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February 8, 2007

Strange Grave, Here He Comes

Maladjusted to the vagaries of life, Morrissey has given deep thought to the cemetery gates that house his ultimate resting spot. Via Metro:

The 48-year-old star wants a spot at the celebrity cemetery Hollywood Forever, near his home in Los Angeles, the Daily Express reports.

And not just that, but the former Smiths frontman also wants to be laid to rest near his music idol Johnny Ramone.

"I like that cemetery. I stumbled across Johnny Ramone's stone and thought it was very nicely placed," he is quoted as saying.

"I sat there for a long time and I felt quite good about it. It was nice his bones were under the soil I was sitting on. So yeah, that's my spot."

Although, at less than 50, death is hardly at his elbow ... would you expect anything less from Morrissey? A Hollywood grave next to Johnny Ramone. That's so punk, Moz. We love it. Do pretty girls make graves out in LA? Probably, they're all pretty out there. And of course this charming man had a parting thought on mortality:
Death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.
Never has no one ever been more quotable.

Count the Smiths references in this post! And please comment only in the form of a Smiths lyric.

Posted at 9:19 AM
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39 Comments

Oh, Manchester, so much to answer for...

Posted by: Courtney at 02/08/07 9:51 AM | Reply
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Oh mother I can feel, the soil falling over my head.

Posted by: Dan at 02/08/07 9:53 AM | Reply
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With loves and hates and passions just like mine, they were born and then they lived and then they died. Seems so unfair, I see five.

There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows.

Posted by: Ron Garveston at 02/08/07 10:04 AM | Reply
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Please, please, please let him get what he wants.

Posted by: Dane at 02/08/07 10:26 AM | Reply
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You just haven't urn-ed it yet, baby...

Posted by: Mark Swiderski at 02/08/07 10:38 AM | Reply
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take me out tonight

take me anywhere i don't care i don't care i don't care

Posted by: keaton at 02/08/07 10:44 AM | Reply
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i didn't realize you wrote such bloody awful poetry

Posted by: austin at 02/08/07 10:47 AM | Reply
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"death is a serious thing" I know, I know, it's really serious...

Posted by: bp at 02/08/07 11:00 AM | Reply
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in my life..why do i give valuable time, to people who dont care if i...if i diiiiiie....

Posted by: db at 02/08/07 11:03 AM | Reply
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I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving! England is mine and it owes me a living! Ask me why and I'll spit in your eye. (Best Smiths lyric ever).

Posted by: Richie at 02/08/07 11:24 AM | Reply
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save your life because you've only got one

Posted by: echobunny at 02/08/07 11:27 AM | Reply
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To Die by your side (Johnny Ramone) is such a heavenly way to die.

Posted by: Mehdi at 02/08/07 11:28 AM | Reply
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In a river the color of lead
Immerse the Mozzer's head
Wrap him up in the news of the world
Dump him on a doorstep girl.
This post has opened my eyes
And I will not sleep again.

Posted by: JBJ at 02/08/07 11:44 AM | Reply
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these morrissey jokes aren't funny anymore.

Posted by: nick at 02/08/07 11:46 AM | Reply
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Irish Blood, English Heart, LA Grave

Posted by: Tony G at 02/08/07 12:46 PM | Reply
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Panic on the streets of London, he picked LA instead.

Posted by: volume-addict at 02/08/07 1:02 PM | Reply
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it suddenly struck me...
he might just die with a smile on his face after all.

Posted by: gary at 02/08/07 1:10 PM | Reply
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I didn't know you wrote such bloody awful poetry.

Posted by: Alec at 02/08/07 1:16 PM | Reply
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Hollywood Forever also has movies screened on the sides of one of their large mausoleums during the summertime. 10 bucks to get in, bring your own picnic supplies. Its pretty great.

Posted by: anon at 02/08/07 1:22 PM | Reply
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I'm hoping for an early death and I need to cling to something.

Posted by: Rick at 02/08/07 2:07 PM | Reply
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So I meet you at the cemetry gates ...
Keats and Yeats (and Johnny Ramone) are on your (left) side

Posted by: marsh at 02/08/07 2:34 PM | Reply
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I'll never be anybody's hero now...

Posted by: Paul at 02/08/07 3:16 PM | Reply
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Shyness is nice and shyness can stop you from doing all the things in death you'd like to...

Posted by: jamei at 02/08/07 6:40 PM | Reply
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When you walk without ease, on these very streets where you were raised, get a grave in L.A....

Posted by: Leoncio at 02/08/07 7:59 PM | Reply
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let me get my hands on youuuuuur hollywood gravesite

Posted by: kingoffresno at 02/08/07 8:00 PM | Reply
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A death for no reason...

Posted by: shanissey at 02/08/07 8:40 PM | Reply
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Moz in grave
The sun shines out of our behinds
No it's not like any other grave
This one is different because it's us (moz and johnny ramone)

Posted by: Bus Driver Stu at 02/08/07 8:46 PM | Reply
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I wonder if he still spells cemetery wrong...

Posted by: Jaime at 02/08/07 8:47 PM | Reply
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frankly, mr. shankly, this position i've held
it pays my way, and it corrodes my soul
i want to leave, you will not miss me
i want to go down in musical history

Posted by: chuck at 02/08/07 8:50 PM | Reply
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'cause you're evil
and you lie
and if you should die,
i might feel slightly sad
(but i won't cry)

Posted by: susan at 02/08/07 9:06 PM | Reply
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And make no mistake my friend your pointless life will end.

Posted by: theobvious at 02/08/07 11:51 PM | Reply
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if he gets buried in LA his gravesite will be like jim morrison's..only for hispanic greasers.

Posted by: nick at 02/09/07 2:05 AM | Reply
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It was reeeeeaaaaaally nothing!

Posted by: Louis at 02/09/07 8:08 AM | Reply
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You just haven't urn-ed it yet, baby...

Posted by: Mark Swiderski at February 8, 2007 10:38 AM

Mark wins!

Posted by: esteb at 02/09/07 8:09 PM | Reply
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The Queen is dead, boys

Posted by: A at 03/10/07 3:32 PM | Reply
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Ugh. The more I ignore him, the closer he gets. He's wasting my time.

Posted by: Chad at 05/17/07 5:43 PM | Reply
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Oh friends go suck ass

Posted by: jim at 05/17/07 7:49 PM | Reply
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There is a place, a place in LA, reserved for Moz and his friend.

Posted by: Angie at 07/22/07 10:28 PM | Reply
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buspar online

Posted by: HsvsRsvsesv at 05/07/08 1:26 AM | Reply
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