#Chelsea Hotel no.2

[shihlun]

Haruhiko Arai

- Body and Soul

1997

[dalecoopersintern]

we are ugly but we have the music.

[bulletpillarsinorion]

YOU TOLD ME AGAIN 😭😭😭 YOU PREFERRED 😭😭😭 HANDSOME MEN 😭😭😭 BUT FOR ME 😭😭😭 YOU WOULD MAKE AN EXCEPTION 😭😭😭

[louisegluckpdf]

[ivoryteacups]

i remember you well in the chelsea hotel, that's all.

i don't even think of you that often

[the-swift-tricker]

if a girl told me that she preferred handsome men but for me she'd make an exception i'd kiss her until we were both breathless and then i'd fall for her so far and so fast i'd never find my way back up again. rip to leonard cohen but i'm worse.

[lauraeastwood]

if janis joplin said to me, again, that “she prefers handsome men but for me she’d make an exception” i’d kill myself then and there

[chelseahotel2004]

just for fun here is a little list of my favourite song from each leonard cohen album !! im only including studio album so no concert recordings or compilations otherwise this would be wayyy too long

songs of leonard cohen - one of us cannot be wrong

songs from a room - story of isaac

songs of love and hate - famous blue raincoat

new skin for the old ceremony - lover lover lover

death of a ladies' man - paper thin hotel

recent songs - ballad of the absent mare

various positions - dance me to the end of love

i'm your man - i can't forget

the future - anthem

ten new songs - a thousand kisses deep

dear heather - nightingale

popular problems - you got me singing

you want it darker - treaty

thanks for the dance - the goal

this was so very hard i debated back and forth on a lot of my picks... ultimately i chose songs that are special to me rather than what i think is the objective 'best' off of the album. anyways if anyone else wants to make their own list please tag me so i can see your favs!!!

[screamingfromuz]

a few years ago I was in love with another woman, and it was wonderful. she had colorful hair, and the memory of her smile still bring me warmth.

I knew from the first moment it was not a forever relationship, I knew it would end. Not because there was not love, but because we were not this for one another.

we loved each other for a while, and it was good, and it was tender, and it ended. but it didn't hurt, it was not that kind of love.

I once loved a girl, and she loved me back, we knew it was just for a while, and it was beautiful.

love is many things.

love can be the person you spend the changing of the seasons with, and then part, without bitterness or hurt, just sweet memories.

[woundthatswallows]

spotify wrapped always misses the best part of the year musically for me.. like from november up to now i've already listened to another song more than my top song in wrapped

[shihlun]

Haruhiko Arai

- Body and Soul

1997

[breathofgod]

[sureameline]

i. “chelsea hotel #2″ - leonard cohen // ii. “a valediction: forbidding mourning” - john donne // iii. “heaven’s light/hellfire” - the hunchback of notre dame ost // iv. “chelsea hotel #2″ - leonard cohen

“and clenching your fists for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, you fixed yourself, you said: ‘well, nevermind. we are ugly, but we have the music.’ and then you got away, didn’t you, babe ? you just turned your back on the crowd.”  @sabbioneta

[baheret]

[image ID: a sketchbook page spread, on which is a sketch in black-marker and oil paint. the marker layer is directly on the page, on top of it is a layer of stained gesso, on top of which is the oil sketch. marker layer: on the left page is a figure standing while facing forwards. it has long, curly. it wears jeans but no shirt. arrows are stuck in it, such that it somewhat resembles a wound-man. on the right page, a portrait of another figure. it is almost entirely obscured by the oil layer on top of it. oil layer: mostly on the right page, but extending to a quarter of the left, is a square panel. within the panel is a nude reclining figure with breasts and long hair. it faces left, with its right hand is raised on a platform, and looks towards it. behind it are two blurry, shadowy figures. it is completely brown-toned.

the entire sketch is loose, with few distinct details. /.End ID]

preparatory sketch considering chelsea hotel #2.

[serethereal]

hiii ren!!! top 5 songs? 💖

hiiii cat <3333

rusholme ruffians - the smiths (sorry women…)

when we were young - the killers

dancing in the dark - bruce springsteen

shake it out - florence and the machine

suspended in gaffa - kate bush

ask me my top 5 anything

[cohendyke]

have to force myself to stop listening to my leonard cohen playlist not because it’s affecting my mood but because i keep thinking about how i’m never going to have a crazy one night stand that ends with me realizing i’m a lesbian but we try to make it work and it ends in heartbreak for the both of us shortly after and five years later he writes an amazing song about our love affair and it’s forever enshrined as one of the greatest songs ever. yeah i’m just so sad that never happened and never will