a splendid duck-billed platypus

08:25 pm: Bits and pieces
I had lunch, and then I did the washing-up and hung up clothes from the washing-machine and made carrot and coriander soup (carrots from the last two vegetable box deliveries, coriander from Tattie Shaws this morning). And I baked herb scones (fresh herbs from the garden, just a touch of garlic Arran cheddar). Which were delicious. And I made more dwarf bread, which is rising now. And chatted with Mike. (He admitted to giving conversations marks out of 10, which I could see would get irritating if one did it regularly, or at least admitted to it, but yes...)

And I updated the post on Obama's DoJ anti-marriage memo - which turns out to be by a Bush administration holdover, what a surprise.

Also it occurred to me that I could make the A Week in the Life photomeme an annual event: starting either Tuesday (exactly a year) or Monday (to make it a calendar week). So I might do that.

But also I wanted to make a set of links to Leonard Cohen music videos on Daily Motion.

Because Of
Avalanche Bird on a wire
Bird on a wire
Bird on a wire: cartoon video
Chelsea Hotel No 1
Chelsea Hotel No 2
Closing Time
Dance me to the end of love - 20th century music video
Dance me to the end of love - 1994 music video
Dance me to the end of love - 21st century performance
First We Take Manhattan
Hallelujah
I'm Your Man
In my secret life
Partisan - 1970
The Partisan - live performance, 1988
So long Marianne (live performance, 1974)
Stranger Song
Suzanne (live performance, 1970)
This Hour Has Seven Days
Waiting for the Miracle

Also, on Youtube: Democracy is coming (spoken).

Sonny Rollins and Leonard Cohen: Who By Fire
Judy Collins and Leonard Cohen: Suzanne
Conspiracy of Beards: San Francisco Bay Area acapella all male choir of Leonard Cohen singers (they're doing Hallelujah, and Bird on a Wire, and wearing Cohen hats, and omghearts.)

Also, K D Lang singing Hallelujah on Later in 2004, at Juno Awards in Winnipeg in 2005, at a benefit for the Elton John AIDS Foundation in 2007, and at BBC Four Sessions, at St Lukes, London, 2008.

Current Mood: awake

Tags: k d lang, leonard cohen, music videos

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From:	eileenlufkin
Date:	dayordJune 2009 06:04 pm (UTC)

Leonard Cohen

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I like Leonard Cohen a lot. Thank you for the links. I must remember to come back to this when I get around to replacing the speakers on my computer. Back in the day, I never expected the computer was going to be something I listened to as well as read.

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From:	yonmei
Date:	dayordJune 2009 06:18 pm (UTC)

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whatho and

jekesta wrote enthusiastically about going to a Leonard Cohen concert (the same concert, though they didn't go together) and how much they'd loved it. I'd never heard of him, so I asked

whatho for recommendations, bought a CD, then bought another CD, and, well...

I really like him. His voice, and his songs/poems, and his attitude - I've listened to a bunch of interviews, and he just comes across as a very cool person.

The thing about Dailymotion is that the videos tend to be much better quality than on Youtube, but are also generally not as easy to find. But. (The video on DM for "First we take Manhattan" is quite splendid, I think.)

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