Yes indeed, Happy Birthday also from Munich. A friend who moved to Tel Aviv two weeks ago, has just sent me an email reminding of today being the international day of peace... a great coincidence that is, to my mind. "Villanelle for our time" just comes to my mind, "From bitter search...

Hi Elena, it's fine to learn that you've made quite the same experience as I did. First, when I heard of him, in the early 80s, there was just "The Partisan" and "Suzanne", and I reckoned him as another Bob Dylan. Then, long time after, I became aware of both the depth and the hi...

Reading about your decision, Jarkko, to close the forum, makes me truly sorry. You've been doing a great job and just don't deserve what's obviously been going on in here.

Thanks for your efforts!!

Johannes

Anhalter No. 2 – to the hitch-hiker in us – freedom was not another automotive brand it’s just another useless thing to lose a priceless value in this city of the wall that’s all cracked up and swept away for light, for freedom, and commerce TXL, 21.11.06 in memory of the LC event Berlin, August 2006

Ja luur ens, ne Kölsche? Ne Düsseldorfer? Ejal, Du künnz och us Koblenz sinn - dat ess von hee uss ärch noh zesamme. Jot, dat de hee biss! (For all who don't understand Rhine-Frankish: "Look, someone from Cologne! Or from Düsseldorf? Doesn't matter - you could even be from Koblenz - that's all ...

Well, at least we have snow now... plenty of it at Munich. Something new 'bout the tour dates?

After months of abstinence due to lots of work and unfortunate private circumstances, I just returned to browse through the forum, and I'm struck by your thread... Exactly this stanza came to my mind yesterday or the day before, giving me some comfort by reminding me of what Leonard's been going thr...

Great! The most exciting sentence to me was:

...and to make some money after being allegedly duped by his manager of about five million dollars. To me that does not mean much; a few million dollars here or there matter to those who have them.

very fine, tc. I totally agree. In fact, by your words I realize why Leonard is that familiar to me... he seems to have discovered slowness long before Sten Nadolny.

Very, very tempting. Wish I had the dough to go there...

Hi Soshea, and welcome to the forum! To me, Take This Waltz is a favourite for dancing to. It's a real Vienna waltz and has a very fine tempo. Of course, the lyrics might amount to bit of a problem... it is such an intense expression of the tension between eros and thanatos. Moreover, it's become ve...

Good choice, tom.

I also like that one best. It seems more authentic to me, in a way. Cohen Live not being bad, either, of course.

A very interesting discussion indeed. I'm just remembering Oscar Wilde's Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. There are objects of value that no price whatsoever could amount to - and objects of astronomic prices with no value at all. Just make your own choice...

lightning wrote:"There ain't no cure for love?" But there is: often, it's marriage.

It's hard to admit, but you are quite right, lightning...

If people did not have so many romantic illusions to start out with, the disillusionment would not be so great. That indeed, lightning, is the point. Romanticism has spoiled (and still does) the hardships and pleasures of ordinary every day life. We do expect too much from a relationship, and most ...