My Heart is Wood and She’s a Carpenter

Sometimes I think it would be better to listen a little less closely to lyrics to the songs I love. For instance, the title of this post comes from one of Springsteen’s early, early show-stoppers, “Thundercrack”. Which, for reasons that just became a little clearer to me, never made it on any of his albums, except Tracks or Before the Fame or one of the other compilations from deep in the darkest part of the vaults.

Anyway, that doesn’t matter because in today’s in box was no less than three notes from Bob, Bruce and Sony Music, telling me about the latest offerings that I simply must have. Bob is releasing a box set of old stuff, including never before seen (except by lunatics like me who obsessively collect every scrap of tape/video/kinescope) footage of his early, early Newport Folk Festival stuff and another box set of best of the best of the best of the best. What ever. I’ll take a pass on that.

The Boss is releasing a new E Street Band album, with all new music, that drops on October 2. SQUEEEE. And the Coolest Person In The World didn’t give me a heads up on this? She is so getting a beat down from me. Except not, because this means there’ll be a tour and that means I’ll be backstage with her somewhere or another. Madison Square Garden? Somewhere else? Somewhere, for sure. Because that’s what we do.

The third e-mail was from Sony to tell me that Mrs. Springsteen, the formerly cute Pati Scialfa is also releasing a new CD. To which I say, who cares?

In other, even duller news, I have tweaked the technorati tag cloud into looking like it’s part of my blog, I have gotten the comments working correctly, and about a third of my posts are correctly assigned categories. The search works fine, but not the actual link from found item to page. There are comments tucked away in a data base that I have yet to pull out and get displaying again. But mostly and over all, I think this is shaping up nicely. Prepare for the return of the Cafe Press shop, with half a dozen t-shirt designs, and some of the RLA & my artwork for sale as mousepads and notebooks. (At least the cover art)