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[David Morris]

My only ever time seeing Dylan was in NOLA at the UNO arena, a relatively
small basketball arena, back in the early 2000's.

His voice was gravely, nearly unintelligible.  He played many classics, but
the music for all the songs was completely rearranged,  played by a top
notch band.  At every song it took a while to recognize the old familiar
classic.  It was challenging and great.

David Morris

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 6:18 PM Richard Romeo <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dylan’s Shelter from the Storm on a Zillow commercial. A deep spiritual
> song. Sad
>
> rich
>
> > On Apr 28, 2020, at 1:15 PM, gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I didn't end up going to see Dylan last year. I did end up going to Ann
> > Arbor for the Holidays. The place I stayed had the best Clam Chowder I
> > think I've ever had
> >
> >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 2:21 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> gary webb wrote:
> >>
> >> and for no particular reason, I'm going to stick my thumb out, though
> will
> >> need to go more Claudette Colbert, to hitch a ride to this wagon... I'm
> >> kidding of course... Is it just me, or does it feel oddly necessary to
> >> watch the Apple 1984 commercial?
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
> >> Â
> >> It's hard to say the PC world was anymore enlivening than the televisual
> >> world it purported to replace, and the same could be said of the mobile
> >> transformation 20 years later...Â
> >> About that televisual culture,
> >>
> >> https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/imagine-all-the-people
> >>
> >> "That, of course, is not what happened. Modern technology has indeed
> >> consummated the televisual era, but with results quite opposite those
> the
> >> imagineers expected. Instead, a curious form of Hobbes’s war of all
> >> against all was unleashed. Online, each “netizen†produced more and
> more
> >> opinions, fantasies, dreams, interpretations, and criticism. Marshall
> >> McLuhan forecast the situation in his concept of the “global village
> >> <https://www.amazon.com/dp/0226672980/?tag=thenewatl-20>†— not a
> >> boundaryless and harmonious Eden sought by the imaginative social
> engineers
> >> of the world elite, but rather a hot, crowded, fragmented, and fractious
> >> realm, one much like the “world†that social media, to the shock of
> the
> >> elite, became."Â
> >>
> >>
> >> In the MIT press version of McLuhan's Understanding Media the
> introduction
> >> coyly gives a post-60s update on the work's reputation (the MIT version
> was
> >> published in 1994):Â
> >>
> >> "The alarms and excursions associated with Understanding Media didn't
> >> survive McLuhan's death  (on New Year's Eve 1980, at the age of 69),
> and
> >> perhaps was to be expected from artisans still working in a medium that
> the
> >> decedent had pronounced obsolete, the obituary notices were less than
> >> worshipful. Informed opinion had moved on to other things, and McLuhan's
> >> name and reputation were sent to the attic with the rest of the
> sensibility
> >> (go-go boots, Sgt. Pepper, Woodstock, the Vietnam War) that embodied the
> >> failed hopes of a discredited decade."Â
> >>
> >> Let's take it from the man himself (pg.16):Â
> >>
> >> "Electric speed mingles the cultures of prehistory with the dregs of
> >> industrial marketeers, the nonliterate with the semiliterate and the
> >> postliterate. Mental breakdown of varying degrees is the very common
> result
> >> of uprooting and inundation with new information and endless new
> patterns
> >> of information."Â
> >>
> >> Televisual culture is ubiquitous for Zoyd & C., so much so that he is an
> >> active participant. And like Bigfoot, to whom he is compared, are
> staged TV
> >> moments, not real life random acts.
> >>
> >>
> >> -------------a) Tom Wolfe, I think, did a sendup of McLuhan as English
> >> professor living the dream of having people actually listen to him.
> Still
> >> think McLuhan made some good points!
> >>
> >> b) That net community in the quote, it is like Van Meter's commune
> behind
> >> the Cucumber Lounge: "bickering raised to the level of ceremony"
> >>
> >> c) thanks for hopping in - 1984 ad was topical for VL, with the lady
> ninja
> >> throwing that projectile and stickin' it to The Man!
> >>
> >> wow, Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable!
> >> like Prairie "when she couldn't get her hands on a car, she'd hitch a
> ride
> >> and try to talk the driver into letting her take the wheel. She could
> get
> >> anywhere in Southern California as fast as wheels could move."
> >>
> >> That's the beauty of the LISS/STEPVR - the president is also a member,
> the
> >> rider can be the driver, the topics are out there!
> >>
> >> d) ish mailian made the good point that the new-car smell is still fresh
> >> on the radio play. I'm going to break out some 50 year old German
> skills to
> >> try to appreciate it. It's beyond funny how slow this will be.
> >>
> >> peterhooper promised a new take after the 1st of 2021, suggesting LISVR
> as
> >> the new title: Love is Strange Vineland Read.
> >> ("Love is patient" as St Paul wrote)
> >> Seems right amount of elision: epizootic/pandemic by then should have
> >> abated, and most people can self-police the size and/or salinity of
> their
> >> topics.
> >>
> >> e) did you ever get to the Bob Dylan concert in Ann Arbor last fall?
> >> Love to hear about it if you did!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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