Requiem For Chlamydia

For anybody out there with even a passing interest in Bob Dylan I reccommend with the highest authority my name carries (about three pound fifty or 22 kilograms for my European friends) to buy Bob Dylan's Chronicles Vol. 1 . I always listened to Dylan under the assumption that he didn't know why his fingers moved about the frets the way they did, or why the sound came out of the hole in the guitar and how does electricity travel from that power cable to the amp? However, after reading two out of the five chapters in Mr. Zimmerman's autobiography I no longer believe he is an idiot, merely an idiot savant. Well that's not being fair. Truth be told Bob Dylan is a very very intelligent man not just in the lyrical sense. He really seems to understand the theory behind what makes a song good. Not necessarily music theory but he just has an intrinsic understanding of how to write a classic song. I didn't expect any of this from a man who once did a line of coke off of his piano and proceeded to ask everyone in the room: "Do you know who I am? Huh? I'm Bob Dylan" The 60's rocked.

I think the saddest thing about Hunter S. Thompson offing himself is that it was only two days ago that I read an article of his outlining this new sport he was creating with Bill Murray. It was called Shotgun Golf. Basically someone with a shotgun stood behind you while you were teeing off and they have to shoot your ball out of the air. If they don't, the golfer gets a point, if they do, they get a point. It seemed really interesting to me and I was actually hoping it would happen. If you want to read the article heres the EARL

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1992213

Editor's Note
Ryan Engley is no longer here. This is Taylor. . . for the most part. Anyhow, Ryan left without publishing this here entry-dangle. I shall now push the button. G'night.


Publisher's Note
If I hated lenny kravitz anymore i think i might kill him. I mean he offers about as much to pop music in the past twenty years as I have.

Bruce Willis is in a new movie where he has to save two families and deal with terrorists. They're calling it "The Die Hard Trilogy Two"

Seriously thought it's called Hostage. It looks alot better then The Whole Ten Yards

Has anyone seen a picture of Matthew Perry lately? I wish he was still on coke because he looks so FAT!

I bought a Velvet Underground three disc "Bootleg Series Vol. 1" thing. It got me to thinking. Shouldn't the words "Bootleg" be dropped from the title of something once it is officially released? Shouldn't "The Bob Dylan Bootleg Series" be retitled "Once Upon A Bootleg" or "This Used To Be A Bootleg But Now It's Not Because We The Record Company Have Expressed Written Consent To Officially Release These Recordings For Profit Thus Negating The Bootleg Connotation. Forever" I don't know, just something that crossed through my mind with the speed and power of a Sinatra ballad.

Speaking of Sinatra i downloaded a terrific version of him doing "As Time Goes By" from the Casablanca soundtrack. It got me thinking about my all time top five favorite songs and how much they've changed. I think this list is pretty good. (no particular order)

1. A Day In The Life - The Beatles

I'm pretty sure i'll always think this is greatest song ever recorded, or to put it more definite, the greatest song ever recorded in my dimension of reality since i also think it's impossible to quantify anything as being the "greatest" it's just way too subjective for there to be anything definitive."

2. Ambulence Blues - Neil Young

Includes some very interesting picking and some great one liners ("You're Only Real With Your Makeup On" .) Absolute classic in my book.

3. Desolation Row - Bob Dylan

Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot fight. Ophelia is an old maid. People sell post cards of hangings. And einstein is disguised as robin hood.

4. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys

Simply beautiful.

5. As Time Goes By - Elliot Carpenter

The two best versions of this song i've ever heard are sung by Billie Holiday (excellent jazz/soul singing) and Frank Sinatra (Frank knocks the hell out of it in that guinea way he does) This "Great Gig In The Sky" and "Moonlight" Sonata are my all time favorite piano tunes. For anyone who hasn't heard this song go ahead and make Natalia Kopyrra [sic] proud.

6. Us and Them - Pink Floyd *Bonus*

Theres this one part of the song that always gives me the chills. David Gilmour and Richard Wright both sing the word "gun" (as part of the line "Said the man with the gun") and Gilmour goes up higher then Wright when singing it and it's just chilling, it really is.

so thats where my list stands right now

Love, Captain G Force