today is my boyfriend bruce springsteen's birthday

i mean. c'mon. look at the arms. good god. (wanna feel old? springsteen is 61 today.)

beck thinks you're as big an idiot as he is

golly glenn, and all this time i thought it was about fireworks.

the most exciting 12 minutes of the game

for some of us, the best part of super bowl sunday is the halftime show. billboard collects 10 of the best, including mccartney, the stones, 2004's wardrobe malfunction, and this springsteen barnburner from last year.

baby, he was born to run

suddenly, i don't feel so old.

bruce springsteen at 60.

happy fourth of july

proudly presenting, your independence day entertainment:

no magic for the boss

be sure not to miss the grammy awards tonight, where they won't be giving bruce springsteen an award for best album of the year (magic) since he wasn't nominated. but thank goodness kanye west was.

don't get me wrong. i'm down with kanye. we hang over at the pinkberry in murray hill and we talk about our mutual love of the classics (he's all over emily bronte, i'm a melville man myself.)

i just don't think westie would have put up a stink if he'd gotten left off grammy's list this year to make room for the boss.

UPDATE 02/11/08 -- two things. first, springsteen did win three of the four awards he was nominated for: best solo rock vocal performance and best rock song for "radio nowhere," and best rock instrumental performance for "once upon a time in the west." more importantly, to answer the many emails i got on the subject: me -- green tea frozen yogurt. kanye -- the pinkberry smoothie.

my bruce and annie phase

there are two new albums (records, lps, whatever the kids call them today) i've been listening to a lot lately.

jeff ircink and brian grabowski will appreciate my somewhat limited return to writing about music, by the way. they were around for the glory days of "off the record" (or was it "on the record"?) back at the high school newspaper. they were also around for the layout parties in my parents basement.

i'll eventually get back to the whole "favorite albums of all time" thing that i started back on tony-clements.com. but for now, i just wanna say that i think the new springsteen (magic) and the new annie lennox (songs of mass destruction) are pretty darn great.

i'm big on phases. i've been thru repeated elton phases. mccartney phases. i'm deeply entrenched in a springsteen phase now, thanks to this new music. it means i pull out all the old stuff, and gain a new appreciation for it. i heard the lyric "i wanna die with you wendy on the streets tonight in an everlasting kiss" this last week, and -- i think it's an age thing -- i had to stop my ipod and just sit and think about how amazing that line is.