So Scary! Ah-ooo!
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 23:24 (five 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 (five months ago) link
John Barth
― jaymc, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 23:33 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
John Barth was alive recently! who knew?
― scott seward, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 23:57 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
Another novelist of note has passed: Maryse Condé
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 00:47 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
Yes, "Barth, Barthes, Bartheleme" just rolls off the tongue too easily.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 01:27 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
RIP Keith
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 April 2024 15:53 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
oh no. total hero. seen him play dozens of times. always on fire.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 4 April 2024 16:52 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
Joe Kinnear
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 7 April 2024 18:27 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
he finally found the love of a lifetime
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 April 2024 19:17 (five months ago) link
Whoa coincidence
― President Keyes, Sunday, 7 April 2024 20:58 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link