> The stock market is crashing. Home prices are diving too. So where should
> you invest your money? How about in a set of harmonicas, played and
> hand-signed by music icon Bob Dylan?
For whatever it's worth, Bob Dylan made a film a few years back about America as a decrepit, hollowed-out republic slowly dying in the course of civil war:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZM-yS5uCCM
The film focuses on a benefit concert.
Shane
Masked and Anonymous
Capsule by Jonathan Rosenbaum
>From the Chicago Reader
"Rene Fontaine" and "Sergei Petrov," the credited screenwriters of this mannerist fantasy, are pseudonyms for star Bob Dylan and director Larry Charles, a veteran of Seinfeld. In fact, every character talks like Dylan, and his character, a legendary singer called Jack Fate who turns up between prison terms to perform a benefit concert, is a fanciful but recognizable version of his own persona. Set in a contemporary America that suggests an endless skid row, with such Latin-American trimmings as an ongoing civil war and a dying dictator whose likeness hangs everywhere, this is at once a spin on Dylan's mythology, an excuse to feature as many of his songs as possible, and an unblinking look at American greed, corruption, and self-absorption. And for all the film's pretensions and avant-garde narrative dislocations, the star-studded cast--including Jeff Bridges, Penelope Cruz, John Goodman, Jessica Lange, Luke Wilson, Angela Bassett, Val Kilmer, Mickey
Rourke, and many others in cameos--keeps this buzzing. 106 min.