Musings and Mirth
From the category archives:
I was just about out the door on the Katy Perry thing. Too much stuff being thrown out all at once. She is trussed up in every video, a lot of flash and very little substance.
But, I’ve recently discovered that she’s an absolutely AMAZING singer. Why she needs all of the smoke and mirrors is a mystery. I really do understand the impulse – it never hurts to show a little boob.
I kissed a girl after the cut.
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I checked out of the library the Suze Rotolo biography, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village and found myself kind of skimming it to read the Bob Dylan parts.¬† I know, how horrible.¬† But in the end, I found it all very depressing.¬† I guess I didn’t really want to know that much about Bob Dylan.¬† She was probably right to leave him, I suppose.¬† It’s just funny, in a way, that she will always only be known for her relationship to him, a kind of Mary Magdalene, despite her desire to do other great things with her life.¬† Though she found the kind of peaceful life she longed for it looks like, and to do that she had to get away from Bob.¬† Still, Dylan was portrayed as someone kind of lame and mean – I know, newsflash, right?¬† But even still, one has these false impressions, perhaps, of Suze and Bob’s relationship after listening to albums like Another Side of Bob Dylan or the Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changing, and this book didn’t really match those illusions.
Also, she kind of exposed him as a poser, again, news flash Рthis is sort of an obvious fact about him.  There were two things that most interested me.  His love letters to her and the way he would go into a nod when he was thinking up songs.  She says he liked to exploit the drama in his life for effect, which kind of puts a whole spin on his most tortured love gone wrong songs and albums: did he do it all just to write better songs?
Suze Rotolo should take credit for one really important thing – without having broken his heart, he might not have been able to write such great songs about love as he ended up doing.¬† Like a vampire needed blood, he needed a fresh kill for the full muse effect.¬† Why did she write the book and what was the point?¬† Who knows.¬† By the end when she says she doesn’t want to say the songs are about her you just want to hurl the thing across the room.¬†¬† She spends so much time writing about things all Dylan fans know much about – ships going off to Italy, warm coats, evil sisters, etc.¬† For godssake, they were so specifically about her to deny that comes off as ingenuine.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9v0U8xWOQI[/youtube]
This one in particular is specific – and I love this Indigo Girls cover of it:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHzIREBi_lA[/youtube]
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