Is bruce springsteen a closet case?

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I say yes!

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Enough!

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

the "Boss"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

hey it's a valid point: i feel the world shd get a say on this vital issue...

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― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok, so the evidence you've given so far:

1. a couple of lyrics which are slightly ambiguous (I've forgotten them already)
2. him looking a bit gay on the cover of born in the usa
3. "he's *so* straight he's got to be gay"

Not convinced.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"A crazier question, I cannot imagine. Decidedly not."

― R J G (Cathy), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

4. Grainy b&w 8mm film of Bruce giving head to Max Weinberg

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 23 April 2004 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

right there's no ambiguity.

FACT: whenever bruce springsteen's in london he's goes training in an east end gym.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Courtney Cox = beard.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

straight?
http://www.l.kth.se/l96_alk/Bruce/Bruce2.jpg

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000025UW.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Red handkerchief worn on right pocket = fist-fuckee.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Still not convinced.
Keep numbering the 'evidence' - we're on 8.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

exactly!

Endless juke joints and Valentino drag where dancers scraped the tears
Up off the street dressed down in rags running into the darkness
Some hurt bad some really dying at night sometimes it seemed
You could hear the whole damn city crying blame it on the lies that killed us
Blame it on the truth that ran us down you can blame it all on me Terry
It don't matter to me now when the breakdown hit at midnight
There was nothing left to say but I hated him and I hated you when you went away

backstreets indeed!

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

But it's not a handkerchief!

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― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"tunnel of love"

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

You may think I'm foolish
For the foolish things I do
You may wonder how come I love you
When you get on my nerves like you do
Well baby you know you bug me
There ain't no secret 'bout that
Well come on over here and hug me
Baby I'll spill the facts
Well honey it ain't your money
'Cause baby I got plenty of that
I love you for your pink Cadillac
Crushed velvet seats
Riding in the back
Oozing down the street
Waving to the girls
Feeling out of sight
Spending all my money
On a Saturday night
Honey I just wonder what you do there in back
Of your pink Cadillac
Pink Cadillac

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The "darkness on the edge of town" is where they usualy have rest stops, you know

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

It's clear also that bruce springsteen's marital problems (as shown in "brilliant Disguise") are primarily sexual:

Now look at me baby
struggling to do everything right
And then it all falls apart
when out go the lights

and need i even point out: "Look at the boys in their high heels Sandy their skin is so white!"

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gocontinental.com/photos2/springsteen2a.jpg

Oppressively heterosexual.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

cause U never see any gay guys in the 70's wearing tight jeans and a simmet (ayrshire word! woo! means vest)

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The full length title is "Cover Me With Man Juice", though

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
and a freight train running through the middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
I'm on fire

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

That's not very gay.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I once sang "I'm on Fire" at Nice and Sleazy's acoustic night (into a country version of Sign 'o' the times. eighties!) and got accused of singing a song about child molestation by a young christian chanteuse. i can see her point is suppose, if you don't follow the bruce little girl=woman definition...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, you're right (Cathy)--I was just pitching in

gay or not, one of the revelations that advancing age has given me is that Bruce kind of rules

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

oh certainly bruce rules. I think there's a big argument to be made of Bruce being a crucial player in the formation of rock'n'roll as thee american folk music...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Ack. Then I must quote Tom Waits and say that I don't want to grow up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I never said he was Kevin...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Born down in a dead man's town". What a dirty flamer!!

― Hugh G. Rection, Friday, 23 April 2004 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

if you think about it, the first few lines in "born in the usa" could be a description of some really kinky sex ...

... though not necessarily kinky gay sex.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 24 April 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Promised Land" is the kissing cousin of "Go West", i.e. "I believe in the promised land" means "the land where I can make love to men freely etc etc"

― Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 24 April 2004 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

this is what's wrong, with the world or, perhaps, just with my world.

lumsden, I thought you were cool or am I kidding myself?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 24 April 2004 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps just an 80's metrosexual?

― Camtron (Cameron), Saturday, 24 April 2004 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The line about the boys who "kiss each other good night" in the fabulous "Incident on 57th Street."

Most of the lines I can think of are on the first two albums. Maybe it really was a phase.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 24 April 2004 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

oh dear RJG, that is what's wrong with your world if you ever though I was cool.

and it's hard to be a springsteen fan and remain cool (unless you put it through an horrendous irony filter). Springsteen is an afont to coolness and that's just another reason why he's great...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Saturday, 24 April 2004 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

and it's hard to be a springsteen fan and remain cool (unless you put it through an horrendous irony filter).

b-but RJG is cool. Maybe he is the exception. Or perhaps I have a terribly wrong-headed definition of cool.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 April 2004 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

if that's your cool (ie not liking springsteen) i want no part of it

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 24 April 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

(amateur!st OTM, by the way)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 24 April 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Nobody told me he isn't cool. I always thought even indie music snobs liked Born to Run.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 24 April 2004 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

No, they like Nebraska.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 24 April 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess a lot of people keep their cases on top of their closets, and a few inside their closets. Is a closet different from a wardrobe?

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 24 April 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer "Born to Add".

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 24 April 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

ADD.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 25 April 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

rosemary what is that?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

When we're roamin' the streets and we see one car
We always add one and make it two
It don't matter why we like to add one and one
Out here it's the thing to do
Now some say that screaming one plus one all night
Means we're thoughtless, cruel, and bad
But kids like you and me baby, we were born to add

Yes, sir, we were!

As we keep on wandering we see two trash cans
So we add one and make it three
There's alot of us adders on the Jersey Shore
Out here it's the thing to be
Yeah, we'll keep on shoutin' one plus two
Even though it makes 'em mad
'Cuz kids like you and me baby, we were born to add

Baby we were born to add!

One and two and three police persons spring out of the shadows
Down the corner comes one more
And we scream into that city night, three plus one makes four!
Well, they seemed to think we're disturbin' the peace
But we won't let 'em make us sad
'Cuz kids like you and me baby, we were born to add

Baby we were born to add!
Baby we were born to add!
Add! Add! Add!
Baby we were born to add!
Add! Add! Add!
Baby we were born to add!
Oh, Add
Baby we were born to add!
Baby we were born to add!
Add, add, add, add, add!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

music and lyrics by Christopher Cerf

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean cool in a social sense, ie not real cool, where springsteen is laughed at regularly (the looks one gets when one tries to defend the great man against the hordes!)...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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