Thursday, September 29, 2005
Joan Baez - Potty Mouth
Joan Baez - Potty Mouth
I thought the most shocking part of No Direction Home was the footage of the people getting beaten up for sitting at a lunch counter. Us young people, with all our hair on our heads don't seem to realize that it wasn't that long ago things like that happened. It happened in your parents lifetime.
Next time you're on Granby St in Norfolk, look in the window of the Tidewater Comm. College library and see if the picture of the people sitting at the lunch counter is still there. That building used to be a Woolworth and non-whites couldn't sit at the lunch counter there and the protesters were there doing a sit-in.
Anyway, No Direction Home was awesome. Too little Don't Look Back extras. If there is more Hank Williams singing-in-the-hotel-rooms footage then I want it! But the "I'm looking for a man to bath my clip..." run was an insight on Dylan's wild songwriting at the time, and Scorsese did awesome with that "October 1963-November 1963-December 1963" run. Interrupting "Hard Rain..." with the gunshot that killed Ruby! Scorsese is the real genius.
Oh, and PS Joan Baez steals the whole show with her "Love is just a Four Letter Word" and her awesome Dylan impersonation.
I thought the most shocking part of No Direction Home was the footage of the people getting beaten up for sitting at a lunch counter. Us young people, with all our hair on our heads don't seem to realize that it wasn't that long ago things like that happened. It happened in your parents lifetime.
Next time you're on Granby St in Norfolk, look in the window of the Tidewater Comm. College library and see if the picture of the people sitting at the lunch counter is still there. That building used to be a Woolworth and non-whites couldn't sit at the lunch counter there and the protesters were there doing a sit-in.
Anyway, No Direction Home was awesome. Too little Don't Look Back extras. If there is more Hank Williams singing-in-the-hotel-rooms footage then I want it! But the "I'm looking for a man to bath my clip..." run was an insight on Dylan's wild songwriting at the time, and Scorsese did awesome with that "October 1963-November 1963-December 1963" run. Interrupting "Hard Rain..." with the gunshot that killed Ruby! Scorsese is the real genius.
Oh, and PS Joan Baez steals the whole show with her "Love is just a Four Letter Word" and her awesome Dylan impersonation.
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