You know what's great about "Desolation Row"? Besides everything, that is?

It's how easy it is to make new verses. The song consists of ten, reasonably formulaic verses which are completely unconnected ignoring the thematic concerns. Also: Dylan has a very distinctive voice, one which you can easily force to sing whatever you want. So, when you ( Read more... )

So, at the moment, thanks in part to the fact that I can't get podcasts here, there isn't a track in iTunes I haven't heard at least once.

There's almost two days worth of stuff I've only heard once, but that's neither here nor there.

The stuff I got for Christmas (where "got" can mean "was given" or "ripped from the legal owner", of course)? ( Read more... )

I wrote another song!

This one I actually stared a year and a half ago, back in the Spring of 2005, and then never got back to it. I'd seen it back when I was going through My Documents, but never really paid it any mind.

Now it's done.

When you're reading, think Early Bob Dylan. Specifically, it's thematically linked to "I was Young When I Left ( Read more... )

So, I'm listening to the soundtrack for Les Miserables and I'm convinced that the guy who does Jean Valjean is one of the worst singers I've ever heard, with the proviso that I've never heard myself sing. That said, the music is pretty good, and the lyrics have a power which even this guy's voice can't efface.

It's like Bob Dylan and Tom Waits, ( Read more... )

On the way to work yesterday, I was listening to Wait Wait--Don't Tell Me, the NPR News Quiz, in the car, and apparently, Prince Philip?

Worshiped as a god on a small island in the south pacific. I am not even kidding.

Which just goes to show: I really ought to invest in a radio of some sort. Because now that I have Morning Edition, I really enjoy ( Read more... )