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They've been replaced by recappers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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
What the hell? ;_;
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 19 January 2024 14:05 (five months ago) link
absolutely heartbreaking
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 19 January 2024 14:12 (five months ago) link
that's terrible, wtf happened??
― omar little, Friday, 19 January 2024 14:38 (five months ago) link
car accident?
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Friday, 19 January 2024 15:01 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link