Gonna love you

I found about the Seth Avett and Jessica Lea Mayfield Sing Elliott Smith project on Facebook yesterday. Or maybe it was Twitter? ...

"I get burned out in a way, but anything you’re doing - once you’re doing it, it seems that maybe something else would be better to do " Elliott Smith

aw my favorite

miss misery. Elliott

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Life has meaning because, at some point, it's going to end. It's for that reason we must make every moment count, and the same goes for some of our favorite musicians. While many have an entire lifetime in which to grow their art and expand their legacy, sometimes they pass into the great unknown before they get a chance to see their completed and intended works unleashed upon the listening public. Sometimes, this is a tragic thing, as they aren't alive to see the world react to their…

Collaborators and friends of Elliott Smith share their favorite memories and songs before a star-studded memorial show.

Elliott Smith passed away on this date (October 21st) in 2003. This is a photo I shot of Elliott Smith (being carried in this shot) sometime back in the mid-90's when his band Heatmiser played at Moe, a nightclub in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. I don't really recall much about this particular show except that I liked the music and bought an album at the merch booth after the show.

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Evidently Elliott Smith's death was a huge fuckin deal. I had no idea. Hello, research.