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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: more on elliot smith |
| Date | Thu, 23 Oct 2003 01:51:24 -0400 |
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At 10:40 PM 10/22/2003 -0400, Jaimie Vernon wrote:
>All the more reason to stop romanticising this guy's musical accomplishments
>as a means of appeasing our shock and horror at what a total waste of human
>existance Elliott Smith was as a person. No one mentions his cowardly exit.
>Great tunes or not, the guy was a loser. And by taking his life he fulfills
>his career long ambition to prove himself right as a tortured artist. Alas,
>he'll live on as a martyr right next to Drake and Cobain.
Well said, Jaimie, on both points. Given Smith's clear case of severe Nick
Drake worship, this was only a matter of time, and the method involved
("DUDE! He stabbed HIMSELF in the HEART! Geddit?") proves only two things:
1. What a fucking literalist
2. What a fucking drama queen
You cannot tell me there was not an enormous level of self-mythologizing in
this act, and for that, I can only say "Fuck you, 'Elliott' Smith."
S
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