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I'd like to meet:

JIM MORRISON! JIM MORRISON AND JIM MORRISON, CAROLEEN HURARAH, BETSY WEST, AND THE LITTLE ONES OF MANDY, CORY, MICA, KARA, JENNIFER, LINDSEY, KATY, MELISSA, JESSIE, MARYJANE AND CRAP HOPE I DIDNT MISS ANY NEW BABIES!! I HAVE ALREADY MET GUS, JACOB, AND LIVIE BUT I MISS THEM VERY VERY MUCH!! .Death Disclosed: Jim Morrison, twenty-seven, rock superstar, The lead singer of The Doors. Though his manager fueled suspicion by keeping Morrison's death a secret for six days - until after his burial last week - there was no evidence of a drug connection as in last year's deaths of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, nor was Morrison's fifth-a-day booze habit officially a factor; police listed a heart attack as the cause after Morrison was found dead in the bathtub of his apartment in Paris, where he had been living as a writer in recent months. His trademarks in the rock culture included his arcane, keenly suggestive lyrics, sung in a throaty baritone, by turns sullen and frenzied. But with his skintight pants and lascivious style, the Florida-born admiral's son was best known as an erotic male performer in the line of succession that runs from Elvis Presley to Mick Jagger; Morrison once overdid it to the extent of being found guilty of indecent exposure at a rock concert in Miami. Morrison leaves his wife, Pamela, his parents, a brother, and a sister. SOURCE: NEWSWEEK - July 3, 1971James Douglas 'Jim' Morrison (1943-1971)American rock singer and rock lyric who achieved after his death a cult position among fans. Morrison wished to be accepted as a serious artist, and he published such collections of poetry as An American Prayer (1970) and The Lords and The New Creatures (1971). The song lyrics Morrison wrote for The Doors much reflected the tensions of the time - drug culture, the antiwar movement, avant-garde art. With his early death Morrison has been seen as a voluntary victim of the destructive forces in pop culture. However, he was not ignorat about the consequences of fame and his position as an idol. Morrison once confessed that "We're more interested in the dark side of life, the evil thing, the night time.""This is the end, beautiful friend. It hurts to set you free, But you'll never follow me. The end of laughter and soft lies. The end of nights we tried to die. This is the... end." James Douglas Morrison was born in Melbourne, Florida, on December 8, 1943. His father, Steve Morrison, was a U.S. Navy admiral. In 1942, after graduating from the Naval Academy, he had married Clara (Clarke) Morrison, the daughter of a lawyer. In 1946 he returned from the Pacific and during the following years the family moved according to his numerous postings.Morrison was early interested in literature, he excelled at school, and he had an IQ of 149. Morrison studied theatre arts at the University of California. With his fellow student Ray Manzarek, keyboardist, John Densmore, drummer, and Robbie Kriger, guitarist, he formed a group which was in 1965 christened The Doors. They never added a bass player to their group. Its name was taken from Aldous Huxley's book on mescaline, The Doors of Perception, which quoted William Blake's poem ("If the doors of perception were cleansed / All things would appear infinite"). All the members of the band read much, not only Morrison. Their first album, The Doors (1967), mixed performances from Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weil's 'Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)' to Willie Dixon's 'Back Door Man'. It also included such Doors classics as 'Break on Through' (to the Other Side)' and 'The End'. The lyrics Morrison wrote in 1965 dominated the first two Doors albums. In July 1967 the band had its first single chart success with 'Light My Fire'.Between childhood, boyhood, -------------adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests, deaths, feasts, rites stories, songs & judgements (from Wilderness, 1988) Like in the late 1950s when the beatniks tried to unite jazz and poetry, Morrison found from music a channel to project his poetry, and add to it a theatrical aspect. Thus improvising and unpredictableness was a part of the band's show on stage. The mythical Lizard King, Morrison's alter ego, appeared first in the best-selling record Waiting for the Sun (1968) in a poem that was printed inside the record jacked. I was entitled 'The Celebration of the Lizard King'. Part of the lyrics were used in 'Not to Touch the Earth' and the complete 'Celebration' appeared on record Absolutely Live (1970).Morrison's drinking, exhibitionistic performances, and drug-taking badly affected his singing and input at recordings. "Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality," he confessed in 1969 in Los Angeles. "I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: just curiosity." In Miami in 1969 the audience thought it saw Jim's "snake" - he was charged with exposing himself on stage, in full view of 10.000 people. The police did not arrest him on the spot, for fear that it would cause a riot. Next year Morrison was sentenced 8 months' hard labor and a $500 fine for "profanity" and "indecent exposure", but he remained free while the sentence was appealed against. The Soft Parade (1969), which experimented with brass sections, was received with mixed emotions but it had a hit single, 'Touch me'.After Miami everything changed and Morrison put his leather pants in closet. He grew a beard, started to take distance to his fans, and devote more time with projects outside the band. John Densmore has later told in an interview, that although he knew Jim well, there was so much about him that he could not find out. Possessed by his inner visions and urge to write and create music, Morrison also had troubles to explain his aims. He also felt that his time was running short: "O great creator of being, grant us one more hour / to perform our art and perfect our lives."In April 1970 Morrison Hotel hit the lists in the U.S. and England. It was hailed as a major comeback. One song on it, 'Queen of the Highway', was dedicated Pamela Courson, his common-law wife, who called herself Pamela Morrison. Jim called Pamela his "cosmic mate". Morrison had also an affair with Linda Ashcroft from 1967 to 1971. With Patricia Kennealy, a rock critic, he had romance which started in 1969; supposedly they were joined in a Wiccan ceromony, known as a Handfasting. Morrison did not take the ritual seriously.On his 27th birthday, Morrison made the recordings at Elektra's LA studio of his poetry, which later formed the basis of An American Prayer. The Doors played their last concert with Morrison in New Orleans. It was a disaster - Morrison smashed the microphone into the stage, threw the stand into the crowd and slumped down.After finishing sessions for a new album, L.A. Woman, Morrison escaped to Paris, where he hoped to follow literary career. "See me change," he sang. He never came back from Paris. His first book, The Lords and the New Creatures, was published by Simon and Schuster in 1971. It went into paperback after selling 15.000 in hardback. An earlier book, An American Prayer, was privately printed in 1970, but not made widely available until 1978. On 3 July 1971 Morrison was found death in his bathtub. He had regurgitated a small amount of blood on the night of July 2, but claimed he felt fine. Recently had consulted a local doctor concerning a respitory problem.Morrison was buried at PÃ©re Lachaise cemetary in Paris, which houses remains of many famous artists, statesmen and legendaries from Edith Piaf to Oscar Wilde. In 1990 his graffitti-covered headstone was stolen. Pamela Courson Morrison, died in Hollywood of heroin overdose on April 25, 1974. In 1979 Francis Ford Coppola used The Doors' performance of 'The End' in his Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now, and in 1991 director Oliver Stone made the film biography The Doors, starring Val Kilmer. Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison was published in 1989. It was compiled from the Morrison literary estate by his friends.For further reading: No One Here Gets Out Alive by Danny Sugerman (1980); Mr. Mojo Risin': Jim Morrison, the Last Holy Fool by David Dalton and J.C. Suares (1991); Riders On The Storm by John Densmore (1990); The Lizard King by Jerry Hopkins (1992); Strange Days by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (1992); The Doors Complete Illustrated Lyrics by Danny Sugerman (ed.); Break On Through by James Riordan and Jerry Prochnicky (1992); Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel As Poet by Wallace Fowlie (1994); Angels Dance and Angels Die: The Tragic Romance of Pamela and Jim Morrison by Patricia Butler (1998); Light My Fire by Ray Manzarek (1998): Wild Child: Life With Jim Morrison by Linda Ashcroft (1998); The Poet in Exile by Ray Manzarek (2001); Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend by Stephen Davis (2005) - SEE ALSO: John Lennon Poems and other fiction and non-fiction by Jim Morrison: An American Prayer, 1970 (poems) The Lords and the New Creatures, 1971 (poems) Jim Morrison collaborated on a screenplay with poet Michael McClure and directed the film A Feast of Friends. He had made films to accompany 'Break on Through' and the 1968 single 'The Unknown Soldier'. Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, 1989 The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison, vol.1, 1990 The American Night: The Writings of Jim Morrison, vol. 2, 1991 Morrison is credited as the writer of The Story of the Doors in Words and Pictures Selected records: THE DOORS, 1967 STRANGE DAYS, 1967 WAITING FOR THE SUN, 1968 THE SOFT PARADE, 1970 ABSOLUTELY LIVE, 1970 MORRISON HOTEL, 1971 13, 1971 L.A. WOMAN, 1971 OTHER VOICES, 1971 FULL CIRCLE, 1972 WEIRD SCENES INSIDE THE GOLD MINE, 1972 THE BEST OF DOORS, 1973 THE BEST OF THE DOORS, 1974 AN AMERICAN PRAYER, 1980 GREATEST HITS, 1980 ALIVE SHE CRIED, 1983 THE DOORS LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL, 1987 IN CONCERT, 1991 THE DOORS SOUNDTRACK, 1991 GREATEST HITS, 1996 PERCEPTION, 2007 Videos: LIVE ATTHE HOLLYWOOD BOWL, 1987; TRIBUTE TO JIM MORRISON, 1988; THE DOORS IN EUROPE, 1990; THE DOORS ARE OPEN, 1990; THE DOORS, 1991; DANCE ON FIRE, 1991; DOORS: A TRIBUTE TO JIM MORRISON, 1991 - Films: American Pop, 1981

Music:

BLACKLIST UNION, 8KOUNT, IN THE RED, THE DOORS, LIVE, DAVID GRAY, SUZANNE VEGA, KATE NASH, FISTE, CORINNE BAILY RAY, CAROLE KING. KORN, BOB SEGAR, OUTKAST, DAYS OF THE NEW, DRESDEN DOLLS, POT LUCK PRINCESS, THE TRUCKS, THE BIG CHILL AND PULP FICTION SOUNDS, RAGE, BEASTIE BOYS, ANI, AC/DC, METALICA, AEROSMITH, JAMES TAYLOR, AND ON AND ON AND ON

Movies:

LITTLE BOY BLUE, DOOM (sean and my personal favorite),RETURN TO OZ, FIND ME GUILTY, BOONDOCK SAINTS, ALL INDEPENDANT FILMS, ALL JONNY DEPP FILMS besides secret window (what was that), ALL JOHN CUSACK FILMS, ALL QUENTIN TARANTINO FILMS, ALL MILA JOVOVICH FILMS, ALL DANNY DIVITO FILMS, DONNIE BRASCO, SLING BLADE, HOW TO DEAL, SHALOW GRAVE, FREEWAY, WILLOW, THUMB SUCKER,FOR YOUR CONSIDERARTION, GRID IRON GANG, GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS, WAG THE DOG, SHERRY BABY,TIDELAND, TIP TOE, THE GRADUATE, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, CRAMER VS. CRAMER, THE UNTOUCHABLES, HACKERS, AND ON AND ON AND ON

Television:

FAMILY GUY, THE SARAH SILVERMAN SHOW, SIMPSONS, WELL THE SUNDAY NIGHT FOX LINE UP, ALL LUCY SHOWS, MARY TYLER MOORE, WELL ALL NICK AT NIGHT LINEUPS IF DATED BEFORE 1988, LAW AND ORDER (ALL), AND ON AND ON AND ON