thoughts wandered to the unbearable sweetheart dan asher today, all the nervous coughing, and i found out he's dead since april of leukemia. what a real heartbreak to hear it. an exceptional guy and i feel lucky to have known him even the slightest bit - it won't be tenth street or phosphorescent without him, sad-eyed anxious lunatic person. from what i could tell he lived the shit out of what time and circumstances he got, haunting athens, hacking and heckling fanatical, screaming back at rules he had to break and giving his whole heart -- more than most could carry, really -- to everything that moved his wide open baby soul. not that i really know a goddamned thing about it. but i thought dan asher was just wonderful. a miraculous pain in the ass. alive as anyone you ever saw. tan and beaming. fantastic.
READ: Last Thoughts Of A Real Friend / Dan Shits On Devendra Banhart
DOWNLOAD: Vic Chesnutt and Liz Durrett - Somewhere [mp3] (thx)
MORE: Dan Asher On Born To Be Nervous
WATCH: Dan's Memorial Service, including performances by Phosphorescent (3:46), Sharon Van Etten and more
2 comments:
woah! :(
you know how to say it just right d
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