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[nightdog_barks]

Leonard Cohen passes away, aged 82

God DAMN it.

Edited to add: my favorite cover of my favorite Cohen song. :-(

"JUDY COLLINS ~ SUZANNE ~" (Watch on YouTube)

Comments

[taiga13]

I just heard, I'm devastated. He said he was ready to die but we still need him!!

[nightdog_barks]

I know, right? And I just caught up the other day and read the long New Yorker article on him, and it was beautiful. :-(

Editing to add that here is the New Yorker profile. It is really a terrific read.

[silverjackal]

I'm sorry. That's a beautiful song (and one I had not heard before). Thank you for sharing it.

[nightdog_barks]

Isn't that lovely? The man could write ...

[silverjackal]

He certainly could. :) (I just looked him up because I knew almost nothing but a couple of songs and the name. I did not realise he was Canadian!)

[nightdog_barks]

Heh, for some reason I was thinking that Judy Collins was also Canadian, but I see that she was born in Seattle, Washington.

[silverjackal]

Perhaps you were conflating her with Joni Mitchell? I don't pay much attention to the personal lives of celebrities, so I had not idea, but my local radio station was talking about where Ms. Mitchell was born. I know the place well, frequently having traveled through it for work. It's one of those "Wait, WHAT?" moments because with the world being as large as it is, and a certain place small, it is hard to credit that someone famous could be from there just based on odds.

Edited to add: the second-to-last time I drove through the town where Joni Mitchell was born I was stuck waiting in traffic because the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were out doing a ceremonial parade on horseback, with different units taking part in a ritualised competition. Very Canadian!

[nightdog_barks]

And that's funny, because I was thinking of Joni Mitchell, but my brain said "No, she was born in California!" And I don't know how that happened, but for some reason Joni Mitchell = California was just stuck in my mind. :D

[silverjackal]

Well, she was born just north of LA! :D

It is a local-ish pun, where people will say "I am driving down to LA to visit my parents this weekend." which everyone here understands as "Lethbridge Alberta". Lethbridge is a nice enough little city, but it no way resembles Los Angeles, particularly in winter. Ergo Canadian ideas of funny.