Re: leonard cohen

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During a radio interview in Canada long ago,
Cohen was asked if he ever considered changing his name.
He replied: "Yes, I thought of changing it to September".
DJ:  "Leonard September"?
Cohen:  "No; September Cohen".

Wolf

Martin Grossman wrote:

> BTW, Leonard left Mt. Baldy (the Buddhist monastery) some months ago and spent
> some time in India. While there he met with a Hind guru (whose name I can't
> recall this early in the morning) to discuss various spiritual matters and was
> photographed (in tallis) at a Bombay synagogue. He says in usual sly, humorous
> way that he left Mt. Baldy because he "met  this woman." Leonard's spiritual
> quest takes him down many roads but his commitment to Judaism remains 
> constant.
>
> Marty Grossman
>
> "S. Austen & B. Woods" wrote:
>
> > An interesting addition to the Leonard Cohen thread. In a recent back issue
> > of Utne Reader a few months ago, I read with much interest the
> > story/interview with Leonard Cohen detailing his current life and
> > involvement with a Buddhist monastery in California (I'm not sure which
> > one, I read this in the library). He seemed pretty disgusted with the music
> > buis, and modern American cultural/spiritual life in general, and seemed
> > happy studying with his spiritual master, living as a monk, etc...He said
> > he wasn't writing much, although he still occasionally tours, but as to be
> > expected, many things he said in the course of the interview were pure
> > poetry.
> >
> > Seth
> >
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