aaroneous g
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open letter to 17 year old boys who just discovered the Doors
Aug 29, 2015, 10:30
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http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-17-year-old-boys-who-just-discovered-the-doors
The opinions of the author do not necessarily reflect those of the undersigned, who at the tender age of 41, just performed onstage in leathers while his in-laws watched the kid . . .
Love, aaroneous
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fat_fleet
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Re: open letter to 17 year old boys who just discovered the Doors
Aug 29, 2015, 12:48
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I'm no huge Doors fan, but I can say this guy is not that unique in the landscape of detached internet music "listeners", who compartmentalize, conquer, and dismiss what they themselves could never do, scowling from the sidelines, never investing anything personal.
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HI DEN
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Re: open letter to 17 year old boys who just discovered the Doors
Aug 29, 2015, 13:14
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Well, that certainly was boring and predictable...
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carol27
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Re: open letter to 17 year old boys who just discovered the Doors
Aug 29, 2015, 18:18
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HI DEN wrote: Well, that certainly was boring and predictable...
As above.. doesn't mention the most glorious voice in the world though does he? Maybe that's what grabs people; the voice.
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Hunter T Wolfe
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Edited Aug 29, 2015, 18:23
Re: open letter to 17 year old boys who just discovered the Doors
Aug 29, 2015, 18:22
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Really annoyingly snide article. It doesn't even work on its own terms. For all his many faults, Morrison was never especially solipsistic. "He only ever wrote about himself"- really? Compared to who? Neil Young? John Lennon? Bob Dylan? Actually Morrison probably put less of his actual personal life into his songs than most serious songwriters- he was generally observational, metaphysical, political, or just writing plain old love songs.
Then the writer singles out LA Woman as the exception, which is no better or worse objectively than any other Doors song and certainly not the only example of Morrison writing about something other than himself- presumably this assumption was made just because it has the words 'LA' and 'Woman' in the title.
Then he decides to have a go at teenage aspiring writers who write about their own life, advising them that no-one's interested and they should write about something someone else has already done, like soft porn films from the eighties. Uh-huh. Ever heard the dictum 'write about what you know'?
Yeah tell teenagers that no-one is interested in them. That no-one is interested in anyone else's inner life or experiences. That people should only write cynically ironic articles about vintage popular culture because that's all anyone cares about. Bitter much that your own autobiographical teenage magnum opus was rejected by every publisher you sent it to?
The Doors are an easy target but there's far worse music to get into. Again this is snarky bullshit writing that doesn't even work on any level.
Edit: oh yeah, and keep on rocking, Arroneous.
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dhajjieboy
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Re: open letter to 17 year old boys who just discovered the Doors
Aug 29, 2015, 18:36
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I could have scanned the net a thousand years and not come across that....
and missed nothing.
Maybe now it will become viral.
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Pursued By Trees
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Re: open letter to 17 year old boys who just discovered the Doors
Aug 29, 2015, 22:26
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Seems to be confusing the ensuing cult of personality of Jim Morrison with the music of The Doors.
To mangle a quote ... it's somewhat like blaming Jesus for the Mormons.
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Sin Agog
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Re: open letter to 17 year old boys who just discovered the Doors
Aug 30, 2015, 00:23
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Is there still a Jim Morrison cult a'gwan? This seems an awful lot like a guy taking an annoying facebook friend and turning him into a demographic, if not a stage of life.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: open letter to 17 year old boys who just discovered the Doors
Aug 30, 2015, 16:25
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Great post.
Especially this:
Hunter T Wolfe wrote: Yeah tell teenagers that no-one is interested in them. That no-one is interested in anyone else's inner life or experiences.
"We're the flowers in the dustbin, we're the poison in the human machine, we're the future, your future"
And if anyone can point me to a more impossibly thrilling record that "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard (he was in his early 20s admittedly) I'd love to hear it. The lyrics are absolutely basic boys'n'girls stuff. Who gives a shit?
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HI DEN
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Edited Aug 31, 2015, 06:15
Re: open letter to 17 year old boys who just discovered the Doors
Aug 31, 2015, 06:12
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thesweetcheat wrote: Great post.
Especially this:
Hunter T Wolfe wrote: Yeah tell teenagers that no-one is interested in them. That no-one is interested in anyone else's inner life or experiences.
"We're the flowers in the dustbin, we're the poison in the human machine, we're the future, your future"
Right On! That is SO important to single and voice out!
I have to admit that I only read half of that vile brain fart...
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