Moving ? Again?

Yes thats right. I am packing things up and getting ready for another move this weekend. Believe it or not I really don't like to move. It is just something that I feel I need to do from time to time. I am amazed at the miles I have put on just by moving. I think my shortest move was from Pocatello ID to Richland WA. Maybe three hundred miles as the crow flies. Of course the longest was Medford OR  to Manchester NH. Well with where I am now I cant go completely across the country but I will be going all the way across the parking lot. I know, will I ever settle down? Will I ever grow up?

Taking a walk with Bob (stepping into a video)

I'm not sure where to begin. It's all about today, but today wouldn't have happened without yesterday. and yesterday without the day before that. I suppose it is best to go back a couple of weekends. It was a Friday like any other Friday. I decided I would put away a few beers and I did. Saturday a.m. I woke up feeling fine, that is until the teethache hit. Yes teethache. Man it was serious pain that lasted over four days. Skip ahead to this past Monday. I went to see the dentist. Put them in the same category as lawyers. All tolled 5300 plus to fix all of the problems. Well fuck. I spent that evening in a state of bewilderment. Tuesday rolled around and I found myself in a miserable state at work. The only saving grace was I knew the new Dylan cd was coming out. All morning I kept checking to see if the broad had put it out yet. No. No. No. I was wondering if the local conspirators had banned the release of if it was just do to the uselessness of this employee. I cheated and looked to see where the new releases were kept. Ah, here it is. A big grin spread from ear to ear across the back of my head. That was it. That was was when I decided to forget about the teeth and quit worrying about money (at least for the time being). At the end of my shift I picked up the cd and a package of chocolate chip cookie dough. It was the start of a great day.

 It rained all day which is very unusual around here. Some areas had 4" and widespread flooding occurred. Up on the Santa Clara river a dike was broken which shut down many roadways, businesses and schools. So today I decided to take a walk up the Virgin river, which is right behind my complex, up to where it meets with the Santa Clara. I stepped out the front door and was instantly bathed in sunshine. At the same moment Duquesne Whistle, the first track on the new cd started. I felt like I was walking into a video. It was a great walk. Listening to the music and seeing how high the water was and how high it had been. There were deer tracks right behind the brick wall of the apt. complex so I new it had pushed the deer out of the woods quite a ways.As I contemplated the music I start to think about the rubbish the critics were saying. All the reviews have been good, but they used words like "dark" "violent" "bitter". Well yes and no. Couldn't the same be said of Blood On The Tracks? Isn't " Tin Angel" just like "Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts"?  "Long and Wasted Years" "If You See Her Say Hello"? "Scarlet Town" "Idiot Wind"?

Over all I have to say it is an exceptional album. Great music and narratives. All songs are classically Dylan, reminiscent of not only his last several albums, but also other periods of his career. "Long and Wasted Years"  seems to have come straight off of "Knocked Out Loaded". The title track Tempest is a tale of the Titanic that musically seems to have come out of the civil war. Of course there is the always present blues influence and some country swing. "Pay In Blood" reminds me of a Keith Richards song and also of a tune off of Mick Taylor's first solo album. Pick it up, take a stroll. Its a great way to weather life's tempests.