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\"lou<\/a><\/p>\n

in middle school i bought the “walk on the wild side” 45 (based on kathryn’s recommendation) and then got into “sweet jane,” because of the cowboy junkies, and then was vaguely\/not really into the nico record, which i bought at some point, but became a true fan in 1989 when mr. zartman played “good evening mr. waldheim” in our high school world area studies class (muy progressive) and i went out and bought new york<\/em>. a great elegy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But when I was 16, I bought the album 1969 Live<\/em> at a strip-mall CD outlet in Wichita, Kansas, whence I had been exiled for the summer by my father to get me away from the friends he thought were leading me down the road to ruin (actual phrase he used). I stayed with my grandparents & shoveled horseshit at some stables in Rose Hill, a tiny town outside the city, spreading manure over a pasture from a tractor that had been bright red at some point in the seventies. Rose Hill had a Circle K & a video store\u00a0& a lovely girl my age named Angie McDavitt & not much else. My Walkman leaked a tinny reproduction of Lou Reed\u2019s voice into my head all day, every day. I\u2019d get home exhausted & sit by my grandmother\u2019s pool & listen to Reed banter with the crowd at the End of Cole Ave club in Dallas: \u201cWe saw your Cowboys today, & they never let Philadelphia even have the ball for a minute. It was 42 to 7 by the half, it was ridiculous. I mean you should give other people just a little chance. In football, anyway. This is a song called \u2018I\u2019m Waiting for My Man.\u2019\u201d I have every line by heart to this day. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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