December 13, 2006

"I'd never been there... It's just a metaphor. I like division."

Said Lou Reed, talking about Berlin.
Posted by Ann Althouse at 5:47 AM
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3 comments:

Al Maviva said...

From the Rolling Stone 'counter review' of Berlin:

“prettiness has nothing to do with art, nor does good taste, good manners or good morals.”

Pretty much sums up a lot of problems with modern art right there, doesn't it? I mean, if it doesn't even know what standard it is supposed to be transgressing, how can it be intellegible?

"What are you rebelling against?" "Whatta ya got?" indeed...

TW: After me an me droogs left the Korova milk bar, we went out for a bit of the old ultra uzgrooq.

12/13/06, 8:44 AM
Troy said...

Follow up question. "Division. That's great Lou. So what do the colored girls say?"

(For any pop culturally ignorant folks -- "colored" is not a label I use or would use normally. -- Troy's PC superego)

12/13/06, 9:04 AM
Brian O'Connell said...

Lou Reed hasn't figured on my cultural horizon for 20 years. Exactly like Billy Joel.

12/13/06, 11:23 AM

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