Chelsea Hotel No.2

Janis Joplin, 我最愛的歌手, 在60年代發光發熱,然後在1970年27歲時死於服藥過量.
由於怠惰的緣故,花了近一週的時間完成才A4 size的素描...
在這期間反覆播放的音樂是Leonard Cohen的Chelsea Hotel No.2. Cohen 與 Joplin間有短短的一段情,在Janis 過世後,Cohen 寫了這首既露骨又羅曼蒂克的Chelsea Hotel No.2紀念Janis Joplin. 有一段時間, 我甚至想到紐約的Chelsea Hotel去朝聖,感受一下Janis給 Leonard "a head"的氛圍.






附上Chelsea Hotel No.2的影片及歌詞

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
you were talking so brave and so sweet,
giving me head on the unmade bed,
while the limousines wait in the street.
Those were the reasons and that was New York,
we were running for the money and the flesh.
And that was called love for the workers in song
probably still is for those of them left.

Ah but you got away, didn't you babe,
you just turned your back on the crowd,
you got away, I never once heard you say,
I need you, I don't need you,
I need you, I don't need you
and all of that jiving around.

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
you were famous, your heart was a legend.
You told me again you preferred handsome men
but for me you would make an exception.
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,
we are ugly but we have the music."

And then you got away, didn't you babe...

I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best,
I can't keep track of each fallen robin.
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
that's all, I don't even think of you that often.


pic 珍尼斯賈普林素描by ren