I cannot take this.

How did that even happen…

The recordings were salvaged. Too bad I need a new computer to play them on.

I’m thinking about reading this but with Stephen King, you never know what you’re getting into. This seems like it might be pretty interesting though.

Just as I was about to back up the three phenomenal recordings I made with Adrian, my computer crashed and now it won’t boot properly. I think I’m going to need the geek squad.

This is definitely true.  I’m on it.  I’m going to have to change the name of my blog though…

I remember when I first heard last year that Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse had taken his own life.  I just sat in my chair, shocked.  It just seemed so out of the blue.  Then again, I’d barely known the band at that point.  It was, in fact, Linkous’s suicide and the following eulogies from bands like Radiohead and Metric that really got me listening to Sparklehorse and cemented Mark Linkous as one of my favorite musicians ever.

Music and talent aside, what really got me down about his death was not that he would no longer be creating albums, but moreso that his name would forever join the likes of Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis as the martyrs of rock and roll.  I’m sure everyone has at some point noticed that whenever there is talk of Nirvana or Joy Division, the fact that the lead singer committed suicide seems to overshadow all of their music, as if for some reason suicide has the power to impact all that came before it.  Which I think is interesting, because it shouldn’t.  Neither In Utero nor Closer were anything close to suicide notes.  They were just amazing albums.  But no one ever mentions either without mentioning the great tragedies that occurred afterwards.  I am reasonably justified in saying that a great many of the people that mourn these tragedies publicly have never even listened to these albums, and that is a horrible crime.  Doing so is forgetting the one thing that the “martyrs” of rock and roll wished to be remembered.

And now this crime is destroying Mark Linkous’s own legacy, one that was already shrouded in underground obscurity.  Type in Mark Linkous on google and count how many instances of “R.I.P.” and “Tragic” that you see.  The idea of Linkous and Sparklehorse is becoming more and more of a tragic icon instead of a real man.  Of course I hope that he rests peacefully, and I believe his death to be extremely tragic.  But it is his life and his accomplishments that should be reflected on always, not his death.  Mark Linkous lived an incredibly short life, but in it, he did more than most of us ever will, and we cannot ever forget that.

One of my old tracks.  There will be a version of this by my band The Effectors.  I’ll post it when it comes out.

All by Flying Saucer Attack.  This is all the beginning of a very awesome collection.

For those who have no idea who or what I’m talking about, listen to this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hB2C-cw_bc

Thank you for listening.

I’m mastering some of my old demos, so get ready to hear some awesome music.