The last time one Martin Seay blogged was way the heck back on August 25, 2010, but look out! He’s made a triumphant return six months in the making with an epic post on Bruce Springsteen, Arcade Fire, Eddie and the Cruisers and Harold Bloom’s anxiety of influence. My favorite sentence may be “I just think it’s interesting to consider how Arcade Fire might have been able to use John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band—whom I will not refer to as one of Arcade Fire’s influences, any more than I will refer to the sandwich I ate for lunch as one of my internal organs—to engage productively and indirectly with the Boss,” and my favorite subpoint is probably, “In myth, events are ruled by fate rather than by accident; myth’s concept of time is cyclical (every night my dream’s the same / same old city with a different name) rather than sequential (got in a little hometown jam / so they put a rifle in my hand / sent me off to a foreign land / to go and kill the yellow man). Myth, then, is the opposite of history. Suburbs are always designed with the goals of preventing accident and escaping history; ergo suburbs inevitably suggest themselves as mythic landscapes.” But don’t take my word for it. Find your own faves here.