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Well, my second favorite Canadian export (musical) is now as old as my grandfather. He deserves his own topic, and then some. Read on, , from the Guardian. Favorites- 9 Cohen was 32 and an established poet and novelist before deciding that songwriting might pay better. When he first touted his songs around New York, agents said to him: "Aren't you a little old for this game?" 10 He has never married - "too frightened". He had two children with Suzanne Elrod, and also had a long relationship with the film star Rebecca De Mornay. (he married some gear French gypsy chick and had a song named Adam... I heard his French album in its entirety on the radio a few months ago, it's not bad) 21 He liked the Greek island of Hydra so much that he bought a house there in 1960 for $1,500. It had no electricity or running water. He could live there for $1,000 a year, so he would go back to Canada, earn the money with his writing and head back to Hydra "to write and swim and sail". (now THAT'S the life) 22 His second novel, Beautiful Losers, about a love triangle, was hailed by one reviewer as "the most revolting book ever written in Canada". (hmm, I guess I'll have to track this down. That man could be ever so sordid) 28 He is a lifelong manic depressive. Asked about drugs, he has said: "The recreational, the obsessional and the pharmaceutical - I've tried them all. I would be enthusiastically promoting any one of them if they worked." (so unexpected) 33 His song Chelsea Hotel No 2, about Janis Joplin, may be the only song overtly written by one pop star about sex with another. "You said to me then, you preferred handsome men, but for me you would make an exception ... giving me head on the unmade bed, while the limousines wait in the street." (neither are beauties in the classic sense, but I'd do them both... time period dependent) |
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''41 His album Death of a Ladies' Man was produced by Phil Spector, the reclusive genius of girl-group pop. "I was flipped out at the time," Cohen said later, "and he certainly was flipped out. For me, the expression was withdrawal and melancholy, and for him, megalomania and insanity and a devotion to armaments that was really intolerable. In the state that he found himself, which was post-Wagnerian, I would say Hitlerian, the atmosphere was one of guns - the music was a subsidiary enterprise ... At a certain point Phil approached me with a bottle of kosher red wine in one hand and a .45 in the other, put his arm around my shoulder and shoved the revolver into my neck and said, 'Leonard, I love you.' I said, 'I hope you do, Phil.'" (Man... Phil was such a character! What a sense of humor. The Ramones thought he was pretty fun guy, too.) Also, I think I'll look like Leonard Cohen when I get older and craggier. We kind of share the same nose structure and chin. I'm not excited about this. But I love him. |
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but you're balder than him already. |
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I love the Cohen-meisterr. |
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That's a bold statement. |
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71: all books and other works of Cohen are copied from the walls of the pyramids. |
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haha like he allways wrote a book LOLOL |
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Apparently Arthur Smith, the comedian, has written a play or something, based on Cohen's songs. |
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