elliot smith

I made this for my site and thought I'd post it. I don't want to come back to this board again.

I am fucking gutted....was sitting in a bar lamenting an ex who keeps popping back in too my life, listening to XO and then someone came in and said he had killed him self. I got drunk and cried

I am so sad that i can't even think straight...
i used to see him around portland and it turned out we both had the same ferdinand the Bull tattoo, cept mine on my shoulder...

godspeed and fair thee well Elliot....

i dont know if anyone can tell me about any sort of memorial service that's being planned in portland... i don't know anyone around here and feel that i have no one to mourn with, i hate feeling so sad and being stuck in my house. and if there is some service i do not want to miss it, i just have no way of knowing... if anyone knows anything about it please contact me.

SMITHS.... I LOVE THAT SONG.... ALWAYS MAKES ME WANT TO CRY!!! . I have listened to that song on repeat for many a long, and restless nights. Fitting, as well.

Let me say one more time it really sucks he is dead.

Mmm yeah. I remember where I was when I heard. I just felt sick. Totally and utterly sick. My friend in LA worked with his sister at the time at Ameoba Records on Sunset, she emailed me and confirmed it after I saw it come up on Yahoo news. I couldn't listen to any of his records for about a year after that.. they just made me feel too horrible. I still don't listen to them even nearly as much as I did when he was alive. It's all just horribly horribly sad.

I try to remember him smiling and waving and accepting flowers from a girl in the crowd at the last show I saw him at (at The Forum in London in I guess 2000, maybe 2001..) Always in the back of my mind, being a such a fan of his, I worried about him. But I thought, if it was going to happen, it would've been drugs. I don't like to think about what actually happened. It's just too much. him as not being around is bad enough.

Likewise.

yeah.

he was a good guy.

I miss him too.

his music is incredible.

I heard a cool interview on NPR awhile ago that got me into his stuff. It was of someone who did a tribute album. The question came up: "What would you say to him if you had ever met him?" The answer: "Its going to be alright. Everything is going to be okay."

Heartbreaking stuff.

I'm still bummed about this, he remains one of my most listened to artists. I would've liked to have seen him play, particularly now that I live in Portland.

He was all I llistened to for ages . Missed .

Above all else that i hear, i love this best. Thank you elliott.

I was turned on to Elliott's music a few months ago when a band I joined played "Big Nothing". Its such a well written and structurally fun song to play, lyrics are killer!
Its one of my favorite songs in our rotation we play it all the time!

God, it's been 3 years and this thread still brings tears to my eyes.
I moved to Portland a year ago and the first show we went to was the tribute/release party for To:Elliott Fromortland. There was a lot of love in the room. His dad was there. I , fuck, still can't talk about it.

I miss that guy.

If you have a dimeadozen.org account, i'll be putting up a few new Elliott DVD's for download soon.

Here's the first one: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=129205



*geek*

http://www.undertheradarmag.com/es.html

I found that article last semester when I was writing an essay on suicide(I used Elliott as my main case study) it's got some great pictures and is definatly a great interview.

Days after the interview there is one thing Smith told me that stayed in my mind for one reason or another. Perhaps it%u2019s proof of Smith%u2019s new lease on life, but it%u2019s certain his remark can be taken as a sign of the good times and better music to come: "Thanks for coming around," he said. "You know, for a couple of years I dropped out of just about everything. But I feel better today. I think it%u2019ll be a good record."

That part of the article always sends chills down my spine, from my research for the essay alot of times when people who are diagnosed with depression do commit suicide it's when they seem to be getting out of the worst parts and stuff seems to be looking up for them.

To all you guys that have shared Elliott goodness, thanks a lot. I be mucho appreciadoing it.