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like crashing waves. I have spent months listening solely to The Beatles in awe of their virtuosity, hoping it will transfer to me. When I moved home back from South Carolina at the end of this summer, I began to have a profound re-obsession with The Velvet Underground. It seems everyone has their story about how this band has influenced them, for me it was a few bars into Rock & Roll. I listened as a young girl to Lou Reed's lyrics: "She started shakin' to that fine fine music, You know her life was

were mostly into drugs and it also gave birth to a new genre of music called “”folk and rock”. A few songs which illustrate the sixties are “The Times They Are a-Changin” by Bob Dylan, “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield, “Heroin” by The Velvet Underground, and “The Pusher” by Steppenwolf. These

the University of Syracuse and studied poetry and journalism. He later became the lead singer for the band, Velvet Underground during the 60’s. He is commonly known today as the one who started the punk rock era and “also brought a stormy dissonance to the foreground, helping to expand the vocabulary of the electric guitar” (Rolling Stone Bio). He broke away from his partnership with Velvet Underground and headed for England in pursuit of a solo career. Over a decade later, he released the album,

The Velvet Heart Killer is still terrorizing New Orleans, keeping the city in the grip of fear without an end. FBI Profiler Fallyn Saunders is determined to catch him with the help of Detective Zachary Samuels of the NOPD. Everywhere she turns, Fallyn sees potential suspects. She’s always depended on her instincts, but as clues are revealed, she finds herself doubting her instincts, and also doubting what she feels for Zachary. Their relationship might have begun in junior high, but nothing about

Simpson Gabriel Simpson Professor Gupta English 101 27 September 2017 A Kinky Adventure The monstrous velvet wall that lay before me and the other 1,423 adoring fans begins its grand opening. “Broadway,” I think to myself with the utmost happiness. With every inch of separation of the velvet wall, we all grow more and more eager. In just moments we would all be taught some of the greatest lessons of all time. Not like a lesson you are taught in school, but the lessons of love, acceptance, and pride

living in Totalitarian Regime and Communism. But in all of that fearful and unpredictable mess, was Vaclav Havel. In the future, he would become the last president of Czechoslovakia and first president of Czech Republic. He was a major part in the Velvet Revolution, that took down Communism in Czechoslovakia. He proved to many people that though he was placed into a country that destroyed creativity and free speech, he was

Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 drama film, directed by Todd Haynes. It is mainly about 1970s glam rock era, with the main protagonists, Brian Slade and Curt Wild, being loosely based on David Bowie and Iggy Pop/Lou Reed respectively. The music scene and overall atmosphere of the early 70s in revealed to the audience through a journalist, Arthur Stuart, who, ten years after the ‘death’ of glam rock is set to write an article on the fall of Brian Slade and his whereabouts, whilst constantly being reminded

David Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet is recognised worldwide for not only it’s manipulation of the psychological horror and film-noir genres, but also for it’s compelling portrayal of shifting erotic triangles and homosocial bonds. The scenes shown between 1:27:00 and 1:32:23 provide a clear snapshot of these complex relationships, and give insight into other character interactions throughout the wider film. References to the infamous Oedipal complex and Freudian findings, as well as succinct manipulation

specifically voyeuristic male gazes on women, to combine the audiences desire to watch with the desire of the characters watching within the film. This essay will focus on directors Alfred Hitchcock with his movie Psycho (1960) and David Lynch with Blue Velvet (1986) on their use of different staging and filmography techniques within the films to give the audience further insight into the psyche of the male characters and blur the lines between lust and violence as result of branching from similarly composed

5. The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray This classic rock song was a staple of The Velvet Underground’s live shows. They often closed out their set with “Sister Ray,” jamming out for up to thirty minutes, sometimes more. The studio recording of it was a single take that lasts over seventeen minutes. 4. The Kingsmen - Louie Louie This song was a Richard Berry single from 1955, which The Kingsmen covered in 1963 at Northwestern, Inc., Motion Pictures and Recording, located in Portland. Like many