
How the Light Gets In...
It's been a rough week, hasn't it? An election that seems to have been run on fear and anger and conspiracies and that has demonstrated to almost everyone in my newly adopted country just how divided they (we) are. Then, in the midst of some precedent-setting post-election demonstrations and protests, the news from Canada that the music world has lost one of its great poets (regardless of how you feel about his actual singing), Leonard Cohen. There have been a lot of tears, s