{"id":1019,"date":"2007-11-26T10:51:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T15:51:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T16:37:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:37:26","slug":"don-t-look-back-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/don-t-look-back-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Look Back, Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pR8YuIGqWi4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nBefore the Pearl Jam concert became my football game commercial flip of choice I was flipping to the classic Dylan documentary I&#8217;ve been known to rave about along with many others here, <em>Don&#8217;t Look Back<\/em>. Have any of you watched that thing since aging from 22 to 44? I appreciated how much of a dick Dylan was when I first watched it, and to some extent I still like seeing him in full-on dick mode, but I&#8217;m now an adult. Large chunks of the film are nauseating and embarrassing. How &#8217;bout that scene in which he dresses down the blond, tortoise shell glasses-wearing &#8220;scientist?&#8221; Or the one above, with the guy from <em>Time<\/em>? On a developmental level, these are necessary stages in the modern notion of adolescence and young adulthood, but really, who&#8217;s Dylan think he is, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=endurance_the_richard_lloyd_interview&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=endurance_the_richard_lloyd_interview&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Richard Lloyd<\/a><\/strong>? Two other questions emerged from the scenes I&#8217;d revisited after all these years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it any wonder Dylan bypasses this part of his life in <em>Chronicles, Vol. 1<\/em>?<\/li>\n<li>Although I&#8217;ve long loved Dylan, I&#8217;ve never spent any time investigating his crowd of hangers-on. Who&#8217;s the guy who looks like a cross between Roger McGuinn and Robert Pollard? Is that Bob Neuwirth? Man, what an ass kisser! Who&#8217;s the black dude who&#8217;s often sitting quietly in the background, not seeming to engage in any of Dylan&#8217;s shenanigans?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The concert scenes are still strong, but I&#8217;m thinking we should file this documentary under <em>Watch before you&#8217;re grown up.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Pearl Jam concert became my football game commercial flip of choice I was flipping to the classic Dylan documentary I&#8217;ve been known to rave about along with many others here, Don&#8217;t Look Back. Have any of you watched that thing since aging from 22 to 44? I appreciated how much of a dick <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/don-t-look-back-indeed\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}