What is cool? (quote, 2008)

Mr Sensitive · 11-24-2008, 03:08 PM

This is.

anticipation · 11-24-2008, 03:10 PM

working-class urbanites who wear flannel and stocking caps and like to go to house shows and drink beer.

simplephysics · 11-24-2008, 03:43 PM

This is cool. I wouldn't think otherwise.

mannny · 11-24-2008, 03:43 PM

No one can ever be as cool as Lou Reed.

To me, being cool means just not giving a ****.

Wifey Boozer · 11-24-2008, 03:50 PM

...Which brings us to Lou Reed, who in the age of the legendary dead and dying has the misfortune of being alive and kicking. A misfortune only because, in the tradition of felines and rock stars, Lou Reed must have nine lives. Nine distinct incarnations ranging from junkie to jogger, from wife-beating closet queen to affectionate husband, from Velvet Underground frontman to the man on the Honda scooter who won't settle for just walking. And he's had to watch his various lives fold and unfold in the public eye to varying degrees of interest. But worse than that, pardon the melodrama, probably hardly a day goes by for Lou Reed that he doesn't have to live with being a survivor. A survivor in the rock and roll sense of the word.

While many rock stars who were once heroin addicts have now kicked smack (with an exaggerated sense of self-importance and fanfare) to delve into the pleasures of clean living, none had previously told the story of the vicissitudes of drug-crazed existence quite so blatantly or prolifically as Lou Reed. None wrote a song called "Heroin." None has quit the music business so abruptly, pleading lethal side effects and a litany of near-death experiences.

LET'S FACE IT: Lou Reed should be dead.

**Janszoon** · 11-24-2008, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr Sensitive

This is.

Holy shit, that was amazing!

Fruitonica · 11-24-2008, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by FaSho

He's a cat? I never got that.

Are you an idiot?

sweet_nothing · 11-24-2008, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Fruitonica

Are you an idiot?

Idk why but this made me laugh so hard when I read it.

Anyway research shows anyone who has sunglasses or is smoking is cool by default, if theyre doing both then theyre ultra-cool

**Janszoon** · 11-24-2008, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by sweet_nothing

Idk why but this made me laugh so hard when I read it.

Anyway research shows anyone who has sunglasses or is smoking is cool by default, if theyre doing both then theyre ultra-cool

*Tests theory*

lucifer_sam · 11-24-2008, 10:37 PM

No, he is definitely right.

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mannny **** Steve Harvey Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: MASS Posts: 423	No one can ever be as cool as Lou Reed. To me, being cool means just not giving a ****. __________________

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Wifey Boozer Meanie McFeany Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Troy side'ah the dirt, NY Posts: 455	...Which brings us to Lou Reed, who in the age of the legendary dead and dying has the misfortune of being alive and kicking. A misfortune only because, in the tradition of felines and rock stars, Lou Reed must have nine lives. Nine distinct incarnations ranging from junkie to jogger, from wife-beating closet queen to affectionate husband, from Velvet Underground frontman to the man on the Honda scooter who won't settle for just walking. And he's had to watch his various lives fold and unfold in the public eye to varying degrees of interest. But worse than that, pardon the melodrama, probably hardly a day goes by for Lou Reed that he doesn't have to live with being a survivor. A survivor in the rock and roll sense of the word. While many rock stars who were once heroin addicts have now kicked smack (with an exaggerated sense of self-importance and fanfare) to delve into the pleasures of clean living, none had previously told the story of the vicissitudes of drug-crazed existence quite so blatantly or prolifically as Lou Reed. None wrote a song called "Heroin." None has quit the music business so abruptly, pleading lethal side effects and a litany of near-death experiences. LET'S FACE IT: Lou Reed should be dead. __________________ ... Stalin had a *FANTASTIC* moustache. Formerly known as the Prime Minister of Spain. [backintheubbr]

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lucifer_sam Unrepentant Ass-Mod Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3,921	No, he is definitely right. __________________ first.am

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anticipation Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,565	working-class urbanites who wear flannel and stocking caps and like to go to house shows and drink beer.