I was reading Maxim magazine on the flight out to Vegas last week. Among the articles in this month's magazine was a listing of the greatest rock-n-roll deaths. Among them I was surprised to see Elliot Smith had died last year. While I was never a great fan of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon I did take a strong liking to Miss Misery from Elliott Smith. It is too bad that he is dead. It sounded like he comitted suicide or had a drug OD. He was up there with Leonard Cohen for intelligent somber music and at 34 he still had lots of time left to make great music that I was looking forwards to listening to.

He has a web site dedicated to him. Maybe I'll buy his last album while I am out at the mall today having lunch with Stephanie or at least I could figure out how to collect more of his music.