This story probably explains more about who I grew up to be than any psychiatrist or hypnotist could ever diagnose-early exposure to “Roland The Thompson Gunner” + Raymond Chandler = crime writer. My earliest memory is watching the door on the Asylum Records label spinning around and around on my dad’s turntable in our living room. We’ve passed his music back and forth between us mixtapes, road trip sing-a-longs, text message quotes on our way to work.īut even before Jason, Excitable Boy was always part of my DNA. But there will always be Zevon to play his music has been a part of us for as long as I can remember. We are older now, the hopeless romance that defined us at 22 is a wistful memory. It’s part of a summer ritual, a return to our college town for 24 hours to drink wine and catch up in a sort of simulacrum of our twenties. We’re never going to solve this riddle, but it’s one of about a thousand we’ll never get an answer to. Specifically, the line “I went home with the waitress / The way I always do / How was I to know / She was with the Russians too?” We’re endlessly trying to figure out whether Zevon meant “How was I to know she was a KGB spy?” or “How was I to know she was also sleeping with a whole bunch of Russian mobsters, in addition to me?” or “How was I to know that she, like me, was also with the Russians?” My friend Jason and I, both English majors in college, have an ongoing debate about Warren Zevon’s “Lawyers, Guns and Money,” the last track on Excitable Boy. Happy 40th Anniversary to Warren Zevon’s third studio album Excitable Boy, originally released January 18, 1978.
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