i had never heard of dika newlin, but now she's dead and i wish i'd met her

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― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 28 July 2006 04:12 (twenty years ago)

She told The Richmond Times-Dispatch that she had always wanted to have a rock band, and hers surely carried her own brand. Who but Dr. Newlin could have taken the text Schoenberg used for the fourth movement of his second string quartet to use as punk lyrics for “Alien Baby”?

“I feel like a child more than I did as a child,” she said in an interview with People magazine in 2003. “I try more and more to live day by day, to do something because it feels good.”

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 28 July 2006 04:13 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. Read that on the way to work this morning. I'd never heard of her, and now she's my hero.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Cause of death: "...complications of a broken arm...."

???

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Old people are fragile. They should be wrapped in foam rubber at all times.

― fuckfuckingfuckedfucker (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

thanks for the read.

i enjoyed:
Reporters noted that she slept on a mattress on the floor with a medieval suit of armor dangling above.

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)

amazing article. never heard of her either, and now I must investigate further.

I was just gonna post Grizzle's quote there.

― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

wow. i can't believe i'd never heard of her.

thx for posting that gypsy.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Wow.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 28 July 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

they did an obit for her on "all things considered" on npr this evening. particularly enjoyed her performance of "murder kitty", set to a schubert composition and featuring her meowing.

― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 28 July 2006 21:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh no! I took a class from Dika when I was at VCU. Rest in peace.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 28 July 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5590263

― shanecavanaugh (shanecavanaugh), Saturday, 29 July 2006 03:49 (twenty years ago)

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