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    James Lloyd Davis
    Oct 27, 11:09pm

    ...has been going through my head all day, like it did way back when.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAE5G5OBzw

    Lou Reed, music icon and poet (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013)

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    Darryl Price
    Oct 28, 03:06pm

    I'm with you, James. Lou gave us a center, and challenged himself and us constantly with his music. It hurts to lose him now when everything seems so commercialized and predictable in the arts. A guy like that keeps it honest.We're losing the old guard. They only thing left is to celebrate how long they stood watch.

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    Sally Houtman
    Oct 29, 03:20am

    "Dirty Blvd."

    Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel
    He looks out a window without glass
    And the walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet
    And his father beats him 'cause he's too tired to beg

    He's got 9 brothers and sisters
    They're brought up on their knees
    It's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs
    Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man
    But that's a slim chance
    He's going to the boulevard

    He's gonna end up on the dirty boulevard
    He's going out to the dirty boulevard
    He's going down to the dirty boulevard

    This room cost $2,000 a month
    You can believe it, man, it's true
    Somewhere there's a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants
    No one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything
    They dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard

    Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I'll piss on 'em
    That's what the Statue of Bigotry says
    Your poor huddled masses
    Let's club 'em to death
    And get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard

    Get 'em out on the dirty boulevard
    Goin' out to the dirty boulevard
    They're going down on the dirty boulevard
    Goin' out

    Outside it's a bright night
    There's an opera at Lincoln Center
    Movie stars arrive by limousine
    The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan
    But the lights are out on the mean streets

    A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel
    He's selling plastic roses for a buck
    The traffic's backed up to 39th Street
    The TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck

    And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming
    He's found a book on Magic in a garbage can
    He looks at the pictures
    And stares up at the cracked ceiling
    "At the count of 3," he says,
    "I hope I can disappear."

    And fly, fly away from this dirty boulevard
    I want to fly from the dirty boulevard
    I want to fly from the dirty boulevard
    I want to fly-fly-fly-fly from the dirty boulevard

    I want to fly away
    I want to fly
    Fly, fly away
    I want to fly
    Fly, fly away
    Fly, fly away
    Fly, fly away
    Fly, fly away
    I want to fly

    --Lou Reed

    (Now THAT'S how you tell a story)

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    Carol Reid
    Oct 29, 04:51am

    Lou Reed sang truth and never made it pretty.

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    Darryl Price
    Nov 11, 04:11pm

    Check out the Laurie Anderson piece on Lou in the new issue of Rolling Stone.

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    Barry Basden
    Nov 11, 04:17pm

    Jimmy Chen homage (with uke):

    http://jimmychenchen.com/page/2

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    Sally Houtman
    Sep 25, 06:40am

    Just came across this. Thought it was nice.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixDrOT8NPdg

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    whatwouldbukowskido
    Sep 25, 08:04pm

    Do the things you want to

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SGeNsQttYE

    then fly into the sun

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmDSKIoz0Yg

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