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
DYLAN He was a shape-shifter A man of many styles He wore a thousand different hats Was known for his wiles. One minute just a folkie One minute intoned the blues One minute a rock and roller A country artist too. He even sang some Gospel Some spirituals, some hymns But with all those different types of songs It never limited him. He was more than just his music And not really like the sphinx He... Read more
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In a season of mostly dark and dismal and just plain horrible movies, finally something positive and uplifting has shown up in the theaters. And as if Lin Manuel-Miranda knew that few people had gone to the movies at all before this one started today… there was an official welcome back to the theaters prequel by the cast before the official start to the movie. As for the movie itself it is long, as movies go these days— 2 hours... Read more
Whilst reading the book depicted above, a very interesting and scholarly treatment of Bob Dylan’s musical artistry (on which see the later post on the book itself), I began to formalize a list of Bob Dylan records which have had enormous influence on popular music since the 1960s, ranging from country, to blues, to gospel, to rock, to folk, and back again. Among other things, Bob Dylan is not only one of the most prolific musical genius’ and poets of... Read more
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