Heck Of A Guy – The Other Leonard Cohen Site

The first concert of the 2013 Leonard Cohen European Tour take place tonight, June 18, 2013, at 8 PM in Paris at Palais Omnisports de Bercy.

Credit Due Department: Photo by Paul Myers ‏@pulmyears  posted Dec 29, 2012.

Note: This photo and text appeared in last year’s Heck Of A Guy Father’s Day entry and remains one of my favorite posts.

Father’s Day & Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen’s reference to Father’s Day in First We Take Manhattan, “It’s Father’s Day and everybody’s wounded,” isn’t likely to turn up on a Hallmark card. Further, the Canadian singer-songwriter has consistently criticized his own record as a father:

I have never been a good civilian. my children like me. But the truth is that I tried to be a good father and husband, but I was not very good.¹

On the other hand, he has just as consistently expressed his affection, admiration, and appreciation for his son, Adam, and his daughter, Lorca. And, he certainly seems to enjoy being grandfather to Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen (daughter of Lorca Cohen and Rufus Wainwright) and Cassius Cohen (Adam’s son, pictured below).²

So, when Dominique BOILE serendipitously suggested the evocative photo now seen atop this post (click on images for best viewing) for another project, I realized that a young Leonard Cohen reading from Peter Pan to his delighted children could well be the quintessential Heck Of A Guy Father’s Day offering.

Turns out I was right.

1. Magazine, Sunday Supplement to El Mundo, September 26, 2001 [↩]
2. A collection of Leonard Cohen’s comments about his children and childhood in general can be found at Leonard Cohen On Children. [↩]

Dominique BOILE forwards photos of Leonard Cohen he took a few hours ago in Paris. These and other shots of Leonard Cohen, Dominique, and Dominique’s wife, Annie, can be viewed at Leonard Cohen In Paris – June 15, 2013.

Hello From Oviedo – A Leonard Cohen Greeting From Prince Of Asturias Awards

The Animated Leonard Cohen Gallery

OK, this is the only designated collection of Cohen-associated animated gifs on the internet at the time of posting. Still, there are a bunch of these things.

The collection was originally put together as one of the treats for the 2013 Leonard Cohen European Tour Advent Calendar, but like the buildings erected for the Olympics and World Fairs, this gallery will be available after the Advent Calendar is completed.

Leonard Cohen: White Man Dancing

Many entries – and all animations in this post – are DrHGuy constructs.  Several others are from Joey Carenza at Sunshine, Hello. Whatever is known of the origin of the animations is given in the description. All images are easily downloaded.

The gallery can be accessed at

The Animated Leonard Cohen –
The Moving Leonard Cohen Collection

Leonard Cohen is smoking

Man Of Steel Opens Today: June 14, 2013

Ongoing readers may recall that Watchmen director, Zack Snyder, had wanted to use Allison Crowe’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah in that film but had opted for Cohen’s own rendition of the now iconic hymn because hers was said to be “too beautiful.”¹

It turns out that Snyder, who also considered Crowe for Sucker Punch, didn’t forget the Canadian songstress, signing her on to sing Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire and play a cameo role as a singer in a pub in the Cassidy Inn in Nanaimo, Allison’s home town, that served as a bar for Alaskan loggers in the film.

This post is our celebration of this milestone in Allison Crowe’s career.

A few more glamor shots:

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1. See Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah – Mood Music For Watchmen SuperHeroic Sex Scene [↩]

5 Days Until First Concert Of The Leonard Cohen 2013 European Tour – Paris June 18th

Like Christmas Advent Calendars, one door of which is opened daily, one new link of the 2013 Leonard Cohen European Tour Advent Calendar at DrHGuy.com is activated daily so that clicking on it takes your browser to that day’s gift.

If you haven’t been following the 2013 Leonard Cohen European Tour Advent Calendar, here’s what you’ve missed:

• Day 1: Smoke Ring-Blowing Leonard Cohen animation
• Day 2: Online posting of  Little-Known, Outstanding 1985 Leonard Cohen Interview: Tortoise-Shell Hero By Biba Kopf
• Day 3: Unpublished Leonard Cohen PeeWee Hockey Team Photo & Back Story From Sylvie Simmons
• Day 4: Special Suzanne Lyrics Leonard Cohen Sang Only At 1974 Parc de la Courneuve, Paris Concert
• Leonard Cohen Comes Out In Support Of Disco & “YMCA” By Village People

• Video: Leonard Cohen’s Only Performance Of “Beloved Comrade” 1974
• The 2012-2013 Leonard Cohen Tours Crossword Puzzle
• The First Review Of A Leonard Cohen Musical Performance
• Leonard Cohen: “Byronic Bullfrog” & Other Delights From The 1985 Boston Concert
• Unpublished Leonard Cohen Childhood Pictures – With Sister Esther, Mother, & Kelef
• The Animated Leonard Cohen Collection
• Leonard Cohen Art By Heck Gallery

All of these – and today’s new link – can be accessed through today’s post: 2013 Leonard Cohen European Tour Advent Calendar: Day 13

The 2013 Leonard Cohen European Tour Advent Calendar will be posted daily at DrHGuy.com until and including June 18, 2013, the date of the Paris concert that opens the European Tour.