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The Economist (Eastern approaches blog) raises some important issues about the fate of Hungary's Secret Police Archives.
More anon, concerning my own experiences of accessing the Czechoslovak StB archives in Prague, a beautiful city where I worked for three and a half years before the Velvet Revolution.
Monday, 28 February 2011
The Late Suze Rotola
From the UNCUT Magazine Newsletter:
"The sad news reached us at the Uncut office this morning of the passing of Suze Rotolo, aged only 67. She was Bob Dylan's first great love, the inspiration for many of his most tender and enduring songs (“Don't Think Twice, It's Alright”, “One Too Many Mornings”) and, of course, his co-star on the sleeve of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan".
Update from MOJO Magazine
Dylan's muse
I enjoyed reading her memoir, "A Freewheelin' Time" (Aurum Press, 2008).
Girl from the North Country
She had this to say about Dylan's songs (p. 290):
"The songs are translations of moods and sensations he experienced. They are fictions that allude to those experiences. Bob's songs were for himself and to himself in another person's voice as much as they were in his own".
"The sad news reached us at the Uncut office this morning of the passing of Suze Rotolo, aged only 67. She was Bob Dylan's first great love, the inspiration for many of his most tender and enduring songs (“Don't Think Twice, It's Alright”, “One Too Many Mornings”) and, of course, his co-star on the sleeve of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan".
Update from MOJO Magazine
Dylan's muse
I enjoyed reading her memoir, "A Freewheelin' Time" (Aurum Press, 2008).
Girl from the North Country
She had this to say about Dylan's songs (p. 290):
"The songs are translations of moods and sensations he experienced. They are fictions that allude to those experiences. Bob's songs were for himself and to himself in another person's voice as much as they were in his own".
Portland Bill, Boat-Launch Hook
"From thence you maye fee the Race of Portland,
as it is called, which is the Meeting of the two Tydes, with soe great
Striveing and Beateing of the Waves, that it is most dangerous for anie Barke
to pass over it, though in the calmest Season" - Thomas Gerard, 1620s
Eleftheria Kotzia, Greek Guitarist, recital in Dorset, 4 March
Eleftheria Kotzia, from Northern Greece, will be giving a guitar recital at St. Mary's School, Shaftesbury, on Friday 4 March, at 7.30pm. Details from 01963 251620. A chance to hear some Hadjidakis, as well as works by Villa Lobos, Bach and other composers.
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Gallows Hill, Dorchester, Dorset Martyrs
The Dorset Martyrs, by Elizabeth Frink
Gallows Hill
The fate of Hugh Green, the martyred Catholic priest, at Gallows Hill, Dorchester, 1642
from Butler's Lives of the Saints (pp 191-192)
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