Achtung Baby!

waiting for it to rain

“I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”
― Leonard Cohen

U2: [ Rain (Beatles Cover) ]

Don DeLillo, Mao II /  Maurizio Di Iorio 

well I see Jane's awake

that was New York

 Tavi 

I learned about Cohen from Her

+ 10 Great Leonard Cohen Covers by Female Artists

Someone was missing from that list....

i don't need you

solitude is being tenderly in love

Madeleine Peyroux: [ Bird on the Wire ]

 Charles Bukowski  

You're living for nothing now

+ Tori Amos: Famous Blue Raincoat (Live) - Another one for my funeral playlist. I still recall the first time I heard it on a bootleg (Titled Under The Covers) that was copied one cassette at a time via the Tori mailing list's hey days in 1994. I recall it b/c the tape had Tori singing "American Pie" the night Kurt Cobain died. It also had the first time she did a bunch of other covers like "Boys in the Trees" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger"

Thank God for modernity, who needs to find old cassettes when there's YouTube.

This may be my least favorite cover of it, that fucking saxophone is maddening: Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat

The rise and rise of Leonard Cohen’s once-forgotten classic

+ VIDEO: Hallelujah! The rise and rise of Leonard Cohen’s once-forgotten classic

Over 360 recordings and thousands of performances later, Hallelujah's lyrical mix of the sacred and the secular has graced the repertoires of artists as diverse as Jeff Buckley and Susan Boyle, and continues to appear in movies, television dramas and talent contests around the world.

It's just that I can't speak

he wrote himself a prescription And your name was mentioned in it

 Fairy tale about a girl whose body comes to life every night under his sensitive hands