i'm not there

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a song title and also a movie title, played by 6 different characters but everything has a common connection. and that is by the name of Bob Dylan. 1st time i heard the name of bob dylan when i was still in primary. i didn't know him well but i knew his name thanks to my pak teh. i've search high and low for the music that will always sticks in my head eventhough some kind of music just died on that era. then in high skool, i heard the word 'indie artist'. they are people who speaks their mind bout everything!even bout a far away land. when i heard their songs, it hits me that their musics are influenced by the 90's (so i thought). wallflowers was the first band that i could think of. then alanis morrisette. but when people starts to heard bout indie and missunderstood the concept, i just walked away. my steps stopped when i saw the name bob dylan. it sounded like a toxicating acid genius (although he doesn't like the term 'genius') human being!so i googled him (sounds like an obsessive freak!) and try to hear couple of songs. i didn't really fell in love at 1st sight coz it sounded very blues to me. my brain was already invaided by instrumental, acoustics songs. but everything changed when i saw the song title Blowin in The Wind. and it was like a sign when i went to borders bookstore (in the curve), i saw a big book of photographed bob dylan, reassembled by bono. yes, u2 bono! well after i saw his pictures, i realised that he's a guy that is serious with what he's into but very free spirited. and when i check back all of the artist i've been admiring, their influences include dylan.

well, i also heard that cate blanchett acted as a dude in i'm not there and guess what? the movie is about him also. same as factory girl whr edie sedgwick (sienna miller) involve herself with a folk musician that critics predict that it was in fact dylan, played by hayden christensen.edie was also potray'd in i'm not there as coco played by michelle williams. so i bought 'i'm not there' and keep on fantasizing bout dylan ever since (the younger 50's-70's dylan that is).

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