I’ve listened to alot of Dylan recently, including a bunch of bootlegs. I saw him live a few weeks ago. It was good, although I could mostly only understand the lyric (which the people I was with mostly couldn’t) because I knew them already.

I like Before the Flood but I don’t love it (although it’s got the best version of It’s Alright Ma). I haven’t heard the newly released recordings, but it’s disappointing that they cut The Band songs out of the concert. I know the explanation is that those releases were made to maintain European copyright on Dylan’s work.

I don’t specifically remember that Grateful Dead concert you didn’t bold, but I like ‘72 Dead more than the Dylan and the Band recordings I’ve heard. I’m listening to The Dead’s Pacific Northwest ‘73–‘74: Believe It If You Need It right now.

Still rewatching Babylon 5. The show’s politics sure felt older in 2013 than they do now. The Nightwatch/President Clark stuff has taken on an uncomfortable new resonance. It’s free to stream in the U.S. now. Not sure if this is getting any attention, but it deserves to.
On a less positive not: Is it a popular opinion that the worst things about the show are all the lines where people constantly threated to beat the shit out of each like a bunch of 12 year olds? I guess when one person gets and unprecedented amount of creative control you have to take the good with the bad.
Still really enjoying seeing it again.