I am a bit concern that my records are full of talented people who couldn't deal with the world: Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Jeff Buckley, Ian Curtis, etc.... Basically my ITunes is getting full of corpses.

and now, Mark Linkous, the singer of Sparklehorse who died last Saturday.

Paradoxically, one of my favorite songs is called "It's a wonderful life":