Jopa talouspolitiikasta villiintyvälle tytölle kirjat alkavat maistua puulle maanantain yhteiskuntaopin kokeeseen lukiessa. Kun soppaan vielä hämmennetään vähän peruslaiskuutta, saadaan Yleisradion podcastien ja mm. A-studion intensiivinen kulutus.

Ei silti tarvitse edes mennä tilanteeni kaltaiseen ääripäähän tajutakseen miten äärettömän tärkeitä nämä asiat ovat. Heti käsitettyäni taloustiedon perusteet jopa Kajaanin irtisanomiset saivat paikkaansa in the big picture, niin sanoakseni. Melkein laittaa miettimään, minkälainen maailma olisi jos kaikki tuntisivat samaa paloa yhteisiin juttuihin.

Ehkä pitäisi siirtyä semisuoraan kansanvaltaan niin kuin Sveitsissä? Siellä kuulemma tiheiden kansanäänestysten takia jengi oppii hiljalleen äänestämään välillä muutenkin kuin vastustaakseen muutosta. Take that, juro EU-fobi.

Anyway. Kiitos Enbuske, kiitos Nyman. Aivotoiminta heräsi ja välinpitämätön henkinen anemia katosi. Ainakin toistaiseksi.

Springsteen’s still the man. Actually, he may be more of that than ever. And it’s amazing how they manage to kick up the whole crowd - both young and old, new and more experienced fans.

I really wish I could say something cynical about anything, but I’m still hung up on that mad springsteen-y energy. Baby, if you wanna be wild / you got a lot to learn.

Setlist from Backstreets.com (fav crowd dynamics in bold):

Night
Out in the Street
Radio Nowhere
No Surrender
Hungry Heart
Spirit in the Night
Summertime Blues
Sherry Darling
4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
I’ll Work for Your Love
Candy’s Room
Youngstown
Murder Incorporated
The Promised Land
She’s the One
Livin’ in the Future
Mary’s Place
Point Blank
The Rising (an almost religious experience, actually)
Last to Die
Long Walk Home
Born in the U.S.A.
Badlands
* * *
Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Tenth Avenue Freeze-out
Born to Run
Rosalita (!!!)
Dancing in the Dark
American Land
Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
Twist and Shout

THE BOSS tomorroww-oww!

Over and out.

21 (oh yes.)

The Boondock Saints

The Departed

Gone Baby Gone

Legally Blonde

Mystic River (Sean Penn drool)

TV: The Practice, Boston Legal, Boston Public, Ally McBeal

Read: Zadie Smith’s “On Beauty”, Matthew Pearl’s “The Dante Club” or Neal Stephenson’s “Zodiac”. Dennis Lehane’s “Mystic River”, if you don’t want to go straight to the Penn goodness.

Speed Racer is visually amazing - such innovation, such colour, such a cinematic breakthrough in many ways. Candy colours and surreal views rush through the flick second by second and anyone prone to enjoy all things visual (who, me?) can’t but sit and relax.

Sure, although the plot (faithful to the original comic) works and Hirsch & Sarandon really are incapable of failing, we again encounter the stiff lines aux monsieurs Matrix. The dialogue is as cliché as ever with lengthy touchy-feely dialogues. Moreover, sirs Whack and Boom don’t seem to have decided on a target group for all the sweet neon madness as they cram the story with both confusing conspiracies and over-acting like in a Disney film - making it sag for all age groups.

But though the allure of the poorly written film is primarily the all-hypnotic, all-fresh visual atmosphere by the masters, the story succeeds in portraying an innocent childhood dream and solid family love in a more sincere manner than I’ve seen in a long time.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Robert Browning