yep Dylan shoulda got it before he bombed weddings in Pakistan too
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:37 (seven years ago) link
or at least before the christmas album
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:38 (seven years ago) link
i haven't seen this victoria's secret ad but i choose to believe it involves a lingerie-clad dylan provocatively reclining on a big brass bed
― doo-doo diplomacy (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:38 (seven years ago) link
morbs gets hot take #2
― doo-doo diplomacy (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:39 (seven years ago) link
I heard he was pretty good at those Afghan weddings
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:41 (seven years ago) link
But yeah the ones in Pakistan he was under the weather
Obama shoulda bombed at Budokan
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:43 (seven years ago) link
"Dylan's lyrics are poor as poesy. The Nobel should have gone to Caetano Veloso."
they are songs though, not poems. his lyrics work great as song lyrics. and caetano hearts dylan so hard!
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 October 2016 12:46 (seven years ago) link
this is bullshit - books get little enough exposure as it is without giving this award to dylan. i like his music but the entire idea of lyrics as poetry or literature is a fallacy.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:33 (seven years ago) link
if books meed more exposure their writers should set them to music tbh
― doo-doo diplomacy (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link
*need
next year an app is going to win
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:38 (seven years ago) link
Orhan Pamuk: I am returning this in protest of the latest recipient and because Turkey is slipping down the charts.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, October 13, 2016 11:20 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Quality post imo
― (SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:42 (seven years ago) link
a signed cassingle of 'de doo doo doo, de da da da' is even now winging its way toward stockholm
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
Lol
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CupV2LxW8AA82E3.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 October 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
"Brownsville Girl" didn't top Pearl Buck? pish tosh
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 October 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
That would look great printed on toilet paper
xpost
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 13 October 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
If they were going to give it to an American poet why couldn't they give it to Billy Collins? Oh wait.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
lol James, that was perfect <3
― flopson, Thursday, 13 October 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
so not gonna happen
^^^now in the running
― mark s, Thursday, 13 October 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
Next time an advertising firm for their slogans. (j/k, I think it's fine that it went to Dylan)
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Thursday, 13 October 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSdsTkqerOw
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
And Dario Fo died. A mere coincidence?
― alimosina, Thursday, 13 October 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
Good point. Better ask The Widow Gray.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
i like a few bob dylan albums
but a man of letters he is not
thanks nobel prize for firmly cementing your place in some back alley trash bin
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
cuck
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
without ideas or violence?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
http://media3.giphy.com/media/oR5LcCn6pimI/giphy.gif
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
Don't you tell Henry James.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Nobel's got your prize
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
I like Bob Dylan. The Nobel committee made a strong choice imo. I hope they continue to award prizes to people I like.
― Treeship, Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
Obama shoulda bombed at Budokan― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, October 13, 2016 8:43 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, October 13, 2016 8:43 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Bob Dylan at Budokan rules btw.
― Treeship, Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:50 (seven years ago) link
I'm really excited about this. Bob Dylan deserves it.
Expanding the definition of "literature" is a good thing imo. Dylan certainly writes good words.
― sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
otm. The idea that "real" poetry is something written rather than performed is super ahistorical as well.
― Treeship, Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
Otm. Just ask Homer and Jethro.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
if people can't see the many parallels of homer and mr zimmerman humanity really has no chance
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 13 October 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
books get little enough exposure as it is without giving this award to dylanI don't think "serious literature" or any of the possible nominees are in need of pity
entire idea of lyrics as poetry or literature is a fallacybelieve it's the other way around
anyway, I'm sure Bob is cheered up by this and it's the most popular Nobel prize in my time which is great - some people are complaining that next year it might as well be Stephen King, but that would be a great thing! pretentious modernist aesthetics are way done
― niels, Thursday, 13 October 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
The Homer comparison obviously isn't meant to elevate Dylan. The point is that sung poetry and poetry with musical accompaniment are way older than written poetry, and it's only a narrow definition of literature that would exclude the traditions of oral narrative poetry. So why exclude songwriters?
― jmm, Thursday, 13 October 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
I suspect a certain gaggle of self-important Swedes would never see him as a worthy recipient
well cover me with icing and call me a cake, he won!
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 13 October 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure Bob is cheered up by this and it's the most popular Nobel prize in my time which is great
Pinteresque silence.
― (SNIFFING AND INDISTINCT SOBBING) (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 October 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
weird to think the swedish academy thinks america's best writer is someone who dedicated his life to writing limerick-like verses with alternating rhyme schemes purely for music
sounds like exoticization of american culture
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
Stephen King is a better writer than Bob Dylan and would have been a better choice
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:06 (seven years ago) link
he hasn't got as great tunes, though
― niels, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
http://static.oprah.com/images/obc/201004/slideshow/20100414-rock-bottom-remainders-stephen-king-band-600x411.jpg
― Har-@-Iago (wins), Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
hmm will have to look into that
― niels, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
Rock Bottom Remainders, right?
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
so what you're saying is woody allen might be inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame afterall
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
i don't care who wins any award but the idea that lyrics can't be "real" poetry or literature is some reactionary nonsense
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
stephen king is actually a really bad writer. i checked and everything.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link