The birds they Tweeted at break of day...

[HelenOE]

I'm perplexed as to why they have never made a Leonard Cohen World. Dolly Parton got hers.

Descubrí que Leonard Cohen es muy buena opción musical mientras se estudia cálculo. Da estabilidad emocional.
I discovered that Leonard Cohen is a very good musical option while studying calculus. He gives emotional stability.

¿Hacerme llorar? pfff, ni que fueras Leonard Cohen cantando Suzanne.
Make me cry? Pffft, not even if you were Leonard Cohen singing Suzanne.

Leonard Cohen tiene esas balas que necesito recibir.
Leonard Cohen has those bullets I need to be hit by.

[HelenOE]

There's a nice crop of tweets this morning.

Estaba escuchando hallelujah de Leonard Cohen y uno me dijo "¡Uh, que buen tema! Lo conozco, es de Shrek"... Esos después van y votan.
I was listening to Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen and somebody said to me, "Uh, what a good song! I know it, it's by Shrek"... Then those people go and vote.

Leonard Cohen and rainfall makes for a pleasant experience

Si aún no lee poemas de Leonard Cohen nunca es tarde para comenzar a hacerlo...
If you don't read Leonard Cohen poems yet, it's never too late to start doing so...

"She tempts him with a clarinet" - Leonard Cohen. I wish I'd used this in my music essay when discussing the auloi/fellatio link!

Leonard Cohen, OMG.

You never really appreciate how low Leonard Cohen's voice is until you have the bass up high enough to feeeeeeeeel him sing xD

Y ahora Leonard Cohen y a darle duro a las matemáticas del demonio estas.
And now Leonard Cohen and hit these damned mathematics hard.

A whole little dialog I found funny:

Leonard gets me soulful

after seeing you message about being soulful could you tell me are souls fish

Lol, there is a fish called a sole, looks like a pancake if a pancake were a fish

you most probably won't believe me when I say, but my grandad actually tweeted you that hahaha

@frankiebourne 1- he should know about fish, 2- he should know about leonard cohen

Leonard Cohen is saving me right now

[HelenOE]

Leonard Cohen! Damn that's one of the greatest voices ever!

I think Leonard Cohen might be my landlord because there is a crack in everything.

[MaryB]

Leonard Cohen, OMG.

This says it all
Keep 'em coming Helen

[HelenOE]

Voy a escuchar a Leonard Cohen hasta que Monsanto desaparezca. O hasta que se acabe el disco, no sé.
I'm going to listen to Leonard Cohen until Monsanto disappears. Or until the record is done, I don't know.

marry me plz so we can listen to leonard cohen forever

gente grande haciendo música sin tiempo, experimentado con las emociones... eso me gusta.. por eso me gusta tanto Leonard Cohen, x ejemplo..
Older people making timeless music, experienced with emotions... I like that... that's why I like Leonard Cohen so much, for example...[/quote]

A. says she's starting to get into Leonard Cohen. I knew he'd wear her down eventually

Por qué Leonard Cohen es tan puto amo?
Why does Leonard Cohen so f---ing rule?

my biggest inspiration in mucic has to be Leonard Cohen he is such a poetic being he is all that music should be

[HelenOE]

Dear Leonard Cohen, thank you for for being punk rock and awesome. xoxo, Ariel

Contrary to his grumpy persona Leonard Cohen is also famous for being the most ticklish man in Canada

Leonard Cohen nació para ser el fumador de X-Files pero su orientador profesional nunca se lo dijo.
Leonard Cohen was born to be the Smoking Man on X-Files but his guidance counselor never told him so.

[HelenOE]

I am thinking I am now paying the due price for misappropriating a line from such a glorious song to serve as a title for this topic... otherwise why would I be awake at 5:00 am, an hour and a half before the freakin' alarm clock, looking at tweets? Anyway.

I hope @phool's big job interview went well, but I hear him on the piano singing Leonard Cohen.

And then I hit upon several tweets that I think might be fairly described, collectively, as Cover Versions We Do Not Want To Hear.

We were asked recently for words to describe our work.Some were too offensive to post. "Tenacious D sings Leonard Cohen" is a wholesome one.

El internet me trae a leonard cohen versión dubstep not tonight, you pr--k
The internet brings me to a dubstep version of leonard cohen not tonight you pr--k

That is superb. Now all we need is a ragtime version of Leonard Cohen.

[HelenOE]

Another conversation:

Taking some time to appreciate "there's a blaze of light in every word." Consider that when you tweet.

r u high?

I'm reading a book about Leonard Cohen, which is basically the same thing.

[HelenOE]

Here's a tweet that could only be written by someone who 1) has no understanding of mental illness 2) has no understanding of poetry and 3) has a broken YouTube.

Leonard Cohen’s piece Going Home may imply that the 78-year-old musician and poet has been overcome by a split-personality disorder. #paper

Update from tweeter:

It's a joke I'm writing a paper about this piece as an example of music as illustrating, inducing, and defining ecstasy.

Whew. I couldn't see how anybody could seriously defend that thesis, but on the other hand, I also don't believe that there's anything so stupid that SOMEONE won't write about it.

On the other other hand, as Dr. Showalter might say, if you're going to bring Leonard Cohen into a classroom, this is the way to do it:

Mi maestro de literatura analizaba con nosotros canciones de Leonard Cohen para enseñarnos poesía.
My literature teacher was analyzing Leonard Cohen songs with us to teach us poetry.

[HelenOE]

Cada vez que un cantautor se pasa a la electrónica desaparece un frasco de antidepresivos del botiquín de Leonard Cohen.
Every time a singer-songwriter crosses over to electronica a bottle of antidepressants disappears from Leonard Cohen's medicine cabinet.

Leonard Cohen is in the Coen Bros. right?

[HelenOE]

Leonard Cohen just calms me down

Ojalá todos los cantantes pusieran el mismo sentimiento al cantar sus canciones que el que pone Leonard Cohen cuando canta "Hallelujah".
I wish all singers put the same feeling into singing their songs that Leonard Cohen does when he sings "Hallelujah."

New sublet comes complete with huge posters of Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith on the living room wall. Things might be okay after all.

[HelenOE]

I just report these things, people.

planes para que wainwright me dé bola a la salida del show de hoy. 1:me hago hombre 2:me hago pasar por hija no reconocida de leonard cohen.
plans so that wainwright will pay attention to me after the show today. 1: I'll become a man 2: I'll pass myself off as an unacknowledged daughter of leonard cohen.

[HelenOE]

Coffee? Check! Leonard Cohen? Check! Dog asleep on floor? Check! Brow furrowed? Check! Head down? Check! Go! #amwriting

36 days until I see Leonard Cohen. My brain has yet to process this!

Leonard Cohen
tenes la voz mas linda
Leonard Cohen
you have the most beautiful voice

Using for my lettering/calligraphy practice pieces of Leonard Cohen's lyrics. That's all I have in my head at 5.00 AM. That and swearing.

Por estos días, solo pienso en Leonard Cohen, y Simon & Garfunkel. Seré judía en mi interior?
These days, I only think about Leonard Cohen, and Simon & Garfunkel. Could I be Jewish on the inside?

[HelenOE]

que tus "amigos" pongan Hallelujah de LEONARD COHEN, cuando vallas al fin a follar. QUE GRANDES PANAS TIENES BROTHER
that your "friends" put on Hallelujah by LEONARD COHEN, when you're finally going to f*ck. WHAT GREAT FRIENDS YOU HAVE BROTHER

or as Leonard said,

I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

Okay, back to the tweets.

Suddenly found myself in a piano practice room for the first time in ages. Spent a full hour singing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah".

if that's amoeba calling back about my "limited" leonard cohen vinyl tell them i already nailed it to the wall. mon dieu! #hipsterparty

[HelenOE]

What’s the most depressing miserable music imaginable? Suggestions, please?

Leonard Cohen. There is one about how there ain't no chocolates in the box. Depresses me on a grammatical level.

[The responder later tweeted that he or she had gone to look at the lyric in question, and discovered that the grammatical issue didn't actually exist. I replied to the OP suggesting Simon & Garfunkel's Sounds of Silence album as a good choice for miserable and depressing. I actually like the album, which has TWO songs about suicides on it, but when I was 13 I spent an entire summer in somber dark clothing on the strength of it]

Leonard Cohen this morning... and I'm not even hung over

Leonard Cohen
Love Itself

¿Que deben sentir justin bieber o one direction sabiendo que Leonard Cohen tiene 70 tacos y les da mil vueltas?
What must justin bieber or one direction feel, knowing that Leonard Cohen is 70 years old and he's running circles a thousand times around them?

Also, I have in on good authority that those ladies in the video were all ACTUAL friends of Leonard Cohen. So, yeah the guy wins at life.