Jim Morrison: What's Wrong With Being Fat?

Anyone born after the mid-70's knows of Jim Morrison only through pictures and the occasional video. Living vicariously through him via the media became a life and style fans of music penetrated during an age of music when Poet's with pens still had the ability to convince record labels that a great song isn't about how you sing it but what you sing. Jim Morrison of the Doors. Creative. Highly spirited. Loves being fat. A never before heard interview with the Classic Rock Legend has resurfaced: Exposing a side of Jim many didn't know. Rolling Stone shared the news of the four-minute clip, which is being broadcast as part of the new PBS series ‘Blank on Blank.’ Produced in conjunction with the broadcasting company’s digital studio division, it sets the audio of Morrison’s words against newly-created animation (a similar effect was used for the first installment of ‘Blank on Blank,’ which finds wizened talk show host Larry King discussing seduction.) As for the substance of Morrison’s interview, it’s a little odd, but at least you can’t say he and Smith were talking about the same old stuff. This segment finds them discussing Morrison’s fondness for his college meal plan. “I felt like a large mammal. A big beast,” he recalls, looking back on his days as a 185-pound student. “When I’d move through the corridors or across the lawn, I just felt like I could knock anybody out of my way, you know. I was solid, man. It’s terrible to be thin and wispy because, you know, you could get knocked over by a strong wind or something. Fat is beautiful.” The interview