Leonard Cohen's blog
2.July.2012
leonardcohenminute: Photographer unknown, Helsingborg Dagblad, year unknown.
Photographer unknown, Helsingborg Dagblad, year unknown.
2.July.2012
This is the land of work. This is where I
get down to it, where I am not ashamed
to speak of my balmy love, or to try
it out on all that my greed has inflamed.– From the commentary on the poem “Daily Commerce” from Death of a Lady’s Man by Leonard Cohen. (via leonardcohenminute)
2.July.2012
leonardcohenminute: Official video for Leonard Cohen’s “The Future” from album of the same name. Video uploaded by messalina79. Check out her many rare Leonard Cohen videos on her Channel.
1.July.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen's First Studio Recording Session
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen's First Studio Recording Session
John Hammond was particularly generous in the way that he read a newspaper continuously while you were struggling in the studio. A lot of people felt that this was an expression of indifference or even boredom with the whole affair, but I cherished it because he gave you the feeling that you…
1.July.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: The Curse (or Blessing) of the Happy Banana
A Leonard Cohen Minute: The Curse (or Blessing) of the Happy Banana
On the sleeve of I’m Your Man stands Leonard Cohen, unsmiling in his traditional raiment of anthracite hue, stern beak protruding from beneath dark glasses, the black-out curtains of the soul. All that spoils this picture of judgmental dread is a solemnly clasped banana, a joke worthy of Steve…
1.July.2012
leonardcohenminute: This is the entire 1983 Canadian musical film I Am a Hotel, written by Leonard Cohen and Mark Shekter, directed by Allan F. Nicholls, produced by Barrie Wexler and Moses Znaimer, starring Leonard Cohen, Celia Franca, Alberta ...
1.July.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: The Artist in Turmoil Per Leonard Cohen
A Leonard Cohen Minute: The Artist in Turmoil Per Leonard Cohen
KM: It’s a popular theory that an artist must be in conflict and turmoil in order to do good work. Do you think there’s any truth to that?
LC: I think everyone is in conflict and turmoil and I’m suspicious of the tendency to isolate the artist from the rest of the world. I’m not quite sure why…
1.July.2012
A rose may be a rose but a violin is a violin or in this case, kindling.
A rose may be a rose but a violin is a violin or in this case, kindling.
30.June.2012
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen's Ambitions
A Leonard Cohen Minute: Leonard Cohen's Ambitions
Beetle: What have you been trying to accomplish through your music?
Cohen: “I’m unaware of any long term goals… From the questions you ask, you feel that the whole activity is much more deliberate than it is for me. It’s something I’ve always done and something that I will always do, as long as…