BOB DYLAN

Saw the first half of "No Direction Home" last night. I confirmed what we already probably knew. "Bob Dylan" is a trickster, shape-shifter actor-shaman. Dave Van Ronk, Liam Clancey and others said as much. "It was not necessary for him to be a particular person. You can go anywhere when you're somebody else." He seems to make him self up as he goes along, constantly re-writing his personal history as he did in the beginning of his career in NYC. I guess a lot of performers do this. They understand, far more than most, that "ordinary life" itself is a performance. I mention this here because this is one of the main things SATORI TANGO is about.