An email from Henry suggested Leonard Cohen iPhone covers as the next Heck Of A Guy New & Improved Leonard Cohen Merchandise line (Heck Of A Guy New & Improved Leonard Cohen Merchandise is available - well, it's not available, which is why this blog is still in business). So, Henry, how about these tie-ins?
And, of course, Leonard Cohen at work on a number of his beloved Macs.
Other New & Improved Leonard Cohen Merchandise
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September 21, 2011 is Leonard Cohen’s 77th birthday, an event DrHGuy is commemorating with a video of scenes from Leonard Cohen’s life and photos of fans expressing their affection for Mr. Cohen, all set to “I Love Leonard Cohen” by Robin Grey.
This photo of Leonard Cohen on the grounds of the Mount Baldy Zen Center during his stay there from 1994 to 1999 is featured on the May 2011 Leonard Cohen Calendar:
Leonard Cohen provided the music for and helped write “I Am a Hotel,” a 24 minute video filmed at Toronto's King Edward Hotel in 1983 which won the Golden Rose at an international television festival in Montreux.
The Crystal Ballroom, on the 17th floor, for example, was featured in the video of Cohen performing "Memories," a Screen capture of which is shown below.
The Crystal Ballroom, closed since the 50s, is shown below as it appeared in 2010. (Photo by Sally Hunter)
... the earliest known manuscript of what would become the lyrics to “Everybody Knows.” Although the words vary significantly from the final version of the song, the parallels are unmistakable.
Everybody licks raspberry 'sicles Everybody licks lime and pistachio Everybody licks blueberry and chocolate Even with a mustachio. Everybody knows you’ve been discreet But there were so many flavors you just had to eat
You must come quick, I’ll give you one more lick.
Everybody licks, everybody licks When it drips it sticks So everybody licks
Everybody licks, everybody licks To get their kicks Everybody licks
A gallery comprising all items previously published in the photo series, Shades of Leonard Cohen, can be viewed at Collected Shades Of Leonard Cohen.
The recent acclamations of religious experiences, transcendence, and mystic ecstasy vis-a-vis Leonard Cohen have increased Cohen Veneration titers to dangerous levels. In the service of reverence-modulation, this video offers, as a valid alternative perspective to the adoration of Leonard Cohen as icon, the vision of Leonard as hunk (DrHGuy has been advised by usually reliable sources that many women consider Mr Cohen somewhat attractive). Rather than pairing Leonard Cohen with the spirit of Yeats, this video calls upon the services of Randy Newman and Etta James, the author and performer, respectively, of the musical background, “You Can Leave Your Hat On.
