A review by prismotron
Lou Reed's Transformer by Ezra Furman

4.5

can't figure out anything better to say than something i should not have written drunk and alone crying and writhing happy lou reed summer 

at its core a rumination on failure; failure to achieve, failure to conform, failure to ...be. but what is power if not declaring no, i decided this? my definition of failure is triumph? am i left empty handed in loss? why am i wrong for living in-between? maybe i can stop hurling the word nothing at the mirror like a swear and find comfort in indecision. maybe transforming.