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Elliott Smith

Its January 2007, and I just remembered to remember Elliott Smith.  I know this is probably the 9 millionth blog entry about missing him, but whatevs magevs.  I miss him.  So sue me!  And I didn’t know about him till I saw Good Will Hunting and heard Between the Bars.  Yeah!  I’m that uncool!  And I’m STILL not on MySpace!!!  And I still haven’t finished my 2005 taxes! And I still haven’t seen your precious Godfather movies!  Yeah, NEVER!  Get off my case!  Jeez, you’re suffocating me!  I need to see other people.  No, I wouldn’t have wanted space if you hadn’t violated so many boundaries. 

There was a weird smell in Manhattan today.  Gassy, poisonousy.  Mayor Bloomberg came out and said it was probably just a really bad smell.  Nothing dangerous.  But the thing is, it was a really, really bad smell.  Some people fainted.  I guess because it seemed to go away we’re just gonna let the weird leaky factory or evil terrorist (or evil factory and weird leaky terrorist) just sneak off without a punishment of any kind?

Elliott Smith and the smell aren’t really related, except maybe for the fact that thinking about how much I don’t miss that smell made me think about how much I do miss Elliott Smith, and eight years back when there were no ominous weird smells, and no need to think about them, and what they mean, but just listening to Either/Or on a jukebox, and then walking home, drunk and happy.

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4 Responses to “Elliott Smith”

  1. Brandon Says:
    January 10th, 2007 at 6:16 pm

    The official explanation from the White House is that God farted.

  2. Jackosn Says:
    January 12th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    Keep the Elliott sympathy comin’

  3. tom Says:
    January 17th, 2007 at 6:27 am

    Yeah, Elliott Smith has definitely been reduced to a stinging, occasional thought for me too. Like Nick Drake, who I first learned about after that Volkswagen commercial that used “Pink Moon” on the soundtrack- I think that trumps your “Good Will Hunting” uncool with the sheer raging inferno of it’s uncoolness.

  4. RobO Says:
    January 26th, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    I never heard of ES until The Royal Tennenbaums, so what?
    I just came to say that the last line of your post just made me so sad.

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