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Bob Dylan

A collection of 12 posts

On Songs & Albums

Bob Dylan Goes Caroling

At this point in his career, what's left for Bob Dylan? A Christmas album!

Looking Elsewhere

Browser: Sam Phillips, David Bazan, Robert Shiller, economic bubbles, Bono on Easter, and Jim Jarmusch

I'm so busy editing the next strand of The Auralia Thread, Raven's Ladder, and composing new articles for Image and Christianity Today that I'm flat out of time to blog anything substantial. So here's a rundown of links that caught my attention

Looking Elsewhere

Browser: Zbignew Priesner. Jeff Buckley. Bruce Cockburn's "Slice O Life." Bob Dylan. U2. Tauntaun. Tom Hanks.

1. Start your day with a quick dose of Zbignew Priesner, my favorite film music composer. Here's a track from A Short Film About Killing, from Kieslowski's Decalogue. 2. Another random musical surprise: M. Ward links to a recorded telephone conversation with Jeff Buckley, who sings

Looking Elsewhere

Browser, 10/17

Here's Andy Whitman on my favorite album of 2008 so far. Also... * Bono and Edge trying to drive fans crazy, hold secret performance of new material. * My horse could paint that? And now, a bunch of links to GreenCine Daily, where reviews are piling up for must-see films:

On Songs & Albums

The Pulitzer Prize-Winnin' Bob Dylan!

Yes. Ring them bells. Post your favorite Bob Dylan lyric here.

On Books & Writing

What Was It You Wanted?

¬† Jean Bethke Elshtain, in Books and Culture, contemplates Todd Haynes' film about Bob Dylan -- I'm Not There -- and Andrew Dominick's film about a different, but similarly enigmatic, hero -- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. And she contemplates the

On Songs & Albums

Jack White Gets Dylan to Play Songs He's Rarely (or Never) Played

Rolling Stone asks: What strange power does Jack White have over Bob Dylan? I don't know, but wouldn't it be interesting if White ended up producing a Dylan album? Sure didn't hurt Loretta Lynn...

On Songs & Albums

Suzanne Vega Considers Bob Dylan

One of my favorite songwriters writes about one of my favorite songwriters. And, of course, I discovered that he includes no lyrics in the CD package. No words at all, not even liner notes. Bob isn't making this easy. It's modern to use history as a

On Songs & Albums

Bob Dylan to host a weekly radio show on XM!

Wow. They should record these shows and sell them. I hope this doesn't slow down any progress on a new Dylan album, though. It's been too long.

Looking Elsewhere

Cruise, "Sin City"; Leary and Loy on Eastwood and "Closer"

So, here are a few pieces I stumbled across today... A mind-boggling update on director Todd Haynes' spectacularly weird concept for a movie about Bob Dylan. I cannot wait to see this. I'm Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan Congratulations, Peter Jackson! King Kong filming

On Books & Writing

Bob Dylan Speaks

If you missed the 60 Minutes special... ...this report has many excerpts of Dylan's interview.

On Songs & Albums

Masked and Anonymous... and Misunderstood?

David Dawes has just posted an argument, postulating that the all-star box-office flop Masked and Anonymous was one spectacularly misunderstood motion picture. Here's his revealing review.