Strange Days Post

For some reason Blogger won't let me separate my paragraphes on The Strange Days post so it's a big clump right now. I tried to fix it but it isn't working so the most I could do was put the retell reflect & relate words in bold I'm very sorry about that!

Strange Days

Retell Alright, after three chapters I’ve noticed one thing about the author; he’s super long winded on things that have nothing to do with Jim Morrison or The Doors. So I’ve decided to only briefly go over those parts and focus on what he says about Jim. This chapter focused mainly on the year 1967; the summer of love. During the month of October of this year Morrison made another album entitled Strange Days. Again Jim has a story to go through with this new album. The only exception is… You won’t find sanctuary here. Strange days are the portrait of what is alien of people who live in weird and twisted days within a world we no longer recognize. I believe this is very appropriate for such a strange band as The Doors as the album Strange Days was one of the closest albums to the Doors real artistic vision. During an interview with Lizzie James, Jim explains how the thought of the album came to be; “People trade reality and give up their ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.” The album starts with Strange days and again ends with another appropriate song; When the music’s over. The whole album is about a girl losing her identity, finding comfort in Jim and then becoming herself so that Jim doesn’t recognize her which results in him leaving her. This album was truly a mirror reflection of society. Relate For once I can probably relate to Jim on this in terms of strangeness. You would have to be fairly strange to produce the album Strange Days and without mistake Morrison was a very strange person and so am I (for the most part). And I think we all have to relate to the theme of Strange days meaning that society wants us to put on a mask, give up our true selves and in return try and fit into a false society. I believe we all (at some point) chained ourselves to a false identity and find someone we thought we could trust. Once this trusted person is found we reveal ourselves only to be shunned by the other who freed us. That’s actually a situation that’s been alive for years (even as we were kids). So for once I can totally relate with Jim and his works at this point in the book. Reflect To be honest I’m still put to thought on why this author is so long winded. I mean sure he wants to make us understand the era in which we find ourselves reading about Jim but if he makes no connections there’s almost no point to it! I mean really this guy isn’t writing a novel! Can’t he just stick with Jim Morrison or even The Doors? Anyways, other than that I have one song from the album that’s been bugging me ever since I learned the back story of it; Horse Latitudes. Apparently Jim wrote the poem to this song in high school after he saw a paperback cover book of a horse being pushed overboard into the Sagasso Sea. I’ve been thinking about that for weeks, being a horse person and lover it really bugs me. Other than that I’m thinking why was Morrison so strange? I mean sure he did drugs to no end (I think I just answered my question) and he was on the fine line of a genius and a mad man but anyways he is by far the strangest person I’ve really ever thought or think about. In any case Strange days was a strange album produced by a very strange band. ~ Erica ~^.^~ On a side note I’m posting my blogs by chapter since every chapter in this book is a new album or year or important period for the Doors.