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Superstorm Sandy: Fake Pictures Of The Storm On Social Networks Under #FakeSandy (PICTURES)
Dramatic images of Superstorm Sandy appeared across Facebook, Twitter and blogs as the storm hit the US East Coast - but many were not what they seemed.
Some came from Hollywood movies, sharks have been photoshopped, and old pictures portrayed as new, but that hasn't stopped many becoming viral sensations.
Here are some of the most dramatic, and fake, pictures, many seen under the Twitter hashtag #FakeSandy.


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The Commission discussed a recent letter from the Bradley County Board of Education that outlined the board's understanding of the Commission's commitment to fund the projects at Lake Forest.
Commissioner Adam Lowe, who is on the governing body's education committee, read from the letter that the school board had committed to spend $1 million for the project for a period of 12 months, with construction to begin on July 1, 2015.
Lowe said the date "does not coincide with" the Commission's understanding the project would begin during fiscal year 2016.
A variety of projects like roof repairs and asbestos abatement in the school's cafeteria were completed earlier this fall, despite having been originally slated as part of the later project.
Johnny McDaniel, the Bradley County Schools director, called those and other repairs like them "immediate things that cannot be delayed" because Lake Forest is a functioning school.
"Those are items that would have been part of the original request that are now off the table," McDaniel said.
Lowe said the letter led him to believe the total cost of renovations to Lake Forest could be anywhere from $12 million to $14 million.
"They're spending $12 million," Lowe said. "They fully anticipate this will not be fully funded."
Lowe noted that the school board showed "no attempt to scale back the project" in case of a possible budget deficit.
However, Commissioner Jeff Morelock said he did not want to see the county "cut corners" on the projects at Lake Forest, as he said the county has done in the past.
The school board and Commission have communicated back and forth in the past, and their final budget numbers have often differed.
"We did send this board a 'maybe,' and I think we got a 'maybe' back," Lowe said.
Members plan to revisit the matter during a regular voting session.
Commissioners will also revisit a discussion related to findings from a recent meeting of the Tennessee Municipal League that concerned how already-collected tax dollars should be distributed.
County Mayor D. Gary Davis also announced the county is in the process of signing a five-year contract with the United States Postal Service that would keep the downtown Cleveland post office in operation for at least that length of time.
The county will also be working to update its Occupational Safety and Health Administration plan in the near future, he said.

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More than half of Arizona's babies are born under the state health plan for the poor a positive trend, in the view of public-health experts, while others see it as a drain on taxpayers.
The trend follows recent policy changes that allow more individuals and families to qualify for free or low-cost care, as well as the ever-increasing costs of private health insurance.
It also reflects the fact that Hispanics the group most likely to be poor and least likely to have private health insurance are having more babies than any other group in Arizona.
The trend would continue upward under an Arizona Senate budget proposal that would allow more women to qualify for prenatal care through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System.
AHCCCS paid for 53,121 baby deliveries last year, about 52 percent of the state's 102,042 births, continuing a trend that started in 2003.
That's up from 42 percent in 2000, the year before higher AHCCCS income limits were enacted, allowing more of the "working poor" to enroll.
AHCCCS says it paid, on average, more than $4,200 for each birth it covered last year a $223 million expenditure that also covered prenatal care for most of those babies' mothers.
Study after study has shown that every $1 spent on prenatal care saves $3 or more in newborn intensive-care costs and other expenses tied to mother and baby health problems that could have been prevented.
But policy experts still split on whether the state should bear so much childbearing expense.
Jack Jewett, senior vice president of TMC Healthcare and an appointee to the state's new First Things First early-childhood-development board, said the state is doing what voters told it to do.
"We as citizens and voters have said there's a need, and we want to meet that need, and that's happened in elections," Jewett said, referring to three ballot initiatives passed by voters over the last 10 years, demanding more health care for the poor in 1996 and 2000, and creating First Things First last year.
Darcy Olsen, president of the conservative Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, agreed that "most Arizonans would certainly support the idea of AHCCCS helping the truly needy and indigent. But now they are helping families who are middle-class."
Olsen was referring to Kids-Care Parents, which covers adults whose children are enrolled in KidsCare and with incomes up to twice the AHCCCS limit up to $40,000 a year for a family of four.
"Some lawmaker said, 'It won't be long before Paris Hilton will qualify for AHCCCS,'" Olsen said. "People who can pay for themselves certainly should."
First-time parents Casey Hamm, and Marcelo and Candelaria Ramirez, say they needed AHCCCS' help.
Hamm, 25, is an unmarried, uninsured University of Arizona student who gave birth Monday at Tucson Medical Center to son Caden Hansen. Hamm went to school and worked through her pregnancy but not at a job that offered affordable health-care coverage.
"I was able to get prenatal care from the beginning. It was awesome," said Hamm, who is working toward a business degree that she hopes will lead to a bright career and a secure future for her family.
The Ramirezes want the same for their family, which now includes 2-month-old Christopher.
Like Hamm, they heard about AHCCCS "by word of mouth," they said last week, while waiting to see their pediatrician at El Rio Community Health Center's Southwest-Side clinic.
But on his construction worker's pay, insurance is unaffordable at least for now, they said. And besides, his wife said, AHCCCS is "a very good program" that provides good service.
The Ramirez family represents another significant trend. Hispanics make up about 29 percent of the state's population. But since 2003 they have accounted for the largest share of births in Arizona including 44 percent of all babies born last year, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.
Babies born to non-Hispanic white women accounted for 42.6 percent of all births last year, the health department says.
Tucson Medical Center and University Medical Center deliver more babies than any other local hospital, with well more than half covered by AHCCCS. Of the more than 6,500 babies born at TMC last year, AHCCCS paid for 57 percent.
UMC delivered 2,500 babies last year, and more than 70 percent were under AHCCCS particularly high, UMC says, because the UA doctors who work at UMC also work at clinics that serve AHCCCS patients.
"It's about prevention," said Vicki Began, UMC vice president of women and children's services. "I'm a nurse, and I'm going to say I would rather see AHCCCS spend money on prenatal care because it costs a lot less in the long run and it's better for the mom and the baby.
"We're going to pay as taxpayers, one way or the other. And it's getting harder and harder to afford health insurance."
Close to 78 percent of all women giving birth in Arizona in 2005 started prenatal care in the first three months of their pregnancy up from about 71 percent in 1995, according to the Department of Health Services.
But that's still below the national average of 84 percent.
Only women who can prove their citizenship get prenatal care from AHCCCS. For noncitizens illegal immigrants, and immigrants who live here legally but are working to obtain citizenship AHCCCS will cover baby deliveries only. That's in keeping with the AHCCCS policy of providing only emergency care to noncitizens, and a woman in labor is considered a medical emergency.
At TMC last year, 1,210 babies were born to noncitizen mothers about 18 percent of the hospital's total births, said TMC spokeswoman Julia Strange.
While most state Medicaid programs are covering more births than they used to, the national average is around 40 percent of all births, said Alina Salganicoff, vice president and director of women's health policy at Kaiser Family Foundation, a health-care research group.
In most cases, pregnant women can get into AHCCCS if their incomes are within 133 percent of poverty level about $18,200 for a single woman.
That's the lowest income limit allowed by Medicaid, Salganicoff said, but it would increase to 150 percent under a budget proposal from state Sen. Barbara Leff, a Paradise Valley Republican.
Leff initially proposed increasing the limit to 185 percent and is frustrated that Senate leaders settled on 150 percent.
"Any increase is an improvement," Leff said, "but the leadership is looking at this backwards. They see this as an outright cost. I see it as a savings. They're being shortsighted by not caring for these mothers."
Senate President Tim Bee, a Tucson Republican, said he and Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano, who has final say on the state budget, fully support the 150 percent increase.
"I think it will be in" the budget that gets passed, Bee said Saturday. "These are young families starting out. Prenatal care is clearly something that's very important for the health of these babies and mothers."
Many policy experts say Arizona needs to look at the family-planning benefits it provides low-income women.
Nearly 20 percent of the babies born at TMC last year were to mothers 20 and younger. Another 55 percent were born to mothers 21 to 30. If those young mothers want to delay their next pregnancy, AHCCCS will pay for birth control but only for two years. Arizona is one of 26 states that pay for birth control for low-income women, but one of six states that have the narrowest coverage, Salganicoff said. Arizona also limits the birth-control benefit to women who have already had a child.
Overall, Arizona has made progress in caring for the poor and "working-poor," policy-makers agree. But the state's uninsured population has hovered around 18 percent for the last 10 years. The national average was 15 percent in 2005, says the Kaiser Family Foundation.
TMC's Jewett, a former state legislator, said lawmakers have long been concerned about the costs of AHCCCS.
"From the beginning, legislators viewed it as this potentially enormous vacuum that would just suck up state dollars."


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baddy bro, happy to clarify. "Motorboating" is a pop culture term from Wedding Crashers movie. If you've seen it then you would understand. I highly suggest you see it for a wide variety of beneficial reasons.
Glad you appreciate the consideration for you. Respect and appreciation are good things. I want to see everyone on here score endlessly and get stoked to da max on the reg. Especially us northerners who've got the cajones to step into winter liquid so frigid that it may no longer be liquid without a saline current.
2-4ft was a myth, or so it seems, across much of the northeast yesterday. At least it was here. One would expect leftovers of a storm to be some decent lines in reasonable winter offshores when that was the sig wave height projected and the period was 11s. No such luck. Hopefully, that's not the case today in AC and you do score.
I loved dinosaurs as a kid, thanks for bringing them up. My favorite was triceratops, although I did like T-Rex, stegosaurus and any of the airborne creatures too. I was fascinated that the Paleozoic reptiles could emerge into the regal life forms just mentioned in the years following.
Who's telling you to go back to bed? A surfer's supposed to charge. But not before throwing on his form-fitting rubber and facial petroleum jelly and watching Riding Giants until the sun comes up.
I'm not gonna say plane ticket. I was just gone to SoCal, SF, and FL for two weeks and hardly scored. Scored in winter wonderland when I came back here though. Good thing I was out in SoCal 3.5 weeks ago too for that weekend bonanza of super-long period stoke. Not everywhere you'll fly to is guaranteed shacks for days though some are. Those can be four digits just for airfare though. Spicoli is a smart shopper, however.
I told you who may fav Dino was, who's your fav prezzy? I like FDR. All you brahs should be wearing wigs and knickers today in the honor of those who signed our Declaration 238 years ago.


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Steven Tyler's not trying to derail the gravy train that is Aerosmith ... which is why he doesn't want to know if he gets slammed in guitarist Joe Perry's new autobiography.
We asked Steven outside Bar Louie in Nashville Wednesday night ... if he's gonna read the book, and his answer was pretty simple -- "HELL NO!"
Check out the clip though -- his explanation kinda explains how he and Joe have kept the band together for 44 years.
On the other hand -- Steven also said he loves bossing around his band mates ... which should go over well during their next tour.
Corey Feldman
Sorry, Steven Tyler ...
This Is Gonna Hurt [VIDEO]
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears ... is exactly what Corey Feldman did during a recent karaoke sesh in Hollywood -- and we got the painful footage.
Corey hit up Whiskey Blu Wednesday, where anyone -- even Corey -- can sing karaoke with a live band. He opted to jam out on the Aerosmith classic, "Dream On."
We'll say this for Feldman ... he brought some energy to the stage -- and even dared to attempt Steven Tyler's legendary scream.
Aerosmith Drummer Joey Kramer
Heart Problems
Band Cancels Tour Dates
Joey Kramer -- the drummer for Aerosmith -- had heart complications Tuesday and the band has cancelled some upcoming shows ... TMZ has learned.
A source close to the band tells us ... Kramer has had heart issues in the past.
A member of the crew told us ... the 64-year-old will undergo heart surgery, but we could not confirm that.
The group has now cancelled the Concord, CA concert scheduled for Wednesday night.
We're also told members of the crew have been told the Washington show -- scheduled for Saturday -- will also be cancelled.
Joe Perry
Vandalizes Wall
Dude Looks Like a Tagger
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry -- rock god, and hardcore scofflaw ... after bombing the band's logo on a building without the owner's consent ... all for a guerrilla marketing campaign.
TMZ has obtained photos and video taken very early Thursday morning of Perry tagging the wall of a production studio in downtown Los Angeles.
Our street art sources tell us Perry contacted a local graffiti artist named RISK to scout locations where they could plaster the Aerosmith logo and "Let Rock Rule" ... the name of their upcoming tour.
Problem is it caused a major issue for the owner of the building -- who tells TMZ they were slated to do a photo shoot on the wall Perry defaced.
The owner says he's a big Aerosmith fan so he's not pressing charges -- but he had no idea about Perry's tagging mission ... and was forced to push back their client's shoot so they could paint over the wall ASAP (below).
Law enforcement sources tell us if Perry is caught in the act -- marketing or not -- he will be arrested for vandalism.
We reached out to Perry ... and in true rockstar fashion he said, "let the music do the talking."
Steven Tyler
Topless Hawaii Joyride
How Many Naked Chicks Can You Count?
BOOB ALERT -- if you didn't already know it was Steven Tyler in this video ... you might think there were two topless chicks cruising around in the back of a Jeep Wrangler like drunk high schoolers.
The person who shot the footage tells TMZ, he honestly believed he was being tailed by a car with two topless women -- until the Jeep got close enough for him to see ... it was actually Steven.
It's unbelievable. You can even hear Steven singing at the top of his lungs.
We've said it before ... but this time, dude really looked like a lady.
Michael Jackson
MJ's People Expose Big Stars as Drug Addicts
Michael Jackson's people have just thrown Britney Spears, George Michael, Van Halen, Aerosmith and other big names under a big tour bus, because MJ's people have just labeled them hard-core drug abusers just to make a point in a lawsuit.
Here's the deal. Lloyds of London has refused to pay benefits under an insurance policy that AEG took out in case MJ was not able perform for the "This Is It" tour. Lloyds rejected the claim on grounds Michael and AEG defrauded the company by failing to fess up that MJ was a drug abuser.
Now the bus. The Michael Jackson Company (MJC) sued Lloyds, demanding payment. MJC claims in public documents -- obtained by TMZ -- that a number of artists, including Britney, George, Van Halen, Aerosmith, Kings of Leon, AC/DC, Johnny Hallyday and Whitney Houston all were known drug addicts and all of them applied for similar insurance to Lloyds.
MJC wants to see how the other rock stars were treated to determine if Michael is being singled out unfairly.
Short story -- to make their case, they're going to tar and feather every other rock star and act in sight.
Cancels Indonesia Concert
After Bomb Scare
Aerosmith has cancelled a concert in Indonesia scheduled for Saturday after two militants were arrested for allegedly plotting to blow up the Myanmar Embassy.
A promoter for the show in Jakarta blamed the cancellation on safety concerns -- it's unclear if there was a direct threat to the band or the concert venue.
Cops in Indonesia said two suspected militants had been arrested in connection to the bomb threats -- and explosives were seized. According to reports, the militants are suspected of plotting to use the bombs against the Myanmar Embassy in Jakarta to protest Myanmar's treatment of Muslims.
Aerosmith apologized for the cancellation and promised to make it up to the fans there, but there was no immediate news about rescheduling.
Steven Tyler
$6 Million Cocaine ...
Say What?
Steven Tyler has us baffled ... not by the fact he claims to have dropped $6 mil on nose candy -- but by the strangely awesome numerical riddle he laid on our camera guy! Math just ain't our thing.
Check out TMZ on TV -- click here to see your local listings!
Steven Tyler
I Spent $5 Mil on Cocaine
Steven Tyler says he "snorted half of Peru" over the course of his drug-addled rock career -- easily spending at least $5 million on cocaine before he finally kicked the habit.
The Aerosmith singer revealed the drug numbers on Australia's "60 Minutes" this week, saying he spent a fortune on booger sugar as a young rock star ... "Probably, realistically, 5 or 6 [million], easy ... You could also say I snorted half of Peru, but, you know, it's what we did."
Tyler's been open about his former drug addiction for a while now -- telling Matt Lauer back in 2011, "I needed that cocaine. I needed it." But he said it ruined him, adding, "It took my children away, it took my marriages away. I was on my knees."
Tyler sobered up in the mid 80s but later relapsed. He was diagnosed with Hepatitis C in 2003, which he believes he contracted as a result of his intravenous drug use.
Tyler's been in and out of rehab numerous times, but now considers himself sober.
Steven Tyler
I'll Play the Bongo ...
You Watch My Schlongo
See if you can watch this video of a mankini-sportin' Steven Tyler bangin' away in a drum circle in Maui ... and NOT stare at his drumstick.
Impossible, right????!
Anyway, we obtained this incredible footage of the Aerosmith singer layin' down a beat during one of those hippy drum circles usually reserved for Venice Beach ... or Matt McConaughey's house.
Word on the street is ... the hot chick in the background is Tyler's rebound chick ... which sorta makes sense since there have been reports he broke up with fiancee Erin Brady.
In related news ... penis.
Steven Tyler Gives Beyonce
on Fake National Anthem
Beyonce could've done a sock puppet lip-sync of the "Star Spangled Banner" -- as far as Steven Tyler's concerned -- as long as her smoking bod was in plain view at the Inauguration.
Steven was outside the Viper Room, and when we asked about B's lip-syncing debacle he said ... "Beyonce's so hot she can do anything. Let's just get real."
Aerosmith's frontman didn't seem the least bit bent about the controversy, and even belted out ... "Whatever gets you through the night" ... LIVE, mind you.
So, has Steven ever, y'know -- faked it?
Check the clip and get the answer straight from those famous lips.
Johnny Depp with Aerosmith
Dude Looks Like
a Rock Star
12/4/2012 3:30 AM PST BY Johnny Lopez
Proving he can do whatever he wants and still look cool, Johnny Depp joined Steven Tyler and the rest of Aerosmith on stage at the band's show in L.A. on Monday.
With the crowd going wild, the 49-year-old "Pirates of the Caribbean" star jammed with the band for two songs. Johnny's impromptu gig comes just days after he performed with Alice Cooper at his concert at the Orpheum Theater last week.
Fun Fact: In the '90s, Johnny played guitar/bass as part of the alternative music group P.
Steven Tyler
Drops F-Bomb on 'Today'
Steven Tyler had a rough morning -- not only did he not know what show he was on, he also dropped an F-bomb on live television!
Tyler -- who is probably never awake at such an early hour -- performed with Aerosmith on the "Today" show this morning ... only he thought he was on a different program. Al Roker's reaction ... priceless.
Then, while Roker was giving a weather update, Tyler screamed in the background to the crowd, "Thanks for coming out, you crazy f**ks!"
And now you know why rock stars perform at night.


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In my letter I stated that a pistol, shotgun, or hunting rifle is all that one needs to protect one's family or property. So I am not argueing that individuals should not own firearms.
I am argueing that in line with the Supreme Court's 1934 decision that banned private ownership of machine guns, sawed off shotguns, silencers, and flash-suppressors, it would not violate the Second Amendment to ban private ownership of semi-automatic weapons or restict the number of rounds in a magazine.
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Boone Hospital Center and the Columbia Daily Tribune would like to announce a new arrival coming in June — the first annual Hello, Baby! Expo.
This event will provide expecting families and parents of young children a fun day of education and activities related to pregnancy, childbirth, the first year of life and the many decisions surrounding those events.
The Hello, Baby! Expo will be held 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Saturday, June 15 at the Holiday Inn Expo Center in Columbia.
"Having a child is one of life's most joyous events and also one of the most complex. There are so many decisions and choices that need to be made," said Marlee Walz, who directs the Boone Family Birthplace as a director of patient care services. "This will give mid-Missouri a single event where parents can meet experts face to face and have their pressing questions answered."
The Hello, Baby! Expo will feature speakers and booths sponsored by businesses and organizations from around mid-Missouri. As the event nears and speakers are chosen, more information will be available at www.columbiatribune.com/hellobaby.
"The baby expo concept has been picking up steam across the country, and we're thrilled to bring this event to mid-Missouri," said Deborah Marshall, Columbia Daily Tribune Special Project Manager. "We're certain the community will embrace this new event, which will truly be a celebration of birth and family."


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It is unspeakably cold here in New York, which is why we're excited to cozy up with The Best of Gilda Radner at tomorrow night's installment of PAJAMARAMA!
BUST contributor and 'zine-stress Ayun Halliday will introduce this epically funny compilation of the late Ms. Radner's most memorable characters and moments.
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Fitch's baseball team shut out Springfield on Wednesday, 6-0.
Fitch's baseball team shut out Springfield on Wednesday, 6-0.
Bristol's Ashlyn Slusher struck out twelve batters, and also drove in a pair of runs to lead the Panthers past Mathews 3-0 on Wednesday.
Falcons use a 7-run 2nd inning to help defeat Lake 10-6 in high school softball Wednesday evening.
Girard's Karlee Byrne tossed a one-hitter and drove in five runs in a 13-0 win over Southeast on Wednesday.
Raiders defeat the Bulldogs 11-0 in high school baseball Wednesday afternoon.
Crestview's Michael McDonough struck out fourteen batters in an 8-1 win over Jackson-Milton on Wednesday.
Sierra Blackson hit a solo home run as Champion topped Brookfield 4-1 on Wednesday.
Mike and Mac White led Mineral Ridge to a 6-5 win on Wednesday.
Next week is the beginning of the softball tournament.
Stevie Taylor led the Raiders at the plate, as South Range beat Lisbon, 12-2 in five innings on Tuesday afternoon.
Western Reserve defeated Wellsville, 12-0 on Tuesday afternoon.
Stephanie Ohalek hit a bases loaded, 2-out RBI single to give Ursuline a 4-3 win over Conneaut in the bottom of the 8th inning.
Crestview scored four runs in the bottom of th 6th inning to edge East Palestine, 6-5 on Tuesday afternoon.
The Falcons defeat the Tigers 7-6, grabbing a share of the All-American Conference title.
Nicole Siciliano drove in three runs to lead Springfield to a 9-1 win over Mineral Ridge.
Springfield's Dalton Donachie tossed a no-hitter with ten strikeouts in a 10-0 win over Mineral Ridge on Tuesday.
Lakeview senior Jake Young will continue his soccer career at Holy Cross.
The post-season begins next week for area high school baseball teams.
The 25th annual K.O. Drugs boxing tournament opened up Monday night at the Palermo Center in Campbell.
Crestview defeats East Palestine, 13-1 on Monday at East Palestine City Park.


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I have a question about the ingredient "boneless pork shoulder (not too lean), cut into 3/4-inch chunks" on the recipe "Slow-Cooked Pork Tacos" from merrill.
Would pork tenderloin work for this? Or is it too lean?
Usually you want the shoulder for slow cooked pork, but if you have to use loin, just realize it will be on the dry side. You might want to cook it a bit less.
I would probably find myself adding some bacon fat or other rendered fat to the tenderloin as it cooks, to make it less dry and give more flavor to the sauce. I agree with nutcakes about cooking it less too, as it will get hard if overcooked. I'd cook down the sauce, with everything except the browned meat added in, and then put the meat in towards the end til it's heated through, checking it every 5 minutes or so - I wouldn't expect it to take very long at all.
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This award-winning Japanese restaurant and sushi bar on West Broadway has an international reputation to uphold. Sushi enthusiasts from all corners of the world find their way to Tojo's when in Vancouver. Courted (unsuccessfully) by restauranteurs in New York and Los Angeles, owner/head chef Tojo prepares meticulously crafted, locally influenced Omakase nightly, inspiring near-rapturous reviews. Short on ambiance—the restaurant has the feel of a semi-empty convention center—Tojo's keeps its emphasis on the food. Well-executed Japanese fare and extensive sake offerings join the sushi to round out the celebrated restaurant's menu.
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OK, so this is kind of a dual post. First and foremost to inform anyone who visits Suds about the awesomely talented Rolo Tomassi, and secondly (more importantly) to review their second album: Cosmology.
Having been active in some way or another for close to 5 years now, these guys have built up a solid fanbase and live reputation in the UK, famous particularly for their jarring, synth-infused rhythms and frontwoman Eva Spence's ferocious roar. They've been tearing up venues up and down the country, including high-profile support slots with The Dillinger Escape Plan and slots at the big summer festivals. A worthy live reputation causes problems for a lot of bands. The main issue being the difficulty of capturing the raw passion of a live performance on record. Rolo Tomassi, however, have no such issues.
Their spazzed-out tech-metal meets dance sound is perfectly captured on Cosmology, which is a real relief considering just how easy it is to lose individual instruments and subtle arrangements amongst such a racket. Effortlessly switching back and forth from pummelling brutality to dreamy soundscapes, Rolo clearly have the musical tightrope walking down. The beauty of title track/closer 'Cosmology' sits easily alongside the discomforting lurch of 'French Motel', and both are high-points. Lead-off single 'Party Wounds' is an absolute killer, displaying the prodigious vocal talents of Eva Spence, who straddles the line between angelic choir soprano and feral beast with a confidence rarely seen in metal music. When you throw in the fact that she's barely out of her teens, it's quite a remarkable performance. Throw in brother James's yelping, and it makes for a fine dual-delivery that gives the album's heavier moments real variety.
As is the case with some of the more experimental works of art, Cosmology is at times a hit-and-miss affair. 'French Motel' is an impressive piece of music, but it manages to display both the strength and weakness of the band's approach. One section sees the most unusual use of the synth amongst a discordant mess that really doesn't add to proceedings – an example of how difficult Rolo can be to listen to at times – but that section precedes the brilliant use of the synth to emphasise the heavy riffs with a distorted effect, which absolutely pummels the ears. In fairness, those wrong turns are very few and far between. Rolo have polished their sound, focused their efforts, and produced an album which is a real step-up from mental debut 'Hysterics'.
If you like your music difficult, dense and experimental, then this group of Sheffield youngsters will be right up your street. If you're into hooks and melodies, steer clear if you don't fancy a challenge. I like my music either way, and I enjoyed this album. Recommended.
According to their Myspace blog, Orange County goth-metal troop I Am Ghost have split. I don't know how many people out there care about this, but I certainly do. The band made 2 very good albums before calling it a day, and it's a shame that a bunch of such talented musicians have reached the end of the road.
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Six months after the death of Eric Rohmer at the age of 89, the BFI is re-releasing a good-looking new print of 'My Night with Maud', the French filmmaker's 1969 work which, a decade into his slow mutation from Cahiers critic to director, made his name outside of France and preceded such enduring works as 'Pauline at the Beach' and 'The Green Ray'.The title suggests some sort of saucy nocturnal encounter, but the truth is more austere, if no less captivating. The film gives us Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a dapper 34-year-old engineer with a good line in wry, toothy smiles who works for Michelin in Clermont-Ferrand. He's lived in Canada and Chile, enjoyed a few girlfriends, but now he's single, serious and more committed to his religion and future.
We meet Jean-Louis in church, on Christmas Eve, where he spies a young blonde, Françoise (Marie-Christine Barrault), who he determines to marry. He follows her in his car, but she soon disappears and he bumps into Vidal (Antoine Vitez), an old friend and teacher at the local university. Vidal is an atheist and Marxist who has less rigid ideas about love and marriage, and their chat allows Rohmer to explore various ideas relating to life, relationships and our place in the world before (or perhaps in the absence of) God.
Vidal invites Jean-Louis for dinner at the flat of his sometime lover Maud (Françoise Fabian), a good-looking, liberal doctor who's a divorcee and single mother. When Vidal leaves for the evening and encourages Jean-Louis to stay with Maud, there's a brief will-they-won't-they episode – but Rohmer is more interested in behaviour and motive than titillation. Using Maud as a moral torch, he shines a light on Jean-Claude's ideas. But Maud is more than just a foil: she's a complex, alluring, smart character, an encapsulation of modern thinking with whom we sympathise as much as anyone else. The same can be said of Françoise, the blonde, who re-enters the film and Jean-Louis's life: she's more than she appears.
In an interview with long-time associate Barbet Schroeder not long before he died , Rohmer identified two traits in his films which he hoped he'd mastered: an easy naturalism and a willingness to present the discussion of ideas. 'My Night with Maud' offers both in spades, although those familiar with Rohmer's breezier but no less inquiring 1980s films might be a little surprised by the rigour and bookishness of this wintry, black-and-white work (the crisp photography of Clermont-Ferrand at Christmas is especially striking). Talk was never cheap in Rohmer's films; here, some knowledge of Pascal's Wager and various tenets of Catholicism wouldn't go amiss if you're to gain the most from the characters' intense chats about religion and atheism, chance and determinism, love and desire. But, as ever, Rohmer gives us a playful slice of life which has the effortless air of reality and challenges us to think about life afresh.
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First up, though, I'll start where my day started, with a need to investigate a claim made in yesterday's report of the partnership between Family Search and DC Thomson Family History, the owners of FindMyPast. You can see my blogpost here, but basically the report mentioned that some Irish records were among the millions of newly uploaded records on FindMyPast; no further detail was provided.
Well, it was worth waiting for, as I discovered from Cliona Weldon on the FindMyPast.ie stand! The new records relate to an updated collection of Irish Civil Registration Death Records 1864-1870. In addition to all the traditional transcript basics of name, age and occupation of the deceased and the registration district, the name and townland of the informant ie the person who registered the death, are now provided (if available in the original register, obviously). What an improvement, even if for only a number of years!
If you're searching findmypast for deaths, be aware that this is a separate record set within the Deaths collection. The 'Irish Deaths 1864-1958' record set is the 'traditional' Irish civil registration set; this new record set is called 'Ireland, Deaths (1864-1870)'.
So what other news? Well, FindMyPast.ie had plenty more in the way of news! As you can see from the photo above, the FindMyPast team were dressed up as Newspaper Vendors to publicise the recent arrival of Irish newspapers to the database. Dating from 1820-1926, the publications include the Dublin Evening Mail, Freeman's Journal and Belfast Newsletter and nearly 2million articles.
I had a good chat with Brian Donovan, Business Development Manager for FindMyPast.ie and sister company Eneclann, about some of the records that we can expect online in the not too distant future. It's quite a list, so I'm going to save it until tomorrow. (I know, I know, that's wicked, but if I don't get to the APGI reception shortly there may not be a glass of wine left in the building, and that would be a bad result for a girl who's been on her feet all day.)
So, cracking on...
The Irish Family History Foundation/RootsIreland have a particularly high presence at this year's show, not least because they have sponsored the excellent genealogy presentations (organised by APGI) running on all three days. So, when Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, formally opened BTOP it was appropriate for Karel Keily (IFHF) and Steven Smyrl (APGI) to be included in the photocall. I got the chance to meet him, too; it felt good to hear Irish Genealogy News introduced as 'THE must-visit Irish Genealogy blog!'
Mary Flood (l) and Nora O'Mara (r) of the Irish Family History Foundation with Jimmy Deenihan TD |
Sometime in the not too distant future, RootsIreland will also be adding Wexford records. Acknowledging that deadlines have a habit of moving backwards, Karel suggested these records may be available in six months. No promises, mind.
Away from record collections, I called in on the big My-History stand which was launching its Working Chart to the Irish market. It's been available in the UK for a few months, but it was, so md Tony Beardshaw told me, inspired from the company's visit last year to Back To Our Past.
The Wall Chart is an ingenious way of creating a family tree – especially one where several generations produced spectacular numbers of children – without pulling your hair out and having to keep trashing previous versions each time a new sibling is discovered or you run out of paper space. It's a 'continual work in progress' chart, really, but one that keeps the ongoing work in a neat, consistent format. I haven't seen such a thing before and I can understand why it would be so useful to Irish genealogists who so often are dealing with large families. The Wall Chart comes in three sizes – 1m, 3m and 5m and is priced at €4.95, €9.95 and €14.95 respectively.
My-History is also selling the mega-popular FlipPal portable scanner with a €20 discount to BTOP visitors.
Julie Phibbs of Irish Roots magazine was at her usual position just inside the main entrance of the Hall and has some terrific offers for visitors including the current issue at a 50% discount, and back issue packs at €8 for 2011 or 2012 (four issues in each pack), reduced from €21. In addition, she's offering a Show Special subscription rate not only to visitors in Dublin, but to all. The annual subscription is just €20 including postage worldwide! Follow this link, enter BTOP in the description box and '20' in the payment box, and continue with your payment details. This offer expires on Sunday when the show finishes.
This is all I've time for now. I'll get a Part 2 written up tomorrow after another day at the show, and a Part 3 on Monday.
UPDATE: Part 2 & 3 were ultimately combined. See Final Report here.


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A man died Saturday night after he was struck by a vehicle in Oak Lawn.
Noel Finnerty, 56, died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn at 10:51 p.m. Saturday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
Finnerty was struck by a vehicle at West 95th Street and South Cicero Avenue in Oak Lawn, according to the medical examiner's office.
An autopsy Sunday found he died of craniocerebral injuries from an SUV striking a pedestrian and his death was ruled an accident.
Oak Lawn police were not immediately available for comment.
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The Department of Film & Media Studies will greatly miss Jay, who is very fondly remembered. Below is an obituary that appeared in The Ithaca Journal. It, and a guestbook, can be found at the Ithaca Journals website.
FORMERLY OF ITHACA - On December 24th, 2008, James Joseph Kaplan passed away
at UCLA Medical Center as a result of an aneurysm from an arteriovenous
James Joseph Kaplan, affectionately known as Jay, lived the best life ever -
especially if you asked him. Whether enjoying his morning cappuccino,
finishing the final cut of a film project, or just sliding into a good pair
of Levi's, Jay took the greatest pleasure in all life had to offer.
Born in Royal Oak, Michigan on January 19, 1980, Jay moved with his family
to Ithaca, NY when he was six. Since childhood, Jay and his brothers always
had a unique relationship. They seemed to have their own language, which
always revolved around laughter and humor.
Jay demonstrated the ability and the drive to teach himself anything he
found interesting; the more challenging, the better. Difficult or
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preferring to capture a sunset's fading light as it passed over vinyl siding
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After graduating Ithaca High School, Jay attended Dartmouth College where he
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profound love for film that would stay with him forever. He spent countless
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One person in particular who immediately took to Jay after barely meeting
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into him. They started dating with three weeks left in her senior year
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Bruce Springsteen: "I think I just wanted to be great" – Part 2
From Uncut's September 2002 issue: In one of the most revealing interviews of his career, Bruce Springsteen talks exclusively to Adam Sweeting about his new album, The Rising, much of which was written in the aftermath of September 11, and which reunites him with the E Street Band for their first studio album since Born In The USA.
Bruce Springsteen: "I think I just wanted to be great" – Part 1
Bruce Springsteen: "I think I just wanted to be great" – Part 3
The Rising opens with the stormy rumble of "Lonesome Day", which Springsteen conceived as a curtain raiser and scene-setter for what follows. Right away, you can hear what he means about O'Brien's effect on the band's sound. Where there could sometimes be an end-of-the-pier quality about the E Streeters in the old days, this time the guitars bite like chainsaws chewing through a stack of pine logs, while the bass and drum bottom end is built like St.Paul's Cathedral. And no sign of that in-house favourite, the glockenspiel?
"Actually, there is a glockenspiel on the album," says Springsteen, triumphantly. "Brendan played it on 'Into The Fire' and 'Waitin' On A Sunny Day.' He was going, 'I'm doing a Springsteen record! Damn right I'm gonna play the glockenspiel.'"
For "Lonesome Day", however, the trusty glock was deemed surplus to requirements. "If you look at the first verse, it feels like it's a guy who's talking to his girl," the author points out. He sings the words quietly, fast-forwarding through them in his mind – "'Baby once I thought I knew everything I needed to know about you… it's gonna be okay if I can just get through this lonesome day.' Then bang, the second verse – 'Hell's brewin' dark sun's on the rise, this storm'll blow through by and by,' so I switched right out of this personal thing to this sort of overall emotional mood and the feelings that were in the air here in the States around that time. But it works, because one thing works with the other and the second verse can actually come in on what was said in the first verse. The secret of the songwriting was to get personal first, then you sort of shade in universal feelings. That's what balances the songs. All experience is personal so you have to start there, and then if you can connect in what's happening with everyone, the universality of an experience, then you're creating that alchemy where your audience is listening to it, they're hearing what they're feeling inside and they're also feeling 'I'm not alone,' you know? And that's what you're trying to do."
Despite the turbulent context in which most of the songs were written, it's only intermittently that Springsteen allows specific references to come looming out of the fog of battle. "You're Missing" is a forlorn itemisation of loss, measured out in mundane household details ('Coffee cups on the counter, jackets on the chair/Papers on the doorstep, but you're not there"), while "Into The Fire" sounds as though Springsteen might have had the New York Fire Department in mind when he wrote it ("I need your kiss, but love and duty called you someplace higher/Somewhere up the stairs, into the fire"). "Further On (Up The Road)" and "The Fuse" are both steeped in dread and a sense of gathering threat, though there's no attempt to locate them in a particular time or place. "Got my dead man's suit, and my smilin' skull ring/My lucky graveyard boots, and a song to sing," runs the second verse of "Further On," evoking an image of The Boss as a kind of spectral balladeer stalking the margins of consciousness. In "The Fuse," as an ominous drumbeat tolls out the time, the singer restlessly shuffles images of death, religion and sex.
Binding many of the songs together, over and above any details of their subject matter, is a powerful sense of religious faith, with religious imagery cropping up in any number of them. "Paradise" deals with a life-after-death experience, and Allah even gets a name-check in "Worlds Apart". "The Rising" itself, probably the most unabashed lump-in-the-throat rock anthem he's written since "Born In The USA", amounts to Springsteen's own Easter hymn with its repetition of the phrase "a dream of life" and its closing invocation – "Come on up for the rising/Come on up, lay your hands in mine… Come on up for the rising tonight." I found an Italian translation of the lyrics on the Internet, and the Italians call it "la Resurrezione". Then there's "My City Of Ruins," not so much a song as a prayer – "I pray for your love, Lord, with these hands…"
"I've had 'My City Of Ruins' for a couple of years almost," Springsteen explains. "I was going to play it in Asbury Park for a Christmas show. Asbury, of course, has been struggling for a very long time, and the town's now on the verge of being redeveloped, so there was a moment when there was a lot of hope and excitement about it. It's a beautiful city, its basic design is really quite lovely, so there was an excitement about it. I was playing in Convention Hall in Asbury or doing something for some different organisations in the town, so that was when I wrote it. Then when I played it on the 9/11 telethon people made a connection with that event, but it was written quite a bit before. It felt appropriate to sing it that night, but it was written quite a bit previously.
"It's a gospel song. It's like a lot of my things, like 'The Promised Land', or I had a song on the live album called 'Land Of Hope And Dreams'… they're all fundamentally gospel-rooted, or blues and gospel-rooted. It seemed like that element was going to be a significant element of the record in some fashion. I didn't sit down and set out to write this or that but just as it unfolded, as I say, the story you're telling asks for certain things, and it asks for help in discerning meaning from chaotic or cataclysmic events. I think people are asking themselves, 'Where do I fit into this? What happened? Where did my husband go? Where did my wife go? What's that about? What can I do about it? What do I do now? Where are they?' I think all those questions, if you go through any sort of real shattering loss, become a constant part of your life.
"I'm sure, for the rest of your life, those are questions that you're answering every day, and that never completely goes away. So the songwriters and the storytellers in general are people who attempt to assist people in contextualising some of that experience. And not explaining, really, because I don't know of an explanation, but sorting through things emotionally and locating ties that people have that continue to bind even in the face of the events of that day. I think I went in search of those things on many of the songs."
I wondered what it had been like in the Springsteen household on that Tuesday, as the news unfolded. "I'm sure it was the same every place, everybody tells the same story to some degree. Sitting around the television. We're about five minutes from a bridge that you cross over where these two rivers meet, and there's a bridge where the Twin Towers stand right in the centre of it, and it's only 10 or 15 miles by water from here so it's quite close. The whole horizon line goes red and hazy if the wind's blowing in this direction and the towers are always there, and on that particular day they were gone, y'know? I think what was unusual about living here at the time was… I think it was 150 people from Monmouth County [where he lives] or a little more who died. People knew people. In the surrounding communities there were quite a few people affected. You knew this woman and her husband, someone else's son, someone else's brother.
"In the following weeks if you were driving towards the beach or something, if you drove by the Catholic church there was a funeral every day. Then people got together and there were some shows done and benefits and candlelight vigils and a wide variety of ways that people were trying to sort through what happened. I don't know what it was like in the middle of the country or on the West Coast, but here it was very real."
If ever there was a rock star who embodied the values of community, dependability and a continuing dialogue with his audience, it's Springsteen, so he and the band were happy to get stuck into some morale-boosting projects.
"Yeah, we did shows in Asbury and in Redbank (sic) near here, and a couple of places in the area. Garry Tallent [E Street bassist] put on a two-night show, it was fun – I played, Joan Jett, DJ Fontana came up with Sonny Burgess from Memphis and it was just a wide variety of people who came up and played and chipped in. It was a very interesting show. Then the last couple of years we've done Christmas concerts in Asbury where I front Max Weinberg's band [E Street drummer] and a lot of the E Street guys show up, and we get the horn section from Southside Johnny and some singers and we have a big 30-piece band onstage and we throw a big Christmas party basically. This year that was a part of it. Garland Jeffreys played, Elvis Costello came and sang a song, Bruce Hornsby – it was a lot of fun. I met many of the survivors and the wives, they'd come out and wanted to dance and have fun. They'd say, 'Thanks, we had a great time.'"
This instinct to band together and try to find something to be hopeful about was another dimension Springsteen wanted to build into the new album. Despite the sombre nature of much of the subject matter, he has managed to smuggle in a couple of tracks that are as poppy and commercial as anything he's ever written. "Waitin' On A Sunny Day" is an easy-going stroll back to the classic pop Springsteen soaked up in his youth, with "a little Phil Spector and a little Rockpile" in the mix. "Let's Be Friends" he describes as "a combination of Sly Stone and Virginia beach music. Yeah, that's a nice groove, it's like a kids' singalong. What really makes it work is the Alliance Choir who are singing on it along with Patti [Scialfa, aka Mrs Springsteen] and Soozie Tyrell. When the chorus hits, it's just a very classic sound."
Talking about music, he stresses, isn't the same as hearing it. "I think listening to me sort of propound my ideas of what went into the songs is not the same, may I mention, as the listening experience!" he argues, amid laughter. "The band is playing hard, loud and with intensity, and the music itself is very bright for the most part. For the first time I made a record with the E Street Band in 18 years I wanted a record that was gonna be fun for people to listen to, and exciting, that people used the way people use rock records, which is either to clean your house to or to change your life if you want to, y'know? That was an essential element. Without that, the lyrics as they stand would not work. They work because they're embedded in music that is very life-affirming. That balance has been something I think I've struck in all my best songs, like my verses are always the blues and my choruses are gospel. You go to 'The Promised Land' or 'Badlands', they're based on the idea that your feet are grounded in the everyday, in the real world, but your spirit is reaching high."
The idea was the album wouldn't duck "all the hard questions", but it needed to stir listeners physically, too. "That's something the band and I do well and that had to be a part of it," he reasons. "The record needed to be filled with a certain sort of hopeful energy but the hope had to be earned, y'know? It couldn't just be platitudes or 'Everything's gonna be all right' or 'Things are gonna be better'. So if you look at a song like 'Mary's Place' – 'we're gonna have a party.' Then you go back to the verses and see all the other stuff is in the verses, somebody trying to sort through what happened, and 'What's my place and where do I go tonight and how do I deal with this minute by minute and day by day?'"
"Mary's Place" is where the bar-band spirit of the E Street squad emerges most vividly on the album, but it acknowledges that decades have passed since the rowdier, less self-examining days of "Where The Bands Are" or "Out In The Street". It sounds like a celebration, but it isn't very far away from being a wake, either.
"I think that's what you saw at the time, people were making that effort to celebrate and it was helpful," says Springsteen. "The idea of the song was to capture that thing. I wanted it to really feel like home. It's a throwback to 'Rosalita' almost, and I wanted the band to feel the way people remembered that it felt at a certain time and I was singing a certain way. It comes up about three-quarters of the way through the record, right after 'The Fuse', which is really sonically different for us, and all of a sudden people would feel like, hey, that's your own pals putting their arms around you and you've got a place to go and somebody to talk to and be with. That's kind of what our band has been for people and what we've wanted to be for people over the years. The song comes up at a particular place on the record, it's that open-arms-of-home feeling."
Forensically minded listeners may find it interesting to consider the piece as another of Springsteen's "Mary" songs. Since "Mary Queen Of Arkansas" on his debut album, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., Marys – or is it just Mary? – have cropped up consistently down the years. In "Thunder Road", it's Mary who "dances across the porch as the radio plays", while the narrator "got Mary pregnant" in "The River." She's back again in "Straight Time" from The Ghost Of Tom Joad – "Mary's smiling but she's watching me out of the corner of her eye." Time for a doctoral thesis on "The Name Mary In The Works Of Bruce Springsteen", perhaps?
So who is she this time, Bruce? Mary from "Thunder Road"? The Virgin Mary?
"Yeah, I've used that name a lot of times," he grins. "I'm sure it's the Catholic coming out in me, y'know? That was always the most beautiful name. I used it in 'Thunder Road', I used it on Tom Joad, and what happens is if you kind of set up a continuing… it's not necessarily the same person, and there's a little continuum that occurs for the people who are watching or listening. The name drifts through your body of work and leaves a trail of its own about where you've been and where you're going. It comes up in 'Mary's Place' and really, you're right, it's like, 'Well, where's the party actually being held?' It could be here or there, and who is actually saying meet me at Mary's place? That was part of it, too. Whose voice is that?
"It comes up again at the end of 'The Rising', 'I see you Mary in the garden of a thousand sighs.' Once again, that's like someone's wife, or it could be a religious vision. I think that the songs call for a blurring of those ideas. They had to meld in a certain way, the religious with the everyday, because that's one of the only emotional responses to that experience, I think. So it floats through the record in a lot of ways."
These are daunting issues to address on a rock album, and Springsteen set himself his sternest examination on the title track. Above the roaring blowtorch blast of the new O'Brien-ised E Street Band sound, they lyrics are part mantra, part prayer, part mystical contemplation and part horrified onlooker.
"I think it's a natural image of sacrifice," he reflects. "Once again moving towards religious imagery to explain some of the day's experiences. It's unavoidable to some degree because of the nature and the type of sacrifice that occurred. I got down towards the end of the record and I think I was searching for the voice of someone who died, and I wanted to have a voice that addresses the living. So I just sort of imagined the main character basically… I dunno, speaking to his wife. Who would you want to speak to? Your wife, and you'd think of your children. And then just those left at large, I think. The different verses move slowly towards that kind of crossing-over point. 'The Rising' – that was it, that was the moment when the souls rise."
His voice has been growing steadily quieter as he takes the measure of his subject. The weight of it is starting to bear down on the entire room, even on this pristine summer afternoon. He pauses to drink some water. Sometimes he'll rephrase his sentences two or three times, as he searches for the exact nuance of meaning.
"In the beginning, the first verse is kind of disorientation and 'Where am I?' It starts, 'Can't see nothing in front of me, can't see nothing coming up behind… All I can feel is the chain that binds me' – the links with whatever you might wanna call it – duty, love, comradeship, the fear – that keep people going. The song moves on. The second verse is just where the person came from, 'Left the house this morning… wearin' the cross of my calling.' Well, that's just 'this is your job,' y'know? It's the same one you've worn every day and today these are its responsibilities and this is what it's asking. The bridge of the song is a moment when I think the singer realises that his mortality is at hand, and then in the last verse I imagine him speaking to his wife or a religious vision of some sort, 'See Mary in the garden…' It seemed to me that's one of the things you'd be thinking about, and the desire for a return to a physical intimacy – 'Feel your arms around me' – the physical self. The fear of losing that physical self. 'May I feel your blood mix with mine,' the desire to sustain the physical intimacy.
"Then, 'A dream of life comes to me like a catfish dancin' on the end of my line.' That was a funny line – the catfish line popped out of my head, 'cos I fish out here once in a while and there's that moment when bing!, y'know, you're suspended between life and death, incredible life and a moment of death, and really I think the rest of the song turns into this mantra, 'Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love.' It's sort of the yin-yang of just what is. 'Sky of mercy, sky of fear, sky of memory, sky of emptiness, sky of fullness.' I think it's the awareness of what is about to be lost. 'A dream of life, dream of life, dream of life' – repeat that over and over again. Just the magnitude of what you're leaving behind, what you're giving up, and a last chance to speak to people that matter to you. So that came up towards the end of the record. It was kind of a curtain on the whole thing. I think a lot of the other songs were moving towards that direction."
The bearded, frizzy-haired Springsteen who would hang around Madam Marie the fortune-teller's on the Asbury Park boardwalk probably never dreamt he'd end up writing his own version of the St Matthew Passion, but the roots of his new songs can be clearly discerned in his past songwriting. His willingness to engage with the spiritual and the metaphysical will probably be what strikes listeners most forcefully about The Rising, but it isn't a development which has sprung unexpectedly out of nowhere.
Ten years ago, the Lucky Town album concluded with "Souls Of The Departed" and "My Beautiful Reward," two songs distinctly preoccupied with the afterlife. "Well this is a prayer for the souls of the departed/Those who've gone and left their babies brokenhearted," he sang in the former. The nuns who taught the young Bruce Frederick Springsteen at the St Rose Of Lima School in Freehold might consider they did a pretty good job of instilling Holy dread and the mysteries of Catholic ritual into the boy.
You can also trace a clear line between "My Beautiful Reward" and the new song, "Paradise." "Yeah, they share some of the same issues. That transition point between life and death. When I wrote 'Paradise', I was looking for something kind of really quiet, and I think it was the week there'd been the teenage girl suicide bombers. It was devastating, and so the first verse came out of thinking about that, the loss of life and the false paradise. Then I'd met a woman who had lost her husband at the Pentagon, and she came to Asbury one night, and they were just long time fans I guess. I think I was thinking of that woman when I wrote the song, which is why it switches from Virginia because I wanted something that was outside the United States, the larger feeling of the effect of what's going on in the world outside the States. Again I thought, 'What do you miss?' You miss the physicalness and the ability to touch somebody.
"I've had people close to me who died. I remember when I was young, that aching to touch the person again was very, very strong and it was very painful to realise that it just couldn't happen. And the last verse is a survivor's verse, where I think your desire to join the people you've lost is very strong. You have the situation where the person goes to that river, it's the river of transition between life and death and they wade into it and they take themselves underneath.
"Somewhere in that nether world they see the person and it kinda comes up with that last line – they're searching for the peacefulness that people feel comes with death and passing on, or with an imagined version of paradise that you'll attain, and they get close enough and they just see emptiness. There's a lot of different ways people could interpret it. I always felt it was, 'Hey, life is here. It's all you have and it's here and now.'
"In the last couple of lines the person swims to the surface and feels the sun. That was my last song of the record."
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