it was forty years' ago today (and tomorrow)

when you think of all the amazing things that have happened in world history, it's probably pretty sad that if i had a time machine i would choose, out of all those amazing things, to go to the recording of like a rolling stone. well i can't, i don't have a time machine, so i just want to find out as much as i can about it with as little mediation as possible.

i've just finished reading like a rolling stone: bob dylan at the crossroads by that annoying cunt greil marcus. at the crossroads of what, i don't know. i'm sure gm writes with his trousers around his ankles. it's so tiresome having to wade through all his shit when i just want to know what went on there. there's a bit of a half-arsed transcription of the session towards the end of the book.

i can't remember why gm mentioned it, but i was intrigued by the fact that the singer david thomas out of pere ubu had always misheard tammy wynette's stand by your man as stand by, earthman. for this piece of information alone, i am glad i read the book.