Lou Reed

With songs about drugs (“Heroin,” “I’m Waiting for the Man”), sadomasochism (“Venus in Furs”) and love (“I’ll Be Your Mirror”), as well as observations about the people that hung around Warhol’s Factory, the band pushed the boundaries with this album. It became a precursor to the 1970s punk scene and set Lou Reed up for a long, successful career. Number Four: The Clash, ‘London Calling’ London Calling brings together elements of rockabilly and ska to become one of the most revered punk British punk albums of all time. The amount of diversity the band shows on this album between songs like the energized title track, the ska influenced “Rudie Can’t Fail” and the pop-ish “Lost in the Supermarket” without losing the punk sense of immediacy has made it a critical and fan favorite. Number Three: The Rolling Stones, ‘Exile on Main Street’ The Rolling Stones have put out a number of well-respected albums, but Exile on Main Street has become their most notorious. Critics, though originally panning the album, have called it the “greatest rock ‘n’ roll…

Lou Reed, the "stupid, disgusting, awful human being.” Howard Sounes known for his biography of Bob Dylan, Down the Highway, will release his second book, Notes From the Velvet Underground, on the 22nd of October. For this book Sounes interviewed more than a 100 people, from his school friends to the Velvet Underground manager, Paul Morissey. Morissey when interviewed by Sounes gave his own title suggestions: The Worst Person Who Ever Lived or The Hateful Bitch, according to him people may…

Evie Zamora, the protagonist from the 2003 film Thirteen, is a mysterious, charismatic, yet bold thirteen year who draws popular attention from her peers by her voluptuous body, seductive clothing, and flirtatious behavior. Evie appears to be a broken individual who displays deviant and destructive behavior. It is evident in the film that she transformed from a young girl into women over her summer vacation. Evie is characterized as the most popular girl in school. She has dark and lustrous…

We are presented with a formidable quandary for Lauren to overcome at her new job. She has to make a rather difficult decision on whether to green-light her company’s product meeting the contracted specifications from a buyer. However she has discovered the products don’t quite meet specifications, with a chance to completely fail under high humidity conditions. Therefore she has to decide to pass and sign off on the new product which will help fulfill her company’s lucrative new contract, or…

At its core, Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film, Jaws, is a horror movie. Though the shark may seem like the primary antagonist of the film from this, as it literally eats people, such a claim would ignore the role of Amity Island’s Mayor Vaughn, as portrayed by Murray Hamilton. In the first half of the movie, Vaughn is constantly at odds with Chief Brody, wanting to push his own agenda of making money from tourism during the summer. In seeing Vaughn as another antagonist, another conflict that’s not…

rental movie, Netflix has come a long way. It has become a cultural phenomenon, even going as far as becoming a verb commonly used amongst it younger user base. Operating in an industry that was dominated by giants such as Blockbuster and Walmart, this startup company was able to be successful largely due to how it was able to create and uphold a corporate culture unlike any other. Technological advancements continually change the way a company operates and its ability to adapt and remain at the…

Reed Hastings Reed Hastings became successful at a very young age, creating Netflix and becoming an industrial Internet leader. Reed Hastings is a fifty-two year old entrepreneur and the owner of an amazing digital success story called Netflix. His amazing company has a net worth of $940 million dollars, thanks to his 53 million subscribers. A quote Hastings says kept him and his business going was ,”Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.” As you can see, Reed…

Helping a Friend On May 20, 2014, Sophia and seven of her friends decided to take a trip to Lake Michigan. Sophia’s aunt owns a lake house in Arcadia, Michigan, so the girls decided to rent out the place for a few weeks. When they arrived to the house late in evening, they unpacked and settled in. Sophia, Carly, Kaylee, and Sally slept in the room with bunk beds, while Kelly, Diane, and Lauren slept in the master bedroom. George got the room in the middle all to himself. Everyone managed to get…

Reed Hastings Impact on the Media Industry Netflix is the largest internet steaming network with over 83 million members and serving in over 190 countries (Netflix). Started in 1997, Netflix continued to see rapid success under its co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings. Hastings helped Netflix transcend the media industry. One way this was done was through its company culture, focusing on providing autonomy to its employees. Another component of Hastings achievements is being an innovator in the…

Ever since my second day at my school placement, one particular student (whom I will refer to as X) in Ms. I’s second period class has never failed to catch my attention. Each week, I never know what to expect from X: some days he is a model student, working diligently on the task on hand, but on others he acts out and refuses to comply with Ms. I’s requests. However, sometimes there aren’t even good or bad days, for X’s behavior can vary so drastically within a one-hour class period. On good…