{"id":113,"date":"2009-10-28T21:32:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T20:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/?p=113"},"modified":"2009-10-29T00:24:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T23:24:21","slug":"how-to-die-with-a-clean-grave-aka-ten-blessed-minutes-in-hell-with-your-host-lou-reed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/2009\/10\/how-to-die-with-a-clean-grave-aka-ten-blessed-minutes-in-hell-with-your-host-lou-reed\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Die with a Clean Grave (aka Ten Blessed Minutes in Hell With Your Host Lou Reed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qi3TzhYm-1Q&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qi3TzhYm-1Q&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I have to do this in a bulleted list, because that&#8217;s as long as I can hold a thought: why this is the most glorious ten minutes I&#8217;ve spent in any hell in a long time (at least since <em>Christmas in the Heart<\/em>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The beauty of seeing an acid city slicker singing delta blues, which proves that there are many paths to the blues &#8212; too much of either whiskey, cotton picking, broken hearts,\u00a0 or cocaine and educational electro shocks @ young &amp; tender age<\/li>\n<li>If <em>Take no Prisoners <\/em>is Lou Reed&#8217;s best album, this is the best remake of it: the refusal to let it die, the refusal to let the beauty of whatever you&#8217;re singing take over, and the song&#8217;s refusal to take your refusal into account.<\/li>\n<li>if you&#8217;re ugly from the start <em>and<\/em> manage to communicate sublime beauty in\/despite that condition (alternatively: if you choose to communicate your desperate take on sublime beauty in an ugly form) you will not age, and since you don&#8217;t age, you will never die.<\/li>\n<li>Anyone who watches this and still wants a strat instead of a tele should have his brain checked (unless he has black curly hair, enormous hands (and you know what they say about big hands), and died in 1970).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">(Thanks to Meinhard for putting this up on his Facebook profile)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to do this in a bulleted list, because that&#8217;s as long as I can hold a thought: why this is the most glorious ten minutes I&#8217;ve spent in any hell in a long time (at least since Christmas in the Heart) The beauty of seeing an acid city slicker singing delta blues, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,7,4,17],"tags":[27,29,26,73,28],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-general","category-guitar","category-music","category-philosophy","tag-beauty","tag-blues","tag-lou-reed","tag-music","tag-ugliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}