Inside Dylan’s Brain

Take a look at this fantastic Vanity Fair “portrait” of Bob Dylan vis-a-vis his themes, favorite artists and strange remarks from his radio show Theme Time Radio Hour. It’s pretty great:

Re: Jimmy Lewis – “He sounds as bad off as a rubber-nosed woodpecker in a petrified forest.”

Re: Tex William’s Brother Drop Dead – “Some people die too soon. Others, you’re kind of hoping. Tex Williams has a song for such a situation.”

They say the earth’s warmin’ up. Be careful of that global warming, and wear your sunscreen.

Sometimes when you look at a menu, it’s hard to decide what to get. Life is like that, full of difficult choices.

I want everybody to go out and paint their cars red and white tonight. We want a PINK CAR NATION.

In the comments section, Roryks points out a connection between David Lynch and Dylan:

Your near-exhaustive list - brilliant, by the way - missed out the Wild At Heart movie reference in the recent “Heat” episode: Lula Pace Fortune (Laura Dern)to Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage)”Uh oh. Baby, you’d better get me back to that hotel. You got me hotter than Georgia asphalt.”

Amazing.

(Thanks to Jenny.)