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by ~greg
Thu Jan 27, 2005 6:23 am
Forum: Collectors' and Traders' Corner
Topic: live recordings..where to start ?
Replies: 13
Views: 6941

if you don't know, there are these mp3s:
http://www.twoshakesofalambstail.com/st ... index.html

not great quality (some very bad)
but they are an experience well worth experiencing.
by ~greg
Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:17 pm
Forum: Live in London, Dear Heather, The Essential Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs
Topic: Moral Uncertainty and On That Day
Replies: 62
Views: 22111

Midnight wrote > Quote: Nazi, Stalinists, the gang of 4, the Taliban, ... the "neo-conservative" "religious-right". You name it. They're all the same - "The True Believer". UnQuote; This is an irrational statement revealing a depth of ignorance that is completely insan...
by ~greg
Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:08 pm
Forum: Other music
Topic: favorite david bowie album
Replies: 11
Views: 3974

best: Low, Heroes, and Lodger.

guilty pleasures: The Man Who Sold the World,
Diamond Dogs, Station to Station, Scary Monsters,
Let's Dance, Outside
by ~greg
Sun Nov 07, 2004 8:45 am
Forum: Live in London, Dear Heather, The Essential Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs
Topic: Moral Uncertainty and On That Day
Replies: 62
Views: 22111

I know there are some advantages to this forum over the usenet group (alt.music.leonard-cohen). But it has one great disadvantage. In usenet it's usually easy to reconstruct the context of a post by reading a small number of posts above it in the thread's tree. Here, the only way to reconstruct the ...
by ~greg
Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:34 am
Forum: Live in London, Dear Heather, The Essential Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs
Topic: Moral Uncertainty and On That Day
Replies: 62
Views: 22111

I was going to write a whole lot to this. But this morning I don't feel like writing a whole lot. I feel like sleeping. For about the next 4 years. ~ "On That Day" - when I first read its lyrics - and before I'd heard Cohen sing them - seemed to me, too, to read somewhat the way you all he...
by ~greg
Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:15 pm
Forum: Live in London, Dear Heather, The Essential Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs
Topic: Moral Uncertainty and On That Day
Replies: 62
Views: 22111

Where in the text does it say that Leonard has no doubt that these people did not deserve to die? He says " I wouldn't know..." That means he considers it a possiblility that they did deserve to die. If he didn't have a doubt don't you think he would have condemned the act? If we're going...
by ~greg
Tue Nov 02, 2004 5:00 am
Forum: Live in London, Dear Heather, The Essential Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs
Topic: Dear Heather-More Space Between The Words
Replies: 7
Views: 3261

"There For You;" said in a most matter-of-fact way. She said, "It's a love song to G~d. Of course, Cohen does put a small obstacle in the way of getting it immediately, --namely: "I was there for you". I doubt there's anyone who doesn't imagine that, at first, as themselves...
by ~greg
Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:22 pm
Forum: Live in London, Dear Heather, The Essential Leonard Cohen, Ten New Songs
Topic: Morning Glory
Replies: 12
Views: 9677

" Julian returned home one day proudly carrying a drawing he'd made at Heath House Infant's School. He recalls: 'I trundled home from school and came walking up with one of my watercolour paintings. It was just a bunch of stars and this blonde girl I knew at school. And dad said: 'What's this?'...
by ~greg
Mon Aug 09, 2004 11:18 am
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: Death of Lady's Man (naked)
Replies: 28
Views: 10471

The following is from David Boucher's "Dylan & Cohen - Poets of Rock and Roll" (-last paragraph, Ch5. - i split it in two here.) It's referenced to Susan Nunziata, "The Billboard Interview," Billboard, November 28, 1998 (-note: "1998". -obviously today Cohen may no ...

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