The "Magic" is missing

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/13/australia.springsteen/index.html

(CNN) -- An Australian woman pleaded guilty Thursday to fatally
stabbing her boyfriend because he objected to her listening to Bruce
Springsteen's music.

The national news agency, Australian Associated Press, reported that
the Supreme Court in the city of Brisbane sentenced Karen Lee Cooper
to eight years in prison.

Cooper told arresting officers she "just got tired" of her boyfriend,
Kevin Watson, bossing her around during their two-year relationship.

"I couldn't even play Bruce Springsteen on my stereo. Can you believe
that? Can you believe that?" Cooper told police, according to the
Courier Mail newspaper.

Later, in a formal police interview, she repeated her claims: "I mean,
who doesn't like Bruce Springsteen? I am 49 years old and I want to
play my own music."

Springsteen is an award-winning American singer-songwriter, best known
for his lyrics about the struggles of the common man.

The couple had been drinking at their rental home the night of the
stabbing two years ago when they began arguing over Cooper's choice of
music, the Australian Associated Press said.

Cooper's lawyer told the court she experienced a "brain snap." She ran
to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and stabbed Watson, 49, after he said
he didn't want her to listen to a Springsteen CD, the newspaper said.

Cooper took a handful of pills before calling police. She told
officers she hoped the pills would kill her before they arrived.

According to the press reports, Cooper regretted the stabbing and did
not think her boyfriend deserved to die.

 

What time is it?
Stab time!

 

WELL-PLAYED, WEBSTER!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

His last words were-- "it's like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul"

 

FYI -- front page of Bruce's website has some good stuff, including the "So Young and in Love" opener from Hartford. http://brucespringsteen.net/news/index.html

 

That was an interesting choice for opening song. I thought he'd open with Radio Nowhere, which I think he played second.

 

I think the plan on this leg is to have Radio Nowhere second and put different songs first. In the six shows on this leg, he's done Night 3 times and So Young, No Surrender and The Ties That Bind once each.

 

what web said.

 

The album isn't 'classic Bruce,' but it's still a very good rock and roll record.

 

indeed. and the songs from "magic" are playing very well live. as i posted before, "long walk home" and "girls in their summer clothes" are real crowd-pleasers. 8) 8) 8)

 

Still don't quite like "Girls in Their Summer Clothes", either on record or live.

For me so far, the songs which are good on the CD (Radio Nowhere, Gypsy Biker and especially Long Walk Home and maybe Last to Die) are the best live, while the ones which I think are average (Devil's Arcade, Magic, Girls) don't move me at all in concert.

Long Walk Home (along with his version of How Can a Poor Man) is the best thing that he's written since Lonseome Day, and right now I'm actually rating it higher. So I guess that makes it, IMO, the best thing that he's written since My City of Ruins.*

* subject to Long Time Comin', which I consider to be a Tom Joad era song.

 

I've listened to "Girls In Their Summer Clothes" many times trudging through the snow to work this winter. I can't wait to listen to it in the summer. Love that song.