6 November 2013

81 Pounds of Lou Reed



Since I had all my Lou Reed out to listen to (surprised I have none of Reed's 8-tracks) and watch (vhs and dvd) I thought I might as well pile it on the bathroom scale and see what it all weighed.

48.5 pounds.

I was disappointed. I thought for sure I had 50 pounds of Reed's shit.

Then I remembered I had not added all my Velvet Underground records, cds and cassettes to the pile.

81 pounds.

About the size of the shit that killed Elvis.

4 comments:

motorcycleguy said...

wow

I am undecided about a commercial playing on TV now for some kind of video game. Perfect Day off Transformer. Good to hear but the context is all wrong for me.

Tim said...

I used a ten and a five and seven ones plus some nickels pennies and dimes to make up twenty six dollars and put it all in a cracked pickle jar. I'm going to send it to someone in NYC to go out to Harlem,125th and Lexington and give it to a wino. So long Lou. That's the best I can think to do.

Anonymous said...

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Mr. Beer N. Hockey said...

Torontonians, if I may generalize, have given us much to laugh and cry about. They are The Gift, as Reed once put it, that keeps on giving.