More on Homer in Dylan. The post A New (?) Allusion (?) in “Narrow Way”: Dylan and Homer, Again appeared first on Ad Fontes.| Ad Fontes
The figure of zeugma in Vergil's AENEID and Bob Dylan's "Isis."| Ad Fontes
Too often remembered for its clichés, 80s music actually has far more to offer than many remember – and it's cooler than you think.| uDiscover Music
Reviews: a box set collects covers of Bob Dylan songs, plus anthologies from Ray Peterson and Memphis Minnie, an America reissue, and a Clifton Chenier tribute.| By Jeff Burger
The author revisits a used bookshop with a hole in its floor and is compelled by the music he finds to travel to Exeter.| Headpress
On the prosody of Horace and Bob Dylan. The post Hypermetry in Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane” appeared first on Ad Fontes.| Ad Fontes
Business Manager Daivik Bewtra reflects on how a walk to Federal Donuts gave him a weekly escape in the city.| The Temple News
I’ve been on a James Mangold deep-dive recently and this guy needs to be in any conversation about the greatest directors working today. He’s averaged a new film roughly every two years since his first low-budget indie (Heavy) in 1995, which won a Special Jury Recognition for Directing at Sundance and kind-of jump-started his […]| Brianland
The Unicorn Challenge. A magical new weekly writing opportunity from her – Jenne Gray – and me.Visit her blog every Friday to see the photo prompt, and post your amazing story in her comments section.Or on your own blog, and … Continue reading →| Sound Bite Fiction
A talking blues in homage to Bob Dylan on his 84th birthday. Inspired by the English seaside town of Whitley Bay.| Experiments in Fiction
Friends of the blog weigh in on another chaotic year. The post THE LIST OF LISTS 2024 appeared first on No Bells.| No Bells
This is a scene-by-scene breakdown of the Dylan biopic masterpiece co-written and directed by James Mangold. Besides being one of the best living filmmakers, Mangold was undoubtably tapped because of how well he handled the Oscar-winning Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line. The movie was in development for a couple years when Covid hit. […]| Brianland
El cantautor lo compuso en el verano de 1974, mientras lloraba y se ciscaba en la metástasis que padecía su matrimonio.| Libertad Digital - Cultura
As Greil Marcus said of Bob Dylan: what is this shit? A new private 5G review by Gartner, which holds a Bob-like influence in telco analysis – looks like a miss-step.| RCR Wireless News
A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man Here’s what I riffed to social media after I got home from the advance screening on December 18th . . . Caught the sold-out “A Complete Unknown” IMAX screening in Toronto last night — and boy was it GREAT to see it on a […] The post A Complete Unknown movie review appeared first on Brianland.| Brianland
I was just living in Taylor world for the ten days she was in Toronto doing six sold out stadium shows — something no other artist has ever come close to doing here. Six stadium shows … and you couldn’t get a ticket. Well, you could if you wanted to pay $4000 for one on […] The post Taylor Swift in Toronto — from a Deadhead’s Perspective appeared first on Brianland.| Brianland
On this day, eight years ago, Bob Dylan received a phone call that left him “speechless” after learning he had become the first musician to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Prize motivation: “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song Read More ... The post Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature first appeared on Jax Examiner.| Jax Examiner
Here’s part of the script I’ll be riffing from when I introduce the movie “Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place” at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac on Sunday October 13th. We might have it streaming live on my YouTube channel if you can’t be there — https://www.youtube.com/@BrianHassettVideos/streams ============================================ This is the original Merry Prankster […] The post Magic Trip movie — Introduction and Background appeared first on Brianland.| Brianland
Eric Clapton's fourth solo album ‘No Reason To Cry,’ released on August 27, 1976, was a celebration of his refuelled creativity.| uDiscover Music
Since 1968, the Isle Of Wight Festival has gathered iconic UK and US acts, making it one of the most prolific festivals in music history.| uDiscover Music
Any given year of one’s time roaming the earth unavoidably has some effect on who they are as a person. It is perhaps especially so when a person has just turned 14, been forced the previous year to swap daily life with his family for the company of strangers and is on the cusp of […] The post A Year that Defined a Lifetime first appeared on The Smart Set.| The Smart Set
I went to see Bob Dylan play last week, at the Belk Theater in Charlotte, North Carolina. I have, at various points in my life, been an avid Dylan fan, but the two times I saw him in concert (once in 1986 at Madison Square Garden with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, once in 2009 […]| Gavin Edwards
Victor V. Gurbo shares two recordings of his original melancholy holiday song, Christmas & You, along with a discussion on how he came to write its lyrics.| The New Leaf Journal
. Why this Deadhead Beatnik Beatlemaniac loves Pop’s Princess I’ve been into Taylor Swift since a New York Times profile in 2008 talked about her confessional songwriting and use of social media — at the time, MySpace. (!) Her second album Fearless was set to come out (and would go on to win Album […]| Brianland