That was actually kinda funny. He really has a smooth speaking voice.

It's pretty amazing, just can't imagine any celebrities saying that sort of thing today.

Whisky is a hell of a drug

The chef awoke before dawn......and he put his apron on.  He went to the freezer and got out the milk.  He went to the foyer and got some salt.  He went to the kitchen and he, he, he sharpened his kniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiives.......He grabbed mixing bowl.  Cool.  Metallic to the touch, like an Aztec ice serpent.  Bold.  And he went to the vegetable tray and he grabbed a russet, and he boiled it.Hot steamy aching misery.  Bleeding in spirit and soft cinnamon to the touch, spud blind cool like a virgin's kiss.  And he peeled that russet, peeling back the tan rippled skin proud like a Navajo and he WALKED ON DOWN THE HALL.  And he took a fingerling and then he, he grabbed a white and then he, he grabbed an Adirondack Blue, and then he, he threw them into the water.  And seasoned it to taste.  And then he waited about 24 minutes, counting down each mercury blue second and he whisked that butter.  And folded in milk and heavy cream with a kiss of wheat flour.  Butter.  Soft and salty, lamenting for the night like a diamond in the ether glow of passion.  Will you die for me, potato?  We could start a religion.  Potato, you die because you must.

Russet?  "Yes chef!"  I'm going to eat you.  Yukon Gold?  Yukon Gold?  YUUUUUKON GOOOOOOLD I'M GOING TO PEEL YOU AND EAT YOU OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND I WILL!  YEAH.

I like the Doors.  The only thing I know personally about Jim is his meh poetry.  I think Oliver Stone's the Doors didn't do him any favors.  It was so self-important.  Gag.

Rapmaster2000: I like the Doors. The only thing I know personally about Jim is his meh poetry. I think Oliver Stone's the Doors didn't do him any favors. It was so self-important. Gag.

That's probably close to the unvarnished truth. The Doors were fine musically, but, Lord, the Electric Poet thought he was a spotlight when in reality he was a night light.

"This means something!!!"

/doo di doo da daaaa

I expected him to be more incoherent than that.

"But I had to lose all that weight before spring training."

Rapmaster2000: I think Oliver Stone's the Doors didn't do him any favors. It was so self-important.

That's every Oliver Stone film: Wretchingly self-indulgent to the point of nausea.

Oliver Stone's movies are dull, plodding, turgid, overwrought pretentious art-house pieces consistently ruined by terrible acting, pompous melodrama and unnecessary voice over narration.

Even after 30 years in the business, he still seems to keep making movies as if he's a first year film studies major, with no sense of timing, direction, pacing, subtlety or focus to any of his films.

He might have lucked out with a gem here and there, but by and large the vast majority of his films are utterly unwatchable. They don't even feel like movies, they feel like 2 hour visual monologues where the main character is explaining to you, quite condescendingly, what the movie is about.

Uzzah: I wanna tell you about mashed potatoes and the big beast. It comes out of the L.A. diners cool and slow with plenty of starches, with a back bacon narrow and hard to digest...

Bravo, sir

Jim Morrison- The once-living example of what would happen if the dumbest stoner from your high school became a cultural icon.

Good thing he died early, or else the Doors would've been consigned to the dustbin of shiatty late 60s acts with the rest of them.

That was fantastic.  Nice find Subby.

...MYYY ONLY FRIEND...THE CARB...

I love my french fries.
Load them up with ketchup.
I have a brand new coupon
Buy one, get one, super size it.

Nice and salty
and with a hint of skin
Malt vinegar with ketchup
or even with mayo

(spoken)
I see you like french fries. That's where the hungry eat, I....wonder how they taste in there.  Burger King or Carl's Jr.  Guess I like them fine......so far.

/Love Street

InmanRoshi: The longevity of the Doors is a testament to the fact that every year there's a new class of college freshmen.

Fortunately the only Doors song that resonated with me much at all when I was that age was "People Are Strange". I remember specifically thinking that "Riders Of The Storm" was complete crap. Utter doggerel.

theorellior: I remember specifically thinking that "Riders Of The Storm" was complete crap. Utter doggerel.

if you've never seeen it, search for "Jimmy Fallon Reading Rainbow Doors".  It is an astonishingly realistic portrayal of the Doors on Ed Sullivan, but doiing the "Reading Rainbow" theme.


Butterfly in the skyyyyyyyyyyy
I can go twice as higggggggggggghhhhh
Taaaaaaaaake a loooooooooooook.....
what's in a book.
In a reading rainbow, yeaah, a reaaaaaaaaaaaading raiiiiiiiiinbow, baaaaaaaaaaabeh......

InmanRoshi: The longevity of the Doors is a testament to the fact that every year there's a new class of college freshmen.


//Getting rich selling intoxication and counter-culture to 18 year olds = shooting fish in a barrel.

It is for that reason I have often referred to the Doors as the Atlas Shrugged of rock...something young, impressionable people latch onto for a while but eventually discard once maturity sets in. Usually...

zappaisfrank: InmanRoshi: The longevity of the Doors is a testament to the fact that every year there's a new class of college freshmen.


//Getting rich selling intoxication and counter-culture to 18 year olds = shooting fish in a barrel.

It is for that reason I have often referred to the Doors as the Atlas Shrugged of rock...something young, impressionable people latch onto for a while but eventually discard once maturity sets in. Usually...

I dunno. I thought that, and then I just spent a time recently revisiting their 5 albums or so, and gotta say they're still good songs and great entertainment.

Problem?

And it  just happensto be Muddy Waters 100th birthday?!

whidbey: zappaisfrank: InmanRoshi: The longevity of the Doors is a testament to the fact that every year there's a new class of college freshmen.


//Getting rich selling intoxication and counter-culture to 18 year olds = shooting fish in a barrel.

It is for that reason I have often referred to the Doors as the Atlas Shrugged of rock...something young, impressionable people latch onto for a while but eventually discard once maturity sets in. Usually...

I dunno. I thought that, and then I just spent a time recently revisiting their 5 albums or so, and gotta say they're still good songs and great entertainment.

Problem?

The music by itself was not my focus but more the Morrison "Mystique" that people tend to go overboard with.

Godscrack: I like the way he says 'mashed....potatoes'. He had a very hypnotic voice.

Now I'm hungry.

Let's go get some TACOS.

zappaisfrank: The music by itself was not my focus but more the Morrison "Mystique" that people tend to go overboard with.

Granted, he could be a pretty cheesy dude sometimes. But there is also an inspirational pleasure to the music that I was surprised to find when I listened again.

theorellior: InmanRoshi: The longevity of the Doors is a testament to the fact that every year there's a new class of college freshmen.

Fortunately the only Doors song that resonated with me much at all when I was that age was "People Are Strange". I remember specifically thinking that "Riders Of The Storm" was complete crap. Utter doggerel.

A friend of mine in college was a huge Doors fan.  He had books of Morrison's "poetry," and also proclaimed "Riders on the Storm" to be one of the greatest poems ever.

\his brain is squirming like a toad

At least we know who could play a good Jim Morrison - The College Years

Yeah, but 1960s "fat".

whizbangthedirtfarmer: \his brain is squirming like a toad

Not that I'm disagreeing, but I really am struggling to find a better rhyme.

Sometimes the only remaining possibility, no matter how absurd, is the right one. Or something.

whidbey: whizbangthedirtfarmer: \his brain is squirming like a toad

Not that I'm disagreeing, but I really am struggling to find a better rhyme.

Sometimes the only remaining possibility, no matter how absurd, is the right one. Or something.

It's not the rhyme I find objectionable, it's the whole gorram mess.

Uzzah: there's a killer on the road,
he liked that chick on "Alice": Flo.

Good one. As if JM had the power of prophecy to see half a decade into the future after his own death. Compelling.

The interviewer sounds a lot like Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist.  The whole interview reminded me of an episode, actually.

whidbey: Good one. As if JM had the power of prophecy to see half a decade into the future after his own death. Compelling.

Dude. It's true. Weird Al's parents introduced them.
/Bon Joor.

Weird scenes inside the gold mine.

whizbangthedirtfarmer: Good thing he died early, or else the Doors would've been consigned to the dustbin of shiatty late 60s acts with the rest of them.

Like Starship, for example?

whidbey: zappaisfrank: InmanRoshi: The longevity of the Doors is a testament to the fact that every year there's a new class of college freshmen.


//Getting rich selling intoxication and counter-culture to 18 year olds = shooting fish in a barrel.

It is for that reason I have often referred to the Doors as the Atlas Shrugged of rock...something young, impressionable people latch onto for a while but eventually discard once maturity sets in. Usually...

I dunno. I thought that, and then I just spent a time recently revisiting their 5 albums or so, and gotta say they're still good songs and great entertainment.

Problem?

I think appreciation of the music doesn't go away. Maybe the fixation over Morrison and his "deep" lyrics does, but the songs still rock.

And there's quite a bit of variety to their sound, really. Even beyond the hits, the album filler is pretty interesting.

InmanRoshi: The longevity of the Doors is a testament to the fact that every year there's a new class of college freshmen.


//Getting rich selling intoxication and counter-culture to 18 year olds = shooting fish in a barrel.

On a whim, called into a college radio station taking requests once in my teens.  Actually got through, requested a Doors song, and got laughed off on the air.  It was my first step into the larger world of elitism and an important lesson.

/csb
//DRTA