Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16

Subject: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 11:08 AM

I just saw in the Toronto Sun that there will be a live chat with Leonard Cohen on Oct. 16th at 4:00 P.M. E.S.T.

Go to this page and scroll down to Entertainment.

Leonard Cohen

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 11:12 AM

Steve, there are few things I can think of which are less inviting to me. However, should you decide to get involved, ask him if he is completely fucked or what?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 11:19 AM

'Spaw,

Am I sensing a new wing at the centre?

I have to say, I'm not a huge fan, but I thought I'd post this as I know there are a number of fans here who would probably like to know about this. Perhaps one of them wil pose the question.

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 11:25 AM

Well Steve there has been talk of a "Research Center on the Bizarrely Symbolic" but funding meetings are not proceeding well since no one knows what anyone else is talking about.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 12:08 PM

'Spaw,

I'll join the funding team, but we will have to meet at Toe Blake's tavern in Montreal for quarts of Laurentide. Perhaps we could even get old Len to join us, although (and this is a true story, it was on CBC television) the last I saw of him he was some sort of monk in California.

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 12:18 PM

LMAO......Ohmygawd........I'd lost track and now once again, truth proves stranger than fiction!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 12:33 PM

Leonard Cohen is fantastic!

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: mike putt
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 03:18 PM

I agree Clinton

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 03:38 PM

Allright, I'll confess. I have only ever really heard his older material. I found his songwriting to be very good. I found the mood to be pretty damned depressing.

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: Lanfranc
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 06:12 PM

LC rocks - or at least he used to!

Old, middle period, latest (up to "The Future") - some brilliant, some just plain good, some clunkers.

"songs to slash your wrists to", maybe, but I've sung his songs for thirty-five years with no ill-effects to me or the audience.

It's even a sensible time for the UK - 4pm EST = 9pm BST

I'll be there, if at all possible.

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 06:21 PM

And my very sweet companion gets me stoned and gets me laughing
She's a hundred but she's wearing somethiing tight!

:-)

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: Stewie
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 10:01 PM

I certainly have my order in for Cohen's first album of new songs in nine years that is to be released some time this month - 'Ten New Songs' Columbia. According to the Village Records new releases sheet for October, the new album is all love songs Cohen style.

In respect of the 'monk' reference above, he is into Zen. There is a photo of him in his robes with his Zen master, Roshi, in Ira B. Nadel's 'Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen'.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: rangeroger
Date: 11 Oct 01 - 11:15 PM

I am a Leonard Cohen fan also.Have been since his first album.I will admit that his novels are a little strange.

Just rewatched McCabe and Mrs. Miller the other night. Tremendous vehicle for his songs.

rr

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 12 Oct 01 - 08:08 PM

Ten New Songs is fantastic - especially the track Alexandra Leaving, which John Kelly's been playing on Mystery Train on RTE radio for some weeks now. You might be able to listen to Mystery Train on www.rte.ie, I'm not sure.

I've always been fond of his music - which I don't find depressing, though his voice has a gloomy timbre. But who else could write lines like

"A bunch of lonesome and very quarrelsome heroes
Were smoking out along the open road"

or (from Alexandra Leaving):

"And you who had the honour of her evening
And by the honour had your own restored"

or, from the same song,

"Do not choose a coward's explanation
That hides behind the cause and the effect"

or the mise-en-scene, again from Alexandra Leaving:

"As someone long prepared for this to happen
Go firmly to the window. Drink it in.
Exquisite music. Alexandra laughing."

Besides, Lennie writes the best seduction music. Ask any old roue.

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Oct 01 - 09:34 PM

Why the hell would I ask an old wheel? Did one of them run over a Cohen record or something?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 14 Oct 01 - 05:49 PM

Ah, you live such a pure life, spaw ;)

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 11:21 PM

I meant to refresh this today, but I wasn't near my computer.

Did anyone of you Cohen fans log in?

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: Dunc
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 03:57 AM

Cohen the King!!!!
The man is in a class all of his own.
I ordered his new CD "Ten New Songs" without knowing anything about the songs on it.
If it disappoints me it will be the first time - and I am the proud owner of many LC CDs.
As far as I am aware, he has not toured since he released "The Future".
Any news of him going out on the road with this album?
He is my only musical hero that I have never seen live. At 67 he may not feel up to the rigours of touring.
Bags I the first ticket if he does though!

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 09:29 AM

Here is a transcript of the Live Chat.

Click here

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 05:01 PM

Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Live Chat Oct 16
From: Stewie
Date: 22 Oct 01 - 08:02 PM

Steve, thanks for the link to the transcript.

--Stewie.