I like it very much. I know you don't like Dylan, but you have something similar to him with your iconography and the "Old Weird America" (as Greil Marcus named it).
ps you should delete the other comment, which links to a site that combines two major internet pastimes, phishing and porn.
Thanks about the other comment. I saw it and just knew I couldn't read so I was like, 'Whatever.'
I like Dylan alright, now. I had to demolish some of my idealistic views of a beautiful voice (actually of a lots of things) and look at what he was really doing. It has made my life much better. And I LOVE old weird America. America has been the new world for all the really freaky people. As much as I love Europe, none of the people I have painted/drawn have been European. Oh, well, one has, but that's it. And he's just a wee little drawing.
I'm glad that you like Dylan better now. The traditional measure of voices is really just--what can carry well in a large building without amplification.
The weird America is definitely underrated and misunderstood. It's the freaks of Europe (and elsewhere) finally having the space to grow, while mingling with other oddballs. In Europe the circus freak is symbolic of something else, while here the freak is freaky for freakishness sake, and unless you have too many hipsters in your area (I do), nobody thinks too much about it.
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I like it very much. I know you don't like Dylan, but you have something similar to him with your iconography and the "Old Weird America" (as Greil Marcus named it).
ps you should delete the other comment, which links to a site that combines two major internet pastimes, phishing and porn.
Thanks about the other comment. I saw it and just knew I couldn't read so I was like, 'Whatever.'
I like Dylan alright, now. I had to demolish some of my idealistic views of a beautiful voice (actually of a lots of things) and look at what he was really doing. It has made my life much better. And I LOVE old weird America. America has been the new world for all the really freaky people. As much as I love Europe, none of the people I have painted/drawn have been European. Oh, well, one has, but that's it. And he's just a wee little drawing.
I'm glad that you like Dylan better now. The traditional measure of voices is really just--what can carry well in a large building without amplification.
The weird America is definitely underrated and misunderstood. It's the freaks of Europe (and elsewhere) finally having the space to grow, while mingling with other oddballs. In Europe the circus freak is symbolic of something else, while here the freak is freaky for freakishness sake, and unless you have too many hipsters in your area (I do), nobody thinks too much about it.
No one wants to think about freaks in the South. Mostly, they just want to torment/hunt/kill them.
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