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Another of the "Lost Secrets" school of stories:
The "Ulfberht" swords:
Ignoring the guy they have chopping away in the opener (his technique is terrible, no way I'd let him play with any of my swords), there is a lot of blather in this, right down to saying the guy they found to make the sword is, "one of the few people on the planet who has the skills to unravel the mystery of how the Ulfbehrt was made". It's bullshit. Lots of people know how it was made. They talk to several.
The question isn't how it was done. I can tell you the basics. The question is where it was done, how the steel made it to Scandanavia, why it stopped coming, etc. That the smith they got to take part is good is obvious, but there are a lot of people who could do what he did: sure, in relation to some 6 billion people on the planet, there are only minuscule number who can do it, probably between 20-100,000. I have a knife worked by a guy in Ukraine which, were you to give him the same sort of steel, I'll wager he could work up as well (into a knife, I doubt he has a market for swords, and so hasn't bothered to learn the specifics).
If you look at the documentary, the things they make such a big deal of: how to make steel, mumbo-jumbo about, "the bones of one's ancestors, burnt to char and used to turn iron to steel…" is rubbish. The steel came from elsewhere (perhaps from the same area the swordsmiths of Damascus were getting theirs) and when the supply dried up, the blades stopped being that good.
There is no mystical magical "Steel of Ulfberht", there is just steel, and it got made into a style of (really solid) sword.
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Imma gonna rant some
And it's likely to be a bit disjointed.
You may have seen the video of the Danish archer who is purported to have "rediscovered" the "lost art" of combat Archery. It's hogwash. I think I first saw it back in 2013 (because I am the sort of guy who watches such things). I filed it under, "overblown" and forgot about it. Then, last week sometime, a friend asked about it. I dismissed it as being overly simplistic, and moved on.
Then it started popping up everywhere and I started drafting a rant. Then Elizabeth Bear posted her beefs with it, and so I am spurred to actually put pen to paper.
First… it' s really reductionist. It's argued† that gunpowder so eclipsed archery that it lay fallow for, "hundreds of years" before being reinvented as a sport, and that the "real combat techniques" were lost. Nope. Archery lost out on the battlefield, but in the first case, not so recently as all that (with people still arguing for its merits in European warfare as little as 250 years ago). In the Americas there was still a martial culture using bows and arrows not much more than 100 years ago.
Second, his technique is inadequate to combat: full stop. I've been using weapons all my life. I've been playing with bows and arrows for… call it 35 years. I've used a fair number of types of bows and (because I am that sort of guy) read up on a lot of techniques. Because (in part) I am also something of a nut for military history (as well as having been a career soldier) I've read/studied a lot about the actual application of bows, and how they worked.
He's fast, and (apparently) pretty accurate, but his arrows won't do squat in a combat environment. As he demonstrates his technique, they aren't going to be very good at bringing down game either. Why? He short pulls (look at the video, right around the 0:55 mark, he's not drawing the bow more than a third of its; short, length.
That's fine for knocking over a lightweight cutout, and it will damage an unprotected person, but it's not going to be more than a nuisance against someone wearing armor, even so little as what is dismissively scorned as, "quilted"‡
He argues that speed is the big deal. He's wrong. It would be if the archer were in a duel, and had to be able to deal with more than one opponent before those opponents were able to engage in direct offense, but that has never been the way archers were used. Archers have always been used en masse, to either deny parts of the field to the foe, or to harass them before the melee phase of the battle (Crecy, Poitier and Agincourt were outliers).
He conflates things to the point of absurdity: seriously… he's taking prehistoric images from cave walls, to Egyptian tomb paintings, Japanese woodcuts, Assyrian stele carvings, the Bayeux Tapestry, ancient Greek cartoons, Medieval illumination, coinage, and treats them as 1: dispositive, and 2: all showing pretty much the same thing.
Then he argues the things he does is what they show.†
Which they don't. If you look at the detailed pictures, the Egyptian Pharoah, the woodcuts, the stele carving, all the archers are taking a full draw. As to the "they put the shaft on the outside of the bow", there is no way to tell. Some of the images aren't clear enough to tell what the artists thought the subjects were doing. Which is an important point, those pictures weren't made by the archers, but by artists. Artists can be ignorant of details. Sometimes they change things because it looks better that way.
But those full draws, which he seems to avoid, can be fast. In my teens I spent a lot of time doing archery (and rifle). I had a 35lb fiberglass recurve. I probably shot about 100 arrows at a time, three-four times a week (and the same for the rifle, air-rifles are really cost effective ways to gain/maintain skills, but I digress). M y targets were bankers boxes, about 50 yards away. I'd guess a practice session took about an hour, to an hour and a half. What I was trying to do was keep the arrows bunched. I wanted to have a forest of shafts, about 18" in dia. I started with about 24 arrows. When enough of them got dinged past being useful I'd go and get some more. So I'd have between 18-36 functional shafts at a time. I used a hip quiver, and the "stick 'em in the dirt method (referenced in accounts of Poitier, Crecy, and Agincourt)
So I'd shoot through my supply, Feel what caused the outliers. walk up the hill, collect them, and do it again. Three or four times in an an hour, using the inside rest style of shooting.
I was working to establish rhythm.
I'm not sure he could get the accuracy I did either. (the one example of distance he shows is 70m, and he's able to hit a cubical target, about 1.5 meters wide. It would be adequate for hunting… if he was close, and using some sort of point capable of causing traumatic damage, but for war… nope, not the way he talks about archery as some sort of super tool.
War bows (of all their stripes) were brutes. They had draw weights of 50-100 lbs (the lighter draw were shorter bows, fired from horseback, more on that in a bit). They had that heavy a pull because they needed to do two things… punch through armor, and carry a long way. Arrows are pretty good at punching into things, if they are heavy (E=1/2mv^2) but they need the initial V if they are going to be more than a massive irritant§. Reports from the 16th century were that Turkish archers could punch through the curaisses of the Hapsburg cavalry. Turkish accounts say that archers of foot had to be able to fire arrows to a distance of 500-600 meters.
The declaration of the student's proficiency was possible only when he could shoot a pishrev arrow to 900 gez (594 m) or an azmayish arrow to 800 gez (528 m). This particular shot must have been witnessed by a minimum of 4 persons, two being at the shooting spot and two at the spot the arrow landed. After then the archer was recorded to the Tekke's Registration Book and accepted to be proficient. One of these books remains until today.
But Lars (or his amanuensis) doesn't actually cite his sources (and when he does, it's problematic, either images (some of which contradict his thesis) or mythical figures having propagandistic dialogues.
Archery, as with all human endeavor is a creation of culture, and need. It has never been (and never will be) homogenous.
Archers shooting from horseback tended to have lighter bows (in the 50 lb range: English longbows had a pull somewhere between 75-110 lbs. Modern hunting bows are in the 45-65 lbs rangeº). They may have been shorter (as with the bows of the Huns, Mongols, Turks) or not (as with the bows of the samurai). What they had in common was horses.
The Roman complained of the Parthians, who wouldn't stand still and fight but rather harassed the marching columns, riding up; firing at them, riding away, all before the Romans could form up and engage.
He blathers about how his archery is superior to all the "sport" archers with their degenerate methods. He confuses differences of technique with deviation from purity, and he pretends the way he likes to shoot is the one and only TRUE WAY OF THE BOW.
It's nonsense. Take his, "rediscovered" idea of, "two-handed drawing". First all archers use two hands to draw the bow. I think what he means is a style of draw where the bow hand and the string separate in a somewhat equal manner¶. This used to be called, "The English Draw". It's how we think the archers at Agincourt did it. It's also faster when one has arrows one's arrows stuck in the ground (as reports say the English were fond of doing).
Mongols, and Turkish, archers had a "push" style, where they set the string on their chest, and stretched out the bow hand. This was faster for use on horseback from a hip quiver; it also had the advantage of keeping the body in a more contained position when doing the sorts of twisting, turning, horsemanship those cultures were fond of.
The Samurai were mounted archers before they were famous for swordplay, but they liked to ride in straight lines, across the face of units drawn up to fight. They also had bows which were large for their power (because Japan didn't have good woods, for self bows, nor the understanding of glues, sinew and horn needed for the compact recurves common to the steppes). They stood in flat stirrups, and pulled the bow back.
And (to go back to his technique) he's got a light weight on his bow… I'm guessing not more than 40 lbs, and probably more on the order of 30-35. He's not pulling all the way back, so he's got a lot less than that (which is how he can catch an arrow… the nonsense about "splitting one on a blade… just that. Arrows are spinning, they will deflect off before they can split. Writers in the past talked a lot of rubbish, he's just perpetuating it.). Can a 35 lb bow pierce mail? Yeah… if the mail is cheap, and the point is thin. That's a bit part of the drive for plate armor… to defeat arrows (and it did. Those flutes in "Maximillian" armor… more than just decoration, projectiles have their best penetration at right angles, be it arrows or the main gun on a tank).
I could go on (a lot) about the technical flaws in his arguments (and others have). What really bothers me is the question of how it came to be that this took off.
Part of it is simple ignorance. Most people have not made a lifetime study of things like this. This video paints a coherent (too coherent) picture of the "forgotten past", and has a lot of flashy stuff, none of which is more than cursorily explained (really… WTF is the thing with the bow at the table?… The time he spends reaching back to grab the bow [and arrows lying loose behind him, is less than the time it took someone to stab Kit Marlowe in the eye. Yes, one can fire that close, but there is a reason for the weapon known as an "archer's sword")
But a lot of it, perhaps most, is the idea that we missing some secret knowledge, that there are mysteries which have been lost (and some have e.g. the close fit of the massive drystone construction of the Mayans, or the amazing durability of Roman concrete) and that we can "rediscover" them. This is really common with weapons.
Which is what really pisses me off about this clip. Not the specifics about archery, it's the idea that we are so much less smart than the people of the past, and that the past had "ONE BEST WAY", which has been lost until now.
It's the problem of, "The Katana is Better" I get a lot of this in my day job, where one of the things I do is sell cutlery. Oh My God. The blather I hear about Japanese steel; and the myths of how special it is, and how one must study for years with a master before one can sharpen a knife made in Japan… because the steel is so special, and the angle is so precise. It ain't so. Knives are knives, and sharpening is, as any other skill, a question of application, and practice. I've been sharpening things for 30+ years. If you want me to sharpen it, I can (and probably have). It's not because I spent years in a mountain cave fetching ice cold water from a stream to boil for my master's bath… nope. It's because I've spent a lot of time dragging pieces of metal on rocks.
Movies (and television… Kung Fu, anyone?) make this worse. They take short cuts. Luke goes to visit Yoda, and Boom! in twenty minutes we see him listen to a lot of half-baked aphorisms, and do some soul-searching and off he goes… a Jedi. Except that he isn't, because he didn't stay long enough to have The Master, show him all he needed to know. Andersen actually makes reference to this when he compares himself to Legolas, and with all the jumping and bouncing and spinning and stuff. Thats dramatics. Archers were in groups. They didn't need to do that. Most of them just couldn't (because they were inside a large formation). As someone who has been in the Army… running and jumping and the like is exhausting. Add the adrenaline of people tying to kill you, and the accuracy needed to avoid getting dead… goes down the drain.
Even films which try to show that it's about work, and practice, and diligence (e.g. The Karate Kid, with the tedium of muscle memory shown in the Wax On/Wax Off, and Paint The Fence) suffer from the limits of time. So we have the trope of it being about learning The Secret. That's what Lars Andersen is selling, "the secret". He's ignoring history (if archery was all that he says it is in the two videos I've seen, why didn't it displace swords, and pikes, and how is it that the pathetic firearms of the 1450 managed to displace it so quickly?… oh right, it took years to get good enough for it to be a combat weapon of limited utility). Our ancestors weren't stupid. If Archery was so powerful as to be the ultimate weapon… they'd have given it pride of place on the battlefield.
Why didn't Europe have horse archers? Because they couldn't compete with mounted knights. You can't really wear heavy mail while managing a horse and handling a bow. The guys who were wearing heavy mail (and later plate) would ride up and fetch you a serious knock with a sword, mace, or spear.
A solid shield wall meant that most arrows were nuisance. If there were spears to chuck , life was gonna suck for the people who were having them rain down on them… while guys they couldn't do much do were marching up to hack at them with swords.
So the idea that someone, somewhere, was keeping The Secret of ancient archery, and it was "lost" (except that it wasn't, anyone who wants to look around the internet can find the things Andersen found, and the things I found; and a lot more besides), and now it's been found is selling something.
What Andersen is selling is Andersen.
†: I don't know how much of the drivel in the narration is his argument, or the producer of the video trying to sex it up… at root it doesn't matter, since the video, as seen, is what people are talking about.
‡: Quilted armor was layers of wool, and wool felt. It wasn't great against arrows, but much more effective against swords than people give it credit for. Being light it also made it easier to run away if the enemy was encumbered with armor.
§: Don't underestimate the irritant value of arrows. Reports are that cuts, and piercings get ignored (by accident, or design) in ways that having an arrow stick out of one don't. This is one of the reasons most military arrowheads, even bodkin points, had a protrusion of some sort. It's also why, the story goes, the Mongols wore undershirts of raw silk… because it let them extract even barbed arrows. That it might also function as a self-administering bandage was a secondary feature.
¶ There are at least two videos of showcasing his arguments, one discusses ambidexterity, the other is more vague, and seems to be talking about the method of draw, not the choice of bow hand.
° Most modern shooters used a "compound" bow, this is a complex arrangement of pulleys, and leverage to cause "fall-off". The longer the draw, the more energy the archer has to put into pulling the string back, then one has to hold that to the moment of release. When used en masse, the time of holding was minimal, when making sure one is spot on the target it may be a bit longer. The resting energy of a compound bow can be as much as ½ the resting energy of a non-"compound" one. I remember the first time I pulled one (about 40 lbs). I got to the point of "fall off" and thought I'd broken it, so dramatic was the decrease in pressure on my fingers.
Endnote: Some of the comments at antipope are about how hard it is to make a bow… long list of materials and skills. Not so much, at least not for potting small game. I've done it. A simple self bow, draw weight of about 15 lbs. The tricky part stabilsing the arrow. I used twine (which is pretty easy to make). Yeah, it cuts range, a lot, but it works, and if I wanted to get a rabbit/squirrel, it's just fine. Has the advantage of "drag-trapping" a wounded animal.
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?We are launching PEP Talks to bring high profile speakers and educators to Vancouver for informative and thought provoking evening events that will inspire and inform parents and educators alike.
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BMW Z3Here are the first factory-authorized photos of the new {{{BMW Z3}}} roadster, on sale in the U.S. next spring. Pilot models are already being built in the firm's new assembly facility near Spartanburg, South Carolina. Utilizing the basic floorpan and suspension hardware from the existing 3-Series, this rakish two-seater initially will carry the 318i's 1.8-liter/138-horsepower DOHC four-cylinder engine under its elegantly sculpted hood. Sometime later in its life cycle, a higher-performance luxury version with a 2.8-liter inline-six also will be made available. The standard transmission will be a five-speed manual, with a four-speed automatic offered as an option. The basic Z3 package also includes power rack-and-pinion steering, four-wheel discs with ABS, and dual airbags.
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There are few places in the world where humans feel more like lab rats than at the airport. Weave your way through a maze of ticket desks, security checkpoints and terminal gates and what's your reward? A slice of soggy pizza or greasy burger that'll sit like a brick in your stomach for the next few hours of flight. Almost anyone in his right mind would prefer a block of cheese.
Americans spent over $3 billion on food and drinks in airports in 2009, according Airport Revenue News, and, thankfully, an increasing number of concession services are doing more to reward travelers tired of measly menu choices. In late August Delta opened 4 of the 13 new eateries planned for its LaGuardia terminal, which is set to include a gourmet food hall where travelers can design their own pizza, grab a porterhouse steak or slurp oysters at a raw bar. Earlier in the month Los Angeles International hosted a posh downtown "eat in" of new menu items from the chefs and owners of area restaurants who hope to be in place when terminal renovations are complete. And Chicago chef Rick Bayless, who has been long content to limit his Mexican food empire to the city's downtown, has just announced the opening of two new restaurants at O'Hare.
"We have to go through the maze, and at some point, you have to eat," says Joe Brancatelli, a business-travel consultant who runs the website joesentme.com and just released his annual list of the best airport food options available across the country. Despite this, Brancatelli says he doesn't enjoy eating in airports--"airports by definition aren't great places to eat"--but admits that things are getting better.
Brancatelli says one improvement he's seen at airport eateries is the rejiggering of pricing by concession owners to stop gouging travelers and instead reflect "street prices" similar to what you'd pay in a city's downtown.
That's more complicated than it sounds. Most people don't realize that "it's much more expensive to operate a restaurant in an airport," says Pauline Armbrust, CEO of Airport Revenue News. "Think about how difficult it is to get an item in beyond security--all deliveries have to come in a specific way, and everything has to be inventoried. Logistically it's much more complex and costly."
That said, Brancatelli notes that even if a hamburger is "street priced," if it tastes worse than what you'd buy on the street, you'll inevitably feel like you've been overcharged. That's why he appreciates the growing number of eateries offering local fare, from Dish D'Lish in Seattle's Sea-Tac airport to Salt Lick BBQ in Austin-Bergstrom International airport.
"It's the same companies running the concessions, they've just gotten smarter," he says, creating partnerships with local eateries and chains to bring a taste of the city to the airport terminal.
Tom Smith, spokesperson for Airport Council International, concurs, saying that historically all of an airport's concessions have been contracted out to one client. But with many of the contracts expiring at major airports, they're taking the opportunity to rethink their food options and bring in "new blood and creativity in their restaurants," sometimes by contracting with several vendors at once. "It benefits the traveler in that there's greater variety," he says. "And it benefits the airport, as they're able to collect higher rents."
Of course, while the big airport hubs are currently making headlines, many smaller airports have been incorporating local menus for several years. "I'm often really impressed with a small city's airports," says food and travel writer Adam Graham, who says he's found fantastic lobster wraps at the Shipyard Pub at Portland Maine's jetport. "It's a nice break from the traditional roll, and easier to bring on board the plane."
At San Jose Airport they sell cherries within the terminal from a local farm. "It's a good thing to bring someone as a souvenir," Graham says. Local farmers markets are also sprouting up outside airports in Cincinnati and Sedona .
"Many concession companies are to bringing in fresh fruits and salads and using local vendors and products in their foods," says Armbrust. Passengers want to feel a sense of place and get a taste of the local community."
Brancatelli agrees. "If you're in a city laying over--airports are artificial enough," he says. "You might as well go for a taste of something real."


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Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel Of Love
By A Pop Life (Erwin Barendregt) in Review
There's a room of shadows that gets so dark brother
It's easy for two people to lose each other in this tunnel of love
Bruce and I weren't a real match for quite some time. I thought The River was intriguing, the song very good even, and I read an extensive story on him in my schoolagenda (!) for 1981-1982 or 1982-1983. However, the yelling and pumping of fists of Born In The U.S.A. irritated me, initially. Around 1986 I befriended Martin. An intense friendship, which provided me with two things (musically speaking):
respect for Elvis Presley;
a deep love for Bruce Springsteen.
Purchase(s)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Live/1975-85
On January 14th, 1987, I purchased my first Springsteen item. It was the the 3 cd live box Live – 1975/85. It floored me. It introduced Springsteen in a chronological order. Racing In The Street in particular touched me profoundly (on July 5th, 2012 (Dutch only) I heard it live for the first time in Paris; tears flowed). The melancholy, the humanity, the warmth, it was all beautiful. I even began to appreciate Born In The U.S.A. songs (like Bobby Jean and My Hometown). I was a fan. A love that would never disappear.
Then the catching up took place. Nebraska and the stunning Darkness On The Edge Of Town were next. And then it was October 9th, 1987, the release date of the latest album: Tunnel Of Love. I bought it straight away. It is still my favorite Springsteen album (number 6 in my album top 50 of all time).
On May 13th, 1985, Bruce Springsteen married Julianne Phillips. She was more than 10 years younger than Springsteen and was a model and actress. At the time the match was frowned upon. Springsteen, who still had a working-man image, together with a jet-set blond: that could not end well, but in public they looked happy. They weren't together too much, because of their work obligations.
Bruce Springsteen – Brilliant Disguise (single)
Brilliant Disguise
On October 3rd, 1987, the first taste of the new album was released: Brilliant Disguise.
A great song. A divine drumbeat, with lots of acoustic guitar. This sounded different from the things I knew from him. If this truly was a sample for the upcoming album, may great things were to follow.
However, the lyrics to the song contained some very blunt remarks on (his?) marriage.
I wanna read your mind
To know just what I've got in this new thing I've found
Well I've tried so hard baby, but I just can't see
What a woman like you is doing with me
I want to know if it's you I don't trust
'cause I damn sure don't trust myself
Now you play the loving woman, I'll play the faithful man
But just don't look too close into the palm of my hand
We stood at the alter, the gypsy swore our future was right
But come the wee wee hours, well maybe baby the gypsy lied
Tonight our bed is cold, I'm lost in the darkness of our love
God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of
Bruce Springsteen – Brilliant Disguise – Video
The lyrics are beautiful, honest and painful. The big question is who the person the other sees, really is. Springsteen asks Is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise? twice. The last question being Is that me baby or just a brilliant disguise?.
Brilliant Disguise is one of the greatest Springsteen songs, but what does it say about him and his marriage? Or is it just a show and does he refer to universal emotions?
The video to the song is equally penetrating. Springsteen sits in a kitchen and sings the song live. The clip is shot in black and white and consists of one take, filmed from a steady point of view. As the song progresses, the camera keeps on zooming in on Springsteen, who delivers the intimate lyrics, looking straight into the camera. A beautiful video.
Fun fact: the video was nominated for 4 MTV Music Awards. One of the nominations being for 'best editing'…
The presentation stood out. Moody, granular photography. The complete opposite of the grandeur of Born In The U.S.A.. The album itself was the same. Introvert, sparingly and intimate. Something else that stood out was the minimal contribution by The E Street Band. Previous albums (barring the acoustic Nebraska) essentially were Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band albums. This was the first album for which this wasn't the case. Just take a look at the advertising campaign for The Rising, which explicitly states that it's the first album, since Born In The U.S.A., where The E Street Band play a part.
But where the album really diverged from previous albums was the personal approach. Bruce seldom mentioned Billy, Sandy, Bobby, Mary, Johnny, Wendy, etc. He talked about himself and us.
Ain't Got You
The album starts off with Ain't Got You, a song about a man that seemingly has everything:
all the bonds baby that the bank could hold;
houses 'cross the country;
a house full of Rembrandt and priceless art;
a big diamond watch sittin' on my wrist;
a pound of caviar sitting home on ice;
a fancy foreign car that rides like paradise;
a hundred pretty women knockin' down my door;
paid a king's ransom for doin' what comes naturally.
But in the end Springsteen is the biggest fool honey this world ever knew, because he doesn't have the girl of his dreams. A great opener. Guitar, minimal percussion and song.
Tougher Than The Rest
Bruce Springsteen – Tougher Than The Rest (single)
A slow (drumcomputer) rhythm: boom – tchak – boom – tchak, followed by a dark synthesizer motif and acoustic guitar. Originally intended as a rockabilly song, the tempo was lowered considerably.
The song was released as a single in June of 1988. The video is a live recording of the song and contains images of couples visiting The Tunnel Of Love Express Tour. The couples were of lesbian, gay and straight origin. The great thing about it, is that it was shown as it was; no (political) agenda, just couples having a good time.
This song is a favorite. It has a nice melancholy mood en a phenomenal harmonica ending.
All That Heaven Will Allow
A beautiful song about Springsteen who has a date with a girl who's all that heaven will allow.
Bobby said he'd pull out Bobby stayed in
Janey had a baby it wasn't any sin
They were set to marry on a summer day
Bobby got scared and he ran away
Bruce Springsteen – Spare Parts (single)
Away with the romance and seduction of the first 3 songs. A bitter song about an unmarried (young) mother, who is left behind by her boyfriend. She tries to raise the child by herself, but struggles (she was a young girl and she missed the party lights). She reads the story about a woman who drowns her child in the river. When Janey stands along the shore of a river herself, she decides to take responsibility for her actions and sell her engagement ring for cash.
The song was released as a single in October of 1988 in some countries (not including the US).
Cautious Man
Just like the previous song, Cautious Man is written in the third person. It's about a man who is very careful and thoughtful. Love makes him forget about that all. He gets married and builds a house for his lover.
Now Billy was an honest man he wanted to do what was right
He worked hard to fill their lives with happy days and loving nights
Alone on his knees in the darkness for steadiness he'd pray
For he knew in a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay
He is having nightmares and knows he shall have to keep on fighting the struggle within (On his right hand Billy tattooed the word love and on his left hand was the word fear).
Once again a beautiful and small song. The subdued mood of the album fits me better and better.
I remember how rough your hand felt on mine
The opening lines to Walk Like A Man. Springsteen remembers how his mother dragged him along, whenever she heard the church bells for weddings. He has witnessed the same scene numerous times:
Well would they ever look so happy again
The handsome groom and his bride
As they stepped into that long black limousine
For their mystery ride
A moving song about a man trying his best to do right by himself and, particularly, his bride.
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel Of Love (single)
The song uses a ride at a fair as a metaphor for a relationship/marriage. Springsteen thinks that love is supposed to be easy (man meets woman and they fall in love), but quickly realizes that the ride can be hard and unpredictable (the house is haunted and the ride gets rough). It's all too easy to lose each other during the ride.
Musically the song differs a great deal from what Springsteen usually does. It almost has a funky feel. The song uses sound effects from a roller coaster in Point Pleasant, New Jersey.
Key phrase:
Then the lights go out and it's just the three of us
You, me and all that stuff we're so scared of
The song was released as the second single off the album in October of 1987. A beautiful song, and lyrically a highlight in Springsteen's body of work.
I met a girl and we ran away
I swore I'd make her happy every day
And how I made her cry
Two faces have I
Maybe Springsteen's most sincere song ever. In his 2016 (impressive) biography Born To Run he states that he had a problem with dealing with love (from women) and that he could be mean and unreliable. This song proves that very clearly. A force/tendency that's stronger than he wants, but can't be controlled.
A beautiful modest song.
The first single off the album and one of Springsteen's most beautiful songs. See earlier in this article for a comprehensive description of the song.
One Step Up
We've given each other some hard lessons lately
But we ain't learnin'
We're the same sad story that's a fact
One step up and two steps back
It's the same thing night on night
Who's wrong baby who's right
Another fight and I slam the door on
Another battle in our dirty little war
Bruce Springsteen – One Step Up (single)
A beautiful ballad, with a great sweet melody, but containing a heavy subject. Springsteen looks back on his own relationships and doesn't like what he sees. His own role (When I look at myself I don't see the man I wanted to be) isn't sugarcoated. The couple doesn't learn from their mistakes and keeps fighting the same fight.
In the end of the song Springsteen is seated in a bar and sees a woman (Mmm she ain't lookin' to married, and me well honey I'm pretending) and wonders whether or not he should get involved. But he remembers a dream from the night before. He dreamt of dancing with his wife.
And, yet again, a great song. The song was released as a single in February of 1988.
When You're Alone
My least favorite song off the album. It's about Springsteen whos is left behind by his woman: When you're alone you ain't nothing but alone.
A tear inducing song. Romantic, melancholy. It's impossible to describe how much feeling the song portrays. The means are minimal, but the effect is huge. Goosebumps.
It's about Springsteen driving his car in the middle of the night and he wants nothing more than to go home and hold his lover in his arms.
They say he travels fastest who travels alone
But tonight I miss my girl mister tonight I miss my home
He feels alone on this spooky old highway tonight. But the only thing that really scares him:
That ain't what scares me baby
What scares me is losing you
the songs ends with the profound wish:
So hold me close honey say you're forever mine
And tell me you'll be my lonely valentine
It almost sounds mundane seeing this in black on white, but Springsteen delivers it with such great conviction that it genuinely moves time and time again.
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel Of Love – Inner sleeve
Thanks Juli
The album is dedicated to his wife Julianne Phillips. It's not too difficult to imagine what she must have thought upon hearing the album. The image of relationships and marriages that the album portrays is not very positive, to say the least.
But was the album really about Springsteen's relationship and his take on it? At the time, reviews warned for such simplistic conclusions. Yet, it was very hard not to. The album's theme, the sincerity and the many songs using 'I', made for suspicions that something wasn't right.
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel Of Love – Photo outtake
But, besides that, Springsteen did deliver a great album. I immediately adored it. The themes were recognizable. I like it so much, because it's about trust (or lack thereof), doubt, willing to do good, fighting the inevitable, resignation and coming to terms with reality (you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above). Whether it is in Spare Parts, Brilliant Disguise or Valentine's Day.
Lyrically the album's beauty is unparalleled. Springsteen's strength resides in the smaller stories anyway. The little things every man encounters or endures. This album makes it all more personal and intimate.
Musically all is kept to the bare necessities, adding to the album's intensity. I remember reading somewhere that the album is marred by a typical 1980's production style. I couldn't disagree more. That 'honor' is bestowed on Born In The U.S.A..
All songs are written by Bruce Springsteen. He is also the main performer on the album: guitar, mandolin, bass, keyboards, harmonica, percussion, drum computers and (background)vocals. He did have help on a number of songs of:
percussion on Tougher Than The Rest, Spare Parts, Walk Like A Man, Tunnel Of Love & Brilliant Disguise
drums on All That Heaven Will Allow, Two Faces & When You're Alone
Danny Federici
organ on Tougher Than The Rest, Spare Parts & Brilliant Disguise
vocals on Tunnel Of Love, One Step Up & When You're Alone
Roy Bittan
synthesizers on Tunnel Of Love
piano on Brilliant Disguise
guitar solo on Tunnel Of Love
vocals on When You're Alone
Garry Tallent
bass on Spare Parts
harmonica on Spare Parts
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First time Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band live
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel Of Love Tour – Netherlands ad
But, I had never seen Springsteen live with the mighty E Street Band. That was about to change. Springsteen was coming to the Netherlands.
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel Of Love Tour Rotterdam 1988
On June 29th, 1988 it finally happened: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band came to Rotterdam's Kuip stadium with the Tunnel Of Love Express. It was a magical evening. 6 songs off my favorite album were played. The band was accompanied by a horn section, that provided a lot of songs with a nice soul feel. Springsteen effortlessly went beyond the 3 hour mark. I was baffled.
Later I learned that Chimes Of Freedom as well as Paradise By The "C" were tour premieres. A nice touch.
Tunnel Of Love Express Tour
The first Springsteen tour to be named (Express). Despite the minimal use of the E Street Band on the album, the legendary backing band was used for the accompanying tour. Especially for this tour a horn section, The Horns Of Love, was used.
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel Of Love Express Tour book
This tour was much shorter than previous tours: 67 shows (the Born In The U.S.A. tour consisted of 156 shows). The shows were held in arena's and stadiums, mostly 'just' two nights per city. Ticket demand was huge and all shows sold out quickly.
Before the tour went on sale, Springsteen contemplated doing a solo-tour. His management had already pre-booked smaller venues in advance. But, eventually, Springsteen decided against that idea, in fear of creating a tour and show that was too heavy and dark, and opted to go out on tour with The E Street Band instead.
But Springsteen wanted to it all differently than it was before. The standards were discarded form the regular setlist, a horn section was added (Springsteen's long lasting wish; now he could afford it), bandmembers were placed at different locations on the stage. Patti Scialfa, added tot The E Street Band as a backup-singer for the Born In The U.S.A. tour, was upgraded to a bigger role and regularly duetted with Springsteen.
I gathered it took some getting used to for a lot of the 'old' fans. It didn't bother me. After all, I was just starting, so I looked at the show with fresh eyes and ears and less judgmental. Springsteen played an impressive set of lesser known songs, including obscure B-sides, covers and, of course, Tunnel Of Love songs. The encores consisted of older songs, oftentimes drastically re-arranged, like an acoustic version of Born To Run.
Olympiastadium, Stockholm, July 3rd, 1988
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel Of Love Tour – Stockholm
The first half of this show was recorded and broadcast on any radio station that wanted it. The show was also broadcast in The Netherlands. It was a treat hearing this, in such great sound quality. Before Springsteen started Chimes Of Freedom, he announced his participation in the Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! Tour, which was to take place later in the year. The recordings of this show have been released on numerous bootlegs. A beautiful, unfortunately incomplete, document of the European Tunnel Of Love Express Tour.
Bruce Springsteen – Chimes Of Freedom (EP)
The recording of Chimes Of Freedom, performed in Stockholm, was released as part of an EP on August 1st, 1988, supplemented with 3 live recordings of the American leg of the Tunnel Of Love Express Tour.
Be True
Weißensee, Oost-Berlijn, 19 juli 1988
The most special show of the tour, and maybe even Springsteen's entire career, took place on July 19th, 1988. 16 months before the Berlin Wall would fall, Springsteen played to an estimated audience of around 500,000 people; about 3% of the entire population of the DDR (East-Germany).
Bruce Springsteen – East Berlin 07/19/1988
He was invited by the DDR youth organization called JDR, which tried to ease the tension that was building up among the youth, by organizing a number of concerts in East-Germany (other artists that summer were James Brown, Joe Cocker and Depeche Mode). The East-German press described Springsteen as an artist who fought social inequality and injustice in his homeland. Initially the show was announced as a concert for Nicaragua, supporting the Sandinistas. The show was broadcast live on the national (state controlled) television network (with a small delay).
Bruce Springsteen – East Berlin 07/19/1988 – Stage
For the first time during the tour, the opener changed: Badlands opened the show. The Promised Land was added to the setlist. Before Chimes Of Freedom was played, Springsteen told the audience (in German) that he was there to play rock 'n' roll for the people of East-Berlin, and that he hoped that one day all barriers would be torn down. The millions of people watching at home didn't hear the last part, because it was censored by the national broadcasting network.
Nowadays, Springsteen's concert is regarded as having played a major part in the final fall of the Berlin Wall. Contrary to JDR's intentions, the youth increasingly felt locked up. Springsteen had given them a taste of freedom. According to many socio-scientists the role of the Springsteen show can not be overestimated.
But, what about Springsteen's marriage?
From the start of the Tunnel Of Love Express Tour it was obvious to many, that something was not right. Springsteen's wife Julianne Phillips had show her face the first few shows, but they weren't together on the third anniversary of their marriage. Springsteen, supposedly, stopped wearing his wedding ring as the tour progressed.
Springsteen and singer Patti Scialfa were either convincing actors or really into each other. The chemistry between Springsteen and Scialfa was so obvious and real that the tour was nicknamed Tunnel Of Lust by some fans. The duets they did were intimate, oftentimes with their heads and mouths next to each other singing into one microphone. However, confirmation on this was lacking.
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel Of Love Tour – Gossip
Until June 15th, 1988. An Italian paparazzo photographed the two on the balcony of their hotel in Rome, and when they were intimately relaxing in the hotel's garden. The result was that Springsteen became a subject matter for gossip-magazines around the globe, a new (and wholeheartedly unwanted) experience for Springsteen.
On June 17th, 1988, Phillips confirmed she and Springsteen had broken up. During the same month Springsteen's management added that the couple had been growing apart. Phillips filed for divorce on August 30th, 1988, which was finalized mid March 1989.
In his 2016 autobiography Springsteen states: "I dealt with Julie's and my separation abysmally, insisting it remain a private affair, so we released no press statement, causing furor, pain and 'scandal' when the news leaked out. It made a tough thing more heartbreaking than necessary. I deeply cared for Julianne and her family and my poor handling of this is something I regret to this day".
Springsteen and Scialfa married in 1991, and have been together ever since.
After Tunnel Of Love
Human Rights Now!
As was announced during the July 3rd, 1988 show in Stockholm, Springsteen (with The E Street Band) toured in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights. The tour took place during the months September and October of 1988.
For a while nothing was heard from or about Springsteen. In the latter months of 1989 an official announcement was made: Springsteen had disbanded The E Street Band.
Springsteen left his familiar New Jersey and moved to Los Angeles. On March 31st, 1992, Springsteen released two albums, Human Touch and Lucky Town, both of which were welcomed sparingly. On April 12th, 1993 In Concert/MTV Plugged was released, an album which was very badly received by audiences and critics alike.
Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Philadelphia (single)
In 1994 Springsteen was asked to contribute to the film Philadelphia. It turned into the beautiful Streets Of Philadelphia, for which he was awarded with an Academy Award.
In 1995 Springsteen reunited with The E Street Band for Greatest Hits. Three songs were recorded, supplemented with the great Secret Garden (which was part of the movie Jerry Maguire). The same year Springsteen release The Ghost Of Tom Joad, an acoustic album that was very well received (by critics).
In 1999 Springsteen was inducted to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. He moved back to New Jersey and bought a ranch. It was time to, once again, get back together with The E Street Band. The Reunion Tour lasted over a year and proved to be extremely successful. many had hoped for years to see Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band one more time and stadiums around the world filled up without any effort at all.
Finally, in 2002 new Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band material was released: The Rising (see the article The musical answer to 9/11: Bruce Springsteen's The Rising).
My favorite Bruce Springsteen album is his least played set of songs. Understandably perhaps, for it probably reminds him of less happy times (just like Prince playing little to nothing live off the Emancipation album). Bob Dylan once remarked on his own Blood On The Tracks: "A lot of people tell me they enjoy that album. It's hard for me to relate to that. You know, people enjoying that type of pain". Maybe this is the case as well for Bruce Springsteen and Tunnel Of Love.
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – LA Sports Arena California 1988
However it may be, I love the album and the tour. I was more than pleased when it was announced that the Tunnel Of Love Express Tour would be getting its own release as part of Live Bruce Springsteen (live.brucespringsteen.net). The concert in the LA Sports Arena, Los Angeles of April 23rd, 1988, one of the many shows from Springsteen's archives, was made available on July 8th, 2015. Maybe now it's time for East-Berlin? Or the complete Stockholm show? Or, better yet, Rotterdam, June 29th, 1988 (I own recordings of the show, but the quality is sub-par).
What do you think of Tunnel Of Love? Is it your favorite Springsteen album also, or does The Boss mean nothing to you? Let me know: it's highly appreciated!
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Peter Knight on 10/10/2017 at 8:26 AM
Enjoyed reading your thoughts and reliving the album's l loved listening to from my teens.75-85 live was my first Bruce album,and what a collection,,,Bruce live is Awesome.Racing in the streets,and the River are my favs from the box set.Tunnel is superbly written and touches you deep, maybe you related on a personal level, it's sadness and realising love has been lost??
Just a few to many sad tunes to be my fav, but the lyrics are always in my head.l like the underated Human touch, Tracks and Live in NY city as my best,Clarence on the sax going solo like in jungleland, or Youngstown live just blow me away.
Thanks so much for your reply! Tracks indeed is great! Springsteen live is a treat everytime I see him!
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Here is why Hims & Hers Health Inc. (HIMS) Stock surged in the after-hours on Wednesday?
By Asim Kamal
Hims & Hers Health Inc. (HIMS) shares rose 11.62% in after-hours on Wednesday, August 11, 2021, and closed the Daily trading at $8.45. Earlier in the regular trading session on Wednesday, HIMS's stock lost 3.44%. HIMS shares have fallen 28.58% over the last 12 months, and they have moved down 6.66% in the past week. Over the past three months, the stock has lost 15.61%, while over the past six months, it has declined 65.99%.
Let's have a look at its recent news and developments
HIMS recent financial results announcement
On August 11, 2021, Hims & Hers Health, Inc reported financial results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2021.
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Q2 2021 financial highlights
HIMS reported revenue of $60.7 million for the second quarter of 2021 compared to $35.9 million for the second quarter of 2020.
In Q2 2021, the gross margin was 78% compared to 71% for the second quarter of 2020.
Total operating expenses were $64.68 million in Q2 2021 compared to $26.64 million in Q2 2020.
It suffered a net loss of $9.2 million for Q2 2021 compared to $1.0 million for Q2 2020.
Net loss per basic and diluted share was $0.05 in Q2 2021 compared to $0.03 in Q2 2020.
Adjusted EBITDA was $4.7 million for Q2 2021 compared to $1.2 million in Q2 2020.
The financial outlook for Q3 2021
For the third quarter of 2021, the company is expecting
Revenue to be in the range of $69 million to $71 million.
Adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of $9 million to $11 million.
HIMS Redeemed All Outstanding Warrants
On July 09, 2021, Hims & Hers Health, Inc announced to redeem all of its outstanding warrants to purchase shares of the Company's Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share that were issued under the Warrant Agreement, dated July 22, 2019, by and between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as to warrant agent, that remained outstanding at 5:00 p.m. New York City time on August 9, 2021.
HIMS completed the acquisition of Apostrophe
On July 07, 2021, Hims & Hers Health, Inc finalized the acquisition of teledermatology specialist, Apostrophe. With this closing, the company will expand its ability to provide consumers with some of the most advanced and personalized dermatology treatments, faster and at scale.
The entire Apostrophe team will be joining Hims & Hers to help run the company's growing dermatology business line. Apostrophe Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Ben Holber will become CEO of the Hims & Hers dermatology business line, reporting directly to Hims & Hers Chief Operating Officer Melissa Baird.
The recent financial results were the reason behind its gains in the after-hours on Wednesday and it may continue its positive streak in the next trading sessions as well.
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the Execlintiansa novel by MICHAEL HOLE
Chapter 1 – Start Here
Organic Science Fiction
Chapter One – an excerpt
Our story begins in the forests of Miwinia with the hot day sun beating down on the sleeping creatures of this land. They speckle the hillsides; their orange, red, yellow and occasional purple flowers open to the sun, with tiny primitive flies buzzing about in the air around them. Their roots are planted firmly in the soil, with their long leafy branches spread out to absorb the light. The older ones are large and woody, while the young are bright and green like small saplings – spindly but supple.
Miwinien spend their days asleep in the sun and their nights in the forest, moving about in family groups to cultivate tasty, nutritious soils – the favourite pastime of their creed. The untold delicacies of the earth are far beyond our understanding as humans, for according to the amunzas, there are 1,734 known varieties of soil in the miwinien index, and once in a while, when a rare delicacy is found, there is great cause for celebration.
But today is a special day when more muplunts are ready to release and more miwinien are about to be born. As the sun sets over the horizon, and the night sky starts to reveal itself, Ominum Verecca and her clan are waking up and gathering for the time when Lusithlaad and his siblings will be welcomed into the world.
They sing as they congregate. It is an ancient buzzing; a low whistling harmony passed down through the ages. They steadily shake their big floral eyes, causing the small brittle leaves to rub together while the tiny seed pods ring like bells on the back of their heads. The muplunts from which the babies will be born are tall, dark green trunks with large round pods attached to the end. Originally the muplunts grew straight out of the ground, but now they strain from the weight of the pods and bend completely over so they hang just above the ground. Some are single trunks, while others have up to four trunks radiating out of the one spot, each spawning a single pod.
The first to come down tonight will be Lusithlaad, and over the next few nights many more will be delivered to the earth, for this is the birthing season that comes every three years.
Lusithlaad's pod hangs down on its trunk, just a couple of feet from the ground, and as the miwinien surround it, they buzz and sing as they stroke the husk with their leafy hands.
Slowly the pod begins to vibrate, and they all back away. Verecca is the only one that stays, for she is the leader of their clan, and she moves in closer to receive the youngling.
With a sudden crack the pod breaks open and the two husks fall apart releasing a small, glistening, green child that almost glows in the moonlight. It hangs there for a moment, still attached by the fine root-like fibres that grow from its branches and stem. It is tightly folded around on itself, having been encased in its mother cocoon for just under a year. As it starts to wriggle and loosen its branches, the fibres brake away from the mother plant and the young miwinien falls straight into the arms of Verecca. The muplunt whips up into the air with a sharp violence, straightening itself to stand tall again, though still somewhat bent over. It has served its purpose and given life, so now it can die in peace. Eventually it will become dry and break down until it falls and joins the earth from whence it came.
All crowd around as Verecca lowers the small creature to the ground. For a moment the youngling lies motionless, its execlintian eye closed over, though by instinct its root begins to extend and find its way into the earth. With a little help from Verecca it slowly stands up and opens its branches to the world for the first time. She takes hold of the sapling's stem, inspecting it for a few moments and causing a soft vibration to run through its skin, while a faint odour permeates from her flower. The vibration and perfume are just some of the components of her language that says:
"You are Lusithlaad. This is your first night. Be strong!"
© Michael Hole, 2020
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When I leave, I want to take this picture with me. The Empire, the Chrysler, the reflections, the myriads of windows. The stories that go on behind them that I cannot even begin to imagine.
A typical working day in Midtown Manhattan.
A marvel of Brutalism by some, a monstrosity by others. An awesome building, in a brutal sort of way, by me. Vertical. Massive. Minimal. Windowless. It looks the same from every angle. It looks like a CGI fortress.
Not surprisingly, it was featured in Mr. Robot Season 2 plot. Even less surprisingly, it became the subject of an investigation by The Intercept, where the idea that parts of the building may used as an NSA surveillance hub was explored. Sounds plausible but we will probably never know for sure.
What we do know is that it was built for the AT&T Long Lines to house switching equipment. Although AT&T has now moved some of it to another building nearby, the monolith is still in use for telephone switching, but also as a highly secured data centre facility.
What I would like to know, is how does it feel to spend one's working days in a windowless, fortified environment among cables and servers, with zero access to natural light? It takes a certain type of person, doesn't it?
Adding to the layers of mystery, the AT&T building has also been the subject of a short film by Field of Vision, "Project X". Interestingly, it was narrated by Rami Malek (of Mr. Robot) and Michelle Williams.
The Time Warner Center overlooking Columbus overlooking the traffic circling around Central Park. Headquarters of Time Warner and the studios of CNN. A world of its own with luxury condos, a five-star hotel, a concert hall, a shopping mall, a fitness center, I don't know how many restaurants and a Whole Foods supermarket.
Some residents don't ever have to leave the premises, I would imagine.
Arrived in December 2015 to rival the Gehry skyscraper – in height but not in beauty. 432 Park Avenue is seen by many as an eyesore; its super tall, super thin square shape appears like rising out of nowhere and bears no relation to neighouring buildings. When the weather is low the top floors are lost in the clouds giving literal meaning to the tallest residential building in the world.
Here in b&w because even eyesores look good in it.
New York by Gehry skyscraper on Spruce Street, Lower Manhattan. Playfully edited but you can see the real thing by clicking on the link. At the time of its completion in February 2011 it was the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere. That was before it was vanquished by its rival on Park Avenue (photo coming up next).


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