Casting a Pall Over the Last Few Weeks

The Silver Jews broke up. This is really sad. They are/were so great. I wil memorialize this the only way I know how:
:(<-that is as big as blogger lets me put the text. Otherwise, that frown emoticon would be fifty times bigger. This is a video of them playing "Smith and Jones Forever" from their last show ever at the Cumberland Caverns (that's right, in a cave) :
The Silver Jews are dead, long live the Silver Jews!