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23.Juni.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: No One Knows Candles Like Leonard Cohen
A Leonard Cohen Minute: No One Knows Candles Like Leonard Cohen
Asked to tell a New York anecdote, Cohen shared this one about the Chelsea Hotel, where he stayed in the ’60s and 70′s and composed the famous “Chelsea Hotel N°2″ (1974), an homage to Janis Joplin. Cohen’s room was near Andy Wahrol’s muse, Edie Sedwick’s. “She was extremely beautiful, all the…
22.Juni.2012
leonardcohenminute: Leonard Cohen performing “One of Us Cannot Be Wrong” in San Sebastian in 1988. Video uploaded by messalina79. Check out her many rare Leonard Cohen videos and her Adam Cohen videos on her Channel. Other performances of “One of Us ...
22.Juni.2012
Alone the master and the slave embrace.
I will not tell the banker or the doctor.
See, they watch the sun descend
behind the unowned mountain.
They know nothing of covenant or phoenix.– From “Alone the Master and the Slave Embrace” from The Spice-Box of Earth by Leonard Cohen. (via leonardcohenminute)
22.Juni.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen Explains the Broken Heart
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen Explains the Broken Heart
When the level of suffering in any individual reaches a certain point and he can’t deal with his own discomfort, then he is going to look for some kind of solution. I don’t think any religious quest is begun with a sense of luxury. I don’t think any serious study is undertaken unless the being…
22.Juni.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Why Leonard Cohen Continues to Sing
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Why Leonard Cohen Continues to Sing
In 2001 he said: “When Alberta Hunter was singing many years ago, at 82, I came to New York just to listen to her. When she said ‘God bless you’, you really felt that you had been blessed. It’s wonderful to hear a 20-year-old speaking about love. As the Talmud says, there’s good wine in every…
21.Juni.2012
She went back to the beach to look for the room key which she thought she might have dropped there. I ran to tell her that the door was open. I stopped at the edge of the sand. The sun was going down. She had lied about the key to escape from the family. She stood in front of the sun. She had become pure attention. My heart was fouled with anxieties of the occasion.
21.Juni.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen Tells You Why You Shouldn't Whine
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen Tells You Why You Shouldn't Whine
One of the things about getting older is that you stop whining. One of the reasons you stop whining is because your experience conveys to you that your trouble is tiny compared to lots of trouble around. Once you feel that clearly, that your trouble is tiny and that there are people at this…
21.Juni.2012
leonardcohenminute: Leonard Cohen prior to the publication of Death of a Lady’s Man. From “The ‘dead man’ speaks,” The Montreal Gazette, September 23, 1978. Photo by George Cree.
Leonard Cohen prior to the publication of Death of a Lady’s Man. From “The ‘dead man’ speaks,” The Montreal Gazette, September 23, 1978. Photo by George Cree.
21.Juni.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: How Leonard Cohen Charms Women...Lesson 1
A Leonard Cohen Minute: How Leonard Cohen Charms Women...Lesson 1
Jon Pareles of The New York Times tells this story about his lunch with Leonard Cohen: