The next installment of the Bootleg Series is coming soon, and it features material from Dylan’s unjustly overlooked gospel period. Should be a treat.
Sarah Jarosz “Ring Them Bells” The Americana Sessions (Bob Dylan)
Mr. Freedom
Here’s a clip from Mr. Freedom, William Klein’s uproarious lampoon of American imperialist bravado, available at the Criterion Collection. We watched it on Filmstruck. Absurd, wacked-out, hilarious, and splashy, it strikes me now as prescient, too. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Mr. Commuter
Academy Award for Decline of America, 2017
unreal country trapped in reality show fever dream administrations,
a golden wall of stupid with no exits, escape lanes blocked,
even the glitz distractions come to fuckup.
cue the clowns, ghosts, frauds, miscreants and posers
all the dumb asses stormed the stage, they own this show about nothing
why bother reading books, “how do you turn them on?”
we can’t even do envelopes right,
can’t even read the names of winners from a card.
haiku – butterfly leaf
Out the window comes
a butterfly looking in:
No, it’s a dead leaf
Haiku
crows squawk dive bombing
The hawk lands on treetop, then
leaves, chased towards sunshine
