Soldiers’ graves ...1:57 pm
TweetYou can’t find renditions of this song by Bob Dylan on YouTube at the moment, as the whip has been cracked by the powers that be, but here’s Kitty Wells performing Searching for a Soldier’s Grave, with some aptly selected photographs. (… continue reading …)
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Concerned ...9:38 pm
TweetI think even my dog Billie looks a little worried after reading that last post.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Happy birthday, Bob ...10:46 am
TweetBob Dylan is 69 today. In five days he kicks off a new tour in Athens, Greece, which is an impressive way to begin one’s 70th year on the planet, and congratulations and best wishes to him. (And so what if the concert-goers bought their tickets with German money?)
About a year and a half ago, Bob said this towards the end of one of his concerts: (… continue reading …)
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Simon says ...9:14 pm
TweetAlthough there’s still a fair bit of unofficial Dylan content on YouTube, a whole lot seems to have been deleted recently, including entire accounts to which I had subscribed. Well, easy come, easy go, and so it goes. Them’s the breaks. Insert whatever cliché signifying a spirit of philosophical resignation which seems most apt.
And a change is as good as a rest. Below are the King’s Singers, performing Paul Simon’s great tune, Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy. (… continue reading …)
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
Mission Accomplished? ...2:28 pm
TweetBarack Obama, as a senator, was in favor of withdrawing U.S. troops at a time when Iraq was riven by violence and terrorized by Al Qaeda mass murderers. Joe Biden was in favor somewhere around the same time of forcibly splitting Iraq into three parts (Sunni, Shiite and Kurd).
Today, at West Point, President Obama spoke to the graduates. (… continue reading …)
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Odds and Ends ...4:25 pm
TweetAn America in retreat: From Charles Krauthammer’s column today, on Iran’s great coup in winning Brazil and Turkey as allies in the confrontation over their continuing pursuit of nuclear weapons, and other foreign policy disasters:
The real news is that already notorious photo: the president of Brazil, our largest ally in Latin America, and the prime minister of Turkey, for more than half a century the Muslim anchor of NATO, raising hands together with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the most virulently anti-American leader in the world. (… continue reading …)
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Elvis has left the building (Costello boycotts Israel) ...10:21 am
TweetSo, having scheduled two performances in Israel, for this coming June 30th and July 1st, Elvis Costello has announced that he is canceling them, as some kind of protest against Israeli policy towards the Palestinians. His convoluted explanation is on his website at this link. (H/t: Dovid.) Some of it: (… continue reading …)
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
’Cross the valleys and streams ...3:06 pm
TweetNewly uploaded to YouTube is a performance of Bob Dylan’s 1989 song Ring Them Bells by a trio from — I think — Denmark. (… continue reading …)
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
The contagion is spreading ...1:10 pm
TweetThe title above does not refer to the Greek apocalyptic debt contagion — although that will spread soon enough — but the contagion that causes elected officials in liberal localities of the U.S. to impose boycotts on Arizona, due to its recent law regarding illegal immigration (police are required to check the immigration status of those they have already legally stopped, arrested or detained when reasonable suspicion exists as to the legitimacy of that status).
The New York City Council is the latest to take steps towards a boycott of Arizona. (… continue reading …)
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Compression impressions ...11:18 am
TweetIn PC Magazine (and picked up by the Washington Post) there is an article on the subject of audio compression, detailing a test the journalist (Lincoln Spector) did with a small group of music professionals to see if they could detect the differences between various compressed .mp3 and .wma files versus uncompressed .wav files. Two pieces of music were used: 30-second clips of Tchaikovsky’s sixth symphony, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, and Joan Osborne performing Bob Dylan’s Man in the Long Black Coat. The article also allows you to do a similar comparison test yourself, if you think it worthwhile (personally, I didn’t). The results obtained in this test were fairly mixed, although the .wma format seemed to appeal to the listeners more than anything else.
I’m not sure what it ultimately demonstrates, other than that (… continue reading …)
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Sunday, May 9, 2010
Bedtime tune ...6:05 pm
TweetBob Dylan recorded a version of In My Time of Dyin’ on his eponymous first LP. There have been many iterations of what is basically the same song, with Blind Willie Johnson’s Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed being, apparently, the earliest recorded version. There is also a version by Charley Patton, called Jesus Is A Dyin’ Bed Maker. I kind of like that expansion of the thought. Jesus is a dying bed maker, and so he’s going to make up my dying bed. It’s kind of a gospel of grim realism, but then there are times when nothing else will do. (… continue reading …)
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Friday, May 7, 2010
Noisemaker, spirit maker, heartbreaker — puzzle maker? ...12:49 pm
TweetScott Warmuth’s most recent post, on more “cut and paste” style references he’s identified in Bob Dylan’s memoir, Chronicles: Volume One
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