Comments on: TBT #39: Because I love you http://www.graphicmatt.com/2005/tbt-39-because-i-love-you/ matt elliott Has a Blog Again Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:20:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: graphicmatt » Your Official Guide to The Best Things http://www.graphicmatt.com/2005/tbt-39-because-i-love-you/#comment-1187 graphicmatt » Your Official Guide to The Best Things Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:04:48 +0000 http://www.graphicmatt.com/?p=296#comment-1187 [...] TBT #39: Because I Love You - “So the weekly The Best Things became the weekly TBT and the format fell by the wayside, where it currently attends class with Todd and the Three Erics and that one new kid wearing a bunch of raincoats who was actually a rat.” - April 25, 2005 (blog) [...] [...] TBT #39: Because I Love You - “So the weekly The Best Things became the weekly TBT and the format fell by the wayside, where it currently attends class with Todd and the Three Erics and that one new kid wearing a bunch of raincoats who was actually a rat.” - April 25, 2005 (blog) [...]

]]> By: Erin! http://www.graphicmatt.com/2005/tbt-39-because-i-love-you/#comment-1186 Erin! Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:28:08 +0000 http://www.graphicmatt.com/?p=296#comment-1186 I heart wayside! I think next year we should start a slam- like reading group of the wayside short stories. louis sachar rocks my world. for the season finale we could watch holes. oh and i also heart elliott smith. i figure i should mention that because thats what this whole update was about. I heart wayside! I think next year we should start a slam- like reading group of the wayside short stories. louis sachar rocks my world. for the season finale we could watch holes.

oh and i also heart elliott smith. i figure i should mention that because thats what this whole update was about.

]]> By: Matt http://www.graphicmatt.com/2005/tbt-39-because-i-love-you/#comment-1185 Matt Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:39:42 +0000 http://www.graphicmatt.com/?p=296#comment-1185 That's really interesting. Good to know! Thanks. And it's not that I don't like Elliott, because I really do. (I should really clarify that. I can see how my writing "I was never a huge fan of Elliott Smith" would make it seem like I don't like him at all. It's not the case. I meant it literally. I am a fan, but not a <em>huge</em> fan.) I do have a lot of conflicting thoughts as far as suicide goes, but I'm sure everyone does. I oscillate between losing all respect for those who would be so cowardly as to take their own lives and then somehow finding sympathy for them. I don't know. Like I said in the article, I'd rather not think about the suicide -- just the life. And that whispered love part. I love that part. That’s really interesting. Good to know! Thanks.

And it’s not that I don’t like Elliott, because I really do. (I should really clarify that. I can see how my writing “I was never a huge fan of Elliott Smith” would make it seem like I don’t like him at all. It’s not the case. I meant it literally. I am a fan, but not a huge fan.)

I do have a lot of conflicting thoughts as far as suicide goes, but I’m sure everyone does. I oscillate between losing all respect for those who would be so cowardly as to take their own lives and then somehow finding sympathy for them. I don’t know. Like I said in the article, I’d rather not think about the suicide — just the life. And that whispered love part.

I love that part.

]]> By: Anders http://www.graphicmatt.com/2005/tbt-39-because-i-love-you/#comment-1184 Anders Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:20:00 +0000 http://www.graphicmatt.com/?p=296#comment-1184 You might be interested in knowing the origin of the "Because I love you" line. Elliott played "King's Crossing" live maybe four or five times, ever. Once in '99 and then a handful in '03. When he brought it back at the first night of two LA shows at the end of January '03, he was pretty weak and at the beginning of his recovery from drug and alcohol abuse. He played the song with a lot of effort but faltered quite a bit. When he got to the line "Give me one good reason not to do it" his girlfriend and sister, who were standing on the side of the stage, shouted together: "Because we love you!" Elliott smiled and kept playing. The next night, he played a similar setlist, and when he sang "King's Crossing" the girls once again shouted out to him. Apparently he really liked it and then, while recording the track in October of the same year right before his death, asked Jennifer to record it for him. The added "So do it" that he whispers after "Because I love you" is a debate in itself, as far as I know, and I don't know if the when/why/etc. of that has ever been agreed upon. I'm sorry you don't like Elliott that much.. as for his quirks, like changing his name, I've always just put it down as a result of his fucked up childhood. That's a different story though. And I guess a final point of interest is that "Fond Farewell" is considered by a lot of us to be a song he wrote saying goodbye to his drug and alcohol problems, not a musical suicide note. -Anders You might be interested in knowing the origin of the “Because I love you” line.

Elliott played “King’s Crossing” live maybe four or five times, ever. Once in ‘99 and then a handful in ‘03. When he brought it back at the first night of two LA shows at the end of January ‘03, he was pretty weak and at the beginning of his recovery from drug and alcohol abuse. He played the song with a lot of effort but faltered quite a bit. When he got to the line “Give me one good reason not to do it” his girlfriend and sister, who were standing on the side of the stage, shouted together: “Because we love you!”

Elliott smiled and kept playing. The next night, he played a similar setlist, and when he sang “King’s Crossing” the girls once again shouted out to him. Apparently he really liked it and then, while recording the track in October of the same year right before his death, asked Jennifer to record it for him. The added “So do it” that he whispers after “Because I love you” is a debate in itself, as far as I know, and I don’t know if the when/why/etc. of that has ever been agreed upon.

I’m sorry you don’t like Elliott that much.. as for his quirks, like changing his name, I’ve always just put it down as a result of his fucked up childhood. That’s a different story though. And I guess a final point of interest is that “Fond Farewell” is considered by a lot of us to be a song he wrote saying goodbye to his drug and alcohol problems, not a musical suicide note.

-Anders

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