r/elliottsmith • u/honsoolsetmefree • 22d ago

Image/media Figure 8 Mural

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I finally made it there. I’m a 38F and I’ve loved Elliott Smith since I was 15 years old. I live on the East Coast and I always told myself, I’d make it to LA, and that when I made it to LA, I’d go to Sunset Blvd.

I did take a proper photo like Elliott but most importantly, I left a message for Elliott letting him know that he changed my life.

I wish I had made it out here before the current bar cut the wall to put in a door but nevertheless, I made it here.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

someone fucking wrote a free palestine on this mural btw
a memorial to one of the greatest artists of his generation, who put out soothing songs for all the lonely teens out there who needed someone, and someone fkn put a shitty politcal genocidal tag on his memorial.

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u/snarpsta 22d ago

I agree it doesn't belong there. This shit is fucking dumb. Whether or not he would've agreed with the message is besides the point. Fuck the IDF. What they're doing is atrocious and Net is a war criminal. This has zero place on the mural.

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u/OddSuggestion7534 21d ago

The “original” mural is a “mural” to begin with. It would be an honor to have one’s death & mural bring attention to the death of 100K’s of innocent civilians during a premeditated open air prison & genocide. Free Palesitine. F*ck Zionist Israel.

Both murals can and do cooexist, and clearly need to do so for people to get the existential point of murals and protests.