LAist: Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing

ezfinn

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:35:19 -0800

Joanna Bolme plays bass for the Jicks.

jayson1418

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:45:42 -0800

Jennifer Chiba plays bass for Stephen Malkmus. She's a Jick.

SeanP

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:49:44 -0800

I linked here from Chicagoist because I miss the man so much. I was present at the infamous Northwestern show, but still loved his entire oeuvre. Those pics though; I don't remember him being so baby-faced.

panasonicyouth

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:00:43 -0800

You're an idiot, Bob Llama. RIP Elliott. I miss your music.

field

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:48:35 -0800

god damnit, 5 years. r.i.p.

Anthony

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:36:15 -0800

two 't's' in elliott

Ali Miller

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:15:06 -0800

When are they gonna close the case already...

Bob LLama

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:34:18 -0800

You honestly believe that the heroine and crack-addicted guy who had previously attempted suicide on 2 separate occasions was stabbed in the chest by his girlfriend? Oh yeah, he gave up drugs (including his prescribed meds), but then is found with psych meds in his system. But yeah, the whiney guy whose entire career is pretty much self-indulgent moping was totally murdered.

Jacy Young

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:52:56 -0800

Theoretically, you can stab yourself twice in the chest, but, man, you have to be determined. It makes it very spooky.

lahipster

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:48:58 -0800

An art therapist and once a member of a band called Happy Ending, which Smith was said to be recording before his death, Chiba still lives in the apartment she shared with her late boyfriend, and why not? She lived there for years before he moved in. Still, you shiver under the watchful gaze of the neighbors – or something. Did Smith want to be here? And now does he have any choice?

pickleburp

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:36:57 -0800

That was one hell of a day.

Linkracer

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:26:37 -0800

Sad. He was great.

lahipster

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:11:04 -0800

Jennifer Chiba mudered Elliott Smith.in a fit of rage

db

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:41:54 -0800

It's also the 39th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's death.

caliking01

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:32:17 -0800

Is that him sitting in the echo?

charmon

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:25:56 -0800

He had TWO stab wounds to the chest which is why suicide is so hard to believe. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/esmithaut1.html

Ginger

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:25:04 -0800

she killed him, even if her hand wasn't on the knife.