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L'UMP de Paris veut rendre hommage à Jim Morrison
Le groupe au Conseil de Paris a soumis au vote un texte prévoyant de baptiser une place ou un bâtiment public au nom du chanteur des Doors, qui aurait eu 70 ans le 8 décembre.
Le Conseil de Paris, à l’initiative du groupe UMP, votera lundi ou mardi pour le principe de dédier un lieu, place ou équipement public, à la mémoire du musicien Jim Morrison qui a vécu et est mort à Paris en 1971, a-t-on appris vendredi. Les élus UMP soumettront au Conseil un «vœu» en ce sens, auquel l’exécutif socialiste «répondra favorablement», a dit à l’AFP Bruno Julliard, adjoint du maire Bertrand Delanoë chargé de la culture, saluant «une bonne initiative».
Le cofondateur et chanteur des Doors, mort à Paris le 3 juillet 1971 à l’âge de 27 ans, est enterré au cimetière du Père-Lachaise, où sa tombe est devenue un lieu de pèlerinage pour ses fans du monde entier. Mais aucun lieu ne porte son nom, font remarquer les cosignataires du «vœu», proposant «qu’un espace public parisien, place ou rue, établissement culturel, soit dédié à la mémoire de Jim Morrison», d’après le texte transmis à la presse.
Le «vœu», à l’initiative du conseiller de Paris Jérôme Dubus (UMP), insiste sur «la carrière exceptionnelle» de l’artiste américain, «chanteur, cinéaste, poète», à la tête d’un groupe parmi «les plus marquants de l’histoire du rock», et évoque aussi «son engagement contre la guerre du Vietnam». Il rappelle que Morrison, qui aurait eu 70 ans le 8 décembre, a vécu dans le quartier du Marais, au «17 rue Beautreillis»(IVe).
Pour Jérôme Dubus, «c’est étonnant» qu’aucun lieu dans la capitale ne porte encore le nom Morrison «étant donné son lien particulier avec Paris». L’élu UMP a fait remarquer que certains dans son groupe s’étaient demandé si un tel artiste «mérite d’être commémoré ainsi». «Certes il a eu une vie assez controversée notamment à cause de ses addictions […], mais c’est quelqu’un qui a marqué et il n’y en a pas tant que ça dans le monde du rock», a-t-il ajouté.
Un équipement public tel une bibliothèque ou un conservatoire de musique pourrait à terme prendre le nom de Morrison, selon Bruno Julliard, qui ne cache pas que la mesure pourrait prendre du temps. Pour de tels hommages à des grandes figures artistiques, «on a cinq ou six vœux chaque mois au Conseil de Paris», a dit l’élu PS.«Comme on ne débaptise pas de rues, dans le cas d’équipements publics cela peut aboutir plus vite.»
L’adjoint à la culture a cité les précédents de la bibliothèque Aimé-Césaire (inaugurée en 2010 dans le XIVe arrondissement) ou du centre musical Barbara (2008, XVIIIe). Autre exemple récent : Alain Bashung, mort en 2009, a son square depuis 2012 dans le XVIIIe arrondissement, où il a vécu.
Libération
13 dezembro 2013
An evening around Jim Morisson
DÉDICACE DE JEAN-YVES REUZEAU
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à l'occasion de la sortie de son dernier livre sur Morrison paru chez Gallimard
18H30 / VERNISSAGE DES EXPOSITIONS + PROJECTION DANS LE HALL "THE TERROR OF ART- THE LEGACY OF THE DOORS" UN FILM DE PETER LEISS & JIM COKE (USA) 2012
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I "The Paris Journal"
20 Clichés du carnet de Jim Morrison
II "The summer of 65'", photos de Robbie Freeman
The summer of 1965....Jim Morrison was taking a film class and Robbie Freeman was taking a photography class at UCLA with Edmund Teske. Jim Morrison was re-editing his UCLA end of term Workshop 170B Film. Often Jim and Robbie would slip into Bungalow 3K7a trailer behind Gypsy Wagon snack bar and smoke a joint..... Throughout the summer, Robbie carried his manual Minolta 35mm camera as a requirement for his class with Teske. Robbie and Jim would get high and take photos while they cruised around Los Angeles area: Will Rodgers State Beach, The Self Realization Center, The Red Log House and at Morrison's apartment on Goshen Ave. "Jim would never pose for a photo unless he was making an odd motion or a bold statement". That fall of 1965 Jim came to Robbie's home in Topanga Canyon and played a demo of six songs with Ray and his brothers (Rick and the Ravens). Jim had written the lyrics himself and "The Doors" had asked Jim to sing them himself. It was before the revolution. Truly, this special and important work documents the months before Jim Morrison joined the Doors. The photos of Jim playing with a gas mask, climbing a fire escape as well as hiding behind a Jacket, smoking a joint, passing a joint and lying on the beach all make a statement of who Jim was and became to be. These photos are a true piece of American history.
20H / PROJECTION "LES DERNIERS JOURS DE JIM MORRISON" (52MN) UN FILM DE MICHAELLE GAGNET (FRANCE)
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21H / PHIL TRAINER + RICHARD BOHRINGER + GUEST
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Lectures de certains poèmes de Jim Morrison en Anglais ET en Français d'après "Ecrits" de Jim Morrison.
Phil Trainer
By 1985, Phil Trainer was back in Paris and people started referring to him by his nickname, "Steele" -- French for "style". The name stuck and became Phil's pseudonym. But up until that time, Phil Trainer had already made a name for himself, having written film scores for Georges Lautner, a No. 1 hit in Latin America titled "Carousel", and the international club classic, "City Lights" -- the balearic anthem that went Gold, selling over 10 million singles and compilations.
22H / PROJECTION (1H20) "NOT TO TOUCH THE EARTH" (40 YEARS OF JIM MORRISON IN PARIS)
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Un fil de Dean Preston (Australie) 2011
à l'occasion de la sortie de son dernier livre sur Morrison paru chez Gallimard
18H30 / VERNISSAGE DES EXPOSITIONS + PROJECTION DANS LE HALL "THE TERROR OF ART- THE LEGACY OF THE DOORS" UN FILM DE PETER LEISS & JIM COKE (USA) 2012
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I "The Paris Journal"
20 Clichés du carnet de Jim Morrison
II "The summer of 65'", photos de Robbie Freeman
The summer of 1965....Jim Morrison was taking a film class and Robbie Freeman was taking a photography class at UCLA with Edmund Teske. Jim Morrison was re-editing his UCLA end of term Workshop 170B Film. Often Jim and Robbie would slip into Bungalow 3K7a trailer behind Gypsy Wagon snack bar and smoke a joint..... Throughout the summer, Robbie carried his manual Minolta 35mm camera as a requirement for his class with Teske. Robbie and Jim would get high and take photos while they cruised around Los Angeles area: Will Rodgers State Beach, The Self Realization Center, The Red Log House and at Morrison's apartment on Goshen Ave. "Jim would never pose for a photo unless he was making an odd motion or a bold statement". That fall of 1965 Jim came to Robbie's home in Topanga Canyon and played a demo of six songs with Ray and his brothers (Rick and the Ravens). Jim had written the lyrics himself and "The Doors" had asked Jim to sing them himself. It was before the revolution. Truly, this special and important work documents the months before Jim Morrison joined the Doors. The photos of Jim playing with a gas mask, climbing a fire escape as well as hiding behind a Jacket, smoking a joint, passing a joint and lying on the beach all make a statement of who Jim was and became to be. These photos are a true piece of American history.
20H / PROJECTION "LES DERNIERS JOURS DE JIM MORRISON" (52MN) UN FILM DE MICHAELLE GAGNET (FRANCE)
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21H / PHIL TRAINER + RICHARD BOHRINGER + GUEST
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Lectures de certains poèmes de Jim Morrison en Anglais ET en Français d'après "Ecrits" de Jim Morrison.
Phil Trainer
By 1985, Phil Trainer was back in Paris and people started referring to him by his nickname, "Steele" -- French for "style". The name stuck and became Phil's pseudonym. But up until that time, Phil Trainer had already made a name for himself, having written film scores for Georges Lautner, a No. 1 hit in Latin America titled "Carousel", and the international club classic, "City Lights" -- the balearic anthem that went Gold, selling over 10 million singles and compilations.
22H / PROJECTION (1H20) "NOT TO TOUCH THE EARTH" (40 YEARS OF JIM MORRISON IN PARIS)
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Un fil de Dean Preston (Australie) 2011
Jim Morrison : O poeta-xamã - Marcel de Lima Santos
A relação entre xamanismo e poesia na obra de um dos ícones pop do século 20 é o tema do livro Jim Morrison, O poeta-xamã, que a Editora UFMG lança hoje, 5, a partir das 19h, na Livraria Mineirama (Rua Paraíba, 1419, Savassi).
A obra do escritor e professor da Faculdade de Letras Marcel de Lima analisa a manifestação xamânica nos poemas escritos por Morrison, líder da banda The Doors. O autor discute a tradição poética do bardo visionário e as influências dos poetas do romantismo Arthur Rimbaud e William Blake nas produções artísticas de Morrison.
Ghost - Into The Self
Curta-metragem de Rodrigo Zan e Leco Moura
Direção e roteiro Rodrigo Zan
Diretor de Fotografia Leco Moura
Narração Sally Shepard
Atrizes Yasya Slonova & Ana Pierucci
Diretor-assistente Guigo Foggiatto
Assistente de câmera Seven Xing
Operador de som Gao Fei Zeng
Telecine Steve at Fotokem
Edição Leco Moura
Trilha-sonora The Doors
Filmado em 16mm
Jim Morrison: The Articulation of the Shaman-Poet in the Poetic Tradition
This dissertation aims at the articulation of the shaman-poet in the poetic tradition. It presents American poet Jim Morrison as the shaman artist whose life and poetry are analyzed as belonging to the tradition of poets Plato called possessed by furor poeiicus. This tradition, which is to find its prime in the writings of the Romantic poets, states that poetry is a secret language, based on feeling and imagination, that speaks to the heart of men about the sacred and universal, i. e., natural, quality of the human soul. The shaman-poet, thus, belongs to a tradition that goes back thousands of years to a time when the primitive man used to be in touch with a magical understanding of his environment on a regular basis, in contrast to the extremely rational perception of the world by modem man. The poetry of Jim Morrison is presented here as a representative of this sacred language that tells of this magical perception, long-forgotten, though never completely erased from the human mind. Hence, it is to be seen not only as a bridge to the spiritual realm of feeling and imagination, but also as a technique for ecological survival in this current rational and secular era.
Jim Morrison - Um ensaio
FICHA TÉCNICA
ATOR: RICARDO OLIVEIRA
DIRETOR: NATAN DE ALENCAR
DRAMATURGIA: RICARDO OLIVEIRA E NATAN DE ALENCAR
IDEALIZADOR: CELSO MELO
SONOPLASTIA: CLEYTON LOPES
Portas por trás das portas: sete abordagens temáticas a partir do grupo The Doors
Este trabalho quer explorar sete abordagens temáticas possíveis a partir e, principalmente, em diálogo com a trajetória e obra de um grupo californiano de rock, o The Doors. O texto é resultado de discussões anteriormente elaboradas para minicursos, aulas, mesa-redonda e, especialmente, matérias publicadas, em 2001, na imprensa belohorizontina.
Celebration of the Lizard King: Jim Morrison
I went on to find other wonderful coincidences in Jim's writing and his inspiration from other works such as The Yage Letters from William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. This is another drug-inspired tale woven through a series of letters between the two authors. The first portion of the collection begins with Burroughs during his visit to the Amazon Rainforest in 1953 in search of yage, one of the most powerful hallucinogens known to man. The latter series of correspondence occurred when Ginsberg went on the same conquest in 1960. Burroughs wrote back to Ginsberg after his mystical journey...
"WHAT SCARED YOU ALL INTO TIME? WHAT SCARED YOU ALL INTO YOUR BODIES?"
Not a decade later, Morrison wrote...
"Who scared you? Why were you born, my babe?
In two-time's arms with all of your charms, my love.
Why were you born? just to play with me?
To freak out or to be beautiful, my dear?
Load your head, blow it up, feeling good, baby"
Brandt Hardin
Liner Notes 11 coming up soon at the Melbourne Writers Festival
This year, Liner Notes, a literary cabaret in tribute to a classic album, takes a lysergic road trip with Jim Morrison to scatter the ashes of the ’60s in the Mojave Desert, as we celebrate the swaggering shamanic blues of The Doors’ L.A.Woman. Featuring special guests Missy Higgins, Andy Griffiths, Ophira Eisenberg (US), Dave Graney, Doug Johnstone (UK), Jane Caro, Luka Lesson and Josh Earl, with Emilie Zoey Baker, Sean M Whelan and Alicia Sometimes, and led by MC Michael Nolan and a kick-arse live band. So, join us for the Lizard King's swansong before he ran a warm bath in Paris for the American Dream. The Regal Ballroom, Northcote, Friday 23 August. Tickets:http://tickets.mwf.com.au/session2_mwf.asp?s=300
Side one
1. ‘Changeling’ JOSH EARL
2. ‘Love Her Madly’ ANDY GRIFFITHS
3. ‘Been Down So Long’ JANE CARO
4. ‘Cars Hiss By My Window’ EMILIE ZOEY BAKER
5. ‘L.A. Woman’ DOUG JOHNSTONE (Edinburgh)
Interval
Side two
6. ‘L’America’ OPHIRA EISENBERG (Host of the Moth StorySLAMs, USA)
7. ‘Hyacinth House’ ALICIA SOMETIMES & SEAN M WHELAN WITH THE HYACINTHIANS.
8. ‘Crawling King Snake’ GEORGE MEGALOGENIS
9. ‘The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)’ LUKA LESSON
10. ‘Riders on the Storm’ MISSY HIGGINS
If that line-up doesn’t get your mojo risin’, nothing will.
Friday 23 August 2013 at 9.00 pm
tickets here: http://tickets.mwf.com.au/session2_mwf.asp?sn=Liner+Notes
Jim - Walter Daguerre
Um homem diante do túmulo de Jim Morrison com uma arma em punho. Um homem que não conheceu o vocalista do The Doors pessoalmente mas que, entretanto, teve sua vida pautada pelas ideias e pelos ideais deste que é considerado um dos maiores ícones do rock de todos os tempos. Um homem que durante anos acalentou o sonho de seguir os passos de seu ídolo, como artista e como ser humano, mas que acabou percorrendo uma existência trivial. Um homem que chegou aos 40 com o sentimento de que suas idealizações se perderam no tempo. É este homem que está agora em Paris, no cemitério Père-Lachaise, com um revólver na mão para acertar as contas com Jim Morrison. Ele tem somente uma bala, uma pequena peça de chumbo com a qual pretende transformar seu destino num jogo de azar. Este seria um acontecimento relativamente simples, não fosse a aparição de uma misteriosa mulher com quem ele trava um decisivo diálogo. E a presença enigmática de JIM.
Giostri
Jim Morrison, do “The Doors”, é tema de peça musical no Rio de Janeiro
Com direção de Paulo Moraes, o texto é de Walter Daguerre e procura fugir do modelo biográfico, voltando a atenção do espectador especialmente para a poesia e os conflitos internos de Jim. O autor procura também mostrar a influência de grandes nomes como Friedrich Nietzsche, William Blake e Charles Baudelaire como inspiração para os trabalhos de Morrison. No palco, Eriberto se divide entre dois homens, o próprio Jim e João Mota, um fã nascido 49 dias após a precoce morte do músico, mas que é profundamente influenciado por suas ideias e conceitos. Mesclando referências musicais nacionais e internacionais do próprio ator, o espetáculo é embalado por 10 sucessos, incluindo “Light my fire”, “The end” e “Riders on the storm“, todos executados ao vivo por Eriberto, que divide o palco com a atriz Renata Guida e uma banda.
O espetáculo fica em cartaz até o fim do semestre na Sala Tônia Carrero, do Teatro Leblon, com grandes possibilidades de passar por São Paulo, Belo Horizonte e Curitiba em 2014.
brief translation: The play "Jim", based on the life and work of James Douglas Morrison, premieres today (July 9th, 2013) at Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Written by Walter Daguerre it focuses mainly on Jim's poetry, psychology and influence by Nietzsche, Blake, Baudelaire on Morrison. The show is rocked by 10 hits as Light my fire, The end, Riders on the storm, all performed live by actor Eriberto Leão.
Jim Morrison : O Rei Lagarto - Luciano Saracino
Jim Morrison, vocalista do grupo The Doors, é uma das lendas mais controversas do rock e também um dos maiores símbolos da contracultura dos anos 1960. Suas letras, canções e atitudes provocaram e inspiraram muitos jovens. Jim foi e ainda é um enigma para seus fãs. Esta biografia em quadrinhos faz um mergulho em sua trajetória: desde o início de sua carreira com os Doors até sua misteriosa e prematura morte aos 27 anos.
Untold stories
Interview with Mark Opsasnick about the book
“The Lizard King was here”
From all books on Morrison one stands out for the depth, seriousness, accuracy and criteria of the research it is solidly based on. A tremendous amount of interviews, visits, transcripts, hard work and persistence have resulted in a valid, balanced and realistic vision of Jim’s years in Alexandria as some of the roots of his thought, writing and personality. (It only makes us wonder how priceless it would be to have the same kind of investigation techniques and high standards applied to the Florida period.)
The author is Mark Opsasnick, author also of more than 70 published articles on subjects as music or popular culture and 7 books (the most popular being "Capitol rock").
For these reasons I can only sincerely recommend that you read The Lizard King was here : the life and times of Jim Morrison in Alexandria, Virginia.
“If the concern of biography is the human individual in all his aspects, it would be imperative to examine his various activities, endeavors, interests, his environment, and his relations with others.” p. 18
ether glow: Exactly how much material did you gather while researching for this book? Will it ever be published?
Mark Opsasnick: A tremendous amount of material was collected – enough for two books. I have another Morrison book outlined, but I’m not sure if I’ll be writing it or not. I’m very much involved with a difficult project right now that deals with documenting the entire history of Washington, D.C.-area popular music from the 1800s to the 1970s and all my time and energy is being absorbed by this endeavor. When this book is finished I’ll sit back and see if another Morrison venture is forthcoming.
“It was at UCLA where Morrison reportedly escalated his drinking habits and experimented with drugs such as marijuana and LSD.” p. 27
ether glow: Did Morrison ever express any willingness or curiosity to experiment with drugs during the Alexandria period?
Mark Opsasnick: None whatsoever. Not one person I interviewed ever saw or heard of Morrison doing any type of drugs during his Alexandria years. He just wasn’t hitting the chemicals yet.
“From this period of his life there are no known surviving letters, notebooks, journals, drawings, collages, or personal photos (in fact, the only known image of Morrison from this period is his senior year photo), and although he did take the time to sign several yearbooks for his classmates – usually only scribbling “Jim” or “J. Morrison” – he didn’t record any thoughts or shared experiences.” p. 73
ether glow: Question: What is the source of this statement?
Mark Opsasnick: Not one person I interviewed who knew Morrison in Alexandria, including his brother Andy, recalled there being any type of surviving material from these years – aside from a couple of paintings that are rumored to now be privately owned by Tandy Martin and Jim Merrill.
“A limited quantity of rare Jim Morrison poetry has surfaced in recent years on the Internet. This material has mainly consisted of short poems that were uncovered from his stray notebooks or lifted from obscure European books and magazine articles. One such poem that has surfaced is a piece entitled “All the Poems,” which was allegedly written during his high school years and dedicated to Tandy Martin. While I don’t have permission to quote the poem directly, I will paraphrase the work and tell that it is presented in two “Acts”, the first of which talks of a beautiful woman who dances in a ring of fire (no doubt an allusion to Tandy Martin’s thirst for intrigue and adventure) and concludes with parting words in which the writer and his “beautiful one” are joined in a dream-like union.” p. 108
ether glow: What makes you believe that “All the Poems” was written by Jim Morrison?
Mark Opsasnick: A close friend of Tandy Martin’s provided this information and I believed it to be true. Shortly after the book was released, Tandy Martin herself contacted me and verified that this particular poem was, in fact, written about her by Morrison.
ether glow: Did you interview Tandy Martin? Will the content of the conversation(s) be released or eventually incorporated in a new edition of “The Lizard King was here”? How enlightening was your dialogue and how did it manage to fill the gaps of “The Lizard King was here” left by the absence of Tandy Martin’s testimony?
Mark Opsasnick: Since the publication of “The Lizard King Was Here” I have spent some time with Tandy Martin and talked with her at length, but she has never discussed Jim Morrison with me. I haven’t pressed the issue with her. If I do another Morrison book, I may ask her to cooperate, but right now it’s not on the schedule.
“To be as fair as possible, I felt it was imperative to obtain the perspective of Jim’s younger brother, Andy Morrison, on several family-related issues.” p. 118
ether glow: Did you try to contact Anne Morrison for your research?
Mark Opsasnick: No. None of Morrison’s friends from GW High had anything to say about here and no one remembers her ever going into Washington, DC with Jim. Andy was a different story. Jim was more involved in Andy’s life at that point in time.
“The closest concentration of bookstores to the bus stop at 12th and Pennsylvania was the infamous 9th Street Strip that Andy Morrison had alluded to, a then-seedy Times Square-like stretch of run-down arcades, peep shows, billiard parlors, liquor stores, lunch rooms, restaurants, bars, and adult theatres that was billed by the local media as “The Bowery.” In 1960 this area was also home to some of the city’s favorite used book shops including the Bargain Book Shop (808 9th Street NW), the Central Book Shop (906 9th Street NW), George Friend’s Book Shop (922 9th Street NW), and the Park Book Shop (919 G Street NW). Jim Morrison must have loved this slowly decaying stretch of old shops and the hidden treasures they held.” p. 159
ether glow: This paragraph bears an impressive similarity with “The Lords” (“But in the grimy ring immediately surrounding the daylight business district exists the only
real crowd life of our mound, the only street
life, night life. Diseased specimens in dollar
hotels, low boarding houses, bars, pawn shops,
burlesques and brothels, in dying arcades which
never die, in streets and streets of all-night
cinemas.”). Do you consider that it may have been an inspiration?
Mark Opsasnick: Personally, I am almost certain it was – because he just described 9th Street NW exactly as it was in 1960. However, we have no way of verifying that. Only Morrison himself could tell us if he had D.C. or L.A. in mind when he wrote those lines.
“Those who spent time with Jim Morrison during his Alexandria tenure basically agree that he frequently liked to surprise and even shock the people around him without forewarning. Often times he would exhibit strange and inexplicable behavior for whomever he was with, then measure their reactions like a silent psychologist conducting esoteric social experiments. His penchant for quashing the comfort zone of those in his company was perhaps just one method of testing his philosophy of free activity, a process of thought that encompassed concepts of chaos, disorder, and rebellion in the face of authority.” p. 245
ether glow: What exactly is the philosophy of free activity?
Mark Opsasnick: Exactly as the line says: “a process of thought that encompassed concepts of chaos, disorder, and rebellion in the face of authority.” Trying to understand Morrison’s teenage behavior is futile; he was a free spirit and did whatever he liked without regard to consequence or the way it would affect other humans around him. It seems liked he was always trying to alter the conventional processes around him – he did things to push the boundaries of socially acceptable behavior and gauge the reactions he got. Of course, maybe his motivation was simpler; maybe he just got off on freaking people out.
“… and he had to deal with feelings of rootlessness, a byproduct of the constant relocating most military families endured.” p. 251
ether glow: It has been widely discussed weather the constant relocating of the Morrison family affected Jim or not and in what way. Jeff Morehouse depreciated such effect saying “A lot of people talk about the instability, yet there was a basic stability because we had families that we did move with, so there wasn't complete shock every time we went somewhere. A lot of times we really were in with a bunch of other people we'd known forever. There were a lot of families that did that.” (BUTLER, Patricia – “Angels dance and angels die”. London [etc.]: Omnibus Press, 2007, p. 5)”. You seem to have a different opinion about it. On what did you base it?
Mark Opsasnick: There are two schools of though on this and based on what was told to me by several of Jim’s friends, I believe the rootlessness definitely affected Morrison in some way. Jim Merrill told me something to the effect of “Morrison was there, but it was like he wasn’t really there.” He had relocated so much it seemed like he was always on the move and really made no effort to make friends or cater to anyone else. People gravitated towards him. He knew that as soon as high school was over, he’d be in motion again. That has to adversely affect a teenager in some way.
“They served as inspiration for his poetry and personal writings (which during his high school years reportedly appeared on his notebook pages as a succession of abstract, symbolistic fragments taken from scattered life experiences), and later amalgamated into the body of lyrics that became the very foundation for his life’s work with the Doors.” p. 252
ether glow: Where can we find the source of this information?
Mark Opsasnick: Many of Morrison’s high school friends recall how he would carry those flip-up style little notebooks in his possession and would constantly write in them regardless of his immediate environment. Several individuals have opined that bits and pieces of this material surfaced in Doors lyrics, though at this point it is impossible to cite specific pages as examples, since none of those notebooks survived his Alexandria period. We must take their testimony at face value.
“For those who wondered whatever happened to Morrison’s incredible book collection after he passed away, it was donated to the Alexandria Library in 1972 by his brother Andy. Each title, heavily laced with Jim’s scribblings and notes and underlines, was likely sold off for twenty-five cents apiece at ensuing library book sales.)” p. 252
ether glow: Did Andy write down the titles or remember them?
Mark Opsasnick: No. Andy remembers nothing in terms of specific titles. We can only speculate on what was in Jim’s collection. Those books are gone forever.
“Morrison’s rebellion against rules and boundaries and his perpetual resistance to authority can be looked upon as responses to his father’s military background, practices that were fostered in Alexandria and stayed with him throughout his tempestuous existence.” p. 254
ether glow: Did the same happen to Andy and Anne since they were exposed to the exact same background?
Mark Opsasnick: Not to my knowledge. However, I feel that Jim Morrison, being the eldest of the three, had a different relationship with his father than his siblings did. Andy and Anne never had the opportunities to rebel while in Alexandria. Jim Morrison did.
“Both Bob Hemphill and John Huetter had kept in touch with Morrison to some extent after their high school days together had concluded. Hemphill had actually exchanged letters with him during their college years and was probably one of the last from Alexandria to enjoy any type of semi-regular contact with Morrison.” p. 257
ether glow: What happened to these letters?
Mark Opsasnick: Bob Hemphill told me he still has those letters in his possession. If true, they are worth a fortune.
This is an excerpt of an exclusive interview for www.etherglow.blogspot.pt conducted by email with Mark Opsasnick in 2012.
The Heart of the Silence - Tandy Martin
Teaser for a film featuring a trek to sacred lagoons at 17,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes with Shaman Americo Yabar and the Q'ero Indians. We performed ceremonies at various apecheta's or energetic doorways on the way up the mountain. At the lagoons we sat with Q'ero Indians Don Mariano Apasa and his son Nazario who laid one of the cornerstones of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC. Americo teaches energetic passes, and the dictum "Come down from the head to the heart and live life through heart."
Dom Juan de Molière
Musique The Doors
Par la Cie La Naïve
Mise en scène Jean-Charles Raymond
Avec :
Bruno Bonomo, Silvia Cimino, Patrick Henry, Christelle Golovine, Hervé Pezière, Charles-Eric Petit, Marie Salemi
Quand la plus grande figure du libertinage du XVIIe sièclese retrouve propulsée en pleine période seventies où le puritanisme fait rage, elle devient « rebelle », rock-star. Alors la foi devient mystique, la famille devient mafia, la fuite un road movie, mais le mythe reste intact.
Il y a toujours eu et il y aura toujours des êtres qui s’opposeront à tout ce qu’une majorité accepte. La fin des années 60 et le début des années 70 ont révélé quelques figures devenues aujourd’hui mythiques, comparables à ce fameux "jeune noble libertin" du XVIIe, notamment Jim Morrison ; TheDoors sont donc convoqués pour la BO de ce road-movie, marqué par de nombreux clins d’œil cinématographiques, de Stanley Kubrick à Terry Gilliam, Martin Scorsese ou Francis Ford Coppola.
[L’hebdo Marseille] Des rappels dignes de ceux d’un concert de rock ! Un vrai bonheur !
[La Marseillaise] La téléportation réussie du libertin de Molière dans les seventies de Jim Morrison. Au-delà de belles idées de mise en scène (des idées tout simplement géniales), l’essentiel est dans le jeu. Un impressionnant Charles-Éric Petit, délicieusement cynique et sensuellementdélétère. Le reste de la distribution est au diapason, mêlantles registres du gag et du drame avec une belle énergie.
[Zibeline] Géniale analogie qui fonctionne avec cohérence et légèreté, un miracle !
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Jim Morrison - Jean-Yves Reuzeau
Chaman, poète maudit, sorcier des mots, James Douglas Morrison, dit Jim Morrison (1943-1971), chanteur des Doors, continue de fasciner des générations d'auditeurs et de lecteurs.
Cette biographie très documentée retrace l'aventure fulgurante d'un artiste hors du commun qui réinventa le rock and roll. L'équipée sauvage de celui qu'on appelait le «Roi lézard» fut aussi celle d'un groupe, les Doors, dont les mélodies et les textes font aujourd'hui parti de l'histoire de la musique : «Riders On The Storm», «Light My Fire», «You Make Me real»... Auteur de plusieurs livres sur Jim Morrison, Jean-Yves Reuzeau travailla une dizaine d'années pour le label Elektra, celle des Doors.
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Hard Rock Cafe Lisboa recebe exposição The Art of Hard Rock
A partir desta quarta-feira e até dia 26, o Hard Rock Cafe Lisboa recebe a exposição The Art of Hard Rock.
Ao todo, estão 40 obras de nomes como Michael Jackson, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle e Roger Daltrey dos The Who, Paul Stanley dos Kiss, Frank Zappa, Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, Lou Reed, Julian Lennon, George Clinton, Mike Oldfield, Marty Balin dos Jefferson Airplane, Marillion, Ugly Kid Joe, Ringo Starr dos Beatles, Jim Morrison e Iron Maiden. Na imagem, pode ver-se um quadro pintado propositadamente por Ronnie Wood para posterior leilão.
A exposição que durante este ano percorreu as principais cidades europeias termina a digressão em Lisboa. A entrada para a exposição é livre e o espaço está aberto todos os dias.
The real Jim Morrison - The conspiracy show podcast
EPISODE TITLE: THE REAL JIM MORRISON
AUTHOR: RICHARD SYRETT
INTERVIEW WITH: ALAN GRAHAM
INTERVIEW WITH: ALAN GRAHAM
PUBLISHED: 30 SEPTEMBER 2012
PODCAST TITLE: THE CONSPIRACY SHOW PODCAST
PODCAST EPISODE: EPISODE OF 30 SEPTEMBER 2012
PART: I (OF II)
LENGHT OF PART I: 00:00:00 TO 00:52:13
PODCAST EPISODE: EPISODE OF 30 SEPTEMBER 2012
PART: I (OF II)
LENGHT OF PART I: 00:00:00 TO 00:52:13
RADIO STATION: ZOOMER RADIO
AVAILABLE: Zoomer Radio
Therefore, time does not exist.
Interview with Judy Huddleston about the book
“This is the end… my only friend”
Judy Huddleston is a sweet and generous person. She was born in California, where she studied Visual Arts at California Institute of the Arts and teaches writing at California State University at Monterey. Her prose is realistic, vivid and raw. Her non-fiction is honest, unprejudiced and undisguised. Her poetry is deep, mystical and serene. She lives among trees, sun, deer, owls, wild turkeys and a dog called Obie. Her house has white screen doors facing a pines wood. Publisher Chicago Review Press will make "Love him madly : an intimate memoir of Jim Morrison" available in May, 2013.
“I wrote the first draft of this book when I was in my early twenties. Though I’ve been over it several times since then, I’ve tried to stay as close to the truth as the original.” p. 3
ether glow: Did you keep diaries through the time you met Jim? Did you use them as the basis of the book? Will they ever be published?
Judy Huddleston: Yes, I did, but they were mostly sketches and poems. I doubt that they are publishable.
“When I heard Oliver Stone was going to direct a film about Jim and The Doors, I was both excited and scared. As one of Jim’s countless romantic interests, I was found by his researchers. After my first meeting with Oliver, his producer asked me to work as a technical advisor on his movie.” p. 4
ether glow: What is your opinion about the movie?
Judy Huddleston: I felt it was too sensationalistic and the portrayal of Jim was too one-sided.
““I loved your manuscript. But it’ll be a hard sell.” I didn’t mention how long I’d been trying.” p. 4
ether glow: Yours was one of the first books to be published about Jim Morrison. How hard was it to get it published? How was it received?
Judy Huddleston: It is almost always difficult to get a first book published. Since the publisher went bankrupt shortly after publication, it was barely “received” at all.
“He starts talking about dreams being interesting writing material, and telling me how he keeps his in notebooks. Then he turns them into poems”. p. 18
ether glow: Did Jim give any example of a poem written that way (a dream turned into a poem)?
Judy Huddleston: No, he didn’t give any examples.
““It’s getting late,” he says.
“I know, I have to go.” I put my head against his chest for a moment, full of his pain that came unannounced. I’m bursting and suffocating with the knowledge that I can never have him – he is not something to have.” p. 23
ether glow: How were you so sure and so quickly that Jim was not something to have?
Judy Huddleston: His entire being was based on having freedom.
“Most of my time is spent in isolation, reading William Blake, Greek drama, Dostoyevsky and comparative religion. I begin writing morbidly obsessive poems and begin new fantasy drawings.” p. 52-53
ether glow: Where are those poems and drawings? Do they still exist?
Judy Huddleston: They’re in journals in storage.
“We’d had a debate over the good and bad points of L.A., and I’d taken the side that it was to flashy.” p. 75
“We’d had a debate over the good and bad points of L.A., and I’d taken the side that it was to flashy.” p. 75
ether glow: Why was Jim so fond of LA?
Judy Huddleston: He seemed mixed, but liked the straightforward city aspects.
““It never works out, something’s always wrong. You believe all these things about love, but it’s never true the way you thought. Still, you keep believing something will work, and it’s just not possible! Never.”
“What about Pam?”” p. 81
ether glow: In your opinion why did the love and friendship between Jim and Pam last for so long? And why were they so drawn to each other?
Judy Huddleston: Honestly, I don’t know how it worked. Fate, karma, love, sex, mutual addictions and codependence?
““I’ll have to give you a copy of my book. It’s really good, and I’ll sign it for you. Then, someday when I’m dead, you’ll have money ’cause it’ll be a collector’s item.”” p. 116
ether glow: What is your opinion about the book? Did you like it? Did you share your opinion with Jim (besides what is on p. 172)?
Judy Huddleston: Some of it was excellent and I liked it. Some of it I didn’t.
“I drive away, convinced that he’s incomprehensible, promising myself I’ll never again attempt to understand anything he says or does.” p. 117
ether glow: What was in Jim’s nature that made him so incomprehensible?
Judy Huddleston: Deep paradox.
““I wander what it will be like when we’re in our thirties and people respect us?”” p. 136
““I wander what it will be like when we’re in our thirties and people respect us?”” p. 136
ether glow: Did Jim talk a lot about the future? He used to say he wouldn't be around for long.
Judy Huddleston: Not much future; seemed aware he wouldn’t be alive long.
“He needs an extra dose – an extra dose of everything.” p. 136
“He needs an extra dose – an extra dose of everything.” p. 136
ether glow: In your opinion why was Jim so excessive?
Judy Huddleston: The basic addictive personality.
“I suffer mild
culture shock (I am not a hippie, I am too screwed up). I feel combined guilt,
hostility, and rebellion towards the enlightened ones. They’ve set up a new
norm, and I don’t fit it, either.
My girlfriend,
Linda, has become full-fledged hippie of pure intent. She introduces me to the
people of the village, hoping I will come out of my catatonic coma. It just
makes me worse. I can’t believe that the city gave birth to smog, jealousy,
politics, meat-eating and other bad things. I can’t passively accept each new
day as glorious. In the middle of the gentle flow around me, I want to scream,
“You’re hypocrites!”
In homespun, embroidered clothes, with no make-up and my hair hanging loose and moppy, I’m viewed as a sister; but if I wear make-up, curl my hair, and eat at Taco Bell, I’m a spiritual reject. I do both on purpose, and, I am amazed at the reactions my surface image causes. People actually believe you are what you look like.” p. 142-143
ether glow: How did Jim feel about the hippies?
Judy Huddleston: Amused, fond, misguided idealism.
“I know I can never really reach him, he’ll never really believe that I do honestly love him. I could go down on my knees, cry testimony to God, beg him to believe, but somehow it feels he never will.” p. 152
“I know I can never really reach him, he’ll never really believe that I do honestly love him. I could go down on my knees, cry testimony to God, beg him to believe, but somehow it feels he never will.” p. 152
ether glow: Why didn’t Jim believe that someone could honestly love him? Why was he so unreachable?
Judy Huddleston: Back to the wounded self.
“When I wake up, I see Jim inspecting the stack of books by my bed.
“Are these all for school? he asks, amazed.
“No. None of them are. They’re for me.” I say.
He has come upon a William Blake book, and is quoting random blurbs from memory.
“I really love Blake! He’s one of my favorite writers,” he says ecstatically.” p. 162
ether glow: What other writers did he mention he liked?
Judy Huddleston: Rimbaud, Artaud.
“Have some peace of mind.” p. 163
ether glow: Was it any occasion you saw Jim in peace of mind? What do you think tortured him constantly?
Judy Huddleston: Fleeting moments of peace. Otherwise hypersensitive and raw nerve endings tuned to pain, uncertainty, and loss.
“”Well, that line – about pulling your eyes out!”
“That,” the adult explains, “is about a contemporary issue. SMOG!” I see he does not care for criticism.
“I liked the part, about being metamorphosized from a mad dancing body on hillsides to…”
“To a pair of eyes staring in the dark,” he finishes for me, his anger forgotten." p. 172
ether glow: Did you discuss any other of Jim’s poems or lyrics?
Judy Huddleston: A feast of friends / When the music’s over / People are strange. I can’t remember if it’s in the book, but he said he wrote People are strange after a fight with Pam.
““Was it awful?” I don’t know many details about his trial in Miami, I just know he and the law can’t possibly mix. “I mean, all the bullshit. Legal games. Money for freedom…” I trail off, feeling inappropriate as he makes a meaningless gesture and dismisses further discussion of this subject by putting a wall over his face.” p. 180-181
ether glow: Do you think Miami affected him in a deep way?
Judy Huddleston: Yes, touched his fundamental flaw.
“When he reaches one painting I did more under his influence than mine, he doesn’t even notice. Anyone who was able to read and hear what his images evoked could’ve seen the blatant similarity. It’s all in muted warm and cool shades of pale yellow, the differences blocking out a highway leading to a desert horizon. Above this, there’s a moon, and a highway’s edge, stretched like a shoreline, a row of symbols: fish skeletons, round arrows, sun signs underlined, parts of an alternate language.” p. 184
ether glow: What did his images evoked to you? Does this painting still exist?
Judy Huddleston: Basic eternity. It’s in storage.
“Winter has taken its fluid California turn into spring, when I hear Jim has left Los Angeles for France. Rock hasn’t worn well, he wants to write, lose his sex-symbol image, be taken seriously.” p. 191
ether glow: Did he tell you what the real reason for leaving was? How did you know he’d be back in September?
Judy Huddleston: No. I just thought (incorrectly) that he’d be back.
“Now bending over, she gets the full view, an unmarked, but for a purple felt-pen transgression, ground grave, like a swimming pool hole filled with yellow and white growing flowers.” p. 200
ether glow: When and how many times did you visit Jim’s grave?
Judy Huddleston: 1973-74
This is an excerpt of an exclusive interview for www.etherglow.blogspot.pt conducted by email with Judy Huddleston in 2012.
