I may be becoming a Minnie Driver fan. She hot, she's tall, and a fabulous actor, see The Riches for instance.
Here's a version by I'm-not-the-boss man hisself. So he sings about a man who leaves his family for no good reason and does it with a big smile. I dunno. :-)
On his live album, the band started the intro of the song, and the audience sang the whole first verse alone. I thought that was impressive and touching.
Bruce is an odd phenomenon: he's not really rock, he's not really pop. He's aggressively mainstream without really being so.
Bruce Springsteen coined the immortal term "President bystander" at the 2006 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, as closing act to my city's major attraction immediately following Hurricane Katrina. He performed songs from his most recent album, which were all out of the "Pete Seeger Songbook" which is a collection of essential American folk tunes that "anybody ought to know." He announced "I went down to the lower nine (Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood, especially badly hit by flooding) and I asked myself, this is America?" I had a little bit of hope for a little bit of time. God bless him. I don't care if he's "really" pop or rock or activist or celebrity. He's right, he's good, and he keeps on trying to be that.
ReplyDeleteI think the only thing I've seen her in is Good Will Hunting. I don't see that many movies. I'm not sure 5'10" is exactly tall, well I guess for a woman it is.
ReplyDeleteYeah...she was pretty...um...*good* in Good Will Hunting*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6kq15NBTzI&feature=related lol!
ReplyDeleteFunny.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll rent it again, I don't think it impressed me dramatically the first time, but I don't remember much of it.
... And maybe not... I remember Damon saying that it was all pretty calculated.
Grosse Pointe Blank. With John Cusack, Dan Akroyd and Alan Arkin.
ReplyDeleteThat's where I first saw her. One of my favorite movies of all time.
Oh ya, gotta re-watch that.
ReplyDeleteIt also had Jenna Elfman in it. She is so under-used.
You can google up Minnie Driver naked pictures. I don't find her very attractive at all under her clothes. Funny how big a difference that makes. I could just imagine going all gah-gah over someone who looks like her and trying to pick her up, stumbling all over myself, making idiotic promises out of desperation, and then going all limp when I finally got the chance to undress her.
ReplyDeleteHmm, I wonder, maybe that's why women make men go through such ridiculous genuflections and abuse before letting human congress take its natural course. They suspect they don't have what it takes to ACTUALLY interest the guy, because they're aware of their own subterfuge ...
Back in the 80s Springsteen seemed to me to be the poster boy for safe, mainstream, corporate rock. He played well in Peoria.
ReplyDeleteSafe is exactly the way to describe Springsteen. He was definitely "aggressively mainstream" too. I figured that was the appeal for Americans. He's right up there with apple pie.
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