#the times are changin

[donald-trump-official]

I have never changed my profile picture in the time I’ve ran this blog. Angry yelling trump was the only appropriate picture

Until today

[yourobedientserpent]

23 ain't what it used to be

One of the fun things about My Adventures with Superman is that it SEEMS like they've de-aged the core cast, but Clark is 22-23 years old, Jimmy is by implication the same age, and Lois might be a year older.

That's about the same age that Clark and Lois were way back when Superman originally debuted.* (Jimmy, of course, got aged up by about a decade.)

It's just that in 1938, a 22-year-old was assumed to be An Adult With A Real Job that probably didn't require a college degree, and in 2023, a 22-year-old is A Kid Fresh Out of College Working An Unpaid Internship.**

In 1938, a 22-year-old professional would probably have his own shitty-to-modest apartment. In 2023, a 22-year-old intern would have to split a studio apartment and sleep in a bunk bed.

And, yes, it's worth remembering that 1938 was The Great Depression.

*(The early episodes of the radio show regularly refer to Clark as "the young man.")

**(I don't think Perry would expect the Trio to do scutwork around the office for nothing, but those intern slots probably don't get much more than a minimal stipend.)

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin’ recording session, August 1963 © Don Hunstein.

[bizarrelittlemew]

Our Flag Means Death 1x10 | 2x8 ⇉ horizons // he went and got his man back 🥹

[gameringgungke]

edit 2: leak is FAKE everyone, go home

so of course i'm keeping up with the pokemon leaks and

I KNEW IT

I FUCKING KNEW IT

I SAID THE KANTO FAVORITISM STARTED BECAUSE OF BW'S BACKLASH AND WAS GOING TO MAJORLY STAGNANTETHE SERIES FOR YEARS AND NOBODY BELIEVED ME

update 113 notes later: might be fake, idk

[reprisearchive]

BOB DYLAN AGHHHH i love Bob Dylan

[what-gs-watching]

"You can be beautiful or you can be ugly, but you can’t be plain."

Soooo I’m pretty sure I died over Christmas; my entire family got a stomach bug that was the worst thing I’ve ever experienced, and now I have a head cold and I’ve lost my voice and I’m convinced this is some weird limbo and I’ll never be healthy again.

BUT! Before all of that, my dad and I got to indulge in our favorite holiday tradition: going to the movies. He and I have been sneaking off in the afternoon once everyone falls into a Christmas coma to see something for like, fifteen years. That man hates holidays because my mom goes insane trying to make them perfect and he just wants to escape and I appreciate that he allows me to go with him. 

This year, I was especially excited - the first time I saw the trailer for A Complete Unknown in September, I called him immediately screaming about it. Bob Dylan’s music was a huge part of my childhood, another thing that my stoic father shared with me, and could not wait to see it with him. Honestly, I’d been vibrating out of my skin about it, shrieking at the tv every time the commercial would come on.

Gang. It was so worth it. What a beautiful fucking movie.

Wherein, 19 year old Bob Dylan (Timothee Chalamet) heads to New York City in 1961, befriends Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger (Ed Norton), breaks into the folk scene, falls in love, has insane on and off stage chemistry with Joan Baez, writes songs that define a generation, puts the Newport Folk Festival on the damn map, learns he doesn’t really love fame, and then eventually goes electric. 

I do realize this movie isn’t going to be for everyone - it’s specific. Like, were you alive then and you’re wanting to relive that time and the way Dylan’s music made you feel? Perfect, you’ll dig it. Or, are you a super weirdo like me that WISHES you were alive during that time and just deeply loves the 60’s aesthetic and longs for what you think was a simpler era but it really was not, and you just want to romanticize the whole thing and feel wistful about it? Amazing, get your ass to the theater. 

One thing I appreciated about this movie was that it wasn’t really shoving anything down your throat, what was happening wasn’t overly explained, there were no ridiculous voice-overs or forced understanding, and honestly, Dylan was fairly mysterious. It didn’t feel like it was from his point of view, you’re not going to come out of this feeling like you finally GET him. He’s still this weird mythical genius, just doing what he’s driven to do. He never explains himself and he never wants to. So is this really a biopic? Or are we just seeing a snapshot in time, take it or leave it? I don’t think it matters; it’s wonderful, either way.

Also, like, DAMN, Chalamet. He was fucking incredible. Dylan is a hard guy to portray, he’s always been kind of aloof, withdrawn, he’s never seemed like this larger than life personality and to pull off that demeanor in a way that’s still endearing to the audience is NOT easy. He really encapsulated Dylan’s confusing charm, it was pitch perfect. And I had to laugh to myself a bit - last year’s Christmas movie was Wonka, also starring Chalamet. What a hilarious dichotomy from one year to the next. 

I’m going to be watching all of the award shows just for this. Give this dude all the flowers. 

As much of a fan of his music as I am, I never did a deep google dive on him and so I really enjoyed seeing his relationship with Joan Baez unfold. The scenes of them performing together were honestly beautiful, their voices blending and complimenting each other. Her song “Diamonds and Rust” unsurprisingly was also a large part of my musical upbringing and to learn she’d written it about their relationship - fuck. I listened to it again after we left the theater and it was devastating in an entirely new way.

Here’s the thing. I absolutely cried big fat tears a few times sitting there. It’s not a sad movie in any way, shape or form. But when he performs “The Times They Are A-Changin’” at the festival, just him and his guitar and his harmonica, and the crowd starts singing along with him, having never heard it before, I sobbed, smiling. 

When I was a senior in high school, my dad - who notoriously never put effort into gifts for us kids, relying on my mom to know what to buy - sat down and  made me a bunch of mix CDs of the songs he’d always been sharing with me. One of them was his 12 essential Bob Dylan tracks. The rest of that year, I lived in those tracks. The agenda pad I used for that school year was littered with Dylan lyrics, it’s my basement even now, “don’t criticize what you can’t understand” scrawled all over it.

So I was 17 again, sitting there, or 8 or 21 or any of the ages I’ve been where Dylan has kept me company. “It Ain’t Me Babe” is deeply ingrained in my mind as part of the dumpster fire that was the relationship I had with the first boy I ever fell truly in love with, and watching his long-time girlfriend Sylvie (Elle Fanning) witness him singing that with Joan Baez was like a punch to the gut. 

I’m not 100% sure what I’m driving at with all of this, but what I can tell you is: A Complete Unknown is beautiful. If you have any connection to Dylan’s music, it’ll light your soul on fire. If you don’t, it’ll still immerse you in a time or place you really should visit. It’s fascinating and visceral and glimmering, and it just might change you, a little bit.

HOW does it FEEL?

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

That 20-something white youtube sketch comedian you used to watch in high school ten or fifteen years ago; where are they now?

They haven't posted since their kid was born in 2018

Their output literally hasn't changed a bit, but none of their videos has gotten more than 5k views since 2018 (their most popular video has 100 million, and their golden age videos averaged 200k - 300k each)

They are more popular now than ever because they've sold out to the Algorithm™ and make clickbait content for unsupervised children to fry their brains

Same as above, but for indoctrinating right-wing teenagers

Oh, wow, they have a real industry career now; they're the showrunners of a cartoon on Nickelodeon you've never heard of (they started as a storyboarder on a show you HAVE heard of, which is apparently a rite of passage nowadays)

Techbro scammer; AI, crypto, AI-powered crypto, you name it

They work for peanuts doing behind the scenes punchup work for a massive entertainment conglomerate that advertises itself as Just One Guy™ (that One Guy™ has a billion subscribers and a trillion views, and you have never seen or heard of a single thing he has ever done, not even via cultural osmosis; your unsupervised nephew has, though)

[marbleboa]

Collection of some fanart I made for The Times They Are a Changin', a post-canon horror fic by @bandtrees and @hatsunoid!

One of my favorite fics to be sure--a beautiful, bloody, haunting work that takes everything the series built up and tears it down in a way that's both painfully real and respectful to its source. I could rant about it all day but please give it a read if you have the chance!

[xxx-theartofsuicide-xxx]

I take back everything I ever said about the musical ❤️ if y'all hadn't come along and pissed off Tim Burton this bad, we would not be here today. Bless each and every one of your precious little hearts. And thank you. Truly.

[pi-pi-pingu]

Pingu characters as Bob Dylan albums (1/2)

[peaceloveandstarrs]

Sitting here in my favorite coffee shop, half reading half watching people, not necessarily worried about notifications and I just had the thought that...

Maybe I'm starting to fall in love with life again. Because there's a lot of good if you just look for it. We get so wrapped up in the doom and gloom that we forget. I get so wrapped up in anxiety and insecurities that nobody even notices that I forget to look outside myself. And see the good things. Find joy in things I enjoy.

(I'm working on attention span but still...)

[locutia]

These times

[ Art for @cowardlybean . Fanfic the art is for : The times they are a changin’ ]

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joan Baez & Bob Dylan "With God On Our Side" Newport Folk Festival, July 25, 1964.

[icarusbetide]

are you normal or did you feel melancholy when you realized that the historical figures you think of as the "young generation" due to the time period you engage with, were one day the old ones? because i saw art of lafayette and washington's aides de camp right above art on henry clay's generation and it hit me like a sucker punch.

yes they are all dead white men from over a century ago but damn. alexa, play the times they are a-changin.

[judasbeast]

y'all remember when Dethklok's biggest problems were going to IKEA and who was gonna cook them dinner and now it's "hey look the apocalypse"