The title of this blog is taken from a passage from Bob Dylan's 2004 memoir Chronicles. Here he is reflecting about the world of folk music:
"I had already landed in a parallel universe with more archaic principles and values; one where actions and virtues were old style and judgmental things came falling out on their heads. A culture with outlaw women, super thugs, demon lovers, and gospel truths...streets and valleys, rich peaty swamps, with landowners and oilmen, Stagger Lees, Pretty Pollys and John Henrys--an invisible world that towered overhead with walls of gleaming corridors."
A beautiful rumination about the world of the imagination. No further thesis or mission statement is really necessary besides remembering the tag line from the modern rock station in Winston-Salem, NC during the mid-90s; this blog will be all about "cool stuff that rocks."
2 comments:
Blog on, Scott. We're waiting eagerly. I'll try to send you a beautiful or twisted photo from time to time.
Robin
I enjoyed reading Chronicles, blowing through it quickly after buying it in London in March and hope to get it back from a colleague in Moscow who's had it for a few months now...
P. Riley
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