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Warren Zevon cancer scare

Less searchable M0rd4nt

23:07 / 24.05.03

Please tell me I'm a collosal dupe for buying this. Please tell me I'm being big and lame and stupid. And then use the occasion to post loads of WZ lyrics. Coz he kinda rocks.

http://www.warrenzevon.com/

Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

23:27 / 24.05.03

Never heard of Warren Zenon. But I’m not shy in calling someone a dupe or a big lame stupid person. 1 out of 2 isn’t bad is it?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

00:04 / 25.05.03

Never heard of...? I suppose you'll be telling me next that you don't know that granpa's pissed his pants again, he don't give a damn? Or that honey, my dick is sore? Or that California slides into the ocean like the mystics and statistics say it will?

Fucking sprogs.

Boy in a Suitcase

00:37 / 25.05.03

Warren Zevon is a legend. "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner," "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," "Excitable Boy," and, of course, "Werewolves of London"... all classics of black-humored gonzo pop songwriting. He needs a rediscovery.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

01:25 / 25.05.03

*Makes dramatic gesture in the direction of Boy in a Suitcase*

Finally! Thank you. You better not be being sarky.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

01:44 / 25.05.03

Werewolves Of London

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook's
Going to get himself a big dish of beef chow mein
(Ow-OOOO!) Werewolves of London

If you hear him howling around your kitchen door
Better not let him in
Little old lady got mutilated late last night
Werewolves of London again

(Ow-OOOO!) Werewolves of London
He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amock in Kent
Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair
Better stay away from him
He'll rip your lungs out, Jim
But I'd love to meet his tailor

(Ow-OOOO!) Werewolves of London
Well, I saw Lon Chaney walking with the Queen
Doing the Werewolves of London
I saw Lon Chaney, Jr. walking with the Queen
Doing the Werewolves of London
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's
And his hair was just... perfect.

(Ow-OOOO!) Werewolves of London.
(Ow-OOOO!)
Draw blood now.

04:01 / 25.05.03

I heard about the cancer a few months ago, maybe when he was first diagnosed, so I think, sadly, it's true.

"Carmelita" is one my all-time favourite songs... well, the G.G. Allen version I love, but the original's great too!

I hear mariachi static on my radio
And the tubes they glow in the dark
And I'm there with you in ensenada
And I'm here in echo park

Carmelita, hold me tighter, I think I'm sinkin' down
And I'm all strung-out on heroin on the outskirts of town

Well I pawned my Smith and Wesson
And I went to meet my man
He hangs out down on eldorado street
At the county chicken stand

Carmelita, hold me tighter, I think I'm sinkin' down
And I'm all strung-out on heroin on the outskirts of town

Well, I'm sittin' here playing russian roulette
With a pearl handled gun
The county won't give me any more methadone
And they've cut off your welfare cheque.

Carmelita, hold me tighter, I think I'm sinkin' down
And I'm all strung-out on heroin on the outskirts of town

(ok, the Zevon version says 'Smith Corona' and 'Playing solitare with a pearl handled deck', but damn! what a great song.)

04:08 / 25.05.03

Not to be blase, but Warren's Bic C is pretty old news. What threw me was the photo.

'WARREN BEING ATTENDED TO BY HIS PERSONAL PHYSICIAN, DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON'

Holy shit!

Old brown-eye is back

10:14 / 25.05.03

Warren Zevon is indeed fucking wonderful, but he is also fucking dying.

"He'll rip your lungs out, Jim."

10:36 / 27.05.03

I believe that full line is,

"You better stay away from him,
He'll rip your lungs out, Jim.
I'd like to meet his tailor."

But my personal fave from WW of London is
"I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.
His hair was PERFECT."

Old brown-eye is back

10:51 / 27.05.03

You're quite right, that is the full line. Given what he's dying of though, I didn't think the rest of it would be quite as pertinent.

06:27 / 14.06.03

In other Zevon news: "Zevon becomes grandpa"

Warren Zevon became a grandfather twice over when his daughter, Ariel, gave birth to twin boys. Augustus Warren Zevon-Powell and Maximus Patrick Zevon-Powell were born Thursday at a Los Angeles hospital, said Zevon's publicist, Diana Baron. Their father is Ariel's husband, Ben Powell.

13:22 / 08.09.03

Rest in Peace, Warren Zevon

Warren Zevon, who wrote and sang the rock hit "Werewolves of London" and was among the wittiest and most original of a broad circle of singer-songwriters to emerge from Los Angeles in the 1970s, has died. He was 56.

A lifelong smoker until quitting several years ago, Zevon announced in September 2002 that he had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and had only months to live. He spent much of that time visiting with his two grown children and working on a final album.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

14:14 / 08.09.03

Ah, shite.

I guess he'll be visiting Denver for a laugh, then.