10-27-2013, 03:10 PM | #1 |
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Lou Reed dead at 71.
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10-27-2013, 03:44 PM | #2 |
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Because some of my friends' lives were interwoven with Lou Reed's, I feel his loss not in my own but theirs. He was not an interest so much as a sympathetic figure. I appreciated his decision to write songs about people who didn't seem to matter to anyone else, and I liked hearing friends' stories about going to his house and finding ordinary poor and working class people in his company -- bus drivers and bag ladies who told him about their day and knew their way to his fridge. Nelson Algren would have approved.
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10-28-2013, 04:47 PM | #3 |
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This is the kind of thing (and character) I mean:
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10-29-2013, 07:30 AM | #4 | |
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Thanks, for that. Berlin was a great album though it was not a commercial success. Reed was not afraid to write about subjects people did not want to think about. I was thinking about this film that I recalled seeing years ago. I found it on Youtube. |
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