It must be very difficult walking that tightrope. In his sadness he found & extracted a sincere, profound beauty. It lives on and yaddayadda - but the man is dead. I fail to see the beauty in this one. Just sadness.
14 Mar 2010
Sparklehorse
Mark Linkous shot himself the other day. He had a wonderful ability to find beauty in sadness and wrote songs that shake the very girders of your soul & could make a grown man weep.
It must be very difficult walking that tightrope. In his sadness he found & extracted a sincere, profound beauty. It lives on and yaddayadda - but the man is dead. I fail to see the beauty in this one. Just sadness.
It must be very difficult walking that tightrope. In his sadness he found & extracted a sincere, profound beauty. It lives on and yaddayadda - but the man is dead. I fail to see the beauty in this one. Just sadness.
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ReplyDeletethe lyrics of this one are wonderfully simplistic
The beauty, I suppose, comes from what he left behind.
ReplyDeleteHey man. I only just found your blog, via your YouTube channel, via some others dudes YouTube channels who mentioned you. From what I read here you seem to have a lot of similar interests to me, so I would have liked to have seen a few of your videos, is there anywhere I still can?
ReplyDeleteI'm a writer and I'm just about to start YouTubing myself - mostly to pull more people towards my blog. Check it out;
http://thejournapist.blogspot.com/