LOU REED, New York 1973
Live at Alice Tully Hall, New York, January 27, 1973. Ex(cellent) SBD stereo, very clean sound.

It was official. Hell had frozen over, pigs were flying, and Lou Reed was on the edge of superstardom, beating out of every radio in the land with those colored girls going "doo doo doo." Less than three weeks after this concert, Walk On The Wild Side would become Reed's first (and so far, only) Billboard chart entry - which, in turn, means this is one of the last recordings you're going to hear where he's playing to the converted alone, before the chart-hopping masses stopped grooving to Grand Funk and got into Heroin instead.

A partisan New York audience makes him feel at home, though, and if the band is a little fussier than subsequent Reed combos, the nifty little guitar licks and drum fills that flicker and flash through every song give the performance a cheerful buoyancy that Lou rarely permitted in later years...

It's more of a Beethoven/Mozart/Monday Night Football night for me -- I've had a busy few days, and have to be up before dawn tomorrow -- but you never know when you might need some old Lou Reed.

The older Lou Reed was in Tel Aviv last week, making guest appearances at his wife Laurie Anderson's gigs. The Jerusalem Post reviews a show: "The man simply exudes rock 'n roll. "

These are from BigO'sTalkin' About My Revolutions blog, Singapore.

Imagined food: Since I'm close to nonverbal, I may as well point to Creative Food Manipulation photos at Dark Roasted Blend. It's a huge unsorted collection of fun-with-food photos, collages, postcards, gross Asian market delicacies, old advertisements, Russian food art and Photoshopped concepts.

Way beyond eye candy, this is the whole smorgasbord.

The pear at right, for example, comes from one of Worth 1000's Photoshopping contests.