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Ethel Cain: I'll be alright (Amber Waves, The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles)
video by Joshua Kyle on YouTube: Ethel Cain performing new song “Amber Waves” at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles
Flood Magazine: Live: Ethel Cain at Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Photo: Skylar Watkins, June 24, 2024
when Bruce Springsteen realized that he was writing about America
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"It’s not entirely clear when Bruce Springsteen realized that he was writing about America, although since he was both ambitious and a native of the first country that was an idea before it was a nation, the topic was inevitable. Certainly, that must have been part of what drew him to John Ford, the greatest poet of the American cinema. But long before that, you could hear Bruce struggling to express something about it.
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Beginning with Born to Run, however, the idea of a specifically American dream began to loom larger and larger on his work. And beginning with Darkness on the Edge of Town, the frustrations of trying to realize that dream became Bruce’s central subject.
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The United States was no longer the land of plenty, it was a land of limits; it was no longer the home of a dream of equality, but of a nightmare of inequity. If Americans expected nothing else, they expected a surfeit of personal possessions. Now hundreds of thousands had lost their homes, their jobs, and in the ensuing confusion and disruption, much of what they had thought was eternal. Families fractured, communities crumbled, tempers once sweet turned sour. An ugly spirit ascended, the most perverse rendering of “every man for himself.” The greed behind it all wasn’t anything new—in part, it was as old as the earliest European settlement on the continent—but it had rarely stood so naked and unapologetic. In this world, men saw each other not as brothers but as incomprehensible, threatening aliens."
Dave Marsh: Bruce Springsteen
Video: Bruce Springsteen, Atlantic City: "But maybe everything that dies some day comes back."
films7 on x/twitter Bruce Springsteen : “That whole Nebraska album was just that isolation thing and what it does to you. The record was ba
Bruce Springsteen, Ethel Cain, Amfortas: Sick and Forced to Cancel. Fans: 'Disclose the Grail and Officiate!'
'You can spend a fucking hour in a bed on stage and it doesn't matter. We want to see you.' (An Ethel Cain fan on Reddit)
This reminded me of that scene in Parsifal:
After Bruce Springsteen's cancellations two weeks ago (Marseille, Prague, and Milan), it’s now Ethel Cain, who has lost her voice due to illness and has to cancel her concert at Primavera Sound Porto.
On Reddit, a fan asks that Ethel Cain be there anyway, even bedridden, because her presence alone is the grail for the fans:
"Please Hayden (Ethel Cain), at least let us give you the gifts. You can spend a fucking hour in a bed on stage and it doesn't matter. We want to see you."
Following numerous criticisms from other fans reminding that Hayden (Ethel Cain) was not a circus animal to be displayed while she was sick, the fan clarified that her message was partly ironic.
This reminded me of that scene in Parsifal: Amfortas no longer has the strength to serve the Grail, but the community urges him because it cannot survive without the Grail: "You must serve. Disclose the Grail and officiate!"
Video: Amfortas and the Knights of the Holy Grail, in Parsifal, by Syberberg
Best wishes for a good recovery to Bruce Springsteen and Ethel Cain.
Bruce Springsteen, Patti Scialfa and Leo Tolstoy: 'Struggling to do everything right' - Live in Florida
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“I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I shall still go on scolding her for my own terror, and being remorseful for it; I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on praying; but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.” - Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
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Bruce Springsteen, who is your favorite novelist of all time?
Bruce Springsteen: I like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Personal favorites: “The Brothers Karamazov” and, of course, “Anna Karenina.”
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Video: Brilliant Disguise - Bruce Springsteen (22-04-2008 St Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Florida)
'Now look at me baby struggling to do everything right And then it all falls apart when out go the lights I’m just a lonely pilgrim I walk this world in wealth I want to know if it’s you I don’t trust ’cause I damn sure don’t trust myself
Now you play the loving woman I’ll play the faithful man But just don’t look too close into the palm of my hand'
Ethel Cain: i genuinely feel bad for non-autistic people who will never know what music can truly feel like. Music is not just something you listen to. I’m autistic, and so that definitely heightens sensory everything
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“I’m autistic, and so that definitely heightens sensory everything,” she explains when discussing her unique creative process. “I think that's why I have so much crossover between media, because it's like, there's never just one sense. Music is not just something you listen to. Film is not just something you watch. You get all these senses from all these things. When I'm producing music, I literally feel sometimes I can see it. I have to close my eyes, and I imagine the bass is the earth. I imagine the synths are rising up next to you, and I imagine the vocals are high in the sky, right in the center. I close my eyes and picture the sound around me – that's how I mix.” (Ethel Cain's Majestic Melodrama Is the Sound of the Future)
"i genuinely feel bad for non-autistic people who will never know what music can truly feel like" (mothercain on tumblr, Sept 25, 2022)
video: 'Is it not fun, oh To feel many other ways'
Ethel Cain, new song 2024: i keep the angel, Primavera Sound Barcelona (Festival), 05 31 2024, The Childish Behaviour Tour
Bruce Springsteen and Dostoevsky
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"All that goes beyond rebellion in Dostoevsky is attributed to feudal and religious mists, thereby closing off the supreme realm of novelistic genius… Little Iliusha dies for all the heroes of Dostoevsky's novels, and the communion that springs from this death is a sublime lucidity on a group scale. This is the last and highest wave of Dostoevskian genius that elevates the conclusion of The Brothers Karamazov." (René Girard, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel)
Bruce Springsteen: "I like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Personal favorites: The Brothers Karamazov and, of course, Anna Karenina."
Bruce Springsteen: “As funny as it sounds, I have a “personal” relationship with Jesus. He remains one of my fathers, though as with my own father, I no longer believe in his godly power. I believe deeply in his love, his ability to save… but not to damn… enough of that.” (BORN TO RUN, book)
‘Well, I believe in the love that you gave me I believe in the faith that could save me I believe in the hope And I pray that some day It may raise me above these Badlands’
'Bruce Springsteen, who is your favorite novelist of all time?' films7 on x/twitter ... films7 on x/twitter Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), las
Tolstoy / Bruce Springsteen: 'the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.'
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Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), last words (Levin):
“This new feeling has not changed me, has not made me happy and enlightened all of a sudden, as I had dreamed, just like the feeling for my child. There was no surprise in this either. Faith—or not faith—I don’t know what it is—but this feeling has come just as imperceptibly through suffering, and has taken firm root in my soul.
“I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I shall still go on scolding her for my own terror, and being remorseful for it; I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on praying; but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.”
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Bruce Springsteen: 'I like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Personal favorites: “The Brothers Karamazov” and, of course, “Anna Karenina.”' (films7 on x/twitter)
Video: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Land of Hope and Dreams (Live in New York City)
films7 on x/twitter Bruce Springsteen: "You know the old saying: Trust the art, not the artist. I think that’s true. I think somebody can d
Bruce Springsteen: 'Your music is your ideals a lot of times, and you don’t live up to those ideals all the time. You try, but you fall short and you disappoint yourself.'
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Bruce Springsteen: "You know the old saying: Trust the art, not the artist. I think that’s true. I think somebody can do real good work and be a fool in a variety of ways. I think my music is probably better than I am. I mean, like, your music is your ideals a lot of times, and you don’t live up to those ideals all the time. You try, but you fall short and you disappoint yourself."
Video: Adam Raised a Cain (Live at The Paramount Theatre 2009)
'Bruce Springsteen, who is your favorite novelist of all time?' films7 on x/twitter
'Bruce Springsteen, who is your favorite novelist of all time?'
Bruce Springsteen: 'I like Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Personal favorites: “The Brothers Karamazov” and, of course, “Anna Karenina.”'
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Mother's Day. Bruce Springsteen: ‘My mother is the great energy—she’s the energy of the show. And the refusal to be disheartened.’
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“The key to the family’s stability was Adele Springsteen.
“My mother is the great energy—she’s the energy of the show,” Bruce said. “The consistency, the steadiness, day after day—that’s her. And the refusal to be disheartened, even though she was really up against it a lot of the time. “My mother lived with an immense amount of stress and pressure all her life and she was a person of immense control. It was she who created the sense of stability in the family, so that we never felt threatened through all the hard times.”
Onstage, Bruce has often told stories of his conflicts with his father, but it was his mother’s love of radio music, especially Elvis Presley’s, that shaped the joyous side of his sound.”
Dave Marsh: Bruce Springsteen
♡ late Adele Ann Springsteen (Zerilli), May 4, 1925 – January 31, 2024
Video: Bruce Springsteen dancing on stage with his mother: Dancing in the Dark, London 2013
Dave Marsh: 'The youthful Springsteen saw death in its relationship to life’s boundless potential for freedom. The adult Springsteen sees it in its relationship to life’s endless potential to crush that spirit.'
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"Death has been Springsteen’s other great topic. In his most anthemic early songs— “Born to Run,” “Thunder Road,” “Badlands,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town”—the central character finds a way to assert that death is preferable to living without fulfillment. The forty-five-year-old Springsteen sang well aware that for every success story like his own there are millions for whom death is neither a metaphor nor a welcome juvenile fantasy. It’s what most often comes from reaching for things as simple as “Pastures of gold and green/Roll down into cool clear waters.”
The youthful Springsteen saw death in its relationship to life’s boundless potential for freedom. The adult Springsteen sees it in its relationship to life’s endless potential to crush that spirit. For the first time, his writing recognizes that for a lot of people, the prospect of realizing hope is an obvious fiction. In the end, “Across the Border” answers the question of “The River” (the similarity in setting cannot be accidental): A dream’s not just a lie if it doesn’t come true, and it is not something worse—it is something much worse. A dream that has no chance of coming true is a kind of death. And dead is what we are without hope in our hearts."
Dave Marsh: Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen: "And more than rich, and more than famous, and more than happy, I wanted to be great. Also, I wanted to have a sort of apocalyptic grandeur."
Video: 'Just kids wasted on something in the night. Nothing is forgotten or forgiven, when it’s your last time around, I got stuff running ’round my head That I just can’t live down'
Zelda Adams: Hate is prodigal, Love is diabolical, Kiss the miserable, Hold the unforgivable
Zelda Adams (H6LLB6ND6R) director, writer, actor, musician, singer, model
'Hate is prodigal Love is diabolical Kiss the miserable Hold the unforgivable You’re out of luck You’re out of time'
Instagram: zeldadams Spotify: H6LLB6ND6R New Madison Models, photo @/allan.lab
Out of Luck · H6LLB6ND6R, Side B
'You are not in the real world. You are not interested in anything that interests others. - Jeanne, do you believe that we will be judged?' (Marika Green, Robert Bresson)
JEANNE “You are not in the real world. You are not interested in anything that interests others.”
MICHEL “Jeanne, do you believe that we will be judged?”
Robert Bresson, Pickpocket Marika Green: Jeanne Martin LaSalle: Michel
"Vous n'êtes pas dans la vie réelle. Vous ne vous intéressez à rien de ce qui intéresse les autres."
"Jeanne, est-ce que vous croyez, vous, que nous serons jugés ?"
'He wanted to do something for her and wished she would ask it of him. She would ask nothing but questions.' (The Portrait of a Lady)
Video: 'a general impression of life' Nicole Kidman, Jane Campion, Henry James
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Bruce Springsteen: “Trust is a fragile thing. It requires allowing others to see as much of ourselves as we have the courage to reveal. But “Brilliant Disguise” postulates that when you drop one mask, you find another behind it until you begin to doubt your own feelings about who you are.”
Films7 on X/Twitter (Born to Run, Chapter 51. 'Tunnel of Love')
Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise (Official Video)
Kristen Stewart reads: "I saw us having sex…"
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Audiobook: 'Girl Boy Girl, How I Became JT Leroy', by Savannah Knoop. Narrated by Kristen Stewart. Length: 5 hours and 47 mins. Recorded Books, available on Audible.
Wotan: 'For one alone winneth the bride; one freer than I, the god!' (Patrice Chéreau, Bayreuth)
Wotan For one alone winneth the bride; one freer than I, the god!
The Ring of the Nibelung
(Denn Einer nur freie die Braut, der freier als ich, der Gott!)
Richard Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen: Die Walküre
Bayreuth 1979, Patrice Chéreau / Pierre Boulez Gwyneth Jones: Brünnhilde Donald McIntyre: Wotan
