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The Duritti Column - Otis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Lreb5U87U&ab_channel=yumizo1030
I saw it yesterday & I really enjoyed it. A lot more than I expected to. The music performances were all great.
He's my favourite rock vocalist. Maybe i like Mark E Smith a little more. Call it a toss-up.
Yeah, his voice is ugly (sometimes - not always! listen to the records from the late 60s/early 70s). But he's a rocker, not a crooner, and there's a world of difference between having a great voice and having a great ROCK voice. & rock music is often at its best when it's ugly & raw.
Dylan's vocals are one of my favourite things in the world, period.
At his peak (Another Side through Blonde on Blonde), he possessed an almost inhuman sense of timing - just listen to the way he makes the phrase "Tax deductable charity organization" sound like the most natural and flowing line ever uttered in Ballad of a Thin Man. Or listen to the way he gets the punch-lines across in Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat - comedians hone their craft for years in order to sound so effortless and natural.
i'm a dylan obsessive, slightly less so than when i was younger, but it's ingrained in me.
i'm 'probably' going to catch it new years day.
tbh i've been underwhelmed by all the reviews saying that it's a fairly formulaic, standard biopic. that's something that just doesn't appeal to me. there are several dylan docs that i really enjoy that i can watch any time i like, & there's a great dylan movie that already exists that gives me the weird, baffling experience i think his career deserves (i'm not there).
but i've heard enough positive things about his performance & his imitation to make me want to check it out, i guess, even though i expect to not like it too much.
movie: a place without fear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcBOOshGWt8&ab_channel=MUBI
i don't watch tv & i haven't listened to music in years. but bill callahan had a new record out this year, & he's always been great & i'd assume whatever he's making now is just as good.
john edwards?
i agree.
i would not support that because i think it's produced pretty bad outcomes & i think more of the same would produce more of the same, but it's a completely rational response.
it's not a rationalization to recognize that there are massive gaps in cognitive ability between populations & that this explains a lot of the disparities in outcomes between them. it's just a reality, & as one of my favorite writers said, reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
i'm agnostic on why those gaps are there, but i think there's lots of good reasons to think that a lot of it is genetic, & if that is the case it does no one any good to deny that & we should want to know whether or not it's true.
The Fall
Steve Reich
Bill Callahan
A Place Without Fear
My First Film
In a Violent Nature
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