First Thing You Learn Is That You Always Have To Wait
Todd Haynes’s Velvet Underground documentary. If you heard it was a masterpiece, you heard right.
How can you make sense of the Velvet Underground? For some people, you can’t. I told my son, and now I’m telling you— they’re not for everyone.
It’s funny. When I was a kid, listening to their first album for the first time, I just took it in, the way you take in a sunset, or a jackhammer. It’s part of the landscape.
Some parts of the landscape appeal t…
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