"I’ve been in a car with Joni. Joni was driving a Lincoln. Excellent driver. I felt safe.”

Over at the Vanity Fair site, check out this fairly incredible "Harper's List"-style compilation of various facts about Bob Dylan's celebrated XM radio show, featuring motifs, themes and, best of all, bons mots from the man himself (my favorites are “The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.", and the musings on Joni Mitchell's driving skills that I used as the title of this post but, really, almost every one of them is worthy of Jack Benny - why doesn't he (Dylan, that is) write lyrics that are this funny anymore?). I've never heard Dylan's show before, mostly because I don't get XM in my car (which is where most of my radio-listening gets done these days). I do get XM through my cable provider, but that means (I think) that I can only get it through my TV. I suppose that relaxing on my living room couch and paying close attention to the sounds spilling out of the receiver - consuming radio as though it were television, that is - would be an appropriately old-timey way to approach Dylan's show, which seems pretty proud of the ways it wallows in the pre-rock 'n' roll/country/blues/jazz/etc. muck and mire ("50% the songs he has played were recorded before 1960.").