Sad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/books/14carroll.html?_r=1
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Monday, 14 September 2009 02:11 (fifteen years ago)
http://roadside6.tripod.com/images/jimcarroll.jpg
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Monday, 14 September 2009 02:18 (fifteen years ago)
damn you tripod. BUT COME ON PEOPLE, JIM FUCKING CARROLL.
i already r.i.p.'ed him over on ilm, but i'll gladly r.i.p. him again. "people who died" was in heavy rotation on college radio at the time i started listening, and as a suburban 8th-grader it seemed like a document from some distant, dangerous planet. i didn't know anything about him then, but it didn't sound like he was kidding.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 September 2009 02:30 (fifteen years ago)
as a suburban 8th-grader it seemed like a document from some distant, dangerous planet
this.
RIP
― goole, Monday, 14 September 2009 02:39 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah, hearing "People Who Died" for the first time on -- let's see, can't actually remember whether it was WBCN or WFNX and it speaks to JC's appeal that it could have been either -- late at night in my dorm room in I guess 1990 was one of the "WHAT IS THIS?????" moments I've had ten to fifteen times in my life. Not even so much "WHAT IS THIS???? IT'S SO GREAT" but "WHAT IS THIS???? THE FACT THAT IT EXISTS DOESN'T FIT INTO MY CURRENT WORLDVIEW."
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 14 September 2009 02:39 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, same here.
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Monday, 14 September 2009 02:41 (fifteen years ago)
but i was older, and getting into that whole scene he was a part of, and it was maybe 95.
well, not older...i was young, i meant that i got into him later
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Monday, 14 September 2009 02:42 (fifteen years ago)
Oh how sad. He looks so young in his picture.
― MCCCXI (u s steel), Monday, 14 September 2009 02:48 (fifteen years ago)
first club show I ever saw: The Jim Carroll Band @ The Bottom Line, NYC, December 1980
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 September 2009 02:51 (fifteen years ago)
Oh goddammit.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 14 September 2009 02:52 (fifteen years ago)
He was only 60...so sad. Thanks Jim!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 14 September 2009 03:06 (fifteen years ago)
I've only ever read The Basketball Diaries & that was, appropriately enough, when I was a senior in high school. I also had "People Who Died" on a comp CD back before anyone had CD burners & I used to put on mix tapes for people all the time.
RIP J.C. - He did more living '65-85 than most could hope to cram into several lifetimes.
― Pullman/Paxton Revolving Bills (Pillbox), Monday, 14 September 2009 03:14 (fifteen years ago)
bummer. RIP. his spoken word bit about the day JFK died is funny.
― Blanket McCulkin (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 September 2009 04:24 (fifteen years ago)
Terribly sad to hear this, RIP.
― Don't Be A Ned Raggett (King Boy Pato), Monday, 14 September 2009 05:10 (fifteen years ago)
I had "People Who Died" in my head all day and I only just now heard about his death...spooky!
― kate78, Monday, 14 September 2009 05:45 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsm9e4KDFFI&feature=related
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 September 2009 06:10 (fifteen years ago)
― fun is for people who can't cope with life (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 September 2009 06:32 (fifteen years ago)
RIP. All I know of him is "People Who Died", and so I'll let the rest of you be more eloquent while I listen to it again and again.
― your an avid hot dog (Euler), Monday, 14 September 2009 07:22 (fifteen years ago)
Nobody will ever again sing that song without adding a brand-new stanza just for JC himself.
― Random trolling, brutal snubs, darted zings & decisive bans (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 14 September 2009 07:38 (fifteen years ago)
loved basketball diaries... rip
― rich, velvety condescension (stevie), Monday, 14 September 2009 21:21 (fifteen years ago)
Pouring a double Pernod on the curb.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 September 2009 21:33 (fifteen years ago)
― President Emeritus, Fancy Chord Club (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 14 September 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago)
wow, jim carroll and patrick swayze on the same day ... what a real bummer
― Mein bester Freund, die Kackwurst, wird bis zu einem Meter groß. (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 15 September 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago)
just reviving to say that i played "jealous twin" like 5 times in a row today. great song.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 00:38 (fifteen years ago)
Check out Ken Tucker having the nerve to call Jim Carroll a poseur back in 1980:
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jimcarroll/albums/album/261609/review/5940355
Fuck you Ken Tucker.
― thirdalternative, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 20:03 (fifteen years ago)
"jealous twin" is still a great song, btw.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 20:41 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AREUrNgMhA
― thirdalternative, Saturday, 1 January 2011 16:53 (fourteen years ago)