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by ~greg
Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:04 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Little Girl
Replies: 77
Views: 12739

Re: Little Girl

...the posting of personal details about George’s life made me feel uncomfortable. You have done this before and I think it crosses a line and is more intrusive and threatening to people than you perhaps realise. I hope I never see the same thing done to me. I wanted to defend George and was genuin...
by ~greg
Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:56 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Little Girl
Replies: 77
Views: 12739

Re: Little Girl

When I first posted to this thread it was already clear that George would continue with his completely adversarial stance to any and all questions asked him about his poem. Another poem of his, which he called "The Trap", he admitted was complete nonsense. He said he wrote it while stoned ...
by ~greg
Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:25 am
Forum: Other Writers and Writing
Topic: I wish you were here, dear - Joseph Brodsky
Replies: 1
Views: 7903

I wish you were here, dear - Joseph Brodsky

... Brodsky, whom I met once at a conference in Oxford, was an arrogant ass. ... God bless, William r.i.p. (or rise! it's been at least 3 days!) I wish you were here, dear -- Joseph Brodsky I wish you were here, dear, I wish you were here. I wish you sat on the sofa and I sat near. The handkerchief...
by ~greg
Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:13 am
Forum: Leonard Cohen's poetry and novels
Topic: The Energy of Slaves, No 55
Replies: 4
Views: 3216

Re: The Energy of Slaves, No 55

This is driving me nuts - that nobody's responded to this. You need her so you can get your boots off the bedspread We who have always ruled the world don't like the way you dance And she said, I for one am happy with the world She seized the lapel of a cut-throat and said it again with all her smal...
by ~greg
Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:56 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Little Girl
Replies: 77
Views: 12739

Re: Little Girl

Greg it is breathtaking the way you manage to patronize absolutely everyone in one fell swoop! I prefer the word avuncularize to patronize. But if you're bucking to be partonized (or avuncularized) by me, then you will have to write your own poetry! Haiku no count-u. ~~ What pisses me off isn't the...
by ~greg
Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:29 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Little Girl
Replies: 77
Views: 12739

Re: Little Girl

It was indeed a style meant to shock and it looks like it has. Excellent. Georges. But mierda means shit . Not shock . And there is nothing shocking in Georges' writing. Just the wonder why it appears in a Leonard Cohen forum. When he says it's meant to shock, he means to suggest that he is just se...
by ~greg
Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:08 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Poem for a number called "?"
Replies: 8
Views: 1512

Re: Poem for a number called "?"

Poem for a number called "?" Maggie has lost count. she looks at her fingers. she knows there's a number for each of them and her toes too. the chorus chants start with one! start with one! Maggie shakes her widow's head and overpowers them with her quiet. no, she whispers, that's not it....
by ~greg
Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:53 pm
Forum: The Summer Tour 2008
Topic: CONCERT REPORT: Montreux (July 8)
Replies: 12
Views: 22954

Leonard Cohen at Montreux this week - Dayan Jayatilleka

This was sent to my rarelive site, from http://www.lankamission.org or news@lankamission.org. LEONARD COHEN: THE MAESTRO AT MONTREUX - DAYAN JAYATILLEKA The Master of the modern love song, whose intricate and intense musical cartography of the relationships between men and women provided the soundtr...
by ~greg
Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:13 pm
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: 'cause you know I feel I'm turning into gold." ?
Replies: 10
Views: 4122

Re: 'cause you know I feel I'm turning into gold." ?

Thanks, friend. I guess I didn't express the feeling of "turning into gold" very well. But there is a reason why I didn't. And why I couldn't. ~~ The feeling of "turning into gold" could very well include a feeling of "turning into a legend". Or of "growing old&quo...
by ~greg
Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:38 am
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: 'cause you know I feel I'm turning into gold." ?
Replies: 10
Views: 4122

Re: 'cause you know I feel I'm turning into gold." ?

Gold is nearly inert. It doesn't react very much with much of anything. So, in my opinion, the phrase "turning into g old " means growing old . Closing down. Ceasing to be impressionable. Ceasing to react with the environment. Old people, -- the "lonesome and very quarrelsome heroes&q...
by ~greg
Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:41 pm
Forum: Book of Longing
Topic: Excerpt from Hawthorne
Replies: 4
Views: 11821

Re: Excerpt from Hawthorne

I think I see what you mean Manna, Really? I think I fell off the carousel on this one. But I don't doubt that there is something to it. Hawthorne's Marble Faun is one the few novels I have read. And I read it in Rome, at a very impressionable age, so that the names MIRIAM, HILDA, KENYON, and DONAT...
by ~greg
Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:57 pm
Forum: Other music
Topic: Derek Trucks Band
Replies: 17
Views: 4647

Re: Derek Trucks Band

an old favorite of mine:
Persian Love Song- Holger Czukay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if5eTwaieMw

(put the volume up!)
by ~greg
Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:26 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: New works, pt. 4
Replies: 32
Views: 5803

Re: New works, pt. 4

Teratogen, have you tried cutting off an ear yet (- that is, one of your own, - since it wouldn't have the same effect if it's someone else's- ) and mailing it to her? (-thanks to mat james for quoting Shakespeare's "To Thine Own Self Be True" -- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; )
by ~greg
Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:49 pm
Forum: Leonard Cohen's poetry and novels
Topic: relook at Book of Mercy
Replies: 75
Views: 20617

Re: relook at Book of Mercy

by ~greg
Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:37 pm
Forum: Other Writers and Writing
Topic: Little Bad Dream Charm - Kathy Fagan
Replies: 6
Views: 3022

Re: Little Bad Dream Charm - Kathy Fagan

You are very observant, master William.
So it's unfortunate that you appear to have the IQ of a lobotomized crayon.

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