review: 'I remember you well in Chelsea Hotel'

Red Poppy · Post by **Red Poppy** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:16 pm

A SILENT POEM
(Just for Lizzytish)

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 6:54 am

Loved the dangling participle

~ Lizzy

Red Poppy · Post by **Red Poppy** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 6:52 pm

Ah yes but it can be painful!

Dem · Post by **Dem** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:56 pm

"Does anyone else have any stories about unusual settings where
they have enjoyed Leonard's songs?"

Yes I had one when I was on the inner ring of the Seventh Circle of the Inferno (You know it's the one were the suicides are punished.
The punishment was to listen to Leonard Cohen songs
24/24, 7/7, 365/365!)

When I asked the little devil who was the dj why this punishment
he told me that actually it was a form of therapy (homeopathic) for the
suicides(you know, music to slit your wrists).
After that, they never again commit suicide.

Thank a Devil, I have now moved up to the Sixth Circle.

Here we have to listen only to opera.

Dem

margaret · Post by **margaret** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:32 pm

After that, they never again commit suicide.

How many times can anyone ever actually commit suicide

hydriot · Post by **hydriot** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:53 pm

Sherry wrote:Does anyone else have any stories about unusual settings where they have enjoyed Leonard's songs?

About five or ten years ago, I read the sleeve notes on the back of a compilation vinyl (I didn't buy the record) in which LC was unusually forthcoming about some of his songs. What I particularly remember was his writing that the most unusual place he had heard Suzanne being played was on a boat on the Caspian Sea. Frustratingly, he never explained exactly what he was doing on the Caspian Sea! Would love to know.

Dem · Post by **Dem** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:14 am

margaret:
Several times.

I have done it myself twice.

Now that I read on CNN.com
http://tinyurl.com/mcuty
that a suicide is an action of warfare against the USA I will to do it every
day first thing in the morning!

Dem

Red Poppy · Post by **Red Poppy** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:34 am

Dem. which was more satisfying- first or second?

Tchocolatl · Post by **Tchocolatl** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:50 am

margaret wrote:
After that, they never again commit suicide.

How many times can anyone ever actually commit suicide

It is as strange comment from a woman of the generation of Harold and Maud (the movie).

Tchocolatl · Post by **Tchocolatl** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:54 am

We can guess what somebody can do on Caspian See. We can begin by eliminating some things that one can not do on caspian see :

1) Ski (I mean not ski nautic, of course)
2) ....

Dem · Post by **Dem** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:34 am

Red Poppy:
The next one.

Tchocolatl:
That's were he wrote the well-known lyrics:

"oh please don't pass me by,
for I am blind, but you can see,
on the Caspian See."

for his fellow skiers that were passing by him
on their "nautic" (or did you mean naughty?) skis.

Dem

Tchocolatl · Post by **Tchocolatl** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:00 pm

Yep! I guess it is not nautic nor nautical at all. I guess it is water skiing.

Blinds have a very sharp ear, so maybe it is possible for a blind Leonard Cohen to do water skiing on Caspian See and hearing people from a near boat signing Suzanne.

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:43 pm

from a near boat signing Suzanne.

Too bad that's a typo

.

Tchocolatl · Post by **Tchocolatl** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:33 pm

better than "from a near goat etc

margaret · Post by **margaret** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:57 pm

Recently I attended a birthday celebration of one of the disability organisations I work for and saw/heard a local "signing choir" of deaf people performing several songs. Unfortunately there were no Cohen songs amongst them

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