A dialogue on Bruce Springsteen’s Backstreets (1975) by Hester Blum, 2014.

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A dialogue on Bruce Springsteen’s Backstreets (1975) by Hester Blum, 2014.
Backstreets magazine, fall 1988.
in the city. straight up “sweeping it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. The backstreets
my sweeper oc btw
When you’re wrapped up in your own narrative the world passes by like backstreets glimpsed from a train window. -- Michael Lipsey
they should make a backstreets intro that is ten hours long
It’s amazing how quickly you can switch from the booming scale of the buildings and businesses immediately out front of Shinagawa station to the local intimacy of the streets around the Kitahon district.
alleys of cork, ireland // december 2025 // ©