May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I know that from seeing the Velvet Underground documentary my feeling on Lou Reed was left being quite….disparaging. There was little positivity to be gained from how he was portrayed in that. A remarkable writer and intellect, yes…but not a person you could imagine yourself wanting to spend much time with. Jim talking about the…
I wish I was everything he is reflected right back, but I am the antithesis of all that he is. He is light, and he is beauty. All those Halloween pieces of work I made? They were just bits of fun. Meaningless guff! He’s not the devil, or DraKERRla, a fallen angel, or any of…
From the makers of Uncut magazine – a WHOLE 124 page special edition on the Velvet Underground, and their individual members. I have only taken a quick glance through it so far – but it looks pretty extensive…and dare I say possibly more insightful than the documentary? I am still finding myself aghast that with…
I think this documentary ended up posing more questions than it answered. Firstly, it doesn’t sugarcoat the notion of Lou Reed being….well…actually perhaps they DO sugarcoat it. Because what became obvious was that to label Reed “troubled” is somewhat of an understatement. I actually started to wonder how anyone managed to work with him. Certainly…
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UPDATE: Oct 5th – saw a review in the latest Rolling Stone. Thought I’d post it here. Looking into what was coming up for viewing at the Glasgow Film Theatre, I spied this! When I was at the Living Proof screening last week, I decided to secure a ticket for one of the screenings of…
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Has felt much longer. Have played it over and over every day. How? Because I let you. That’s how.
And as today would have been his 79th birthday…someone on Twitter thought it fun to share these…lol Happy Birthday Lou Reed pic.twitter.com/Lks78nOOAD — Crayon Jones (@CrayonToCrayon) March 2, 2021
It must have been the time of David’s 50th Birthday Bash. It’s not until I watch something like this do I forget just how much I miss him. What a beautiful brain he was. I am always floored by the intelligence that just DRIPS off him.
I’m still doing a little toe-dip into Bolan and T Rex at the moment. Just a couple of tracks per night. Nothing too taxing or deeply absorbing. I’m not fully immersing myself into the whole thing. Not like I have done in recent times with other musical explorations – Roxy Music, Talking Heads, Magazine –…
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