Feeling Minnesota!

Is Bob Dylan a sell out, or is it the fact that we all know that he is the king of Pantyraiders! Victoria's Secret has inlisted Dylan to appear in their new TV ads. (Via Gorilla's foray as Grambo) The man who was bonin' Joan Biaz filmed the commercial in Venice, which features "Love Sick" from his critically acclaimed, Grammy award winning album "Time Out of Mind." He appears, so sugar daddy, with yummy Adriana Lima in the commercials. My fellow Minnesotan, Bob has been a bit Buzzworthy in the last few years, with the Library of Congress is preserving his works as they are "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." In other Bob news, it seems that another Minnesotan, Chris Johnson, who is an English teacher living in Japan, discovered much correlation between Bob's Love and Theft and Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld by Japanese physician and non fiction writer Junichi Saga. Check out this:

Confessions of a Yakuza: "My mother...was the daughter of a wealth farmer...[she] died when I was 11...My father was a traveling salesman...I never met him."
Dylan's "Po' Boy": "My mother was a daughter of a wealthy farmer/My father was a travelin' salesman, I never met him."

Confessions of a Yakuza: "I'm not as cool or forgiving as I might have sounded."
Dylan's "Floater": "I'm not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound..."

Confessions of a Yakuza: "There was nothing sentimental about him--it didn't bother him at all that some of his pals had been killed."
Dylan's "Lonesome Day Blues": "He's not sentimental, didn't bother him at all how many of his pals have been killed."

Apparantly, the author and editor are flattered, and not in any mind to sue. Who wouldn't be!