THELONIOUS SINGS A HOOK

By J.J. Colagrande

01_thelonious-horowitz27Accidental overdoses like Bradley Nowell, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, River Phoenix, Sid Vicious, Lenny Bruce, Heath Ledger, and Mitch Hedberg. We ain’t going out like that. We ain’t going out like that. Suicides like Kurt Cobain, Richard Brautigan, Ian Curtis, Sylvia Plath, Ernie Hemingway, Vincent Van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, John Kennedy Toole, and Hunter S. Thompson. We ain’t going out like that. We ain’t going out like that. Murdered like Phil Hartman, Jam Master J, John Lennon, Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, Marvin Gaye, Gianni Versace. We ain’t going out like that. We ain’t going out like that. That’s right! Drinking ourselves to death like Truman Capote, Jack Kerouac, W.C. Fields, Lester Young. We ain’t going out like that. We ain’t going out like that.