wnyc:
PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS AUDIO OF LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA SINGING THE PART OF A FEMALE DEATHWATCH BEETLE IN NEED OF A MATE!!!
<3 radiolab <3
I don’t know what this is, where is came from, or the context…but I love it.
President Obama’s opening remarks and Alexander Hamilton performed at the white house [x]
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Regarding Springsteen: I was marginally aware of Bruce as I grew up in the 80s (you couldn’t get away from Born in the USA when it first came out), but I never really sat down and listened until my senior year of high school. I had a teacher that loved music and we found we had some things in common, so he loaned me his Born in the USA CD (this would have been 1997) and I was just blown away when I actually sat down to listen to it. I don’t listen to him enough but I have the essentials album
My wife has been a life-long fan because her father is, they’ve been to several shows together. Growing up I wasn’t, how do I say, “allowed” to listen to anything secular, anything other than super christian music. So I missed out on a lot growing up. I met my wife in college and she introduced me to Bruce Springsteen and I don’t think either of us expected me to fall in love like I did. I think he’s as politically acute as Bob Dylan but with a poetry, a simultaneous yearning and freedom, that really speaks to the soul. I keep saying that Supernatural should be less Zeppelin, more Springsteen, because that cross-America late-night diner, highway-cruising, searching for hope because you’re riddled with regret vibe is HIS vibe.
and of course I have to add that my favorite quote about Springsteen is by John Stewart (a well known Springsteen dweeb):
When you listen to Bruce’s music, you aren’t a loser. You are a character in an epic poem … about losers
That’s the best quote. My mom’s from Jersey as well and I’m pretty sure she’s been a fan too. And yeah, the older and more kicked around by life I feel, the better Bruce gets.
