Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art One-half Banana Stems
Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art One-half Banana Stems - www.kevindayhoff.com Address: PO Box 124, Westminster MD 21158 410-259-6403 kevindayhoff@gmail.com Runner, writer, artist, fire & police chaplain Mindless ramblings of a runner, journalist & artist: Travel, art, artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists and journalism, reporters and reporting, technology, music, culture, opera... National & International politics www.kevindayhoff.net For community: www.kevindayhoff.org For art, technology, writing, & travel: www.kevindayhoff.com
Monday, December 12, 2016
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Washington Post: Leonard Cohen, dead at 82
recorded by hundreds of artists, dead at 82
"Famous Blue Raincoat... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/11/10/leonard-cohen-whose-song-hallelujah-was-recorded-by-hundreds-of-artists-dead-at-82/
Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
Kevin Dayhoff Westminster: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/ or http://www.westgov.net/ = www.kevindayhoff.org
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/
E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
The assemblage of this website is from multiple sources -
Monday, May 28, 2012
Kevin Dayhoff Art: "Famous Blue Raincoat" by Leonard Cohen
"Five Easy Pieces", Dayhoff "Five Easy Pieces", Music, Music Cohen-Leonard, YouTube
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Lonely Blue Sweater
As I left a restaurant on June 27, 2009, I noticed this lonely blue sweater hanging by the door. It was if it were to say, take me, take me.
It seemed like a Leonard Cohen song just waiting to happen.
Related: http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/search/label/Music%20Cohen-Leonard
Or more specifically, Famous Blue Raincoat Leonard Cohen
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Friday, May 01, 2009
Music that came up in my April 29, 2009 The Tentacle column, “The Mockingbird’s Song”:
http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3134
The reclusive and enigmatic childhood friend of Truman Capote, Harper Lee, celebrated a birthday yesterday. She was born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama…
She is best known for her one and only book, which just happened to be a Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” published in (July 11,) 1960, when she was 34 years old.
Ms. Lee and “Mockingbird” come to mind for a number of reasons which I thoroughly do not understand; and that’s just fine with me.
I’ve been told artists dream of castles in the clouds, writers live in them and psychologists are the landlords that charge rent.
At my advanced age, I’m comfortable with the concept that my cloud is my castle, and I own it and I’m too tight to pay rent.
[…]
From those long-gone lazy days, I usually associate “Mockingbird” with short stories like Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” “Rain” by W. Somerset Maugham and “Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth – and why I’m still traumatized by the word spatula – except when Rachel Ray says it on her cooking show.
I think of the film “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” by Robert Altman. I was initially introduced to him when he directed a number of episodes of “Bonanza.”
“McCabe” introduced me to Leonard Cohen – and later his song “Famous Blue Raincoat.” Remember: “It’s four in the morning, the end of December. I’m writing you now just to see if you’re better…”
(An outtake: “Many of the “summer anthems” also come to mind when I recall those childhood summers. Who can forget “Summer in the City” by the “Lovin’ Spoonful,” “In the Summertime” by Mungo Jerry, “Summertime Blues” by “The Who,” or one of my favorites, “Red Rubber Ball” by “The Cyrkle.”)
I think of Carole King’s “It’s too late,” and Carly Simon’s “That’s The Way I Always Heard It Should Be” – “My father sits at night with no lights on. His cigarette glows in the dark…”
It was over 40 years ago in the summer of 1967 that I first heard the song, “Ode to Billy Joe,” by Bobbie Gentry on WCAO on the AM dial of the car radio.
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“Ode to Billy Joe,” by Bobbie Gentry
http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2007/11/20071101-today-billy-joe-macallister.html
Famous Blue Raincoat Leonard Cohen
http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2009/03/famous-blue-raincoat-by-leonard-cohen.html
Carole King “It’s Too Late” released April 1971
http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2009/04/carole-king-its-too-late-released-april.html
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) Directed by Robert Altman
http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2009/04/mccabe-and-mrs-miller-1971.html
Carly Simon’s “That’s The Way I Always Heard It Should Be”
http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2009/04/carly-simon-live-in-grand-central.html
20090429 Music that came up in my Apr 29 2009 Tentacle column
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1971
(Robert Altman directing Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Photograph from Jerry Ohlinger's Movie Material Store)
(1971) Directed by Robert Altman. Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, Shelley Duvall. Music by Leonard Cohen (121 min.)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971) Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXA4Do_JzUk
Trailer for McCabe & Mrs. Miller directed by Robert Altman.The screenplay is by Robert Altman and Brian McKay from the novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton. The cinematography is by Vilmos Zsigmond and the soundtrack includes three songs by Leonard Cohen which had been issued on his 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen.
Cast:
Warren Beatty - John McCabe
Julie Christie - Constance Miller
Rene Auberjonois - Sheehan
William Devane - the Lawyer
John Schuck - Smalley
Corey Fischer - Mr. Elliot
Bert Remsen- Bart Coyle
Shelley Duvall - Ida Coyle
Keith Carradine - Cowboy
Michael Murphy - Sears
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller - McCabe (Warren Beatty) & Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie) meet for the first time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0hs77bu3gY
But his mistaken identity helps him become the big man around town and soon he sets up several businesses, a whorehouse with possibly the most unattractive "chippies" ever put on celluloid being one of them.
This is mostly an atmospheric movie, that is filmed in chronological order, unlike most films. So, the actual sets were being built as the movie progresses, meaning they double as the expanding town. Beatty and Christie are excellent in their unassuming roles and all the bit players and extras deserve special compliments, as many of them were not real actors, but set builders and locals.
The wonderful and oddly fitting songs by Leonard Cohen complete this uniquemasterpiece. Also starring John Shuck, Rene Auberjonois and William Devane.
Related: My Wednesday, April 29, 2009 http://www.thetentacle.com/ The Tentacle column: “The Mockingbird’s Song”: http://tinyurl.com/de9vh7
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Kevin Dayhoff Art: http://www.kevindayhoff.com/ (http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/)
Saturday, March 21, 2009
"Famous Blue Raincoat" by Leonard Cohen
MariaAdouaneta
December 20, 2007
Its four in the morning, the end of December
Im writing you now just to see if youre better
New york is cold, but I like where Im living
Theres music on clinton street all through the evening.
I hear that youre building your little house deep in the desert
Youre living for nothing now, I hope youre keeping some kind of record.
Yes, and jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?
Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
Youd been to the station to meet every train
And you came home without lili marlene
And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobodys wife.
Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well I see janes awake –
She sends her regards.
And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
Im glad you stood in my way.
If you ever come by here, for jane or for me
Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.
Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.
And jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
-- sincerely, l. cohen
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Kevin Dayhoff Art: www.kevindayhoff.com (http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/)