ramble through the bronx
yes, this here is ramble through the bronx, the continuing musings of a graduate student* who should be writing her dissertation, but honestly, living in new york city there's really so much else to do...* and her commenting friends. And guest blogger.
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
everything means nothing to me
I heard it on the radio just twenty minutes ago -- apparently it's beginning to leak out from California, though I didn't see a reference to it on the internet (arbiter, of course, of all things newsworthy). WFUV said that they'd heard & sources now seem to confirm. - no wait, here, at a fan pageSweet Adeline.
Elliott Smith is dead. At age 34. His body was found yesterday afternoon by a friend. Police believe it to be suicide (is the story so far).
The Rolling Stone biography says: "There are few tunesmiths who can tackle delicate issues -- heroin addiction, alcoholism, heartbreak and self-loathing -- with more sincerity and sensitivity than folk crooner Elliott Smith."
All I can say is... the scene in The Royal Tenenbaums when Ritchie is slashing his wrists and Elliott Smith's song "Needle in the Hay" is playing... it takes on a ... well I guess it couldn't be a darker tone, given that it was already dark... oh dear.
anyway.
The lyrics to "Everything means nothing to me" (from Figure 8, released 2000)
Someone found the future as a statue
In a fountain
At attention looking backward in a
Pool of water
Wishes with a blue
Songbird on his shoulder
who keeps singing over everything
Everything means nothing to me
Everything means nothing to me
Everything means nothing to me
I picked up the song and found my picture
In the paper
The reflection in the water shouted
"Are your men still
Trying to salute
People from a time when he was
Everything he's supposed to be?"
Everything means nothing to me...
jane 10:26 AM [+]
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