December 27, 2006


Townes Van Zandt Is Not Basketball

link. With a bizarre video of the opening ceremony to the 1984 Olympics thrown in.

posted by Mark Jones in Uncategorized 

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2 Responses to “Townes Van Zandt Is Not Basketball”

  1. Sheila Ryan on December 27th, 2006 at 3:35 pm

    Thanks for posting this link to something I’d never have come across on my own. A rapid initial reading, and I’m not sure I quite get all of it, but I believe I’ll read it again. A guy who writes of “that visceral sense of your life suddenly cut in two” in the context of Townes Van Zandt and the NBA is a guy worth rereading.

  2. Mark Jones on December 27th, 2006 at 5:08 pm

    Its a fascinating site. It really is almost another language they are speaking. And, they write in a forced academic manner at times, but the struggle of watching them try to unite wholly opposite concepts is what makes Free Darko worth the work.