Jim Morrison gets pardoned!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120900966.html?hpid=moreheadlines

Well I'm glad Jim got some attention on his birthday. Lennon had the spotlight for most of it.

In 2001, about a month before the 30th anniversary of his death, I had to be in Paris for work. I took the opportunity to go to his grave.

(Not my photo)

Well, it's good to see that government is working hard on things that really matter. Like pardoning a man after he's been dead for nearly 40 years!

And this from a Doors fan.

Now get to work and fix your state's mucked up budget and reduce unemployment, etc. etc.

Yawn.

I'm sure Manzarek and Kreiger were not under the influence of anything either that night.

1988RedT2 wrote: Well, it's good to see that government is working hard on things that really matter. Like pardoning a man after he's been dead for nearly 40 years! And this from a Doors fan. Now get to work and fix your state's mucked up budget and reduce unemployment, etc. etc.

Pay no attention to the unemployment rate behind the curtain!

That sounds like an incredibly efficient use of tax dollars!

Crist has to do something to stay in the public eye now that he is a lame duck .

While I like the Doors music, I hate Jim Morrison because of Oliver Stone's movie. I dont know about the real man, and now, dont care. Gawdamn Hippies!

If the movie made you dislike him, try reading "No One Gets Out of Here Alive", the excellent 1980 biography of Morrison. As the first Amazon reviewer so aptly notes, "Those that do choose to read the biography carefully will have, as James Joyce wrote, 'discovered to their vast discomfiture that their idol had feet of clay, after placing him upon a pedestal.'" (It's been 30 years since I read it, and the image of the stinky leather pants is still seared into my brain.)

And yeah, Charlie Crist is an attention-grabbing chump. But such nice hair! Lookout, Donald Trump, there's real potential in this one.

Margie

At least it was faster than the vatican and DaVinci..

Marjorie Suddard wrote: If the movie made you dislike him, try reading "No One Gets Out of Here Alive", the excellent 1980 biography of Morrison. As the first Amazon reviewer so aptly notes, "Those that do choose to read the biography carefully will have, as James Joyce wrote, 'discovered to their vast discomfiture that their idol had feet of clay, after placing him upon a pedestal.'" (It's been 30 years since I read it, and the image of the stinky leather pants is still seared into my brain.) And yeah, Charlie Crist is an attention-grabbing chump. But such nice hair! Lookout, Donald Trump, there's real potential in this one. Margie

Margie, get a copy of John Densmore's book "Rider's on the Storm". I found it much more interesting than No One Gets Out of Here Alive. No One was written in the era of "Jim's still alive and in hiding!" Densmore's is more grounded and explains how there's no way Jim faked his death.

Ross, Oliver Stone took some liberties in the movie. Not like that's never happened before.

Marjorie Suddard wrote: If the movie made you dislike him, try reading "No One Gets Out of Here Alive", the excellent 1980 biography of Morrison. As the first Amazon reviewer so aptly notes, "Those that do choose to read the biography carefully will have, as James Joyce wrote, 'discovered to their vast discomfiture that their idol had feet of clay, after placing him upon a pedestal.'" (It's been 30 years since I read it, and the image of the stinky leather pants is still seared into my brain.) Margie

I'm sorry. I read No One Here Gets Out Alive (also about 30 years ago, IIRC) and it didn't diminish Morrison in my eyes. Of course, I already knew that he was a crazy drug-addled poet genius rockstar. I would read the Densmore book, but frankly, I'm just not that interested anymore. Although I might just go looking for my copy of "Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine". On vinyl, of course.