When a drunken Sean Penn told Bruce Springsteen he’d turn one of his songs into a movie: “OK, Sean, sure”

Far Out Magazine ^ | Mon 1 September 2025 | Michael Gordon

[Salamander]

When I started to read this I was thinking more of his song Badlands and the Martin Sheen movie Badlands loosely based on Charles Starkweather.

Nebraska was the last Springsteen album I ever bought.

Conclusions could be drawn, here.

😬

[Salamander]

Taps was a good movie and showed immediately just how 🦇💩 crazy Tom Cruise is and would ever be.

[Vermont Lt]

I was at a military college when Taps came out.

We all had a good chuckle at that story.

[nickcarraway]

Deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like "honor", "code", "loyalty". We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something.

Oh wait, wrong Tom Cruise movie. Anyway, that was before he was a Scientographer.

[irishjuggler]

“... a drunken Sean Pean”

A “dog bites man” description if there ever were one.

[Rummyfan]

Thes two deserve each other. Penn peaked with Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Springsteen with Born in the USA.

[struggle]

i am sam?

[Bikkuri]

Lol.. so true.

[Salamander]

That had to make your officers a bit twitchy.

😬

[Salamander]

He’s always given me the heebies.

No idea why.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Ignorant commies hang out together. Who knew.

[Excellence]

It’s available on Prime. I put it on my watch list. I’ve long wanted a copy of the OED, but it’s terribly expensive.

[sphinx]

Is the OED still available in a print version? Some years ago, an archival quality print addition was being offered, along with a continuing subscription to the annual supplements. That tempted me, but it was a very large commitment of already overcommitted shelf space. I already scratched that itch with the National Historical Society’s reprint of the Civil War OR’s, and to do it again, I’d need a bigger house.

There is an online subscription, but I have free access through my public library. Many libraries make it available, as do many schools. Go down and renew your library card, skirting the drag queen story hour in the children’s reading room, and inquire.

[packrat35]

Nebraska the album sucked then and now. I don’t know why it is getting praise. It sucks.

Sean Penn is a garbage actor that and Communist that I wouldn’t watch for pay.

[minnesota_bound]

#5 but the Brits had moved beyond executing raving lunatics

Now they elect them to office like us.... : )