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  • Here is an all-too-short clip of the Velvet Underground playing "Venus in Furs" at Andy Warhol's Silver Factory.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Oh man, “Heartbreak Beat” by the Psychedelic Furs is playing on Radio Paradise right now.

    My Birthday … | Living the Liminal 2005

  • or, maybe closer to my own retro dreams, the days when Gerard Malanga got his ass beat during “Venus in Furs” because he was wasted, pumped, and audacious and when Iggy jumped offstage and smeared peanut butter on himself because … well, who knows why Iggy did what he did in those days, and does it matter?

    The Font of Teriyaki… You Tell Me, How Does it Make You Feel? « Skid Roche 2007

  • or, maybe closer to my own retro dreams, the days when Gerard Malanga got his ass beat during “Venus in Furs” because he was wasted, pumped, and audacious and when Iggy jumped offstage and smeared peanut butter on himself because … well, who knows why Iggy did what he did in those days, and does it matter?

    The Font of Teriyaki… You Tell Me, How Does it Make You Feel? « Skid Roche 2007

  • – Really is difficult to get your head around this fluffy piece of minor psychedelia being by the same guys who gave us Venus in Furs, Heroin and the Black Angel’s Death Song.

    Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010

  • Handsome Furs, which is composed of Boeckner and his wife, Alexis Perry, stands in stark contrast to that notion.

    680news.com 2009

  • An even bigger shock when sentient plant aliens turn up, tell the colonists why these groups of 'Furs' exist, and tell them about the thousands of years long interstellar war they have been fighting.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Crossfire - Nancy Kress Blue Tyson 2009

  • The Somal still retain a tradition that the "Furs," or ancient Guebres, once ruled the land.

    First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • I don't like the way Faux Furs feel, the texture is just wrong.

    Why Real Fur Is Greener Than Fake 2010

  • I don't like the way Faux Furs feel, the texture is just wrong.

    Why Real Fur Is Greener Than Fake 2010

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