Monday, March 08, 2010

Bad news for Everyone

Mark Linkous, AKA Sparklehorse is dead by his own hand. Here is the story from Pitchfork, and here is another from Rolling Stone.



For those of you who don't know Sparklehorse's music, the 2001 album, "It's a wonderful life" (God, what a horrible title that is now) is, in my opinion, their best and one of the very best works of this new, blighted, century.

What does it say about a person when his artistic heros keep killing themselves?

 


1 comment:

Carpe Web said...

I think it just says that you follow artists. Perhaps it's just the influence of fame, but the suicide rate seems high among artists.