1001 blog items - or what to write after being away
By Tom Teicholz at 27 August, 2008, 11:23 am
First days back can be tough: so much to report but so much to deal with!
I feel like there’s much to report on, much to comment on, but don’t know if I will get to it all. Just might have to do more tonight: But here’s some random thoughts:
Spent a day at Legoland — this is worth its own entry but not sure where to start. More later.
Hamptons report: Need to bring you, cher lecteur up-to-date on matters Hamptom with special focus this year on Montauk.
DYLANOLOGY. A few notes of interest here. Dylan is playing the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on Sept 3 for the first time in 30 years. I once heard Jackson Browne talking about being 16 and taking a bus up from Orange County to hear Dylan at the Civic. Could it have been the same concert?
Also there was an item in the press that a book of Hollywood photos with poems from Dylan will be pubished this Fall. A long ago project that lay dormant in the photogrpaher’s files all these years. Here’s some thoughts on that. Suze Rotolo’s book describes how Dylan in the first blush of his writing career was very attached to his phonetic original spellings for prose poems — and these seem to be the style he follows in these. Further there is a great moment in the Martin Scorcese assembled documentary ‘No direction Home’ when Dylan explains that when he wrote “Like a Rolling Stone” that was his novel, his epic poem, he felt he had found his form, he no longer needed to look to the dream of writing a novel to be a “real writer.”
Conversely this book of poems is part of the period before when Dylan hoped to establish himself as an authinetic voice as a writer — as a poet and was competing with fellows like Richard Farina and others for that mantle not having fully accepted that songwriting was its own reward.
Scientists report that Mama and Dada are popular first words for infants because they are made up of reporitve elements which causes brain stimulation and language development. You needed a research team to figure that out?
100 College Presidents have signed a petition calling on states to lower the drinking age to 18. I grew up in a state and a time where drinking was allowed at 18 — and I’m all in favor. The constant refrain is that drink teenagers cause accidents, but it seems that raising the drnking age only creates more irresponsible drinkers, and encourages bing edrinking, and causes more accidents.
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