"As you get older, you get less willing to buy the latest version of reality" from 70 things you may not know about Leonard Cohen in The Guardian Friday Review, also including "He is a lifelong manic depressive" (suprise, anyone?) and the fact that he played a bit part in Miami Vice.

In the same Friday Review a good write-up of the excellent Rachid Taha's new cd, which includes his "Rock the Casbah" tribute to Joe Strummer.