"Then let me start again," I cried "please let me start again I want a face that's fair this time I want a spirit that is calm."
June 28, 2018
April 25, 2018
And your favorite Leonard Cohen songs
I am just floating
Infinitely placid
Infinitely calm
And infinitely spacious with you
I love you in the movies
With sunglasses
And your favorite Leonard Cohen songs
When we fall into your kitchen drawers
And play spooning
I’ll be here in the morning
Singing into your fingertips
Candy covered lips
I could have chosen not to be hurt
But there is no life in that
I wouldn’t change this for eternity
This is lovely
+ Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
+ Leonard Cohen Documentary, 1989
+ Leonard Cohen in his Hydra's house (1988)
April 14, 2018
Lost my voice in New York City
Lost my voice in New York City
never heard it again after sixty-seven
Now I talk like you
Now I sing like you
Cigarette and coffee to make me sick
Couple of families to make me think
Going to see my lawyer
Going to read my mail
Lost my voice in New York City
Guess you always knew
The Pro (1973) from Death of a Lady's Man
+ Leonard Cohen: Beacon Theatre, New York, February 19, 2009
April 07, 2018
the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
“My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke
that caused me to laugh bitterly
through the ten thousand nights
I spent alone.”
—Leonard Cohen
Andrew Bird: Armchairs.live
April 03, 2018
January 13, 2018
that furnace
“Love, that furnace into which everything is dropped.”
— James Salter
Love is a fire.
It burns everyone.
It disfigures everyone.
It is the world’s excuse
for being ugly.
— Leonard Cohen, “Love Is A Fire”
January 04, 2018
January 02, 2018
December 17, 2017
November 23, 2017
no escape from loneliness
Sent to me by my Leonard Cohen fundamentalist Muse.
+ Leonard Cohen told us back in 2008 why he loved seeing other artists cover his songs.
+ Leonard Cohen : Une brèche en toute chose
November 12, 2017
Leonard Cohen Memorial
+ Damien Rice Famous Blue Raincoat
+ Lana Del Rey & Adam Cohen - Chelsea Hotel No. 2
+ Seth Rogen Recites Field Commander Cohen
+ K.D. Lang: Hallelujah
+ U2 Pays Tribute to Leonard Cohen in Toronto , U2: Bad/Suzanne
+ So Long Marianne, Adam Cohen & The Webb Sisters
+ Adam Cohen with the closing speech and the song Coming Back To You
+ Everybody Knows, Courtney Love
+ Dance me to the end of love, Sting
+ The Future, Elvis Costello
August 28, 2017
as you get older
I read somewhere that as you get older, the brain cells associated with anxiety begin to die. [Pauses] A lot of other brain cells die, too, so you’ve got to watch out
Leonard Cohen
Hayden: Starting Over And I feel like starting over / More now, as I'm older
April 28, 2017
December 09, 2016
December 06, 2016
First we take Gotham
Sometimes when I listen to First we take Manhattan it reminds me of Batman...
I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
I'd really like to live beside you, baby
I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
Bonus: My Muse's fave Cohen pic:
November 26, 2016
November 19, 2016
various.positions
In response to Poppet's comment, a selection of songs. I'm partial to live versions.
+ Lover, Lover, Lover
+ I'm Your Man
+ Famous Blue Raincoat
+ First We Take Manhattan
+ The Future
+ Avalanche
Leonard Cohen + Tel-Aviv Concert
My muse pointed me to this amazing recording. At 31 minutes is an amazing version of "Lover Lover Lover"
+ Army Radio Recording Of 1980 Leonard Cohen Tel-Aviv Concert
November 17, 2016
of anguish and anxiety
“the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse”.
- Leonard Cohen on depression
+ LEONARD COHEN: A FINAL INTERVIEW | September 2016| David Remnick from The New Yorker
November 12, 2016
November 10, 2016
Sincerely L Cohen....
+ Influential Singer-Songwriter Leonard Cohen Dies At 82
I got into LC after hearing a bootleg of Tori Amos singing Famous Blue Raincoat in the 90's, then I read Beautiful Losers and the rest is history for me. Here are all my LC posts.
"God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled..."
August 15, 2016
March 13, 2016
February 27, 2016
February 21, 2016
January 10, 2016
and then my muse found me
10 Years ago today my Leonard Cohen loving beautiful muse wrote me for the first time and the rest is history.
August 02, 2015
A Cohen Miscellany
+ Leonard Cohen at 92Y, February 14, 1966
+ Listen to Leonard Cohen Read “Almost Like the Blues”
+ Philip Glass and Leonard Cohen - "I Can't Make the Hills"
//all of theses found by my Muse
April 26, 2015
January 18, 2015
[how] sad
“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
— Leonard Cohen
January 12, 2015
Please make me empty...
“Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.”
Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
+ Lana Del Rey - Chelsea Hotel No 2
Margaret Atwood
December 21, 2014
I'm gonna need you to beg // Not by begging on his knees
.........Ah but a man never got a woman back Not by begging on his knees
December 02, 2014
November 15, 2014
September 16, 2014
August 16, 2014
silence searching for a sound
I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
Neil Gaiman
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired.
Leonard Cohen
Please don’t understand me too quickly.
André Gide
//Nicola Samori, L'Occhio Occidentale
May 10, 2014
May 03, 2014
March 16, 2014
your thighs are a ruin
Lera // Text: Leonard Cohen
March 15, 2014
the data and the quiet organization
The poem is nothing but information. It is the Constitution of the inner country. If you declaim it and blow it up with noble intentions then you are no better than the politicians whom you despise. You are just someone waving a flag and making the cheapest kind of appeal to a kind of emotional patriotism. Think of the words as science, not as art. They are a report. You are speaking before a meeting of the Explorers' Club of the National Geographic Society. These people know all the risks of mountain climbing. They honour you by taking this for granted. If you rub their faces in it that is an insult to their hospitality. Tell them about the height of the mountain, the equipment you used, be specific about the surfaces and the time it took to scale it. Do not work the audience for gasps and sighs. If you are worthy of gasps and sighs it will not be from your appreciation of the event but from theirs. It will be in the statistics and not the trembling of the voice or the cutting of the air with your hands. It will be in the data and the quiet organization of your presence.
Leonard Cohen, "How to Speak Poetry"
January 24, 2014
Do not become emotional about the lace blouse
Speak the words with the exact precision with which you would check out a laundry list. Do not become emotional about the lace blouse. Do not get a hard-on when you say panties. Do not get all shivery just because of the towel. The sheets should not provoke a dreamy expression about the eyes. There is no need to weep into the handkerchief. The socks are not there to remind you of strange and distant voyages. It is just your laundry. It is just your clothes. Don't peep through them. Just wear them.
Leonard Cohen, "How to Speak Poetry"
September 20, 2013
August 28, 2013
August 26, 2013
July 04, 2013
June 17, 2013
June 15, 2013
I am a patient lover
quote by MOHAMMED N. WAHEED
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