http://www.dylanology.com The Yippie! Museum Press / 9 Bleecker Street / New York, New York / 10012 phone 212-677-4899 yippiemuseumpress@nyc.rr.com announces its 2005 publication list: November 2005: Dylan to English Dictionary by A.J. Weberman (the inventor of Dylanology) ISBN: 1-4196-1338-3 Binding: Trade Paper 560 pages $32.99 December 2005: The Pie And The Mighty by Aron Morton Kay (Yippie! Pie Thrower) You are receiving this message because we have mailed the Bob Dylan To English Dictionary or because we wish to know if you want to receive a copy. Nothing like it has ever been written before. THE DYLAN CODE BROKEN Future literary historians will realize Bob Dylan is the poet laureate of his generation and that the relationship between A.J. Weberman and Dylan was similar to that of the relationship between Paul Verlaine and the opium smoking Arthur Rimbaud. Weberman is Bob Dylan’s toughest critic (Verlaine shot Rimbaud over an argument over Rimbaud’s poetry) but on the other hand AJ is also Dylan’s most vocal advocate when it comes to demonstrating the genius of Dylan’s poetry. This is because Weberman has detected the formation of a new language created by Dylan’s extensive use of lesser-used word meanings – Dylanese. A word like gate can mean the amount of money taken in at a concert, house can mean an audience, bundle can mean several bags of heroin, a nag can be a horse or a persistent worry or concern, like the need to get more heroin as in “when that nag came around the track sure enough we had one.” (Dylan – true author of Up On Cripple Creek) You may say to yourself, “Big deal.” But almost 2,000 of these words used the same way 80% to 90% of the time to form coherent ideas? And then Dylan creates rhymes within this language? What’s with this guy? He is a true freak of nature. Everyone says Dylan is the Shakespeare of his generation – Shakespeare was the Dylan of his generation. To prove his contention AJ has written the Bob Dylan To English Dictionary that translates about 800 words from the poetic language Dylan has developed into everyday English. When a translated word appears in the same sentence, verse or paragraph next to a string of already translated words all these translated words make sense within the logic inherent in language forming a coherent thought and parallel the contemporaneous events in Dylan's life at the time the poem was composed. AJ Weberman has unearthed a degree of consistency in Dylan's use of words that can only be intentional and has done what no one has done before - made public the metaphorical and allegorical meaning of Dylan's poetry with a high degree of accuracy in a comprehensive format. If you don’t have a copy of this book you can click http://dylanology.com for a taste but you got to look at the work in its totality to judge the degree of consistency that has been carefully contrived by Dylan. AJ has unzipped his poetry just as one would unzip a compressed file, using a certain formula known as the Dylanological Method, which he reformulated while doing a federal prison sentence (his dog bit a mailman) where he wrote most of this book. This is Weberman's contribution to American Literature, although he will probably be remembered for his having originated garbology, a now widely accepted journalistic technique. "The perfect book for Dylan fanatics." --Paul Krassner, author of One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Satirist. "A fascinating, meticulous and hilarious study of Dylan's lyrics, written by his arch-fan and stalker, the one and only Weberman" - Boaz Gaon, Maariv Israeli newspaper A.J. Weberman is best known for his analysis of Dylan’s garbage and for having been beaten up by Bob Dylan on Elizabeth Street in Manhattan in the early 1970’s. Dylan viewed this incident as the “laughter down on Elizabeth Street / And a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stone / where [he] bathed in a stream of pure heat” (Where Are You Tonight, 1978). A.J. is featured on Joel Gilbert’s DVD Bob Dylan World Tours 1966 to 1974, and will appear on Gilbert’s next DVD. Chromedreams in the UK released Weberman’s legendary telephone conversations with Dylan. Rolling Stone Books will soon publish an interview Weberman did with Dylan. Weberman was a character in Don DeLillo's Underworld, "Detwiler had been a fringe figure in the sixties, a garbage guerilla who stole and analyzed the household trash of a number of famous people. He issued mock-comintern manifestos about the contents, with personal asides, and the underground press was quick to print this stuff. His activities had a crisp climax when he was arrested for snatching the garbage of J. Edgar Hoover from the rear of the Director's house in northwest Washington and this is what people remembered" and he his featured in Mark Jacobson's book, Teenage Hipster in the Modern World. AJ is mentioned in numerous articles and books about Bob Dylan and an independent film company in the UK is currently putting together The Ballad of AJ Weberman. AJ is the author of My Life In Garbology (Stonehill Press, 1980) and Coup D’Etat In America: The CIA and the Assassination of JFK (The Third Press, 1975, Quick Publishing Co 1992). The latter book is in its fourth edition and also available from amazon.com as is The Dylan To English Dictionary. Joan Baez related in NO DIRECTION HOME: “Dylan would always say, ‘What do you think of this?’ ‘I didn't understand the thing at all but I loved it so I said, ‘Okay, I'm gonna figure this one out.’ So I read it and gave back my interpretation of what it was about and he said, ‘That's pretty fuckin' good.’ And he said ‘Years from now all these people, all these assholes, are going to be writing about all the shit I write...and what it means…’” A Dylan Data Base is available at http://dylanology.com/wrtwrddb.htm The Yippie! Museum and The Yippie! Museum Press are dedicated to preserving the works and artifacts of the leaders and members of the Youth International Party, a loose-knit organization founded in 1968 by Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Stew Alpert and others. Dana Beal, an organizer for Cures-Not-Wars, serves as Curator and the Board Members include: William Prop of WBAI radio, John Sinclair, former Prisoner Of Weed (POW) and founder of the White Panther Party, Stewart Albert, founding member of the Yippies! and Vietnam Day Committee, Paul DeRienzo, radio journalist, Steve Conliff, historian of Native American History and several other surviving political activists. To speak with the author call 212-987-8659 or 917-374-7024 anytime or email him at ajw@nyc.rr.com. Respond to this email for a review copy.
