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It’s been a while since this has happened…

Filed Under Babbling, The history of me 

I actually got a pretty funny e-mail yesterday. And its one that before even opening it, I thought it was spam, but the second I opened it, I had to laugh.

From: Monique Lapointe
Date: Monday, March 10, 2008 2:45PM
To: adamjcohen(at)gmail(dot)com
Subject: Radio-Canada

Monsieur Cohen,

J’ai cherché à vous joindre en fin de semaine, mais je n’avais pas vos coordonnées.

L’animateur de l’émission du matin de la radio de Radio-Canada dans la grande région de Montréal, Monsieur René Homier-Roy, aurait aimé qu’on fasse une entrevue avec vous à l’occasion de l’intronisation de votre père au Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Auriez-vous la gentillesse de me dire si cette adresse électronique est valide? Si ça ne vous embête pas, pourriez-vous aussi me donner votre numéro de cellulaire?

Un grand merci.

Bien cordialement,

Monique Lapointe
«C’est bien meilleur le matin»
Radio-Canada
Studio : (514) ***-****
Cellulaire : (514) ***-****

Crazy, huh? And one might wonder why the hell would I be getting an e-mail all in french and the only words that are in english are “Rock an d Roll Hall of Fame.” But the second I read those words, I knew why I got the e-mail: Leonard Cohen was inducted yesterday.

I was expecting an e-mail like this? Sort of, you could say. I used to get them all the time. There’s a reason why I go by “Adam J. Cohen” and not just “Adam Cohen.” If you’ve never gone there before, take this second to head over to AdamCohen.com

Okay, you’re back? Good.

Adam Cohen, the other Adam Cohen, is a musician and a son of the well known singer/song-writer/lyricist Leonard Cohen. Because of the fact that I play/release/record music as well, whenever you Google for “Adam Cohen Guitar Music,” I come up quite often. Try other variations like “Adam Cohen Guitar” or “Adam Cohen Music” and you get me and him, sometimes not as high as him and sometimes beating him out.

The fact of the matter is, he and I are both out there, and even though he and I look really nothing alike, I get french e-mails like that from time to time. So I just pop open his MySpace page and shoot him a line with the e-mails as a courtesy to ensure that he gets his messages, seeing I don’t even have his contact information that most of these people want.

I’d like to meet him someday, though, and shake his hand and have a beer and a good laugh, just for all of these times. That would amuse me.

Comments

2 Responses to “It’s been a while since this has happened…”

  1. steen on March 14th, 2008 11:13 am

    Did you at least reply to her? Haha, she just wanted a radio interview with you - well, “you” being the OTHER Adam Cohen. She wasn’t sure if it was the right person or not.

    Just send her this back: “Ceci n’est pas le personne correcte. Je suis désolé.”

    Thankfully, I don’t know of any famous people with the same name as me.

  2. Adam on March 14th, 2008 8:36 pm

    Yup, I replied with a brief message: I’d like to help, but you have the wrong Adam Cohen. Contact him through his website: adamcohen.com Sorry that I couldn’t help more.

    I used BabelFish to translate her e-mail to me to get the gist of it, but that was about it. Then I sent off the e-mail via MySpace to the Adam Cohen it was intended for. He hasn’t read it yet. I don’t think he signs on MySpace much.

    A while back, I asked Eric (from AF, you know: Donut) to photocopy me the page from the NY phonebook that had all of the Adam Cohens in it. I was unimpressed: there were only about 5 listed. I have a feeling a lot more just have cell phones. Its a very very common name, so I get a lot of misdirected messages and such.

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