je n’ai rien à faire aujourd’hui sauf sourire
I love the scent of warm earth with the light sheen of tentative rain. The grey, hesitant daylight overhead releases a smattering of droplets every few minutes, just enough to darken the asphalt and cause the windshield wipers to streak as I drive home. All the elements outside are in balance–the light, the rain and the wind–all three circle, hands linked, around my senses (like the Matisse painting), not one of them overpowering any other.
Leaving for Charlotte in a few hours with Diane for the Truth Project conference, something we’ve been planning for several months and that I’m very much looking forward to. I haven’t spent much time with Luke this week and I feel it. I would spend tomorrow afternoon with him, after the conference, but my brother is holding his birthday festivities that evening back in Chapel Hill. He’s leaving for Washington state to intern with Boeing for a few months, embarking on an all-expenses-paid cross-country road trip next Wednesday, so his party, normally held nearer his actual birthday on the 13th, has been bumped up to this weekend. We’ll see. Perhaps I can still work something out.
I really, really want to see this film. The man’s songwriting influence on artists of quality has been peerless.
i heard there was a secret chord that david played and it pleased the lord
ooooh! i want to see that!
Re: i heard there was a secret chord that david played and it pleased the lord
Yeah, because it features U2 right?
Shouldn’t they have put that in alphabetical order, U2 would be lower down on the list then.
Re: i heard there was a secret chord that david played and it pleased the lord
The movie looks interesting but the fact that the only people talking in the trailer other than Leo himself is U2 makes me wonder how many differnt perspectives you are going to get on him as an artist and a human being.
Re: i heard there was a secret chord that david played and it pleased the lord
i didn’t look at the trailer or the information. i only saw that it was a film about leonard cohen. whom i admire.
thank you very much.
Re: i heard there was a secret chord that david played and it pleased the lord
my l cohen fandom began with hallelujah… and its even more startling when you look at how many other fabulous songs he’s done that have been covered by other musicians… (plus his own stuff is pretty amazing)
you’ve inspired me…
album on iTunes now: The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Indeed. There’s a substantialness and just a…density to his songwriting that I’ve found few other places…
does it get any better than ‘famous blue raincoat’? i could listen to tori sing that for days.
It’s four in the morning, the end of December
I’m writing you now just to see if you’re better
New York is cold but I like where I’m living
There’s music on Clinton Street all through the evening.
I hear that you’re building your little house deep in the desert
you’re living for nothing now
I hope you’re keeping some kind of a record
Yes and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
she said that you gave it to her
that night that you planned to go clear
did you ever go clear?
the last time I saw you, you looked so much older
your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
you’d been to the station to meet every train
you came home alone without Lili Marlene.
and you treated my woman to flake of your life
and when she came back she was nobody’s wife
well, I see you there with a rose in your teeth
one more thin gypsy thief
well, I see Jane’s awake
she sends her regards.
and what can I tell you my brother, my killer
what can I possibly say
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
I’m glad you stood in my way.
if you ever come by here for Jane or for me
well, your enemy is sleeping and your woman is free
yes, and thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.
and Jane came by with a lock of you hair
she said that you gave it to her
that night that you planned to go clear
sincerely, L. Cohen
so good it hurts.