she looks like a GOP lawyer.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 April 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Also: this man is an asshole:
http://www.lowtimespodcast.com/the-insufferable-adam-cohen/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Which man, the author or the subject?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 14 April 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
This is brilliant:
http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2012/pc/pod-v-29031207m26stjmsquiz2-pid0-446376_audio.mp3
It's a clip from an LC competition ("Knowin' your Cohen") held on Ireland's RTE 1. The contestants are hopeless.
― Shadrach, Sunday, 15 April 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
Hey how's that Isle of Wight reissue thingy with the DVD? Want it but it's 'spensive
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 15 April 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
The cd is good - you get the concert in full, with great sound.
The dvd - not so much... It's a standard Murray Lerner botch job. Most of the songs don't appear and those that do are edited down. Instead you get a few dull interview clips (Joan Baez...) and some footage of the festival
― Shadrach, Sunday, 15 April 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks dude. That sounds about right.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 15 April 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
seeing leonard tonight at home.
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
You paid the Kickstarter to get him to play your living room?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
That was, what, $500? Deep pockets!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
"Hello, I'm Leonard. What do you have in the way of snacks?"
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
magnificent live performer
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
"Any tea? Oranges even? From China?"
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
Really wanted to ee him in Cicago last week but wasn't around. 3.5 hiur show.
― 2 Chain Pizzas (to go) (Eazy), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
That's because he sings very slowly.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
(sorry for the typos above)
― 2 Chain Pizzas (to go) (Eazy), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
3.5 hrs
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 29 November 2012 05:21 (eleven years ago) link
how was itother than in length
― absurdly pro-D (schlump), Thursday, 29 November 2012 05:24 (eleven years ago) link
210 minutes
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 29 November 2012 05:34 (eleven years ago) link
Does he still recite a couplet from the song he's about to sing before it starts?
― 2 Chain Pizzas (to go) (Eazy), Thursday, 29 November 2012 05:36 (eleven years ago) link
what insights did you gleanabout the soul of a poet
― absurdly pro-D (schlump), Thursday, 29 November 2012 06:03 (eleven years ago) link
― 2 Chain Pizzas (to go) (Eazy), Thursday, November 29, 2012 12:36 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he did that a bunch, as well as some poetry. it was awesome.
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 29 November 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
i love the bootleg where he intros sisters of mercy w/ an improv -- "i love to spend the night with two girlssssss...it's better than one ... and it's better than none."
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 November 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
has he acknowledegd that democracy is not coming to the USA?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 November 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
in a brief powerpoint presentation
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 29 November 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
HEH. HEH HEH. THE MONKEY.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 26 April 2014 05:26 (ten years ago) link
he has a song where he talks about rosicrucianism and it was the only place or time or association i have with that word and then last weekend i was reading something and it mentioned rosicrucians ('money', maybe? now i cant remember where) and i was caught off-guard, i think i half-thought leonard cohen had made them up
― dude (Lamp), Saturday, 26 April 2014 07:16 (ten years ago) link
they can give you back your hope
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 26 April 2014 07:47 (ten years ago) link
recent songs is a masterpiece, I am a little in love tbh, what an amazing album that I have overlooked for all these years
― marcos, Friday, 27 March 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link
this is has been one of several nights recently when I have gotten a little drunk and put on some leonard cohen and marvel at the man
― marcos, Friday, 27 March 2015 01:09 (nine years ago) link
"The Window," "Ballad of the Absent Mare," and the rest. It's really the bridge between his early style and his mature style.
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Friday, 27 March 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
In the sleevenotes of this album Cohen thanks his mother, "for reminding me of the kind of music she loved before she died"
― sexpost TMIing! (wins), Friday, 27 March 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
tonite is i'm your man and various positions, these are so amazing despite their imperfections, the title track on im your man and everybody knows and then dance me to th end of love are just so perfect
― marcos, Saturday, 28 March 2015 01:19 (nine years ago) link
oh shit and then coming back to you
― marcos, Saturday, 28 March 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
everything is all so good, wow leonard you've been there all along and I've finally noticed
― marcos, Saturday, 4 April 2015 23:41 (nine years ago) link
:-)
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Sunday, 5 April 2015 01:11 (nine years ago) link
when I saw him the 2nd time in london he had a few various positions songs in his set inc. night comes on!
marcos if you haven't already you need to hear the field commander cohen album
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Sunday, 5 April 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
it is my desert island album probably
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Sunday, 5 April 2015 01:19 (nine years ago) link
me + a couple of friends discovered i'm your man in high school and our callow instinct was to mock it (keyboards, 80s production, intensely serious vocals, this waltz this waltz this waltz this waltz) and put it on 4 lulz etc., but as time passed we realized we were listening to it all the time. it's the best. you know you can. i like its disreputable moments too (you can imagine how much i liked them then). turtle meat.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 5 April 2015 01:26 (nine years ago) link
(was also obsessed at the time w "don't go home with your hard-on" -- this is a pretty sour song, in retrospect, isn't it, like contemporary dylan. what happened to arty singer-songwriters in the late 70s? just divorce? at least this has the grace iirc to also sound as sour as possible.)
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 5 April 2015 01:31 (nine years ago) link
Progress with Cohen was:
- Reading Suzanne in the Norton Anthology of Poetry in high school- "Everybody Knows" in Pump Up The Volume- "Ain't No Cure for Love" in Love at Large- Buying a ticket last-minute to see him in 1993, knowing only those two songs. Still probably my epiphany concert of any.- Ending up living in Montreal on a study grant, finding he has novels in addition to the rest. Devouring everything except Death of a Ladies Man, which I still haven't heard.
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Sunday, 5 April 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG9zED01DuA
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 5 April 2015 02:32 (nine years ago) link
"Paper Thin Hotel" is one of my fave lyrics ever
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Sunday, 5 April 2015 03:37 (nine years ago) link
lately new skin has been the favorite
― marcos, Monday, 20 April 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
"New Skin" remains the ultimate! Was at a Newbury Comics on Sunday & an employee was playing it straight through, which was so unexpected & awesome.
Has been one of my favorite albums ever for 20 or so years. They're all great but "Field Commander Cohen" has always struck a nerve.
― Wally P. Doyle, Thursday, 5 September 2019 06:33 (five years ago) link
NYers, last weekend for this
https://thejewishmuseum.org/index.php/exhibitions/leonard-cohen-a-crack-in-everything
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 September 2019 11:27 (five years ago) link
Loved this show ^^.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 5 September 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link
FWIW I really disliked the show. I think I just can't with art shows about musicians. It felt overly worshipful or something -- I didn't find anything all that engaging on its own merits in an artistic sense, the whole thing was just "WOW LEONARD COHEN GENIUS WOW." Although the thing with the mens choir was sort of fun.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 12 September 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
was it the Conspiracy of Beards? (there can't be more than one all-Leonard Cohen men's choir...)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 September 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
i thought it was mediocre too
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 September 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link