• Dylan Interpretations

    Weekend Music First, Dylan vs. Dylan. An acoustic performance of "Visions of Johanna" from 1966:   And now a relatively recent performance, in more or less his current style:   To my taste the second one has its merits, but just isn't on the same plane as the first one. This post actually started out…

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  • I pretty much agree with this, except that I don't think Dylan's voice sounded old when he was young. On his first album, which I've never much liked (I almost said "unlistenable," but that's overstating it), he sounds to me like a kid who doesn't really know what he's doing. He wants to sound authentic…

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  • Many years ago, when I was 25 or so, and in the same situation as a lot of young college graduates today–a liberal arts degree, and great difficulty finding a job–I had an occasional part-time job as night watchman at a lumber yard. I was a sort of subcontractor to the guy who actually held…

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  • Weekend Music This is for Fr. Matt Venuti, in compensation for my having failed to deliver the post on H.P. Lovecraft that I told him to expect last weekend and still haven't finished. I suspect not many people who read this blog regularly will care for this music, and I can't defend it musically from…

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  • You've probably heard the story about the priest who appeared at the scene of a wreck in rural Missouri at a crucial point in the rescue of a young woman trapped in her car, prayed, anointed the young woman, and disappeared. No one knows who he is; he's not known in the area. I generally…

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  • Oddly Amusing

    Richard Dawkins, generally lauded for his attacks on Christianity, discovers that some religions are still protected classes in the eyes of the enlightened world. I guess I find it amusing because it's two factions of the neo-Enlightenment snarling at each other, and especially because of the wildly inapplicable use of the weapon of first and…

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