we lost another one to depression today. mark linkous/sparklehorse. he had been battling it for at least as long as hes been publicly known and had tried to kill himself a couple times, but over the last three years he had been touring and recording again and showing back up on radar. did a project with danger mouse and david lynch too which sounded great from the songs i heard, but unfortunately EMI in the now predicable incompetence of major label groups has been blocking its release. we have to hold these morons in contempt and at least wonder if hed have been in better shape had this album been allowed to come out.
anyway we'll probably read something from one of the greenwoods or yorke on the radiohead blog this week, as they were really close. linkous went on tour with them at least 3 times in the 90s. lots of good things to say to each other. kind of a convergent evolution type of deal i guess we could say occurred between the two groups. that whole esoteric/surrealistic type of direction seemed to be something mutual. one drawing from the south the other from post-thatcherism->new labour uk. i guess its really not all that different when you get down to it.
today was such a good day, and now this. bleh.
anyway, and as always, here are some good ones.