Book to Title Sequence

The book i have chosen is "No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Biography of Jim Morrison," by Jerry Hopkins.

No One Here Gets Out Alive was the first biography of Jim Morrison, singer of the band The Doors, written after his death by journalist Jerry Hopkins, with later "insider" information added by Danny Sugerman. The book is largely credited with revitalizing the popularity of the Doors and Morrison. Hopkins had done an extensive interview with Morrison before his death, but his first manuscript was rejected by major publishers. Sugerman began working as an assistant in the Doors office at the age of fourteen, and became their manager after Morrison died (replacing Bill Siddons).
According to Doors drummer John Densmore, Sugerman became "the manager and driving force behind The Doors" who "guided our career for over 30 years" until his death in 2005. It helped rekindle interest in the Doors by allowing fans, that were too young, not alive, or unable to remember, to see The Doors in action.
Taking its title from the Doors song "Five To One," the book is divided into three sections: The Bow is Drawn, The Arrow Flies and The Arrow Falls, for the early years of his life, his rise to fame with the Doors and his final years and death, respectively.

I chose this book because of how rooted Morrison is within late 60's counter culture and iconography.
I would like to portray the essence of 60's counterculture values & aesthetics - Psychedelics, shamanism and mysticism, happenings and demonstrations, Vietnam, ban the bomb, flower power, beauty in excess and freedom.
More directly, try to capture Morrison's romanticised influence and views on love, sex, death, music, poetry, art, shamanism, transcendence of the rational and ordinary and the will to be weird.

"I believe in a prolonged derangement of the senses to attain knowledge of the unknown" - Jim Morrison

Originally i looked at the great Aldous Huxley and his novel "Island."
A beautiful novel about future utopia/ distopia with themes of overpopulation, ecology, modernity, democracy, mysticism, entheogens, and somatotypes.

Two quotations that i feel encapsulate the books themes and ideas.

"And always, everywhere, there would be the yelling or quietly authoritative hypnotists; and in the train of the ruling suggestion givers, always everywhere, the tribes of buffoons and hucksters, the professional liars, the purveyors of entertaining irrelevances. Conditioned from the cradle, unceasingly distracted, mesmerized systematically, their uniformed victims would go on obediently marching and countermarching, go on, always and everywhere, killing and dying with the perfect docility of trained poodles. And yet in spite of the entirely justified refusal to take yes for an answer, the fact remained and would remain always, remain everywhere -- the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion"

"History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma."

Although its a great novel, thinking about what the brief requires has lead me to steer away from it as its essence and meaning would be a lot harder and more time consuming to represent faithfully.

An interesting project that promises much exploration on subject matter that appeals to individual taste and offers the opportunity to project a perception of their personality.