On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Matt Bear-Fowler
<wakingdreaming@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Sibyl <polycarpa3@ckt.net> wrote:
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>> If anybody's interested, and if it won't be considered highjacking a
>> thread to post to it, here's the 25-most-played from my ITunes:
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>> If It Be Your Will 3:43 Leonard Cohen
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> I'm a huge Leonard Cohen fan. I haven't listened to him TOO much lately
> because he's a little too melancholy and I just haven't been in the mood for
> him. But he's fabulous. Did anyone get his new album, Old Ideas? I haven't
> been able to get all the way through it yet. Great stuff but just too
> melancholy for me right now.
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I love Leonard Cohen too. One artist I find similar (although it
might just be me) is Bruce Cockburn (pronounced Coburn get your minds
out of the gutter!). Cockburn has a similar style but isn't usually
quite as melancholy. Although my favourite of his, "Pacing the Cage"
is about as melancholy as you can get.
On the Leonard Cohen side I love his rather snarky "Everybody Knows":
Everybody knows you love me baby
Everybody knows you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes . . . everybody knows.
Gwyn
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Rain and sun shall feed me now,
and roots, and nuts, and wild things,
and rustlings in the midnight wood,
half-mad, like Myrddin, wandering.
--Terri Windling
one day I am going to bloom
patient and proud
with fish in my mouth
and eyes in my wings
--Noe Venable
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