“Ceci n’est pas une pipe”

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“I’m Lou’s “Timeless Muse´´, bande de Zouaves´´ [– PLAYLIST 111]
And L. REED is My, OUR KING —, “Aye.”
TODAY WAS SATURDAY, MARCH 23 2013. I HAVE REACHED 2180 TWEETS AND 111 PLAYLISTS. DO I HAVE TO BRING THE LATEST FEW HERE MYSELF? OR YOU KNOW BY NOW WHERE TO LOOK FOR WITHOUT EXTRA ADVERTIZEMENT BY ME? THANKS.
SO: WE ARE EAGERLY AWAITING FOR ‘WE THE PEOPLE’ TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET AND SPEAK UP FOR US WITHOUT ANY FEAR OF RIDICULE OR PERSECUTION. WHY WOULD YOU? — (ADDED MARCH 24, ON A WHITE SUNDAY.)
… AS IF WE NEEDED YET ANOTHER PROOF, THERE IS THIS FROM THE MAN HIMSELF:
PASS THRU FIRE, 2000 – PREFACE:
“The exact line is “… Pass thru Fire licking at your lips…” My other favorite line is “… there’s a door up ahead not a wall.” There are many favorite lines of mine that run through the album “Magic and Loss.” It was originally intended to be about Magic, real magic, the ability to make oneself disappear. I had heard stories of magicians in Mexico with strange powers. I thought if I put out songs about magic they would get in touch with me and tell me their secrets.
After all, people are always telling me their secrets, and I often put them in song as though they happened to me. Unfortunately two friends died of a virulent cancer within one year of each other while I was writing and so “Magic” became “Magic and Loss.” I wished for a magical way to deal with grief and disappearance. I wanted to create a music that helped with loss. It seemed we are always starting over, given a chance to deal with things again.
In the “New York” album I’m struck again by the interest in outside forces. “Caught between the twisted stars…” The stars are twisted, the map is faulty. Romeo Rodriguez loses his soul in someone’s rented car. A bleak environment to start out in. But predictable enough if you believe the dictum of one of my earliest songs, “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” where the singer offers to “… reflect what you are, in case you don’t know.” That was a love song, but the ability and desire to reflect can go other places, and show us other rooms and conditions within and about us.
I have always thought my lyrics went beyond reportage and took emotional albeit nonmoral stances. In the early lyrics this was often seen as a celebration or glorification of what was commonly seen as sin. Sinful behavior and actions going unpunished. That this occurred in a recording was of itself thought sinful. A recorded cauldron of sin. This plus the backing of Andy Warhol made for an incendiary brew. I came back to these times in “Songs for Drella,” which was an attempt to give you a feeling for the times and the man and the position of respect he held in our eyes as an artist. It’s wonderful to this day to see how he manipulated and handled the press, his extreme work ethic, his attempts to stay relevant in a world geared to the latest whatever. The new generation looks to define itself and the first thing it does is throw away the prior, the old.
In Time Rocker, a play that I did with Robert Wilson, we were interested in transcending time, passing through it and its various boundaries and worlds. This type of travel meant something to me being a form of magic. We didn’t have a rented car but a time traveling fish. It brings me back to the desire in “Trade In” from “Set the Twilight Reeling” to transcend oneself to trade your very soul the very same soul that was “… up for grabs…” in “Coney Island Baby.” The same Average Guy in “The Blue Mask” who put “… pins through the nipples in his chest and thought he was a saint.” Love and the desire for transcendence run through these songs. “The Proposition”; “Make Up My Mind”; “Wild Side” for that matter. The characters in these songs are always moving toward something, there is conflict and they try to deal with it. In “Some Kind of Love” he “… put(s) jelly on your shoulder.” While later trying to “Hang on to Your Emotion” so that you can “Set the Twilight Reeling” as the “… moon and stars sit set before my window.” The actresses relate because they’re acting.They understand the desire to see “The Bells,” to hear the announcement of transcendence and freedom *. And that’s what all the lyrics are about.´´
– Lou Reed
[* “Example!” (Pulp Fiction):
April 15: . . . Well there is some hope today, wont you say? :
Tragic. O/T. Bastards (tags):
CNN Analyst: ‘Right-Wing Extremists’ Could Be Behind Boston Marathon Bombing — breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013
Chris Matthews: I’m Not Going to Speculate, But This Is Obviously a Rightwing Plot bit.ly/13a8h4C 
Hey, Media, Let’s Take A Stroll Down Memory Lane bit.ly/17fCgbT 
Stage Ready fb.me/xQ7cfQZI 
Evening Headlines bit.ly/11xHPSo 
Blue Jacket Guy: I’m Not the Boston Bomber bit.ly/Z1FnFe ]
BACK TO THE ZIP ● ● ● – © AcidPOP  ♫ . ♪
BREAKING :
Suzanne Vega ‏@suzyv
Just another post-apocalyptic day in Central Park. This is where I am now.  pic.twitter.com/iUEf19BhTT
[I SAY THE (NY) SKIES ARE IN TUNE WITH ME AND THE COLORS OF MY PLAYLIST. KEWL. –10PM.]
‘POST-APOCALYPTIC’ WOULD MEAN THE WORSE IS BEHIND US, WE CAN START REBUILDING NOW. HEY, THAT WAS EASY, NO? . . . (THE PASSENGER BY IGGY POP IS PLAYING ON THE OTHER LINE.)
THE BAD NEWS IS THAT IF YOU DON’T TAKE THIS FIRST STEP, CHANCES ARE THE BATTLE TO SAVE US ALL IS DOA. CLEVER-BY-HALF COMMIE LIBS HAVE ALREADY CONQUERED NYC & AMERICA. WHAT WILL BE LEFT IS EACH FOR HIMSELF ON HIS WAY OUT OF THIS BITTER EARTH. AND LOU & I WILL TAKE THAT ROUTE TOO. ONE DAY, DISAPPEAR, JUMP SHIP, BLOGGING, WHATEVER IT IS WE ARE DOING. CHOOSE RETREAT IN OUR OWN SAFE HAVEN.
[P.P.P.S. By the way did you know that ‘pipe’ is the French word for BJ?– now you know anyway– which I’m against as a matter of personal opinion and practice. Well oral sex* in general I find quite embarassing. But that’s just me. But I’m sure some girls and few boys would be glad to free themselves from that kind of servitude/pressure and that’s for whom I’m speaking up.
* These two words mixed together which gives an official/rational name/stamp of approval to an arcane act sounds ugly enough to the ear as it is, lousy too. I heard Oprah had an entire show on OS (tips to girls?) BBC also, yikes. One starts to understand why fundamentalists are thriving. Well, I’m the third way. Just SHUT UP people, we don’t need your open-mindedness. Just because artists joke about something in their art doesn’t mean clumsy television hosts and ‘pundits’ should take matters seriously and into their own hands. Unless it’s the old Frankfurt School’s hidden/open agenda they are pursuing: Corrupt society/the youth, add division and gain popularity? — amongst the “proles!” UNHIP I’m telling you. High Priests speaking. In oneness with their usual porn addict counterparts, the same old story. QED… And maybe this would answer why and where the world is still in need of The Persians — well, more than anything, the Persians need the Persians! Mind you, those that are true disciples and kin of Zoroaster and Cyrus the Great. Zoroaster, Ancestor/Precursor of Jesus, that’s my own old view, old by now.**]
[ADDED MAY FIRST 2013:] . . . Speaking of which, I saw two 30 sec. segments of “American Pie” this weekend. Do I need to add another word or was it just me and my usual perfect/divine timing at work again? Anyway I thought it needs reporting. And if it was meant as pure satire, then I will never find out because I am not going to watch that movie. I think it was more like It’s no biggie but a wonderful forbidden fruit instead… Hey, as I said, “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”

** Unless of course those were the first true devils of the story. See I’m open to everything and all suggestions. Like hey maybe the more civilised of the two are the Arab Sunni coalition instead. (— Few days ago)

(Today being April 22 2019. Just had this in mind:)

Or, my brother would say jokingly to his gf now wife and me, quoting modern gurus, be in the moment when you suck a dick suck a dick.

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