Jeff

I've been listening to Jeff Buckley for the last week and a half. I know I already wrote about him, but I keep thinking about him. He's my new obsession to read about during a rare down time at work. His music is so incredible and so heartbreaking. When I listen to Grace, it's like he's singing from the beyond or like he's screaming from the grave. Several years ago I gave lots of people copies of Grace but no one seemed terribly impressed. At least Blah's admitting that his music is not too bad.

I guess I'm just into really emotional music lately. I went from my James phase right into a Jeff Buckley phase. I want to go to Memphis and see the Wolf River where he drowned. I want to do that even more than go to Strawberry Fields. I've been over my John Lennon obsession for a while now. I haven't listed to The Beatles in ages. Maybe I'll be into them again some day.

I'm looking forward to getting Sketches from My Sweetheart the Drunk and Live at Sin-e from the library and hearing something new from Jeff. Grace is such a gem; I hope I'm not disappointed in these other albums. I'm sure the live one will be amazing, but the Sketches album is what he was working on when he drowned and he wasn't at all happy with it and was actually starting to re-record the album so I'm a bit nervous about that.