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  1. The New Adventures in Hi-Fi 25th Anniversary Edition is coming out next month. I am really into buying such things anymore. Although - I have to say it would be nice to have their take of Wichita Lineman on cd. But I can't justify buying that just for one song. 

  2. 1 hour ago, calvino said:

      

    Really? Not sure why Dylan would have any beef with Springsteen about writing a song about a killer or killings.

    Dylan has written plenty of those types of songs. 

    I think it was something about how did he know what they were thinking, Bruce was not around at that time/place, etc. 

  3. 1 hour ago, calvino said:

    For the love of Pete -- I have been playing and singing that song on my guitar for 30 years and just realized it when you mentioned it. That 1st stanza --- the song never even crossed my mind while I was watching that scene...

     

    I saw her standing on her front lawn
    Just twirling her baton
    Me and her went for a ride, sir
    And ten innocent people died

    From the town of Lincoln, Nebraska
    With a sawed off .410 on my lap
    Through to the badlands of Wyoming
    I killed everything in my path

    I can't say that I'm sorry
    For the things that we done
    At least for a little while, sir
    Me and her we had us some fun

    Now the jury brought in a guilty verdict
    And the judge he sentenced me to death
    Midnight in a prison storeroom
    With leather straps across my chest

    Sheriff, when the man pulls that switch, sir
    And snaps my poor head back
    You make sure my pretty baby
    Is sitting right there on my lap

    They declared me unfit to live
    Said into that great void my soul'd be hurled
    They wanted to know why I did what I did
    Well sir I guess there's just a meanness in this world

    I think Dylan once questioned his motives on writing that song.

  4. 16 hours ago, calvino said:

    To continue with the whole last week or so of discussion - I watched Badlands, yesterday.  Definitely an interesting take on a Starkweather and Fugate's murdering spree. Didn't know anything about the events, prior to watching the film.  

     

    Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek were great in the film --- both their characters seemed believable and non-believable at the same time. Malick  wrote and directed a great screen play - making a killer liked and loved by everyone. Only Holly's (Spacek's character) father showed his utter hatred towards Kit - and that started the whole ball rolling.

     

    Nicely shot --- nice seeing small western towns and its landscape. 

     

     

     

    There are also at least two made for TV movies and of course the Springsteen song Nebraska is about them. Caril was paroled in 1976. She is still alive I think. 

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