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, 1982
Humphrey Bogart as a child
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
