Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Pulitzer Pop

Via Space Bar's blog, this news of Dylan's nomination for a Pulitzer.

Since I have a blog and therefore must have an opinion, I say "pshaw" and "phooey" to this announcement*. (But I refuse to say "psoriasis" and "psychology".)

IMHO, in the last decade, Dylan has tried harder than before to distance himself from the whole "voice of a generation" business (though he did manage to write an autobiography of sorts) and get back to playing blues and rock 'n roll.

I hope the Pulitzer people remember that other award ceremony held in Bob's honor in 1970, especially his buddy David Crosby's words :)

*I will not be so dismissive when that Nobel finally drops in Bono's lap. And that's because I am bored by all the press he gets for his activism.

13 comments:

??! said...

Ahh, Bono dissing. It has been a while, yes? Although, that said, we have nothing more to say....and that's all I'm going to say about that.

km said...

I said I was bored by the press he gets for his activism. I can still tolerate most of his pre-1987 albums :)

GhostOfTomJoad said...

Philistine!

Tabula Rasa said...

dickheads :-D

km said...

Ghost: "sun's not yellow it's chicken"

TR: I've often wondered how rock stars hang out with each other. Did Dylan call Crosby and say "Hey, man, I'm getting an award at Princeton. Want to come?"

??! said...

I quite liked some of the stuff on 'Beautiful Day'. Don't sue me!

km said...

??!: No suing, I promise. But I can't promise no cruel mockery and no public taunting.

??! said...

Oh, fine! But I can't promise no humming of "willlld honey".

Tabula Rasa said...

bet crosby invited himself over.

Space Bar said...

i loved all that you can't leave behind.

y'all can start booing now.

km said...

TR: But what if Neil wanted to go and Bob had room for only one more person?

space bar: BOOOOOOOO! :D

Jay said...

Read this in a Guardian Blog comments section some weeks back(cant find the link to the post now):
"I saw U2 in 1982 or something in Bournemouth. Bono climbed up a big speaker stack and waved a white flag about. I clearly remember thinking, This guy is a wanker, I hope he falls off."
:D

Tabula Rasa said...

km:
insert pun featuring stills and gnash.