Thanks again for Dylan suggestions

[Mark Kohut]

I don't know music but I do know that "Tangled Up In Blue"
is about Bobby and Joni Mitchell, who did BLUE (an album). 

Joni is one of the toughest protectors of her song lines around. 
Almost never gives permission to use.....we all knew that a 
couplet (or quatrain) from a Mitchell song was in the reading copy
of Gravity's Rainbow but is not in the published book. 

I know of a whole first printing of a decent novel which a publishing house
had to 'recall", never ship, pulp, because permision for some song lines
were not gotten and she learned and demanded it. 

She's a fierce artist..........


 



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From: "edmoorester at gmail.com" <edmoorester at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sun, July 3, 2011 1:02:04 AM
Subject: Thanks again for Dylan suggestions

Joe Allonby wrote: 

"Try "Tangled Up in Blue". It's a nice exercise for the major-sus4-sus2 
figure that pops up in a lot of songs and the narrative makes it 
easier to remember the lyrics." 

I got hooked on Lennon's "Happy Xmas" which has a similar major 
-sus4-sus2 pattern and "Tangled up in Blue" will work nicely esp 
because I learned a lot of those chords already. . cool! 


"Cool thing about "Hurricane": the opening lines read like stage 
directions in a play. Present tense. Describing the action of the 
characters and setting the scene. Pistol shots ring out...Enter Patty 
Ballantine from the other hall... It's an interesting technique." 

Huh. . .it is cool just to look at how Dylan sets up the story. 

A lot of times exposition in movies esp bore me to tears 
but because I only watch dvds (hate paying 9 bucks in theaters) 
I have learned the fast forward button with captioning! 

ed
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