No One Here Gets Out Alive

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(thing) by Segnbora-t (9.3 hr) (print) ? I like it! Fri Jan 21 2000 at 19:24:59

Book by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman about The Doors and specifically mostly about Jim Morrison. Perhaps a little sensationalistic but fascinating.

(idea) by bluebear (10.8 mon) (print) ? I like it! Sat Jan 27 2001 at 7:00:56

I've made it half way through this book...twice. Normally I have no problem reading books. Any books. I've read Atlas Shrugged cover to cover twice. As a younger school child I read through my picture Bible book at least three times. As a teenager I made it through the bible, cover to cover (admittedly I skimmed through Kings I and II and a fair amount of the other historical/genealogical pages of the old testament) twice.

The first time I saw the Morrison poster which reads "An American Poet" I admittedly scoffed a bit. I feel he was a good lyricist, an incredible entertainer, and one hell of an artist, but a poet? While the books I've read and the excerpts I've run in to have tried to hail him as a poet I strongly disagree. William Carlos Williams was a poet. Whitman was a poet. Cummings was a poet. Dickinson, as in Miss Emily, was a poet. I find it difficult to put Morrison in this same category. I believe he was one hell of a writer. Even more so I agree he was one hell of an artist. But that doesn't make him a poet.

Holy Shit, I went off on a tangent. My apologies.

The aforementioned book is an interesting one. At least the half I read was. However, I feel it could have been more accurate if it were to let go some of the glorification of Morrison, and focus more on his true talent, ie. entertainment.

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chaos

Having a shoplifter arrested is apparently an act of racism	You're not from around here, are you?	Sitting on the back porch, smoking cigarettes and waiting for the apocalypse	Educational funding is bullshit
Eminem & Elton John 2001 Grammy Performance	Kick the Tires and Light the Fires	Atlas Shrugged	Mentat
The Doors	Can't get you out of my head	Opening a coke can with one hand	Where do you hide when the dark is alive?
Polyphemus	male anorexia	Talk About Suffering	The Soft Parade
F. Scott Fitzgerald	Danny Sugerman	island fever	Letters from children
lapsed Catholics are still Catholic	Theories about the future that make you think "Holy shit, I'm scared!"	Green Day	June 1, 2006

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