October 30, 2024

"Nick Newman had replied to a tweet a few weeks back asking me what movies I would recommend. I told him to try The Unknown with Lon Chaney and go from there."

Tweeted Bob Dylan today.

I love that Bob Dylan tweets and how great he is at. The best.

Here's the starting point, so get started, and let me know what comes next:


It takes place in a circus, and "The circus is in town" is a line from "Desolation Row," giving special meaning to this response to Dylan's tweet, which takes us to a video that uses "Desolation Row" to prove that Dylan is the funniest person alive:
ADDED: My son John has a cool website called "101 Years of Movies/My favorite movies of each year from 1920 to 2020," and "The Unknown" is on his list, not as his favorite from its year, 1927, but #3:
(1) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

(2) Metropolis

(3) The Unknown

(4) The Kid Brother

John writes "Joan Crawford is a circus performer who can’t stand men’s hands, while Lon Chaney plays an armless knife thrower."

6 comments:

FullMoon said...

Paraphrasing liner notes from old Dylan album, two guys playing chess:
1.. I'm gonna whip your ass in this game
Doesn't matter, I always lose
WHAT? "Now, I hafta win"

Put the pressure on him, lol.

The Real Andrew said...

The Unknown!

https://youtu.be/UN2LN9pcj9o

Temujin said...

It bothers me that Dylan has almost a half a million followers in X and I only have...well...substantially less than that. I need to get funnier. Or just funny.

James K said...

Interesting that the music that starts around 7:00 is "Hiney ma tov u'manayim," a tradition Israeli/Hebrew song based on Psalm 133: "How good and how pleasant it is that brothers dwell together."

Original Mike said...

"I love that Bob Dylan tweets and how great he is at."

Of course he is (:rolleyes:)

Derve Swanson said...

Doh! You were soooo close.
But you bet your wad on naming the boy after John Lennon, not Bob Dylan... doh!