The Science Fiction By Hefner: I may have wasted an hour looking for this song just now. But I probably also saved a life.
This comic just made me feel so much better about my life.
I hope in general people see me as the girl hanging outside their window, then I will feel that I have done right by myself and for humanity.
If they don’t, then I guess I will have to work a little harder.
Man tries to pay for chiropractor using a drawing he made of spider.
How To Seduce Women Through Hypnosis. I can’t decide whether this is friggin hilarious or disgusting. A bit of both really. One thing I know, I have lived through some pretty bad dates, but at least I was there.
Normally I can’t stand comedians who talk about their kids, but as usual Louis CK is the shining exception to this rule.
Interviewer: How can you write poetry if you’re not bothered by something?
Leonard Cohen: “I’m bothered um …(pause) When I get up in the morning, my real concern is to discover whether or not I am in a state of grace. And if I make that investigation, and if I discover that I am not in a state of grace, I try to go to bed.
Interviewer: What do you mean by a state of grace, it’s a phrase I’ve never understood.
Cohen: A state of grace is that kind of balance with which you ride the chaos that you find around you. It’s not a matter of resolving the chaos because there is something arrogant and warlike about putting the world in order.
Ladies and Gentleman inroducing Leonard Cohen
A short film made by the National Film Board some time before Cohen’s singing career over-shadowed his poetry.
This is the 18th at Vivid. Very similar to the set at the Fox and Fiddle, only it was a very casual night so there is the bonus of in jokes, filler and total fuck-ups. It’s also 9 minutes long. I am also drinking an excellent vintage as I write this called Hecula, it’s a monastrell from Spain, I should drink alone more often. No wait I should not.
