Speed of Life

by Gregg Chadwick Jack of All Trades (Song by Song Review of Bruce Springsteen's New Album - Wrecking Ball) "If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake." -Kurt Vonnegut Giorgio de Chirico The Enigma of the Hour  oil on canvas 1911 Private Collection A synthesizer wash, p laintive piano, and haunting horns like those found in  Michele Lacerenza 's  Johnny's Theme  accompany the world weary singer in Bruce Springsteen's  Jack of All Trades  (Listen Here) .  The aural landscape is bleak. The world in  Jack of All Trades  seems as if dust blowing in from the 1930's has choked off all color and most of life in the small towns and suburbs of the US.  A hardscrabble emotional landscape remains with little in the way of  work or meaning. The only wage to be found is in odd jobs and small errands. I am reminded of the h...

by Gregg Chadwick Jack of All Trades (Song by Song Review of Bruce Springsteen's New Album - Wrecking Ball) "If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake." -Kurt Vonnegut Giorgio de Chirico The Enigma of the Hour oil on canvas 1911 Private Collection A synthesizer wash, p laintive piano, and haunting horns like those found in  Michele Lacerenza 's Johnny's Theme  accompany the world weary singer in Bruce Springsteen's  Jack of All Trades (Listen Here) . The aural landscape is bleak. The world in Jack of All Trades  seems as if dust blowing in from the 1930's has choked off all color and most of life in the small towns and suburbs of the US.  A hardscrabble emotional landscape remains with little in the way of  work or meaning. The only wage to be found is in odd jobs and small errands. I am reminded of the haunting...