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[CarolineChe]

Happy birthday, Elliott. You're very missed.

[aleen2daleft]

i enjoyed this. I enjoyed Thirteen. I enjoyed the last scene as well.

[CarolineChe]

I feel like I miss him so much.

[Cam3210]

Something very homely and familiar about this, even though I live on the other side of the world. Indescribable.

[inputmodule]

here's a funny tidbit- i remember seeing Elliott falling down, wearing those old fashioned 4 wheel roller skates at an "altrock skate night" at Oaks Park (a funky old amusement park in SE pdx). the stage was in one corner of the roller rink, so everytime you skated away, the sound would do a swirly phase from the doppler effect. never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow

[inputmodule]

4cats-the footage in beginning was filmed under one of the SE bridges (pretty sure it's the Morrison Street) i remember walking by those drawings many times in the mid 90's.

some things are the same- check out Elliott standing in front of 'where the price is right' at 12th & Division and 'Ann's Grocery' on Clinton at (4:57)

[4cats1room]

so what, he was about 23-24 in this? he looks so young.

it's amazing what prolonged usage of anti-depressants can do to a person. they practically kill everyone who's on em. wish he would have stopped taking em.

he reminds me a lot of my husband. i love them both.

[nanndamin]

he was 27

[mysolitarystar]

What a thing to say!! If that were true the likes of the Eli Lilly Corporation would be long gone.

All general practitioners will tell you the same thing: prozac (eg) has a controversial reputation, but it, like Valium for example, can be either used or abused. Its not the drug, but the patient.

PS I expect it wasnt anit depressants that damaged poor Elliott so, but rather another more inherently evil drug beginning with H.

xx

[4cats1room]

crazy to see Portland in the mid 90's. i live there now & only recognize the bridges. wonder where the footage at the beginning was filmed

great little piece here. i miss him. but i just recently got NEW MOONm fell in love w/ 13 & found this video! nice to have 'new' elliott music. i found 'from a basement on a hill II' today- excited to listen to it

he's my favorite acoustic musician. 2nd to joan baez & dylan. & even though i love billy corgan live, nobody's ever been as good as this one!

[eln1234]

Looks like it was filmed in southeast Portland. I recognize the Wentworth Chevrolet sign on Grand. The shot of him standing in the street with the rose bushes behind him looks like Ladd's Addition.

[bryankot]

Elliott!!!!!!!!!

[vedder12]

Thanks for posting this. It is actually in sync with the audio!

<3

[mymayapapaya]

lol @ recording in the bathroom. :)

[1legerdemain1]

wow

[SunsetRubdownz]

JEM COHEN IS THE BEST!

elliott smith's music is timeless! except that time he tried making needle in the hay rock....

[oimabel]

i love needle in the hay rock...

[inoculatetheinnocous]

early*

[inoculatetheinnocous]

the beginning music i believe is an earl version of baby britain.

[rftckip]

anyone know where the music from the start is from?

[Rikiru]

you're kidding right? This video is a "documentary" done by Elliott Smith MANY years ago. He past away a few years back, and few people have YET to recognize the genius in his sadness.

[planetnoodle]

I think he means what album...

[Tahy]

What´s the music from the start?

[Ofski]

acoustic version of Baby Britain - baby britain is on the album 'xo'

[gsbn86]

Elliott is dead. It doesnt matter if it was suicide or if he was killed. He is dead. No one will ever see him again. But a part of him still lives in his music, the videos and in the memory of people who think of him.

[gahu101]

i jsut beleive his killer was his old mate O.o i mean an argument.....

[XX12music34XX]

JUST WATCH THE DAMN VIDEO!!! I mean, it's really depressing that he died, and whether or not he committed suicide or was murdered, he is dead now. So what everyone needs to do is remember the music he made, and how incredibly inspiring and magical it is. And even though he is dead, his music certainly isn't. So instead of bitching about how he died, you should just watch the video and listen to his music, that to this day is very much alive.

[j0sephinex]

i like dogs

[C3ns0red]

The only people who truly know what happened that night are Elliot Smith and his live-in girlfriend of the time Jennifer Chiba and neither are speaking.

Stop w/ the theories of how he died. Just love his music.

[violentmachine]

fucking sad

[BotswanaBabyBullet]

The autopsy says he doesn't have any hesitation wounds though. That's part of the reason why it looks more like a homocide. Nobody stabs themself once without hesitating, pulls the knife out and stabs themself again.

[123Toast]

actually its really common with stab suicides that they stab themselves more than once.

[mcclth]

Yeah, if I could stab myself once, I'd go for a second.

[victordemise]

It doesnt matter.The real killer was the psych-meds. He was a known cutter-Carved the word NOW into his arm right before he recorded "Everything means nothing to me"(see SPIN magazine) and they call them HESETATION WOUNDS when you stab more than once, hence, not impossible. XO

[shizzle412]

I dont think elliott would be getting his life back to normal and then one day when he is taking his girlfriend out on a date, stab himself... he didnt kill himself, i know it.

[xixabstainx]

you all need to shut the fuck up and just watch the video and have respect for him instead of just arguing over something that no one will ever know for sure, why the hell are you all fighting like fucking morons? shows how much you really care about a video thats so important and so fragile..

[ohghosts]

It's funny that "zhicago" said that the stab wounds show that he couldn't have killed himself.

Because that's one of the factors that is keeping the police on the Suicide view.

The stab wounds are exactly as though they were self-inflicted.

So there goes "zhicago"'s conspiracy theory.

[though, there is a ton of evidence pointing to the girlfriend]

[BlueScarecrow]

dont forget the wounds on his arms.

[Roysito]

if it wasn't suicide somebody should kill that bitch! for killing him!!! imagine how music he still got inside for us!!!

[fictionalscience]

but unlike getting shot on the brain, people don't die instantly when they get stabbed on the heart

[jordanelunico]

Get a girlfriend

[RedskinsFTW21]

all these people in this video walking by have no clue that theyre walking by the most genius songwriter  of our time.

[Roysito]

amen!

[leopoldfrank]

wasn't suicide?... dubious

[zhicago]

1st song is Between the Bars.

2nd is Thirteen.

3rd is Angeles.

Youre welcome.

P.S., it wasnt suicide. I've seen the police report.

[naturalbloo]

what do you mean it wasnt suicide?

[zhicago]

The evidence points more closely to the girlfriend. Two pieces of evidence (out of many):

One cannot humanly stab yourself twice.

Also, the angle that the stab wounds occurred could not have been made in the way that the girlfriend described he made them. they could have only come from the angles that she herself could have applied.

Look it up and decide for yourself.

[naturalbloo]

alright. man thats intense.

it was not made known to me that he had two wounds..dang.

[creeklax]

i really love this viseo. but it makes me sad to know elliott smtih is gone forever. the only thing that helps is that his music lives on a tribute to his greatness.

[TheLemur47]

the second song is between the bars

[stephenB99]

I've been looking everywhere for 'Thirteen' I think this is my favourite song of all time

[dibdins]

If you haven't already found it. It's on the "Thumbsucker" soundtrack. Great version of a good song.

[PestVic]

wow.. i just now got into elliot.. and wow.. all i can say is wow...

and i just found out that i think the exact way he does...

crazy... :(

[Rikiru]

Same here, i started listening to Elliott Smith a few months ago, my brother and bf got me into it. Then I was told of his death years before :( I was very sad that week. The crazy part is that if that was his way out, then what keeps the rest of us (like him) from doing the same.

[erinmerle]

the first song is the chords to BABY BRITAIN

[Sinatrixx]

I don't think either of those are actual songs, probably just little warm ups that Elliott played, maybe a Heatmiser tune or something, or one of those Unrealesed songs, but I had not heard either of those, but I guess they could be, you never know I suppose.

[erinmerle]

baby britain

[DHLHC]

does anyone know what the first two songs are called?

[Mik83a]

First song is between the bars, the second is Thirteen

[chitazechat]

Glups

[Philby7777]

Its important we teach our children about as many diverse, UNIQUE, spiritful and gifted artists as we can. Elliott Smith is certainly more than a gifted talent and as time goes by I am sure future listeners will see everything so many of us missed before.Long live Elliott Smith's beautiful music and legacies.

[souvlaki1]

hey, does anyone know the song at the start of this. It plays over the black and white images, its absolutely amazing, never heard it before.

[Thrillhouse5000]

Yeah, it's "Ten Crack Commandments" by Notorious B.I.G.

[acmei]

the song playing over the images is a slowed down and acoustic version of Baby Britain. doesn't sound like it to me but that's what it says on the official site. :)

[Spooly]

Love you Elliott. Check out Future Butterflies, a tribute to Elliott Smith from fans around the world. Being put together now.

Watch my contribution and also read more:

'Searching for Elliott'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v­=WQwor2FAzMY

http://www.myspace.com/future_­butterflies

*The documentary is called Future Butterflies. We hope to convey the positive effect that Elliott Smith and his music have had on each of our lives, as well as how he's changed music as an entity.

[cocofbryce]

This is why he is my greatest influence

I have first listned to his music while I was undergoing a great crisis in my life (totaly accidental as I have just read a few words about figure 8 in a magazine and decided to explore it further). It will probably not surprise you guys that his music was all I could listen to back then, as it was one of the prominent forces that brought me back to life, so to speak.

His music heals, maybe it's just me...

[PestVic]

no its working for me too

[nolongerking]

my god...(shakes head)...beautiful...heart-brea­king...

how had i not heard his music until now?

[StellasAntics]

that's exactly what i said a few years back when i first heard elliott :)

[Scottowen86]

He is the biggest inspiration for me as a musician. On a personal level, his words and the way of his life just leaves me with awe. Both this and Strange Parallel are great videos for people to check out. I believe instead of people focusing on his death, you should focus on when he was living and his music he wrote for himself, and for us to enjoy. Afterall, when i die, i doubt the thing id want, or anyone would want, would be to be remembered for dying vs. what was accomplished.

[dunlap31]

The neighborhoods in this video are mine. I didn't know Elliott but I miss him. The second song he plays is called "Thirteen" and it is by Alex Chilton. For one of Elliott's (and many, many songwriters') big infuences, check out the band "Big Star" featuring Alex Chilton.

[harshtradamus]

this film is by jem cohen, who is amazing.

[kikecoxon]

Elliott FOREVER!

[nipbully]

i was lucky enough to meet elliott by chance sitting on a bench in the dogpark in madison sq park NYC he said, "it never lasts"! elliot i miss your heart

[Jest]

He just said that randomly? or was it in reply to something? =P Good story though.

[hancwong]

Words seem like such feeble puppets for expressing how you feel after listening to Elliott Smith. His music was really pretty remarkable and I had always wanted to see him play live. I guess that video will have to do. Han out.

[blip]

tragically beautiful. rest in peace, Elliott.

[thehappiestofplaces]

sad :(

[epolley]

RIP Elliott

xo ep

[Creepshow1O4]

what is the first song he sings?... so amazing. ive mainly heard xo , and basement on a hill.... thanks.

[neightdigity]

it's called "between the bars"

[FitterHappier113]

i feel selfish for wishing he was still with us. wherever he is i bet he is still making beautiful music.

[jonseeley101]

Very nice video...I wish his voice wasn't one from beyond the grave, but he was through with suffering, and we all got to go sometime. RIPand thanks for all the great music.

"Fly away, god-speed my friend"

J.D. Seeley

[alyssabroome]

I'm lucky to have lived and loved by Elliott's music

[musicismycrack]

I'm in love with a dead man

[kristyleigh6]

beautiful and haunting. i hate to know that the world lost this guy. love love love. 

[yesterdaydream]

completely beautiful

[sandwichrecipe]

I expected little and was astounded. GREAT VIDEO! I've always been really interested in seeing some of Elliott's studio setups.

[neightdigity]

awesome

[iouahaal]

iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou

[PriestsandParamedics]

absolutely amazing