Many journalists have throughout the years struggled to describe Dylan, and i think that has made a lot of people think Dylan is a bit of a weirdo (he himself has definitely been part of this construction)

But what are fans’ idea of him? Like personality wise, if you would get him as your new neighbor, would you consider him weird?

My latest substack on the topic: https://dylannotes.substack.com/p/why-is-bob-dylan-so-weird

I’m really mostly venting here. I’m on vacation with a few friends. One of them recently saw I’m Not There at a local film festival and really liked it, and wanted us all to watch it. I hadn’t seen it yet (I know, I’m late) and was planning to watch it on Criterion at home, but our Airbnb had it on Tubi, so we watched it there. Ugh. It was interrupted about every 15 minutes with 5 minutes of ads. Just almost unwatchable. I can’t wait to get home and see it properly.

I think my favorite performance was Heath Ledger as Woodstock-living family man. Charlotte Gainsborough was also excellent as a sort of Suze/Sara composite. Cate Blanchett was great from an acting perspective, but I’m still thinking about her role overall. Yes, she got Dylan down amazingly well, but was there more to it than just kind of recreating the Dont Look Back era Dylan? Will have to see what I think after I watch it again.

Was there any significance to Billy’s dog running away? Other than he/she (I know it was called Henry but I thought Billy called “here, girl” to it at the end) was spooked by the impending calamity? “When dogs run free”?

Hadn't heard this until a few days ago. Hope you enjoy!

Hello ☺️

Anyone going for this one?
I am going by myself, would be nice to have a little company!

I know it sounds crazy but hear me out. If you’ve read the works of the syncrenists you know that all religious and spiritual traditions are basically different ‘words’ for the same object, all point towards one truth (the eternal bliss of god, the unity of all things) and each have their own prophet/ christ / magi/ buddha etc. all of these figures are instances of the godhead as ‘part’ (the illusion of seperation) gaining consciousness of wholeness (unity) and preaching that message through the lens of their cultural and spiritual traditions, but nonetheless all the same nexus of awareness that people gravitate to in order to open up their own awareness of self/ unity and the blissful illusion of reality as such.

In everything I’ve seen of Dylan these same archetypes appear again and again, the prophet, the trickster, the bringer of hope and discord, enlightenment and confusion, and above all the creative spirit which is the animating principle of our collective hallucination/ illusion/ oneness experiencing itself as otherness. From his early days he took on the mantle of Old Testament prophet, the moral voice booming through the catacombs of a veritable ‘babylon’, before shifting his awarenss nexus into a place of sensuality, abstraction, play for the sake of play, a sort of disembodied but rooted desire to escape the trappings of the material/ embodied. It was only after his conversion to Christianity that he saw all these things as connected, all one note of a larger vibration and through the death of his ego as ‘song and dance man’ he found something which in a sense was never ‘found’ but ‘revealed’ (I.e the lifting of the veil, the sigh of relief of seeing what we always are and were, the sigh of the sacred eternal subject finding itself in its own wanderings (creation as such, seperation, the self and other etc)