I’m still on a bit of a Leonard Cohen kick , as well as a YouTube fling.
Stay with me here, though; this isn’t just about Cohen.
As Gerard Vanderleun has noted , Cohen has an even darker side than the one I pointed out—which was already dark enough, to be sure, but with its redemptive qualities.
Follow the above link to a video of Cohen performing his very disturbing song “ The Future .” While pondering its bleak vision of violence and anarchy, consider the fact that it was written around 1992 (although probably started years before; Cohen is on record as saying in interviews that it usually takes him years, if not decades, to write each song).
Cohen doesn’t turn to political matters often, but when he does, he has been known to demonstrate a certain prescience. Could it be that poets can sometimes sense things before others can? At least, certain poets. Then again, it may just be blowin’ in the wind .
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My time in New York ended just a little over a week ago and I miss it. London is a great city but Gotham just outdoes it
I’m slowly settling back into “normal” life is and will be… (in post **The New York Trilogy** from Cougar Microbes are marching in like army ants... . Download this at Amazon iTunes )... more
1. Dance Me to the End of Love
2. Coming Back to You
3. The Law
4. Night Comes On
5. Hallelujah
6. The Captain
7. Hunter’s Lullaby
8. Heart With No Companion
9. If It Be Your Will
Download Leonard Cohen-Various Positions 1984:
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Neocons believe that the spread of liberal democracy–democracy with safeguards for human rights and liberties–would be of general benefit to the US, to the citizens of the countries involved, and to the world.
Although I’m sure there are some exceptions, most neocons also believe that the spread of liberal democracy to countries that have not known it before, or that knew it only briefly and/or erratically, is neither inevitable nor easy. But they believe it is possible ra... more
Isn’t it a bit early for the 2008 Presidential election? Maybe, but it’s not too early for Siggy , Shrink , Dr. Sanity , and myself to say how we feel about the whole thing, as well as what we think of the candidates. Vladimir Putin gets into the running as well–although not for President. ... more
I think Hansel and Gretel’s house may have had one of them, along with a thatched roof and a cozy hearth. In my student days, I lived in a rented house that had one in the basement.
But these dirt floors are different; these dirt floors are chic and upscale.
Or perhaps I should use their more refined name: earthenware floors. According to that linked New York Times article, they are more popular in California and the Southwest than in the east–well, who woulda thunk it?&... more
Ruth Dudley Edwards has written an article that appeared in the Telegraph , entitled “Sleepwalking With the Enemy.” It’s about the tendency of so many in the West, especially the intelligentsia, to make excuses for and downplay the threats of Islamist fundamentalist totalitarians such as Iran’s Ahmadinejad.
Her personal background, as she outlines it in the article, positions her to see things a bit differently than some of her colleagues in the British writing w... more
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