""... Nothing can describe the darkness behind Bob Dylan. Precarious, thunderous and risky are all good words, but there is also a vulnerability behind his character that many people don’t see today ..."
When my old friend, R, was undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer, he was living on the couch in the living room of his parents' house in Modesto, California. Without that couch, he would have been homeless. During that time in late 2001 and early 2002, he would talk with me on phone up here in Bellingham, Washington, almost 1000 miles away. One of the things he did to fill his time was watch hours and hours of movies on DVD. Something that he liked was to listen to recordings of Bob Dylan songs he had never heard before and which I could play for him over the telephone. Over and over again he would tell me that he had watched yet another movie in which he was surprised to hear a Bob Dylan song as part of the soundtrack, and once it was a song I had just played for him over the phone, "Every Grain of Sand," which can be heard at the end of the harrowing movie, "Another Day in Paradise." One of the first things we had talked about when we met at the ocean in December of 1966 at age 17 was Bob Dylan.
In the article linked to in the above quote, the writer mentions several movies in which Bob Dylan songs are part of the soundtrack. There are at least 245 movies and TV shows in which Bob Dylan's songs have appeared since 1965.
(Photo: Looking east on September 2, 2016, late in the day)
