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Dylan drives a Cadillac: “They make you feel like a million bucks.”
*PLEDGE WEEK* Cooler than Ramadan!
If anyone says a word against Dylan I will hunt them down and eat their liver.
“Well, I seen a Cadillac window uptown
And there was nobody aroun’
I got into the driver’s seat
And I drove down to 42nd Street
In my Cadillac
Good car to drive after a war.”
Talkin’ World War III BluesAnyone recognise where the ad was filmed? Looked like some of the scenery in It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Posted by walterplinge on 2007 10 24 at 10:25 PM • permalinkHard to say, Walter. I would have sworn parts of Wyoming or Idaho away from the interstates, but I think that are similar places in California.
Pretty cool drive, though. Those small towns always have something interesting.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 10 24 at 10:58 PM • permalink#6 walterplinge
No, IAMMMMW was filmed in various places in Southern California and that commercial looks more like New Mexico or West Texas… probably along old Route 66, which would be especially appropriate (and why it may look familiar).
Having lived (almost) my whole life in SoCal, I’ve managed to drive on every road used in the movie at one time or another. I recently saw a book or magazine article that had “then and now” pictures from some of the more memorable scenes. Things have changed considerably. For instance, most of “The Big W” is gone - only one of the palm trees still stands, if I remember correctly (the whole thing did as late as the mid-1980s).
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 10 24 at 11:12 PM • permalink“Well I’m drivin’ in the flats in a Cadillac car
The girls all say, “You’re a worn out star”
My pockets are loaded and I’m spending every dime
How can you say you love someone else when you know it’s me all the time?”Summer Days, Modern Times album
Posted by brucey bonus on 2007 10 24 at 11:16 PM • permalink#9 RebeccaH
Speaking of which, some f*ckwit got arrested here in Hesperia trying to start a fire along a closed section of Highway 173 (on the north side of the San Bernardino Mountains). Since I know the areas where the two current fires in the mountains started, and there is NO WAY they could have started by any manner other than human activity (whether intentionally or accidentally), I wonder if this is the guy responsible for more than 400 homes being destroyed.
The last big fire they had up there (in 2003) was confirmed to be arson. No arrest was ever made for that crime, but some people think this guy was responsible, because of how the fire was started (rumor has it that it was emergency highway flares thrown into the brush by the side of a road, but authorities have yet to disclose details even now).
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 10 24 at 11:39 PM • permalink#13, Spiny, I grew up in west Texas, which had the same dry climate conditions as California. In the dry season there were always brush fires and grass fires (usually started by somebody tossing out a cigarette butt along the highway), but few overt arsons, and not many neighborhoods lost (in those days, not many to be lost).
I hope your arsonists are caught, prosecuted, and sent to prison for many, many years. Forget the psycho/social/sobsister propaganda that they are misunderstood neurotics with bedwetting issues who need counseling. They’re angry, passive/agressive would-be killers who revel in the destruction by fire of private property and human lives. They deserve to be put away for life.
#3 OK, counted to 10 and Imre’s still not here, so I’ll weigh in on why Dylan is God. The original neo-con, Dylan seriously disappointed the left, who adored the young protest singer, by basically growing up on them and riduculing their simplistic idealism. His parting shot to the protest song crowd was:
“I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.”
Since then I think he has been his own man give or take a few lapses. Good to see him motoring on.
#5, 11, 16: I’ve been dredging the mental archives for another Dylan ‘Cadillac’ reference. But my needle is stuck on that stupid Neil Young line in his Alabama that inspired the big Skynyrd bitchslap.
Dammit, now I’ve been googling and still no Caddy’s, but I’ll raise you a Buick, a Chevy and a lot of railroad cars.
19; big jim; You thinking of Springsteen?
Posted by dean martin on 2007 10 25 at 09:15 AM • permalinkI stopped believing Dylan was in any way a cultural revolutionary long ago, when I heard he loved playing golf.
As for his songs, like Simon and Garfunkel, he always was a clever middle-class strummer. What anyone else ever made of their lyrics was strictly not [1] their business .
What I am saying is that the 60s always was phony, except for the sexual profligacy…..
“His parting shot to the protest song crowd was:
“I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.” “
This was a pretty clear passing shot:
“I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes, and just for that one moment I could be you. Yeah I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You’d know what a drag it is see you.”
from “Positively 4th Street”, 4th St being the spitirtual centre of the lefty hippy folky movement.
Posted by James Hamilton on 2007 10 26 at 06:22 AM • permalink
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