Bruce Springsteen is working on his new album, "Working on a Dream," which is set for release on Jan. 27.
Until then, it's a lucky day for Boss fans. A new Bruce song, "My Lucky Day," is currently available on the Internet. Download the song for a fee or watch the video for free at amazon.com/brucespringsteen or myspace.com/brucespringsteen (for some reason, the video version on Amazon is longer, with more footage of Springsteen in the studio).
As for the song -- it's classic, anthemic, triumphant Bruce, just the sort of tune that would work as, say, the theme for a presidential inauguration.
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Spencer Tracy has 'Bad Day'
In the film "Bad Day at Black Rock," we never learn why the Spencer Tracy character has only one arm. But we do learn about the seedy side of human nature -- prejudice, suspicion, xenophobia, paranoia -- in this 1955 film noir mystery.It's a tale about a guy named MacReedy (Tracy), who journeys to an isolated desert town to investigate the disappearance of a Japanese-American man. The game is on when MacReedy encounters the hostile locals, including a tough town rowdie played by a marvelous Lee Marvin.
"Bad Day at Black Rock" will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 10 at the Southeast Museum of Photography, on the campus of Daytona State College, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach. Admission is free. Information: 386-506-4475.
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Get punked
College professor Brian Cogan, a Ph.D. who got his degree in "media ecology" from New York University, admits that "writing about punk for public consumption in the mass media" may be perceived by purists as "an act of selling out."
Never mind those bollocks. Cogan's "The Encyclopedia of Punk" (Sterling Publishing, 390 pages, $24.95) is an intelligent (!) yet spirited look at not just the artists but also punk's historic clubs, zines and sub-movements.
Cogan wisely shuns faux-punk cant and attitude and instead offers keen, concise insight, as when he labels the Pogues' Shane MacGowan as "a modern-day Brendan Behan or a gutter-oriented Yeats."
Along with the obvious (the Sex Pistols, Ramones, Nirvana), Cogan also pays due to punk's underbelly, periphery and forgotten waifs, such as cut-and-paste artist Jamie Reid, the Riot Grrrl and Queercore movements, the Slits and yadda, yadda, yadda.
Lots of, er, fascinating photos too, such as the one of a bloody Iggy Pop being mangled by a swastika-wearing dude.
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