Seems pretty clear now. He's not going to die until everyone else is dead first.
Friday, December 18, 2009
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Seems pretty clear now. He's not going to die until everyone else is dead first.
And by "everyone else," I assume you don't just mean the other Rolling Stones.
They all died, some time ago.
Dancing with Mr. D
Head vampire.
Wow. He doesn't look a day over 237.
He doesn't look a day over dead.
One more 6 and eternal life will be his.
In recent years, Keith Richards broke his skull open by falling out of a palm tree (?) and broke I think his hip falling off a bookshelf ladder in his house, and he's probably going to die in a few years from something banal and terrible like lung cancer.
He is the worst-looking 66-year-old person I've ever seen, and he hasn't made any music of quality since his solo albums in the 1980s, when he was the approximate age of The Awl's writers and readers. (And the Rolling Stones finally stopped making records altogether when, more than a decade ago?)
God this is just fucking depressing.
(Charlie Watts, on the other hand, looks handsome and healthy, like Leonard Cohen's younger brother.)
No! That song, "Thru and Thru," that stands with any song he's ever written. I mean, as far as maintaining something for an album's length, I agree. Nothing good since the '80s. But that songâ€"brought to the world's attention by its use in a Sopranos episodeâ€"is wonderful.
Maybe it's because I've spent my entire pop-culture-conscious life in the "wow, Keith Richards is OLD" era, but I read this headline and thought to myself "Really? He's only 66?"