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Jim Morrison Poem Used in New Global Warming Campaign
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| January 31, 2007
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Posted on 02/03/2007 5:19:30 AM PST by mcg2000
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A lot of liberties are being taken with the translation of the poem ... what's new, right?
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posted on
02/03/2007 5:19:34 AM PST
by
mcg2000
To: mcg2000
So unoriginal.
Redefining anything handy to fit their exaggerated agenda.
Anyone have the stupid poem to post?
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posted on
02/03/2007 5:33:35 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: mcg2000
Jim Morrison is quite cool...well, what's left of him...
To: mcg2000
Dan Morrell, founder of the Global Cool campaign, says he chose the song because it contains predictions correctly made about the state of the world - including the line, "Man you are evil, get out of my garden."
Predictions from a drug induced rocker....LOL.
"Man you are evil, get out of my garden" obviously he was refering to George Bush back then.
To: mcg2000
I was curious about his poetry. Found a web page that had some of it. I can't help but wonder what illegal frugs he lived on where -
POWER
I can make the earth stop in
its tracks. I made the
blue cars go away.
I can make myself invisible or small.
I can become gigantic & reach the
farthest things. I can change
the course of nature.
I can place myself anywhere in
space or time.
I can summon the dead.
I can perceive events on other worlds,
in my deepest inner mind,
& in the minds of others.
I can
I am
http://www.huddersfield1.co.uk/poetry/morrisonpoetry.htm
Reading through THIS poem, I believe he thought he was god!
LOL!!!
Yeah, I'm sure I'll take HIM seriously ... .
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posted on
02/03/2007 5:45:49 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: nmh
There is a Walt Whitman influence here.
To: mcg2000
"The previously unreleased poem written and recorded by Morrison shortly before his demise in 1971 will be used to publicise the Global Cool Campaign, which aims at cutting carbon emissions."
http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/entertainment/20070201/580181.html
Such a "deep" thinker:
Time is Like Acid
Time works like acid
Stained eyes
You see time fly
The face changes as the heart beats
& breathes
We are not constant
We are an arrow in flight
The sum of the angles of change
Her face changed in the car
eyes & skin & hair remain
the same. But a hundred similar
girls succeed each other
http://www.mhasd.k12.wi.us/hs/students/fehrmanfrank/poem11.html
Must have been a bad trip ... .
Well couldn't find The Woman in the Window ... should be as revealing and coherent as the others he wrote ... .
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posted on
02/03/2007 5:53:19 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: mcg2000
JIm Morrison wasd hot in my time ... I enjoyed some of his music ... who can forget, Light My Fire?
Anyway,
"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'. "
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/morrison.htm
Entertainment good ir bad is one thing but an icon for "global warming"? Ahead of his time on "global warming"? Come on. GET REAL!
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posted on
02/03/2007 6:03:42 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: mcg2000
A campaign. That's all global warming is. Welcome to the new mass hysteria.
To: aristotleman
He wasn't a stupid guy but he blew it on drugs.
He could have been so much more ... .
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posted on
02/03/2007 6:04:30 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: nmh
I'm not sure I necessarily buy into all the derogatory comments based upon someone viewing things in a poetic/symbolistic perspective.
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posted on
02/03/2007 6:05:07 AM PST
by
mcg2000
(New Orleans: The city that declared Jihad on The Red Cross.)
To: mcg2000
I was a fan back then ... they're true.
THe guy didn't start out as ana idiot. He was rather bright but drugs got the better of him. He was one who was "searching for truth" types that never found it.
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posted on
02/03/2007 6:23:05 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: mcg2000
The DNC theme must be "We all live on Love Street". lol.
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posted on
02/03/2007 6:45:33 AM PST
by
Alia
To: mcg2000
He self destructed before he reached 30 years of age.
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posted on
02/03/2007 6:49:10 AM PST
by
freedomson
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To: nmh
"Entertainment good ir bad is one thing but an icon for "global warming"? Ahead of his time on "global warming"? Come on. GET REAL!?"
He did have some interesting things to say regarding society's evolution.
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1594014,00.html
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posted on
02/03/2007 6:53:09 AM PST
by
mcg2000
(New Orleans: The city that declared Jihad on The Red Cross.)
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"The track was given to Farrell by the Jim Morrison estate." The "estate" is owned by the father of Jim's wife. He is an ex-principal. Don't know what his politics are but he's sat on releasing much from Morrison's back catalog (including the movie Jim made well after forming the Doors).
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posted on
02/03/2007 8:06:02 AM PST
by
weegee
(No third term. Hillary Clinton's 2008 election run presents a Constitutional Crisis.)
To: nmh
The Communist Party likes to revise the historical record from time to time.
Morrison is now a patron saint of the Red-Greens' global cooling, er warming movement.
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posted on
02/03/2007 8:09:19 AM PST
by
weegee
(No third term. Hillary Clinton's 2008 election run presents a Constitutional Crisis.)
To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
Thought you'd like to weigh in on this.
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posted on
02/03/2007 8:12:15 AM PST
by
RepoGirl
("Tom, I'm getting dead from you, but I'm not getting Un-dead..." -- Frasier Crane)
Comment #19 Removed by Moderator
To: Alia
The DNC theme must be "We all live on Love Street". lol. Ted Kennedy's song is "Whiskey Song" while the DNC coalition is "People Are Strange".
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posted on
02/03/2007 8:13:27 AM PST
by
weegee
(No third term. Hillary Clinton's 2008 election run presents a Constitutional Crisis.)
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