Bruuuuuuuuuce!

Salon 24.Sept.04: Bruce Springsteen, interviewed by Jann Wenner (Jann Wenner?)

“I always felt that the musician's job, as I experienced it growing up, was to provide an alternative source of information, a spiritual and social rallying place, somewhere you went to have a communal experience.”

Almost hurts, don't it. The man is so real. And he looks so gooood.

“There is nothing more personal, in some ways, than the music people listen to. I know from my own experience how you identify and relate to the person singing. You have put your fingerprints on their imagination.”

What a pretty phrase. How lovely of spirit. I thought Jann Wenner was dead.

“Artists are always speaking to people's freedoms. The shout for freedom and its implications was implicit in rock 'n' roll from its inception.”

Or run off to Martha's Vineyard with his boyfriend.

“I don't want to watch the country devolve into an oligarchy, watch the division of wealth increase and see another million people beneath the poverty line this year.”

Something like that. Oh, why doesn't he just say it: fuck Ronald Reagan, (who I know is dead) and his trickle-down economics, it is to his lying ass that we owe the creation of the underclass.

“People have the choice to not listen, but you have these business lobbyists who affect the direction of public policy. For example, what is going on with the assault-rifle ban is disgusting. The labor unions try to affect policy in their fashion. Artists do it by talking and singing and addressing the life of the mind.”

Ooo-kay, well, he must of flown in special. Seeing as how ... it's Bruuuuuuuce !