pearwaldorf | Mostly for noog, but anybody else who cares

Grief meter: Listening obsessively to the songs dealing with sadness and people leaving as opposed to the ones about suicide and jumping off bridges, so I think it's an improvement.

They're going to post pictures at the Sweet Adeline board soon--I am such a dork and I forgot my camera. But there were about a kazillion pictures taken, and I'll go back tomorrow or Tuesday and take a picture in the daytime, if somebody hasn't seen fit to tear it all down when they get in to work tomorrow.

It was very sweet, heartfelt. There were only a few candles and flowers at first, but gradually it started covering the whole wall under the mural. One guy brought like fifty tea lights and lit them all. Lots of people brought pictures they'd had taken with Elliott, notes. There was also a drawing and a 7" of the "Angeles" single. Somebody made a posterboard with pictures and notes. It was only ten minutes before everything was bathed in candle glow.

A woman who was there spoke about how Elliott's first band debuted in her living room in 1985. Her daughter was a friend of his, and he would come to her place in the summers when he was back from Hampshire College and hang out. People sang. I heard "Somebody's Baby" for the first time and I cried. I was rather leery of the whole sing-along thing at first, but it was lovely, and I think everybody there needed it. I had to leave after that, but there were still people there as I walked away.