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Studio Albums Wanted Dead or Alive Warren Zevon Excitable Boy Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School The Envoy Sentimental Hygiene Transverse City Hindu Love Gods Mr. Bad Example Mutineer Life'll Kill Ya My Ride's Here The Wind Compilation Albums A Quiet Normal Life: The Best of Warren Zevon I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (An Anthology) Genius: The Best of Warren Zevon The First Sessions Reconsider Me: The Love Songs Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings Live Albums Stand in the Fire Learning to Flinch Tribute Albums Enjoy Every Sandwich: Songs of Warren Zevon Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon Songs "Carmelita" "Desperados Under the Eaves" "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" "Lawyers, Guns and Money" "Life'll Kill Ya" "Mr. Bad Example" "My Shit's Fucked Up" "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" "Roland Chorale" "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" "Trouble Waiting to Happen" "Werewolves of London" "Wanted Dead or Alive"

People Warren Zevon Jordan Zevon Crystal Zevon Ariel Zevon William Zevon Marilyn Livingston Dillow Jackson Browne Jorge Calderón Waddy Wachtel Bands and Duos lyme & cybelle Hindu Love Gods Other Articles Warren Zevon Quotations Time Line Gallery of Images Featured Media The Warren Zevon Guitar Songbook I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon Warren Zevon: Keep Me In Your Heart Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (film) "Sillyhow Stride" Jordan Zevon (EP) Insides Out Local Agricultural Community Exchange External Links Warren Zevon official Website Warren Zevon official MySpace Website Jordan Zevon's Official Site Warren Zevon at the Rolling Stone Warren Zevon at the New York Times Warren Zevon at PopMatters Warren Zevon at VH1 Warren Zevon at Rhino Records Warren Zevon Songs at Kissthisguy: Misheard Lyrics Warren Zevon at Acid Logic WARREN ZEVON -- AN APPRECIATION An appreciation of Warren Zevon A Wry Goodbye - People Magazine Warren Zevon on the Internet Movie Database Warren Zevon at the Internet Archive Warren Zevon's Bad Example Photo Gallery The Warren Zevon Other Page The Legacy of Warren Zevon The Zevon Fan Web Page

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May 3, 2010

The Warren Zevon Wiki celebrates a full year of featured content each month. We the moderators apologize for being a few days off this month.

January 20, 2010

Inspired by our January featured image, and the moderators' similar work on the Blood Wiki, we are uploading fan artwork (largely from deviantART) to help illustrate the wiki and recognize the work of the fans.

December 28, 2009

The Warren Zevon Wiki now has a new logo, created by Malcolm Wilson.

November 28, 2009

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August 7, 2009

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May 1, 2009

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April 26, 2009

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April 25, 2009

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March 29, 2009

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November 28, 2008

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"Dirty Life and Times" is the opening song on Warren Zevon's last album, The Wind. The song is often considered to be Warren's epitaph on the life he had led. Although not entirely self-referential, much of the song's imagery can be thought of as metaphors for Warren Zevon's life. The song is sung in a fashion similar to country-western music (much in the same way that "Rub Me Raw" is sang in a blues style), and ends with Warren asking "Who'll lay me out and ease my worried mind, while I'm winding down my dirty life and times?" The song's title was later reused for Crystal Zevon's biographical work I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon.

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Warren Zevon's final appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.

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"I don't think about what other people's perception of me is, at least not any more than anybody in any field does. You know, the cable guy and the person who parks your car, or your dentist thinks. Perhaps to a fault it doesn't enter into the artistic process, you know it enters into the daily interactions in real life as much as it does for anybody."

• On public perception.