Dylan

apologies, but i find myself in very much need to talk about something rather than academics at this very moment in time. tonight, taking a break from (heavy and hard gulp) "writing a paper"..i found myself deeply watching a special on WMHT, the local public television channel on Bob Dylan from Newport (California I am assuming) from 1963-1965. WOW, what an act. i couldn't change the channel...at some times i really wanted to but he was just such a poet at one time...! maybe he still is but when i went to see him at the Knick some years ago, i remember being very frustrated with show and found it almost impossible to understand anything that was coming from his mouth. it was very unclear, and unless you knew the words, you really had no idea what his lyrics were all about.

the shows they were showing tonight the 60's were very different. he was a young man, with an insatiable voice. and the audiences...well, they just sat in amazement and wonder. was this before the dancing to live music....i found it to be odd but very interesting...the differences between times.

i read a post from one of my peers regarding the use of musci in the classroom. surely e.l.a. teachers could find some use for Old School Dylan when his words and voice were comprehendable...and what about me, a social studies teacher. i would have to agree...much of his lyrics are about the events going on around him in an age when the US culture was on a verge of exploding, lyrically speaking and politically!

just thought i'd go someplace different this evening. i think i HAVE JUST ONE MORE OF THESE LEFT (OOPS, i am coming to you this evening from a laptop so getting the hang of the keys are a tad perplexing to me right now...my brain is what would be called FRIED)...

yada yada yada. promise to make my last post a masterpiece! till then.