I have read many, many (too many) rock star biographies and autobiographies and most of them are sad and sordid in various ways. This book is not that. This is a remarkable detailed and scholarly analysis of the phenomenon that is Bob Dylan, the only such folk or rock star to have won a recognition from the Pulitzer Prize people, the only such musician to win a Nobel Prize FOR LITERATURE, and many many Grammys, Oscars, etc. Not only so,... Read more
I’m reading along in this wonderful book on The World of Bob Dylan and there is an entire chapter on the issue of his ‘borrowing’ by Kevin Dettmar (pp. 205-213 in book. The quote below is from p, 205). The thing that keeps rattling around in my brain is the fact that only God is truly creative, making something out of nothing. In fact, that seems to be why the Hebrew verb bara is only predicated of God in the OT, beginning already... Read more
The Fast and Furious Franchise, which first appeared twenty years ago (2001), just keeps rolling along, gather speed rather than dust, always with a few new guest stars (in this case John Cena playing Dom’s long lost brother Jakob). This particular iteration of this series of movies gets only a 62% rating on Rotten Tomatoes perhaps in part because it is too long and lags in places (2 hours and 25 minutes, not counting the infinite ads and previews up... Read more
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