For no good reason, I’m obscenely late in appreciating You’re Gonna Miss Me, the ridiculously moving and gracefully edited documentary about the troubled life and uplifting resurrection of Roky Erickson . The whole damn thing is arresting in its objective, disturbing vantage point of an artist buried under the weight of mental illness, his own family’s misguided sheltering, and the cyclical nature of poverty. Thank god there’s a happy ending. Roky will play Seattle on on October 28 at the Showbox with the Black Angels, his fellow Austinites and psychedelic disciples.The best song in the film is a previously unreleased love song that shows up on the soundtrack called “For You.” I honestly think this is one of the most simply gorgeous two minutes in pop history, and you can listen to it over here. I’ve listened to it six times today already (I sense a new obsession coming on).
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