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Lou Reed

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!!!

I’m guessing this is where the band got their name. How could I not know this?!

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Pix of the Symbolic Post-Break-Up Haircut. This was definitely necessary.

It was sort of The Best Haircut Experience Ever. My hairdresser was UH-MAY-ZING. I got him as a walk in off the street, so I feel especially blessed. I was walking around Cap Hill with Ivy, and we walked by Zero Zero, where I got a haircut last time I was in Seattle. I got a fine & affordable haircut the last time I was there, but nothing spectacular. And I was like “Dammit, I need a haircut ‘cause I’m getting shaggy, but I really especially need a post-break-up haircut.”

I ended up seeing a guy named Craig. Who was extraordinarily gay, extraordinarily garrulous, and, perhaps most importantly, an old queer punk with a rural Washington farm boy past. He had a collage up over his work station proclaiming “LOU REED SAVED MY LIFE.” When I saw that, I was like “Okay. The Break-Up Hair Gods have put me in good hands.”

He asked me what I wanted, and I said “I wanna go short but keep some of the length in the front. I just had a break-up, and this is the Symbolic Haircut — so feel free to be creative.” And of course he lit up.

He told me like 17 times that I have “The PERFECT neckline!” I don’t even know what that means? But it was nice to hear it. The whole time he kept repeating “I love how you’re not scared to go short! I love how you’re not scared of the razor! You have the RIGHT IDEA, you just cut that break-up right outta your hair!” He repeated the phrase “Cut it right outta yr hair!” so much that I half-way expected him to start singing the “Wash That Man Right Outta Your Hair” song, you know?

And then, he gave me $10 off the quoted price, turning a very reasonable salon haircut into a hella cheap salon haircut. I don’t know if I got the Break-Up Discount or the You Are Queer Discount or the I Got To Be Creative Discount. But it was a total delight.

Also? Points to him for clearly reading me as queer and bonding with me over queer punk things, but NOT assuming gender or pronouns regarding my ex. I’d said “break-up,” but I hadn’t mentioned a name or gender. And he kept saying “he or she” or “she or he” or “they.” Like, when the fuck does THAT ever happen, right?!

In which Vajra helps me pack. And I import pretty much all the music I loved in high school onto my computer for the purposes of having easy reference material for The Record. And re-listen to Songs for Drella for the first time since I was, what, 15? And am like “Whoa, DAYUM, y’all.”

See you tomorrow, Portland.

Both the employee review and catamite sum up my feels about LULU better than I could.

Also, I will probs get LULU out from the library, because I am
a) still very much a Lou Reed fan, even after all this time. His music touched something in me when I was 14 and it still touches me every time I listen to it, you know?
b) writing a lot lately about LR’s influence on me as a raggamuffin queer punk teenager, and
c) a completist.

But Real Talk, I would not actually pay $23 for that shit. I do have SOME standards.

See also, I am still waiting for him & Laurie Anderson to do a whole album together, as opposed to just a song here or there over the years. I love Laurie Anderson even more than I love Lou Reed, and their collaborations thus far have all been really cool!

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oh dear lord, why, Lou? why?

I don’t care. If you are Lou Reed you are basically allowed to do terrible shit sometimes because you are Lou Reed and you already won forever.

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OMG WTF.

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