my post didn't seem to go thru the first time... In a message dated 5/23/02 10:27:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Not to spread > more rumours, but I've always imagined that "Coyote" was at least partially > > about Neil Young. A while back we had a thread going about who Coyote was written about. I was convinced it was about playwright Sam Shepard, who Dylan asked to travel with them during the tour and write a screenplay for a film. Instead, Shepard ended up writing a book, Rolling Thunder Logbook. He lived on a ranch in Minnesota and I thought this was interesting in his one and only performance as "Slim" in Cowboy Mouth... Even within the characters of Cavale and Slim, there is an urgent need to role-play, to act out a variety of behaviors: Slim "growls like a coyote and howls" (p.149); Cavale and Slim "walk through the room as though it were the city" and pretend to shop for shoes (p.150); and Cavale "plays dead" (p.152). These two characters, as they borrow the myth of Dylan and Baez and derive significance from the real-life Smith and Shepard, enact roles within roles, overlay masks with masks in their compulsion to perform. rose in nj
