[Suzanne and Brian follow up]

Subj: Re: Politics
Date: 95-06-27 06:26:37 EDT
From: 74034.643@compuserve.com (Brian Rose)
To: bobking@gate.net (Robert King)
CC: undertow@law.lawlib.emory.edu (Undertow)

Re Bob King's recent comments: Pretty good for working on two hours of sleep. I also think the album is underrrated.

The Boulevardier days were the best and worst of times. We were broke and stretched to the limit creatively and emotionally--though the strongest drug we were on was coffee. It's the kind of experience you know you need to go through in order to reach another level. Then it's over. You pick up all the pieces and go on. Many of your friendships don't survive. Success creates barriers, bitterness, jealousy. Suzanne went on to a record deal with A&M. I began photographing along the former Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall. When the dust cleared a few years later, our friendship was still intact. Sometimes things work out.

Brian Rose

Subj: Re: WWW
Date: 95-06-26 19:43:11 EDT
From: Suzanne Vega
To: VegaNet@aol.com

He [Brian] was actually rather modest in the answer to his questions -- he is the "narrator" character of Tom's Diner; (I was pretending to be him that morning), and is one of the characters in the Boulevardiers --

"he loves the city with the bricks and broken bottles and the pretty little flowers as they grow along the wall; he is dark, he is tall, he is the tallest one of all of us."

I think he was always annoyed that I didn't say "handsome". His line in Knight Moves is --"she doesn't have a political bone in her body", which he said about me in a catty moment (there were many).

The real influence Brian had on me was getting me to listen to the Velvet Underground -- I had just seen Lou Reed the year before I met Brian, and though I coudn't forget it I hadn't really explored the whole thing. We also listened to the Talking Heads and Television and Blondie and I think Patti Smith, although that whole scene was dying out by that time. We had aspirations of being New Wavers.

Anyhow -- thanks again. I'll stay in touch.

Suzanne

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