Does anyone believe that Jim's work has a greater potential to attract lunatics than other work?
First, an aside. I am reading I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, and in it, they mention a few of his crazy fans, including a woman who required her husband to wear a makeshift Warren mask so that she could get off while they had sex. Another had a tattoo of his face on her breast.
They conclude that Warren sure did have some crazy fans.
But that's not really crazy. Sexually perverse, yes, but not crazy. Certainly not compared to the kinds of people we run into on this message board: people who believe in conspiracy theories, cover-ups, cases of mistaken identity and identity theft, I'm sure everyone knows who I am talking about.
Do you think there is something in Jim's grandiose music, something that attracts those people? Or do you think it is simply coincidence. I am interested in hearing what people have to say.
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