Pretty sure if you look up "ugly crying" in the dictionary, you'll find that the definition now consists solely of a picture of me when they played "The Promise" at last night's concert. And/or "Wrecking Ball".

Yep.

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i. So I've had ambivalent feelings about queer_fest for several rounds now, but man, can they ever fuck right off with their prescriptive bullshit. Bonus points for the glorious indulgence in that favorite game of the Internet Activist, "you haven't suffered as much as/in the same ways that I have and therefore I get to be condescending about how some of us ( Read more... )

what are you doing to me bruce

...okay so the embed tool doesn't seem to be working for me but Bruce is streaming the new album at his website and you done good, Mr. Springsteen, you done good ( Read more... )

Three good pop-culture things! Well, four, but one is left over from yesterday and I'm just still jazzed about it.

1. This is almost a week late at this point, but seriously, ( extremely minor P&R spoiler )

Internet, I am concerned that when I say that I AM HAVING ALL OF THE FEELINGS, what you hear is "I'm having a lot of feelings". That's not what I'm saying.

What I am saying is that I AM HAVING ALL OF THE FEELINGS.

A lot of you have been hearing that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be on tour in 2012. That is absolutely correct.( ( Read more... )

Hey bandom! Again, I know you guys have had some tough times lately, but, question, are all your bands' members STILL ALIVE?

You're doing better than the E Street Band, then.

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FUCK EVERYTHING

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I know you guys have had some rough times recently, but hey -- have any of your bands' members had strokes recently? No? They're doing better than the E Street Band, then.I honestly am not sure I can deal with this. I'm not sure how to say that such that it doesn't sound like me being silly, b/c for real, I'm not sure I can accept it ( Read more... )

As Jim Cullen, author of Born in the USA: Springsteen and the American Tradition, noted, the two men "gazed" into one another's eyes as they sang and shared the microphone so closely their lips almost touched (Cullen 132).


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I think we can all agree on one thing: this, as with just about every Superbowl except for the one of '08, was severely lacking in the following:


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