Grim Reaper gonna keep reaping.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 1 January 2024 19:47 (five months ago) link
burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb
― jaymc, Monday, 1 January 2024 19:56 (five months ago) link
Will we have a death pool this year?
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 1 January 2024 20:34 (five months ago) link
I call American democracy
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Monday, 1 January 2024 20:41 (five months ago) link
Is that the new Guns N Roses album?
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 January 2024 20:44 (five months ago) link
Chris Karrer of both Amon Düüls
https://www.facebook.com/groups/10213321397/posts/10159782465886398/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 January 2024 17:17 (five months ago) link
One for the UK charity sector: Camila Batmanghelidjh, 61
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/02/kids-company-charity-founder-camila-batmanghelidjh-dies-aged-61
― CDs sound better than vinyl (Matt #2), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 20:37 (five months ago) link
I think her given name was Camila Brucewayneghelidjh
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 2 January 2024 21:27 (five months ago) link
Glynis Johns
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:07 (five months ago) link
Oh, shame, she reached the century though. RIP Glynis.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:22 (five months ago) link
VOTES FOR WOMEN rip glynisthx for teaching me abt the suffragette movement <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:27 (five months ago) link
Love her in this Amicus/EC anthology bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKqO_VtjKRo
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Thursday, 4 January 2024 20:31 (five months ago) link
Derek Draper, covid-affected husband of Kate Garaway and former Labour Party ghoul.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 January 2024 12:17 (five months ago) link
tbf he possibly still qualifies as a labour party ghoul?
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 5 January 2024 13:31 (five months ago) link
RIP David Soul, aged 80.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 5 January 2024 14:30 (five months ago) link
xpdon't ghouls feed on the flesh of the dead? I guess if he can manage to eat himself it will save on funeral expenses
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 5 January 2024 14:30 (five months ago) link
Actor Christian Oliver, 51, and his two daughters, 12 and 10, killed in a plane crash in the Caribbean.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 5 January 2024 18:31 (five months ago) link
I just re-watched the 1979 Salem's Lot miniseries, David Soul was great in that... a lot of cool cameos by old-timey hollywood stars; it's still pretty freaky as well
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 January 2024 18:34 (five months ago) link
Still has some of the scariest scenes I've ever seen from made-for-TV
― Wack Snyder (Eric H.), Friday, 5 January 2024 18:36 (five months ago) link
it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid watching it on a b+w valve television
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 5 January 2024 18:36 (five months ago) link
I can never remember whether he was Starsky or Hutch.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 5 January 2024 18:37 (five months ago) link
he was Starsky, the smart one.. Hutch was the 'street' one
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 January 2024 18:38 (five months ago) link
xp Yeah, Tobe Hooper directed it, he didn't pull any punches with the scary stuff
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 January 2024 18:39 (five months ago) link
James Mason as the vampire's henchman and keeper was so cold blooded, actually he was much scarier than the vampire
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 5 January 2024 18:42 (five months ago) link
A lot of it was filmed up in Humboldt County (where I'm from), my uncle got paid $15 to put a Massachussetts plate on his car
The house was totally fake, we drove out to have a look at it while they were filming
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 January 2024 18:45 (five months ago) link
I think you've got your cops mixed up. Paul Michael Glaser was Starsky (the street one), while David Soul was Hutch (the smart one.)
― henry s, Friday, 5 January 2024 18:50 (five months ago) link
Ahh okay
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 January 2024 18:54 (five months ago) link
See?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 5 January 2024 18:55 (five months ago) link
I felt so sure of myself
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 January 2024 18:56 (five months ago) link
You don't have many of those renaissance men much anymore: stage actor, film actor, television, successful pop singer
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 January 2024 18:59 (five months ago) link
it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid
Seeing a *trailer* for it freaked me out!
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 5 January 2024 19:10 (five months ago) link
Vampire raising up through the kitchen floor with evil James Mason and killing the kid's parents in front of him seemed pretty hardcore for post watershed television at the time.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 5 January 2024 19:40 (five months ago) link
Heard some work people today commiserating with Kate Garraway but I said nothing because lol fuck Draper not soon enough
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 January 2024 19:40 (five months ago) link
Died of long covid? weird
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 5 January 2024 19:51 (five months ago) link
he was already dead tbf! When he got covid he was in an induced coma for 10 weeks, covid hated him more than uk ilx does.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 5 January 2024 19:56 (five months ago) link
I keep misreading gushing tributes to him as "lobbyist turned psychopath"
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 5 January 2024 20:05 (five months ago) link
"turned" being the solecism
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 January 2024 20:06 (five months ago) link
Glad to see that David Sole was well prepared, just in case he bumped into Derek Draper…. pic.twitter.com/ky1Ax5OTOc— Zarah Bukake MP. 🏴 Dim ond parodi ydy (@XRLlareggub) January 5, 2024
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 5 January 2024 20:23 (five months ago) link
Same, except when hearing it.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Friday, 5 January 2024 22:14 (five months ago) link
Silver Lady is a banger and fuiud tbh
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 January 2024 22:21 (five months ago) link
don't give up on us baby
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 5 January 2024 22:24 (five months ago) link
calz isn't that the unfunny racist Zarah Sultana "parody" account?
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 January 2024 22:25 (five months ago) link
yeah I just posted the first offensive post about Draper I found, apols
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 5 January 2024 22:28 (five months ago) link
O T MF M
Draper Death is long overdue and
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 January 2024 22:36 (five months ago) link
Welsh flag and horrid name should have been a dead giveaway, but I'm slightly pished tonight.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 5 January 2024 23:12 (five months ago) link
David Soul was a guy who had a lot of acting chops. Weirdly my first exposure to him was as one-half of a psychotic bank robbing duo in the TV film In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders. The other psycho was Michael Gross! They were both superb and the final shootout is genuinely intense and bleak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBGfKtuo2AM
― omar little, Saturday, 6 January 2024 00:48 (five months ago) link
Mário Zagallo
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/06/mario-zagallo-world-cup-winning-player-and-coach-for-brazil-dies-aged-92
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 January 2024 11:03 (five months ago) link
Cindy Morgan, who played Lacy Underall in Caddyshack.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 6 January 2024 23:30 (five months ago) link
And Yori in Tron
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Sunday, 7 January 2024 17:22 (five months ago) link
Rip Zagallo
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 7 January 2024 22:45 (five months ago) link
Joan Acocella, New Yorker staff writer and dance critic, at 78:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/obituaries/joan-acocella-dead.html
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 January 2024 03:18 (five months ago) link
Hearing reports that Iasos has passed into the crystal realm. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKRgNcqnoV8
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 8 January 2024 03:38 (five months ago) link
I remember reading an Acocella review of Cirque du Soleil in the 90s in the Wall Street Journal (where she wrote before the New Yorker)...
Ahh here it is.
The "new circus" people are on the wrong track, I think. In their view, it seems, the acts are corny; what is important is the meanings that can be attached to them. But in fact it is those meanings that are corny. What is serious is the acts.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 8 January 2024 03:52 (five months ago) link
Del Palmer RIP
https://www.loudersound.com/news/del-palmer-dead-at-71?fbclid=IwAR2bmBVz2NTu9ifU2NUxvadA8-kqS6wdDgS5ZoBUFzehDN1LPzF0fvysocs
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 8 January 2024 11:54 (five months ago) link
Franz Beckenbauer
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 8 January 2024 16:40 (five months ago) link
According to David Grubbs, composer Phill Niblock has passed.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 January 2024 16:52 (five months ago) link
yeah all over facebook from people who know.
― dan selzer, Monday, 8 January 2024 17:02 (five months ago) link
rip franz
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 8 January 2024 17:28 (five months ago) link
2/3 men to ever win a world cup as both player and coach died on the same weekend
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 8 January 2024 18:24 (five months ago) link
Lol that's incredible
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 January 2024 18:26 (five months ago) link
RIP Phill Niblock, the Emperor of Drone
― manson family whatsapp group (Matt #2), Monday, 8 January 2024 18:27 (five months ago) link
Saw Beckenbauer play in the first soccer match I ever attended, 1977 or '78 when he was with the New York Cosmos. Great team that was.
― Josefa, Monday, 8 January 2024 18:30 (five months ago) link
Saw him with The Cosmos often as well. Amazing. RIP
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 8 January 2024 18:31 (five months ago) link
Oh man, Phill and Franz RIP
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Monday, 8 January 2024 18:31 (five months ago) link
I never got to see the Cosmos play live, but to the extent there was soccer on TV in the western U.S. (which was almost not at all), I did get to see that club, which consisted of several aging greats and Italian fugitive Giorgio Chinaglia. IIRC, they did play some friendlies with German clubs and got pasted.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 8 January 2024 18:35 (five months ago) link
But RIP Der Kaiser, the original sweeper.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 8 January 2024 18:36 (five months ago) link
rip franz. the first image of him to come to mind is always him playing in a sling during what I think was the 1970 world cup due to a broken collarbone.
― oscar bravo, Monday, 8 January 2024 20:00 (five months ago) link
JPR Williams
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 8 January 2024 20:53 (five months ago) link
Larry Collins of early Rockabilly outfit The Collins Kids
https://www.vintageguitar.com/58564/renowned-guitarist-larry-collins-passes/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 January 2024 23:10 (five months ago) link
He co-wrote "Delta Dawn"!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 January 2024 23:12 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAQvu7OqrY
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 January 2024 23:18 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ1TYUK8T8
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 January 2024 23:22 (five months ago) link
Kind of hard to believe that no one here is a Iasos fan— him and Niblock dying around the same time seems wild to me
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 02:39 (five months ago) link
I can't call myself a fan but I have enjoyed what I've heard, he seems a true character. Wouldn't mind taking a deeper dive.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 02:53 (five months ago) link
Damn, RIP Iasos. Was just listening to Bora Bora 2000 yesterday.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 03:25 (five months ago) link
Confessing my own ignorance — I've never listened to Niblock (had him confused with Phil Minton in my head, in fact) and never even heard of Iasos.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 03:48 (five months ago) link
Those Larry Collins clips are amazing, thanks for sharing
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 08:45 (five months ago) link
It was Phillip Corner I used to confuse him with. Ditto on Iasos btw.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 09:56 (five months ago) link
Tony Clarkin of pomp rockers Magnum :(
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 17:31 (five months ago) link
Sad to hear that. Never the hippest of bands, but I heartily enjoyed seeing them back in the early 80s (less so in the mid-80s).
― the typefaces they are a-changin' (Matt #2), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 17:47 (five months ago) link
RIP Larry Collins
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 17:57 (five months ago) link
xp
yeah, they had some nice songs at their heights
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 18:35 (five months ago) link
Artist Alexis Smith, 74
https://www.artforum.com/news/alexis-smith-dies-19492024-545853/
― nickn, Tuesday, 9 January 2024 22:33 (five months ago) link
Tracy Tormé, writer for Sliders, Star Trek TNG, Carnivàle, and a lot of UFO shows. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tracy-torme-dead-sliders-star-trek-next-generation-1235783832/
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 04:26 (five months ago) link
Melania Trump's mother, Amalija Knavs
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 15:04 (five months ago) link
I really don’t care, do u?
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:03 (five months ago) link
That's exactly what Donald said to Melania.
― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:04 (five months ago) link
she was my mahjong partner, I will miss her
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:05 (five months ago) link
jaysus the bar for the rip threads had better not be that because lads i could print the death notices of the mayo news each week here and make a case vs some of our entries
yes im gatekeeping the threshold for the rip thread what av it
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:19 (five months ago) link
fwiw i believe it’s fair game since it is technically “news” inasmuch as it relates to former president dipshit, my comment was more meant as a jest
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:02 (five months ago) link
mine too
mainly!
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 17:19 (five months ago) link
RIP Terry Bisson, author most famously of Fire on the Mountain, an excellent and politically radical sci-fi novel.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 10 January 2024 21:11 (five months ago) link
That sounds pretty good; might track down a copy. I only know Bisson from his stories "Bears Discover Fire" and "They're Made Out Of Meat," both of which are great.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 11 January 2024 04:08 (five months ago) link
It’s pretty good, my main complaint was that I wanted it to be longer!!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 11 January 2024 12:31 (five months ago) link
Tisa Farrow, one time film actress and sister of Mia (72)
― Josefa, Friday, 12 January 2024 00:45 (five months ago) link
Ed Broadbent, leader of the Canadian New Democratic Party from 1975 to 1989, aged 87.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 12 January 2024 03:37 (five months ago) link
Seemed to be about the most decent politician ever.
― clemenza, Friday, 12 January 2024 03:58 (five months ago) link
RIP Tisa Farrow - we'll always have Zombie Flesh Eaters.
RIP Gothic horror expert David J Skalhttps://medicotopics.com/david-j-skal-historian-passed-away-car-accident/
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 12 January 2024 10:42 (five months ago) link
Annie Nightingale, 83 😢
― Alba, Friday, 12 January 2024 13:02 (five months ago) link
Fuck. RIP
― groovypanda, Friday, 12 January 2024 13:11 (five months ago) link
Apart from her general brilliance, she DJed my book launch, and for that I’m eternally grateful. RIP.
― steely flan (suzy), Friday, 12 January 2024 13:28 (five months ago) link
not sure i ever really listened to her shows tbh, but 9 year old me always thought she was dead cool for appearing on the back cover of 'zenyatta mondata' (she's part of the press group stood behind andy)
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 12 January 2024 13:45 (five months ago) link
Used to love her post Essential Mix shows (The Chill Out Zone?) in the 90sAbsolute trailblazer and such an incredible life and career
― groovypanda, Friday, 12 January 2024 13:48 (five months ago) link
Aw, shame. RIP Annie.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:00 (five months ago) link
She was on the "Celeb" panel on the final "Pop Quest 1975" that our team won through to. She chatted to us, really genuine, just like she was on the radio (although she was "just about to" start the Radio 1 request show she was best known for - in fact by the time the show aired she was well into broadcasting it, and pretended as much on the TV show which was filmed months before...)
― Mark G, Friday, 12 January 2024 14:03 (five months ago) link
It was her Sunday evening show in the 80s that I really liked. Never listened to her much after that, but that show turned me on to a world of music I would not have been able to hear anywhere else on the dial.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Friday, 12 January 2024 14:03 (five months ago) link
She read my name out on her Sunday night show once but I'm damned if I can remember why.
― Alba, Friday, 12 January 2024 14:16 (five months ago) link
That’s a sad one, although I never really listened much to her shows in recent decades she appeared to be keeping the flame alive until very recently - I hope I’m still able to go clubbing that late in life.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 12 January 2024 14:22 (five months ago) link
liked her sunday show a lot. also her presenting on whistle test. thought she was about 70!!
― stirmonster, Friday, 12 January 2024 17:46 (five months ago) link
RIP Red Paden at only 67. My wife and I went to his divey blues bar in Clarksdale, Mississippi once . A great place.
Red Paden, who as the self-proclaimed “king of the juke joint runners” spent four decades as the owner of Red’s, an unassuming music spot in downtown Clarksdale, Miss., and one of the last places in the United States to offer authentic Delta blues in its natural setting, died on Dec. 30. He was 67.His son, Orlando, said the death, in a hospital in Jackson, Miss., was from complications of heart surgery.
From NY Times obit
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 January 2024 19:20 (five months ago) link
Still kind of reeling about Annie Nightingale - knew the Beatles but was debuting Autechre tracks in the 2010s. I read the quote in her obit about nobody in her age range apart from Peel having the same hunger for new sounds. To reclaim a cliche, what a legend.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 12 January 2024 20:24 (five months ago) link
don't really know her history but just watched her introduce and sign off on the Damned's classic and vary chaotic OGWT appearance in 79, Smash It Up and I Just Can't Be Happy Today. She took it all in stride with a sense of humor.
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 January 2024 20:29 (five months ago) link
just had a midlife crisis upon realizing that the midpoint between the Beatles forming and now is...Incunabula
― frogbs, Friday, 12 January 2024 20:29 (five months ago) link
Oof I remember when Incunabula came out
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 12 January 2024 21:08 (five months ago) link
just watched her introduce and sign off on the Damned's classic and vary chaotic OGWT
i'm pretty sure this was the first time i ever encountered her. also probably why I Just Can't Be Happy Today remains my favourite Damned song.
― stirmonster, Friday, 12 January 2024 23:07 (five months ago) link
Longtime fave of mine
― dan selzer, Saturday, 13 January 2024 00:05 (five months ago) link
Captain Sensible talks about it here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5-IkuEq-8c
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 January 2024 00:17 (five months ago) link
Dear oh dear - that looked a bit contrived by the Damned and not very interestingly done. This could have done with a bit of Bob Harris's famous tutting.
Just dipping into the 24 hr plus Annie Nightingale Request Show playlist on Spotify. Someone has done a very good job with this , especially at the 'front end' of the list.
I wonder how many regular listeners she took with her to the 'Chil Out zone'. At the time, in 1994, the shift to the 'Chill Out Zone' felt a bit of a perplexing headlong embrace of acid, house, techno and EDM and exclusion of everything else.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Saturday, 13 January 2024 09:19 (five months ago) link
She lost me as a listener at that point, certainly.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Saturday, 13 January 2024 11:51 (five months ago) link
Tom Shales, TV critic for the Washington Post
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:12 (five months ago) link
Forgot he'd won a Pulitzer!
Damn, he was kind of one of those weird household names
― omar little, Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:18 (five months ago) link
Forgot about his SNL and ESPN books too. (Though I have to wonder what they'd look like more in recent years and with different perspectives.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:19 (five months ago) link
Cordell Jackson, rockabilly pioneer and Moon Records founder:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/obituaries/cordell-jackson-overlooked.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NU0.nXVW.6ItmzCeXUNDp&smid=url-share
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 13 January 2024 17:32 (five months ago) link
Re: Shales, I think he did a good job and deserves his rest. But I do wonder how many people will have the specific job description "TV critic" in our current fractured media landscape, let alone its future.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 13 January 2024 18:31 (five months ago) link
They've been replaced by recappers
― omar little, Saturday, 13 January 2024 18:37 (five months ago) link
Cordell Jackson died in 2004. (Saw her live in the mid 90s, she tore it up.)
― that's when I reach for my copy of Revolver (WmC), Saturday, 13 January 2024 19:05 (five months ago) link
! very sorry. Was in the Times newsletter today, obviously for the 20th anniversary. Good article, thanks to Tav Falco (and Alex Chilton) for making me aware of her long ago.
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 13 January 2024 19:07 (five months ago) link
Peter Crombie, "Crazy Joe Davola" from Seinfeld
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peter-crombie-dead-seinfeld-1235871063/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 January 2024 02:18 (five months ago) link
Was in the Times newsletter today, obviously for the 20th anniversary.
As noted at the top of the article, it's part of their Overlooked series of obits for people who never received one when they died. Lots of super-interesting stories.
― jaymc, Sunday, 14 January 2024 02:23 (five months ago) link
Different thing but: In the olden days (by which I mean 1980), there was a whole thing where year-end magazines and newspapers were laid out and printed before the year ended.
So if you died on December 29 or thereabouts, you didn't make it into a year-in-review issue, but by the time the next year-in-review issue was being planned, your death was already old news.
Then there are the people whose deaths were overshadowed by the death of a more famous person on the same day. Cf. Sheryl Crow singing about "the day Aldous Huxley died." I am not gonna unabashedly stan for Crow's entire oeuvre, but that line has some panache.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:18 (five months ago) link
Groucho Marx, for example. Died 2 days after Elvis.
― henry s, Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:35 (five months ago) link
Not the same day, but the Elvis death was news for a full week.
― henry s, Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:36 (five months ago) link
Peter Crombie, "Crazy Joe Davola" from Seinfeldhttps://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peter-crombie-dead-seinfeld-1235871063/
oh damn. I just posted in the Seinfeld thread about how this dude was so good that it actually changed the tone of the show during his scenes. idk if anyone else on the show was able to do that. I was pretty stunned that he never really appeared in anything else.
― frogbs, Sunday, 14 January 2024 03:41 (five months ago) link
But I do wonder how many people will have the specific job description "TV critic" in our current fractured media landscape, let alone its future.
Aren't TV critics more common and read more in the post-Sopranos era than when Shales first came to prominence in the '70s and '80s? He was the only one I knew then; I could name a few now.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 January 2024 07:46 (five months ago) link
Loved Shales’ SNL book.
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Sunday, 14 January 2024 08:24 (five months ago) link
Joyce Randolph - "Trixie" on The Honeymooners, 99
― Josefa, Sunday, 14 January 2024 17:53 (five months ago) link
RIP Jo-El Sonnier Louisiana Cajun and country musician from what sounds like a heart attack
https://kpel965.com/louisiana-cajun-country-music-artist-jo-el-sonnier-dead/
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 14 January 2024 20:55 (five months ago) link
Took Richard Thompson high up into the US Country charts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k7m5yVTGsc
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 14 January 2024 21:02 (five months ago) link
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 January 2024 22:15 (five months ago) link
There was a massive fuss! My grandfather knew him a bit when young, so that might have some effect on my memories.
― steely flan (suzy), Sunday, 14 January 2024 22:30 (five months ago) link
just hung up from talking with my niece and we agreed how incredible he was and perfectly casted. Maybe the greatest/ our fave non-regular on Sein. am deeply/maybe irrationally saddened, RIP
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― matcha man (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 14 January 2024 22:44 (five months ago) link
I'd read a book / watch a documentary / whatever about the casting of Seinfeld. They never missed.
Crombie was indeed great. Not sure where you draw your line re: the definition of "non-regular" but I'd rank it:
1. David Puddy2. Frank Costanza3. Newman4. J. Peterman
with Davola not far behind. Which is no insult ... that list is a Murderer's Row of side characters.
Most impeccably cast (casted?) sitcom - maybe show - ever.
― alpine static, Monday, 15 January 2024 00:13 (five months ago) link
Not that anyone asked, but my own personal favorite celebrity death trilogy was Miles Davis / Klaus Barbie / Dr. Seuss. September 1991.
― CthulhuLululemon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 15 January 2024 02:35 (five months ago) link
I'd read a book / watch a documentary / whatever about the casting of Seinfeld.
Read this a few years ago; very good, and lots about the casting, as I remember it.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Seinfeldia/Jennifer-Keishin-Armstrong/9781476756110
― clemenza, Monday, 15 January 2024 02:56 (five months ago) link
Howard Waldrop, American sf writer of note. After Terry Bisson’s passing, this is a hard month on this front! (Seek out Waldrop’s “The Ugly Chickens.”)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 January 2024 15:20 (five months ago) link
RIP. Pretty famous story, haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. Same with other guy actually/pvmic
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 15:33 (five months ago) link
Fact mix
Our first mix of 2024 will be the last mix of this series in its current form. After 16 years of mixes, Fact’s pioneering music program will no longer continue in its current iteration.— 180.Fact (@180fact) January 16, 2024
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 17 January 2024 18:47 (five months ago) link
I missed this one, Georgina Hale. Great, quirky (and sexy) British actress.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/10/georgina-hale-obituary
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 21:29 (five months ago) link
T-Bag!
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 17 January 2024 23:31 (five months ago) link
Peter Schickele
https://wapo.st/3tWqUkj
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 18 January 2024 01:36 (five months ago) link
RIP, person I thought was already
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 January 2024 01:44 (five months ago) link
AKA PDQ Bach---haven't heard it, but really liked the idea of his album about the NPR station that was proudly "All Pachebel, All The Time." Think this was after Eno covered the "Canon" on Discreet Music, a teen choral version was the theme of Redford-directed Ordinary People, and it went on and on---in the late 80s or early 90s, a rapper sampled it, and why the fuck not, But Kyle Gann took a class taught by Peter S., said he was a rainy day at best--reminding me of what somebody else said about Donald Barthelme, and I think it was Thurber who wrote about what dark or gray miserable bastards so many humorists are. Maybe it's true of comedians as well, having to be funny.
― dow, Thursday, 18 January 2024 02:12 (five months ago) link
Pachelbel, excuse me! And Eno recorded Variations on:http://www.google.com/search?q=Pache%3Bbel+Brian+Eno&oq=Pache%3Bbel+Brian+Eno&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l3.22601j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:6d711571,vid:nPesTx4yb3g,st:0
― dow, Thursday, 18 January 2024 02:18 (five months ago) link
The PDQ Bach stuff was amusing, but I also loved Schickele Mix, a radio show where he could just ramble on about whatever music he wanted to talk about.
He introduced me to this fabulous song about dust mites by Heywood Banks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG0e6KOIZAI
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 18 January 2024 11:56 (five months ago) link
"“Recognise the faces but can’t place the names?” Among the list of Britain’s top 10 great unsung television character actors that followed was Georgina Hale."
...
"This article was amended on 10 January 2024 to change a picture that did not show Georgina Hale."
― koogs, Thursday, 18 January 2024 13:28 (five months ago) link
Hale was a good Alma Mahler too
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 18 January 2024 14:06 (five months ago) link
Brilliant dhrupad singer Amelia Cuni:
Blank Forms is deeply saddened by the death of Amelia Cuni (1958–2024), vocalist, composer, writer, teacher, well-known as one of the greatest contemporary Western proponents of dhrupad singing. More here: https://t.co/UZcxrIRjzl pic.twitter.com/c5Sgh6crTY— Blank Forms (@BlankForms) January 17, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEKShVBmQr8
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 18 January 2024 17:25 (five months ago) link
Aw, I love Amelia Cuni... she wasn't very old, either!
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 18 January 2024 17:28 (five months ago) link
Juan Mendez aka Silent Servent. Way too young. https://ra.co/news/80120?fbclid=IwAR3UTHIIGS3JYsnaBVfbnQ-TNNH8QXi2cntJ1IaCXOUBz-6tDdg2VU6YaeY_aem_AbfBjSE8TJBieOgzmOh05CatAjiAVXQ6Lqvi5Ch2KdUxyVg9C9NgeIcHIMtWTqJO21U
― dan selzer, Friday, 19 January 2024 12:16 (four months ago) link
Ah wow :( Rest In Peace. Chatted with him once a couple of years back - nice guy.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 19 January 2024 12:26 (four months ago) link
Never met him but he gave props to Acute in an interview or something somewhere and had friends in common. He definitely defined a very influential aesthetic visually as well as musically.
― dan selzer, Friday, 19 January 2024 12:53 (four months ago) link
Juan's wife and Luis Vasquez of The Soft Moon also passed away.
― Born Under a Bad Sine (Talcum Mucker), Friday, 19 January 2024 13:32 (four months ago) link
I just saw that on the Soft Moon facebook page. Terrible and sad news.
― dan selzer, Friday, 19 January 2024 13:38 (four months ago) link
What the hell? ;_;
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2024 14:05 (four months ago) link
absolutely heartbreaking
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 19 January 2024 14:12 (four months ago) link
that's terrible, wtf happened??
― omar little, Friday, 19 January 2024 14:38 (four months ago) link
car accident?
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Friday, 19 January 2024 15:01 (four months ago) link
there are rumors of it being fentanyl related, but i feel guilty spreading that as i have no idea if it's true
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 19 January 2024 15:06 (four months ago) link
Was pretty weirded out to find that Juan's last record as Silent Servant came out last year and was called In Memorium
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2024 15:18 (four months ago) link
awful news. met him one time and bonded over early foetus 7"s chat. loved his music.
― stirmonster, Friday, 19 January 2024 16:43 (four months ago) link
how awful :(
― donna rouge, Friday, 19 January 2024 16:59 (four months ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 19 January 2024 21:49 (four months ago) link
Nothing official-official yet, but seeing some reports from people who would know on FB that Mary Weiss from the Shangri-Las has passed on.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:06 (four months ago) link
RIP :(
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:13 (four months ago) link
Light In The Attic is also reporting that Seattle music scene Legend Susie Tennant of Sub Pop Records has passed away.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:18 (four months ago) link
It’s with heavy hearts we share the news that Susie Tennant passed away yesterday. Susie was a giant inspiration for so many within the Seattle music community and far beyond. While interning at Sub Pop in the mid-90s, Susie handed me a 7" by the Fastbacks, released on Munster Records in Spain. She said to call the phone # on the back of the record jacket, tell them Susie sent me, and ask for an internship. I immediately did just that, trying to explain to Francisco (or was it Íñigo?!) at Munster the definition of the word “internship.” Six months later, I was in Madrid, interning for Munster and my life would never be the same. Without a doubt, there’d be no Light in the Attic without Susie. Susie, we’ll miss you. Thanks for all you did for us and thanks for all you did for so many others. Rest in Peace. Our hearts go out to Susie’s family and friends.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:19 (four months ago) link
OMG Mary Weiss, what a heartthrob, RIP!
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:20 (four months ago) link
Also have heard this rumor :-/
it would appear so - https://www.hollywoodlanews.com/jose-vasquez-dead/
such a tragedy
FUCK FENTANYL.
― stirmonster, Friday, 19 January 2024 23:32 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOdP_VvPKHU
Is he a good danceuh?Whaddayamean, is he a good danceuh?Well, how does he dance?Close, very, very close!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:36 (four months ago) link
Wow, RIP :(
― the evil orson free rainbow (jmm), Saturday, 20 January 2024 01:41 (four months ago) link
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 20 January 2024 02:35 (four months ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mary-weiss-the-shangri-las-dead-obituary-1234950474/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 20 January 2024 03:35 (four months ago) link
Mary Weiss's death brings to mind an ongoing issue with the baseball HOF: their habit of not inducting some obviously qualified people while they're still alive (Ron Santo, Buck O'Neil, Leo Durocher, Dick Allen), then inducting them soon after they die--or, in Allen's case, not even then. (He'll be inducted eventually). I bet the Shangri-Las go in within two or three years; they should have been in long ago, and from all reports (by which I mean Greil Marcus), going in was something that was actually important to Weiss.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 January 2024 03:45 (four months ago) link
otm
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 January 2024 03:54 (four months ago) link
i'm sorry that that was important to her
i've complained about the baseball HOF often enough, as clemenza is well aware -- it does less to celebrate greatness than to punish non-inductees (who were all great players!) for not measuring up, for years on end. (and then slips harold baines in via a back door because tony la russa liked him)
and the R&RHOF is ten times more arbitrary and racist and sexist. no one should care about it
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 January 2024 04:06 (four months ago) link
otm as well
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 January 2024 04:15 (four months ago) link
Halls of Fame are shit.
God bless the Shangri-La's. Rest in Peace Mary.
I’M JUST HERE FOR DICTATIONI DON’T WANT TO BE A SENSATIONBEING ON SIXTY MINUTES WASN’TWORTH YOUR 15 MINUTESDON’T TOUCH MY BREASTI’M JUST WORKING AT MY DESKDON’T PUT ME TO THE TESTI’M JUST DOING MY BESTSHOPPING AT MAXFIELDSPOWER FOR YOU TO WIELDI DREAMED OF GOING TO THE GRAMMYSTILL YOU POKED ME WITH YOUR WHAMMYYOU USED TO SPIN THE DISKSNOW YOU’RE MOURNING YOUR WRISTSI’M JUST FROM ENCINOWHY ARE YOU SO MEANOI’M JUST HERE FOR DICTATIONIM NOT YOUR SUMMER VACATIONYOU REALLY LIKE TO SMOOREWELL NOW YOU’RE ON THE NEWSI’M FROM SHERMAN OAKS, JUST A WHEEL IN THE SPOKESBUT I AIN’T GIVING YOU HEADIN A SUNSET BUNGALOWROSHUMBA, JUDIT, PAULINA, KATHY,VENDELLA, NAOMI, ASHLEY, ANGIE, STACEY,GAIL, I’M SWIMMING, I’M SWIMMING (US WOMEN)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 20 January 2024 04:24 (four months ago) link
Marlena Shaw, 81.Pluto Shervington, 73.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 20 January 2024 10:39 (four months ago) link
RIP Marlena + Pluto.
Weird that reggae used to be in the British charts so regularly. I assume Pluto Shervington's "Dat" managed to become a Top 10 hit because the BBC couldn't understand the patois, it mentions buying weed in the first 30 seconds!
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 January 2024 10:47 (four months ago) link
RIP Pluto, Dat 7" was a regular fixture in 90s charity shops/car boot sales
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 20 January 2024 10:51 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8HsIxaHq3Q
RIP Marlena
― blazin' squab (NickB), Saturday, 20 January 2024 11:06 (four months ago) link
I was just listening to "Let's Wade In The Water" on a Chess v/a comp yesterday, which was quite the floor-filler at the local Soul Nights back in the day. RIP Marlena!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 20 January 2024 16:37 (four months ago) link
oh no not Pluto :(
― wang mang band (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 January 2024 17:45 (four months ago) link
one day i will find a karaoke that's got "Your Honour"
― wang mang band (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 January 2024 17:47 (four months ago) link
Laurie Johnson, composer of great TV, film and library music. Not least one of the greatest title sequences of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUQzNIxGLyM
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 21 January 2024 23:03 (four months ago) link
And the Jason King theme, too.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 21 January 2024 23:06 (four months ago) link
Conductor of a fantastic LP version of Herrmann’s North By Northwest also And his Hammer score for Captain Kronos is really special
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Monday, 22 January 2024 00:14 (four months ago) link
Norman Jewison, 97. Definitely assumed he died like 20 years ago.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 22 January 2024 20:51 (four months ago) link
Gigi Riva, at the age of 79.
R.I.P Gigi Riva 💔Italy’s greatest ever striker & STILL their top scorer 50 years after his last gameScored in Euro 68 final win, a legend at World Cup 70Led Cagliari to historic 1970 ScudettoHis left foot shot was so powerful it once broke the arm of a fan in the crowd pic.twitter.com/KPJgJCfc47— Carlo Garganese (@carlogarganese) January 22, 2024
― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Monday, 22 January 2024 21:00 (four months ago) link
David Emge (from Dawn of the Dead)
https://ew.com/david-emge-died-dawn-of-the-dead-8547146
Oh, this one hurts. The great David Emge passed away Saturday in his hometown of Evansville IN at age 77.DAWN OF THE DEAD is one of the best social and commercial commentaries ever set to film, and David’s nerve-addled “Flyboy” ties the movie together with heart and humanity. pic.twitter.com/iXoLVeKkIG— Ted Geoghegan (@tedgeoghegan) January 22, 2024
― omar little, Monday, 22 January 2024 21:07 (four months ago) link
Apparently Neil Kulkarni? I can't find it anywhere official, but a mutual friend (who I don't think posts here any more) mentioned it, and the most recent post on his Facebook wall (from someone else) says something similar.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 02:03 (four months ago) link
I had heard word earlier today, sadly.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 02:29 (four months ago) link
Wow, that's a genuine shock.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 02:41 (four months ago) link
Knocked me flat when I heard it. It's just...wrong. Completely wrong.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 02:45 (four months ago) link
Oh god that's awful :(
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 03:24 (four months ago) link
holy shit, that is terrible
― the new drip king (DJP), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 03:25 (four months ago) link
Does anyone know what happened?
― the new drip king (DJP), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 03:29 (four months ago) link
My understanding was a heart attack.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 03:38 (four months ago) link
That's awful. His poor kids. They lost their mother too, right?
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 05:46 (four months ago) link
Yes, they had. This is devastating.
― steely flan (suzy), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 05:49 (four months ago) link
I can’t believe this one :(
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 08:04 (four months ago) link
Really sad to hear this, RIP.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 08:20 (four months ago) link
:-(
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 08:55 (four months ago) link
What the actual fuck? He was so consistently great on the Chart Music podcast. Massive shock, big loss.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 08:57 (four months ago) link
No way - Used to enjoy his writing for melody maker and vox and was consistently interesting on Twitter. RIP.
― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 09:11 (four months ago) link
Really sad. And he posted here a few times, so one of the ILX fallen.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 09:18 (four months ago) link
Damn - loved his writing, a true giant. RIP
― Roz, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 09:56 (four months ago) link
Ugh.
Norman Jewison too RIP.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 11:17 (four months ago) link
... and Gigi Riva RIP.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 11:25 (four months ago) link
Totally gutted about Neil. Couldn't believe it when I heard it last night, he only posted on my wall the day before.
What a shitty year this is already (my dads funeral is on thursday).
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 12:08 (four months ago) link
oh shit sorry to hear that mate x
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 12:19 (four months ago) link
Condolences
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 12:25 (four months ago) link
sorry to hear that too Toshirō, sending my best.
David Stubbs has set up a crowd-funder for Neil Kulkarni should anyone be interested in contributing: https://www.gofundme.com/f/neil-kulkarni
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 13:07 (four months ago) link
"for Neil Kulkarni's family" that should have read
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 13:08 (four months ago) link
Erwin James, 66
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/23/erwin-james-former-guardian-prison-columnist-dies
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 13:10 (four months ago) link
Fuck, that's horrible news about Neil Kulkarni, RIP
Very sorry to hear about your dad, Toshiro, condolences
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 13:24 (four months ago) link
Absolutely reeling from the news about Neil. Fuck.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 14:00 (four months ago) link
Kulkarni was also a mainstay of The Wire for about the last decade too.
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 14:19 (four months ago) link
the Local BBC radio station, CWR, Coventry and Warwickshire Radio have mentioned Neil, on the BBC News app / websiteTributes are paid to Coventry musician and critic Neil Kulkarni.
Tributes are paid to Coventry musician and critic Neil Kulkarni.Tap to read: https://t.co/YNomtnX65m— BBC CWR (@BBCCWR) January 23, 2024
― djmartian, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 14:36 (four months ago) link
Frank Farian, 82
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68065904
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:04 (four months ago) link
Terrible news about Neil Kulkarni too, he was the shake-up MM needed back then.
https://kaptainkulk.medium.com/dissidence-to-britpop-exhibit-a-fbcfefdc8e8d
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 16:06 (four months ago) link
Thanks guys for the kind words about my dad.
David Stubbs has set up a gofundme for Neil's daughters. I'll post the link here if anyone would like to donate to a former ilxor. Obviously I read him in MM in the 90s but it was through ILX I got to 'meet' him online. He will be missed and I feel so bad for his girls whom he utterly adored.
https://gofund.me/af6ec158
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:50 (four months ago) link
I wasn't familiar with his work sadly, but am as always shaken by young people having heart attacks. Obviously there can be a lot of other pre-existing conditions/medical history that feeds into things, but I'm grateful for the ability to look into these things as I near that age. There are things to do like getting your cholesterol checked, taking a stress test etc, but there's another thing that's kind of newer called arterial calcium scoring where they can take a simple non-invasive scan, like a CT scan, and measure build-up of deposits in the heart arteries. Of course the United States healthcare companies will not cover it and it costs 1 or 2 hundred dollars, but according to any number of doctors, it's worth the money, esp if you have family history of heart disease, high cholesterol, overweight etc etc.
obv no idea what his situation was or whether there was anything that would've predicted this happening, but it's something I think a lot about and would suggest.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 21:22 (four months ago) link
he wasn't particularly known for his own music, but you might enjoy some of it dan - very much in the vein of the television personalities...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZBQIN8v9D8
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 21:36 (four months ago) link
cool, will check it out.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 21:46 (four months ago) link
Physicist & radio astronomer Arno Penzias, 90 - discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation leftover from the Big Bang.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/science/space/arno-a-penzias-dead.html
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 22:15 (four months ago) link
I haven't quite been able to rewatch this since the news last night, but I do think Neil's band recorded one of the greatest xmas songs of the 21st centuryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6GV4f0adwk
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 22:59 (four months ago) link
Cant help thinking how much he sounds like Terry Hall with that Coventry accent
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 23:09 (four months ago) link
Charles Osgood
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/23/1226384995/charles-osgood-cbs-died-91
"People You Thought Were..."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 23:23 (four months ago) link
Oh wow... 'The Osgood Files' were almost a daily thing for me years ago.. he was basically doing the Paul Harvey thing, but a bit more urbane
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 00:17 (four months ago) link
Frank Farian.. RIP.
― mmmm, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 20:58 (four months ago) link
Melanie, 76
Melanie Safka has died and this is one of the greatest things you will ever see on YouTube. RIP.https://t.co/O52mbb2hDO— Rob Chapman (@rcscribbler) January 24, 2024
― Alba, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:23 (four months ago) link
https://variety.com/2024/music/obituaries-people-news/melanie-dead-brand-new-key-singer-woodstock-1235886892/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:27 (four months ago) link
In early January, according to her label, Melanie recorded a cover of Morrissey’s “Ouija Board Ouija Board” for a forthcoming tribute album celebrating his music. (Morrissey was known to be a fan of hers, having covered “Some Say (I Got Devil).”)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:49 (four months ago) link
Morrissey being a fan I get; her covering, of all things, that song is befuddling me.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:57 (four months ago) link
oh man, a shame. that margie;s birthday party live record is fantastic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w--u8pcLFNs
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 23:14 (four months ago) link
RIP Melanie
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 23:47 (four months ago) link
RIP
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 25 January 2024 01:51 (four months ago) link
Love her; at least three really great singles.
― clemenza, Thursday, 25 January 2024 02:00 (four months ago) link
Carl André died in hospice this morning. Hope he burns in hell.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 25 January 2024 02:26 (four months ago) link
RIP DJ Katapila from Ghana, born Ishmael Abbey. He blended Ghana styles with Chicago & Detroit style dance. He dj’d parties, funerals and more at home, and after Brian of Awesome Tapes from Africa found 2 of his tapes and re-released them, he did Europe gigs as well.
There’s a long heartfelt Awesome Tapes from Africa Instagram post
https://www.instagram.com/p/C2iRl0mo2ud/?igsh=aWQwamF1dWNuemNz
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 January 2024 15:58 (four months ago) link
nooo rip
― nxd, Friday, 26 January 2024 16:05 (four months ago) link
Word from his family that one of the last of his kind, famous boxcar and mail artist buZ blurr has passed on. His work graced thousands of train cars all over the US, and his other art was exhibited widely. A kind, learned, and excellent person. More of his famous “Colossus of Roads” moniker here: https://www.northbankfred.com/buz.htmlAnd more on his life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuZ_blurr
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 26 January 2024 17:35 (four months ago) link
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/660696/doo-wop-till-you-drop-in-memory-of-ron-poozie-miles/
RIP Washington DC doo wop singer Ron Poozie Miles of the Rainbows best known for their song “Mary Lee.” He continued to sing on and off over the years.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 26 January 2024 17:38 (four months ago) link
He’s in the bozo texino doc, which is highly watchable xp
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 26 January 2024 17:39 (four months ago) link
yeah Bill is an acquaintance of mine, love that documentary.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 26 January 2024 18:10 (four months ago) link
House singer Michael Watford, who did some great tunes in the 90s (Holdin On, So Into You, Come Together with Robert Owens).
― mike t-diva, Friday, 26 January 2024 18:35 (four months ago) link
Holdin' On is the shit, RIP Michael
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 26 January 2024 19:00 (four months ago) link
Noted fetish/pinup model and internet star Masuimi Max, 45.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 27 January 2024 04:18 (four months ago) link
Wow, and apparently former porn actress Jesse Jane died this week too, at 43.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 27 January 2024 04:35 (four months ago) link
🫡
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 January 2024 05:26 (four months ago) link
Noted fetish/pinup model and internet star Masuimi Max, 45.― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson),
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson),
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Saturday, 27 January 2024 14:07 (four months ago) link
DJ Slick Rick (not the rapper) https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/26/memphis-dj-slick-rick-decapitated-beheaded-death-police-investigating/
― dow, Sunday, 28 January 2024 00:53 (four months ago) link
NEW ORLEANS — Harry Connick Sr., who was New Orleans’ district attorney for three decades and later faced allegations that his staff sometimes held back evidence that could have helped defendants, died Thursday at age 97.
― dow, Sunday, 28 January 2024 01:02 (four months ago) link
I hadn't heard till now - on January 3rd, Tawl Ross of the original Funkadelic group, at the age of 75. Billy Nelson is now the only member of the instrumental quintet left.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 29 January 2024 16:38 (four months ago) link
RIP Tawl
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:43 (four months ago) link
Wow at Jesse Jane. She used to date Kid Rock, because of course she did. I heard a story once that during a lull in their relationship Kid Rock literally sent her an 18-wheeler full of Budweiser to try and woo her back.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 January 2024 17:22 (four months ago) link
Didn't break till his wife announced it yesterday, but British Lovecraftian fiction writer Brian Lumley died at the beginning of the month.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 29 January 2024 17:22 (four months ago) link
Sandra Milohttps://variety.com/2024/film/global/sandra-milo-dead-federico-fellini-8%c2%bd-juliet-of-the-spirits-1235890276/
― donna rouge, Monday, 29 January 2024 20:59 (four months ago) link
people u thought
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 29 January 2024 21:01 (four months ago) link
oh no, I had no Tawl Ross had passed :(
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Monday, 29 January 2024 23:58 (four months ago) link
He gets a spot in my pantheon just for singing "Funky Dollar Bill" (the 45 mix below is rougher than the LP but interesting):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjQi0UAHFaY
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:45 (four months ago) link
Shelley Ganz of The Unclaimed (per their Facebook page)
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:50 (four months ago) link
Awesome UK photographer Brian Griffin, so many incredible album covers and press shots in the 1980s in particular.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 13:56 (four months ago) link
Ah he did the covers for the first four Echo & the Bunnymen albums, have always loved those
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 14:00 (four months ago) link
N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa writer and the first Indigenous writer to win the Pulitzer for Fiction, given for his novel House Made of Dawn. Great writer, love teaching his story “The Well.”
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 14:07 (four months ago) link
xp and the first four Depeche Mode ones too, wow!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 14:08 (four months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jan/30/chita-rivera-broadway-star-dies-aged-91
― MrDasher, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:39 (four months ago) link
Cool 2015 interview with Brian Griffin - gets into tech, advertising work, more album covers that everyone here knows.https://davedye.com/2015/06/01/brian-griffin-interview/
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:42 (four months ago) link
That’s a great read. He seems like a spiky character. Some fantastic pictures, the one of Tony Benn made me guffaw.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 21:03 (four months ago) link
chita!
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 21:08 (four months ago) link
Melinda Wilson, wife & manager to Brian
https://people.com/melinda-wilson-wife-of-beach-boys-brian-wilson-dead-8553386
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:13 (four months ago) link
https://www.iol.co.za/entertainment/celebrity-news/local/sipho-hotstix-mabuse-pays-tribute-to-late-musical-genius-tony-cedras-02063ffd-3818-4150-855e-70ded6501707
Tony Cedras, who played accordion, keyboards and more with Hugh Masekela , and was part of Paul Simon’s band for years, has died at age 72
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:53 (four months ago) link
https://www.playbill.com/article/three-time-tony-winner-hinton-battle-dies-at-67
― MrDasher, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:31 (four months ago) link
Stop animation wiz Mark Gustafson, 64.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 13:32 (four months ago) link
And also Bruce Springsteen's mother Adele, 98.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-02-02/carl-weathers-dead-dies-rocky-apollo-creed-predator-mandalorian
― MrDasher, Friday, 2 February 2024 19:57 (four months ago) link
Wow.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 19:59 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOffqDsV5Q
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:01 (four months ago) link
goddamn it ;_;
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:01 (four months ago) link
dude did everythingalso played for the raidershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfwSx10-8c
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:03 (four months ago) link
rip to the legend. what a charismatic screen presence.
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:11 (four months ago) link
i fuckin love him in those Rocky movies
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:12 (four months ago) link
Ah dang. The Mandalorian was a nice late highlight.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:21 (four months ago) link
I've still never seen the first two Rocky movies, but he was great in The Predator and Action Jackson is a really underrated/unjustly forgotten 80s action movie.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:25 (four months ago) link
Yeah I was tempted to post the infamous Predator gif itt but realized not everyone probably wanted to see that one.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:27 (four months ago) link
Weathers and David Cross were a good comedy duo
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:30 (four months ago) link
^^^ RIP Carl
― visiting, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:42 (four months ago) link
Dadjoke: apparently there are some things that even he couldn't weather
(Sorry; I preemptively denounce myself)
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:55 (four months ago) link
damn, RIP Action Jackson, hes been all over my screen in this interminable Gronk FanDuel ad campaign lately so he seemed spry.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:10 (four months ago) link
loved him in everything
so deft as apollo creed, so good as a foil for arnies energy in predator, so gently funny even in slapstick or sendup in happy gilmore and arrested development, very few with that build and grace and lightness and variety and hes a big loss
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:17 (four months ago) link
hearing sketchy reports of Brother Wayne Kramer? Jeez I hope it's not true
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:36 (four months ago) link
oh no i hope not
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:37 (four months ago) link
oh please noooo
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:38 (four months ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/C23AQzQPeHR/
― omar little, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:38 (four months ago) link
confirmed :(
MC5 guitar great Wayne Kramer has died at 75https://t.co/wYUshcRIa9— Stereogum (@stereogum) February 2, 2024
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:39 (four months ago) link
From Insta: Wayne S. Kramer“PEACE BE WITH YOU” 🕊️April 30, 1948 - February 2, 2024
Gutted... I saw him do an instore in San Francisco with John Sinclair and Steve Mackay; I was such a fanboy, I helped him load his amp back into his rental car
Extremely cool genuine dude, and his autobiography is a must-read
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:40 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDoUIh23Wg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:41 (four months ago) link
Dennis Thompson is the only Five left
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:42 (four months ago) link
^ most thrilling rock song ever imo xp
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:44 (four months ago) link
America's greatest rock'n'roll band.. I'm glad he was able to get back into the ballrooms late in life, I didn't see MC50 but it's great that he was able to finally make a decent living playing in front of appreciative audiences
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:47 (four months ago) link
fuck RIP brother wayne
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2024 22:46 (four months ago) link
Carl Weathers was in the Herzog documentary I saw last night quite a bit (The Mandalorian). Didn't know he was in Close Encounters till I looked the previous title up.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 February 2024 22:53 (four months ago) link
saw wayne last year playing with pere ubu - they did a very, uh, shambolic cover of "kick out the jams". i wasn't expecting him so it was very cool to see him on stage, and he seemed in good health/spirits then. RIP
― donna rouge, Friday, 2 February 2024 23:23 (four months ago) link
RIP Wayne ;_;
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 2 February 2024 23:54 (four months ago) link
I worked for BOMP/Alive Records in the mid-1990s when they were releasing that series of sourced-from-bad-tapes MC5 and MC5-adjacent stuff. Much of material came from John Sinclair but Kramer would come by the offices to tacitly sign-off. Really nice guy - intense and super-driven. He had just moved to LA, re-connected with Mick Farren, and was playing gigs all over Los Angeles while working on what would be his first album for Epitaph, The Hard Stuff. Most often, the gigs would just be him and a drummer. Sometimes a sax player. Occasionally Farren would come up for a ten minute ramble while they backed him up. Every gig, regardless of how decrepit the punk bar was, was the Grande Ballroom in '68 - an all-out *performance*. LA in the 90s was awash in unemployed guitarists and a middle-age bald dude was wiping the floor with them with shows that were actually thrilling.
The MC5: A True Testimonial documentary is a must watch. I was lucky to be at the premiere for it at the Arclight. Back then most folks had never seen the Wayne State footage before, and on a giant screen at full volume it was as life-changing as Star Wars.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 3 February 2024 00:02 (four months ago) link
Christopher Priest
https://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=6855
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Saturday, 3 February 2024 00:59 (four months ago) link
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/wayne-kramer-dead-mc5-1235895922/?fbclid=IwAR2fOVSLp7WdiQnQYApIswFGjQmNKS1YPq080JP6uJLwKkzKoz9HPieLwDA
(Just another Kramer obit)
― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 3 February 2024 01:06 (four months ago) link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/don-murray-dead-bus-stop-1235813848/
Actor Don Murray, 94
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Saturday, 3 February 2024 01:28 (four months ago) link
Isabelle Thomas, documentary filmmaker and wife of Killers of the Flower Moon producer dies at 39, suicide.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/filmmaker-isabelle-thomas-wife-of-killers-of-the-flower-moon-producer-dies-of-multiple-injuries/ar-BB1hGIqU
― nickn, Saturday, 3 February 2024 01:34 (four months ago) link
Did A True Testimonial ever get an official release? Saw it back in the day at a press preview and it remains one of the most amazing experiences I ever had in a cinema. Never quite understood the conflicts that prevented its release, don't really understand why the filmmakers might have tried to rip Brother Wayne off, but you really shouldn't attempt to fuck with someone who has spent years in prison, they really do not play.
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Saturday, 3 February 2024 10:23 (four months ago) link
Just been reminded that it's Wayne playing guitar on the first Was Not Was album and on 'Wheel Me Out'
― blazin' squab (NickB), Saturday, 3 February 2024 11:30 (four months ago) link
Steve Brown, who did an awful lot of music for British comedy shows, wrote a couple of musical, produced some award winning records and appeared on the other side of the performing fence as Glen Ponder in KMKYwAP.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Saturday, 3 February 2024 11:48 (four months ago) link
Oh what a shame. Who can forget his memorable onscreen sacking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bZnwgTqkb8
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 February 2024 12:55 (four months ago) link
Never quite understood the conflicts that prevented its release, don't really understand why the filmmakers might have tried to rip Brother Wayne off, but you really shouldn't attempt to fuck with someone who has spent years in prison, they really do not play.
The way I understand it (and this is all from--possibly faulty--memory) is that it got hamstrung the way a lot of independently financed music docs do: because of the high cost of music clearances for proper theatrical & home media distribution, particularly when you don't have a distributor in place to handle those things in the first place. The filmmakers tried to work around this by asking surviving band members to make them full partners in the group's LLC, so they could ostensibly make it easier to clear the publishing rights and possibly ease negotiations with Warner Music by representing the group for clearances on the recordings.
This is why Kramer balked, because he and the rest of the band didn't want to give up any of their hard fought-for rights to people they felt didn't have the sweat equity to do so on a deal that up till then had worked on handshakes. This all also happened at the figurative 11th hour too, as a DVD release had already been prepared and put up for preorder on major sites (a seriously naive move on the filmmakers part, and one that ultimately allowed for serious bootlegging, as promos of the final authored disc leaked and have been ripped ever since).
So the movie went into limbo, occasionally surfacing here and there, but it seems like Kramer seriously washed his hands of the whole deal.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 February 2024 15:29 (four months ago) link
I managed to grab it when it appeared on youtube or vimeo a few years ago, don't think it's up any more
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 3 February 2024 15:33 (four months ago) link
I bought a DVD-R of it at a record show 10+ years ago. It was freaky because it was a full rip of the intended release disc, with menus & all the extras (which IIRC were surviving performance clips you see on YouTube: that great '70 Tartar Field footage, a local TV performance of "American Ruse", and the Beat Club "KOTJ").
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 February 2024 15:46 (four months ago) link
https://archive.org/details/mc-5-a-true-testimonial-disc-1
https://archive.org/details/mc-5-a-true-testimonial-disc-2
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 3 February 2024 15:49 (four months ago) link
Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett of the upsetters/wailer passed
― jbn, Saturday, 3 February 2024 19:02 (four months ago) link
wailers
was all over those keith hudson records too
― blazin' squab (NickB), Saturday, 3 February 2024 19:10 (four months ago) link
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 20:14 (four months ago) link
Believe he was a big-time studio musician before The Wailers and maybe after.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 20:15 (four months ago) link
RIP. My condolences to his 41 children.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 February 2024 20:31 (four months ago) link
RIP Aston Barrett
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:33 (four months ago) link
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:35 (four months ago) link
Actually no, he was known as Family Man before he'd fathered any children.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 February 2024 23:14 (four months ago) link
Couldn't call him 'Family Planning' obvs.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 February 2024 23:15 (four months ago) link
I see that Christopher Priest along with David Langford recently wrote the Guardian obit for David D.G. Compton so RIP to him too.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 23:21 (four months ago) link
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:44 bookmarkflaglink
the 1968 single version definitely is, the version on Back In The USA is a little tame by comparison
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 4 February 2024 02:22 (four months ago) link
Just noticed that Carlos Lyra passed away in late December, don’t think it was remarked upon yet.https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/arts/music/carlos-lyra-dead.html
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 05:51 (four months ago) link
Not an obit but an interview and long overview from May of last year:https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/16/bossa-nova-pioneer-carlos-lyra-at-90-we-wrote-songs-about-our-reality-the-beach-sun-and-love-stories
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 February 2024 06:07 (four months ago) link
Barry John - not long after JPR Williams too.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/04/barry-john-welsh-rugby-legend-and-british-and-irish-lions-great-dies-at-79
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 February 2024 20:06 (four months ago) link
Ian Lavender
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 5 February 2024 12:44 (four months ago) link
Oh no, genuinely sad at this.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 5 February 2024 13:00 (four months ago) link
He was the last one left, no?
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Monday, 5 February 2024 14:27 (four months ago) link
Yup.
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Monday, 5 February 2024 14:29 (four months ago) link
The curse of Dad's Army strikes again.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 14:31 (four months ago) link
I wonder if there's a particular Dad's Army clip news programmes will run to mark his passing?
― Marky DeSade (Matt #2), Monday, 5 February 2024 14:47 (four months ago) link
Michael Jayston, according to Colin Baker.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:01 (four months ago) link
I was literally watching Trial Of A Time Lord during lunch today
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:11 (four months ago) link
very much enjoyed his reading of tinker tailor on a driving holiday lately, rip
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:13 (four months ago) link
Great voice. RIP.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:16 (four months ago) link
His finest moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsQ4n_XOgjs
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:20 (four months ago) link
As far as I'm aware neither Ian Lavender or Michael Jayston were in Harry Potter so I can read their obituaries without doing my nut in.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:25 (four months ago) link
Jarvis' time will come...
― Mark G, Monday, 5 February 2024 15:27 (four months ago) link
I'll spin Finisterre by Saint Etienne today for good dose of Jayston voice.
― omar little, Monday, 5 February 2024 15:33 (four months ago) link
The whole main cast of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has now passed
― omar little, Monday, 5 February 2024 15:35 (four months ago) link
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:25 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
they were both in the early 90s Cluedo tv series though not at the same time and none of the obits I've read yet have mentioned this
― soref, Monday, 5 February 2024 19:53 (four months ago) link
Toby Keith. Wasn’t aware he was sick.
― Mule, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 09:14 (four months ago) link
I liked to love his music between his late '90s and mid '00s breakthrough. His 9-11 song and pro-lynching duet with Willie Nelson remain gross.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 10:37 (four months ago) link
Don't know much of his stuff beyond the gross ones, but "Somewhere Else" is great
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 10:51 (four months ago) link
wilhelmenia wiggins fernandez at 75 😔😔😔
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 14:24 (four months ago) link
Mickey Gilbert, stunt performer, 87.https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mickey-gilbert-dead-stuntman-robert-redford-1235817432/
Mickey Gilbert, the fearless stunt performer who jumped off a cliff for Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and doubled for Gene Wilder in films including Blazing Saddles, Silver Streak and The Frisco Kid, has died. He was 87.Gilbert died Monday of natural causes at his home in Camarillo, California, his oldest son, Tim Gilbert, also a stunt performer, told The Hollywood Reporter.Early in his career, Gilbert was a horse wrangler in William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1959) and a bank robber in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969). Years later, he took the lumps for Lee Majors’ Colt Seavers on the 1981-86 ABC action show The Fall Guy.
Gilbert died Monday of natural causes at his home in Camarillo, California, his oldest son, Tim Gilbert, also a stunt performer, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Early in his career, Gilbert was a horse wrangler in William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1959) and a bank robber in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969). Years later, he took the lumps for Lee Majors’ Colt Seavers on the 1981-86 ABC action show The Fall Guy.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:57 (four months ago) link
Seeing Mojo Nixon, from a "cardiac event," age 66
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mojo-nixon-dead-obituary-1234964257/
― nickn, Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:55 (four months ago) link
Oh no. I saw him (with Skid Roper) the night before I graduated from college, it was a religious experience.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 8 February 2024 00:56 (four months ago) link
oh man. My first memory when reading this was the Dead Milkmen reference, but I'm watching the Elvis is Everywhere video and my first impulse is "oh yeah, this used to be on all the time" followed by "oh right, this is catchy" followed by "oh shit, I forgot how hilarious this was. Elvis needs boats!"
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 February 2024 01:25 (four months ago) link
Our store could use some fixin
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 8 February 2024 01:36 (four months ago) link
Waiting for comment from Michael J. Fox
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 8 February 2024 01:45 (four months ago) link
fuuuuck RIP mojono one rules harder
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 February 2024 02:27 (four months ago) link
Wow… Mojo was a San Diego Comic Con regular all through the 80s - roaming the show with his guitar, busting out a song, and somehow operating and thinking at a higher speed than anyone else.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 8 February 2024 02:29 (four months ago) link
It's just goddamn weird to think of a world without him OR Country Dick in it.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 February 2024 02:30 (four months ago) link
The world needs "Don Henley Must Die" now more than ever.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 8 February 2024 02:33 (four months ago) link
Good story about that: https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2014-06-20/don-henley-must-die/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 February 2024 02:47 (four months ago) link
Well, yeah.
It's like that dril tweet about Coolio & Kissinger, except it's Mojo & Henley.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 February 2024 04:51 (four months ago) link
No more stuffin' Martha Quinn's muffin
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 8 February 2024 18:17 (four months ago) link
If only Howlin Wolf were still alive to dig up Mojo Nixon :(
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 8 February 2024 18:41 (four months ago) link
Seiji Ozawa. A titan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/arts/music/seiji-ozawa-dead.html
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:13 (four months ago) link
Henry Fambrough, last of the original Spinners, 85
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 February 2024 00:30 (four months ago) link
The Murakami interview book had a ton of musical insights. Surprised at how enjoyable of a read it is.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Saturday, 10 February 2024 00:40 (four months ago) link
Ozawa has highs and lows but his Chicago recording of le sacre is an absolute knockout, one of my three or four favorites (among many many) of that work.
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 10 February 2024 01:05 (four months ago) link
Toni Stern, a breezy young Californian who became a trusted lyricist for Carole King, providing the words for the enduring standard “It’s Too Late” and many other songs during Ms. King’s flowering as a chart-topping solo artist, died on Jan. 17 at her home in Santa Ynez, Calif., near Santa Barbara. She was 79.
Her husband and only immediate survivor, Jerry Rounds, confirmed the death. He did not specify the cause.
Ms. Stern, a Los Angeles native, was an aspiring painter and poet living in Laurel Canyon, an enclave popular with the Los Angeles rock elite, in the late 1960s. It was there that she met Ms. King, who had moved west from New Jersey after a painful breakup with her husband and songwriting partner, Gerry Goffin, with whom she had formed one of the decade’s powerhouse hit-making duos.
The two hit it off immediately. “When I moved to California in 1968, she was the epitome of a free-spirited Laurel Canyon woman,” Ms. King wrote in a Facebook post after Ms. Stern’s death. “She lived in a hillside house with her dog, Arf, surrounded by books, record albums, plants and macramé.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/arts/music/toni-stern-dead.html
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 10 February 2024 06:41 (four months ago) link
She lived in a hillside house with her dog, Arf, surrounded by books, record albums, plants and macramé
Life goals
― Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 10 February 2024 13:30 (four months ago) link
Indeed. Wonder what else was in that house. Might be some stuff for In every 70s US home ever
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 February 2024 13:45 (four months ago) link
did Arf choose his own name?
― StanM, Saturday, 10 February 2024 14:15 (four months ago) link
As posted on the Can thread, Damo Suzuki
― the most powerful man in cornish politics (Matt #2), Saturday, 10 February 2024 14:17 (four months ago) link
Oh my god wow
― a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 10 February 2024 14:29 (four months ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 10 February 2024 14:32 (four months ago) link
I know we're still at the start of the deluge, but the passing of all these one-of-a-kind people just breaks my heart. I feel lucky to have shared a world with them.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 10 February 2024 14:34 (four months ago) link
Emil.y shared a stage with him once!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Saturday, 10 February 2024 14:45 (four months ago) link
ah jeez, not damo ffsa true giant
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 10 February 2024 14:50 (four months ago) link
what a shit day :( RIP Damo, I'm still losing my vitamin C.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 10 February 2024 14:55 (four months ago) link
Oof. He was going to tour the US in the Spring of 2020, and I was just about to buy my ticket for the Houston show when everything stopped.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 10 February 2024 15:18 (four months ago) link
Dang man. He played in town here a decade or so ago and I can't remember what prevented me going but something did. Gah. R.I.P. weird major dude.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 10 February 2024 19:09 (four months ago) link
Bob Moore of Bob’s Red Mill, 94
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Sunday, 11 February 2024 02:26 (four months ago) link
RIP Günter Brus - one for the 'Art groups formed in the 60s or later, with every single member dead' thread.
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 11 February 2024 12:19 (four months ago) link
Indeed.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 February 2024 12:24 (four months ago) link
Just revived the Aktionists thread
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 February 2024 13:39 (four months ago) link
RIP mr bob red mill, i enjoy his muesli & steel cut oats
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 February 2024 15:50 (four months ago) link
94's a pretty good ad for your own product. A couple of local bakeries make my regular granola but in a pinch there's always some excellent Bob's stuff right at my corner store.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 February 2024 16:20 (four months ago) link
The Bob's muesli is really good, and his chickpea flour is also excellent
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 11 February 2024 17:05 (four months ago) link
I sang under Seiji Ozawa’s baton multiple times from 1999 through 2003. He was an amazing conductor; the only one I can think of who memorized the scores of the pieces he was conducting and danced on the podium as much as he conducted. His musical instincts were unparalleled and his ability to to lead an orchestra and choir through the emotions channeled by each performance was an awe-inspiring thing to witness, let alone be a part of.
He always asked the chorus to memorize the score as well, so we would have a stronger connection to him and be able to respond immediately to whatever gestures or adjustments he would add to the live performance. This was initially nerve-wracking to me but as I got used to the environment, I noticed that his physicality was very much matched to the score, to the point where you could tell where you were in the piece by how Seiji was dancing. In some performances it felt like he had transformed himself into a living score, making his body express where we were and prepping the runway for our entrances so they were never a surprise, even though he almost never did the “your part comes in NOW” death stare common to many conductors across all performance levels. He was a world-class talent who was always generous towards and appreciative of the all-volunteer chorus singing with his orchestra, never making us feel like second-class musicians to the professional world-class orchestra on the stage with us and never sequestering himself from us at BSO social events.
I only sang with him for four years, but those four years were a foundational experience for me. I’ve sung almost every master work composed for orchestra and chorus as a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, often under his baton. I met multiple internationally successful soloists and even became friends with a few of them. I’ve traveled to Europe with them, all expenses paid. Most importantly, I learned that I was a better chorister than I had realized, and that I could sing practically anything with practically anyone. I don’t think I would have been confident enough to join a fledgling opera chorus without my TFC experience, and I don’t know that I would have been confident enough to join a small professional church chamber choir or that I would have stayed with them for over two decades without several years of sharing the stage with some of the biggest musical names on the planet (Renee Fleming, Dame Felicity Lott, Jane Eaglan, Bryn Terfel, Denyce Graves, Christine Goerke, Ben Heppner, Thomas Quasthof, Hei-Kyung Hong, Vanessa Williams, The Pogues, Take 6, Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Aaron Neville, and more). Simply put, I don’t end up with credits on Mountain Goats albums without singing in the Tanglewood Festival Chorus under Seiji Ozawa’s baton. It transformed the trajectory of my musical life. I will forever be grateful for the experience.
Rest well, Maestro Ozawa.
― the new drip king (DJP), Sunday, 11 February 2024 18:11 (four months ago) link
Far out. Wonderful and deeply insightful remembrance, thank you for sharing such vivid experiences.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 11 February 2024 18:15 (four months ago) link
Thanks for that, DJP. Very cool that you got to work with him!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 11 February 2024 18:28 (four months ago) link
rip
Great post djp
― nxd, Sunday, 11 February 2024 18:31 (four months ago) link
Thanks for sharing, really appreciated reading that.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 11 February 2024 19:39 (four months ago) link
Yeah, that sounds like an amazing experience.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 11 February 2024 19:48 (four months ago) link
Awesome!
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Sunday, 11 February 2024 20:06 (four months ago) link
incredible! thx for sharing djp
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 February 2024 20:15 (four months ago) link
That's a beautiful remembrance
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 11 February 2024 20:23 (four months ago) link
such a cool obit
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 11 February 2024 20:27 (four months ago) link
this is just blindingly awesome imo
He always asked the chorus to memorize the score as well, so we would have a stronger connection to him and be able to respond immediately to whatever gestures or adjustments he would add to the live performance. This was initially nerve-wracking to me but as I got used to the environment, I noticed that his physicality was very much matched to the score, to the point where you could tell where you were in the piece by how Seiji was dancing. In some performances it felt like he had transformed himself into a living score, making his body express where we were and prepping the runway for our entrances so they were never a surprise, even though he almost never did the “your part comes in NOW” death stare common to many conductors across all performance levels.
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 11 February 2024 20:30 (four months ago) link
Thank you so much djp. Really. This is a whole lot to ask, but I’m in a private classical music Google group where we have been discussing Ozawa’s legacy, would you mind if I quote your paragraph re the memorizing and internalizing to my friends there
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 11 February 2024 21:15 (four months ago) link
That's really great to read, DJP.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 11 February 2024 23:31 (four months ago) link
There is a picture at my in-laws' home of Ozawa holding my daughter when she was a toddler. Seemed like an amazing person from the personal stories I've heard.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 11 February 2024 23:46 (four months ago) link
That’s fine, JnJ
― the new drip king (DJP), Monday, 12 February 2024 00:30 (four months ago) link
https://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2024/0211/1431745-shock-as-kelvin-kiptum-dies-in-road-accident/
fuck
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 12 February 2024 00:48 (four months ago) link
Ah damn that's awful. My dad will be really sad to hear this.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 February 2024 00:57 (four months ago) link
shit, his way with that run was inspiring.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 February 2024 01:21 (four months ago) link
xxm Thanks for that post DJP that is amazing
― a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 12 February 2024 01:22 (four months ago) link
Kiptum dying is terrible. Just 4 months ago I was watching him run by me on his way to setting a WR. Only his third marathon!
― Jeff, Monday, 12 February 2024 13:11 (four months ago) link
Yeah, so incredibly sad. Kiptum was only 24. He was on the cusp of breaking the human barriers of what was thought to be impossible. Most running fans believed he would run an official sub 2 hour marathon this year. His training plans were mind boggling (180 miles a week?!) and his race speed intimidating. Could have been bigger than Bolt or Kipchoge.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 12 February 2024 15:24 (four months ago) link
Seriously, due to his inexperience running marathons I don't think even he knew what he was fully capable of. Iirc, after winning in Chicago he admitted he ran it relatively conservatively, and that he had plenty of gas left in the tank.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 February 2024 15:37 (four months ago) link
Bob Edwards (he of the soothing NPR voice)
― Virginia Wolfman (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 12 February 2024 16:21 (four months ago) link
Kiptum vs Kipchoge at the Paris Olympics could have been the greatest head to head battle in marathon history: one going for a third straight gold, the other being the only real threat to the crown in the last 5-8 years. Only one other runner has gone under 2:03 since 2020.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 12 February 2024 16:24 (four months ago) link
i just ran 5.5 miles in about 45 min and thought that was pretty good, i'll never understand some of those marathon numbers.
― omar little, Monday, 12 February 2024 16:55 (four months ago) link
Yeah that pace is insane, basically 4 1/2-minute miles for 26 miles. Seems almost impossible.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 12 February 2024 17:00 (four months ago) link
From Chicago. Just beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqpx1aJXgZQ
― Jeff, Monday, 12 February 2024 17:16 (four months ago) link
In my 20s I worked the overnight at NPR and wrote intros for Bob Edwards. He had a very specific wry way of delivering a funny line. Masterful. So fun to write, imagining it in his voice and then he'd nail it every time. Raising a bourbon to you today,Bob. https://t.co/xVySb6eGVq— Ira Glass (@iraglass) February 12, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 12 February 2024 17:42 (four months ago) link
If I’m doing a long cycle ride I’m happy to do 13 miles an hour.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 12 February 2024 18:50 (four months ago) link
Did we mention another former Wailer, guitarist Donald Kinsey, also of Peter Tosh's band and the Kinsey Report?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 12 February 2024 22:18 (four months ago) link
Steve Wright, 69 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68287707
― Alba, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:07 (four months ago) link
!
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:10 (four months ago) link
Last time I heard him I was station-surfing in the car and he was playing Friday I'm In Love, it was about 2pm on a Tuesday.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:11 (four months ago) link
oh no who will 80s boomers complain about the BBC to now?
― wang mang band (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:13 (four months ago) link
Shit, for a second I thought it was Steven Wright.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:25 (four months ago) link
same
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:26 (four months ago) link
Wow @ Steve Wright
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:37 (four months ago) link
Oh wow, one of the big names of British radio.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:42 (four months ago) link
Literally only announced last week as the big name on the new radio 2 offshoot station.
Every year without fail I was still surprised at him making the top 10 BBC employee salary list, and how much it was.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:46 (four months ago) link
every(*) time i call home the call always starts with "Hello, boy, can you hear me?" which is from his 80s show, one of his characters. i am that old.
(* not quite)
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 18:18 (four months ago) link
RIP. Wonder who will now inherit all the miniature golf pencil erasers in the world.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:35 (four months ago) link
Oh okay I see, sorry to kill off the RONG DUDE prematurely.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:36 (four months ago) link
There's a Steven Wright bit in there somewhere.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:48 (four months ago) link
I did a couple of his shows when he was our local DJ along with Mike Read (they were a double-act)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:21 (four months ago) link
I thought it was the comedian too, though I admit I was half surprised to find out he was still alive...he hasn't done much lately has he?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:23 (four months ago) link
Steven Wright the comic just put out a novel: http://www.stevenwright.com/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:26 (four months ago) link
“I read that Steven Wright died so I erased the n”
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:54 (four months ago) link
William Post, the inventor of Pop-Tarts.
https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2024/02/grand-rapids-man-inventor-of-pop-tarts-dies-at-96.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 05:15 (four months ago) link
;_;rip mr tart
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 06:53 (four months ago) link
holy fuck they’re a grand rapids invention?i didn’t know that. i have a michigan connection to them, oddly enoughwhen i was in yr 12 at high school i did an exchange & stayed w a family in walker, mi.for 10 days & went to school etc. while i was there i discovered pop tarts & ate them every morning for breakfast. the following year when i went to uni a huge box showed up at my dorm — my host mom in michigan had sent me a box full of cartons of strawberry pop tarts. like 50 boxes! i lived on those things for my first yeari loved themcannot eat them now lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 07:06 (four months ago) link
poor person's hot pockets
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 07:09 (four months ago) link
Yoshitaka Murayama, creator of the Suikoden RPG series & its upcoming spiritual successor Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 09:51 (four months ago) link
alexei navalny, supposedly
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 February 2024 11:41 (four months ago) link
Least surprising death this year sadly.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 16 February 2024 12:06 (four months ago) link
Dexter Romweber of Flat Duo Jets.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 17 February 2024 03:40 (four months ago) link
o shit
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 February 2024 04:09 (four months ago) link
(Central/SoCal-specific obit)Ernesteen McConnell, who cofounded McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams with her husband Gordon, has died at age 104, the company announced.In a post on Instagram, the chain of ice cream spots described “Ernie” as “a pistol.”“Sharp, spirited and energetic, she was a woman of boundless energy, positivity and generosity of spirit,” the post says.McConnell, who was approaching her 105th birthday later this month, helped found the store in 1950 after she and her husband moved to Santa Barbara.Since then, McConnell’s ice creams, which the company notes are “made from scratch,” are sold at eight scoop shops in Southern California and the Central Coast, as well as in grocery stores.https://ktla.com/news/local-news/socal-ice-cream-pioneer-dies-at-104/
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 17 February 2024 06:37 (four months ago) link
sending thoughts & prayers to Babs - McConnell’s coffee icecream is her favorite
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 February 2024 06:39 (four months ago) link
McConnell's Turkish Coffee ice cream is perfect. Of course it looks like coffee ice cream with an ash try full of espresso grind mixed in, but it is still a perfect ice cream.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 17 February 2024 12:50 (four months ago) link
longtime college basketball coach (most notably at maryland) lefty driesell, 92
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 February 2024 16:07 (four months ago) link
Andreas Brehme, a Germany legend who scored the winning goal in the 1990 World Cup final, has died.Rest in peace, Andreas. pic.twitter.com/3EAscikK9X— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) February 20, 2024
― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 09:55 (three months ago) link
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 10:09 (three months ago) link
Not quite on Brehme's level but a fascinating story:
https://x.com/TomLinesEtc/status/1759899259183243399
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 11:35 (three months ago) link
Apparently David Irving. No loss there.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 22:01 (three months ago) link
hes come out and denied it
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 22:24 (three months ago) link
Ewen Macintosh (Keith from The Office)https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/feb/21/the-office-actor-ewen-macintosh-dies-aged-50
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 10:52 (three months ago) link
My God, only 50.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 10:53 (three months ago) link
The Office largely passed me by, but I love Keith's appraisal scene and often re-watch that.
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 11:00 (three months ago) link
Hydeia Broadbent, AIDS activist, age 39
https://www.hydeiabroadbent.com/
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 23:42 (three months ago) link
Ellen Gilchrist, 88.
― alimosina, Thursday, 22 February 2024 03:02 (three months ago) link
https://bnnbreaking.com/world/germany/remembering-rainer-buchm%C3%BCller-fred-und-luna-a-pioneer-of-electrokraut/?fbclid=IwAR1wd_5xok3iVDdl2A5sDUvtp1kCPpn5OAKatDXOAoMp1CLAobmnyaRJVKE
Rainer Buchmüller, aka Fred und Luna, of cancer.
only discovered not too long ago, composer of wonderful neo-krautrock/motorik electro pop stuff. Just late last year compiled Future Sounds of Kraut Vol 1 and Vol 2 is out shortly.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 22 February 2024 14:34 (three months ago) link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/micheline-presle-dead-devil-in-the-flesh-1235832238/
Actress Micheline Presle, 101.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:31 (three months ago) link
https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/23/eastenders-doctor-actress-pamela-salem-dies-aged-80-20332099/
Pamela Salem, who obviously I know best from Doctor Who but also her pantomime masterwork, Into The Labyrinth opposite Ron Moody.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 23 February 2024 09:58 (three months ago) link
https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/coronation-street-actor-john-savident-dead-fred-elliot-tributes-b1141107.html
John Savident, a storied career but famous as Fred Elliot in Coronation Street, I said famous as Fred Elliot in Coronation Street.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Friday, 23 February 2024 11:30 (three months ago) link
Oh, shame. RIP.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 11:37 (three months ago) link
Oops.
Who can forget his classic description of how he was assaulted and robbed by a young man he'd met in a pub and brought home to "talk about the theatre".
"I suddenly felt somebody come up behind me and whizz me round so I was face down on the bed and then I felt a prick on my throat".
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 23 February 2024 11:45 (three months ago) link
Kpop producer Shinsadong Tiger https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory/prominent-pop-composer-shinsadong-tiger-found-dead-south-107475507
Huge loss, responsible for a ton of classics - 2nd gen kpop would not have been the same without him
― Roz, Friday, 23 February 2024 16:12 (three months ago) link
I'm surprised to find out John Savident was only 86, i said was only 86.
!!!!!!
easily an all time top 10 Corrie character.
― stirmonster, Friday, 23 February 2024 17:58 (three months ago) link
RIP Fred, I said RIP Fred
― wang mang band (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 February 2024 18:23 (three months ago) link
https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/claude-montana-dead-76-obituary
1980s designer Claude Montana, 76.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 23 February 2024 19:19 (three months ago) link
Flaco the owl.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 February 2024 03:58 (three months ago) link
:(
― donna rouge, Saturday, 24 February 2024 04:03 (three months ago) link
I hadn't really been following the story but it totally hit me where it hurts just now.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 24 February 2024 04:23 (three months ago) link
oh fuck
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 February 2024 04:36 (three months ago) link
Window strike
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 24 February 2024 04:52 (three months ago) link
Really upset about Flaco
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 24 February 2024 13:59 (three months ago) link
Me too
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 24 February 2024 17:34 (three months ago) link
Lyn Hejinian, one of the foremost poets, publishers, and poetic thinkers of the past 60 years, passed away in hospice this morning. She was always kind and generous with her time and thought. I will miss her, though also know her work will continue to change people as they encounter it.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 24 February 2024 19:05 (three months ago) link
'my life' and 'my life in the 90s' left such a deep impression on me, RIP
― donna rouge, Saturday, 24 February 2024 19:11 (three months ago) link
Stan Bowles, 75
― doleful lundgren (Matt #2), Saturday, 24 February 2024 21:08 (three months ago) link
RIP Stan.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 February 2024 21:26 (three months ago) link
Villa legend Chris Nicholl has also passed away at the age of 77.
Great centre-half for us, although he's probably best known for scoring all four goals in a 2-2 draw against Leicester.
― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Sunday, 25 February 2024 19:07 (three months ago) link
Brian Stableford
Je suis triste d'annoncer que Brian Stableford est décédé hier, le 24 février a l'age de 76 ans. Selon sa fille Kathy, il est mort paisiblement dans son sommeil. Sans lui, Black Coat Press ne serait qu'un fantôme d'elle-même.JM(Brian à Carcassonne ; photo Randy Lofficier) pic.twitter.com/x1dgAXj2gC— Editions Rivière Blanche (@RivBlanche) February 25, 2024
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 25 February 2024 19:23 (three months ago) link
He was an interesting guy. I just read his book of translations of stories by Leon Bloy, a Decadent French writer.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Sunday, 25 February 2024 19:30 (three months ago) link
I was hoping he might get another lifetime achievement award, he had one for his scholarly work but really he should have had a Grandmaster award too for everything he's done
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 25 February 2024 19:51 (three months ago) link
RIP Brian, I had a tremendous day with him (and many other writers/Forteans) a few years ago that I have discussed several times.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Sunday, 25 February 2024 20:01 (three months ago) link
Richard Lewis, I'm hearing
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 20:47 (three months ago) link
Richard Lewis Dies: Beloved Comic, 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Actor Was 76 https://t.co/pZKb5lTxcF— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) February 28, 2024
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 20:50 (three months ago) link
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 20:57 (three months ago) link
It's kind of amazing how familiar I am with him despite never seeing any of his stand-up sets or specials. I feel like he was just always on TV in some capacity.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 21:02 (three months ago) link
he was a deeply funny guy rip
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 21:03 (three months ago) link
I mean thinking back and realizing that he fronted a sitcom with Jamie Lee Curtis plus the lead singer of Bongwater as a featured ensemble member is one of those 'how did that happen again?' moments.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 21:03 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQmSD8-WXwo
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 21:05 (three months ago) link
Mat his memory be a blessing. Intensely funny (and provocative) man.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 21:56 (three months ago) link
oh fuck, legend. ripso fucking funny
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 22:42 (three months ago) link
He's been a fixture since I was a teenager, I just don't know his work that well. The one impression I strongly have is that he was a friendly guy.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 23:08 (three months ago) link
(Basically what Josh said then.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 23:09 (three months ago) link
Pour out a Boku
― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 23:50 (three months ago) link
My #1 thought about thim was popularizing the "comedian face-palming his forehead" photo pose. just searched and he had parkinson's :(
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 February 2024 00:04 (three months ago) link
So much to say- must save for later. Now it’s about grief and enjoying every moment of precious life- and profound gratitude that he was my friend. (He loved #procolharum His license plate simply said PROCOL) #richardlewis— Ann Magnuson (@annmagnuson) February 29, 2024
― EMPRETY UKXEPCTED TWITS (President Keyes), Thursday, 29 February 2024 00:15 (three months ago) link
greatest head of hair in comedy
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 February 2024 00:34 (three months ago) link
johnny knoxville shared this clip of Lewis on Conan in 2002: fucking hilarioushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsvkNjY2dxE
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 February 2024 00:40 (three months ago) link
I posted the Claymation version of that one upthread!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 February 2024 00:43 (three months ago) link
That 10/18/02 episode being the one redone in Claymation and airing the following summer.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 February 2024 00:44 (three months ago) link
^^Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSU1Mv-zNpep1lfQXJYeD9Azk-sBobXMS&si=rRvVr1p2hRJPa6p2
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 February 2024 00:47 (three months ago) link
omg jinx <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 February 2024 00:47 (three months ago) link
It's an All-Time clip either way!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 February 2024 00:50 (three months ago) link
so epic
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 February 2024 00:56 (three months ago) link
Did it ever get sorted whether Richard Lewis originated the "___ from hell" figure of speech? He used it in his standup going way back, and I thought he had some claim to having popularized it.
― Josefa, Thursday, 29 February 2024 01:01 (three months ago) link
he may have popularized it, but the OED's earliest citation is a 1902 book about the Klondike Gold Rush:"I felt that I had received a very high compliment..when an old-timer in the party..told me that I was a ‘musher from hell’."
― jaymc, Thursday, 29 February 2024 01:14 (three months ago) link
Dave Myers, Hairy Biker, 66.
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 29 February 2024 10:23 (three months ago) link
Oh no:(
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 February 2024 10:25 (three months ago) link
half of the only good tv chefs, that's sad
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 29 February 2024 10:33 (three months ago) link
Re: "From Hell": Jack the Ripper has an earlier claim, I would argue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell_letter
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 29 February 2024 12:28 (three months ago) link
Apparently! Not sure if myth or real
Here’s a good fact for you: Dave Myers, now of the Hairy Bikers, painted the white stripe on Adam Ant’s face when he was a make-up artist forty years ago. pic.twitter.com/KTGy4BbYYR— Richard Coles (@RevRichardColes) November 2, 2019
One of the best-ever TV chefs, I think, in spite of the award formats that sometimes got thrown at him. Also someone who seemed like their interior life wasn't just "food" and "being rich"
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 29 February 2024 14:04 (three months ago) link
*Awkward formats
Yeah, both the Hairy Bikers just seem absolutely decent guys who like food and a laugh and bikes and meeting people.
― ailsa, Thursday, 29 February 2024 14:45 (three months ago) link
They were comrades (and flashed their Che Guevara tats during the 2017 election).
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 29 February 2024 14:50 (three months ago) link
rip dave + richard
― nxd, Thursday, 29 February 2024 14:55 (three months ago) link
Huge news in Canada:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/brian-mulroney-passes-away-1.7130287
His first term coincided with the Reagan-Thatcher moment, and he was a supposed real-life pal of Reagan's--or at least photo-op pal--but I think he was probably pretty moderate in the context of today. To the right of his predecessor, Joe Clark, but I'm my recollection is basically a Romney Chamber of Commerce-type. Famous debate moment at 0:35.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j64lzExjWSc
― clemenza, Friday, 1 March 2024 17:13 (three months ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/world/asia/pankaj-udhas-dead.html
Pankaj Udhas, Bollywood Singer and Maestro of the Ghazal, Dies at 72His soulful renditions of ghazals, or traditional love poems, were featured on the soundtracks of hit Bollywood movies and moved generations of Indians.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 1 March 2024 18:09 (three months ago) link
Iris Apfel, 102!
Iris Apfel, fashion giant and self-dubbed “geriatric starlet” has died. She was 102 https://t.co/73LD6WI3VZ— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 2, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Saturday, 2 March 2024 04:13 (three months ago) link
<3 what a legend
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 March 2024 04:29 (three months ago) link
Film scholar David Bordwell, 76https://www.indiewire.com/news/obituary/david-bordwell-dead-film-scholar-1234959386/?f
― UKXEPCTED TWITS (WmC), Saturday, 2 March 2024 05:03 (three months ago) link
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 March 2024 05:14 (three months ago) link
RIP David Bordwell.I’m currently reading “Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema” and it’s excellent. Respect.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 2 March 2024 06:36 (three months ago) link
I don't think I've read a Bordwell book other than the famous textbook that I studied and then taught from. I remember his prose as very clear but very dry as well, not so appealing to read if you don't have to.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:08 (three months ago) link
His first term coincided with the Reagan-Thatcher moment
...and for those unaware, I'll just note that his original deputy PM was Erik Nielsen, brother of Leslie
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:50 (three months ago) link
Don't call him Shirley
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 2 March 2024 18:31 (three months ago) link
Austin Bluesman WC Clark
Antone's Record Shop on FB:
We are heartbroken to share that WC Clark has passed away. The Austin native and Godfather of Austin Blues was not only an important part of Antone's but our entire Austin music community. He grew up playing on Austin's Eastside at places like the Victory Grill and then joined Joe Tex's band in the late 60s. Upon returning to Austin he played with Southern Feeling with a lineup that at various times featured Denny Freeman, Angela Strehli, Derek O'Brien, Alex Napier, Hambone and Rodney Craig among others. After a brief stint as a mechanic he was asked by Stevie Vaughan to play in Triple Threat Revue which, in addition to Stevie and WC, included Lou Ann Barton, Mike Kindred & Freddie Pharoah. Bandmates WC and Mike Kindred co-wrote "Cold Shot" which was later recorded by Stevie Ray Vaughan and went Platinum. Even after starting his own band, WC Clark continued to mentor up and coming musicians like Charlie & Will Sexton when they were kids just starting out. WC won multiple WC Handy awards and multiple Austin Music Awards, including Hall Of Fame honors. His catalog of recordings spans the decades.He was still performing regularly up until a couple of weeks ago. We were so lucky to have him in our city on so many stages on so many nights. His soulful voice and guitar playing were the perfect combination.
He grew up playing on Austin's Eastside at places like the Victory Grill and then joined Joe Tex's band in the late 60s. Upon returning to Austin he played with Southern Feeling with a lineup that at various times featured Denny Freeman, Angela Strehli, Derek O'Brien, Alex Napier, Hambone and Rodney Craig among others. After a brief stint as a mechanic he was asked by Stevie Vaughan to play in Triple Threat Revue which, in addition to Stevie and WC, included Lou Ann Barton, Mike Kindred & Freddie Pharoah. Bandmates WC and Mike Kindred co-wrote "Cold Shot" which was later recorded by Stevie Ray Vaughan and went Platinum.
Even after starting his own band, WC Clark continued to mentor up and coming musicians like Charlie & Will Sexton when they were kids just starting out. WC won multiple WC Handy awards and multiple Austin Music Awards, including Hall Of Fame honors. His catalog of recordings spans the decades.
He was still performing regularly up until a couple of weeks ago. We were so lucky to have him in our city on so many stages on so many nights. His soulful voice and guitar playing were the perfect combination.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 2 March 2024 22:08 (three months ago) link
Belated RIP for David Bordwell - when his Ozu book was first released, he presented a series of Ozu screenings at the NFT in London. This was the first chance for UK cinephiles of my generation to see a lot of these films, and Bordwell was an excellent guide into them. I'm not do fully down with his more hardcore formal analysis, but things like his study of classic Hollywood narrative style in terms of shot length etc def needed to be done.
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 3 March 2024 17:56 (three months ago) link
Tony Green, who was the voice of Bullseye.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 4 March 2024 17:30 (three months ago) link
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 4 March 2024 17:33 (three months ago) link
Just saw that Bob Moore ^^^^^^ (died mid-Feb) for Bob's Red Mill - has left the company to his 700 employees; very cool thing to do on your way out
https://www.inc.com/roy-canivel/bob-moore-founder-of-bobs-red-mill-has-died-leaving-his-company-to-its-employees.html
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 4 March 2024 19:20 (three months ago) link
Edward Bond, 89
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/03/05/edward-bond-dramaturge-britannique-est-mort_6220217_3382.html
― Alba, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 11:47 (three months ago) link
Janice Burgess, creator of the Backyardigans 72
― nxd, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 16:13 (three months ago) link
John Kappes of Ein Heit, a band that was a precursor to Silkworm
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4IvlT4LHsz/?igsh=MW1jb29vbm9nZ2dkNg==
― na (NA), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 19:25 (three months ago) link
Aw man I loved the Backyardigans when my kids were little, it was one of the shows they liked that I actually enjoyed. We've still got some DVDs.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 19:28 (three months ago) link
"Mission to Mars" frickin rocks. Especially the Boinga song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgrhOfSETR8
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 19:44 (three months ago) link
Songs by Evan Lurie!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 19:50 (three months ago) link
Ft. Alicia Keys
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 19:51 (three months ago) link
So many great tunes on that
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 19:59 (three months ago) link
French film composer Jean-Pierre Bourtayre.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:16 (three months ago) link
Bob Heil
Bob invented the Heil Talk Box, which was frequently used by musicians such as Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh and Richie Sambora, and is still in use today by musicians of nearly every genre. The Heil Talk Box was the first high-powered talk box on the market, which could reliably be used on high-level rock stages. The first Heil Talk Box was built for Peter Frampton’s girlfriend to give to Peter as a Christmas present in 1974. It can be heard prominently on his 1975 album, Frampton and 1976’s Comes Alive – one of the best selling live albums of all time. ... Bob’s career was jumpstarted when the Grateful Dead arrived in St. Louis to play the Fabulous Fox in February 1970 without a sound system. Bob provided his own sound system for the show which was such a success that the band asked Bob and his sound system to join them on the road. That led to Bob designing sound and touring with the Who on their Who’s Next tour in 1971.
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 16:59 (three months ago) link
Oh wow.. I use a Heil microphone all the time
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 17:31 (three months ago) link
Oudist and percussion Brahim Fribgane. https://www.jambase.com/article/brahim-fribgane-club-delf-obituary
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 18:21 (three months ago) link
Percussionist
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 18:42 (three months ago) link
Steve Lawrence
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/steve-lawrence-dead-singer-1235845675/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 March 2024 01:08 (three months ago) link
oh shit.. had no idea he was still aroundA staple on the Jerry Lewis Telethon in the 70s
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 8 March 2024 01:32 (three months ago) link
Only Luther Campbell & Billy Idol remain from The Sinatra Group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SdIJimk-w8
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 March 2024 01:35 (three months ago) link
sad lol, that was my first thought as well
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 March 2024 01:46 (three months ago) link
Picasso, 8https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigcasso
― StanM, Friday, 8 March 2024 01:53 (three months ago) link
(dammit. piGcasso)
― StanM, Friday, 8 March 2024 01:54 (three months ago) link
Akira Toriyama, 68. creator of Dragonball, character designer for Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger etc.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 8 March 2024 03:18 (three months ago) link
I'm not a huge Dragon Ball guy but I've always loved Toriyama's art and 68 is too young :(
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 8 March 2024 03:53 (three months ago) link
Longtime WBGO DJ Rob Crocker.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 March 2024 20:55 (three months ago) link
https://www.wbgo.org/music/2024-03-08/rob-crocker-longtime-wbgo-radio-host-dies-he-was-78
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 March 2024 20:57 (three months ago) link
Guy's voice is burned in my brane.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 March 2024 21:08 (three months ago) link
Colin Bennett, the janitor/authority figure on Take Hart
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Saturday, 9 March 2024 00:31 (three months ago) link
Blake Harrison of Pig Destroyer.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:46 (three months ago) link
Didn't he just leave the band recently? I guess maybe he had been sick?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:52 (three months ago) link
He'd been battling cancer and other associated health issues for quite a few years off and on. Apparently he went into the hospital for some relatively minor procedure and suffered heart failure.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:55 (three months ago) link
oof. RIP.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 March 2024 18:57 (three months ago) link
Stephen Linard, British designer and New Romantic, 65.
― steely flan (suzy), Sunday, 10 March 2024 19:46 (three months ago) link
Vince Power, promoter of festivals and owner of many London gig venues, 76.
― steely flan (suzy), Sunday, 10 March 2024 21:44 (three months ago) link
karl wallinger of world party and the waterboys, 66
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2024 19:21 (three months ago) link
oh RIP
― President Keyes, Monday, 11 March 2024 19:22 (three months ago) link
Oh wow!
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 11 March 2024 19:22 (three months ago) link
oh bummer, RIP
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 March 2024 19:44 (three months ago) link
didn't realise he was from money - Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger no less. One of his first bands was with two future members of the Alarm, they were called Quasimodo.
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 11 March 2024 19:50 (three months ago) link
Wow, shame!
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Monday, 11 March 2024 20:19 (three months ago) link
(xp) An Old Carthusian in fact!
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Monday, 11 March 2024 20:20 (three months ago) link
just like Genesis and ugh, Jonathan King
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 11 March 2024 20:23 (three months ago) link
Whole of the Moon, Dancing With The Moonlight Knight, Everyone's Gone To The Moon, hmmm
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 11 March 2024 20:28 (three months ago) link
...and oddly the school crest shows three crescent moons:
https://www.heraldry-wiki.com/heraldrywiki/images/e/e1/Charterhouseschool.jpg
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, 11 March 2024 21:23 (three months ago) link
RIP Tyrone Williams, lifelong Detroit resident, brilliant scholar, and phenomenal experimental language worker. I read with him in 2015, before I had a proper book or anything, and he was kind, gracious, and very funny. Won’t soon forget him and his work.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 11 March 2024 21:40 (three months ago) link
Wow now word that Eric Carmen has died.https://www.ericcarmen.com/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:37 (three months ago) link
noooooooooo ;_;
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:40 (three months ago) link
I guess he's gone ... all the way (R.I.P.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:47 (three months ago) link
Just saw that. What wild career peaks. It is here where I recount my wikipedia find that "Hungry Eyes" was written by Franke Previte and John DeNicola, who also wrote "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" and, I presume, got really rich. Anyway, "Hungry Eyes" was first recorded by New Jersey band Franke and the Knockouts, who soon after hired one Tico Torres. And the rest, as they say, is (forgotten) history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHqkja5GPxk
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:49 (three months ago) link
Dude had a great varied career, for sure. He also wrote two hits for Shaun Cassidy: “That’s Rock N Roll”, and “Hey Deanie”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:56 (three months ago) link
No longer turning that radio up or losing control, RIP
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:57 (three months ago) link
oh he's still doing those things . . . in heaven
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:01 (three months ago) link
I didn't know he wrote "Hey Deanie"! My sister had that album, I heard it a lot.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:01 (three months ago) link
lol just listened to it now, Shaun Cassidy was a terrible singer. So I put on the Eric Carmen version instead, much better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aphab0R1yE
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:04 (three months ago) link
how dare u also funfact: Joan Jett ended up with his rad white Gibson Melody Maker guitar from his time in the Raspberries
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:08 (three months ago) link
i like this one from his first solo albumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EOiFYIEQyI
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:30 (three months ago) link
My hero, sort of. Still can’t sing any of his songs though, too high. RIP.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:33 (three months ago) link
I love this, from the link James Redd posted above.
How does a song like Hungry Eyes, a giant hit that’s so perfect for your sort of lounge-y style … how did you not write that one?
Jimmy Ienner, the Raspberry producer who also produced my first album, called me up one day. I hadn’t actually talked to him in probably 10 years. Jimmy said, “I’m working on this film called Dirty Dancing with RCA Records and I think that you ought to sing this one song.” I said, “Do you have a demo?” and he said, “Yeah.” And I said, “Well send me the demo, I’ll take a listen to it.” Normally don’t do other people’s songs, but I listened to this song and he says, “The director loves this song …” and that said to me Jimmy owns the publishing.
There you go.
It turns out he had signed this band called Franke and the Knockouts back in the 1970s or ’80s to his Millennium label, and Franke and a guy named John DeNicola had written both I’ve Had The Time of My Life and Hungry Eyes. Once Jimmy said, “No, no, no, the director loves it,” I thought about how I could rearrange it and add some spunk. The demo kind-of sounded like Air Supply with John Bonham on drums.
You’ve got to let me use that quote. Come on Eric. That’s a great one.
I didn’t know it at the time, but it turns out one of my very best friends played drums on the demo. His name is Tommy Allen and he’s actually the guy who mixed the new album Pop Art. He and his brother used to own a record store in Syracuse, I think, or somewhere in that area, and his mom even used to send me postcards, and it was like if you weren’t a Raspberries fan, Tommy wouldn’t be friends with you. I told Jimmy, “Okay, I will do it if I can produce it.” I hired a bass player and a guitar player and I went into a local studio in Beachwood, Ohio on a shoestring budget. In about five days we recorded, sang and mixed the whole thing, and off it went to Jimmy in New York. The next thing I knew the movie had come out, and a month or two later I got a platinum plaque in the mail.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:40 (three months ago) link
Oh, the link's actually on the Raspberries thread: https://observer.com/2017/08/eric-carmen-raspberries-pop-art-live-interview/
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:42 (three months ago) link
lol that’s great “the director loves this one”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:47 (three months ago) link
Oh, the link's actually on the Raspberries thread: https://observer.com/2017/08/eric-carmen-raspberries-pop-art-live-interview🕸/
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:59 (three months ago) link
Eerie: earlier tonight, not knowing this (and because it includes a Donovan song, connecting it to something I'm doing), I rewatched To Die For, which uses "All by Myself."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 03:05 (three months ago) link
It’s in that same interview, I slightly misquoted, but only very slightly.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 03:07 (three months ago) link
I feel like a curmudgeon saying this but I don’t like “All By Myself” nearly as much as his Raspberries stuff.
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 03:08 (three months ago) link
...and you'd feel like curmudgeon if you said you prefer "Stand Up In It" to either.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 03:36 (three months ago) link
Re: Karl Wallinger, this excellent MOJO piece says that he was at Charterhouse on a scholarship: https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories/karl-wallinger-remembered/
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 11:52 (three months ago) link
Nice, thanks
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 12:16 (three months ago) link
Carmen's credited with producing "Hungry Eyes" himself, though, not that it makes a difference (I've never disliked it).
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 12:58 (three months ago) link
Damn, RIP Karl Wallinger :((
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:15 (three months ago) link
Vince Power
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/11/vince-power-concert-and-festival-promoter-dies-aged-76
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 16:34 (three months ago) link
Mentioned briefly upthread, although the announcement was buried beneath worthier deceased. My comment on this guy: no comment.
― help me I am in hull (Matt #2), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 16:42 (three months ago) link
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 16:48 (three months ago) link
Carmen and Wallinger, jammin' in heaven
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 16:49 (three months ago) link
There's a fair argument to be made that Madness might not have reformed or recorded their post-reunion albums - including The Liberty Of Norton Folgate, perhaps their best album - without Power inviting them to perform their Madstock festival in 1992.
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:08 (three months ago) link
I saw some of the best gigs of my life at Mean Fiddler venues during the '90s. I don't really care if Power was a bad person.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:13 (three months ago) link
Regarding Vince Power, the Times and Telegraph have sightly differing accounts of a Madstock festival incident in Finsbury Park, London. Both obits agree that a bag-carrying member of his staff was mugged while holding the band's fee in cash. Both obits agree that Vince rushed around collecting cash from stall holders and calling in favours to be able to hand Madness their fee in cash and cheques, and happily the festive was able to go on
But in the Times its £250,000 and in the Telegraph £25,000. Just how much did it cost to hire Madness to headline a festival at that time?
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:41 (three months ago) link
This was in 2000 by the way, so the equivalent amounts today would be around £450,000 and £45,000.
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:48 (three months ago) link
Madstock was a great show. Sadly I turned away from watching for a second and missed the Morrissey orange juice moment.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 21:18 (three months ago) link
RIP Pete Rodriguez, born in 1932, a Puerto Rican American raised in the Bronx whose bugaloo piano playing on “I like it like that “ has inspired many, including Cardi B and Bad Bunny and others who have covered it or sampled it or adapted it
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:33 (three months ago) link
Aw man, that's a shame.
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 19:44 (three months ago) link
"I Like It Like That" is an all timer.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 20:19 (three months ago) link
Paul Alexander, polio survivor in iron lung for over 70 years, dies at 78 after Covid diagnosis
https://www.yahoo.com/news/paul-alexander-polio-survivor-iron-172415147.html
― nickn, Thursday, 14 March 2024 04:08 (three months ago) link
Marcello Gandini, designer of the Lamborghini Miura, Countach, & Diablo, along with the Lancia Stratos and Ferrari 308 GT4, dead at 85https://www.thedrive.com/news/marcello-gandini-legendary-lamborghini-miura-and-countach-designer-dead-at-85
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 14 March 2024 05:27 (three months ago) link
Dan Wakefield, author of Going All The Way and much more besides.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 March 2024 20:59 (three months ago) link
Angela McCluskey, 64.
https://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/music-special/angela-mccluskey-wild-colonials-telepopmusik-mbe has links to four studio sessions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYHHUDqpeUQ She’s on point, every track with Telepopmusik. Wish we’d had many more collaborations released.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 15 March 2024 07:15 (three months ago) link
RIP Gandini, the Miura will always be my dream lottery-win car. https://www.sportscarmarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1971-lamborghini-miura-p400-sv-front.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 15 March 2024 07:23 (three months ago) link
classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9CijRPex7A
― dan selzer, Friday, 15 March 2024 14:00 (three months ago) link
Larry H Parker, Los Angeles personal injury lawyer, "He will no longer fight for YOUUUU"
https://laist.com/brief/news/larry-h-parker-la-billboard-lawyer-icon-has-died
― nickn, Saturday, 16 March 2024 06:29 (three months ago) link
Dorie Ladner, Unheralded Civil Rights Heroine, Dies at 81She risked arrest and worse in pursuit of her goals of integration and voting rights
Farewell Ms. Dorie (as she was called when I first heard her voice on WPFW radio). I first learned about Dorie Ladner, Mississippi civil rights activist, from her weekly appearances in recent years every Saturday morning on Lance Reynolds radio show on WPFW (he is paying tribute to her now). She talked about her courageous days as a participant with the movement, her current daily life, the ongoing political and civil rights struggles of today, her favorite music, and relations between women and men. She was always wise, feisty, and graceful, and sometimes funny. She survived attempts on her life and lived a strong one until age 81
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/dorie-ladner-dead.html
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 16 March 2024 15:57 (three months ago) link
Steve Harley
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/steve-harley-death-cockney-rebel-make-me-smile-b2513960.html
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 March 2024 11:30 (three months ago) link
Schneider's happy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ5Ra-sln-s
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 March 2024 11:36 (three months ago) link
RIP, those first two Cockney Rebel albums have some great tracks on them.
― shave and a haircut, two brits (Matt #2), Sunday, 17 March 2024 13:12 (three months ago) link
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2024 13:19 (three months ago) link
Love those records.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 17 March 2024 13:24 (three months ago) link
really great Scars cover worth revisiting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXNABzNVlu8
― dan selzer, Sunday, 17 March 2024 13:27 (three months ago) link
12 year-old me loved The Human Menagerie and The Psychomodo, and having revisited both of them this year, they still hold up well.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 17 March 2024 13:37 (three months ago) link
As an American, I expected a band with a name like Cockney Rebel to sound like GBH or Discharge, so hearing Harley's actual music was a little baffling.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 17 March 2024 13:46 (three months ago) link
Posted about him on facebook with the comment "english people of a certain generation" and have gotten two responses from members of Happy Refugees both saying "I was really into him when I was 12".
― dan selzer, Sunday, 17 March 2024 13:54 (three months ago) link
never heard the album but 'come up and see me...' is probably my mum and dad's most played song* along with 'baker street' and 'maggie may'
*entire works of dire straits excepted
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:07 (three months ago) link
The Golden Age of Cockney Rebel is twelve.
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:09 (three months ago) link
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:10 (three months ago) link
Getting them mixed up with Cockney Rejects perhaps?
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:16 (three months ago) link
Probably
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:19 (three months ago) link
Seems like the album covers would tip you off about the style
― President Keyes, Sunday, 17 March 2024 15:25 (three months ago) link
https://wtop.com/national/2024/03/astronaut-thomas-stafford-commander-of-apollo-10-has-died-at-age-93/
Astronaut Thomas Stafford, 93
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 18 March 2024 20:11 (three months ago) link
As an American, I expected a band with a name like Cockney Rebel to sound like GBH or Discharge
Lol, same here.. the name sounds more menacing than the band
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 March 2024 20:20 (three months ago) link
considering the band has no electric guitar but has a violin, and the lead singer wears a red velvet frock coat and bowler hat, I'd say pretty much anything is more menacing than Cockney Rebel.
― dan selzer, Monday, 18 March 2024 20:24 (three months ago) link
I had the opposite feeling about Blue Oyster Cult, where I saw the art and the band's name and I thought they much be the most evil sounding band in the world.. then I heard Burnin' for You and they were weren't as vile and satanic as I'd hoped
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 March 2024 20:32 (three months ago) link
(I'm not sure I thought Cockney Rebel was gonna sound like GBH, but I assumed it'd be more like Dr. Feelgood or Eddie & The Hot Rods, some kinda hard-edged pub rock.. alas it was not to be)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 March 2024 20:55 (three months ago) link
Ha, great comparison, AtG.
― Don’t Want to Say Goodbye Jumbo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 March 2024 21:07 (three months ago) link
The great M. Emmet Walsh
https://www.etonline.com/m-emmet-walsh-blade-runner-and-knives-out-actor-dead-at-88-222071
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:48 (two months ago) link
noooo
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:49 (two months ago) link
No! RIP to a true hero
― walking on the beach in a force ten gale (Matt #2), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:49 (two months ago) link
Oh bollocks, RIP MEW.
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:52 (two months ago) link
https://marsingemini.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/walsh_blood_simple_blue_blu-ray_2x-600w.jpg
― walking on the beach in a force ten gale (Matt #2), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:52 (two months ago) link
RIP to the Stanton-Walsh Rule
Had no idea he was still alive. Does that make Bruce McGill the last great American character actor standing? (I feel like Ed Harris is just one rung higher on the ladder, having had actual lead roles — Walker, Pollock.)
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 21:11 (two months ago) link
More people should see Straight Time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RzaZC6DchU
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 21:19 (two months ago) link
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:17 (two months ago) link
I always thought Straight Time is one of Hoffman's best, if not THE best
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:21 (two months ago) link
at the baggage claim in the burlington vermont airport I found myself standing next to m. emmet walsh and said to him, “I love your movies.” he looked at me, slightly annoyed, and without missing a beat, replied “you should try reading books.” https://t.co/zCzilBZpWH— alex blagg (@alexblagg) September 23, 2023
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 22:57 (two months ago) link
No version of BLADE RUNNER would work without him. As written, a key character for noir stakes-setting and exposition. As performed, Walsh delivers the rancid affability of a mid grade authority impressed with himself for deciding who's human. Acting that creates the world. RIP pic.twitter.com/f1Fp57jMQI— Candygram for Mongo (@spencer_parsons) March 20, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 23:04 (two months ago) link
Does that make Bruce McGill the last great American character actor standing?
james hong is still with us at 95
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 23:13 (two months ago) link
In that vein I was gonna mention Charles Dierkop - missed the fact that he died last month at 87. RIP
― Josefa, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 23:18 (two months ago) link
As great a character actor as probably anybody from the studio system. Glad Straight Time has been noted; Blood Simple will lead his obituaries (and Blade Runner, evidently--have to admit, I don't remember him in that like I remember him in Blood Simple), but I'd put Straight Time at the top. He's positively evil in that.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 23:59 (two months ago) link
Blade Runner was considered confusing upon release, and as mentioned in the tweet above, his character was the only one that made any attempt to let the viewer know just what the hell was going on
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:07 (two months ago) link
(xpost) I’d almost go so far as to say he steals the film.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:25 (two months ago) link
“Straight Time”, that is.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:26 (two months ago) link
Normally I'd agree for a performance that good, but I also think it's Hoffman's greatest performance--and Stanton, Russell, and Busey are great too.
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:30 (two months ago) link
Emmet came to set with 2 things: a copy of his credits, which was a small-type single spaced double column list of modern classics that filled a whole page, & two-dollar bills which he passed out to the entire crew. “Don’t spend it and you’ll never be broke.” Absolute legend. ♥️ pic.twitter.com/hP8Ml1fBGi— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) March 20, 2024
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:31 (two months ago) link
He's the guy who hated those cans!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcwz8-EfFYE
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:38 (two months ago) link
Lol! RIP 🪦
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:39 (two months ago) link
As performed, Walsh delivers the rancid affability of a mid grade authority impressed with himself for deciding who's human.
He'd have played a MAGA state senator with aplomb.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 March 2024 00:44 (two months ago) link
I forgot about The Music of Chance (Joel Grey was also great in it):
“There was something so deeply imperturbable about the man, so fundamentally oblique and humorless, that Nashe could never decide if he was inwardly laughing at them or just plain dumb.”M. Emmet Walsh embodied this character in “The Music of Chance”/1993. What an all-timer.— Janet Maslin (@JanetMaslin) March 21, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:34 (two months ago) link
I'm seeing reports of Jimmy Hastings, of Caravan, Hatfield and the North, etc, has passed at 85.
https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/91209-jimmy-hastings/
― nickn, Thursday, 21 March 2024 06:29 (two months ago) link
SF writer Vernor Vinge, 79
https://file770.com/vernor-vinge-1944-2024/
― walking on the beach in a force ten gale (Matt #2), Thursday, 21 March 2024 11:49 (two months ago) link
xxp I was going to mention The Music of Chance, it's one of those films I saw late night on Channel 4 here in the UK as a teenager and it has stayed with me ever since, Walsh was incredibly creepy in that
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:00 (two months ago) link
I'm seeing reports of Jimmy Hastings, of Caravan, Hatfield and the North, etc, has passed at 85.https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/91209-jimmy-hastings🕸/🕸
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:06 (two months ago) link
Cola boyy, only 34 :(
― nxd, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:41 (two months ago) link
Darren Ellis aka Splash RIP
all time classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y99JZugos9w
― Fizzles, Friday, 22 March 2024 07:17 (two months ago) link
Maurizio Pollini, piano titan, 82
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:45 (two months ago) link
Still for my money the meanest rendition of this monster, especially the last handful of bars which he renders with total precision and clarity:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rfle8wSwJM
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Saturday, 23 March 2024 20:42 (two months ago) link
Lol that was the piece I was gonna mention
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 24 March 2024 03:48 (two months ago) link
Greg Lee of Hepcat, a couple of days ago. RIP
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Sunday, 24 March 2024 11:00 (two months ago) link
That's too bad. those first two albums (at least) go overlookedm
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 March 2024 12:24 (two months ago) link
Holy cow he was still with us:https://x.com/GuardianBooks/status/1771744033284759560?s=20
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 25 March 2024 01:51 (two months ago) link
His dad Jean died in 1937!
― Alba, Monday, 25 March 2024 06:25 (two months ago) link
When I was very young Babar books were printed in cursive. Is that still the case?
― Josefa, Monday, 25 March 2024 22:11 (two months ago) link
Composer Peter Eotvos, 80, in January but just reported now., I guess. Link in French…https://www.diapasonmag.fr/a-la-une/disparition-de-peter-eotvos-46311.html?utm_campaign=NL_DIAPASON_26032024&utm_content=26032024&utm_medium=email&utm_source=EMAIL&rwid=2B6B3FD43B5A708BE909BB9251B1FBAA18D96ED8DFC573B477B26B7CEFFFEE8D
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:34 (two months ago) link
Sorry about the tracking, mea culpa.
Ah, RIP Peter.
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:34 (two months ago) link
Marjorie Perloff, perhaps the most well-known poetry critic of the past 50 years after Bloom and Vendler, has passed away at 92. Some would say that was 92 years too long, and I would tend to agree, except: she went to my alma mater and donated thousands of rare poetry books to the library, for which I am forever grateful. Otherwise, good riddance.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 13:03 (two months ago) link
when all the mid-2010s poetry scandals were happening a friend of ours wrote a pretty damning piece about her
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:28 (two months ago) link
wait, what did she do to piss people off?
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:30 (two months ago) link
Classy as usual, table
She was an apologist for racism in the academy, implied during a panel discussion that I attended that Mexican people were more apt to molest their children, was a virulent Zionist, etc. She was, by many accounts, one of the most poisonous elements haunting American poetry of the last 50 years. Spare me your handwringing and snide commentary around a subject you know little to nothing about, it seems
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:18 (two months ago) link
You are a ghoul
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:19 (two months ago) link
I know as much or more than you about poetry anyway, so take your subject specialist elitism out to the garbage disposal and let it rot
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:22 (two months ago) link
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2015/12/at-entropy-jen-hofer-comments-on-marjorie-perloffs-recent-public-remarkshttps://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-program-era-and-the-mainly-white-room
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:24 (two months ago) link
Marjorie Perloff, preeminent critic and academic gatekeeper of avant-garde poetry, has on numerous occasions shared her distaste for identity politics literature. Here is an excerpt she wrote for the MLA newsletter:“Under the rubrics of African American, other minorities, and post-colonial a lot of important and exciting novels and poems are surely studied. But what about what is not studied? Suppose a student wants to study James Joyce or Gertrude Stein? Virginia Woolf or T.E. Lawrence or George Orwell? William Faulkner or Frank O’Hara? The literature of World Wars I and II? The Great Depression? The impact of technology on poetry and fiction? Modernism? Existentialism? What of the student who has a passionate interest in her or his literary world—a world that encompasses the digital as well as print culture but does not necessarily differentiate between the writings of one subculture or one theoretical orientation and another? Where do such prospective students turn?”I found this excerpt in the scholar Dorothy Wang’s excellent book, Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry. Wang notices that in this excerpt, Perloff immediately sets up a kind of “us vs. them” opposition, which is of course a favored rhetorical tool used by avant-garde schools in the past from Futurists and Dadaists to Language School poets. Avant-garde manifestos have always assumed a tone of masculine and expansionist militancy, enforcing an aggressive divide-and-conquer framework to grab the reader’s attention. Of course, this “us vs. them” rhetoric can be used to an exhilarating effect when there is a revolutionary legitimacy to that opposition, when “we” are the rabble-rousing outliers and “they” are the hegemonic majority. But Perloff sets up an opposition that’s far more disconcerting: oddly, the hegemony has become the nameless hordes of “African Americans, other minorities, and post-colonials” while “us,” those victimized students who are searching for endangered “true” literature (read as "white") are the outliers (since when has Ulysses taken a nose-dive from the canon’s summit down to the rare-and-hard-to-find-books list?). From her Boston Review essay "Poetry on the Brink" where she lambasts Rita Dove, to countless other instances, Perloff has persistently set up these racially encoded oppositions and the sentiment is always the same: these indistinguishable minority writers with their soft, mediocre poetry and fiction are taking over our literature. How is this advocate of experimental poetry any different from the icon of literary conservatism, Harold Bloom, who once declared that writers like Sherman Alexie are "enemies of the aesthetic who are in the act of overwhelming us?" Although Perloff has made these misguided observations for years, no one has taken her to task for it until recently, as if poets in the experimental community, afraid to fall from her good graces, look away as one looks away during Thanksgiving dinner when an aunt might complain how "those people" are driving down the property value of "our neighborhood."https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/interventions/delusions-whiteness-avant-garde
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:25 (two months ago) link
uh
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:26 (two months ago) link
Call me whatever names you like, Keyes. Perloff was still a racist and negative force in American letters. Good riddance.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:26 (two months ago) link
yeah, there are some racist and/or embarrassing sentiments from a lot of aging experimental writers about the rise of identity politics in literature. I read Perloff's writing in the 90s, before a lot of these quotes came along.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:30 (two months ago) link
I disagree she was a negative force in American letters. And I will call you names when you stink up the obituary thread with your uncontrollable spite.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:32 (two months ago) link
I own the 1998 Best of American Poetry where Harold Bloom denounces the Adrienne Rich-edited 1996 volume for containing poetry "of a badness not to be believed" because Rich included poems by female innmates and other non-professionals.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:36 (two months ago) link
Didn’t know it was illegal to study Virginia Woolf
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:37 (two months ago) link
Bloom probably also hated the writing that Perloff championed
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:38 (two months ago) link
Oh no, I called a racist a racist and Keyes is upset about it!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:40 (two months ago) link
Tell us your opinion on Rita Dove table.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:41 (two months ago) link
Or does she somehow fall outside your usual category of "mediocre" establishment approved writers?
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:43 (two months ago) link
You can call people racist until your fingers blister. This kind of shit doesn't belong here imo though: "Some would say that was 92 years too long, and I would tend to agree." It's pure bile and you can fuck right off with it.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:45 (two months ago) link
I don’t know her work very well, to be honest! I’ve only read one of her books (Museum) and liked it well enough. One of my mentors loves her work, but we spent more time reading local poets (Sonia Sanchez and Ursula Rucker) than on Dove’s work
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:48 (two months ago) link
Shit, missed this. Few tunes captured so perfectly the balance of everything that scene represented at the time.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:49 (two months ago) link
Keyes, sorry for opining on the Obit thread— you are perhaps right that I was too harsh. I could have simply left it at “controversial critic Marjorie Perloff” or something to that degree.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:50 (two months ago) link
That said, check out the receipts from above and I think your opinion about her might be changed— the moment during the Rethinking Poetics conference left the room speechless, the bald racism was so shocking.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:52 (two months ago) link
Sorry for popping off.
Coincidentally I guess, when I was reading Perloff I was in class with the Jen Hofer from the link you posted.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:53 (two months ago) link
Jen and I have only met a few times— she once gave a bilingual reading with Mexican poet Dolores Dorantes, whom she translates, that was among the most intense and memorable readings I have ever attended. You could hear a pin drop by the end.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:58 (two months ago) link
Jen is a dear friend and neighbor, and also the person i was referencing in my last post lol
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:06 (two months ago) link
Cool!
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:33 (two months ago) link
Richard Serra, 85
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:57 (two months ago) link
RIP. Can only imagine the headstone.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 00:20 (two months ago) link
RIP! I have enjoyed a number of Serra installations.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 00:28 (two months ago) link
Loved his work. Have at least 3 or 4 photos of myself standing in front of his pieces; I use them for author photos and on LinkedIn and whatnot.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 00:30 (two months ago) link
Yeah, my favorite of those associated with capital-M Minimalism
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 01:15 (two months ago) link
The Times obituary (gift link) finds several graceful ways to discuss the fact that he was a huge asshole.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 01:39 (two months ago) link
That Chuck Close quote.
To be fair, his work doesn't make me think "This guy is probably super fun."
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 02:45 (two months ago) link
have always liked his film/video work from the 70s - thought about this one a lot at the onset of covid when zoom calls started to become ubiquitoushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z32JTnRrHc
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 03:24 (two months ago) link
as much as i want to hate big dick work by grumps i can't deny richard serra. he was the real deal as they say. that picture of tilted arc in the times obit is so damn cool. his drawings were awesome too.
https://assets.phillips.com/image/upload/t_Website_LotDetailMainImage/v1/auctions/UK010721/158693_001.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:53 (two months ago) link
Big Dick Work by Grumps is actually one of the most underrated albums of 1996.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 15:09 (two months ago) link
Daniel Kahneman, of Thinking Fast and Slow, 90.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 18:19 (two months ago) link
Joe Lieberman
― jbn, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:40 (two months ago) link
Are we allowed to say anything bad about this guy then?
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:48 (two months ago) link
"He hated healthcare until the end"
(He died from "complications from a fall")
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:52 (two months ago) link
Go ape on this clown
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:54 (two months ago) link
He was great on ALF...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 21:56 (two months ago) link
No more JoementumWas hoping for Joementia
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:01 (two months ago) link
At least he lived long enough to enjoy the genocide
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:03 (two months ago) link
Eric Morecambe's widow, Joan.
― I blinked and it was a new decade (aldo), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 22:37 (two months ago) link
i'm kinda glad i never need to hear that slow-ass voice again. ugh. not a fan.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 23:39 (two months ago) link
Alas, no more Joementum
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 March 2024 11:24 (two months ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/joe-lieberman-senator-vice-president-dead/
He died again.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 28 March 2024 14:20 (two months ago) link
Not to be weird, since it’s not a person, but RIP to Small Press Distribution, the longest-running distributor of independent presses in the US. 55 years. A real loss to the literary world.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 28 March 2024 17:57 (two months ago) link
Just in time to impact the release of my wife's second book. It's been very frustrating.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:39 (two months ago) link
and my fourth, the one about nearly dying of cancer. i am furious
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:07 (two months ago) link
Louis Gossett, Jr.
https://apnews.com/article/louis-gossett-jr-dies-1e86e1441ec8b614a282f3de22490a07
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Friday, 29 March 2024 13:49 (two months ago) link
Gossett was booked into the Beverly Hills Hotel and Universal Studios had rented him a convertible. Driving back to the hotel after picking up the car, he was stopped by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s officer who ordered him to turn down the radio and put up the car’s roof before letting him go.
Within minutes, he was stopped by eight sheriff’s officers, who had him lean against the car and made him open the trunk while they called the car rental agency before letting him go.
“Though I understood that I had no choice but to put up with this abuse, it was a terrible way to be treated, a humiliating way to feel,” Gossett wrote in his memoir. “I realized this was happening because I was Black and had been showing off with a fancy car — which, in their view, I had no right to be driving.”
After dinner at the hotel, he went for a walk and was stopped a block away by a police officer, who told him he broke a law prohibiting walking around residential Beverly Hills after 9 p.m. Two other officers arrived and Gossett said he was chained to a tree and handcuffed for three hours. He was eventually freed when the original police car returned.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 March 2024 14:05 (two months ago) link
In August 1969, Gossett had been partying with members of the Mamas and the Papas when they were invited to actor Sharon Tate’s house. He headed home first to shower and change clothes. As he was getting ready to leave, he caught a news flash on TV about Tate’s murder. She and others were killed by Charles Manson’s associates that night.
― President Keyes, Friday, 29 March 2024 14:09 (two months ago) link
But the murders weren't known about until the following morning
― Josefa, Friday, 29 March 2024 14:16 (two months ago) link
rip louis gossett jr., or as i first knew him, the voice of the vortigaunts in half-life 2
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 29 March 2024 14:46 (two months ago) link
https://ychsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/71DA300F-6E32-4ABA-9647-142F118F8319.jpg
― President Keyes, Friday, 29 March 2024 14:50 (two months ago) link
One of the great TV "What If...?" stories was the Rockford Files spin-off w/Gossett & Issac Hayes.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 March 2024 14:55 (two months ago) link
I was literally scrolling down to write a variation of your post, C. Grisso. RIP, Louis.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Friday, 29 March 2024 15:00 (two months ago) link
(Particularly in a world where friggin' Richie Brockelman, Private Eye actually did become a reality somehow. Injustice.)
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Friday, 29 March 2024 15:02 (two months ago) link
Yeah that Rockford spinoff wouldve ruled. RIP Gandy :(
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 29 March 2024 15:05 (two months ago) link
Also grebt in Officer & a Gentleman
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 29 March 2024 19:47 (two months ago) link
Marian Zazeela, visual artist and wife/artistic partner of La Monte Young, 83.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Saturday, 30 March 2024 02:09 (two months ago) link
Drummer Gerry Conway, who played with Fotheringay, Steeleye Span, Cat Stevens, Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson et al (and was married to Jacquie McShee).
https://atthebarrier.com/2024/03/30/thank-you-gerry-conway/
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 March 2024 17:04 (two months ago) link
Great drummer.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 March 2024 17:42 (two months ago) link
Clare Elliott, singer of NZ punk band Suburban Reptiles https://www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/zero-s-hour-the-punk-pioneer
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 30 March 2024 18:33 (two months ago) link
Chance Perdomo from Gen V and Sabrina, in a motorcycle accident. He was 27.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 30 March 2024 22:11 (two months ago) link
Just saw that, awful
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Saturday, 30 March 2024 22:20 (two months ago) link
Barbara Rush, 97
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/01/it-came-from-outer-space-star-barbara-rush-dies-aged-97
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Monday, 1 April 2024 14:02 (two months ago) link
Ed Piskor, of Cartoonist Kayfabe and Hip-Hop Family Trees, recently accused of grooming a minor. Suicide.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 1 April 2024 21:06 (two months ago) link
Holy s--! I watched Kayfabe weekly. Terrible on all accounts.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 1 April 2024 21:09 (two months ago) link
former nfl pro bowler vontae davis, 35https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39853679/ex-nfl-cb-vontae-davis-found-dead-age-35
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 1 April 2024 21:10 (two months ago) link
xxp
ugh, that sucks for a whole range of reasons
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 1 April 2024 21:20 (two months ago) link
oh damn, remember him on the Colts and Bills, he was the guy who famously retired at halftime right? that was so odd
― frogbs, Monday, 1 April 2024 21:38 (two months ago) link
yeah that was him. great player for a minute
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 1 April 2024 21:43 (two months ago) link
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/casey-benjamin-saxophonist-robert-glasper-dies-46/
Casey Benjamin, sax player in Robert Glasper’s band . He also did studio and live work with many others
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 April 2024 23:41 (two months ago) link
Ultravox bassist Chris Cross
https://retropopmagazine.com/ultravox-star-chris-cross-dies-aged-71/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 02:52 (two months ago) link
Hearing Joe Flaherty, unconfirmed.
― nickn, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 04:12 (two months ago) link
shit
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 05:08 (two months ago) link
i hope not yet
We’ve lost another of my idols. RIP Joe Flaherty1941-2024 pic.twitter.com/bcVtfaAiPG— Joel Murray (@JoelMurray9of9) April 2, 2024
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 12:35 (two months ago) link
Aw, man.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:11 (two months ago) link
Trevor Griffiths, playwright, 88.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr/02/trevor-griffiths-mancunian-marxist-whose-political-plays-deserve-revival
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:18 (two months ago) link
RIP. He skewered the likes of Gervais when they still the old thing, not the new thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmHFDVM4k_4
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:04 (two months ago) link
RIP Legend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6_uL3Az8w
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:45 (two months ago) link
Posted my favourite Count Floyd on FB, the Bergman clip--for the Bergman parody, but most of all for Flaherty breaking character when he starts barking at the crew, trying to figure out who booked the film.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:56 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPrNLm9nR3A
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 14:58 (two months ago) link
Aw man, RIP Joe. when is Scorsese's SCTV doc going to come out?????
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 15:49 (two months ago) link
loved flaherty as sam and lindsay weir's dad in freaks and geeks - funny but also warm
― na (NA), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 15:53 (two months ago) link
I didn't know there was a Count Floyd vinyl record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMtMb6VIC8w
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 15:56 (two months ago) link
Scorsese stretches himself thin and continues to sit on that SCTV doc.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 16:08 (two months ago) link
"All that senseless violence, what does it prove?!?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0CaBy0733Y
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 16:32 (two months ago) link
John Sinclair too, apparently.
― henry s, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 17:20 (two months ago) link
Yeah, obit here. One for the "I thought he died years ago" file.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 17:21 (two months ago) link
Oh no! I smoked a crazy big doobie with John Sinclair once, at a friend's wedding.... I have an autographed copy of Guitar Army that reads: 'For Andy - Kick out the Jams, Motherfucker!' 7/29/96
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 17:54 (two months ago) link
I'll bet he wrote that many times over the years, and relished every single one.
― henry s, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 19:55 (two months ago) link
So did Joe Flaherty.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:00 (two months ago) link
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:06 (two months ago) link
on pause due to marty's heavy schedule last I heard
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:07 (two months ago) link
Anyway, RIP Guy Caballero, Floyd Robertson etc.
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:07 (two months ago) link
Has thiis one been posted yet?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrMBIH2TBpU
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:08 (two months ago) link
Ironic, because...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTBx0P0zOqA
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:16 (two months ago) link
Scorcese's doc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Afternoon_with_SCTV
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 20:48 (two months ago) link
Bummed to hear about Sinclair. I met him several times when Bomp/Total Energy was releasing those MC5 tapes in the mid 90s. Hilarious beatnik Santa Claus - I wish I got my copy of Guitar Army signed.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:30 (two months ago) link
Bummed about both, almost missed the news about Sinclair since my social media feeds have been overwhelmed with (justified!) outpourings of love for Flaherty.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:32 (two months ago) link
Both 82.
― henry s, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 21:49 (two months ago) link
RIP Count Floyd :((
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 22:57 (two months ago) link
So Scary! Ah-ooo!
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 23:24 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YV5a3_2AXU
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 23:25 (two months ago) link
John Barth
― jaymc, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 23:33 (two months ago) link
Just saw that
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 23:37 (two months ago) link
Maybe I should finally finish one of his books
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 23:38 (two months ago) link
John Barth was alive recently! who knew?
― scott seward, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 23:57 (two months ago) link
Me.
john barth, 91Now 93.― Halfway there but for you, Friday, December 15, 2023 3:05 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, December 15, 2023 3:05 PM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 00:05 (two months ago) link
I actually took this news as the final message not to feel bad about barely starting Giles Goat-Boy despite carrying it around for months at one point.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 00:07 (two months ago) link
I saw Barth on a panel with a few other novelists, and someone asked him something snarky and he responded calling it a "shitful comment."
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 00:08 (two months ago) link
Outlived Barthelme, Elkin, Gass...Coover still among us at 92! And Pynchon's around, of course, at 86.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 00:10 (two months ago) link
Another novelist of note has passed: Maryse Condé
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 00:47 (two months ago) link
Barth was part of that Donald Barthelme school of male writing that I skimmed in college but to which I never gave a second look other than The End of the Road.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:20 (two months ago) link
He was much less interesting and funny than Bartheleme. Nevertheless, RIP, I am sure he is mourned by someone.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:21 (two months ago) link
He seemed a little out of place in that grouping of postmodernists. Like he was just really into folklore and storytelling and such.
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:25 (two months ago) link
Yes, "Barth, Barthes, Bartheleme" just rolls off the tongue too easily.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:27 (two months ago) link
sot-weed factor is great (Giles goat-boy kinda dud and also racist) I read all his other fiction in a couple of years in my 20s & enjoyed it all, honestly didn’t feel that different from burning through Stephen king, genial parochial yarn spinner (but smugger & more bourgeois) - he’s good at it tho imo, rip
― subpost master (wins), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:31 (two months ago) link
Oh I loved loved loved Barthelme in my 20s. Still look back fondly on a couple of the novels and short stories. I definitely read Barth back then too. You can’t go to the bookstore that many times looking for used Barthelme and eventually succumb to curiosity about his shelf mate. Like finally buying a Beau Brummels album after umpteen checks on the Beatles bin.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:33 (two months ago) link
Every time I hear the reading of "Game" on Selected Shorts I still laugh.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:51 (two months ago) link
Michael Ward (guitarist for School of Fish, John Hiatt, The Wallflowers & Ben Harper) - age 57
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 05:44 (two months ago) link
Oh man, I absolutely LOVED School Of Fish's two albums as a teenager. Second album is still an occasionally thrilling attempt by a non-grunge act to pass themselves off as Mudhoney fans of long-standing, first album a fairly pearlescent if unsubstantial slab of psychedelic pop with crunchy guitars and soft acoustic heart.
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 08:09 (two months ago) link
xps"He skewered the likes of Gervais when they still the old thing, not the new thing"
it's a tour de force is Comedians. I vaguely remember the part where Pryce does his performance art bit and is shouting Lou Macari from when I was a kid. Literally they don't make 'em like this anymore, not on UK tv anyway.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 11:04 (two months ago) link
Playwright Christopher Durang, 75.
https://x.com/HESherman/status/1775510320573800828?s=20
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 13:46 (two months ago) link
RIP, I've seen local productions of a few of his plays. Pretty funny. They're ready-made for small local troupes.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 13:56 (two months ago) link
Two legendary drummers in two days: Albert "Tootie" Heath yesterday, and Keith LeBlanc (of the Sugar Hill Records house band, Tackhead, a thousand sessions in the '80s and '90s) today...
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 4 April 2024 15:43 (two months ago) link
damn keith leblanc was a legend. beyond his essential work with tackhead, sugar hill, and tommy boy, he also did a lot of the programming on pretty hate machine
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 April 2024 15:49 (two months ago) link
RIP Keith
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 April 2024 15:53 (two months ago) link
Love Heath's beat on this Herbie Hancock song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f8SbbdrEQg
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:01 (two months ago) link
Sad and unexpected to hear about Keith LeBlanc, I saw quite a few On-U Sound-related shows in the 90s and he was a complete fucking powerhouse every moment he was on stage. RIP.
― never invade Londonistan (Matt #2), Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:20 (two months ago) link
Oh man, RIP Keith
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:34 (two months ago) link
oh wow, I just bought this 12” other week, RIP Keithhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPHqsAIzfcc
― donna rouge, Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:42 (two months ago) link
oh no. total hero. seen him play dozens of times. always on fire.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:52 (two months ago) link
RIP for How To Be A Zillionaire alone
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 4 April 2024 18:25 (two months ago) link
The guy's non-On-U catalog is amazing on its own: producing tracks for Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine, playing on Annie Lennox's Diva, working on Ministry's Twitch... he was even on an R.E.M. record, I think.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 4 April 2024 19:03 (two months ago) link
oh didn't know about the ABC connection. That's a hell of a credit.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 4 April 2024 20:23 (two months ago) link
Man, I just learned about Louis Gossett Jr. last night. (I'm watching The Good Fight).
Happy to admit also that Barthleme-Barthes-Barth adjacency in the used bookstores was what happily lead me from Donald to all-time-favourite Roland. John I always found impenetrable. RIP nonetheless
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:32 (two months ago) link
People like to talk about how Woke SNL is a new thing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKPi66Us27Q
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:43 (two months ago) link
loved flaherty as sam and lindsay weir's dad in freaks and geeks - funny but also warmThe scene where they’re listening to “Squeeze Box” - how many times have I quoted that
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Friday, 5 April 2024 02:59 (two months ago) link
Giles Goat-Boy was supposedly part of the original inspiration for Pearlman’s Imaginos, which kind of makes me want to look at it again but…
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Friday, 5 April 2024 03:01 (two months ago) link
Lynne Reid Banks, author of The Indian in the Cupboard, dies aged 94.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/05/lynne-reid-banks-indian-in-the-cupboard-author-dies
― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Friday, 5 April 2024 07:21 (two months ago) link
Michael Ward, guitarist for School of Fish, the Wallflowers and Ben Harper, 57.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 April 2024 03:48 (two months ago) link
Joe Kinnear
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 7 April 2024 18:27 (two months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/07/joe-kinnear-former-tottenham-player-and-wimbledon-manager-dies-aged-77
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 7 April 2024 18:28 (two months ago) link
first of all, which of you is judas?
is judas here?
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 7 April 2024 18:32 (two months ago) link
when he was managing Luton his nickname was JFK because of his profuse effwording iirc
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 7 April 2024 18:33 (two months ago) link
On 2 October 2008, Kinnear launched a verbal tirade at the Daily Mirror journalist Simon Bird, calling him a "cunt". He swore over 50 times in the first five minutes of the interview
got to admit I always had soft spot for Joe
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 7 April 2024 18:45 (two months ago) link
Firehouse lead singer CJ Snarehttps://ultimateclassicrock.com/c-j-snare-firehouse-dead/.. i may be culpable in this somehow for shitalking them on the glam metal thread
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 April 2024 19:16 (two months ago) link
he finally found the love of a lifetime
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 April 2024 19:17 (two months ago) link
Whoa coincidence
― President Keyes, Sunday, 7 April 2024 20:58 (two months ago) link
Clarence “Frogman” Henry, the New Orleans musician whose signature croak helped him score a memorable Fifties novelty hit, “Ain’t Got No Home,” died Sunday, April 7. He was 87.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/clarence-frogman-henry-aint-got-no-home-dead-1235000874/
― nickn, Monday, 8 April 2024 19:36 (two months ago) link
Other than Al “Carnival Time” Johnson, Frogman was pretty much the last of the 50s NO R&B performers.
― Requiem for a Dream: The Musical! (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 01:52 (two months ago) link
wow, had no idea he was still around.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 02:17 (two months ago) link
RIP.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 03:20 (two months ago) link
Irma Thomas (first single 1959) is still kicking, as is Aaron Neville (first single 1960). But yeah, almost all of the wacky '50s NOLA Rock'n'Soul dudes are gone now.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 03:32 (two months ago) link
― Sometimes It POLLS in April (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 03:52 (two months ago) link
Peter Higgs, who has a subatomic particle named after him
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 16:41 (two months ago) link
well at least having a sub-atomic particle named after him should provide his loved ones with a quantum of solace
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 16:49 (two months ago) link
bdum and tish
― Mark G, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 16:51 (two months ago) link
Patti Astor, nyc no wave scene maker Fun gallery owner no wave cinema actress etc.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 02:14 (two months ago) link
Hmm, didn't know all this about Ed Piskor.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/arts/ed-piskor-dies-comics-hip-hop-family-tree.html
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 14:15 (two months ago) link
Yeah more than a few of the encomia over the past few days are a bit...I don't want to say tone-deaf, but.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 14:49 (two months ago) link
I mean obviously it's sad he apparently took his own life. But seems like a bad situation all around. (I did like his work! At least the selections I've read from the Hip-Hop Family Tree.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 15:36 (two months ago) link
I don't envy anyone having to write his obituary tbh. There's actual grieving friends and family, there's his victims, there's the fact that the suicide letter was an explicit attack on said victims.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 15:43 (two months ago) link
Geez, I was at a movie Monday night in which she's interviewed a few times: Make Me Famous, a documentary on Edward Brezinski.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 15:43 (two months ago) link
Goddard College
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-10/progressive-vermont-college-to-close-after-facing-insolvency
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 16:00 (two months ago) link
gotta love this headline:
Phish Members’ Alma Mater in Vermont to Shut
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 16:01 (two months ago) link
Should just rebrand as a Phish museum or something and pull in cash.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 April 2024 16:05 (two months ago) link
RIP Trina Robbins: https://www.comicsbeat.com/feminist-cartoonist-historian-and-activist-trina-robbins-has-died/
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:33 (two months ago) link
RIP Trina. A titan
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:24 (two months ago) link
^^^
― Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:24 (two months ago) link
OJ Simpsonhttps://www.tmz.com/2024/04/11/oj-simpson-dead-dies-cancer/
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:43 (two months ago) link
see you in hell
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:44 (two months ago) link
rip oj simpson
― Alba, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:44 (two months ago) link
RIP takes on a different meaning with that guy
― President Keyes, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:52 (two months ago) link
rest in piss
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:56 (two months ago) link
I mean, obviously his whole saga is more complex than that - that epic documentary series from a few years back nailed how his story touched upon so many ruptures of injustice in America, how flawed a man he was even though he was celebrated as an exemplar. But definitely fuck this guy.
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:58 (two months ago) link
Here's hoping TV runs a "Naked Gun" movie in tribute.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:59 (two months ago) link
ok seeing cancer
i was wondering whether it wasnt a stretcher falls down multiple sets of steps before catapulting into a burning building accident
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 11 April 2024 15:07 (two months ago) link
lol
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 April 2024 15:13 (two months ago) link
Or a low speed car crash.
― nickn, Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:02 (two months ago) link
Robert MacNeil
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/04/12/robert-macneil-dead-newshour/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 April 2024 17:19 (two months ago) link
Weirdly, MacNeil and Jim Lehrer were both present at JFK's assassination
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 April 2024 17:22 (two months ago) link
Oh so that's the conspiracy
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 April 2024 17:31 (two months ago) link
They keep knocking off witnesses don’t they
― Josefa, Friday, 12 April 2024 17:34 (two months ago) link
I heard an interview with Lehrer years ago, and while he doesn't necessarily believe in conspiracy theories, he said he heard a shot coming from the grassy hill.. he conceded that it may have been a trick of acoustics, but he remembered turning to look in that direction
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 April 2024 18:18 (two months ago) link
Roberto Cavalli, fashion designer.
― steely flan (suzy), Friday, 12 April 2024 20:47 (two months ago) link
Worlds oldest conjoined twins George and Lori Schappell
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 April 2024 20:50 (two months ago) link
hopefully both of them
― frogbs, Friday, 12 April 2024 20:53 (two months ago) link
yes, both of them.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 April 2024 21:06 (two months ago) link
i know nothing about them at all but i hope they had a happy life
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Friday, 12 April 2024 21:16 (two months ago) link
Quite an eventful life, sounds pretty good - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_and_George_Schappell
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 12 April 2024 21:17 (two months ago) link
my gosh, glad they made the most of the tough hand they were dealt
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Friday, 12 April 2024 21:22 (two months ago) link
Eleanor Coppola, 87. My Blu-Ray set of Apocalypse Now includes Hearts of Darkness as a bonus disc.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 12 April 2024 23:50 (two months ago) link
Mister Ceehttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/arts/music/mister-cee-dj-dead.html
― donna rouge, Saturday, 13 April 2024 05:54 (two months ago) link
I'm not sure Hearts Of Darkness isn't a better movie than Apocalypse Now
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Saturday, 13 April 2024 07:20 (two months ago) link
Makes a great double feature with Burden of Dreams.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 13 April 2024 11:36 (two months ago) link
rico wade of organized noize and the dungeon family, 52
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Saturday, 13 April 2024 15:21 (two months ago) link
A lot about Eleanor Coppola in Sam Wesson's Coppola book.
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 April 2024 15:24 (two months ago) link
Wasson...
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 April 2024 15:25 (two months ago) link
this is a good tribute. i want to give a shout-out to the companion book to The Story of English series that PBS/MacNeil did in 1986. that book taught me a lot. even if i have forgotten it all now...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LKupNgYU4M
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 April 2024 16:12 (two months ago) link
i love that Jim Lehrer famously never voted in his time doing the news. so that he could stay impartial.
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 April 2024 16:13 (two months ago) link
Journalists not voting to remain impartial is seriously old school - it used to be common amongst Golden Age anchor/news people.
― steely flan (suzy), Saturday, 13 April 2024 17:18 (two months ago) link
Faith Ringgoldhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/arts/faith-ringgold-dead.html?smid=url-share
― donna rouge, Saturday, 13 April 2024 22:52 (two months ago) link
Deadly Derek dead.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/15/derek-underwood-outstanding-england-cricket-spinner-dies-aged-78
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Monday, 15 April 2024 13:48 (two months ago) link
The not-voting thing seems especially dumb these days. This quote from Peter Baker of the NYT (from 2020) sounds like someone trying to contort himself into never feeling empathy."I try hard not to take strong positions on public issues even in private, much to the frustration of friends and family. For me, it’s easier to stay out of the fray if I never make up my mind, even in the privacy of the kitchen or the voting booth, that one candidate is better than another, that one side is right and the other wrong."
― jaymc, Monday, 15 April 2024 14:11 (two months ago) link
I've got a lawyer friend who iirc didn't vote while she worked for a series of federal judges, and only resumed voting when she took a teaching job in the private sector.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 April 2024 14:18 (two months ago) link
Crank psychiatrist and 'satanic panic'/repressed memory promoter Bennett Braun, truly one of the worst people pushing all that garbage at its height, and easily culpable for a lot of lingering damage on a wide number of fronts. An ice-cold obituary in that clearly nobody had a good word for him at the end, it seems. Even the final lines show he was still rotten:
After temporarily losing his medical license in Illinois, Dr. Braun moved to Montana, where he received a new state license and opened a private practice.But in 2019, one of his patients, Ciara Rehbein, sued him for overprescribing medication that left her with a permanent facial tic. She also filed a complaint against the Montana Board of Medical Examiners for allowing him a license, despite knowing his past.Dr. Braun lost his license to practice medicine in Montana in 2020.
But in 2019, one of his patients, Ciara Rehbein, sued him for overprescribing medication that left her with a permanent facial tic. She also filed a complaint against the Montana Board of Medical Examiners for allowing him a license, despite knowing his past.
Dr. Braun lost his license to practice medicine in Montana in 2020.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 01:58 (two months ago) link
wow, the details there, just evil.
― bulb after bulb, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:38 (two months ago) link
truly a grade A creep
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 03:49 (two months ago) link
Deadly Derek dead.https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/15/derek-underwood-outstanding-england-cricket-spinner-dies-aged-78― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Monday, April 15, 2024 1:48 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Monday, April 15, 2024 1:48 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
was sad to learn he was on the first "rebel" tour to Apartheid South Africa
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 10:56 (two months ago) link
Yes but then I don't exactly associate cricketers with progressive politics.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 11:38 (two months ago) link
Graeme Naysmith of Pale Saints
Some very sad news here to report, the passing of Graeme Naysmith of Pale Saints. Thoughts with his family and friends. 🙏 Image taken from FB. pic.twitter.com/hRRFN6vwsD— Andrea (@parramaterial) April 16, 2024
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:36 (two months ago) link
Yeah, just rotten to see that. What a sound he had.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:48 (two months ago) link
Oh no, that’s shocking. I’ll be giving Comforts of Madness a good kicking today, one of my favourite guitar albums of all time.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 23:14 (two months ago) link
Bob Graham:
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/former-us-senator-and-florida-governor-bob-graham-dead-at-87/
One of those guys I remember as being on CNN constantly during the Clinton presidency.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 02:55 (two months ago) link
He was the obsessive diarist, right?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 02:58 (two months ago) link
"He kept a meticulous diary, noting almost everyone he spoke with, everything he ate, the TV shows he watched and even his golf scores."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 03:03 (two months ago) link
Minus the golf scores, he was Andy Warhol.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 03:04 (two months ago) link
he was no william lyon mackenzie king
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 03:07 (two months ago) link
Florida politics seemed so relatively normal back during his governorship
― Josefa, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 03:07 (two months ago) link
Yep -- and for a while the only truly bipartisan figure we ever had.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 09:03 (two months ago) link
The political media's obsession with the diary keeping during the Iraq War was Example #4518 of why we're doomed.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 09:31 (two months ago) link
James Dean, Founding Director of NASA Art Program, 92https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/science/space/james-dean-dead.html
James Dean, a landscape painter who ran a NASA program that invited artists like Robert Rauschenberg, Norman Rockwell and Jamie Wyeth to document aspects of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects, died on March 22 in Washington. He was 92.His son Steven confirmed the death, at an assisted living facility.From the final Mercury mission in 1963 until 1974, Mr. Dean gave dozens of artists access to astronauts, to areas near the launchpads at Cape Canaveral (and the Kennedy Space Center) and to ships that recovered astronauts after their ocean splashdowns.Mr. Dean believed that artists offered a perspective that could not be found in photographs.
His son Steven confirmed the death, at an assisted living facility.
From the final Mercury mission in 1963 until 1974, Mr. Dean gave dozens of artists access to astronauts, to areas near the launchpads at Cape Canaveral (and the Kennedy Space Center) and to ships that recovered astronauts after their ocean splashdowns.
Mr. Dean believed that artists offered a perspective that could not be found in photographs.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 18 April 2024 01:23 (two months ago) link
Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers Band.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:00 (two months ago) link
Damn, well that just leaves Jaimoep
― omar little, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:02 (two months ago) link
*Jaimoe
― omar little, Thursday, 18 April 2024 16:03 (two months ago) link
Steve Kille, bass player in DC stoner titans Dead Meadow.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Thursday, 18 April 2024 22:31 (two months ago) link
Woooooah
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 19 April 2024 05:53 (one month ago) link
Oh no! awful news
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 19 April 2024 08:11 (one month ago) link
Daniel Dennett 1942-2024
In Memoriam: Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) https://t.co/I2vx8ZgW9Y— Brian Leiter https://universeodon.com/@BrianLeiter (@BrianLeiter) April 19, 2024
― Alba, Friday, 19 April 2024 16:37 (one month ago) link
Cartoonist Pete Loveday, creator of Russell, kinda like a British festy version of Gilbert Shelton
― Maresn3st, Friday, 19 April 2024 16:41 (one month ago) link
Eddie Sutton, former vocalist of Queens-based hardcore band Leeway. Lung cancer. They were playing shows as recently as 2022, but this footage from CBGB in 1988 is them as I remember them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFUcqcVQImg
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 20 April 2024 18:49 (one month ago) link
Daniel Dennett was really interesting! I have two of his books — I won't exactly say I've read them, but I've read some of them. He was a very ambitious thinker, he made a lot of fascinating connections.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 20 April 2024 18:54 (one month ago) link
Michael Cuscuna, producer, jazz historian, and founder of Mosaic Records, 75.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 21 April 2024 01:49 (one month ago) link
Surprised Calvin Keys hasn’t been mentioned https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955977/calvin-keys-jazz-guitarist-dies-obit-oakland
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 21 April 2024 11:22 (one month ago) link
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 21 April 2024 11:49 (one month ago) link
Jean-Marie Aerts, 72, Belgian guitarist & producer (biggest project: TC Matic)
― StanM, Sunday, 21 April 2024 12:10 (one month ago) link
saw tc matic live once in about 1985, think they were supporting simple minds on a european tour?
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 21 April 2024 12:34 (one month ago) link
correct!
― StanM, Sunday, 21 April 2024 13:20 (one month ago) link
From when I still followed football:
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/former-nfl-quarterback-roman-gabriel-dies-at-83
I remember him because one of the teenagers who worked in my dad's milk store around that time was named Roman.
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 April 2024 23:20 (one month ago) link
I remember him from when my dad was a self-hating LA Rams fan
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 21 April 2024 23:44 (one month ago) link
Chan Romero
https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/billings-native-chan-romero-who-wrote-the-hippy-hippy-shake-dies-at-82
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 16:37 (one month ago) link
Larry Page (not the Google one), 86
We are sad to hear of the death of music industry legend Larry Page. A successful manager, producer & label owner, Larry discovered both the Kinks and The Troggs and produced the Chelsea anthem Blue Is The Colour in '72, which is still played at every Stamford Bridge game... 1/4 pic.twitter.com/0JtJUEm8vG— Cherry Red Records (@CherryRedGroup) April 23, 2024
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:08 (one month ago) link
Terry Carter, who did almost everything:
https://variety.com/2024/film/people-news/terry-carter-dead-battlestar-galactica-mccloud-1235979429/
First knew of him through the original Battlestar Galactica
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:14 (one month ago) link
Yeah, "Galactica" is where I formerly believed I'd first seen him too, until eventually realizing that he'd also played the mailman in the original "Benji" several years earlier
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:26 (one month ago) link
Beloved San Francisco pastor and activist Rev. Cecil Williams, aged 94
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:29 (one month ago) link
RIP Larry Page. Source of a lot of hilarious stories about the Davies brothers.
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 18:56 (one month ago) link
He’s the “Larry” mentioned in the Kinks’ song “The Moneygoround” isn’t he?
― Josefa, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 19:31 (one month ago) link
Yes, and he also "co-wrote" an instrumental on their first album.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 19:55 (one month ago) link
Helen Vendler, poetry critic, 90.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 02:09 (one month ago) link
She outlived her enemy—Perloff—by about a month
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 02:19 (one month ago) link
Oh damn, I took her class on Modern American Poetry back in the 90s. She was quite the academic celebrity back then.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 02:59 (one month ago) link
Frank Field, aged 581. He will rise again though.
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 06:36 (one month ago) link
RIP vile right-wing dead Labour guy who was never alive in the first place. He did some great work with IDS on how to starve kids and make the poor poorer. So I guess he'll be in some kind of hell. Maybe his version of hell is where poor ppl can afford to eat without recourse to food banks.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 07:01 (one month ago) link
Surprised there was anything alive in there to die.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 07:03 (one month ago) link
his great uncle Vlad should have strangled him at birth!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 07:25 (one month ago) link
Any announcement of cause of death? Stake through heart? Silver bullet? Running water?
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 08:53 (one month ago) link
secure him in a container under the M53 and slap a sticker on it that reads: "this place is not a place of honor | no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here | nothing valued is here"
― mark s, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 09:11 (one month ago) link
Hearing through socials of the passing of Brian Gregg, bassist who was in The Tornados and Johnny Kidd & the Pirates.
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:25 (one month ago) link
(xp) The Guardian puff piece on how people in Birkenhead loved Frank Field so so much and that a great guy he was failed to mention that when he quit the Labour Party and ran as an independent his vote collapsed from 33,000 to 7,000.
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 22:09 (one month ago) link
Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 25 April 2024 02:53 (one month ago) link
they loved him as much as the ppl in Hudds love Barry Sheerman, in that sense of if you replaced them with a Shetland pony in a red rosette you'd get the same results every GE.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 25 April 2024 05:09 (one month ago) link
That's all of the original line-up of the Moody Blues dead now.
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 April 2024 07:10 (one month ago) link
Film director Laurent Cantet (Time Out, The Class)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/25/laurent-cantet-peter-bradshaw-appreciation-high-minded-progressive-and-literate
― prog ain't no religious cult (Matt #2), Thursday, 25 April 2024 19:38 (one month ago) link
Jean-Pierre Ferland, Québécois chansonnier, 89:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfVuINcfkM
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 29 April 2024 02:39 (one month ago) link
Will Noel, who directed the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, died after being mowed down by a car driving on the sidewalk while on vacation in London. Da Vinci Code vibes.
https://www.ted.com/talks/william_noel_revealing_the_lost_codex_of_archimedes?language=en
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 14:46 (one month ago) link
RIP Conrad Thompson, aka MC Conrad, MC partner to the GOAT jungle/dnb DJ LTJ Bukem who sadly passed away from natural causes related to diabetes at age 52. Many treasured memories from my late teen years listening to this pairing
― Iain Macdonald, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 21:22 (one month ago) link
Apologies if already mentioned, only saw today that MC Duke passed on 21st April aged 58.
― lilcraigyboi (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 22:42 (one month ago) link
Paul Austerhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/books/paul-auster-dead.html
― jaymc, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 03:51 (one month ago) link
I'd read he had cancer so no surprise I guess. The Invention of Solitude and the New York Trilogy were stellar - diminishing returns after that though I think.
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 04:39 (one month ago) link
RIP Paul. I think that assesment is probably fair. I would add that The Music of Chance, both the book and the film, are excellent, and Auster wrote the screenplay for the latter. It was one of those chance viewings late at night in the 90s on Channel 4 or BBC2 that led me, later on, to Auster's books. M Emmett Walsh, also recently of this thread, is a memorable presence in it.
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 10:06 (one month ago) link
Loved the film of The Music of Chance as well, and it was his early essay The Invention of Solitude that really blew me away.
My sense with Auster's work, because I saw this happen a number of times, is the first book someone read would blow them away, and then the second would continue most of that feeling, and by the third or fourth his repeated devices were familiar. Also, based on myself and other Gen Xers posting today, he was the perfect writer to read ages 20-25. But I kept going back to his work, the recent book of letters between himself and Coetzee and so on. Had a good run, the best of the books will endure.
Also thinking how the author photos that come to mind of Auster and Martin Amis both have them wielding a cigarette; both gone in their 70s.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:21 (one month ago) link
Amidst police violence at Columbia, CUNY and UCLA, the news that my friend Paul Auster has died. In 1968 he was one of the Columbia student occupiers, fleetingly captured by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead in a documentary called The Fall pic.twitter.com/9G98p0hTM1— Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru) May 1, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:23 (one month ago) link
Smoke (script by Auster, directed by Wayne Wang) is one of my favourite films.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:59 (one month ago) link
Duane Eddy
https://variety.com/2024/music/people-news/duane-eddy-dead-peter-gunn-1235988900/
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:10 (one month ago) link
Hearing that the king of twangy guitar, Duane Eddy has passed.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:10 (one month ago) link
Wow! He was still alive then
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:11 (one month ago) link
rip :(
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:26 (one month ago) link
Wow, I thought he died years ago, RIP Duane.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:34 (one month ago) link
Thing I always thought about Peter Gunn is it's actually all about the sax? Not to do him down, RIP man of twang
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:39 (one month ago) link
Richard Tandy, from ELO
https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/13886/richard-tandy-elo-keyboardist-dead/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 20:11 (one month ago) link
RIP MC Conrad :( xpsA lot of those Bukem mixes were better for having him on them
― groovypanda, Thursday, 2 May 2024 16:59 (one month ago) link
Gary Floyd of the Dicks and Sister Double Happiness
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 3 May 2024 01:55 (one month ago) link
Oh shit.. that's crazy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 May 2024 02:21 (one month ago) link
Never saw the Dicks (little before my time) but definitely saw SDH many times.. I used to see him hanging near the jack shacks in North Beach all the time, he was one of a kind
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 May 2024 02:23 (one month ago) link
mr veg saw them a ton in SF, he was def a fan back in the day
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 May 2024 03:00 (one month ago) link
I remember hearing their one major label album, Heart and Mind, in 1991, and wondering why they were being marketed as "alternative" when they were just a (very good) stomping barroom blues-rock band.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 3 May 2024 03:15 (one month ago) link
RIP Gary
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 3 May 2024 08:11 (one month ago) link
(I only know him as a Butthole Surfers song)
― StanM, Friday, 3 May 2024 09:12 (one month ago) link
Oh man, the Dicks were so brilliant
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 3 May 2024 09:32 (one month ago) link
I only really know The Dicks Hate The Police - what a banger that was
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 3 May 2024 10:10 (one month ago) link
worth checking out Kill From The Heart, which got reissued this year I think - Rich Daddy (I Never Had One) is an absolute killer
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 3 May 2024 10:30 (one month ago) link
reissue is due out in 2 weeks on Superior Viaduct. I have the Alternative Tentacles reissue from 2012.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 3 May 2024 11:04 (one month ago) link
oh man, RIP Gary
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 3 May 2024 11:27 (one month ago) link
"Hate the Police" might be my favorite punk song. Definitely the best "POV of the oppressor" punk song. There's a weird empathy in Gary's delivery of the vileness that makes the character all the more pathetic. Most hardcore singers delivered this kind of lyric with a sinister sarcasm.
― sox concrète (bendy), Friday, 3 May 2024 14:33 (one month ago) link
"if you can't find justice, it'll find you" = one of the best punk lines ever
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 May 2024 16:58 (one month ago) link
Frank Stella, 87, of lymphoma. I saw a big retrospective of his work at the Whitney Museum in 2015. Amazing stuff.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 4 May 2024 20:45 (one month ago) link
Sam Ash Music, age 100https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/business/sam-ash-music-closing-stores.html
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 5 May 2024 00:43 (one month ago) link
A fond farewell to Frank Stella, who died today, at age 87. I took this photograph in his studio in Rock Tavern, N.Y., where he kept a narrow cot amid his baroque constructions and was no doubt awakened on countless occasions by a jolt of inspiration. pic.twitter.com/lXxqPIQYs8— Deborah Solomon (@deborahsolo) May 5, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Sunday, 5 May 2024 01:14 (one month ago) link
Another I'd assumed had died years if not decades ago...
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 5 May 2024 01:24 (one month ago) link
he was making art this year. that's a really long time to make abstract art. he was cool. genius? i think he kinda was. endlessly inventive at least. a huge imagination. though he will probably always be most famous for the black paintings that he made when he was impossibly young. i also love abstract artists who could have been cool and minimal forever who go nuts with color and shapes. and few people went nuts with color and shapes like he did. like a paint store throwing up on an automotive store with some of those sculptures.
― scott seward, Sunday, 5 May 2024 12:13 (one month ago) link
Always loved this clip of a young Stella. RIP.
Great docu, by the way.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 5 May 2024 13:33 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_rRCfRdmQ
Bernard Hill, Theoden in LOTR & captain Smith in Titanic
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68962192
― StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:15 (one month ago) link
Ah man
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:22 (one month ago) link
Yosser RIP
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:30 (one month ago) link
... fuck yer Titanics and hobbits.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:31 (one month ago) link
hes exquisite in lotr, almost certainly the best performance in it
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:32 (one month ago) link
Yeah, was just thinking that. It's a performance that is both consistent and has range, and absolutely plays off with everyone around him just so, especially Miranda Otto's Eowyn. Each of their scenes together are fantastic.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:22 (one month ago) link
(And Tom D., we never got Blackstuff over here at the time! Wish we had!)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:23 (one month ago) link
Damn RIP
His character arc is one of the more impressive and complex ones, if not the most. He's performed as flawed, prone to moments of selfishness and anger, occasional poor judgement, absolutely human, and the most astonishingly and thrillingly heroic at the perfect time. I think him and Otto were in the running for the MVPs of that series in terms of how they grounded it.
― omar little, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:28 (one month ago) link
yep his stuff in LOTR is top grade acting - what comes to mind would be someone like christopher lee; full commitment and seriousness regardless of the possible sillyness of the content
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:30 (one month ago) link
Yeah, it's very Tolkien to not let the interiority of his characters out much aside from the hobbits themselves, and so the translation to a different medium by default allows for more. That plus the screenwriting team decided -- I think rightly -- to foreground his son's death more, adding weight to his reactions and decisions. (That plus, per Hill's own mention of it in the DVD commentary, he was the one who came up with the "No parent should have to bury their child" moment, drawing on an instance some years prior where, IIRC, he'd been talking with a mother who'd lost a child in a bombing in the UK or Ireland and she said that to him. It's not Tolkien's Theoden but it absolutely works in the film.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:33 (one month ago) link
I was thinking he'd already passed but was mixing him up with fellow Blackstuff actor Michael Angelis.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:38 (one month ago) link
rip bernard hill, he nearly steals the third movie from under everyone’s noses
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:44 (one month ago) link
i didn't know who he was and i clicked on the link and went ah yeah! he was awesome! but i was totally thinking of the other dragon show. the jean reno type guy. so now i still don't remember this guy but RIP! great job. you obviously made quite an impression on real fans of the thing. for the record the other guy was my favorite character on the other dragon show. and i still like jean reno.
― scott seward, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:53 (one month ago) link
Hill is really good in Greenaway's Drowning By Numbers.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 5 May 2024 18:45 (one month ago) link
Late to thread. So great in lotr Every single fucking time, when he leads his people into battle screaming “deeaaaathhhhh!” my eyes fill with tearsIdk why, some weird buried dna memory of my Viking ancestors (me: 5’4” never been in a fight, chronically sickly)
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:07 (one month ago) link
Forgot he was in drowning by numbers, absolutely one of my all time favorite films
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:08 (one month ago) link
Jazz Musician, Bill Holman, 96
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:13 (one month ago) link
STEVE ALBINI
https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:22 (one month ago) link
holy shit
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:36 (one month ago) link
i dislike this very much
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:39 (one month ago) link
yeah we need his curmudgeoning now more than ever
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:41 (one month ago) link
Rip to one of the best x
― nxd, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:43 (one month ago) link
and despite his storied credentials, he'd happily record your buddy's band as well.. not one to rest on his laurels
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:48 (one month ago) link
what the actual
― StanM, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:48 (one month ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:55 (one month ago) link
?!
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:56 (one month ago) link
what the hell??
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 17:08 (one month ago) link
too young! And he's on the cover of this month's Wire!
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 17:09 (one month ago) link
Well, this sucks.
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 17:13 (one month ago) link
What the hell
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 17:20 (one month ago) link
Good piece from last year
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/15/the-evolution-of-steve-albini-if-the-dumbest-person-is-on-your-side-youre-on-the-wrong-side
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 17:21 (one month ago) link
Heart attack apparently
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 17:28 (one month ago) link
Just the worst news
Only just seen this, jesus christ thats horrible news
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 18:09 (one month ago) link
damn
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 18:39 (one month ago) link
apparently died at his studio? I mean... if you have to go, there could be worse ways
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 19:58 (one month ago) link
It seems such a blue collar way to die, heart attack at your work place. None of your ODing after a coke binge.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 20:02 (one month ago) link
Dennis Thompson, Drummer & Final Member of The MC5
https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2024/05/09/dennis-thompson-mc5-drummer-obituary/73629138007/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 May 2024 20:06 (one month ago) link
Pete McCloskey, former Congressman and Presidential candidate.
In a 1981 interview, he stated that he thought he "was the first Republican elected opposing the war" despite the fact that his "constituency, two to one, favored the war in 1967."
McCloskey was the first member of Congress to publicly call for the impeachment of President Nixon after the Watergate scandal and the Saturday Night Massacre. He was also the first lawmaker to call for a repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that had allowed for the War in Vietnam. He chose, in early 1975, to see for himself the effects of US bombing in Cambodia, stating afterwards that his country had committed "greater evil than we have done to any country in the world, and wholly without reason, except for our benefit to fight against the Vietnamese."
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 May 2024 20:26 (one month ago) link
Italian singer/Songwriter Giovanna Marini
https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/c61006352566429c4afc3f303db776cc/4386243/giovanna-marini-la-vivazione-la-partita-truccata-Cover-Art.jpg
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 May 2024 20:36 (one month ago) link
xxpost Dennis Machinegun Thompson, also of one-off supergroup New Race
― StanM, Thursday, 9 May 2024 20:55 (one month ago) link
Crazy that anyone in MC5's orbit made it 75.. It's too bad Thompson won't be there for the Hall of Fame induction, I think he actually cared about it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 May 2024 20:57 (one month ago) link
RIP dennis, RIP MC5 ;_;
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 May 2024 21:32 (one month ago) link
Shirley Conran, writer and mother of designer Jasper, 91.
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 9 May 2024 21:37 (one month ago) link
Oh fuck, RIP Dennis ;_;
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 May 2024 21:39 (one month ago) link
Infamous global money launderer Ramón Fonseca Mora of the Mossack-Fonseca law firm made famous in the Panama Papers investigation, 71https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/panama-papers-law-firm-co-founder-ramon-fonseca-mora-dies-in-hospital/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 May 2024 01:48 (one month ago) link
Gosh, I'm reading Shirley Conran's novel Lace right now and have been for a couple of months. It's quite saucy... and long (over 700 pp). It's what's known as a "bonkbuster," a term I learned recently. There was a TV miniseries made of Lace in the 1980s.
― Josefa, Friday, 10 May 2024 02:05 (one month ago) link
Ha, we had a copy of Lace around the house — maybe my sister had it, I think she and her friends all read it — and as a teenager I remember skimming it for the sex scenes. There were a bunch!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 10 May 2024 02:37 (one month ago) link
"Which one of you bitches is my mother?" is an all-time line, too.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 10 May 2024 02:39 (one month ago) link
[iSmithsonian Folkways mourns the passing of blues musician and harmonica player Phil Wiggins (1954-2024). He died peacefully at his home on Tuesday morning, one day before his 70th birthday. Wiggins was a Folkways recording artist, teacher, NEA National Heritage Fellow, and frequent performer at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival along with his longtime musical partner John Cephas. He was known throughout the international blues community and his hometown of Washington, D.C., for his wit, humor, and powerful playing.[/i]
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 May 2024 20:14 (one month ago) link
Producer and engineer Eric "ET" Thorngren, apparently. Was just thinking about him the other day because I watched Stop Making Sense (it's now streaming on Max); he mixed the original soundtrack album. Don't know if he worked on the remix/remaster for the new version of the movie/soundtrack.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 10 May 2024 20:22 (one month ago) link
Happy trails to Roger Corman
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 12 May 2024 02:25 (one month ago) link
Goddamn This Fucking Week...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 May 2024 02:27 (one month ago) link
oh goddammiti just recently read the excellent biography “Crabmonsters Teenage Cavemen & Candy Stripe Nurses”… what an incredible life & output & legacy. RIP king, mench etc
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 May 2024 02:51 (one month ago) link
Towering figure in cinema. Amazing life.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 12 May 2024 02:52 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcR24iQa0yU
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 May 2024 03:16 (one month ago) link
RIP Roger, what an unbelievable life. I really don't want to read any snarky obituaries from the 'quality' press so will avoid.
This book should be a go-to guide for any aspiring filmmaker intending to include lengthy shots of characters wandering about/smoking etc in their work-in-progress. Roger's advice: don't.
https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780385304894-uk.jpg
― in praise of Ski Troop Attack (1960) (Matt #2), Sunday, 12 May 2024 07:03 (one month ago) link
Oh shame, RIP Roger.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 May 2024 07:12 (one month ago) link
Not having Roger Corman around is like losing an element of the periodic table. As important to culture as oxygen, carbon, and Bill Gaines. Time spent watching his movies is not subtracted from your lifespan but added to it 2x over. The true king
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 12 May 2024 10:34 (one month ago) link
Susan Backlinie former actress and stuntwoman - best known as the first shark attack victim in Spielberg's Jaws, 77 https://thedailyjaws.com/news/susan-backlinie-of-jaws-fame-passes-away-aged-77
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 12 May 2024 10:55 (one month ago) link
xp Indeed. RIP Roger Corman
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 12 May 2024 12:17 (one month ago) link
Man I had lost track that Corman was even still alive. Wow. What a force.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 12 May 2024 12:39 (one month ago) link
John Barbata, drummer for The Turtles, CSNY, Neil Young, and Jefferson Airplane/Starship
John Barbata, Drummer for Turtles, CSN&Y, Airplane/Starship, Dead at 79@ThrashersWheat https://t.co/SomIIRa2AS— Harold Lepidus 🌳 (@DylanExaminer) May 12, 2024
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 May 2024 02:15 (one month ago) link
Had to check the Neil connection--Time Fades Away.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 May 2024 02:51 (one month ago) link
He came in mid-tour to replace Kenny Buttery in The Stray Gators. Graham Nash soon borrowed them --minus Jack Nitzsche and just a cameo from Neil (as "Joe Yankee") -- for his Wild Tales album.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 May 2024 03:19 (one month ago) link
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2024 03:27 (one month ago) link
Was just trying to remember his name the other day actually
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 May 2024 03:29 (one month ago) link
damn...he also made a terrific album called L.A. Getaway with Chris Ethridge and Joel Scott Hill. Absolutely classic '70s rock which, if released by a name artist, would be a bit iconic I think.
― omar little, Monday, 13 May 2024 03:30 (one month ago) link
Pvmic from Wiki:
While Barbata was drumming with CSNY, David Geffen tried to persuade him to join The Eagles. Barbata declined as he was already in one of the biggest musical groups at the time.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 May 2024 03:35 (one month ago) link
Wonder how much he was able to cash in on his Jefferson Starship tenure (including Red Octopus). That's around the time when the money started to get bigger.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 May 2024 03:42 (one month ago) link
Was just thinking about it, and realized that the Time Fades Away guys are now down to Nash & Young.
In earlier days: all the Turtles on Sullivan clips are Gold, but this Austin Powers freakout on "She's My Girl" is new to me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ekoJx_u9Oc
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 May 2024 04:37 (one month ago) link
RIP. Excellent drummer.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Monday, 13 May 2024 06:24 (one month ago) link
(By the way, Howard Kaylan is 20 years old in that clip!)
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Monday, 13 May 2024 06:30 (one month ago) link
Saxman David Sanborn
From FB:
It is with sad and heavy hearts that we convey to you the loss of internationally renowned, 6 time Grammy Award-winning, saxophonist, David Sanborn. Mr. Sanborn passed Sunday afternoon, May 12th, after an extended battle with prostate cancer with complications.Mr. Sanborn had been dealing with prostate cancer since 2018, but had been able to maintain his normal schedule of concerts until just recently. Indeed he already had concerts scheduled into 2025.David Sanborn was a seminal figure in contemporary pop and jazz music. It has been said that he "put the saxophone back into Rock ’n Roll.”
Mr. Sanborn had been dealing with prostate cancer since 2018, but had been able to maintain his normal schedule of concerts until just recently. Indeed he already had concerts scheduled into 2025.
David Sanborn was a seminal figure in contemporary pop and jazz music. It has been said that he "put the saxophone back into Rock ’n Roll.”
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 May 2024 17:05 (one month ago) link
Sanborn and band playing "Hey Joe" with Nick Cave on Night Music (I believe Sonic Youth was in the studio audience)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7eiOsxzjKc
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Monday, 13 May 2024 18:11 (one month ago) link
Sonic Youth was more than just in the audience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdJ2ecf-dYo
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Monday, 13 May 2024 18:19 (one month ago) link
I just mean that I think I first heard of Nick Cave because Sonic Youth mentioned in an interview that they were in the studio audience of Night Music because they loved him so much
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Monday, 13 May 2024 18:23 (one month ago) link
Come party over here: Does anyone else remember that David Sanborn-hosted music show on NBC from the late '80s?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 May 2024 18:23 (one month ago) link
xxpost Belgian harmonica legend Toots Thielemans as well!
― StanM, Monday, 13 May 2024 18:31 (one month ago) link
rip david sandborn you ruled, gonna listen to double vision tonight in tribute
― ivy., Monday, 13 May 2024 20:57 (one month ago) link
and Young Americans.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 00:22 (one month ago) link
Also the maybe unique-for-DS Another Hand, his Hal Willner-produced Downtown NYC hipster jazz album, all dressed in black!
― dow, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 01:17 (one month ago) link
Samborn as a very young man was an adjunct member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, even got a mention in Downbeat in 1966 as “Davey” Samborn
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 02:06 (one month ago) link
SaNborn
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 02:07 (one month ago) link
In this 2017 interview he talks about his ties to BAG in his native St. Louis and his friendship with drummer Phillip Wilson:
Through Phillip I met Lester Bowie, Oliver Lake, Julius Hemphill, and Hamiet Bluiett. Lester was the comedian king: like the wise philosopher of St. Louis but funny and fearless.Phillip and Lester did not discriminate about styles of music. Lester played in a circus band, society gigs, straight ahead gigs. He played with Jimmy Forrest. He met his wife Fontella “Rescue Me” Bass on a gig with the Clara Ward Gospel Singers. Everyone had a day job except for Lester. Julius Hemphill sold furniture, Oliver Lake worked in the post office, Phillip worked as an arc welder at McDonnell Aircraft. Phillip worked at McDonnell all day, like from six in the morning to three or four in the afternoon, and he might of gone home and slept a bit before playing and hanging all night. Sometimes we would be hanging at like four in the morning and he’d say, “I’ve got to go home, change my clothes, and go to work.”Hemphill was a physically imposing figure, a towering guy with a commanding presence. No one had to say it, but he was obviously the guy in control, the Einstein of everything. He was a powerful player, he had great time. And such a great composer. Eventually he was the glue in the World Saxophone Quartet, and gave avant-gardisms that were verging on tenuous more nuance. Tim Berne and I bonded over Dogon A.D.: that album was a life-changing experience for Tim.
Phillip and Lester did not discriminate about styles of music. Lester played in a circus band, society gigs, straight ahead gigs. He played with Jimmy Forrest. He met his wife Fontella “Rescue Me” Bass on a gig with the Clara Ward Gospel Singers.
Everyone had a day job except for Lester. Julius Hemphill sold furniture, Oliver Lake worked in the post office, Phillip worked as an arc welder at McDonnell Aircraft. Phillip worked at McDonnell all day, like from six in the morning to three or four in the afternoon, and he might of gone home and slept a bit before playing and hanging all night. Sometimes we would be hanging at like four in the morning and he’d say, “I’ve got to go home, change my clothes, and go to work.”
Hemphill was a physically imposing figure, a towering guy with a commanding presence. No one had to say it, but he was obviously the guy in control, the Einstein of everything. He was a powerful player, he had great time. And such a great composer. Eventually he was the glue in the World Saxophone Quartet, and gave avant-gardisms that were verging on tenuous more nuance. Tim Berne and I bonded over Dogon A.D.: that album was a life-changing experience for Tim.
The whole thing is worth reading.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 02:11 (one month ago) link
That's great, thanks! Yeah, he and Wilson played on Butterfield's The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw, one of my 60s favorites. The horns didn't get a lot of solo room, but it worked.
― dow, Tuesday, 14 May 2024 02:27 (one month ago) link
Having seen photos of Julius Hemphill I can only imagine he must have been an extremely successful furniture salesman. Who would dare say no to the guy?
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 04:48 (one month ago) link
Alice Munro, 92
― in praise of Ski Troop Attack (1960) (Matt #2), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 16:25 (one month ago) link
Kinda didn’t realise she was that old! RIP she’s great
― subpost master (wins), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 16:28 (one month ago) link
The greatest, really! RIP
― your dog is fed and no one cares (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 17:23 (one month ago) link
I'm in awe of the way she'd begin with a premise, spiral outwards to the furthest reaches of this world's galaxy, and somehow return to the premise but having been enlightened by what she showed.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 17:25 (one month ago) link
Gudrun Ure, Supergran herself, at 98.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:35 (one month ago) link
RIP Supergran! One of my earliest heroes.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:38 (one month ago) link
I think I only posted her on 'people you didn't know were still alive' about a month ago.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 18:40 (one month ago) link
greatrun
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 19:37 (one month ago) link
Oh man, Alice Munro. Love her work.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 20:53 (one month ago) link
Dabney Coleman, 92https://www.local12.com/news/entertainment/report-actor-dabney-coleman-passes-away-dead-death-age-92-melvin-howard-on-golden-pond-tootsie-movies-film-television-emmy-award
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 17 May 2024 21:05 (one month ago) link
John Hawken, keyboardist, 84Member of the Nashville Teens, Renaissance and the Strawbs
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Friday, 17 May 2024 21:10 (one month ago) link
XP Cause of death was not disclosed.
uhh, maybe his age was a factor?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 17 May 2024 21:12 (one month ago) link
That's the joke around my house — "He died of being 92."
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 17 May 2024 21:13 (one month ago) link
Overtoun House windows (aldo) at 1:40 14 May 24I think I only posted her on 'people you didn't know were still alive' about a month ago.That's me and Dabney Coleman. Just posted him to that thread on April 12.
― jaymc, Saturday, 18 May 2024 04:01 (one month ago) link
John Hawken! I actually love that first Renassiance album. and a lot of the Strawbs stuff he was on. what a cool band they were. not really folk, not really prog, just kinda liable to go anywhere in between. Hawken I believe was the main reason for that. I wanna quote some Strawbs tune about wishing your dead friends well but there are just so damn many of them
― frogbs, Saturday, 18 May 2024 04:06 (one month ago) link
Pedal steel guitarist, large-scale instrument builder and LAFMS affiliate Chas Smith. (all of his albums are great)
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 18 May 2024 04:43 (one month ago) link
Minneapolis West Bank folk legend Spider John Koerner https://www.startribune.com/spider-john-koerner-obituary-minneapolis-minnesota-bob-dylan-ray-glover-bonnie-raitt-palmers-cancer/600366946/"> https://www.startribune.com/spider-john-koerner-obituary-minneapolis-minnesota-bob-dylan-ray-glover-bonnie-raitt-palmers-cancer/600366946/
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 18 May 2024 16:06 (one month ago) link
xpost Yeah, Chas Smith plays on that forthcoming Lee Underwood reissue that I posted Drag City press sheet about (w video link) on the post-Fahey thread, followed by sleeves post of the Bandcamp link to a Chas album.
― dow, Saturday, 18 May 2024 18:31 (one month ago) link
Roger Corman
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 May 2024 05:53 (four weeks ago) link
A wait sorry. I am a week late to the party.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 May 2024 05:54 (four weeks ago) link
I see he was mentioned right before John Barbata.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 May 2024 05:55 (four weeks ago) link
Discussed briefly here as well: Roger Corman movies S/D
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 May 2024 06:22 (four weeks ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/18/politics/alice-stewart-cnn-commentator-dies/index.html
CNN contributor, former Santorum/Bachmann/Huckabee/Cruz communications director Alice Stewart.
― omar little, Sunday, 19 May 2024 15:36 (four weeks ago) link
Communications directing for those people could be fatal to your health.
― dow, Sunday, 19 May 2024 18:51 (four weeks ago) link
I was shocked by Alice Stewart's death in that she was still on air a week or two ago. Obviously she worked for some terrible people, but she was okay on the air.
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 May 2024 19:50 (four weeks ago) link
I don't know if the reaper is taking requests, but iranian president Ebrahim Raisi next please thank u
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 19 May 2024 20:07 (four weeks ago) link
You might as well root for Archduke Ferdinand to pass...
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Sunday, 19 May 2024 22:50 (four weeks ago) link
You mean he's already dead?
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 May 2024 22:54 (four weeks ago) link
not looking good is it? how sad
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 19 May 2024 23:03 (four weeks ago) link
he looks dead to me but theyre waiting on a VAR review, theyre struggling to draw a clear line across the balkans
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 May 2024 23:19 (four weeks ago) link
The referee has pointed to the spot.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Monday, 20 May 2024 06:42 (four weeks ago) link
helicopter crashes very much the van Basten penalty of world leader deaths
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 May 2024 07:46 (four weeks ago) link
Anyway, another to add: Australian yodelling pop-country star Frank Ifield, whose easy listening hits clogged up the UK charts in the pre-Beatles 60s. I thought he had died years ago, apparently not.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 May 2024 07:52 (four weeks ago) link
oh dear, a part of my childhood I recall was playing the She Taught Me How to Yodel 45 on my parents record player. It was bad, not good.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 20 May 2024 07:58 (four weeks ago) link
God, yes, I had no idea he was still alive.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Monday, 20 May 2024 08:04 (four weeks ago) link
Every few years I'd rediscover he was still alive
I really love "I Remember You"
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 May 2024 11:46 (four weeks ago) link
He was only 25 when the Beatles had their first hit!
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Monday, 20 May 2024 11:54 (four weeks ago) link
They also shared an LP iirc
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 20 May 2024 13:13 (four weeks ago) link
Yeah, what was that again? It's been awhile
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 May 2024 14:48 (four weeks ago) link
Palle Danielsson, 77, Jazz bassist
Member of the Keith Jarrett Quartet 1974-79 (Belong, Nude Ants, etc.) Also played on Jan Garbarek's Witchi-Tae-To and many other alubms.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Monday, 20 May 2024 14:58 (four weeks ago) link
"Spider" John Koerner, 84, singer/guitarist
"An important mentor to the young Bob Dylan."
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Monday, 20 May 2024 15:00 (four weeks ago) link
“I Remember You-ooooooooh”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 May 2024 16:44 (four weeks ago) link
Ivan Boesky
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Monday, 20 May 2024 17:48 (four weeks ago) link
You wish has been granted, apparently
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 20 May 2024 18:05 (four weeks ago) link
(xpost)
I know him, so pretty infamous:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/investing/ivan-boesky-dies-wall-street/index.html
― clemenza, Monday, 20 May 2024 21:46 (four weeks ago) link
I Remember You - that's the one Bjork covered, right? it's lovely.
― scanner darkly, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 03:47 (four weeks ago) link
I remember this cover https://content.time.com/time/magazine/archive/covers/1986/1101861201_400.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 05:16 (four weeks ago) link
Karl-Heinz Schnellinger has died at the age of 85.
RIP Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939-2024). He played in four World Cups but his only goal for his country forced the most famous period of extra-time of all time. I once read he admitted he was only at that end of the pitch because he’d started making his way towards the tunnel. pic.twitter.com/yUYXFzjVPf— James Campbell Taylor (@jamestaylor) May 21, 2024
― Wry & Slobby (Portsmouth Bubblejet), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 08:10 (four weeks ago) link
Hollywood Producer Fred Roos
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/fred-roos-dead-godfather-2-megalopolis-1236009965/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 May 2024 19:38 (four weeks ago) link
David Wilkie, 70: 200m breaststroke gold in Montreal '76, and double world champ:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/articles/c3ggndekv8lo
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 16:07 (three weeks ago) link
Oh wow. RIP.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:02 (three weeks ago) link
i have a photo, somewhere, of 11 year old me, puny, pasty, sat next to bronzed Olympic gold-winner David Wilkie after doing a sponsored swim.
― koogs, Thursday, 23 May 2024 04:28 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah, he was the face of "ok kids, swimming is great!" back in the day. Before that, it was Rolf Harris.
― Mark G, Thursday, 23 May 2024 13:48 (three weeks ago) link
Kabosu of Doge meme fame, age 18
― Number None, Friday, 24 May 2024 07:24 (three weeks ago) link
a decent innings then
Shiba Inus are, overall, a very healthy breed with an average lifespan of 13–16 years
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 May 2024 07:31 (three weeks ago) link
Morgan Spurlock, 53https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/24/super-size-me-director-morgan-spurlock-dies-aged-53
― Alba, Friday, 24 May 2024 14:15 (three weeks ago) link
REALLY.
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 24 May 2024 14:16 (three weeks ago) link
Younger than I thought...
― Mark G, Friday, 24 May 2024 14:34 (three weeks ago) link
this is the perfect ending for Super Size Me 2 though
― frogbs, Friday, 24 May 2024 14:43 (three weeks ago) link
Greg Philo of the Glasgow University Media Group
― mark s, Friday, 24 May 2024 15:55 (three weeks ago) link
bob schick of richmond, va bands honor role/coral/dynamic truths etc.
― mookieproof, Friday, 24 May 2024 19:31 (three weeks ago) link
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Friday, 24 May 2024 19:37 (three weeks ago) link
One of my all-time favorite songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abzP3Y1BBSU
RIP Bob
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Friday, 24 May 2024 19:41 (three weeks ago) link
big influence on drive like jehu iirc?
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Friday, 24 May 2024 20:19 (three weeks ago) link
Caleb Carr, the son of the Beat poet Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his cat, Masha, has died at 68.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 24 May 2024 21:49 (three weeks ago) link
There's part of me that wonders "if you're going to die of cancer at 53, isn't it OK to enjoy every Big Mac along the way?"
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Friday, 24 May 2024 23:37 (three weeks ago) link
yeah, I don't think a month of McD's is what killed him, he shoulda kept going with it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 24 May 2024 23:39 (three weeks ago) link
Ah man, sad news about Carr. The Alienist is a hell of a book.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 May 2024 23:48 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah RIP Carr. Alienist is an all-time great, for sure.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 May 2024 01:38 (three weeks ago) link
Had no idea about the range of his career, his wiki is a good read, "During this period, he published his first nationally noticed broadside: a long indictment, published on the letters page of The New York Times, of Henry Kissinger's foreign policy"
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 25 May 2024 04:16 (three weeks ago) link
xpost RIP. Great book.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 25 May 2024 09:58 (three weeks ago) link
Doug Ingle of Iron Butterfly, 78. RIP Mr One Riff Guy, it was a good riff though.
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/doug-ingle-iron-butterfly-dead/
― h.p. lovecraft's backing singers (Matt #2), Saturday, 25 May 2024 21:55 (three weeks ago) link
Golfer Grayson Murray, 30.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/25/grayson-murray-golfer-death-obituary
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 May 2024 22:06 (three weeks ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulDC1w1ydLI
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 25 May 2024 22:23 (three weeks ago) link
Richard M. Sherman, 95, writer (with his brother) of “It’s a Small World (After All)” many other Disney songs, also Ringo’s “You’re Sixteen”
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Sunday, 26 May 2024 00:31 (three weeks ago) link
jesus i had no idea he was still alive!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 May 2024 01:45 (three weeks ago) link
Bill Walton, at 71. Fuck cancer.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 27 May 2024 17:23 (three weeks ago) link
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 May 2024 17:36 (three weeks ago) link
Walton's giddy pride at being a full-on Deadhead was quite endearing.
https://x.com/GratefulDead/status/1750943121888977275?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 May 2024 17:46 (three weeks ago) link
Damnit, Elon...
a true original, we’ll never see his like again
also was pretty damn amazing at basketball
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 May 2024 18:08 (three weeks ago) link
Wow. I think I was watching when Notre Dame ended UCLA's winning streak. (Checked, and it was a Saturday, the one day when you'd get collage basketball in 1974.) Looking it up, Walton made 12 of 14 field goals that game.
― clemenza, Monday, 27 May 2024 18:14 (three weeks ago) link
his 1973 title game performance is probably still the most famous individual game in college basketball history: 21/22 from the field, 44 points
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 May 2024 18:23 (three weeks ago) link
"The checks bounced higher than the basketballs when Donald Sterling took over. The basketball was awful, and the business side was immoral, dishonest, corrupt, and illegal. Other than that, it was all fine."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 27 May 2024 18:26 (three weeks ago) link
RIP, you amazingly talented and goofily endearing weirdo
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 27 May 2024 18:29 (three weeks ago) link
he used to attend the Bridge School Benefit concerts in SF sometimes - I saw him once & he was just the smiliest most gigantic hippie you ever saw <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 May 2024 18:34 (three weeks ago) link
One of the most talented players of his generation, whose pro career was sadly truncated by injuries. He was always himself, though, always real. He will be missed.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 27 May 2024 18:36 (three weeks ago) link
oh man, Big Bill, love that guy
― sknybrg, Monday, 27 May 2024 18:39 (three weeks ago) link
love that big smiling weirdo so much
― brimstead, Monday, 27 May 2024 18:44 (three weeks ago) link
throw it down, big man
― Clay, Monday, 27 May 2024 18:53 (three weeks ago) link
Film Producer Al Ruddy
https://deadline.com/2024/05/al-ruddy-dead-godfather-million-dollar-baby-1235942541/
The Ruddy-Hal Needham commentary track for Cannonball Run is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5NSmTD_mUw
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 21:13 (three weeks ago) link
Albert S. Ruddy produced Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin, and for that alone I will be eternally grateful
― beamish13, Wednesday, 29 May 2024 05:41 (two weeks ago) link
Am glad someone cited that commentary track, it is almost as funny as the movie - two good old boys repeatedly crowing "We could make this film today, same script, and it would still be a hit" over scene after scene of Adrienne Barbeau escaping speeding tickets by unzipping her top and revealing her cleavage.
― a based robot like Bender (stevie), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 09:08 (two weeks ago) link
"When in doubt -- blow something up!"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 12:51 (two weeks ago) link
Marian Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama, 86.
― guillotine vogue (suzy), Friday, 31 May 2024 22:09 (two weeks ago) link
Scott Wampler - writer, critic & cohost of Kingcast pocast (i was a big fan, very sad loss)https://deadline.com/2024/05/scott-wampler-dead-co-host-kingcast-podcast-stephen-king-1235946222/he did a very funny interview in 2019 with Rian Johnson that I love where he started out with questions he didn’t get to ask Rob Zombie https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2019/09/27/and-now-an-intimate-conversation-with-rian-johnson.html
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2024 17:27 (two weeks ago) link
I must admit I wasn’t aware of him until today, but reading stuff like the Rian Johnson interview makes me wish I’d known of him earlier.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 1 June 2024 18:37 (two weeks ago) link
Kingcast was great: highly recommend the Bryan Fuller guest episodes as they are fittingly crazy & interesting & insanely long lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 1 June 2024 19:36 (two weeks ago) link
Mark Gormley!! Apparently he passed away a week ago. A songwriter in the 70's, he passed up a career in music in order to join the military, then decided to record his songs 30 years later, along with some truly incredible low-budget videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87nkJquHnAU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9J65j2GNzw
this dude became a meme for obvious reasons but I'll be damned if I didn't like his music. dude could sing too. and his power stance was legendary. rest in peace king.
― frogbs, Saturday, 1 June 2024 23:13 (two weeks ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun/02/rob-burrow-leeds-scrum-half-dies-41-mnd-rugby-league Rob Burrow, rugby league player but latterly better known for fundraising for MND following his diagnosis.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 2 June 2024 18:51 (two weeks ago) link
Colin Gibb of Black Lace famehttps://www.nme.com/news/music/agadoo-black-lace-icon-colin-gibb-dies-age-70-3761882
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 3 June 2024 10:48 (two weeks ago) link
Ed Mann, Zappa sideman/percussionist.
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/ed-mann-frank-zappa-dead/
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Monday, 3 June 2024 10:58 (two weeks ago) link
xp slow minor key "Agadoo" at the funeral or gtfo
― i love a man in a unicorn (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 June 2024 11:55 (two weeks ago) link
Agadagio
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Monday, 3 June 2024 11:55 (two weeks ago) link
nfl hall of famer and former cowboy larry allen, 52. probably the best offensive lineman of his era, and a true weight room legend
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Monday, 3 June 2024 16:07 (two weeks ago) link
Sam Butcher, the "artist" who created the Precious Moments series of Christian kitsch figurines, 85.
Sam Butcher, the soft-spoken artist whose doe-eyed, pastel-hued porcelain Precious Moments figurines ignited a global collecting frenzy and made him a wealthy man, and whose Christian faith spurred him to build his own version of the Sistine Chapel in Carthage, Mo., died on May 20 at his home there. He was 85.His death was confirmed by his son Jon.Mr. Butcher was the Michelangelo of Missouri, and his adorable snub-nosed Precious Moments characters were “the Beanie Babies of porcelain,” as The Wall Street Journal once put it. Their zealous collectors, who numbered in the hundreds of thousands, built rooms for their Precious Moments figurines, convened in regional clubs and made pilgrimages to Carthage, where they slept in the Precious Moments motel or the R.V. park, marveled at the Precious Moments Fountain of the Angels, dined in the Precious Moments food courts and wandered the 30-acre grounds. (Carthage also hosted Precious Moments weddings.)For a time, the Precious Moments Care-a-Van — an 18-wheeler kitted out like a museum, filled with figurines and dioramas that told Mr. Butcher’s life story — toured the country. There were hundreds and hundreds of Precious Moments licensees, which made hats, keychains, watches, greeting cards, books and a children’s Bible. At the company’s peak, in 1996 and 1997, Precious Moments’ global retail sales reached over $500 million each year, a stunning amount for a man who was once so poor that he struggled to buy groceries for his seven children.
His death was confirmed by his son Jon.
Mr. Butcher was the Michelangelo of Missouri, and his adorable snub-nosed Precious Moments characters were “the Beanie Babies of porcelain,” as The Wall Street Journal once put it. Their zealous collectors, who numbered in the hundreds of thousands, built rooms for their Precious Moments figurines, convened in regional clubs and made pilgrimages to Carthage, where they slept in the Precious Moments motel or the R.V. park, marveled at the Precious Moments Fountain of the Angels, dined in the Precious Moments food courts and wandered the 30-acre grounds. (Carthage also hosted Precious Moments weddings.)
For a time, the Precious Moments Care-a-Van — an 18-wheeler kitted out like a museum, filled with figurines and dioramas that told Mr. Butcher’s life story — toured the country. There were hundreds and hundreds of Precious Moments licensees, which made hats, keychains, watches, greeting cards, books and a children’s Bible. At the company’s peak, in 1996 and 1997, Precious Moments’ global retail sales reached over $500 million each year, a stunning amount for a man who was once so poor that he struggled to buy groceries for his seven children.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 3 June 2024 16:22 (two weeks ago) link
xpost oh no :(
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 June 2024 16:32 (two weeks ago) link
William Russell, British actor best known as Ian Chesterton in Doctor Who from the very beginning to The Chase, and his most recent cameo in 2022 setting a world record for character duration. Would have made a century in 6 months time.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 17:48 (two weeks ago) link
Brother Marquis from 2 Live Crew
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 17:53 (two weeks ago) link
Jeanette Charles, 96, impersonator of Queen Elizabeth II on TV and the big screen including The Naked Gun.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 07:47 (one week ago) link
... people you thought were dead. Outlived Liz at least.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 08:12 (one week ago) link
I wonder if Jeannette Charles is the only lookalike to have published an autobiography? Maybe some Elvis impersonators have (impersonator not exactly the same thing as a lookalike, though)
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3f748b_e57ae88fe3344a188767f8382139615c~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_320,h_495,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/sts_jeannette_charles_book.png
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 08:30 (one week ago) link
the guy who played Gorbachev in The Naked Gun and Rocky IV had to branch out into playing non-Gorbachev parts post-1991, having exclusively played Gorbachev up until that point. It looks like Charles didn't have any credited roles playing anyone except the Queen, aside from an episode of Mind Your Language where she plays a woman who looks like the Queen
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 08:37 (one week ago) link
I wonder if Jeannette Charles is the only lookalike to have published an autobiography?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Was_Monty%27s_Double
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 09:19 (one week ago) link
William Russell was superb in the early Doctor Who. RIP to a well liked legend.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 13:22 (one week ago) link
Aw, RIP Ian Chesterton.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 14:10 (one week ago) link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/janis-paige-dead-silk-stockings-pajama-game-1235914085/
Stage/screen/TV actress Janis Paige, 101.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 15:27 (one week ago) link
Harold Snoad, UK sitcom producer and director. Most famous for his Croft & Perry work, Bosom Manor and Keeping Up Appearances.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 20:20 (one week ago) link
That's a name I have seen on screen a lot. Like Ken Morse.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 21:31 (one week ago) link
Yeah, Ken Morse is *everywhere*.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 21:36 (one week ago) link
Nicholas Ball, very versatile and experienced British actor who got his leading day in the sun with Hazel (but was in loads of comedy things including the Young Ones as well). Also the guy Pamela Stephenson left for Billy Connolly.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Thursday, 6 June 2024 14:07 (one week ago) link
*Hazell*
Ranch Sironi, bassist for stoner rock band Nebula. He was a replacement for the band's original bassist, who died 9 months ago.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 June 2024 14:35 (one week ago) link
Sadly not a surprise, but being reported that the body of broadcaster Dr Michael Mosley has been found in Greece.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 9 June 2024 08:38 (one week ago) link
The body was found next to a fence, about 30 metres from the beach, and would have been visible from the beach.
there was a huge 5 day search effort and sounds like he died in plain sight
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 9 June 2024 10:05 (one week ago) link
Jesus. Never saw a single thing the guy was in but that's very sad.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 June 2024 10:11 (one week ago) link
He was on television quite a bit here in Australia and made some programs here. Seemed like a very personable guy, how sad.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 9 June 2024 11:04 (one week ago) link
Youtuber Ben Potter AKA Comicstorianhttps://www.nme.com/news/film/youtuber-ben-potter-dies-aged-40-3764420
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 10:41 (one week ago) link
Françoise Hardy
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 22:24 (one week ago) link
;_;
― omar little, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 22:25 (one week ago) link
aww shit :(
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 22:44 (one week ago) link
I read somewhere that she was the most photographed woman in history... until Madonna came along
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 22:45 (one week ago) link
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 23:40 (one week ago) link
I don't listen to my old CDs that much, but hers get played now and then
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 23:58 (one week ago) link
R.I.P., quelle légende. Love her so much.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 00:05 (six days ago) link
the Queen of Gallic Cool
https://best-fit.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/images/Francoise_Hardy.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 00:20 (six days ago) link
https://www.formidablemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/006_francoise_hardy_formidablemag-4.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 00:22 (six days ago) link
Jazz producer Jean-Philippe Allard.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 02:26 (six days ago) link
Jerry West “The Logo”
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 13:59 (six days ago) link
Howard Fineman
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 17:21 (six days ago) link
(xpost) Old enough to have watched him when I was too young to appreciate him (probably saw him a couple of times on TV in the early '70s).
― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 17:22 (six days ago) link
Tony LoBianco
http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/beefcake/tonylobianco/tonylobianco3.jpg
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 20:14 (six days ago) link
sigh
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 20:15 (six days ago) link
terrific in the bonkers-mad God Told Me To
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 20:33 (six days ago) link
oh man - so great in Honeymoon Killers! RIP
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 20:43 (six days ago) link
Mark James, 83---wrote or co-wrote "Always On My Mind," Suspicious Minds," "Hooked On A Feeling." Songs with legs, as this reminds:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/mark-james-dead-elvis-suspicious-minds-hooked-on-a-feeling-1235921647/
― dow, Thursday, 13 June 2024 03:03 (five days ago) link
RIP, great songwriter!
― ILX: a violent left-wing mob who hate our country (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 June 2024 06:12 (five days ago) link
'Always On My Mind' is an absolute gem of regret
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 13 June 2024 06:59 (five days ago) link
Sidney Felsen, beloved co-founder of Gemini G.E.L., dies at 99
The Melrose Avenue artists’ workshop and lithography publisher, which opened its doors in 1966, took off fast, attracting the likes of Josef Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra, Roy Lichtenstein and others, who produced pieces of modern printmaking history there over the years.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-06-10/sidney-felsen-dead-gemini-gel
― nickn, Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:16 (five days ago) link
Kevin Campbell, 54.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/15/kevin-campbell-former-arsenal-and-everton-striker-dies-aged-54
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 15 June 2024 10:20 (three days ago) link
Also Matija Sarkic, Millwall and Montenegro goalkeeper, 26
https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/15/matija-sarkic-millwall-and-montenegro-goalkeeper-dies-aged-26
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 June 2024 10:41 (three days ago) link
fuck sake
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 15 June 2024 11:00 (three days ago) link
Angela Bofill, 70.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 15 June 2024 11:27 (three days ago) link
The BBC's headline was something like "ex-Arsenal striker Campbell dies", so my initial thought was that Sol Campbell had died. Which made me feel old. Sol Campbell made his international debut in Euro '96, which was only yesterday. It's hard to think that "Three Lions" etc is twenty years old. Why is everything so dark nowadays. Why do I have to use a torch to read things.
And when I realised it was Kevin Campbell, a completely different footballer. I'm also now terrified that I'm a subconscious racist because I mixed the two players up. It was accidental, but racism is racism. Do I say racist things when I'm asleep? You tell me, Ilxor. Are my paragraph breaks racist?
The headline got me wondering about relative levels of fame. Presumably if Sol Campbell had died the headline would be "Sol Campbell dies" because everybody knows Sol Campbell. He's Sol Campbell. The most famous man to be named after the sun. I wonder if the BBC deliberately wrote the headline in an ambiguous way in order to maximise engagement. In which case it worked.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Saturday, 15 June 2024 14:31 (three days ago) link
It's hard to think that "Three Lions" etc is twenty years old.
twenty-eight years old to be precise.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 15 June 2024 14:33 (three days ago) link
― mike t-diva, Saturday, June 15, 2024 7:27 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ivy., Saturday, 15 June 2024 14:52 (three days ago) link
I wonder if the BBC deliberately wrote the headline in an ambiguous way in order to maximise engagement.
Sol Campbell was very much not a striker.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 15 June 2024 15:51 (three days ago) link
Yoshiko Kuga, 93, actress in many classic Japanese films.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 15 June 2024 16:15 (three days ago) link
Aww man. What a week - Françoise Hardy and Angela Bofill. Two favorite voices.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 15 June 2024 16:35 (three days ago) link
RIP Ms. Kuga. What a remarkable career.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 15 June 2024 16:36 (three days ago) link
Sol Campbell was very much not a striker
Also he didn't make his international debut at Euro 96. Quite a litany of errors in that original post!
― ILX: a violent left-wing mob who hate our country (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 June 2024 16:40 (three days ago) link
But, never mind that, RIP Kevin Campbell.
― ILX: a violent left-wing mob who hate our country (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 June 2024 16:41 (three days ago) link
Angela Bofill was incredible, massive versatile voice and completely nailed the transition to the synthetic 80s
― brimstead, Saturday, 15 June 2024 17:12 (three days ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtPec862uyYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ_E3hP6v0k
Jeremy Tepper. https://variety.com/2024/music/news/jeremy-tepper-outlaw-country-dead-1236039151/https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/sirius-xm-outlaw-channel-chief-jeremy-tepper-passes/
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 June 2024 02:06 (two days ago) link
#BREAKING Paul Pressler, the monumental Southern Baptist leader and Republican activist at the center of a massive sex abuse scandal, died on June 7. He was 94. https://t.co/Km6uMmocv0— robert downen (@RobertDownen_) June 15, 2024
― mookieproof, Sunday, 16 June 2024 03:10 (two days ago) link
Monumental? How fat was he? I mean, he looks John Goodman-sized in that photo, but that's hardly cause for "monumental."
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 16 June 2024 04:46 (two days ago) link
did you honestly think this was funny?
― mookieproof, Sunday, 16 June 2024 05:28 (two days ago) link
you are the ilx bill maher
― mookieproof, Sunday, 16 June 2024 05:44 (two days ago) link
Graham ‘Dids’ Dowdall, longtime music guy in a ton of interesting projects from the UK, both on his own and with others, including Ludus and Gagarin.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 June 2024 23:52 (two days ago) link
Not familiar w the later, but I’m constantly going on about how wildly underrated Ludus is.
― dan selzer, Monday, 17 June 2024 12:04 (yesterday) link
dario g
― nxd, Monday, 17 June 2024 17:58 (yesterday) link
Terrible! Sunchyme >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Life in a Northern Town
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 17 June 2024 18:00 (yesterday) link
the Sunchyme video is very much "Something you couldn't make anymore."
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Monday, 17 June 2024 18:06 (yesterday) link
Don't think it would even occur to anyone to make something like that now
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 17 June 2024 18:08 (yesterday) link
Loved how it was used in Derry Girls.
― guillotine vogue (suzy), Monday, 17 June 2024 18:16 (yesterday) link