[via The Daily Mirror (UK)] Bob Dylan is reportedly in talks with a couple of car companies about becoming the voice of their GPS systems … the music legend then demonstrated what his sat nav voice might sound like, saying: “Left at the next street. No, right. You know what? Just go straight.”
Bob would join such luminaries as John Cleese and Borat who are already voicing satelllite navigation systems.
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66 Reader Comments
2:58 am
Why would you want Bob Dylan giving you turn by turn? I’d have no idea where the hell I was supposed to turn at least 50% of the time.
7:26 am
Unlike the stir he created in 1965, when the hard-core folkies felt betrayed, Dylan would be applauded nowadays if he went electric .. or at least hybrid.
9:42 am
A friend of mine pointed out that this would make North Shore trips unbelievably awesome: “turn that way, onto Highway sixty-ooooooone!”
9:47 am
You’re positively on 4th Street.
But there is no 56th and Wabasha.
11:49 am
Heh. Borat as my navigator. Love it. Hive five, you made it to your destination!
11:50 am
oops, I meant “high”
12:01 pm
Or, as you drive through downtown past Sheik’s, Borat exclaims “Sexy time!”
12:28 pm
So, if you got into a really bad accident with a 1976 Navy Blue Chrysler Cordoba with rich Corinthian leather, would it exclaim that you’re “tangled up in blue”? Maybe not.
12:29 pm
Does this even count as local news?
1:33 pm
Kurtis you’re behaving “just like a woman.” (Yesterday it was M*A*S*H, and today it is Bob Dylan lyrics…)
1:55 pm
I’m hoping someone quotes some Dylan lyics from his more obscure, gospel-y era. Wonder if this fabled GPS could have different settings to suit one’s preferences? Pre-electric, gospel/christian, greatest hits, etc.
2:01 pm
“Broken idols, broken heads
People sleeping in broken beds”
Good line.
2:50 pm
Another half ass baby-boomer sells out. He is a great example of the baby-bust generation, half ass ideals that they sell out as soon as they can but tell the rest of us how to live. Bob please go away and leave us alone you are washed up has been who always was over rated.
2:59 pm
@Swandog: You sound so bitter. Don’t you ever have anything positive to say?
2:59 pm
@swandog: Dylan is approaching 70 years old. It’s not like he “sold out” at 25 like so many of your contemporaries have done, based on just one hit in the marketplace and absolutely zero cultural influence or significance.
3:00 pm
Swandog, once upon a time you did the bump and grind in your prime. Didn’t you!
3:03 pm
If the sta-nav also provided weather forecast, and you lived in Florida this time of year, you’d be hearing a lot about the story about the hurricane.
3:06 pm
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, Nood’
3:40 pm
??? You call THIS selling out? Hee. Oh Swanny, you just want to gripe about something. …they sell out as soon as they can… I’m sure in the past 30 years he’s done at least a half-dozen things that could be considered selling out. I personally couldn’t give a hoot, but for example, the Victoria’s Secret ads??
Also don’t tell Bob to go away, why don’t you just ignore him?
Also he’s only in talks for this GPS thing.
3:53 pm
Dylan has been selling out for a long time. He even sold underwear for god sakes. My point is he is a hypocrite of the biggest kind. My gripe is that we hold onto some fake babyboondogel ethic and give clowns like Dylan a free pass. Who buys his crap, oh, other sell out baby boomers. He is the perfect symbol of the baby boomers, fake hippies that preached peace and love then f*cked the country over. Once they were done with their love fest the moved onto consuming everything in their path then went broke. Now they have their hands out in going into their old age because they saved nothing and spent everything. Dylan must need the money just like the rest of the loser generation.
3:55 pm
@swandog: exactly how did they f*** the country over?
3:58 pm
@swandog: Hypocrite? How so? He didn’t put himself up on a pedestal.
3:59 pm
He’s got a cute little radio show. And he’s just thinking about it.
“I probably shouldn’t do it because whichever way I go, I always end up at one place – on Lonely Avenue. Luckily I’m not totally alone. Ray Charles beat me there.”
4:00 pm
@Rat: We might not need a weatherman to tell us which way the wind is blowing but we need someone to tell us the story about the hurricane!
Sadly, Sven Sungaard can’t play a lick of guitar.
4:45 pm
The boomers spent more than they had. They were the most materialistic group of people ever to live and now they are broke. They were and are like locus consuming everything in their path on credit. They created a false economy that is now collapsing. They demanded and took but never gave anything back. They are the spoiled generation that we are now going to get to pay for their health care and social security for the next 20 – 30 years. Oh and their children what a bunch of babies that can’t handle anything because mommy and daddy provided every self absorbing thing they could to them and never taught them the word no.
4:46 pm
swandog: Hypocrite? How so? He didn’t put himself up on a pedestal.
He did it the MN way, passive aggresive.
4:53 pm
That is juat your opinion, swandog. Back it up with real facts and you’ve maybe then got a point.
4:57 pm
Yeah, that’s just, like, your opinion man.
5:08 pm
@swandog: Passive aggressive? Oh, po’ baby. Did Bobby say something bad about you behind your back? Can mommy do anything to make you feel better?
5:08 pm
Dylan has been selling out for a long time. He even sold underwear for god sakes. My point is he is a hypocrite of the biggest kind. My gripe is that we hold onto some fake babyboondogel ethic and give clowns like Dylan a free pass. Who buys his crap, oh, other sell out baby boomers. He is the perfect symbol of the baby boomers, fake hippies that preached peace and love then f*cked the country over. Once they were done with their love fest the moved onto consuming everything in their path then went broke. Now they have their hands out in going into their old age because they saved nothing and spent everything. Dylan must need the money just like the rest of the loser generation.
Hey Swandog! Love your work.
5:09 pm
They are the spoiled generation that we are now going to get to pay for their health care and social security for the next 20 – 30 years.
I nominate swandog for an Obama death panel!
5:19 pm
I myself find Swandog’s post to be especially enjoyable when read aloud in a “Bob Dylan” voice.
5:20 pm
He is the perfect symbol of the baby boomers, fake hippies that preached peace and love then f*cked the country over.
Swandog, it might surprise you to learn that there were — at most — maybe a million bona-fide hippies of the multiple millions born between 1946-1964. The rest of the Boomers were just regular folk who put their pants on one leg at a time. Many have voted Republican at one time or another in the past 40 years. Many did not smoke pot or drop acid. They’ve had 9-5 jobs most of their lives.
Besides, a lot of what passes nostalgically for ’60s hippie culture is actually out of some 1970s-era Sears or JC Penney catalog.
8:03 pm
A fitting Dylan lyric given the time of year, and Swandog’s bitter lament:
Dylan’s Summer Days from his CD Love and Theft
“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”
10:32 am
Is it too late to just admire one possible lyric for this purpose? “You go your way and I’ll go mine.”
1:19 pm
@shopgirl – who do you think purchased most of the homes that went bust. who do you think has driven credit cards? Without the baby boomers their would be no housing market in it’s current form or a credit crisis due to the morons buying more home than they could afford. They demographically drove up the price of housing and then cashed all of their equity out paying for their credit card bills. Now they are crying for a bail out like the rest of the baby boon leaders of corporate America. Wake up.
@noodleman
Most of them have done very little other than wine and demand huge tax expenditures to cover whatever program they wanted covered. They are Republicans until they want a program that fits their needs. They have saved less money for retirement than any other generation and now will never move one inch on health care reform or social security reform. They are a phony generation who will have their had out until the day they die.
1:26 pm
If that’s true, Swandog, the so-called Greatest Generation is to blame. They were their kids. Shoulda taught those young’uns better.
1:49 pm
FTR, that swandog’s post are funny when you imagine Bob Dylan reading them; funnier still when you imagine Bob Dylan actually singing them with a brisky folky rhythm behind it.
1:56 pm
No, he’s gone electric. His last couple CDs have cuts with kind of a Chuck Berry sound to them.
2:27 pm
If that’s true, Swandog, the so-called Greatest Generation is to blame. They were their kids. Shoulda taught those young’uns better.
If I recall the whole boomer mentality was a rejection of their parents belief system. Furthermore, their parents saved at one of the highest rates in history the boomers saved the least amount in history. Now the only thing the boomers got going for them is grandpa and grandma’s savings account when they die. To bring it back to Dob the fake Dylan, I guess he must need the money too. Hey maybe bob can write a song called “stuck with no money in the old folks home again”. The main verse will be and I gotta ask society to pay for my depends because they cashed out my 401k again.
2:30 pm
Really? Huh. I’m not sure if I’ll like this new sound you speak of.
2:34 pm
“If I recall the whole boomer mentality was a rejection of their parents belief system,”
Obviously it wasn’t taught very well then. Odd that you would let one generation of parents off the hook when you’ve been so vocal in your disgust of parents in the past.
If you don’t like Bob Dylan’s music, just say so. You wouldn’t be the first.
I doubt he needs the money.
2:35 pm
Hey at least they had fun while it lasted!
2:36 pm
Ps: maybe now we can learn from their mistakes instead of just griping about them, just saying.
2:37 pm
FTR, that swandog’s post are funny when you imagine Bob Dylan reading them; funnier still when you imagine Bob Dylan actually singing them with a brisky folky rhythm behind it.
How about a William Shatner reading of them? Or, maybe Max doing an imitation of a William Shatner reading of them?
2:43 pm
I think this whole concept of pitting the accomplishments one generation against another is really stupid. Every one of the generations had their flaws. There are jerks from the so-called Greatest Generation and great people from the Baby Boom. Same could be said for Gen-X, Gen-Y and on and on.
2:50 pm
If I recall the whole boomer mentality was a rejection of their parents belief system.
Only a revisionist would believe such poppy-cock.
You’re lumping the values of a small percentage of people in with the vast majority of Boomers who did not reject their parents’ “belief system.”
I’m guessing your understanding of history also includes a belief that the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor.
who do you think purchased most of the homes that went bust.
Gen X.
who do you think has driven credit cards?
Gen X.
2:51 pm
I do a better Dylan impression than a Shatner impression.
2:57 pm
Also, in every generation there are kids or teens who are going to reject their parents belief system; it didn’t just happen in the baby boomer generation.
3:26 pm
The main verse will be and I gotta ask society to pay for my depends because they cashed out my 401k again.
Can’t blame the Boomers for what happens to their 401(k)s. That all depends on how Wall St. performs.
It’s those greedy Gen X financial wizards who got fancy with derivatives and who got all that bonus money. (The basic age cut-off for a Boomer is someone born in 1964, i.e. someone who is 45 this year. Not as many Boomers on Wall St. as you think. Check the age range of the MBAs on Wall Street, swannie, who analyzed, traded and invested 2000-2009. Most are in the 30-40 age bracket. Those are the ones who played fast and loose with our money.)
If you’ve still got some spare change in your pocket, you might be able to buy a clue.
3:51 pm
I’ve never bought into the whole notion of vast generational sameness. And until I get to play guitar for Billy Idol, I’m not a member of Generation X.
4:35 pm
@noodleman guess what they wizards just took advantage of the stupidity of the baby boomers, buyer be ware. No one made anyone purchase a home to expensive or take out huge credit card loans that is on them. The boomers were just dumb enough to take out huge loans against their equity and they lost. The CEO’S are from the boomer generation and were ultimately responsible and greedy. They saw a market and took advantage of it.
Who over voted the clowns into office that created or allowed this whole mess to occur, ahh I think that that would be the baby boomers.
5:09 pm
Well, swandog, the stupidity on Wall Street continues — thanks to those Gen X financial wizards.
Re: Mortgages. Sure, there were a lot of people who tapped out their equity; then watched the value of their homes fall. It was not an exclusive Boomer exercise. But tapping equity was but one part of the scandalous puzzle. The run-up in home prices was based on sales — many of which were to first-time homebuyers; not a consumer group thought of as being 45-plus in age.
Home values didn’t start falling in earnest until the extreme derivative exposures on Wall Street became exposed, and traders and institutional investors panicked.
Oh, and it’s not just CEOs on Wall Street who get bonuses: “An auto worker making $60,000 a year is not going to drive people crazy, but some snot-nosed 32-year-old making three-quarters of a million dollars and whining about it, that’s going to make people crazy,” said Alan Johnson, managing director of Johnson Associates …”
5:25 pm
Who over voted the clowns into office that created or allowed this whole mess to occur, ahh I think that that would be the baby boomers.
On the one hand you claim the Boomers were all idealistic hippies; on another, you’re now claiming they voted for Bush two terms in a row?
Please make up your mind which side of the fence you want the Boomers to be on.
When you look at the demographic split in 2000 & 2004, it is evident that not all Boomers voted for Bush. More voted for Gore or Kerry. Funny, too, how the largest voting demographic (30-49) isn’t mostly Boomer, either. It’s Gen X, and they voted more Republican than Democrat.
5:55 pm
nood, autoworkers making $60,000/yr drives the libertarians and conservatives absolutely bat shit insane.
6:24 pm
@mnblrmkr: It’s odd that you say that. Do libertarians and conservatives want US workers to be making LESS money? $60k per year is solidly middle-class.
6:41 pm
yes, they do want them to make less money. The more the worker is paid, the more they have to pay to buy a car.
Part of it is a vehement anti-union thing, but it’s mostly because they think they’re entitled to cheap stuff.
7:03 pm
If the boomers don’t support a canidate they can’t win. The majority of the boomers are who determine every election. Their kids are starting to have an influence but nothing like the boomers.
On the fence? that is my point they are all on the fence, like dylan said “you gota stand for something or your going to fall for anything”.
The genx finacial wizzard took advatage of a generation of finacial idiots. I do not like or agree with what they did but if money is involved then someone is going to try to take it. I have no problem regulating the finacial wizards but unfortunatly they did not break any laws. Laws were changed under both admiistrations not just one.
For the record i support unions and am fine with them fighting for every penny they get. funny that unions fell while the boomers were in power.
7:07 pm
unions’ decline started long before the boomers took the reins. (think Regan busting PATCO, and even before then)
7:38 pm
@swandog: If WE don’t support a canidate they can’t win. The majority of US … determine every election.
I would say my reworking of your phrase is universally true across all spectrums — age, income, etc.
Still, that doesn’t change the simple fact that Boomers did not elect Bush. It would appear, too, that the largest bloc of voters, numerically, weren’t Boomers but Gen Xers.
And, yes, just as you stated, it was those Gen X financial wiz kids who took the Boomers to the cleaners. So, whose more culpable then for why we got into this mess? Are you blaming the victims now for being sold a bunch of snake oil medicine derived by unscrupulous, greedy capitalists?
8:23 pm
Blaming the victim? Baby boomer speak for it’s not my fault that I spent to much. If you can’t understand what you are doing then don’t do it, that goes for mortgages, credit cards or auto loans. No one made anyone do anything. Derivative trading and unsecured mortgage backed securities are bad financial tools, however, they were made possible by stupid people who signed on the bottom line. Now we have to again bail our rich wall street ass holes and dead beats that can’t balance their check books. Lucky me I will get to foot the bill for both groups through my tax dollars.
8:29 pm
On the political front by definition the gen-xers do not count when it comes to political power, Their are not enough of us. We can sway elections but can not demographically win by shear numbers. We are sandwiched between the baby boomers and their brats.
1:17 am
For all the shit The Olds give Gen Y, the Boomers are an awful lot like Gen Y, except they still use AOL. They’re narcassistic and everything has to go their way or they can’t handle it.
Shut up, Boomers.
Death Panels are Gen Y’s Social Security.
/Just barely Gen Y
//Doesn’t really hate The Olds
///Some of my relatives are old/Boomers!
1:28 am
Also, Gen X, maybe if you’d rented “Singles” and “Reality Bites” a few less times, washed your clothes more often and got all your Kurt Cobain angst out in a month like Gen Y did for MJ, maybe you’d be less screwed too.
Shut up, Xers!
/Just missed that boat
//We will crush you
///Kidding
////You guys are already on the verge of a breakdown and will self-destruct without us having to do much
/Just doin’ my part to fuel the Holy Generational War!
9:24 am
Man stuck in elevator for more than an hour calls boss instead of 911.
Gen X?
2:20 pm
A chart of generational differences.
Jus’ sayin’.