Angels And Sailors - An American Prayer - poem by James Douglas Morrison

The Univited Guest - Eleanor Brickdale

Angels And Sailors
Rich Girls
Backyard Fences
Tents


Dreams Watching Each Other Narrowly
Soft Luxuriant Cars
Girls In Garages, Stripped
Out To Get Liquor And Clothes
Half Gallons Of Wine And Six-Packs Of Beer
Jumped, Humped, Born To Suffer
Made To Undress In The Wilderness.


I Will Never Treat You Mean
Never Start No Kind Of Scene
I'll Tell You Every Place And Person That I've Been.


Always A Playground Instructor, Never A Killer
Always A Bridesmaid On The Verge Of Fame Or Over
He Manouvered Two Girls Into His Hotel Room
One A Friend, The Other, The Young One, A Newer Stranger
Vaguely Mexican Or Puerto Rican
Poor Boys Thighs And Buttock Scarred By A Father's Belt
She's Trying To Rie
Story Of Her Boyfriend, Of Teenage Stoned Death Games
Handsome Lad, Dead In A Car
Confusion
No Connections
Come 'Ere
I Love You
Peace On Earth
Will You Die For Me?
Eat Me
This Way
The End


I'll Always Be True
Never Go Out, Sneaking Out On You, Babe
If You'll Only Show Me Far Arden Again.


I'm Surprised You Could Get It Up
He Whips Her Lightly, Sardonically, With Belt
Haven't I Been Through Enough? She Asks
Now Dressed And Leaving
The Spanish Girl Begins To Bleed
She Says Her Period
It's Catholic Heaven
I Have An Ancient Indian Crucifix Around My Neck
My Chest Is Hard And Brown
Lying On Stained, Wretched Sheets With A Bleeding Virgin
We Could Plan A Murder
Or Start A Religion.

James Douglas Morrison

Curses, Invocation - An American Prayer - poem by James Douglas Morrison

Contes Erotique - Vladimir Kush

Curses, Invocations

Weird Bate-Headed Mongrels

I Keep Expecting One Of You To Rise

Large Buxom Obese Queen

Garden Hogs And Cunt Veterans

Quaint Cabbage Saints

Shit Hoarders And Individualists

Drag Strip Officials

Tight Lipped Losers And

Lustful Fuck Salesman

My Militant Dandies

All Strange Orders Of Monsters

Hot On The Tail Of The Woodvine

We Welcome You To Our Procession

Here Come The Comedians

Look At Them Smile

Watch Them Dance An Indian Mile

Look At Them Gesture

How Aplomb

So To Gesture Everyone

Words Dissemble

Words Be Quick

Words Resemble Walking Sticks

Plant Them They Will Grow

Watch Them Waver So

I'll Always Be A Word Man

Better Then A Bird Man

James Douglas Morrison

Ghost Song - An American Prayer - poem by James Douglas Morrison

                                            "The Awakening of Adonis" by John William Waterhouse

Awake.  
Shake dreams from your hair  
my pretty child, my sweet one.  
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day  
the day's divinity  
First thing you see.  
  
A vast radiant beach and cooled jeweled moon  
Couples naked race down by it's quiet side  
And we laugh like soft, mad children  
Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy  
The music and voices are all around us.  
  
Choose they croon the Ancient Ones  
the time has come again  
choose now, they croon  
beneath the moon  
beside an ancient lake  
  
Enter again the sweet forest  
Enter the hot dream  
Come with us  
everything is broken up and dances.  
  
Indians scattered,   
On dawn's highway bleeding  
Ghosts crowd the young child’s,   
Fragile eggshell mind

James Douglas Morrison

"An American Prayer" Week

Celebrating James Douglas Morrison's poetry, I'll be doing a whole week dedicated to the poems from "An American Prayer" (James Douglas Morrison's spoken album), fitting his lines with famous paintings! Hope ya all like that. Next post, I'll just begin with my favorite poem "Awake/Ghost Song".

 

"The Doors: Mr. Mojo Risin' - the Making Of L. A. Woman" screening at Egyptian Theatre (L. A.)

The new documentary about The Doors will be released at the Egyptian Theatre. The new work on Doors focus on the "birth" of the last album of the group released in the year of Jim Morrison's death.
More informations about the documentary:

 THE DOORS MR. MOJO RISIN': THE MAKING OF L.A. WOMAN  2011, Eagle Rock Entertainment, 94 min, USA,  Featuring all-new interviews with the three surviving members of the Doors, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore, plus contributions from Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman, Doors manager Bill Siddons and music producer Bruce Botnick, this timely documentary - released in 2011 for both the anniversaries of Jim Morrison's death and the band's final album with Morrison - chronicles the making, recording and band-member dynamic during the production of L.A. Woman. Includes archival footage of the Doors performing both live and in the studio, classic photographs and new musical demonstrations from the band.

Trailer:

"Love Street" arsonist arrested

L. A.'s police caught the supposed "Love Street" arsonist.

The guy is Harry Bukhart and he seems like some crazy extremist - he said he hated America - and he's from Germany. Bukhart's damages are around U$ 3 millions; including, of course, Jim Morrison's destroyed house.

There  were no more fires since Burkhart was arrasted and he's on court today, January. 4th.

I expect, as a Doors and Morrison fan, that this guy'd be punished for everything he did - since, there are more damages on the neighborhood caused by Bukhart's fires - and the Love Street could mean the greatest of them all, 'cause it's not just a house, but it's also a  whole cultural legacy gave to us by Jim Morrison and Pamela Courson.

The video of the damaged house:

Jim Morrison's 'Love Street' House Catches Fire in Hollywood Arson Spree

Bad news from the ending of past year...

From the Laweekly.com

​The hills of Hollywood and West Hollywood came under attack last night: A mysterious arsonist (or team of arsonists) started 19 car fires in the wealthy area, some of which spread to nearby homes.
Luckily, no residents have been reported hurt thus far. However, one firefighter was sent to the hospital in the wee hours this morning with (non-life-threatening) injuries after fighting a blaze at 8021 Rothdell Trail, says Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott.


Fans of L.A. rock legend Jim Morrison, frontman for the Doors, might recognize that address:



It belongs to the gorgeous old wooden home where Morrison penned "Love Street" in 1968. And the part of the house that reportedly burned played a pivotal role in the songwriting process.  
According to the Los Angeles Times, "the blaze spread to a balcony and the front of the house."  
  
Embedded in that pile of ash are some music-history-making memories (from Wikipedia):  
  
The song was originally a poem written by singer Jim Morrison about the street in Laurel Canyon, California, where he lived with his girlfriend Pamela Courson. Their address was 8021 Rothdell Trail. Morrison and Courson referred to Rothdell Trail as "Love Street" because they would sit on the balcony and watch countless hippies walk by.  


LAFD spokesman Scott wasn't sure about the balcony burning in particular, but confirmed that a "portion of the outside of the structure and a portion of the roof" was damaged in the fire.



More from the Times:  
  

It took 56 firefighters 35 minutes to put out the fire, which was contained to the front of the three-story home, authorities said.
... Authorities termed firefighters' efforts a "major save" because the house is old and nestled in a hillside area with a high density of brush.  

  
Another few car fires along the Sunset Strip on Thursday morning prompted the LAPD to arrest 22-year-old suspect Samuel Arrington. But now, after the midnight spree, the Times reports that "police are not sure if the 19 arsons are the work of a copycat or if they arrested the wrong person."  
  
We're wondering if the arsonist targeted the Morrison home in particular?  
  
Since its construction in 1922 and stint as celebrity pad, the "Love Street" house was priced recently at $1.119 million. It's also listed on some vacation rental websites for around $3,000 per week. The fire that leapt onto its balcony early this morning began in a Mazda Miata parked out front.