Bob Dylan

[keroppi]

Wait, is this the documentary that has drunken Dylan and John Lennon rambling away in the cab? Is it worth getting?

 

[MulletProof]

^it is worth getting but thankfully, there isn't Lennon anywhere in sight.

 

[keroppi]

I guess in the hands of Scorcese I shouldn't have any doubt

 

[SusanSuperstar]

Here are some Books about Dylan I really love!!!!

Bob Dylan Scrapbook...it´s just fabulous!!!

Bob Dylan Forever Young

Visions Portraits and Back Pages
amazon.de

 

[keroppi]

^ I have that last book! It's very intruiging and the way the articles and pictures are presented is really unique!

I'm planning to get his autobiography soon. As it's written by one of the best lyricists in the world, I'm sure it's really good.

 

[SusanSuperstar]

I read Chronicles and I loved it!!!!!!! It´s amazing...I just couldn´t stop reading it!!!!!! His writing style is so unique!!!

 

[keroppi]

Ah yes, Chronicles! I really wanted to buy it the last time I went to the bookstore but I didn't bring enough money

 

[songbirdsel]

yeah it really is an amazing read! Very mysterious yet gives just enough information about himself to keep you reading. Im going to see him in concert in august, and really cant wait! If he doesnt play lay lady lay though i may die..

 

[MulletProof]

BOB DYLAN AWARDED SPAIN'S PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD
By Associated Press.
Juny 13, 2007

MADRID, Spain - Bob Dylan was awarded Spain’s Prince of Asturias arts award, one of the country’s most prestigious honors, Wednesday.
"He’s a living legend of popular music," said Jose Llado Fernandez-Urrutia, president of the prize’s panel of judges.
Dylan, 66, has been one of the most influential popular music artists in recent decades, and is regarded by many as a poet. His hits include "Blowin’ in the Wind," ”The Times They Are a-Changin’," ”Like a Rolling Stone" and "All Along the Watchtower."
"He’s considered one of the most important figures of song, a form in which he combines, in a majestic way, the beauty of his poetry and ethical commitment," said the prize foundation in a statement.

"For this reason, his music and message have had an outstanding influence on several generations of young people."
Dylan, born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minn., was ranked No. 2 in Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004, second to the Beatles.
His most recent recording, "Modern Times," on the Columbia Records label, entered the U.S. album charts at No. 1 one week after it was released in 2006.
"He pioneered the introduction of literature in popular music, bringing together for the first time European and Afro-American rhythms that were a decisive and revolutionary influence on later generations of musicians," the foundation said.
Eight Prince of Asturias awards are given annually in categories including arts, science, sports and humanities to Spaniards and foreigners alike.
They are announced during the year and presented each autumn in the northern Spanish city of Oviedo, capital of the Asturias region.
Last year’s arts award was won by Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar.

© Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved

 

[keroppi]

^ Thanks for bringing that over MulletProof

 

[keroppi]

I finally came around to buy Chronicles, but don't have the time to read it yet

 

[SusanSuperstar]

Anoyone got some recent Pics of Bob????

 

[SomethingElse]

Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello will tour together in autumn, Billboard.com reported. The 13-date tour, on which Amos Lee will also perform, begins on Sept. 22 in Duluth, Georgia, and ends on Oct. 9 in Rochester, New York. Information and tickets: bobdylan.com/index.html.

I don't have a very good feeling about this movie, though.

The many sides of Dylan

In a new biopic, six actors - including Cate Blanchett - portray aspects of the superstar's life

In a Hollywood with a reputation for liking things safe and bankable, a bizarrely cast film about the life of one of the most controversial singers of all time, opening in just four cinemas in all of America, would seem unlikely to be at the centre of the biggest Oscar buzz of the year.
Yet I'm Not There - a biopic about Bob Dylan being released in November - is doing exactly that. There is nothing normal about the movie, which delves into the fascinating life of the singer-songwriter and promises to be one of the strangest films of the decade.


It boasts six actors playing Dylan, including a woman and a black boy, so its opening marketing campaign was hardly likely to be conventional. But by any standards, opening in only four cinemas is remarkable. Usually that means that a studio thinks its movie might be a disaster, yet I'm Not There has generated nothing but good news.

Industry figures have been surprised by the move. 'It depends on the film. Sometimes you just start small and build on word of mouth,' said Karen Cooper, director of Manhattan's acclaimed arts cinema Film Forum, which is one of two New York cinemas that will screen the film. The other two are in Los Angeles.

The film is backed by the Weinstein Company, whose founder, Harvey Weinstein, has not been shy of touting the work, despite planning its slow release. He has admitted wanting to generate a slow burn of reaction before taking the film national.

'I'm going to play every major city in the United States with this movie,' he said last week. 'I'll play 100 cities at least.'

It is a tactic that has worked before. When Weinstein opened Good Will Hunting he put it in just seven cinemas. That film went on to make Matt Damon and Ben Affleck famous and clocked up $140m (£70m) at the box office. It seems something similar is being tried with I'm Not There. Certainly those few who have seen the film praise its quality.

'It leaps off the screen. The director has created something here that is just so unusual,' said Cooper.

Director Todd Haynes has come up with one of the most surreal biopics of a musician ever. Though the genre has had huge success recently - with movies such as Ray and Walk the Line - this film is on a wholly different plane.

Instead of telling the straight story of Dylan's life, Haynes has opted to split the movie into separate chunks, each one dealing symbolically with a stage of Dylan's career. In each bit of the film Dylan is played by a character who represents what he stands for rather than an actual human being.

Which is why the greatest buzz around the project centres on Dylan's portrayal by Australian actress Cate Blanchett.

'Blanchett's performance as the mid-Sixties Dylan is amazing,' said Cooper. Weinstein agrees: 'If Cate Blanchett doesn't get nominated [for an Oscar] I'll shoot myself.'

But Blanchett, looking eerily like Dylan, shares the role with other A-listers. Richard Gere plays the Seventies Dylan as a cowboy; Christian Bale plays him as he emerges into fame in the early Sixties; Australian actor Heath Ledger plays him as his music took an overtly Christian turn; British actor Ben Whishaw plays a Dylan fused with the 19th-century poet Arthur Rimbaud. The unknown Dylan who arrived in New York in 1961 is played by Marcus Carl Franklin, a black child actor.

'If they pull it off, then I think it will work. It seems a unique way of looking at him, and that is suitable because he is a unique artist,' said Caroline Schwarz, co-director of the Bob Dylan Fan Club. Though Dylan himself gave the film his blessing, he had no input in it. Perhaps he thought that having six actors playing him was enough.

film.guardian.co.uk

 

[Mary-Anne]

^ thanks for the article! I'm pretty curious to see what comes of it...

Blood on the Tracks and Time out of Mind are my favorite albums. It's hard to listen to anything else the same way once you listen to him.

 

[SiennaInLondon]

Wait, is this the documentary that has drunken Dylan and John Lennon rambling away in the cab? Is it worth getting?

That clip kind of reminded me of this documentary where Carl Barat and Adam Green are in the back of a car chatting. Carl is clearly the cool Brit and Adam is the try hard. And it is the same with these two. John is clearly idolised by Bob. Which is weird because Bob is streets more talented than John was. But I guess it is a personality thing. Anyway much as his music is phenomenal, Bob Dylan is a jerk and it is hard to forget that. It comes across in his voice in several songs.

 

[ms-nietzsche]

Ugh I saw a Bob Dylan cadillac commercial the other day... someone please tell me that wasn't actually BD but some lookalike?
Bob Dylan does NOT do commercials (with the exception of the VS one, because that's too hilarious)

 

[keroppi]

^ That is actually him. I don't think he does the commercial for money though, I'm sure he has truck loads of it.

 

[SusanSuperstar]

I love that he said once in the 60s when asked if he´s do ever a commercial, he´d do it only for women´s underwears!!!!!!! The VS commercial is fabulous!!!!!

 

[chaneladdict]

^I guess he's a man who stays true to his word! I was sad when that commercial stopped airing because it was so hilarious.

 

[MulletProof]

^I know .. he looked like such a perv in some of the scenes... but the entire thing was perfect.. I still get random images of Venice in my head every time I play Lovesick.

.. I haven't seen the Cadillac ad but it is surely him in the Ipod one, right?.

I was watching Charlie Rose a few months ago and there was Cate Blanchett as a guest .. they were talking about her Dylan character and somewhere in the interview, she mentioned how her kids (?) or somebody else's go to the same LA school as Bob's grandsons and how he picks them up almost everyday and drives a huge hummer with a big 'World's greatest grandpa' bumper sticker on it. I just loved how pompous the whole thing sounded.