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.)
Bryan Klausmeyer