"Nostalgia without memory" (or 'California dreamin') is actually a concept and an argument in the discussion on cultural globalization. It's what I experience when I listen to Bob Dylan, as the most resounding example, it's how his music evokes not just states, but also places and times I couldn't have been part of or present during. It's this music's strenghth, plasticitity, depth, mistery, I'm not even sure, that makes me long for something I never knew...
"I'm not there" is the movie poetically presenting all (all?) Dylan's sides, different actor for each (which goes reasonably beyond Bunuel's 'That obscure object of desire', in which the main character is portrayed by two different actresses, quite radically different and still one and the same for the charmed secondary male character).
I might not be there, but I'm not even now...
Later post: For 'where (the hell) do I want to be?', I refer to the dancing around the globe videos of Matt Harding. The background song already says a lot. 'Praan'. Stream of life.
@ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY
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