Reading Update...

Keys To The Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (2004) by Oliver Trager

This book answers the question: What do Bob Dylan and the song "Old MacDonald Had A Farm" have to do with each other? Answer: Dylan played an instrumental version of this song to open his concerts in Dallas and Oklahoma in September of 1990.

I didn't read all 724 pages of this book.

Reading Update...

Bob Dylan by Daniel Kramer (1967)

This book has classic photographs of Dylan from maybe 1963 to 1965. Kramer's essay about the photographs is good too.

Music Update...

Enuff Znuff: Animals With Human Intelligence (1993)

Best songs: "Right By Your Side," "One Step Closer To You," and "Rock N World."

"Takin' A Ride" is a classic 'drug song.'

"Mary Anne Lost Her Baby" has to be one of the few, if not the only, anti-abortion rock songs since the Sex Pistols' "Bodies."

Q & A from LewRockwell.com

Q: “What is the difference between a libertarian and an anarchist?”

A: “About two years… if you are really paying attention.”

Very Amateur Photography

July? of 2010 by Meredith

Reading Update...

The Underground Baseball Encyclopedia: Baseball Stuff You Never Needed To Know And Can Certainly Live Without by Robert Schnakenberg (2010)

This book is hilarious and great. What else can I say about a book that has entries on Strat-O-Matic Baseball and Jack Kerouac?

Sample entry on Ty Cobb: "Crabby, bigoted Hall of Famer who carved out a well-deserved reputation as one of the game's archetypal bastards. An unreconstructed racist of the old-school Southern variety, the so-called Georgia Peach set a standard for villainy that no player of his magnitude has ever quite matched."

Reading Update...

Shoot Out The Lights by Hayden Childs (2008).

This book is from the 33 1/3 series of books.

Overall, this book was disappointing. My rating is 2 1/2 stars out of five. The music criticism in this book raised the rating by about one star.

The fiction part of the story was not good. Sample quote: "Bonny didn't die the night I went to murder her, but twenty-five years later she did. Sandy Denny didn't die the night she fell down the stairs, but a month later. After the fall, it doesn't matter whether you fell on your own or if there was a hand there to push you. What matters is who you touched along the way, and how fast they'll come running when you need them."

Blech.

Movie Update...

Weary Blues From Waitin' DVD (2010)

This documentary covers the years of 1966 through 1978 in Dylan's career. The best parts of this DVD are the interviews with a couple of the musicians that played on Blood On The Tracks.