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Big Loose Fear

From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio
Length: 00:05:58

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Life lessons from the recycling center. Read the full description.

Mercury_small At the age of 22, fresh off the humanities degree assembly line, Jennie Gruber found herself doing the filthiest work of her life at a recycling center called Big Blue Sphere. There she came face to face with an invisible subculture of Santa Cruz vagabonds who taught her to see homeless people in a whole new light. Visiting a similar recycling plant near her current home in Brooklyn, and reminiscing about the job with an old co-worker, Gruber muses on the influence that "Big Loose Fear" had on her life.

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At the age of 22, fresh off the humanities degree assembly line, Jennie Gruber found herself doing the filthiest work of her life at a recycling center called Big Blue Sphere. There she came face to face with an invisible subculture of Santa Cruz vagabonds who taught her to see homeless people in a whole new light. Visiting a similar recycling plant near her current home in Brooklyn, and reminiscing about the job with an old co-worker, Gruber muses on the influence that "Big Loose Fear" had on her life.

Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
Garbageman The Cramps Off the Bone. IRS Records 1989 03:31