49dced No.5475
Easily the best documentary I've ever seen on Lou Reed/Velvet Underground. The main focus here are the people that Lou Reed sang about in Walk on the Wild Side. All of them were real, and most of them were traps or at least transgender. Although she didn't figure in the song, Lou Reed dated a trap for 3 years in the 1970s.
The video is the first of 7 parts, the whole thing is about 40 minutes.
Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side,
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side.
Candy came from out on the island,
In the backroom she was everybody's darling,
But she never lost her head
Even when she was giving head
She sayes, hey baby, take a walk on the wild side
Said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
Little Joe never once gave it away
Everybody had to pay and pay
A hustle here and a hustle there
New York City is the place where they said:
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said hey Joe, take a walk on the wild side
Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets
Lookin' for soul food and a place to eat
Went to the Apollo
You should have seen him go, go, go
They said, hey Sugar, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side, alright, huh
Jackie is just speeding away
Thought she was James Dean for a day
Then I guess she had to crash
Valium would have helped that bash
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side
49dced No.5476
Candy Darling was the most attractive/passable IMHO.
Also, here is an image of Lou Reed with Rachel, the most flattering image I could find of her.
Ditto for Holly Woodlawn.
f046fa No.6914
I bookmarked this months ago, finally got around to watching it. It is excellent.
I wonder what it would have been like to chase traps in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s.
1. Being a trap was a lot more underground, at least nationwide, which would have made it more of an adventure. No internet, just classified ads and bars.
2. No SJWs or feminists.
3. All women were more girly back then.
49dced No.6927
>>6914
I'm partly with you on this, but I would prefer the 80s and 90s, mainly because women were so hot then. Maybe 1985 to 1995 was the best.
A few months ago, I was watching Get Shorty, a pretty average comedy from 1995. Part of the reason I kept watching was that the women were so hot, it was a window into a world that I was too young to take advantage of.
Rene Russo, who I don't think is anything special, was so fucking beautiful in this film. Look at her hair, she looks like some princess out of a fairy tale. Makeup and stuff was probably better too back then, but I don't know enough to say what's different.
3a611a No.6940
>>6927
>1995
Blame grunge and heroin chic culture.
49dced No.6947
>>6940
You're onto something. I liked grunge growing up, and hated most of the stupid hair bands before that, like Winger and Poison, but the grunge style did not look good on women.
>early 90s, my much older brother dating a girl fucking identical to this
>can't wait to get older, get my own car and place like he did, and dating beautiful women like he was doing
>finally get there by the mid-200s. What the fuck happened? It was better than now, but not what he had. Women didn't look as good.
Some of it was the fat and tattoos, but a lot of it was the lame hair styles and clothing and probably makeup. Women looked less feminine.
fc78a3 No.7372
Candy Darling was beautiful.
I loved this song during a lonely period of my life, and would play it when I went to bars. Alone. I would go alone and leave alone.
Maybe it was a premonition of my future.