3.11.08

Category: dribblings

those are pictures of my uncle chuck’s house last saturday. he lives in ohio.

suckers!

isn’t it weird how the snow drooping off the eaves looks like toothpaste?


marshmallow chairs!

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ohh, we’re twenty days away from (the Yankees’) Opening Day! so far the Yanks are… well, the Yanks, right? everything looks good, um, SOME PITCHERS WOULD BE NICE. Y’KNOW, PITCHERS WHO COULD WIN A GAME? HEARD OF THOSE? i’m betting it’ll be more of the same this year. i’m not looking for them in the Series this year, but wouldn’t it be awesome if they surprised us all? yes? me too.

on to more proof of dork:

at mom’s coffee klatch this morning they were playing a Springsteen song (“Radio Nowhere” from his latest one, Magic) and i could not stop nodding my head and tapping my feet to the driving song (it drives! it does! it’s NO WONDER it won the grammy for best rock song. he should’ve won best album.). i turned to fellykish and said, “i LOVE Springsteen.”

“oh, me too!”

i was relieved because i’m not sure Springsteen is cool. i mean, he’s cool to me obviously, but i don’t always have “cool” taste. usually not when it comes to music anyway.

i remember once, long ago, i went to the mall specifically to get a Springsteen album and i think either liz or laura (or both) were with me. they didn’t make fun of me because they are used to my musical choices (to their chagrin? probably.), so we leave the store and we run into liz’z really cool cousins. one of the cousins was all, “what did you get at the music store?”

have i mentioned that liz’z cousins are really cool?

so instead of me being all, “OMG I TOTALLY GOT SPRINGSTEEN!” i hesitated. it was a small hesitation, but they knew. they could sense my shame. and when i pulled the CD out of the bag they gave me a look like, “really? Springsteen? on purpose?” but they didn’t give me a hard time about it. they didn’t tease me. see, i told you they were cool.

anyway, i love Springsteen. i do. my favorite “contemporary” christmas song? “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” as performed by Bruce and the E Street Band. i love it. it came out when i was a kid and it was the only christmas song (it seemed at the time) that i knew the singer. it wasn’t perry como or andy williams or anne murray. it was BRUCE! SPRINGSTEEN! singing about SANTA! what’s not to love?
on the other hand, my pal Flippy HATES that song. she admitted this to me.

my love for Bruce is one thing, but when he’s got the E Street Band backing him? I LOVE THE MUSIC EVEN MORE. they are incredible! i’ve always been a sucker for the whole Phil Spector Wall of Sound (i eat that up. and admit it, you do too. yes, you do. oh, come on.) and that’s exactly what the E Street Band brings, a wall of sound. i love it. my love knows no bounds. i even (dare i say especially?) love the overplayed songs (“Born to Run”, “Born in the U.S.A.”, “Glory Days” – that one’s not my fave by any means, but i still love it!) when i’m in the car and “Born to Run” comes on? by the end of the first verse i’m worked up into a frenzy and by the time he gets to “Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend / I want to guard your dreams and visions” i’m pepped and scream-singing along, “Just wrap your legs ’round these velvet rims / and strap your hands across my engines!”
and i may be the only person who gets a bit choked up when i hear “Born in the U.S.A.” it’s the part where his brother dies in the war that gets me. maybe i’ve admitted too much? you think i’m an idiot now, don’t you? fine. i don’t care.

if you were wondering, his latest Magic is GREAT. He’s back with the E Street Band on this one, so expect to get blown away. also, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is an amazing album, especially if you like folk music, and really, even if you don’t like folk music. oh man, and now that Bruce Springsteen has become the old, angry curmudgeon of rock (sorta like how Stephen King is now) i love him even more.

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