We’re Ugly But We Have The Music.
The title of this blog references a line from the Leonard Cohen song “Chelsea Hotel No. 2″ which apart from being one of my favorite Cohen tunes is beautifully performed but Rufus Wainright in Lian Lunson’s doc about Cohen “Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man.” If you’ve already checked out the homepage you’ll most likely have noticed that Lian was kind enough to answer a few questions about the film and also very tolerant of my fanatical gushing. I can’t thank Lian enough for taking the time and giving me a chance to see a film that if you’ve been keeping up with previous blogs, I’ve been excited about for quite a while. Also it should be noted that between “I’m Your Man,” and the brilliant and bloody western “The Proposition,” he scripted 2006 has been a good year for another hero of mine, Nick Cave. Now if someone will just get a definitive doc on Tom Waits in the can (cough cough Jarmusch) I can die a happy man.