"The guy who lives next door to me paints, and he's doing it well, so I don't really feel the need."

i am tim and i am very into music. i know about pink floyd, and i am sad about syd barrett. syd barrett is a very sad story, i think. from what i hear, after his brain had drowned in the catalysts, he could not tell heaven from hell or blue skies from pain or a green field from a cold steel rail.

maybe it is worse to see a friend around who is not really there anymore, than to just never see them again.

at the beginning of 1967 he was leading the band and by the end of 1967 he was on the stage, motionless and staring into space in the middle of songs. blankest stares.

i cannot claim to be a huge syd barrett fan, but i know some of the songs and like them. the last one with pink floyd is called jugband blues, and it seems like a silly song if you were ignorant of the story, but if you're not then it seems very depressing.