The current Rolling Stone cover story is Bob Dylan. The number one Billboard Album is (for the first time in his career) Bob Dylan's newest, Modern Times. There's a new i-pod commercial featuring The Bob. The New York Times' article. The general concensus seems to be that Bob Is Hot.
I feel cheated and dirty. I've loved this man for most of my life and been ridiculed for my obsession, and now he's hot? I mean, I've always been way ahead of the trend, the curve, the whatever, but this is just crazy. Now? Now that Bob is 65 and raggedier than ever, NOW he's hot?
How unfair is this? Now that he and I are creaking into geriatricville, shouldn't I finally have the old goat to myself? Shouldn't my imaginary boyfriend and I get peace at this stage in our lives? Shouldn't he finally have enough time to come to my house for dinner?
No. NOW he's hot. GAH. So fucking unfair. And get this quote from Rolling Stone:
When I ask Dylan what [Alicia] Keys did "to get into your pantheon," he only chuckles at my precious question. "I remember seeing her on the Grammys. I think I was on the show with her, I didn't meet her or anything. But I said to myself, 'There's nothing about that girl I don't like.'"
Oh, girlchild. Do you even know? Do you realize? If The Bob ever said that about me, I would voluntarily allow my ticket to be punched, just so I could have that engraved on my tombstone.
(Heaves a huge sigh) Well, the whole freaking interview is wonderful. He talks about everything from the current crummy state of recording technology to baseball. He's a Derek Jeter fan, and except for the fact that Jeter plays for the Yankees, who could argue? The Bob claims to be a Detroit fan, but I remember that he wrote a song about Catfish Hunter, another NY Yankee. I suspect that the Bob may be a closet Yankee fan, and that might just be the only thing he's ever said or done to make me love him a little less... well that and the whole Born-Again Christian phase. But I've always believed that he only did that to lose money during his divorce from Sarah.
And don't get me started on Sarah. I've said before and I'll say again, it wouldn't have mattered to me what the man did, if he'd written Blood on the Tracks for me, to get me back? It would have worked. I'd have taken him back in a New York minute.
Anyway. After all these years, it seems that the rest of the world has "discovered" Bob. Fine. Now go away and leave him to me.
I feel cheated and dirty. I've loved this man for most of my life and been ridiculed for my obsession, and now he's hot? I mean, I've always been way ahead of the trend, the curve, the whatever, but this is just crazy. Now? Now that Bob is 65 and raggedier than ever, NOW he's hot?
How unfair is this? Now that he and I are creaking into geriatricville, shouldn't I finally have the old goat to myself? Shouldn't my imaginary boyfriend and I get peace at this stage in our lives? Shouldn't he finally have enough time to come to my house for dinner?
No. NOW he's hot. GAH. So fucking unfair. And get this quote from Rolling Stone:
When I ask Dylan what [Alicia] Keys did "to get into your pantheon," he only chuckles at my precious question. "I remember seeing her on the Grammys. I think I was on the show with her, I didn't meet her or anything. But I said to myself, 'There's nothing about that girl I don't like.'"
Oh, girlchild. Do you even know? Do you realize? If The Bob ever said that about me, I would voluntarily allow my ticket to be punched, just so I could have that engraved on my tombstone.
(Heaves a huge sigh) Well, the whole freaking interview is wonderful. He talks about everything from the current crummy state of recording technology to baseball. He's a Derek Jeter fan, and except for the fact that Jeter plays for the Yankees, who could argue? The Bob claims to be a Detroit fan, but I remember that he wrote a song about Catfish Hunter, another NY Yankee. I suspect that the Bob may be a closet Yankee fan, and that might just be the only thing he's ever said or done to make me love him a little less... well that and the whole Born-Again Christian phase. But I've always believed that he only did that to lose money during his divorce from Sarah.
And don't get me started on Sarah. I've said before and I'll say again, it wouldn't have mattered to me what the man did, if he'd written Blood on the Tracks for me, to get me back? It would have worked. I'd have taken him back in a New York minute.
Anyway. After all these years, it seems that the rest of the world has "discovered" Bob. Fine. Now go away and leave him to me.