Sixties' REVOLUTION (film)

Weather Underground (Vimeo); Diego Rivera, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

(Ro*co Films) The Weather Underground: The Explosive Story of America's Most Notorious Revolutionaries weaves the story of the rise and fall of a controversial group of idealistic young people (an offshoot of SDS or the Students for a Democratic Society) who -- outraged by the War on Vietnam [and Cambodia and Laos] and racism in America -- tried to violently overthrow the U.S. government during the 60s and 70s with countless acts of domestic terrorism. This is a cautionary tale for today's volatile times. More

Sixto "Sugar Man" Rodriguez concert (video)

Official Movie (youtube.com); Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

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Top 49 Influential Men: Sixto (askmen.com)

Searching for Sugar Man tells the incredible true story of Sixto Rodriguez, known as "Sugar Man," the greatest '70s rock icon who never was.

After being discovered in a Detroit bar, Rodriguez's sound struck two renowned producers, and they signed a recording deal. But when the album bombed, the singer disappeared into obscurity.

A bootleg recording found its way into white apartheid South Africa and over the next two decades, he became a phenomenon as big as Bob Dylan and every other icon of that generation.

The film follows the story of two South African fans who set out to find out what really happened to their music hero. Documentary 2012 Canfield Pictures AB. Director: Malik Bendjelloul.

• In concert Friday, May 19, 2017, 8:00 PM @ Cal State LA
• The Luckman Fine Arts Complex Cal State University
• 5151 State University Dr., LA, CA 90032  (323) 343-6600

Death of Nobel: Bob Dylan wins lit prize

Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Alex Shepherd (The Republic)

WTH?! This is impossible!

Has the academy lost all credibility first with Obama now with Dylan?

"The times they are a changin'." Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish-Christian folk-hippie troubadour/poet Bob Dylan (who allegedly chose his nom de plume after the famous poet Dylan Thomas, which he denies) has been voted the latest Nobel Laureate in "literature."

I love war. I never said I didn't, kids.

After voting Pres. B. S. [Barry Soetoro a.k.a. Barack Hussein] Obama a Nobel Peace Prized Laureate before he went on a killing rampage of conducting illegal drone assassinations (executions) by executive decree and expanding wars and Bush-era programs like mass surveillance and mass incarceration, the Swedish foundation has outdone itself. It has voted a peculiar folk/pop star Bob Dylan its latest laureate in literature.

This news comes from Sweden (where, sadly, they did not choose Woody Guthrie or Joni Mitchell who were more deserving). Dylan's archives were recently purchased and will be housed at the University of Tulsa.

He plays this weekend at Coachella's "Desert Trip." So potheads will be headed en masse to see a laureate perform his literature before an unusually big crowd. Elvis must feel cheated.

Bob Dylan [born Robert Zimmerman] wins the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature

Alex Shepherd, The New Republic

What about Sanders? Did the Nobel Academy figure out Bernie was a sell out/fraud?

 

I have real audacity; I ain't givin' my medal back!

An American has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for the first time in 23 years.

But in a shocking decision, songwriter Bob Dylan -- not novelists Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, or Thomas Pynchon [or folk superstars Woody Guthrie or Joni Mitchell] -- won “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

Dylan’s citation also compared him to [the Ancient Greek poet and author of the Odyssey and Iliad] Homer -- the Swedish Academy had to reach back 3,000 years to find a precedent.

 

Born [Jewish] Robert Zimmerman in 1941, Dylan was the enfant terrible of the New York City folk scene -- a impish trickster who annoyed (and stole from) many of his elders, particularly Dave Van Ronk and Pete Seger.

Dylan [who later converted to Christianity] first broke out in the early 1960s as a part of a growing movement of songwriters who were writing and performing topical material about the Civil Rights Movement and other current events.

Dylan has been labeled a “topical songwriter” since that period, but he spent only a short period writing songs like “When The Ship Comes In” and “The Times They Are A Changin’”... More

Coachella: Pink Floyd, Dylan, Rolling Stones...

Live.coachella.com; Wisdom Quarterly; Los Angeles Times

Imagine a concert for parents and grandparents -- Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd (i.e., Roger Waters), the Beatles (i.e., Paul McCarthy), Neil Young, the Who, and the Rolling Stones.

Coachella promoters Goldenvoice will bring them all out to the Empire Polo Field at Coachella later this year. It's Coachella III: 2016. The Los Angeles Times confirms it.

• Coachella promoters look to book Dylan, Stones, McCartney... (LA Times, April 15, 2016) The company that stages the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is planning a mega concert...organized by Goldenvoice, the LA-based...
• How did old punk upstart Goldenvoice snare the rock icons... 
• Stones, Dylan, McCartney, others in talks for mega concert... (Rolling Stone) The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, the Who...like Coachella, a second weekend of the mega concert is also being discussed. =...on the same bill at a music festival, the LA Times reports.

Lindsay Lohan: schadenfreude tragedy

Security technology company McAfee Inc. on Tuesday reported that searches for the 27-year-old actress are more likely to lead to online threats such as spyware and viruses than searches for any other celebrity. Slideshow: Jessica Biel

• Jessica Biel named Web's "most dangerous celebrity"

Why does WQ care about Lindsay? (She's a Lohan)

LOS ANGELES – Lindsay Lohan's home was burglarized. LAPD has released surveillance footage of the Sunday break-in at the "Mean Girls" star's home. The footage shows three suspects, faces covered with scarves, walking through a gate at Lohan's Hollywood Hills home. The suspects — one male and two females, 18 to 25 years old — entered the house through an unlocked door, ransacked it, and took property. Lohan tweeted on Twitter that she didn't think it was a "robbery" because "things that a certain old friend knew meant a lot to me" were taken.

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• Video: Talk of the Town: A Dylan Christmas

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