27. November 2010, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Olympic Stadium *
28. Anbei das Konzertplakat zu einem Konzert, das leider nie stattfand

Anmerkung/ Notes: *Benefiz-Konzert zugunsten des Kambodschanischen Roten Kreuzes und versehrter Kambodschaner, welches jedoch aus „politischen“ Gründen abgesagt wurde./ Charity concert in favor of the Cambodian Red Cross and disabled Cambodians, which was canceled for „political“ reasons.

Info: taken from the book: „ZEN & POESIE“ – Das Leonard Cohen Lexikon – Tourdates, Setlists & Spoken words….

Quelle: https://cohenpedia.de/vol-3/

Immer mehr Künstler sagen ab und verschieben. Bob Dylan und die Rolling Stones canceln 2020 ihre US-Tourneen wegen Corona. Auch Leonard Cohen musste im Zuge seiner 50jährigen Bühnen-Karriere Konzerte und Tourneen verschieben oder absagen, wie z.B. im Frühjahr 2010 … als einge Konzerte in den Herbst verlegt werden mußten.

LC`s cancelled & postponed concerts: Dylan & The Rolling Stones do it 2020 because of Corona and Leonard Cohen did it for other reasons. too : Announced spring 2010 tourdates had to be relocated to fall 2010 due to a herniated disc Leonard Cohen’s.

Info: taken from the book: „ZEN & POESIE“ – Das Leonard Cohen Lexikon – Tourdates, Setlists & Spoken words (1957-2013) – https://cohenpedia.de/vol-3/

Fotos: Christof Graf (Quelle: Live Magazin Saar, Nr. 8/ 1995, S. 18)

Christo ist tot. Er verpackte Wahrzeichen auf der ganzen Welt, unter anderem auch den Reichstag in Berlin. Im Juni 1995 pilgerte ich wie Millionen andere auch nach Berlin, um das #Kunstwerk_von_Dauer zu fotografieren. Damals erschienen dazu ein paar Zeilen im LIVE Saar Magazin, Nr. 8, 1995, S. 18

Die einst für 2020 geplante Verhüllung des Triumphbogens in Paris soll nun zwischen dem 18. September und 3. Oktober 2021 realisiert werden.

Shozan Jack Haubner is the pen name of a Zen monk whose humorous essays have appeared in Tricycle, Buddhadharma, the Shambhala Sun, and The Sun, as well as in the Best Buddhist Writing series. He  is the winner of a 2012 Pushcart Prize. The events described in his book are true. Shozan’s  name has been changed to protect the innocent.

• Taschenbuch: 240 Seiten
• Verlag: Shambhala (14. Mai 2013)
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1611800331
• ISBN-13: 978-1611800333

By Way of a Foreword
This is the best account I have ever read of the education of a Zen monk in America.

I was ordained a long while ago. Shortly thereafter my teacher let me know that I was a “pretend monk.” That was true. I was in it for the robes.

Shozan Jack Haubner has trained for more than nine years with a teacher whom I love, on a mountain that I know. Difference is, he is the real deal. He stuck it out while (many years before he arrived) I escaped.

But now this punk of a monk, who should be tending to his own affairs, has decided to infect the real world with his tall tales, and worse, to let the cat out of the bag. And what a sly, dangerous, beautiful, foul-smelling, heartwarming beast it is. We can almost forgive him.

If you are interested in these matters, this is a book you will enjoy. If you want to go a little deeper, this is a book you will need.

—Jikan Leonard Cohen

Pressestimmen

Polly Samson heiratre 1994 den Gitarristen und Sänger David Gilmour von Pink Floyd. 

A Theatre for Dreamers:

By Polly Samson

Produktinformation

• Taschenbuch: 368 Seiten
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Circus; Auflage: 01 (2. April 2020)
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1526600560
• ISBN-13: 978-1526600561

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An intoxicating novel set on Leonard Cohen’s Hydra in 1960, a place and a bohemian society that has captivated the world for decades

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1960. The world is dancing on the edge of revolution, and nowhere more so than on the Greek island of Hydra, where a circle of poets, painters and musicians live tangled lives, ruled by the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, troubled king and queen of bohemia. Forming within this circle is a triangle: its points the magnetic, destructive writer Axel Jensen, his dazzling wife Marianne Ihlen, and a young Canadian poet named Leonard Cohen. Into their midst arrives teenage Erica, with little more than a bundle of blank notebooks and her grief for her mother. Settling on the periphery of this circle, she watches, entranced and disquieted,

Pressestimmen

A surefire summer hit … Feels at once like a gift and an escape route … At once a blissful piece of escapism and a powerful meditation on art and sexuality – just the book to bring light into these dark days (Observer)

Samson is magnificently in control of her subject … Clever and beguiling (Guardian)

Samson is an intensely sensual writer, conjuring up blue skies, the tang of wild herbs, the vivid splash of bougainvillea … As good as a Greek holiday, and may be the closest we get this year (Financial Times)

Spellbinding . An immersive read, steeped in nostalgia. Samson’s poetic prose is so evocative that, by the end, you find yourself googling those entrancing images of Hydra, 1960, just to wallow further in the poignancy of it all (Vanity Fair)

Heady armchair escapism … An impressionistic, intoxicating rush of sensory experience (Sunday Times)

Intoxicating … Highly accomplished … A testament to Samson’s transportive prose (Spectator)

By the end the reader may be unable to decide whether Hydra enchanted or cursed those attracted by its primitive beauty, cheap rents and easy access to sex, drugs and performance poetry . A novel about the treatment of women by artistic men (The Times)

Beautiful … Perfect if you want to escape the drudgery of another lentil dinner and dream of 1960s Hydra with Leonard Cohen

Glorious … Feels like the book the author was born to create (Irish Times)

It is a grand read and the prose falls translucently like the air … Superb work and a delightful novel