Pretty (Ugly Before)

[JRockin04]

This video is a little disturbing . . . it catches the essence of the Elliott Smith persona. Great talent in a tortured soul. RIP Sir Elliott . . . we miss you dearly . . . .

[RandomHero5677]

I miss this guy..... Helps make me veer away from thoughts that of which I should not contemplate.. <3

[schleprock86]

This song goes great with a cigarette and blue moon.

[claregarrity117]

make a film about him already

[bluhousworker]

@claregarrity117 I would be happy to that

[loveminushazel]

my new favorite song.

[magicalllydelicious]

sometimes I feel like Elliott is my only friend

[KillMindsSlow]

Is it Destruction that you require to feel

[Hermunkle]

@Sillywilly999 while I cry

[jcupsmells1]

this song is the best

[allspit0and0spite]

I found this video when I was like 12 And it's been one of my absolute favorites since. I was just totally aghast at how awesome the whole thing was and still am. It's ingrained in my memory as an immensely happy little bit of my childhood. Thanks so much for making it, it's a great honor to Smith I'm sure!

[bluhousworker]

@allspit0and0spite

That is a very sweet thing for you to say, thank you very much. Someday when I get my old external HD back from storage, I'll burn you a high quality copy of the video so you can appreciate it more.

thanks

[allspit0and0spite]

@bluhousworker That would be mega cool. I really can't express how great I think this video is.

[xtoffee92x]

I didn't know what to do.

[JulieGringer]

Love never fails :-)

[HoneyDew812]

I wish I could see it ... it looks like it is good, but the quality is so low, all I can see are mulit-colored squares forming vaguely recognizable images... ! :(

[bluhousworker]

@HoneyDew812, I know it's too bad I don't have current editing software to transfer this video better.

[noestardust]

FUCK I LOVE THIS SONG

[bigtaramilton]

thanx.... you did this song proud, i'm sure E>S would love it too, especially where you synced the firework and snare. touching song and vid!!!!

[bluhousworker]

@bigtaramilton, thank you

[swervie09]

Is that Elliott who we see in the beginning?

Really looks like him!

Anyway...it is a beautiful song and one of my favourites!

[ganuenen]

LOL i cant believe SFT and that other duche bag had an on going fight on you tube for over 5 months, how does that happen!!

[bluhousworker]

I have no idea. I guess we are emotional creatures.

[slaughterxsandii]

this is amazing. i feel the same as you, man. <3 <3 <3

[VitruvianDude]

Also! Could people stop having stupid arguements over this!

Enjoy the tunage...or turn it the f$*k off!

Thaaaaanks!

[dressrehearsalrags]

VitruvianDusche:

No - i love the tunes - i cover them at a local bar for fucks sake, but that don't mean i can't argue with who ever the fuck i like, and it don't mean anyone has to read or respond to what i type here.

[VitruvianDude]

I have to agree with the ego tamer. Elliott Smith was indeed one of the most tallented musicians of the 20th century, How many people do you know that can play and write like that AND STAB THEMSELVES IN THE HEART.

awesomes.

[lipstickr1]

it wasn't him.

asshole.

[bluhousworker]

It's an odd thing that the investigators would officially call his death a suicide, it would seem to me to deserve more investigation.

[Alvin2K4S]

it was never officially a suicide. it was ruled inconclusive.

[adamspun]

amen starving true man

[dressrehearsalrags]

Also "theegotimid" - I went through a decade of childhood abuse, depression and poverty (my parents were jobless) - so please don't tell me that i know nothing of struggle.

[dressrehearsalrags]

I'd also like to tackle the common perception that "losing your depression/chronic sadness means losing your soul". It's not true - I still have moments of sadness - they just don't rule my life like they used to. I don't pity myself any more however, which is an extremely empowering change. You can't pick yourself up when you're continually kicking yourself, but you can't stop kicking yourself until you're standing up. it's a vicsious circle, which needs something to break it.

[dressrehearsalrags]

lol - you crack me up bro (in a good way at times). I still think you love being a drama queen though, and you should lighten the fuck up. Hell i'm certainly not the sunniest of people, but you're one dark mofo with a lot of pain and suffering to go through. Peace be with you brother.

[XsamgX]

You have book smarts with no understanding of real world application, no common sense.

[dressrehearsalrags]

But isn't "common sense" just another way of saying "conservatism which is bound to result in past mistakes playing over and over again"? Look where that got the US - 8 years of George Bush, the "common sense" President. Anyhow, i clearly did something right - because i've turned a string of a thousand nights of abject missery into (more or less) relative contentment.

[TheEgoTamer]

serious man - fuck yourself. you're just an arrogant, know it all cocksucker who thinks because he took some prozac and kicked his blues, he knows the road to happiness. more than likely, you just got a placebo effect anyhow.

it's fucking lame, and you need to shut the fuck up and keep the 'sunshine up the ass gig' to yourself. you're god damn ignorant.

what i've lived through or continue to deal with, you will never understand. it's obvious. you clearly know shit about struggle.

[dressrehearsalrags]

You're adressing someone who has chronic monopolar depression. i.e. i was depressed for over 15 years. I don't actually think i know all the answers - i just want to offer hope, because i know that it's such a profoundly precious thing when you're in the depths of depression. I can't suggest anything for your anger problem though. Never really had to deal with one myself.

[TheEgoTamer]

telling people "happiness is a choice" is a jugement on those who are not happy - not an offering of hope.

you are either being disingenuous, or you are ignorant.

take your pick.

either way, you'd be well advised to cease advising people.

[dressrehearsalrags]

Any disease that is redily treatable should be seen as a choice by those suffering from it. What's so hard to understand about that? problem+solution=choice.

Now, from my experience, one of the main barriers to treating depression is ignorance about treatments for it. It's not enough to know that treatments exist, people have to know what they are and how to use them.

[TheEgoTamer]

here's a simpler barrier - the treatments we know of only work some of the time, for some of the cases. i've been in and out of treatment since i was 8 years old - there's nothing you are going to tell me about this shit i haven't already come across.

if you think i'm where i'm at in life for lack of effort - for lack of choosing, over and over, to TRY to be healed, you're wrong.

and that is what you will never get, or admit.

you're wrong. all day, all night....wrong.

[dressrehearsalrags]

Pathalogical asshole? Hardly - i've many loving friends, and many that i've helped with thier depression issues. Actually one of them put me on to the services wich have helped make me enjoy the vast majority of my days. If he didn't have the courage to give me a heads up, and talk to me about some rather uncomfortable issues, i may be either dead or still wallowing in misery.

[dressrehearsalrags]

That, as i see it, is the huge problem in the delivery of mental health services in my country - the treatments are there - it's just accessing them which is the problem. I'm here actually trying to destroy those barriers - but there are misguided people like you who are all too keen to build them back up again. Shame on you..

[TheEgoTamer]

you say treatments are there as if we actually KNOW what depreswsion is, or can prove that it is per say a disease. there are SOME treatments, that work to SOME degree for SOME people, SOME of the time....but this is no way amounts to being able to declare with anything approaching certainty that 'happiness is a choice', as if the matter is fully understood, and decided.

i wish you could just grow up and admit you are persisting in perpetuating an oversimplification.

[TheEgoTamer]

how is coming on youtube and shitting sunshine down my gullet breaking down the british barriers to mental health services?

talk about your disingenuous twits....

just fuck off man.

you said something stupid, and because you can't just admit it, you have followed that up with even stupider and more insulting bullshit comments.

you may consider yourself 'cured', but from where I sit, you got a LOOOONG way to go, buddy. you've yet to fix your pathological asshole disease.

[dressrehearsalrags]

So i'm eternally greatful to him. He gets it - he knows that, in order to over come it, suffering should be viewed as a choice.

That's not to say that it's an easy choice, and viewing it as a choice is half the difficulty. i.e. as you're finding, it's a tough choice to make if you don't think you're worth it. You seem like a fairly bright person, and well worth it, the type of person who has the smarts to help lots of people. Don't give up on yourself.

[TheEgoTamer]

a choice to try is not a guarantee of success. that's just not how life works.

I think I'm going to get a tattoo on my but cheeks reading, 'closed to sunshine'.

maybe you men well my friend, but this tact is patently insulting.

i just wish you could see it.

[StarvingForTruth]

And somehow, some dickhead felt the need to criticize my simple declaration of appreciation, and why I love this music.

And suddenly, finding myself on the defensive, you assholes turn me into the prick, when it was me who was being talked down to to begin with.

You guys collectively suck ass.

[StarvingForTruth]

once in a while i need to remind my self that in general, I'm talking to kids. egocentrism runs rampant in these parts.

let people be who they are, and feel how they feel. criticism, is not help. and it's cruel.

you may resume fucking yourselves in the ass with a pinecone.

[StarvingForTruth]

Anyone who declares 'happiness is a choice' is clearly a simpleton. And anyone who further, feels the need to tell other people that their emotions are essentially, by implications, an 'error', is a dick.

It's that simple, folks.

Let people have their own emotions, and stop pretending you know better how they OUGHT to feel.

It's fucking lame.

This whole string of crap happened by my simple statement that elliot's music gives dignity to my sadness - it soothes the shame associated with it

[MattyMattThing]

@StarvingForTruth You are getting angry about what you just wrote about you fucking dick.

[StarvingForTruth]

@MattyMattThing

what's wrong with you?

buzz off, jerk

[StarvingForTruth]

@MattyMattThing Ah. You list your occupation as "pissing people off". You're just a troll.

Makes sense now,

[MrHavoksWifeAndLover]

oh good lord what are you people arguing about now? Youtube has the most internet fights of any website, lol. That said, great song, great album, great artist. =] RIP Elliott Smith

[AnastasiaExpert]

Shut the fuck up, you faggots. This is a video for Elliott. Quit pretending that you're smart and quit pretending anyone gives a fuck about what you have to say.

[XsamgX]

Why don't you STFU and quit pretending that you can actually hear people's comments.

[dressrehearsalrags]

Oh - so you own this public space now? Hight of arrogance.

[StarvingForTruth]

you should do the same, asshole.

[KirstyTheWeeYin]

guys and girls, shut up, seriously, we all know StarvingForTruth's a twat, just listen to Elliott and let him/ her go fuck him/her self :)

ok? :)

[StarvingForTruth]

kirsty, you little cunt.

if you don't like the conversation, stay the fuck out of it.

i'm a twat because i think some asshole is trivializing people's suffering and the human condition in general, counseling to the universe that all we need is happy thoughts, prozac and vitimans, and suddenly everything is great?

you're dumber than he is, because you don't even know what the fuck we're talking about.

you people are beyond stupid.

[dressrehearsalrags]

Anyhow - if you're "starving for truth", your just asking the wrong question(s) - there is no ultimate truth, because any attempt to understand the universe or existence dissolves into paradox. You're just torturing yourself. Why not simply try to enjoy being alive? Focus on the health of your body and mind - in particular, feel what its like to be in your body. You're an animal after all, not a computer.

[XsamgX]

You are an idiot. Ignorance is bliss, isn't it?

[dressrehearsalrags]

Yes it is - or would you rather know what it's like to be burned alive? No? Thought you would prefer ignorance.

[StarvingForTruth]

god you're deep.

a deep, deep pile of shit.

seriously. you're just a run of the mill jack off pseduointellectual know it all, and you should just keep your half baked ideas to yourself.

[dressrehearsalrags]

So for someone who claims to be "StarvingForTruth" you sure seem to have your head in a rather unsavoury orifice when it comes to trying to understand the human condition.

[StarvingForTruth]

seriously? head up my ass? you sound like stuart smiley, as if staring in the mirror, chanting affirmations, and popping a few pills clears teh way to happiness?

it's you who doesn't have a fucking clue you little shit. i doubt there's any thought you've ever had that I haven't had twice already.

fuckin moron.

[dressrehearsalrags]

SFT - it's not all about you though. Depression is so common, and is VERY treatable, yet so many people who suffer from it give up, or don't recognise that they have it all together (i've been in both positions). I'm commenting here because i know depressives are drawn to elliott for solice, and i want to give people hope, not to trivialise their suffering - fuck, i've sat by myself for countless nights in near unbearable misery, so i have no interest in patronising anyone for doing so.

[StarvingForTruth]

nobody said it's all about ME - you just make ignorant, insulting, overgeneralized statements about shit you clearly have a grade school understanding of.

It's obnoxious, and you should grow the hell up, and nix the idiotic, sunshine up the ass statements like 'happiness is a choice' - as if it's all that fucking simple.

fuck man - just suck a dick.

[StarvingForTruth]

..(sorry I cannot reproduce which issues from memory, but I promise you that if you look, you will easily find them, even it it requires a trip to a psyche. library).

eli lilly has never been held to account for performing inadequate studies, or for suppressing some of their own initial research into the potentially disastrous effects of their new wonder-drug...and we have the incredibly inept and corrupt FDA to thank for that, ultimately.

[dressrehearsalrags]

Though many studies indicate that bi-polar subjects show a positive response to Omega 3 oil therapy (a substantial dose (3-4 grams daily) over several months.

My advice to you would to be to take a sedative when you're feeling manic (opiates aren't bad), and an upper when you're feeling depressive (ginseng, ginkgo etc), to level you out.

[dressrehearsalrags]

Also - i do know 5 or so people who initially started treatment with prozac, had an adverse reaction (usually irritability/anger) then went on to Citalopram (another ssri), which seems to work for them. So you're right, a medication which works for one person will sometimes not work for another, but just means you keep going until you find the one that does work.

[StarvingForTruth]

gee, i never thought of trying OTHER medications.

thank god i have YOU here to trivialize and oversimplify my life for me.

seriously dude, you need to clam it when it comes to telling other people what they oughtta do, how they oughtta feel, etc.

Now like I said - leave me be.

[XsamgX]

SFT, I feel your pain man. Personally I believe the YOU must find your peace. No doctor, psychologist, nutritionist, ect. can do it for you. But you already know this. All I can recommend is to find a passion. I like to remind myself that if there's nothing to die for, then there's nothing to live for. Anyways, good luck.

[StarvingForTruth]

thank you XsamgX.

everyone must find their own way in this world, and like isn't a happy little story book where everyone finds a happy ending (that's what china town is for).

and thankfully, I DO have things to live for - most especially, my wife, and a couple of very close friends. those human connections are what get me through the day, and have stayed my hand ....

all I was trying to do was express my love for this song, and I get shit.

people fucking suck.

[StarvingForTruth]

the bottom line in pharmacological treatments of mood disorders is this: what works for person A, is unlikely to work the same for person B. Furthermore, if you go open up a copy of the DSM, you will find akathisia mentioned as a common side effect of SSRI's, and suicidal ideations are a common result of akathisia (in addition to aggression and irritability). you will find articles in journals like, 'American Journal of Psychiatry' , NEJM, Archives of General Psychiatry, and many others...

[dressrehearsalrags]

I'm talking about mono-polar depression (the most common type). Obviously if you're bi-polar, you're not going to want an ssri.

Incidentally, you can reduce the side effects of ssri medication by halving your dosage and taking a ginkgo supplement. The ginkgo potentiates the ssri, so you can take far less ssri, and achieve the same benefits without the same side-effects. You have to be careful though. Over-do it on the ginkgo and you can end up with serotonin syndrome.

[toddgreer]

you want more from him??? jesus - what are you going to leave to the world after you're gone. He gave his heart and soul man.

[dressrehearsalrags]

SFT-

You know what - you're attatched to your missery and you want to hang on to it. That's sad - real sad bro. You can type out abuse at me all you like, but you won't change that truth. Power to you brother - i hope one day you can see what i'm trying to tell you.

[StarvingForTruth]

You're a grandiose dick. I have no idea what makes you think you understand my motivation, but you're wrong. I've worked hard over the course of my life to break free from this cycle, but so far, I haven't been able to. Oh sure, I can do it for stretches of time, but certain forces have a mighty pull like riptides, and keep me continuously falling backwards.

It's extraordinarily arrogant of you to be commenting how how this music makes me feel, as if there is a right or a wrong answer.

[StarvingForTruth]

trust me. i see everything you're saying. i see through it, above it, around it, and beyond.

do not mistake your certitude for superiority, or your ability to judge for righteousness.

check yourself, and go away.

[dressrehearsalrags]

You're flailing - and it's painful to watch. Tell me, how have you tried to deal with your depression - i know it isn't easy, i still battle with it. I'm not here to be haughty or condescending, though sometimes it is hard to get accross the naunces of thought in a few hundred words - and i admit that iv'e been insensitive, and i appologise for that. I hope you realise that i'm on the side of life and hope, and that means being positive

[StarvingForTruth]

excuse me? i need to TELL you how I've tried to deal with my depression?

are you actually turning my personal feelings and struggles into a debate, as if you could be right, and me wrong, because you feel differently now that you once did?

and you have the gall to tell me I'M being abusive, just because I use a few choice words that you don't like?

wow.

just,

wow.

[dressrehearsalrags]

btw - i love elliott. The man was true song-writing genius - so delecatate, subtle, intelligent and with such a beautiful appreciation of melody and harmony.

I just wish he was still alive so i could be enjoying more of hiis music!

Depression is a real difficult thing to be with, but if you are determined, treat yourself well, and do some reading you can beat it. That's hope, that's life.

[StarvingForTruth]

do me a favor - stop commenting to me. i blocked you, so i don't know how you managed, but seriously - fuck off, and take your haughty little attitude and bury it in your rectum.

dickwad.

[bradshawvincent]

wonderful song.searingly honest lyrics, i think elliott (maybe like a lot of us ) felt ugly inside.the human condition??

[StarvingForTruth]

suffering is a choice....what a profoundly arrogant and callous thing to pronounce to the world.

I'll remember that next time I treat a patient with a chronic pain condition. I'll just tell him to make better choices.

Idiot.

[dressrehearsalrags]

Oh so you prefer people to accept their missery - and where soes that lead you? Your kind of negativity is a tradgic affliction on humanity. Believe me, i've wanted to die for much of my life - just not any-more. Suffering (particularly mental suffering) should be regarded as a choice otherwise there is no hope - and that's anti-life. What's the point of thinking like that?

[StarvingForTruth]

so. because i think you are oversimplifying a complex issue, and being condescending towards suffering, that means

i WANT people to suffer? that's assinine. i've been battling this deamon for over 30 years, and if it were as simple as a choice, it'd be history.

you're a fuckin asshole.

[Vektruscen]

Elliott Smith's music is extremely difficult to listen to sometimes. It's so full of pain.

[isoruswrex]

really pretty

[brandonkirk]

Prettier enough for me?

[tweeber69]

Just because it's slow, doesn't make it sad. Just shows how much he liked this song, in my opinion. :-)

[zurfero]

His art was beautiful, sad?? why?? don't think so much and simply enjoy... sad was only the end of him, the song is pure.

[StarvingForTruth]

next time I want to know how a song makes me feel, I'll make sure to call you first.

ok?

[dressrehearsalrags]

You take the song how you want i guess. For me this song reminds me of when i was depressed, but also reminds me how great life is now i'm nearlt always happy to be alive. Suffering is a choice when it comes down to it - therefore, so is your perspective. Prozac - Omega-3 fish oils, ginseng, ginkgo and guarana - that combination has worked wonders for me.

[dressrehearsalrags]

I only wish elliott had discovered that combo (though as i understand it he didn't like anti-depressants i.e. "the devils script sells you the heart of a black-bird"). Maybe he was just too attatched to his suffering and victemhood to let it go? I don't know - i still think he was one of the best song-writers ever.

[StarvingForTruth]

you're a know it all.

buzz off.

[StarvingForTruth]

Prozac - has been demonstrated to increase suicidal ideations.

Fish Oil - an intruiging product; may have mental health benefits, but the data is inconclusive as of yet.

Ginseng - absolutely not an anti depressent.

Ginkgo - also absolutely not an anti-depressent; also has been debunked as a memory enhancer.

Guarana - also, not an anti-depressent; simply contains caffeine like compounds.

**

I'm glad you found happiness, but do not assume it came how you think it did, or that your...

[StarvingForTruth]

..own personal 'remedy' is appropriate for other people. the research on psychotropic drugs is clear that what works for one person, may well not work for another. in studies involving large cross-sections of people, the results often fail to rise above the placebo effect. some studies focus in on certain subgroups/types, and manage slightly better results, but overall, depression medications are a total gamble.

again. great you feel better, but unlikely for the reasons you suspect.

[dressrehearsalrags]

I don't know where your information from, but the only relevant peer-reviewed study i can find concluded that:

"fluoxetine can induce suicidal ideation in a very small minority of patients."

So your argument against using fluoxitine is very tenuous.

Fish Oil: Yes the data is inconclusive - but the evidence is mounting. Omega 3 should account for 8% of brain matter in a non-depressed subject, and nearly all depressed subjects show low levels of omega 3 in the blood stream.

[StarvingForTruth]

Let me just tell you that I've tried Prozac, and it made matter worse. For people presenting with hypomanic symptoms, it can make them worse. It also interrupts the body's ability to enter REM sleep, and when you add insomnia to depression, and agitate hypomania - voila - you can become much worse.

don't presume that what worked for you will necessarily work for other people, or that I haven't spent years of my life workign hard for a medical cure.

pure arrogance.

[StarvingForTruth]

re. fish oil - I take it every day. great for skin and hair. I also think it takes the edge off my attentional issues, but at the end of the day, they are still present.

ginseng would be an agitator of hypomanic sx. and insomnia - terrible advice for a large population of those with 'mood disorders'.

again - you are overgeneralizing from yourself, to a world of people about whom you know absolutely nothing.

it's obnoxious, and it's ignorant.

[dressrehearsalrags]

Most studies which are inconclusive either don't run for long enough, involve a dosage wich is too low, or both.

The herbal products i mention counter the side effects of fluoxitine. i.e. all of them counter fatigue, while both ginkgo and Ginseng put "lead in your pencil".

Try this combo and tell me it doesn't work. or wollow in misery. The choice is yours.

[StarvingForTruth]

you're nuts if you think ginseng or ginkgo counter the inability to reach REM sleep - if anything, it is the exact opposite.

[XsamgX]

Sad can be beautiful.

[noisez13000]

he himself was worst in 01 to 02, but as for the music thats up to you, even though FROM A BASEMENT ON A HILL i can almost feel his misery pouring out of the tracks

[bluhousworker]

I'm going to transfer this video into a better format to view.

[GonzoUlster]

im sure this would make Elliott smile...

[tweeber69]

what's so spammy about this comment?

[HarrySca]

wonderful song, great video, really touches base with Elliott's style, Confuckingrats!!

[Katastrophiies]

Ahh. <3

[XsamgX]

What a beautiful song. Absolutely the most under-rated, unsung artist of our time.

[StarvingForTruth]

Amen. I've listened to this song about, 10 times at LEAST today ( just discovered it) ... and I just can't seem to get enough.

[sejdub]

i think this is an awesome video.

if you made this .. .

.bravo

[tweeber69]

From what they found in his system, it sounds like he was more than likely bipolar but on the wrong meds. I used to be on anti-depressants and ADD meds and used to drink a lot at the same time. That was probably the worst point of my life. It made me more suicidal until I ended up in the hospital, out for 2 days and woke up to a Dr. telling me I was bipolar and that taking those 2 meds alone is a suicide promoter. Just sayin..... poor guy.

[StarvingForTruth]

Even worse, if what I read is right, he killed himself after he had gone completely clean - off junk, meds... all of it.

Maybe his brain couldn't handle the rebound? I understand that this period of time can be the most dangerous for people....plus, then he was an unmedicated BiPolar, who probably felt that even his efforts to go clean made him miserable.....

Dunno. But I can relate to your struggles friend. I'm in the thick of it right now, and this music gives my sadness dignity.

[tweeber69]

Yeah. When I was trying to go sober for a while, that's when it was bad. Couldn't afford meds and going off alcohol for a while (which mellowed me out for a while after I had a drink) made me nutty as hell. lol. It's sad the amount of help that mentally ill people don't receive.

[Arturogf]

You should upload a video in HD.

We miss you Elliott ='(

[sk8tolive123]

Awesome.

[goldflakedpaint]

Excellent tribute.

[alazonomous1]

One of my favorite

[5Beatle]

It's my favourite video.

[relmz441]

i hear janet...fans know.. nice job

[Steshaa]

i get high on sweet food :)

[roxettevsoasis101]

Elliott's LP is freakin' awesome. I remember a friend introducing me to Smiths'; this is gonna sound 'typical'; music in his bedroom/basement and getting high. LOL. Nothing to be proud of or recommend but, once this tune kicked in, I was higher than a kite and totally sold. Never heard of Elliott Smith until then and glad I experienced it. Definitely don't need influential's floating in yer blood stream to admire his talent. Ashame though to lose another great artist. Cheers and Peace.

[Coffeesublime]

I love this song. But I also love thid video. Bluhousworker this video could not have been more to the point. Thank you for it.

[KillerxKelseyxx]

RIP elliott!!

[legalizetopmanta]

from argentina love to elliot!!

rip!!!!!

chauuuuu

[workingmansblues]

Isn't this just a beautiful song? It's perfect. It's sad. It's so human. What a writer. What a singer. He's heartbreaking.

[ADAMdespisesYOU]

the video doesnt matter, its the song thats important. so stop making such a fuss!

this man, elliott smith, was such an amazing artist. i wish he was still around!

[bluhousworker]

I agree with Adam. He was an amazing artist and that is why we honor the amazing artists, because we miss their inspiration and vision.

cheers to all who admire one of the greats and salude to Elliott.

[christsbassist89]

Second.

He's the only person I've never met that I miss so much.

[KidChaos221]

elliott smith was a true artist---in the same category with dylan and tom waits---not some wannabe poet only looking for commercial success. he is greatly missed

[booglerized]

let us not forget leonard cohen.

[dandymagic06]

leonard cohen didn't die.

[booglerized]

i meant cohen is in the same category as dylan and waits. i demand that my thumbs down be removed.

[Shaaaunda]

Make it so. :] Also, you seem to like the Captain, that song makes me giggle.

[unclemeat2u]

It's not Elliot's video, but it does look like the kind of video he would do.

Excellant.

[zoskiaist]

video sucks (imo) its obvious he didn't give a crap about videos. Why should he, His music will live on, He has so many great songs.

[britangel88]

great! wonderful  video!!

[sinnspenn]

how did you come up with this idea for the video? You made an exact copy of what happened to me the very first time I ever experienced this song. I didn't know who Elliot Smith was or any of his songs... this was the very first song... your video captured the experience perfectly. Tell me how you imagined it.

Sinn

[lavenderuhlise]

I'm glad at least some people appreciate Elliott Smith, before and after his passing.

[sageribbons]

Yay! <33

[Chumpsky]

Splendid.

[feurzug]

newcleor is my boy - tim jr. - he has acne - I bought him some zit paste but he rejected it. Oh well.

timmy joe sr.

[bluhousworker]

What?

[donnington]

I second that question.

[newcleor]

great work on this. I really enjoyed it long live elliott

[bluhousworker]

yes, long live the Elliott in all of us.