#Springsteen

[magic-kissile]

This is my favorite tweet ever

[aaronstveit]

This is a song about running short on choices.

Atlantic City • Bruce Springsteen Stockholm, 1993

[hardrockshrimp]

Top Bruce moment for me tbh

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Bruce Springsteen, 1975

[calamitysong]

BORN TO RUN — Released August 25, 1975

Photos by Eric Meola

[folklouire]

i've done my best to live the right way i get up every morning and go to work each day but your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold sometimes i feel so weak i just wanna explode EXPLODE and tear this whole town apart take a knife and cut this pain from my heart. what a thing to write

[soisaidfine]

Truth is not a good recruiter. Trump won the battle for the American Dream against the truth.

"A community remains healthy as long as a certain consensus prevails, allowing it to maintain illusions about itself—vital illusions, truer than pure truth." —Gilles Deleuze: John Ford

"Therefore, the American dream cannot be blamed for being merely a dream: that is precisely how it wants to be, drawing all its power from the fact that it is a dream."

"The American Dream is unachievable." —Ethel Cain

"Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." —George Carlin

"But it seems that what matters for John Ford is that the community can hold certain illusions about itself. That would be the great difference between healthy environments and pathogenic ones. Jack London wrote beautiful passages to show that, ultimately, the alcoholic community has no illusions about itself. Far from making one dream, alcohol 'refuses to let the dreamer dream'; it acts like 'pure reason' that convinces us that life is a masquerade, the community a jungle, and life, a despair (hence the alcoholic’s sneer). The same could be said of criminal communities.

On the contrary, a community is healthy as long as a sort of consensus reigns that allows it to maintain illusions about itself, about its motives, desires, ambitions, values, and ideals: 'vital' illusions, realistic illusions more true than pure truth. This is also Ford’s view, who, as early as 'The Informer,' depicted the almost expressionist degradation of a betraying informer, in that he could no longer hold any illusions.

Therefore, the American dream cannot be blamed for being merely a dream: that is precisely how it wants to be, drawing all its power from the fact that it is a dream.

Society changes and constantly evolves, for Ford as for Vidor, but its changes occur within an Embracing Whole that covers them and blesses them with a healthy illusion of continuity in the nation. Ultimately, American cinema has never ceased to make and remake the same fundamental film, which was the Birth of a Nation-civilization, of which Griffith had given the first version."

Gilles Deleuze: CINEMA 1, The Movement-Image, The Action-Image: The Large Form

Video: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Land of Hope and Dreams (Live in New York City)

[tonightillbeonthathill]

Bruce Springsteen endorses Kamala Harris for president

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Bruce Springsteen: “Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz are committed to a vision of this country that respects and includes everyone regardless of class, religion, race, your political point of view or sexual identity, and they want to grow our economy in a way that benefits all, not just the few like me on top. That's the vision of America I’ve been consistently writing about for 55 years now.”

“Hi, I'm Bruce Springsteen. Friends, fans, and the press have asked me who I'm supporting in this most important of elections.

And with full knowledge that my opinions are no more or less important than those of any of my fellow citizens, here's my answer: I'm supporting Kamala Harris for President and Tim Waltz for Vice President and opposing Donald Trump and JD Vance.

Here's why.

We are shortly coming upon one of the most consequential elections in our nation's history. Perhaps not since the Civil War has this great country felt as politically, spiritually, and emotionally divided as it does then at this moment.

It doesn't have to be this way.

The common values, the shared stories that make us a great and united nation are waiting to be rediscovered and retold once again.

Now that will take time, hard work, intelligence, faith and women and men with the national good, guiding their hearts.

America's the most powerful nation on earth. Not just because of her overwhelming military strength or economic power, but because of what she stands for, what she means, what she believes in: freedom, social justice, equal opportunity, the right to be and love who you want.

These are the things that make America great.

Donald Trump is the most dangerous candidate for President in my lifetime. His disdain for the sanctity of our constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law, and the sanctity of the peaceful transfer of power should disqualify him from the office of President ever again.

He doesn't understand the meaning of this country, its history or what it means to be deeply American.

On the other hand, Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz are committed to a vision of this country that respects and includes everyone regardless of class, religion, race, your political point of view or sexual identity, and they want to grow our economy in a way that benefits all, not just the few like me on top. That's the vision of America I’ve been consistently writing about for 55 years now.

Everybody sees things different, and I respect your choice as a fellow citizen, but like you, I've only got one vote, and it's one of the most precious possessions that I have.

That's why come November 5th, I'll be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.”

[albiclalepsza]

I'm afraid old man Bruce absolutely slayed this look

[aaronstveit]

We're going out where the sand's turning to gold Put on your stockings, baby, 'cause the night's getting cold And everything dies, baby, that's a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back...

Atlantic City • Bruce Springsteen Stockholm, 1993

[grrrenadine]

Everybody's got a hungry heart.

Bruce Springsteen, "Hungry Heart"

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Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen leaning on a Corvette.

[sunshiny-rants]

Bruce Springsteen is a sad butch lesbian in the same way that Hozier is a horny cottagecore lesbian

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Born in the USA, photographed by Annie Leibovitz.

[soisaidfine]

'dying young', by Bruce Springsteen / Ethel Cain: I think I’m going to die soon

@mothercain: "I think I’m going to die soon"

It was so painful to listen to Ethel Cain today on NTS Live. I thought of this text by Bruce Springsteen from his memoir.

"so assumption number one is you are going to keep breathing. In my business, the above case studies prove, no matter who you are, that's not as easy as it sounds."

Bruce Springsteen: “The heart of rock will always remain a primal world of action. The music revives itself over and over again in that form, primitive rockabilly, punk, hard soul and early rap. Integrating the world of thought and reflection with the world of primitive action is not a necessary skill for making great rock 'n' roll. Many of the music's most glorious moments feel as though they were birthed in an explosion of raw talent and creative instinct (some of them even were!). But … if you want to burn bright, hard and long, you will need to depend on more than your initial instincts. You will need to develop some craft and a creative intelligence that will lead you farther when things get dicey. That's what'll help you make crucial sense and powerful music as time passes, giving you the skills that may also keep you alive, creatively and physically. The failure of so many of rock's artists to outlive their expiration date of a few years, make more than a few great albums and avoid treading water, or worse, I felt was due to the misfit nature of those drawn to the profession. These were strong, addictive personalities, fired by compulsion, narcissism, license, passion and an inbred entitlement, all slammed over a world of fear, hunger and insecurity. That's a Molotov cocktail of confusion that can leave you unable to make, or resistant to making, the lead of consciousness a life in the field demands. After first contact knocks you on your ass, you'd better have a plan, for some preparedness and personal development will be required if you expect to hang around any longer than your fifteen minutes.

Now, some guys' five minutes are worth other guys' fifty years, and while burning out in one brilliant supernova will send record sales through the roof, leave you living fast, dying young, leaving a beautiful corpse, there is something to be said for living. Personally, I like my gods old, grizzled and here. I'll take Dylan; the pirate raiding party of the Stones; the hope-I-get-very-old-before-I-die, present live power of the Who; a fat, still-mesmerizing-until-his-death Brando—they all suit me over the alternative. I would've liked to have seen that last Michael Jackson show, a seventy-year-old Elvis reinventing and relishing in his talents, where Jimi Hendrix might've next taken the electric guitar, Keith Moon, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and all the others whose untimely deaths and lost talents stole something from the music I love, living on, enjoying the blessings of their gifts and their audience's regard. Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways. Plus, to those you've received so much from, so much joy, knowledge and inspiration, you wish life, happiness and peace. These aren't easy to come by.

Youth and death have always been an intoxicating combination for the myth makers left amongst the living. And dangerous, even violent, self-loathing has long been an essential ingredient in the fires of transformation. When the "new self" burns to life, the twins of great control and recklessness are immutably linked. It's what makes life interesting. The high tension between those two forces often makes a performer fascinating and fun to watch, but also a white-cross highway marker. Here, many who've come this way have burned out hard or died. The rock death cult is well loved and chronicled in literature and music, but in practice, there ain't much in it for the singer and his song, except a good life unlived, lovers and children left behind, and a six-foot-deep hole in the ground. The exit in a blaze of glory is bullshit.

Now, if you're not one of the handful of music revolutionaries—and I was not—you naturally set your sights on something different. In a transient field, I was suited for the long haul. I had years of study behind me; I was physically built to endure and by disposition was not an edge dweller. I was interested in what I might accomplish over a lifetime of music making, so assumption number one is you are going to keep breathing. In my business, the above case studies prove, no matter who you are, that's not as easy as it sounds."

― Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run