Name: The Death of James Dean
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Description: The Death of James Dean is the soundtrack for an experimental short film released as an NFT poetry project on Halloween, 2021.

The Death of James Dean

by Mighty Joe Nolan

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The Death of James Dean is the soundtrack for an experimental short film released as an NFT poetry project on Halloween, 2021.

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"The Death of James Dean"

They say that James Dean lived – bashed and battered into a hideous hiding.

They sat that James Dean is addicted to pills and living in a house in the desert.

They say that James Dean woke from a coma, had plastic surgery, and began a second career as Dean Stockwell.

Sal Mineo was stabbed and Natalie's still soaked in her grave.

They say that James Dean died in a fire the week before the crash – something about a boy and a can of kerosene.

They say that James Dead died for someone's sins but not the sins of Jett Rink – sins like icebergs, cold begets cold.

Jett Rink could walk a fenceline. Jett Rink had a cunning mustache and a withering uppercut. Jett Rink had all the oil in Texas and Jimmy had all the gold in California, but he could not grasp Elizabeth Taylor's violet gaze.

They say that James Byron Dean was named for a poet. And I know it – he died broken in a Spyder's shattered eye.

And the basket off the backboard tells the mockingbird to lie in the Indiana Summer 'neath the Indiana sky. And the corn is swaying silver where the nighttime coyotes sigh – gather near them and you'll hear them, “Even James Dean had to die.”

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released November 3, 2021
Written, performed, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Mighty Joe Nolan

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Mighty Joe Nolan Nashville, Tennessee

Joe Nolan is an intermedia artist based in Nashville, TN. His diverse practice includes photography, multimedia paintings, public radio poetry broadcasts, live performances, musical releases, public projects, and his critical writing about art and film. ... more

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