tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post1919576621043836914..comments2024-03-19T05:50:55.970-05:00Comments on Althouse: "Reacting to the music's roll and tumble, Dylan and Sexton squatted and swayed, as if ducking out of the way of the sharp notes, snapping chords and fierce sentiments."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72829494511620148312009-10-30T17:14:45.068-05:002009-10-30T17:14:45.068-05:00Can you imagine going to a Dylan concert back in &...Can you imagine going to a Dylan concert back in '69 and, post op, getting into a discussion of the new Princess phone with buttons instead of a rotary dial?Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07837540030934495651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-13513656537010479892009-10-30T17:05:46.431-05:002009-10-30T17:05:46.431-05:00Ironic that when we were young enough to enjoy Dyl...Ironic that when we were young enough to enjoy Dylan in his prime we would have laughed at 50-somethings going to concerts of 70-somethings.<br /><br />50 is the new 20!<br />And 70 is the new 20?Phil 314https://www.blogger.com/profile/04133300763922742206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-37067671134867125372009-10-30T13:36:13.705-05:002009-10-30T13:36:13.705-05:00So if a line drawing is good it's "living...<i>So if a line drawing is good it's "living" and if it sucks it's "dead."<br /><br />OK</i>.<br /><br />No -- there are plenty of line drawings that are "living" that are also kind of crappy. And there are a few artists with styles that are much more static, much less "lively," or "living," that are nevertheless good. Technical drawings, for example, typically lack this "living" quality, even though they may be precise renderings, but that doesn't mean they're <i>bad</i>. You probably wouldn't characterise art as "dead" if it was good, though. It would have <i>different</i> features that made it good, and that's what you would praise.Balfegorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08012196656096263507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-65244330773481794232009-10-30T13:19:40.714-05:002009-10-30T13:19:40.714-05:00So if a line drawing is good it's "living...So if a line drawing is good it's "living" and if it sucks it's "dead."<br /><br />OK.asdfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03737645073826252954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34754202873553740432009-10-30T13:09:42.060-05:002009-10-30T13:09:42.060-05:00"The most popular iPhone ringtone? A traditio..."The most popular iPhone ringtone? A traditional mechanical AT&T clapper bell sound."<br /><br />That's what I use, after trying other things, and I use it because I want to hear it and realize what it is in time to answer, which I've always found difficult with cell phones.Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71580380634810585212009-10-30T12:55:39.304-05:002009-10-30T12:55:39.304-05:00The Aragon is a lovely room and can be a fun place...The Aragon is a lovely room and can be a fun place to see a show, but I always found the acoustics there terrible. <br /><br />Not being a Dylan fan, though, I wonder how much a little muddiness in the sound hurts/helps him.fivewheelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00511002180195360137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-30216126200337122112009-10-30T12:14:50.447-05:002009-10-30T12:14:50.447-05:00Re: asdf
Was I the only one who thought about thi...Re: asdf<br /><br /><i>Was I the only one who thought about this essay after reading that excerpt from the concert review</i>?<br /><br />Perhaps. But I think Orwell is clearly off-base when he writes:<br /><br /><i>When one critic writes, "The outstanding feature of Mr. X's work is its living quality," while another writes, "The immediately striking thing about Mr. X's work is its peculiar deadness," the reader accepts this as a simple difference opinion. If words like black and white were involved, instead of the jargon words dead and living, he would see at once that language was being used in an improper way</i>.<br /><br />Quite the contrary, "living" and "deadness" are perfectly adequate shorthand for qualities of artistic works. The difference is easiest to explicate in terms of line drawings. If you take a line drawing and trace over it, chances are your tracing will have all the lines more or less in the right spot, but there will be a certain something missing -- it won't quite <i>cohere</i>. There is, perhaps, a dynamism in the original line -- a varying of line width, say, or roughness -- that conveys a sense of shape and body, that is lacking in the carefully traced line. The gaps between lines and shapes that invite the eye to reconstruct the form that <i>should</i> extend between them may not be aligned quite right in the traced reproduction, and the illusion of underlying form and substance may be broken. Lines that in the original delineated a form are now just disjointed scribbles. That's part of the difference between living and dead in a line drawing. And, though other people may point to different criteria in assessing living-ness and deadness in a work of graphic art, it tells me something meaningful about the work, even if Orwell can't figure it out. Maybe it's "jargon," but it's a jargon that is immediately accessible to the reader, even if the reader may not understand <i>why</i> this picture looks alive, and this one looks dead.Balfegorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08012196656096263507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-14645545742476183532009-10-30T11:51:23.939-05:002009-10-30T11:51:23.939-05:00"the 68-year-old icon ... seemed reinvigorate..."the 68-year-old icon ... seemed reinvigorated"<br /><br />"Seemed," meaning he wasn't his usual death's-door, cadaverous self? All in all, a little creepy. <br /><br />When I see the musicians I listened to in the '60s still doing the same thing, I enjoy it but also cringe a little, for them and for me. Mick still wailing about how he can't get satisfaction is the worst. But nostalgia quickly becomes a pit you can drown in.Richard Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12735773524374061429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-21660685760536789172009-10-30T11:50:50.193-05:002009-10-30T11:50:50.193-05:00Was I the only one who thought about this essay af...Was I the only one who thought about <a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm" rel="nofollow">this essay</a> after reading that excerpt from the concert review?asdfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03737645073826252954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34002557202274790172009-10-30T11:47:38.115-05:002009-10-30T11:47:38.115-05:00Charlie Sexton! That's one dude who was resid...Charlie Sexton! That's one dude who was residing in the "Where are they now?" file.Skepticalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18342062330052315301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-2371095367913387282009-10-30T11:21:03.668-05:002009-10-30T11:21:03.668-05:00Concerts are about ten times too long, I noticed a...Concerts are about ten times too long, I noticed as a youth.<br /><br />That's still my opinion.rhhardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06901742898653890646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-73268583751632295502009-10-30T11:09:29.140-05:002009-10-30T11:09:29.140-05:00I find it funny that "[T]he feisty singer,......I find it funny that "[T]he feisty singer,...had disaster on his mind, rage in his heart and "the blood of the land" in his voice." and people are drawn to it, but let a man, with no backing band, be that guy and he's not only crazy but suspect. How a blues artist can honestly say all kinds of things about women ("Just Like A Woman" was sarcastic?) but let a man, without a backing band, say it and it's an insult. Or let a blues artist unleash his never-ending passion for another, who has betrayed him (Dylan's cover of Muddy Waters' "Rollin' and Tumblin'" comes to mind) and nobody's going to scream "Get over it!" or "move on!", but let a man, with no backing band, say it and he'll be tortured and teased, as a pussy, for the rest of his days.<br /><br />As a performer, and recording artist, I think about that stuff a lot.The Crack Emceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08366101526773588864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23107667074155239962009-10-30T11:03:36.525-05:002009-10-30T11:03:36.525-05:00Michael, app may be available under a different na...Michael, app may be available under a different name.<br /><br />[+iphone candle +"concert candle"]<br /><br />http://iphone.wareseeker.com/the-candle/Chip Ahoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597726289890879627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54807232454139040182009-10-30T10:48:37.761-05:002009-10-30T10:48:37.761-05:00Ummm, you're in truuuuh-bull.
And you, a law ...Ummm, you're in truuuuh-bull.<br /><br />And you, a law professor.Chip Ahoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597726289890879627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-59587686263567737212009-10-30T10:45:53.392-05:002009-10-30T10:45:53.392-05:00Wow. Wow.
"Freebird App".
That is so w...Wow. Wow.<br /><br />"Freebird App".<br /><br />That is so wrong in so many ways...Moosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10611979723230966040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39436344053436444192009-10-30T10:42:45.579-05:002009-10-30T10:42:45.579-05:00“Free Bird” was before my time. Wasn’t Lynyrd Sky...“Free Bird” was before my time. Wasn’t Lynyrd Skynyrd the guy who replaced Jethro Tull after Molly Hatchet divorced Mungo Jerry?Bissagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04439910009646381418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-26050387906181330672009-10-30T10:40:23.760-05:002009-10-30T10:40:23.760-05:00I saw him in August and enjoyed it. Nothing was a...I saw him in August and enjoyed it. Nothing was a standard version and the musicians are top notch. <br /><br />I do remember the use of cameras was STRONGELY prohibited.SteveRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12864387606863466980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78457868503154875162009-10-30T10:35:07.228-05:002009-10-30T10:35:07.228-05:00Balfegor: This is such a symbol of the modern age....Balfegor: <i>This is such a symbol of the modern age. $2 lighter replaced by $800 phone.</i><br /><br />It gets better! The most popular iPhone ringtone? A traditional mechanical AT&T clapper bell sound.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-88612119512593767682009-10-30T10:32:43.485-05:002009-10-30T10:32:43.485-05:00Yeah once you include the monthly voice & Data...<i>Yeah once you include the monthly voice & Data plans it probably comes to $800 the first year</i>!<br /><br />$800 is <a href="http://www.intomobile.com/2009/04/13/unlocked-apple-iphone-3g-for-799-at-buycom.html" rel="nofollow">unsubsidised price</a>.Balfegorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08012196656096263507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16170027058508760332009-10-30T10:18:39.736-05:002009-10-30T10:18:39.736-05:00Lucky Althouse. I just tried to download the Free...Lucky Althouse. I just tried to download the Freebird app, and the AppStore tells me that it is no longer available. Bummer.Michael Hazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139261384414481528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-26984310470738505452009-10-30T10:15:13.218-05:002009-10-30T10:15:13.218-05:00This is such a symbol of the modern age. $2 lighte...<i>This is such a symbol of the modern age. $2 lighter replaced by $800 phone.</i><br /><br />Yeah once you include the monthly voice & Data plans it probably comes to $800 the first year!Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11205752419540502278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72955409707183123632009-10-30T10:08:05.234-05:002009-10-30T10:08:05.234-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Angsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11483257297111150257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3569736047482617172009-10-30T10:06:18.407-05:002009-10-30T10:06:18.407-05:00I finally get a chance to use the Freebird app on ...<i>I finally get a chance to use the Freebird app on my iPhone</i>.<br /><br />This is such a symbol of the modern age. $2 lighter replaced by $800 phone.Balfegorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08012196656096263507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62721543980733659312009-10-30T10:01:45.942-05:002009-10-30T10:01:45.942-05:00"Freebird app."
Lol!"Freebird app."<br /><br />Lol!Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11402651457453813639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3060422379451883682009-10-30T09:56:56.078-05:002009-10-30T09:56:56.078-05:00Bob Dylan is 68.
Sheesh.
I started listening to ...Bob Dylan is 68.<br /><br />Sheesh.<br /><br />I started listening to Dylan when he was in his twenties and I was in my late 'teens.<br /><br />I still think of him as being maybe 42, tops. I live a life of self-deceptionMichael Hazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14139261384414481528noreply@blogger.com