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Kathryn Vercillo's avatar

You always go so in depth and share so much richness in these essays. Thank you.

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Wesley Verhoeve's avatar

Such a wonderful issue, once more.

As an aside, while I have tremendous respect for Ms. Abramovic, I find this part of the manifesto a fatalist bit of poppycock and toxic myth-making. Not to say that suffering cannot be turned into great art, like any emotionally intense experience (even happiness!), the way it's being formulated here and often is repeated leads to the misunderstanding that ONLY suffering leads to great art, which is of course not true. So much great art celebrates, overjoys, punctuates in positivity. It's the "should" in the "artist should suffer" that is the culprit here. The artist is a human, and while we all suffer at one point, we should not aim to suffer, and certainly not for art. <3

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Sabrina Y. Smith's avatar

What a tragic life, and somehow despite or maybe because of it, he produced such incredible music.

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Nishant Jain's avatar

Bailey, as a huge fan of his music, I would highly recommend the movie - Born to be Blue.

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Wesley Verhoeve's avatar

Can second this!

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Andrew Smith's avatar

So very sad. Pain (and heroin) seems to produce some of our greatest works of art.

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Lonely Robot Theme's avatar

Perfection as always!

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Becca's avatar

Great read. I was looking up “best cover of all time Funny Valentine” and Chet came up. I myself am a recovered addict and whoa this is a beautifully sad story, one all too familiar. Thank God for our musicians and artist.

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