Life has been full of Dylan for me lately. I finally got around to seeing the movie "I'm Not There," which was inspired by his music and the many lives that he has had over the years. I found the movie a bit disappointing and not all that great, but the music they chose to use was fantastic. For Christmas I received a new mp3 player from my husband that holds 2,000 songs. I have been steadily working on putting my entire collection of Dylan music on there. So far I have more than 200 songs, and I'm not quite finished. There are a few CDs that I have skipped over completely (for instance, the born-again-Christian ones). The thing with Dylan is there is so much music out there that it's completely mind-boggling. I have been a super-fan for almost 20 years now, and there is still music of his that I have never heard. There are songs that I will fall in love with someday that he wrote twenty or thirty years ago. There is no end to the stuff that has poured out of his mind over the last forty years. Obviously, when you have so much of it, not all of it is going to be brilliant. Nobody is ever always great. But there seems to be a never-ending supply of brilliant, beautiful, poetic, funny, emotional songs that came out of his imagination. And he's not even done yet. He is an old man now and he never stops touring or making records. Good ones, even. And I don't believe that he will stop until he dies.
Okay, enough of that for now. Adding so many CDs to my mp3 player has given me a chance to listen to things I have not heard for a long time. My favorite of all his bootlegs is the Vol. 1-3 collection. The movie I saw, and this CD brought me back to this song and it's loveliness.
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