R.I.P. Leonard Cohen, a major contributor to the soundtrack of my youth. I trust it is not inappropriate at this moment to pay tribute with this brilliant, weird and spot-on parody by the Austin Lounge Lizards. Herewith Leonard Cohen’s Day Job, from the (thoroughly brilliant) album Employee of the Month:
Losing Cohen seems like the perfect and obvious capstone to this misery of a year. His name will be a blessing; may we all be so lucky.
Alas, no Nobel prize for Cohen then.
Harold:
“Alas, no Nobel prize for Cohen then.”
Too bad, I was looking forward to his explanation of
the Higgs boson –