Demigods to Dust

In Bob Dylan's latest interview with MTV executive, Bill Flanagan, he declares the Rolling Stones "finished".

Flanagan: What do you think of the Stones?

Dylan: What do I think of them? They’re pretty much finished, aren’t they?

Flanagan: They had a gigantic tour last year. You call that finished?

Dylan: Oh yeah, you mean Steel Wheels. I’m not saying they don’t keep going, but they need Bill. Without him they’re a funk band. They’ll be the real Rolling Stones when they get Bill back.

I am not quite sure what Mr. Dylan is trying to say. The term "funk band" is a bit abstruse. It definitely seems to be a disparaging criticism. Though, Dylan is quick to smooth over with a reparative opine regarding the requisite "greatest rock band ever" talk.



What does the retired bass player from the "greatest rock band ever" do in his golden years? Apparently, after years of diddling Mick and Keith's cast offs (Bill's sexual exploits are well documented including his 1989 marriage to eighteen-year-old Mandy Smith whom he had dated since she was thirteen and Maxim magazine rating him 10th in a "Living Sex Legends" list) he has taken to unearthing metal trinkets about his country cottage in Suffolk, England using his signature metal detector.



Here is some nice footage from the boys. Featuring Mr. Wyman, who is clearly thrilled, and some truly fucking inspired drumming from Charlie Watts. Also, check at the end, does Mick say, "Fuck a girl with far away eyes". Watch his lips.

Succored Divinity

Shoefly at his blog, Boxiana, has written the seminal piece on Allen Iverson's intrinsic constitute of character. And he did it all in a single paragraph.

"Personally my feelings about Iverson have never been constrained by any team, or game, or victory paradigm, but more on a moral, religious level. His is a will to overcoming that has long left me with the feeling that, had things been different, he might very well have been the modern day Ray Robinson, all the tools and spirit to be a welter and middleweight destroyer. There is something about what he has done, that, like a great boxer just past his prime, makes one hope he steps away, so that his will can be preserved, perhaps as a gentleman farmer, world traveler, and collector of rare and exotic orchids."

Allen Iverson has always represented some larger intangible virtuosity to me. His reverence and luminous should be preserved as whole and complete as possible.

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