Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Luu Riid
Dylan is coming to Helsinki but fellow 66-year-old Lou Reed is coming to Tallinn on July 11. Being a fan of the Velvets songbook, I'm a little intrigued. Like a lot of older icons/contemporary lit figures, he's no great shakes musically. But he surrounds himself with all sorts of people on stage, whereas Dylan usually just has a tight rock band, and it seems like a bit of a carnival atmosphere ("and the coloured girls go"). Certainly he has mellowed from back when Warhol was forcing him to share a stage with Nico.
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Love the Velvet Underground. Ah, the stories I could tell about the drunken college nights listening to Lou Reed while knocking back bottles of Mad Dog 20/20. That stuff glows a toxic waste green color when held up to a blacklight if ya didn't know.
I never dabbled in the stuff, so I wouldn't know. Nor toxic waste. I did try nutmeg once, after reading the Autiobiography of Malcolm X.
I think I need to set up a separate blog for stories, though I'm much too young still to be telling them.
I never dabbled in the stuff...
It's best that you never have and never will.
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