Lou Reed marries Laurie Anderson
 

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04232008...wed_107678.htm

Ha Richard Belzer was there - he could be Lou Reed's brother.

But they're about to die!

Wey! Excellent news. I'm Seeing Laurie Anderson live this time next week, currently downloading all 5 and a half hours of "United States Live". What a thrilling life I lead.

I like O Superman.

that's a good thing, it means that now they have power to unplug each other from the machines

I can imagine how the wedding vows would have gone:

Wedding officiating Human: Do you, Louis Reed, take this...
L Reed: Who're you calling Louis, asshole? You journalists are all the same shumucks?
WOH: Mr Reed, sir, I am not a journalist, I am...
LR: And you gunna tell me y'know 'bout music? You know jack shit about nothing, buddy.
WOH: Can we please get on with the ceremony?
Laurie Anderson: Hunnee, can we let the nice man marry us?
LR (grumbling): OK, sweet pie...
WHO: So, do you Louis R...
LR: DON'T CALL ME LOUIS, MOTHERFUCKER! Are you a friend of Cale's, jerk?

And so on.

two wrinkled old prunes marry each other. wow.

Ha ha ha! That's a scream. I can just see Lou doing those lines.

What did they wear? Was in Lou in black T and black leather jeans?

You got something against wrinkled old prunes, motherfucker!

So, let us take stock of the fact Lou Reed's wife is called Laurie Reed. They're vaguely similar - WEIRD!!!!!

was this a question?

ha!

Laurie anderson's "art/music/performance" ahs always struck me as the most fucking navelgazing goddamn psuedo-intelligentsia bullshit CRAP. I hate it. Lou reed ...whatever.

Whoa! Wild nuptial news! (You know, wedding guest Julian Schnabel (sous chef-turned-'80s art star) directed Basquiat, and most recently The Diving Bell and The Butterfly.)
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I agree wholeheartedly!
I saw her perform back in the late 80's. She was f'n rehashing stuff that was already shown on PBS. I was annoyed and was telling my friends - then Philip Glass turns around and gives me this look like "oh you poor ignorant fool". He was partially right - I paid for the "performance".

[phillip glass can go suck a big ol pile of fecund assholes too, that fucker's opera nearly killed me once.

I think Philip Glass' scores for Koyaanisqatsi and Mindwalk work particularly great. I also saw his performance a several months ago on PBS from the last night at Alice Tully Hall at the Met (Laurie also debuted "Only an Expert" from her forthcoming Homeland album that night) and he was fantastic.

Hmmm, you're from Englewood, NJ, mangajunky...ever been by the old Van Gelder house or the chapel-esque, Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Gelder studio in Englewood Cliffs? Can you possibly imagine the magnitude of the amount of great music that went down there?

Anyway, as for the other dude, I suppose you can still be mostly an alright guy but that living in Houston inevitably causes some misogyny and ignorance to have free domain and sometimes reign in one's thoughts.

But that, my friends, is a story for another day.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4AEQkIAfYio

Never been there - and I agree with Rob. Philip Glass sucks. Misogyny? Hrm - I think he loves women.

I do love women. I just hate pretentious prog music.

hahahahaha, melly rules.

Look, I don't have to defend the merit of Laurie Anderson's art and many achievements to a bunch of jackaninny internet creeps, but, what the hell, here goes a few (not all choice) words...

Read her wiki listing as a primer, I suppose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Anderson

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jimmyd/lau.../hotwired.html (hasn't been updated in some time)

Laurie Anderson was born in Glen Ellyn outside Chicago. She went to California after high school to Mills College and then moved to New York City in the early seventies and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, studying art history at Barnard College. She became a close friend of Andy Kaufman. She played straight-woman for Andy during his initial nightclub and open mic nights. Much of Andy's future comedy, indeed his comedic trickster vision itself, emerged over this early period. She was playing loft parties with Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham back before No Wave even really hit. Laurie got her MFA in sculpture at Columbia in '72. She gained an interest in an art not yet realized fully, multimedia performance art. She is the person that pretty much did it first. At least there is no doubt that she is the person that made the masses the world over aware that such a conception even existed. The list of technical and performance innovations is too specific and lengthy for me to possibly go into in an abbreviated way such as this (& it's too much research). In her lifetime, she has garnered numerous prestigious awards internationally, has shown works of varying media in galleries all over the world, and has authored several publishings.

Before her initial critical successes Laurie invented a musical instrument, the tape-bow violin.
She would play the tape-bow and/or the violin standing on blocks of ice. When the ice melted, the performance was over. Folks, this is before climate change had even reached mass consciousness, but certain people in the seventies knew about peak oil and global warming way back then.

One day, frustrated in her work and life choice, after a few days of preparation, Laurie decided to hitchhike from the East Village to the North Pole. Along the way, she learned much about life. At several points she was stranded with little or no food or water for days. She got rides on small private planes and automobiles from strangers and eventually made it as far north as Greenland.

Laurie also came out with the first interactive music cd-rom in Puppet Motel.
She nearly died trying on one climb in the Himalayas. She still climbs when she has spare time. http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:j6Bj2D-iXL8J:bcruickshank.brinkster.net/page24.htm+laurie+anderson+everest&hl=en&ct=clnk&c d=2&gl=us

She speaks several languages. Okay, I'm getting lazy now with my writing...but to refer to her as a pretentious intellectual (as a couple of nincompoops talking out the side of the neck just did in this thread) is soooo redneck.
And finally, much like the line between Schnabel (Oldman) and Basquait (Wright) in that biopic, Lou Reed says himself that few people know anything about art or music. He's stated that along with Andy Warhol, who he now deeply regrets he was not closer to, that Laurie knows more about art and music and has more talent than anyone he has ever known. He said these things on Charlie Rose (http://youtube.com/watch?v=ol-AcKzRcc4&feature=related).

To this day, Laurie maintains a healthy and active lifestyle and her seeker's mentality for the most part, but she also reportedly smokes Marlboro Reds and drinks Jack Daniels notoriously. She's not exactly a woman in the mold of a detached, know-nothing, prudish and off-putting intellectual arty fartbag. Instead, she's a legend.


Spent two weeks in silence at a Buddhist retreat, 1977
Worked as a migrant cotton picker in Kentucky, 1978
Worked as a straight man for Andy Kaufman in comedy clubs, 1978
Wrote the score for Spaulding Gray's film Swimming to Cambodia, 1987
Taught story-writing to first graders, 1991
Covered the presidential campaign for NPR, 1992
Trekked the Tibetan Himalayas with 27 yaks, 8 sherpas, and 10 hikers, 1993
First artist-in-residence for NASA, 2003
Last artist-in-residence for NASA! 2005
(& who ended the NASA residency you may wonder? The Heritage foundation scapegoated her meager 20,000 stipend (she spent far more out of her own pocket coming and going as NASA directed her) as a case of government waste of funds! Here's a link to a portal where Laurie-haters can, you know just be themselves haha http://www.heritage.org/)
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20...first_and.html

and what exactly is mysoginistic about vehemently hating each and every single thing that Laurie Anderson has ever done?
that just seems like LOGIC to me. Her albums are BORING. her eprformances are like a blue man group performance without any entertainment value, her books are tepid self-absorbd drudgery. her stupid fucking haircut is PLAYED.

& to think, all that spew above comes from a person that looks like he swallowed Laurie Anderson whole. That was mean, yes, but nevertheless true. Hey, you attacked her appearance first. And continuing on this tack, I see dudes that look just like you all the time...I see them everywhere. But, hey I like what you write some of the time and it's more worthwhile than about three-quarters of what Gen-Y membership post, that's for certain.


You've probably listened to like three percent of her recorded material and you come down with these numerous indictments of the merit of her art and even attack her as an individual and you do all of this in a thread about her wedding to Lou Reed. You're so pathetic as to be starving to instigate a rise out of me, I mean, really, Rob.

"Her haircut is PLAYED," the bored imp writes...

You're too creepy for words, creep. Go post some ass pictures, ass. Anyone remember the time Rob posted that he was the best artist in the world?

And you're merely railing with rage against yourself, in actuality. You're forever mad at the world and furious that you're much more insignificant and typical than you would like people to think you are. I get that way too sometimes. Hey, we're only human. But whereas I might write that "Everybody Hurts" you're more preoccupied with "Everybody Squirts." (& now someone might post the "Everybody Poops" cover image. ha) Why don't you shift focus and make another thread about your "ass juice?"
It's alright cruddy buddy, don't cry.

Rob needs to listen to O Superman.

I'm sure he's heard that one more than a few times.

At least she's not as bad as the godawful Yoko Ono.

Yoko isn't all bad. Some Yoko, I think, is pretty damn great.

But anyway, I just regret that I started back posting a little bit, a message or so a day/every other day or so and already I'm scum-sucked into some nincompoopery like this. And in the Laurie and Lou wedding thread, no less.

To quote Chuck Berry, it's all "too much monkey business for me to be involved with.";)

atari2600 - there's something a bit, um, unfair about the way that Laurie Anderson is dismissed as some "acceptable" arthouse kookiness, whereas La Monte Young is treated as godhead, no matter what music he comes up with. I saw La Monte 7 years ago in London (city of tea and bad dental hygiene), and thought his opuses less that good (read: fucking atrocious). I'd argue that Mrs Reed has been at least a far more consistent artist over the past couple of decades....

awwwww.

Wow. Lou and Keith are fine examples to stay away from the drugs if you don't want to look like a ballsack when you're old.:o

Yoko is way more entertaining, thought provoking, and interested in pissing people off to make a point.

I gave Laurie Anderson many chances but just find her mostly boring.

I love both Yoko and Laurie. Both would gladly tell you that sometimes boredom is interesting. That said, my favorite stuff by Laurie is on Bright Red which was produced by Eno and came out right when she and Lou got togehter, and is pretty damn pop for her, while my favorite Yoko stuff is often dissonant to the extreme.

I'm very happy for Lou and Laurie. It really must have been hard for both of them to find somebody as weird and intense as themself. They've been together so long now, that I'd figured they must have already broken up. Glad to be wrong.

Aww.

Somebody give Rob a medal, quick!

Somebody neg-rep Pookie, quick!

heard 4-5 of her "seminal" albums. old roomie used to be a big laurie anderson/yes/king crimson fanatic. made me wanna fucking puke!

chill out 2600

so I hate laurie anderson,. so fucking what? what's it to you? is that your momma?

Aren't you disgusting enough, you fat fuck, without throwing around words like "hate" over and over and lame "your mama" retorts?

fat fuck! I love how I can talk some mad bullshit about suck-ass "perfomer" Laurie Anderson and you act like I have offended your mother or something! fuck laurie Anderson! the sooner she dies the sooner we can all be rid of her BULLSHIT.

do not forget that YOU started in with the personal attacks, for this "fat fuck" has only talked mad shit about an overrated fucking has-been, never brought you into the mix atari, yet you show your petty self through personal insults. nice.

there are no sacred cows, especially not fucking laurie Anderson!!!!

Look! It is "performance art!"





Oh my GOD! she is so INVENTIVE! She uses "electronics!"

she must be the single greatest thing in the world! Did you know she once spent TWO WEEKS not talking at a budhist monastary? wow! what a GENIUS!

I can't agree with all this Ono and Anderson bashing. I think they're too very innovative and legitimate artists, and if its not hard enough to be a female artist already, they are both associated with two of the most accomplished rock musicians of all time. Laurie Anderson has blended art, music and performance like many could only wish too. Yoko is one of the most important and underated avante-garde musicians out there, she MAY have broken up the Beatles, but in truth McCartney and Lennon's relationship was beyond repair even before she met John. Even if she did, I say it was only a good thing, Abbey Road Let It Be and later Beatles releases are extremely poor compared to works like Sgt Pepper and Revolver. Yoko Ono's experimental music was ahead of it's time, for someone to deconstruct rock music's asthetics a mere half a decade after her husband's band had set them in stone is nothing short of fucking incredible. With this, both Yoko and Anderson were well established and esteemed avante garde artists before they met their future husbands. And Ono in particular, as the earlier as the two, not only was her art radical as a woman, but as a Japanese woman in the west...! Both artists are two of the bravest and most unique performers your ever likely to come across.

I like Sting. when did he change his name to Laurie??

I don't see how you can approach this experimental music and art with such hostile cynicism and be a Sonic Youth fan dude.

what "approach?" the old hag's been around forever, and I have been around forever, and I have heard a lot of her crap, and seen several of her crap performances, and they were pure wankery. her "artistic output" sucks major ass (in my OPINION of course)

I do nto see how being a sonic youth maniac fanatic has anything to do with laurie anderson.