i watched the bob dylan 'american masters' or whatever by scorsese...

it was on two nights on pbs. the best part was dylan mixing up two homemade advertisements for pet care, they are normal to read, something like: "looking for someone to pick up and wash dog, clip his nails, brush his fur, and return to owner..." that's not exact quote.... and then the other one has something about a bird and a cigarette...

so bob starts by switching some of the words around and it sounds funny and the camera keeps cutting and coming back with him switching them up again... i'm gonna have to get the dvd and rewrite this... it was so funny, and probably the closest you get to dylan in the whole story.

otherwise he's shrouded and evasive. in old time press conferences, he bantered with reporters: they would ask stupid questions and he would give sarcastic/avoiding answers or just return with questions. i can understand why he would be offended/uncomfortable with their questions, but then why give press conferences? i don't know, maybe the record company made him do it. anyway, then at one point, the current dylan told the person interviewing him for this documentary that it was these kinds of questions that from this type of people "trying to pin him down" that he didn't like.

from the start, dylan said that he didn't want to "give anything away".. that if he gave himself away he wouldn't, i don't know, be effective.

i think that's why he doesn't like these questions... if you answer someone's prying questions and people think they've figured you out, they won't want you anymore. i don't know.