[AsburyPark] Re: Thick-Skinned in Asbury Park?

2008-12-04 Thread oakdorf
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought I was in for a feel-good read. Until I came across the reference to Asbury Park as a town of losers. It's the impression. Mario you've been here long enough to have seen it all. Look at the newest loser - the epseranza

[AsburyPark] Re: Thick-Skinned in Asbury Park?

2008-12-04 Thread sandpiper15
Mario, Neither Cohen nor Springsteen ever refer to Asbury Park as a town of losers. Obviously he's referring to the lyric from Thunder Road, which never specifies a particular town. (though given its references to dusty beach roads and windblown hair [hard to imagine on snail paced Ocean

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Thick-Skinned in Asbury Park?

2008-12-04 Thread MarioAPNJ
Ok. Cohen gets a pass because he's a college kid. The metaphor is, as you say, obvious in the context of the song. Not so obvious in the kid's paragraph where everything is literal not fugurative: It doesn't matter that Springsteen became rock and roll's future by yearning to leave New

[AsburyPark] Re: Thick-Skinned in Asbury Park?

2008-12-04 Thread sharon_b283
WE? I want to Barf! --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought I was in for a feel-good read. Until I came across the reference to Asbury Park as a town of losers. Guess I'm not thick-skinned. Feel free to educate this guy via the comment box or letters link.