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Stones 'Shine a Light' on how to live forever
Keith Richards has single-handedly made getting old cool. His defiant swagger and cockroach-like resilience have made him the ultimate rock & roll icon. Like a seasoned blues veteran, time has only honed his musical abilities to a razor-sharp edge. When you look up “rhythm guitarist” in the rock dictionary, it’s just a big picture of Keith.
He’s also sure to have rocketed up the High Times “Pot 40” after telling the UK Daily Mail “I smoke my head off. I smoke weed all the damn time. That's all I take, that's all I do. But I do smoke, and I've got some really good hash.” Party at Keith’s house!
Which could make the Rolling Stone’s new classic concert documentary “Shine A Light” captured by cinema great Martin Scorcese, somewhat educational in the art of growing old, um, rockfully? Opening on the biggest number of IMAX screens ever (like the one at Universal Citywalk), their elegantly wasted timelessness in such relentless detail sounds like the perfect excuse to gorge on popcorn and Diet Coke to me.
It’s pretty amazing that at the center of that legendary brand bordering on it's own culture is a guy like Keith Richards, someone who only stopped doing coke after he famously fell out of a tree in Fiji and smacked his head, drinks Ketel One by the Big Gulp and brags about attending the funerals of more than one doctor that told him he’d be dead in six months. Nice work, if you can get it. See you at the movies...
—Scott T. Sterling
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