suffer...and I gave him an especially
> hard time..all the while he floated and splashed around and smiled up
> at
> me with a McPhisto smile...and nightswimming was going on and on in
> the
> background..I kept getting madder and madder until I woke up...It was
> a
> long time before I could listen to 'Nightswimming' again ....
Jeez! I knew Bono was small, but if he can swim around in a baptistry,
he really be a midget ;)
I'd like somebody good at dream interpetation to get a hold of this one.
Lot's of religious connotations here with a little Bono swimming in the
baptism waters wearing only a big smile, while everybody else is crying
and thinking he's dead.
Humm, I seem to remember reading in an interview or book, that
Bono was baptised by complete immersion in the Irish sea somewhere.
Robbie
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