Archive for May 21st, 2013

Obit watch: May 21, 2013.

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Ray Manzarek. NYT. LAT. A/V Club.

Mentioned by Lawrence last night: Manzarek wrote a horror novel (the A/V Club calls it “a Civil War ghost story”), Snake Moon. He also wrote some books related to The Doors, and…

The Poet in Exile, that was little more than a therapy exercise masquerading as fiction, in which a Jim Morrison-type rock star known as “The Snake Man” fakes his own death, reunites with his keyboard player “Roy,” apologizes for how he treated him, then thanks him profusely for keeping his legacy alive. As of 2011, Manzarek was still trying to turn it into a movie, convinced, as always, that this story needed to be told… by Ray Manzarek.