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Ariel Zevon is the daughter of Warren Zevon and Crystal Zevon, is the half-sister of Jordon Zevon, and is the goddaughter of Jackson Browne. Ariel was raised by her mother Crystal in a childhood spent moving between Los Angeles, France and elsewhere in Europe. She attended Marlboro College in Vermont, where she studied sociology and theatre, it was also where she met her future husband, Ben Powel who studied writing.

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"I just think that popular music as we understood it for a long time was kind of limited... to songs about a certain thing, love songs for the most part... And it wasn't exactly what I was doing..."

Warren Zevon on his violent and edgy song content and "song noir."

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 * ''[[Reconsider Me: The Love Songs]]''
 * ''[[Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings]]''
+* ''[[Rhino Hi-Five: Warren Zevon]]''
 ; [[:Category: Warren Zevon Live Albums|Live Albums]]
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 * ''[[Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (film)]]''
 * "[[Sillyhow Stride]]"
+* [[Local Agricultural Community Exchange]]
+;[[:Category:Jordan Zevon Albums|Jordan Zevon Albums]]
 * ''[[Jordan Zevon (EP)]]''
 * ''[[Insides Out]]''
+* ''[[Imperfect]]''
-* [[Local Agricultural Community Exchange]]
+;[[:Category:Ariel Zevon Albums|Ariel Zevon Albums]]
-; External Links
+* ''[[The Detangler]]''
-* [http://www.warrenzevon.com Warren Zevon official Website]
-* [http://www.myspace.com/warrenzevon Warren Zevon official MySpace Website]
+{{col-end}}
+{{HeadingA|External Links}}
+{{col-begin}}
+{{col-2}}
+''Official and Sections''
+* [http://www.warrenzevon.com Warren Zevon Official Website]
 * [http://www.jordanzevon.com/ Jordan Zevon's Official Site]
+* [http://warrenzevon.freeforums.org/ Just an Excitable Board]
+* [http://www.myspace.com/warrenzevon Warren Zevon] on [[:wikipedia:MySpace|MySpace]]
 * [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/warrenzevon Warren Zevon] at the [[wikipedia:Rolling Stone|Rolling Stone]]
 * [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/z/warren_zevon/index.html Warren Zevon] at the [[wikipedia:New York Times|New York Times]]
 * [http://www.npr.org/artists/15180986/warren-zevon Warren Zevon] at [[:wikipedia:National Public Radio|National Public Radio]]
+* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WarrenZevon Warren Zevon] at [[:wikipedia:TV Tropes|TV Tropes]]
+* [http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/zevon_warren/artist.jhtml Warren Zevon] at [[wikipedia:VH1|VH1]]
+* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0955255/ Warren Zevon] on the [[:wikipedia:Internet Movie Database|Internet Movie Database]]
+* [http://www.archive.org/details/WarrenZevon Warren Zevon] at the [[:wikipedia:Internet Archive|Internet Archive]]
+* [http://www.rhino.com/store/ArtistCatalog.lasso?Artist=Warren%20Zevon Warren Zevon] at [[wikipedia:Rhino Records|Rhino Records]]
+* [http://shop.cafepress.com/warren-zevon Warren Zevon] at [[:wikipedia:CafePress|CafePress]]
+* [http://www.reddit.com/r/Zevon Warren Zevon] at [[:wikipedia:Reddit|Reddit]]
+* [http://www.covermesongs.com/2011/07/live-collection-warren-zevon.html Warren Zevon at Cover Me]
 * [http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/category/warren-zevon/ Warren Zevon at Glide Magazine]
-* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WarrenZevon Warren Zevon at TV Tropes]
 * [http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/tag/warren+zevon/ Warren Zevon at PopMatters]
 * [http://popdose.com/tag/warren-zevon/ Warren Zevon at PopDose]
-* [http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/zevon_warren/artist.jhtml Warren Zevon] at [[wikipedia:VH1|VH1]]
+* [http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/warren-zevon/ Warren Zevon at Ultimate Classic Rock]
+{{col-2}}
-* [http://www.rhino.com/store/ArtistCatalog.lasso?Artist=Warren%20Zevon Warren Zevon] at [[wikipedia:Rhino Records|Rhino Records]]
+''Articles and Commentary''
-* [http://www.kissthisguy.com/777songsof-Warren-Zevon.htm Warren Zevon Songs at Kissthisguy: Misheard Lyrics]
-* [http://shop.cafepress.com/warren-zevon Warren Zevon at CafePress]
 * [http://www.acidlogic.com/im_warrenzevon.htm Warren Zevon at Acid Logic]
 * [http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/news/aug03/201.html WARREN ZEVON -- AN APPRECIATION]
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 * [http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2003-09-08-zevon-obit_x.htm Singer and songwriter Warren Zevon dead at 56] - [[:wikipedia:USA Today|USA Today]]
 * [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2003723485_zevon280.html An insightful insider's look at Warren Zevon] - [[:wikipedia:Seattle Times|Seattle Times]]
-* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0955255/ Warren Zevon on the Internet Movie Database]
+*[http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/01/warren-zevon-werewolves-of-london-demons Warren Zevon: the man behind the demons] - [[:wikipedia:The Guardian|The Guardian]]
-* [http://www.archive.org/details/WarrenZevon Warren Zevon at the Internet Archive]
+*[http://fearghaskelly.com/2013/09/07/zevon/ Warren Zevon: Ten Years On]
+''Fan and Community''
+* [http://www.kissthisguy.com/777songsof-Warren-Zevon.htm Warren Zevon Songs at Kissthisguy: Misheard Lyrics]
 * [http://www.morethings.com/music/warren_zevon/warren_zevon_photo_gallery01.htm Warren Zevon's Bad Example Photo Gallery]
-* [http://members.tripod.com/~Zevonaticism/ The Warren Zevon Other Page]
+* [http://warrenzevon.org Warren Zevon.org]
-* [http://www.squidoo.com/Warren_Zevon_Fan The Legacy of Warren Zevon]
+* [http://www.zevonmentioned.com/ Zevon Mentioned]
+* [http://web.archive.org/web/20111102004417/http://members.tripod.com/~Zevonaticism/ The Warren Zevon Other Page]
 * [http://www.zevonfan1.com/ The Zevon Fan Web Page]
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+;May 3, 2012
+:Due to recent trouble maintaing our featured media, we will now start re-running old ones starting from May 2009.
+;April 1, 2012
+:Our apologies for not having any new featured media up for the past two months. To make up for it, we have put up a brand new article!
+;December 6, 2011
+:After over a months absence, the featured media is back! Whoo!
+;August 18, 2011
+:Well, here is this month's featured media. All delays have reasons, some of them interesting...
 ;May 1, 2011
 :The ''Warren Zevon Wiki'' celebrates two full years of featured content each month.
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 ;January 20, 2010
-:Inspired by our [[:image:Warren-Zevon-Fan-Art-Two.png|January featured image]], and the [[User:Technopeasant|moder]][[User:Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner|ators']] [http://blood.wiki-site.com/index.php/Fan_Art_Image_Gallery similar work] on the ''[http://blood.wiki-site.com/index.php/Blood_Wiki Blood Wiki]'', we are uploading [[:category:Zevon Fandom|fan artwork]] (largely from [[:wikipedia:deviantART|deviantART]]) to help illustrate the wiki and recognize the work of the fans.
+:Inspired by our [[:image:Warren-Zevon-Fan-Art-Two.png|January featured image]], and the [[User:Technopeasant|moder]][[User:Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner|ators']] [http://blood-wiki.org/index.php/Fan_Art_Image_Gallery similar work] on the ''[http://blood-wiki.org/index.php/Blood_Wiki Blood Wiki]'', we are uploading [[:category:Zevon Fandom|fan artwork]] (largely from [[:wikipedia:deviantART|deviantART]]) to help illustrate the wiki and recognize the work of the fans.
 ;December 28, 2009
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+[[Image:ArielZevon.png|thumb|right|150px]]
-'''"Gorilla, You're a Desperado"''' is a track from [[Warren Zevon]]'s [[Time Line#1980s|1980]] album ''[[Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School]]''. It is a comedic account of the narrator's visit to the [[:wikipedia:Los Angles Zoo|Los Angeles Zoo]], where a [[:wikipedia:gorilla|gorilla]] took his car keys, and proceeded to invade his life, leaving him in the zoo to take his place. Zevon's "gorilla" theme is not unique to this piece, in fact, a song called "[[Gorilla]]" was included on his [[Wanted Dead or Alive|first ever album]] back in [[Time Line#1960s|1969]].<br><br>[[Gorilla, You're a Desperado|More Information...]]
+'''Ariel Zevon''' is the daughter of [[Warren Zevon]] and [[Crystal Zevon]], is the half-sister of [[Jordon Zevon]], and is the goddaughter of [[Jackson Browne]]. Ariel was raised by her mother [[Crystal Zevon|Crystal]] in a childhood spent moving between [[:wikipedia:Los Angeles|Los Angeles]], [[:wikipedia:France|France]] and elsewhere in [[:wikipedia:Europe|Europe]]. She attended [[:wikipedia:Marlboro College|Marlboro College]] in [[:wikipedia:Vermont|Vermont]], where she studied [[:wikipedia:sociology|sociology]] and [[:wikipedia:theatre|theatre]], it was also where she met her future husband, Ben Powel who studied [[:wikipedia:writing|writing]].<br> <br> [[Ariel Zevon|More Information...]]''
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+[[File:Roland-Fan-Art.jpg|300px]]
+''[[Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner]], fan portrayal.
-An image used once online to illustrate a page on the album ''[[Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School]]'' and the song "[[Gorilla, You're a Desperado]]".
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+<br><br>
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+"I just think that popular music as we understood it for a long time was kind of limited... to songs about a certain thing, love songs for the most part... And it wasn't exactly what I was doing..."
-"Taken ''collectively''."
+*[[Warren Zevon]] on his violent and edgy song content and "song noir."
-* Stated by [[Warren Zevon]], after consideration, in response to the question "You've written many songs with animal themes. Are animals more intelligent than humans?" during an [http://zevonfan1.com/ZEVONGM.htm interview].
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