Heh, good spot. Quite hilarious.

There is now a documentary about him, The Adventures of Flannery, directed by Johnny Gogan. It was finished last weekend and gets its premiere at Cork Film Festival on Saturday. Thanks to my sources, I have a DVD copy already.

"The main point here is to emphasize the way the connectivities linking the pieces and the squares change during the course of play and how this ever-shifting mosaic takes place in a high-dimensional space difficult to envision in terms familiar from our everyday experiences of ordinary space and time." - John L. Casti, Complexification (1994)

Ball (Philip), Ballard, Bayley, Beckett, Botvinnik, Breton, Bronowski, Burroughs, Cantona, Casti, Chesterton, Dennett, Diderot, Dostoevsky, Drot (Jean-Marie), Duchamp, Ehlvest, Eigen & Winkler, Golombek, Hartston, Heinse, Kasparov, Keene, Keres, Koestler, Lasker, Lawson, Levin, Levy, Matsukevich, McCarthy, McDonald, a Newcastle United fan, Nimzowitsch, Orwell, Pynchon, Rousseau, Ruskin, Simon (Sir John), Snorro, Swift, Tagore, Taleb, Thatcher, Tomkins, Vidal, von Neumann, Wilson (Edward O.), Wittgenstein, Zappa and Zweig.

"Chess is a marvelous piece of Cartesianism, and so imaginative that it doesn't even look Cartesian." - Marcel Duchamp

Oh, and is that 'illness' quotation Atkin or Taleb? I'm confused...

<Up on the white veranda
She wears a necktie and a Panama hat
Her passport shows another face
From another time and place
She looks nothing like that
And all the remnants of her recent past
Are scattered in the wild wind
She walks across the marble floor
Where a voice from the gambling room is calling her to come on in She smiles, walks the other way
As the last ship sails and the moon fades away
From Black Diamond Bay>

<Dom> yes, I am not allowed any more leeway.

It's not that there is a different standard for me-- actually, everyone is supposed to follow the same posting guidelines.

It's just that I've violated them so many times and so flagrantly that they are holding me to the "letter of the law."

I was SPECIFICALLY told not to use the "H L Double hockey sticks" word, in fact.

Sigh.

So now I'm "clean."

OK quick trivia question:

This line from <Visions of Johanna> is an allusion to what famous film?

Extra points for identifying the people who made the film.

<Jewels and binoculars, hang from the head of the mule>

I meant <Desire>, of course.

Good grief.

Black Diamond Bay is a bit like Nostromo, which David Lean wanted to film, but died first.

I assumed your 'Imagine' was an allusion to 'Desire' since they occupy much the same space. Conceptually.

I like the hat he wore on <Desire>. I don't think he took it off for a year.

BTW live Dylan- he can't stay in tune eh?

Can't even stay in pitch, though it hardly seems to matter much.

The sound engineering on <Wesley Harding> and <Nash Count Skyline> makes him sound like Frank Sinatra. Love both records though.

Every so often Bob could sing live.

You know I just watched him doing <Hurricane> live during the <Desire> year and he couldn't even keep the tempo straight, though I suppose that could have been the drummer's fault.

And that wonderful woman who plays the violin on <Hurricane>-- she keeps looking over at Bob throughout, perhaps trying to lip read in order to keep everything together, cuz Bob's always changing the phrasing of the lyrics as well.

I'm surprised she didn't have a nervous breakdown.

But that's our Bob. Wouldn't trade him for the world.

- Arrah, O'Hara, how are 'oo?

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