tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post6844871835461616933..comments2024-03-24T08:17:55.097-04:00Comments on BLOG TO COMM: Christopher Stiglianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-75179151826752555442011-04-23T11:38:43.152-04:002011-04-23T11:38:43.152-04:00My first Velvets was a cassette of the first one a...My first Velvets was a cassette of the first one and I HATED it. I was ignorant maybe expecting metallic pre-Ramones punk based on what little I knew. The only Lou I had heard was R&R Animal and that was faaaaaar easier to swallow than The Velvets to a classic rock kid.<br /><br />It clicked while tripping on acid and somebody was playing it and everybody else wanted to go sit in the sauna but I didn't want to be half-naked with other dudes so I stayed upstairs watching patterns in the carpet moving and listening to side one of the first album over and over and The Velvets finally clicked in my head and they opened up a bigger world.<br /><br />I kind of blame them and Lou Reed though for a lot of problems I had experimenting with drugs after getting into them and romanticizing smack and oddball sex and romanticizing depression. That's life though. It is what it is, and I'm sure the music just facilitated what was inside of me already.song 2 the sirenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12146128778998664436noreply@blogger.com