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Below is an excerpt on a new piece I a working on titles, Seventies to Eighties. Not sure what it will be yet, book, short story etc. Anyway, was hoping to receive some feedback on this particular excerpt. Have a good Wednesday. Keith.
Television in the seventies consisted of three channels, in the eighties I remember the invention of cable television, and then my life changed, all of our lives changed, the world changed. This change was MTV, aka music television. This was the early eighties. I remember seeing Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA video, and I was fucking mesmerized. Life fucking stopped for four minutes and thirty-eight seconds. I knew about him, but didn’t know who he was or what he represented. I knew his song Hungry Heart, and Born to Run. Those came out before I was ten years old. When Born in the USA released, from that moment on I wanted to know who this man was. I went to TG&Y and bought a compilation album which was his live tracks from nineteen seventy -five to nineteen eighty- five. The first time I heard Thunder Road, I wept. I still do. This man held the answers I needed to get away from the dysfunction in my house, the depression that ate my brain like cancer, and the anguish that destroyed my heart that of what a young boy should never have to endure. That four minute and forty-nine second song changed everything about me. When I played Thunder Road time stopped. Nothing existed between me and the lyrics. I was the lyrics. In this song Mr. Springsteen answered to and described every feeling that had ever passed though my body. “I wept,” is an understatement. Many songs he has written leaves me in tears, but Thunder Road hit my soul deeply. This is not a song, it is an event, a movement, a life shaping connection to universal survival. There are no words in any language written to describe this colossal and ever so important four minutes and thirty-nine seconds. If I had a chance to ever meet him, I would shake his hand and say, “Mr. Springsteen you saved my life.”
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Dana
9/20/2017 10:38:24 pm
Nice.
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