Tag: LOUREED

During last night's Grammys broadcast, HP ran a comprehensively awful commercial for its TouchPad, combining a track from Lou Reed with a script straight from 'Everyone Poops.' The idea behind the ad is simple: with the TouchPad, you can do a lot of different things. It's a message that the company probably could've portrayed in a million ways. For some reason, though, HP decided to build ...

Share Look, we've said it before, but it can't hurt to be clear: We are all nerds. Everyone at Switched, our friends, our parents, and the musicians we love. Because, to us anyway, being a nerd means looking up and imagining something active and wonderful outside of our little cubicle-walled existences. Be it 'Star Wars' or Sun Ra, a healthy imagination, for the most part, is the realm of ...

Oh time. You are a cruel mistress. Just look at what you've done to one of the most influential rock stars of our time, Lou Reed. The man who penned depraved couplets like, "She's out on the streets again, She's down on her knees, my friend," and "'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man, when I put a spike into my vein," is now designing iPhone apps -- for the nearsighted. 'Lou Zoom' is an ...