Speed of Life

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester, England. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs “Land of Hope and Dreams,” “House of a Thousand Guitars” and “My City of Ruins.” Below are the transcripts of all three spoken segments. Introduction to Land of Hope and Dreams "Good Evening! It’s great to be in Manchester and back in the U.K. Welcome to the Land of Hope & Dreams Tour! The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n’ roll in dangerous times. In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voi...

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester, England. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs “Land of Hope and Dreams,” “House of a Thousand Guitars” and “My City of Ruins.” Below are the transcripts of all three spoken segments. Introduction to Land of Hope and Dreams "Good Evening! It’s great to be in Manchester and back in the U.K. Welcome to the Land of Hope & Dreams Tour! The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n’ roll in dangerous times. In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices...

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester, England. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs “Land of Hope and Dreams,” “House of a Thousand Guitars” and “My City of Ruins.” Below are the transcripts of all three spoken segments. Introduction to Land of Hope and Dreams "Good Evening! It’s great to be in Manchester and back in the U.K. Welcome to the Land of Hope & Dreams Tour! The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n’ roll in dangerous times. In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices...

"I wrote all these country songs at the same time I wrote 'The Ghost of Tom Joad,' Those sessions completely overlap each other. I’m singing 'Repo Man' in the afternoon and 'The Line' at night. So the country record got made right along with 'The Ghost of Tom Joad.' Very similar to 'Born in the U.S.A.' and 'Nebraska'..." — Bruce Springsteen

Jack White's Sonic Attack Last Night at the Hollywood Palladium! Jack White at the Hollywood Palladium 5/13/2025 photos by Gregg Chadwick

A moment of reflection 🍃 Today marks the start of #MentalHealthAwareness week. Join us for a slow look at Meindert Hobbema's most famous work, 'Avenue at Middelharnis', guided by mindfulness practitioner Lucia van der Drift. pic.twitter.com/G6d7JWrTnQ — National Gallery (@NationalGallery) May 12, 2025

A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History Angelus Novus by Paul Klee Bode-Museum, Berlin The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, photo by Elie Posner   Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus , which inspired Walter Benjamin, Laurie Anderson and Wim Wenders, will go on show to commemorate the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end. gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/arts/design/paul-klee-angelus-novus-walter-benjamin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.F08.YDgI.4hTiOpkbEFIv&smid=tw-share From the article: " The German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, who owned Angelus Novus for nearly two decades, wrote one of his final texts about the angel, just before he died by suicide in 1940. He saw the angel as a witness to an imminent cataclysm. “This is how one pictures the angel of history,” Benjamin wrote in notes that would later be published as Theses on the Philosophy of History . “His face is turned towards the past,” he wrote of the angel. “Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees ...