And now for something completely different

[gwyn_r]

The other day, I was talking with some of the Media Cannibals at a bash about song stories for Yuletide, and how I didn't get it. Nobody else did, either, and we were discussing the ins and outs of what you would do for a song to make it into a story. Like, I can get possibly taking an actual song that's a story and doing something with it. But

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[gwyn_r]

Thank you so much for letting me know about the stories! This will be great, and I'm anxious to read them. Maybe it will also help me figure out what people actually do for song stories -- sometimes I have to see, like, a lot of different types of things before I can grasp what it's about.

[mackiemesser]

That really is a fantastic version of a tremendous song. And thanks for the story about your days as a Springsteen fan.

(I ripped the audio track, so if you're interested in an mp3 it's here: http://www.box.net/shared/6mz6irsk4m )

[varina8]

Thanks for the audio!

[mackiemesser]

You're welcome :)

[gwyn_r]

Oh man, thank you a thousand million times for this... I have never been able to figure out how to rip the sound from YouTube files, and now I can have it for my very own on my iPod and play it whenever I want, without having to try to hook up the cassette deck. This just makes me... well, thankful. Very very thankful.

[varina8]

Thanks for this. I love hearing about your Springsteen love. He was one of the patron saints of my high school and college years, coming out of the Rust Belt as I did.

He's one of the most distinctive songwriters I've ever heard. I remember waking up on Orcas Island to Johnny Cash's version of Highway Patrolman on the radio and knowing, without a word from the announcer, that it was a Springsteen cover.

[gwyn_r]

You know, we need to get together one of these days... it's been too long since I've seen you. Maybe we can swap Bruce stories. ;-) I love meeting people who have been into him -- when I made my first Firefly vid, My Beautiful Reward, nearly everyone told me the same thing: "I hate Springsteen but I really liked the vid" and it wore me down. Everyone has different tastes, but it was hard to hear because he's so important to me. But I liked that maybe the vid was like a Bruce ambassador and hopefully they looked at his music differently.

[varina8]

I'd love to get together. I suspect we have very similar musically taste - or at least similar experiences (I might have more of a thing for old R&B because of my childhood proximity to Detroit).

Your vid feedback is so odd to me. I think Bruce was pretty much universally revered in the Rust Belt, at least up through Darkness on the Edge of Town. But there was a lot of backlash after Born in the USA, especially after Reagan appropriated the title song (did the man or his handlers ever listen to the lyrics?).

[carbonel]

I mostly don't get the songfic thing, either, but there were some really interesting takes on "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" last year for Yuletide.

[talitha78]

Stopping by to wish you Happy Birthday!!