tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27601672.post5828792759438443655..comments2024-02-16T18:07:05.844-05:00Comments on ZONE: Bob Dylan - Masters Of Warcowboyangelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13452987299073540171noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27601672.post-59715550061696620272007-06-16T19:41:00.000-04:002007-06-16T19:41:00.000-04:00Lawrence,Interesting, isn't that Desire holds up s...Lawrence,<BR/><BR/>Interesting, isn't that <I>Desire</I> holds up so damn well over time. It's one of my favorties, along with <I>Blood on the Tracks </I>and <I>Blonde on Blonde.</I><BR/><BR/>Crystal,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the message. I'm okay. We're having to look for a new place to live, which is stressful, and other thinigs have been going on, so I haven't had a lot of time, and haven't been in a great frame of mind to blog. Hope you're well.cowboyangelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452987299073540171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27601672.post-25253948691286308012007-06-15T13:35:00.000-04:002007-06-15T13:35:00.000-04:00William, haven't seen you around. I hope everyth...William, haven't seen you around. I hope everything's ok.crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681674503952991492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27601672.post-79588087020275289452007-06-10T23:21:00.000-04:002007-06-10T23:21:00.000-04:00Thanks for celebrating his b-day. Lots of glowing ...Thanks for celebrating his b-day. Lots of glowing candles on that cake.<BR/>I was listening to the radio when I heard it was his b-day but I didnt even put his CD in (I always have "Desire" close by).<BR/>And as two-dimensional as the video is I like it. I havent time for too much analysis. Just give me quick icons, images, emoticons or whatever :) I'll stick them on the brain somewhere for reference later and hopefully when its all done the many symbols will add up to wisdom and intelligence. But actually, as already becoming evident, they will probably just look more like the bumper of a hippie van.<BR/><BR/>Happy B-Day B-Dylan!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27601672.post-10003384019417441582007-06-04T16:49:00.000-04:002007-06-04T16:49:00.000-04:00I havbe trouble when I add YouTubes also - sometim...I havbe trouble when I add YouTubes also - sometimes after I've pasted the code in, nothing else works and I have to start over.<BR/><BR/>I found an mp3 of My Back Pages with George Harrison, Roger McGuinn, Dylan, Eric Clapton and Tom Petty :-)crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681674503952991492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27601672.post-69064249258127435252007-06-03T19:05:00.000-04:002007-06-03T19:05:00.000-04:00Good points, William.On a lighter note, Liam think...Good points, William.<BR/><BR/>On a lighter note, Liam thinks I might have committed heresy in Pope Cowboyangel I's book for preferring Cyd Charisse over Ginger Rogers on my blog, but maybe it's not so bad. After all, Cyd was a Texas gal, wasn't she?Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10754406706300818849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27601672.post-83450772832889878262007-06-03T14:10:00.000-04:002007-06-03T14:10:00.000-04:00Jeff,Thanks for the thoughtful comments. You expr...Jeff,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the thoughtful comments. You expressed pretty much exactly what I was thinking when I brought up my issues with the video.<BR/><BR/>The self-hatred of some Americans is, I think, the other side of the coin of blind nationalism. In both cases, people fail to see their own country in a clear way as it relates to the rest of the world and to those who have come before us. And even this condition isn't uniquely American.<BR/><BR/>It only takes a cursory reading of history to realize that human empires/nations - like human beings - are a mixed lot. The U.S. has a lot of power right now, so it's good and bad aspects tend to affect more people. But in the past it was someone else. Assyria, Persia, Greece, Spain, England, Aztecs, whoever. We all have our time in the sun to prove how great and horrible we can be as people.<BR/><BR/>The Masters of War are neither new nor unique to any one country. Our current ones here in the U.S. are terrifylingly arrogant and incompetent, a deadly mixture, especially when we're facing the likes of Al-Qaeda.cowboyangelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452987299073540171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27601672.post-70174004172351092682007-06-03T13:40:00.001-04:002007-06-03T13:40:00.001-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.cowboyangelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452987299073540171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27601672.post-31102146066343276802007-06-03T13:40:00.000-04:002007-06-03T13:40:00.000-04:00Crystal, you didn't dream that. You just commente...Crystal, you didn't dream that. You just commented faster than I could produce a good post. I've been having problems lately with the YouTube videos. When I try to make a change to the post, the video disappears. I had to start over, and, alas, your comment vanished along with the video. But now I found out you like My Back Pages. You didn't mention that the first time.cowboyangelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452987299073540171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27601672.post-83507613328407607352007-06-01T22:46:00.000-04:002007-06-01T22:46:00.000-04:00That's a great song by Dylan. Very, very poweful...That's a great song by Dylan. Very, very poweful lyrics. Wow, hard to imagine he's 66. We're all getting up there (well, at least I speak for myself).<BR/><BR/>As for the video itself, you're right, it lacks nuance. I take it for what it is and the spirit in which it is offered, because in a representative democracy it is ultimately our own responsibility as to what the government does or does not do in our name. I think there is a lamentable tendency though, for some Americans on the left to practice a sort of self-hatred regarding the USA, while simultaneously overlooking the faults of others in the world, even to the point of bestowing noble virtues and motives onto some of our adversaries. Masters of War in this administration, there are, no doubt, but there are plenty of others elsewhere too, from Al Qaeda to thugs like Vladimir Putin who can level a city like Grozny without batting an eyelash. We have a miltary-industrial complex. The former Soviet Union <I>was</I> a military-industrial complex. People are people, wherever they are, all subject to the same prejudices and foibles. We don't have a monopoly on goodness, but we certainly don't have a monopoly on evil either. As for the military profession, I've never considered it a dishonorable occupation in and of itself, although I am very interested in exploring the possibilities of Christian pacifism these days. <BR/><BR/>The war in Iraq is wrong. It was ill-conceived, ill-motivated, ill-planned, ill-executed, arrogantly-continued, and to fail to point that out forcefully in Washington and elsewhere is a scandal. That does not mean, however, that the Al Qaeda fanatics who blow up cars in marketplaces full of people and Shia fanatics who ethnically cleanse neighborhoods by taking drills to people's heads shouldn't be condemned for it. I don't demonize Islam or Muslims, but if I'm not willing to give American extremists and Christian extremists a pass, I won't grant it to Islamic extremists either.<BR/><BR/>In his article <A HREF="http://other-news.info/index.php?p=110" REL="nofollow">The God of Bush and Bin Laden</A>, Leo Boff points out, "Bin Laden talks of acts of terrorism with a Christ-like face, adding: 'Praised be Allah.'"<BR/><BR/>From others we've heard:<BR/><BR/>"Thousands of young people look forward to death, like the <BR/>Americans look forward to living." <BR/>-- Al Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman abu Ghaith<BR/><BR/>"We have discovered how to hit the Jews where they are the most vulnerable. The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win because they love life and we love death."<BR/>-- Hezbollah Leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah,<BR/><BR/>They love death like we love life? Wonderful... Yes, Masters of War we certainly have, but Al Qaeda and Hezbollah has them too. I'm sickened by these old men who coerce and con young men and women into donning suicide vests for some murderous errand or another. Would they ever do it themsleves? Hell no. They're doing just <I>fine</I> thanks, they've got their virgins in paradise lined up already, but you, <I>you</I> my young friend, you need that...<BR/><BR/>I guess that's the way it has always been. Old men snookering young men to go fight and die for some scam.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10754406706300818849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27601672.post-6070307244488373472007-05-27T17:11:00.000-04:002007-05-27T17:11:00.000-04:00I thought I had commented on this post, but maybe ...I thought I had commented on this post, but maybe I just dreamed that :-)<BR/><BR/>I don't really like Dylan, but he is good at songwriting. I especially like the song My Back Pages, and also the one for the movie Easy Rider.<BR/><BR/>Happy Pentecost.crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681674503952991492noreply@blogger.com