Rock Around The World: Warren Zevon-Article/TITLE><script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-9302529-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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? </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 759pt; height: 77.900000pt; top: 65.950000pt; left: 24.200000pt;" > <LAYER top=87.933333px left=32.266667px width=1012.000000px height=103.866667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,1012,103" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 7.200000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 78.678000pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" ><SPAN style=" text-decoration: underline;" >WARREN ZEVON </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 246.050000pt; height: 27.950000pt; top: 143.850000pt; left: 24.200000pt;" > <LAYER top=191.800000px left=32.266667px width=328.066667px height=37.266667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,328,37" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.180000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Garamond,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 21pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Singing in the Brain </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 246.050000pt; height: 23.650000pt; top: 171.800000pt; left: 24.200000pt;" > <LAYER top=229.066667px left=32.266667px width=328.066667px height=31.533333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,328,31" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 1.500000; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4.800000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >by Stephanie Embrey </SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 241.950000pt; height: 378.850000pt; top: 195.450000pt; left: 31.900000pt;" > <LAYER top=260.600000px left=42.533333px width=322.600000px height=505.133333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,322,505" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >In the warm living room of <SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt;" >his </SPAN>secluded home, amidst the debris of Christmas past, Warren Zevon held a clear glass to the darker aspects of passion, illuminating, in the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >process, the fires behind his creative temperament. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"I identify with my themes very deeply. I involve <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >myself in my songs with an intensity that is greater than </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >anything I care to be aware of. Howver, that </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >doesn't </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >mean </SPAN>I have to kill people or save peoples' lives, to write about <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >doing it. </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Somebody </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >has to play the role of Richard Speck </SPAN>or Charlie Starkweather or an assassin in a tower, so a <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >producer hires an actor for a million bucks to do the job </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >on screen. Since my absorption quotient is total, I get </SPAN>absorbed in the idea for as long as it takes to write a song. <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >I don't think that any songwriter worth his salt can </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >remember the creative process he went through to write a </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >song, but I </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >know </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >that </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >I </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >don't just sit down and make it </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >up, very casually, at the typewriter. Instead, my songs </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >consist of impressions transmogrified into more extreme </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >representations or identities." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 69.600000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Zevon is an artist who attracts critical acclaim like <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >crossfire, yet to take any single song out of the context of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >his repertoire, and erect a mystique around it, is a </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >mistake. This fact was amply illustrated by the abundance </SPAN>of interpretive articles occasioned by the release of his <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >first Asylum LP, within which he was pinned by the pens </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >of various journalists into one or more of the following </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >instant archetypes: (1) the official interpreter of Angeleno </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >angst, (2) a satirist of California rockstyles/lifestyles, (3) </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >a one-man combo of Raymond Chandler and Ross </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >MacDonald, alchemically conceived in a cocktail shaker, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >who shoots jokes instead of bullets, (4) a romanticized </SPAN>version of the Hollywoodian denizen-of-dark-alleys-andshady-bars mystique already superimposed on labelmate <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Tom Waits, (5) a detached sort of Greek Chorus voyeur </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >and (6) New West's latest sortie into name games, "F. </SPAN>Scot Fitzevon," which alludes to Zevon's well-publicized <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >respect for his favorite literary figure. </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 240.250000pt; height: 359.850000pt; top: 632.150000pt; left: 31.900000pt;" > <LAYER top=842.866667px left=42.533333px width=320.333333px height=479.800000px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,320,479" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >None of the preceding labels fit. Although Zevon <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >idealizes and admires F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ross </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Macdonald, he makes no attempt to duplicate their </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >literary style in his songwriting. However, their influence </SPAN>can be seen in Zevon's philosophical slant and his <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >trenchant approach to emotions. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"In my opinion, MacDonald is possibly the best <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >novelist alive today. I love the sense of balance he brings </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >to his genre, and the way he transcends the limitations </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >of detective fiction to keep the novelistic tradition alive. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"I've long been misrepresented as a spokesman of Los <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Angeles, a city that really has very little to do with my </SPAN>life, but the <SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt;" >setting </SPAN>is much less important than the <SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >message. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >It's no secret that I have a great fondness for </SPAN>'The Fitz' and I feel that MacDonald captures the same <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >kind of feelings in his work through his incredible ability </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >to understand human situations, human tragedies, and the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >pathos of simple daily life with a scope that is larger than </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >we normally recognize-the terror and the glory inherent </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >in being alive. He writes with a great intensity and a </SPAN>lyrical prowess that I would never pretend to have. <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Therefore, I relate to him in terms of intention. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"The last thing I want to be is a Greek Chorus, because <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >I dislike being a non-participant in anything I write. Since </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >I don't like to be portrayed as a voyeur, that whole concept seems alien and repugnant to me.</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt; vertical-align: super;" >,</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" > Even though </SPAN>it may be creepy to get emotionally and creatively involved with some of the things I write about, the whole <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >idea of voyeurism is loathsome to me. I either dive in or I </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 14.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >away. <SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 9pt;" >To me, writing and living are almost </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.550000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 110.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >• <SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt; vertical-align: super;" >!</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >----,.rce</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt; vertical-align: super;" > </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >myself in something </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.750000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >interchangeable. I either <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" > _</SPAN> </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4.800000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >here, or I might choose to go off to Timbuktu and say; <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >`Well, I'm the guy from the great graduating class of 1964 </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >-Fairfax Iligh</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt; vertical-align: super;" >7</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >-who went all the way to Timbuktu to </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 242pt; height: 324.100000pt; top: 658.700000pt; left: 282.900000pt;" > <LAYER top=878.266667px left=377.200000px width=322.666667px height=432.133333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,322,432" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >write about it.' Writing is a very immediate experience to <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >me, so I have to be my own narrator all the time. Feelings can be assimiliated into my own experience temporarily, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >but I can't vicariously use other people's lives." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Unlike his first Asylum album, which consisted of <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >eleven songs written over a six year period. </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Excitable </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Boy, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >produced by Waddy Wachtel and Jackson Browne, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >contains nine cuts of recent vintage, six of which are </SPAN>collaborative efforts, including "Tenderness On The <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Block," a tender ballad written with Jackson Browne. </SPAN>Several songs were co-written with cohorts from other countries, with Zevon applying his cinematic imagination <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >to a world backdrop. Not one song is set in Los Angeles. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"The album was a departure for me. I'd been isolated so long in my work, and I knew that writing songs with <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >friends would be a positive experience. I traveled all </SPAN>over the world, and whenever any of us came up with an <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >intriguing idea, we'd resolve it by writing a song. With </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >rare exceptions, the collaborators were involved in the </SPAN>creation of both words and music, which makes it <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >impossible to separate the specific contributions each collaborator made to a song." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 19.200000px; line-height: 0.960000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >In the title cut, the listener takes <SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt;" >a </SPAN>bitter voyage into <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the core of irrational madness, a dip into the psyche of a psychopathic killer, who is dismissed by bystanders and </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >bureaucrats as "just an excitable boy." Arranged in the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >musical context of the bright, vibrant 1950s rock that </SPAN>spilled out of everpresent transistor radios into eager <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >teenage ears, it features harmonies by Linda Ronstadt and </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 16.870000pt;" >--e</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt; vertical-align: super;" >i</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" > </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt; vertical-align: super;" > </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt; vertical-align: super;" >t</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >he </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >absence of both judgment and </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.180000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 62.400000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 3pt; letter-spacing: 2.620000pt;" >aril •• '" </SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.640000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 163.200000px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 4.120000pt;" >„al<SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" > i</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt; vertical-align: super;" >s</SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" > </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 3pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >qnfi </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >honest as </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: 0.970000; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >condemnation, Zevon's treaty <SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-size: 3pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >••••-• </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 242pt; height: 9.200000pt; top: 982.800000pt; left: 282.900000pt;" > <LAYER top=1310.400000px left=377.200000px width=322.666667px height=12.266667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,322,12" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 31.200000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 120px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 5pt; letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >j,s, <SPAN style=" font-size: 3pt; letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >7 4,t 0. II 3</SPAN><SPAN style=" font-size: 3pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" > •</SPAN><SPAN style=" font-size: 3pt; letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" > </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 242pt; height: 320pt; top: 658.700000pt; left: 533.900000pt;" > <LAYER top=878.266667px left=711.866667px width=322.666667px height=426.666667px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,322,426" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 4.800000px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >an epitaph without a eulogy, stuck in the peatmoss of an <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >anonymous, overgrown Potter's Field. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: 0.980000; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 9pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >"I think that madness is an engagement of belief in what we dare not even think about. Some of my songs are <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >about madness, but they're not detached satires: they're </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >not Randy Newman. I seem to have been cast as 'The </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Big Dick Randy Newman' of Rock & Roil, when I'd </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >rather see myself as an American combination of Marlon </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Brando and Vladimir Nabokov or a Russian Clint </SPAN>Eastwood. I believe that whimsy is from the heart. That is, <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.870000pt;" >after all, my motto. Most people are capable of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >maintaining a desperate sense of humor five-sixths of the </SPAN>time, and in the one-sixth that remains, if they're honest enough to admit they feel like crying, then they do. I do. 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Secondly, you can't make life out to be a tragedy, and if <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >it's your job to write about your outlook on living, you </SPAN>owe it to your friends—and your friends are the people <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >who buy your records, your friends are </SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >yourself—not </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >to </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >bullshit them. If you want to write about a 44 magnum, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >you can't lie and say, 'I've actually got a gun magazine in the toilet'—when you've never shot a gun in your life. </SPAN>You've got an obligation to write about what seems real <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >to you ... 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