posted June 06, 2008 03:36 AM         

2 Suffer the little children to come unto me. ~ Jesus

3 Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. ~ Victor Hugo

4 Don't expect me to cry. ~ the Vaselines ('Jesus dont want me for a sunbeam')

5 Don't weep for me. I'm already dead. ~ Barney Gumble

6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqTpWmj6-_Q

7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka2v-r8-CiQ

8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ8Jn1JvtdE

9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MDlMdu2gjw

10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUcXI2BIUOQ

11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA3UnaKpe4E

12 http://youtube.com/watch?v=YobuN4b4X9Y

posted June 09, 2008 05:23 PM         

~Bob Dylan

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*****edited to say that no one, including myself, has ever called ME a poet. so that isn't what I was trying to say there, though it looks like it to me now that I read it myself.
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hmmm... me a naked person... maybe someday...

posted June 09, 2008 05:41 PM         

~Bob Dylan

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

~Bob Dylan

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

~Bob Dylan

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

~Bob Dylan

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

~Bob Dylan

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

~Bob Dylan

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

~Bob Dylan

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

~Bob Dylan

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

~Bob Dylan

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

~Bob Dylan

There is nothing so stable as change.

~Bob Dylan

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

~Bob Dylan

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

~Bob Dylan

posted June 10, 2008 09:44 AM         

The greatest cultural accomplishments in history have never been the result of the brainstorms of marketing men, corporate focus groups, or any homogenized methods; they have always happened organically. More often than not, these manifestations have been the result of a few like-minded people coming together to create something new and original for no other purpose than a common love of doing it. In the 1990s, a loose-knit group of American artists and creators, many just out of their teens, began their careers in just such a way. Influenced by the popular underground youth subcultures of the day, such as skateboarding, graffiti, street fashion and independent music, artists like Shepard Fairey, Mark Gonzales, Spike Jonze, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Phil Frost, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, and Ed Templeton began to create art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Many had no formal training and almost no conception of the inner workings of the art world. They learned their crafts through practice, trial and error, and good old-fashioned innovation. Not since the Beat Generation have we seen a group of creative individuals with such a unified aesthetic sense and varied cultural facets. The world of art has been greatly affected by their accomplishments as have the worlds of fashion, music, literature, film, and, ironically, athletics. Over the years, the group has matured, and many have become more establishment-oriented; but no matter, their independent spirit has remained steadfast. The story of the Beautiful Losers will be a retrospective celebration of this spirit.

posted June 10, 2008 09:58 AM         

Leonard Cohen's second novel Beautiful Losers (1966) is described on its dust jacket as "a disagreeable religious epic of incomparable beauty." It would become one of the most radical and extraordinary works of fiction ever published in Canada. Upon the publication of Beautiful Losers, The Boston Globe declares, "James Joyce is not dead. He is living in Montreal under the name of Cohen." But not everyone is a fan.

Back home, critic Robert Fulford calls it "the most revolting book ever written in Canada," and a review in The Globe and Mail newspaper describes it as "verbal masturbation."
Beautiful Losers praised and condemned

• Artist Harold Towne, who did the artwork for the cover of Beautiful Losers, called those critical of the book "vacuous… lint pickers and dandruff."

• The book follows the members of a love triangle, their sexual obsessions and their fascination with a 17th-century Mohawk saint.
Beautiful Losers praised and condemned

Leonard Cohen Interviewed: http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/poetry/topics/93-446/

"What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere. If an unpublished poet discovers one of his own images in the work of another writer it gives him no comfort, for his allegiance is not to the image or its progress in the public domain, his allegiance is to the notion that he is not bound to the world as given, that he can escape from the arrangement of things as they are."

posted June 10, 2008 10:23 AM         

Poet, musician, novelist, ladies' man, monk, actor... Leonard Norman Cohen, one of Canada's most influential cultural icons was born on Sept. 21, 1934 in Montreal. Whether from a mountaintop at a Buddhist retreat in California, on the Greek island of Hydra or strolling along the streets of his beloved ville d'amour, the melancholy bard of popular music has delighted fans worldwide with his poetry, novels and music.