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- Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:41 pm
- Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
- Topic: THE BUTCHER (song)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20148
Re: THE BUTCHER (song)
Greg, PHEW! Just finished this marathon. As usual, you make a compelling case (except for that time re. the Acapulco Gold/Lonesome Heroes thread). I'm going to read this at least one more time and delve into the links, maybe I'll respond then, but meantime, I am in awe of your research abilities! Y...
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:15 am
- Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
- Topic: THE BUTCHER (song)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20148
Re: THE BUTCHER (song)
These lines in "The Butcher" addressed to his dead father, and his father's one line response, Do not leave me now, do not leave me now, I'm broken down from a recent fall. Blood upon my body and ice upon my soul, Lead on, my son, it is your world. must be compared to the following lines i...
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:14 am
- Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
- Topic: THE BUTCHER (song)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20148
Re: THE BUTCHER (song)
The door it opened slowly. My father, he came in. I was nine years old. Leonard's father died when Leonard was 9. And, in fact, Leonard's voice on "The Butcher" does not sound "tortured, tired, troubled," or drugged. Nor does it sound like he's just trying to get to heart of som...
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:06 am
- Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
- Topic: THE BUTCHER (song)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20148
Re: THE BUTCHER (song)
A RAUCOUS MAULING "The Butcher" deserves more attention and respect than it usually gets. It is not one of Zorba's women who will give you all she's got if you just put your hands on her "I am what I am" breasts. And it's not a child who will give you all its candy if you tickle...
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:57 am
- Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
- Topic: THE BUTCHER (song)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20148
Re: THE BUTCHER (song)
Leonard's "BALLAD" reminds me of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ". In neither of them are there any scenes (except possibly at the very end) that can only be interpreted as supernatural. Which is, after all, the whole point of Mel Gibson's movie: --- to make the story fee...
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:53 am
- Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
- Topic: THE BUTCHER (song)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20148
Re: THE BUTCHER (song)
intermission: I GO ROUND AND ROUND Well. There is this that can be said about that: The line has nothing whatsoever to do with reincarnation! More than that, I can not say. Not because I've been sworn to secrecy. But because there is nothing more to say about it. The fact is, Leonard Cohen does belo...
- Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:50 am
- Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
- Topic: THE BUTCHER (song)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20148
Re: THE BUTCHER (song)
I have been working on this for a couple of days now. And I don't know where I am with it. But my father is 93, and not doing well, and I don't think I'm going to have much more time to waste on this. So I'll post it as is, and just hope that it makes some sense. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:37 am
- Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
- Topic: Capable
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2452
Re: Capable
Forward to the 2004 First Perennial Classics edition of Stanley Milgram's Obedience To Authority Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority {1974} shocked us all when it appeared thirty years ago. How could people deliver increasingly devastating electric shocks to a fellow human being just because t...
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:12 am
- Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
- Topic: .
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1601
Re: Baby Killer
is that iron-y?he is not a child
are you - can you possibly be - the same sue .... ?
no. i didn't read it.did you notice the change between "Children" and "children" in the same verse?
should i have?
- Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:44 am
- Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
- Topic: .
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1601
- Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:15 am
- Forum: Other Writers and Writing
- Topic: Poems for Obama
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2602
Re: Poems for Obama
I'm very happy to be Canadian, but I wonder why a book containing poems which all describe what it means to be Canadian, would make an appropriate gift for the inauguration of an American president? One can see Canada from Alaska. One can see Russian from Alaska. Alaska is all there is between Cana...
- Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:19 am
- Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
- Topic: Capable
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2452
Re: Capable
The High Window - Raymond Chandler The house was on Dresden Avenue in the Oak Noll section of Pasadena, a big solid cool-looking house with burgundy brick walls, a terra cotta tile roof, and a white stone trim. The front windows were leaded downstairs. Upstairs windows were of the cottage type and ...
- Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:11 am
- Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
- Topic: Capable
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2452
Re: Capable
There's nothing written here My little splenda nutrasweetie. You must mean "nothing" in the sense of 0g fat But lots of good fiber and protein anti-oxidants and omega-3s. ~ Actually, it's probably a courtesy to leave the text slightly visible like that, just below the threshold of readabi...
- Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:20 pm
- Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
- Topic: Colonial Suicide
- Replies: 340
- Views: 62795
Re: Colonial Suicide
a couple more, Violetta, mi tesoro, and it's like we're almost home,
jiggidy jig ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9OUEokWR7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlxUmMhJcBU
jiggidy jig ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9OUEokWR7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlxUmMhJcBU
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:14 am
- Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
- Topic: Cate's deleted "Inappropriate Chocolate Talk" -Adults Only
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3301
Re: Cate's deleted "Inappropriate Chocolate Talk" -Adults Only
Pete Doherty vs Mick Jagger - maybe an interesting comparison of cases
in terms of changing police and cultural pre-conceptions and prejudices about drugs and pop-stars ---
http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/marsbar.asp
in terms of changing police and cultural pre-conceptions and prejudices about drugs and pop-stars ---
http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/marsbar.asp