The Velvet Underground Pt I
No Dogs in Space
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How to Get to a 50 Second Fire
After Lou's nervous breakdown at NYU he was prescribed a thrice weekly eight week long treatment of old-school electro shock therapy ostensibly to treat his severe depression anxiety and possible schizophrenia. In 1959 the institution where reads electro shock therapy was done creed more was a hellhole on a rapid downhill course by the 70s conditions have become so bad that three rapes 22 assaults 52 fires six suicides a shooting and a riot all occurred within 20 months of each other. According to Lou Reed's sister Bunny their parents were certainly anxious and controlling she admits that but they were ultimately Long Island Jewish liberals who were in no way homophobic.
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