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- Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:43 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: The Observer Newspaper
- Replies: 1
- Views: 996
Re: The Observer Newspaper
Oh, Hydriot! You can confess to weeping openly, it's OK ... moist eyes is the same thing anyway. (Isn't it strange, to live in a culture where weeping at beauty - or even howling at it like a dog in heat - is to be avoided by grown men ?) Anyway, you're definitely not a rigid pompous wallflower now....
- Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:17 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: MERRY CHRISTMAS - HAPPY HOLIDAYS
- Replies: 36
- Views: 7518
Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS - HAPPY HOLIDAYS
MERRY CHRISTMAS/HAPPY HANNUKAH/JOYOUS ANY TYPE OF FESTIVITIES to all Cohenites and all future Cohenites (ie people who haven't heard him yet) (that covers everyone in the world, right...?). Going offline for a while - will miss you all! But as Ken has pointed out elsewhere, Leonard Cohen is For Life...
- Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:46 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Article on Anthem - Independent
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2046
Re: Article on Anthem - Independent
Hear hear, John E. Howard Jacobson is a pompous idiot who really outdid himself in this piece, full of self-important narcissistic irrelevance. As you say, he doesn't even LIKE Leonard Cohen. He seems to think of himself as the only person who's picked up on the beauty of the line 'that's how the li...
- Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:51 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hallelujah on UK X-Factor (all threads merged here)
- Replies: 258
- Views: 67901
Re: Hallelujah on UK X-Factor (all threads merged here)
Ken Kermit was wonderful. Thank you. You've probably got me down as a sentimentalist/over-wordy/unworthy kind of Cohenite as you never answer my posts, and that's fine. But I must say I'm still curious about exactly what it is that makes people want to keep their favourite music to themselves, or a ...
- Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:06 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hallelujah on UK X-Factor (all threads merged here)
- Replies: 258
- Views: 67901
Re: Hallelujah on UK X-Factor (all threads merged here)
Dear Liverpool Ken Luka Moore was great, thanks for the link. And a great website. Also loved your pen-slip, as you wished for a 'Christmas-free Hallelujah'. Could it perchance be Christmas, rather than Hallelujah, that's bothering you at the mo? And another question: do you never find that trying t...
- Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:55 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: HALLELUJAH BEST SONG EVER IN HISTORY OF SONGINESS
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10195
Re: HALLELUJAH BEST SONG EVER IN HISTORY OF SONGINESS
Argh, I'm so sick of Hallelujah - it's everywhere, and every snot nosed punk that reckons he or she can sing a lick to save their ass is covering it and it's really sending me round the bend. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArrrgghh I don't know who you are, KjXXXer, or where you live, but if you were sick ...
- Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:28 am
- Forum: Hydra Meetups 2023, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005 & The Event in 2002
- Topic: Hydra Meetup 2009
- Replies: 161
- Views: 56854
Re: Hydra Meetup 2009
Laura, I'm so hot it burns - this radiator really should be switched off that I'm sitting on. And so young, I just keep getting younger and younger. And as rich as a cherry chocolate cheese cake. OK OK, if you must : dark hair, dark eyes, more than double the age I was when I wasn't in my teens any ...
- Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:15 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Scarlett wants Leonard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1967
Re: Scarlett wants Leonard
Scarlett's been spoiled. Maybe she thinks all elderly Jewish men must want anything she wants, with her voluptuous blondeness - but Lennie isn't Woody, Scarlett dear. Wake up and smell the roses. There's a Hallelujah chorus being sung, but not for you. (Yikes, how did I get so mean? Maybe I resent s...
- Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:16 pm
- Forum: Hydra Meetups 2023, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2005 & The Event in 2002
- Topic: Hydra Meetup 2009
- Replies: 161
- Views: 56854
Re: Hydra Meetup 2009
Just a quick suggestion: I only realised about this meet-up through a private email from Henning.... I know I'm a bit stupid, but I've spent so much time lately on the News threads, I totally forgot to check out Events and other parts of the site, and until now I never even realised that many of you...
- Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:32 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Campaign: Get Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah in the UK charts!
- Replies: 81
- Views: 21379
Re: Campaign: Get Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah in the UK charts!
PS. Just seen previous post and listened to the four Norwegians' version. Lovely, lovely, lovely.
My favourite is Leonard's 2008 Tour version, then all the other great ones, together.
My favourite is Leonard's 2008 Tour version, then all the other great ones, together.
- Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:23 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Campaign: Get Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah in the UK charts!
- Replies: 81
- Views: 21379
Re: Campaign: Get Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah in the UK charts!
This really is SO much fun... I can't imagine Lennie himself being anything other than bemused/amused/tickled/maybe even a little wowed by all this. After all, he seemed so genuinely thrilled by the Glastonbury thing - all those youngsters joining the Oldies in thrall. I was wondering what Lorca and...
- Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:39 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hallelujah on UK X-Factor (all threads merged here)
- Replies: 258
- Views: 67901
Re: Hallelujah on UK X-Factor (all threads merged here)
Yup, weird and wonderful...
- Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:03 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hallelujah on UK X-Factor (all threads merged here)
- Replies: 258
- Views: 67901
Re: Hallelujah on UK X-Factor (all threads merged here)
Isn't this fun???!!! All us serious-minded, maybe even po-faced Cohenites + Cohen scholars going head to head with screaming teenyboppers to get 'our song' into the charts! Hurrah for Hallelujahs, in all their forms. Just a few comments : - Paula, loved your eagle-eyed spotting of consecutive Christ...
- Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:18 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hallelujah on UK X-Factor (all threads merged here)
- Replies: 258
- Views: 67901
Re: Hallelujah on UK X-Factor (all threads merged here)
PS. Hydriot (not rigid or pompous at all): I totally agree with your reaction to Alexandra's second rendition - however much The Cowell-meister and his gang may have tried to shoehorn her into meaninglessness, her voice and her emotion reconnected with the song anyway. Hurrah for transcendence amids...
- Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:12 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Hallelujah on UK X-Factor (all threads merged here)
- Replies: 258
- Views: 67901
Re: Hallelujah on UK X-Factor (all threads merged here)
Good point, Friend of John Etherington. I think it could a apply to most of Leonard's music, not just the song with the obviously religious-sounding chorus. He answers a personal spiritual quest, whether it's for religion (Old or New Testament), poetry, sensuality, truth, wisdom, wit, or any other f...