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• tanner commented on Mr E's beautiful blues
  I've been looking for this for some time; though never very hard. Thank you for the link....
• imipak commented on Mr E's beautiful blues
  Never made the effort to try getting into Eels; my sadcore needs are met by American Music Club (and Mark Eitzel's solo stuff), Red House Painters, Nick Drake, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Blue Nile, late 50s Sinatra, New Order, colonopenbracket, Glasvegas, Cure, Joy Division, Manic Street Preachers,.. (All filed under "miserable bastards" in Amarok, and all getting a lot of airplay these days, unfortunately :/ ) That said, there's not much of it that pulls me out into another better world at the end; perhaps I'll give Eels a twirl....
• Gareth Branwyn commented on Mr E's beautiful blues
  I too agree that Cupcake Fairies' assertions are fair. Most of us have had heavy shit happen to us in our lives (I know I have), and at a certain age, you're going to lose your parents, friends, siblings. I think what makes Mark Everett at least somewhat different is his bizarre relationship with his dad. They lived in the same house but barely ever spoke. The scene in the docu, in the graveyard, where he talks about, at 19, picking up the rigor mortis-stiff corpse of his father from the bed, holding him, and realizing that was basically the...
• PeaceLove commented on Mr E's beautiful blues
  Everett Sr.'s dissertation is online for the first time at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/pdf/dissertation.pdf Maybe now we can finally understand what universe we're living in....
• concerned commented on Happy 96th, Alan Turing!
  Station X is falling apart, however, Hut 8 is still standing, just. BP relies solely on public support for donations They wrote to BILL GATES for support HE DECLINED and he's not even in Turings league ! ! !...