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dolcevita
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 I have been thwarted! http://www.worldofkj.com/articles/Other/marryvince.php
Quote: Do you have a man-crush on a actor? Or for the fifteen women out there reading this article, what gal sets you inner lesbian on fire?
Send me a short email (loyal@worldofkj.com ) describing your same sex crush. I'll post the best entries and if yours is chosen, you'll win a mystery DVD prize. I can't believe I'm actually complaining about being denied the right to profess an opposite-sex crush. 
Fellas, help me out here. Some guy please write an article made out to the twin muses of Lady Love and Leonard Cohen for the main site. You'll get a mystery DVD. Plllllllleeeeeaaaaaaaassssssssseeeeee *w(h)ines*
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A. G.
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For all Loyal knows, your femininity is a forum persona, write in as Mr Vita having a same sex crush on Leonard.
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Haha.
Well, I'm doing the same.... thankfully, rules allow me to make a viddy about Jaye Davidson (who else?)
Thing is, I'm not sure if I should make it intentionally funny or cheese it up by bringing in the orchestra....
Right now I'm torn between playing the clips to Say You'll Be There, the orchestra piece (which is BEAAAAAUTIFUL) or just singing the theme myself, hehehe.
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This is so embarrassing. But I want a prize!!
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nice guys, real nice.
And I finally watched a trailer for this film. To be completely honest, I had no idea who or what Dolce was going on about. But man oh man, does this film look great. I was electrified hearing some of the music.
Consider me impressed.
Will Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man join the A+ ranks of two other 2006 documentaries, Be Here To Love Me and Unknown White Male???
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dolcevita
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L Boogie wrote: nice guys, real nice.
And I finally watched a trailer for this film. To be completely honest, I had no idea who or what Dolce was going on about. But man oh man, does this film look great. I was electrified hearing some of the music.
Consider me impressed.
Will Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man join the A+ ranks of two other 2006 documentaries, Be Here To Love Me and Unknown White Male??? Loyal! Did you listen to all the songs Eagle uploaded for me? I posted them on the first page of this thread. Check them out!
I have to admit *sniff sniff* I haven't ever seen the trailer. It hasn't popped up before any of the movies I've seen in theatres. Please elucidate on every detail of the trailer for me. I must live vicariously through you.
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dolcevita wrote: L Boogie wrote: nice guys, real nice.
And I finally watched a trailer for this film. To be completely honest, I had no idea who or what Dolce was going on about. But man oh man, does this film look great. I was electrified hearing some of the music.
Consider me impressed.
Will Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man join the A+ ranks of two other 2006 documentaries, Be Here To Love Me and Unknown White Male??? Loyal! Did you listen to all the songs Eagle uploaded for me? I posted them on the first page of this thread. Check them out! I have to admit *sniff sniff* I haven't ever seen the trailer. It hasn't popped up before any of the movies I've seen in theatres. Please elucidate on every detail of the trailer for me. I must live vicariously through you. Why can't you see it on the internet? Poor connection? Even I've seen it...
Unless I took too many pretty purple pills and hallucinated?
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| Fri Jun 02, 2006 1:15 am |
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Thanks for the clips (added to the famed L Boogie VidPod). There were songs that stood out in the trailer but I need to watch it again to remember them.
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What do you have on your famed vidpod? Anything interesting?
I have a few madonna, u2 videos, and the crying game.  Everything a boy like me needs for surviving the world.
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I quite like that song Everybody Knows. I've also put it on my ipod, since its the cool thing to do these days.
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dolcevita
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 loyalfromlondon wrote: Thanks for the clips (added to the famed L Boogie VidPod). There were songs that stood out in the trailer but I need to watch it again to remember them. Someone post the address for the trailer and I'll see if I can watch it at work. I guarantee I'll be able to tell you which songs they were.  Here's an article I starkly remember reading in the Globe years ago. Its an interesting read. I found it: http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/bostonglobe.html wrote:
LEONARD COHEN REDUX
ANGST FOR THE MEMORIES
by Alex Beam
The Boston Globe, August 23, 2000
One of the un-pressing questions of our time is: How can celebrities survive their own fame and preserve a modicum of dignity? There are tremendous pressures on Tom Clancy to keep writing the same books (he has) or on Neil Young to play the same songs year in and year out (he hasn't). Our greatest talents seem to linger too long or flame out too early.
One artist who has survived his own fame in a unique way is Leonard Cohen, the frog-voiced Canadian singer-songwriter best known as the writer of the Judy Collins hits ''Suzanne'' and ''Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye.'' After several comeback tours in the 1980s and 1990s, Cohen took the veil, secluding himself in a Buddhist monastery nestled in the San Gabriel Mountains above Los Angeles. To all appearances, Cohen had left the world for a life of meditation and writing in a small cell. When he was ordained in 1996, Cohen adopted the dharma name Jikan, or Silent One.
But Cohen has not been silent. Instead, with the help of a Finnish computer buff, Cohen ''lives'' for his fans on the Internet, at a site called leonardcohenfiles.com. ''The site assures his virtual existence, balancing his disappearance into the spiritual world with an ongoing, online narrative of his comings and goings,'' Cohen's biographer Ira Nadel recently wrote. ''The technology suits his needs, being both personal and distant, and solves his desire for privacy while giving his fan a controlled gateway to his life and work.''
Yes, I have a thing for Cohen. He's as dark and funny as the late, great Serge Gainsbourg, who once sang his reggae version of ''La Marseillaise'' to a stadium full of French paratroopers and barely escaped with his life. Cohen once opened a concert in Hamburg with the Nazi salute; similarly, a gesture lost on this particular audience. His downbeat style (I find him quite cheery, but never mind that) has made him a cult hero in Scandinavia, land of glowering darkness and the monthlong drunk.
Cohen has done it all - Prozac, psychedelics, graduate school, Scientology, the Talmud, ''You Are My Sunshine'' - and he's still here to tell us about it. He's been Phil Spector'd - the two men cut an album in 1977 - and many times resurrected. Indeed, he once claimed to see biblical visions during a concert in Jerusalem. Despite some pro-Arab sympathies, Cohen decided to join the Israeli Army during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Instead of wielding a gun, he was allowed to perform for the front-line troops. ''Deep in the Sinai desert, he was introduced to and sipped cognac with the Israeli general [Ariel] Sharon, himself a Cohen fan,'' according to David Sheppard, yet another Cohen biographer.
If Boston University professor Christopher Ricks is willing to stake his considerable academic reputation promoting Bob Dylan, I'll gladly put my modest credibility on the line hawking the beauty and elegance of vintage Cohen. I think his rendition of Joan of Arc's Gethsemane moment (''I'm tired of the war/I want the kind of work I had before'') should be included in Religious Studies curricula the world over. And has there ever been a better marriage of art direction, cinematography, and music than the final minutes of the Robert Altman/Vilmos Zsigmond sepia-toned classic, ''McCabe and Mrs. Miller,'' which ends with Cohen's plaintive ballad ''Winter Lady''? I don't think so.
I even admire, well, envy, his vices. Sheppard calls Cohen ''a Lothario of insatiable stamina,'' who has been linked over the years to just about everybody. And they're all grist for the mill. ''Suzanne'' was one of two Suzannes, and ''Joan of Arc'' is supposedly Nico, the chanteuse for Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground. His early hit, ''So Long, Marianne,'' is breezy, soulful, and a pleasure to hear. Unless you are the unlucky Marianne, of course.
So what's on the Web site? All kinds of things: the original manuscripts for ''Suzanne'' and ''Joan of Arc;'' an account of May's Leonard Cohen Event, held in Montreal with the bard in absentia. We learn that Cohen left the monastery a year ago, on his 65th birthday, and has been roaming around India, Greece, and LA. He is working on a new album, and a new poetry collection. Just last week he posted a two-line poem from ... somewhere. Here it is: ''You go your way/I'll go your way too.''
Ah, Leonard.
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Copyright © 2000 by The Boston Globe and Alex Beam
Thanks to Ron Mura for his help
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dolcevita
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Wow! Fantastic trailer...even though I couldn't get the audio (sniff). I like all the charicatures and cartoons involved, and of course the "greatest musician docu ever" type quotes. I didn't recognize a single person, except Bono, that was featured covering him, and I recognized the cover of Death of a Ladies Man for sure (its also on Archie's avatar I made, heh). The minute I get the audio going, I'll tell you which songs are on the trailer.
Until then, let me mention some of the other albums he's released.
<center> SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE
(1970)
NEW SKIN FOR THE OLD CEREMONY
(August 1974)
RECENT SONGS
(September 1979)
VARIOUS POSITIONS
(February 1984)
I'M YOUR MAN
(February 1988)
THE FUTURE
(November 1992)
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This doesn't include live recordings/compilations/etc
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I might see this just to see Rufus Wainwright's performance.
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dolcevita
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Ok. Heard the trailer, these are the songs I could make out:
The opening is Waiting for the Miracle off The Future album
The second song was easily a version of Chelsea Hotel No 2. He even talks about Janis at that time. The version I uploaded to this thread is different, though, so it must be one of his live performances of the song. Littlebigshot prayed to this song in the 8th post of this thread. At one point you hear You told me again you prefer handsome men...but for me you would make an exception which is my favorite line in that song.
Third song is Everybody Knows which I posted as well, and its originally from the I'm Your Man album, though I have it on a greatest hit collection.
I cannot for the life of me figure out the song Antony is covering. Its hard to hear his words...let me try again.
Bono's cover is of Tower of Song which is also on the I'm Your Man album, and also on the compilation I have of his. Its very nice with the women humming in the background. Which reminds me, that little cartoon of him with the writing on the side that read "still looking at all the girls" or something like that.
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Got it. That threw me for a loop. The other sonf the tribute artists were singing was If It Be Your Will off the Various Positions album. BTW, this song, and I think Everybody Knows were on the Pump Up the Volume album (never thought you'd hear someone mention that movie in this thread, now did ya?).
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Dolce, I'm going to pimp the hell out of this film.
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dolcevita
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loyalfromlondon wrote: Dolce, I'm going to pimp the hell out of this film.  How can I help (besides this clearly obsessive thread)?
Please can I help? You know it would be my dream come true. Can I write a profession of love for the main site even though I'm not a guy?
CAN YOU GET ME BLOODY ADVANCED SCREENING TICKETS SOMEHOW? (preferably on a Monday or Wednesday of Weekend evening because I can't miss class). If there is one single movie I want to see in advance this year its this one. Tell who ever could give you the tickets that the three out of the five vinyl albums I remember from when I was a little girl were his (the other two were Leon Redbone and Marlo Thomas). PLLLLEEEEAAASSSSE LOYAL? PLEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSEE? *w(h)ines*
edit** I just thought of something. Could we have a cd give-away for a contest were people write in short 200-500 word essays on their love for Leonard or their anticipation for the movie (or both)?
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dolcevita wrote: loyalfromlondon wrote: Dolce, I'm going to pimp the hell out of this film. How can I help (besides this clearly obsessive thread)? Please can I help? You know it would be my dream come true. Can I write a profession of love for the main site even though I'm not a guy? CAN YOU GET ME BLOODY ADVANCED SCREENING TICKETS SOMEHOW? (preferably on a Monday or Wednesday of Weekend evening because I can't miss class). If there is one single movie I want to see in advance this year its this one. Tell who ever could give you the tickets that the three out of the five vinyl albums I remember from when I was a little girl were his (the other two were Leon Redbone and Marlo Thomas). PLLLLEEEEAAASSSSE LOYAL? PLEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSEE? *w(h)ines* edit** I just thought of something. Could we have a cd give-away for a contest were people write in short 200-500 word essays on their love for Leonard or their anticipation for the movie (or both)? First things first, I need to figure out how LCIYM is rolling out. I know it goes limited on June 21st but beyond that, I'm clueless.
I think a cd giveaway is a great dea.
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dolcevita
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loyalfromlondon wrote:
First things first, I need to figure out how LCIYM is rolling out. I know it goes limited on June 21st but beyond that, I'm clueless.
I think a cd giveaway is a great dea.
You know? Except for NYC (which is all I care about), I'd bet Toronto and Montreal and pretty much other major metropoli in Canada will actually get it before the rest of the States do.
Let me know what I can do to help you.
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UPDATE: Finally got the release for the 21st. It seems it will be playing only in one theatre for its opener, but conveniently, that theatre if Film Forum in NCY, at 1.00 pm, 3.30 pm, 6.00 pm, 8.05 pm, and 10.10 pm.
I have a final exam the next day.  But if I'm feeling ontop of things, I'll probably try to go anyways. If not I'll have to wait until the weekend, which I really don't want to do.
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Go at 1PM. Convenient... be out before too long...
Besides, who studies all day...?
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dolcevita
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lennier wrote: Go at 1PM. Convenient... be out before too long... Besides, who studies all day...? I only get back from work around 7 pm.
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dolcevita wrote: lennier wrote: Go at 1PM. Convenient... be out before too long... Besides, who studies all day...? I only get back from work around 7 pm. In that case, wait for the weekend. That would be putting far too much stress on yourself.... doubt you would enjoy it as much, too. It'll be waiting for you. 
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Well after a so-so start on Wednesday and Thursday it recovered nicely over the weekend to $17,000 in its one theater. Not too bad.
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dolcevita
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Guys! I was going to see this today and hurt my back so badly yesterday morning that I pretty much can't move for the next few days. God doesn't want me to watch Leonard Cohen. Somebody please watch it tonight and keep me updated. I must live vicariously through all of you guys until I can move again.
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