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| User: | allie_caulfield (1600044) It's a long long way to the promised land.
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| Name: | Sarah | |
| Website: | Audioscrobbler | |
| Location: | Nevada City, California, United States | |
| Birthdate: | 1989-03-25 | |
| Bio: |  Room J-201, Advanced Clay 2005. ______________________________________________________________________ I really like women on the bows of old ships. But Livejournal wouldn't let me list that particular interest. ______________________________________________________________________ It's one hundred years from today, and everyone who is reading this is dead. I'm dead. You're dead. And some kid is taking a music course in junior high, and maybe he's listening to the Velvet Underground because he's got to write a report on classical rock 'n' roll, and I wonder what that kid is thinking. I wish they would invent a machine that could find out everyone's biggest secret--yours and mine and Lou Reed's. The difference between movies and rock 'n' roll is that rock 'n' roll doesn't lie. It never promises a happy ending. I'd have to say the Velvet Underground wrote and played sad music. When I listen to either, I think about people I won't ever see again. But that's the story of the world of art. Van Gogh cuts off his ear, and parents sign permission slips for field trips to museums. The Velvet Underground must have scared a lot of people. What goes through a mother's mind when she asks her fifteen-year-old daughter, "What's the name of that song you're listening to?" and her daughter replies "Heroin." I wish I was writing this a hundred years from today. Then, I'd be writing about music made by dead people. There'd be a beginning and an end. As it stands now, I don't know where this album fits in. I think all of the people on this album are alive today. I know that at least one of them is still at it. I don't know if this will be considered one of Lou Reed's greater or lesser contributions. What will be mandatory listening for that classical rock 'n' roll class? I think this is great rock 'n' roll. I think Alexander the Great, Lord Byron, Jack the Ripper, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Albert Einstein, James Dean, and other rock 'n' rolls stars would tend to agree with me. And maybe it's 1969, and some kid is borrowing his parents' car and driving into the city and doing things he'd never done before and getting home later than he's supposed to and getting into trouble, but it's all right because he knows he'll never be the same again. (That's what this album is about.) Rock 'n' roll people tend to live on the edge. (That's what this album is about.) Anyway--I could analyze each and every song, but that's what took all the fun out of chemistry. I hope someday they'll teach rock 'n' roll history. I hope that the music on this album is among the more important elements of that class. I hope parents will still get scared when they find their daughter listening to this music. I wish it were a hundred years from today. (I can't stand the suspense). ELLIOTT MURPHY (intro to the Velvet Underground Live 1969 album) | |
| Memories: | 24 entries | |
| Interests: | 123: abbey road, allen ginsberg, allie caulfield, almost famous, amélie, andrew bird, andy warhol, audrey hepburn, basquiat, being a pretentious fuck, black licorice, bob dylan, books, breakfast at tiffany's, buddy glass, cat stevens, charles bukowski, cocteau twins, colored vinyl, cult classics, david bowie, debate, decoupage, deleted scenes, disliking margaret salinger, distros, early weezer, edie sedgwick, either/or, elvis costello, english history, f. scott fitzgerald, franny and zooey, franny glass, geek love, gilligan's island, guinness, harold and maude, henry darger, henry viii, high fidelity, holden caulfield, i felt your shape, ireland, italy, j.d. salinger, jan vermeer, janis joplin, joanna newsom, john cale, john lennon, joni mitchell, journalsong, k records, kieran culkin, klimt, la dolce vita, leonard cohen, lewis carroll, little wings, lolita, lou reed, lusting after daniel radcliffe, maureen tucker, mirah, mount eerie, neil young, nico, nine stories, old libraries, old nickelodeon, party monster, patrick fugit, paul simon, phil elverum, phobias, phoebe caulfield, pixies, playlists, policy debate, pop culture, pulp fiction, queen elizabeth i, radiohead, records, rhps, richard brautigan, roman candle, salute your shorts, se7en, seymour glass, short stories, simon and garfunkel, smashing pumpkins, st. francis of assisi, stenciling, sterling morrison, sweet cherrie, taxi driver, tdloab, the arcade fire, the beatles, the beats, the books, the dandy warhols, the fiery furnaces, the imposter prophecies, the microphones, the neverending story, the royal tenenbaums, the velvet underground, this side of paradise, tod browning's freaks, typewriters, van morrison, vinyl, violent femmes, warhol superstars, white light/white heat, william s. burroughs, writing, zines, zooey glass | |
| Schools: | Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Hogsmeade, Scotland - Highland, United Kingdom (1999 - present) | |
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| Friend of: | 30: a_spaceholiday, aaronstylerbac, acheronwalthers, amanda_flames, coriander_kiss, dailyadvice, de___novo, dubious_soul, fall_for_you, finding17hands, ga_thrawn, garmonboziac, ghidorahs_shoes, heycrusader, jewsmakememad, katana_flamingo, kevincarter, morocconanker, namelessme, nathanus, nervoustic, oldtypewriter, pervy_nah, petertenenbaum, poorfrancisco, sweetsugarwater, the_river_below, tiffleigh, tippy_cup_ella, waitinginthesky | |
| Member of: | 8: articulate, found_objects, jdsalinger, mooncafe, record_snob, soundthrusight, stencil_swap, stencilxcore | |
| Account type: | Basic Account | |
