Word: springsteen
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...Shorter column this week, to allow us to talk about NEMO (see box on right). Who hasn't seen those SonicNet.com commercials where various music stars sing "me"? They're intriguing, they feature big stars (Springsteen doing endorsements?) and yet it still does nothing to induce me to visit the website. It just seems the Net-marketing strategies get crazier and crazier. ChickClick.com is running a contest to find an online DJ (or "chick-jockey" as they call it), and they promise one year's free rent in Los Angeles and "all the coolest parties" to the woman who sends...
...Hemingway's heroes are defeated in Winner Take Nothing and in the novels. In To Have and Have Not, Harry Morgan had not. The dark, antiheroes of a time as recent as the 1970s have disappeared too--De Niro in Taxi Driver, Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon. Bruce Springsteen sang about his "town full of losers." In Rocky 28, our hero may finally knock out Adrian, but in his first fight (1976) he lost beautifully...
...friend's mix tape. Similar to those perfect-for-driving staples, the album is a hodgepodge of tracks assembled for their self-conscious hipness or relevance to the show. Where else would you find Van Morrison buddying up to Los Lobos or Bo Diddley rubbing elbows with Bruce Springsteen? In the quirky gangster world created by producer David Chase, baby...
Students should thank the COOP for cleansing Mass Ave. of this festering eyesore--its time has come. The immortal words of Bruce Springsteen, a songwriter of McCartneyian proportions who is purported to have made his Boston debut in the Bow, are appropriate: "Glory days, yeah they'll pass you by, glory days." In the case of the Bow, this is regrettable. But as for Dunkin' Donuts, I say: Good riddance...
...been on the same spot, 1 Bow Street, for several decades and even the oldest regulars do not know when it first opened its doors. Several claimed that Bruce Springsteen had his 1969 Boston premier in the bar, performing in the corner where the jukebox now stands...