A friend of mine just sent me this link in email.
Yahoo! News - Bat Spit May Yield Stroke Treatment - Report
Oh, my. The mischief I could get into quoting THAT headline .....
(no doubt why my friend sent it along ....uh, thanks.)
Yow! I won first place in the philosophical drag queen naming contest on EveTushnet.com -- for contributing the existentialist drag queen name of Miss So There.
Well, knock me over with a feather boa!
Few things make me squeal before I have had my morning coffee. But, I just learned Lou Reed is coming out with a new CD of music/spoken word called The Raven
Yes, the very idea of a Lou Reed tribute to Poe made me squeal. It's being released later this week.
A little update to my previous entry:
Not only did learning about Lou Reed's new work make me squeal, but I actually jumped on ordering the CD from Amazon. The [double] CD arrived a couple of days ago (talk about almost instant gratification). Oh, it's good.
Lou Reed pulled together several other interesting people on this work -- the spoken word, music, and performances are interwoven so they form such interesting textures to the many pieces.
A couple of notables upon first listen were Steve Buscemi doing the voice for Fortunato from "The Cask of Amontillado." He does a brilliant rendition or was the brilliance Lou Reed's for casting him for that part? Both, probably.
"Imp of the Perverse" had me laughing at bits ("You little tumescent smear." "Ligeia!") Yeah ... it may not be exactly Poe's imp, but it's a bit perverse. Actually, I quite enjoyed the ways Reed veered off from the actual Poe. It worked.
It's good stuff. How could it not have been? Well, admittedly I'm not some connoisseur/critic of music, so I have no idea what the hardcore Lou Reed fans or critics may think of it, but as a hardcore Poe fan, let me just say Lo! 'Tis a Gala Tribute!
