Jim Morrison was...what?
I was checking my stats counter on my blog and looking over what search terms people used to find me. Most are artist names, song titles, album titles, and the like. Occasionally I get people looking for something else entirely, like a weather report or something.
Sometimes I get just plain weird ones, like "killer on the 101 freeway", "hardcore college babe, wendy", "fixing my head right now not later" (all of which somehow matched stray words across a post, non consecutively).
Some anonymous surfer arrived today with the query "Jim Morrison was". I was curious to see what came up on Google, by which he came.
Here are his matches, in the order they appear:
Jim Morrison was an existentialist writer
Jim Morrison was an as_hole with a capital “A”.
Jim Morrison was an AIDS-infested FAGGOT !!!!!
Jim Morrison was an enigmatic and highly interesting personality.
Jim Morrison was an extraordinary human being.
Jim Morrison was an avenging angel
Jim Morrison was an interesting guy
Jim Morrison was an Apollo posing as a Dionysus.
Jim Morrison was an AWESOME POET and a decent crooner.
Jim Morrison was an awful poet.
Jim Morrison was an Adonis
Jim Morrison was an idiot.
Jim Morrison was an American Poet.
Jim Morrison was an enigmatic and often self indulgent figure
Jim Morrison was an open Lee acolyte
Jim Morrison was an amazing frontman
Jim Morrison was an avowed John Bircher who used to write anti-jewish poems
for closeted homosexual reactionary republican youth groups in the early sixties
Jim Morrison was an inspiration on generations of song writers.
jim morrison was an alcoholic
Jim Morrison was an interesting and talented wordsmith.
Jim Morrison was an haapy and groovy fool.
Jim Morrison was an asshole
Jim Morrison was an existentialist writer
Jim Morrison was an "Askesis" poet.
Jim Morrison was an intellectual
Jim Morrison was an asshole.
James Douglas (Jim) Morrison was an Ophiuchus
Jim Morrison was an event.
Jim [Morrison] was an electric shaman
Jim Morrison was an Idiot.
Jim Morrison was an artist
Jim Morrison was an avid Seeds fan
Jim Morrison was an influence for Cobain.
Jim Morrison was an extraordinary individual
Jim Morrison was an obnoxious drunk.
Jim Morrison was an interesting, but not great, poet.
Jim Morrison was an avid reader of poetry
Jim Morrison was an idiot.
Jim Morrison was an alcoholic.
Jim Morrison was an effervescent, phenomenal performer
Jim Morrison was an amazing song writter
Jim Morrison was an "American Poet."
Jim Morrison was an "Irish" rock singer!
Jim Morrison was an outstanding lyricist
Jim Morrison was an English major
Jim Morrison was an outlaw
Jim Morrison was an amazing individual
Jim Morrison was an amazing poet and singer
Jim Morrison was an incredible poet
Jim Morrison was an excellent singer
Jim Morrison was an amazing man.
Jim Morrison was an atheist
Jim Morrison was an illuminati king of the lizards
Jim Morrison was an experimenter of Peyote
Jim Morrison was an acid rock god
Jim Morrison was an inept monkey
Jim Morrison was an asshole
Jim Morrison was an adolescent demi-god
Jim Morrison was an idiot-hippie-wastoid
jim morrison was an idol
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Temple Stark
Behind door No. 1 - Jim Morrison.
2 - Jones Violet
How come sexy isn't on the list?
I personally like "Jim Morrison was an outlaw" - that's just as good as sexy.
3 - Eric Berlin
I think he was the kind of person where most of the above was true, all at once.
4 - Victor Lana
-Jim Morrison was the Lizard King.
-He died like the bloated Elvis.
-But most of all
Jim was Jim.
Listen to his voice and forget the bad poetry and feel the insane rush.
Go to his grave in Paris and watch the people waiting on line. I've done this, but I'm not amazed that he still has such a following.
Listen to him singing and you'll know why.
5 - Leon
Jim Morrison is a true spirit
6 - Bob A. Booey
... a pompous douchebag.
I like this post a lot, UAO. This is really clever, creative researching. You should do this with other famous figures -- fascinating stuff. I would seriously read a blog of just these kind of search results and people interpreting them.
Here were my favorites -- sheer brilliance, unlike what I said:
Jim Morrison was an Apollo posing as a Dionysus. (Camille Paglia wants your babies, whoever wrote this, probably to eat.)
Jim Morrison was an awful poet. (Same thing as "an American poet?" Discuss.)
Jim Morrison was an avowed John Bircher who used to write anti-jewish poems
for closeted homosexual reactionary republican youth groups in the early sixties (Is this true?)
Jim Morrison was an idiot-hippie-wastoid
Jim Morrison was an artist (Simple and open-ended. Very Zen.)
Jim Morrison was an adolescent demi-god (True.)
The worst ones possible:
Jim Morrison was an existentialist writer
Jim Morrison was an influence for Cobain. (Um, no, other than they died.)
Jim Morrison was an "Askesis" poet. (I want to go break this person's bong.)
Jim Morrison was an avenging angel (I want to break this person's glasses.)
Jim [Morrison] was an electric shaman (I want to go break this person's neck.)
That is all.
7 - uao
Thanks Bob A. Booey, I'm a fan of your work around here, too. You have a knack for cutting to the heart of the matter with admirable wit and aplomb.
As for your picks here, I pretty much agree, although "Jim Morrison was an inept monkey" was also among my favorites.
One eerie thing that was pointed out to me, that I completely missed when I posted it: every single one of these descriptives begin with vowels. Yet, those really are the exact real search results; I didn't skip a single one.
What are the odds of that? Why didn't anyone say "Jim Morrison was sexy" or "Jim Morrison was a boozehound" or "Jim Morrison was a Bertold Brecht fan" or something?
Weird.
oo-ee-oo
8 - andrew s
jim morrison was an annunaki
9 - Eric Berlin
That vowel thing is right up there with the Lincoln / Kennedy connections...
10 - Michael J. West
There are a lot of dubious claims about Jimbo up there, but this one,
Jim Morrison was an interesting and talented wordsmith.
Well, that's just ridiculous.
11 - cris
Driver where you taking us?
12 - Al Barger
Perhaps...
Jim Morrison was a highly overrated pop singer pretending to be a deep artiste.
13 - gypsyman
Listening to Jim Morrison live or recordings of his poetry, is like listening to a drunk sluring his words: they might be high art to him, but gibberish to anyone else.
Jim Morrison was a blithering babboon babbeling grabled druken nonsense
14 - MojoCat
Jim Morrison was the best crooner to come along since Frank Sinatra.
Uptight Sinatra, on that comparison alone, must be rolling over in his grave.
15 - Jewels
Gypsyman; you non-spelling freak; it is actually; slurring and drunken; but besides that little spelling ed, uhm, Jim Morrison was an enigma unto himself. Don't F*ck with the dead artists, they can come visit, ya know...
16 - MojoCat
- Jim Morrison was risque (right on)
- Jim Morrison was ahead of his time
- Jim Morrison was a genius (IQ 149)
- Jim Morrison was the son of the youngest rear admiral in US Navy history (at the time)
- Jim Morrison was published in 1989
- Jim Morrison was a voracious reader
- Jim Morrison was an upper middle class southern conservative
- Jim Morrison was his own worst enemy
- Jim Morrison was beautiful
17 - MojoCat
and...
- Jim Morrison was extremely articulate
Should Jim come back, some of you up there will get a verbal beating that will haunt you forever.
:O)
18 - Jewels
Mojocat; we're on the Same page! Cool!
LOL,
19 - Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison was an architect!
20 - jones violet
jim's writing from the grave!
21 - Jim Morrison
See, I told you so!
22 - Jim Morrison
Hope this works
23 - Jim Morrison
Maybe this one
24 - Laex
Jim Morrison was an ACTOR.
25 - agrock
Jim a fuckin rock idol!!