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1 week ago | 
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Elizabeth Nelson
Hey Folks!Elizabeth here. I know what you’re wondering—is she going to ask for money? Again?? Listen, I am, but this time it’s different. For one thing, we aren’t standing outside a sprawling trucker and commuting complex off Highway 3 in Dover. That was ONE TIME. Twice at most. Yet you people bring it up over and over. And yes, there was the incident in Bologna, Italy where a great number of LGM’s good Samaritans got me out of a three way jam with a man named Bruno and his partner Marco N.
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1 month ago | 
golfdigest.com | Elizabeth Nelson
"Quiet on the tee!" We’ve heard it a billion times, and we always abide. After all, golf is about decorum. We must never forget this or the next thing you know there will be professional events where patrons run indiscriminately around hurling cups of beer in Phoenix. We cannot let this happen. As a lover of the game, I stand steadfast, and yet ….
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2 months ago | 
wsj.com | Elizabeth Nelson
The songwriting partnership at the heart of the Beatles was also a unique creative union, in which deep personal attachment and musical ambition were linked. John Lennon was a tough Liverpool teenager with a well-earned reputation—a rocker with a volatile streak—when he first encountered Paul McCartney. It was a summer day in 1957.
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2 months ago | 
stereogum.com | Elizabeth Nelson
So, you’ve got a wonderful new book of poetry coming out called Sometimes It’s Heaven: Poems Of Love, Loss And Redemption. I’d love to hear about your process when it comes to writing poetry. How is it similar to and how is it different from writing and arranging songs? JUDY COLLINS: It’s very similar. It’s part of the same process really.
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2 months ago | 
pitchfork.com | Elizabeth Nelson
Consider the drifter. Is he not, in some meaningful way, sadder than his nearest points of comparison, the rambler and the gambler? The gambler has an addiction to gambling and the rambler has ants in his pants. But the drifter—he just drifts. That’s some lowdown, harrowing, no-agenda-left-save-for-dying shit. Hank Williams understood this. That’s why he adopted the persona Luke the Drifter in 1953, to record some of the most piteously sad songs ever written.
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2 months ago | 
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Elizabeth Nelson
My husband and I have two cats, Victoria and Lola. We adopted them ten years ago, in Tenleytown. They were in a cage, a bonded pair. They were maybe six months? What Dickensian-tale will we never know about how two total un-lookalike strays became sisters and best friends? Was Lola the muscle, Victoria the brains? Or, pathetically, vice-verse? With all we had going on in our lives, did we even have room for pets? In our apartment? In our hearts? Either way, they are the only important thing in our life.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Elizabeth Nelson
Last week, I sat down with Scott and Robert for a freewheeling conversation focused largely on all things Dylan, at least of recent vintage. This included talking about the 27 disc box set of Bob Dylan’s live recordings from 1974 with The Band, which I wrote the liner notes for. Scott is an avowed fan of Before the Flood, andhas spent the last several months inhaling all of the shows in the set, which is no small feat, indeed.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
gq.com | Elizabeth Nelson
Bob Dylan loves movies—his songwriting is filled with cinematic references ranging from Gregory Peck to Sophia Loren to Titanic—but it’s not always clear that movies love him back. Unlike music, in which his creative dominion is so overarching as to seem boundless, Dylan’s experiences with the film business have been far more checkered.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Elizabeth Nelson
Hello! Over at my Substack “Please Take My Advice,” I wrote a little bit about two new Beatles documentaries (Beatles ’64 and Daytime Revolution) and the evolution of modern media. Recommended for anyone who likes the Beatles (which is everyone). Take a sip: Re: Beatles ’64:We speak often about our current world as the most surveilled in history — cameras to the right, cameras to the left, your phone is a camera, your lamp is a camera, etc.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Elizabeth Nelson
LOST: Back to the Island: The Complete Critical Companion to The Classic TV Series Abrams Press 352 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. Amazon Barnes & Noble Books a Million Bookshop A surrealistic, deserted-island fantasia, ABC’s dramatic series “Lost” fed overlapping storylines and byzantine mythology to enthralled and infuriated audiences during its six-year run.
