So this looks surprisingly cool -- whether or not it's good is another question, but on paper it seems neat! And thank god Dylan has finally consented to releasing the title track. It's a weirdly awesome song. The info: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003625182
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)
Is that press release saying that Verlaine and Nels Cline are playing TOGETHER on some tracks?!?
Also yeah, super good news that "I'm Not There" is finally released. But he really needs to authorize an Official Bootleg Series chapter for the basement tapes hit and get it over with.
― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)
The bit in Invisible Republic in which Greil Marcus discusses "I'm Not There" is my favorite piece of Marcusian explication ever.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)
Yes. "Sign On The Cross," when I managed to hear it, didn't live up to Marcus' writing about it. But "I'm Not There" totally did.
― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)
yeah, it's kind of unclear whether the Million Dollar Bashers is all of those players all at once or something else. Cline & Verlaine would be sweet though ... otm about a basement tapes box set. come on! jon, i'd give "sign on the cross" another chance -- the spoken bit at the end is one of the most strange and wonderful moments in Dylan's career, in my opinion ... and, yeah, the movie! will this be good? i watched the clip that's floating around with cate blanchett as dylan and david cross as ginsberg and it was surprisingly nice. the whole endeavour seems like something that could easily fall flat, but who knows? if anyone can pull it off it's probably todd haynes.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)
I'll see it. And I probably only go to 3 movies a year.
― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)
yeah, i'll see it too. i mean, i saw Masked & Anonymous in the theaters! but i'm excited about someone approaching the Dylan mythology less from a "spokesman of a generation" boring kind of thing and more of a "hey what a weird dude!" kind of thing.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)
Wow, what a soundtrack.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)
the myspace page has some tracks up -- cat power's "memphis blues" is awesome, pretty faithful, musically at least. Sufjan's "Ring Them Bells" kinda blows -- way too busy an arrangement. Tweedy's "Simple Twist" is nice and understated. Couldn't bring myself to listen to the my morning jacket dude's "goin' to acapulco" ... maybe it's good, i don't know.
― tylerw, Thursday, 25 October 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)
cat power's "memphis blues" is awesome, pretty faithful, musically at least.
― tomofthenest, Thursday, 1 October 2009 11:35 (sixteen years ago)