She performs under the stage name Idiot Wind taken from Bob Dylan's song of the same name and has formerly performed as Hajen and Jaw Lesson.
He suggests it was influenced by a line from the Bob Dylan song "Idiot Wind": "You'll find out when you reach the top you're on the bottom".
Canadian poet Rob Winger titled the third section of his second collection, The Chimney Stone, after Idiot Wind.
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British comedian Mel Smith, when asked the question “What one song would work as the soundtrack to your life?”, replied: “Idiot Wind”.
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Some of the lyrics of Idiot Wind are mentioned in the song "Only Wanna Be with You" by American band Hootie & the Blowfish.
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While Dylan claims that the song's lyrics have no relation to the strained situation of his marriage to Sara Dylan, his son Jakob Dylan has stated about the album in interviews that "The songs are my parents talking".
The song then references and quotes extensively from the next song on the album, Dylan's "Idiot Wind".
Gone with the Wind | Gone with the Wind (film) | Earth, Wind & Fire | The Wind in the Willows | The Wind and the Lion | wind turbine | Wind | Wind River | Wind Beneath My Wings | wind tunnel | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind | Gone With the Wind | An Idiot Abroad | Wind-up Records | Candle in the Wind | American Idiot | wind | The Wind Rises | The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film) | NASA World Wind | Helm Wind | Candle in the Wind 1997 | Blowin' in the Wind | Wind & Wuthering | Wind Jackal | The Wind Singer | The Wind Cries Mary | The Idiot (TV series) | The Idiot (novel) |
José González, Midaircondo, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Studio, Jaqee, Jaw Lesson aka Idiot Wind, Silverbullit, El Perro Del Mar, Fox Machine, Ebbot Lundberg (The Soundtrack of Our Lives), Bow & Arrow and Jmy Haze were among those who made The Göteborg String Theory happen in June 2009.