![]() ![]() ![]() The seeming simplicity of “you can do what you want to whomever you want to” is cut with “getting in the back of a car for candy from some stranger.” His songs struggle with preserving idealism, though it’s constantly shattered by the allure of outside forces. He is also reminiscent of early Beatles and XTC in what appears, at least on the surface, to be music with upbeat freshness, though the acid darkness of the lyrics reveal that Elliott’s a child who has grown up. Smith has been coined a part of the new folk music insurgence, and Dylanesque, bravely playing live without backup, strumming solely on his acoustic guitar. And he asks us, an ever present cigarette in his hand, “You little child, what makes you think you’re so tough?” Interestingly enough, an animal we brand for our eventual consumption, Elliott has placed permanently on his arm. Ferdinand, a classic children’s story, tells of a brawny yet shy bull who is teased for his sensitivity-he likes to smell the flowers. ![]() On the cover of Elliott Smith’s CD either/or is a picture of the musician with Ferdinand the bull tattooed on his arm, the horns covered by his black t-shirt. John Hawkes' An Irish Eyeby Patrick McGrathīrice Marden's The Muses at the Venice Biennaleby Jeremy Gilbert-RolfeĪl Souza: cutting up, cutting through, and cutting outby Saul Ostrow Haruki Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicleby Robert PolitoĬharles Frazier's Cold Mountainby Gary Fisketjon Richard Horowitz and Sussan Deyhim's Majounby Tim NyeĮrrol Morris's Fast Cheap and Out of Controlby Jenifer Bermanįrederick Barthelme's Bob the Gamblerby Amy Hempel The Museum of Modern Artby Carlos BrillembourgĮlliott Smith's either/orby Suzan Sherman ![]()
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