My lovely and talented friend Sarah (see day 1 for link) started this challenge.
I am going to do this the way Sarah did – a song every day and with a few lines about why I like each artist and song, and why it is significant for me. I am as much about the music as the words by the way, so I have to like both if I include a song.
Please feel free to join in this challenge with your own lists!
‘Everybody Knows’ by Leonard Cohen
I was very lucky to see Leonard Cohen on his final tour in 2013. It was over 3 hours of magic. I could not imagine at that time that his home city of Montreal was to play such a significant part in my own life just a few years later. His music is the frequent soundtrack to my drawing.
This was the first Leonard Cohen song I remember hearing, in Atom Egoyan’s movie ‘Exotica’, when I was still in my 20s. In this world of Trump and Brexit the words seem very prophetic and fitting.
Great song, and you’re right, quite prophetic.
I knew Leonard Cohen as a poet and novelist before I realised he was a musician too. I was given a copy of The Spice Box of Earth (collection of poetry) as a school prize and had never read poetry like it. Thus began my Cohen crush.
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Yes! Great song! What a poet and a musicman 💕
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I’ve never read his poetry so I must check this out. I have often meant to. I like his paintings too.
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Enjoyed that, yet eerie!
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Forehead slap: if I knew he painted, I’d forgotten.
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There are a lot of signed prints in a gallery in Manchester that keep tempting me….
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Know that feeling. I dragged T to an out of town gallery that was having an exhibition of work by Serj Tankian and offered to buy him a signed print as a birthday present. He said no (citing our lack of wall space).
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Susan said no citing price!😄
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There’s that too. I was prepared to spend on T’s birthday, but somehow I can’t justify spending the same amount if it’s for myself.
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Similar dynamic in our household!
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