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You are here: Home / Absent Friends / Late Night Fond Melancholy for A Spiritual Teacher

Late Night Fond Melancholy for A Spiritual Teacher

by Anne Laurie|  November 11, 201612:52 am| 47 Comments

This post is in: Absent Friends, Music, Religion

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If you can sell your anguish, that's probably the best thing you can do with anguish.

— Wyeth Ruthven (@wyethwire) November 11, 2016

From the Rolling Stone story MisterMix posted earlier:

… “My father passed away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles with the knowledge that he had completed what he felt was one of his greatest records,” Cohen’s son Adam wrote in a statement to Rolling Stone. “He was writing up until his last moments with his unique brand of humor.”…

“I never had the sense that there was an end,” he said in 1992. “That there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.”…

The final act of Cohen’s career began in 2005, when Lorca Cohen began to suspect her father’s longtime manager, Kelley Lynch, of embezzling funds from his retirement account. In fact, Lynch had robbed Cohen of more than $5 million. To replenish the fund, Cohen undertook an epic world tour during which he would perform 387 shows from 2008 to 2013. He continued to record as well, releasing Old Ideas (2012) and Popular Problems, which hit U.S. shops a day after his eightieth birthday. “[Y]ou depend on a certain resilience that is not yours to command, but which is present,” he told Rolling Stone upon its release. “And if you can sense this resilience or sense this capacity to continue, it means a lot more at this age than it did when I was 30, when I took it for granted.”…

Along with my deep sadness, I’m embarrassed that our country just showed its frog-belly-white arse so gleefully in front of this man, by electing (with an asterisk) the kind of gaudy shouting grifter Leonard Cohen had warned us about for so many years. It’s not the worst thing about Tuesday’s debacle, nor will it be the last insult, but for me it’s one more irritant and sorrow.

I am stubborn as those garbage bags/That time will not decay

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) November 11, 2016

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  1. 1.

    Major Major Major Major

    November 11, 2016 at 12:56 am

    (posted earlier)
    Leonard Cohen has gone home.

    “Going Home”

    I love to speak with Leonard
    He’s a sportsman and a shepherd
    He’s a lazy bastard
    Living in a suit

    But he does say what I tell him
    Even though it isn’t welcome
    He just doesn’t have the freedom
    To refuse

    He will speak these words of wisdom
    Like a sage, a man of vision
    Though he knows he’s really nothing
    But the brief elaboration of a tube

    Going home
    Without my sorrow
    Going home
    Sometime tomorrow
    Going home
    To where it’s better
    Than before

    Going home
    Without my burden
    Going home
    Behind the curtain
    Going home
    Without the costume
    That I wore

    He wants to write a love song
    An anthem of forgiving
    A manual for living with defeat

    A cry above the suffering
    A sacrifice recovering
    But that isn’t what I need him
    To complete

    I want him to be certain
    That he doesn’t have a burden
    That he doesn’t need a vision
    That he only has permission
    To do my instant bidding
    Which is to say what I have told him
    To repeat

    Going home
    Without my sorrow
    Going home
    Sometime tomorrow
    Going home
    To where it’s better
    Than before

    Going home
    Without my burden
    Going home
    Behind the curtain
    Going home
    Without this costume
    That I wore

    Going home
    Without the sorrow
    Going home
    Sometime tomorrow
    Going home
    To where it’s better
    Than before

    Going home
    Without the burden
    Going home
    Behind the curtain
    Going home
    Without this costume
    That I wore

    I love to speak with Leonard
    He’s a sportsman and a shepherd
    He’s a lazy bastard
    Living in a suit

  2. 2.

    Emma

    November 11, 2016 at 12:59 am

    I’ve been weepy all evening, listening to his voice and thinking.

  3. 3.

    liberal

    November 11, 2016 at 1:06 am

    Just got a text from my wife, who’s out of town: “Trump is tweeting again.”

    Burning in our national hell isn’t going to be fun, but it might be funny.

  4. 4.

    mak

    November 11, 2016 at 1:06 am

    Jay-zuss, just heard him on Terry Gross a couple weeks ago, on the occasion of his new album. Old interview, from 2006, it turns out.* Still, WTF.
    2016 really does blow chunks.

    *Edited to correct wrong assumption (that it was a recent interview).

  5. 5.

    liberal

    November 11, 2016 at 1:08 am

    I mean, Jesus, the election was just a few days ago, and it’s already time to invoke Amendment XXV? He’s not even president yet!

    Leaving now to invest in popcorn futures.

  6. 6.

    jk

    November 11, 2016 at 1:16 am

    Leonard Cohen’s Prince Of Asturias Speech
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIR5ps8usuo

    At 6:27 of the clip, Leonard tells a very moving story of a man who gave him guitar lessons. Leonard Cohen was a class act and I’m glad that he graced us with his presence.

  7. 7.

    RSR

    November 11, 2016 at 1:17 am

    Leonard Cohen’s ‘You Want It Darker’ Is A Family Affair

    From the locally produced here in Philadelphia World Cafe, an interview with Adam Cohen regarding the recording and production of Leonard Cohen’s recently released album. And some father and son relationship discussion as well.

    Leonard Cohen’s new album, You Want It Darker, certainly delivers on the promise of its title. It’s a meditation on mortality that soars to the highest of musical heights and sinks to the lowest of vocal and existential depths. The record is truly one of the 82-year-old Cohen’s best — and it was produced by his son, fellow musician Adam Cohen.

    The experience saw Adam flying to Montreal to record the congregation of his family’s old synagogue, dancing in front of speakers with his old man and delving deeper into a father-son relationship than most of us couldn’t dream possible. In this interview, hear Adam discuss the pressure — and the joy — of producing a record for a living legend who just happens to be your dad.

  8. 8.

    DivF

    November 11, 2016 at 1:18 am

    I learned about Leonard Cohen when I was 17 (1969) via Judy Collins’ recordings of his early songs. “Suzanne”, “The sisters of mercy”, and “That’s no way to say goodbye” are so deeply etched into the grooves of my brain that they will undoubtedly be among the last things to go.

  9. 9.

    Bruuuuce

    November 11, 2016 at 1:26 am

    Jonathan Coulton covers “Famous Blue Raincoat”

    Tribute from the Nerd Side of the Force.

  10. 10.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    November 11, 2016 at 1:33 am

    The anger is starting to recede. Unfortunately, what’s replacing it is panic attacks at the thought of restarting the job search process. I can’t handle this. I somehow need to stop thinking about it while also putting a plan together for how I’m going to do it once I reach the point where I absolutely have to start looking for a new job.

  11. 11.

    liberal

    November 11, 2016 at 1:35 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I hear you, man.

  12. 12.

    RSR

    November 11, 2016 at 1:39 am

    I only heard this one for the first time tonight. :(

    Now I bid you farewell, I don’t know when I’ll be back
    They’re moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
    But you’ll be hearing from me, baby, long after I’m gone
    I’ll be speaking to you sweetly from a window in the Tower of Song”

    Leonard Cohen – Tower of Song

  13. 13.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    November 11, 2016 at 1:45 am

    I feel fortunate to have seen Cohen three times during his recent tours. He was an extraordinarily generous, witty, clever, compassionate songwriter and performer; a great teacher; and so obviously a mensch. Zecher tzadik livracha.

  14. 14.

    burnspbesq

    November 11, 2016 at 1:48 am

    @liberal:

    In the current environment, money made in popcorn futures is tainted.

  15. 15.

    burnspbesq

    November 11, 2016 at 1:51 am

    Died too soon double feature: the Jennifer Warnes recording of “First We Take Manhattan” features Stevie Ray Vaughn on guitar.

    “Jane came by with a lock of your hair …”

  16. 16.

    Major Major Major Major

    November 11, 2016 at 1:56 am

    This is my favorite Leonard Cohen recording. Leonard Cohen and Sonny Rollins doing “Who By Fire”.

  17. 17.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    November 11, 2016 at 2:03 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Also reposted from below: For the past couple of years, our synagogue has had a boy soprano from our congregation sing this as part of our Yom Kippur service. I heard it again during these past High Holy Days and again it gave me chills. I suspect this was his last year of being able to perform it that way, but I wish for him that, like Cohen, his voice ever changes and grows but never diminishes. It’s been such a gift to hear Cohen’s genius endlessly transmitted and transmuted through the voices of so many artists over the decades.

  18. 18.

    cckids

    November 11, 2016 at 2:06 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I’m right there with you, though for me, anger is way, way too close to the surface still. After a year of looking, I have a temp job (that a friend got me). I’d been at home, taking care of my son, for 24 years; when he passed a year ago, I had to start job hunting, and, as I’m 54, it has not gone well at all. Now, with an almost certain downturn in the economy, I’m more scared than ever.
    I got in a fight with a couple of old ladies at the grocery store today, and I am not in any way a confrontational person. But they were walking by me, verbally high-fiving each other about Deadbeat Donnie’s election, (which I heroically ignored), when one of them said “And Melania will be a wonderful first lady, not like that THING who’s there now.” HELL NO YOU DID NOT GO THERE.. I blasted them for their racism and ignorance, for Mel’s naked girl-on-girl pics, for her illegal entry and work, and more. Told them that Melania, or any Trump, wasn’t fit to weed Michelle’s garden.

    I know I didn’t change their awful, shitty, moronic little minds, but I was really glad I didn’t bite my tongue and let it pass, either. A Hispanic lady in the aisle with her 2 little kids gave me a thumbs-up.

    In retrospect, the only place I went too far was saying that while Michelle has an Ivy League degree and a successful career, as well as being an incredible, inspirational First Lady, the only noteworthy thing Melania has done is fuck a checkbook for 15 years. That may have been uncouth.

  19. 19.

    seaboogie

    November 11, 2016 at 2:10 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Perfect – and thank you again. Also reposting on a new thread a letter I wrote to Leonard Cohen last August, and his manager told me that he would receive and read it. I think it bears repeating in these times, and as we listen to his music. I am so grateful that I acted on that strong impulse to thank him.

    Dear Leonard,
    Thank you for your voice – that you have put out far enough into the world to reach me, in times when I needed to hear your voice.
    When I was in Grade 13 English (when they still had that) in a very small town in SW Ontario, we were assigned to write a report on any book that we wished. I chose “The Favorite Game”. My teacher (who was also Sunday school teacher) queried as to whether that was an appropriate choice, to which I replied “well, it’s in our library, so yes”.
    Your writing, your voice, have touched me sometimes since then – in important moments in my life that were sometimes very deeply fraught and I was near to lost. I am listening to your recording of “Anthem” right now, which is so perfect in its truth.
    I came to this urge to write to you because the song “Hallelujah” was beckoning to me tonight (no, I’m not a Christianist), but the music and the lyrics were tickling my subconscious. I had no notion that this was your song, but when I learned that it was, and also heard kd lang’s interpretation, I realized that of course it is. Jewish Buddhist monk with an ear for Christian notes that you can translate into poetry and music – you have and are – a singular gift to this world.
    You are kind of an old fellow now, and I just want to thank you for persisting in doing what you still do in the public forum – and it bites, why you still have to do it, and you show so much grace around that – or perhaps you still enjoy it, I don’t know – I am not a performer.
    So – before you shuffle off this mortal coil – I want you to know that you have done a few perfect things, and touched me in ways that I did not seek, but that did find me when I was in need, and I doff my cap to your talents, to your journey, and offer to you my deep gratitude. You’ve made my life better.
    Fondly,

    Beth

  20. 20.

    Major Major Major Major

    November 11, 2016 at 2:16 am

    @seaboogie: That’s lovely, thanks for sharing. I’m sure he enjoyed reading your words :)

  21. 21.

    seaboogie

    November 11, 2016 at 2:21 am

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: That was so beautifully stated, and thank you for sharing again. I reposted myself on a more active thread because I wanted those here who appreciate Leonard’s work to know that he has received a direct expression of gratitude from one in our cohort – and on behalf of all of us – he knows and did know.

  22. 22.

    Ruckus

    November 11, 2016 at 2:45 am

    @cckids:

    the only noteworthy thing Melania has done is fuck a checkbook for 15 years

    Sounds about right.

  23. 23.

    seaboogie

    November 11, 2016 at 2:53 am

    It sure does feel like a lot of the remaining good is leaking out of the world…..

  24. 24.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    November 11, 2016 at 2:57 am

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym:

    Is your current job in jeopardy?

  25. 25.

    opiejeanne

    November 11, 2016 at 2:58 am

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: I realized recently that I have a cover of “Suzanne” by a group that had a couple of hits in 1967, Spanky and the Gang. It’s an LP and has been played so much by me when I was 17 and later by my kids out of curiosity and amusement at what Mom thought was good.

    A few years ago I took a series of Anatomy drawing classes from the same teacher and she played Leonard Cohen recordings while we sketched nude models and skeletal details and other fun stuff. The one song that really stuck with me was his recording of “Dance Me to the End of Love”. I think the movie “Shrek” was the first time I’d heard “Alleluia” and yes, everyone knows that one, but I do like it.

  26. 26.

    opiejeanne

    November 11, 2016 at 2:58 am

    @cckids: Good for you.

  27. 27.

    WereBear

    November 11, 2016 at 3:04 am

    @cckids: It had to be said.

  28. 28.

    Mnemosyne

    November 11, 2016 at 3:05 am

    @cckids:

    Virtual thumbs up here. I’ve been in a running battle with my Trump-voting cousin on Facebook. She doesn’t seem to like that I keep pointing out that she deliberately chose the candidate who was screeching hate and division, so she doesn’t get to complain that people are being so mean and divisive. She was the country she voted for, and now she’s getting it.

    Also, I must have missed the news about your son. I’m so sorry. I know it was not unexpected, but that doesn’t make it any easier.

  29. 29.

    WereBear

    November 11, 2016 at 3:52 am

    @Mnemosyne: I am semi-cheered by all the buyer”s remorse I am hearing about. Maybe we can peel off a few more that way.

    But from what I’ve seen, Trump voters are impervious to facts. And when they are the ones suffering, they blame liberals.

    Still: WE MUST MAKE THEM OWN THIS.

  30. 30.

    Tokyokie

    November 11, 2016 at 3:57 am

    I had just popped the recent Criterion release of McCabe and Mrs. Miller into my computer when I read the news of Leonard Cohen’s passing, an irony that I imagine would have amused Leonard.

  31. 31.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    November 11, 2016 at 4:04 am

    @Steeplejack (tablet): No, but it doesn’t provide health insurance. As soon as the Republicans repeal the ACA, I won’t be able to get it on the individual market, because of pre-existing conditions. So, I’ll need to find a job that has acceptable health insurance.

    I like my current job. I don’t want to leave. And, after spending eight years unemployed and unsuccessfully applying for jobs, I can’t face going back on the job market. As I said, I had honest to god panic attacks when I started trying to do the most basic things, like opening my resume to look for changes to make.

  32. 32.

    Jack Canuck

    November 11, 2016 at 4:16 am

    When I was eighteen, I was watching a show that had a bunch of different bands & artists playing (3 or 4 a night, I think), hosted by Jools Holland and David Sanborn. I wasn’t particularly grabbed by anything, until this slightly cheesy synthesizer & electronic drum riff started playing. And then a low voice started singing, and I looked up from my book and just stared at the tv for the next five minutes or so. This was the performance: Leonard Cohen singing Tower of Song. Went out and bought the album (I’m Your Man, of course) within a day or two, and when I asked my Dad, he dug out a couple of his albums from the late 60s/early 70s. Love his poetry, and the simplicity of the music. A great artist. I wish my lyrics could be half as good as what he wrote.

  33. 33.

    Emerald

    November 11, 2016 at 4:29 am

    @cckids:

    That may have been uncouth.

    I am your fan forever.

  34. 34.

    Emerald

    November 11, 2016 at 4:36 am

    @seaboogie: Beautiful, beautiful letter. It must have touched him deeply.

    My dad did some printing work for Stan Laurel, back when Laurel was elderly and living in a small apartment in Santa Monica. Dad said that he spontaneously said to him, “You have given me many hours of happiness.” Dad said he got the impression that Laurel truly appreciated hearing that. (Laurel sent Dad a thank-you letter for the printing job, which I still have.)

    It is important to thank them, and you did so magnificently.

  35. 35.

    CZanne

    November 11, 2016 at 4:46 am

    I was 14 when Leonard Cohen’s voice first entered my consciousness, thanks to the prescient, last gasp of 80s teen movies. Most people don’t remember Pump Up The Volume, but it opened with Mr. Cohen’s Everybody Knows and the two are permanently linked in my mind. Everybody Knows and If It Be Your Will have been on almost every playlist I’ve ever made since. _Various_Positions_ and _I’m_Your_Man_ were the third and fourth cassettes and some of the first CDs I ever bought, after wearing out the cassettes. I ate a lot of dishrag soup and fridge scrapings to afford that food for my soul, and it was worth every penny.

    In 1990, I was already a synth-pop fan, to the extent that synth-pop was available on the one Top 40 rock station available in markets too small to have more than one rock station, often too small to even have cable deep enough to hit MTV. (So yes, I had a deeply unnatural affection for Eurythmics, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Culture Club, Pet Shop Boys and anything not a hair band. Still do.) But that film was my introduction to punk, thrash, rap and the NYC art music scene (LC, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, et al). I was a non-Mormon, bookish, introverted, geeky girl living in an extremely Mormon, oppressive town with a pair of abusive narcissists whose dysfunctional dual orbit was rapidly decaying. That movie and its music also prompted me to spend a lot of time at my ham-radio operator grandfather’s elbow, learning the basics of shortwave, and with my WWII ballistics computer grandmother, who had bought an Amiga when she retired and taught me to code, because she wrote the code my grandfather used on his radios. That movie, that soundtrack, those songs, probably saved my life, and certainly my sanity and sense of self. Between the VHS tape that I definitely wore out, the 486 and the shortwave I got for my next birthday/Christmas, the world started opening up for me. It got wider the next year when I spent a metric fuckton of babysitting money on a modem and found a local BBS. I never had AOL, because I could never afford it and it required a credit card, which I didn’t have. I never had a pirate radio station (though I’m strongly considering rebuilding my set, given circumstances) because my generation had another option. In many ways, PUTV shaped a lot of us late Xers and influenced us to build an internet that was open and accessible. And though I am past 40, long past the youthful rebellion of needing to say shit and fuck and damn on the air because that’s the only response available, there is a part of me that will not be silent, that delights in rocking the boat in which I sit, who is not willing to cede the Constitution to the “kind of phony in politics who wears a wig.”

    Leonard Cohen shaped me politically, in subtle and deep ways I still can’t define. He influenced my technological skills. His words gave me a voice.

    And so I hope there is an afterlife. And I pray that David Bowie was waiting, and there is one glory of a jam in their dimension this night. Sing us the light, if it be your will.

  36. 36.

    TriassicSands

    November 11, 2016 at 4:47 am

    @cckids:

    I read something that Melania was supposed to have said (it may not be true, but it sounds like it could be) when asked if she would have married Trump if he hadn’t been rich. Her response: “Would he have married me if I weren’t beautiful.” (Or words to that effect.) That sounds like the kind of vacuousness that I’d expect from a Trump.

    I suppose the wise investor would be investing in tacky furnishings in anticipation of Donald redecorating the White House. The paintings of former presidents will have to go to make room for Donald’s portraits of himself. I mean, he’s probably already the greatest president on American history.

  37. 37.

    Jack Canuck

    November 11, 2016 at 4:52 am

    @CZanne: Pump Up the Volume was a good movie, and it had an awesome soundtrack. Sounds like I’m a few years older than you, but access to non-mainstream music was a lifesaver for me as well, in my deadly dull conformist outer-Chicago suburb in the 1980s. Nothing unnatural about an affection for Depeche Mode – they’re still making good music, unlike most bands that have been together that long.

  38. 38.

    JPL

    November 11, 2016 at 4:59 am

    @cckids: You were amazingly calm.

  39. 39.

    Mary G

    November 11, 2016 at 5:03 am

    @CZanne: That was lovely. Your image of Bowie and Cohen jamming is comforting.

  40. 40.

    WereBear

    November 11, 2016 at 5:10 am

    @Jack Canuck: I rediscovered Depeche Mode recently, and am programming a Pandora channel to indulge in this direction.

  41. 41.

    seaboogie

    November 11, 2016 at 5:22 am

    @cckids: Couth is way, waayyyyy, overrated – go you!

  42. 42.

    seaboogie

    November 11, 2016 at 5:45 am

    @Emerald: An expression of gratitude is never wasted; it is like throwing a stone into a lake or pond – the resounding “ka-thunk”, and the ripples that follow and change the shoreline – almost imperceptibly – a few grains of sand at a time.

  43. 43.

    Jack Canuck

    November 11, 2016 at 5:49 am

    @WereBear: New album coming out next spring. The last one was good, so high hopes for the next as well.

  44. 44.

    cosima

    November 11, 2016 at 6:47 am

    @CZanne: That was how I found Leonard Cohen too — and purchased my first Leonard Cohen album (cassette probably). We didn’t have cable/MTV at our house, and Alaska was not doing college radio stations or anything that might have exposed me to interesting music. My mother had the cheesiest taste in music, awful, so that was never going to introduce me to interesting music. It was purely down to what I heard in movies or what older & more interesting teens were listening to.

    I’ve got thousands of CDs now, and I rarely take them out to listen, because everything gets buried in our small house and getting out CDs seems to be too much hassle. A few months ago I discovered that my amazon prime membership allowed me the streaming music option (free) and I’ve found so much new music to love.

    One of the most beautiful things about all art, though we’re talking music on this thread, is that the artists and the art that they produce and share with us is never really gone.

  45. 45.

    gratutious

    November 11, 2016 at 8:46 am

    Donald Trump elected president and Leonard Cohen dies. Some will say it’s coincidence.

  46. 46.

    Suzanne

    November 11, 2016 at 8:58 am

    @cckids: Late to thread, but I love you.

  47. 47.

    laura

    November 11, 2016 at 9:55 am

    If you have a chance to read it, there’s a beautiful long form essay in a recent New Yorker Magazine by editor David Remnick.
    What a soulful, suave deep, deep man.
    And even in his 80s could take a knee and sell a song.
    We’ll not see another of his kind pass this way again.

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