Saturday, December 29, 2007

Open Letter to Bob Dylan

I know; we all have to navigate to where the money is, but I recently got your DVD, "Live at the Newport Film Festival; The Other Side of the Mirror", as a Christmas gift from my son, and had an urge to listen to more of your current stuff, especially the DJ program on satellite. Sadly for me, as I have a limited fixed income (read Social Security here; we were born in the same year) I am one of the many who can't convince myself that cable TV and satellite radio, as tempting as they appear, are more important than food, clothing, medicine and/or gasoline. Which got me thinking about how, at this point in your life, rather than being a voice that occasionally points up the ludicrous and inequitable in our society, your contemporary works have become available only to the 'much richer than I' crowd. I can see the irony in this, how about you?

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