Wordless Wednesday : Time for a Party!

An Teach Beag (The Small House) Clonakilty

Hugh’s Weekly Photo Challenge : Week 25 : Music

Choose your music!

This advertising board that I photographed in Prague, has lots of choices for music, whether you like Opera, Classical, Rock, Pop, or Musicals.

Why not head over to Hugh’s Views & News for more on this challenge.

 

Axel, Marianne, Leonard

For all Leonard Cohen fans, this is a fascinating story of his younger days in a beautiful Greek Island.

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„Das Wort normal verursacht mir Erstickungsqualen. Ich muss an andere unheimliche Worte denken wie gemeinsamer Nenner oder Lochkarte.“
Axel Jensen „Ikaros“

The word normal makes me suffocate. It reminds me on other eery words like common denominator or punchcard.

Könnt ihr euch an Leonard Cohens Song „So long, Marianne“ erinnern?
Do you remember “So Long, Marianne” by Leonard Cohen?

Drei Jahre zuvor (1964) hatte Cohen seinen viel beachteten Gedichtband „Flowers for Hitler“ nicht nur dieser Marianne gewidmet, sondern in ihm auch zwei Gedichte „For Marianne“ und „Waiting for Marianne“ aufgenommen. Wer war diese Marianne?

Cohen had dedicated his much discussed book of lyrics “Flowers for Hitler” three year before that song, but not only that, you find in this book two  poems “For Marianne” and “Waiting for Marianne”. Who was this Marianne?

Marianne war die Freundin und spätere Frau des norwegischen Autors Axel Jensen, die heute in…

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Wordless Wednesday : Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon

Let’s listen to the Music

His Master’s Voice

Lets dance!