I Love Leonard Cohen & Robin Grey Ain’t Bad Either
4 Dec 2008 4:10pm GMT Robin Grey Sings I Love Leonard Cohen Robin Grey writes and sings songs in and around Hackney. Given that the first thing to come to mind when I think “Hackney” is a particularly delicious hamburger accompanied by a brick of fried onions sold by a Chicago regional chain rather than the London Borough, which, one presumes, [...]
Dying is simple, What's worst is the separation
3 Dec 2008 9:00am GMT “Dying is simple,” she said. “What’s worst is… the separation.” When she no longer spoke, they lay along together, touching, and she fixed on him her beautiful enormous round brown eyes, shining, unblinking, and passionate with love and dread. ~From “Last Days” by Donald Hall, on the death of his wife, the poet, Jane Kenyon
IRONY ALERT: Cohen's "I Was Born With The Gift Of A Golden Voice" Is Self-Deprecating Humor
2 Dec 2008 5:18pm GMT Leonard Cohen's “Born With The Gift Of A Golden Voice” At Risk For Misinterpretation As Narcissistic Boast In many ways, it was another routine case of human error, the careless misinterpretation of Leonard Cohen’s mock boast in Tower Of Song, “I was born with the gift of a golden voice.” This time, however, the assumption that this [...]
Roy Blount's Alphabet Juice Is Great - Roy, Don't Give The Mistake I Found Another Thought
1 Dec 2008 4:06pm GMT A Seriously Funny Book About Words That Is Itself Composed Of Words (As Is This Review) So far, the best use I’ve made of my recently obtained library card has been to check out1 Alphabet Juice, Roy Blount’s book celebrating the magical conjoining of meanings, connotations, sounds, evocations, and visual appearance into words and sentences. Alphabet [...]
Judy Collins Covers Canadians
30 Nov 2008 12:34pm GMT Judy Collins On The Cover In an interview1 tied in with her concert last night in Ottawa, Judy Collins talked about the conundrum certain singer-songwriters face in choosing whether to perform their own songs or those popularized by others, an issue addressed recently in this blog at Allison Crowe On The Cover. Given the fortuitous timing, [...]