magic_fella
Happy Birthday, Leonard Cohen!
"Give me back my broken night...my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture. Give me absolute control...over every living soul...and lie beside me baby...that's an order."
(Leonard Cohen "The Future")
Leonard Cohen turned 72 on September 21st. I missed it by that much...but hopefully this image, taken at the firefighter's burn last night will evoke a sense of that haunting song. "The Future" is set in a time right out of Cohen's mind...in a place that hasn't happened. The people are bleak and gray and hopeless. A relentless beat drives words laced with heartbreaking images and mind-numbingly horrific scenes.
I started listening to Cohen in college because I thought his stuff suited my carefully cultivated "The World Is Shit" personae. (And no...that attitude does NOT get you girls.) But the guy has a way of making himself heard to anyone willing to listen.
When I started LISTENING to Cohen and hearing 140 proof poetry put to music, hearing new ideas marching to a completely unique drumbeat, the pace of my own heartbeat was changed.
Happy Birthday, Leonard Cohen!
"Give me back my broken night...my mirrored room, my secret life. It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture. Give me absolute control...over every living soul...and lie beside me baby...that's an order."
(Leonard Cohen "The Future")
Leonard Cohen turned 72 on September 21st. I missed it by that much...but hopefully this image, taken at the firefighter's burn last night will evoke a sense of that haunting song. "The Future" is set in a time right out of Cohen's mind...in a place that hasn't happened. The people are bleak and gray and hopeless. A relentless beat drives words laced with heartbreaking images and mind-numbingly horrific scenes.
I started listening to Cohen in college because I thought his stuff suited my carefully cultivated "The World Is Shit" personae. (And no...that attitude does NOT get you girls.) But the guy has a way of making himself heard to anyone willing to listen.
When I started LISTENING to Cohen and hearing 140 proof poetry put to music, hearing new ideas marching to a completely unique drumbeat, the pace of my own heartbeat was changed.