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« Pats (41-0 over D.C.) lack only Branch; The yellow jacket nest that swallowed a car; Update on Steorn (free energy folks) | Main | So I tumbled into the flowerbed... » August 28, 2006New Yorker reviews Dylan interviews; Burning Man starts today; Hot dog-infused vodka?BOB ON BOB: Dylan talks: . by Louis Menand in the New Yorker. This is not a new interview, it's a riff of a review of “The Essential Interviews” (Wenner; $23.95). ...as an interview subject, Dylan probably ranks a few notches above Elvis, who was one of the all-time worst. The trouble with Elvis was that he had very little to say; he was mainly concerned about sounding polite. Dylan is rarely concerned about sounding polite, and he says things, but he sometimes makes them up. He also contradicts himself, answers questions with questions, rambles, gets hostile, goes laconic, and generally bewilders. What makes it truly frustrating is that, somewhere in the stream of inconsequence and obstreperousness, there are usually a few nuggets of gold. The nuggets make interviewers think that the other stuff must be a put-on, that Dylan could speak with the tongue of angels all the time if he wanted to, and this makes them press harder, hoping that the next question will break through the misdirection and resistance, and the man in front of them will turn into “Bob Dylan.” Since there is nothing Dylan likes less than being mistaken for “Bob Dylan”—“If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers,” he once said—this is not a productive interview dynamic. Or, as my husband said, more succinctly, after the Dylan concert in Pawtucket Thursday night, "I'll be your baby tonight but I won't be your Bobby tonight." Related: Modern Times, Dylan's new CD, is released tomorrow. There's a huge collection of "unusual Dylan links" at Hanan Levin's Grow-A-Brain.  Postcard announcing Burning Man 2006 (detail) Weird: The birth of weeniecello, hot dog infused vodka. With photos. Posted by Sheila Lennon |
my passport photo blogging since 2002 garden blogs archived headlines  Sheila Lennon is features & interactive producer of projo.com, the Web site of The Providence (R.I.) Journal Rhode Island |
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