I have often shamelessly appropriated the technique of dictating a list of potently symbolic objects and stirring them up like a recipe into something more resonant than the component parts …
Happy Birthday, Leonard Cohen
I always put a line or two of Leonard Cohen’s up here for his birthday (2007, 2006), but this year I offer a twist. Joni Mitchell wrote Rainy Night House …
Only a master can punish you and make you grateful
I recently came across this sweet footage of the induction of Leonard Cohen into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame. Cohen recites the first couple of lines from Tower of Song …
Happy Birthday, Leonard Cohen
“This I mean to whisper to my mindThis I mean to laugh with in my mindThis I mean my mind to serve ’tilservice is but Magicmoving through the worldand mind …
Happy Birthday Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen – born 21st September 1934“The Twentieth Century belongs to you and me. Let us be two severe giants not less lonely for our partnership, who discolour test tubes …