[np] a walk on the what?!

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

 "you can't be shakespeare & you can't be joyce/ so what is left instead?" 
 (magic & loss) 

 thought some of you might be interested to hear that lou reed has created a,   
 well, edgar-allan-poe-revue with stage manager robert wilson. the title is   
 "poetry" (- first 3 letters as caps). the opening night will be on coming 
 sunday in the hamburgian thalia theater (- the place, where wilson, together 
 with waits & burroughs, produced "the black rider", a piece chris k. is quite 
 fond of). personally i won't go there, but if someone does & needs a bed & a  
 beer, (s)he can find it here. 

 in this week's "der spiegel" lou reed says  about poe: "to the mind of an 8 
 year old child his texts might appear sinister, but i'm some years older & i  
 consider his work to be very funny & formed by deep truth. this 
 complicatedness, this complexity! this psychology & mysteriousness! what a guy! 
 his texts are to me a wonderful dream." oh really?!

 asked whether it was difficult to get into poe's language our average guy goes 
 on: "you won't realize what's poe & what's me. difficult or easy, that's not 
 the way i think. who cares whether it takes five minutes or a year? working, i 
 always follow my instict. in this case it was great fun to write with a 
 vocabulary which died out a long time ago &, on the other side, to put in words 
 of our time the way poe might have done it ..."

 ok, turn it down. i think we've got an impression by now. isn't that sad? i  
 mean, it's nice when a few dozen people get motivated to (re)read poe, but 
 this revue, i'd bet a lot, is, according to the high standards of rock-n-roll 
 art lou reed did set in the 60s & 70s, boring academic crap. seeking 
 highbrow reputation. laurie is whale watching while lou plays with the raven.  
 what will they do next? a great musical show about the diaries of thoreau?!

 this afternoon i got myself randy newman's "bad love" [1999]. track number 3 
 is called "i'm dead (but i don't know it)". some lyrics: "i have nothing left 
 to say/ but i'm gonna say it anyway/ thirty years upon a stage/ and i hear the 
 people say/ why won't he go away?/ ... i have a family to support/ but surely, 
 this is no excuse/ i've nothing further to report/ time you spend with me/ is  
 time you lose/ ... when will i end this bitter game?/ when will i end this 
 cruel charade?/ everything i write sounds the same/ each record that i'm 
 making/ is like a record that i've made/ just not as good ...". the guitar 
 tells you the rest.

 oh, i nearly forgot: in uncruel april there will be a "new" lou reed record. 
 it's called "ecstasy" & the man tells us to use for it "a very good stereo, it 
 will change you, physically & mentally." you may check it out. or not.

 between thought & expression: kfl