Dylan and His Language Tangle in the Captains Tower

while fishermen throw flowers....

Am looking forward to seeing I'm Not There. Weird can be good.

Todd Haynes's much-anticipated Bob Dylan biopic, I'm Not There — in which the legendary musician is played by Cate Blanchett and an 11-year old black kid — debuts this week at the New York Film Festival. Critics say the film "jumps all over the place," is "densely idiosyncratic," and lacks "a thread of narrative coherence." In other words, it's a fitting tribute to rock and roll's most iconic absurdist, a guy who hasn't made any literal sense since 1963. Dylan's made baffling music


Self Portrait

books (his 1966 novel, Tarantula), and films (1978's Renaldo and Clara, 2003's


Masked and Anonymous

but he's never made less sense than when he was talking to reporters. Here's our list of the Top Ten Most Incomprehensible Bob Dylan Interviews of All Time. [From The Ten Most Incomprehensible Bob Dylan Interviews of All Time -- Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine]

you've probably seen a few of these, but still, worth seeing again. In defense of Bob, after the 9876th interviewer asks the same inane question, I'd probably start not caring what I said either.

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