Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Saturday Night at the Oldies: Jim Morrison

Tomorrow it will have been 40 years since Jim Morrison of the Doors broke on through to the other side expiring in a Paris bath tub.  A too intense celebration of the Dionysian can lead to a premature exit from life's freeway, as more than one 60's 'icon' discovered.  The year before saw the drug- and alcohol-fueled deaths of  both Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.

Riders on the Storm, into this world we're thrown, brings a little Heidegger to the rock masses.

Roadhouse Blues:

Well, I woke up this morning, I got myself a beer
Well, I woke up this morning, and I got myself a beer
The future's uncertain, and the end is always near.

Beer for breakfast is contraindicated and may hasten the end which is indeed near in any case.  Forty years on, the cult continues.  Supply your own critique and be careful who you choose as role model.


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