Angie,
you are so spot on. That's pretty much what my little German mind was trying to come up with in English. ;-)
Derya
> Hmm, both of them are really exceptional at wordplay. Both
> of them seem to be incredibly observant - and focus on
> what's really important. Both write songs that are sexual,
> sensual, erotic, and comedic all at once. Both are obvious
> seekers of that which they can consider holy, and that
> doesn't seem to even slightly map directly to what any
> major religions have decided is holy - they are looking
> for something far greater, and yet find a holiness which
> is more accessable, more precious, and more essential to
> being human. Both sometimes get labelled in the press as
> being "depressing", usually by people who didn't get the
> jokes.
>
> And I am proud to live in the same time period as both of
> these men.
>
> I suspect that Leonard Cohen's book "Beautiful Losers" was
> one of the main 200 things that helped influence Jim's
> original "Dream Engine". :P
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