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So sad, a video with no comments,…perhaps a certain Irishman's work would elicit a slightly more rabid response….
Agreed. This sportswriter's post of his top-secret 8 mm video of Ted Kennedy's swan dive into Chappaquiddick would have elicited my rabid response.
I want to make a recommendation: From now on, with the "Saturday entertainment," there should be a little blurb about these people personally. I mean, *really* personally.
It's been amazing, I get back into the folks I hadn't listened to in years and illegally download and listen to all of their albums in lossless quality torrents with my very expensive terrific Sennheiser headphones and … uh … that was a typo, of course … I mean, I promptly took the car for a drive and purchased, using 100% American currency, all of their stuff from my local Best Buy … and then, I've read into their deep backgrounds. Really deep backgrounds. Wow. Almost without exception, every one of these great artists have turned out to be total creeps and absolute monsters. Never mind Michael Jackson, who goes without saying. I mean, I could go on and on about what I've since read and learned about Pat's murderer's row of Saturday creeps, but holy cow, just Warren Zevon. Lordy.
If I bothered doing the hard research, I'll bet my bottom dollar that Tbomb's precious Van Morrison spent a few years making breakfast sausage with Jeffrey Dahmer. I never was the least bit interested in Alison Krauss or her music, but I have five bucks that says if I now really did some digging, that she spent every Tuesday night at a swanky Ramada Inn in Ashtabula spray-painting fetus blood swastikas on the walls and ceilings while putting quarters in a vibrating bed and being licked as the vanilla creme in an Oreo sandwich featuring Steve McNair, Michael Vick and a black Labrador retriever named "Max."
alan, did you read crystal zevon's biography of warren? he wanted her to release it leaving none of the scummy details out. that's part of what made warren so great. he was a supreme s—heel but at the tail end of his life managed to salvage a little dignity.
tbomb probably already knows that van morrison is a bottom feeder of the lowest order. he is a notorious curmudgeonly prick.
terje, I've only read very large bits and pieces of it I've read online, although I intend to check it out from the library. I don't believe for one second that Zevon would have EVER approved what she put out there. But we now have to take her word for it that it was his totally by his "request," "permission" and "approval," don't we? Give her a shot of Sodium Pentothal, and there is a 100% chance that she'd admit it's good old-fashioned self-serving, ax-grinding revenge.
Oh, and actually, apparently the end of his life was anything but dignity. He hit the bottle again, and made his son clean up his crap. Literally. Like cleaning up after a schnauzer in a dog park.
yeah, i know that he got wrecked at the end. life'll kill ya.
the biography thing is legit. believe it or not, that's the way he wanted it. he even gave her his journals for more fuel on the fire. he was such a character i would have been more shocked if he had wanted a fluff piece on his genius and beautiful life. also, many of the people she talked to for that book would have told her to sniff it had warren not given her the go-ahead and none of the interviewees are claiming that it was a posthumous hatchet job.
I still don't buy it. She could have just as easily come across his journals after he died, just like I stumbled across a ton of crap I never knew existed about my father until after he died. (Why do guys keep a manly "journal," while women keep a fruity "diary." Aren't they the same thing?) Again, we just have to take her word for it. I don't.
Saying something is a "hatchet job" implies it's untrue and/or a savage unfair portrayal. I'm not saying it's a hatchet job at all, I'm saying she finally got her comeuppance. She kept the guy's last name long after they were no longer together only because it served her own purposes, and then she got a book published with the total underlying goal of its content being sweet, sweet revenge. Exactly like that lowlife Ronnie Spector.
if it were any other person than warren zevon i could buy your argument. but the guy abused himself every way possible. musically, physically, mentally…..it's not a stretch to assume that he was in on the book too. since no one has spoken out against the book to say it was a revenge fueled money grab i'm taking her word for it.
here's a short interview i found with his ex-wife
http://blogcritics.org/books/article/an-interview-with-crystal-zevon-author/
apparently carl hiaasen was the instigator for the project.
I'd already read that interview … it's not a "stretch," per se, but in this case, the stretch is a ripped hammy and a torn groin. No way. If he ever pulled a Michael Jackson and launched himself out of his casket to read it, he would beat her to a pulp.
Tbomb is obviously a closet homosexual / alcoholic. Next thing you know, he'll request the numbers band….
That would be 15 60 75!