R.I.P. Elliott Smith
Tuesday October 21, 2003 – 7:57 pmFucking demons. Now they’ve taken Elliott too, and it’s not fair. :-( How could this be, how could it have come to this? He’s one of my favorite musicians ever, I put him on my last mix CD. I was thrilled to get to meet him and see him play, twice I think, but that was years ago. Weren’t we on a compilation together? I think he liked my music, and boy I know I love his. My Holler Sister Deborah’s got to be devastated, she’s the biggest Elliott fan I know. Roger Manning too, they were good friends. And Birddog too, they’d recorded together. This is too close to home!! What a fantastic talent. It’s not fair that he had to go through everything he did, and not fair that he gave us so much, but we the fans and friends couldn’t give him just a little more in return. I feel that way about every musician and anybody I love who’s ever died, but this is especially tragic.
Fucking hell.
October 22nd, 2003 at 12:33 am
totally sucks…
October 22nd, 2003 at 1:17 am
((hug))
:(
October 22nd, 2003 at 3:34 am
My first reaction when I read of his death was when I saw it on a forum, and they didn’t say how… it was literally "What the Fuck?", because I thought it was something like how Mary Hansen died…. and then I read the linked article… and I just found myself even more saddened… been a lot of loss lately… so many talented people, so many beautiful wonderful artists leaving too soon and it hurts just thinking about it.
I know this is going to sound weird… but I am still not over Mary Hansen, and I have a feeling that this is going to really stick with me as well… sigh…. especially because of the circumstances….
Such a shame, such a loss, such a waste… it saddens me to have to write those words…
Mournful, and a little more cynically depressed by the world….
M
October 22nd, 2003 at 1:33 pm
words don’t come easily over this. I’m devastated by it, too. I never saw him in concert or met him. But his music resonated deeply for me. The real tragedy of suicide is that none of us living can really understand the extent of the pain he must have been in, and the despair that brought him to that decision (or that impulsive and irreversible act.) What a loss to the world.
And at 34. We try to make sense of such senseless sad death like this, and we just can’t , at least I can’t. I don’t know how to deal with this kind of loss. I do know that the power and timelessness of music, all music that we love,keeps it with us, and will still be in the world to amaze others for years to come. All great art takes on that life of its own and long outlives its creator.
But, we who still live in the times that he did, miss him, whether we knew him or his music.
January 13th, 2004 at 1:09 am
Hey Edith,
Just saw this today: incredible…
To think he had "defensive wounds" on his hands… the more we learn, the more disturbing it gets.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/esmithaut1.html