And this too shall pass.

[deliriumcrow]

I don't know why Johnny Cash's death has hit me as hard as it has, and conversely why it hasn't hurt more. I have the endless Johnny Cash folder playing on my computer now, in memorial. Can't really think of anything to say that anyone hasn't said about him, there are many voices more eloquent than mine, so I'll let them speak.

The first song I remember hearing from him was the Boy Named Sue, when I was very small. Someone thought it would be appropriate music for a child. Years later, I found him on a movie soundtrack, playin with U2, and I started listening to him regularly again. His music fit those certain moods that nothing else really matched. He sang about Jesus, and Christianity, and it never bothered me. He meant it. It wasn't a thing he tried to force onto people, it was just there and honest, and real. And you know, this song is probably the best thing to be listening to for bidding him farewell. We just saw the Hurt video, and it's beautiful. Parts of it were like a Dutch painting, the sort where all the fruits are laid out to show both the richness of life and the inevitabilty of death and decay. Even the lighting on it was right for the paintings.... And the rest an autobiography. I cried.

I'd love to see tonight's concert. Barry White and Warren Zevon opening for Johnny and June Cash, together again. I can't imagine an afterlife where they aren't together. It simply couldn't happen. THe admission price for tinight's performance is a bit steep, but the rewards are great.

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[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

It's hit me hard, too, but I'm not finding myself particularly "sad" in the usual way. Grieving the world's loss of a cultural icon, but not mourning, particularly. I think it's because I'm quite certain he was ready to go. I don't have any sense of him having left things "unfinished". It was a good end to a good life, and I'm happy for him.

[deliriumcrow.livejournal.com]

Smae here. It was sad in the sense that there won't be any more lovely music from him, but it seems to have been a good full life, and I'm sure they're both happy now, and never to be parted.

I always wanted a death like that, to follow my beloved so soon. Ever since I was seven, and a woman my father knew told me about her grandparents who died within a month of each other, and I thought that was the most romantic thing I'd ever heard.