Saturday, February 20, 2010

The perfect introduction

Leonard Cohen, introducing his song Ain't No Cure for Love:
It's been a long time since I stood on this stage in London. It was about 14 or 15 years ago. I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I've also studied deeply in the philosoplhies and the religions -- but cheerfulness kept breaking through. But I wanted to tell you something that I think will not be easily contradicted: there ain't no cure for love.
It's personal, authentic, surprising, revealing, funny, establishing, evocative, endearing -- and 75 seconds start-to-finish.

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