My Friday Evening Music

It's hard to believe now, but people really did confuse Rick Springfield with Bruce Springsteen. I know because I was one of those young dunces who did. This song was for us. No reason to play this anymore other than novelty, but at least people got the joke at the time.

 

My Friday Morning Music

My girlfriend and I talked about Barbie's pink corvette and whether Ken in the 70's and 80's would be caught dead in it. Then I thought about this Bruce Springsteen song, which now seems progressive for it's time.

Springsteen on Broadway

 

Lizi von Teig reviews her own experience in this week's Feedback, up now at Oddball Magazine. 

My Friday Morning Music

I never saw the entirety of the movie The Wrestler, so I missed this song by Bruce Springsteen. So good.

From Picture to Page: County Fair

Title ripped from Bruce Springsteen song. Acknowledged the only other poet I know to come from my hometown.

County Fair
For Dan Provost

We can come down
on a heatwaved weekend,
be each other's
carnival attractions.

Western Stars by Bruce Springsteen

Lizi von Teig reviews Bruce Springsteen's newest album. Read her latest Feedback column at Oddball Magazine.

Bruce Springsteen and...Taylor Swift?

Two new singles came out by both artists, and Lizi Von Teig covers both with this week's Feedback column.

It can't always be just about Bruce, people. Calm down.

Read her column now at Oddball Magazine.

Sandy

Elizabeth von Teig is back to dissect another Bruce Springsteen song. Feedback returns to Oddball Magazine.

Advent Calendar, Day Two

 Bruce Springsteen helps us kick it up a notch.

Bruce Springsteen vs. N.W.A. (the battle you never knew existed)

Elizabeth von Teig weighs in on what is the "most American album of the 20th century." Catch this week's Feedback music column over at Oddball Magazine.

Racing in the Streets

Greg Von Tieg takes on this Bruce Springsteen song into today's music column. Read Feedback today at Oddball Magazine.

Extra Junk Today

Junkman Radio is back sooner than expected. Listen to Greg von Teig tackle one of his favorite music subjects, Bruce Springsteen. Click over to Oddball Magazine and listen now.

Stone Soup Croutons, 1-26-16, Open Mic Songs of Self

Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions picked up from poems overheard from Stone Soup's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title either then or later. It's likely some of the poets I thank at the end won't even be able to figure out which lines were inspired by their work. This week, I had the title way before I had the poem figured out. Nothing else was easy.

Last night, we had Gladys Hidalgo feature, who was introduced by her friend, prior Stone Soup feature Dexter Garcia. The open mic actually had the highest number of guitar players I think I've ever seen in my last decade of hosting. That and open micer Chris Fitzgerald reading Walt Whitman helped me to turn out today's poem.

I was trying to not write a downer, but when I get writer's block, that's what I tend to do. To anyone there last night, don't worry. It's not you, it's me and my distorted lens. Especially when I'm tired. I also had the Charles Simic poem "County Fair" on my mind. That's also a sad sounding song by Bruce Springsteen.


Edit: This poem, "Stamp," has been published in Issue #3 of Tell Tale Inklings. Please consider purchasing it here. 

Dexter wasn't first, as she introduced Gladys, but she deserved the number one spot.

Special Thanks to Chris Cardone, Mahyrah Shamseddine, Gawaine Ross, David Miller, Bob Tracy, Martha Boss, Susan DeLeo, Angelica Maria, Jason Wright, Chris Fitzgerald, Navah The Buddaphliii, Dexter Garcia and Gladys Teresa Hidalgo.