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GCW Fun is the quick-witted, energetic, happy go lucky younger sibling of the jocose but prolix, sometimes abstruse Heck of a Guy blog

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Mar 08

Q: Do you have anything to declare?

A: The solemn testimony of that unbroken faith which binds the generations one to another, I hereby bestow upon you the ancient priestly benediction: May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord be gracious unto you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and grant you the gift of peace.

Leonard Cohen, in Q Magazine, September 1994
Mar 07
Leonard Cohen, 1982

Leonard Cohen, 1982

Mar 06
Your kindness is kind
your trueness is true
I pray that you’ll find
your Beloved, too…
Leonard Cohen, from an early version of “The Book of Longing”
Humphrey Bogart as a child

Humphrey Bogart as a child

Mar 05
The old are kind.
The young are hot.
Love may be blind,
Desire is not.
Leonard Cohen, from “Book of Longing”
Mar 04
Leonard Cohen shared this entrepreneurial vision with a friend:
Leonard once told me he was going to come out with his own cologne. It was going to be called “Indifference,” and its slogan was going to be “I don’t give a shit what happens”
Inspired by this concept, the Heck Of A Guy Creative Department has stepped into the breach to construct the prototype ad for Indifference.  From Leonard Cohen & The Sweet Smell Of Indifference

Leonard Cohen shared this entrepreneurial vision with a friend:

Leonard once told me he was going to come out with his own cologne. It was going to be called “Indifference,” and its slogan was going to be “I don’t give a shit what happens”

Inspired by this concept, the Heck Of A Guy Creative Department has stepped into the breach to construct the prototype ad for Indifference.  From Leonard Cohen & The Sweet Smell Of Indifference

Mar 03

Q: When you look in the mirror do you like what you see?

A: It depends who’s standing behind me.

Leonard Cohen answering queries in Q Magazine, September 1994
Mar 02
Improved - albeit fake - Caesar’s Palace marquee Featuring Leonard Cohen and the Sublime Webb Mistresses. The actual, less dazzling but more accurate  Caesar’s Palace marquee announcing the 2009 Leonard Cohen Concert held there is pictured at this previous posting. From Viva Leonard Cohen In Las Vegas

Improved - albeit fake - Caesar’s Palace marquee Featuring Leonard Cohen and the Sublime Webb Mistresses. The actual, less dazzling but more accurate  Caesar’s Palace marquee announcing the 2009 Leonard Cohen Concert held there is pictured at this previous posting. From Viva Leonard Cohen In Las Vegas

Mar 01
I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.
Leonard Cohen
Feb 28
Obscure Leonard Cohen Photo Or Psychological Test?
This unusual photo of Leonard Cohen offers great potential for intrapsychic exploration.  After all a projective test, such as the Rorschach inkblot test, is only an ambiguous stimuli to which people respond, thereby exposing (theoretically) unconscious feelings, conflicts, and traits. In most cases, the ambiguous stimulus in a projective test  is an image that can be interpreted in more than one way.
And the Leonard Cohen photo can certainly be interpreted in more than one way. Where is he? What book is he perusing? What is he holding over his face? What’s going on in the picture? What might be going on just out of frame? Who took this photo? What motivated the photo? … In short, WTF?
While professional medical ethics prohibit me from interpreting responses to The Leonard Cohen Image Apperception Test without the receipt of huge sums of money, I suspect that anyone foolhardy enough to reveal his or her fantasies about the photo in the Comments at the link will find several folks willing to speculate on the precise psychopathology and perversions thereupon revealed.
And, anyone in a New Yorker state of mind should feel free to also include a funny caption – it all means something.
From The Leonard Cohen Photo Psychological Test

Obscure Leonard Cohen Photo Or Psychological Test?

This unusual photo of Leonard Cohen offers great potential for intrapsychic exploration.  After all a projective test, such as the Rorschach inkblot test, is only an ambiguous stimuli to which people respond, thereby exposing (theoretically) unconscious feelings, conflicts, and traits. In most cases, the ambiguous stimulus in a projective test  is an image that can be interpreted in more than one way.

And the Leonard Cohen photo can certainly be interpreted in more than one way. Where is he? What book is he perusing? What is he holding over his face? What’s going on in the picture? What might be going on just out of frame? Who took this photo? What motivated the photo? … In short, WTF?

While professional medical ethics prohibit me from interpreting responses to The Leonard Cohen Image Apperception Test without the receipt of huge sums of money, I suspect that anyone foolhardy enough to reveal his or her fantasies about the photo in the Comments at the link will find several folks willing to speculate on the precise psychopathology and perversions thereupon revealed.

And, anyone in a New Yorker state of mind should feel free to also include a funny caption – it all means something.

From The Leonard Cohen Photo Psychological Test

Feb 27

Leonard Cohen Earnings - 2009

39 Leonard Cohen $9,511,958 

Leonard Cohen played his first U.S. concert in 15 years in February 2009. The show kicked off a successful year on the road that earned him $9.2 million in box-office share, dwarfing his $236,200 in CD royalties and $34,748 in digital album royalties.

From Billboard.com

Q: How can you tell if you’re in love?

A: You dissolve your strategy for the other.

Leonard Cohen answering questions from fans (Details - July, 1993)
Feb 26
Sharon Robinson in  the Ann-Margaret Revue - Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas. Ms Robinson last appeared at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas in November 2009 as backup singer for and collaborator with Leonard Cohen. From Sharon Robinson On Career Choice, Leonard Cohen, Ann-Margaret, Songwriting, Tour Surprises, … And My Dance Moves

Sharon Robinson in the Ann-Margaret Revue - Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas. Ms Robinson last appeared at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas in November 2009 as backup singer for and collaborator with Leonard Cohen. From Sharon Robinson On Career Choice, Leonard Cohen, Ann-Margaret, Songwriting, Tour Surprises, … And My Dance Moves

Feb 25

Philip Glass on Working with Leonard Cohen - I found this recording at Today’s Cohen, whose webmaster, Marie, found it at time4time where it had migrated from Marjan Zahed-Kindersley’s bits & bobs. GoodCleanWholesomeFun is grateful for those participating in this concatenation that delivered this wonderful video unto us.

Feb 24

Waltzing Matilda by Tom Waits.

It seems right somehow that Leonard Cohen named this Tom Waits song as one of his favorites - just as it seems right that Waits listed Cohen’s “I’m Your Man” as one of his most cherished albums.

Serendipitously, this video rendition of the Waits classic turns out to be especially impressive.

Documentation and details are at the link: “Waltzing Matilda” By Tom Waits Is On Leonard Cohen’s Jukebox