The ongoing store-closing sale of a certain bankrupt nationwide music chain lead me to purchase the four Leonard Cohen albums that I didn’t have, including this one. I’ve been a fan of his music for well over a decade—how is it that I’ve never heard this one before? It’s already probably my favorite album of his ever: a real beauty.
Fun 5-song EP of spunky, sweet pop-rock.
A brief, quiet, really excellent set played right inside the door of an all-cereal restaraunt, while a rain/wind-storm raged outside.
This year I keep obsessing over this 1989 album. With the minimalist setting, and the songs pretty well summing up his worldview, this album is increasingly sounding to me like a blank canvas upon which he wrote a summary statement of what his music is, was, and always will be about.
Flying Down to Rio
As a birthday gift I received the DVD set of all the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films, and have been going through them chronologically, starting with this film, a silly, fairly dull one which turns 180 degrees during Astaire and Rogers’ first dance scene together. Truly magical.
The ongoing reissues of the catalogue of Fania Records, the ‘70s NYC salsa/Latin soul/jazz label, are so welcome. This one’s been captivating me lately.
I keep playing this song on my ipod lately, cause it makes me smile. It’s the little things in life…
Laurent Girard’s electronic-pop-folk-modern classical music just keeps getting better.
The Departed
A very entertaining, suspenseful film…still quite sloppy at times by classic Scorsese standards, but still enjoyable.
Voxtrot’s cover of this has me relistening to, and thinking about, the original, and remembering what a great song it was, but such a great band.
