grateful
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Re: The Lou Reed Appreciation Thread
November 01, 2013 at 01:51 PM UTC
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To our neighbors:
What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.
Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we?re city people this is our spiritual home.
Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!
Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.
Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
? Laurie Anderson
his loving wife and eternal friend
hutch
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Re: The Lou Reed Appreciation Thread
November 01, 2013 at 06:18 PM UTC
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i have a tough time reconciling the drug fiending asshole lou reed with the nature loving taichi lou reed
unfortunately i much prefer the former..in any case they are both dead.
grateful
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Re: The Lou Reed Appreciation Thread
November 01, 2013 at 06:41 PM UTC
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Got Haggis?
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Re: The Lou Reed Appreciation Thread
November 01, 2013 at 07:53 PM UTC
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went to the ottobar haunted house last night….they take you through in groups…in our group was a dude with a sheet over his head and wearing mirroshades with the andy warhol banana attached…his costume was "Boo Reed" (turned out it was Nolan from Double Dagger / Pure Junk, etc)
kosmo
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Re: The Lou Reed Appreciation Thread
November 01, 2013 at 10:32 PM UTC
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vansmack
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Re: The Lou Reed Appreciation Thread
November 05, 2013 at 01:52 AM UTC
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chancegardener
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Re: The Lou Reed Appreciation Thread
November 05, 2013 at 03:53 AM UTC
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"New Sensations" will always be my favorite Lou record. The title song, plus "Doing the Things that We Want To" became my mantra for living in 1984, my first post-collegiate year in the real world. Lou showed me a way to see and be when I needed some good advice, and I will always remember and thank him for that.
azaghal1981
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Re: The Lou Reed Appreciation Thread
November 05, 2013 at 11:59 AM UTC
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Love that guy.
Got wrote:
went to the ottobar haunted house last night….they take you through in groups…in our group was a dude with a sheet over his head and wearing mirroshades with the andy warhol banana attached…his costume was "Boo Reed" (turned out it was Nolan from Double Dagger / Pure Junk, etc)
Yada
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Re: The Lou Reed Appreciation Thread
November 05, 2013 at 01:44 PM UTC
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vansmack wrote:
Patti Smith on Lou Reed:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2013/11/11/131111ta_talk_smith
A pro of the me-eulogy.
Got Haggis?
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Re: The Lou Reed Appreciation Thread
November 06, 2013 at 09:11 PM UTC
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Isaac
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Re: The Lou Reed Appreciation Thread
November 18, 2013 at 10:06 PM UTC
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Just heard the the version of Smalltown on Animal Serenade. . . Really wish I had seen Lou. Fricking great. Some folks are just born with a purpose.
