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How Does It Feeeeeeeelllll? ... Mark Steyn
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| 24 June 2015
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 06/25/2015 6:03:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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posted on
06/25/2015 6:03:40 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
After all, for the grizzled old hippies, folkies and peaceniks who spent the Sixties bellowing along with "How does it feeeeeel?" these have been worrying times. A couple of years ago, Bob's management were canceling his tours and the only people demanding to know "How does it feeeeeel?" were Dylan's doctors, treating him in New York for histoplasmosis, a fungal infection that in rare cases can lead to potentially fatal swelling in the pericardial sac. If the first question on your lips is "How is histoplasmosis spread?" well, it's caused by fungal spores which invade the lungs through airborne bat droppings. In other words, the answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.
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posted on
06/25/2015 6:03:58 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Let us now try liberty)
To: Rummyfan
With Dylan, the songwriting styles they were a-regressin', the slyly seductive archaisms and harmonica obbligato designed to evoke the integrity of American popular music before the Tin Pan Alley hucksters took over. "Without Bob the Beatles wouldn't have made Sergeant Pepper, the Beach Boys wouldn't have made Pet Sounds," said Bruce Springsteen. "U2 wouldn't have done 'Pride in the Name of Love'," he continued, warming to his theme. "The Count Five would not have done 'Psychotic Reaction'. There never would have been a group named the Electric Prunes."
Read the whole thing - it's hilarious!
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posted on
06/25/2015 6:08:27 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Let us now try liberty)
To: JLS
To: Rummyfan
Reading Steyn makes you smarter
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posted on
06/25/2015 6:42:00 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
To: Rummyfan
I used a line from “absolutely sweet marie” (if you live outside the law you must be honest) in a lawsuit response where I informed the pltf that he was now under investigation by the IRS and that the employer he refused to name was actually himself and I had proof he’s been running a business without a ein or personal ssn to file taxes under for the last 20 years.
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posted on
06/25/2015 6:56:35 AM PDT
by
Neidermeyer
("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
To: Rummyfan
I loved the line about Bob singing at Frank Sinatra’s 80th birthday and Frank thinking to himself he better cut down on all the late nights or he might start looking like that in 20 years. Hilarious!!!
To: TheOldLady; Rummyfan; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...
Mark Steyn ping.
Freepmail me, if you want on or off the Mark Stein ping list.
Thanks for the ping Servant of the Cross. I am slowly reading through “Undocumented” and maybe will finish it on a trip this coming week. I had not gotten to this essay yet. It is as you say a classic.
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posted on
06/25/2015 7:32:31 AM PDT
by
JLS
To: Squawk 8888
Ping.
Steyn on Dylan. Brutally funny!
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posted on
06/25/2015 7:54:43 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Rummyfan
Visiting America a few years ago, Dave Stewart, of the Eurhythmics, said to Dylan that the next time he was in England he should drop by his recording studio in Crouch End, an undistinguished north London suburb. Dylan, at a loose end one afternoon, decided to take him up on it and asked a taxi-driver to take him to Crouch End Hill. Cruising the bewildering array of near-namesake streets - Crouch End Hill, Crouch End Road, Crouch Hill End, Crouch Hill Road and various other permutations of "Crouch," "End" and "Hill" - the cabbie accidentally dropped him off at the right number but in an adjoining street of small row houses. Dylan knocked at the front door and asked the woman who answered if Dave was in. "No," she said, assuming he was referring to her husband, Dave, who was out on a plumbing job. "But he should be back soon." Bob asked if she would mind if he waited. Twenty minutes later, Dave - the plumber, not the rock star - returned and asked the missus whether there were any messages. "No," she said, "but Bob Dylan's in the front room having a cup of tea."
LOL.
Bob's not all bad. He's more conservative than most beatniks
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posted on
06/25/2015 7:54:58 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(The best defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun)
To: JLS
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posted on
06/25/2015 8:01:13 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Rummyfan
Twenty minutes later, Dave - the plumber, not the rock star - returned and asked the missus whether there were any messages. "No," she said, "but Bob Dylan's in the front room having a cup of tea."This is one of the many things I love about Bob. This and the story of how he went walking in a beachside town in New Jersey in a rainstorm with his hoodie on he had left his ID in the tour bus. He was intently looking at a house with a sale sign and some neighbor called the police, saying there was a homeless vagrant wandering around. A 24-year-old hispanic policewoman transported him down to the station for questioning because he didn't have ID. She didn't recognize his name, didn't know who he was or anything about his music, but he went along quietly, no fuss, and when he got to the station the older white cops were blown away.
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posted on
06/25/2015 8:16:20 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("We've seen this before. There's a master race. Now there's a master faith." Benjamin Netanyahu)
To: Rummyfan; Jack Hydrazine; Norm Lenhart; Salamander; TheOldLady; spyone; To Hell With Poverty; ...
This is the Modern Music Ping List. Our topic is music from the 20th and 21st century, from Ravel and Shostakovich through to the Synth Pioneers and beyond.
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06/25/2015 9:04:14 AM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: Squawk 8888
Watch out...Congress may have to ban Dylan because a certain evil little nazi has a similar first name (except for an extra “n”)
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posted on
06/25/2015 9:10:44 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: zeugma
Jack Kerouac didn’t vote, liked Ike, and supported the war in Vietnam.
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posted on
06/25/2015 7:25:55 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
To: a fool in paradise
Kerouac was a little before my time. I know the name, and who he was, but not much else.
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06/25/2015 8:53:11 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(The best defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun)
To: Rummyfan
Seriously, I’ve never understood the appeal of Bob Dylan.
Part of it must be that _anyone_ can sing the way he can. And when you do a Dylan-mumble to cover something like Van Halen’s ‘Jump’, it’s laugh-out-loud hilarious.
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posted on
06/26/2015 5:56:36 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BradyLS
IMO, Dylan has made his mark as a poet - a chronicler of the times as it were. Perhaps even a minstrel of the times.
His “songs” are mere observations of the political, physical and cultural evolutions taking place around him...and us by extension.
Remember, most of his target audience either could not read more tan the short snappy buzz-words on a protest sign or they were too deeply engrossed in their own navels to actually do much thinking of their own.
Just my Opinion. Although I do have a deep attachment to “Tangled up in Blue.”
But that is another story...;)
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posted on
06/26/2015 6:44:04 PM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: zeugma
Kerouac, writer and beatnik. His most known works are On the Road and The Dharma Bums.
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posted on
06/27/2015 1:12:38 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Let us now try liberty)
To: BradyLS
Don't think twice, it's alright is on of my all-time favorites. But Dylan has sunk to such a level with his voice and styling so that fans at his shows now have a difficult time figuring out what song he's playing.
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posted on
06/27/2015 1:14:56 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Let us now try liberty)
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