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    Blowin’ in the Idiot Wind

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    an interesting article abt Bob Dylan

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/opinion/10dowd.html

    a snippet..

    "He can’t really betray the spirit of the ’60s because he never had it. In his memoir, “Chronicles,” he stressed that he had no interest in being an anti-establishment Pied Piper and that all the “cultural mumbo jumbo” imprisoned his soul and made him nauseated. “I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of,” he said.
    He wrote that he wanted to have a house with a white picket fence and pink roses in back, live in East Hampton with his wife and pack of kids, eat Cheerios and go to the Rainbow Room and see Frank Sinatra Jr. perform.
    “Whatever the counterculture was, I’d seen enough of it,” he wrote. He complained of being “anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Czar of Dissent.”
    Performing his message songs came to feel “like carrying a package of heavy rotting meat,” he wrote."
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    The adventures of a reluctant messiah. That reminds me of a part in Monte Python's Life of Brian.

    Not being a Diilan fan I think it's kinda funny. As for the other people mentioned in that article, funny how many peoples convictions change when it effects their own pocket book.
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