Corrections to the Lou Reed bio review
It keeps me up at night, my seeming inability to properly edit and proofread myself before posting here at The ‘Stack. And I don't need that, when I rise for work at 6AM.
I've gotten better at it. It's been awhile since you subscribers have received one of these. But how in the hell did I send out that review of Will Hermes’ Lou Reed bio using the phrase “a conflicted mess of Jewish angst and electric guitar dreams” twice?
Somehow, I didn't grok that, in its leaping out from my preliminary notes twice as I wrote the final draft. And it's annoying me until I am sleepless until it's corrected. Certainly, it annoyed a subscriber of six days’ standing enough to unsubscribe!
If she, like the rest of you, go to the version at the actual website, you'll see the second instance of that phrase has been edited. The sentence now reads: “Hermes paints a picture of young Lou, channeling his rage into the most beautifully vicious rock ‘n’ roll ever made.”
Whew! Much better! Maybe now I can sleep. 6AM comes way too fast. No need to lose it over redundant “Jewish angst and electric guitar dreams,” right?
It happens to E'RYBODY who pushes words together at greater length than a sentence. That it bothers you so much is why you're so good, but then again you're too good to let it bother you so much.
She unsubscribed over THAT? Come on! Don't let the screen door slam on your way out! Brilliant, exuberant, incisive like an MRI, Tim. My favorite line: "He was also a musical genius capable of both the most tender of melodic gems and coruscating noise violations worthy of a demolition crew handed guitars and amps. Equally, he thought employing Metallica for the Lulu album was a great idea…. *rolls eyes*”. You are one helluva writer, Tim.