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Keith Richards: dad snorter or snot?
UPDATE: Now, a representative for the Stones guitarist is saying that Richards' comment was a joke. "It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true. File under
April Fool's joke," said Bernard Doherty of LD Communications, which
represents the Rolling Stones. The retraction of the statement was made in an interview with the Associated Press. Whether it's true or not, way to reinstate your relevance, Keith!
When I came across this headline on Drudge Report, I said it aloud to my coworkers here in the NP office. I haven't heard a collective exclamation like that since...well, I've never heard everyone react so vehemently. Oh, Keef.
"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME."He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."
The pop culturists are, as would be expected, all over this one. First, Aaron Wherry, the brilliant blogger for MacLeans and author of Pop: All Love. Wherry points out that Marilyn Manson and Billy Corgan once snorted Sea Monkey powder. Yes, Sea Monkey powder. His take:
The point is, if Keith Richards is fond of snorting dead people -
and I see no evidence to the contrary - he now stands alone as the
greatest celebrity drug user of all time. In fact, you might be able to
get high just thinking about him for too long. And that makes Corgan's
use of sea monkeys, like much of his recording career, seem altogether
pedestrian.Obviously this is a call for Billy Corgan to respond
in kind and do something completely insane. Like reforming the Smashing
Pumpkins or something.
Other responses:
Sounds like some weird kind of ancestor-worship ritual.
or did he promise his Dad that he'd "never be able to get you out of my head"?
Or a plot line for his character in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Ashes Up My Nose.
Or some sort of zombie ritual to keep himself alive when he should have died twenty years ago.
"Keith Richards: "I Snorted My Cremated Father."
But at least Scary Spice didn't give birth to my love child on my
birthday.
I’m 100% convinced that Keith Richards died back in the early 70’s and
the Rolling Stones hired a few guys to wheel him around as if he were
alive, ala Weekend at Bernie’s. These same guys are also hired to make
up completely outlandish statements and attribute them to Keith.
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at 12:05 on April 3rd, 2007
Many thanks, K. Please watch.
at 13:06 on April 3rd, 2007
This is from the first season:
Plot: Nate gets unprintably frustrated with the inability of his arrogant brain specialist to give him a straight answer. But Nate himself hasn't divulged his condition to Brenda, who maybe could use some interesting news: "If my life were a movie," she says, "I'd fall asleep or walk out." David is going the personal-ad route, which is even more depressing when compared with Keith and his new partner, Eddie (Paul Terrell Clayton).
Trying to maintain lines of communication with her gay son, Ruth schedules a family dinner with Nikolai and Brenda, but it turns surreal when Nate inadvertently takes one of David's leftover ecstasy tablets.
A Good Death: The opening sequence — you almost think that they're actually going to have this week's client killed by a masked serial killer — is a scream. It turns out that the victim is the young star of a slasher film who overdoses on cocaine after attending the premiere. Her costars moronically eulogize her, then snort her ashes.
at 14:55 on April 3rd, 2007
I applaud Actual News Guy for the first reference I have ever seen in a news story to one of the greatest shows in American television history! Bravo!
As for the story... Richards was and is quite a freak! Great music, typical musician behavior!
at 15:34 on April 3rd, 2007
Since this is the internet, and I know I can trust all of you, I will make a confession.
I snorted Keith Richards' father also.
at 15:50 on April 3rd, 2007
Bloody 'ell. I don't even have a smart comment for this one, except that when we look to rock stars to push the envelope of acceptable behavior, we must be careful what we wish for! When my time comes, and if people want to snort my ashes, I ask only that they be snorted at a really fun party, and not alone in a club toilet or anywhere near a train station.
at 16:08 on April 3rd, 2007
How about writing my demise in to an opening scene of Six Feet Under, Season 53 Episode 6. A few twenty somethings, a fast car etc..