Lou Reed Dead/Albright

[j.f. noonan]

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> It's good Lou isn't dead after all, because now I can flame
> him. His taste for a "sententious faker" like Havel
> (Alexander Cockburn's great epithet) is bad enough

Not unlike Cockie's taste for Ford "F-530"'s and shooting
turkeys.  His *very* occasional clever turn of phrase does not
much to redeem him.  Most of the time I can read his columns on
the bumpers of pick-up trucks that also sport Tom DeLay
stickers.


> - but for a war criminal like Albright, well, there's just
> no excuse. Has Reed done anything interesting in the last 20
> years?

_New York_ was/is a very good album, but maybe a fan of Madonna
<insert vomit emoticon here> and a basher of Springsteen
wouldn't agree.


>From the unwashed outback,

--

Joseph Noonan
Houston, TX
jfn1 at msc.com