Rock Star Heaven

"Cut this picture-into you and me...
burn it backwards- kill this history"- Elliott Smith
here's a fresh-faced, pigtail-free sketch to fill my "every other day" quota....
started the morning commute with nick drake and went home to elliott smith....
two amazing musicians who left us far too soon. i was too young to appreciate
nick drake in his day (check beck's website for an amazing cover of his song "parasite")
but i really find myself missing elliott regularly...he's one of the few artists of whose
entire catalog I own....i guess that doesn't have much weight in today's rip and burn world,
but i went to the record stores and bought each and every one of those bitches.....
i can remember where i was when I first heard "Sweet Adeline" (Amoeba Records, Berkeley California)
his songs have that kind of immediacy with me.....maybe i had a grunge hangover, or maybe my tastes
were growing older, but elliott "happened" for me at just the right time...wish he could've stayed.....
frogdaddy