Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Pivital point!
Jims life changed very much when he moved out west, he lived the nomadic lifestyle in venice beach california. When he and the band started playing within months the doors where locally reknown and eventually they made it big on the Ed Sullivan show becoming an instant success
jims adversery
Jim morrison came from a rough childhood with very strict parents, which is most likely why he wanted to be different and move away, as soon as he graduated highschool he moved to california to enroll in poetry school, where most everyone didnt care for his writings or teachers, assuming that they simply didnt understand him, he put it to music and easily overcame the barrier of peoples judgements
Some songs that the doors played where just jams that jim would sing poetry too that they had never rehearsed usually sounding soft and deep like this one
Some songs that the doors played where just jams that jim would sing poetry too that they had never rehearsed usually sounding soft and deep like this one
Monday, March 22, 2010
jim morrison facts and good quotes

Jim morrison was most reknown for his music with the doors, but many ignored his poetry, Jim was a creative songwriter and filmaker also,
-(December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971)
-he is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic frontmen in rock music history.
-He was also the author of several books of poetry and the director of a documentary and short film.
- Jim morrisons death is a touchy subject b/c their was no actual report or autopsy of his body, all we know for sure is that he did die of some sort of heart failure, most likly due to a herion overdose, but others beleive that he still might be alive, similer to elvis
-Morrison`s grave in Paris, France, is reportedly the city`s 4th most popular attraction after the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and the Louvre.
'I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. '
'I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something. '
'I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.' '
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.'
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Jim Morrison background
Jim morrison was raised in florida, where after highschool, he moved out west to go to school for poetry, eventually he decided to get into music and realized how much he liked that more, his parents where not happy aobut his choices at all, being a high rank in the military jims dad was upset and worried for his son but jim would not contact them. As the band got more and more popular The Doors began traveling many places and even across seas. Jim was the doors basically, the fans adored him much more than his fellow musicians, Possibly from either influence of his girlfriend, or to escape the stressful atmosphere he lived jim turned to many drugs and was an alcoholic, which was evident during his performances. many ending with him past out on the stage.
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