#classic lynn

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bruce springsteen photographed by lynn goldsmith, 1978

[horrorme]

The Evil (1978)

[soundsof71]

Tracy Chapman, 1992 by Lynn Goldsmith, my edit of original via

[duffsmckagan]

Exodus at Mabuhay Gardens. There’s James, Cliff, Corinne Lynn, and Kirk on the far left.

[brucespringsteencomments]

Sometimes I feel like I've seen every Bruce photo and watched every Bruce video out there that nothing really surprises me anymore, and then I'll see the wildest comment here and be proven wrong.

you've been bruced.

join me.

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Lynn Bari (December 18, 1919 – November 20, 1989)

[buckshotbabe]

Driving backroads at night listening to classic country cured me.

[andtherestishistory13]

I think it’s so funny when people talking about modern country music becoming “woke” and how they need to “go back to old country music”. Because dude, old country music was like, super progressive. Loretta Lynn wrote songs about birth control, Dolly Parton wrote songs about inequality and working systems, Willie Nelson wrote songs about gay cowboys and wrote several Antiwar songs, and several songs about marijuana, Reba wrote a song about AIDS in a time when people were terrified of it. And y’all know Johnny Cash was progressive as hell! He got into fights with the Klan, has songs about prison reform, songs about Native American issues and Antiwar songs. What Kelsea Ballerini did at the CMT awards was extremely brave, and most of the time it is women in modern day country music who risk their careers to stand up for what they believe in, but it’s absolutely not anything new and all of the “old country musicians” that these hateful fans like so much would more likely than not support these new progressive artists.

Sorry y’all, just had to rant

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LYNN MERRICK

[lostinmac]

Dinner in America (2020)

Dir. Adam Rehmeier

[precodesoul]

Chorus girls from Footlight Parade (dir. Lloyd Bacon & Busby Berkeley, 1933)

[soundsof71]

Stripes on the Edge of Town! Bruce Springsteen, 1978, by Lynn Goldsmith.

I don't mean to diminish either one of these fabulous artists by pointing out that they were dating at the time. On the contrary, it's why we have so many amazing, irreplaceable photos from 1978! Hence my eternal gratitude immortalized with the hashtag #boyfriend bruce.

[mydearlybeloathed]

thinking about persephone again

[i encourage everyone to read the homeric hymn to demeter its my favorite piece of literature and i think about it frequently.]

thinking about how she was simply a young girl picking flowers. something that should have been her sanctuary. she's a goddess of life. her mother is demeter. why should she be cautious in the arms of the earth that built her?

about how she was betrayed by her father, her grandmother, and her uncle all in one day.

"He seized her against her will, put her on his golden chariot, 20 And drove away as she wept. She cried with a piercing voice, calling upon her father [Zeus], the son of Kronos, the highest and the best. But not one of the immortal ones, or of human mortals, heard her voice. Not even the olive trees which bear their splendid harvest."

those lines always crush me.

"So long as the earth and the star-filled sky were still within the goddess’s [Persephone’s] view, as also the fish-swarming sea [pontos], with its strong currents, 35 as also the rays of the sun, she still had hope that she would yet see her dear mother and that special group, the immortal gods. For that long a time her great noos was soothed by hope, distressed as she was."

noos means mind, if im correct. she still has hope in the gods. even after this terrible act upon her. at this point her innocence is still intact as she longs for her mother.

"And the Lady Mother [Demeter] heard her. 40 And a sharp akhos seized her heart."

if im not mistaken, akhos translates to a terrible grief. quaking rn this isn't a love story this is a tragedy.

over and over demeter begs for respect from her fellow gods and goddesses, pleading for help in the search for her daughter. and no one dared to listen to her until the wrath and will of demeter could no longer be ignored.

the wrath of a mother cast the earth in wilting death, and olympus could no longer ignore her.

and even then, when they called upon her, she did not listen till they threw down their pride and obeyed her.

and when they finally heed her words, hades obeys, but not without a trick. he litters persephone with sweet words of how he is to be good to her... until she rushes to leave, and the sharade falls flat.

“So then, Mother, I shall tell you everything, ........ I sprang up for joy, but he, stealthily, put into my hand the berry of the pomegranate, that honey-sweet food, and he compelled me by biē to eat of it."

biē.

biē translates to force/violence. I CANNOT BE NORMAL ABOUT THIS STORY. PERSEPHONE DID NOT CHOOSE THIS LIFE.

even when demeter does everything in her power, even when she forces the hand of olympus, the love of a mother is not respected by the gods. the patriarchy of olympus is very evident.

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don't get me wrong, i enjoy many modern interpretations of hades and persephone. but ive yet to see one done right. but i didn't write a whole ass essay on why modern interpretations miss the point of the original story for nothing. shaking the bars of my enclosure rn.

i cannot wait to learn greek and latin ill be unstoppable once i can read it without a translation. one day ill be in the room where this discussion can be had and i can get all this passion out of my head.

[citizenscreen]

Lynn Bari and Henry Fonda in Walter Lang’s THE MAGNIFICENT DOPE (1942)

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