Vicomte wrote:...Yes I do think Leonard's intention of the song is important and to see it used purely as some form of "let's all give it a go" and have no reason for its very conception just pees me off a little, does it show?...

No, it doesn't show at all, you hide your disdain very well!

Are there no depths some artists won't sink to? Does she even understand what the song is about, like 99% of all that sing it, they just sing the words in a way they think it sounds good but not understanding why Leonard wrote the verses he did. I like you, Vicomte, I think that you are a decent gu...

Does anybody else miss cigarettes terribly? What do you miss about them? Going to restaurants/bars and being barely able to breathe without gasping and coughing because of the thick haze? Feeling like one's eyeballs have been rubbed with sandpaper as they sting from the assault of toxic smoke? Comi...

I have to admit that this presumed spelling error has always bothered me less than the way Leonard sings the first two lines in the song. Although the printed lyrics that I have seen here and elsewhere are grammatically correct -- " I've never seen... " -- Leonard fails to pronounce the -"ve" part o...

By the way, if you happen to run into Solongleonard or Mickey_One, say "Hello" for me! You instruct me how to behave should I have the misfortune to "run into" those Charlatans. I already know exactly how I will conduct myself. I shall shout in their faeces, "shit! you damn Charlatans Curs-ed be th...

Many of you would have read the script of Leonard's interview on French Television, c. 1994. It included these lines - "I think that what he's really talking about is not that part of fatism that we usually think about... Thank you, Sideways, that is precisely the interview that I was thinking of w...

solongleonard wrote: Fatist!

Well, I know that Leonard's politics leaned rather, um, heavily towards the right, but I don't think that it is fair to call him a fatist.

solongleonard wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 30, 2018 7:04 am

It turns out it was Mama Cass

What, Mama Cass had a fling with Leonard, too?!? I didn't think that she was his type...

My first answer to that question would be: "One he never wrote". (Either that, or "All of them", depending on my mood!) That's a rather bizarre quiz, and I've no idea how they arrive at their results based on the questions, but nonetheless, I took it, and it determined that I "am" Dance Me to the En...

solongleonard wrote: The tall and handsome stranger
may be
Warren Beatty
who acted as Mickey_One

P.S. I thought it was Billy Crystal who portrayed Mickey_One. I've been told that the resemblance is uncanny...

wounded by your accusations of post post scheming. have we really sunk-ed that low? First, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpJOxbaC8YU Second, hypothetically, if I were guilty of the charges you have levelled against me, I would be most interested to know more details about the "peculiar punishment...

...they were joined by Mickey_One, a strikingly handsome Tall Englishman, who explained that his famous rivalry with LC was rooted in their fight at school to get that last place on the Basketball Team Mickey_Won Upon further reflection, I think that you are messing with me, and actually revised th...

if you read my post carefully, you will see that the result went in favour of the Englishman Ah, yes, so you did indicate the winner (and, congratulations!). Sorry to have missed it the first time, but I was still reeling from the shock of Ms. Wainwright's ghastly little ditty (and busy with my own...

...Martha Wainwright daughter of Loudon the [bleep]... Some people get therapy for their anger issues, some write/record self-indulgent songs. I don't like to be critical, but you really have dreadful taste in music, you know (if you do, in fact, like the stuff you inflict on us!). As to more inter...

Geoffrey wrote: i am sure his spirits would have been uplifted had you and michael exchanged messages back then

What a nice thing to say, such a nice thought!