Truth

[Mark Kohut]

There is that story of TRP saying to the young visitor at Manhattan Beach something about BEAUTIFUL LOSERS, I think it was. 

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> On Sep 23, 2014, at 7:00 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Cohen is the real deal, I agree. Of course this thing implies that TRP liked (or at least read) one of Cohen's novels. 
> 
> http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/agordon/pynchon.htm
> 
>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:52 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There ya go. Should note that my comment wasn't a criticism - I too
>> went to the show a skeptic and came out a convert. And yes, he really
>> does skip around on stage.
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Robert Christgau's review of Live in London confirms most of that. If he's
>> > assumed to have some credible intel.
>> >
>> > http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=leonard+cohen
>> >
>> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:27 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Saw him last year. Asked a fan friend why Cohen seems to tour to
>> >> Australia around twice a year (utterly unheard of) and she told me a
>> >> story about how he was royally screwed over by a manager, I think?
>> >> Which left him in great financial trouble. So he has to essentially
>> >> work his butt off in his 80s just to pay the bills.
>> >>
>> >> Can't remember the details or if it was actually true.
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:35 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
>> >> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>> >> > Great, great song.
>> >> >
>> >> > Two years ago Cohen took Berlin near the Olympic Stadium and played a
>> >> > particularly intense version of "The Partisan" to honour the occasion.
>> >> > It
>> >> > was quite unforgettable.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thomas
>> >> >
>> >> > P.S. Actually, and perhaps sacrilegiously, I prefer John Cale's version
>> >> > of
>> >> > "Hallelujah" to the original.
>> >> >
>> >> > P.P.S. "Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the captain
>> >> > lied"
>> >> > -
>> >> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> >> -
>> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> >
>> >
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