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roymond wrote:YOU HAVE UTTERED THE NAME OF ADONAI! Details of your stoning are now being arranged. Stay put, we'll contact you.

eff...

OW! my eye.....ow my forehead!!!! what the???

oh wait...who am I kidding...my "stoning" doesn't begin until after work...who am I kidding...

Leafy, I'll meet you at Gert Mansion...everybody must get stoned.

And Bob Dylan, by the way, is a lyrical genius. Listen to "It's Alright Ma" or something. And listen to the nuances of his chords in songs like "Corrina Corrina" or "Don't Think Twice It's Alright".

i LOVE Bob Dylan. When I was 16 years old way back in 1992, Dylan, the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, and Pink Floyd turned me from a metal madman, into a dude who likes all sorts of music.

But...I understand now...my bad...I deserve to get stoned!

Jim of Seattle wrote: Hold on. At this point I'm not building this thing to be sharable by people. That's what the voting and the reviews are for. So this isn't "somesongs for Songfight" or anything like that.

Oh my god, you are actually serious? You didn't get my reference to somesongs? And I thought Boltoph was the only thick one here. (no offense, Boltoph)

Everybody must get stoned!

sorry, couldn't resist...

If it weren't for Dylan, there could be no Octothorpe. Whether you see that as a good or a bad thing is up to you.

btw - I think the name of this thread has given us our next album title.

I vastly prefer Octothorpe to Bob Dylan. But I haven't seen Dylan live, so he's at a disadvantage there.

frankie big face wrote:

Jim of Seattle wrote: Hold on. At this point I'm not building this thing to be sharable by people. That's what the voting and the reviews are for. So this isn't "somesongs for Songfight" or anything like that.

Oh my god, you are actually serious? You didn't get my reference to somesongs? And I thought Boltoph was the only thick one here. (no offense, Boltoph)

Yeah, I got your reference, and yeah, I'm really serious. It's gonna be cool. I hope. Right now I'm trying to figure out how to bind my GridView control to a generic list as its data source. So there.

Jim of Seattle wrote:

Dan-O from Five-O wrote:

kill_me_sarah wrote:Actually, I don't know that I ever made reference to Lennon originally. I talked a bit about Dylan, but I think someone else's Lennon and my Dylan comments were confused

Yeah that's my bad again KMS (I'm making a regular habit out of that) It was Melvin that made the Lennon reference, the Dylan thing just made it sound familiar to me. What I said about Lennon I will say again about Dylan. Thier poorly recorded "demos" might not be as easily listened to by John Q. Public if they weren't already familiar with the artist.

Obviously a lot of folks have stated that production means nothing to them, and (I haven't counted mind you) I think just as many have stated it does. In the end you'll just have to take your chances on whether anyone will give your song a fair listen based on that criteria.

Actually I can't listen to any Dylan at all, demo or not. Mystifies me what people hear in him. But that's another topic.

I felt the same way for a long time, and then it just sort of "clicked" one day.

what. the hell. ever.

*shunning thread from brain*

Was that post really necessary?

Jim of Seattle wrote:I vastly prefer Octothorpe to Bob Dylan. But I haven't seen Dylan live, so he's at a disadvantage there.

He's really not. If you don't get Bob Dylan's appeal, seeing him live isn't going to help. The fact that you are insane won't help either. (No offense, Octothorpe.)

Jim of Seattle wrote:Was that post really necessary?

This isn't what Spud was referring to, but here's something I can tell you:

You sure do whine alot.

erikb wrote:... You sure do whine alot.

[spits out cola....]

you're kidding right?

you aren't acutally calling someone else a whiner, are you?

Oh my Lord, Adonnai!!! HYPOCRITE, get thee stoned!

(and don't ask me to find the exact posts where you whined and quote them for you....not gonna bother.)

Jim...Dylan is pretty much not on my radar either brother.

When I was 5, my younger brother and I snuck into the kitchen to make breakfast for our folks who were lazing in bed in on a Sunday morning.

We started with the foundation of any good breakfast: Shredded Wheat in a mixing bowl. We added milk just like we'd seen mom do. And we added orange juice, because it's part of a healthy breakfast. Though I'm not sure mom ever poured the juice over the Shredded Wheat and milk.

We also added suger. And a quarter pound of butter. My brother mashed up some crackers, and we added those too. Then some salt. A handful of flour. We sometimes had oatmeal for breakfast, so I up-ended a bag of that into the mix. My brother liked ketchup, so in went 3 or 4 good squirts. I think there was a tea bag. Some honey. A dog biscuit. Ashes from the fireplace. Leftover chicken noodle soup. A handful of cloves. Something bright green and wet. Floor cleaner?

I dared my brother to taste it but he was too young to get the concept of "dare." So I shoved a spoonful into his mouth instead, and he made a ghastly face and cried like a sissy little 3 year-old. Then he tipped the bowl's contents onto the kitchen floor and it made a loud "spludge" and we ran off to hide hoping mom would think the dog had puked.


I hadn't thought about the incident in years. Really, not until I read this thread.

The Four Types of Bad Breakfast
1. Poorly conceived breakfast receipes - check
2. Poorly prepared breakfasts - check
3. Failed experiments by otherwise competent cooks - not enough info
4. Just screwing around at our expense - big check


But the real question is: can your little brother better appreciate a good breakfast now that he has been exposed to the bad.

... and no this post wasn't really necessary

frankie big face wrote: He's really not. If you don't get Bob Dylan's appeal, seeing him live isn't going to help. The fact that you are insane won't help either. (No offense, Octothorpe.)

None taken, Frankie, none taken. I saw Dylan live once on a split bill with Paul Simon. As good as Paul Simon is, Dylan made him look like a punk.

Spud wrote:As good as Paul Simon is, Dylan made him look like a punk.

He was a punk.

I've seen Dylan maybe four times--I can't remember. But half the time he was awesome and the other half the time, he sucked. These days, I think he probably performs more sucky shows than not, which is why I made the comment.

No, according to a friend "in the know" he's doing great shows lately, though there was a time in the middle when he was terrible.
I've never seen him so this is second-hand.
-bill

I missed a free (for me) Bob Dylan concert because my sister had her stupid wedding that weekend. STUPID SISTER.

the Bob Dylan doco "Don't Look Back" was on telly here a few months ago. Some of the live footage of the young Bob was just amazing. "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" was simply spellbinding

HeuristicsInc wrote:No, according to a friend "in the know" he's doing great shows lately, though there was a time in the middle when he was terrible.
I've never seen him so this is second-hand.
-bill

Well, that's good news. He played here last summer and the general consensus was not positive. But, you know, I wasn't there, so...

Caravanray wrote:the Bob Dylan doco "Don't Look Back" was on telly here a few months ago. Some of the live footage of the young Bob was just amazing. "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" was simply spellbinding

A great page of great live Dylan recordings that I found: http://www.geocities.com/itz_furrball/mp3s.htm

Historic stuff. Especially check out:

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring0 ... s_Farm.mp3

The start of this when someone says "louder" and the band complies, is exactly THE end of pretty acoustic civil-rights/anti-war protest music and the beginning of pissed off fuck-the-establishment acid rock (and I mean battery acid, not LSD). Not just for Dylan, but for the whole 60's generation.