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Hudson River Meditations (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 24)

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Hudson River Meditations (Lou Reed  – Artist Of The Year Part 24)

There isn’t much to say about this album. It has four “songs” and the first two are approximately 30 minutes each. Lou Reed created these pieces to help in his meditation. So yes, this is mostly ambient music, a real departure from what we expect from Lou Reed. There are two shorter pieces as well,…

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The Raven (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 23)

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The Raven (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 23)

I got to see Lou Reed live in 2002, at the annual Bumbershoot festival. He was touring behind his previous album, Ecstasy, but also previewing his currently in-progress work, based on the poems of Edgar Allan Poe. I thought this was going to be a great album, a great marriage of Poe’s words and dark…

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Ecstasy (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 22)

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Ecstasy (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 22)

With this album that comes four years after Set The Twilight Reeling, an album about Lou Reed’s newfound adulthood love that made him feel like a child again, we get a return to the two guitars, bass and drum format  that was largely absent on the previous album. Here Lou Reed employs a second guitarist…

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Set The Twilight Reeling (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 21)

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Set The Twilight Reeling (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 21)

“Egg Cream” opens up Lou Reed’s 1996 album Set The Twilight Reeling and is essentially an ode to a childhood treat. That is what sets the tone for his first album in four years. Another song later on “HookyWooky” is a play on skipping school. There is a lot of that unbridled childhood emotion on…

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A Positive Outlook

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This post started out as a comment on another’s blog post. You should check her out. Her writing is far superior to my own. Well, she is an actual writer, so there’s that. Over the last few years I have been trying to be more… something… I can’t seem to put my finger on it. Positive…

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Magic And Loss (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 20)

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Magic And Loss (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year Part 20)

Coming on the heels of the artistic statement of New York, the follow-up collaboration with John Cale and events in his personal life, Magic And Loss captures Lou Reed at a point in his life where there are equal parts, well, magic and loss. His second marriage ended, he had explored themes surrounding the death…

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Phamily Foto Phriday 12/1/17

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Phamily Foto Phriday 12/1/17

You would think I had more pictures for not having done this post for three weeks. Here is Grace having climbed into the rocket ship on her own. Yes, we had a rocket in our house for about a week. There was a lot of space travel taking place for a while. Space travel can…

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Mornings

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Mornings

Monday I wake up about 5 or 10 minutes before 5a.m. Spin class starts at 5:30 – the only time I can make. I have to be home by 6:30 to get the house going. Kids need to get up for school, Laura needs to get off to work, diapers need to be changed, etc….

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November 2017 Geek Fuel Unboxing

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November 2017 Geek Fuel Unboxing

November’s Geek Fuel box was a good one. It started with the shirt, which is a great reference to Jurassic Park. It looks like a great travel poster. Then the Star Wars AT-ACT model kit is something that we would never buy, but is certainly welcome and should be fun to put together. The gift…

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Songs For Drella (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year part 19)

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Songs For Drella (Lou Reed – Artist Of The Year part 19)

“What is something you are suited to?” “Getting out of here!” The opening number in Songs For Drella sets up the origins of Andy Warhol, the subject of the first collaboration between former Velvet Underground bandmates Lou Reed and John Cale in two decades. Encouraged and inspired by the death of Andy Warhol in 1987,…

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