Uh, what is SACD?

-Low-tech Janem

The Western Wall is another name for the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.

-Janem

It seems to me his "long-term" relationships with these beautfiul women weren't anything to write home about. Just from a cursory reading of "Various Positions" you get the clear idea that rampant infidelity, betrayal, and ultimate abandonment was his M.O. O.K. sometimes good so...

How do any of us know the real Leonard Cohen, isn't he what we have conjured up from what we read about him, his poetry, by listening to his songs, etc. Yes, this is what I was saying, we do not and cannot know the real Leonard. Was anyone saying I was saying otherwise? What I'm sayin' is, we the r...

This photo of Leonard on your desktop....is it of a 68 year-old Leonard? Or is it of a younger LC? eeey, good point, about our youth culture at large. But for me personally, and I have reason to suspect there are a fair number of women who'd agree, the older image of Leonard is actually even more a...

Hiya folks, I agree with both sides, those who think Leonard is basically attractive (what a delicious topic!) and those who think the attraction comes from his qualities of voice and talent and aesthetic vision. But here is something that just crossed my mind, what do you think of it: Don't you thi...

But it means a different thing. Women have always had to be mysterious, since the Greeks and before. I said I won't go on about it and won't. Still, it is interesting that no one else agrees. Ah well, I'll go and shave my head then... Actually, Raffzahn, when you put it that way ("Women have a...

4. The attempted template of Freud/ Jung on this poem/song does disservice to Leonard Cohen: you don't need early 20th century pseudo-science to criticise a poem...use your intelligence, your imagination, your critical faculties, if they exist. 5. The reference to Bob Dylan summed up the lack of cr...

I am sorry Kush, about that sense that some of the magic has faded for you. But also...well, why not remain open to the stuff in the songs (& poems, etc.) that you feel out of wavelength with right now, who knows what connections could open as life unfolds? As all things grow and change, magic o...

I apologize that as a man I would find a mysterious woman interesting. I also apologize that I was thinking only of myself and not of others (e.g., woman who find mysterious men interesting, men who find mysterious men interesting etc etc.). I also apologize to any who find comparison of a mammalia...

>>>>" p.s. Hmm.....to argue against my own comment above, perhaps a poem is like a woman. It is interesting when it is mysterious. My poems are soft green My poems are flaming crimson My poems are like the wounded faun Seeking refuge in the forest. - Jose Marti Oh I like this stanza. Now you'r...

You're so right, Peter. And no one ever tells you that a poem can one day grow up and tell perfect strangers the most flawed, intimate, unintended things about you, despite all the care you took feeding it, wiping its spit-up, watching it grow and change. This, after you have given it the best years...

one would not allow oneself to think of toiling at the seduction of Armand Vaillancourt's wife. I am fascinated by this phrase, "toiling at the seduction of..." To my product-of-the-post-feminist-world ears, it sounds so quaint, and so . . . well, seductive! So, like, a man would actually...

Aw c'mon everyone. I think we have been far too serious here, me included. I propose a round of Red Needles before the discussion continues. Red Needles for everyone, O saqi! And let's have music and dancing! Do not approach the computer again until you have broken a sweat from whirling and the glas...

Yes, you may have seen it at a kindergarten, Partisan. Children at age 4 or 5, if they have not had it beaten out of them by too-controlling parents or other sad spirit-deadening circumstances, have access to spirit and live in it unaware that there is any other way to live. It comes through their s...