Okay. Tonight is concert night! Hopefully I get something out of it. Life affirming experience. I don’t need a life CHANGING experience. My life is gonna continue on the path it’s sort of set on. But it’d be nice to have an experience that makes me feel happy anew about the path that my life seems to be on! Concerts can do that kinda thing to a degree. Get on board. Anyway. Been reading a Velvet Underground book. I dunno! Jacket of the book isn’t even made out of velvet for an immersive reading experience. I dunno. Maybe it’s just this book but they seem to take themselves about 33% too seriously. YES IT’S GOOD they majorly influenced 60 years of music and/or culture for the better but C’MON let’s talk about something else for a while. ANYTHING ELSE ON YOUR MIND? This is a book about the Velvet Underground. YEAH I’VE READ ABOUT IT FOR 120 PAGES. LET’S TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE FOR A MINUTE. If I ever write a book I’ll just have minor interruptions here and there with mini chapters totally unrelated to the rest. Like commercials! But they’re not advertisements. More just Happy Little Fun Breaks. For YOU. The reader! Anyway. Lou Reed! Another Jew from Long Island. ANOTHER exact demographic I can identify with. There’s lots of us out there! Queens, NY is on Long Island so I count ‘em as the same when convenient. Often same general environment. The point is I GET IT I’m from similar place.
Okay. Lou Reed had electroshock treatment when he was a teenager. I GET IT. It turned him into Electro is my theory. But his power was using electric guitar adequately. Anyway. You often hear the cliché of Mediocre Musicians who, “Only Know Three Chords.” I always assumed that meant they only literally know three chords out of the NOTES chords can portray like A, Bb, B, C, C#, whatever. There’s 12. So you only know literally how to make three notes that makes you a mediocre musician. NOW I THINK it’s a reference to You know Three ways to make a chord. The cliché of the mediocre musician is the one who knows three ways to make a chord. There’s the standard E chord with an E low string that can be transposed up and down the fretboard to make different chords. There’s the A chord likewise on those strings. Then there’s a D chord with an open D string which, too, can be moved up and down the fretboard. THIS MIGHT BE WHAT PEOPLE MEAN when they say they talk about people only knowing three chords. They know how to play All The Chords but Three Ways. Oh Ok Good. STUPID ME. I just always heard people say All ya need to know is three chords and I go HMM THAT’S WEIRD ADVICE. Tellin’ people they really only need to know, say, the chords A, D, and E for all their multitude of songs. MUST BE RIGHT THOUGH! It was nice to be misinformed though. Encourages the imagination. If you can write 80 songs with just 3 chords AS I THOUGHT imagine WHAT I CAN ACCOMPLISH with WHAT I KNOW!
Don’t imagine what I can accomplish. Listen To It! Wherever possible. It’s out there. Anyway. Read this first! FIRST things first! You could always read and listen at the same time. That might be too much! That’d be like some Exploding Plastic Initiative shit! Your brain wouldn’t be able to handle it! Anyway. I’m not a fan of how John Cale was friends and musically related to John Cage. Those names are way too similar to be musically associated. Pretty sure in the past if I knew who John Cale was I might have assumed they were the same person. That’s music for ya. THAT’S MUSIC FOR YA. Who came up with Plastic Something first, Andy Warhol or John Lennon/Yoko Ono? Looks like Warhol was ahead by a year or two. Great. Who Cares. That’s not an interesting sidestep of a comment! I’m not happy about including it! WELL MOVING FORWARD. WAR HALL? More like WAR ROOM. That’s what The Factory was. They plotted and planned their arts and excursions. This book about The Velvet Underground talked too much about Andy Warhol. I learned ~50% more about him and it than I needed to. Do they call the subway in Europe, “The Underground?” That really raises the stakes of this bandname I feel if you live in that area. Lemme LTURQ. Hmm YEAH MOSTLY LONDON. YEAH. Velvet Underground has SECRET LONDON CODING.
Who doesn’t. Okay. Oh Velvet Underground WILL THEY EVER get Above Ground. My guess is NO. NEVER! There’s Velvet going on underground, though, so they’re having fun either way. Anyway. This wasn’t a “Funny,” entry. Not in the sense that it was, “Funny.” But I guess it’s amusing anyway. Pretty sure Velvet Underground is New York coded. That’s what they want you to think. Maybe because it’s accurate I don’t know. ANYWAY. When I was a kid I interpreted Andy Warhol as if Society Has Bought In Completely. He’s the Campbells Soup Guy and Guess What RESPECT HIM AND IT. IT’S GOOD ART. Now I realize He’s A Weirdo And Guess What That’s Pretty Much It. He could be a good, interesting, important, artistic weirdo! Whose art is sometimes worthy of our attention maybe! But I’m not sure, I don’t think he should just be accepted as canon And Let’s Leave It At That! But Michael you’re not an Art Critic you have no say. Oh good point. Either way maybe his life and what he did Was Interesting and it’s worth looking at and being like What Happened There. Plus he helped get the Velvet Underground get started to a point! Great! Anyway. At least he was trying something new. That’s better than nothing. I can respect that I guess now that I think about it. But Michael half the time he was literally just reproducing pictures of something that exists. That’s conceptually antithetical of trying something new. It’s just copying what already exists. Huh. I dunno. It’s good we’re having this discussion though.
Sure. I like ART. Any art is better than no art, right? Could be. Anyway watching High Fidelity makes me wanna do Top Five Lists. Makes it seem so appealing and fun! Ok Top Five Favorite Break-Ups. I haven’t broken up enough times for that! I haven’t had anything to break up from! Just my Good Luck I guess. I guess I can’t do Top Five Favorites then. Need to be JUICY. I got nothin’ for ya there! If you add an, “IT,” to Juicy you get JEW CITY which is New York City Coded. New York City isn’t that Jewish. I’ve been in and out of NYC a lot of times and frankly I don’t engage with Jewishness all that often! I dunno, maybe it’s like that thing where you don’t notice your own smell yourself because it’s you yourself. Hmm. I don’t think so. Because when I do see Jewishness I do notice it. Anyway. Velvet is fun to touch I guess but how much fun can you really have touching it before you get bored. 5-15 seconds! After that you move on with your life. Are some caskets lined with velvet. And that’s what THE VELVET UNDERGROUND is? Did I crack a code or am I off base. We’ll find out AFTER THIS BREAK (The Break Is Me LTURQ). Yes many caskets are lined with velvet especially high end ones. Good. Another meaning figured out. Let’s move on with our lives. Well the entry is done. Let’s move on with our lives Separately. I’ll see ya later though! Maybe soon! Bye!
-3:15 P.M.
APRIL 23 2026
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