A touching message was left last night (I found it this morning) on the 2017 video of me interviewing Mark Samuels on my YouTube channel. This is the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiXUa...

The comment reads:

En esta triste noche hace un año que nos dejó Mark Samuels. Como homenaje voy a disfrutar esta noche de su obra "La era del futuro degradado" de la editorial española Valdemar :)

It has, indeed, been a year.

I will not add comments of my own today. I will only paste here links to a couple of songs by Roky Erickson, of whom Mark was fond, who one might call, in fact, the supremely Samuelsian rock musician:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4-Ru...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEg2D...