how does it feel?
this "journal" is mainly for myself. i hardly keep record of my life, my thoughts, and my ideas but i think i'll give it a try. if you want to friend me, go for it.
today is the first day of the rest of my life. no, not really. i dont even know what that means to be honest. today is approximately the 7,295th day of my life. nothing new has happened, except that i have become a little more enlightened today. id like to thank one man for this new found refinement: bob dylan. im sitting here at work and for the past FOUR hours i have done nothing but listen to bob speak. and sing of course. i was watching this video called "Eat the Documents", basically a personal documentary filmed by him and his assemblage. i have never seen a person so entirely independant from societies close grips. he speaks his true mind, not worrying how the media depicts him or how he may appear in others eyes. he exposes himself fully, which in the video, in obviously intimidating to some yet intriguing to most. its hard to comprehend that one mans perspective can impact an entire generations nature. actually i take that back; not only one generation, but several. today it is hard to come across a musician who isnt completely farce.
in 1966 during a Time magazine interview Bob said:
"You decide for yourself and i will decide for myself. youre not going to make me feel unhappy by anything you print about me, you know, you just couldnt offend me. and all i can hope for you to do is to create your own ideas, if thats even possible."
he also said that "i got nothing to say about the things that i write, i just write them you know. i dont write them for any reason, there is no great message. if you want to tell the people that then go ahead and tell them, but im not going to have to answer to it."
plain and simple, i dont think there is a musician out there quite as brilliant as him.
today is the first day of the rest of my life. no, not really. i dont even know what that means to be honest. today is approximately the 7,295th day of my life. nothing new has happened, except that i have become a little more enlightened today. id like to thank one man for this new found refinement: bob dylan. im sitting here at work and for the past FOUR hours i have done nothing but listen to bob speak. and sing of course. i was watching this video called "Eat the Documents", basically a personal documentary filmed by him and his assemblage. i have never seen a person so entirely independant from societies close grips. he speaks his true mind, not worrying how the media depicts him or how he may appear in others eyes. he exposes himself fully, which in the video, in obviously intimidating to some yet intriguing to most. its hard to comprehend that one mans perspective can impact an entire generations nature. actually i take that back; not only one generation, but several. today it is hard to come across a musician who isnt completely farce.
in 1966 during a Time magazine interview Bob said:
"You decide for yourself and i will decide for myself. youre not going to make me feel unhappy by anything you print about me, you know, you just couldnt offend me. and all i can hope for you to do is to create your own ideas, if thats even possible."
he also said that "i got nothing to say about the things that i write, i just write them you know. i dont write them for any reason, there is no great message. if you want to tell the people that then go ahead and tell them, but im not going to have to answer to it."
plain and simple, i dont think there is a musician out there quite as brilliant as him.