Leonard Cohen on the success of Hallelujah
interviewed by Mark Ellen in The Times -September 19
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This is the best thing I’ve read in weeks. Roxanegay, you are splendid.
It has rained all day. It is dark outside. I don’t mind. It seems appropriate.
I wrote an essay for The New York Times about the beach. It’s humor. I mention this because I have already received an e-mail, from a stranger, explaining to me why I am wrong about the beach. Thank you.
Here is…
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She nails it every time she speaks
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He wants the viewer to see the painting and everything in it all at once, to get it, because there is nothing more to see after that first glance.
-John Yau, “Julian Schnabel’s Formula for Greatness”
There’s nothing quite like a good scathing review to get the day going.
Brooklyn courtyards
photo by William Gale Gedney, 1955
via: Duke University
I had a dream, a dream about you baby.
AUTOMAT DAYS
I remember being taken to an automat in New York exactly like this. Perhaps it was this one; in the 70s there were still quite a few around, although they were modern and exotic to me. I was still so young I don’t think I’d even seen a vending machine yet. I don not remember the food. It was the place that impressed me.
All this to mention that Sean Michaels has a sweet piece at 49th Shelf on a New York even earlier than this, where the automat is the end of the party, not the main attraction.