366. Barb Jungr

Kicking off my year long daily countdown of my favorite 366 musical artists, here is my 366th favorite artist, the chanteuse Barb Jungr with her magnificent performance of Bob Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone” from which I first learned of her existence. Happy New Decade! Your Thoughts?

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Bob Dylan’s Video For “Must Be Santa”

So now here’s a video for a song from Bob’s delightfully wacky new Christmas CD, Christmas In The Heart. It’s a shame that the video is for the most unlistenable song on the whole CD (“Must Be Santa”) but it’s nonetheless a charmingly daffy and surreal watch so I figured I’d mention it. Your Thoughts?

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Let’s Hear It For New York!

Oh how I love this glorious city.  I would live here my whole life if I could.  Below is a beautifully shot video and achingly catchy anthem from two real New Yorkers.  Several times in the last week I’ve watched it over and over consecutively.  My favorite thing about it is how authentically New York […]

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Bob Dylan’s “Boots Of Spanish Leather” As Performed By Dervish

I actually heard and fell in love with a Dervish recording of this Dylan classic before ever hearing Dylan’s beautiful original itself.  This is not quite as spot-on a performance as the Dervish recording I have, it’s a little rougher in an organically live and alive way, but nonetheless it’s a must for Dylan fanatics and […]

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The Meaning Of Life

Today I had the distinct pleasure of reconnecting with one of my closest friends and classmates from my college days for the first time in 6 years.  He’s a friend with whom I spent some of the most formative philosophical years of my life and who, as a result, I will always consider to be […]

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Bob Dylan Christmas Album Preview

This has to be heard to be believed.  My friend put it best on Facebook: How can something be so awful and so great at the same time? I have to admit that as much as I love Dylan to death, sometimes there is such a dour ponderousness about him, that this sort of charmingly […]

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Weirdo Claiming To Be Bob Dylan Picked Up By Cop And Turned Out To Be Bob Dylan

Hilarious: Let’s say you run into an old man in a hood and sweatpants wandering around your neighborhood all alone in the pouring rain. 24-year-old Buble picked up Dylan in a Long Branch front yard, after the home’s occupants called in a report of a suspicious person. Buble told ABC, “I asked him what his […]

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“Everybody Must Get Stoned!”

or so the Bible would have it…

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In honor of Tim Russert

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Why The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Is My Favorite Film

Michel Gondry’s masterpiece The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, following Charlie Kaufman’s masterpiece script, is one of the most top to bottom brilliant achievements in film I have ever seen. Taken as a science fiction film, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ranks as a model for the genre. The film takes a […]

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