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Behind Everyman Is A Good, Misrepresented Woman

Posted at 4:00 PM on November 3, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (2 Comments)

So a man from Queens slowly falls in love with a waitress from Minneapolis. He sees her around at shows in New York, admires her sturdy nordic demeanor. He notes her conflicted attitude toward religion, her strange tattoos, her smoldering anger. Then he finds out her name.

And that’s when the most weird thing happened, the recognition of which was precipitated by my hearing a line from a song in my head, which goes: "Tiny little text etched into her neck it said ‘Jesus lived and died for all your sins.'" And then another line that went: "Damn right I'll rise again." And yes---I found out her name was Holly. It’s a name I like a lot. Its the name of the transvestite in the first verse of Lou Reed's “Walk On The Wild Side,” the one who “shaved her legs/then the he was a she," and who is based on the real life Holly Woodlawn. And that’s kind of appropriate, given this Holly’s boyish demeanor.
But this Holly, as some of you now must realize, has been specifically immortalized not in the songs of Lou Reed, but in those of the Hold Steady, and it's been going on for two albums now. Not accurately immortalized, I now know, but immortalized nonetheless.

Sounds to us like the start a beautiful screenplay...

Comments (2)

Oh my god, is this for real? The genuine Hallelujah, how cool is that!

Posted by Sarah | November 5, 2006 6:41 PM

Seems a little too neatly wrapped up*. Does his cousin know a guy named Dwight that got himself into some trouble?

This reminds me of 20 years ago when everyone in MPLS had a friend who's older sister was named Nikki and SHE WAS THE GIRL FROM THAT SONG!.

*NOTE - I didn't read the other entries to the blog. This is just my opinion. I could be old and cranky about things.

Posted by D | November 7, 2006 7:59 AM

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