The long anticipate I’m Not There….the story of Bob Dylan is told by showing various stages of his life. As played by:

Cate Blanchett,
Richard Gere,
Heath Ledger,
Christian Bale,
Ben Whishaw and
Marcus Carl Franklin

Showtimes are: 1:00p 4:00p 7:00p 10:00p (Running Time 2 hrs, 24 min)

Anyway, in light of the film coming out this week, I found this list (I added some & subtracted others) to put everyone in the mood for Dylan (as if you’ve ever been out of that mood).

You know you’re a Dylan fan if:

(Thanks to Mike Fink, John Fink Jr., & Many Hip Orthodox Bobists for putting this together)

- You’ve dreamt of a highway of Diamonds with nobody on it

-You think of John the Baptist as a torturer

-you write chords to your morning cough and dub it “nicotine serenade”

-When eating pizza you get the “Tombstone blues”

-You have a favorite version of “Tangled up in Blue”

-You have a certain amount of respect for Johnny Depp’s character in Blow for when he talks to the Judge

-You’ve ever told an ex-girlfriend that its alright, she just wasted your time

-Room 103 scares you

-You’ve ever sang a Dylan song to yourself to remember civil rights issues during an exam

-you’ve asked a girl you love to crawl out her window

-You felt a sting this year when Eric Von Schmidt died

-Your girl just needs to see that she’s like all the rest

-You’ve ever pretended not to know somebody

-You’ve ever wanted her to stand in your shoes, so she could understand how terrible it is to see her

-You look at the red in the american flag a little too hard

-The night plays tricks when you just want to be quiet

-You’ve ever said, “it’s alright, I’m only bleedin’ “

- everytime you see a Cadillac go down the street, you reflect that it’s a good car to drive, after a war.

- You want to get married on “the 5th day of May”

- when you depart company you say, “time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore…you may not see me tommorow…”

- you’ve notified your next of kin that this wheel will explode

- you know the truth is just a plain picture

- you carry around with you pictures of the pyramids and snap shots of Billy the kid

- you’ve examined the nightingale’s code

- your tablecloth is from Malaysia

- you cut your hair and your finger nails just to see if it was really like experiencing death (it was)

- you keep your sanity through hard times by applying the phrase ” let me forget about today until tomorrow”

- you’ve ever tried to balance a matress on a bottle of a wine (it didn’t work)

- in lieu of the traditional “Home is where the heart is” you opted for “It’s not a house, it’s a home” to hang on your wall.

- you like your sugar sweet

- the tarantula is your favorite arachnade

- you walked along by the old canal and were a little confused.

- when some disaster is reported on the TV you say “it happens every day” and go to the kitchen to fetch a beer

- Your debutante knows what you need, but only Bob knows what you want.

- when strangers say ‘How ya doing?’ you reply ‘I’ve seen better days but who has not’

- you’ve got the fever down in your pocket

- you used to care but things have changed

- you ask the cops everywhere you go “Have you seen dignity?”

- you envy your father for being alive to see him in his prime

- you give Bob credit for his insight in the preparation of your (outside the) law review article

- you vow that if you ever happen to kill anyone, that you will not fall prey to the killer’s pride, security.

- on your first trip to America, you step off the plane and say “I think I’ll call it America”

-When you wake up on a nice day, you sing in your head (or out loud)… “early one mornin the sun was shinin…”

-Sometimes, you just can’t even touch the books someone else has read