The End Of Wokeness

Yet another disgusting smear from her. https://t.co/qioOygG4fT

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 7, 2021

My point is that if you piss-off Megyn Kelly -- no fan of Trump -- you've lost a lot of women. 

This is the End

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This song music made me think of Robbie Krieger and Dust Bunny Queen in the same breath. Who can tell me why?

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Overheard:  "alternate-nostril breathing."

Whore's Lassitudes:

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Lyrics after the jump.

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Young Morrison was easy on the eyes for everyone. I love the way he doesn't open his eyes until he sings "Break on through"... and of course he was lip-synching.

50 years on and the lyrics for this one hold up quite well. Morrison wrote the lyrics -- pretty good metaphor in my opinion. They say that he had a stash of "high school notebooks" which he mined for lyrics until he had exhausted them.
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added: In the comments, Sixty writes:

Sixty Grit said...
This may sound blasphemous coming from me, as I really, really hate Oliver Stone, but his movie "The Doors", especially the concert scene, really captured, for me, the '60s experience. Great ambiance, hostile crowd, f'd up performers, the works. Total flashback, man...
June 12, 2017 at 7:33 PM

Here's the scene. Rewatching it, I'm reminded of how painfully shy Morrison was (which may explain the medication). Also, the turning around on stage perfectly mirrors/foreshadows the eye-opening aspect I wrote about above.

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Or perhaps Sixty meant this scene:

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Overheard at Lem's:

Dust Bunny Queen said... 

If we are going to make up stupid scenarios, then go full tilt boogie!!! 

I have a vivid imagination :-D 

February 10, 2017 at 10:34 AM

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The song, recorded by the Full Tilt Boogie Band, has a spooky vibe -- sort of a like a Doors song without Jim Morrison.

"Absence is the highest form of presence"

~James Joyce

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Iggy Pop's first commercial album with The Stooges. Iggy was inspired by The Doors and was even signed by the same label, Elektra Records. The cover art was an homage to The Doors' first album:

Deep Thoughts At Jim Morrison's Grave

Overheard at Lem's:

AprilApple said...

I miss my wisdom. (what little of it there was) It died and blew away in the wind.

May 31, 2016 at 10:09 PM 

Jim Morrison's grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery, ca. 1992

Deep, man

Share some of your own deep thoughts, man.

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Morrison was being heteronormative when he changed the original Brecht/Weil line "Show me the way to the next little boy" to the less offensive "Show me the way to the next little girl."

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EMPTY PEWS AT THE CHURCH OF TRUTH

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Related:

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Related because the the original lyrics for "Peace Frog" was a Morrison poem called "Abortion Stories."

I like that version of the song because it preserves the seamless link between "Peace Frog" and "Blue Sunday" that was present in the original vinyl release; it's lost in the digital version which has an audible gap.

I think one of the original points of the combination was sin and redemption. Not that Jim Morrison was a Christian. But if you think about it, he was obsessed with morality.

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Overheard at Lem's:

This is one of those songs that has that build-up thing going. I don't know if there is a word for it, but it's when a song builds real nice to where it just gets you going and pulls you along with a kind of growing anticipation. Often these songs don't deliver after the build, but this one does. Another one is "Roadhouse Blues" from the Doors. I think these kind of songs are often what we think of as "road songs". I do have a weakness for them.  Link

The Doors' L.A. Woman is even better as a "build-up song." It's probably the best example of an orgasmic phase and refractory phase parlayed into song. Even if you've heard the song a million times, listen again beginning around the 5 min mark--the part where Morrison intones "Mr Mojo Risin" (anagram for Jim Morrison).

The video is pretty interesting too--kudos to the maker.

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I put the lyrics after the jump, in case any are unclear.

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The meaning of Morrison's "five to one" ratio followed him to his grave. Snopes explodes some of the myths here. The one about penile manipulation was a new one to me.

Let's add the ratio of Jihadis to Americans in prisoner exchanges to the numerology.

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The song itself (and the album) was a commercial flop for The Doors. The video footage survived, though rarely seen. I like the last line: "Remember when we were in Africa?"

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The Doors first released "Indian Summer" on their 1970 LP Morrison Hotel, but that song -- or part of it -- was already 4 years old.* "Indian Summer" sounds out of place amid the raucous strut and swagger of "Roadhouse Blues" and the others. Only "Blue Sunday" -- inseparable from the cynical "Peace Frog" -- echoed a message of love. But those two entwined songs juxtaposed where The Doors were in 1970 and not four years earlier.

Shaman's Blues

Have Blog Will Travel

This morning in a new post, Althouse discusses the new directions her blog might take.

Althouse is encouraging us to travel on our own... I'm not doing her words justice. I just got up and I haven't brushed my teeth yet.

"As Henry said in his email to me, sharing that first link, above, it was perfectly easy to set up a Blogger blog. It might take one minute, and then you're off. Don't sit there in that old broken-down bus wondering when it will start up again. Climb out, stick out your thumb, and Google will whiz by presently and give you a ride."

Please go and read it and maybe you will say for yourself, in other words, something similar. Here or wherever your final destination might be. Like they say on the plane after it lands. Final destination sounds ominous but sometimes there is no subtle way of saying the obvious. I've said my piece on the comments here (not as eloquently as I could have perhaps) but I harbor no rancor. If I ever do, and I do because I'm human, it doesn't last more than a few days. But, in the end, w/o much fanfare.... I need to go to work soon and I need to finish this.

 

The Doors - The End