Report, please, Joe, for us old Cohenobites, on whether the music makes
the words come off - they look a bit, well, tired - the lyrics are here
http://www.webheights.net/bluealert/songs.html
He was already talking rather than singing on his last.
Never read the book, saw the film with John Cusack, fun. But of course
visual images are the anomie of words (groan)
mj
Joseph Duemer wrote:
> Have you guys read Nick Hornby's _High Fidelity_? A book about musical
> taste, snobism, mid-life crises, success, failure, anomie -- all in very
> clean, witty prose.
>
> Now, speaking of chin-stroking, I'm listening to Anjani singing Leonard
> Cohen songs as I type this. The album is called Blue Alert & though it
> says
> its an Anjani record, it's really Cohen's most recent release: he just
> moved
> the background singer he's always used up front & then stepped off the
> stage.
>
> jd
>
>
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The art of being civilized is the art of learning to read between the lies. - Kenneth Rexroth
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