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Oh sweet "mymymy" ... today's S8 guitar banner is a perfect intro to ...



The new Martin Scorsese 2 Disc Picture Bob Dylan - No Direction Home which is now out in video stores. I'm not sure if it's out for rental ... I hope so -- cuz it's not to be missed.



I learned so much from watching this DVD and my favorite parts was watching Dylan's genius "in action" as he handles stupid questions put to him in clips they have of old interviews.

It was fun watching this with my 14 year old son: this film offering him his first visual & sound taste of "beat poetry' and coffee houses and what it was like 'back then.' Also offering a deepening exposure to our struggles with racism, Vietnam, and what we were up against at the time.

This kind of visual/music exposure of history works well with this new generation; and with my son (who’s jazz oriented) – Scorsese’s inclusion of Billie Holiday singing “Strange Fruit” and other brief clips showing the side by side nature of Jazz with folk worked/explained things well. That there was more than one direction changes were coming through.

Dylan's words, work - "Old" as they are - still spoke clearly to this (my son and this) generation. Dylan is an example of what it means to live 'in the now' -- while following 'your bliss/passions. (as Joseph Campbell says...)

If you haven't seen this film yet ~ do so ... and to tempt you even more here's a link to the main website with more info and some clips - and it's also where I got the Dylan image above... check it out.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters ... index.html

Hi Deb!
There's another thread about this film here so I thought I'd post the link to it - http://studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4884

Thanks for your post... I loved the film! We watched it the other night on PBS.

[please note- the guitar banner image on this thread will change to another image when I change the banner next time because the link is always the same... it's always top_image.jpg and placed in the same directory every time. I'm going to document the last few banners in the feedback forum today, so I'll create another link for a smaller banner and change it for you so the image doesn't change]

Thank you, twice.

I thought I had seen another thread someplace(!) but I hadn't read it (back then); so I checked around where I thought I had seen it before posting .. but I didn’t check the 'General Discussion' because I didn't think it would be there.

And I didn't see it when I was looking for Judih's "Howl" thread probably because I was too focused on finding that thread instead of the Dylan one, at that point.

Anyway ... When I posted, I assumed that either I had dreamed the Dylan thread up, or it had gone the way of disappearance along with all those other postings from last week.

Thank you for setting this straight, putting that first link in, and for fixing the image in this one to ‘forever’ being your guitar banner … like I said, (imo) I think that banner’s perfect with this subject.

Well, the banner's smaller now, but it won't go away!
It's the size I use to document them in the feedback forum.

Sometimes I've wished I knew a way to merge two threads together but I'm not that technically adept. Many times we've had multiple threads about the same topic. But then again, it's all good!

It's fine like it is. Better, really! More Dylan in more places is a good idea, really! I love him. I adore him! Is he single?

Thanks, Deb!

there was a note about it yesterday in Clarín´s suplement. I don´t have DVD. I´ll have to convencer some of my friends to see it.