Rain
 
Up next: Burger King gets the Global Gastronomy award.

Seeing Burger King mentioned, my dyslexic eyes read that as gastrostomy (possibly a necessity afterwards? ).

craigb

bapu

Moshkito
To me, and perhaps because I was born in a house with 40K books of literature, 

REALLY!!!???!!!!
 
We never knew that about you.

Wow! 40 of them, eh?  I wonder what they could all be...
 
Kangaroo
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Kerosene Cowboys
Key Witness
Keys to Tulsa
Kid Rodelo
Killer Angels
Killing Kennedy
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss the Girls
 
Dang!  That's only 10 and he has 40 K books???  

I'm betting some of them were duplicates. I know I've managed to buy stuff I already had on more than one occasion.

craigb
whatever he uses to post here. 

Condescendence is a language? 

40,000 books eh?
 
Hmm...if you read four a week, it would take about 200 years to read them all.
 
You'd need some serious shelf brackets too.

It seems Dylan has not responded whatsoever to numerous phone calls and emails from the Swedish Academy. They've called him 'impolite and arrogant'
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...tainment-arts-37740379

drewfx1
 
 
...
I'm betting some of them were duplicates. I know I've managed to buy stuff I already had on more than one occasion.

I guess you think that all Portuguese, Brazilian and Spanish (including Latin America) people are completely illiterate and stupid and never wrote a word in their life!
 
Very smart dude ... very smart ... even as a joke that is asinine!
 
The whole library is now in Lisbon, and i wish I knew what they plan on doing with it ... as it will probably stay in the crates for centuries and get buried by the next tsunami! Who knows. Originally mom wanted our house in Lisbon to become a museum, but that fell through with no financing, and the house had to get sold. Now, who knows what's going on ... she was finally able to get his remains taken to Lisbon and he got an honorary burial, and mom's spot next to him is reserved (she's 95 now!), but the sad thing is that not a whole lot has been done about it as far as I know. And I doubt that a government that is not known for appreciating the arts, will do anything about it, but that's as much as I know.
 
There were a lot of things in there that I wanted, like the large quantity of books on film and theater, but my mom would not allow them to be removed, or taken. So, off they go to heaven knows where ... isn't it typical ... literature ... and the arts ... get buried!
 
It's just hard to talk about those things even in a place like this, because the respect side of the arts and literature (or painting or music!) is minimal, other than the pop songs that get defended. History, has had a lot more than just songs, but no one really knows about it, or has created a conceptual theory so that their appreciation of the pop music also comes in line with the rest ... it's like the rest doesn't exist, and in my estimation that is really naive and sad. 
 
I just don't like to think that folks here keep thinking I'm just being a jerk when talking about a lot of this music and work as ART ... not just a song ... and the folks that I end up fighting, always seem to be the ones that have least ... to discuss ... about the arts themselves and their history ... you don't have to have the knowledge ... you just need the respect for the human ability that it took to "create" ... and where it has taken us after all these years ... to be stupid? Doesn't mean that punks are wrong, but most of them were fake and then some ... !!!!! That is wrong!

craigb

jamesg1213

craigb
I know I haven't listened to the Top 40 since the late 60's / early 70's...

I'll listen to anything as long as it's good. I couldn't care less if it's 'popular', or 'obscure and different' or 'experimental', or 'a song' or 'a long cut', it just needs to sound good, to me.
 
Pretty sure that goes for everyone really...or maybe not...

I'm the same, which is why I haven't listened to the Top 40 since the late 60's / early 70's... 

So you've only listened to the bottom 20 or 30?

drewfx1

craigb

bapu

Moshkito
To me, and perhaps because I was born in a house with 40K books of literature, 

REALLY!!!???!!!!
 
We never knew that about you.

Wow! 40 of them, eh?  I wonder what they could all be...
... 
Dang!  That's only 10 and he has 40 K books???  

I'm betting some of them were duplicates. I know I've managed to buy stuff I already had on more than one occasion.

UCSB spent something like three years cataloguing the Spanish Literature section ... you can ask them ... but I doubt, from experience ... that you would find too many duplicates ... and I spent a lot of time there. There was a reason why so many Graduate Students spent so much time at our house ... and we're talking every day non-stop from as far away as you can imagine! Maybe if one of you can define "scholar", and "scholarship", something like this, and helping students learn more ... might be appreciated by people that can only read one thing ... comic books! Just like Craig's jokes!
 
That's what happens when small minds, simply can not accept/understand and believe that there are other things out there ... the kind of jokes that are not even funny ... maybe I should tell them to head towards the bathroom and start telling Polish jokes again?
 
Boring!

I'm 75% Polish and I lurves me a good Polish Potty joke.

Hi,
 
Maybe I am not as "deep" as I seem to make it look like, and definitely not as well educated in the arts, as I would like to be. However, I seem to be one of those folks that "remembers" all those things he saw, even as a youngster ... how the heck do you think I felt at 18 watching Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin in Chicago, and in the same day in the afternoon, seeing Richard Kiley in "Man of La Mancha" (not the same as Bapu's Man of dah munchies!!), and a month later getting his head beaten up in Chicago at a park that a certain band that was really good in Woodstock, did not show up and got the crowd excited. Or before, or later, catching Andres Segovia ... and he breaks a string, continues playing and at the end of the piece he apologizes and asks if it sounded alright ... and I swear you would not even noticed a string broke ... 
 
Maybe I separate Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, YES, Tangerine Dream some from many of these, but in the end, at 66, the only thing I can see is ... some folks are being remembered a long time (and this goes for film, also!), and their art was SOMETHING SPECIAL ... but we seem to only be able to look at these things as a rock song ... it's the music, the sound, the feel, and the PERSON of that time and place, and as such they will be remembered as the art of that day, and decade, and likely century. 
 
Now, I can make jokes, bad or otherwise, about Elvis and Bob, but really ... I respect writers and folks that continually work and create things. They may not be perfect, but they keep on going, and Picasso and Dali did that, as did many writers and many artists and composers. 
 
To me, all the stuff that is just the "voice" of my generation ... and some of you always try to make me feel guilty and not a part of that generation ... because of my words! I can't help thinking that the only reason for it is because there is a lack of ability in articulating some of those words? 
 
To me, it is all art, and I respect it. I may not care for one band or another, but I respect their ability to do so. Bob deserves his award, and more importantly, than anything else, is that the Academy is FINALLY recognizing that the voice of the word and the written word, is almost the same, and deserves recognition ... and this is massive, for the next generation and choices. Today's "writers", are as diverse as "songwriters", and for crying out loud ... that is a GREAT THING, even for all you folks trying to create something.
 
I needle Craig and Bapu, in jest ... not as an insult. They have my respect in many ways, and Bapu specially due to the amount of work that he has shared with us. 
 
AND, btw, there is a new set of quotes from Bob, and it is not the pair of words used before at all. It's very appreciative of it all, and I hope he goes and says thank you and give his generation (and OURS) a nice pat in the back. It's all we're missing, and like the original movie ... you've done a nice job ... with a pat on the back!

Pedro,
 
It's not about "the words" it's what's inside.
(or so I'm told)

It means "Too Long; Didn't Read".
 
I actually had to look it up a while back, as it's not something I would generally use to respond to something someone wrote. OTOH, some people value concision more than others and communication is a form of collaboration.