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Leonard Cohen!
May. 30th, 2009 01:46 amI saw Leonard Cohen tonight! It was completely crazyawesome. I've been into him since ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
heronblue introduced me to him in seventh grade. He's in his mid-70s right now and hasn't toured for about 15 years, and his voice is still amazing. I am a fan. I brought this friend of mine who is also a fan, and we sort of squee-d the entire time. I kind of cried a number of times. If this dude ever starts his own religion (which is looking doubtful, but whatever), I wish to subscribe to it. In the meantime I am kind of looking out for a necklace that looks like this book's cover.
Right outside the theater, there were people protesting the fact that he was later playing in Tel Aviv, and trying to get him to cancel his concert. Why, you ask? Apparently, because Israel will use his appearance for propaganda effect and therefore we need a cultural and academic boycott of Israel. Seriously.
Reasons why this is stupid:
( There are at least five of them! )
Incidentally, at some point Leonard Cohen started talking during the concert about how he seemed to have gotten old enough that people cared about his opinion, and so he had something very important to say to us. He had noticed a disturbing trend towards hotels having magnifying mirrors with fluorescent lights all around them. His advice: none of us over the age of eleven should ever, ever look in those mirrors. Just his opinion, though.
I kind of wish that I'd yelled "next year he'll play in Jerusalem!" as I left. Just to be ornery.
heronblue introduced me to him in seventh grade. He's in his mid-70s right now and hasn't toured for about 15 years, and his voice is still amazing. I am a fan. I brought this friend of mine who is also a fan, and we sort of squee-d the entire time. I kind of cried a number of times. If this dude ever starts his own religion (which is looking doubtful, but whatever), I wish to subscribe to it. In the meantime I am kind of looking out for a necklace that looks like this book's cover.Right outside the theater, there were people protesting the fact that he was later playing in Tel Aviv, and trying to get him to cancel his concert. Why, you ask? Apparently, because Israel will use his appearance for propaganda effect and therefore we need a cultural and academic boycott of Israel. Seriously.
Reasons why this is stupid:
( There are at least five of them! )Incidentally, at some point Leonard Cohen started talking during the concert about how he seemed to have gotten old enough that people cared about his opinion, and so he had something very important to say to us. He had noticed a disturbing trend towards hotels having magnifying mirrors with fluorescent lights all around them. His advice: none of us over the age of eleven should ever, ever look in those mirrors. Just his opinion, though.
I kind of wish that I'd yelled "next year he'll play in Jerusalem!" as I left. Just to be ornery.
