AQUARIUM DRUNKARD
[Newsletter highlights]
Renaldo & Clara (42 Years Later)
Last week, the Criterion Collection released its edition of 2019's Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, a semi-fictionalized mythic daydream which draws heavily from footage shot for Bob Dylan's Renaldo & Clara, which premiered January 25th, 1978—42 years ago—in its original three hour and 52 minute incarnation. Largely improvised, it didn't exactly set audiences or critics raving—Pauline Kael labeled Dylan's on-the-fly approach "a lazy, profligate way to make a movie; the technicians are forced to try to compensate for the fact that nobody has done the thinking." Maybe Bob agreed, as he allowed a shorter version to be cut before shoving the whole thing in the archives, but the original film is out there with all its drifting curiosity, if you want to judge for yourself.
Gary Lucas: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
With a new career-spanning collection in tow, guitarist Gary Lucas joins us for a discussion about his work with Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley's Grace, and teaming up with Arthur Russell and...Vin Diesel?
In 2017, astronomers were baffled by Oumuamua, the first observed object from interstellar space. Harvard astronomer and Avi Loeb posited that the most rational, conservative explanation is that ‘Oumuamua was produced by an alien civilisation." New Statesman speaks with Loeb, who's written a new book, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, about why he thinks the next such object could be spotted soon—and why he thinks there's a lot more of them out there. BLIMEY!
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