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Lou Reed’s Spotify Favorites Playlists – Peter Kafka – Media – AllThingsD
What we leave behind in the digital age…
“Anyway, just like millions of other people, Lou Reed had a Spotify account. Because he is also a capital-R Rock Star, Spotify occasionally encouraged its users to follow his activity on the streaming music service. So, if you did, you could see what he was listening to.
Or, at least, what whoever was using Lou Reed’s Spotify account was listening to. On the Internet, no one knows if your dog is controlling your playlist.” -
“What he wanted most of the time, onstage and off, was to convey the seriousness of an artist who probably felt he was working in the wrong form to convey that seriousness, but what could he do? Like so many of us, he was in thrall to rock’s power and its magical ability to be so many ambiguous, moving things to so many people.”
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Lou Reed Reading Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven | The Outlet: the Blog of Electric Literature
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Humans’ living creations put on display | Science News
Featuring living things altered by humans including Freckles the goat
“The museum’s approach could frustrate science enthusiasts when social and ethical questions push interesting scientific details into the background. But there is much to learn and think about in this collection, which bursts with stories of strange human endeavors such as growing monstrously large pumpkins or creating hybrid brine shrimp to sell as “sea monkeys.”
Visitors will get the most out of the experience if they bring a friend, preferably someone who will disagree about what it all means. ” -
Neil Gaiman – Waiting for the Man – Lou Reed
“Yeah, I took a stance about a couple of things.I thought I’d earned the right; that I knew enough about Life at this point, and had gone through enough where I thought stating an opinion about a thing or two would not be soapboxy or preachy but was just hard-won experience trying to communicate to other people.”
Of Interest…Mostly Lou Reed
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