empty elevator shaft:

[p0tat0es]

I've been following the news coverage of the crash that killed Silkworm's drummer. The situation just gets more and more insane.

The woman who hit the car he was is in had apparently gotten in a fight with her mom, and that upset her to the point that she wanted to take her own life. So she rammed her car into another at 70 MPH. I mean, shit - if you want to kill yourself, there are lots of ways of doing it that don't involve other people. Who the fuck rams their car into other people? Ram it into a wall! A fucking telephone pole! Run it off a cliff! How fucking selfish. Suicide is by its very nature a selfish act, but taking people with you? It's beyond heinous.

A real person, with real problems, sure. But she's also a 23-year-old model. (Yes, that's her.)

I want to be fair and unassuming, but man - my gut reaction is "what the fuck!" I don't believe that any individual human life is worth more or less than any other, but at the same time, it's offensive to my sensibilities that some model's rash actions caused the deaths of three artists, and by all accounts, generous, warm, and loving individuals.

I have to look past what people do and instead look at what people are. It shouldn't make any difference if it had been a doctor or a priest or a garbage man or another musician. But holy shit. I hope she gets what's coming. I'm ardently anti-capital punishment. And a true punishment for this person, who was trying to take her own life, would be for her to spend the rest of her days alive and locked up.

I've spent a good amount of the weekend listening to all my Silkworm records (not that that's much different from any other time) and going through old copies of The Rocket (I have a shitton of them, mostly from 1993-1995) looking for articles about them. Of course, the drummer always gets short shrift, but when Michael is mentioned, it's always positive.


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Comments

[tredecimal.livejournal.com]

not to be glib, but unless she updates, jeannette's stats say she's only a foot tall...and 24-24-35. weird, i thought if you were a model and your breasts got under 30", you could get federal funding.

[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

Or at least write off yr implants as a business expense.

[girl-on-a-stick.livejournal.com]

Being on onemodelplace does not make one a model. Being a model does not make one happy.

But yeah, that sucks bigtime. I was vaguely aquianted with them back in Chicago. Good guys.

[chris.livejournal.com]

that's so fucked. I hope they through the book at her. can you be charged with attempted murder of yourself?

[sillyape.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's mostly just criminal negligence though. they usually don't do that, however, because it is easier for defense attorneys to use the "not guilty by reason of insanity" tactic.

[auditorium.livejournal.com]

It's really hard to watch that news footage, but thanks for posting it. It's a tragedy for everyone involved, but it's hard not to be extremely pissed off at the senseless and selfish behavior of that young woman.

[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

Who knows what it was that was at work in her head when she did it...I feel no sympathy toward her, but at the same time it seems that she needs help as well as punishment. But as for now, I'm leaning more toward punishment...

[sillyape.livejournal.com]

a friend informed me of this: i didn't know Michael Dahlquist's brother was a death metal guy. Stuart Dahlquist, he plays for a couple of Doom bands. link.