Preview

Leonard Cohen's Far From Any Road

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
397 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Leonard Cohen's Far From Any Road
If you watched season one of HBO’s True Detective last year, then you are probably also curious about what season two will bring. One thing the new season will feature is a brand new theme song, written and performed by Leonard Cohen. The sparse, gravelly crooning of Cohen’s voice will color the television series’ opening credits a haunting shade of grizzly. The choice has been praised as apt and “badass” by Vulture Magazine.

The song is called “Nevermind,” and it first appeared on Cohen’s most recent studio album, Popular Problems, which he recorded in 2014. Last year, the show used “Far From Any Road” by the Handsome Family as its theme song, but with the change of cast and change of storyline with season two, it seems fitting that the show’s
Continue Reading
View Writing Issues

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Interlopers By Saki
    • 416 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Interlopers By Saki

    In the short story, “The Interlopers,” by Saki, Ulrich Von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym have a feud over a strip of forest land. As they confront each other and are faced with a difficult situation they set aside their differences and become friends. Throughout the story, we have twists, suspense, and tragedy that will take this story to a whole new level. As they were holding their guns at each other and fighting a tree comes down and pinned them to the ground.…

    • 416 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Away by Michael Gow
    • 201 Words
    • 1 Page

    Away by Michael Gow

    1. How does the opening quote from a midsummer nights dream set the scene for the play that is to come? – The quote from the opening scene of A Midsummer Nights Dream starts off with a play suggesting that the tone could be much the same as the play ‘Away’. In a Midsummers Night’s Dream Puck comes off as a Trickster, as Tom plays Puck in the play this could be suggesting that something may just happen to Tom and he will come to obstacles through the play.…

    • 201 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Better Essays

    Away by Michael Gow
    • 1390 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Away by Michael Gow

    Set in the Australian summer of 1967, Michael Gow’s Away is an elaborate play which explores the ideas of self- discovery and change. Through the war affected nation, three families, each from different social classes, depart on an iconic Australian holiday to the beach. In the play, Gow utilises the characters to demonstrate that going away physically is intrinsically linked to their mental developments. With the help of references to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer night’s Dream, Away uses Gwen and Coral to show the significant psychological changes made by the characters during holidays to the coast. Tom throughout the play acts as a catalyst for the change in other characters and is associated with Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.…

    • 1390 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More
  • Better Essays

    'Away' by Michael Gow
    • 1049 Words
    • 5 Pages

    'Away' by Michael Gow

    Life is merely a journey. On a journey, an individual experiences a range of obstacles, either expected or unexpected, which shapes their life. Such obstacles initiate the process of change and transformation. Clearly, through a close study of the play ‘Away’ by Michael Gow, the poem ‘Whither will I Wander’ by William Shakespeare and the picture book ‘I had trouble in getting to Solla Sollew’ by Dr Seuss, the characters experience various degrees of change and transformation. Factors that impact on the degree a character changes and transforms include: support networks and the ability or inability to accept reality. Through the use of language and visual techniques, each composer conveys how each character faces a degree of change within their journey.…

    • 1049 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    The Road from Rio by David Suzuki
    • 795 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The Road from Rio by David Suzuki

    The thesis of this essay is in “the Road from Rio”, David Suzuki argues that there is too much organizing and talking about how to save the planet, but not enough action is being taken and he is successful in achieving his aim.…

    • 795 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    'Away' by Michael Gow
    • 857 Words
    • 4 Pages

    'Away' by Michael Gow

    Michael Gow’s play Away is the story of three different Australian families who go on holiday for Christmas in the sixties. By going away each family is hoping to resolve their issues. Although Away is set some time ago the themes and issues explored in the play are still relevant to a modern day audience, even one of a non-Australian background. Shakespearean plays that were written many hundreds of years ago and are still understandable and relevant to people all over the world today.…

    • 857 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    By the River by Steven Herrick
    • 645 Words
    • 3 Pages

    By the River by Steven Herrick

    Steven Herrick’s work of “By the river” displays a bildungsroman novel in which harry goes on a journey through life, facing love and loss.…

    • 645 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Changes Tupac Analysis
    • 739 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Changes Tupac Analysis

    The harmonious song Changes was written by Tupac Shakur. Changes was written during his tenure with Interscope records in 1992. It was produced by Deon Evans, who had worked with Shakur on various other songs. After the tragic shooting death of Tupac, the song was remixed with the song That’s The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby. Shakur was notorious for rapping on the unjust that was going on in America during the late 1980s and early 1990s. This song had such a great impact on the listener because it was so raw and exactly what many listeners needed around this time.…

    • 739 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Better Essays

    Michael Gow's "Away".
    • 1449 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Michael Gow's "Away".

    Drama is a genre that is deliberately written for performance, and therefore, the reader's understanding of the characters and issues is always improved by its staging.…

    • 1449 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'
    • 66 Words
    • 1 Page

    Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

    In Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where are you Going, Where have you Been?” the characters Connie, who soon finds herself traveling somewhere she has never been as well as not knowing where that place is or what it means for her, and Arnold Friend , who Connie believes to be an ordinary 18 year-old boy, demonstrate duality through not only their actions, but their appearances as…

    • 66 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    You Dont Even Know Me by Sharon G Flake
    • 308 Words
    • 2 Pages

    You Dont Even Know Me by Sharon G Flake

    Everyone has a choice what they do with it is up to them. Sharon G. Flake wrote the book You Don’t Even Know Me which is a very intense and emotional book. This book speaks of topics one would not hear regularly. Many parents and the reader wonder why would they let a teenager read this book. She wrote this for young adults because she probably experienced this or saw many of her friends go through these kinds of problems. According to research by State Farm, every twenty-eight seconds a youth drops out of school. Many of them get jobs to survive, and many live at their parents until they can live on their own. As you may know, almost fifty percent of the kids who drop out of school end up either in a gang or in jail, and/or even homeless. The book also deals with teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.…

    • 308 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Paradise Road- Creative
    • 970 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Paradise Road- Creative

    I didn’t have to, but I did. It was an order, what other choice did I have? I was merely a low level officer; the power was in Hiroto’s hands. She broke the camp rules, outside dealings, but did she? It was medicine to save innocent women, innocent women who have been caught up in a war for power, which has resulted in the women becoming the powerless, and me the powerful. Each day I have to dig deep, keep on digging I tell myself, for reasons to be here; pride, family honour, dignity for my people, remember what father said; Japanese are the ones who made the Europeans rich, yet for hundreds of years the Europeans looked down upon us, now it’s Japan’s turn, still, my moral conscience has clouded my mind to the atrocities that I have seen, a short time ago I was a teacher of a class with half Japanese and half European, and they couldn’t see any differences, they looked to the inside, why can’t these officers look to the inside, morality in children is a quality that is needed now, yet I see the children in the camp being bashed by that brute Tomiashi, I want to help, but Japan is now powerful, Japan must prevail. I passed the fuel to Tanaka, my hand trembling, I wanted to latch onto the bottle, throw it away, throw all this away, is this how far we have come, is the power really worth this? Ablaze, my eyes cloud while I have to control myself not to react, I must be strong in front of these European women, the powerful are not weak, they have oppressed me, although I cannot see it, them crying is the first instance of any reminisce of human emotion since I left my teaching job in the village, I didn’t want to leave the students, but the European students had fled with their families and we had instilled in our minds that the powerful nation would prevail, but is power worth this? I feel the confusion and anguish drop over me like a sheet of cold rain that chills you to your spine, this is wrong, this is wrong, but it’s for the great…

    • 970 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Song Writing: Personal Experience
    • 797 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Song Writing: Personal Experience

    All we really did to create the tune was try out a bunch of different sounds and see if they matched the song and lyrics. It took us a little while to come up with the tune because there were so many options. It’s so frustrating, how are we supposed to choose? We had to narrow it down to three or so and then we had to go from there. After a while we finally come up with the perfect tune to fit the song just right.…

    • 797 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Coldplay Music Analysis
    • 580 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Coldplay Music Analysis

    “We Never Change” follows the style and pattern of the songs we have previously discussed: soft, slow, piano-charged, and heavy on falsetto vocals. It’s often skipped and neglected by the band itself, but we just love it.…

    • 580 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken
    • 600 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken

    “The road not taken” by Robert Frost is a powerful poem with one basic theme: individuality comes down to being able to choose between the popular choice and a choice less explored. In other words, the central meaning of this poem is a person should not make a decision based on its popularity, one should make a choice based on its benefits to the individual. Choosing the unique alternative could make all the difference…

    • 600 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More

Related Topics