July 31, 2006
Today's Happy Place
Okay, I have no idea who came up with this. I've seen it on a couple of message boards and it's been sent to my inbox about three or four times. On the off chance that the person responsible stumbles in here, I LOVE you. This pretty much sums up why I've scraped any Syd tributes for the time being.
There are, at this moment, approximately 1,256,874,674,989 Youtube Syd Barrett tributes featuring collages of the same recycled pictures to the soundtrack of "Dark Globe." What's even more annoying is that you have to wade through all of these to get to the genuinely interesting stuff, like old video clips of television appearances or specials only aired in the UK that I never got a chance to see. I know we're all compelled to remember people who pass when they've touched our lives, no matter how distantly. But I mean, really. ENOUGH. And that's coming from a person who never, ever thought she'd say that when it came to this subject.
Posted by Emily at July 31, 2006 04:31 PM | TrackBack (0) |Isn't it? I can't believe how many people there were posting "tributes" after he died filled with misinformation and regurgitation of the same lies that have been debunked over and over again or refuted by his family. Geez, even the laziest researcher could have just read the Wikipedia entry on the guy to get their facts straight.
Posted by: Emily at August 1, 2006 10:00 AMOh, and I just LOVE the 'why he was so cool' bit. Like, the myth became so much bigger than the man...he actually wasn't really all that "cool" according to the people who knew him. He was quite a doped up asshole who was smelly a lot of the time. Love his music and by all accounts he was a decent guy before the drugs, but I wouldn't have wanted to spend any time with Syd Barret from like 1967-1974.
Posted by: Emily at August 1, 2006 10:03 AM