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Leonard Cohen, para El Doc

Da, ştiu că l-am mai pus, dar e una dintre cele mai mişto piese din toate timpurile. Versiunea video, Leonard Cohen, live in San Sebastian, 1988. Versiunea audio, un cover excepţional semnat, din câte ştiu, de Noir Desir şi 16 horsepower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVc6DyY3pGo


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LE CHANT DES PARTISANS

When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender,
this I could not do;
I took my gun and vanished.

I have changed my name so often,
I’ve lost my wife and children
but I have many friends,
and some of them are with me.

An old woman gave us shelter,
kept us hidden in the garret,
then the soldiers came;
she died without a whisper.

There were three of us this morning
I’m the only one this evening
but I must go on;
the frontiers are my prison.

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we’ll come from the shadows.

Les Allemands e’taient chez moi, (The Germans were at my home)
ils me dirent, „Signe toi,” (They said, „Sign yourself,”)
mais je n’ai pas peur; (But I am not afraid)
j’ai repris mon arme. (I have retaken my weapon.)

J’ai change’ cent fois de nom, (I have changed names a hundred times)
j’ai perdu femme et enfants (I have lost wife and children)
mais j’ai tant d’amis; (But I have so many friends)
j’ai la France entiere. (I have all of France)

Un vieil homme dans un grenier (An old man, in an attic)
pour la nuit nous a cache’, (Hid us for the night)
les Allemands l’ont pris; (The Germans captured him)
il est mort sans surprise. (He died without surprise.)

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we’ll come from the shadows.

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  21. AG:
    God bless you my brother. Abia astept sa-l vad pe batran live. Poimaine ma trezesc la 6 dimineata si ma duc sa ma asez la coada :D

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  23. All:
    Iaca despre ce vorbeste AG cand spune ca Leonard este unul dintre marii artisti in viata. Va rog eu sa citit pna la capat. Merita.

    „Primăvara vine în Quebec dinspre apus. Schimbarea de anotimp este adusă pe coasta de vest a Canadei de Curentul cald japonez, după care este preluată de Vîntul de Apus. Traversează preriile o dată cu suflarea Chinook-ului, trezind la viaţă grînele şi scoţînd urşii din bîrloguri. Pluteşte peste Ontario ca o nălucă legislativă şi se furişează în Quebec, în satele noastre, printre mestecenii noştri. Asemenea unui strat cu bulbi de lalele, cafenelele din Montreal încolţesc in beciurile lor, etalîndu-şi apoi copertinele şi scaunele. în Montreal primăvara e ca o autopsie. Toată lumea vrea să vadă măruntaiele mamutului congelat. Fetele îşi smulg mînecile, iar camea lor e dulce şi albă ca lemnul sub coaja verde. Ca un cauciuc ce se umflă, pe străzi se înalţă un manifest sexual:
    „Am mai supravieţuit unei iemi!”

    Primăvara vine în Quebec din Japonia şi, asemenea unei capturi de Crackerjack2 de dinainte de război, se farîmă din prima zi pentru că ne jucăm prea mult cu ea. Primăvara vine în Montreal ca un film american despre o poveste de iubire pe Riviera şi toată lumea trebuie să se culce cu cîte un străin şi deodată luminile din sală se aprind orbitor, căci s-a facut deja vară, dar nu ne pasă, pentru că primăvara este puţin prea pretenţioasă pentru gustul nostru, puţin prea efeminată, ca
    blănurile din W.C.-urile hollywoodiene.

    Primăvara este un produs exotic de import, asemenea accesoriilor erotice de cauciuc din Hong Kong, le vrem doar pentru o după-amiază specială, după care a doua zi votăm taxe vamale, dacă e nevoie. Primăvara trece prin mijlocul nostru ca o stu-dentă suedeză în vacanţă, care se duce la un restaurant italian pentru a experimenta mustăţi, fiind asaltată de replici ale străvechiului Valentino, dintre care alege la întîmplare o caricatură. Primăvara vine în Montreal şi stă atît de puţin încît poţi să precizezi ziua şi să nu îţi faci nici un plan pentru atunci.” Leonard Cohen- „Beautiful Losers”, 1966)

    Multumesc :D

    V

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  32. E mult, poate si plictisitor, dar unele sunt amuzante.

    How To Be Annoying (A Guide)

    * Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you ”like it that way.”
    * Drum on every available surface.
    * Sing the Batman theme incessantly.
    * Staple papers in the middle of the page.
    * Ask 800 operators for dates.
    * Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copy warnings.
    * Sew anti-theft detector strips into people’s backpacks.
    * Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page.
    * Specify that your drive-through order is ”to go.”
    * Set alarms for random times.
    * Buy large quantities of mint dental floss just to lick the flavor off.
    * Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon.
    * Honk and wave to strangers.
    * Dress only in clothes colored Hunter’s Orange.
    * Change channels five minutes before the end of every show.
    * Tape pieces of ”Sweating to the Oldies” over climactic parts of rental movies.
    * Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complementary mints by the cash register.
    * ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE.
    * only type in lowercase.
    * dont use any punctuation either.
    * Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.
    * Pay for your dinner with pennies.
    * Repeat everything someone says, as a question.
    * Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: ”Do you hear that?” ”What?” ”Never mind, it’s gone now.”
    * Light road flares on a birthday cake.
    * Wander around the restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley.
    * Leave tips in Bolivian currency.
    * Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.
    * At the laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks.
    * As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
    * Stand over someone’s shoulder, mumbling, as they read.
    * Finish the 99 bottles of beer song.
    * Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.
    * Pretend your mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it.
    * Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce ”No, wait, I messed it up!” and repeat.
    * Drive half a block.
    * Name your dog ”Dog.”
    * Ask people what gender they are.
    * Reply to everything someone says with ”That’s what YOU think.”
    * Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back in the tray.
    * Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a ”real hoot”.
    * Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don’t want to fall off ”in case the big one comes”.
    * Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol.
    * Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers’ brains, such as ”Feliz Navidad”, the Archies’ ”Sugar” or the Mr. Rogers theme song.
    * While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.
    * Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day.
    * Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.
    * Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September.
    * Change your name to John Aaaaasmith for the great glory of being first in the phone book. Claim it’s a Hawaiian name, and demand that people pronounce each A.
    * Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
    * Chew on pens that you’ve borrowed.
    * Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.
    * Wear a LOT of cologne.
    * Ask to ”interface” with someone.
    * Listen to 33rpm records at 45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your ”superior mental processing.”
    * Sing along at the opera.
    * Mow your lawn with scissors.
    * At a golf tournament, chant ”swing-batatatatatata-suhWING-batter!”
    * Finish all your sentences with the words ”in accordance with prophesy.”
    * Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn’t rhyme.
    * Ask your co-workers mysterious questions, and scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about „psychological profiles.”
    * Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a ”magic picture”.
    * Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.
    * Scuff your feet on a dry, shaggy carpet and seek out victims.
    * Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with the impression that you’ll be saying more any moment.
    * Never make eye contact.
    * Never break eye contact.
    * Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears.
    * Construct elaborate ”crop circles” in your front lawn.
    * Construct your own pretend ”tricorder” and ”scan” people with it, announcing the results.
    * Give a play-by-play account of a person’s every action in a nasal Howard Cossell voice.
    * Holler random numbers while someone is counting.
    * Make appointments for the 31st of September.

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  33. doctor demonicus

    Citind printre randuri….cred ca el se referea la primavara tarzie din anul asta….adica 23 iunie….enjoy!

    Reply to nico

  44. Mi-a placut foarte mult, nu o stiam. ascult de foarte mult timp cu placere Cohen, si aseara am avut o presimtire si brusc am aflat de la tv ca vine COHEN. Am intrat pe net si acum astept sa imi iau bilete.
    Altminteri iti citesc cu foarte mare placere articolele.
    Pe curind

    Reply to Eugen