touchstone quotations: Bruce Springsteen on the Church of Rock

Monday, February 2, 2009

Bruce Springsteen on the Church of Rock

Ladies and gentlemen for the next 12 minutes we're going to bring the righteous and mighty power of the E Street Band into your beautiful home! I want you to step back from the guacamole dip. I want you to put those chicken fingers down and turn your television all the way up!

Bruce Springsteen
Half-time Intro
Super Bowl XLIII

Source: musicradar.com

Joseph Campbell on Interesting Times

I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: "May you be born in an interesting time." This is a very interesting time. There are no models for anything that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping of the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And, that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the ancestors of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives.

Joseph Campbell
1904 - 1987
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, 2013