[mcg2000]

A lot of liberties are being taken with the translation of the poem ... what's new, right?

[nmh]

So unoriginal.

Redefining anything handy to fit their exaggerated agenda.

Anyone have the stupid poem to post?

[snarks_when_bored]

Jim Morrison is quite cool...well, what's left of him...

[FreedomGuru]

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.

[nmh]

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 ... .

[nmh]

"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 ... .

[nmh]

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!

[SquirrelKing]

A campaign. That's all global warming is. Welcome to the new mass hysteria.

[Alia]

The DNC theme must be "We all live on Love Street". lol.

[freedomson]

He self destructed before he reached 30 years of age.

[weegee]

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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).

[RepoGirl]

Thought you'd like to weigh in on this.

[cbkaty]

Morrell says, "It's very strange to hear this thing recorded more than 30 years ago that seems so relevant to the environmental challenge we face today."

30 year old poem....compared to millions of years of environmental changes....is a joke...right? The environment has always been in flux....and it was 30 years ago.

Nothing to see here folks...move on down the road...

[SouthTexas]

Obviously the only response can be "The End".

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

This isn't anything "new" and "undiscovered." This poem was published in the 1988 book Wilderness: The Lost Poems of Jim Morrison. I don't think "Woman in the Window" was ever intended as doors material. Morrison wrote a lot of stuff that would not fit in the doors genre. For all his wild child posturing, his poetry has a very classical bent to it. I have read and written more poetry than should be allowed. I have also learned by experience that alcohol (or any other substance) and poetry should never be combined. This where his poetry shows its weakness.

[Tarpon]

They got their poem, they got their chants, but where is the science?