Sorry that Fifteen Months was quite late to be posted today, but the internets in my apartment haven’t been very cooperative, so I’m actually in Montpelier using Rhapsody’s free wi-fi and eating some of their foods. There was a guy who looked like a young John Cale wearing sunglasses, but the guy who rang me up said that the shades reminded him of Lou Reed. I just pulled out Transformer the other day and now I want to find some more of his records, but I hear that his catalog is kind of spotty. I already have the one that he collaborated with John Cale in the 90’s on cassette. I need to pull it out again now that the tape player in my car is broken. For my next yet-to-be-heard Lou Reed album, should I try Berlin, Coney Island Baby or The Blue Mask? Those seem to be my top three, besides Metal Machine Music that I’d like to listen to once in my life before I go deaf. I mean, Lester Bangs swore by it. How bad could it be?
Ah, that reminds me that my friend Melody has the copy of one of his collections that I lent to her now ex-boyfriend a long while ago. I hope you’re reading it, ‘Ody, cause it’s a heck of a book. And as a tribute to the style of his writing, may I say that if you (the general “you”, not the singular “you” that may suggest that I’m addressing ‘Ody and not everyone else) don’t like The Velvet Underground, then you don’t REALLY like rock music. Period. Oh oh oh, and back to the singular Melody “you”: Amy pointed out that I’m currently wearing your horse shirt, and the guy who thought that the other guy looked like Lou Reed thinks it’s pretty rad too. OH MAN I’M SO BRILLIANT TO BRING THIS ENTRY FULL CIRCLE EVEN THOUGH I HAVEN’T TALKED A BIT ABOUT THE BC+ TRACK BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
