Jim Morrison Biography
In American culture, there is an image of the tortured artist who abuses alcohol or drugs. Edgar Allan Poe, Jackson Pollock and Kurt Cobain are a few examples. Several of the writers we have read so far, including Baldwin, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Carver had serious problems with alcohol. Some, like Carver, chose to get sober, while others did not.Jim Morrison - After he completed high school Jim Morrison was about to jump into his own realm of creativity. In 1964, he had moved to the West Coast, and in 1966 he enrolled as a film major at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). It was at UCLA where Jim Morrison had begun consistently using psychedelic drugs; such as LSD.
Although The Doors performance was somewhat like a cult gathering; all of them were performed while they were on some type of drug or alcohol substance. Inside of the book on mescaline by English author Aldous Hexley's the band took its'name from the poem written by the poet-visionary-artist William Blake, who had written, "When the doors of perception are cleansed, things will appear to man as they truly are. Morrison's drinking, exhibitionistic performances, and drug-taking badly affected and input and recordings; but it is what had inspired him to release all of his thoughts and emotions into some great pieces of work while there was still often some bad ramblings that just did not make any sense. He had wrote such songs as "The End" - which was a song that was so intensely written while he was on mescaline that he thought he was talking with dead people in the desert and old Indians. Rimbaud advocated a systematic "rational derangement of all the senses in order to achieve the unknown. " Morrison was so connected to both works that he proposed, The Doors, to his bandmates. Jim died of a drug overdose when he was 27. "Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. " His lifestyle, as well as those of his fellow band members, became increasingly saturated with drugs and alcohol. I mean The Doors were in an era in which themselves and the audience would trip out on acid during the performances that everyone would almost be in the same complete lucid-psychedelic-hypnotic-trance-state.
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