lester bangs

• almost famous filminde philip seymour hoffman tarafindan canlandirilan 70'lerin en onemli rock yazarlarindan biri, muhtemelen en onemlisi.
  rolling stone, creem ve village voice'da yazmis, punk kelimesini muzik literaturune sokmus, ozellikle creemde yazdigi yazilarda 'daha gurultulu', 'daha elektrik', 'daha sert'i vurgulayarak punk estetigini tanimlamistir. kahramanlari, hic cekinmeden soyledigi gibi lou reed, iggy pop and the stooges gibi erken donem punk'lar ve 60'larin garage rock gruplaridir.
  kisa hayatini 'drugs, alcohol and rock'n'roll' olarak ozetlemek mumkun. tutkulu ve mizahi olarak tanimlanabilecek gonzo yazma stiliyle, muzik elestirmenligini edebiyata yaklastirdigi soylenebilir. 35 yasinda olmustur 1982'de.
  asagida yazilarinin toplandigi psychotic reactions and carburetor dung adli kitaptan kisa bir alinti:
  
  " last spring i was going out with a girl who road-managed a rock band. when she told them she was seeing me they said, 'aw, all lester wants to do is suck lou reed's cock.
  i would suck lou reed's cock, because i would also kiss the feet of them that drafted magna carta.....
  i'm a realist. that's why i listen to lou reed. and that's why i idolize him. because the things he wrote and sang and played in the velvet underground were for me part of the beginning of a real revolution in the whole scheme between men and women, men and men, women and women, humans and humans. and i don't mean clones. i mean a diversity that extends to the stars.
  everybody assumes that mind and body are opposed. why? (leaving aside six thousand years of history.) the trog vs. cerebrite. how boring. but we still buy it, all of us. the velvet underground were the greatest band that ever existed because they began to suggest that such was not so, in the very actfact of the tragic recognition of such opposition at the most groundfloor extreme angles...."
• (bkz: lester burnham)
• bir rem düşü.
• http://youtubedaizledim.blogspot.com/…ckn-roll.html