Sont Les Mots Qui Vont Trés Bien Ensemble ...6:16 pm
Michelle blows a gasket, and justifiably so. “Just a Yellow Woman Doing a White Man’s Job.”
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London, 11/20/05 ...5:57 pm
Set list from Bill Pagel’s site:
1. Rumble (instrumental song by Link Wray) (incomplete)
2. Drifter’s Escape
3. Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
4. God Knows
5. To Ramona
6. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
7. Queen Jane Approximately
8. ‘Til I Fell In Love With You
9. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
10. New Morning
11. Highway 61 Revisited
12. Man In The Long Black Coat
13. Honest With Me
14. Desolation Row
15. Summer Days
(encore)
16. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
17. All Along The Watchtower
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Rank Strangers To Me ...9:55 am
This song, credited to Albert Brumley and performed by Dylan’s faves the Stanley Brothers, was recorded by Bob for his 1988 album Down In The Groove. Here is an mp3 sample (for a little while) of Dylan performing it in Denver, Colorado, in 1999.
I edited the applause at the end a little bit so you don’t have to wait too long to hear Dylan’s comment to the crowd:
“Thank you - thanks everybody. We did that last song for everybody here that doesn’t know anybody.”
I wandered again
To my home in the mountains
Where in youth’s early dawn
I was happy and free.
I looked for my friends,
But I never could find ‘em.
I found they were all
Rank strangers to me.Everybody I met
Seemed to be a rank stranger;
No mother or dad,
Not a friend could I see.
They knew not my name
And I knew not their faces
I found they were all
Rank strangers to me.“They’ve all moved away,”
Said the voice of a stranger,
“To that beautiful shore
By the bright crystal sea.”
Some beautiful day
I’ll meet ‘em in Heaven
Where no one will be
A stranger to me.Everybody I met
Seemed to be a rank stranger;
No mother or dad,
Not a friend could I see.
They knew not my name
And I knew not their faces
I found they were all
Rank strangers to me.
You could say that the spirit that inhabits this song is often reflected on Dylan’s 1997 album, Time Out Of Mind.
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Saturday, November 19, 2005
Google Search of the Day ...9:59 pm
Someone found this site today by searching the following words on GOOGLE: Bob Dylan terrorist arrest.
Is there something I don’t know?
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It’s Either Fortune or Fame ...9:45 am
So Dylan “snubbed” the Britain’s “Music Hall of Fame” the other day. They had purposely scheduled this year’s event to coincide with his tour dates in England. Nevertheless, not only did he not show up, but he didn’t even provide a video acceptance speech. As the Independent puts it:
Instead, the actor Woody Harrelson, a vague acquaintance, accepted it on Dylan’s behalf. He gave a sheepish speech saying that he’d pass it on in the unlikely event that the great man decides to come and watch his forthcoming West End play.
I was previously aware that Harrelson was “a vague acquaintance;” being reminded of it disturbs my stomach anew, but there you go. Dylan is entitled to his acquaintances and friends wherever he makes them, and I guess if I travelled in celebrity circles I’d have some funny acquaintances too. Harrelson seems at least to have had a consciousness of the presumption he was showing in accepting the award on Dylan’s behalf, but he obviously went ahead and did it anyway.
The organizers of the bash made no secret of their displeasure towards Dylan for not personally accepting this award - one which he didn’t ask for and clearly doesn’t need.
How many countries have musical “Hall of Fames,” or rather, “Halls of Fame?” Or equivalent honors to give out? And how many countries does Dylan visit in an average year? You do the math, and imagine the torture for a guy who, more than anything, hates having to show up at events and “be somebody,” as he himself has said.
The singer’s spokesman blames prior tour commitments. “I don’t know about a video message, but I know he’s thrilled to be in the hall of fame,” he says.
Thrilled!
Reminds me of an exchange Dylan had in a 1995 interview with the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel.
Q: Your performance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in Cleveland earlier this month drew a lot of great notices. Is that important to you? What’s your feeling about that institution?
A: I never visited the actual building, I was just over at the concert, which was pretty long. So I have no comment on the interior or any of the exhibits inside.
Q: But how do you feel about the idea of a rock hall of fame itself?
A: Nothing surprises me anymore. It’s a perfect time for anything to happen.
Aside from his amusing evasion of offering an opinion on the “building” itself, I like how he describes the concert: “pretty long.” That’s it.
I think that Dylan’s clearly never been comfortable with self-congratulatory pop and rock music stars and their gaudy celebrations, even if at times graciousness and/or his human desire to be recognized and appreciated has allowed him to be cajoled into participating.
His ultimate statement on the matter was obviously delivered when he received his Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 1991 (isn’t he about due for another one now, by the way?):
“Yeah, well, my daddy, he didn’t leave me too much, you know he was a very simple man and he didn’t leave me a lot, but what he told me was this, he did say, ‘son,’ he said, uh,” … pause … “he said so many things y’know?” … audience laughter … “he said, ‘you know it’s possible to become so defiled in this world that your own mother and father will abandon you, and if that happens, God will always believe in your own ability to mend your own ways.’ Thank you.”
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Friday, November 18, 2005
Birmingham, 11/18/05 ...9:03 pm
Tonight’s set list from Pagel’s site:
1. Maggie’s Farm
2. Tell Me That It Isn’t True
3. Watching The River Flow
4. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
5. Ballad Of A Thin Man
6. Highway 61 Revisited
7. Mr. Tambourine Man
8. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
9. Chimes Of Freedom (acoustic)
10. ‘Til I Fell In Love With You
11. Visions Of Johanna (acoustic)
12. Honest With Me
13. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (acoustic)
14. Summer Days(encore)
15. Like A Rolling Stone
16. All Along The Watchtower
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Simple Twist II ...1:22 pm
Regarding the al-Qaeda error that resulted in the deaths of some elite Palestinians (covered here a few days ago), Abu Musab al-Zarqawi wants to apologize, kinda-sorta:
“We ask God to have mercy on the Muslims, who we did not intend to target, even if they were in hotels which are centers of immorality,” the voice on the tape said.
“The idea that they blew up inside wedding ceremonies is a lie by the Jordanian regime … the target was a meeting of intelligence agencies, but a roof collapsed on a wedding party from the blast,” he said.
…
“We chose these hotels after over two months of thorough checks with trusted sources inside the hotels and elsewhere showed that they were centers for the Jewish, U.S. and Jordanian security apparatus,” Zarqawi said.
…
Zarqawi warned Jordan’s King Abdullah he could meet the same fate as a tribal warrior who fought the Prophet Mohammad.
“Here is another message to the little tyrant of Jordan. I address you after you threatened a nasty fate for those behind the blasts. Listen to these words,” he said, before relating the tale of Abu Jahl, who Muslim lore says lost his head in battle.
At first I thought Abu Jahl was the hero of the story, for losing his head. It’s hard to be clear on winners and losers when you’re dealing with a death cult.
The relevant question is whether this kind of sick apologizing and excuse-making will help make things alright again between Zarqawi and his former Palestinian sympathizers in Jordan and the rest of the neighborhood. Though I sincerely hope I’m wrong, my money will have to be on a big, dumb “Yep.”
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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Murtha ...8:50 pm
Found originally on the Corner, apparently, and now being linked around by others: Congressman John Murtha, who is being hailed by everyone from the AP to Fox News as being a conservative, pro-war Democratic hawk (which is supposed to make his call for immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq so shocking, so weighty and so credible), was peddling the same defeatist rhetoric 18 months ago.
This whole thing is orchestrated, and the mainstream media are being played like a two-bit harmonica.
It’s a good thing Bush and Cheney are beginning to take the gloves off, because those who would drag this country down to defeat in the pivotal confrontation in Iraq are proving themselves capable of the most despicable dishonesty imaginable.
Addendum: Drudge has a link to this Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story which came out the day following the Roll Call piece and reports the remarks he ended up actually making (as opposed to the ones that were probably floated to Roll Call). “We cannot prevail in this war as it is going today.” And “We either have to mobilize or we have to get out.” The Tribune-Review then says that he added “that he supported increasing U.S. troop strength rather than pulling out.” So he calibrated his defeatism then appropriately to the winds that were blowing. Today, he looks at Bush’s poll numbers and simply figures he might as well go all the way.
And: More from Hewitt.
And: Steyn and Hewitt, interview, transcript, must-read.
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Glasgow, 11/17/05 ...7:15 pm
Set list from Pagel:
1. Maggie’s Farm
2. Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You
3. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
4. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
5. It Ain’t Me, Babe
6. Highway 61 Revisited
7. Every Grain Of Sand
8. High Water (For Charley Patton)
9. Just Like A Woman
10. Down In The Flood
11. Sugar Baby (acoustic)
12. Cold Irons Bound
13. Girl Of The North Country (acoustic)
14. Summer Days(encore)
15. Like A Rolling Stone
16. All Along The Watchtower
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Why Ireland Needs the NRA ...3:20 pm
The above photo is of the Irish Minister of Defense, Willie O’Dea, presumably joking around with reporters and photographers, at an army training camp in County Kildare. It has unsurprisingly caused some controversy in the Emerald Isle.
Imagine if Donald Rumsfeld behaved this way?
Anyway, as a service both to Irish readers and other foreign ministers of defense, here is a link to the National Rifle Association’s Gun Safety Rules, the first one of which reads:
1. ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.
This is the primary rule of gun safety. A safe direction means that the gun is pointed so that even if it were to go off it would not cause injury or damage. The key to this rule is to control where the muzzle or front end of the barrel is pointed at all times. Common sense dictates the safest direction, depending on different circumstances.
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Why Not Me? ...9:37 am
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Bull’s Eye ...8:25 pm
Dick Cheney, as reported tonight by a non-Open Source Media, LLC blogger:
As most of you know, I have spent a lot of years in public service, and first came to work in Washington, D.C. back in the late 1960s. I know what it´s like to operate in a highly charged political environment, in which the players on all sides of an issue feel passionately and speak forcefully.
In such an environment people sometimes lose their cool, and yet in Washington you can ordinarily rely on some basic measure of truthfulness and good faith in the conduct of political debate. But in the last several weeks we have seen a wild departure from that tradition.
And the suggestion that´s been made by some U. S. senators that the President of the United States or any member of this Administration purposely misled the American people on pre-war intelligence is one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city…
Some of the most irresponsible comments have, of course, come from politicians who actually voted in favor of authorizing force against Saddam Hussein. These are elected officials who had access to the intelligence, and were free to draw their own conclusions.
They arrived at the same judgment about Iraq´s capabilities and intentions that was made by this Administration and by the previous Administration. There was broad-based, bipartisan agreement that Saddam Hussein was a threat … that he had violated U.N. Security Council Resolutions … and that, in a post-9/11 world, we couldn´t afford to take the word of a dictator who had a history of WMD programs, who had excluded weapons inspectors, who had defied the demands of the international community, who had been designated an official state sponsor of terror, and who had committed mass murder.
Those are facts.
What we´re hearing now is some politicians contradicting their own statements and making a play for political advantage in the middle of a war. The saddest part is that our people in uniform have been subjected to these cynical and pernicious falsehoods day in and day out. American soldiers and Marines are out there every day in dangerous conditions and desert temperatures – conducting raids, training Iraqi forces, countering attacks, seizing weapons, and capturing killers – and back home a few opportunists are suggesting they were sent into battle for a lie.
The President and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their memory, or their backbone – but we´re not going to sit by and let them rewrite history.
We´re going to continue throwing their own words back at them. And far more important, we´re going to continue sending a consistent message to the men and women who are fighting the war on terror in Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other fronts.
We can never say enough how much we appreciate them, and how proud they make us. They and their families can be certain: That this cause is right … and the performance of our military has been brave and honorable … and this nation will stand behind our fighting forces with pride and without wavering until the day of victory.
Some red meat from the man who made people take gravitas seriously.
In all seriousness, this is exactly what’s been needed …
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Nottingham, 11/15/05, and Manchester, 11/16/05 ...5:38 pm
Whoops, RWB missed a day of Dylan’s tour. I thought that cocktail Mrs. RWB mixed for me the other night was especially strong. So, from Pagel’s site, here is Nottingham, 11/15/05:
1. Maggie’s Farm
2. The Times They Are A-Changin’
3. Lonesome Day Blues
4. Love Minus Zero/No Limit
5. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
6. Under The Red Sky
7. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
8. Blind Willie McTell
9. Highway 61 Revisited
10. John Brown (acoustic)
11. Floater (Too Much To Ask)
12. Honest With Me
13. Masters Of War
14. Summer Days(encore)
15. Like A Rolling Stone
16. All Along The Watchtower
and likewise tonight’s hot-off-the-press set list from Manchester:
1. Maggie’s Farm
2. She Belongs To Me
3. Cry A While
4. Lay, Lady, Lay
5. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
6. Million Miles
7. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
8. I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
9. Man In The Long Black Coat
10. Down Along The Cove
11. Girl Of The North Country (acoustic)
12. Highway 61 Revisited
13. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
14. Summer Days(encore)
15. Like A Rolling Stone
16. All Along The Watchtower
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If Blogs Run Free ...5:21 pm
“We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang separately.” So said someone once, apparently; it was either Ben Franklin or Ben Stein. Anyhow the folks at Pajamas Media are now hanging together at their sleek new “portal” OSM (Open Source Media, LLC), complete with an Editorial Advisory Board and a Staff. This group of bloggers obviously includes a lot of people that I read regularly. Too many to mention, in fact. Nevertheless the whole enterprise has given RWB the willies from the beginning, probably for reasons that are congenital. I have yet to appreciate the rush to gather a bunch of independent-minded iconoclastic free spirits under one umbrella. What does it get you, exactly? A bunch of independent-minded iconoclastic free spirits shuffling slowly down the street, with their outer extremities getting soaked. Does that mean anything? I’m sure it doesn’t, but it still gives me the willies.
Dig the manifesto that appears as an ad all over the OSM site, from Editorial Board Member Tammy Bruce:
The core of the American people has manifested itself most purely in blogs because elites for so long controlled all avenues of communication. Those days are over now. Americans face a media collective elite that views the rest of us as the great unwashed masses.
What did I tell you? Willies.
Now, the financial upside of this kind of organization is obvious, and my complete lack of financial smarts would be betrayed by a peek at my bank balance. Still, I just don’t understand how you can trumpet your newness and your independence of the old ways when you appear to be moving closer towards the existing model.
And I have to say that I find it almost bizarre that the keynote speaker at today’s OSM launch convention was Judith Miller. A few weeks ago she was with the New York Times - a branch of the media collective elite (the bad one). But I guess her 80 days in jail was a kind of purgatory and now she’s clean.
Now, I’m almost certain that I’m completely wrong with my negative attitude towards this world-conquering-conglomeration-of-blogs concept. It’s just that I have yet to figure out exactly why I’m wrong.
…
Addendum: I see that Ann Althouse is another skeptic. She poked some fun at Open Source Media, LLC (they’re not a media collective elite, remember) and promptly earned a slap-down from “Founder and Chief Technology Officer” Charles Johnson, of LGF.
This is not pretty!
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Thank You ...11:03 am
It’s almost as if George W. Bush has decided to take Victor Davis Hanson’s advice from a few weeks ago, now that he’s taking on his domestic war critics and speaking aggressively about freedom - in this case to China, North Korea and Myanmar/Burma.
Keep it up, Dubya.
Today’s New York Sun publicizes - on its front page - a report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom that details stomach-turning persecution of Christians in North Korea.
The study recounts, for example, how in November 1996 in North Korea’s South Pyongan province, a unit of the North Korean army was tasked with widening a highway connecting Pyongyang to a nearby port city. While demolishing a vacant house, soldiers found in the basement, hidden between two bricks, a Bible and a list of 25 names. Among the list were individuals identified as a Christian pastor, two assistant pastors, two elders, and 20 parishioners who were identified by their occupations.
Hunted down at their workplaces by military police, the 25 Christians were rounded up and detained without any formal judicial procedure. Later that month, the parishioners and their clergy were brought to the road construction site, where spectators had been arranged in neat rows to observe the public execution of the pastor, assistant pastors, and elders. According to a report based on an eyewitness account, the five church leaders “were bound hand and foot and made to lie down in front of a steamroller,” accused of subversion and of being Kiddokyo, or Protestant Christian, spies.
The 20 parishioners were detained near their clergy, and watched, along with the assembled audience, as the five Christian leaders were told they could escape death if they denied their faith and pledged to serve only Kim Jong Il and his father, the first dictator of communist Korea, Kim Il Sung. According to the eyewitness, the clergy remained silent.
For their steadfast belief, the Christians were executed. According to the report, “Some of the fellow parishioners assembled to watch the execution cried, screamed out, or fainted when the skulls made a popping sound as they were crushed beneath the steamroller.”
The full report is in pdf form here.
It takes its ironic and disturbing title from the phrase that North Korean parents are required to first teach their children: Thank you, Father Kim Il-Sung.
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