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...that it's a typical Lou Reed album. This means, first off, that the album's pretty damn good. The music rocks where it needs to and slows down most of the time with some soothing guitar distortion. And the lyrics sometimes are razor sharp, the sort of brilliant poetry that Reed's always done (take, for instance, "In the mystic morning where the river meets/The hurdy-gurdy of the hip-hop beat," from "Mystic Child"). Most of the songs deal with Lou Reed's long defunct marriage and the emotion does shine through, anger and sadness and helplessness reflected...
...knew I'd heard these songs before; that's because they sound just like his '80s albums, except now maybe with more pathos but less energy, less dexterity. In the end this album just creates nostalgia for the '70s, when this album would've sounded more fresh and brilliant than anything else you were supposed to hide from your parents...
...Internet entrepreneurs don't realize that all who end up working on their brilliant idea will not be invested body and soul in its success. They will have spouses, children, mortgages--responsibilities and a life outside the job. They won't have 20% of the company to motivate them, and they will be looking for 401(k) plans, disability benefits--things that entrepreneurs accustomed to working without a safety net are unlikely to be thinking about...
...Judy Garland's life are ideally suited to the horror-show style of biography Joyce Carol Oates has dubbed "pathography." But though Clarke is frank, you never feel he is piling up sordid details just for fun. He suffers with her every time she repeats the cycle of "a brilliant start, several years of spectacular success--and then disaster" that marked her career from beginning...
...object in the known universe, with billions of chattering neurons connected by trillions of synapses. No scientific problem compares to it. (The Human Genome Project, which is trying to read a long molecular sentence composed of billions of letters, is simple by comparison.) Cognitive neuroscience is arming so many brilliant minds with such high technology that it would be foolish to predict that we will never understand how the brain gives rise to the mind. But the problem is so hard that it would be just as foolish to predict that we will...