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Whoa Dire Straights

4 Nov

Last night as Emily made a fire in the fireplace, she said “I wish we could listen to Dire Straights right now”. Sadly, I don’t have any Dire Straights in my record collection, but I do have a computer so I pulled up youtube.com and asked what song in particular she would like to listen to. Romeo and Juliet. I have listened to this song a million times and every time the story plays itself out in my mind and I am overwhelmed with feelings of sadness, longing and romance. I was excited to see that they had made a music video and was ready to watch my feelings be played out by characters in their video. Never ever ever would I have imagined in my wildest dreams that I would see this:

Totally blew my mind and left me feeling very confused. I think it’s an 80’s thing. Yeah, definitely and 80’s thing.