Random LC moment I am adoring today

[lizzytysh]

What a great thread! Just saw it for the first time and read through everyone's postings. Super! GREAT story about your Mom's neighbours, Womanfromaroom ~ and the wall in Israel. That is something Leonard should see a photo of. Funny completion obsession, somewhat_nifty . I love the way you described his step forward, IrishMar. Mollydog... you must make a trip back... until you meet that person. Great dreams, ladies. I've had a few, too... shared back some [significant amount of] time ago, elsewhere here. Bridger ~ thank you so much for sharing that information with us. Leonard never ceases to amaze me. As I'm more in #4 than not, I was especially moved by it.

Wonderful thread. It's funny, isn't it, Mnkyface, how a simple "awright!" can make your day. Thanks for starting this thread. Very pleasant reading.


~ Lizzy

[lizzytysh]

Obviously prompted by a combination of things... talk of dreams; the woman who fell asleep at Coachella; Leonard's upcoming concert in Detroit; and a couple other things ~ I dreamt of him this morning, after initially waking and then drifting back off to sleep, my face sideways on the pillow.

I dreamt that I was in Detroit, Marie sitting on my left, someone ~ I can't remember if I knew them or didn't. I woke up ... after the concert was over. I had curled up in my chair, facing the person to my right... and drifted off, somewhere before the intermission [perhaps]. I know that because when I woke up to silence and spoke to Marie, I prayed it was only the intermission. Then, looking at the stage, I saw people there, packing up the equipment, 3/4 of it already gone. For a brief moment, I thought I saw Leonard nearest the front of the stage, but upon looking closer, realized it wasn't. Then, admonished myself... of course, it wouldn't be Leonard! He has that huge crew for this. Realizing I had missed so much... the intermission [perhaps ~ as dreams go, I may have drifted off after it, I wasn't sure] and, for sure, a whole bunch of songs and encores, and all those standing ovations... only an empty spot where my standing self should have been ["Who needs a polka dot blouse to be noticed," I thought, "I stood out like a sore thumb with my sleeping!"] ~ I wished that someone had awoken me, but no one did. I kept thinking how this would be the last time I saw Leonard perform, and that I missed so much of it, his encores, his goodbyes, everything, and I felt devastated. I wondered if this was my subconscious means of avoidance of that very fact.

As we walked out, I saw that only three rows of seats were filled, the rest were empty. Then, I counted the total and there were only 10 rows in the small venue to begin with... I kept walking back and forth, back to front, front to back, counting and recounting, to be sure I had it right. Someone else was doing the same. We realized we kept losing count, and had to touch the end seat, to get an accurate count, so did. It was a church where he had performed, and downstairs, I had 'boarded' two of my cats, who I had brought with me. I had to get them, but somehow, we needed to find our hotel first. I was freaking out a bit, as we left the church without them. We went out into the street and suddenly realized that noone [there were three of us] knew where the hotel was... or even its name.

We couldn't really afford a cab, so were mentally retracing our steps trying to figure out which of the many streets we were seeing that we needed to take. We were all searching our purses, looking for anything that might have our hotel's name on it, so we could at least ask a cabbie for directions! We nailed a couple of blocks worth by recalling the direction from which we had arrived, and were thinking that maybe, just maybe, we could do this. Then, we were walking down some Detroit-neighbourhood streets, many vacant houses, and wondering if we should feel threatened. Hovering heavily was the fact that we had to hurry so I could get back and get my cats.

A dream I could have lived without. Hoping for a better replacement... one that I can adore.


~ Lizzy

[MaryB]

Poor Lizzy,

That wasn't a dream - it was a nightmare! The only saving grace is that Marie was there and it was an LC concert. Wishing you positive, sweet dreams tonight, hopefully with LC and entourage in them.

Warmest regards,
Mary

[MaryB]

Finally having a chance to watch my DVD of LC Live in London.

Heavenly regards,
Mary

[lizzytysh]

Yes... I refused to call it that, but it was a nightmare for sure. It was one of those where you're desperately wondering if anything will end up right!

Yes... I may be sleeping when I dream, but I promise I won't sleep at all during the next performance! Please visit me, again, Leonard and entourage.


~ Lizzy

[hydriot]

Lizzy, dreams like that are how we rehearse for an emergency. You've had the dream. Now take the precautions: get a really good night's sleep the night before, and when you leave the hotel unravel a ball of wool all the way to the venue so you can find your way back again easily.

Oh, alright, then ... just pick up the hotel's card on the way out.

[lizzytysh]

I rather prefer the ball of wool, Hydriot.

Neighbourhood cats could be a problem, though .

The card and a cab may be the answer after all.

Well, sleep will be in short supply on this trip [as it seems to be all the others... never figured that one out], but rest assured , I'll be awake.

Someone said the London DVD didn't seem to be of such an inspired performance as some of the others. Any is fine with me, but any comments on that, Mary?


~ Lizzy

[MarkW]

2. Be lucky.

In Minneapolis, he said "If it's your lot to fall down, fall on the side of luck."

There is something to meditate on.

[bridger15]

2. Be lucky.

In Minneapolis, he said "If it's your lot to fall down, fall on the side of luck."

There is something to meditate on.

How very beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. Perhaps we should start a new thread and collect his four Priestly Blessings at the end of every concert.

[Evie B]

A few minutes ago I shuffled off the forum to phone my proposed broadband provider Plus.net with a technical question about what wireless adapter I needed to buy to go with my router. The guy asked me to wait a minute while he checked with a colleague and put me on hold, then lo and behold, who should strike up but Michael Buble singing "If you want a lover, I'll do anything you ask me to.....". That was it, ultra efficient as they always seem to be the guy came back on and interrupted my pleasure with the answer. I expect he thought a was a bit nutty when I said "I didn't know Michael Buble covered that Leonard Cohen song". What a lovely little moment.
Love to all

[lizzytysh]

Wish I'd had a similar day, Evie ~ I might have asked if he could put me back on hold for just a few minutes more . At least today I would have, for sure... don't deprive me of the few moments of pleasure that do come my way .


~ Lizzy

[mnkyface]

Evie, I had a smilar thing happen to me yesterday. I was in Barnes and Noble bookstore thumbing through a Mojo magazine, looking for an LC article I had already read here on the forum. lol

(I can't help it- I look for LC everywhere...if I see a book about music or the 60s or a biography of another musician I will immediately go to the index and see if there are references to LC, and then go to those pages. Magazines too...in addition to the MOJO, I found one another with a big feature on Glastonbury and what the technical crew does there. Really had nothing to do with LC, other than the fact that he played there last summer, but wouldn't you know I sat there and read through the whole thing. It's a sickness, I tell you.)

ANYWAY, as I was looking through the magazines, something made me focus on the music playing over the sound system and I heard a woman's voice singing In My Secret Life. It was kind of startling! I marched over to the music section to find out what they were playing and noticed the featured CDs on their counter. It was the Katie Melua album on which she covered that song.

[QQAudreyQQ]

Recently I was watching a French movie called "Love Etc" (1996) with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Yvan Attal and was surprised when about an hour and twenty minutes into it, Attal's character, Benoit, is at home and turns on some music and it turns out to be Leonard Cohen's "Take This Waltz." His friend comes over and they are sitting and listening to the music and Benoit says, "So, what do you think?" His friend replies, "I don't think rhyming "ay" with "ay, ay, ay" is wholly satisfactory." Lol...cracked me up!

[MaryB]

Not random, but, the concert tonight

Euphoric regards,
Mary

[MaryB]

Watching the TV program 'Lie To Me' (from this week) last night and at the beginning of the show, hearing Leonard Cohen singing 'Who By Fire' ! Rewinding, again and again - like I don't have a recording of it !

Warmest regards,
Mary