tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16291879.post114871027938653630..comments2024-03-03T03:15:41.832-05:00Comments on Mara-verse: Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleepingMarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12520136607608312414noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16291879.post-1149292788609800322006-06-02T19:59:00.000-04:002006-06-02T19:59:00.000-04:00Well, the Dylan I was listening too was classic 19...Well, the Dylan I was listening too was classic 1965 Dylan, not the most recent. Back when he was everything that Jordan described.Marahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12520136607608312414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16291879.post-1149291720279094802006-06-02T19:42:00.000-04:002006-06-02T19:42:00.000-04:00Yes, yes... I must agree... with Amanda!About the ...Yes, yes... I must agree<BR/><BR/><BR/>... with Amanda!<BR/><BR/><BR/>About the singing. Or some of it. Early Bobby D. had a gritty and powerful style. These days, however, he doesn't even to seem to be trying to enunciate or carry a tune or attempt to sing through anything but his nose. Some people say its a a masterstroke of artistic conceit. As if he's saying, "You people don't care about anything I have to say anymore, so why should I bother singing in a way that makes it understandable to you?"<BR/><BR/>I think that may be pushing it. He's old, he's tired. He doesn't give a damn. <BR/><BR/>But he's still America's greatest folk poet of the last century. "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." Words of wisdom that mean more to me with every passing second.<BR/><BR/>All the above is, as always, IMHO.Benjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08857974996406006848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16291879.post-1148863267946813912006-05-28T20:41:00.000-04:002006-05-28T20:41:00.000-04:00Tortured? Why tortured? Don can probably relate th...Tortured? Why tortured? <BR/><BR/>Don can probably relate though-- I went through a Janis Joplin phase for weeks once.Marahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12520136607608312414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16291879.post-1148846218818405442006-05-28T15:56:00.000-04:002006-05-28T15:56:00.000-04:00that's one of jordan's faves too...hell, dylan alo...that's one of jordan's faves too...hell, dylan alone! I was tortured for a month straight when he was in his dylan phase!Bellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02134723507215371742noreply@blogger.com