Achieving Parody

We're all looking for peace, aren't we? Our hearts' ease? Well, good luck with that. What I do have on offer today is the second-best thing: a spot-on Dylan parody. This film, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, came out late last year and I only heard about it a few days ago because nobody tells me nuthin.'

It's a parody of music biopics, as you might guess, and the Dylanesque tune starts with the lyrics " Mailboxes drip like lampposts in the twisted birth canal of the coliseum/ Rim job fairy teapots mask the temper tantrum O' say can you see 'em" and by the time you get to "The mouse with the overbite explained how the rabbits were ensnared," you'll probably be most of the way toward at least temporarily forgetting what's bothering you. There's a Barack Obama commercial at the end of the clip, which isn't my idea. No free lunch, gang. But enjoy...