Bruce Springsteen workin' options

he must have high-fived himself when he wrote that

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist),

Imagining Bruce clapping in the studio

this must do
http://i25.tinypic.com/2582vpx.jpg

i love "on account of the economy"!

me too, ftr

feel like it's an easily regurgitatible soundbite from pundits that an unemployed person from the 80s would use in a bar as an oversimplified excuse. and it's the way he sort of belts the line with extra drama that sells it with irony

or at least it's something an imaginary bruce working class gentleman would use

otm

now just imagine clarence clemons belting that line in the .gif above

i think a more pointed and poignant line about that shadowy scapegoat known as "the economy" is "hiring man said 'son if it was up to me.'" it's saying the same thing as the line in "the river," but this time there's someone actually saying it rather than it just being so. it's a human moment and it's delivered nonjudgmentally. should we be angry at the hiring man, or should we feel sorry for him too?

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I realise I forgot to put in "construction, at the Jonestown company" as a poll option.

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Was emailing with a friend of mine in France and mentioned that I'm looking for a teaching job but don't expect to find one for next year because hardly any jobs are being posted. She just emailed back to ask why, and honestly the best I can do is, "Uh, idk, the economy?"

"At the rendering plant (it ain't gonna make me rich)" was robbed