they never made a table groan with free wine again? it all went down hill?
i do go to quite a few readings here in Oz - and free wine is not the norm -
but there was a rather excellent Xmas party at Sapphos reading in Sydney I
went to last year - free wine and free food and dvds handed out to all the
readers (I got a Kurosawa) - but the fall out from that night was
extraordinary. I introduced two people and I got up early this morning to
try and finally ring one of them and deal with the fall out. It wasn't a
simple love thing - a third person did the love thing - but as I sit here
with my cup of tea and build my strength to ring and sort - I can't help but
think it would have been better to simply not have gone to the reading.
cheers - jen
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From: Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Lou Reed (was RE: Musical tastes, Calla (Re: Stones V. Beatles
))
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:17:47 +0000
I enjoyed that story the first and I enjoyed re-reading it, thankyou.
the free wine reminded me of a Cambridge University reading. We, the
listeners, sat round this huge table, the readers at the head. At the
back of the room was this huge table groaning under the weight of
*free* wine. Lots of it. I remember thinking then that this set a high
standard for drinks at readings, and that I should attend uni readings
more often. I think I stopped before I became too incoherent. I had a
very bad head the next day. alas, it wasn't repeated.
Roger
On 3/20/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>may i give you guys a link to my story about meeting lou reed in genoa?
>
>http://www.poetrykit.org/pkmag/pkmag4/031.htm
>
>plus photo
>
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Lou Reed (was RE: Musical tastes, Calla (Re: Stones V. Beatles
>))
>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:08:35 -0400
>
>Wojhan's sequence of poems about rock & blues, _Mystery Train_ is well
>worth
>taking a look at. It's in a book b y the same name.
>
>jd
>
>On 3/20/07, Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >Another Jedi Mind Trick on me, via Roger. The Velvet Underground
> >encompasses the late Sixties/early Seventies for me--decadence, a smelly
> >brilliance. Lou Reed at least survived his excesses. At the very least,
> >the album "New York" is a treasure. Of what? You tell me. And of
>course
> >HIS version of "Take a Walk on the Wild Side" made Jim Stafford's cover
> >truly pathetic. But that's AM radio for ya: you can't talk about giving
> >head on the radio when the impressionable teenagers are
> >listening. Ha. On
> >the first VU album Reed performed "Heroin," perhaps the holy of holies if
> >you like horror songs, and let's just say it's more than borderline
> >accurate
> >in terms of words and their connection to the music. Reed has a face
>like
> >10 miles of bad road now, and he traveled every inch of it to get that
> >way.
> >
> >There's a wonderful poem by David Wojahn, a monologue on the subway by
> >Reed
> >back in 1966, returning from Delmore Schwartz's viewing. That's how I
> >learned Reed was Schwartz's student at Syracuse University. Small wonder
> >one of them survived.
> >
> >Ken
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>
>
>
>--
>Joseph Duemer
>Professor of Humanities
>Clarkson University
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