Elliott Smith, one of my favourite musicians, died on Wednesday 22 October, apparently due to suicide.
Elliott Smith played what I would call a kind of folk-rock. I got into his music when I heard his album XO a few years back now (1999 I think). After that, I heard his covers of songs by The Beatles (such as Because on the American Beauty soundtrack), John Lennon and The Kinks – and I was even more into him.
His death is a big loss to the music world and I personally find it (as does Tegan) very sad that we’ll not hear any new music from him, not to mention that any death is a sad thing.
More information at:
http://www.elliottsmith.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Smith
Just saw this in the online opinion section of the SMH:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/21/1066631429212.html
Basically, it’s an opinion piece by Dominic Knight from The Chaser comedy team, in which he says much the same things I did in my Heckler piece a week or so back about having a celebrity replace Simon Crean. However, Mr Knight fails to draw any reference to Andrew Denton, so I still consider mine to be the superior piece.
I’ve been getting back into a bit of gaming on the computer and online over the last few days. Being without internet access and pretty busy over the previous few weeks meant that I hadn’t been doing much gaming, so it was pretty fun to get back into it.
So, I’ve been playing the Halo demo, Jedi Outcast, Battlefield 1942 and Max Payne. Here’s some observations:
Our home internet connection is up and running again, now that we’ve switched ISPs. As such, you can expect more updates and improved e-contact with us.
So, we’re online again, it’s better than before, God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world.
(Disclaimer: I know that’s not theologically correct, but you get the drift)
We just had a great and spontaneous weekend away. On Friday night over dinner with good friends Richard and Kathryn, we were discussing cheese, wine, travelling and related things. So, I asked if people wanted to do some cheese tasting on Saturday, in Milawa. Anyway, in about 10 minutes we’d decided on the trip and organised to meet Tim and Ammi Narraway at Milawa, and stay with them in Wagga Wagga. So, off we went on Saturday morning – and it was great.