<<A certain malaise has seemed to creep into their mind set..>>
It's heavily on Bruce Springteens mind also
i give link to whole article but just post an excerpt at the article's end, interview made during rehearsing his newshow and discussing his new album Magic
In Love With Pop, Uneasy With the World
Todd Heisler/The New York Times
Bruce Springsteen in Asbury Park, N.J.
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: September 30, 2007
<<In conversation, Mr. Springsteen has a lot to say about what has happened in America over the last six years: “Disheartening and heartbreaking. Not to mention enraging” is how he sums it up. But his most direct and powerful statement comes, as you might expect, onstage. It is not anything he says or sings, but rather a piece of musical dramaturgy, the apparently simple, technical matter of shifting from one song to the next. ...>>
<<But the night does not end there. Onstage, “Last to Die” is followed, as it is on the album, by a song called “Long Walk Home.” In the first verse, the speaker travels to some familiar hometown spots and experiences an alienation made especially haunting by the language in which he describes it: “I looked into their faces/They were all rank strangers to me.” That curious, archaic turn of phrase — rank strangers — evokes an eerie old mountain lament of the same title, recorded by the Stanley Brothers.
In that particular song a guy comes back to his town and recognizes nothing and is recognized by nothing,” Mr. Springsteen said. “The singer in ‘Long Walk Home,’ that’s his experience. His world has changed. The things that he thought he knew, the people who he thought he knew, whose ideals he had something in common with, are like strangers. The world that he knew feels totally alien. I think that’s what’s happened in this country in the past six years.”
And so the song’s images of a vanished small town life (“The diner was shuttered and boarded/With a sign that just said ‘gone’ “) turn into metaphors, the last of which is delivered with the clarity and force that has distinguished Mr. Springsteen’s best writing:......>>
Springsteen , in spite of massive stardom, has remained real.
Max
p.s. On my thread if you wish type in search the word Fallon, several recent posts should up.
It is quite significant because Admiral Fallon, head of MidEast Operation is not only in secrecy fighting the WH, he has now gone public. The WH has for now been stop in their tracks by Admiral Fallon.
This is getting very interesting.Bush in private i am sure is enraged over this matter. |
