Rocktations is placing a severe content warning on this link.  For those of you familiar with the Department of Homeland Security guidelines, we're talking somewhere between yellow and yellow-orange ... or is it orange-yellow? ... apricot? mango? chutney? ... mmm, chutney.  Anyway, since the link is to an interview with the one human considered capable of surviving a nuclear winter due to his cockroach-like resilience in the face of all sorts of voluntary self-abuse, you should know what you're getting into here.

British music magazine NME presents an interview with Keith Richards.  Rocktations is struggling with its selection of the most disturbing part of the discussion.  Blogosphere consensus has it as this:

"'The strangest thing I've tried to snort?  My father.  I snorted my father,' Richards was quoted as saying ... .

'He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.  My dad wouldn't have cared,' he said.  ' ... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive.'"

Weird, but Rocktations also is considering Richards' sickening reference to the procedure known as trepanning, in which a hole is drilled through the patient's skull ...

"'That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.'"

So while we mortals are driving our 1.5 kids to soccer games in our SUVs, Keith Richards is having holes drilled in his skull and snorting his father's remains.

Don't say we didn't warn you.

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Update:

A Rolling Stones spokesman now claims that Richards' comments concerning his father's ashes should be "[f]ile[d] under April Fool's joke."  Color us skeptical, but, even if it was a joke, what does it say about Richards' reputation that people everywhere believed him?