Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself

So, here I am in the crunch time of writing an essay and I'm using my tightly scheduled break to finally get some more music up here.

What is my essay about? (Thanks for taking interest).

Well, it started out as a vague idea of modernist techniques in The Sound and The Fury and Mrs. Dalloway. However, it started to take it's own direction based on the links I spent way too much of my time following. My essay is now on (and titled) Suicide as an Existential Tool in Modernist Literature. I really don't know how it happened. Still, it's crazy interesting stuff. I'd definitely recommend both novels, though Quentin's bit takes some real dedication to follow.

Anyways, I need to wrap up so that I can finish my essay and then learn about crazy people. For your listening pleasure, here are just a few songs by people who killed themselves:

Elliott Smith - Pretty Mary K
Definitely the most recent musician suicide I can think of. He stabbed himself with a kitchen knife, which I can only imagine to be pretty damn painful. This is a song from the Either/Or sessions that is characteristically quiet and powerful. It actually reminds me a bit of my personal favorite, Nick Drake.

Del Shannon - I Go To Pieces
A real true golden oldie. Runaway is my personal favorite of his, but I couldn't find the file. Del shot himself in the head at the age of 55. He also happened to have just started taking Prozac, so that's kind of a scary med story.

Nick Drake - Winter is Gone
It would take far too many words for me to describe my love of Nick Drake. He was one of those quiet sensitive bookish types, which of course means he was miserably depressed. This song is from Family Tree, a compilation of his home recordings that was released just last year. Seriously though, download Five Leaves Left (his first album). It will chill you out and bring a tear to your eye.

Joy Division - The Eternal
Ian Curtis, Joy Division's lead singer hung himself after Werner Herzog's film Stroszek and listening to Iggy Pop's The Idiot (great album by the way). A biopic about him called Control, that won a bunch of British awards and is finally coming out on dvd on March 25. This particular song is from their last album, Closer. It's 6:07 minutes of pure depression. It's great to listen to on a rainy day, so long as you remind yourself after it's over that you actually don't want to die.

Badfinger - Baby Blue
Though not so widely known now, Badfinger was huge back in the '60s, banking on the Beatles era power pop explosion. Unfortunately, a few poor business decisions were made and things quickly went downhill for the group. Lead singer Pete Ham hung himself in his garage three days before his 28th birthday and about 8 years later singer and guitarist Tom Evans hung himself in his backyard. Now, I don't know this band too well, but two suicides...wow.

Ok, so maybe it's a tad bit morbid, but sad people make the best music, so this is the stuff that's worth looking up.

Enjoy!