leavingzevon's Journal

Oldboy and other things that make you go, "Fuck that thing was alive when he ate it!"
If I don't get to have a band, I can at least make my journal entry titles long and drawn out inside jokes.
I feel like if I'm going to name this thing "leavingzevon" i have to explain it to the three to zero people who read this. Warren Zevon died a few years ago. Some people listened to Dylan. Some people listened to the Beatles. Some people had a thing for the fucking Monkeys. I had a thing for Warren Zevon. When I was a little kid I remember hearing the song Werewolves of London while playing in the den of our house. For some reason I remember I was playing with He-Man action figures.
Anyway the song was playing and I was enjoying how fun and bouncy it sounds, the things that most children look for in music. I also remember thinking it was so cool that my Dad had a big record player that he played things on. I personally had a small Fisher Price 7inch player that played shitty story records.
Anyway I didn't think I was paying any mind to the lyrics of the song, but later that night when the nightmares came. I imagined being mauled and eaten alive by a thousand teeth. During my dream death red glowing eyes stared at me.
When I awoke screaming my father came to me and asked what was wrong. When all was explained father figured out what the source of my fears was. He threw me on his back and carried me downstairs. We listened to the song again and he pointed out one line to me.
"his hair was perfect"
Warren Zevon and my father taught me how to cope with the things in life that scare us. As someone who planes on teaching, both my own children and other peoples, this lesson is the most important I've ever learned.
No matter how evil life may seem, no matter how depressing life can get, no matter how overwelming your problems seem there is always a werewolf out there with Perfect Hair.
Warren left, and not enough people cared when he did. He effected my life. Giving his memory a stupid journal is the very least I could do.
Out.
-JM

Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: Oldboy - a film

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