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Martin Scorsese on Lou Reed: 'He spoke the language of people with nothing' The director hails a songwriter who, like him, brought the wild side of New York to life, recalls the collaborations that got away, and tells what it’s like to be immortalised in one of his songs https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/24/martin-scorsese-on-lou-reed-he-spoke-the-language-of-people-with-nothing

Leonardo had little regard for his contemporary rival Michelangelo. L once remarked that M’s paintings of bulging male bodies ’look like bags of nuts.’

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CJkYIvgTin4

An Audi A4 all-wheel-drive (leased, 3 years) was my most favorite car ever. then, 3.5 years in, I moved to NYC. And discovered the life-changing joy of NO CAR. To this day, even in the car-culture-centric place I live now. I will live many decades longer as a result thereof.

I don't. I find life much more interesting & involving that way.

The images this calls up are just too uproarious!

I have said this here many times before: My 3 deepest friends on earth (besides my beloved mama) are guys I first met by hiring them. We each found personally very much in common. After fairly many years of hiring, each said simply, ‘No more $. I am jusr your friend.’ Some of us then lived in different cities, spent $ to travel to be together,. To this day we love each other without reservation. What is so difficult about that simple human connection?

This looks INCREDIBLE. It has been part of our imaginative life since 1977, if we can imagine such. What hath Lucas given us!

I would very much like to learn her criticisms of FDR. Please post every detail thereof. I like very much to learn of the frailties of my ‘heroes.’ I really do. Revising my views, on better information, is my religion. It really is.

LMMFAO Bravo!

BTY, things DO work 'that way.' See as only our most recent proof point in America 'The Gilded Age.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age

'A threat to democracy': William Barr's speech on religious freedom alarms liberal Catholics https://www.yahoo.com/news/threat-democracy-william-barrs-speech-060051908.html

Physicist Murray Gell-Man on ‘beauty’ in theoretical physics: https://www.ted.com/talks/murray_gell_mann_on_beauty_and_truth_in_physics/discussion?c=240769

LMMFAO!!! ’You have to laugh so you won’t cry.’

Truly extraordinary. And confidence-restoring. Thank you beyond saying for finding this.

Agree. We will just have to agree to disagree. For now, anyway. Personally, I see E. Warren as almost the next coming of FDR. But then I suppose that sends you wretching to the toilet.