Dylan’s 70? My Top 5 Dylan Songs
Posted by Mitch Mitchell on May 25, 2011
As I say about blogging, sometimes you get inspiration from reading other people’s blogs and then commenting on them in some fashion. In this case it’s the blog of a local young guy who not only works for the local newspaper, but is a DJ. He has an interesting connection with all types of music, even music that, in my strange opinion, I would never expect him to know; it shows there are some younger people with an appreciation for older music.
Anyway, his name is Geoff Herbert, @deafgeoff to us here because he’s also legally deaf, and his post was titled Chillin’ like a villain: My all-time top 5 Bob Dylan songs, only he had 6 songs instead; kids, can’t count. lol Of course, he has some of these from movies and some of these with other people singing; I can’t roll like that. I’m giving you Dylan, the best of him and, well, him anyway. lol So, here we go, not necessarily in any particular order.
I think this is the first Bob Dylan song I ever heard, from the Blonde on Blonde album, and though he had this really weird voice, there was something about this song that captured my imagination.
This is the first of two songs in a row from the album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. It was also in a movie called American Pop, along with the next song. This is one of the most musical songs Dylan ever put out, very catchy tune.
As I said above, same album and same movie. This was probably one of the best albums he ever put out because I liked almost every single song on it.
Of all things I couldn’t find this one on YouTube, but I find it elsewhere. This song is from the album Planet Waves, and I sang this version of the song at a wedding, believe it or not. It’s not a love song but the bride, the sister of a friend of mine, heard me play it and requested it for her wedding; who was I to say no?
Bob Dylan-Forever Young(from The Last Waltz)
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Well, I guess I did end up putting them in order because this is my favorite Bob Dylan song of all time, and it’s the “newest” song on my list. What a great story this song is, and some of the lyrics are classic, one of the best songs lyrically I’ve ever heard. I have to admit this isn’t my favorite version of this song, but it seems that no one has created a video with the original so it’ll have to do. At least it’s Dylan live.
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Easter Smiles
Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Apr 24, 2011
I debated about whether or not to pop something up for Easter or not. I’m not religious, and, dare I say, I’d be considered a heathen in some circles. Let’s suffice it to say I’m a nonbeliever and move on.
That doesn’t mean I look down on anyone who’s celebrating today as a holiday; not in the least. It does say that I take secular look at the day instead, To me, it’s a day for kids and family and smiles; I don’t see anything wrong with that sort of thing.
Unfortunately I don’t have any kids, but I did talk to my mother and she’s as content as mothers can be for the day. And I’ve done some of those things over this holiday weekend that I enjoy. I watched the Ten Commandments, watched some Sound of Music and some Wizard of Oz (how’d those become holiday things).
But the one thing I totally missed this year was the Peanuts take on Easter. I don’t know if it was on or not. Doesn’t matter; thank goodness for YouTube. I wish those of you who believe a wonderful holiday. For those who don’t, or for those who just want a smile or two, I offer this:
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What Little Thing Can Make You Smile?
Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Apr 22, 2011
I thought I’d go in a different direction today because, well, we’re hoping our weather goes in a much different direction today. Yesterday was miserable in central New York.
The temperatures were initially predicted to get into the mid 50′s. Instead, we had periods of snow all day which brought along these very high winds. And it wasn’t that fluffy snow that people look at and say “awwww”, it was hard, beady snow that hurt. Most of us complained loudly; yeah, I was part of that crowd. It’s just the kind of day that makes us all miserable, even though we’ve had snow later in the season than this.
However, even with that misery there was some joy to be found. If you look to the right there you’ll see that I wrote a post on my business blog titled “Think Like You’re Awesome”; I think that’s a post you might enjoy checking out, and it’s something that made me happy.
In general I think it’s easier to be sad than happy, yet sometimes it doesn’t take much to get us laughing or smiling. For instance, I posted a video of a puppy falling asleep that people seemed to like a lot, and I posted a video of laughing babies, this first one having quads laughing, the second one on New Years Day with lots of videos of babies laughing.
Sometimes all it takes is someone else or something else having a good time. And to me, Fridays are the day for that type of thing, when we’re all hoping to unwind from what might have been a tense week of work or issues. To this end, I present Cookie the Penguin. Make sure you watch until the end, then try to tell me this didn’t make you smile:
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Despicable Me – Movie Review
Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Feb 24, 2011
By now, those of you who have read this blog understand that I love my animation. I love old Bugs Bunny cartoons the best, but I have to say that there are some modern cartoons, rather animation, that I’m just drawn to (hey, a pun!) for reasons I never really understand. But like most everyone else, if I see a preview that captures me, I already know I’m going to like the movie heading in; for the most part, that is, Skyline notwithstanding. lol
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The premise of this movie is simple. A career super criminal has the ultimate plan; to steal the moon. In order to do that, he needs to steal a shrink ray that a young and upcoming super villain stole from him after he stole it from someone else. He finds these 3 little girls that the other villain has ordered cookies from and decides to adopt them and use them to help steal the shrink gun. What he doesn’t expect is that he’ll fall in love with the girls as things move along, and thus we have our story, with me leaving out all the details and ruining it for you.
Our super villain, named Gru, has helpers along with way. There’s Dr. Nefario, his elderly main scientist who sometimes hears the request for a specific item incorrectly, and there’s the Minions, these little yellow weeble looking creatures, some with one eye, some with hair, many that look exactly alike, that are the workers and friends of Gru; he knows them all by name and can tell them apart, even if we can’t. They’re the great innocents in this movie; they do whatever’s asked of them, and when they’re not asked to do anything they just, well, do something; funny as sin.
Of course, it’s the relationship Gru ends up having with the 3 sisters, Margo, Edith, and the youngest Agnes, with the big brown eyes and, if you’ve ever seen any of the commercials, the one who utters “It’s so fluffy!” He’s really frustrated early because he’s never been around kids and could care less about being around them now, but as time goes on and he starts having fun with them that he never had in his life before, he starts to realize the value in sharing one’s love with others.
This is the cutest movie and very funny as well. The music was done by Pharrell Williams, which gives it a much different quality than any other movie, as it was his first time working on a movie. As you can tell, I’m recommending this movie, and I’m sharing this little clip, doctored and chopped up, as a mini-teaser. Buy this movie; I’ve seen it more than 40 times by now.
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Being In Heaven – The Review
Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Feb 5, 2011
Back in August I wrote a post introducing the latest motivational movie called Being In Heaven. I hadn’t bought it, but they had contacted me out of the blue offering me the opportunity to be on the front lines as an affiliate in helping to spread the word. Of course I jumped at the chance because one never knows if something like the success of The Secret will come around again, and I didn’t want to miss out. As I said, I hadn’t seen it, but I have now bought it, now watched it, and I’m ready to give it a review. And, as always, it’s not a paid review; my opinion only.
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Basically, Being In Heaven is the metaphysical version of the movie My Dinner With Andre, only it’s not as weird, has a message, is a lot more interactive, and I didn’t fall asleep in the middle of it, though I did take a break at one point.
The premise is that there’s a guy whose life seems to have spiraled out of control, losing everything he had, which was a lot, and he leaves New York to go back to his native Australia to try to start again. He gets a freelance writing gig to write about an interview with a motivational guru who’s written a new book on something; he doesn’t quite know what.
They meet at a restaurant and almost immediately the guy, named Jason, notices that there are some odd things going on. He especially gets an eerie feeling when the owner of the restaurant makes a statement out of the blue about his life and it stuns him because he’s never met this man and hadn’t told anyone his name. He’s taken to this table where the man he’s supposed to meet, Michael Domeyko Rowland, greets him and the conversation begins.
Then, for the next 80 minutes or so, these two men talk, almost uninterrupted, with brief stops by the waitress, the woman in the picture you see above and to the left, the owner a couple of times, and one quick incident where something is happening at a table near them; no, I’m not telling you what it is. Most of the talking is done by Michael, and he’s actually telling us truths about things that happened in his life. Then again, he’s the writer, director, and creator of this project, and it’s his real life, so I guess that makes sense. Jason contributes by asking questions, first with skepticism, then with genuine interest in learning, and he starts to realize that everything he’s done in his life has fit a pattern that developed when he was a child, something that he thought he’d forgotten about yet, once he brings it to the fore, realizes that he’s constantly done the same things over and over, and that once again he’d found a way of doing something by reliving those same patterns.
So, here it is in a nutshell. This movie isn’t as flashy as The Secret,
and it’s not even as flashy as The Opus. My wife thought Jason was very good looking, and I guess women will find him pretty good eye candy. The message is pretty good, though. Rowland doesn’t mention laws of attraction per se, but everything he talks about kind of leads you into that direction. I think this is a good movie, and it would have made a great motivational tape. But my wife and I watched for an hour, then took a break to ingest some of what we’d heard for awhile and came back to it later on to watch the rest; that’s a rare event for a movie we’ve never seen before. And the ending we didn’t see coming either, and that’s all I’m saying about that.
If you’re looking for self discovery or motivation, you’ll like this movie. It won’t make you jump out of your chair at the end with great enthusiasm, but it will make you think and make you feel good, and I believe that’s worth it. Just so you know, if you wish to buy it you can click on the link above or the links to the left side there, and of course there’s the brief movie clip you can check out. Because you can only get it mail order from Australia, it costs a bit more than normal DVDs do. But in the end, both my wife and I think it’s worth it.
Oh, as to the bird and the ball… nope, you’ll have to watch for that as well. By the way, here’s more of a radio interview than a video of him talking about the release of the movie in Australia.
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