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"Lou Reed may be a rock legend, the founding member of the Velvet Underground, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a man so cool that fans keel over in the reflection of his mirrored shades. Yet he has an alter ego, a solitary figure, a man who retreats quietly into nature to observe the light and make elegant, romantic photographs, far removed from his life at the heart of New York City. The process could not be more different but there are parallels between his music and his photographs. Putting together a book of photographs is, says Reed, like sequencing a CD. It is intuitive, an indefinable way of working where things happen not through planning and preordained ideas, but because they feel right. He approaches photography with the qualities of a musician. "The response is emotional. That's all I want; they are taken with emotion and put together with emotion, equal emotion," he says. Romanticism is Reed's third book of photographs. It is a series of landscapes, entirely... more... - RAPatton

"Only one photograph, towards the end of the book, shows a human form. It is an androgynous grey figure, with short hair, facing away from the camera and outlined with light. Light ripples across the top of the scene, suggesting water, and the rest is a mass of grey. The figure is Reed's wife, the musician and artist Laurie Anderson. They married last year and the only line of text in... more... - RAPatton

"He denies it, but Reed is a camera geek. He can quote camera names and models with an intimate knowledge: "I have a Leica medium format – just the body cost $24,000. I have been waiting around for the M9. I love this camera. I love it that they are digital. I love the Alpa, they're quite the little company, you should check out their website. I use it with a Schneider lens. And the... more... - RAPatton

This makes me laugh too much *chuckle* - Michael W. May

"Starting today, NPR Music is looking back at some of the memorable moments and recordings of the past decade. We'll have a lot of new features on the site every day for the next two weeks, starting with our Question of the Day from Carrie Brownstein on the Monitor Mix blog, and The Decade Defined on All Songs Considered. Next week on All Songs Considered, beginning Nov. 16, we'll feature our picks for the 50 most important recordings of the decade. As we compile the final list, we'd love your input. Using the comments section below, tell us what albums or songs you think should be included." - Michael W. May from Bookmarklet

Maybe it's too soon. I can come up with stuff easily for prior decades, but not this one. - LogEx

"Steven Tyler has left Aerosmith, according to the band's guitarist Joe Perry, who told the Las Vegas Sun on Nov. 6 that their frontman had quit." - Shevonne from Bookmarklet

Wow - Shevonne

i think dougie maclean started out with the tannahill weavers in the 70's" and that was when i first heard him - do you know any of sean tyrell's music ? - i don't think he's known outside of his native galway - he came to greenwich village in the 60's but went back to ireland and probably goes between both countries now - there's a 1226 line poem "the midnight court", written in the... more... - sally stokhamer

Not that I recall. I am checking him out on YouTube now. Thanks and also thanks for introducing me to Dougie a while back. Love his sound. One can truly see how much old world has influenced the folk music of the new through these bards. - Phil Harrison

i kind of like spreading the glory! - sally stokhamer

Thanks Sally :) - Phil Harrison

thank you for posting this phil! - sally stokhamer