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2024-09-24 09:17:27

Haunted Owlbear on Nostr: Still on that Leonard Cohen kick. Here's all of I'm Your Man. YT: ...

Still on that Leonard Cohen kick. Here's all of I'm Your Man.

YT: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiN-7mukU_REGuNf3w8-TQb0JJsqVotjq
Invidious: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/playlist?list=PLiN-7mukU_REGuNf3w8-TQb0JJsqVotjq

I would also like to note that he wrote opener First We Take Manhattan is a call to action for that he terms "Psychic Terrorism". "I remember there was a great poem by Irving Layton that I once read, I'll give you a paraphrase of it. It was 'well, you guys blow up an occasional airline and kill a few children here and there', he says. 'But our terrorists, Jesus, Freud, Marx, Einstein. The whole world is still quaking..."

"I had been driven over the edge and I had decided to take matters into my own hand. This is a geopolitical plan. People have asked me what it means. It means exactly what it says."

"I am sincerely grateful for the notes; for the missives; for the few broken tiles, no doubt from some street battle long past and lost to the memory of mankind, nevertheless a certain historic significance; slivers of cobblestone from unknown conflicts. I really don't know what they stand for at all but I'm deeply grateful that my dressing room is heaped with this kind of debris from many other positions of course, but my own. I love every precious shard."

https://web.archive.org/web/20100227015151/http://www.boelters.de/LC/OrigZit.html#f I absolutely do not have time to wax lyrical about counter-culture and memetic warfare, the ragged trappings of occult and spiritual pretence, symbolist representations of a philosophy of freedom.

However, I do strongly feel that there is something inherent in this song that should be read as a call to dismantle the both the material and philosophical underpinnings of cultural oppression that functions through the normalisation of specific kinds of harm, a kind of body horror that takes a living, feeling being, with senses and intellect all its own, and reforges it, be streaming or compliant, into an insignificant component of the engine of capitalist hegemony.
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