Daily Archives: August 22, 2010

The MTV Video Music Awards – 10 Years Ago

For the past few weeks, MTV has been playing videos in the morning (I know, videos!) featuring past VMA winners, in anticipation of the 2010 Video Music Awards, which will be held Sept. 12.

I couldn’t really tell you what’s been going on with the VMAs in the past few years, except the disastrous Britney performance in ’07, but I do know that watching these videos in the a.m. is bringing back a lot of memories.

Here are two of my favorite VMA performances, both from 2000. Watching these brings me right back to my living room, perfecting all the moves so that I could showcase them at school dances. I know, I’m a loser, but you know what? People requested me to do these dances. The chant was something like, “Go White Girl!” I could have been on Glee!

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Music on the Page: Bob Dylan Paints

Favela Villa Broncos by Bob Dylan. Image courtesy of Rolling Stone

So not only is Bob Dylan one of the greatest songwriters to ever live, he also paints, which makes him one of the few remaining Renaissance men (one of the others is Clint Eastwood – I love him).

From Sept. 4 to Jan. 30 of next year, Dylan’s paintings will be on display at the Statens Museum for Kunst National Gallery of Denmark. “Bob Dylan: The Brazil Series” is made up of 40 canvases portraying Brazilian scenes. As Dylan explains on the gallery website, “this exhibition is an accurate reflection of his endeavors as a visual artist; an area of work which has received increasingly intensive focus from the artist himself in recent years.”

Dylan made these works specifically for the Denmark gallery. To view more of his works, click here.

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