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Title: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 04, 2005, 04:48:00 pm

Lot of death notices today.

Max Schmeling, German Boxer, Is Dead at 99

Max Schmeling, the German boxer whose legendarily brief 1938 heavyweight title bout against Joe Louis was so fraught with political and racial overtones that it was called "the undercard of World War II," died Wednesday at his home in Hollenstedt, Germany, near Hamburg. He was 99 years old.

In one of boxing's most memorable nights and surely among the most electrifying 124 seconds in the history of sport, Louis, then heavyweight champion of the world, crushed Schmeling before 70,000 fans at Yankee Stadium.

For Louis, the first-round knockout was sweet revenge: two years earlier, in what many consider one of the greatest upsets in heavyweight history, Schmeling had knocked out the undefeated, heavily-favored Louis in the 12th round.

The Nazis had embraced Schmeling after his victory over Louis, touting him as proof of German racial superiority. Schmeling never joined the Nazi Party himself. But from the moment Hitler came to power in 1933, he had walked a tightrope, seeking simultaneously to please the Nazis while maintaining his relations in New York, the world capital of boxing, where he made most of his money and where a large percentage of the boxing community - managers, promoters, fans - was Jewish.

In later life Schmeling came to be known as one of sport's finest ambassadors and a generous man who would help to pay a stricken Louis' medical bills.

Actor Ossie Davis Found Dead in Hotel

Ossie Davis, the imposing, unshakable actor who championed racial justice on stage, on screen and in real life, often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee, has died. He was 87.

Davis was found dead Friday in his hotel room in Miami Beach, Fla., according to officials there. He was making a film called ``Retirement,'' said Arminda Thomas, who works in his office in suburban New Rochelle and confirmed the death.

Ernst Mayr, 100, Premier Evolutionary Biologist

Dr. Ernst Mayr, the leading evolutionary biologist of the 20th century, died on Thursday in Bedford, Mass. He was 100.

Dr. Mayr's death, in a retirement community where he had lived since 1997, was announced by his family and Harvard, where he was a faculty member for many years.

He was known as an architect of the evolutionary or modern synthesis, an intellectual watershed when modern evolutionary biology was born. The synthesis, which has been described by Dr. Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard as "one of the half-dozen major scientific achievements in our century," revived Darwin's theories of evolution and reconciled them with new findings in laboratory genetics and in field work on animal populations and diversity.

One of Dr. Mayr's most significant contributions was his persuasive argument for the role of geography in the origin of new species, an idea that has won virtually universal acceptance among evolutionary theorists. He also established a philosophy of biology and founded the field of the history of biology.

"He was the Darwin of the 20th century, the defender of the faith," said Dr. Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, a historian of science at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Eric Griffiths, 64, Member of Band That Became Beatles, Dies

ric Griffiths, a guitarist for the Quarrymen, the rock and skiffle band led by John Lennon that eventually evolved into the Beatles, died on Saturday at his home in Edinburgh. He was 64.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Rod Davis, who played banjo in the original group.

Mr. Griffiths was born in Denbigh, Wales, and moved with his family to Liverpool at a young age. On his first day at Quarry Bank School when he was at 11, he met two students, John Lennon and Pete Shotton, who, Mr. Griffiths later said, shared an interest in "music, girls and smoking."

The friends began to play skiffle, the ragtag mix of American blues and early rock 'n' roll that captivated English youth in the mid-50's. The band rehearsed at Mr. Griffiths's home while his mother was at work, and began to perform in Liverpool. Along with other revolving members, Lennon and Mr. Griffiths played guitar, Mr. Shotton played washboard percussion, Bill Smith played tea-chest bass and Colin Hanton played drums.

At a concert on July 6, 1957 - a hallowed date in Beatles lore - the Quarrymen were heard by a 15-year-old Paul McCartney, who soon joined the group. The next year George Harrison joined as another guitarist and Mr. Griffiths was asked to switch to bass. The instrument was prohibitively expensive, so he left the group and joined the British merchant navy. He first heard "Please Please Me," the Beatles' first No. 1 hit, on the radio while on duty in the Persian Gulf.

John Vernon, 'Animal House's' Wormer, dies

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- John Vernon, a stage-trained character actor who played cunning villains in film and TV and made his comedy mark as Dean Wormer in "National Lampoon's Animal House," has died. He was 72.

Movie fans may know him best for his role in "Animal House" as Dean Wormer, who is bent on expelling the hard-partying Delta fraternity house. The movie, starring John Belushi and Tim Matheson, is one of the most popular comedies ever made.

Vernon went on to work with other celebrated filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock ("Topaz," 1969); Don Siegel ("Dirty Harry," 1971), and Clint Eastwood ("The Outlaw Josey Wales," 1976).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Guiny on February 04, 2005, 05:45:00 pm

The John Vernon one was the saddest I think. He had some good roles.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on February 04, 2005, 05:47:00 pm

Ruby Dee would probably disagree with Rob Gee.

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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
The John Vernon one was the saddest I think. He had some good roles.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on February 05, 2005, 06:15:00 am

Do flies actually "drop"? I mean they don't just pop-off in mid-flight do they? I see them on window sills on their backs buzzing frantically before expiring. And why do flies always go to window sills to die?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 07, 2005, 05:16:00 pm

Merle Kilgore Dies

Country music songwriter/manager was seventy

Country music songwriter, recording artist and manger Merle Kilgore died Sunday night of congestive heart failure related to treatment for lung cancer. He was seventy.

Kilgore wrote several million-selling hits, including "More and More" for Webb Pierce, "Wolverton Mountain" for Claude King and "Johnny Reb" for Johnny Horton. He also co-wrote Johnny Cash's 1963 hit song "Ring of Fire" with Cash's then-future wife June Carter, and served as best man at the couple's wedding.

Born Wyatt Merle Kilgore in Chickasha, Oklahoma, in 1934, Kilgore grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, working as a DJ and singing on local radio stations. At the age of eighteen, he was signed to Imperial Records and wrote "More and More" -- a number Number One country hit for Pierce in 1954. Kilgore continued his recording success throughout the Sixties, by releasing several solo albums and scoring hits with songs like "Love Has Made You Beautiful" and "Dear Mama."

In 1962, Kilgore moved to Nashville, where he became a behind-the-scenes force, managing Hank Williams Jr.'s career for more than thirty years.

Kilgore was voted the Country Music Association's first-ever Manager of the Year in 1990, and was inducted into the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 1998. He also appeared in several movies, including Coal Miner's Daughter and Nashville.

Kilgore is survived by his wife, Judy, and five children: sons Steve and Duane Kilgore and daughters Pam Compton, Kim Pomeroy and Shane McBee.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 07, 2005, 05:41:00 pm

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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
The John Vernon one was the saddest I think. He had some good roles.

It's people like you that lead to negative stereotypes of Americans.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on February 07, 2005, 11:00:00 pm

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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

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Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
The John Vernon one was the saddest I think. He had some good roles.
It's people like you that lead to negative stereotypes of Americans. [/b]

Too right! ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Guiny on February 08, 2005, 09:47:00 am

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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
It's people like you that lead to negative stereotypes of Americans. [/QB]

Brave, brave, brave man. I'll just leave it at that. :cool:

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 11, 2005, 12:52:00 pm

Playwright Arthur Miller dead at 89

ROXBURY, Connecticut (AP) -- Arthur Miller, the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman," came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, has died, his assistant said Friday. He was 89.

Miller, who had been hailed as America's greatest living playwright, died Thursday night at his home in Roxbury of heart failure, his assistant, Julia Bolus, said Friday. His family was at his bedside, she said.

His plays, with their strong emphasis on family, morality and personal responsibility, spoke to the growing fragmentation of American society.

"A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong -- if there is any root to life -- because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long," Miller said in a 1988 interview.

"Dislocation, maybe, is part of our uneasiness. It implants the feeling that nothing is really permanent."

Miller's career was marked by early success. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman" in 1949, when he was just 33 years old.

His marriage to Marilyn Monroe in 1956 further catapulted the playwright to fame, though that was publicity he said he never pursued.

In a 1992 interview with a French newspaper, he called her "highly self-destructive" and said that during their marriage, "all my energy and attention were devoted to trying to help her solve her problems. Unfortunately, I didn't have much success."

"Death of a Salesman," which took Miller only six weeks to write, earned rave reviews when it opened on Broadway in February 1949, directed by Elia Kazan.

The story of Willy Loman, a man destroyed by his own stubborn belief in the glory of American capitalism and the redemptive power of success, was made into a movie and staged all over the world.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on February 11, 2005, 01:18:00 pm

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Originally posted by ggw™:
Miller, who had been hailed as America's greatest living playwright, died Thursday night at his home in Roxbury of heart failure,

Err....don't we ALL die of heart failure?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thirsty moore on February 11, 2005, 01:27:00 pm

Jimmy Smith (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15770-2005Feb10.html). I saw him play once on a bill with Lou Donaldson a few years ago at the Blue Note. Some drunk kept pestering him, and Smith basically told the guy to fuck off.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 11, 2005, 01:29:00 pm

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Originally posted by econo:
Jimmy Smith (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15770-2005Feb10.html).

He was great on NYPD Blue.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on February 11, 2005, 02:19:00 pm

One less Doobie:

Doobie Drummer Dead (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=795&ncid=689&e=12&u=/eo/20050209/en_music_eo/15884)

The Doobies are mourning one of their brothers.

Keith Knudsen, longtime drummer for jukebox-filling 1970s band the Doobie Brothers, died Tuesday at age 56 after a battle with pneumonia.

He died at a hospital outside San Francisco, where he spent more than a month fighting the disease, band manager Bruce Cohn told the Associated Press.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on February 14, 2005, 11:30:00 pm

Sister Lucia (http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=35248)

I guess the Pope will be next.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on February 15, 2005, 06:22:00 am

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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
One less Doobie:

Doobie Drummer Dead (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=795&ncid=689&e=12&u=/eo/20050209/en_music_eo/15884)

The Doobies are mourning one of their brothers.

Keith Knudsen, longtime drummer for jukebox-filling 1970s band the Doobie Brothers, died Tuesday at age 56 after a battle with pneumonia.

He died at a hospital outside San Francisco, where he spent more than a month fighting the disease, band manager Bruce Cohn told the Associated Press.

DOOBIE DOOBIE DONE!!!!!!! :D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on February 20, 2005, 08:02:00 pm

Tammy/Gidget (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20050220/ap_on_en_mo/obit_dee)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: palahniukkubrick on February 21, 2005, 01:16:00 am

Even more flies: Hunter S. Thompson shot himself:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40737-2005Feb20.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40737-2005Feb20.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on February 21, 2005, 04:22:00 pm

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Originally posted by palahniukkubrick:
Even more flies: Hunter S. Thompson shot himself:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40737-2005Feb20.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40737-2005Feb20.html)

wow.

that's the first one in a while that really hit me ... i read his column on espn.com all the time, love his books ... fucking sucks ...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: palahniukkubrick on February 21, 2005, 04:36:00 pm

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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa03:

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Originally posted by palahniukkubrick:
Even more flies: Hunter S. Thompson shot himself:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40737-2005Feb20.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40737-2005Feb20.html)
wow.

that's the first one in a while that really hit me ... i read his column on espn.com all the time, love his books ... fucking sucks ... [/b]

if you like his column you'll probably love his article on bush vs. kerry in last year's rolling stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?pageid=rs.PoliticsArchive&pageregion=mainRegion)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 22, 2005, 06:13:00 pm

Former punter Reggie Roby, a 16-year NFL veteran and three-time Pro Bowl selection, died Tuesday after being found unconscious at home by his wife. He was 43.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/3412576 (http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/3412576)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chancegardener on February 22, 2005, 06:16:00 pm

First Creed, now Blink. Hallelujah !!!

From Billboard 2/22/05:

Blink-182 Going On Indefinite Hiatus

Confirming recent speculation that something was amiss in the Blink-182 camp, the band today announced it was going on an indefinite hiatus "to spend some time enjoying the fruits of their labors with loved ones." In a statement, the trio added, "While there is no set plan for the band to begin working together again, no one knows what tomorrow may bring."

Rumors that the band had split began circulating after Friday's all-star tsunami benefit concert in Anaheim, Calif. Blink was scheduled to play but pulled out of at the last minute due to "unexpected circumstances."

Fuel was added to the flames when Dave Navarro, who performed at the benefit with his cover band Camp Freddy, posted on his blog that Blink didn't perform because they had broken up. He later clarified his posting, saying, "I shouldn't repeat things that aren't confirmed and I apologize to the band and their fans. Honestly, it was a mistake."

Blink's four studio albums and one live set have sold a combined 10.7 million copies in the United States to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The group has posted 10 top 10 hits on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, including the No. 1s "All the Small Things" and "I Miss You."

-- Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 22, 2005, 06:26:00 pm

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Originally posted by chancegardener:
Blink-182 Going On Indefinite Hiatus

I think the drummer guy is having a reality show on MTV (ala Jessica Simpson and Dave Navarro) and it's causing problems for the rest of the band.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 28, 2005, 06:59:00 pm

I'm shocked you Apple guys didn't post this. He's credited with the great steal from Xerox, but he did so much more with it than Xerox ever did. A brilliant, outside the box thinker:

Macintosh creator Raskin dies at 61
Apple employee 31 conceived easy to use machine

The Associated Press
Updated: 6:54 a.m. ET Feb. 28, 2005

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jef Raskin, a computer interface expert who conceived Apple Computer Inc.'s groundbreaking Macintosh computer but left the company before it came to market, has died. He was 61.

Raskin died Saturday night at his home in Pacifica, Calif., his family said in a statement. In December, he told friends he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Raskin joined Apple in 1978 â?? as its 31st employee â?? to start the young company's publications department. At the time, computers were primarily text-based and users had to remember a series of arcane commands to perform the simplest tasks.

In 1979, Raskin had a different idea: A computer that's priced affordably, targeted at consumers and extremely easy to use. A small team, under his command, was put together at Apple to pursue his concept that would eventually become the Macintosh. "His role on the Macintosh was the initiator of the project, so it wouldn't be here if it weren't for him," said Andy Hertzfeld, an early Mac team member.

Raskin, who worked as a computer science professor before joining Apple, was well aware of the research being done in computer interfaces at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He worked to bring it to the attention of Apple executives. "Jef was incredibly enthusiastic about what he saw at Xerox PARC," said Dave Burstein, who is working on a film about Raskin's life.

Raskin also named the Macintosh after his favorite apple, though the name was slightly changed because of a trademark issue with another company.

Raskin led the project until the summer of 1981, when he had a falling out with Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder. He left the company entirely the following year. "One of the biggest things I give Jef credit for was putting together the very beginnings of the Mac team with some extraordinary people who didn't necessarily have the credentials, but had everything else to do something great," Hertzfeld said Sunday.

When the Mac was unveiled in 1984, it radically changed the personal computer industry. No longer were users forced to type commands. Instead, its interface mimicked a physical desktop with folders and filing cabinets. Documents could be dragged from one area to another.

The final Mac, however, was priced at an unaffordable $2,495 when it first appeared on the market and sales were disappointing after the first few months. But the concepts behind the Mac interface quickly found their way into other software, including Microsoft Corp.'s Windows.

After leaving Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple, Raskin founded another computer company, Information Appliance, and designed another computer that incorporated his ideas. He also wrote a book, "The Humane Interface," which was published in 2000.

Raskin continued to work on software that incorporates his ideas on interfaces. The first release is scheduled to take place in the next few months, Burstein said.

While best known in the computer industry, Raskin also pursued other interests. He conducted the San Francisco Chamber Opera Society and played three instruments. His artwork was displayed at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He also received a patent for airplane wing construction.

He was an accomplished archer, target shooter and occasional race car driver, friends said. "He believed in having fun, too," Burstein said. "The people who worked with him at Apple talk about how important were the toys and the games and the sense of joy that he demanded."

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7044932/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7044932/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on March 06, 2005, 08:43:00 pm

For some reason, I thought that this guy died several years ago. Must of just retired.

Chuck Thompson (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=531&ncid=531&e=9&u=/ap/20050307/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bbo_obit_thompson)

It happened almost right around the corner from me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hitman on March 07, 2005, 01:23:00 am

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Originally posted by JaguÃ¤r:
For some reason, I thought that this guy died several years ago. Must of just retired.

Chuck Thompson (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=531&ncid=531&e=9&u=/ap/20050307/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bbo_obit_thompson)

It happened almost right around the corner from me.

He had to stop announcing in 2000 because of macular degeneration in his eyes. He couldn't see the events on the field anymore, and couldn't read copy. It was a real shock. He was supposed to be a guest at a Baltimore Colts benefit I attended yesterday, and he was rushed to the hospital early in the morning. Already by 11am when the benefit started, people knew that he had a heart attack and stroke, and that he was on life support. Bad news travels fast.

It's a shame. He was a good man, and a great asset to sports and Baltimore.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 09, 2005, 11:38:00 am

Joe Carter, Guitarist in Country Family, Dies at 78

MACES SPRINGS, Va. (AP) - Joe Carter, a member of the famous Carter Family of country music, died on Wednesday at his home here. He was 78.

The cause was cancer, his family announced.

Mr. Carter, who played guitar and sang bass, was a cornerstone of the preservation of old-time mountain music and helped build the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Va., which presented shows of country and bluegrass music every weekend.

Mr. Carter was 5 months old when he traveled with his parents, A.P. and Sara Carter, from Maces Springs to Bristol in 1927 for a recording session that has been called "the big bang of country music." It started the careers of A.P., Sara and her cousin Maybelle Carter as the Carter Family trio.

Joe Carter, who performed at the Carter Family Fold, was the last direct connection to anyone who was at that original session, his friend Tim White said Thursday.

Marty Stuart, Tom T. Hall and John Carter Cash, son of Johnny and June Carter Cash, are listed among the pallbearers for Mr. Carter's funeral tomorrow. June Carter Cash was Maybelle Carter's daughter.

Joe Carter is survived by three daughters and seven grandchildren.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 10, 2005, 10:01:00 am

Country singer Chris LeDoux dead at 56

CHEYENNE, Wyoming (AP) -- Chris LeDoux, a former world champion bareback rider who parlayed songs about the rodeo life into a successful country music career, died Wednesday from complications of liver cancer. He was 56.

LeDoux checked into the hospital this week, according to Judy McDonough, spokeswoman for Capitol Nashville, his recording company.

LeDoux described his music as a combination of "Western soul, sagebrush blues, cowboy folk and rodeo rock 'n' roll."

By 1989, he had released 22 albums. They were mostly cassettes produced by his parents, which he sold at concerts and rodeos, sometimes out of the back of a pickup truck. He had a loyal, if limited, fan base.

But LeDoux soon became a country star, teaming with Garth Brooks for the Grammy-nominated, top 10 hit "Whatcha Gonna Do With a Cowboy" in 1992.

Brooks has long cited LeDoux as one of his biggest influences.

He recorded songs about cowboys, the ups and downs of rodeo life and his adopted home of Wyoming. In 1976, he became the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's world bareback champion.

In 2003, he released his 36th album, "Horsepower," and celebrated career sales of more than 5 million albums.

Among his other songs were "Hooked On An 8 Second Ride," "Copenhagen," "This Cowboy's Hat," "Even Cowboys Like a Little Rock and Roll," "Riding for a Fall" and "Honky Tonk World."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on March 15, 2005, 10:39:00 am

Danny Joe Brown, the lead singer of the Southern rock band Molly Hatchet, died of complications from diabetes, his family said Monday. He was 53.

Story here (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=495&ncid=689&e=2&u=/ap/20050315/ap_en_mu/obit_brown).

Full disclosure: I actually own a Molly Hatchet album. And it's not even "Flirtin' With Disaster".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 15, 2005, 10:52:00 am

Barebacking is certainly not without its risks.

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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Country singer Chris LeDoux dead at 56

CHEYENNE, Wyoming (AP) -- Chris LeDoux, a former world champion bareback rider who parlayed songs about the rodeo life into a successful country music career, died Wednesday from complications of liver cancer. He was 56.

LeDoux checked into the hospital this week, according to Judy McDonough, spokeswoman for Capitol Nashville, his recording company.

LeDoux described his music as a combination of "Western soul, sagebrush blues, cowboy folk and rodeo rock 'n' roll."

By 1989, he had released 22 albums. They were mostly cassettes produced by his parents, which he sold at concerts and rodeos, sometimes out of the back of a pickup truck. He had a loyal, if limited, fan base.

But LeDoux soon became a country star, teaming with Garth Brooks for the Grammy-nominated, top 10 hit "Whatcha Gonna Do With a Cowboy" in 1992.

Brooks has long cited LeDoux as one of his biggest influences.

He recorded songs about cowboys, the ups and downs of rodeo life and his adopted home of Wyoming. In 1976, he became the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's world bareback champion.

In 2003, he released his 36th album, "Horsepower," and celebrated career sales of more than 5 million albums.

Among his other songs were "Hooked On An 8 Second Ride," "Copenhagen," "This Cowboy's Hat," "Even Cowboys Like a Little Rock and Roll," "Riding for a Fall" and "Honky Tonk World."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on March 17, 2005, 12:41:00 am

Got this info from The Lovetones.

"this is sad news..i had the great fortune of having one of my colorsound songs remixed by the silver apples..you can find it on the silver apples remix album here..
www.artist-shop.com/3rdstone/ (http://www.artist-shop.com/3rdstone/)
he will be missed

Dear All,

Simeon from Silver Apples emailed to give the sad news that Danny Taylor, Silver Apple's original drummer passed away last Thursday night (10th March) in Newyork.
Danny had been rushed to hospital that night but could not be revived.
There are no further details at present.

Danny has a son, who until only a few years ago never knew his father's amazing past and his contribution as one half of the ledgendary Newyork duo who were pioneers of a destinct and original electronic and experimental sound that even today is still revered by fans from all over the world.

If anyone would like to send condolences, please email them to me and I will forward them on accordingly.

Please forward this news onto whomever you think would like to be informed.

Many Thanks

Jack"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on March 21, 2005, 03:05:00 am

Wonder if his coffin will open with side flaps (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/obit_delorean)?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 24, 2005, 02:40:00 pm

From AP via WP (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62582-2005Mar24?language=printer):

Guitarist Rod Price of Foghat Dies at 57

The Associated Press
Thursday, March 24, 2005; 9:39 AM

WILTON, New Hampshire - Guitarist Rod Price, founding member of the blues boogie band Foghat, died Tuesday after falling down a stairway at his home, a family friend said. He was 57.

The London native's solos drove Foghat to three platinum and eight gold records during the band's quarter-century career. After many years of touring he settled in Wilton in 1994.

Many in town knew Price as a loving father who never missed his son's baseball, soccer or basketball games. Fewer people knew of Price's musical background.

Price had played with Champion Jack Dupree, Eddie Kirkland, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon and Honey Boy Edwards.

In recent years, Price concentrated on his blues projects, cutting several CDs and giving private guitar lessons at his home.

Â© 2005 The Associated Press

.... And that on the heels of this (http://crossword.uniontrib.com/news/education/20050319-9999-6m19foghat.html):

Teen's love of 'Slow Ride' inspires quest

Song replaced bell used to signal lunch
By Chris Moran
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
March 19, 2005

CHULA VISTA â?? A song can champion a cause, but in the case of a clever and persistent high school senior, the song is the cause.

Daniel Dorman's tale begins with a ring and ends with an overpowering anthem. He used Gandhi-inspired tactics to confirm the power of one person to change the world â?? or at least high school lunch period.
And, as Daniel explains, "Every story sounds better with the name 'Foghat' in it."

The ring is, by Daniel's reckoning, an "E-sharp" bell that dismisses fifth period and calls Bonita Vista High School students to lunch. It annoys Daniel, and once he decided it needed to be replaced, there was only one worthy substitute: "Slow Ride," the classic rock staple by 70s rockers Foghat.

So Daniel went to Principal Ramon Leyba and asked: How about playing "Slow Ride" in place of the lunch bell?

<img src="http://crossword.uniontrib.com/uniontrib/20050319/images/foghat300.jpg" alt=" - " />
Daniel Dorman (right) hugged Matt Smith as "Slow Ride" played on Bonita Vista High School's public address system.

Leyba was amused, and told Daniel that he'd look into it. Really, though, Leyba thought that was the end of it. But Daniel was just getting started.

"Gandhi beat the British Empire by not eating," Daniel said, so getting his school to broadcast "Slow Ride" was surely attainable. Also, the 17-year-old said, "I have a lot of free time."

He put it to use with a three-page letter that eloquently made the case for "Slow Ride." He launched a petition drive for Proposition Slow Ride and gathered 300 signatures. He secured the band's endorsement. Foghat sent him what drummer Roger Earl calls "Fogstuff" â?? CDs, autographed photos and the like â?? and wished him well.

Daniel didn't get any follow-up from Leyba after the meeting, so he and his friends devised messages in their Web design class to be delivered to Leyba daily. The first featured a photo of Daniel and an ultimatum that the principal had 10 days to play Foghat. If Leyba didn't play "Slow Ride," Daniel would go on a hunger strike. It was followed the next day with a photo of Daniel holding up nine fingers.

When the countdown reached six days, Leyba called him in. Leyba agreed to play it, but just once. He said it wasn't possible to wire the song into the school's bell system, and he would not waste staff time playing "Slow Ride" each day.

It was a high point for a boy who had almost dropped out of school before he got to high school. Daniel and his mom say the trouble started when he made a threat against a teacher in a moment of frustration. It wasn't a serious threat, but in the wake of the Santana High School shootings that year, administrators didn't take any chances.

Daniel was transferred to Fifth Avenue Academy, a Chula Vista school that specializes in tough cases. He thrived there for two years and then entered Bonita Vista High in 11th grade.

Daniel previously distinguished himself at Bonita Vista High by having an apprentice â?? a student who followed him everywhere, addressed him as "The Daniel," performed menial tasks for him and dressed like him. That meant wearing a derby hat and carrying a pocket watch.

Daniel had 10 applicants for a second apprentice. They submitted rÃ©sumÃ©s providing references, listing favorite television shows and answering questions such as, "If Daniel were to decide to miss school to watch 'Montel,' would the apprentice write down a short synopsis of what Daniel missed that day at school?"

Yesterday at 12:36 p.m., the music played, and Daniel's story had a triumphant ending.

And it has an epilogue. Foghat's Earl called Daniel last weekend. The drummer thought back to his high school days and wondered what would have happened back if he had asked his principal to play Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On."

"He probably would have kicked me out," Earl said, but this Leyba "seems like a reasonable fellow."

So when the band plays at Sycuan Casino this summer, Daniel and three of his buddies will be there as guests of the band. Earl said Leyba's invited, too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on March 24, 2005, 03:26:00 pm

my god, that guy is absolutely hilarious ... great article, thanks for posting it ...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 24, 2005, 04:56:00 pm

How did y'all miss this one?

Molly Hatcher singer Danny Joe Brown, 53

By Sean Piccoli
Pop Music Writer
Posted March 12 2005

Danny Joe Brown, a founding member of Southern rockers Molly Hatchet, and singer and co-writer of the band's biggest hits from the late '70s, died on Thursday at his home in Davie of complications from pneumonia. He was 53.

The lone voice in a six-piece band that featured three lead guitarists, Mr. Brown, a Jacksonville native, matched the clamor of Molly Hatchet's music with a big, muscular growl on songs such as Flirtin' with Disaster, Whiskey Man and Gator Country. Mr. Brown co-founded Molly Hatchet in Jacksonville in 1975. The band adopted a hard-rocking sound inspired in part by the boogie and blues of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Molly Hatchet also gained a reputation for partying hard, and after 2 million-selling studio albums and constant touring, Mr. Brown quit the band in 1980, citing exhaustion. He put out a solo album and rejoined Molly Hatchet in the 1980s.

Visitation is 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Panciera Memorial Home, 4200 Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood. Services are 11:30 p.m. Tuesday at Cooper City Church of God, 9191 Stirling Rd., Cooper City, with burial at Lauderdale Memorial Park in Fort Lauderdale.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 24, 2005, 04:56:00 pm

Ska pioneer Justin Hinds passes on
Entertainment
By Basil Walters Observer staff reporter
Friday, March 18, 2005

Justin Hinds of Justin Hinds and the Dominoes fame lost his battle with lung cancer on Wednesday night, Splash understands. He would have been 63 on May 7.

<img src="http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/images/20050317T200000-0500_77047_OBS_SKA_PIONEER_JUSTIN_HINDS_PASSES_ON_1.jpg" alt=" - " />

One of the pioneers of the ska era, Hinds who has been ailing for some months, was born in 1942, in Steertown, St Ann. In the early 1960s when Bob Marley and the Wailers making their mark at Studio One and on the Beverly's label, Justin Hinds and the Dominoes (Dennis Sinclair and Junior Dixon) were making their presence felt on the Duke Reid's Treasure Isles label.

Arguably the most prolific group for producer Duke Reid in that period, the Justin Hinds-led Dominoes, drawing heavily from the Bible and popular Jamaican proverbs, recorded some of the finest ska songs including King Samuel, The Higher Monkey Climb, Jump Out A Frying Pan and Baddaration.

But it was the dawn of rock steady which gave Hinds and his backing vocalists, Sinclair and Dixon their signature tune, Carry Go Bring Come.

Although not as prominent in Jamaica in later years, Justin Hinds is a household name in Europe, especially in France where the former Island Record artiste who last performed in Jamaica on Stars "R" Us in January, enjoyed a huge fan-base.

"I'm saddened to hear of his passing. The last time I saw him was in January at the show "Stars R Us" where Tommy Cowan and myself prayed for him backstage," Lloyd Parkes, leader of We the People Band, told Splash. Both Parkes and Cowan are members of the Christian faith.

Michael Barnett, of MKB Productions, promoters of the popular vintage showcase, Heineken Startime, bemoaned the fact that Justin Hinds had not been given the recognition he so richly deserved.

"It's a pity he has passed away without getting the recognition that was due to him, even though he was well respected in Europe, especially in France. I'm happy that I was able to get the chance to work with him on Heineken Startime in December 2003. This was his only appearance on Startime, due to his heavy tour schedules, we were unable to pin him down for other performances," Barnett said.

In his tribute to Justin Hinds, President of the Jamaica Federation of Musicians (JFM) Desmond Young said, "Justin Hinds was one of the pioneers that impacted on the imagination of our people and the wider international community due to his immense catalogue. On behalf of the JFM, condolences to family and close friends."

Noted saxophonist, Dean Fraser, said respect is due to Justin Hinds as he (Fraser) just came from a tour of Europe where the name of late singer kept coming up. "We were talking about him (Justin Hinds) the whole time."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 24, 2005, 05:01:00 pm

Finally, someone other than than Traci Lords, Tim Russert, and Johnny Unitas, who shared my birthday.

Quote

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Ska pioneer Justin Hinds passes on
Entertainment
By Basil Walters Observer staff reporter
Friday, March 18, 2005

Justin Hinds of Justin Hinds and the Dominoes fame lost his battle with lung cancer on Wednesday night, Splash understands. He would have been 63 on May 7.

<img src="http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/images/20050317T200000-0500_77047_OBS_SKA_PIONEER_JUSTIN_HINDS_PASSES_ON_1.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thirsty moore on March 24, 2005, 05:02:00 pm

Carry Go Bring Come may be Justin Hinds and the Dominoes signature tune, but Rub Up Push Up is just as good!

I saw Justin Hinds and The Dominoes at Phantas sometime in the late 90's. What a great time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 24, 2005, 05:08:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
How did y'all miss this one?

Molly Hatcher singer Danny Joe Brown, 53

Bombay Chutney (http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=009136;p=1#000027) didn't.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 24, 2005, 05:18:00 pm

Ooops, you're right. I guess I was too busy mourning that Chris LeDoux guy to notice.

Quote

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:

Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
How did y'all miss this one?

Molly Hatcher singer Danny Joe Brown, 53

Bombay Chutney (http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=009136;p=1#000027) didn't. [/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 24, 2005, 05:51:00 pm

Barney Martin, 'Seinfeld' father, dead

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Barney Martin, a former New York City detective who went into show business and became best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld's father Morty on the comedian's hit television series, has died. He was 82.

Martin died of cancer Monday at his Studio City home, according to his publicist, Jennifer Glassman.

Born March 3, 1923, in the New York City borough of Queens, Martin served as a navigator in the Air Force during World War II before starting a 20-year career as a New York City police detective.

Martin showed a talent for making deputy police commissioners laugh during presentations. In the 1950s, he began writing on the side for comedy shows such as "Name That Tune" and "The Steve Allen Show."

Martin got his start in film when Mel Brooks featured him in "The Producers" in 1968. That role launched Martin into Broadway theater, where he appeared in several musicals, including "South Pacific," "The Fantasticks," All American" and "How Now Dow Jones."

He is credited with creating the role of Roxy's unappreciated husband, Amos Hart, in the musical "Chicago."

Martin also appeared in several television series in the 1990s, including "The Tony Randall Show," "US," "Sydney" and "Zorro and Son."

In "Seinfeld," Martin was the third actor to play the part of Seinfeld's father and became the one most identified with the role of the Florida retiree.

He said at the show's wrap party in 1998: "Playing Jerry's dad was like having whipped cream on top of a mountain of ice cream."

He is survived by his wife and son. A daughter died in 2002 of cancer.

CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/24/obit.martin.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on March 24, 2005, 07:23:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Finally, someone other than than Traci Lords, Tim Russert, and Johnny Unitas, who shared my birthday.

Quote
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
[qb] Ska pioneer Justin Hinds passes on
Entertainment
By Basil Walters Observer staff reporter
Friday, March 18, 2005
[/b]
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, COWBOY!

<img src="http://www.chuckleberrys.com/greeting-cards/cb002.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 24, 2005, 10:38:00 pm

Thanks, but my birthday is May 7, the day the guy was born, not March 18, his death date.

Quote

Originally posted by JaguÃ¤r:

Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Finally, someone other than than Traci Lords, Tim Russert, and Johnny Unitas, who shared my birthday.

Quote
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
[qb] Ska pioneer Justin Hinds passes on
Entertainment
By Basil Walters Observer staff reporter
Friday, March 18, 2005
[/b]
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, COWBOY!

<img src="http://www.chuckleberrys.com/greeting-cards/cb002.jpg" alt=" - " /> [/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ratioci nation on March 28, 2005, 12:16:00 am

Ex-Crowded House drummer's suicide

MELBOURNE, Australia (Reuters) -- Drummer Paul Hester from the New Zealand bands Split Enz and Crowded House has been found dead in a park in the southern Australian city of Melbourne, apparently after committing suicide, a fan Web site says.

Australian police on Monday confirmed the body of a man in his 40s was found in Elsternwick Park near Hester's Melbourne home. Police said the death was not suspicious, but they would not release the man's name.

"I am devastated. I have lost one of my best mates," former Crowded House singer Neil Finn told Sydney's The Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Hester, 46, failed to return home from walking his two dogs on Saturday night, said the newspaper on Monday.

The Web site, frenz.com, said "...Paul Hester of Split Enz, Crowded House, Largest Living Things, and many other great projects, has taken his own life."

"It is not a hoax or a rumor. At this point, it has been confirmed though we have no other details at this time."

Hester played in several Melbourne bands before joining New Zealand band Split Enz in 1983.

He and Neil Finn formed Crowded House with bassist Nick Seymour in 1985. Hester quit Crowded House in 1994.

Finn, along with brother Tim, is on tour in Britain.

"I was a big fan and liked him enormously," Australian entertainment reporter Richard Wilkins, who worked with Hester during his Crowded House days, said.

"He was really well respected. He was a great drummer and a great singer and a great band member," Wilkins said.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on March 30, 2005, 03:10:00 am

Sorry if this is a repeat as I haven't been here since Sunday night. It's not in this thread yet which surprised me.
_______________

Johnny Cochran (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050330/ap_on_re_us/obit_cochran)

(Article was too long and boring to post. Follow the link above if you are interested.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on March 30, 2005, 12:55:00 pm

Hey, did you hear? Johnnie Cochran is dead..?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on March 31, 2005, 05:04:00 pm

Some sad news for Guitar Wolf fans...
>
> For those of you who may have gotten to see or hear Guitar Wolf, you
> will be saddened to learn of the passing of Billy Bass Wolf (Hideaki
> Sekiguchi).
> Billy, the one and only Bass Wolf, passed away from a heart attack
this
> morning in Tokyo. He was 38. >
> Post thoughts/condolences/remembrances here:
> http://www.garagepunk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15955 (http://www.garagepunk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15955)
>
> From Guitar Wolf's BBS:
>
> Vigil and funeral information is as follows:
> Vigil: 18:00p.m. (non-relatives 19:00p.m.) on Tuesday, April 5
> Funeral: 10:00a.m.-11:00a.m., The Hearse to Leave at 11:00a.m. on
> Wednesday, April 6
> Place: Rinkaisaijo http://www.rinkaisaijo.or.jp (http://www.rinkaisaijo.or.jp)
> 1-3-1, Tokai, Ohta-Ku, Tokyo
> Phone: 81-3-5755-2833
> *Since there is NO parking lot, we kindly ask you not to drive to
the
place.
> We announce that all shows will be cancelled.
> We hope to have your understanding.
>
> Rest in peace,
> kopper

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 31, 2005, 06:00:00 pm

Pope Given Last Rites -- according to "Breaking News" banner on www.cnn.com (http://www.cnn.com)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 31, 2005, 06:13:00 pm

I guess the lesson here is try to avoid getting urinary tract infections.

Quote

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Pope Given Last Rites -- according to "Breaking News" banner on www.cnn.com (http://www.cnn.com)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bags on March 31, 2005, 06:23:00 pm

He wasn't drinking his cranberry juice. Too busy listening to God, probably.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on March 31, 2005, 07:39:00 pm

Don't count the pope out until you see the box go into the hole.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 01, 2005, 10:57:00 am

Frank Perdue (http://www.wtop.com/index.php?sid=464004&nid=25)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on April 01, 2005, 11:20:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Frank Perdue (http://www.wtop.com/index.php?sid=464004&nid=25)

Being from the Eastern Shore, his passing really hurts. I never met him, but I know people who are related to people who met him. R.I.P.
<img src="http://live.psu.edu/still_life/2004_09_22_careerfair/images/career_fair11.jpg" alt=" - " />
Because of people like Frank, many places on the shore smell a lot like the downwind side of a chicken rendering plant.

I briefly worked at a chicken slaughterhouse (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/aug99/chicken1.htm). It's hard work.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 01, 2005, 11:32:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Frank Perdue (http://www.wtop.com/index.php?sid=464004&nid=25)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on April 01, 2005, 11:37:00 am

Frank's Song (http://tinyurl.com/4bzwm)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on April 01, 2005, 02:41:00 pm

News Flash: Bob Marley Still Dead

story (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050401/wl_uk_afp/afplifestylebritain_050401173110)

BBC asks long-dead Bob Marley for interview

LONDON (AFP) - A red-faced BBC apologised for requesting an interview with Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae legend who died 24 years ago.

BBC Three, one of the public broadcaster's digital TV channels, sent an e-mail to the Bob Marley Foundation saying it wanted to do a documentary about his hit song "No Woman No Cry".

It said the project would involve Marley -- who died of cancer in May 1981 at the age of 36 -- "spending one or two days with us", and that "it would only work with some participation from Bob Marley himself".

In a statement, the BBC said: "We are obviously very embarrassed that we didn't realise that the letter to the Marley Foundation did not acknowledge that Mr Marley is no longer with us."

Marley would have been 60 last February 6, a date that was celebrated with great fanfare by his legion of fans worldwide.

A BBC press officer, contacted by AFP in London on Friday, confirmed that the gaffe was not an April Fool's joke.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: brennser on April 01, 2005, 02:44:00 pm

as of 1.46pm yahoo is reporting the pope has died

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: markie on April 01, 2005, 02:53:00 pm

Is that a cue for some priest jokes? ,I hear your voice go, "if you must" Oh OK then since you insist:

A priest in a confessional REALLY has to go to the bathroom and recruits a janitor nearby to sit in for him for a few minutes while he runs to the toilet...

Relunctant, the janitor steps in... views the chart of penance, and the first confession starts.

"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.... I lied to my mother."

using the chart, the janitor fogives the sin and applies the appropriate penance.

Second person comes in... "Forgive me father, I cheated on my husband."

Same thing.. he gives the chart's penance... and prays it's the last time.. hoping for the return of the priest.

The third patron comes in: "Forgive me father, for I have sinned... I was screwing my wife and hit the wrong hole."

The janitor freezes... not knowing what to say. He can't find the sin on the chart... but he does hear alterboys practicing for mass.. and figures they can help.

He ran to the alter and said "Quick.. alterboys... do you know what father gives for sodomy?"

Together in stereo.. the boys say "Usually milk and cookies!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: brennser on April 01, 2005, 02:59:00 pm

as of 2pm yahoo is reporting the pope has not died :roll:

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on April 01, 2005, 03:03:00 pm

The Yahoo headline changed from "Pope reported Dead" to "Pope's Condition Worsens".

Wow - Worse than dead? That's pretty bad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on April 01, 2005, 03:08:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:

Wow - Worse than dead? That's pretty bad.

thats kinda how i felt this morning!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Arthwys on April 02, 2005, 04:45:00 pm

Pope is dead. RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on April 12, 2005, 03:30:00 pm

Femminist & lousy lay, Andrea Dworkin (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050411/ap_on_re_us/obit_dworkin).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bags on April 12, 2005, 04:10:00 pm

She was one intense broad, that Dworkin. In the late 80s and early 90s I got pretty feminists to admire -- Naomi Wolff and Susan Faludi.

"Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us."
Dworkin, Andrea
On Feminism

"All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men."
Dworkin, Andrea
On Power

"The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it."
Dworkin, Andrea
Human Fellowship

"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership."
Dworkin, Andrea
On Marriage

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on April 12, 2005, 04:25:00 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 15, 2005, 10:34:00 am

Junior Delgado Dies (http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20050413/ent/ent3.html)

JUNIOR DELGADO, A roots-reggae singer who enjoyed a purple patch during the 1970s, has died. Musicians close to Delgado said he passed away in London on Monday at the age of 49.

The cause of death was not given.

Delgado is best known for the dancehall hit Trickster, which introduced him to the mainstream in the mid 1970s. Later that decade, he had Top 20 hits in Merry Go Round and Fort Augusta which were produced by Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare.

He also wrote songs for his good friend, Dennis Brown, Jacob Miller and Althea and Donna.

Saxophonist Dean Fraser, who played on Merry Go Round, remembered Delgado as a "hardcore protest singer". Added Fraser: "He never had many big hits in Jamaica but he always had a good following in England."

Delgado was born Oscar Delgado Hibbert at Luke Lane in downtown Kingston. In a 1994 interview with The Gleaner, he said his first recording was the song Reaction which came in 1970 for producer Joe Gibbs.

He continued to record for Gibbs as a solo act and with the harmony group, Time Unlimited, releasing several grassroots hits like African Sound and 23rd Psalms.

But, his first major hit came alongside the teenaged Brown with whom he struck up a solid partnership in the mid 1970s, recording a cover of The Heptones' Party Time, which was done for Brown's DEB label.

Trickster was Delgado's biggest hit song as a solo artiste for DEB, which was followed by Tition, a critique of corrupt politicians.

In the late 1970s, Delgado hooked up with Dunbar and Shakespeare, then the hottest production team in reggae with their revamped Taxi label. Merry Go Round and Fort Augusta remain two of Delgado's biggest hits.

Delgado lived in England for much of the last 20 years, touring Europe and working as a producer. Among the acts he produced for his Incredible Music label were singers Michael Rose, Frankie Paul and Yami Bolo.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on April 15, 2005, 12:42:00 pm

Rock and blues pianist Johnnie Johnson dies

(AP) -- Johnnie Johnson, a rock 'n' roll pioneer who teamed with Chuck Berry for hits like Roll Over Beethoven and No Particular Place to Go, died Wednesday. He was 80.

Johnson died at his St. Louis home. The cause of death was not immediately known, said publicist Margo Lewis. He had been hospitalized a month ago with pneumonia and was on dialysis for a kidney ailment, said John May, a friend and fellow musician.

Though he was never a household name, Johnson and Berry's long collaboration helped define early rock 'n' roll. Johnson often composed the music on piano, then Berry converted it to guitar and wrote the lyrics. In fact, Berry's Johnny B. Goode was a tribute to Johnson.

After he and Berry parted ways, Johnson performed with Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, John Lee Hooker and Bo Diddley, among others. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 in the ''sidemen'' category.

''He left the indelible imprint of his sound,'' May said. ``He was able to transition through any musical style because he just loved to play music.''

Johnson was born in Fairmont, W.Va., and began playing piano at 4. He moved to Chicago after World War II, where he played jazz and blues in clubs. He moved to St. Louis in the early 1950s, forming his own R&B band, the Johnnie Johnson Trio.

Johnson is survived by his wife and children.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 15, 2005, 12:51:00 pm

Jerry Byrd

Jerry Byrd is probably cited by more steel players as the single most influential player in their early musical development than any other musician. He almost singlehandedly defined the steel sound of early Nashville and created an extremely personal style whose trademark vibrato and lush tunings became the most-imitated way to play Hawaiian music.

Jerry Byrd was born March 9, 1920 in Lima, Ohio. His country and western steel guitar playing can be heard in his work with such artists as Chet Atkins, Jethro Burns, Marty Robbins, Hank Snow, Roy Clark, Ernest Tubb, Red Foley, Burl Ives and numerous others. His work with Hank Williams was done on a Rickenbacker BD-6 lap steel tuned to C6 tuning. This guitar is now in the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee.

Byrd has been a lifelong exponent of traditional Hawaiian music. In the 1960's, he grew weary of the super-hyped, pressure cooker world of commercial country music. Byrd moved to Honolulu in the early 1970's and has become a revered and much honored presence for his efforts at teaching native Hawaiian youths about steel guitar - ironically, their own instrument! He is a consummate master of all the basic Hawaiian tunings such as C6th (his signature tuning) B11th, E13th, C#m9, F#m9, and several more. He has composed several tunes that have become steel guitar standards including "Steelin' the Blues" and "Steelin' the Chimes".

His 1950's records can be found in used vinyl stores, on eBay, or on cassette from Tom Bradshaw.

There are a couple of Jerry Byrd CDs available. By far the best one currently available is Steel Guitar Hawaiian Style, Lehua SLC-7023. It includes lush Hawaiian standards such as "Pau'au'au Waltz" and "Sand"(350K .AU) as well as uptempo march tunes. It's available from Scotty's Music,314-427-7794 or Tower Records,1-800-ASK-TOWER.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 15, 2005, 01:08:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Jerry Byrd

Did he die?

Or is that post just for informational purposes?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 15, 2005, 01:12:00 pm

He died, though I couldn't find any news sources confirming this....though it is mentioned on his fan club website.

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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Jerry Byrd

Did he die?

Or is that post just for informational purposes? [/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on April 30, 2005, 09:23:00 am

Psychobilly pioneer & one man band, Hasil Adkins (http://www.hasiladkins.com/).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on April 30, 2005, 05:55:00 pm

Guitarist Bryan Ottoson of American Head Charge, the Twin Cities' best-known metal band, was found dead in a tour bus Tuesday in North Charleston, S.C.

A band spokeswoman said Ottoson, 27, died in his bunk between stops on the group's tour with Mudvayne. The cause of death was uncertain, pending an autopsy.

MTV News quoted a North Charleston police source that said Ottoson was found with a bottle of prescription drugs and that he had consumed a lot of alcohol the previous night. The band's publicist could not confirm or deny that.

American Head Charge's latest CD, "The Feeding," came out in March and made it to No. 15 on Billboard's Independent Albums chart.

In an interview before the album's release, Ottoson talked about how the band struggled with drug addiction and other personal demons after the disappointing sales of its 2001 CD, "The War of Art," which it made with renowned rock producer Rick Rubin.
bryan ottoson
Bryan Ottoson
Charles Hall
Special to the Star Tribune

"We hit rock bottom in every way," Ottoson said.

American Head Charge rose to the top of the local metal scene in the late-1990s with wild, nearly violent stage shows and a hard-hitting industrial sound. By 2001, the band had earned a coveted slot on the Ozzfest tour and a record deal with Rubin's American Recordings.

Ottoson joined the band after the recording of "The War of Art." He came to the group after stints in Black Flood Diesel and A-Pod, two other popular local rock bands.

The other members of American Head Charge were flying back to the Twin Cities from Atlanta and were unavailable for comment Wednesday.

The group's tour with Mudvayne was enjoying strong ticket sales, helped by the fact that Mudvayne's new CD debuted at No. 1 in the nation this week. Mudvayne canceled its show Tuesday but is expected to continue touring.

Ottoson's death hit hard at local rock station 93X (93.7 FM), which frequently played Head Charge's songs. Its staff plans to have a giant memorial card for fans to sign at this week's Audioslave and Slipknot concerts.

"Everyone here at 93X considered Bryan a very good friend, and we all cheered when he officially joined the band," said marketing director Wendy Ellis. "We would like to extend our deepest sympathies to his mother, American Head Charge and the fans. This is a tragic loss."

Sage Robinson, publicist for the band's record label, DRT/Nitrus, said, "We all thought of Bryan as a wonderful guy, a real sweetheart and a great musician. So there's definitely a terrible sadness."

Here's A link (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1500451/20050420/american_head_charge.jhtml?headlines=true) and Another link (http://www.startribune.com/stories/919/5360035.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on May 02, 2005, 03:32:00 pm

Rock-a-billy artist Hasil Adkins, a one-man band whose screaming vocals and freestyle approach to rhythm landed a cult following, has died at 67.

Adkins' body was found Tuesday at his Madison home, where he lived alone. The cause of death has not been determined but it does not appear to be suspicious. The body has been sent to the state medical examiner's office, Boone County Sheriff's Deputy J.M. Thompson said Wednesday.

"Someone had gone to check on him and had found him," Thompson said.

Guitar. Harmonica. Drums. Foot-rhythm instruments. Adkins played them all - often while singing. A yodel, screaming and a high-pitched female's lark were some of his many voices.

The son of a coal miner, Adkins learned to played guitar before he was 10. He claimed the only time he practiced his songs was on stage.

Known to his fans as The Haze, Adkins struggled for decades to get noticed. In a 2002 interview, he said he mailed out thousands of tapes and records over a 30-year period while fishing for a record deal.

Even Richard Nixon got one, courtesy of U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va. The president's reply to Adkins came on White House stationery in 1970: "I am very pleased by your thoughtfulness in bringing these particular selections to my attention."

"Hasil was one of a handful of artists I think (who) are truly unique and truly individual. There aren't very many people whose music you can identify in seconds. But he was one of them," said Michael Lipton, a Charleston musician and writer who wrote stories about Adkins for newspapers and magazines and later became friends with Adkins.

"And like those kinds of singular artists, they have good nights and bad nights, on a good night it was the most rhythmic, primal music I think I've ever heard," Lipton said Wednesday.

"On a bad night, it was still good."

Adkins was the original star of Norton Records, a label built around the primal recordings Adkins produced in his mountain home, beginning in the Eisenhower era.

"People told me they wondered how I could stick with it, so many heartaches and letdowns. I had 'em by the hundreds, millions I guess," Adkins said. "I said, well, I didn't start to quit."

Adkins, who claimed to have written more than 7,000 songs, first emerged hooting and wailing in the 1950s, only to disappear again. European fans kept the rock-a-billy rage alive, and when the Cramps did an early 1980s remake of Adkins' "She Said," his records suddenly became hot again.

What Adkins sang about was just as unique as his delivery, which was fueled by a 2-gallon-a-day coffee habit.

New York-based Norton Records combined new and previous recordings to release "Poultry in Motion," a collection of 15 Adkins songs about chicken from 1955 to 1999.

His "Chicken Walk" and "The Hunch" became two short-lived dance fads.

There also were tunes like "Chocolate Milk Honeymoon" and "Boo Boo The
Cat."

Despite his antics, acquaintances described Adkins as good hearted.

"He'd do anything for you, sing any song for you if he knew it," said Juanita Pridemore of Washington Heights.

Adkins often performed at Charleston's Empty Glass bar, where some out-of-town acts stipulated that he open for them.

"It was just amazing. It was like nothing you've ever heard," said Leslie Nahodil, a Boone County nurse who met Adkins during his occasional visits to her hospital's emergency room. "It was just pure,
homespun, country rock-a-billy music." (AP)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on May 02, 2005, 06:19:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by SPARX:
Rock-a-billy artist Hasil Adkins, a one-man band has died at 67.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on May 02, 2005, 07:46:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Ginger Vitus:

Quote
Originally posted by SPARX:
Rock-a-billy artist Hasil Adkins, a one-man band has died at 67.
<img src="http://www.w3bdevil.com/forums/Old-BTF.jpg" alt=" - " /> [/b]

One of a kind that Hasil.Only reason he was a one man band was coz he thought when he heard Johnny or Jerry Lee on the radio and was told that was Johnny Cash or whomever,he actually thought they were playing everything,so he learned to do it all: http://www.deuceofclubs.com/write/adkins.htm (http://www.deuceofclubs.com/write/adkins.htm) RIP Hasil!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on May 05, 2005, 07:12:00 pm

A salute to Hack (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050505/ap_on_re_us/obit_hackworth).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on May 06, 2005, 02:54:00 pm

www.hackworth.com/ (http://www.hackworth.com/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on May 18, 2005, 02:39:00 pm

The Riddler (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050518/ap_en_ot/obit_gorshin) Frank Gorshin Dies at 72

"He put up a valiant fight with lung cancer, emphysema and pneumonia," Mrs. Gorshin said in a statement.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on May 29, 2005, 08:47:00 am

WWII combat vet & Green Acres star Eddie Albert (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/27/obit.eddie.albert.ap/). RIP

BTW, Team Dupek just loves Green Acres.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on May 29, 2005, 09:02:00 am

You can add The Voice of Fred Flintstone (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050520/D8A751F00.html) and The Voice Of Tony The Tiger (http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/24/ravenscroft.ap/index.html) to the RIP list.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on May 30, 2005, 07:56:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:
WWII combat vet & Green Acres star Eddie Albert (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/27/obit.eddie.albert.ap/). RIP

BTW, Team Dupek just loves Green Acres.

Green Acres 2 hour special on TV Land memorial day starting at 8pm.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yank on May 31, 2005, 01:30:00 am

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Originally posted by SPARX:

Quote
Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:
WWII combat vet & Green Acres star Eddie Albert (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/27/obit.eddie.albert.ap/). RIP

BTW, Team Dupek just loves Green Acres.
Green Acres 2 hour special on TV Land memorial day starting at 8pm. [/b]

And let's not forget the star of Green Acres who died some time ago.....

http://www.tvland.com/shows/greenacres/character5.jhtml (http://www.tvland.com/shows/greenacres/character5.jhtml)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on May 31, 2005, 10:40:00 am

Arnold got more fan mail than the other cast members. Eva Gabor was disgruntled because of it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on May 31, 2005, 07:57:00 pm

My fave,without a doubt,is Hank Kimble.Although the show would've been much less without "good ole" Mr. Haney.He's the one who knew how to push Oliver to the edge.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on June 01, 2005, 10:00:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by SPARX:
My fave,without a doubt,is Hank Kimble.Although the show would've been much less without "good ole" Mr. Haney.He's the one who knew how to push Oliver to the edge.

BTW, Hank was also in the science fiction cult film A BOY AND HIS DOG. He fought on Iwo Jima, too. I love all of the Acres cast. Have you read THE HOOTERVILLE HANDBOOK?

Without a doubt, SPARX is the kewlest 0930 bboard member. You rawk (http://www.yourethemannowdog.com/)! <img src="http://www.slowtalk.com/graemlins/pig.gif" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on June 01, 2005, 04:19:00 pm

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Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:
I love all of the Acres cast. Have you read THE HOOTERVILLE HANDBOOK?

[/QB]

No,but I do have every episode of G.A. taped.Last thing I read on par would be Laura Palmers Diary and Bill Clinton's Little Black Book.Must research this handbook of which you speak.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on June 01, 2005, 08:38:00 pm

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Originally posted by SPARX:
I do have every episode of G.A. taped.Last thing I read on par would be Laura Palmers Diary

Hooterville Handbook (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312088116/qid=1117672654/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-2843359-5207144?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) on Amazon, but you can find it cheaper on eBaY.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on June 02, 2005, 01:42:00 am

I'm more a Beverly Hillbillies fan myself.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on June 02, 2005, 01:51:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by JaguÃ¤r:
I'm more a Beverly Hillbillies fan myself.

They all come from the same gene pool :D :cool: http://www.poobala.com/hooterville.html (http://www.poobala.com/hooterville.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on June 02, 2005, 11:00:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by JaguÃ¤r:
I'm more a Beverly Hillbillies fan myself.

The Beverly Hillbillies was unique...a parody of The Grapes of Wrath. Who would've thunk it? I don't know how they pulled it off. Even Hogan's Heroes was tasteful, by that standard.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on June 02, 2005, 04:29:00 pm

NBA great George Mikan dies
Associated Press
Posted: 36 minutes ago

George Mikan, professional basketball's first dominant big man who led the Minneapolis Lakers to five championships, died at a Scottsdale rehabilitation center, family members said Thursday. He was 80.

Mikan had suffered from diabetes and kidney failure. One leg was amputated several years ago, and he recently was hospitalized for six weeks for treatment of a diabetes wound in the other leg. He also underwent kidney dialysis three days a week.

Last Saturday, he was moved from the hospital to the rehabilitation center, his son, Terry, said. He died Wednesday night, according to family members.

Six-foot-10, nearsighted with thick glasses, Mikan was so effective as a center at DePaul that he forced the NCAA to adopt the goaltending rule.

As a professional, Mikan dominated from the moment he arrived.

Mikan's Lakers won five league titles in the first six years of the franchise's history. A rough player, Mikan led the league in personal fouls three times and had 10 broken bones during his playing career. He averaged 23.1 points per game in seven seasons with Minneapolis before retiring because of injuries in 1956. Mikan was the league's MVP in the 1948-49 season, when he averaged 28.3 points - a phenomenal total in that era - in leading the Lakers to the NBA title.

"He obviously was the first of the real high-profile players," Boston Celtic great Bob Cousy said when told of Mikan's death. "He literally carried the league. He gave us recognition and acceptance when we were at the bottom of the totem pole in professional sports. He transcended the game. People came to see him as much as they came to see the game."

A statue was erected in honor of the NBA Hall of Famer at the Target Center in Minneapolis.

"When I think about George Mikan, I skip all the Wilt Chamberlains and Kareem Abdul-Jabbars and I call him the 'The Original Big Man,"' current Minnesota star Kevin Garnett once said. "Without George Mikan, there would be no up-and-unders, no jump hooks, and there would be no label of the big man."

Long before the term was invented, Mikan was the league's first superstar.

"It was certainly fair to say he was the Michael Jordan of his time, but I take it another step," Vern Mikkelsen, Mikan's Hall of Fame teammate, once said. "He was Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, all rolled into one in our time.

"Everywhere we went, George was immediately recognized not just because he's tall but because he was immaculately dressed and he had the glasses on and he had a big smile on his face. He was inundated, absolutely inundated."

Teams and leagues were often short-lived in pro basketball's early days. Mikan's first title came with the National Basketball League, his second with the Basketball Association of America. The rest were with the NBA, formed when the two league's merged in 1949.

Mikan coached the Lakers for part of the 1957-58 season, and was commissioner of the American Basketball Association in 1967, introducing the 3-point line and the distinctive red, white and blue ball.

"We were trying to get the network television contract, and I thought the typical brown ball was very hard to see in a large auditorium," Mikan said. "I decided on a ball with different-colored panels of red, white and blue for three reasons. First, it was patriotic; second, the TV viewability was just fantastic; and third, because of the salability of the ball. The young kids really liked it. In fact, we ran product comparison tests and the youngsters invariably chose our ball over the others."

In recent years, Mikan spoke out against the small pensions given to those who played in the league before 1965. Terry Mikan said most of his father's awards and memorabilia had been sold. Mikan received a monthly pension check of $1,000, his son said.

Born June 18, 1924 in Joliet, Ill., Mikan didn't play high school basketball, but when he entered DePaul, first-year coach Ray Meyer worked to transform him, monitoring exercises and drills that led to a devastating hook shot with either hand.

Mikan was the tournament's MVP when DePaul won the 1945 National Invitation Tournament, scoring 53 points against Rhode Island.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on June 03, 2005, 03:25:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:

Quote
Originally posted by JaguÃ¤r:
I'm more a Beverly Hillbillies fan myself.
The Beverly Hillbillies was unique...a parody of The Grapes of Wrath. Who would've thunk it? I don't know how they pulled it off. Even Hogan's Heroes was tasteful, by that standard. [/b]

Oh, Hogan's Heroes is another favorite of mine!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 01, 2005, 07:39:00 pm

R&B Crooner Luther Vandross Dies at 54
- By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP Music Writer
Friday, July 1, 2005
(07-01) 15:55 PDT New York (AP) --

Grammy award winner Luther Vandross, whose deep, lush voice on such hits as "Here and Now" and "Any Love" sold more than 25 million albums while providing the romantic backdrop for millions of couples worldwide, died Friday. He was 54.

Vandross died at John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, N.J., said hospital spokesman Rob Cavanaugh. He did not release the cause of death.

Since suffering a stroke in his Manhattan home on April 16, 2003, the R&B crooner stopped making public appearances â?? but amazingly managed to continue his recording career. In 2004, he captured four Grammys as a sentimental favorite, including best song for the bittersweet "Dance With My Father."

Vandross, who was still in a wheelchair at the time, delivered a videotaped thank you.

"Remember, when I say goodbye it's never for long," said a weak-looking Vandross. "Because" â?? he broke into his familiar hit â?? "I believe in the power of love."

Vandross also battled weight problems for years while suffering from diabetes and hypertension.

He was arguably the most celebrated R&B balladeer of his generation. He made women swoon with his silky yet forceful tenor, which he often revved up like a motor engine before reaching his beautiful crescendos.

Vandross was a four-time Grammy winner in the best male R&B performance category, taking home the trophy in 1990 for the single "Here and Now," in 1991 for his album "Power of Love," in 1996 for the track "Your Secret Love" and a last time for "Dance With My Father."

The album, with its single of the same name, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts while Vandross remained hospitalized from his stroke. It was the first time a Vandross album had topped the charts in its first week of release.

In 2005, he was nominated for a Soul Train Music Award for a duet with Beyonce on "The Closer I Get To You."

Vandross' sound was so unusual few tried to copy it; even fewer could.

"I'm proud of that â?? it's one of the things that I'm most proud of," he told The Associated Press in a 2001 interview. "I was never compared to anyone in terms of sound."

Vandross' style harkened back to a more genteel era of crooning. While many of his contemporaries and successors belted out tunes that were sexually charged and explicit, Vandross preferred soft pillow talk and songs that spoke to heartfelt emotions.

"I'm more into poetry and metaphor, and I would much rather imply something rather than to blatantly state it," he said. "You blatantly state stuff sometimes when you can't think of a a poetic way to say it."

A career in music seemed predestined for the New York native; both his parents were singers, and his sister, Patricia, was part of a 1950s group called the Crests.

But he happily toiled in the musical background for years before he would have his first hit. He wrote songs for projects as varied as a David Bowie album ("Fascination") and the Broadway musical "The Wiz" ("Everybody Rejoice (Brand New Day)"), sang backup for acts such as Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand, and even became a leading commercial jingle singer.

Vandross credited singer Roberta Flack for prodding him to move into the spotlight after listening to one of his future hits, "Never Too Much."

"She started crying," he recalled. "She said, `No, you're getting too comfortable (in the background). ... I'm going to introduce you to some people and get your career started.'"

Vandross' first big hit came as the lead vocalist for the group Change, with their 1980 hit, "The Glow of Love." That led to a recording contract with Epic Records, and in 1981, he made his solo recording debut with the disc "Never Too Much." The album, which contained his aching rendition of "A House is Not a Home," became an instant classic.

Over the years, Vandross would emerge as the leading romantic singer of his generation, racking up one platinum album after another and charting several R&B hits, such as "Superstar,""Give Me The Reason" and "Love Won't Let Me Wait."

Yet, while Vandross was a household name in the black community, he was frustrated by his failure to become a mainstream pop star. Indeed, it took Vandross until 1990 to score his first top 10 hit â?? the wedding staple "Here & Now."

"I just wanted more success. I didn't want to suddenly start wearing blond wigs to appeal to anyone," he told the AP.

"This is the same voice that sang Pepsi-Cola, Coca-Cola, NBC 'proud as a peacock,' ... America, the world, has heard the voice, so there's no reason that that music shouldn't have gone the complete distance, I mean, to number one."

Another frustration for Vandross was his lifelong battle with obesity. Health problems ran in his family, and Vandross struggled for years to control his waistline. When he first became a star, he was a hefty size; a few years later, he was almost skinny. His weight fluctuated so much that rumors swirled that he had more serious health problems than the hypertension and diabetes caused by his large frame.

Vandross' two sisters and a brother died before him. The lifelong bachelor never had any children, but doted on his nieces and nephews. The entertainer said his busy lifestyle made marriage difficult; besides, it wasn't what he wanted.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 01, 2005, 08:00:00 pm

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Originally posted by vansmack:
In 2004, he captured four Grammys as a sentimental favorite, including best song for the bittersweet "Dance With My Father."

it feels like every fucking grammy is awarded to "sentimental favorites" ... it doesnt happen as much in any of the other big, reputable awards

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on July 04, 2005, 01:17:00 pm

First, Luther Vandross! Now, Obie Benson of The Four Tops has passed away. (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050702/D8B3H2580.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hitman on July 04, 2005, 09:45:00 pm

Shelby Foote (http://nytimes.com/2005/06/29/books/29foote.html)
Brian Pohanka (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/04/national/04pohanka.html?)

For anyone interested in the Civil War.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on July 06, 2005, 02:18:00 pm

James Stockdale, Perot Running Mate, Dies

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 6, 2005
Filed at 11:41 a.m. ET

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Retired Vice Adm. James Stockdale, Ross Perot's 1992 presidential running mate who received the Medal of Honor after enduring 7 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese prison, died Tuesday. He was 81.

The Navy did not provide a cause of death but said he had suffered from Alzheimer's disease. He died at his home in Coronado.

In the 1992 presidential election, Stockdale became independent candidate Perot's vice presidential running mate, initially as a stand-in on the ticket but later as the candidate.

Stockdale gave a stumbling performance in the nationally televised vice-presidential debate against Dan Quayle and Al Gore and later said he didn't feel comfortable in the public eye.

"Who am I? Why am I here?" he asked rhetorically in his opening statement. Toward the end, he asked the moderator to repeat a question, saying, "I didn't have my hearing aid turned on."

During the Vietnam War, Stockdale was a Navy fighter pilot based on the USS Oriskany and flew 201 missions before he was shot down on Sept. 9, 1965. He became the highest-ranking naval officer captured during the war, the Navy said.

Stockdale was taken to Hoa Lo Prison, known as the "Hanoi Hilton." His shoulders were wrenched from their sockets, his leg had been shattered by angry villagers and a torturer, and his back was broken. But he refused to capitulate.

Rather than allow himself to be used in a propaganda film, Stockdale smashed his face into a pulp with a mahogany stool.

"My only hope was to disfigure myself," Stockdale wrote in his 1984 autobiography "In Love and War." The ploy worked, but he spent the next two years in leg irons.

After Ho Chi Minh's death, he broke a glass pane in an interrogation room and slashed his wrists until he passed out in his own blood. After that, captors relented in their harsh treatment of him and his fellow prisoners.

Stockdale spent four years in solitary confinement before his release in 1973.

He received 26 combat decorations, including the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest medal for valor, in 1976. The citation reads, "By his heroic action at great peril to himself, he earned the everlasting gratitude of his fellow prisoners and of his country."

He retired from the military in 1979, one of the most highly decorated officers in U.S. Navy history, and became president of the Citadel, a military college in South Carolina. He left in 1981 to become a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.

Stockdale came to know Perot through Sybil Stockdale's work establishing an organization on behalf of families of prisoners held during the Vietnam War.

When Perot ran again in 1996 as the candidate of his Reform Party, Stockdale had rejoined the Republican Party.

He is survived by his wife and four sons.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on July 06, 2005, 02:38:00 pm

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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
James Stockdale, Perot Running Mate, Dies

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 6, 2005
Filed at 11:41 a.m. ET

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Retired Vice Adm. James Stockdale, Ross Perot's 1992 presidential running mate who received the Medal of Honor after enduring 7 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese prison, died Tuesday. He was 81.

GRIDLOCK!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 06, 2005, 02:39:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
James Stockdale, Perot Running Mate, Dies

phil hartman did one hell of a james stockdale

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on July 14, 2005, 05:35:00 pm

<img src="http://www.tonkco.com/computercoach/graphics/charlie-tuna.png" alt=" - " />
Charlie the Tunaâ?? creator drowns (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8513614/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Chip Chanko on July 14, 2005, 10:06:00 pm

Q and Not U broke up (http://www.qandnotu.org/news/index.html).

edit: oops...old news (http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=010537).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on July 17, 2005, 10:37:00 pm

Driver charged with triple murder in crash
Woman allegedly had a death wish

By Brian Cox and Lolly Bowean, Chicago Tribune.
Three Chicago musicians who worked regular jobs by day and rocked at
night were killed when a young woman bent on ending her life barreled
into their car on a Skokie street, law enforcement officials said
Friday.

Jeanette Sliwinski, 23, has been charged with three counts of
first-degree murder after telling police investigating Thursday's
crash at Niles Center Road that she had been in a fight with her
mother and "wanted to end it all," authorities said.

Sliwinski, of the 8900 block of Parkside Street, Morton Grove, was
going at least 70 m.p.h. eastbound on Dempster Street and had run
three red lights when she rammed her 2000 Ford Mustang into the car
carrying the three co-workers who were out for lunch, authorities
said.

Killed were Michael Dahlquist, 39, of the 4800 block of South Ashland
Avenue; John Glick, 35, of the 2800 block of West Palmer Street; and
Douglas Meis, 29, of the 4500 block of North Lincoln Avenue, all in
Chicago. Condolences buzzed across music-related Web sites as
friends and fans shared the news. The men were in the prime of their
lives, and more concerned about touching people with their art than
making hit records, friends and relatives said.

"They were people who were so smart and brilliant and amazing," said
Rebecca Crawford, Glick's wife. "Everyone feels cheated that they
haven't been able to accomplish what they set out to do."

Dahlquist, who moved to Chicago from Washington state five years ago,
played drums for Silkworm, a band praised by critics for its
independence and eagerness to experiment.

Glick grew up in Boston and moved to Chicago six years ago. He was a
guitarist and singer with the Returnables. Meis played drums with
Glick's wife in a band called The Dials, described by Matt Priest, a
talent buyer, as "loud and noisy but super melodic and super poppy."

"Michael was friendly to an extreme. He was a very outgoing and upbeat
guy," said Tim Midgett,who played bass and guitar with him.

Without Dahlquist, the band is over, he said. "He can't be replaced."

By day, the three worked together at Shure Inc. in Niles, which
manufactures microphones and other audio electronic products, said
Paul Applebaum, company vice president.

The deaths "really devastated a lot of people here," Applebaum said.
"We are trying to make some sense of it ourselves. These people were
highly respected and well-liked around here."

Sliwinski, who is in fair condition at St. Francis Hospital in
Evanston, declined to be interviewed, hospital spokeswoman Christine
Rybicki said. Sliwinski also has been charged with two counts of
aggravated battery, authorities said.

People who answered the door at her Morton Grove home declined to
comment.

Skokie police said Sliwinski was not tested for alcohol or drugs.

Police did not say if she was wearing a seat belt at the time of the
crash.

The three men were stopped at a red light at about 12:20 p.m. when
their Honda Civic was rammed from behind, said Colleen Daly, Cook
County assistant state's attorney.

Daly said Sliwinski made no attempt to stop. Her car pushed the Honda
into the car in front of it, injuring two others, and a fourth vehicle
received minor damage, the prosecutor said.

The Honda and Ford went airborne and flipped over, with one of the
victims being ejected. The brakes in Sliwinski's car were functioning
properly, Daly said.

The Cook County medical examiner's office Friday ruled the deaths
homicides.

"She said she wanted to end it all when she ran into the back of the
car," Daly said.

Cook County Circuit Court Judge Consuela Bedoya ordered that Sliwinski
be held without bond Friday. She is under guard at the hospital.

Prosecutors may seek the death penalty, Daly said.

Cook County court records show Sliwinski pleaded guilty April 5, 1999,
to retail theft and was sentenced to community service. On Jan. 21,
2000, she pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol as a minor and paid a
$100 fine, records show.

Applebaum said grief counselors were helping Shure employees Friday.

"Some people who knew them had to leave work," said Applebaum, adding
that customers also were upset and offering sympathy.

"The remarkable thing is how many people said they knew these people
personally," he said.

Glick was a senior marketing specialist and had been with Shure since
June 2001. Dahlquist was a senior technical writer who started with
the company in October 2001. Meis started in December 1998 and was a
customer service specialist.

Crawford said she was still in shock over the deaths.

"The three of them created an enormous amount of laughter and
happiness in others lives," she said. "They had a certain exuberance
about life that is really hard to come by."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on July 17, 2005, 10:53:00 pm

That is really fucking sad. I hope that bitch rots in jail for a long long time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: amnesiac on July 18, 2005, 10:06:00 am

Motorist held in fatal crash seeks forgiveness

By Brian Cox
Special to the Tribune
Published July 18, 2005

A woman accused of killing three Chicago men in Skokie last week when she rammed her car into their vehicle in an alleged attempt to kill herself issued a statement from her hospital bed asking for forgiveness.

"I pray and beg for forgiveness from everyone who is saddened by the deaths," Jeanette Sliwinski said in a written statement. The statement was released Saturday by attorney Thomas Needham on behalf of Sliwinski and her parents, Ted and Ursula.

On Friday, Sliwinski, 23, of the 8900 block of North Parkside Avenue, Morton Grove, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated battery in connection with the fatal crash Thursday at Niles Center Road and Dempster Street.

Killed were Michael Dahlquist, 39, John Glick, 35 and Douglas Meis, 29, police said. The three were friends and part-time musicians. Police said they worked at Shure Inc. in Niles.

Prosecutors said Friday that after the crash Sliwinski told investigators she intentionally drove her speeding car into the men's vehicle in an attempt to kill herself.

They said witnesses reported that Sliwinski drove her 2000 Ford Mustang at least 70 m.p.h. eastbound on Dempster and that she ran three red lights before she hit the men's vehicle, which was stopped at a red light.

"If we had an explanation for what happened, we would tell you what it is, but we have no explanation. We have only our heartfelt grief and prayers," the statement said. "We are all praying for the families of these fine young men and for the many friends whose lives were touched by their music and love."

Two people in another car stopped at the intersection received non-life-threatening injuries in the crash, police said.

Needham said Sunday that Sliwinski was under police guard at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston in fair condition.

On Friday, a Cook County judge ordered Sliwinski be held without bail when she is released from the hospital.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on July 18, 2005, 10:08:00 am

I was saddened, and I forgive her, but she still must do her time for the crime.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hitman on July 19, 2005, 02:22:00 am

Jim Parker from the Baltimore Colts dead at 71.

I actually met him, and he was such a wonderful person. It's a true shame. Present day football players can't hold the jockstraps of these old gridiron greats.

web page (http://www.thewbalchannel.com/nfl/4738223/detail.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on July 19, 2005, 09:14:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
I was saddened, and I forgive her, but she still must do her time for the crime.

Clearly you are more troubled by the premise of The Wedding Crashers than these deaths....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on July 19, 2005, 09:52:00 am

Not true.

I don't know how you could possible make a stupid statement like that.

Quote

Originally posted by Hello, My Name is Chaz:

Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
I was saddened, and I forgive her, but she still must do her time for the crime.
Clearly you are more troubled by the premise of The Wedding Crashers than these deaths.... [/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on July 19, 2005, 10:20:00 am

Funny...I find myself asking the same question about your posts on a daily basis.

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:

I don't know how you could possible make a stupid statement like that.

Quote
Originally posted by Hello, My Name is Chaz:

Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
I was saddened, and I forgive her, but she still must do her time for the crime.
Clearly you are more troubled by the premise of The Wedding Crashers than these deaths.... [/b]
[/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on July 19, 2005, 10:26:00 am

Well I don't make stupid comments pretending to know your feelings. You made a stupid, uninformed statement about mine.

I actually read about that accident over the weekend, and it really made me quite sick and sad. I was going to post it on this thread, but didn't get around to it.

Quote

Originally posted by Hello, My Name is Chaz:
Funny...I find myself asking the same question about your posts on a daily basis.

Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:

I don't know how you could possible make a stupid statement like that.

Quote
Originally posted by Hello, My Name is Chaz:

Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
I was saddened, and I forgive her, but she still must do her time for the crime.
Clearly you are more troubled by the premise of The Wedding Crashers than these deaths.... [/b]
[/b]
[/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on July 19, 2005, 10:51:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Well I don't make stupid comments pretending to know your feelings.

but you make stupid uninformed comments about almost everything else.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Guiny on July 19, 2005, 10:52:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by hitman:
Present day football players can't hold the jockstraps of these old gridiron greats.
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Nor would they want to, that's pretty gross.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on July 19, 2005, 10:53:00 am

You obviously just haven't gotten around to it yet then.

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Well I don't make stupid comments pretending to know your feelings.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on July 19, 2005, 10:57:00 am

Naw, I'll let you have the market on that type of stupid comment.

Quote

Originally posted by Hello, My Name is Chaz:
You obviously just haven't gotten around to it yet then.

Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Well I don't make stupid comments pretending to know your feelings.

[/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on July 19, 2005, 11:10:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Naw, I'll let you have the market on that type of stupid comment.

cause we dont need a monopoly around here!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on July 19, 2005, 12:06:00 pm

Westy's dead (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/18/obit.westmoreland.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on July 21, 2005, 03:33:00 pm

I think I actually saw this guy play when I lived in London in the Summer of 89...

Ska 'Godfather' Aitken dies at 78
Singer Laurel Aitken, known as the "Godfather of Ska", has died at the age of 78.
Aitken, who was raised in Jamaica before emigrating to the UK, died of a heart attack.

"Laurel was a great man and a good man, the Godfather of Ska and someone who was deeply loved," Mark Wyeth, promoter of Club Ska live music nights, said.

Aitken was at the forefront of the ska movement, and had the first recording released on the Island Records label.

Born Oliver Stephens, his family moved from Cuba to Jamaica when he was 10.

His early singing career saw him entertaining tourists singing calypso for the Jamaican Tourist Board at Kingston Harbour.

Aitken's first recording was the 1957 single Roll Jordan Roll, followed by Boogie Rock.

He moved to London in 1960, where the demand for Jamaican music was growing.

As well as appealing to the African and West Indian population in the UK, he also drew in skinheads and mods.

Although he semi-retired in the 1970s, basing himself in Leicester, he still performed with a number of ska bands, and retained a cult following.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: amnesiac on July 21, 2005, 03:40:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
I think I actually saw this guy play when I lived in London in the Summer of 89...

Ska 'Godfather' Aitken dies at 78
Singer Laurel Aitken, known as the "Godfather of Ska", has died at the age of 78.
Aitken, who was raised in Jamaica before emigrating to the UK, died of a heart attack.

"Laurel was a great man and a good man, the Godfather of Ska and someone who was deeply loved," Mark Wyeth, promoter of Club Ska live music nights, said.

Aitken was at the forefront of the ska movement, and had the first recording released on the Island Records label.

Born Oliver Stephens, his family moved from Cuba to Jamaica when he was 10.

His early singing career saw him entertaining tourists singing calypso for the Jamaican Tourist Board at Kingston Harbour.

Aitken's first recording was the 1957 single Roll Jordan Roll, followed by Boogie Rock.

He moved to London in 1960, where the demand for Jamaican music was growing.

As well as appealing to the African and West Indian population in the UK, he also drew in skinheads and mods.

Although he semi-retired in the 1970s, basing himself in Leicester, he still performed with a number of ska bands, and retained a cult following.

Very sad news. I think he played Phantasmagoria way back when that was still around. Really regret missing that show...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on July 21, 2005, 03:51:00 pm

Sad indeed. I'll have to bust this out when I get home:

<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005HPT.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" alt=" - " />

Quote

Originally posted by amnesiac:

Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
I think I actually saw this guy play when I lived in London in the Summer of 89...

Ska 'Godfather' Aitken dies at 78
Singer Laurel Aitken, known as the "Godfather of Ska", has died at the age of 78.

Very sad news. I think he played Phantasmagoria way back when that was still around. Really regret missing that show... [/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: amnesiac on July 21, 2005, 04:35:00 pm

Hope I still have this:

<img src="http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drd800/d844/d84453co86s.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thirsty moore on July 21, 2005, 04:50:00 pm

I was on a big first wave ska binge the summer he played Phantas and went to see him. That was a good summer at Phantas. Justin Hinds played a gig there as well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on July 24, 2005, 05:27:00 pm

Probably only a few of us know who this legend is, let alone care. A real shame because he was great in his day! Even Elton John's contribution was incredibly good...and I can't stand Elton John.

FYI: The 'John' part of Elton John's name came from this man.
_____________________

LONG JOHN BALDRY 1941-2005 (http://www.nme.com/news/113110.htm)

British blues man LONG JOHN BALDRY has died aged 64.

The singer had been fighting a chest infection for four months and passed away yesterday (July 22) at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada, BBC News reports.

Baldry had a single number one hit in 1967 with â??Let The Heartaches Beginâ??, but had been sighted as a strong influence on Eric Clapton, and was friends with Sir Paul McCartney.

A pioneer of British rock n roll, Baldry performed during the early days at the Cavern in Liverpool before going on to work with the likes of Rod Stewart and Elton John, both of whom appeared on his solo album â??It Ain't Easyâ??.

Emigrating to Canada in 1991, Baldry became know for his voice over work and in 1998 won a Grammy nomination for his Disney narration.

He continued to record solo albums, and also played the voice of Sonic The Hedgehogâ??s nemesis Dr Robotnik in the video game.
____________________________

This is the album to get (but the cover looks a little different from my LP):

<img src="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre600/e680/e68061mv18p.jpg" alt=" - " />
click me (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4721DD947AD7220EE933851C8A651EB1DDB50DAA91321435992B63E45913A66C474FFA596F8B672AB7BABE02CA45A0A9FCFE457F4D6653E2DED93&sql=10:5kd2vwvta9qk)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on July 25, 2005, 01:30:00 pm

Ex-con, crime writer and movie star, Ed Bunker, dies at 71 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050725/ts_alt_afp/afpentertainmentus_050725153422)

1 hour, 56 minutes ago

Crime novelist Edward Bunker, who learned to write in prison and appeared in the movie "Reservoir Dogs," has died in hospital in Burbank, California. He was 71.

Bunker, a diabetic, died on July 19 from complications arising from surgery to improve circulation in his legs, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing Bunker's longtime friend, screenwriter Robert Dellinger.

Bunker's hard-boiled and unapologetic crime novels were informed by his personal experiences in a society of criminals in general and by his time in the penal system in particular.

He started on a criminal career at a very early age, and became a repeat prison inmate, serving time for bank robbery, drug dealing, extortion, armed robbery and forgery.

The turning point in his life came with the 1973 publication, while he was still in prison, of "No Beast So Fierce," a novel about a paroled thief whose attempt to reenter mainstream society fails.

When he was paroled in 1975, Bunker, who had spent eighteen years of his life in various institutions, turned his back on the criminal life to earn a living writing and acting.

His other novels dealing with crime and life behind bars included "The Animal Factory," "Little Boy Blue" and "Dog Eat Dog."

As well as Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs," in which he played the character Mr. Blue, Bunker also appeared in such movies as "The Running Man," (1982) and "Tango and Cash" (1989).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on July 26, 2005, 10:01:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by JaguÃ¤r:
[QB] His other novels dealing with crime and life behind bars included "The Animal Factory,"

Did anyone see the film version of this? Tom Arnold was great as an extra-creepy con who stuck his finger upside Edward Furlongs bunghole. He should have gotten an Oscar nod for that one, IMHO.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hitman on July 26, 2005, 08:06:00 pm

Yeah..that was a pretty messed up flick, especially when Willem Dafoe started missing shit (fresh from the toilet) with rice and smearing it all over his face. I felt like I was going to vomit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Random Citizen on August 07, 2005, 12:32:00 am

Buena Vista Social Club Singer Ferrer Dies
By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Writer
Saturday, August 6, 2005

(08-06) 18:19 PDT HAVANA, Cuba (AP) --

Ibrahim Ferrer, a leading voice with the hugely popular Buena Vista Social Club of vintage Cuban performers, died Saturday, his representative in Cuba said. He was 78.

The Montuno production company did not give a cause of death, but Ferrer's colleagues said he suffered from emphysema and was feeling ill earlier in the week.

Known for his trademark cap and graying mustache, Ferrer was a wiry, animated figure who clearly enjoyed performing Cuba's traditional "son" music of the 1940s and 1950s for new generations of fans.

Among a group of older Cuban performers recruited by U.S. musician Ry Cooder, Ferrer performed on the "Buena Vista Social Club album" that won a Grammy in 1999, and was among those appearing in the film of the same name.

"I felt like he was my brother," said fellow Buena Vista performer, the guitarist Manuel Galban. "He was a great musician and a great companion."

Also in 1999, Ferrer was featured in one of a string of albums that followed, "Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer," and won a Latin Grammy for best new artist in 2000.

Two other well-known members of the original Buena Vista group, singer Compay Segundo and pianist Ruben Gonzalez, died in 2003.

Originally from Cuba's eastern city of Santiago, Ferrer was born on Feb. 20, 1927, during a dance at a social club after his mother unexpectedly went into labor.

Ferrer was still a boy when he began singing professional with Santiago groups in 1941. By the late 1950s, he was a well-known singer performing regularly with the late, great bandleader Pacho Alonso.

He also made guest appearances with other legendary names, including Benny More and Orquesta de Chepin.

Alonso's group moved to Havana in 1959, and Ferrer came along, remaining with the group for more than two decades. By the early 1980s, Ferrer had left the musical scene, but came out of retirement to perform with the Buena Vista group.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SalParadise on August 07, 2005, 05:32:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Random Citizen:
Buena Vista Social Club Singer Ferrer Dies
By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Writer
Saturday, August 6, 2005

(08-06) 18:19 PDT HAVANA, Cuba (AP) --

Ibrahim Ferrer, a leading voice with the hugely popular Buena Vista Social Club of vintage Cuban performers, died Saturday, his representative in Cuba said. He was 78.

The Montuno production company did not give a cause of death, but Ferrer's colleagues said he suffered from emphysema and was feeling ill earlier in the week.

Known for his trademark cap and graying mustache, Ferrer was a wiry, animated figure who clearly enjoyed performing Cuba's traditional "son" music of the 1940s and 1950s for new generations of fans.

Among a group of older Cuban performers recruited by U.S. musician Ry Cooder, Ferrer performed on the "Buena Vista Social Club album" that won a Grammy in 1999, and was among those appearing in the film of the same name.

"I felt like he was my brother," said fellow Buena Vista performer, the guitarist Manuel Galban. "He was a great musician and a great companion."

Also in 1999, Ferrer was featured in one of a string of albums that followed, "Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer," and won a Latin Grammy for best new artist in 2000.

Two other well-known members of the original Buena Vista group, singer Compay Segundo and pianist Ruben Gonzalez, died in 2003.

Originally from Cuba's eastern city of Santiago, Ferrer was born on Feb. 20, 1927, during a dance at a social club after his mother unexpectedly went into labor.

Ferrer was still a boy when he began singing professional with Santiago groups in 1941. By the late 1950s, he was a well-known singer performing regularly with the late, great bandleader Pacho Alonso.

He also made guest appearances with other legendary names, including Benny More and Orquesta de Chepin.

Alonso's group moved to Havana in 1959, and Ferrer came along, remaining with the group for more than two decades. By the early 1980s, Ferrer had left the musical scene, but came out of retirement to perform with the Buena Vista group.

descanse en paz.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on August 08, 2005, 12:36:00 am

ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings Dies at 67 (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050808/ap_on_en_tv/obit_jennings)

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
35 minutes ago

Peter Jennings, the suave, Canadian-born broadcaster who delivered the news to Americans each night in five separate decades, died Sunday. He was 67. Jennings, who announced in April that he had lung cancer, died at his New York home, ABC News President David Westin said late Sunday.

"Peter has been our colleague, our friend, and our leader in so many ways. None of us will be the same without him," Westin said.

With Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, Jennings was part of a triumvirate that dominated network news for more than two decades, through the birth of cable news and the Internet. His smooth delivery and years of international reporting experience made Jennings particularly popular among urban dwellers.

Jennings was the face of ABC News whenever a big story broke. He logged more than 60 hours on the air during the week of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, offering a soothing sense of continuity during a troubled time.

"There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe," he told author Jeff Alan. "I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially â?? sorry it's a cliche â?? a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive."

Jennings' announcement four months ago that the longtime would begin treatment for lung cancer came as a shock.

"I will continue to do the broadcast," he said, his voice husky, in a taped message that night. "On good days, my voice will not always be like this."

But although Jennings occasionally came to the office between chemotherapy treatments, he never again appeared on the air.

"He knew that it was an uphill struggle. But he faced it with realism, courage, and a firm hope that he would be one of the fortunate ones," Westin said. "In the end, he was not."

Broadcasting was the family business for Jennings. His father, Charles Jennings, was the first person to anchor a nightly national news program in Canada and later became head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s news division. A picture of his father was displayed prominently in Jennings' office off ABC's newsroom.

Charles Jennings' son had a Saturday morning radio show in Ottawa at age 9. Jennings never completed high school or college, and began his career as a news reporter at a radio station in Brockton, Ontario. He quickly earned an anchor job at Canadian Television.

Sent south to cover the Democratic national convention in 1964, the handsome, dashing correspondent was noticed by ABC's news president. Jennings was offered a reporting job and left Canada for New York.

As the third-place news network, ABC figured its only chance was to go after young viewers. Jennings was picked to anchor the evening news and debuted on Feb. 1, 1965. He was 26.

"It was a little ridiculous when you think about it," Jennings told author Barbara Matusow. "A twenty-six-year-old trying to compete with Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley. I was simply unqualified."

Critics savaged him as a pretty face unfit for the promotion. Using the Canadian pronunciations for some words and once misidentifying the Marine Corps' anthem as "Anchors Aweigh" didn't help his reputation. The experiment ended three years later.

He later described the humbling experience as an opportunity, "because I was obliged to figure out who I was and what I really wanted to be."

Assigned as a foreign correspondent, Jennings thrived. He established an ABC News bureau in Beirut, and became an expert on the Middle East. He won a Peabody Award for a 1974 profile of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

On the scene at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Jennings was perfectly placed to cover the hostage-taking of Israeli athletes by an Arab terrorist group. He and a crew hid in the athletes' quarters for a close-in view of the drama.

Jennings returned to the evening news a decade after his unceremonious departure. In 1978, ABC renamed its broadcast "World News Tonight," and instituted a three-person anchor team: Frank Reynolds based in Washington, Max Robinson from Chicago and Jennings, by then ABC's chief foreign correspondent, from London.

Following Reynolds' death from cancer, ABC abandoned the multi-anchor format and Jennings became sole anchor on Sept. 5, 1983.

Starting in 1986, Jennings began a decade on top of the ratings. His international experience served him well explaining stories like the collapse of European communism, the first Gulf War and the terrorist bombing of an airplane over Lockerbie, Scotland. He took pride that "World News Tonight," as its name suggested, took a more worldly view than its rivals. Fans responded to his smart, controlled style.

"When it's clearly an emotional experience for the audience, the anchor should not add his or her emotional layers," Jennings said in an interview with the Star Tribune in Minneapolis.

Two-thirds of local broadcasters responding to a 1993 survey by Broadcasting & Cable magazine said Jennings was the best network news anchor. Washington Journalism Review named him anchor of the year three straight years.

With Americans looking more inward in the mid to late-1990s, NBC's Tom Brokaw surpassed Jennings in the ratings. ABC was still a close No. 2, however. When Brokaw stepped down in November 2004, followed shortly by Rather, ABC began an advertising campaign stressing Jennings' experience â?? an ironic twist given how his ABC News career began.

But ABC was never able to learn whether Jennings could take advantage of his role as an elder statesman; his cancer diagnosis came only a month after Rather left the anchor chair.

Jennings was proud of his Canadian citizenship, although it was occasionally a sore point with some critics. When Jennings spoke at the dedication of a museum celebrating the U.S. Constitution in 2003, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told him, "not bad for a Canadian."

Jennings whispered back his secret: He had just passed a test earning him dual citizenship in the United States.

"My decision to do this has nothing to do with politics," Jennings told The Associated Press at the time. "It has nothing to do with my profession. It has everything to do with my family."

Restlessly curious, Jennings pushed ABC News to use the turn of the century for a massive historical study. He co-wrote a book, "The Century," with Todd Brewster and anchored a marathon 25-hour special ending Jan. 1, 2000. Jennings and Brewster also traveled the backroads to write "In Search of America."

Jennings also led a documentary team at ABC News, which struck a chord in 2000 with the high-rated spiritual special "The Search for Jesus."

"I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something," Jennings told the Saturday Evening Post. "And if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it."

Like Rather and Brokaw, Jennings wasn't entirely comfortable stuck to a studio. He traveled around the world to cover stories and, when he didn't journey to Asia to cover the aftermath of the tsunami less than four months before his cancer diagnosis, it was noticed.

He is survived by his wife, Kayce Freed, and his two children, Elizabeth, 25, and Christopher, 23.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on August 08, 2005, 10:34:00 am

Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook; Quit Over Iraq War

Associated Press
Sunday, August 7, 2005; C10

Former British foreign secretary Robin Cook, 59, who quit Prime Minister Tony Blair's cabinet in 2003 to protest the Iraq war, died Aug. 6 after collapsing on a Scottish mountain while walking with his wife.

Scotland's Northern Constabulary said Mr. Cook collapsed on Ben Stack in the Scottish Highlands. He was taken by coast guard helicopter to a hospital in Inverness, where he was pronounced dead.

Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, filling in for a vacationing Blair, called Cook "the greatest parliamentarian of his generation."

Mr. Cook served as foreign minister from 1997 until 2001, when he was demoted to leader of the House of Commons. His resignation speech, days before the Iraq war began in March 2003, received a rare standing ovation from lawmakers.

"Why is it now so urgent that we should take military action to disarm a military capacity that has been there for 20 years, and which we helped to create?" he asked.

Renowned as an intelligent lawmaker and skilled debater, Mr. Cook remained a high-profile figure despite his withdrawal from government, and he became an increasingly vocal opponent of Blair's policies.

Some supporters believed that Mr. Cook should have been leader of the Labor Party. But Mr. Cook -- a short, bearded redhead -- declined to oppose Blair when he was elected Labor leader in 1994, declaring, "I am not good-looking enough."

Instead, he accepted the post of foreign secretary after Blair's 1997 landslide election victory.

But Mr. Cook's promise of an "ethical dimension" to British foreign policy often came back to haunt him, particularly after he sanctioned the sale of 16 Hawk jet fighters to Indonesia in 1999 despite the country's widely criticized human-rights record in East Timor.

Another diplomatic miscalculation came during a trip to India and Pakistan, when he suggested that Britain could mediate any negotiations over the disputed territory of Kashmir. The remark irritated both countries.

Mr. Cook was praised by many for his tough-minded handling of the 1999 Kosovo crisis, but that and other successes were partly overshadowed by the scandal of ending his 28-year marriage to his first wife, Margaret, at an airport as they were about to leave on vacation.

Warned by Downing Street that a tabloid newspaper was about to disclose his longtime affair with his secretary Gaynor Regan, Mr. Cook immediately told his wife that he was leaving her. She wrote a book accusing her former husband of being depressed and a drunk, saying that his intelligence and ability were unmatched but that he had "absolutely no natural courtesy or sympathy."

Mr. Cook later married Regan.

Mr. Cook was educated at Edinburgh University, where he studied English literature and began a career in Labor politics. He was first elected to parliament in 1974.

Survivors include his wife and two sons from his first marriage.

Â© 2005 The Washington Post Company

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Post by: JaguÃ¤r on August 14, 2005, 12:32:00 am

Oscar-Winning Art Director Golitzen Dies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050813/ap_en_mo/obit_golitzen)

Sat Aug 13, 3:09 PM ET

Alexander Golitzen, an art director and production designer who shared Academy Awards for his work on 1943's "Phantom of the Opera," 1960's "Spartacus" and 1962's "To Kill a Mockingbird" during a career that spanned decades, has died. He was 97.

Golitzen died July 26 of congestive heart failure at a health care center in San Diego, said his daughter, Cynthia Garn.

Golitzen worked on more than 300 movies. He earned more than a dozen Oscar nominations for art direction, beginning with the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock movie "Foreign Correspondent" and ending with "Earthquake" in 1974.

Others included 1961's "Flower Drum Song" and 1969's "Sweet Charity."

The Moscow-born Golitzen and his family fled the Russian revolution and ended up in Seattle. Golitzen attended the University of Washington, where he earned an architecture degree, and moved to Los Angeles.

In Los Angeles, he became an assistant to a fellow Russian, MGM art director Alexander Toluboff. He went on to work at United Artists and later was supervising art director at Universal, where he oversaw movies for three decades.

He also designed the set for the Academy Awards show several times.

Along with his daughter, Golitzen is survived by his wife, Frances; son, Peter; five grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.
___

Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com (http://www.latimes.com)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on August 14, 2005, 11:46:00 pm

Ebony & Jet publisher John H. Johnson passed away! (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001011325)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on August 18, 2005, 11:56:00 pm

Punk Promoter Esther Wong Dies at 88

The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; 6:01 PM

LOS ANGELES -- Esther Wong, who booked a who's who of punk rock and new wave bands at her popular Madame Wong's clubs in the 1970s and '80s, has died. She was 88.

She died Sunday at her Los Angeles home, her daughter, Melinda Braun, said Wednesday. She had suffered from emphysema and cancer.

Wong, who earned the nickname the "godmother of punk," showcased such popular groups as the Police, X, the Go-Gos, Oingo Boingo, the Motels, the Knack, the Textones and Plane English early in their careers, giving many groups their first major break.

The native of China originally booked Polynesian bands to play at her restaurant, but when hardly anyone showed up to hear them she decided to take a chance on rock acts. Almost overnight in 1978, hundreds of people began showing up at her Chinatown restaurant to hear the new sounds, and she opened a Madame Wong's West in Santa Monica that same year.

"Before, I didn't think I'd ever like rock music," she told the Los Angeles Times in 1979. "Now I can turn it on, and it doesn't bother me."

As her clubs flourished, Wong quickly became known as a no-nonsense proprietor. She once halted a performance by the Ramones until the band members left the stage and cleaned up the graffiti they had put on a bathroom wall. She rarely booked female singers, calling them "no good, always trouble," and she was known to go into the audience to try to sniff out marijuana smokers.

"She would always take any problem or situation head-on, she was not afraid of anyone," her daughter told The Associated Press.

Wong auditioned performers by listening to their tapes, often while driving in her car, until she said her habit of flinging bad music out the window nearly got her in trouble.

"One day I almost hit the highway patrol car that was right next to me," she told the Times in 1980.

Born and educated in Shanghai, Wong traveled the world as a child with her father, who was an importer.

She moved to Los Angeles in 1949 when the Chinese government fell to the communists, working for two decades at a shipping company before opening her restaurant.

She closed the original Madame Wong's in 1985 and Madame Wong's West in 1991.

Wong is survived by her second husband, Harry Wong; a son, Frank Wong; her daughter, Braun; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on August 22, 2005, 09:08:00 am

Bob Moog (http://www.moogmusic.com/)

ASHEVILLE, N.C. â?? August 21, 2005 â?? Bob died this afternoon at his home in Asheville, N.C. He was 71. Bob was diagnosed with brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme or GBM) in late April 2005. He had received both radiation treatment and chemotherapy to help combat the disease. He is survived by his wife, Ileana, his five children, Laura Moog Lanier, Matthew Moog, Michelle Moog-Koussa, Renee Moog, and Miranda Richmond; and the mother of his children, Shirleigh Moog.

Bob was warm and outgoing. He enjoyed meeting people from all over the world. He especially appreciated what Ileana referred to as "the magical connection" between music-makers and their instruments.

No public memorial is planned. Fans and friends can direct their sympathies or remembrances to www.caringbridge.com/visit/bobmoog. (http://www.caringbridge.com/visit/bobmoog.)

Bob's family has established The Bob Moog Foundation dedicated to the Advancement of Electronic Music in his memory. Many of his longtime collaborators including musicians, engineers and educators have agreed to sit on its executive board including David Borden, Wendy Carlos, Joel Chadabpe, John Eaton, David Mash, and Rick Wakeman. For more information about the foundation, contact Matthew Moog at mattmoog@yahoo.com.

We'll miss you Bob.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on August 24, 2005, 02:19:00 am

RIP, Dr. Moog. :(

Coolest assembly that I ever attended was while I was in junior high school. The assembly was to see Robert Moog, himself, demonstrate and perform his invention, the Moog synthesizer. A very special day with a special man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on August 24, 2005, 01:58:00 pm

Had he even invented the darn thing at such an early date? :(

Coolest assembly that I ever attended was while I was in junior high school. The assembly was to see Robert Moog, himself, demonstrate and perform his invention, the Moog synthesizer. A very special day with a special man. [/b][/quote]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on August 24, 2005, 02:14:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by JaguÃ¤r:
RIP, Dr. Moog. :(

Coolest assembly that I ever attended was while I was in junior high school. The assembly was to see Robert Moog, himself, demonstrate and perform his invention, the Moog synthesizer. A very special day with a special man.

wow!!! very cool. didnt you also attend the assembly where Bell demonstrated his new invention, "the telephone"?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: amnesiac on September 02, 2005, 10:58:00 am

From Pitchfork (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/05-09/02.shtml):

R.L. Burnside Dead at 78

James Gregory reports :
Celebrated blues singer-guitarist R.L. Burnside died at St. Francis hospital in Memphis, Tennessee Thursday morning, following an almost 3 week stay. While no official cause of death has been announced, a representative from Burnside's label, Fat Possum Records, explained that he had suffered a heart attack the previous year, and "never fully recovered." Burnside was 78 years old, and is survived by his widow Alice Mae, twelve children, and multiple grandchildren.

Born in Harmontown, Mississippi, Burnside was primarily a farmer and fisherman for much of his life, performing intermittently from the 1960s onward. While known regionally for his live shows, he gained mainstream exposure after becoming the first artist signed to Fat Possum in 1991. Burnside would go on to release ten critically-hailed albums for the label between 1992 and 2004, with his last studio LP A Bothered Mind issued in August of last year.

His eclectic blues shuffle and openness to experimentation (via indie and hip hop flourishes) attracted the attention of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, who backed Burnside on 1996's A Ass Pocket of Whiskey. His 2001 album Burnside on Burnside received a Grammy nomination for best Traditional Blues Album, and his music has been featured in numerous films and television shows, including HBO's â??The Sopranosâ?.

A post on the Fat Possum website notes that memorial donations for Burnsideâ??s family are currently being accepted, and can be sent to the following address:

Freeland & Freeland Trust Account
Burnside Memorial
P.O. Box 269
Oxford, MS 38655

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on September 02, 2005, 08:17:00 pm

Ol' Westy, Julias Westheimer, died either yesterday or the day before. Sorry, too lazy to search for an obit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on September 03, 2005, 11:28:00 pm

Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at Home (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050904/ap_on_go_su_co/renquist)

17 minutes ago

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening at his home in suburban Virginia, said Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg.

A statement from the spokeswoman said he was surrounded by his three children when he died in Arlington.

"The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his dues on the court until a precipitous decline in his health the last couple of days," she said.

Rehnquist was appointed to the Supreme Court as an associate justice in 1971 by President Nixon and took his seat on Jan. 7, 1982. He was elevated to chief justice by President Reagan in 1986.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on September 04, 2005, 10:07:00 am

Mary J.Bilge

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on September 04, 2005, 01:00:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by clouds RÂ²:
A national day of mourning will be observed on Tuesday, September the 6th. Flags will be held at half staff. Hurricane relief efforts will be suspended on that day to honor the late Justice Rhenquist.

Shame there's nothing left in DC to name after him!! :roll:

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bags on September 06, 2005, 12:28:00 pm

Two Bush Supreme Court appointees...my greatest fears realized. :o

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 06, 2005, 12:30:00 pm

Armstrong, Crow announce engagement
Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas -- Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and rock star Sheryl Crow are engaged.

The cyclist announced the engagement in a statement and said he asked Crow on Wednesday while they were in Sun Valley, Idaho.

No wedding date has been set, although it could be a spring wedding, Armstrong spokesman Mark Higgins said Monday night.

Armstrong retired in July after winning his seventh straight Tour de France.

The marriage will be the second for Armstrong, who has three children with ex-wife Kristin. It will be the first for Crow.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bags on September 06, 2005, 01:02:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by vansmack:
Armstrong, Crow announce engagement
Associated Press

You dawg you, in the "dropping like flies" thread. What a stitch!! ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 06, 2005, 01:12:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Bags:
You dawg you, in the "dropping like flies" thread. What a stitch!! ;)

It's like I told Samckette. I said Baby, if I ever get ball cancer and recover and you stick with me, then I win 7 Tour de Franceâ??s, I wonâ??t leave you for some over aged washed up rocker.

But no promises on Avril Lavigne.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on September 06, 2005, 02:33:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Bags:
Two Bush Supreme Court appointees...my greatest fears realized. :o

but they're both replacing republican-appointed justices ... could be much much worse

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on September 06, 2005, 03:31:00 pm

Our little buddy and favorite beatnik.... :(

Bob Denver, TV's Gilligan, Dead at 70 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050906/ap_en_tv/obit_denver)

2 minutes ago

Bob Denver, whose portrayal of goofy first mate Gilligan on the 1960s television show "Gilligan's Island," made him an iconic figure to generations of TV viewers, has died, his agent confirmed Tuesday. He was 70.

Denver died Friday at Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital in North Carolina of complications from treatment he was receiving for cancer, his agent, Mike Eisenstadt, told The Associated Press. Denver's death was first reported by "Entertainment Tonight."

Denver had also undergone quadruple heart bypass surgery earlier this year.

Denver's wife, Dreama, and his children Patrick, Megan, Emily and Colin were with him when he died.

"He was my everything and I will love him forever," Dreama Denver said in a statement.

Denver's signature role was Gilligan. But he was already known to TV audiences for another iconic character, that of Maynard G. Krebs, the bearded beatnik friend of Dwayne Hickman's Dobie in the "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," which aired from 1959 to 1963.

"Gilligan's Island" lasted on CBS from 1964 to 1967, and it was revived in later seasons with three high-rated TV movies. It was a Robinson Crusoe story about seven disparate travelers who are marooned on a deserted Pacific Island after their small boat was wrecked in a storm.

The cast: Alan Hale Jr., as Skipper Jonas Grumby; Bob Denver, as his klutzy assistant Gilligan; Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer, as rich snobs Thurston and Lovey Howell; Tina Louise, as bosomy movie star Ginger Grant; Russell Johnson, as egghead science professor Roy Hinkley Jr.; and Dawn Wells, as sweet-natured farm girl Mary Ann Summers.

TV critics hooted at "Gilligan's Island" as gag-ridden corn. Audiences adored its far-out comedy. Writer-creator Sherwood Schwartz insisted that the show had social meaning along with the laughs: "I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on September 06, 2005, 03:33:00 pm

Mary J.Bilge

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bags on September 06, 2005, 06:07:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:

Quote
Originally posted by Bags:
Two Bush Supreme Court appointees...my greatest fears realized. :o
but they're both replacing republican-appointed justices ... could be much much worse [/b]

I know, could be. And the hope is that, like many previous justices, their decisions are less predictable than expected, based on what their appointing Commander-in-Chief might plan for...I'm just crying like a baby 'cuz I can. ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on September 06, 2005, 06:52:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by clouds RÂ²:
Hurricane relief efforts will be suspended on that day to honor the late Justice Rhenquist.

its what Justice Rhenquist would've wanted....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: amnesiac on September 08, 2005, 01:57:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by palahniukkubrick:
Even more flies: Hunter S. Thompson shot himself:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40737-2005Feb20.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40737-2005Feb20.html)

Hunter S. Thompson's suicide note (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7605448/?rnd=1126202125710&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.872):

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun -- for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax -- This won't hurt.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 08, 2005, 02:21:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by amnesiac:
Hunter S. Thompson's suicide note (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7605448/?rnd=1126202125710&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.872):

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun -- for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax -- This won't hurt.

That's just eery.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on September 12, 2005, 07:30:00 am

Another classic leaves us. I always loved this guy's music.

LEGENDARY BLUES MUSICIAN DIES (http://www.nme.com/news/113660.htm)

CLARENCE â??GATEMOUTHâ?? BROWN, the GRAMMY-award winning guitarist and singer, has died at the age of 81.

Brown passed away in Texas on Saturday (September 10) surrounded by his family at his brotherâ??s home in Orange.

The guitarist had been battling lung cancer and heart disease and was said to be â??devastatedâ? after his home in Slidell, Louisiana was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

According to BBC News, his booking agent Rick Cady said: â??I'm sure he was heartbroken, both literally and figuratively. He evacuated successfully before the hurricane hit, but I'm sure it weighed heavily on his soul."

During his career â?? which spanned over half a century - Brown recorded with Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder and Frank Zappa.

Brown was born in Louisiana, but raised in Texas and gained the â??Gatemouthâ?? nickname for his deep voice.

He cited his father â?? a railway worker and fiddle player â?? as his greatest musical influence, saying, â??If I can make my guitar sound like his fiddle, then I know I've got it right."

The guitarist careerâ??s took off in the late 1940â??s and he went on to record such tracks as â??Okie Dokie Stompâ?? and â??Ainâ??t That Dandyâ?? but becoming frustrated by the limits of blues guitar, he started to move into jazz and country.

Colin Waters, who is currently writing Brownâ??s biography, said; â??He is one of the most underrated guitarists, musicians and arrangers I've ever met, an absolute prodigy.â?

He added: â??He never wanted to be called a bluesman, but I used to tell him that though he may not like the blues, he does the blues better than anyone."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on September 12, 2005, 09:34:00 am

Mary J.Bilge

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 26, 2005, 03:13:00 pm

Maxwell Smart

Don Adams of 'Get Smart' Dies at 82
By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer
20 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES - Don Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television spoof of James Bond movies, "Get Smart," has died. He was 82.

Adams died of a lung infection late Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, his friend and former agent Bruce Tufeld said Monday, adding the actor broke his hip a year ago and had been in ill health since.

As the inept Agent 86 of the super-secret federal agency Control, Adams captured TV viewers with his antics in combatting the evil agents of Kaos. When his explanations failed to convince the villains or his boss, he tried another tack: "Would you believe ... ?" It became a national catchphrase.

Smart was also prone to spilling things on the desk or person of his boss â?? the chief (actor Edward Platt). Smart's apologetic "Sorry about that, chief" also entered the American lexicon. The spy gadgets, which aped those of the Bond movies, were a popular feature, especially the pre-cell-phone telephone in a shoe.

Smart's beautiful partner, Agent 99, played by Barbara Felden, was as brainy as he was dense, and a plot romance led to marriage and the birth of twins later in the series.

Adams, who had been under contract to NBC, was lukewarm about doing a spy spoof. When he learned that Mel Brooks and Buck Henry had written the pilot script, he accepted immediately. "Get Smart" debuted on NBC in September 1965 and scored No. 12 among the season's most-watched series and No. 22 in its second season.

"Get Smart" twice won the Emmy for best comedy series with three Emmys for Adams as comedy actor.

CBS picked up the show but the ratings fell off as the jokes seemed repetitive, and it was canceled after four seasons. The show lived on in syndication and a cartoon series. In 1995 Fox network revived the series with Smart as chief and 99 as a congresswoman. It lasted seven episodes.

Adams never had another showcase to display his comic talent.

"It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it," he remarked of "Get Smart" in a 1995 interview. "But it also hindered me career-wise because I was typed. The character was so strong, particularly because of that distinctive voice, that nobody could picture me in any other type of role."

He was born Donald James Yarmy in New York City on April 13, 1926, Tufeld said, although some sources say 1923 or 1927. The actor's father was a Hungarian Jew who ran a few small restaurants in the Bronx.

In a 1959 interview Adams said he never cared about being funny as a kid: "Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand."

In 1941, he dropped out of school to join the Marines, lying about his age. In Guadalcanal he survived the deadly blackwater fever and was returned to the States to become a drill instructor, acquiring the clipped delivery that served him well as a comedian.

After the war he worked in New York as a commercial artist by day, doing standup comedy in clubs at night, taking the surname of his first wife, Adelaide Adams. His following grew, and soon he was appearing on the Ed Sullivan and late night TV shows. Bill Dana, who had helped him develop comedy routines, cast him as his sidekick on Dana's Jose Jiminez show. That led to the NBC contract and "Get Smart."

Adams, who married and divorced three times and had seven children, served as the voice for the popular cartoon series, "Inspector Gadget." In 1980, he appeared as Maxwell Smart in a feature movie, "The Nude Bomb," about a madman whose bomb destroyed people's clothing.

Tufeld said funeral arrangements were incomplete.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050926/ap_en_tv/obit_adams (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050926/ap_en_tv/obit_adams)

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Post by: on September 26, 2005, 04:03:00 pm

Get Smart was a fantastic program.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on September 26, 2005, 09:36:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Ellis D. Fleischbach:
Get Smart was a fantastic program.

Agent 13 was the coolest!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on September 26, 2005, 09:42:00 pm

I liked Siegfried & Shtarker.

"This is KAOS, we don't beep beep beep."

www.wouldyoubelieve.com/cast.html (http://www.wouldyoubelieve.com/cast.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Random Citizen on October 03, 2005, 06:32:00 pm

Actor Nipsey Russell Dies

(New York-WABC, October 3, 2005) - Actor Nipsey Russell, known as "the poet laureate of television," passed away yesterday afternoon at Lenox Hill Hospital.
Eyewitness News has learned Russell died of cancer, confirmed his longtime manager, Joseph Rapp. He was in his early 80s.

Rapp said Russell was born in 1923, although some reports had him born in 1924. The manager said his age was never clear because Russell did not retain a birth certificate.

Russell achieved his first major role as Officer Anderson in "Car 54, Where Are You?"

He appeared on a string of game shows and variety shows, such as the "Dean Martin Roasts," "Laugh-In," "Jackie Gleason Show," among many others.

Russell delighted audiences with short poems, earning him the nickname "the poet laureate of television." He appeared on "The Tonight Show" and many other very popular talk shows of the day.

While he did not appear in many film roles, he will be remembered for his role of the Tin Man in the 1978 "The Wiz." The movie was a box office failure, but since the movie has been considered a cult classic.

(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) (Copyright 2005 WABC-TV)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on October 07, 2005, 03:32:00 pm

Nipsey (http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A20HIDRW118WAL/ref=cm_pdp_home_pytaistripe_picture_profile/103-2036328-4803806) isn't dead!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JaguÃ¤r on October 15, 2005, 09:06:00 am

Big Audio Dynamite Guitarist Dies (http://www.nme.com/news/big-audiodynamite/21265)

Nick Hawkins dies aged 40
Former Big Audio Dynamite member Nick Hawkins has died.

The guitarist passed away at home on October 10 after suffering a heart attack. He was 40 years old.

Hawkins, who was born in Luton, joined Mick Jones in Big Audio Dynamite in 1990, playing with the band until 1997, when he left.

Hawkins subsequently relocated to Las Vegas, and recently worked on an album for his wife, Jo Beng. He was working on a solo album when he died called 'Dusk Till Dawn', which was due for release in 2006.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on October 18, 2005, 11:00:00 am

Former SNL-er Charles Rocket (http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,17593,00.html?tnews)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 21, 2005, 06:15:00 pm

'Little Rascals' Actor Gordon Lee Dies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051021/ap_en_ce/obit_lee)

4 minutes ago

Gordon Lee, the chubby child actor who played Spanky McFarland's little brother Porky in the "Little Rascals" comedies, has died. He was 71.

Lee died Sunday in a Minneapolis nursing home after battling lung and brain cancer, said Janice McClain, his partner of 13 years.

Lee played one of the younger members in the "Our Gang" shorts in the 1930s, appearing in more than 40 of them from 1935 to 1939. The comedies, produced by Hal Roach, became known as "The Little Rascals" when shown on TV in the 1950s.

Among the films Lee appeared in were "Bored of Education," which won the Oscar for best one-reel short subject in 1937; "Our Gang Follies of 1936"; "The Awful Tooth"; and "Roamin' Holiday."

In a 1998 interview with the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, the Texas-born Lee said he was 2 years old when his mother sent his picture to studio executives who were seeking an actor to play McFarland's brother.

"We were on the next train to L.A. and I had a contract within a few days," Lee said. "Fat kid got lucky."

"My memories are not about making movies. We played with our toys and the adults played with theirs (the cameras)," he said.

He and Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas teamed up against older boys Spanky and Alfalfa in many of the comedies. The Porky character is credited with originating the catchphrase "otay."

In the interview, Lee recalled a warm friendship with his black costar when they were kids and praised their interracial relationship on screen, saying, "Buckwheat played an absolute equal part in the Gang."

Lee told friends his career ended when a growth spurt made him thinner. "They wanted Porky to be a chunky fellow, so they looked for someone else," McClain said.

He was born Eugene Lee in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1933. His adoptive parents began calling him Gordon after Gordon Douglas, who directed many of the films Lee appeared in. He kept the first name as an adult.

Lee was a schoolteacher, living in Colorado for a time. He moved to Minnesota after he retired to be closer to his only son, Douglas, said a friend, Tracy Tolzmann. In recent years, Lee sold autographed photos of himself as Porky, Tolzmann and McClain said.

"Before that he felt like he was forgotten," McClain said. "It really made him feel good about himself."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on October 21, 2005, 07:22:00 pm

A local legend passes on.

Jazz Singer Shirley Horn Dead At 71 (http://www.wusatv9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=43896)

Jazz singer and native Washingtonian Shirley Horn has died at the age of 71.

A family member has told 9 News that Horn passed away Thursday night.

Born May 1, 1934, in Washington, D.C., Horn attended Howard University's Junior School of Music as a teenager, where she studied classical piano. She later began playing piano gigs at local nightclubs and restaurants.

One day, after a gentleman with a giant teddy bear walked in a dining room where she was performing and promised to give her the bear if she would sing "Melancholy Baby" for him, it launched her career as a vocalist.

A superior ballad singer and a talented pianist, Horn put off potential success until finally becoming a major attraction while in her 50s. She put together her first trio in 1954 and was encouraged in the early '60s by Miles Davis and Quincy Jones.

She recorded three albums during 1963-65 for Mercury and ABC-Paramount but chose to stick around Washington D.C. and raise a family instead of pursuing her career.

In the early '80s she began recording for SteepleChase but Shirley Horn really had her breakthrough in 1987 when she started making records for Verve, an association that continues to the present day.

In recent years, complications from diabetes led to the amputation of her right foot and later Horn lost much of her right leg. She was forced to give up the piano bench for the first time in more than six decades, changing a major aspect of her performances; the ability to sing and play the piano at once.

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Post by: ggw on October 25, 2005, 02:20:00 pm

Wellington Mara -- a hundred times the man Dan Snyder will ever be.

NFL pioneer Mara dies

Giants owner was last of NFL's founding generation
Updated: Tuesday October 25, 2005 12:16PM

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wellington Mara of the New York Giants, one of the NFL's most influential owners for more than a half century and the last of the league's founding generation, died Tuesday. He was 89.

Mara, who was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1997, died of cancer at his home in Rye, the team said.

Mara's influence went far beyond the Giants. He clearly was one of the most important figures in NFL history.

"Wellington Mara represented the heart and soul of the National Football League," NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue said. "He was a man of deep conviction who stood as a beacon of integrity."

One of Mara's greatest contributions came in the early 1960s. He and brother Jack, owners of the biggest team in the biggest market, agreed to share television revenue on a leaguewide basis, dividing the huge amounts of money available in cities like New York with smaller markets from Pittsburgh to Green Bay.

Part of that agreement meant that the Giants ceded the right to sell their own games to television for a leaguewide contract, in those days with CBS. That concept of revenue sharing allowed the NFL to thrive and remains in place today.

He also served during the 1970s as chairman of the NFL's Management Council, which negotiated labor contracts, and as a member of the competition committee.

In 1989, he and group of older owners wanted Pete Rozelle's successor to be Jim Finks, then the New Orleans general manager, rather than Tagliabue, then a league lawyer. Mara thought the league should be run by a football man.

But Mara and several other old-guard owners finally agreed to break a stalemate of four months by throwing their votes to Tagliabue and he became one of the new commissioner's staunchest supporters, a man Tagliabue often leaned on for advice.

Tagliabue wasn't the only one who sought out Mara. His advice also was invaluable to other owners, league officials, media and even fans.

"When Well Mara stood to speak at a league meeting, the room would become silent with anticipation because all of us knew we were going to hear profound insights born of eight decades of league experience," Tagliabue said.

Mara became a Giants' ballboy at age 9 on Oct. 18, 1925 after his father, Timothy J. Mara, bought the team. He stayed fully involved in its operation for almost 80 years, except for three years while in the Navy during World War II. Until he became ill last spring, he attended most practices and every game.

In 1930, at 14, his father made him co-owner with older brother Jack, and he ran the club until several years ago when son John took over day-to-day operations.

But from 1979 on, while the team was run by general managers George Young and Ernie Accorsi, Mara had final say on football decisions. He was the one who decided to fire Jim Fassel after the 2003 season and replace him with Tom Coughlin.

"I've never had more respect for anybody in this business, or in any business, or in any walk of life, than Wellington Mara," said Coughlin, an assistant on earlier Giants teams. "To say Wellington Mara is one of a kind, I would endorse that wholeheartedly."

Before last Sunday's game against Denver, Coughlin told his players of Mara's condition. The Giants won on a touchdown pass from Eli Manning to Amani Toomer with 5 seconds left. In the locker room after the game, the players chanted "Duke, Duke, Duke" -- Mara's nickname.

Manning later said he had been told by one of Mara's grandsons that the owner awakened in time to see the winning play, then smiled and went back to sleep.

"Wellington Mara is the face of not only the New York Giants but the NFL," tight end Jeremy Shockey said. "He's a pioneer and the guy that everybody looks up to."

When former players became ill, Mara would find them doctors, pay their medical expenses and arrange help for their families. Many old-timers were on the payroll as scouts or advisers. Even in this era of sophisticated scouting, it wasn't unusual for Young or Accorsi to get a call from a former player recommending the Giants look at some prospect.

In most cases, the team was well aware of the prospect, but Mara never dropped any of those old "scouts" from the payroll.

Mara always considered himself a football man first, running the on-field operations through the 1950s until 1979 while Jack and then Jack's son Tim ran the business end. The team was successful during the '50s and early '60s with such stars as Frank Gifford, Y.A. Tittle, Sam Huff and Roosevelt Brown and a coaching staff that included Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi as assistants.

But after losing to Chicago in the 1963 NFL championship game, the Giants began a long slide, failing to make the playoffs again until 1981 as Wellington and Tim, by then the co-owner, feuded.

In 1979, on the commissioner's recommendation, the Maras agreed to hire Young as general manager and the team again became a power.

It won Super Bowls in 1986 and 1990 with Bill Parcells coaching a team that starred Lawrence Taylor and Phil Simms and stout defenses. The 1990 team featured one of the best coaching staffs assembled: future head coaches Coughlin, Bill Belichick, Al Groh, Charlie Weis, Romeo Crennel and Ray Handley.

Parcells left after that season and the Giants slipped into the middle of the pack.

They made the Super Bowl again after the 2000 season, losing to the Baltimore Ravens, owned by Art Modell, Mara's close friend and longtime partner in league matters. Mara never openly criticized Modell's move of a team that had been the Giants' chief on-field rival during the '50s and '60s, and they celebrated getting to the Super Bowl together.

In 1991, Tim Mara and his family sold their share of the team to Robert Tisch. Tisch and Mara were officially co-owners and Tisch ran much of the business affairs. But it was always clear this was Wellington's team -- for many years they were known by New York headline writers as "the Maramen."

Mara is survived by wife Ann, 11 children and 40 grandchildren.

There was no immediate word on funeral arrangements.

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Post by: ggw on November 21, 2005, 10:32:00 am

Link Wray (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051121/ap_en_mu/obit_wray_1)

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Guitar master Link Wray, the father of the power chord in rock 'n' roll who inspired legends such as Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie and Pete Townsend, has died.

Wray, 76, died at his home in Copenhagen Nov. 5, a statement from his wife and son on his Web site said. No cause of death was given, but his family said his heart was "getting tired." He was buried quietly after a service at Copenhagen's Christian Church Nov. 18.

"While playing his guitar he often told the audience, 'God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play,'" his wife, Olive, and son, Oliver Christian, wrote. "We saw you go with God, you were smiling."

Wray developed a style considered the blueprint for heavy metal and punk music. Frequently seen playing in his trademark leather jacket, he is best known for his 1958 instrumental "Rumble," 1959 "Rawhide" and 1963's "Jack the Ripper." His music has been featured in movies including "Pulp Fiction," "Independence Day" and "Desperado."

Wray, who was three-quarters Shawnee Indian, is said to have inspired many other rock musicians, including Pete Townsend of the Who, but also David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Steve Van Zandt and Bruce Springsteen. All have been quoted as saying that Wray and "Rumble" inspired them to become musicians.

"He is the king; if it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar,'" Townsend wrote on one of Wray's albums. Neil Young once said: "If I could go back in time and see any band, it would be Link Wray and the Raymen."

The power chord â?? a thundering sound created by playing fifths (two notes five notes apart, often with the lower note doubled an octave above) â?? became a favorite among rock players. Wray claimed because he was too slow to be a whiz on the guitar, he had to invent sounds.

When recording "Rumble," he created the fuzz tone by punching holes in his amplifiers to produce a dark, grumbling sound. It took off instantly, but it was banned by some deejays in big cities for seeming to suggest teen violence.

"I was looking for something that Chet Atkins wasn't doing, that all the jazz kings wasn't doing, that all the country pickers wasn't doing. I was looking for my own sound," Wray told The Associated Press in 2002.

He was born Frederick Lincoln Wray Jr. in 1929 in Dunn, N.C. His two brothers, Vernon and Doug, were also musicians. The three became a country hit as "Lucky Wray and the Palomino Ranch Hands." Later, after "Rumble," they became "Link Wray and the Raymen," or Wraymen, as it was sometimes spelled. Later, the brothers' relationship soured after a dispute about the rights to "Rumble."

In 1978, he moved to Denmark and married Olive Julie Povlsen. They raised their son in a three-story house on an island where Hans Christian Andersen once lived.

Though he went out of style in the '60s, he was rediscovered by later generations. He toured the United States and Canada since the mid-1990s, playing 40 shows this year. In 2002, Guitar World magazine elected Wray one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.

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Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on November 21, 2005, 10:44:00 am

Giants owner Robert Tisch.

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Post by: on November 21, 2005, 10:58:00 am

Quote

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Link Wray (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051121/ap_en_mu/obit_wray_1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on November 21, 2005, 01:05:00 pm

Chris Whitley...watch this space!

What's the odds he makes it through Christmas?

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Post by: on November 22, 2005, 01:07:00 pm

Resquiat in Pace:
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Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on November 25, 2005, 10:42:00 am

Actor Pat Morita Dies at 73 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051125/ap_on_en_mo/obit_morita)

LOS ANGELES - Actor
Pat Morita, whose portrayal of the wise and dry-witted Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid" earned him an Oscar nomination, has died. He was 73.

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Post by: Random Citizen on December 10, 2005, 05:27:00 pm

Comedian Richard Pryor Dies at 65
Published: December 10, 2005

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Richard Pryor, the caustic yet perceptive actor-comedian who lived dangerously close to the edge both on stage and off, has died, his ex-wife said Saturday. He was 65.

Pryor died of a heart attack at his home in the San Fernando Valley sometime late Friday or early Saturday, Flyn Pryor said.

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Post by: SPARX on December 10, 2005, 05:54:00 pm

McCarthy Dies: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178341,00.html (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178341,00.html)

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Post by: on December 11, 2005, 03:29:00 pm

Robert Sheckley (http://story.northkoreatimes.com/p.x/ct/9/cid/dd8845aa60952db2/id/39d1118a148dbb3d/)

Richard Pryor (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B1F5A85F-8176-4136-995E-9E40EFCC9EF2.htm)

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Post by: Jaguar on December 17, 2005, 04:33:00 pm

Pulitzer-Winning Columnist Anderson Dies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051217/ap_on_re_us/obit_jack_anderson)

By CONNIE CASS, Associated Press
59 minutes ago

Jack Anderson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning muckraking columnist who struck fear into the hearts of corrupt or secretive politicians, inspiring Nixon operatives to plot his murder, died Saturday. He was 83.

Anderson died at his home in Bethesda, Md., of complications from Parkinson's disease, said one of his daughters, Laurie Anderson-Bruch.

Anderson gave up his syndicated Washington Merry-Go-Round column at age 81 in July 2004, after Parkinson's disease left him too ill to continue. He had been hired by the column's founder, Drew Pearson, in 1947.

The column broke a string of big scandals, from Eisenhower assistant Sherman Adams taking a vicuna coat and other gifts from a wealthy industrialist in 1958 to the Reagan administration's secret arms-for-hostages deal with Iran in 1986.

It appeared in some 1,000 newspapers in its heyday. Anderson took over the column after Pearson's death in 1969, working with a changing cast of co-authors and staff over the years.

A devout Mormon, Anderson looked upon journalism as a calling. Considered one of the fathers of investigative reporting, Anderson was renowned for his tenacity, aggressive techniques and influence in the nation's capital.

"He was a bridge for the muckrakers of a century ago and the crop that came out of Watergate," said Mark Feldstein, Anderson's biographer and a journalism professor at George Washington University. "He held politicians to a level of accountability in an era where journalists were very deferential to those in power."

Anderson won a 1972 Pulitzer Prize for reporting that the Nixon administration secretly tilted toward Pakistan in its war with India. He also published the secret transcripts of the Watergate grand jury.

Such scoops earned him a spot on President Nixon's "enemies list." Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy has described how he and other Nixon political operatives planned ways to silence Anderson permanently â?? such as slipping him LSD or staging a fatal car crash â?? but the White House nixed the idea.

Over the years, Anderson was threatened by the Mafia and investigated by numerous government agencies trying to trace the sources of his leaks. In 1989, police investigated him for smuggling a gun into the U.S. Capitol to demonstrate security lapses.

Known for his toughness on the trail of a story, he was also praised for personal kindness. Anderson's son Kevin said that when his father's reporting led to the arrest of some involved in the Watergate scandal, he aided their families financially.

"I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all," Anderson said in 1972. "But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident."

Anderson began his newspaper career as a 12-year-old writing about scouting activity and community fairs in the outskirts of Salt Lake City, Utah. His first investigative story exposed unlawful polygamy in his church. He was as a civilian war correspondent during World War II and later, while in the Army, wrote for the military paper Stars and Stripes.

After he went to work with Pearson, the team took on communist-hunting Sen. Joseph McCarthy, exposed Connecticut Sen. Thomas Dodd's misuse of campaign money, and revealed the CIA's attempt to use the Mafia to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Anderson also wrote more than a dozen books.

He was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1986. In a speech a decade later, he made light of the occasional, uncontrollable shaking the disease caused.

"The doctors tell me it's Parkinson's," he said. "I suspect that 52 years in Washington caused it."

He is survived by his wife, Olivia, and nine children.

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Post by: ggw on December 19, 2005, 08:06:00 pm

"The Oddfather" - Vincent Gigante, Organized Crime Leader Who Feigned Insanity, Dies at 77

By SELWYN RAAB

Vincent Gigante, who feigned mental illness for decades to camouflage his position as one of the nation's most influential and dangerous Mafia leaders, died today in federal prison in Springfield, Mo., officials told The Associated Press. He was 77.

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Mr. Gigante died while serving a 12-year sentence imposed in 1997 after he was convicted of racketeering and conspiring to kill other mobsters. Officials at the prison medical center where he died did not provide the cause of death but noted that he suffered from heart disease.

Mr. Gigante, whose nickname was "Chin," painstakingly maintained the fiction that he was incompetent until April 2003, when he appeared before Judge I. Leo Glasser in Federal District Court in Brooklyn and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. Specifically, he acknowledged running a con on the legal system that delayed his racketeering trial from 1990 to 1997 while his sanity was being examined.

As part of the plea, three more years were added to his prison term, but he avoided a lengthy trial on the other charges, which amounted to an accusation - long denied or sidestepped by Mr. Gigante - that he headed the Genovese organized crime family.

His lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, offered the explanation that "I think you get to a point in life - I think everyone does - where you become too old and too sick and too tired to fight."

For Mr. Gigante, the guise that he adopted in the mid-1960's - behavior that won him the nickname Oddfather - took considerable effort to maintain. He could often be seen shuffling around his Greenwich Village neighborhood in pajamas, bathrobe and slippers, mumbling to himself and appearing to be a disturbed but harmless person. Law-enforcement agents, prosecutors and Mafia defectors described his behavior as a staged performance calculated to evade prosecution for his activities as head of a crime family that under his leadership became the wealthiest and most powerful in the nation.

Based on information from informers and electronic eavesdropping on gangsters, F.B.I. and New York City law-enforcement officials ranked Mr. Gigante as the pre-eminent Mafia leader in the early and mid-1990's, and prosecutors identified him as the dominant force in the early 1990's inside the Commission, the Mafia's ruling body, which resolves significant disputes among the five major families in the New York region. His reach, law-enforcement officials said, extended as well to Philadelphia and New England, where he exercised veto power over the appointments of mob bosses in those areas.

Salvatore Gravano, the No. 2 figure in the Gambino crime family before he defected in 1991, testified that even Mr. Gigante's archrival, John Gotti, grudgingly acknowledged Mr. Gigante's craftiness. "He's crazy like a fox," Mr. Gravano quoted Mr. Gotti as saying of Mr. Gigante after a summit meeting of New York City mob leaders in 1988. Mr. Gotti was the boss of the Gambino family until his own imprisonment forced him to relinquish undisputed control in the late 1990's. He, too, died in a prison hospital, of cancer in June 2002.

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and federal and state prosecutors regarded Mr. Gigante as the most elusive Mafia leader of his era and the most difficult to bring to trial. "He was probably the most clever organized-crime figure I have ever seen," said John S. Pritchard 3rd, a former F.B.I. supervisor, who led a squad that investigated the Genovese family in the 1980's.

Disputing the government's contentions, Mr. Gigante's lawyers and relatives maintained that he had been mentally disabled since the late 1960's, with a below-normal I.Q. of 69 to 72. His defenders steadfastly denied that he was associated with the Mafia, asserting that it was ludicrous to believe that someone so mentally subpar was capable of heading a major crime organization.

The Rev. Louis Gigante, a Roman Catholic priest, former New York city councilman and a builder of low-income housing in the Bronx, characterized the relentless investigations of his older brother as persecution by agents and prosecutors who were biased against Italian- Americans.

Organized-crime experts and mob turncoats said that Mr. Gigante was apparently willing to humiliate himself publicly as the price for escaping the long prison sentences that were being meted out to other Mafia leaders.

According to federal and state investigators, each of the family's 200 "made" or inducted soldiers and about 1,000 associates - the name for others who voluntarily cooperate in illegal activities but who are not sworn members -were obligated to funnel part of their loot to Mr. Gigante, as much as $100 million a year in the early 1990's.

The family's fortune, the experts said, flowed largely from a vast network of bookmaking and loansharking rings and from extortions of construction companies in the New York City area seeking labor peace or sweetheart contracts from carpenters, teamsters and laborers' unions that were dominated by Mr. Gigante's lieutenants.

Mob deserters in the mid-1990's testified in criminal and civil cases that the Genovese gang's other lucrative enterprises included the control of cartels that rigged bids and inflated prices in the private garbage-hauling industries of New York City and Westchester County; kickbacks from shipping and trucking companies on the New Jersey waterfront in exchange for labor peace; protection payoffs from merchants at the Fulton Fish Market; and the control of many union jobs at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan.

Mr. Gigante's influence even extended over the San Gennaro Street Festival in Little Italy until a 1995 crackdown by New York City officials and federal prosecutors resulted in allegations that the Genovese family operated gambling games at the festival, extorted payoffs from venders and pocketed thousands of dollars donated to a neighborhood church.

In the 1980's, after the authorities said Mr. Gigante had assumed undisputed command of the Genovese family, he conducted his activities in a starkly unorthodox fashion for a Mafia leader.

Most days, in the early evening, Mr. Gigante, a hulking man who was about six feet tall and weighed 200 pounds, would emerge from his mother's walkup apartment building on Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village. Sometimes dressed in a bathrobe and pajamas and sometimes wearing a windbreaker and shabby trousers and always accompanied by one or two bodyguards, he gingerly crossed the street to the Triangle Civic Improvement Association, a dingy storefront club that served as his headquarters. Inside, he played pinochle and held whispered conversations with men who agents said were his trusted confederates.

After midnight, according to F.B.I. surveillance reports, he would be driven to a townhouse near Park Avenue at East 77th Street, that was owned by Olympia Esposito, who was characterized by Mr. Gigante's lawyers as his common-law wife and the mother of three of his eight children, Vincent, Lucia and Carmella Esposito.

F.B.I. agents, who in 1986 observed the townhouse from a nearby rooftop post, said that soon after arriving, Mr. Gigante would change into more elegant clothes, carry on conversations with associates, and read or watch television before retiring. About 9 or 10 the next morning , he would reappear in his shabby downtown clothes and be driven back to Sullivan Street or a nearby apartment occupied by his relatives at 505 LaGuardia Place.

"It was hard to understand what enjoyment he got out of being a mob boss," said Ronald Goldstock, the former director of the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. "His only pleasure appeared to be the pure power he exercised."

Vincent Gigante (pronounced ji-GANT-tee) was born on March 29, 1928, in New York City and grew up on the same streets in Greenwich Village where he would spend most of his adult life. He was one of five sons of Salvatore Gigante, a watchmaker, and Yolanda Gigante, a seamstress, both of whom had immigrated from Naples. His mother usually addressed him as "Cincenzo," a diminutive of Vincente, and his boyhood friends shortened that into his lifelong nickname, "Chin."

A lackadaisical student, Mr. Gigante graduated from P.S. 3, an elementary school in Greenwich Village and dropped out of Textile High School in Manhattan in the ninth grade.

Police detectives said that as a teen-ager, he became a protÃ©gÃ© of Vito Genovese, who was a potent Mafia leader in the United States and in Italy from the 1930's to the 1960's and whose name still describes the organized-crime group he headed until his death in 1969. The gang was founded in the 1930's by one of the nation's most notorious criminals, Charles (Lucky) Luciano, who was deported to Italy and who died in 1962.

Mr. Genovese is believed to have endeared himself to the Gigantes when Vincent was a boy with a loan to pay for surgery needed by Mrs. Gigante.

Between age 17 and 25, Mr. Gigante was arrested seven times on an array of charges: receiving stolen goods, possession of an unlicensed handgun, auto theft, arson and bookmaking. Most were dismissed or resolved by fines. His only jail sentence in that period was 60 days for a gambling conviction.

When arrested in his early 20's, he listed his occupation as a tailor. But as a strapping youth with quick fists, he was better known as a prize fighter. Mr. Gigante, from age 16 to 19, fought as a light heavyweight in clubs around town, winning 21 of 25 light-heavyweight bouts, according to Nat Fleischer's Ring Record Book. Club boxers in those days fought four- and six-round contests in neighborhood arenas, usually getting a percentage of the tickets they themselves sold. One of Mr. Gigante's managers was a Greenwich Village neighbor, Thomas (Tommy Ryan) Eboli, who later became the boss of the Genovese family.

Former New York City detectives who were assigned to organized-crime intelligence units said that Mr. Gigante earned his Mafia spurs as an enforcer in the 1950's. But his prominence in the underworld surged in 1957, when Mr. Genovese wrested control of a mob family from Frank Costello, who had been a close friend of Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky and was one of the best-known underworld figures in America.

Mr. Costello retired abruptly as a boss after a gunman grazed his scalp with a bullet in the vestibule of his apartment building on Central Park West. A doorman identified the 29-year-old Mr. Gigante as the shooter, but Mr. Costello testified that he was unable to recognize his assailant and Mr. Gigante was acquitted in 1958 on charges of attempted murder.

A year later, he was convicted with Mr. Genovese in Manhattan on federal charges of heroin trafficking. Mr. Gigante, who listed his profession as the superintendent of a tenement on Bleecker Street, was sentenced to seven years in prison. The sentencing judge said he would have imposed a longer sentence but was swayed by a flood of letters from residents of Greenwich Village and Little Italy attesting to Mr. Gigante's good character and his work on behalf of juveniles.

He was paroled after five years and detectives said that soon afterward he was promoted from soldier to the rank of capo, or captain, overseeing a group of Mafia gangsters known as a crew, in Greenwich Village.

Although his headquarters was in Lower Manhattan and he spent his nights farther uptown, Mr. Gigante had a home in Old Tappan, N.J., where he lived with his wife, the former Olympia Grippa, and their three daughters and two sons. They are Yolanda Fyfe, Roseanne D'Cola and Rita Gigante, and Salvatore and Andrew.

In 1969, he was indicted in New Jersey on a charge of conspiracy to bribe the entire five-member Old Tappan police force to alert him to surveillance operations by law enforcement agencies. The accusation was dropped after Mr. Gigante's lawyers presented reports from psychiatrists that he was mentally unfit to stand trial.

Mafia informers and defectors said that Mr. Gigante gained control of the Genovese family in a peaceful transition in the early 1980's when the group's acting boss, Philip Lombardo, stepped down because of ill health, and Mr. Gigante's main rival, Anthony Salerno, was imprisoned for life on racketeering charges. Mr. Salerno died in federal prison in 1992.

As a new godfather, Mr. Gigante quickly imposed extraordinary security measures. Genovese soldiers and associates were forbidden to utter his name or nickname in conversations or telephone calls. When references to him had to be made, capos and soldiers would silently point to their chins or form the letter "C" with their fingers.

Mr. Gigante was indicted in 1990 with 14 others on federal charges in Brooklyn that they had conspired to rig bids and extort payoffs from contractors on multimillion-dollar contracts with the New York City Housing Authority to install windows.

At his arraignment, he appeared in court in his familiar pajamas and bathrobe and a peaked cap. Because of defense contentions that he was mentally and physically impaired, his case was severed from the other defendants and legal battles ensued for seven years over his competence to stand trial.

A superseding indictment in 1993 brought more serious accusations against him. Mr. Gigante was charged with being the head of the Genovese family and sanctioning the murders of six mobsters and conspiring to kill three others, including John Gotti, the boss of the Gambino family.

Mr. Gigante, the indictment asserted, wanted Mr. Gotti eliminated because he had violated Mafia protocol by arranging the assassination of the previous Gambino boss, Paul Castellano, without seeking Mr. Gigante's approval.

The evidence in both indictments stemmed mainly from deserters from the Genovese and other mob families who entered the Government's Witness Protection Program.

At sanity hearings in March 1996, Mr. Gravano of the Gambino family, and Alphonse D'Arco, the former acting boss of another New York Mafia organization, the Lucchese crime family, testified that Mr. Gigante was lucid during top-level Mafia meetings and that he had acknowledged to other gangsters that his eccentric behavior was a pretense.

Mr. Gigante's lawyers elicited testimony and reports from psychiatrists and psychologists that from 1969 to 1995, he had been confined 28 times in hospitals for treatment of hallucinations and that he suffered from "dementia rooted in organic brain damage."

In August 1996, Judge Eugene H. Nickerson of Federal District Court in Brooklyn ruled that Mr. Gigante was mentally competent to stand trial on murder and racketeering charges. The judge found that at least until 1991, Mr. Gigante had engaged in an "elaborate deception" with the help of his relatives to deceive psychiatrists about his condition.

Before the trial began, Mr. Gigante, who had open-heart surgery in 1988, had another cardiac operation in December 1996, putting his fitness to stand trial in doubt once again. Mr. Gigante had pleaded not guilty and had been free for years on $1 million bond.

During the monthlong trial in 1997, a gaunt-looking Mr. Gigante sat in a wheelchair, looking blankly into space as witnesses testified and lawyers argued. He did not testify. After three days of deliberations, the jury on July 25, 1997, convicted him on charges of running multimillion-dollar rackets as the Genovese family chief and of conspiring unsuccessfully in the late 1980's to murder Mr. Gotti and a Genovese family defector.

But he was acquitted of ordering three other gangland slayings and the jury was deadlocked on accusations that he ordered four other murders.

Imposing a sentence of 12 years - instead of a possible maximum of 27 years -and a $1.25 million fine, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of Federal District Court in Brooklyn reflected in December 1997 on Mr. Gigante's career.

"He is a shadow of his former self," the judge said, "an old man finally brought to bay in his declining years after decades of vicious criminal tyranny."

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Post by: Bombay Chutney on December 28, 2005, 10:45:00 am

NEW YORK - Michael Vale, the actor best known for portraying sleepy-eyed Fred the Baker in Dunkin' Donuts commercials, has died at age 83.

Vale died Saturday in New York City of complications from diabetes, son-in law Rick Reil said.

Ads featuring Fred, who uttered the trademark line "Time to make the doughnuts," ran for 15 years until Vale retired in 1997.

Canton, Mass.-based Dunkin' Donuts said in a statement that Vale's character "became a beloved American icon that permeated our culture and touched millions with his sense of humor and humble nature."

Vale was born in Brooklyn and studied acting at the Dramatic Workshop in New York City with classmates Tony Curtis, Ben Gazzara and Rod Steiger.

A veteran of the Broadway stage, film and television, Vale appeared in more than 1,300 TV commercials. His movie roles included a jewelry salesman in "Marathon Man." He also appeared in "Guerrilla Girl," a 1953 movie starring Helmut Dantine, and "A Hatful of Rain" (1957), starring Don Murray and Eve Marie Saint.

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Post by: on December 28, 2005, 10:54:00 am

Vincent Schiavelli (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4561328.stm), actor who appeared in Better Off Dead... (http://www.moviequotequiz.com/othersounds/ThisWasYourAssignment.wav) & The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 28, 2005, 03:46:00 pm

Joseph L. Owades, Inventor of Light Beer, Is Dead at 86

Joseph L. Owades, a biochemist whose recipe for a light beer, among other contributions to the science of brewing, made him a leader in the industry, died Friday at his home in Sonoma, Calif. He was 86 and also had a home in San Francisco.

The cause was heart failure, his family said.

Dr. Owades (pronounced oh-WAY-dees) became involved with brewing by way of his research into the properties of yeast and the starches found in malt. He was looking for and found an enzyme that prompted yeast to digest all of the starch.

His discovery resulted in a beer without residual carbohydrates and with fewer calories, or what became known as light beer. Such a brew using his enzyme was first mass-produced by Rheingold Brewing, his employer at the time, which marketed the low-calorie brew under the Gablinger's label. Years later, after the Miller Brewing Company bought Gablinger's, it became Miller Lite.

His process for making low-calorie beer gave rise to many successful specialty brands from new and independent smaller breweries. In 1975, he became a consultant to this growing part of the business as the founder and director of the Center for Brewing Studies in Sonoma, Calif.

Joseph Lawrence Owades was born July 9, 1919, to immigrant parents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He graduated in 1939 from City College.

An early interest in chemistry led him to Polytechnic Institute, now Polytechnic University, in Brooklyn and a master's degree in 1944 and a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1950. His dissertation was on cholesterol.

After serving in the Navy during World War II, he began as a research chemist working on fermentation for Fleischmann's Yeast in 1948. From 1951 to 1969 he was a vice president and technical director at Rheingold in Brooklyn.

He held similar positions at Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis until 1972 and at the Carling Brewing Company in Boston until 1975, when he founded the Center for Brewing Studies, originally in San Francisco.

As a consultant, he advised clients like New Amsterdam Brewing in New York, Anchor Brewing in San Francisco and Boston Brewing, where he assisted in the introduction of Samuel Adams Lager.

He also advised Rheingold, once No. 1 in New York but absent since the mid-1970's, when it staged a comeback in the New York area in the late 1990's.

Dr. Owades is survived by his wife of 36 years, Ruth Markowitz Owades; two sons, Stephen H., of Cambridge, Mass., and William, of Rochester; and a brother, Henry M., of Norwalk, Conn.

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Post by: RonniStar on January 01, 2006, 12:09:00 pm

'Old School' Actor Cranshaw Dies at 86

From This website: (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060101/D8ERL9IG0.html)

Dec 31, 11:04 PM (ET)

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Patrick Cranshaw, who achieved cult-like status as fraternity brother "Blue" in the 2003 comedy "Old School," has died. He was 86.

The veteran character actor died of natural causes Wednesday at his home in Fort Worth, Texas, his personal manager, Jeff Ross, told the Los Angeles Times.

During a career that spanned nearly 50 years, Cranshaw had dozens of roles, including a bank teller in "Bonnie and Clyde" and a demolition derby owner in "Herbie: Fully Loaded" (2005). Other credits included "Bandolero" (1968), "Best in Show" (2000) and "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994), as well as television series "Mork & Mindy" and "The Dukes of Hazzard."

But he was probably best known for his role as elderly frat boy Joseph "Blue" Palasky in "Old School," starring Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn.

In the hit comedy, he was about to wrestle two topless girls but dies of an apparent heart attack from overexcitment. After singing "Dust in the Wind" at Blue's funeral, Ferrell's character calls out in agony: "You're my boy, Blue!"

Fans would yell the signature line whenever they saw the actor. He was even invited to meet with the Texas Rangers when they played the Angels in Anaheim.

"It was a great experience and an acknowledgment for him," Ross said. "He loved the recognition and would turn back and say, 'I'm your boy Blue.'"

Cranshaw was born in Bartlesville, Okla., in 1919 and became interested in acting while entertaining American troops before World War II.

He is survived by three children, Jan Ragland, Joe Cranshaw and Beverly Trautschold.

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Post by: beetsnotbeats on January 01, 2006, 06:03:00 pm

Derek Bailey

Restlessly creative guitarist forever pushing at the boundaries of music

John Fordham
Thursday December 29, 2005
The Guardian

On and off over the past decade, I would meet Derek Bailey in the same Chinese restaurant in Dalston, north London. As well as being a wonderful raconteur, the Yorkshire-born guitarist regularly blew holes in convenient wisdoms sitting smugly on some shelf in my head. His provocativeness was not oneupmanship, or a parade of erudition; it was the way his brain was wired. He had done the same for musicians and listeners all over the world for 40 years or more as a free-player and a freethinker, a Frank Zappa for the world of spontaneous performance.

Bailey, who has died aged 75 of complications from motor neurone disease, was a guru without self-importance, a teacher without a rulebook, a guitar-hero without hot licks and a one-man counterculture without ever believing he knew all the answers - or maybe any at all. With his passing, the world has lost an inimitable musician and an implacable enemy of commercialised art.
Bailey once described his friend John Zorn, the American avant-garde composer and improviser, as "a Diaghilev of contemporary music" for his catalytic influence. But he could as easily have been describing himself. He worked with performers as different as free-jazz piano legend Cecil Taylor, cool school saxist Lee Konitz, Harlem bop-and-swing hoofer Will Gaines, naked Japanese improvising dancer Min Tanaka, fusion guitar star Pat Metheny and the drum virtuoso Tony Williams. In later years, he collaborated with Japanese art-of-noise rock band the Ruins, and - when he had already passed 70 - with young drum and bass DJs.

Singlemindedly devoted to unpremeditated improvisation, Bailey published a book on the subject in 1980 called Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music. Twelve years later, it led to Jeremy Marre's revealing Channel 4 four-parter On the Edge: Improvisation in Music, an ambitious venture that Bailey both scripted and presented. The project tracked the improvising impulse through the most radical interpreters of Mozart, the methods of the organist at the SacrÃ© Coeur, Paris, in baroque music or the blues, and in locations from the Hebrides to the Ganges.

Bailey was born to George and Lily Bailey, in the Abbeydale district of Sheffield. His father was a barber, his uncle a professional guitarist who gave the boy his first instrument and some haphazard lessons. By a process of osmosis from musicians he met, sustenance from odd jobs, record-listening (bebop guitar pioneer Charlie Christian was his early model) and some later self-education in theory and arranging, Bailey became a pro on the UK dance-band and studio circuit in the early 1950s. By 1965, he was playing Blackpool seasons for Morecambe and Wise.

By that time, he had begun rehearsing regularly with two adventurous younger players in Sheffield - classical percussionist turned jazz drummer Tony Oxley and bassist (later to become classical composer) Gavin Bryars. The three formed the group Joseph Holbrooke (named after an obscure British composer whose work they never played), and, from 1963 to 1966, its jazz beginnings in John Coltrane and the Bill Evans Trio were crossbred with ideas from John Cage, Stockhausen, serialism, Oxley's labyrinthine rhythm variations, and much more. Gradually, the group moved from jazz into a non-idiomatic approach - free-improvisation.

From 1966, Bailey began visiting the Little Theatre Club, a West End bolthole where the drummer John Stevens ran all-comers' sessions and young improvisers (including Evan Parker, Trevor Watts and Paul Rutherford), jazz virtuosi (Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler) and contemporary classical players like Barry Guy gathered. With various versions of Stevens' Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Oxley's sextet, the Music Improvisation Company (electronics, percussion and Parker's sax) and the trio Iskra 1903 (with trombonist Rutherford and bassist Guy), Bailey began to build a completely new vocabulary for the guitar.

Though he never abandoned the conventional instrument, he was mixing warped chordal ideas, serialism's lateral melodies, Cage's elevation of silence, pedal-operated electronics and a brittle attack borrowed from percussionists. From 1970, he also ran the Incus Records label, first with Oxley and Parker, then with his partner (and later third wife) Karen Brookman - their Hackney flat is still the Incus HQ.

Bailey's Diaghilev qualities came to the fore in 1976, when he began his Company project, an improvisers' festival that involved 400 players each year up to 1994 in Britain, the US and Japan, with Zorn, Lee Konitz, saxist Steve Lacy, classical violinist Alexander Balanescu, bassoonist Lindsey Cooper and composer/saxist Anthony Braxton among those taking part. He also invited dancers, performance-artists, electronica-specialists and avant-rockers to join in, with the artists deciding who would improvise with who.

He likened improvisation to spontaneous relationships and conversation - full of accidental harmonies, misunderstandings, passion and indifference. Though a sophisticated instrumentalist himself, he did not mind playing with people who had comparatively few skills; something interesting might always happen. He worked with bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Tony Williams in the trio Arcana in 1995, and collaborated with Pat Metheny and two percussionists on The Sign Of Four in 1996.

He described that encounter to me thus: "The equipment I use I bought in Canal Street 15 years ago. Pat's sitting in the middle of what looks like the console of a 747, with four guitars and a distortion unit that could be used for dispersing mobs. There were two guys with huge percussion kits, and I'm making a lot of noise, and then he switches this thing on, and it's like there's three dogs playing around a little, and suddenly an elephant lands on top of them."

Yet for all that raw-noise energy, Bailey continued to be a delicate acoustic improviser, often unaccompanied or in duets. Just in time, he was caught by the ideal biographer, Ben Watson, in the book Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation. And, though his combativeness never left him, he seemed to take heart from the musical eclecticism and dissolution of idiomatic differences he had done so much to encourage.

"The kids don't mind whatever it is these days," he told me once. "Maybe there's a lot of stuff out there now that is by its nature odd. But they seem to be able to take anything. Which is great to somebody like me. I find it very comfortable. In an uncomfortable sort of way." Karen survives him, as does Simon, the son of his second marriage.

Richard Williams writes: The least typical recording Derek Bailey ever made also turned out (not that he would have appreciated the compliment) to be one of the great jazz recordings of the last 40 years. Titled simply Ballads, and recorded in 2002 for John Zorn's Tzadik label, it consisted of solo guitar meditations on 14 songs from the standard repertoire, including Laura, Body and Soul, What's New, Stella by Starlight and You Go to My Head.

Although this was the last project one might have expected from a professed enemy of composed music, it was no surprise to discover that in these songs - their musical and emotional contours long since flattened by overuse - Bailey found brand new angles and meanings, thanks to the application of his highly personal imagination and unique instrumental language. Extraordinary renditions, indeed, and utterly spellbinding.

By the time he recorded another solo CD for Tzadik, entitled Carpal Tunnel, three years later, his refined technique had all but disappeared. No longer able to grasp a plectrum with his right hand, he adapted by striking the strings with his thumb. The album's title came from the condition, carpal tunnel syndrome, that was said by doctors to explain his reduced dexterity. In fact, it marked the onset of the motor neurone disease from which he died.

In these pieces, the spiky elegance of Ballads is replaced by a halting delicacy reminiscent both of Japanese koto music and of the last paintings of Willem de Kooning, when illness had robbed the great abstract expressionist of the power to do anything other than trace a haunting shadow of the shapes and colours that had once burst from the canvas.

Â· Derek Bailey, improvising guitarist, born January 29 1930; died December 25 2005

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 03, 2006, 10:17:00 am

Pretty Gruesome this one...

Bryan Harvey (ex House of Freaks guitarist) found murdered in Richmond (http://www.wtvr.com/Global/story.asp?S=4307968)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on January 03, 2006, 12:31:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Pretty Gruesome this one...

Bryan Harvey (ex House of Freaks guitarist) found murdered in Richmond (http://www.wtvr.com/Global/story.asp?S=4307968)

...sounds like a job for Marg

<img src="http://www.ronjaffe.com/images/majors.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on January 06, 2006, 09:49:00 am

From CNN: (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/01/06/china.gang.of.four.ap/index.html)

Last of China's 'Gang of 4' dies

Friday, January 6, 2006; Posted: 5:48 a.m. EST (10:48 GMT)

BEIJING, China (AP) -- Yao Wenyuan, the final surviving member of the Gang of Four that terrorized China during the violent 1966-76 Cultural Revolution by persecuting thousands of people, has died, the government said Friday. He was 74.

Yao's death on December 23 was blamed on diabetes, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. It didn't say where he died or explain the delay in reporting his death.

The Gang of Four, reportedly given its name by then-Chinese leader Mao Zedong, directed the purge of moderate party officials and intellectuals during the Cultural Revolution. Yao was the group's propagandist, later dubbed the killer with a pen by state media.

Led by Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, the Gang of Four and its allies inflicted physical and emotional damage that still reverberates in Chinese society, despite loosened social controls and economic reforms that have raised living standards.

Nearly every Chinese city dweller who was alive at the time can tell of a relative or friend who was beaten, harassed or driven to suicide, often by tormenters who took advantage of the unrest to avenge grudges.

The violence pitted neighbor against neighbor, wrecked the economy and forced a generation of intellectuals to work in the countryside.

A month after Mao's death in 1976, the Gang of Four members were arrested, marking the end of the Cultural Revolution.

Yao, a Shanghai journalist, was convicted of trying to gain power by persecuting officials and members of the public and spent 20 years in prison before his release in 1996. It was not known what he did in the 10 years after his release.

Evidence at his televised trial included a diary entry in which he asked: "Why can't we shoot a few counterrevolutionary elements? After all, dictatorship is not like embroidering flowers."

On Jiang's orders, Yao fired the first salvo of the Cultural Revolution, writing a review condemning a popular Beijing play as an attack on Mao. He was rewarded with a seat on the party's ruling Politburo.

Yao later confessed to falsifying evidence against Deng Xiaoping, who was purged during the Cultural Revolution but emerged as China's supreme leader in 1978.

"His weapon to kill people was the pen," a government magazine said in 1981 after Yao's conviction.

Jiang died in 1991 in custody, reportedly by suicide. Another member, Wang Hongwen, died in 1992. The third member, Zhang Chunqiao, died last May.

The Gang of Four received most of the official blame for the political violence as the government tried to shift attention away from the role played by others, including thousands of officials.

Yao served his sentence in Qincheng jail outside of Beijing, where the Gang of Four once held victims in solitary confinement.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on January 06, 2006, 09:51:00 am

From CNN: (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/06/obit.cowsill.ap/index.html)

Cowsills member dead; missing since Katrina
Barry Cowsill was bassist for '60s singing family

Friday, January 6, 2006; Posted: 8:32 a.m. EST (13:32 GMT)

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Barry Cowsill, a member of the popular 1960s singing family The Cowsills, was found dead on a wharf nearly four months after he disappeared when Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. He was 51.

Cowsill's body, recovered December 28 from the Chartres Street Wharf, was identified with dental records Tuesday, said Dr. Louis Cataldie, head of the state hurricane morgue in Carville.

The coroner had not determined the cause of death but believed it was related to the devastating storm, which struck the city August 29.

Cowsill, who lived on and off in New Orleans, had not been heard from since he left phone messages for his sister September 1, his family's Web site said.

"They tell us he'd been dead for quite some time," Richard Cowsill, his brother, said in a telephone interview Thursday. "We love him and we're going to miss him, but he's in a much better place, in my mother's arms."

The Cowsills -- the inspiration for the TV series "The Partridge Family" -- recorded a series of top hits between 1967 and 1970, including "The Rain, The Park and Other Things," "Indian Lake" and "Hair." They also were spokespersons for the American Dairy Association, appearing in commercials and print ads for milk.

Four Cowsill brothers played in the band: Barry on bass, Bill on guitar, Bob on guitar and organ, and John on drums. Their mother, Barbara, and little sister, Susan, eventually joined the group.

The Cowsills got their start in Newport, Rhode Island, where by 1965 they had a regular gig at a club. They were spotted by a producer for NBC's "Today" show who booked them for an appearance that led to a record deal.

The band broke up in the 1970s, amid acrimony that left some members estranged from each other for several years.

"It wasn't just the end of a business, it was the end of a family," Bob Cowsill said in a 1990 interview.

Barbara Cowsill died in 1985.

In addition to his siblings, Cowsill is survived by two daughters and a son.

Richard Cowsill said no memorial service was planned and that his brother would be cremated. "He always said when I leave this place, you better party. And that's what we're planning to do," he said.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 06, 2006, 12:10:00 pm

Lou Rawls...

Who's now going to inspire my annual donation to the United Negro College Fund?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on January 07, 2006, 08:17:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Pretty Gruesome this one...

Bryan Harvey (ex House of Freaks guitarist) found murdered in Richmond (http://www.wtvr.com/Global/story.asp?S=4307968)

Two Charged in Slaughter of Va. Families (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060107/ap_on_re_us/richmond_slayings)

By LARRY O'DELL, Associated Press Writer
40 minutes ago

Two men were captured Saturday and charged in the brutal killings over the past week of seven people from two Richmond families, slayings that police hadn't publicly tied together until now.

Police Chief Rodney Monroe said Ray Joseph Dandridge and Ricky Gavon Gray, both 28, were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and auto theft.

He said the charges stem from the slaying Friday of Percyell Tucker, 55, Mary Baskerville, 47, and her daughter, Ashley Baskerville, 21; and from the New Year's Day killings of Bryan Harvey, 49, his wife, Kathryn, 39, and their two young daughters, Stella, 9, and Ruby, 4.

Monroe said both of the men have ties to the Philadelphia area, but he could not be more specific.

The investigation into Friday's triple homicide led police to Dandridge and Gray, Monroe said. He said investigators also found evidence linking them to the four killings in the Harveys' home, but he declined to give specifics.

Monroe said that Tucker and Baskerville's home was ransacked and that police believed robbery was the motive. He said investigators also believe robbery may have been the motive in the Harvey family killings.
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Hope they string these fuckers up!!!
(Assuming they are truly the guilty ones.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on January 08, 2006, 10:23:00 am

Will it be classified as one of those "Hate" crimes....that are oh, SO fashionable nowadays?

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Originally posted by Jaguar:

Quote
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Pretty Gruesome this one...

Bryan Harvey (ex House of Freaks guitarist) found murdered in Richmond (http://www.wtvr.com/Global/story.asp?S=4307968)
Two Charged in Slaughter of Va. Families (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060107/ap_on_re_us/richmond_slayings)

By LARRY O'DELL, Associated Press Writer
40 minutes ago

Two men were captured Saturday and charged in the brutal killings over the past week of seven people from two Richmond families, slayings that police hadn't publicly tied together until now.

Police Chief Rodney Monroe said Ray Joseph Dandridge and Ricky Gavon Gray, both 28, were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and auto theft.

He said the charges stem from the slaying Friday of Percyell Tucker, 55, Mary Baskerville, 47, and her daughter, Ashley Baskerville, 21; and from the New Year's Day killings of Bryan Harvey, 49, his wife, Kathryn, 39, and their two young daughters, Stella, 9, and Ruby, 4.

Monroe said both of the men have ties to the Philadelphia area, but he could not be more specific.

The investigation into Friday's triple homicide led police to Dandridge and Gray, Monroe said. He said investigators also found evidence linking them to the four killings in the Harveys' home, but he declined to give specifics.

Monroe said that Tucker and Baskerville's home was ransacked and that police believed robbery was the motive. He said investigators also believe robbery may have been the motive in the Harvey family killings.
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Hope they string these fuckers up!!!
(Assuming they are truly the guilty ones.) [/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on January 13, 2006, 04:24:00 am

I shall shed a tear...

Founder of Liverpool's Cavern Club, home of The Beatles, dies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060112/ennew_afp/afpentertainmentmusic_060112173103)

Thu Jan 12, 12:34 PM ET

The man who founded The Cavern nightclub, the venue that launched The Beatles on the road to global superstardom, has died.

Alan Sytner, who opened the venue in Liverpool, northwest England, as a jazz bar in January 1957 died on Wednesday after falling ill on holiday in France, local newspapers in Liverpool reported. No age was given.

The Cavern, where the four-piece of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr gained a fanatic following in the 1960s, was inspired by an underground club in Paris called Le Caveau Francais.

Sytner sold the club in 1959 and went on to found a luxury car dealership.

The club's current owner, Bill Heckle, said: "This is very sad news for anyone connected to the Cavern.

"Alan had the vision to create the conditions which acted as a vehicle for all of the talent that was around in the Merseybeat era.

"You could even argue that without the Cavern The Beatles would never have gone on to achieve what they did."

The original Cavern, which was built in a basement in the city's Mathew Street, was knocked down and is now the site of a car park. A replica on the same street is a major tourist attraction.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on January 15, 2006, 11:01:00 am

Oscar Winner Shelley Winters dead at age 85 (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060115/D8F539GO0.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on January 15, 2006, 11:40:00 am

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Originally posted by RonniStar:
Oscar Winner Shelley Winters dead at age 85 (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060115/D8F539GO0.html)

"Has the distinction of currently being the highest ranked female performer on The Oracle of Bacon's list of the top 1000 performers based upon their "center of the film universe" average number. Winter's average link number is 2.696842, placing seventeenth on the list. The places her well above Kevin Bacon, who is currently ranked 1161st, despite being the original focus of the quirky game of linking actors through their co-stars."

May the source (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001859/bio) be with you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on January 19, 2006, 06:48:00 pm

Soul Legend Wilson Pickett Dies At 64 (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001882031)

Soul/R&B legend Wilson Pickett died of a heart attack today (Jan. 19) at a hospital near his Virginia home, according to a spokesperson. He was 64.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 19, 2006, 08:52:00 pm

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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Soul Legend Wilson Pickett Dies At 64

Excuse me, would you have any Rock Salmon?

No, I'm sorry - we only have Soul!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: markie on January 20, 2006, 02:35:00 pm

It was midnight on the murder mile, Wilson Pickett's (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1691201,00.html) finest hour.

I thought he died years ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 20, 2006, 02:57:00 pm

Nah, I used to see him picking up fresh produce at the Springfield Whole Foods.

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Originally posted by MTB-Markie:
It was midnight on the murder mile, Wilson Pickett's (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1691201,00.html) finest hour.

I thought he died years ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: markie on January 20, 2006, 03:14:00 pm

Umm, I am never sure when to take you seriously.

picture from 1999:

<img src="http://www.alamhof.org/picketw3.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 20, 2006, 03:27:00 pm

Though it says he did live in Northern Virginia, I never saw Wilson Pickett at Whole Foods in Springfield.

I did once see ggw and his woman at the Whole Foods in Springfield.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on January 24, 2006, 01:43:00 pm

Paul McCartney's monkey (http://www.soundgenerator.com/news/index.cfm?articleid=6877)

Bon Jovi (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10961012/from/RSS/), almost

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Random Citizen on January 25, 2006, 12:15:00 am

Actor Chris Penn Found Dead (http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=entertainment&id=3843191)

SANTA MONICA - Actor Chris Penn died in Santa Monica. The brother of Sean Penn was 43.
Santa Monica police say there is no sign of foul play in the death of Actor Chris Penn. The actor and brother of Sean Penn was found dead in a Santa Monica residence.

Chris Penn was seen in many movies - including "Reservoir Dogs" "Footloose," "Corky Romano" and "Mulholland Falls." Santa Monica police are currently on the scene investigating the circumstances.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Arlette on January 25, 2006, 12:43:00 am

Note to self: it's time to re-evaluate your life when you hear about a celebrity death and you think, "shit, this has to go on the Dropping Like Flies thread on the 9:30 board", only to go there to discover it's already been posted.

Sad. About my life, I mean. Kinda sad, I guess, about Chris Penn.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 25, 2006, 01:48:00 pm

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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
Actor Chris Penn Found Dead (http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=entertainment&id=3843191)

Santa Monica police are currently on the scene investigating the circumstances.

He was supposed to be at Sundance this week to premier his new movie "Darwin Awards" - conspiracy theorists may begin.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on January 25, 2006, 02:08:00 pm

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Originally posted by vansmack:

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Originally posted by Random Citizen:
Actor Chris Penn Found Dead (http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=entertainment&id=3843191)

Santa Monica police are currently on the scene investigating the circumstances.
He was supposed to be at Sundance this week to premier his new movie "Darwin Awards" - conspiracy theorists may begin..... [/b]

It's a publicity stunt! :p

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on January 25, 2006, 02:38:00 pm

Only the good die young. I suppose Sean will live to be 96..?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 25, 2006, 05:34:00 pm

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Originally posted by Jaguar:

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Originally posted by vansmack:
[qb] It's a publicity stunt! :p [/b]
That's the first thing I thought, then I remembered that he missed our party on Sunday and nobody would do that, not even for a stunt!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on January 30, 2006, 08:31:00 pm

Video artist Nam June Paik dead at 74

Monday, January 30, 2006; Posted: 2:53 p.m. EST (19:53 GMT)

MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- Nam June Paik, the avant-garde artist credited with inventing video art in the 1960s by combining multiple TV screens with sculpture, music and live performers, has died. He was 74.

The Korean-born Paik, who also coined the term "Electronic Super Highway" years before the information superhighway was invented, died Sunday night of natural causes at his Miami apartment, according to his Web site.

Song Tae-ho, head of a South Korean cultural foundation working on a project to build a museum for the artist, said he learned of Paik's death from Paik's nephew, Ken Paik Hakuta, in New York.

Paik's work gained international praise from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, among others, and much of it is on display at the Nam June Paik Museum in Kyonggi, South Korea.

"He really led the development of a new art form, bringing the moving image into the modern art world," said John Hanhardt, senior curator of film and media arts at the Guggenheim.

Hanhardt called Paik a true friend and a prophet.

"He foresaw that video would be an artist's medium, that it would be in museums," he said. "It's a heroic achievement."

In a 1974 report commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, Paik wrote of a telecommunications network of the future he called the "Electronic Super Highway," predicting it "will become our springboard for new and surprising human endeavors." Two decades later, when "information superhighway" had become the phrase of the moment, he commented, "Bill Clinton stole my idea."

He also was often credited with coining the phrase, "The future is now."

Trained in music, aesthetics and philosophy, he was a member of the 1960s art movement Fluxus, which was in part inspired by composer John Cage's use of everyday sounds in his music. Another Fluxus adherent was the young Yoko Ono.

Paik made his artistic debut in Wiesbaden, West Germany, in 1963 with a solo art exhibition titled "Exposition of Music-Electronic Television." He scattered 12 television sets throughout the exhibit space and used them to create unexpected effects in the images being received. Later exhibits included the use of magnets to manipulate or alter the image on TV sets and create patterns of light.

He moved to New York in 1964 and started working with classical cellist Charlotte Moorman to combine video, music and performance.

In "TV Cello" they stacked television sets that formed the shape of a cello. When she drew the bow across the television sets, there were images of her playing, video collages of other cellists and live images of the performance.

In one highly publicized incident, Moorman was arrested in 1967 in New York for going topless in performing Paik's "Opera Sextronique." Said one headline: "Cops Top a Topless 'Happening.' " In a 1969 performance titled "TV Bra for Living Sculpture," she wore a bra with tiny TV screens over her breasts.

Another of Paik's pieces, "TV Buddha," is a statue of a sitting Buddha facing its own image on a closed-circuit television screen, while "Positive Egg," has a video camera aimed at a white egg on a black cloth. In a series of larger and larger monitors, the image is magnified until the actual egg becomes an abstract shape on the screen.

Paik also incorporated television sets into a series of robots. The early robots were constructed largely of bits and pieces of wire and metal; later ones were built from vintage radio and television sets.

Famous worldwide, Paik never forgot his native Korea. In 1986, public television showed Paik's "Bye Bye Kipling," a mix of taped and live events, mostly from Paik's native Seoul; Tokyo; and New York. Two years later, Paik erected a media tower, called "The more the better," from 1,003 monitors for the Olympic Games at Seoul.

Paik was left partially paralyzed by a stroke in 1996.

Funeral services will be held this week in New York, Hakuta told South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on January 30, 2006, 08:37:00 pm

BTW, this Saturday, February 4, 2006 marks the one year anniversary of Dropping Like Flies (http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=009136;p=1#000000). Six pages. That's a lotta death. How'd ya know, ggw?

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Post by: on January 30, 2006, 09:10:00 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on January 31, 2006, 11:21:00 am

Anthony Franciosa, actor, 77 (http://slick.org/deathwatch/mailarchive/msg01904.html)

...was once married to the above corpse, Shelley Winters

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 31, 2006, 11:23:00 am

Coretta Scott King, rip.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on January 31, 2006, 01:22:00 pm

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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Though it says he did live in Northern Virginia, I never saw Wilson Pickett at Whole Foods in Springfield.

He lived in Ashburn, died at Reston Hospital.
They have Whole Foods in Springfield?

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Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 31, 2006, 02:13:00 pm

Yes, on Old Keene Mill Road, just a short walk from my house.

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Originally posted by El Sugartastic:

They have Whole Foods in Springfield?

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Post by: on February 06, 2006, 04:29:00 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Betty Friedan, the cigar-chomping patriarch of "The Munsters" whose work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed her role as Grandpa from the television sitcom, died died Saturday, after years of failing health. Her manifesto "The Feminine Mystique" became a best seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement. She was 85.

Friedan died at her home of congestive heart failure, according to a cousin, Emily Bazelon. "To say that we will miss her generous, cantankerous, engaging spirit is a profound understatement," Bazelon said.

Friedan's assertion in her 1963 best seller that having a husband and babies was not everything and that women should aspire to separate identities as individuals, was highly unusual, if not revolutionary, just after the baby and suburban booms of the Eisenhower era. Sporting a somewhat cheesy Dracula outfit, Friedan became a pop culture icon playing the irascible father-in-law to Fred Gwynne's ever-bumbling Herman Munster on the 1964-66 television show. She was also one of the stars of another classic TV comedy, playing Officer Leo Schnauzer on "Car 54, Where Are You?" The feminine mystique, she said, was a phony bill of goods society sold to women that left them unfulfilled, suffering from "the problem that has no name" and seeking a solution in tranquilizers and psychoanalysis.

But Friedan's life off the small screen ranged far beyond her acting antics. A former ballplayer at Thomas Jefferson High School, she achieved notoriety as a basketball talent scout familiar to coaching greats like Jerry Tarkanian and Red Auerbach. "A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, `Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children," Friedan said.

Her book, about a family of clueless creatures plunked down in middle America, was a success and ran through 1966.

"That book changed women's lives," Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, which Friedan co-founded, said Saturday. "It opened women's minds to the idea that there actually might be something more. And for the women who secretly harbored such unpopular thoughts, it told them that there were other women out there like them who thought there might be something more to life."

Unlike some television stars, Friedan never complained about getting typecast and made appearances in character for decades.

"Why would I mind?" she asked in a 1997 interview. "It pays my mortgage."

In the racial, political and sexual conflicts of the 1960s and '70s, Friedan's was one of the most commanding voices and recognizable presences in the women's movement. Just two years short of her 80th birthday, a ponytailed Friedan ran as the Green Party candidate against incumbent Gov. George Pataki, while going to court in a losing battle to have her name appear on the ballot as "Grandpa Friedan."

As the first president of NOW in 1966, she staked out positions that seemed extreme at the time on such issues as abortion, sex-neutral help-wanted ads, equal pay, promotion opportunities and maternity leave. She also reprised her role of Schnauzer in the movie remake of "Car 54," and appeared as a guest star on television shows such as "Taxi," "Green Acres" and "Lost in Space."

But at the same time, Friedan insisted that the women's movement had to remain in the American mainstream, that men had to be accepted as allies and that the family should not be rejected. "Don't get into the bra-burning, anti-man, politics-of-orgasm school," Friedan told a college audience in 1970. It forever locked Friedan in as the memorably twisted character; decades later, strangers would greet her on the street with shouts of "Grandpa!"

She lived in New York City and Washington, D.C., and had a summer house in Sag Harbor, N.Y.

She is survived by her wife, Karen Ingenthron-Lewis, three sons and four grandchildren.

She said the funeral will be Monday at Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York.

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Post by: ggw on February 06, 2006, 04:50:00 pm

February 6, 2006
Al Lewis, the Cantankerous Grandpa of 'The Munsters', Is Dead at 95
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Al Lewis, the cigar-chomping patriarch of "The Munsters" whose work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed his role as Grandpa from the television sitcom, died on Friday after several years of failing health. He was 95 and lived on Roosevelt Island.

Bernard White, program director at WBAI-FM in New York City, where the actor was the longtime host of a weekly radio program, announced the death during the Saturday slot in which Mr. Lewis usually appeared.

Sporting a somewhat cheesy Dracula outfit, Mr. Lewis played the irascible father-in-law to Fred Gwynne's ever-bumbling Herman Munster on the 1960's series. He was also one of the stars of another classic TV comedy, playing Officer Leo Schnauzer on "Car 54, Where Are You?"

But Mr. Lewis also led many other lives off the small screen.

A ballplayer in high school, he achieved some fame as a basketball talent scout.

Later in life he operated a successful Greenwich Village restaurant, where he was a regular presence, chatting with customers, posing for pictures and signing autographs.

In 1998, just two years short of his 90th birthday, Mr. Lewis ran as the Green Party candidate against Gov. George E. Pataki.

Mr. Lewis campaigned against the death penalty and called for reforming drug laws, while fighting an ultimately unsuccessful legal battle to have his name appear on the ballot as "Grandpa Al Lewis." Though he did not defeat Mr. Pataki, he did collect more than 52,000 votes.

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Mr. Lewis was born Alexander Meister upstate in Wolcott, N.Y., before his family moved to Brooklyn, where as a 6-foot-1 teenager he began a lifelong love affair with basketball.

He later became a vaudeville and circus performer, but his career took off with television.

As Officer Leo Schnauzer, Mr. Lewis played opposite Mr. Gwynne's Officer Francis Muldoon in "Car 54, Where Are You?" â?? a comedy about a Bronx police precinct that was broadcast from 1961 to 1963.

One year later, the two appeared together in "The Munsters," taking up residence together at the fictional 1313 Mockingbird Lane.

The series, about a family of clueless creatures plunked down in Middle America, was a success and ran through 1966.

It forever locked Mr. Lewis in as the memorably twisted character; decades later, strangers would greet him on the street with shouts of "Grandpa!"

Mr. Lewis never complained about getting typecast, and made appearances in character for decades. "Why would I mind?" he asked in a 1997 interview. "It pays my mortgage."

Mr. Lewis rarely slowed down, opening his restaurant and serving as host of his WBAI radio program. In the 90's, he was a frequent guest on the Howard Stern radio show, once sending Mr. Stern diving for the delay button by leading an undeniably obscene chant against the Federal Communications Commission.

He also popped up in a number of movies, including "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" and "Married to the Mob."

He enjoyed a reprise of his role of Officer Schnauzer in the movie remake of "Car 54," and was a guest star on shows like "Taxi," "Green Acres" and "Lost in Space."

In 2003, Mr. Lewis was hospitalized for an angioplasty. Complications during surgery led to an emergency bypass and the amputation of his right leg below the knee and all the toes on his left foot. He spent the next month in a coma.

But a year later, he was back offering his recollections of a seminal punk band on a DVD called "Ramones Raw."

Mr. Lewis is survived by his wife, Karen Ingenthron-Lewis, three sons and four grandchildren.

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Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on February 06, 2006, 04:59:00 pm

Other reports listed him as 82 years old, which would mean he was 40 when he started playing Grandpa.

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[QB] February 6, 2006
Al Lewis, the Cantankerous Grandpa of 'The Munsters', Is Dead at 95
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Post by: on February 06, 2006, 05:07:00 pm

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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
February 6, 2006
Al Lewis Dead at 95

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Post by: RonniStar on February 06, 2006, 11:31:00 pm

Gene Mcfadden, 1949-2006 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/03/db0302.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/02/03/ixportal.html):

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Gene McFadden was born in Philadelphia in 1949 and formed his first band, the Epsilons, with his schoolfriend John Whitehead. Fellow members included Arthur Conley, for whose solo hit, Sweet Soul Music, McFadden and Whitehead were to provide the backing vocals.

In 1966 the Epsilons were discovered by Otis Redding, who became their manager, signing them to the Stax label in Memphis and using them as his backing singers.

But the following year they lost their patron when Redding was killed in a plane crash. Without his considerable influence, the band began to lose direction and returned to Philadelphia, although they later released a single, The Echo (1969), which was a minor hit. Stax, however, was in financial difficulty and showing little interest in Redding's former protÃ©gÃ©s, so McFadden and Whitehead formed a new group, Talk of the Town, and joined Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia-based record label, Philadelphia International Records (PIR).

While Talk of the Town had little success in their own right, Huff and Gamble spotted McFadden and Whitehead's song-writing talents and asked them to write for other recording artists. Whitehead came up with the idea for Backstabbers after discovering that a friend was trying to steal his wife: They're smiling in your face/All the time they want to take your place.

McFadden added the Otis Redding-style soul tune, and the song, which was recorded in 1972 by the O'Jays, gave PIR its first major hit.

During the course of the next six years McFadden and Whitehead wrote 22 hits for PIR, most of which exemplified the smoother, upbeat "Philly soul" sound. The best known of these were For the Love of Money, another hit for the O'Jays, Wake Up Everybody and Where Are All My Friends, for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, and I'll Always Love My Mama, for the Intruders.

During the mid-1970s, as Talk of the Town, they released Super Groover (All Night Mover), Bumpin' Boogie and I Apologise, none of which made a dent in the charts. Their luck changed in 1978 when, as McFadden and Whitehead, they recorded Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now, which they had originally written for the O'Jays.

Joyful, funky and a celebration of all that was good about disco, the song was a huge international hit and reached No 13 and No 5 in the American and British pop charts respectively.

Its rousing and inspirational message (Don't you let nothing, nothing/ Stand in your way) was perfect for the melting pot that was the disco dancefloor, and it was later covered and sampled by numerous other artists, translated into Spanish and Japanese and recorded in both the reggae and gospel style.

It was even adopted by Philadelphia's baseball and American football teams and used in an advertisement for McDonald's hamburgers.

McFadden and Whitehead followed it up with two singles, I Heard It in a Love Song, and I've Been Pushed Aside, and two albums, but with little success.

Their songwriting and producing proved more lucrative and they went on to work with the Jacksons, James Brown, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Gloria Gaynor and Stevie Wonder.

By the mid-1980s, however, McFadden and Whitehead began to forge separate career paths, although they reunited to perform their old hits on the disco nostalgia circuit.

In 2004 John Whitehead was shot and killed by an unknown assailant while fixing his car outside his home in Philadelphia. McFadden, who was suffering from cancer and died last Friday, was devastated by the murder.

He is survived by Barbara, his wife of 38 years, their two daughters and two sons.

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Post by: on February 08, 2006, 12:26:00 pm

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Not dead yet... (http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/08022006/344/body-shut-says-daryl-hall.html&e=l_news_dm)

&

I'm getting better... (http://launch.yahoo.com/read/news/29402170)

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Post by: sonickteam2 on February 10, 2006, 11:37:00 am

Actor Franklin Cover, neighbor to 'The Jeffersons,' dies at 77 (http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-02-10-cover-obit_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA)

Actor Franklin Cover, neighbor to 'The Jeffersons,' dies at 77

LOS ANGELES (AP) â?? Franklin Cover, who became a familiar face as George and Louise Jefferson's white neighbor in the long-running TV sitcom The Jeffersons, has died, his publicist said Thursday. He was 77.

Cover died of pneumonia Sunday at the Lillian Booth Actor's Fund of America home in Englewood, N.J., said publicist Dale Olson. He had been living at the home since December 2005 while recuperating from a heart condition.

In his nearly six decades in show business, Cover made numerous appearances on television shows, including The Jackie Gleason Show,All in the Family,Who's the Boss, Will & Grace,Living Single,Mad About You and ER.

He began his career on the stage, appearing in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henry IV, and later in numerous Broadway productions, including Any Wednesday,Wild Honey and Born Yesterday.

But Cover was best known for his role as Tom Willis, who was in an interracial marriage with a black woman, in The Jeffersons.

He and his wife lived in the same "deluxe apartment building" that Sherman Hemsley moved his family to after making money in the dry-cleaning business. There, Cover often played a comic foil to Hemsley's blustering, opinionated black businessman. The show ran from 1975 to 1985.

Cover also appeared in several films, including The Great Gatsby,The Stepford Wives and Wall Street.

He is survived by his widow, Mary, a son and a daughter.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on February 10, 2006, 11:49:00 am

His tv wife, Helen Willis, was played by Roxie Roker. In real life, she was Lenny Kravitz' mom, and weatherman Al Roker's cousin.

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Actor Franklin Cover, neighbor to 'The Jeffersons,' dies at 77 (http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-02-10-cover-obit_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA)

Actor Franklin Cover, neighbor to 'The Jeffersons,' dies at 77

LOS ANGELES (AP) â?? Franklin Cover, who became a familiar face as George and Louise Jefferson's white neighbor in the long-running TV sitcom The Jeffersons, has died, his publicist said Thursday. He was 77.

Cover died of pneumonia Sunday at the Lillian Booth Actor's Fund of America home in Englewood, N.J., said publicist Dale Olson. He had been living at the home since December 2005 while recuperating from a heart condition.

In his nearly six decades in show business, Cover made numerous appearances on television shows, including The Jackie Gleason Show,All in the Family,Who's the Boss, Will & Grace,Living Single,Mad About You and ER.

He began his career on the stage, appearing in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henry IV, and later in numerous Broadway productions, including Any Wednesday,Wild Honey and Born Yesterday.

But Cover was best known for his role as Tom Willis, who was in an interracial marriage with a black woman, in The Jeffersons.

He and his wife lived in the same "deluxe apartment building" that Sherman Hemsley moved his family to after making money in the dry-cleaning business. There, Cover often played a comic foil to Hemsley's blustering, opinionated black businessman. The show ran from 1975 to 1985.

Cover also appeared in several films, including The Great Gatsby,The Stepford Wives and Wall Street.

He is survived by his widow, Mary, a son and a daughter.

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Post by: definitivedoodle on February 11, 2006, 02:37:00 pm

R.I.P

JDilla.

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Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Arlette on February 12, 2006, 08:27:00 pm

"Jaws" author Peter Benchley. Only 65. For some reason, I would have thought him much older. After I saw Jaws as a kid I couldn't go near the beach or even a lake. I still have an irrational fear of the water and unknown "things" that swim down there.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Peter Benchley, whose novel "Jaws" terrorized millions of swimmers even as the author himself became an advocate for the conservation of sharks, has died at age 65, his widow said Sunday.

Wendy Benchley, married to the author for 41 years, said he died Saturday night at their home in Princeton, New Jersey.

The cause of death, she said, was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and a fatal scarring of the lungs.

Thanks to Benchley's 1974 novel, and Steven Spielberg's blockbuster movie of the same name a year later, the simple act of ocean swimming became synonymous with fatal horror, of still water followed by ominous, pumping music, then teeth and blood and panic.

"Spielberg certainly made the most superb movie; Peter was very pleased," Wendy Benchley told The Associated Press.

"But Peter kept telling people the book was fiction, it was a novel, and that he no more took responsibility for the fear of sharks than ["Godfather" author] Mario Puzo took responsibility for the Mafia."

Besides his wife, Peter Benchley is survived by three children and five grandchildren.

A small family service will take place next week in Princeton, Wendy Benchley said.

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Post by: sacriforce on February 19, 2006, 12:30:00 pm

Harold Hunter
RIP
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Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on February 20, 2006, 06:15:00 pm

Lead singer of The Cowsills dies at 58 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11453243/from/RSS/)

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Post by: SPARX on February 25, 2006, 07:44:00 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060225/ap_on_en_tv/obit_knotts (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060225/ap_on_en_tv/obit_knotts) LOS ANGELES - Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show," has died. He was 81.

Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, said Paul Ward, a spokesman for the cable network TV Land, which airs "The Andy Griffith Show," and another Knotts hit, "Three's Company."

Unspecified health problems had forced him to cancel an appearance in his native Morgantown in August 2005.

The West Virginia-born actor's half-century career included seven TV series and more than 25 films, but it was the Griffith show that brought him TV immortality and five Emmies.

The show ran from 1960-68, and was in the top 10 of the Nielsen ratings each season, including a No. 1 ranking its final year. It is one of only three series in TV history to bow out at the top: The others are "I Love Lucy" and "Seinfeld." The 249 episodes have appeared frequently in reruns and have spawned a large, active network of fan clubs.

As the bug-eyed deputy to Griffith, Knotts carried in his shirt pocket the one bullet he was allowed after shooting himself in the foot. The constant fumbling, a recurring sight gag, was typical of his self-deprecating humor.

Knotts, whose shy, soft-spoken manner was unlike his high-strung characters, once said he was most proud of the Fife character and doesn't mind being remembered that way.

His favorite episodes, he said, were "The Pickle Story," where Aunt Bea makes pickles no one can eat, and "Barney and the Choir," where no one can stop him from singing.

"I can't sing. It makes me sad that I can't sing or dance well enough to be in a musical, but I'm just not talented in that way," he lamented. "It's one of my weaknesses."

Knotts appeared on six other television shows. In 1979, Knotts replaced Norman Fell on "Three's Company," playing the would-be swinger landlord to John Ritter, Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt.

Early in his TV career, he was one of the original cast members of "The Steve Allen Show," the comedy-variety show that ran from 1956-61. He was one of a group of memorable comics backing Allen that included Louis Nye, Tom Poston and Bill "Jose Jimenez" Dana.

Knotts' G-rated films were family fun, not box-office blockbusters. In most, he ends up the hero and gets the girl â?? a girl who can see through his nervousness to the heart of gold.

In the part-animated 1964 film "The Incredible Mr. Limpet," Knotts played a meek clerk who turns into a fish after he is rejected by the Navy.

When it was announced in 1998 that Jim Carrey would star in a "Limpet" remake, Knotts responded: "I'm just flattered that someone of Carrey's caliber is remaking something I did. Now, if someone else did Barney Fife, THAT would be different."

In the 1967 film "The Reluctant Astronaut," co-starring Leslie Nielsen, Knotts' father enrolls his wimpy son â?? operator of a Kiddieland rocket ride â?? in NASA's space program. Knotts poses as a famous astronaut to the joy of his parents and hometown but is eventually exposed for what he really is, a janitor so terrified of heights he refuses to ride an airplane.

In the 1969 film "The Love God?," he was a geeky bird-watcher who is duped into becoming publisher of a naughty men's magazine and then becomes a national sex symbol. Eventually, he comes to his senses, leaves the big city and marries the sweet girl next door.

He was among an army of comedians from Buster Keaton to Jonathan Winters to liven up the 1963 megacomedy "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." Other films include "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" (1966); "The Shakiest Gun in the West," (1968); and a few Disney films such as "The Apple Dumpling Gang," (1974); "Gus," (1976); and "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo," (1977).

In 1998, he had a key role in the back-to-the-past movie "Pleasantville," playing a folksy television repairman whose supercharged remote control sends a teen boy and his sister into a TV sitcom past.

Knotts began his show biz career even before he graduated from high school, performing as a ventriloquist at local clubs and churches. He majored in speech at West Virginia University, then took off for the big city.

"I went to New York cold. On a $100 bill. Bummed a ride," he recalled in a visit to his hometown of Morgantown, where city officials renamed a street for him in 1998.

Within six months, Knotts had taken a job on a radio Western called "Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders," playing a wisecracking, know-it-all handyman. He stayed with it for five years, then came his series TV debut on "The Steve Allen Show."

He married Kay Metz in 1948, the year he graduated from college. The couple had two children before divorcing in 1969. Knotts later married, then divorced Lara Lee Szuchna.

In recent years, he said he had no plans to retire, traveling with theater productions and appearing in print and TV ads for Kodiak pressure treated wood.

The world laughed at Knotts, but it also laughed with him.

He treasured his comedic roles and could point to only one role that wasn't funny, a brief stint on the daytime drama "Search for Tomorrow."

"That's the only serious thing I've done. I don't miss that," Knotts said.

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Post by: Arlette on February 26, 2006, 12:12:00 am

I meant to post this earlier this week. The gold standard in sports broadcasting, Curt Gowdy, passed away this week. For any of us old folks who were in any way interested in sports, he was the man. And anyone who grew up in New England/Boston and was a BoSox fan, he was the real deal.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11478921/ (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11478921/)

Keith Olbermann's tribute:

Childhood unofficially ended for several generations of sports fans Yesterday. Curt Gowdy died. It is impossible to comprehend his ubiquitousness in the sports world from the 1960's to the late 1970's. A peck of controversial comments by sports casters and sports heroes alike, consider the impossibility of anyone producing a resume that looked like this.

Curt Gowdy announced 13 World Series and nine Super Bowls, eight Olympics, 14 Rose Bowls, 24 college basketball championships and 16 baseball all-star games. Nearly all of that resume here at NBC. Plus, there were two years announcing the games of the New York Yankees and 10 of the Boston Red Sox. Never overselling, rarely yelling, Curt Gowdy sounded, in the words of essayist John Updike, like everybody's brother-in-law.

And there was a sincerity to the man. NBC sportscaster Al Michaels told me on the radio on Monday that when he was a student at Arizona State he asked Gowdy for career advice and Gowdy responded by listening to tapes of Michaels' college broadcasts. Curt Gowdy suffering for several years from leukemia, died in Florida on Monday. He was 86 years old.

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Post by: RonniStar on February 26, 2006, 05:45:00 pm

Darren McGavin, RIP (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060226/D8G0UQ2G0.html)

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Post by: beetsnotbeats on February 27, 2006, 02:23:00 pm

From CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/27/obit.weaver.ap/index.html):

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Dennis Weaver, the slow-witted deputy Chester Goode in the TV classic western "Gunsmoke" and the New Mexico deputy solving New York crime in "McCloud," has died. The actor was 81.

Weaver died of complications from cancer Friday at his home in Ridgway, in southwestern Colorado, his publicist Julian Myers said.

Damn, three actors in two days. They really are dropping like....

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Post by: frostytheswami on February 27, 2006, 04:18:00 pm

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Actor Chris Penn Found Dead (http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=entertainment&id=3843191)

Santa Monica police are currently on the scene investigating the circumstances.
He was supposed to be at Sundance this week to premier his new movie "Darwin Awards" - conspiracy theorists may begin..... [/b]
It's a publicity stunt! :p [/b]

A toxicology report has shown late actor Chris Penn was highly intoxicated with a combination of substances including marijuana and morphine at the time of his death last month. The Reservoir Dogs star's official cause of death was an enlarged heart, which weighed over 1.54 pounds, and would have been exacerbated by the cocktail of drugs in his system. Besides marijuana and morphine, Penn's system also contained Valium, codeine and an antihistamine. The 40-year-old brother of Sean Penn, weighed over 20 stone (280 pounds) at the time of his death and had a history of drug abuse. He was found dead in his Santa Monica, California, apartment on 24 January.

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Post by: on March 03, 2006, 04:19:00 pm

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March 3, 2056

Hollywood, CA, (AP wire service)

One of these generic interchangeable perfect pretty actors died today but no one is sure exactly which one or can tell them apart or even remember their names.

Their only claim to fame is having starred in a gimmicky Hollywood motion picture called Buggery Mountain in 2005, considered "ground-breaking" in those simpler times, due to a contrived homosexual angle which was little more than the usual elitist slap at mainstream American culture and anything held dear or cherished by ordinary citizens, in this case cowboys and their dreaded heterosexual masculinity.

The same was done to Marines in an earlier Oscar-winning picture called American Buttfuck.

It's plain and simple hostility and sniffing contempt masking as "art" in a cheesy soap opera's clothing.

It's not like 50 to 100 years ago when comic actors like Don Knotts had personality, presence, and a humanity which transcended their work and left the public feeling as if they'd lost a friend when they died.

Instead of being associated with some mere sociopolitical bill of goods or narcissistic agenda.

In their wake are these sculpted icy-cold "artistes" and craftsmen and Scientologists who are emotional and personal blank slates a million miles removed from their audience and are awarded for doing cheap Truman Capote impressions or donning Hopalong Cassidy gear and sucking each other off.

This in lieu of anything like original thought or genuine risk-taking.

Or anything stemming from the heart and viscera, as opposed the mind, pseudo-intellect, and colon.

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Post by: chaz on March 07, 2006, 09:32:00 am

Dana Reeve, widow of Christopher Reeve, dies at 44

SHORT HILLS, New Jersey (AP) -- Dana Reeve, who fought for better treatments and possible cures for paralysis through the Christopher Reeve Foundation, named for her late actor-husband, has died, the foundation said. She was 44.

Reeve died late Monday of lung cancer, said Kathy Lewis, President and CEO of the foundation.

"On behalf of the entire Board of Directors and staff of the Christopher Reeve Foundation, we are extremely saddened by the death of Dana Reeve, whose grace and courage under the most difficult of circumstances was a source of comfort and inspiration to all of us," Lewis said in a statement.

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Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 07, 2006, 10:12:00 am

Kirby Puckett, rip.

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Post by: Guiny on March 07, 2006, 11:12:00 am

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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Kirby Puckett, rip.

I second that.

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Post by: on March 07, 2006, 11:20:00 am

A very lucky duo...
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Originally posted by Chaz, Lover of all Beings:
Dana Reeve, widow of Christopher Reeve, dies at 44
Reeve died late Monday of lung cancer, said Kathy Lewis, President and CEO of the foundation.

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Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 07, 2006, 11:38:00 am

Wow, this is turning into a big week for dying.

March 7, 2006, 9:13AM
African musical legend Ali Farka Toure dies in Mali

Associated Press

BAMAKO, Mali â?? Ali Farka Toure, a traditional African musician who won two Grammy Awards, died Tuesday in his native Mali after a long illness. He was in his late 60s.

Mali's Culture Ministry said Toure died at his home in the capital, Bamako, after a long struggle with an unidentified illness, the ministry.

Toure, one of Africa's most famous performers, played a traditional Malian stringed instrument called the gurke.

He was best-known overseas for his 1995 collaboration with American guitarist Ry Cooder on Talking Timbuktu, which netted him his first of two Grammys.

He won another Grammy this year in the traditional world music album category for his In the Heart of the Moon album, performed with fellow Malian Toumani Diabate.

Across his deeply impoverished west African nation, people mourned Toure's passing and radio stations suspended regular play, sending Toure's signature lilting sounds out over airwaves instead.

Toure was born in 1939 in the northern Sahara Desert trading post of Timbuktu. Like many Africans of his generation, the exact date of his birth was not recorded.

Toure learned the gurkel at an early age, later also taking up the guitar. He cited many Western musicians for inspiration, including Ray Charles, Otis Redding and John Lee Hooker.

Toure spent much of his older age in his childhood town of Niafunke, which has become a pilgrimage spot for many music-loving Africans and tourists seeking one of the original progenitors of a genre known as Mali Blues.

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Post by: Jaguar on March 07, 2006, 09:12:00 pm

Add another one to this week's toll.

I loved his photographs.

Filmmaker Gordon Parks Dies at 93 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060308/ap_on_en_mo/obit_parks)

By POLLY ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer
31 minutes ago

Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director with "The Learning Tree" and the hit "Shaft," died Tuesday, a family member said. He was 93.

Parks, who also wrote fiction and was an accomplished composer, died in New York, his nephew, Charles Parks, said in a telephone interview from Lawrence, Kan.

"Nothing came easy," Parks wrote in his autobiography. "I was just born with a need to explore every tool shop of my mind, and with long searching and hard work. I became devoted to my restlessness."

He covered everything from fashion to politics to sports during his 20 years at Life, from 1948 to 1968.

But as a photographer, he was perhaps best known for his gritty photo essays on the grinding effects of poverty in the United States and abroad and on the spirit of the civil rights movement.

"Those special problems spawned by poverty and crime touched me more, and I dug into them with more enthusiasm," he said. "Working at them again revealed the superiority of the camera to explore the dilemmas they posed."

In 1961, his photographs in Life of a poor, ailing Brazilian boy named Flavio da Silva brought donations that saved the boy and purchased a new home for him and his family.

"The Learning Tree" was Parks' first film, in 1969. It was based on his 1963 autobiographical novel of the same name, in which the young hero grapples with fear and racism as well as first love and schoolboy triumphs. Parks wrote the score as well directed.

In 1989, "The Learning Tree" was among the first 25 American movies to be placed on the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The registry is intended to highlight films of particular cultural, historical or aesthetic importance.

The detective drama "Shaft," which came out in 1971 and starred Richard Roundtree, was a major hit and spawned a series of black-oriented films. Parks himself directed a sequel, "Shaft's Big Score," in 1972.

He also published books of poetry and wrote musical compositions including "Martin," a ballet about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Parks was born Nov. 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kan., the youngest of 15 children. In his 1990 autobiography, "Voices in the Mirror," he remembered it as a world of racism and poverty, but also a world where his parents gave their children love, discipline and religious faith.

He went through a series of jobs as a teen and young man, including piano player and railroad dining car waiter. The breakthrough came when he was about 25, when he bought a used camera in a pawn shop for $7.50. He became a freelance fashion photographer, went on to Vogue magazine and then to Life in 1948.

"Reflecting now, I realize that, even within the limits of my childhood vision, I was on a search for pride, meanwhile taking measurable glimpses of how certain blacks, who were fed up with racism, rebelled against it," he wrote.

When he accepted an award from Wichita State University in May 1991, he said it was "another step forward in my making peace with Kansas and Kansas making peace with me."

"I dream terrible dreams, terribly violent dreams," he said. "The doctors say it's because I suppressed so much anger and hatred from my youth. I bottled it up and used it constructively."

In his autobiography, he recalled that being Life's only black photographer put him in a peculiar position when he set out to cover the civil rights movement.

"Life magazine was eager to penetrate their ranks for stories, but the black movement thought of Life as just another white establishment out of tune with their cause," he wrote. He said his aim was to become "an objective reporter, but one with a subjective heart."

The story of young Flavio prompted Life readers to send in $30,000, enabling his family to build a home, and Flavio received treatment for his asthma in an American clinic. By the 1970s, he had a family and a job as a security guard, but more recently the home built in 1961 has become overcrowded and run-down.

Still, Flavio stayed in touch with Parks off and on, and in 1997 Parks said, "If I saw him tomorrow in the same conditions, I would do the whole thing over again."

In addition to novels, poetry and his autobiographical writings, Parks' writing credits included nonfiction such as "Camera Portraits: Techniques and Principles of Documentary Portraiture," 1948, and a 1971 book of essays called "Born Black."

His other film credits included "The Super Cops," 1974; "Aaron Loves Angela," 1975; and "Leadbelly," 1976.

Recalling the making of "The Learning Tree," he wrote: "A lot of people of all colors were anxious about the breakthrough, and I was anxious to make the most of it. The wait had been far too long. Just remembering that no black had been given a chance to direct a motion picture in Hollywood since it was established kept me going."

Last month, health concerns had kept Parks from accepting the William Allen White Foundation National Citation in Kansas, but he said in a taped presentation that he still considered the state his home and wanted to be buried in Fort Scott.

Two years ago, Fort Scott Community College established the Gordon Parks Center for Culture and Diversity.

Jill Warford, its executive director, said Tuesday that Parks "had a very rough start in life and he overcame so much, but was such a good person and kind person that he never let the bad things that happened to him make him bitter."
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Associated Press writer Garance Burke in Kansas City, Mo., contributed to this report.

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Post by: on March 12, 2006, 09:23:00 am

New Jersey native son, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kuklinski)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on March 13, 2006, 08:57:00 pm

Former game show host Peter Tomarken killed in SoCal plane crash
- By DAISY NGUYEN, Associated Press Writer
Monday, March 13, 2006
(03-13) 16:41 PST Santa Monica, Calif. (AP) --

Peter Tomarken, host of the hit 1980s game show "Press Your Luck," and his wife were killed Monday when their small plane crashed in Santa Monica Bay shortly after takeoff on a volunteer medical transportation flight, authorities said. Searchers were looking for a third person reported aboard.

The bodies of Tomarken, 63, and wife Kathleen Abigail Tomarken, 41, were identified by the Los Angeles County coroner's office, said coroner's spokesman Craig Harvey.

Tomarken appeared in at least four other game shows in addition to "Press Your Luck," which was well known for contestants shouting the slogan "Big bucks, no whammies!"

The pilot was a volunteer for Angel Flight West, a nonprofit organization that provides free air transportation for needy medical patients, said organization spokesman Doug Griffith, who withheld the pilot's name. The plane was flying to San Diego to pick up a passenger who needed to get to UCLA Medical Center for treatment, he said.

The Beech A36 went down about 9:35 a.m. while apparently trying to return to Santa Monica Airport because of engine trouble, said FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer. The airport is about two miles inland from the ocean.

The plane, found in 19 feet of water 200 yards offshore, was registered to Tomarken, according to Federal Aviation Administration records.

Rescue boats and divers converged on the scene, about a half-mile southwest of Santa Monica Pier. The aircraft, appearing largely intact, was later towed onto the beach.

Witness Luis Garr told KNBC-TV that the plane was silent as it "kind of landed into the water."

"I didn't hear any engine. It's a big splash, a huge splash, huge splash. Then it started going down. The wings were still floating so I was, `Get out! Get out!' because the door was still available to get out and nobody came out. So the plane kept going down, down, down. It was just the tail. A surfer started swimming toward the plane and he was the first one on the scene. The lifeguard showed up. ... It had gone down."

Tomarken's agent, Fred Wostbrock, said his client's first game show was "Hit Man!," which ran 13 weeks on NBC, followed by the four-year hit "Press Your Luck" on CBS.

"He was always a fun guy to be around, and he just loved the genre of game shows," Wostbrock said.

In 1987, Tomarken was on ABC with a show called "Bargain Hunters," and then went to the syndicated "Wipe-Out" in 1990. He returned to game shows in 2000 with the program "Paranoia."

URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/03/13/state/n161753S15.DTL (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/03/13/state/n161753S15.DTL)

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Post by: Jaguar on March 14, 2006, 12:47:00 am

Actress Maureen Stapleton Dies at 80 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060314/ap_en_mo/obit_stapleton;_ylt=Aj_reA1h42_maEtBMuS94HSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3YXYwNDRrBHNlYwM3NjI-)

(Not to be confused with Jean Stapleton)

By ADAM GORLICK, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 26 minutes ago

Maureen Stapleton, an Oscar-winning character actress whose subtle vulnerability and down-to-earth toughness earned her dramatic and comedic roles on stage, screen, and television, died Monday. She was 80.

The longtime smoker died from chronic pulmonary disease in the Berkshire hills town of Lenox, where she had been living, said her son, Daniel Allentuck.

Stapleton, whose unremarkable, matronly appearance belied her star personality and talent, won an Academy Award for her supporting role as anarchist-writer Emma Goldman in Warren Beatty's 1981 film "Reds," about a left-wing American journalist who journeys to Russia to cover the Bolshevik Revolution.

To prepare for the role, Stapleton said she tried reading Goldman's autobiography, but soon chucked it out of boredom.

"There are many roads to good acting," Stapleton, known for her straightforwardness, said in her 1995 autobiography, "Hell of a Life." "I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake."

Stapleton was nominated several times for a supporting actress Oscar, including for her first film role in 1958's "Lonelyhearts"; "Airport" in 1970; and Woody Allen's "Interiors" in 1978.

Her other film credits include the 1963 musical "Bye Bye Birdie" opposite Ann-Margret and Dick Van Dyke, "Johnny Dangerously," "Cocoon," "The Money Pit" and "Addicted to Love."

In television, she earned an Emmy for "Among the Paths to Eden" in 1967. She was nominated for "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom" in 1975; "The Gathering" in 1977; and "Miss Rose White" in 1992.

After moving to the Berkshires, Stapleton was a regular at the Candlelight Inn, a favorite gathering spot for actors that has since closed, said Elizabeth Aspenlieder, an actress with the Lenox-based Shakespeare & Co. acting group.

"Maureen would be sitting at the bar, ferociously playing charades," said Aspenlieder, who remembered Stapleton as a fun-loving eccentric who would often be seen wearing a housedress and pair of furry boots.

"She was always warm and inviting," Aspenlieder said.

Brought up in a strict Irish Catholic family with an alcoholic father, Stapleton left home in Troy, N.Y., right after high school. With $100 to her name, she came to New York and began studying at the Herbert Berghof Acting School and later at the Actor's Studio, which turned out the likes of Marlon Brando, Paul Newman and Julia Roberts.

Stapleton soon made her Broadway debut in Burgess Meredith's 1946 production of "The Playboy of the Western World."

At age 24, she became a success as Serafina Delle Rose in Tennessee Williams' Broadway hit "The Rose Tattoo," and won a Tony Award. She appeared in numerous other stage productions, including Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic" and Neil Simon's "The Gingerbread Lady," for which she won her second Tony in 1971.

She starred opposite Laurence Olivier in Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Stapleton's friendship with Williams was well-known and he wrote three plays for her, but she never appeared in any of them.

Along the way, she led a chaotic personal life, which her autobiography candidly described as including two failed marriages, numerous affairs, years of alcohol abuse and erratic parenting for her two children.

She often said auditioning was hard for her, but that it was just a part of acting, a job "that pays."

"When I was first in New York there was a girl who wanted to play 'St. Joan' to the point where it was scary. ... I thought 'Don't ever want anything that bad," she recalled. "Just take what you get and like it while you do it, and forget it."

Cast throughout her career in supporting roles, Stapleton was content not playing a lead character, Allentuck said.

"I don't think she ever had unrealistic aspirations about her career," he said.

Beside Allentuck, Stapleton is survived by a daughter, Katharine Bambery, of Lenox and a brother, Jack Stapleton, of Troy, N.Y.

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Post by: on March 14, 2006, 12:24:00 pm

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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
Former game show host Peter Tomarken no whammies!"

He must've gotten a Whammy.

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BTW, the Whammy was created/animated by Savage Steve Holland, the animator who directed the classic film, Better Off Dead

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Post by: chaz on March 14, 2006, 04:59:00 pm

Miss Deaf Texas struck by train, killed

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/14/beauty.queen.death.ap/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/14/beauty.queen.death.ap/index.html)

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Post by: beetsnotbeats on March 25, 2006, 02:32:00 pm

'Hee Haw' Co-Host Buck Owens, 76, Dies (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032500491.html)

By GREG RISLING
The Associated Press
Saturday, March 25, 2006; 11:59 AM

LOS ANGELES -- Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought the genre to TV on the long-running "Hee Haw," died Saturday. He was 76.

Owens died at his home, said family spokesman Jim Shaw. The cause of death was not immediately known. Owens had undergone throat cancer surgery in 1993 and was hospitalized with pneumonia in 1997.

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Post by: RonniStar on March 27, 2006, 09:25:00 am

Conductor Alfredo Silipigni, RIP (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060327/D8GJN3KO7.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thirsty moore on March 27, 2006, 11:05:00 am

Swell Maps Nikki Sudden Dies (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002236579).

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Post by: BookerT on March 27, 2006, 11:16:00 am

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Originally posted by econo:
Swell Maps Nikki Sudden Dies (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002236579).

jesus christ is this sad. i specifically broke my velvet lounge ban to go see him...

check out his album robespierre's velvet basement (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005YDFG/sr=8-1/qid=1143472419/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7082295-6847018?%5Fencoding=UTF8), one of the best jangle pop records ever.

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Post by: ggw on March 28, 2006, 05:49:00 pm

March 28, 2006
Caspar W. Weinberger Dies at 88
By DAVID STOUT

Caspar W. Weinberger, who held high positions under three Republican Presidents and oversaw the biggest and costliest military buildup in peacetime history as Ronald Reagan's secretary of defense, died today, his family said. He was 88.

Mr. Weinberger's wife of 63 years, Jane, was by his side when he died, said his son, Caspar Weinberger Jr.

Until his death, Mr. Weinberger was chairman of Forbes Inc.

A self-assured man and a tenacious debater, Mr. Weinberger served in Washington off and on for almost two decades. Many felt his record was marred late in life by questions about his role in the Iran-contra affair â?? questions a presidential pardon left unresolved â?? but his rÃ©sumÃ© was impressive by any standard.

Under President Richard M. Nixon, he was chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; deputy director and later director of the Office of Management and Budget, where he earned the nickname Cap the Knife by smilingly arguing against requests for more money; and secretary of health, education and welfare.

He remained as secretary of H.E.W. under President Gerald R. Ford until 1975, when he left Washington for his native California. He said his wife, Jane, could better cope with her arthritis there.

It was after he returned to the capital as defense secretary for President Reagan in 1981 that Mr. Weinberger made his real mark. In seven years in that post, he was an implacable cold war hawk when it came to the Soviet Union.

His mission, he said early on, was "to rearm America." Previous efforts to get along with the Russians without demanding good behavior in return had reinforced "the Soviet prison wall," which Mr. Weinberger said "stretches all the way from the Balkans to the Baltic."

Nor was vigilance against Moscow enough. "If we value our freedom, we must be able to defend ourselves in wars of any size and shape and in any region where we have vital interests," he said in a speech in Chicago in 1981. And the rise of the charismatic Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980's did not soften those views. "I don't think just because he wears Gucci shoes and smiles occasionally that the Soviet Union has changed its basic doctrines," Mr. Weinberger said in 1987, as he was leaving office.

So while other parts of the federal bureaucracy were cringing under the cut-to-the-bone philosophy of the Reagan White House (as the old Cap the Knife might have desired), Mr. Weinberger demanded billions more for long-range nuclear arms, ships, planes and tanks. "This is not a one-year program for summer soldiers," he warned in 1981.

He was true to his word. Year after year, he fought for â?? and usually won â?? big increases in Pentagon spending.

In April 1982, he conceded that the United States had more long-range missiles than did the Soviet Union. But, he warned, the Soviet missiles were more accurate than America's.

Mr. Weinberger also tried to alleviate the ancient problem of rivalries among the services. He ordered the branches to find more roles for women. He delegated more planning authority to the chiefs of staff and the service secretaries so he could devote more time to policy.

The only blemish in his 35 years of public service came in 1992, five years after he left the Cabinet. That year, he was indicted on felony charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the covert sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of some of the proceeds to the Nicaraguan rebels, or contras.

The tangled transactions, which came to be known as the Iran-contra affair, were against the declared policy of the United States. Subsequent investigations depicted President Reagan as determined to win the release of American hostages held in the Middle East and eager to obtain the help of Iranian "moderates" to do so.

Mr. Weinberger told a special committee of Congress in 1987 that he was aghast when he first heard White House aides talk about cultivating Iranian moderates. He testified that he had considered the idea "almost too absurd to comment on," and he said as much in a staff memorandum at the time. He told Congress that he thought, erroneously, that he had killed the proposal.

A special commission headed by John Tower, a former Republican Senator from Texas, criticized Mr. Weinberger for not advising the president more vigorously. Mr. Weinberger rejected the criticism as unfair.

The special Iran-contra prosecutor, Lawrence E. Walsh, obtained an indictment accusing Mr. Weinberger of concealing voluminous notes that would have cast more light on the roles of President Reagan and Vice President George Bush in the scandal. The notes were scrawled in his almost illegible handwriting in some 5-by-7-inch notebooks that he had donated to the Library of Congress after leaving office.

The notebooks, some 1,700 of them, lay undisturbed until prosecutors learned of them. To Mr. Weinberger and his backers, the little books were personal diaries, with jottings about the family dog as well as policy. To prosecutors, they were evidence the former secretary had tried to bury.

Mr. Weinberger furiously denied the charges, declaring that the prosecutor had pressured him to plead guilty to a lesser count in return for giving damaging testimony against Mr. Reagan, testimony Mr. Weinberger said would have been false.

Mr. Weinberger was to have stood trial in 1993. But on Christmas Eve 1992, President Bush ended Mr. Weinberger's legal troubles, pardoning him and several other officials caught up in the scandal.

Early in his tenure as defense secretary, Mr. Weinberger learned that the sprawling military bureaucracy sometimes had a life of its own and that he could not change an entrenched culture overnight. In 1981, David A. Stockman, the Reagan budget director, who ought to have been a Weinberger soulmate, pronounced the Pentagon "a swamp" of waste and inefficiency.

"Maybe he was talking about the Pentagon of a few years ago," Mr. Weinberger bristled. "The Pentagon is not a swamp. It is very dry land."

But two years later, Mr. Weinberger acknowledged that some fiscal absurdities had sprung up under his watch as well as under previous, Democratic ones. A common metal bolt that cost 80 cents in 1980 had somehow become worth $17.59 in 1982, for instance.

Though he oversaw the spending of astronomical sums as Pentagon chief, Mr. Weinberger sometimes unleashed the budget-cutter in his political personality. Shortly after asking for $30 billion more in military spending for the first two years of the Reagan administration, he announced $1.7 billion in spending cuts through elimination of some projects and postponement of others. In 1985, he canceled the development of an antiaircraft gun that had already cost $1.8 billion and was expected to cost $3 billion more. It just did not work very well, and there was no use throwing good money after bad, the secretary explained.

Mr. Weinberger was soft-spoken, almost courtly in personal encounters. He showed a soft side in 1983, when he vetoed a plan for dogs to be shot so military doctors could practice treating wounds. (He owned a collie at the time.)

By mid-1985, there were signs that his influence was waning. Some Congressional leaders had wearied of his demands for more and more money, and he was conspicuously omitted from President Reagan's entourage to the Geneva summit meeting with Mr. Gorbachev.

Mr. Weinberger resigned on Nov. 5, 1987. His wife had undergone treatment for cancer, and he said he wanted to spend more time with her at home. "That's the long and the short and the tall of it," he said.

Not everyone believed him entirely. By many accounts, Mr. Weinberger differed often with Secretary of State George P. Shultz, whom he considered too eager to negotiate with the Kremlin. And some of Mr. Weinberger's critics thought it was no coincidence that his resignation came just weeks after the stock market plunged, heralding a time of retrenching and the end of the Pentagon joy ride.

Caspar Willard Weinberger was born in San Francisco on Aug. 18, 1917. His father, Herman, was of Bohemian descent and worked his way through college to become a lawyer. His mother, Cerise, was from an English background.

Mr. Weinberger graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, in 1938. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1941 and enlisted in the Army the same year. Decades later, when men with stars on their shoulders had to defer to him, he ruefully recalled that one of his first jobs in the Army was at a camp in California, digging ditches for sewers.

Mr. Weinberger went to officers' candidate school at Fort Benning, Ga., was sent to the Pacific after being commissioned, served more than three years with the 41st Infantry Division and landed on the intelligence staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

He was a clerk for a federal judge from 1945 to 1947, then started a private practice in the San Francisco area. He broke into politics in 1952, winning a seat in the California Assembly. He was re-elected without opposition in 1954 and 1956. A 1955 poll of newspaper reporters who covered the Legislature selected him as the most able California lawmaker.

Mr. Weinberger was defeated in a run for attorney general of California in 1958. From 1959 to 1968, he wrote a semiweekly newspaper column on state government and was moderator of a public-affairs television program. He was vice chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of California from 1960 to 1962 and chairman from 1962 to 1964.

Mr. Weinberger served as chairman of a commission on reorganizing the California state government from 1966 to 1968 and was appointed state director of finance by Gov. Ronald Reagan early in 1968. The two had a warm relationship, even though in 1966 Mr. Weinberger had opposed Mr. Reagan in favor of a fellow San Franciscan in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Mr. Weinberger was also considered a turncoat by some conservative Republicans because he gave only token support to Barry Goldwater's Presidential campaign in 1964.

As California's finance director, Mr. Weinberger ran an office that had long been considered weak in the state government. By most accounts, he revitalized it.

Around that time, he was asked to sum up his political philosophy. He replied with a Republican bromide: "Liberal on human affairs and conservative on fiscal ones."

His service under Governor Reagan, and their friendship, burnished Mr. Weinberger's credentials in conservative eyes, enough so that President Nixon asked him to be chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. Taking office in January 1970, Mr. Weinberger promised to be an ally to consumers.

To the annoyance of some conservatives in the administration, Mr. Weinberger took on as an aide one William Howard Taft 4th. Mr. Taft had the right name and the right Republican pedigree, but some businessmen thought he had a blemish on his resume: he had been an investigator for Ralph Nader. (Mr. Taft later served as a deputy defense secretary under Mr. Weinberger.)

In the summer of 1970, President Nixon named Mr. Weinberger deputy director of the new Office of Management and Budget. When the director, George P. Shultz, became treasury secretary in May 1972, Mr. Weinberger took Mr. Shultz's old job.

In November 1972, President Nixon needed a new secretary of health, education and welfare (to replace Elliot L. Richardson, who had moved to Secretary of Defense). Mr. Weinberger was a natural for the H.E.W. post, in view of Mr. Nixon's stated opinion that the health agency had become "bloated."

Democrats wondered, in the words of Senator Harold E. Hughes of Iowa, if Mr. Weinberger could "make the transition from budget hatchetman to advocate of people programs." Ten Democratic senators thought he could not, and voted against him in February 1973. He was confirmed, 61-10.

As his critics had predicted, Mr. Weinberger did try to kill or rein in dozens of H.E.W. programs, including some for hospital construction and school aid. But his stewardship was not marked by the wholesale federal retreat on health issues that some liberals had feared.

One reason was that Mr. Weinberger embraced some causes that liberals (and not a few conservatives) liked. He tried to get Congress to pass legislation limiting the tar and nicotine content of cigarettes. He envisioned national health insurance. He prodded his own department to protect the civil rights of mentally retarded people who were considered for sterilization. And at his insistence, a better American diet became official departmental policy.

Another reason he could not live up to his sobriquet of Cap the Knife as H.E.W. secretary was that much of the department's spending was simply beyond his control. The enormous sums paid out for Social Security, Medicare and welfare programs were fixed by law, and often included automatic cost-of-living increases.

So in the end, Mr. Weinberger presided over an expansion at the H.E.W., an irony that prompted him to warn upon his departure of the perils of Big Government.

After resigning from the Ford Administration in 1975, Mr. Weinberger became a special counsel to the Bechtel engineering companies. President-elect Reagan turned to him in 1980 for advice on economic issues, opening the door for his career-culminating tenure at the Pentagon.

Mr. Weinberger enjoyed the theater, opera and ballet and for a time reviewed books for California newspapers.

Mr. Weinberger is survived by a daughter, Arlin Weinberger; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, in addition to his wife and son. Caspar Weinberger was second only to Robert S. McNamara in longevity as defense secretary. Characteristically, he fired some parting shots in his farewell ceremony on Nov. 17, 1987, complaining that previous presidents and lawmakers had allowed the American military to become weak and flabby.

"We began by doubting the war in Vietnam," he lamented, "and we ended by doubting ourselves."

Not even his bitterest foes doubted his patriotism or his intellectual power. But many critics thought he had encouraged Pentagon spending that was wasteful by any standards and for any circumstances.

In the summer of 1993, a three-year study by the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, concluded that under Mr. Weinberger the Pentagon had understated the cost of some weapons by billions of dollars, overstated their effectiveness and exaggerated the threat of the Soviet Union.

Deriding the study as revisionist history written by bean-counters, Mr. Weinberger said its authors showed no understanding of how the world really was in the cold war era.

"Yes, we used a worst-case analysis," he said. "You should always use a worst-case analysis in this business. You can't afford to be wrong. In the end, we won the cold war, and if we won by too much, if it was overkill, so be it."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 30, 2006, 09:10:00 am

Eugene Landy, psychologist to Beach Boys' Brian Wilson

Honolulu -- Eugene Landy, the psychologist who was denounced as a Svengali for his controversial relationship with Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson, has died. He was 71.

Landy died March 22 in Honolulu of respiratory complications of lung cancer, said William Flaxman, a longtime colleague.

He earned notoriety in the late 1970s after he began treating Wilson, whose career had disintegrated in a haze of drugs and phobias after a decade at the top of the musical charts.

Hired in 1975 by Wilson's wife, Landy took control of the rock star's life, monitoring him 24 hours a day with a team of assistants to keep him off drugs and junk food; Wilson's weight had ballooned to more than 300 pounds.

Landy grew so close to Wilson that he participated in Wilson's comeback as his manager and artistic collaborator -- an ethical breach that eventually caused the psychologist to give up his license to practice in California.

Born in Pittsburgh, Landy was the only child of Jules, a physician, and Frieda, a psychology professor. He claimed to have dropped out of school after the sixth grade because of severe dyslexia and worked odd jobs, eventually winding up in radio as producer of a program aimed at teenagers. He later became a record promoter.

By the time he met Wilson, he had a Beverly Hills clinic and a celebrity clientele.

A pioneer of what he called "24-hour therapy," Landy was known for a show-business clientele that at one time included rocker Alice Cooper and actors Richard Harris and Rod Steiger.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on April 05, 2006, 10:26:00 am

Gene Pitney (http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/05042006/325/u-s-singer-gene-pitney-dies-cardiff.html&e=l_news_dm)

<img src="http://www.engrish.com/image/engrish/crack-power.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 05, 2006, 03:29:00 pm

Wonderstuff drummer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4877120.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4877120.stm)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Dr. Anton Phibes on April 05, 2006, 03:37:00 pm

Another Beat Farmer...........has bitten the dust............

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/obituaries/20060403-9999-1m3blue.html (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/obituaries/20060403-9999-1m3blue.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on April 05, 2006, 03:42:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Jonas Grumby:
Another Beat Farmer...........has bitten the dust. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/obituaries/20060403-9999-1m3blue.html (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/obituaries/20060403-9999-1m3blue.html)

He wrote the gem Gun Sale at the Church.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on April 08, 2006, 02:06:00 pm

Maggie DIxon, Army's Women's Basketball Coach Passed Away on Friday (http://sports.myway.com/news/04072006/v6835.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: definitivedoodle on April 11, 2006, 09:41:00 am

D-12 Rapper Proof Shot And Killed

D-12 member Proof was shot and killed in Detroit this morning (April 11) at an after hours club on Eight Mile Road.

Proof, born Deshaun Hotlon, was murdered at the Triple C club around 4:30 am and another man was seriously wounded, both with gunshots to the head.

The identity of the second man was released and despite initial reports, a police source told AllHipHop.com that the second man, an unnamed 35-year-old, remained in hospitalized in critical condition.

The second man shot may have been fellow D-12 group member Bizarre, but police have not released the victims identity as of press time.

One witness was being questioned by the police, who are still seeking suspects.

The rapper was signed to superstar rapper Eminem's Shady Records as a member of the platinum selling group, D-12.

The group, which features members Eminem, Kon Artis, Proof, Swift , Bizarre and Kuniva, released their debut album Devil's Night in 2001. The group followed with D12 World in 2004, which produced the hit single "My Band."

Proof followed with a solo album titled Searching for Jerry Garcia in 2005, released on his own label, Iron Fist Recordings.

Proof was an influential figure on the Detroit rap scene, hosting legendary battles at the Hip Hop Shop.

In the movie 8 Mile, Mekhi Phifer was chosen to embody Proof as the character "Lil Tic."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on April 12, 2006, 05:43:00 pm

June Pointer, youngest of the four Pointer Sisters (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyid=2006-04-12T203333Z_01_N12345155_RTRUKOC_0_US-POINTER.xml)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on May 11, 2006, 11:31:00 pm

Former Boxing Champ Floyd Patterson, RIP (http://sports.myway.com/news/05112006/v6903.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on May 18, 2006, 09:18:00 am

Ramrod (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/05/18/MNGGDITL9I1.DTL)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Dr. Anton Phibes on May 25, 2006, 10:12:00 am

This guy helped turn me on to some really cool music!!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/25/obit.copeland.ap/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/25/obit.copeland.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on May 26, 2006, 06:40:00 am

this guy put me in business

there might not be a 930 Club without him

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 26, 2006, 07:29:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Dr. Jonas Sulk:
This guy helped turn me on to some really cool music!!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/25/obit.copeland.ap/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/25/obit.copeland.ap/index.html)

Thats really sad news... IRS records brought some great music to the attention of the world. May have to rethink tonights DJ set and turn it into a tribute...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on May 26, 2006, 08:51:00 am

He was the brother of the IRS founder, not the IRS guy himself.

Quote

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:

Quote
Originally posted by Dr. Jonas Sulk:
This guy helped turn me on to some really cool music!!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/25/obit.copeland.ap/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/25/obit.copeland.ap/index.html)
Thats really sad news... IRS records brought some great music to the attention of the world. May have to rethink tonights DJ set and turn it into a tribute... [/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 26, 2006, 08:54:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Chaz Nakatestes, Breaststroking Guy:
He was the brother of the IRS founder, not the IRS guy himself.

Quote
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:

Quote
Originally posted by Dr. Jonas Sulk:
This guy helped turn me on to some really cool music!!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/25/obit.copeland.ap/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/25/obit.copeland.ap/index.html)
Thats really sad news... IRS records brought some great music to the attention of the world. May have to rethink tonights DJ set and turn it into a tribute... [/b]
[/b]

gee thanks for pointing out my error
:roll:

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Dr. Anton Phibes on May 26, 2006, 09:38:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Seth Hurwitz:
this guy put me in business

there might not be a 930 Club without him

I kinda of figured that was the case....FBI & IRS were 2 companies that helped build my musical foundation......now,if I could find my old IRS records t-shirt & sweatshirt with the logo on front and entire artist roster printed on the back.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 26, 2006, 09:43:00 am

R.I.P. - The King of Ska

Reggae star Desmond Dekker dies (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/26/dekker.death.ap/index.html)

Friday, May 26, 2006; Posted: 7:18 a.m. EDT (11:18 GMT)

LONDON, England (AP) -- Desmond Dekker, who brought the sound of Jamaican ska music to the world with hits such as "Israelites," has died, his manager said Friday. He was 64.

Dekker, who lived in England, collapsed from an apparent heart attack at his home on Thursday, manager Delroy Williams said.

"It is such a shock, I don't think I will ever get over this," Williams said.

Dekker's 1969 song "Israelites," a Top 10 single in both Britain and the United States, was the first international hit produced by Jamaica's vibrant music scene. With its haunting vocals and irresistible rhythm, it introduced the world to ska, a precursor to reggae.

"Desmond was the first legend, believe it or not," Williams said. "When he released 'Israelites' nobody had heard of Bob Marley -- he paved the way for all of them."

Born Desmond Dacres in 1941, Dekker worked as a welder in Kingston before signing with Leslie Kong's Beverley's record label and releasing his first single, "Honor Your Father and Your Mother," in 1963. It was followed by Jamaican hits including "King of Ska."

Some of his most popular songs celebrated the culture of violent street toughs, or "rude boys" -- "Rude Boy Train," "Rudie Got Soul" and "007 (Shanty Town)," which featured on the soundtrack of the seminal Jamaican film "The Harder They Come."

He also had a hit with "You Can Get It If You Really Want," written by his label-mate Jimmy Cliff.

The songs made Dekker a hero of British youth, and he moved to the country in the 1970s.

Dekker's career suffered after the 1971 death of his mentor Kong, and he was declared bankrupt in 1984. But he retained a strong British following until his death and performed regularly. Dekker had been due to play across Europe over the summer, including dates in Ireland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

Dekker, who was divorced, is survived by a son and a daughter. Funeral details were not immediately available.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 26, 2006, 09:46:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Dr. Jonas Sulk:

Quote
Originally posted by Seth Hurwitz:
this guy put me in business

there might not be a 930 Club without him
I kinda of figured that was the case....FBI & IRS were 2 companies that helped build my musical foundation......now,if I could find my old IRS records t-shirt & sweatshirt with the logo on front and entire artist roster printed on the back..... [/b]

i have one of those as well :D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on May 28, 2006, 08:57:00 pm

The Principal From The Breakfast, Dead at 67 (http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/index.jsp?cat=ENTERTAINMENT&fn=/2006/05/28/402056.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on May 29, 2006, 12:13:00 am

i think the HFStival died today.

RIP. ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on June 06, 2006, 01:55:00 pm

Billy Preston (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/06/obit.preston.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Guiny on June 08, 2006, 09:42:00 am

AIRSTRIKE KILLS AL-ZARQAWI.

I'm sure most of you are saddened by this. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on June 08, 2006, 04:15:00 pm

And OJ is gonna dedicate his life to hunting for the REAL killers.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on June 21, 2006, 11:36:00 am

Duane Roland (http://www.antimusic.com/news/06/june/2107.shtml), one of the founding members of Molly Hatchet has died. He was 53...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on June 24, 2006, 03:20:00 pm

Aaron Spelling, RIP (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20060624/D8IEH1S80.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on June 25, 2006, 01:51:00 pm

Claydes Charles Smith (http://uk.news.launch.yahoo.com/dyna/article.html?a=/24062006/323/kool-gang-co-founder-dies.html&e=l_news_dm) the lead guitarist and co-founder of US rhythm and blues group Kool and the Gang

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Dr. Anton Phibes on June 26, 2006, 03:02:00 pm

Arif Mardin

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/26/obit.arif.mardin.ap/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/26/obit.arif.mardin.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jitterthug on June 27, 2006, 02:07:00 pm

Moose (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1189150/), the Jack Russell terrier who played Eddie for over a decade on the Emmy-winning TV series Frasier, has died. He was 16-and-a-half (115 in dog years). Moose died on Thursday night of old age at his home near Los Angeles, according to his trainer Mathilde Halberg.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on June 27, 2006, 02:40:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Mingler Nipsey:
Moose (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1189150/), the Jack Russell terrier who played Eddie for over a decade on the Emmy-winning TV series Frasier, has died. He was 16-and-a-half (115 in dog years). Moose died on Thursday night of old age at his home near Los Angeles, according to his trainer Mathilde Halberg.

Moose could have made a Chinese man very full. He'll be missed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on July 01, 2006, 01:20:00 pm

Malcolm Durham, drag racingâ??s first black superstar (http://www.nhra.com/apcm/templates/news_template.asp?articleid=13617&zoneid=8) died from lung cancer at 66.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Random Citizen on July 05, 2006, 10:18:00 am

Hmm, how convenient...

Enron's Ken Lay Dies Of Massive Heart Attack (http://www.nbc4i.com/money/9469557/detail.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on July 05, 2006, 03:17:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Random Citizen PDX:
Hmm, how convenient...

Enron's Ken Lay Dies Of Massive Heart Attack (http://www.nbc4i.com/money/9469557/detail.html)

He was probably waytoo stressed out from that long prison sentence he received.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jm1 on July 11, 2006, 09:51:00 am

Syd Barrett dies
Pink Floyd legend passes away aged 60
Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett has died at his Cambridgeshire home, according to online reports.

The singer, 60, who suffered from an LSD-induced breakdown while at the peak of his career in the Sixties, died last Friday (July 7) from complications related to diabetes.

His brother Alan confirmed his death today (July 11), telling The Guardian: "He died peacefully at home. There will be a private family funeral in the next few days."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on July 11, 2006, 11:36:00 am

Veteran Actress June Allyson, Dead at 88 (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060711/D8IPPLO02.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on July 11, 2006, 02:01:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by jm1:
Syd Barrett dies
Pink Floyd legend passes away aged 60
Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett has died at his Cambridgeshire home, according to online reports.

The singer, 60, who suffered from an LSD-induced breakdown while at the peak of his career in the Sixties, died last Friday (July 7) from complications related to diabetes.

His brother Alan confirmed his death today (July 11), telling The Guardian: "He died peacefully at home. There will be a private family funeral in the next few days."

Here's an article. RIP Syd:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2265034,00.html (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2265034,00.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on July 13, 2006, 12:16:00 pm

Kasey Rogers, actress from Bewitched, dead at 80 (http://entertainment.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=227415&GT1=7703)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Fico on July 13, 2006, 12:19:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Random Citizen PDX:
Hmm, how convenient...

Enron's Ken Lay Dies Of Massive Heart Attack (http://www.nbc4i.com/money/9469557/detail.html)

Wait a second, Ken Lay had a heart??

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jm1 on July 13, 2006, 04:15:00 pm

Comedian Red Buttons dead at 87
Won Oscar for 'Sayonara,' known for participation in roasts

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Red Buttons, the carrot-topped burlesque comedian who became a top star in early television and then in a dramatic role won the 1957 Oscar as supporting actor in "Sayonara," died Thursday. He was 87.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on July 16, 2006, 09:11:00 pm

This Just In! The Chairman of Hooters of America, Inc. was found dead yeaterday! (http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2006/07/16/435488.html&cvqh=itn_hooters)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 04, 2006, 12:42:00 am

Arthur Lee of Love - 8/3/06 as announced by his management tonight. First Syd and now Arthur...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on August 11, 2006, 01:55:00 pm

Mike Douglas (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060811/ap_en_tv/obit_douglas)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on August 11, 2006, 04:06:00 pm

James Van Allen, RIP (http://www.space.com/news/ap_060809_vanallen_obit.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on August 14, 2006, 11:13:00 pm

An Ebay Executive was killed in bike accident (http://www.theksbwchannel.com/news/9674159/detail.html?subid=22101162&qs=1;bp=t)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Dr. Anton Phibes on August 16, 2006, 02:48:00 pm

One of the best character actors working today.
His "Sinatra lovin'" limo driver in Spinal Tap will always be a classic! Later,Bruno Kirby...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_en_mo/obit_kirby (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_en_mo/obit_kirby)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on August 16, 2006, 03:32:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Dr. Jonas Sulk:
His "Sinatra lovin'" limo driver in Spinal Tap will always be a classic!

that was a GREAT scene

------------------

DRIVER: Excuse me...are you reading â??Yes I Canâ??

GROUPIE: Yeah, have you read it?

DRIVER: Yeah, by Sammy Davis Jr.?

GROUPIE: Yeah.

DRIVER : You know what the title of that book should be? â??Yes I Can if Frank Sinatra Says itâ??s Okayâ?. â??Cause Frank calls the shots for all of those guys. Did you get to the part yet where uh...Sammy is coming out of the Copa...itâ??s about 3 oâ??clock in the morning and uh...he sees Frank? Frankâ??s walking down Broadway by himself....

(Limo window raised by Nigel)

DRIVER: Fuckinâ?? limeys.

MARTY: Well you know, ah...theyâ??re not uh,...used to that world.

DRIVER: Yeah yeah.

MARTY: You know Frank Sinatra itâ??s a different world that theyâ??re in.

DRIVER: You know, itâ??s just that people like this...you know... they get all they want so they donâ??t really understand, you know...about a life like Frankâ??s. I mean, you know when youâ??ve loved and lost the way Frank has, then you uh ...you know what lifeâ??s about.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Deathprod on August 20, 2006, 03:04:00 pm

It is with extreme sadness that we report the passing away of Joseph Hill, the lead singer of the veteran reggae group Culture.
Joseph suddenly took ill and passed away in Berlin, Germany, on the morning of August 19, 2006 while the group were in the middle of a European tour.

Joseph Hill (born January 22, 1949) enjoyed a lengthy career in reggae music and will be greatly missed by both fans and peers. The group plans to finish its current European tour and honor all other commitments with Joseph's son Kenyatta standing in on lead vocals as a tribute to his father.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 24, 2006, 02:54:00 pm

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aBHxMNyrmgFs (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aBHxMNyrmgFs)

Bruce Gary, Drummer for The Knack, Is Dead at 55

By Zachary R. Mider

Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Drummer Bruce Gary, who set the distinctive beat of the Knack's 1979 hit ``My Sharona,'' one of the best-selling singles of the decade, died Aug. 22. He was 55.

Gary's death was announced on the band's Web site today. He died from complications of lymphoma in Tarzana, California, the Associated Press said, citing his mother.

``My Sharona,'' on the band's first album, ``Get The Knack,'' was the top-selling pop single in the U.S. for six weeks in 1979, and the album went platinum -- a recording industry certification denoting sale of a million copies -- in seven weeks, according to the Knack's Web site. Six million copies of the album ultimately sold worldwide, according to lead singer Doug Fieger's Web site.

Gary went on to collaborate with musicians from George Harrison to Bob Dylan. He also produced a popular CD of drum samples, ``Bruce Gary's Drum Vocabulary,'' that can be added to songs in professional and home recordings, AP said.

In 1994, ``My Sharona'' returned to the pop charts as part of the soundtrack to the film ``Reality Bites,'' the band said.

Gary's death came three weeks after Fieger, the lead singer, underwent surgery in Los Angeles for brain tumors, the band's Web site said.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on August 24, 2006, 03:21:00 pm

I always thought "Good Girls Don't" was their best song...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on August 31, 2006, 02:09:00 pm

Actor Glenn Ford, Dead at 90 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060831/ap_on_en_tv/obit_ford)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Random Citizen on September 04, 2006, 12:54:00 am

Crocodile Hunter killed by stingray (http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20349890-5005961,00.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on September 04, 2006, 01:03:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Random Citizen PDX:
Crocodile Hunter killed by stingray (http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20349890-5005961,00.html)

Crikey!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on September 04, 2006, 09:20:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Random Citizen PDX:
Crocodile Hunter killed by stingray (http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20349890-5005961,00.html)

Only a matter of time until the video surfaces online.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on September 06, 2006, 09:49:00 am

Contrary to poasted news stories, Irwin did not pull the stingray barb out of his chest. As a point of fact, he pushed it in deeper.

BTW, his wife Terri wasn't immediately informed of his death, as she was on a hike in the Tasmanian mountains. What a lucky bugger Steve was...how come my wife doesn't go away for long hikes in the mountains?!? I'm all for that. Count me in.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20361926-2702,00.html (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20361926-2702,00.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on September 11, 2006, 03:56:00 pm

This Just In! Anna Nicole Smith's Son is dead! (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/11092006/325/anna-nicole-smith-s-adult-son-dies-bahamas.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on September 11, 2006, 04:30:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by RonniStar:
This Just In! Anna Nicole Smith's Son is dead! (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/11092006/325/anna-nicole-smith-s-adult-son-dies-bahamas.html)

Poor kid probably died of embarrassment.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on September 11, 2006, 04:40:00 pm

Who knew Howard Stern was her attorney...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on September 26, 2006, 06:11:00 pm

Golf Great Bryon Nelson dead at 94 (http://sports.myway.com/news/09262006/v5084.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on October 15, 2006, 10:37:00 am

For a couple of decades now, fans of classic Black Exploitation flicks have wondered what became of statuesque, stylishly attired ass-kicker Tamara Dobson of Cleopatra Jones fame. After the 1980's, It seemed the 6'2'' beauty had completely vanished from the face of the earth...Hollywood film revival organizers and authors of "Where are they now? " columns couldn't get a line on her, which led to speculation that perhaps she had married well and was living a reclusive life in a European villa or something equally romantic...Having been a successful model prior to her signature film series, Tamara seemed far too classy a lady to wind up on the skids like so many other obscure screen personalities. Well, the mystery has finally been solved...poor Tamara was quietly residing in Maryland, horribly ill with Multiple Sclerosis . She died this month at age 59 from pneumonia. For anyone who ever witnessed this amazing gal in action, particularly in scenes like her furious hand to hand battle with a dyked-out evil gang boss played by Shelley Winters, this news will probably elicit one of those reflective sighs that accompany the loss of anyone the world can't possibly replace.

<img src="http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/blacksploitation/tamaradobson/tamaradobson9.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on October 15, 2006, 11:32:00 am

The Bebop Kid, Freddy Fender Dead at 69! (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20061015/D8KP1N000.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on October 22, 2006, 11:38:00 pm

Actor de la Rosa, Pedro's tiny good luck charm, dies
Associated Press

SANTO DOMINGO -- Nelson de la Rosa, the world's shortest actor and a ubiquitous good-luck charm for the Boston Red Sox during their victorious 2004 World Series run, died at a New York hospital on Sunday, his agent said.

De la Rosa, who was about 2-foot-4, died of unknown causes, producer Andres Duran told The Associated Press. He was 38.

He fell ill shortly after arriving in Miami on Friday from Chile, where the Dominican national had been working in a circus. On Saturday he flew to New York, where two of his brothers live, Duran said.

Born and raised in a small village near San Miguel, in Santo Domingo province, the charismatic de la Rosa became internationally known when he appeared alongside Marlon Brando in the 1996 film "The Island of Dr. Moreau."

The Internet Movie Database called him the world's shortest actor, and he was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the shortest known adult in 1989.

After the baseball fan was introduced to then-Boston ace Pedro Martinez by a mutual friend, the two Dominicans became friends. De la Rosa became a regular presence in the team's clubhouse in the playoffs of the 2004 season, in which the Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years.

De la Rosa's body will be sent back to the Dominican Republic after an autopsy and then could be put on display in a museum, his agent said.

De la Rosa is survived by his wife, a 9-year-old son, his mother and five siblings.

Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press

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Post by: Bombay Chutney on October 23, 2006, 09:28:00 am

'Father Knows Best' star Jane Wyatt dies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_en_tv/obit_wyatt_33)

LOS ANGELES - To the millions watching the 1950s TV show "Father Knows Best," actress Jane Wyatt was the wholesome stay-at-home mom who, the series' title notwithstanding, could be counted on every week to solve crises on the homefront.

"Each script always solved a little problem that was universal," she told The Associated Press in 1989. "It appealed to everyone. I think the world is hankering for a family. People may want to be free, but they still want a nuclear family."

Wyatt, who won three Emmy Awards, died Friday in her sleep of natural causes at her Bel-Air home, according to publicist Meg McDonald. She was 96.

(more at the link)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 23, 2006, 04:37:00 pm

(I copied this from a friend's MySpace bulletin but she never posted her source so don't know what it's from. Google it if you must.)

RUNAWAYS Drummer SANDY WEST Succumbs To Lung Cancer - Oct. 22, 2006

Sandy West, drummer for the influential '70s band THE RUNAWAYS, died Saturday, October 21, 2006 after a long battle with lung cancer.

She left an indelible mark on rock music as a founding member of THE RUNAWAYS, which featured fellow rockers Joan Jett, Lita Ford and Cherie Currie, and as a leading inspiration for a number of notable musicians, both male and female. Many young musicians can trace their inspiration directly to the first time they heard "Cherry Bomb".

THE RUNAWAYS toured the world several times, often headlining with opening acts like TOM PETTY and CHEAP TRICK. Their discography includes over 60 albums, singles, bootlegs and compilations. Their music has been included in dozens of rock and punk collections, has appeared in several feature films, including "Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway" and "Detroit Rock City", and and has been covered by numerous bands, from THE STREET WALKIN' CHEETAHS to GUNS N' ROSES. They were nominated for the Hollywood Rock Walk, and bootlegs of RUNAWAYS performances are still highly prized amongst rock and roll collectors around the world.

After the band broke up, Ms. West continued to perform as a drummer, guitarist and vocalist with THE SANDY WEST BAND. As a solo artist she recorded a highly collectible EP CD and numerous videos, and continued to enjoy the adoration of a dedicated cult following.

She will be remembered by more than one generation of fans as a strong part of their musical landscape, but her impact was felt far outside of the music industry as a loyal friend, loving confidante and strong defender of those she loved most. Her strength as a player, passion as a person, and dedication as a friend will be remembered always by friends, fans and fellow musicians alike.

Commented Joan Jett: "I started THE RUNAWAYS with Sandy West. We shared the dream of girls playing rock and roll. Sandy was an exuberant and powerful drummer. So underrated, she was the caliber of John Bonham. I am overcome from the loss of my friend. I always told her we changed the world."

RUNAWAYS vocalist and life-long friend Cherie Currie had this to say: "Sandy West was by far the greatest female drummer in the history of rock and roll. No one could compete or even come close to her, but the most important was her heart. Sandy West loved her fans, her friends and family almost to a fault. She would do absolutely anything for the people she loved. It will never be the same for me again to step on a stage, because Sandy West was the best and I will miss her forever."

Funeral services for Sandy West are pending.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on October 29, 2006, 10:31:00 am

Hall Of Fame Coach Red Auerback, RIP (http://sports.myway.com/news/10292006/v5675.html)

WASHINGTON (AP): His genius was building a basketball dynasty in Boston, his gift was straight talk, his signature was the pungent cigar he lit up and savored after every victory.

Red Auerbach, the Hall of Famer who guided the Celtics to 16 championships - first as a coach and later as general manager - died Saturday. He was 89.

Auerbach died of a heart attack near his home in Washington, according to an NBA official, who didn't want to be identified. His last public appearance was on Wednesday, when he received the Navy's Lone Sailor Award during a ceremony in the nation's capital.

Auerbach's death was announced by the Celtics, who still employed him as team president. Next season will be dedicated to him, they said.

"He was relentless and produced the greatest basketball dynasty so far that this country has ever seen and certainly that the NBA has ever seen," said Bob Cousy, the point guard for many of Auerbach's championship teams, who referred to his coach by his given name. "This is a personal loss for me. Arnold and I have been together since 1950. I was fortunate that I was able to attend a function with him Wednesday night. ... I am so glad now that I took the time to be there and spend a few more moments with him."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on October 29, 2006, 06:43:00 pm

Wow...that is truly sad about Sandy West. I always thought she was underrrated.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on October 30, 2006, 11:18:00 pm

The Last Man To Fought Ali is Dead! (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226077,00.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 02, 2006, 12:10:00 am

November 2, 2006
William Styron, Novelist, Dies at 81 (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/books/02styron.html?hp&ex=1162443600&en=f79ebb37c1d8486a&ei=5094&partner=homepage)
By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT

William Styron, the novelist from the American South whose explorations of difficult historical and moral questions earned him a place among the leading literary figures of the post-World War II generation, died yesterday on Marthaâ??s Vineyard, Mass., where he had a home. He was 81.

The cause was pneumonia, coming after many years of illness, his daughter Alexandra Styron said.

Mr. Styronâ??s early work, including â??Lie Down in Darkness,â? won him wide recognition as a distinctive voice of the South and an heir to William Faulkner. In subsequent fiction, like â??The Confessions of Nat Turnerâ? and â??Sophieâ??s Choice,â? he transcended his own immediate world and moved across historical and cultural lines.

Critics and readers alike ranked him among the best of the generation that succeeded Hemingway and Faulkner. His peers included James Jones, Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

â??I think for years to come his work will be seen for its unique power,â? Mr. Mailer said of Mr. Styron in a telephone interview a few years ago. â??No other American writer of my generation has had so omnipresent and exquisite a sense of the elegiac.â?

For Mr. Styron, success came early. He was 26 when â??Lie Down in Darkness,â? his first novel, was published in 1951. It was a brooding, lyrical meditation on a young Southern girlâ??s suicide, as viewed during her funeral by members of her family and their friends. In the narrative, language plays as important a role as characterization, and the debt to Faulkner in general and â??The Sound and the Furyâ? in particular was obvious. A majority of reviewers praised the novel for its power and melodiousness â?? although a few complained of its morbidity and its charactersâ?? lack of moral stature â?? and the book established Mr. Styron as a writer to be watched.

Although elated by the response, Mr. Styron balked at being pigeonholed as an heir to Faulkner. â??I donâ??t consider myself in the Southern school, whatever that is,â? he told The Paris Review in the spring of 1953, during one of the earliest of that magazineâ??s celebrated Writers at Work interviews. â??Only certain things in the book are particularly Southern.â? The girl, Peyton, for instance, â??didnâ??t have to come from Virginia,â? he said. â??She would have wound up jumping from a window no matter where she came from.â?

Besides, he could have added, he had been reared in Newport News, Va., a city of the New South, whose leading industry was the shipyard where Mr. Styronâ??s father worked. And it was an area that Mr. Styron wanted to escape, with a rich history that he wanted to explore from afar.

To the North and Europe

So after moving North and writing â??Lie Down in Darknessâ? in, and just outside, New York City, he traveled to Paris in 1952 and wrote a novella based on his experiences in the Marines. Published in 1953 in the first issue of the journal Discovery under the title â??Long March,â? it appeared as a Vintage paperback in 1955 as â??The Long March.â?

After a year in Italy, in 1954 he moved to Roxbury, Conn., and set about completing his second novel, â??Set This House on Fire.â? A technical advance over â??Lie Down in Darkness,â? this novel was richer in its storytelling and, full of the latest in Continental existentialism, distinctly not Southern.

It sold well. But still it remained a somewhat melodramatic portrait of a group of Americans in Italy, and while it was admired in France, it got largely negative reviews in the United States.

In 1960, Mr. Styron returned home in his imagination by undertaking a project he had contemplated since his youth: a fictional account of an actual violent rebellion led by the slave Nat Turner that occurred in 1831 not too far from where Mr. Styron grew up.

The timing of the book was superb, appearing in 1967 on the crest of the civil rights movement. Mr. Styron prepared for it by immersing himself in the literature of slavery.

The reaction to â??The Confessions of Nat Turnerâ? was at first enthusiastic. Reviewers were sympathetic to Mr. Styronâ??s right to inhabit his subjectâ??s mind, to speak in a version of Nat Turnerâ??s voice and to weave a fiction around the few facts known about the uprising. George Steiner, in The New Yorker, called the book â??a fiction of complex relationship, of the relationship between a present-day white man of deep Southern roots and the Negro in todayâ??s whirlwind.â?

The book sold well all over the world. It won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 1970 William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. But as the social turmoil of 1968 mounted, a negative reaction set in. Influential black readers in particular began to question the novelâ??s merits, and Hollywood, reacting to the furor, decided against making a movie version. In August, some of the angrier criticisms were published in â??William Styronâ??s Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond,â? a book edited by the African history scholar John Henrik Clarke.

Mr. Styron was accused of having misunderstood black language, religion and psychology, and of having produced a â??whitened appropriation of our history.â? In the furious debate that followed, several admirers of â??Nat Turnerâ? recanted, and the question was raised whether white people could even understand black history â?? a position that to some seemed racist in itself.

Embittered, Mr. Styron withdrew from the debate and gradually moved on to his next project, â??Sophieâ??s Choice,â? a novel about a fictional Polish Catholic woman, Sophie Zawistowska, who struggles to survive the aftermath of her wartime internment in Auschwitz.

Thorough Research

Once again Mr. Styron read extensively, beginning with Olga Lengyelâ??s memoir of her familyâ??s internment in Auschwitz, â??Five Chimneys,â? which had haunted him for decades. Hannah Arendtâ??s â??Eichmann in Jerusalemâ? suggested the central plot development. After reading the memoirs of Rudolf HÃ¶ss, the actual commandant of Auschwitz, Mr. Styron made him a character in the novel.

Working slowly and deliberately, Mr. Styron evolved a complex narrative voice in the novel, more Southern and garrulous than any he had used before. The voice ranged so widely that Mr. Styron was able all at once to answer the critics of â??Nat Turnerâ? and to document his extensive reading of Holocaust literature while distancing himself ironically from a youthful, somewhat callow version of himself in the book, a central character who somehow mixes up his revelation of Sophieâ??s tragedy with the comic rite of his own sexual initiation.

Once again, Mr. Styron achieved commercial success and won prizes. â??Sophieâ??s Choiceâ? rose to the top of The New York Times best-seller list, won the 1980 American Book Award for fiction and was made into a successful movie, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, and an opera by the English composer Nicholas Maw. And once again, a Styron project aroused controversy.

The initial reviews were mixed. Some critics seemed to find the complexity of the narrative troubling. But in time, critics focused on two particular objections. One was that the Holocaust so surpassed moral comprehension that it could not be written about at all; the only appropriate response was silence. The other was that even though non-Jews had also been victims of the death camps, for Mr. Styron to write about one of them, a Polish Catholic, was to diminish the true horror of the event, whose primary purpose, these critics pointed out, was the destruction of European Jewry.

Mr. Styron stood his ground. To the criticism that the Holocaust was beyond art, he told an interviewer that however evil the Nazis were, they were neither demons nor extraterrestrials but ordinary men who committed monumental acts of barbarism. To the comment that he was wrong to write about a non-Jew, his response, in an Op-Ed essay in The Times, was that the Holocaust had transcended anti-Semitism, that â??its ultimate depravity lay in the fact that it was anti-human,â? he wrote. â??Anti-life.â?

William Clark Styron Jr. was born on June 11, 1925, in Newport News, the only child of William Clark Styron, a shipyard engineer with roots so deep in the Old South that his mother had owned two slaves as a child, and Pauline Margaret Abraham Styron, whose ancestors were Pennsylvanians.

Mr. Styronâ??s childhood was close to idyllic. Doted on by his family, an early reader fascinated with words, he made friends easily and happily explored the waterfront and environs of Newport News. In 1940, his father sent him off to Christchurch, a small Episcopal preparatory school in West Point, Va., for his last two years before college. He graduated in 1942.

World War II shaped his college career. Enrolling in the Marinesâ?? reserve officer training program, he started at Davidson College, a conservative Christian school. But unhappy with the schoolâ??s strict religious and academic standards, he was transferred to Duke University by the Marines in June 1943.

Active duty followed in October 1944, and after nearly a year of hard training, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in late July 1945 and assigned to participate in the invasion of Japan. A month later, the atomic bomb attacks forced Japanâ??s surrender, and he was discharged in December, relieved yet frustrated by his lack of combat experience.

He returned to Duke in the fall, where he renewed his friendship with Prof. William Blackburn, who had become his writing mentor. Graduating in the spring of 1947, he came away disdaining academic criticism and determined to be a novelist.

He moved to New York City. â??I just found intellectual life here more congenial,â? he told an interviewer years later. After completing â??Lie Down in Darkness,â? he put in a second, three-month stint, in the Marines in the summer of 1951. When the novel won the Prix de Rome, which entailed a yearâ??s expenses-paid residence at the American Academy in Rome, to begin in October 1952, he spent the preceding summer in Paris.

This interlude involved him in the founding of The Paris Review; made him lifelong friends among the expatriate literary set there, among them Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton and Irwin Shaw; and gave him the time to write â??The Long March.â? The year in Italy provided him with the material for â??Set This House on Fire,â? and it was in Rome that he became reacquainted with Rose Burgunder, at the American Academy, after having been introduced to her the previous fall in Baltimore, her hometown.

They were married in Rome in May 1953. She survives him. Besides Alexandra Styron of Brooklyn, Mr. Styron is also survived by two other daughters, Susanna Styron of Nyack, N.Y., and Paola Styron of Sherman, Conn.; a son, Thomas, of New Haven; and eight grandchildren.

When the Styrons settled in their Connecticut farmhouse and began a family, his life became the ideal of any aspiring writer: productive yet relaxed, sociable yet protected. On the door frame outside his workroom, he tacked a piece of cardboard with a quotation from Flaubert written on it: â??Be regular and orderly in your life, like a good bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.â?

An Unusual Regimen

The precept seemed to work for him, but it was an unconventional routine he stuck to: sleep until noon; read and think in bed for another hour or so; lunch with Rose around 1:30; run errands, deal with the mail, listen to music, daydream and generally ease into work until 4. Then up to the workroom to write for four hours, perfecting each paragraph until 200 or 300 words are completed; have cocktails and dinner with the family and friends at 8 or 9; and stay up until 2 or 3 in the morning, drinking and reading and smoking and listening to music.

With Rose to guard the door, run the household, organize their busy social life and look after the children, Mr. Styron followed this routine over the next 30 years. He turned out his novels slowly, yet he found time not only for occasional short stories, novellas, a movie script and a play about his wartime scare with venereal disease, but also for essays, reviews and occasional pieces, the best of which he collected in â??This Quiet Dust and Other Writingsâ? (1982).

His life seemed to expand outside the door of his workroom as well. In 1966 he bought a house on harborfront property on Marthaâ??s Vineyard, where the family regularly vacationed and where he began to live from May through October. His circle of friends grew over the years to include Lillian Hellman, Art Buchwald, Philip Roth, James Jones, James Baldwin, E. L. Doctorow, Candice Bergen, Carly Simon, John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Mike Wallace and even Norman Mailer, with whom he had feuded fiercely early in their acquaintanceship.

He traveled abroad frequently, especially to France, where he continued to be admired.

Yet if the aura of his life was golden, it was also bordered with dark shadows. At only 13, he suffered the trauma of his motherâ??s death, which, perhaps because of the time and place he lived in, he was never allowed to mourn properly. A predisposition to depression was evident in his familyâ??s emotional history. For whatever reasons, suicide is a recurrent theme in his fiction. By his own admission, he drank heavily partly to ward off ghosts.

In the summer of 1985, when he turned 60, he suddenly found that alcohol no longer agreed with him. But giving it up brought on mood disorders for which he had to be medicated. These drugs in turn produced destructive side effects, and he was dragged into a deep, prolonged suicidal depression that did not lift until he was hospitalized from December through early February 1986.

He recovered and wrote a harrowing account of his experience, which began as a lecture and became the best-selling book â??Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madnessâ? (1990). Three years later he collected three stories previously published in Esquire magazine in a volume titled â??A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales From Youthâ? (1993). Each treats the confrontation of mortality, and the title story deals with the death of his mother.

Depression continued to stalk him, and he was hospitalized several more times. In â??Darkness Visible,â? he concluded, referring to Dante: â??For those who have dwelt in depressionâ??s dark wood, and known its inexplicable agony, their return from the abyss is not unlike the ascent of the poet, trudging upward and upward out of hellâ??s black depths and at last emerging into what he saw as â??the shining world.â?? There, whoever has been restored to health has almost always been restored to the capacity for serenity and joy, and this may be indemnity enough for having endured the despair beyond despair.â?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 09, 2006, 02:29:00 pm

Sad as I've always liked this guy.

'60 Minutes' reporter Ed Bradley dies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061109/ap_on_en_tv/obit_bradley)

By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer
26 minutes ago

Ed Bradley, the award-winning "60 Minutes" correspondent who grew up in the tough streets of Philadelphia, was wounded while covering the Vietnam War and later became CBS's first black White House correspondent, died Thursday. He was 65.

Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai, CBS News announced.

Bradley joined "60 Minutes" in 1981, 10 years after he started with the network as a stringer in Paris.

Producer Don Hewitt, in his book "Minute by Minute," was quick to appreciate Bradley's work once he joined the "60 Minutes" crew.

"He's so good and so savvy and so lights up the tube every time he's on it that I wonder what took us so long," Hewitt wrote.

Bradley's consummate skills as a broadcast journalist and his distinctive body of work were recognized with numerous awards, including 19 Emmys, the latest for a segment that reported the reopening of the 50-year-old racial murder case of Emmett Till.

He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Three of his Emmys came at the 2003 awards: a lifetime achievement Emmy; one for a 2002 "60 Minutes" report on brain cancer patients and for a "60 Minutes II" report about sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.

Bradley grew up in a tough section of Philadelphia, where he once recalled that his parents worked 20-hour days at two jobs apiece. "I was told, `You can be anything you want, kid,'" he once told an interviewer. "When you hear that often enough, you believe it."

After graduating from Cheney State College, he launched his career as a DJ and news reporter for a Philadelphia radio station in 1963, moving to New York's WCBS radio four years later.

He joined CBS News as a stringer in the Paris bureau in 1971, transferring a year later to the Saigon bureau during the Vietnam War; he was wounded while on assignment in Cambodia. Bradley moved to the Washington bureau in June 1974, 14 months after he was named a CBS News correspondent.

He later returned to Vietnam, covering the fall of that country and Cambodia.

After Southeast Asia, Bradley returned to the United States and covered Jimmy Carter's successful campaign for the White House. He followed Carter to Washington, becoming CBS' first black White House correspondent â?? a prestigious position that Bradley didn't enjoy.

He jumped from Washington to doing pieces for "CBS Reports," traveling to Cambodia, China, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. It was his Emmy-winning 1979 work on a story about Vietnamese boat people, refugees from the war-torn nation, that eventually landed his work on "60 Minutes."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on November 09, 2006, 02:47:00 pm

Has this one been listed?

WHEN New York indie actress Adrienne Shelley was found hanging in her bathroom last week, the police thought it was a case of suicide.

But it turned out to be a killing, allegedly by a 19-year-old Ecuadorean construction worker who confessed to the police.

His apparent motive - his fear of being deported, after Ms Shelley, 40, complained about the noise from the renovation of the flat below hers in Greenwich Village, New York.

Diego Pillco, an illegal immigrant originally from Ecuador, was charged with second-degree murder yesterday and held without bail, reported The New York Times.

Assistant District Attorney Marit Delozier said that Pillco had made written and videotaped statements to the police that he had argued with Ms Shelly after her complaint.

She told the State Supreme Court in Manhattan: '(Pillco) said he fought with the victim, tied a sheet around her neck and dragged her to the bathroom and hung her from the shower rod.'

She said that Ms Shelley, who left behind a 3-year-old daughter, had died from compression to the neck and not from a blow to her head.

The New York Daily News reported that Pillco told the police in a confession that he had been afraid of being arrested and deported.

His co-workers told the police that he had vanished shortly after his argument with Ms Shelly. He returned with a mark on his face, they said, which he blamed on a scuffle with another employee.

Ms Shelley's husband, Mr Andry Ostroy, discovered her body several hours after he had dropped her off at the apartment last Wednesday.

The police initially suspected suicide because there were no signs of a struggle and Ms Shelley had only a bruise over one eye.

When they did not find a suicide note, they turned their attention to Mr Ostroy, a thrice-married, 47-year-old marketing executive.

SNEAKER CLUE

A sneaker print in the bathtub eventually led them to Pillco after they found a similar print in the flat below.

Pillco, who is believed to have sneaked into the US through Mexico in July, apparently speaks little English.

Ms Shelley, who was born Adrienne Levine, had appeared in independent films such as The Unbelievable Truth and Trust.

She was also in the movie Factotum with Matt Dillon last year and had just finished working on a film she wrote and directed, Waitress, which is being considered for this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: terry on November 09, 2006, 03:23:00 pm

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Originally posted by Weird Little Self Loathing Man:
Has this one been listed?

WHEN New York indie actress Adrienne Shelley was found hanging in her bathroom last week, the police thought it was a case of suicide.

No way! She was my favorite actress back during her Hal Hartley's days. I really thought she would be the next big thing! Man oh man!

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Post by: on November 09, 2006, 04:07:00 pm

Those hard -working, well -behaved illegal aliens...why don't Americans want them here???

It's a wonder..?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lbcardoni on November 10, 2006, 04:42:00 pm

Supposedly Gerald Levert passed away today

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ChampionshipVinyl on November 10, 2006, 06:25:00 pm

Jack Palance

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Post by: RonniStar on November 11, 2006, 09:49:00 am

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Originally posted by Tar Zen:
Supposedly Gerald Levert passed away today

Here's The Offical Story! (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061111/D8LAMUR01.html)

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Post by: Venerable Bede on November 16, 2006, 02:08:00 pm

APNewsAlert

Thursday, November 16, 2006 09 56 AM

(11-16) 09:56 PST San Francisco (AP) --

A spokesman for his foundation says economist Milton Friedman has died at age 94.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 16, 2006, 02:20:00 pm

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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
A spokesman for his foundation says economist Milton Friedman has died at age 94.

When I read that this morning, I was a little worried that you might need a whiskey night tonight...

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Post by: Venerable Bede on November 16, 2006, 02:29:00 pm

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Originally posted by vansmack:

Quote
Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
A spokesman for his foundation says economist Milton Friedman has died at age 94.
When I read that this morning, I was a little worried that you might need a whiskey night tonight... [/b]

might have to huff it over to his house and pay my respects.

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Post by: Venerable Bede on November 17, 2006, 01:29:00 pm

Report: Michigan legend Schembechler dies after collapse

November 17, 2006
SOUTHFIELD, Michigan (Ticker) - Michigan coaching legend Bo Schembechler has died after collapsing Friday morning, Detroit-area television station WXYZ reported. He was 77.

Schembechler collapsed at WXYZ's studios in Southfield as he prepared to tape the "Big Ten Ticket" show and was taken to Providence Hospital, the ABC affiliate said.

He had a pacemaker implanted on October 23 after a previous episode at the studio.

Schembechler won a school-record 194 games at Michigan from 1969-89.

The second-ranked Wolverines visit top-ranked rival Ohio State on Saturday for a berth in the Bowl Championship Series title game.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: BookerT on November 17, 2006, 01:36:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
Report: Michigan legend Schembechler dies after collapse

November 17, 2006
SOUTHFIELD, Michigan (Ticker) - Michigan coaching legend Bo Schembechler has died after collapsing Friday morning, Detroit-area television station WXYZ reported. He was 77.

Schembechler collapsed at WXYZ's studios in Southfield as he prepared to tape the "Big Ten Ticket" show and was taken to Providence Hospital, the ABC affiliate said.

He had a pacemaker implanted on October 23 after a previous episode at the studio.

Schembechler won a school-record 194 games at Michigan from 1969-89.

The second-ranked Wolverines visit top-ranked rival Ohio State on Saturday for a berth in the Bowl Championship Series title game.

what timing. maybe now people will start talking about that game tomorrow.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 17, 2006, 02:08:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
Schembechler won a school-record 194 games at Michigan from 1969-89.

Is now the appropriate time to point out that he was 4-6 against the Irish?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 17, 2006, 08:44:00 pm

November 17, 2006
Ruth Brown, R&B Singer and Actress, Dies at 78
By JON PARELES

Ruth Brown, the gutsy rhythm-and-blues singer whose career extended to acting and crusading for musiciansâ?? rights, died today in Las Vegas. She was 78 and lived in Las Vegas. Her death was announced by Howell Begle, her lawyer and executor. Ms. Brown had been on life support since suffering a heart attack and stroke on Oct. 29, he said.

Ms. Brown sustained a career for six decades: first as a bright, bluesy singer who was called â??the girl with a tear in her voiceâ? and then, after some lean years, as the embodiment of an earthy, indomitable black woman. She had a life of hard work, hard luck, determination, sass and style. Sometimes it was said that R&B stood for Ruth Brown as much as for rhythm-and-blues.

As the 1950â??s began, Ms. Brownâ??s singles for the fledgling Atlantic Records â?? like â??(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Meanâ? and â??5-10-15 Hoursâ? â?? became both the labelâ??s bankroll and templates for rock â??nâ?? roll. She could sound as if she were hurting, or joyfully lusty, or both at once. Her voice was forthright, feisty and ready for anything.

After Ms. Brownâ??s string of hits ended, she kept singing but also went on to a career in television, radio and movies â?? including a memorable role as the disc jockey Motormouth Maybelle in John Watersâ??s â??Hairsprayâ? â?? and on Broadway, where she won a Tony award for her part in â??Black and Blue.â? She worked clubs, concerts and festivals into the 21st century. â??Whatever I have to say, I get it said,â? she told an interviewer in 1995. â??Like the old spirituals say, â??Iâ??ve gone too far to turn me â??round now.â?? â?

Ms. Brown was born Ruth Weston on Jan. 12, 1928, in Portsmouth, Va., the oldest of seven children. She made her vocal debut when she was 4 and her father, the choir director at the local Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, lifted her onto the church piano. In summers, she and her siblings picked cotton at her grandmotherâ??s farm in North Carolina. â??That made me the strong woman I am,â? she said in 1995.

As a teenager, she would tell her family she was going to choir practice and perform instead at U.S.O. clubs at nearby naval bases. She ran away from home at 17, working with a trumpeter named Jimmy Brown and using his last name onstage. She married him, or thought she did; he was already married. But she was making a reputation as Ruth Brown, and the name stuck.

The big-band leader Lucky Millinder heard her in Detroit late in 1946, hired her for his band and fired her in Washington. Stranded, she managed to find a club engagement at the Crystal Caverns. There, the disc jockey Willis Conover, who broadcast jazz internationally on Voice of America radio, heard Ms. Brown and recommended her to friends at Atlantic Records.

On the way to New York City, however, she was seriously injured in an automobile accident and hospitalized for most of a year; her smashed legs would be painful for the rest of her life. She stood on crutches in 1949 to record her first session for Atlantic, and the bluesy ballad â??So Longâ? became a hit.

She wanted to keep singing ballads, but Atlantic pushed her to try upbeat songs, and she tore into them. During the sessions for â??Teardrops From My Eyes,â? her voice cracked upward to a squeal. Herb Abramson of Atlantic Records liked it, called it a â??tear,â? and after â??Teardrops from My Eyesâ? reached No. 1 on the rhythm-and-blues chart, the sound became her trademark for a string of hits.

â??If I was getting ready to go and record and I had a bad throat, theyâ??d say, â??Good!â??,â? she once recalled.

Ms. Brown was the best-selling black female performer of the early 1950â??s, even though, in that segregated era, many of her songs were picked up and redone by white singers, like Patti Page and Georgia Gibbs, in tamer versions that became pop hits. The pop singer Frankie Laine gave her a lasting nickname: â??Miss Rhythm.â?

Working the rhythm-and-blues circuit in the 1950â??s, when dozens of her singles reached the R&B Top 10, Ms. Brown drove a Cadillac and had romances with stars like the saxophonist Willis (Gator Tail) Jackson and the singer Clyde McPhatter of the Drifters. (Her first son, Ronald, was given the last name Jackson; decades later, she told him he was actually Mr. McPhatterâ??s son, and he now sings with a latter-day lineup of the Drifters.)

In 1955, Ms. Brown married Earl Swanson, a saxophonist, and had a second son, Earl; the marriage ended in divorce. Her two sons survive her; Mr. Jackson, who has three children, in Los Angeles, and Mr. Swanson in Las Vegas. She is also survived by four siblings: Dilia Weston in Las Vegas, Lenard Weston in Long Island, and Alvin and Benjamin Weston in Portsmouth, Va.

Her streak of hits ended soon after the 1960â??s began. She lived on Long Island, raised her sons, worked as a teacherâ??s aide and a maid, and was married for three years to a police officer, Bill Blunt. On weekends, she sang club dates in the New York area, and she recorded an album in 1968 with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band. Although her hits had launched Atlantic Records â?? sometimes called â??The House That Ruth Builtâ? â??she was unable at one point to afford a home telephone.

The comedian Redd Foxx, whom she had once helped out of a financial jam, brought her to Los Angeles in 1976 to play Mahalia Jackson in â??Selma,â? a musical about civil rights he was producing. She moved on to sing in Las Vegas and continued a comeback that never ended. The television producer Norman Lear gave her a role in the sitcom â??Hello, Larry.â? She returned to New York City in 1982, appearing in off-Broadway productions including â??Stagger Lee,â? and in 1985, she went to Paris to perform in the revue â??Black and Blue,â? rejoining it later for its Broadway run.

Ms. Brown began to speak out, onstage and in interviews, about the exploitative contracts musicians of her generation had signed. Many hit-making musicians had not recouped debts to their labels, according to record-company accounting, and so were not receiving royalties at all. Shortly before Atlantic Records held a 40th-birthday concert at Madison Square Garden in 1988, the label agreed to waive unrecouped debts for Ms. Brown and 35 other musicians of her era and to pay 20 years of retroactive royalties.

Atlantic also contributed nearly $2 million to start the Rhythm and Blues Foundation, which pushed other labels toward royalty reform and distributed millions of dollars directly to musicians in need, although it has struggled to sustain itself in recent years.

â??Black and Blueâ? revitalized Ms. Brownâ??s recording career, on labels including Fantasy and Bullseye Blues. Her 1989 album â??Blues on Broadwayâ? won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female. She was a radio host on the public-radio shows â??Harlem Hit Paradeâ? and â??BluesStage.â? In 1995, she released her autobiography, â??Miss Rhythmâ? (Dutton), written with Andrew Yule; it won the Gleason Award for music journalism. She was inducted into the Rock â??nâ?? Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

She toured steadily, working concert halls, festivals and cabarets. This year, she recorded songs for the coming movie by John Sayles, â??Honeydrippers,â? and was about to fly to Alabama to act in it when she became ill.

She never learned to read music. â??In school, we had music classes, but I ducked them,â? she said in 1995. â??They were just a little too slow. I didnâ??t want to learn to read no note. I knew I could sing it. I woke up one morning and I could sing.â?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kcjones119 on November 21, 2006, 01:51:00 pm

Robert Altman (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/21/obit.altman.ap/index.html), totally dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on November 24, 2006, 03:23:00 am

Renowned Jazz Singer Anita O'Day, dead at 87 (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20061124/D8LJ4KUO0.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on December 02, 2006, 11:31:00 pm

Journalist/Author Bebe Moore Campbell (http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/campbell1128)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on December 10, 2006, 02:04:00 pm

Former Chilean dictator Pinochet dies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/chile_pinochet)

3 minutes ago

SANTIAGO, Chile - Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the fierce anti-communist dictator who ruled Chile with an iron fist from 1973 to 1990, died Sunday from heart complications, the Santiago Military hospital reported. He was 91.

The brief announcement by the hospital said Pinochet' condition worsened suddenly and doctors rushed him back to the Intense Care Unit, from which he had been removed only on Thursday while recovering from an acute heart attack he suffered one week ago.

Relatives and friends of Pinochet were arriving at the hospital.

Pinochet had been admitted a week earlier to the hospital with what doctors described as an acute had attack. He underwent an angioplasty procedure in which doctors enlarge the clogged artery to allow restoration of the blood flow to the heart,

Pinochet died al 2:15 p.m. (1715 GMT), the hospital said.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on December 13, 2006, 04:36:00 pm

`Raymond' dad Peter Boyle dies in NYC (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/ap_en_tv/obit_boyle)

NEW YORK -
Peter Boyle, the actor who transformed from an angry workingman in "Joe" to a tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" and finally the comically grouchy father on "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died. He was 71.

Boyle died Tuesday evening at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He had been suffering from multiple myeloma and heart disease, said his publicist, Jennifer Plante.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 14, 2006, 06:50:00 pm

Gerbils/Neutral Milk Guitarist Westbrook Passes On
The Athens, Georgia music community, as close-knit as scenes come, experienced a tragic loss this past Monday as Will Westbrook,
guitarist for Orange Twin- affiliated Elephant 6 offshoot the Gerbils, passed away.

Will was also an Olivia Tremor Control collaborator, a player in Neutral Milk Hotel's live incarnation, and a celebrated photographer-- it's his portrait of NMH that appears on the Elephant 6 website.
Will's untimely death-- said to extend from unspecified recent health problems-- prompted an outpouring of grief from the Athens community.

"Will was a a great guy, and a madman as a guitar player," wrote Ben Crum of fellow Orange Twin act Great Lakes on his band's MySpace blog. "He will be sorely missed."

Along with Scott Spillane and John D'Azzo, Westbrook formed the core of the Gerbils, who came together back in Louisiana in 1992, later relocating to Athens.
They released a pair of albums and several singles over the years (also breaking up for a period), the most recent being 2001 LP The Battle of Electricity
on Orange Twin.

Some thoughts posted by J. Kirk Pleasant of former Athens band
Calvin, Don't Jump! on the Elephant 6 message board touched on elements of Will's character unbeknownst to most. "He was very unassuming on stage," wrote Pleasant. "His beauty always lay in the very very subtle."

"It took him forever to do anything... record a guitar solo, line up a photo, make a cup of coffee. If anyone ever goes by the transmetropolitan in Athens,
notice the tile before the entrance. Will did those tiles and took years (as I recall) to finish the job. Every tile was perfect and he made sure that
when he did anything, it was perfect.

"He was an extraordinary photographer. I always admired him the most for that. His hands were perpetually cracked and dry. I keep seeing his hands in my
mind today as this news sinks in. This is tearing me apart. I'll miss him."

Very sad and kind of Bizarre; I just randomly decided to throw on the first Gerbils album monday morning.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on December 14, 2006, 08:04:00 pm

Music Pioneer Ahmet Ertegun Dies at 83 (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Ahmet-Ertegun.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 14, 2006
Filed at 6:33 p.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, has died, his spokesman said. He was 83.

Ertegun remained connected to the music scene until his last days -- it was at an Oct. 29 concert by the Rolling Stones at the Beacon Theatre in New York where Ertegun fell, suffered a head injury and was hospitalized. He later slipped into a coma.

''He was in a coma and expired today with his family at his bedside,'' said Dr. Howard A. Riina, Ertegun's neurosurgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Ertegun will be buried in a private ceremony in his native Turkey, said Bob Kaus, a spokesman for Ertegun and Atlantic Records. A memorial service will be conducted in New York after the New Year's.

Ertegun, a Turkish ambassador's son, started collecting records for fun, but would later became one of the music industry's most powerful figures with Atlantic, which he founded in 1947.

The label first made its name with rhythm and blues by Charles and Big Joe Turner, but later diversified, making Franklin the Queen of Soul as well as carrying the banner of British rock (with the Rolling Stones, Cream, Led Zeppelin) and American pop (with Sonny & Cher, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and others).

Today, the company, part of Warner Music Group, is the home to artists including Kid Rock, James Blunt, T.I., and Missy Elliott.

He also had a local connection: Ertegun and his business partner Jerry Wexler borrowed money from Max "Waxie Maxie" Silverman to start their first label. That label failed but obviously they didn't quit there.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: distance on December 18, 2006, 09:33:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Surly Bonds:
Hannah Barbera (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6191999.stm)

how old was that chick?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on December 24, 2006, 05:15:00 pm

The Who Wrote Elvis's hit single "Burning Love" has died (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061224/D8M6S70O5.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ChampionshipVinyl on December 25, 2006, 12:34:00 pm

James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured â??Godfather of Soul,â? whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a founder of rap, funk and disco as well, died early Monday, his agent said. He was 73.

James Brown (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16349975/?GT1=8816)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Random Citizen on December 27, 2006, 01:02:00 am

Gerald Ford (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/26/AR2006122601257.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: BookerT on December 27, 2006, 04:24:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Random Citizen PDX:
Gerald Ford (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/26/AR2006122601257.html)

"tragedy today as former president gerald ford was eaten by wolves. he was delicious." (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-89770458144460734&hl=en)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 27, 2006, 04:28:00 pm

Didn't he like, sleep with OJ or something?

I wonder if his death will drive his wife to drink?

Quote

Originally posted by Random Citizen PDX:
Gerald Ford (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/26/AR2006122601257.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on December 29, 2006, 11:36:00 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on December 30, 2006, 02:14:00 pm

Why do they ALWAYS happen in threes!

James Brown
Gerald Ford
Sadam Hussein

Weird....two of them were tyranical bullies too!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on January 08, 2007, 01:23:00 am

The daughter of Bart Bacharach & Angie Dickerson (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070106/D8MG077O0.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 08, 2007, 10:45:00 am

Unofficial: Sneaky Pete Kleinow, member of the Flying Burrito Brothers and steel guitarist.
Kleinow appears on numerous rock and country-rock albums, including those by:

Jackson Browne
Dillard & Clark
The Byrds
John Lennon
Frank Zappa
Little Feat
Rita Coolidge
The Steve Miller Band.
Stevie Wonder
Fleetwood Mac
The Golden Palominos
Yoko Ono
Dion and the Belmonts
Billy Joel
Joan Baez
the Bee Gees
Booker T. and the MG's
Gene Clark
Joe Cocker
Gordon Lightfoot
Leonard Cohen
The Rolling Stones
Linda Ronstadt
Dave Mason
John Cale
The Knack
Joni Mitchell
Doug Sahm
Neil Sedaka
The Eagles
Robert Palmer
The Ventures
Peaches & Herb
The Everly Brothers
Jermaine Jackson
Gladys Knight
Carly Simon
Sly & the Family Stone
Ringo Starr

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on January 08, 2007, 11:56:00 am

Unofficial: Sneaky Pete Kleinow, member of the Flying Burrito Brothers and steel guitarist.

<img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/team_dupek/1cd124e9.jpg" alt=" - " />
I'm not dead...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on January 10, 2007, 04:41:00 pm

I Found Out About This Story Last Night! (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=39456)

Iwao Takamoto, the animator who designed the cartoon canine Scooby-Doo as well as characters on such shows as The Flintstones and The Jetsons, died Jan. 8 after suffering a massive coronary, a spokesman told the Reuters news service. He was 81.

Takamoto died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for respiratory problems, said Gary Miereanu, a spokesman for Warner Brothers Animation.

Takamoto designed Scooby-Doo, his equally famished and cowardly master Shaggy, and their pals Velma, Daphne and Fred in the late 1960s while working at the Hanna-Barbera animation studio. The Great Dane's name was inspired by an improvised line at the end of Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night."

He also designed the snickering dog Muttley, who was featured in a number of productions, and Astro, the family dog on The Jetsons. For The Flintstones, he created the Great Gazoo, a green alien.

Takamoto's death comes exactly three weeks after that of Hanna-Barbera co-founder Joseph Barbera, who was 95; Barbera's business partner, William Hanna, died in 2001.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 10, 2007, 04:51:00 pm

It's funny, Ronnistar, this seems to be the only thread you ever post on. What's your fascination with death? ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 10, 2007, 05:19:00 pm

Lilly Munster (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/10/obit.decarlo.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on January 10, 2007, 05:19:00 pm

Ronnistar also poasts to the Celeb Crime Beat thread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on January 10, 2007, 05:20:00 pm

Mary J.Bilge

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Dr. Anton Phibes on January 10, 2007, 05:24:00 pm

Lily rocked my world!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on January 12, 2007, 01:01:00 pm

Carlo Ponti

(Sorry, too lazy to look for a link.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on January 15, 2007, 01:58:00 pm

Jazz Performer Alice Coltrane Dies at 69
17 hrs ago Alice Coltrane, jazz performer and composer, dies at 69
17 hrs ago Jazz Performer Alice Coltrane Dies at 69

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The Associated Press
Jan 14, 2007 7:13 PM (17 hrs ago)
Current rank: # 523 of 13,027 articles

LOS ANGELES - Alice Coltrane, a jazz performer and composer and wife of the late saxophone legend John Coltrane, has died. She was 69.

Coltrane died Friday of respiratory failure at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center, said her sister, Marilyn McLeod.

For nearly 40 years, Coltrane managed the archive and estate of her husband, a pivotal figure in the history of jazz. He died of liver disease in 1967 at age 40.

A pianist and organist, Alice Coltrane was noted for her astral compositions and for bringing the harp onto the jazz bandstand.

Born Alice McLeod in Detroit on Aug. 27, 1937, she began learning classical piano at age 7. She studied jazz piano briefly in Paris before moving to New York, where she met her future husband in 1963.

At that time, she was playing with bandleader Terry Gibbs, who has often taken credit for introducing the two.

John Coltrane "saw something in her that was beautiful," Gibbs told the Los Angeles Times.

She left Gibbs' band to marry Coltrane and began performing with his band in the mid-1960s. She played tour dates with Coltrane's group in San Francisco, New York and Tokyo.

"John not only taught me how to explore but to play thoroughly and completely," Alice Coltrane said in comments published in "The Black Giants."

After his death, she devoted herself to raising their children but continued to play.

Early albums under her name, including "A Monastic Trio" and "Ptah, the El Daoud," received critical praise.

Her last recording, "Translinear Light," came in 2004. Her last performances came in an abbreviated tour last fall with her saxophonist son, Ravi.

Coltrane, a convert to Hinduism, was also a significant spiritual leader and founded the Vedantic Center, a spiritual commune now located in Agoura Hills.
worguhesorguwr (http://www.examiner.com/a-508747~Jazz_Performer_Alice_Coltrane_Dies_at_69.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on January 15, 2007, 03:38:00 pm

Speaking of Jazz greats, I just read somewhere that Michael Brecker of the Brecker Brothers just died. Think he had leukemia or something.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: crevers on January 16, 2007, 11:02:00 am

For those of you who watch(ed) Bold and the Beautiful...

Darlene Conley (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070116/ap_on_re_us/obit_conley)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 18, 2007, 11:28:00 am

Art Buchwald (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/01/18/buchwald.obit/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 19, 2007, 06:13:00 pm

Who had Doherty? (http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/news/bal-artslife-doherty0119,0,2033100.story?coll=bal-entertainment-headlines) :D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on January 22, 2007, 03:34:00 pm

Brent Liles - former Social D bassist.

link (http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1550716.php)

Early Social Distortion bassist ID'd in wreck

Officials say that Brent Liles of Fullerton was bicyclist killed in Placentia crash.

By ERIC CARPENTER
The Orange County Register

PLACENTIA â?? Officials on Saturday identified Brent Liles of Fullerton, former bass guitarist in one of the region's most influential punk rock bands, Social Distortion, as the bicyclist killed by a big rig on Thursday.

Liles played bass on the group's groundbreaking "Mommy's Little Monster" recording in 1983 and went on to play with other well-known Orange County punk acts such as the group Agent Orange. He was 43.

"Brent was a fun-loving guy who approached his bass playing with a lot of enthusiasm and that made him a lot of fun to be around," said Frank Agnew, a fellow musician and friend.

Liles, wearing casual clothing, was riding a small dirt bicycle westbound on Orangethorpe Avenue just after 11:30 a.m. Thursday, California Highway Patrol officials said.

As he entered the crosswalk at the Orange (57) Freeway, a big rig carrying a trailer turned right onto the on-ramp and accelerated, hitting Liles. He was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.

======

There's more at the link.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 22, 2007, 03:37:00 pm

Who would have guess the Ness would outlive two of his early bandmates...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on January 23, 2007, 01:00:00 am

Pro Wrestler, Bam Bam Bigelow (http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/130570/pro_wrestler_bam_bam_bigelow_passes.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on January 23, 2007, 07:02:00 pm

Howard Hunt (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070123/ap_on_re_us/obit_e__howard_hunt)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 23, 2007, 07:13:00 pm

Sad story about Brent Liles....

As a sidenote, the guy that wrote that article about Brent Liles, Eric Carpenter, was an original session player and live performer (horn section) of No Doubt, back when Gwen's brother Eric Stefani was running the band.

Seriously, what would you guys do without my vast knowledge of The OC?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: anarchist on January 24, 2007, 02:22:00 am

alice coltrane and sneaky pete

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on January 29, 2007, 01:49:00 pm

awww
poor Barbaro (http://www.examiner.com/a-534959~Barbaro_Is_Euthanized.html)

Barbaro Is Euthanized

By DAN GELSTON, The Associated Press
Jan 29, 2007 12:37 PM (8 mins ago)
Current rank: Not ranked

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. - Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was euthanized Monday after complications from his breakdown at the Preakness last May.

"We just reached a point where it was going to be difficult for him to go on without pain," co-owner Roy Jackson said. "It was the right decision, it was the right thing to do. We said all along if there was a situation where it would become more difficult for him then it would be time."

Roy and Gretchen Jackson were with Barbaro on Monday morning, with the owners making the decision in consultation with chief surgeon Dean Richardson.

It was a series of complications, including laminitis in the left rear hoof and a recent abscess in the right rear hoof, that proved to be too much for the gallant colt, whose breakdown brought an outpouring of support across the country.

"I would say thank you for everything, and all your thoughts and prayers over the last eight months or so," Jackson said to Barbaro's fans.

On May 20, Barbaro was rushed to the New Bolton Center, about 30 miles southwest of Philadelphia in Kennett Square, hours after shattering his right hind leg just a few strides into the Preakness Stakes. The bay colt underwent a five-hour operation that fused two joints, recovering from an injury most horses never survive. Barbaro lived for eight more months, though he never again walked with a normal gait.

The Kentucky Derby winner suffered a significant setback over the weekend, and surgery was required to insert two steel pins in a bone - one of three shattered eight months ago in the Preakness but now healthy - to eliminate all weight bearing on the ailing right rear foot.

The procedure on Saturday was a risky one, because it transfered more weight to the leg while the foot rests on the ground bearing no weight.

The leg was on the mend until the abscess began causing discomfort last week. Until then, the major concern was Barbaro's left rear leg, which developed laminitis in July, and 80 percent of the hoof was removed.

Richardson said Monday morning that Barbaro did not have a good night.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 31, 2007, 10:10:00 am

Sidney Sheldon (http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-01-30-sidney-sheldon-obit_x.htm)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on January 31, 2007, 10:28:00 pm

Molly Ivins (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070201/ap_on_re_us/obit_ivins)

Also, I read somewhere the other day that Robert Anton Wilson just died recently but saw no press on it whatsoever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 05, 2007, 09:54:00 pm

Barbara McNair (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070206/music_nm/mcnair_dc)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on February 08, 2007, 04:53:00 pm

Well someone's got to mention it.

Anna Nicole Smith has been found to be unresponsive and was rushed to a hospital. "Insiders" are saying that she has, in fact, died. Apart from all of her baggage, she did just have a baby, so that would be really sad, if true.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on February 08, 2007, 04:54:00 pm

Anna Nicole Smith dead

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/08/anna.nicole.collapses/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/08/anna.nicole.collapses/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 08, 2007, 05:33:00 pm

TrimSpa stock:

<img src="http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1615319/2/istockphoto_1615319_busines_graph.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on February 08, 2007, 05:41:00 pm

I think both Anna N. and her son were both murdered, by the family of the old man who she married and got all that money from, or by someone else interested in the $$.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on February 08, 2007, 06:33:00 pm

For Christ sake, why isn't Fidel Castro dead yet?!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 08, 2007, 07:54:00 pm

No shit....I want smoke some Cubans....when Fidel goes, so does the embargo.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 08, 2007, 08:45:00 pm

Sorry - no smoking. And no trans-fat.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on February 28, 2007, 04:42:00 pm

Billy Thorpe (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003551467) becomes a child of the sun.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on March 07, 2007, 12:28:00 am

Ernest Gallo (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/06/AR2007030601793.html) goes to the great wine cellar in the sky.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 07, 2007, 03:26:00 pm

Captain America (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/03/07/captain.america/index.html)

RIP (http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/CapAmerica/DDream/Cap_pages-2.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: tigersscareme on March 07, 2007, 03:28:00 pm

that is so FUCKED UP!

i'm wearing a captain america shirt today too...
it's all my fault.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on March 08, 2007, 02:22:00 pm

John Inman (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070308/tv_nm/inman_dc;_ylt=Apece4RsYzoMEBSGYjfYjKvMWM0F) from Are You Being Served?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Dr. Anton Phibes on March 08, 2007, 02:28:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
John Inman (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070308/tv_nm/inman_dc;_ylt=Apece4RsYzoMEBSGYjfYjKvMWM0F) from Are You Being Served?

One of Gervais's influences for the "show within a show" that is "When The Whistle Blows" on Extras. "Is he having a laugh?"....man,I love the catchphrase sitcoms....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on March 09, 2007, 08:36:00 pm

Brad Delp (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/09/entertainment/e155834S05.DTL&type=entertainment), lead singer of Boston.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Random Citizen on March 11, 2007, 02:36:00 am

Comedian Richard Jeni (http://www.sheckymagazine.com/2007/03/richard-jeni-comedian.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 18, 2007, 09:08:00 am

Crazy Ray (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2802745)

<img src="http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007/0317/nfl_a_jones_195.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on March 19, 2007, 11:06:00 am

Stuart Rosenberg, director of "Cool Hand Luke" and "Amityville Horror" (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070319/D8NV96980.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on March 21, 2007, 12:43:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
Brad Delp (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/09/entertainment/e155834S05.DTL&type=entertainment), lead singer of Boston.

Allow me to write a more fitting tribute:

A "singer" from one of those 70's bands no one can tell apart with one-word names, such as Boston or Foreigner and what have you, has died. We have no more idea who he is or was than we know which is Hall and which is Oates. I wouldn't worry about it.

Imagine what a disaster it's gonna be for Hall or Oates when either Hall or Oates dies ... None of those splashy reunion or revival concerts.

But then again...Hall or Oates will be able to continue on as usual with pretty much anyone filling in for Hall or Oates because no one will know if it's really Hall or Oates or not.

Except maybe for their fans, Mr. and Mrs. Hall and Mr. and Mrs. Oates.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on March 21, 2007, 09:38:00 am

Calvert DeForest, R.I.P. (http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_03_21.html#013139)

<img src="http://www.newsfromme.com/images8/deforest.jpg" alt=" - " />

youtube of Larry "Bud" Melman in action! (http://www.youtube.com/v/fQ7PMG8c2gI)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 21, 2007, 11:13:00 am

geeks, bow your egg-heads: John W. Backus, Inventor of Fortran (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/business/20backus.html?em&ex=1174622400&en=8e5d7b67d8e9ca13&ei=5087%0A)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Darth Ed on March 21, 2007, 11:29:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Calvert DeForest, R.I.P. (http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_03_21.html#013139)

:( That's some funny stuff.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 26, 2007, 10:34:00 am

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on March 26, 2007, 10:38:00 am

Is this your new hobby? hehe

Quote

Originally posted by sweetcell:
<img src="http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1168705855-ascension.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on March 26, 2007, 11:06:00 am

Frankly, I love the cats. They crack me up. Reminds me of the cat videos from the Built to Spill show last year.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on March 26, 2007, 12:11:00 pm

Pussy is good eating, if you can get past the taste.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on April 04, 2007, 11:19:00 pm

Christmas Story Director Killed in a car crash (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070405/D8OA56D80.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on April 05, 2007, 11:41:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by RonniStar:
Christmas Story Director Killed in a car crash (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070405/D8OA56D80.html)

Bob Clark made a few really watchable films.

Porky's
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
& the original
Black Christmas

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 08, 2007, 09:56:00 pm

Johnny Hart (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/08/AR2007040800746.html?hpid=topnews)

<img src="http://www.ecomallbiz.com/iwm14/nss-folder/stripcartoons/BC.1ss.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on April 09, 2007, 10:10:00 am

'Animalize' Kiss guitarist dies (http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/09/music.kiss.reut/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on April 11, 2007, 11:27:00 pm

A big one that hurts: Kurt Vonnegut. (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1176347214-mANKS76Y1K7vZ8BY77edKw&oref=slogin)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on April 13, 2007, 10:30:00 am

Stage & Screen Actor Roscoe Lee Browne (http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/browne413)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on April 14, 2007, 08:17:00 pm

Don Ho (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_ho;_ylt=ApCelmb.cwx9EnJZXUkfYQhH2ocA)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 14, 2007, 08:45:00 pm

We occasionally see a humongous Hawaiian-looking woman on the Metro who we refer to as "Don Ho". She always wears a visor.

Quote

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Don Ho (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_ho;_ylt=ApCelmb.cwx9EnJZXUkfYQhH2ocA)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 14, 2007, 11:28:00 pm

Nobody mentioned the great Sol Lewitt (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/09/arts/NA-A-E-ART-US-Obit-LeWitt.php) who died last week. His retrospective at the Whitney a few years ago ranks among the best installations I have ever seen. I walked in pretty ambivalent toward the guy, and walked out thinking he was a certifiable genius.

<img src="http://www.picassomio.com/images/art/pm-15412-medium.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on April 15, 2007, 10:25:00 am

Isn't it ironic that just a few days ago a career was destroyed over the h-word ("ho") yet today we bemoan the passing of Don "Ho" with impunity?

Is there a double-standard?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on April 16, 2007, 10:26:00 pm

James Nelson, the 1st man to play James Bond on screen (http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?itemid=4934)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Barcelona on April 17, 2007, 09:37:00 am

MarÃa Julia HernÃ¡ndez (http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8998321)

Apr 12th 2007
From The Economist print edition

MarÃa Julia HernÃ¡ndez, fighter for human rights, died on March 30th, aged 68.

<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/20070414/1507OB.jpg" alt=" - " />

WHEN forensic teams from Argentina dug in 1992 into the earth at El Mozote, in the mountains of eastern El Salvador, they first came upon a reddish rubble, mixed up with the roots of thorn-plants and weeds. A little deeper they uncovered small, thin skulls, some of them blackened by fire. Underneath these were bundles of what seemed to be brown rags: the blood-soaked cotton dresses, trousers and socks of what had once been children, killed more than a decade before. The pockets of some still held their lucky plastic toys.

The forensic work at this, the most dreadful killing-field of modern Latin America, was memorably reported by Mark Danner in the New Yorker. But it might never have been carried out, and the massacre of 794 people, overwhelmingly civilians, in December 1981 might never have been forced to the world's attention, if MarÃa Julia HernÃ¡ndez had not been on the case. She was in charge of the Socorro JurÃdico, later the Tutela Legal, which during El Salvador's murderous civil war of 1980-92 kept track of human-rights abuses for the archdiocese of San Salvador. She was therefore the person to whom Rufina Amaya MÃ¡rquez first told her story.

Rufina had been the sole survivor of the massacre. When the troops of the elite Atlacatl battalion of the Salvadoran army had come to the village to flush out leftist rebels, she had been locked up with the other women. She had seen her husband beheaded with a machete; her baby daughter had been torn from her breast. But as the women were led away Rufina managed to hide beside a crab-apple tree, and the screaming of the others distracted the soldiers from seeing that she had gone. When night fell she crawled away into the maguey plants, her skirts knotted up so as not to hamper her, and dug a little hole into which she could press her face to weep without being heard.

Miss HernÃ¡ndez took all this down. She was a homely, sympathetic sort, who in her old-fashioned print dresses looked much like a priest's housekeeper; but she had been a professor of law at the University of Central America in San Salvador, and would fix those who tried to deceive her with a stony, intellectual stare. Since 1978, as El Salvador slid into disorder, she had been compiling for the archdiocese a book of the dead. These were the corpses left by right-wing death squads in the city streets most nights, their faces dissolved by battery acid and their backs or chests scored with the tags of their killers. Her colleagues would take photographs, and relatives of the missing would come to her office to leaf through the portfolio in the hope, or fear, of finding them. But El Mozote was an atrocity beyond any of this.

For years, with a lawyer's thoroughness and steely determination, Miss HernÃ¡ndez amassed the evidence. The government would not help; it denied that anything had happened, and dismissed Tutela Legal as a guerrilla front. The Reagan administration, intent on stamping out communist infection, agreed that Miss HernÃ¡ndez was a trouble-maker. She was undeterred. In 1989 six Jesuits were shot dead at her old university; Tutela Legal did the first investigation, and found that the army had ordered it. In 1991 her office published the first investigation into El Mozote, including the names of all the dead.

The signing of peace accords the next year ended the civil war, set up a Truth Commission and led to the dig at the site of the massacre. Miss HernÃ¡ndez had the names of those responsible; but in 1993 the new government declared an amnesty for all of them. She kept going, campaigning to overturn the amnesty and to bring the killings before the Inter-American Court of Justice. On her death the case had been reopened and, with her help, evidence was slowly being gathered again. She was also publicising corruption and brutality in El Salvador's police force.

The heart entire

Her life was full of risks, cheerfully faced. Each day, settling to her work in a room as bare as a nun's cell, she began with a prayer: "Well, God, will I see you today, or will you leave me a bit longer, fighting?" Papers carrying death-threats were often pushed through the door. She drew strength from her dearest friend, Oscar Romero, who in 1977 had become archbishop of San Salvador and had set up the human-rights office. Like Christ calling the disciples, as she liked to remember it, he had summoned her from the university, "and I didn't really know how to [follow him], but I said yes." Once she went searching for the archbishop, out into the countryside, and found him saying mass for the campesinos under a tree. From him she learned to love and defend the poor; and when he too was murdered by a death squad, at the altar, in 1980, she felt bound to continue the work he had begun.

She died relatively young, from a heart attack, in the same month that Romero had been killed and on the very day of his burial. Salvadorans found a fascinating symmetry in that. Miss HernÃ¡ndez had liked to show visitors where he was buried and to tell the story that, though he had been shot in the chest, his heart had been undamaged. She was sure it was still whole under the earth, evidence of his continuing power to encourage her, just as the reddish soil at El Mozote had preserved, in blood and bones, the truth.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on April 17, 2007, 12:38:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Barcelona:
MarÃa Julia HernÃ¡ndez (http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8998321)

Apr 12th 2007
From The Economist print edition

MarÃa Julia HernÃ¡ndez, fighter for human rights, died on March 30th, aged 68.

<img src="http://www.economist.com/images/20070414/1507OB.jpg" alt=" - " />

WHEN forensic teams from Argentina dug in 1992 into the earth at El Mozote, in the mountains of eastern El Salvador, they first came upon a reddish rubble, mixed up with the roots of thorn-plants and weeds. A little deeper they uncovered small, thin skulls, some of them blackened by fire. Underneath these were bundles of what seemed to be brown rags: the blood-soaked cotton dresses, trousers and socks of what had once been children, killed more than a decade before. The pockets of some still held their lucky plastic toys.

The forensic work at this, the most dreadful killing-field of modern Latin America, was memorably reported by Mark Danner in the New Yorker. But it might never have been carried out, and the massacre of 794 people, overwhelmingly civilians, in December 1981 might never have been forced to the world's attention, if MarÃa Julia HernÃ¡ndez had not been on the case. She was in charge of the Socorro JurÃdico, later the Tutela Legal, which during El Salvador's murderous civil war of 1980-92 kept track of human-rights abuses for the archdiocese of San Salvador. She was therefore the person to whom Rufina Amaya MÃ¡rquez first told her story.

Rufina had been the sole survivor of the massacre. When the troops of the elite Atlacatl battalion of the Salvadoran army had come to the village to flush out leftist rebels, she had been locked up with the other women. She had seen her husband beheaded with a machete; her baby daughter had been torn from her breast. But as the women were led away Rufina managed to hide beside a crab-apple tree, and the screaming of the others distracted the soldiers from seeing that she had gone. When night fell she crawled away into the maguey plants, her skirts knotted up so as not to hamper her, and dug a little hole into which she could press her face to weep without being heard.

Miss HernÃ¡ndez took all this down. She was a homely, sympathetic sort, who in her old-fashioned print dresses looked much like a priest's housekeeper; but she had been a professor of law at the University of Central America in San Salvador, and would fix those who tried to deceive her with a stony, intellectual stare. Since 1978, as El Salvador slid into disorder, she had been compiling for the archdiocese a book of the dead. These were the corpses left by right-wing death squads in the city streets most nights, their faces dissolved by battery acid and their backs or chests scored with the tags of their killers. Her colleagues would take photographs, and relatives of the missing would come to her office to leaf through the portfolio in the hope, or fear, of finding them. But El Mozote was an atrocity beyond any of this.

For years, with a lawyer's thoroughness and steely determination, Miss HernÃ¡ndez amassed the evidence. The government would not help; it denied that anything had happened, and dismissed Tutela Legal as a guerrilla front. The Reagan administration, intent on stamping out communist infection, agreed that Miss HernÃ¡ndez was a trouble-maker. She was undeterred. In 1989 six Jesuits were shot dead at her old university; Tutela Legal did the first investigation, and found that the army had ordered it. In 1991 her office published the first investigation into El Mozote, including the names of all the dead.

The signing of peace accords the next year ended the civil war, set up a Truth Commission and led to the dig at the site of the massacre. Miss HernÃ¡ndez had the names of those responsible; but in 1993 the new government declared an amnesty for all of them. She kept going, campaigning to overturn the amnesty and to bring the killings before the Inter-American Court of Justice. On her death the case had been reopened and, with her help, evidence was slowly being gathered again. She was also publicising corruption and brutality in El Salvador's police force.

The heart entire

Her life was full of risks, cheerfully faced. Each day, settling to her work in a room as bare as a nun's cell, she began with a prayer: "Well, God, will I see you today, or will you leave me a bit longer, fighting?" Papers carrying death-threats were often pushed through the door. She drew strength from her dearest friend, Oscar Romero, who in 1977 had become archbishop of San Salvador and had set up the human-rights office. Like Christ calling the disciples, as she liked to remember it, he had summoned her from the university, "and I didn't really know how to [follow him], but I said yes." Once she went searching for the archbishop, out into the countryside, and found him saying mass for the campesinos under a tree. From him she learned to love and defend the poor; and when he too was murdered by a death squad, at the altar, in 1980, she felt bound to continue the work he had begun.

She died relatively young, from a heart attack, in the same month that Romero had been killed and on the very day of his burial. Salvadorans found a fascinating symmetry in that. Miss HernÃ¡ndez had liked to show visitors where he was buried and to tell the story that, though he had been shot in the chest, his heart had been undamaged. She was sure it was still whole under the earth, evidence of his continuing power to encourage her, just as the reddish soil at El Mozote had preserved, in blood and bones, the truth.

Are we supposed to have heard of her before? I thought that was a requirement for this thread? Can I poast RIPs for just about any Tom, Dick or Harry?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on April 23, 2007, 10:03:00 am

Boris Yeltsin (http://wfrv.com/topstories/topstories_story_113094916.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Deathprod on April 23, 2007, 11:29:00 am

Andrew Hill

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 23, 2007, 07:04:00 pm

David Halberstam. Car crash in SF.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on April 23, 2007, 07:12:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Shemp:
David Halberstam. Car crash in SF.

wow that really sucks, one of my favorites

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Summerteeth on April 26, 2007, 06:47:00 pm

Bobby Pickett. Writer of "Monster Mash."

In his honor, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo4tzrxyXsA. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo4tzrxyXsA.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on April 26, 2007, 08:11:00 pm

Film lobbyist Jack Valenti (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_en_mo/obit_valenti)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on April 29, 2007, 01:06:00 pm

Not being a sports fan, I have no clue who this guy is but figured some of you would be interested.

Cardinals reliever Josh Hancock killed in car crash (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-cardinals-hancockkilled&prov=ap&type=lgns)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on May 01, 2007, 01:52:00 pm

Tommy Newsom, backup bandleader on 'Tonight Show' (http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1178008366327380.xml&coll=2)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on May 01, 2007, 11:30:00 pm

Former Redskin Linebacker Kevin Mitchell (http://sports.myway.com/news/04302007/v1137.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on May 01, 2007, 11:44:00 pm

I'm surprised the Grim Reaper (RonniSize) missed this one.

'Newhart' sidekick Tom Poston dies at 85 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_en_tv/obit_poston;_ylt=Ag3.FzMWkN8ZxaFRMwz0Hw4DW7oF)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on May 06, 2007, 09:29:00 am

Pioneer astronaut Wally Schirra dies at 84 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18470469/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on May 12, 2007, 12:32:00 pm

<img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/team_dupek/md15.jpg" alt=" - " />

I'm not dead (http://tinyurl.com/2k9tt3) yet...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on May 12, 2007, 09:18:00 pm

Don Ho's Daughter Found Dead (http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=261892&GT1=7702&)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: distance on May 15, 2007, 01:00:00 pm

new addition to this list coming soon?
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070515/NEWS07/70515037/0/BUSINESS01 (http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070515/NEWS07/70515037/0/BUSINESS01)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on May 15, 2007, 01:38:00 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on May 15, 2007, 01:39:00 pm

I guess he'll have his final proof that there is a hell.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: yinzer on May 15, 2007, 01:44:00 pm

what a damn shame. he was proof that shit could respirate.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: distance on May 15, 2007, 01:46:00 pm

i'm sure it was because of the gays and the jews and such, just like 9-11. he must have had it coming.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on May 15, 2007, 01:48:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Got Haggis?:
<img src="http://imgred.com/http://www.drudgereport.com/siren.gif" alt=" - " />

LOL

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on May 15, 2007, 01:50:00 pm

Hoya's Motherboard

Time of death: 3:16AM 5/15/2007. So young, yet so proud, he'll never be forgotten.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on May 15, 2007, 01:52:00 pm

Jerry Falwell is gone.
Tammy Faye is close.

Pat Robertson had better be looking over his shoulder...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on May 15, 2007, 02:04:00 pm

Quote from a buddy of mine:

"Hell oughta burn real hot for a good long while with all that blubber down there"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on May 15, 2007, 02:29:00 pm

Hopefully Pat Robertson will be making this list soon too. :D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: miss pretentious on May 15, 2007, 02:35:00 pm

folks in my office have been offering up the glorious steve irwin ironic death options...

i.e. murdered by a teletubby.
heart stopped during anal sex.
etc etc.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on May 15, 2007, 02:37:00 pm

If there is any sort of afterlife, Jerry Falwell's should consist of an eternal ass-fucking curtesy of a life-size Tinky Winky.

Edit: Damn you beat me to the anal sex/teletubby jokes by a matter of seconds.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on May 15, 2007, 02:42:00 pm

I get it. Jokes about dead VT students are not funny. Jokes about dead evangelicals are. Death can be funny. It only depends upon whom.

Kosmo should write this down, as it will come in handy in the future when it's time to delete certain poasts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on May 16, 2007, 09:45:00 am

Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. dies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070516/ap_on_re_us/obit_king)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on May 16, 2007, 09:49:00 am

Death can be funny, but mass murder in your own backyard isn't.

Quote

Originally posted by Psychoda alternata:
I get it. Jokes about dead VT students are not funny. Jokes about dead evangelicals are. Death can be funny.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on May 16, 2007, 10:57:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Death can be funny, but mass murder in your own backyard isn't.

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Originally posted by Psychoda alternata:
I get it. Jokes about dead VT students are not funny. Jokes about dead evangelicals are. Death can be funny.
[/b]

But Blacksburg is farther away than NYC!?! Is NYC your backyard too?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on May 21, 2007, 11:03:00 pm

Actor/Dancer Carl Wright (http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/252910/actordancer_carl_wright_passes_away.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: on May 24, 2007, 08:46:00 am

Yahweh Ben Yahweh, (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270792,00.html) man of love.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ChampionshipVinyl on May 28, 2007, 10:57:00 am

Charles Nelson Reilly (http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=263605&GT1=7703)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: miss pretentious on May 28, 2007, 08:20:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by ChampionshipVinyl:
Charles Nelson Reilly (http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=263605&GT1=7703)

i was about to post this.
but sadly when i think of him, i think of alec baldwin portraying him on snl...instead of the man himself...

'there's a troll in central paaark!'

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: miss pretentious on June 12, 2007, 10:56:00 pm

Mr. Wizard Goes to baking soda heaven.] (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070612/ap_en_tv/obit_herbert)
i struggled as to whether this deserved its own post. *sigh*

LOS ANGELES - Don Herbert, who as television's "Mr. Wizard" introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89. Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban Bell Canyon home, said his son-in-law, Tom Nikosey.

"He really taught kids how to use the thinking skills of a scientist," said former colleague Steve Jacobs. He worked with Herbert on a 1980s show that echoed the original 1950s "Watch Mr. Wizard" series, which became a fond baby boomer memory.

In "Watch Mr. Wizard," which was produced from 1951 to 1964 and received a Peabody Award in 1954, Herbert turned TV into an entertaining classroom. On a simple, workshop-like set, he demonstrated experiments using household items.

"He modeled how to predict and measure and analyze. ... The show today might seem slow but it was in-depth and forced you to think along," Jacobs said. "You were learning about the forces of nature."

Herbert encouraged children to duplicate experiments at home, said Jacobs, who recounted serving as a behind-the-scenes "science sidekick" to Herbert on the '80s "Mr. Wizard's World" that aired on the Nickelodeon channel.

When Jacobs would reach for beakers and flasks, Herbert would remind him that science didn't require special tools.

"'You could use a mayonnaise jar for that,'" Jacobs recalled being chided by Herbert. "He tried to bust the image of scientists and that science wasn't just for special people and places."

Herbert's place in TV history was acknowledged by later stars. When "Late Night with David Letterman" debuted in 1982, Herbert was among the first-night guests.

Born in Waconia, Minn., Herbert was a 1940 graduate of LaCrosse State Teachers College and served as a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot during World War II. He worked as an actor, model and radio writer before starting "Watch Mr. Wizard" in Chicago on NBC.

The show moved to New York after several years.

He is survived by six children and stepchildren and by his second wife, Norma, his son-in-law said. A private funeral service was planned.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on June 13, 2007, 01:30:00 pm

richard rorty (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/11/MNG73QD5D11.DTL)

RICHARD RORTY: 1931 - 2007
Philosopher couldn't be ignored
Diana Walsh, Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, June 11, 2007

Richard Rorty, one of the world's most influential cultural philosophers and a retired comparative literature professor at Stanford University, died Friday at his Palo Alto home from pancreatic cancer. He was 75.

For decades, Rorty waged a public and controversial challenge to various conventional philosophical thought. He published a landmark book in 1979 titled "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" that became one of the best-selling philosophical works of all time. In it, Rorty argued against the concept of representation that leading philosophical scholars had been focused on for centuries.

"The aim of the book is to undermine the reader's confidence in 'the mind' as something about which one should have a 'philosophical' view, in 'knowledge' as something about which there ought be a 'theory' and which has 'foundations,' and in 'philosophy' as it has been conceived since Kant," Rorty wrote in the book's introduction.

During an academic career that spanned more than four decades, he penned a vast body of work, publishing numerous books, essays and magazine and newspaper articles. He said once that he had spent his career trying to find out "what, if anything, philosophy was good for.''

His controversial views were harshly criticized, but they also drew support from advocates of pragmatic philosophy, and many believed he was the pre-eminent cultural philosopher of his time.

"He believed that his ideas stood on their own, independent of his public persona. He embraced his critics with reasoned responses, always ready to question his own assumptions,'' his son Jay Rorty said on Sunday.

Rorty's arrival at Stanford University in 1998 was seen as a major academic coup for the university. Rorty, whose teaching career began at Wellesley in 1958, spent most of his tenure at Princeton, where he taught from 1961 to 1982. He then moved to the University of Virginia from 1982 to 1998 before moving to Stanford. In 1981, he was one of the first recipients of a MacArthur genius grant.

Seth Lerer, who was chairman of Stanford University's comparative literature department at the time, said hiring Rorty was a "signal both within the Stanford community and to the community of scholars nationally that this university is very serious about the place of humanities and literary study."

Rorty's decision to teach in the comparative literature department and not in the philosophy department "reflected his belief that the dialectics of philosophy and literature are essentially part of the same conversation," according to a statement released by the university Sunday after his death.

"He was such an unbelievably captivating presence as a lecturer and as a writer, and he was a model citizen,'' said Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, a professor of literature at Stanford who helped bring Rorty to the university. "He always had these large classes of undergraduates. He had this huge, high opinion of the students here."

Although considered one of the world's brightest intellects, Rorty had a reserved manner in person, according to his son, but he was both kind and generous in his professional and personal life. For 20 years, Rorty sponsored a Fulbright scholar from abroad and always mailed copies of his books to anyone who asked for them.

"He admired people deeply, loved literature passionately and took deep pleasure in his work,'' Patricia Rorty said.

Rorty was born on Oct. 4, 1931, in New York City. He was just 15 years old when he entered the University of Chicago, earning a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1949 and a master's degree in philosophy in 1952. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Yale University.

Among his many awards, Rorty was slated to receive an honorary doctorate from Harvard University on June 7, but his failing health prevented him from traveling, his son said.

Rorty is survived by his wife, Mary Varney Rorty, a biomedical ethicist; daughter Patricia Rorty of Berkeley; and sons Jay Rorty of Santa Cruz and Kevin Rorty of Richmond, Va.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thatguy on June 26, 2007, 02:58:00 am

wwe wrestler chris benoit (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=3315501&page=1)

"Wrestling star Chris Benoit, his wife, Nancy, and their 7-year-old son, Daniel, were found dead in their suburban Atlanta home Monday. The deaths are being investigated as a possible suicide and double homicide, authorities told ABC News."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on June 26, 2007, 07:18:00 am

Whoa. Benoit was one of my favorites back in the day.

Quote

Originally posted by thatguy:
wwe wrestler chris benoit (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=3315501&page=1)

"Wrestling star Chris Benoit, his wife, Nancy, and their 7-year-old son, Daniel, were found dead in their suburban Atlanta home Monday. The deaths are being investigated as a possible suicide and double homicide, authorities told ABC News."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on June 27, 2007, 12:41:00 am

Speaking of dead athletes:

Rod Beck Found Dead In His Home (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2914994)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lbcardoni on June 27, 2007, 04:12:00 pm

Liz Claiborne (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19463584/?GT1=10056)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on June 27, 2007, 05:13:00 pm

Post from another board that I admit made me chuckle a little. Am I going to hell?

"Husband strangles wife, smothers kid. Waits a day, kills self.
The Aristocrats!"

Quote

Originally posted by thatguy:
wwe wrestler chris benoit (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=3315501&page=1)

"Wrestling star Chris Benoit, his wife, Nancy, and their 7-year-old son, Daniel, were found dead in their suburban Atlanta home Monday. The deaths are being investigated as a possible suicide and double homicide, authorities told ABC News."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on June 27, 2007, 05:24:00 pm

Why do so many wrestlers die at young ages from unsettling events?

Quote

Originally posted by thatguy:
wwe wrestler chris benoit (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=3315501&page=1)

"Wrestling star Chris Benoit, his wife, Nancy, and their 7-year-old son, Daniel, were found dead in their suburban Atlanta home Monday. The deaths are being investigated as a possible suicide and double homicide, authorities told ABC News."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on June 29, 2007, 07:25:00 pm

Film Critic Joel Siegel (http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/29/people_late_great/main3000684.shtml)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on July 03, 2007, 07:51:00 am

Soap Opera Star Beverly Sills (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070703/D8Q51VT00.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on July 03, 2007, 08:08:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by RonniStar:
Soap Opera Star Beverly Sills (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070703/D8Q51VT00.html)

*edit* Opera Star Beverly Sills

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: miss pretentious on July 03, 2007, 04:19:00 pm

teen that survived hate crime attack of sodomy with umbrella pole and beating kills self. (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/02/Party.Attack.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Marty666 on July 03, 2007, 04:31:00 pm

Beverly Sills went to the same summer camp as Nancy Spungeon, now they are both dead!

Coincidence?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on July 03, 2007, 09:48:00 pm

Boots Randolph (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/03/AR2007070301650.html?hpid=moreheadlines) meets Benny Hill for a new gig.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on July 07, 2007, 01:08:00 am

Bill Pinkney, the last survivor of the original members of the musical group The Drifters (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070705/D8Q6K25O1.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 16, 2007, 01:28:00 pm

Porn King, Jim Mitchell (http://www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_6377191)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 16, 2007, 01:35:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by vansmack:
Porn King, Jim Mitchell (http://origin.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_6382297?nclick_check=1)

your link didn't work for me (asked me to register), but this one (http://www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_6377191) did.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 16, 2007, 01:45:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by sweetcell:
your link didn't work for me (asked me to register), but this one (http://www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_6377191) did.

Duly noted and edited. Thanks for the heads up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Random Citizen on July 22, 2007, 12:30:00 am

Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070722/ap_on_re_us/obit_tammy_faye_messner)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 22, 2007, 01:08:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Random Citizen PDX:
Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070722/ap_on_re_us/obit_tammy_faye_messner)

My mom says you can only say good things about people when they die.

Tammy Faye is dead. Good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on July 24, 2007, 03:03:00 pm

Don Arden, the Suge Knight of his generation (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6913470.stm)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jm1 on July 30, 2007, 09:08:00 am

Broadcast Pioneer Tom Snyder Dies

(CBS) SAN FRANCISCO Legendary newsman and pioneer broadcaster Tom Snyder passed away Sunday in San Francisco from complications of leukemia.

In 1965, Tom Snyder, along with Marciarose Shestack, made television history anchoring the first noon news show in the country. The show was broadcasted from the Eyewitness News studios in Philadelphia.

In the 70s Synder gained national attention as the host of the the talkshow Tomorrow with Tom Snyder. His show aired late nights on NBC at the Tonight Show.

Tom Snyder was 71.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on July 30, 2007, 10:01:00 am

Bergman: from tormented childhood to film icon (http://uk.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUKL3032974120070730)
Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:22PM BST

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Considered by some to be the greatest film-maker ever, Ingmar Bergman exorcised a traumatic childhood through cinematic masterpieces that explored sexual anxiety, loneliness and the search for meaning in life.

Bergman died on Monday. He was 89.

In a career spanning half a century, in which he produced more than 50 films and 125 theatre productions, Bergman became Scandinavia's most acclaimed cultural personality.

Films such as "Wild Strawberries", "Scenes From a Marriage", and his great classic, "Fanny and Alexander", elevated him to be one of the masters of cinema though it brought Sweden, his country, a reputation for melancholy.

His private life often thrust him into the limelight. He was married five times to beautiful and talented women and had many liaisons with his leading actresses.

He influenced scores of film-makers, including Woody Allen, who idolised Bergman and paid homage to the Swedish director's classic "The Seventh Seal" with his early comedy "Love and Death".

"Above all there's Ingmar Bergman, who is probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera," said American Allen in a birthday greeting for Bergman when he turned 70.

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala on July 14, 1918. His father, a Lutheran minister who became chaplain to the Swedish King, caned and humiliated the sickly boy.

"It was a life-and-death struggle: either the parents were broken or the child was broken," Bergman later recalled.

Bergman has also talked of a deep love for his mother and his refuge in fantasy and taste for the macabre.

Critics have traced the recurring themes of repression, guilt and punishment to the director's strict upbringing.

Bergman told Reuters in a rare interview in 2001 that personal demons tormented and inspired him throughout his life.

"The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times and create panic and terror," he said at the time. "But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

Never was the autobiographical link as clear as in "Fanny and Alexander", which he proclaimed as his grand finale as a film-maker.

The film, produced in three- and five-hour versions, won four Oscars in 1984, one for best foreign language film. Bergman, shy and indifferent to prizes and gala ceremonies, chose to unplug the phone and sleep through the extravaganza in his Munich flat.

"Fanny and Alexander" is a lavish panorama of an Uppsala upper-class family in the years preceding World War One. The boy Alexander, 10, and his eight-year-old sister Fanny are mentally and physically abused by their stepfather, the local bishop modelled on Bergman's father.

The shy and weak Alexander uses supernatural powers to take a sinister revenge on his tormentor.

SCRIPT-WRITING START

His first script-writing effort, "Frenzy" in 1944, was about a sadistic school teacher. His directing debut two years later was a film titled "Crisis".

Bergman played with toy theatres as a boy and the stage was always his first love. "I am much more a man of the theatre than a man of the film," he once said, and all through his career shared his time between stage and screen.

In his later years, he devoted himself to stage work at Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre, showing a preference for classic works of theatre.

His international breakthrough in cinema came in 1955 with "Smiles of a Summer Night", a comedy of manners set in provincial Sweden at the turn of the century.

Full international recognition came with the 1956 film "The Seventh Seal", set in the plague-ridden Middle Ages, in which a Crusader searching for God and the meaning of life plays chess with Death. It won the jury prize at the 1957 Cannes festival.

In the following 10 years, he made "Wild Strawberries", "The Silence", which included a starkly sexual scene that provoked a clash with Swedish film censors, "The Virgin Spring", and "Through a Glass Darkly". The last two won Oscars as best foreign language films.

A slim, hawk-nosed man with a penchant for baggy clothing, Bergman was hardly handsome by conventional standards but women were drawn to him.

His four ex-wives, including a dancer, a director and a pianist, continued to speak highly of him as did the actresses with whom he had affairs, among them Norwegian Liv Ullmann, his companion of the late 1960s.

His fifth wife was the elegant Countess Ingrid von Rosen, whom he married in 1971 and who became his business manager. He had nine children, four boys and five girls.

Bergman continued to win acclaim in the early 1970s with "Cries and Whispers", the television mini-series "Scenes From a Marriage", and a televised version of Mozart's "The Magic

Flute".

In January 1976, Bergman was arrested during a rehearsal at the Royal Dramatic Theatre by plainclothes policemen, who took him away for questioning about alleged tax evasion.

No charges were brought, but the humiliation he felt led to a nervous breakdown. Publicly condemning Swedish bureaucracy, he left his homeland for a long artistic exile in Munich.

He directed three films abroad, one of them, "The Autumn Sonata", bringing together Liv Ullmann and the late Ingrid Bergman. The Swedish actress was not related.

In 1984, he returned to the Royal Dramatic Theatre with an acclaimed version of "King Lear". He ended his self-imposed exile the following year and settled down at the national theatre with a string of classics.

His last cinematic production was Saraband, a family drama made for television in 2003 that generated more high praise.

Swedish actor Max von Sydow, who starred in 11 Bergman films, once said he and the director made a pact to haunt one another after death "in all friendliness", depending on who had the opportunity first.

"I believe that it is hard to fully comprehend the contribution that Ingmar Bergman made to Swedish film and drama," Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said in a statement. "His works are immortal."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on July 30, 2007, 03:03:00 pm

Former 49er coach Bill Walsh (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/30/BAG57LR8OK21.DTL)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 30, 2007, 03:12:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Shemp:
Former 49er coach Bill Walsh (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/30/BAG57LR8OK21.DTL)

Damn. I have a ticket to the 49ers Kickoff Lunch and was really hoping to meet him. He went in the hospital a little over a week ago, but I held out hope. He was an offensive genius.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 02, 2007, 12:35:00 pm

August 2, 2007
Tommy Makem, Irish Singer, Dies
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:14 a.m. ET

DOVER, N.H. (AP) -- Acclaimed Irish singer, songwriter and storyteller Tommy Makem has died of cancer, ending a worldwide entertainment career that spanned more than five decades. He was 74.

"It is with great sadness that I have to report Tommy Makem passed away tonight after a long bout with lung cancer," said a message posted on his web site Wednesday night. Makem died in Dover, where he lived.

Makem grew to international fame while performing with the band The Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem in the late 1950s and 1960s.

Makem & Clancy Brothers do Dylan's "When the Ship Comes In" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6gX_52aCWQ)

President Mary McAleese of Ireland led the tributes, saying Makem brought happiness and joy to fans all over the world.

"Always the consummate musician, he was also a superb ambassador for the country, and one of whom we will always be proud," McAleese said.

Liam Clancy also remembered his life-long music partner.

"Tommy was a man of high integrity, honesty, and his courage really shone through towards the end," he told RTE Radio in Dublin, Ireland.

Clancy and Makem teamed up after emigrating to the United States from Ireland in the late 1950s where they began careers in acting, before turning to music.

Armed with his banjo, tinwhistle, poetry, stagecraft and his baritone voice, Makem helped spread stories and songs of Irish culture around the world.

"He just had the knack of making an audience laugh or cry... holding them in his hands," Clancy said.

In New Hampshire, Makem performed at the Statehouse this year for Gov. John Lynch's inaugural celebration.

"It was known that he was not well, yet he played with typical passion and wit, evoking tears of joy and sadness from those assembled," Lynch said on Thursday.

He called Makem a state, national and international treasure.

"With a strong voice and even stronger spirit, Tommy inspired millions," Lynch said.

An ailing Makem visited Belfast last month to receive an honorary degree from the University of Ulster and returned to his native Armagh.

Makem was best known for songs such as The Green Fields of France, Gentle Annie and Red is the Rose.

With the Clancy Brothers, he appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Tonight Show and on every major television network show in the United States, and they soon became the four most famous Irishmen in the world, according to a biography on his web site.

They played to audiences from New York's Carnegie Hall and London's Royal Albert Hall to every major concert venue in the English-speaking world.

Even while battling cancer, Makem was maintaining a performance schedule, with gigs listed through this fall.

His web site reported that Makem once was asked if he planned to retire.

"Yes, of course," he said. "I retire every night and in the morning when I awake I realize just how lucky and privileged I am to be able to continue doing the things I love to do."

On the Web:

www.makem.com (http://www.makem.com)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on August 06, 2007, 06:30:00 am

Lee Hazelwood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hazlewood)

Break out your many and gorgeous editions of "Some Velvet Morning".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on August 11, 2007, 06:48:00 am

Tony Wilson (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/6941392.stm) :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 12, 2007, 12:38:00 pm

Merv Griffin (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/12/griffin.obit.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on August 14, 2007, 09:20:00 pm

not that i find pleasure in knowing anyone has left this earth...but ex-Yankees....

Phil Rizzuto (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2974097)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on August 14, 2007, 10:53:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by le sonick:
not that i find pleasure in knowing anyone has left this earth...but ex-Yankees....

Phil Rizzuto (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2974097)

World Series wins
Phil Rizzuto - 9
Ted Williams - O

Holy Cow! :eek:

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on August 14, 2007, 11:15:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by slappy:

Quote
Originally posted by le sonick:
not that i find pleasure in knowing anyone has left this earth...but ex-Yankees....

Phil Rizzuto (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2974097)
World Series wins
Phil Rizzuto - 9
Ted Williams - O

Holy Cow! :eek: [/b]

Baltimore 12
Yankees 0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: distance on August 15, 2007, 01:45:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by slappy:

Quote
Originally posted by le sonick:
not that i find pleasure in knowing anyone has left this earth...but ex-Yankees....

Phil Rizzuto (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2974097)
World Series wins
Phil Rizzuto - 9
Ted Williams - O

Holy Cow! :eek: [/b]

i thought he won 7 and played in 9?
though ted didn't play in any, did he?

yogi's got 10. fucking nuts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bags on August 16, 2007, 09:43:00 am

Tony Wilson, Factory Founder

August 15, 2007
Tony Wilson, Impresario and a Founder of Postpunk Label, Dies at 57

By BEN SISARIO
Tony Wilson, a British television reporter who became one of the most
influential figures in postpunk music with his Factory Records label, died
on Friday in Manchester, England. He was 57.

The cause was a heart attack, said his publicist, Andy Saunders. Mr. Wilson
learned he had kidney cancer a year ago.

Mr. Wilson was a 26-year-old reporter for Granada Television in Manchester
when he had an epiphany at a sparsely attended Sex Pistols show. Attracted
by the anarchic spirit of the band, he became a passionate advocate for the
music scene that was starting to sprout up in the city. According to popular
accounts, the bands Joy Division, the Fall, the Smiths and the Buzzcocks
were all formed by people who had attended that same Sex Pistols concert.
Mr. Wilson featured musicians on his television program and, in 1978, helped
found the independent Factory label.

As a record company, Factory was both a trendsetter and a farce. Releasing
music by Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio and Happy Mondays, it
helped define the minimal aesthetic of postpunk and followed the musicâ??s
transition into the hedonistic rave style known as Madchester. In its
graphic design Factory was crisp and experimental.

But Mr. Wilson, an intellectual prankster who was portrayed by the comedian
Steve Coogan in the 2002 mock documentary â??24 Hour Party People,â? gave his
artists unusually generous contracts, and seemed to view Factory as more of
a whimsical Conceptual-art project than a business. Catalog numbers were
assigned not only to musical releases but also to stationery, parties and
even the dental work of one of the labelâ??s founders. In 1983 New Orderâ??s
12-inch single â??Blue Mondayâ? became a best seller, but because of its
elaborate packaging â?? it was designed to look like a floppy disk â?? Factory
lost money on every copy.

â??You either make money,â? Mr. Wilson once said, â??or you make history.â? The
label went bankrupt in 1992.

Factory No. 51 was the Hacienda, a Manchester nightclub that opened in 1982
and became the center of dance culture in Britain. Madonna made her British
stage debut there in 1984; that year Mr. Wilson also signed one of Factoryâ??s
biggest bands, Happy Mondays, after it came in last place in a battle of the
bands contest at the Hacienda. The club became a notorious drug den, and it
was shut down by the authorities in 1997.

Anthony Howard Wilson was born in Salford, near Manchester, and graduated
from Cambridge University. He was hired as a reporter at Granada, where he
became a local celebrity for his flamboyant style and his music coverage.
His program â??So It Goesâ? featured the first television appearances of Elvis
Costello and the Jam.

Mr. Wilson, who was married and divorced twice, is survived by his
companion, Yvette Livesey, as well as by a son, Oliver, and a daughter,
Isabel.

Mr. Wilson, who held onto his job at Granada while he ran Factory, started
several labels after Factory shut down, most recently F4, but none lasted
long. For the last 15 years his consuming project was In the City, a
music-business conference in Manchester, which he founded with Ms. Livesey.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on August 16, 2007, 03:32:00 pm

Max Roach (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/16/obit.roach.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on August 20, 2007, 10:43:00 am

"The Queen Of Mean" Leona Helmsley (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070820/D8R4Q8900.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on August 21, 2007, 11:06:00 am

Herbert Kornfeld RIP

Memorial Shirt (http://store.theonion.com/herbert-kornfeld-commemorative-tee-p-126.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: miss pretentious on August 21, 2007, 11:26:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by nkotb:
Herbert Kornfeld RIP

Memorial Shirt (http://store.theonion.com/herbert-kornfeld-commemorative-tee-p-126.html)

He died in May. Where have you been?
White-On-White Violence Claims Life of Accounts Recieveable Supervisor (http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/white_on_white_violence)

Also, The Onion sponsored Web site for his business is fantastic. See? (http://www.midstateoffice.com/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on August 21, 2007, 11:34:00 am

Wow, really? I'm way behind the times.

If it's not discussed on this forum or on Law & Order: SVU re-runs, I don't know about it.

Quote

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
He died in May. Where have you been?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on August 21, 2007, 10:03:00 pm

70s cabaret circuit singer Jon Lucien (http://blogs.livedaily.com/index.php/main/comments/831/jon_lucien_dead_at_65.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on August 23, 2007, 11:22:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by le sonick:

Quote
Originally posted by slappy:

Quote
Originally posted by le sonick:
not that i find pleasure in knowing anyone has left this earth...but ex-Yankees....

Phil Rizzuto (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2974097)
World Series wins
Phil Rizzuto - 9
Ted Williams - O

Holy Cow! :eek: [/b]
Baltimore 12
Yankees 0 [/b]

Texas 30
Balmer 3

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on August 23, 2007, 12:54:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by slappy:

Quote
Originally posted by le sonick:

Quote
Originally posted by slappy:

Quote
Originally posted by le sonick:
not that i find pleasure in knowing anyone has left this earth...but ex-Yankees....

Phil Rizzuto (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2974097)
World Series wins
Phil Rizzuto - 9
Ted Williams - O

Holy Cow! :eek: [/b]
Baltimore 12
Yankees 0 [/b]
Texas 30
Balmer 3 [/b]

haha. i thought that was a misprint. i cant even make fun of Orioles fans today, i feel too bad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SalParadise on August 24, 2007, 02:01:00 pm

fidel castro.

no linkage because it hasn't been formally announced yet... but it should be later today...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 24, 2007, 02:08:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by SalParadise:
fidel castro.

no linkage because it hasn't been formally announced yet... but it should be later today...

Seriously?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SalParadise on August 24, 2007, 02:14:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

Quote
Originally posted by SalParadise:
fidel castro.

no linkage because it hasn't been formally announced yet... but it should be later today...
Seriously? [/b]

si.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 24, 2007, 02:22:00 pm

If you are right, I congratulate you on the scoop.

Quote

Originally posted by SalParadise:

Quote
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

Quote
Originally posted by SalParadise:
fidel castro.

no linkage because it hasn't been formally announced yet... but it should be later today...
Seriously? [/b]
si. [/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SalParadise on August 24, 2007, 02:29:00 pm

i outggw'd ggw.

i just got a phone call from family in miami. i think they're (media) waiting for kids to get home from school before they announce it. or maybe my cousin is just bullshitting me...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bnyced0 on August 24, 2007, 02:33:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by SalParadise:
i outggw'd ggw.

i just got a phone call from family in miami. i think they're (media) waiting for kids to get home from school before they announce it. or maybe my cousin is just bullshitting me...

Well, actually that's all I can say at the moment...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MISTER_X on August 24, 2007, 03:14:00 pm

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/cuban-fm-dispels-rumors-about-castro/2007/08/24/1187462495675.html (http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/cuban-fm-dispels-rumors-about-castro/2007/08/24/1187462495675.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SalParadise on August 24, 2007, 03:36:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by RECTAL ITCH:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/cuban-fm-dispels-rumors-about-castro/2007/08/24/1187462495675.html (http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/cuban-fm-dispels-rumors-about-castro/2007/08/24/1187462495675.html)

d'oh

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: miss pretentious on August 24, 2007, 04:21:00 pm

Fess up Sal... your source was... PEREZ HILTON (http://www.perezhilton.com/)

Sources reveal exclusively to PerezHilton.com that U.S. officials will be holding a press conference shortly to announce the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

South Florida police organizations are calling in reinforcements before the announcement is made, weâ??re told.

PerezHilton.com was the first media outlet in the world to break the news of Castroâ??s death. We posted THIS ITEM on it last week!!!!

A Cuban broke the story of the oppressive ogreâ??s passing. We are soooo proud and happy!!!

Weâ??re so sad we canâ??t be in Miami this weekend.

Thereâ??s gonna be a big olâ?? party en Calle Ocho, mi gente!!!!

In the words of Gloria Estefanâ?¦

â??Quiero my Cuba libre pa que la gente pueda - pa que mi gente pueda bailar!â?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on August 24, 2007, 04:24:00 pm

Find out who you've outlived (http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/Search.outlived?OpenForm&x=nf)

I've outlived Bob Marley, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana and John Belushi.

Oh SNAP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SalParadise on August 24, 2007, 04:28:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
Fess up Sal... your source was... PEREZ HILTON (http://www.perezhilton.com/)

Sources reveal exclusively to PerezHilton.com that U.S. officials will be holding a press conference shortly to announce the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

South Florida police organizations are calling in reinforcements before the announcement is made, weâ??re told.

PerezHilton.com was the first media outlet in the world to break the news of Castroâ??s death. We posted THIS ITEM on it last week!!!!

A Cuban broke the story of the oppressive ogreâ??s passing. We are soooo proud and happy!!!

Weâ??re so sad we canâ??t be in Miami this weekend.

Thereâ??s gonna be a big olâ?? party en Calle Ocho, mi gente!!!!

In the words of Gloria Estefanâ?¦

â??Quiero my Cuba libre pa que la gente pueda - pa que mi gente pueda bailar!â?

it has to be true then!

10,000 pigs will be roasted in miami tonight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on August 24, 2007, 04:31:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Relaxer:
Find out who you've outlived (http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/Search.outlived?OpenForm&x=nf)

Lenny Bruce
John Lennon
Vitas Gerulaitis
Malcolm X

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jd930 on August 24, 2007, 04:46:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Relaxer:
Find out who you've outlived (http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/Search.outlived?OpenForm&x=nf)

I've outlived Bob Marley, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana and John Belushi.

Oh SNAP

Me too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SalParadise on August 24, 2007, 05:22:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by SalParadise:

Quote
Originally posted by miss pretentious:
Fess up Sal... your source was... PEREZ HILTON (http://www.perezhilton.com/)

Sources reveal exclusively to PerezHilton.com that U.S. officials will be holding a press conference shortly to announce the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

South Florida police organizations are calling in reinforcements before the announcement is made, weâ??re told.

PerezHilton.com was the first media outlet in the world to break the news of Castroâ??s death. We posted THIS ITEM on it last week!!!!

A Cuban broke the story of the oppressive ogreâ??s passing. We are soooo proud and happy!!!

Weâ??re so sad we canâ??t be in Miami this weekend.

Thereâ??s gonna be a big olâ?? party en Calle Ocho, mi gente!!!!

In the words of Gloria Estefanâ?¦

â??Quiero my Cuba libre pa que la gente pueda - pa que mi gente pueda bailar!â?
it has to be true then!

10,000 pigs will be roasted in miami tonight. [/b]

or maybe not..
http://www.miamiherald.com/581/story/214415.html (http://www.miamiherald.com/581/story/214415.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on August 28, 2007, 03:19:00 pm

For those who see soccer as a major sport, some sad news: Sevilla Midfielder Antonio Puerta, dead at 22 (http://sports.myway.com/news/08282007/v3059.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on August 28, 2007, 03:24:00 pm

Who woulda thunk Castro would outlive this guy?

Quote

Originally posted by RonniStar:
For those who see soccer as a major sport, some sad news: Sevilla Midfielder Antonio Puerta, dead at 22 (http://sports.myway.com/news/08282007/v3059.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: miss pretentious on August 29, 2007, 11:23:00 am

Some unfortunate news: Hilly Kristal (http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-29-2007/0004653405&EDATE=) , the founder of legendary New York rock club CBGB, died Tuesday of complications from lung cancer. He was 75.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on August 29, 2007, 02:00:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
Some unfortunate news: Hilly Kristal (http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-29-2007/0004653405&EDATE=) , the founder of legendary New York rock club CBGB, died Tuesday of complications from lung cancer. He was 75.

Does this mean that brilliant plan to re-open CB's in Las Vegas is kaput?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on August 29, 2007, 04:30:00 pm

Richard Jewell (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070829/ap_on_re_us/obit_jewell)-

Former security guard Jewell dies By HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writer
25 minutes ago

ATLANTA - Richard Jewell, the former security guard who was erroneously linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing, died Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.

Jewell, 44, was found dead in his west Georgia home, GBI spokesman John Bankhead said.

"There's no suspicion whatsoever of any type of foul play. He had been at home sick since the end of February with kidney problems," said Meriwether County Coroner Johnny Worley.

The GBI planned to do an autopsy Thursday, Bankhead said.

Lin Wood, Jewell's longtime attorney, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that he was "devastated" by the news. He declined to comment further, saying he was in New York trying to get back to Atlanta.

Jewell was initially hailed as a hero for spotting a suspicious backpack in a park and moving people out of harm's way just before a bomb exploded during a concert at the Atlanta Summer Olympics.

The blast killed one and injured 111 others.

Three days after the bombing, an unattributed report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution described him as "the focus" of the investigation.

Other media, to varying degrees, also linked Jewell to the investigation. He was never arrested or charged, although he was questioned and was a subject of search warrants.

As recently as last year, Jewell was working as a sheriff's deputy.

Eighty-eight days after the initial news report, U.S. Attorney Kent Alexander issued a statement saying Jewell "is not a target" of the bombing investigation and that the "unusual and intense publicity" surrounding him was "neither designed nor desired by the FBI, and in fact interfered with the investigation."

In 1997, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno expressed regret over the leak regarding Jewell. "I'm very sorry it happened," she told reporters. "I think we owe him an apology."

The Atlanta newspaper never settled a lawsuit Jewell filed against it. The case was still pending as of last year. A lawyer for the newspaper did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

Eventually, the bomber turned out to be anti-government extremist Eric Rudolph, who also planted three other bombs in the Atlanta area and in Birmingham, Ala. Those explosives killed a police officer, maimed a nurse and injured several other people.

Rudolph was captured after spending five years hiding out in the mountains of western North Carolina. He pleaded guilty to all four bombings last year and is serving life in prison.

Jewell told the AP last year that Rudolph's conviction helped, but he believed some people still remember him as a suspect rather than for the two days in which he was praised as a hero.

"For that two days, my mother had a great deal of pride in me â?? that I had done something good and that she was my mother, and that was taken away from her," Jewell said around the time of the 10th anniversary of the bombing. "She'll never get that back, and there's no way I can give that back to her."

A year ago, Gov. Sonny Perdue commended Jewell at a bombing anniversary event. "This is what I think is the right thing to do," Perdue declared as he handed a certificate to Jewell.

Jewell said: "I never expected this day to ever happen. I'm just glad that it did."

___

Associated Press Writer Greg Bluestein contributed to this story.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on August 30, 2007, 10:29:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
Richard Jewell (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070829/ap_on_re_us/obit_jewell)-

Former security guard Jewell dies By HARRY R. WEBER, Associated Press Writer
25 minutes ago

ATLANTA - Richard Jewell, the former security guard who was erroneously linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing, died Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.

Jewell, 44, was found dead in his west Georgia home, GBI spokesman John Bankhead said.

poor dude. i was in centennial park in Atlanta when this happened. kinda crazy, but it wasnt like as bad as they made it on TV. at least it stopped the Hootie and the Blowfish concert.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on August 30, 2007, 01:03:00 pm

Did we list the guy who was the star of last years foreign film Oscar winner The Lives of Others?

He died in July from stomach cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on September 03, 2007, 11:23:00 pm

One of the New Bohemians (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070904/ap_en_mu/people_musician_shot).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: alex on September 04, 2007, 08:30:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Jaguar:
One of the New Bohemians (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070904/ap_en_mu/people_musician_shot).

Kind of a crappy way to go...

Quote

DALLAS â?? Jeffrey Carter Albrecht, a keyboard player for the band Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, was shot to death early Monday while trying to kick in the door of his girlfriend's neighbor, police said.

The neighbor, who was not immediately identified, was asleep in bed when he woke up around 4 a.m. to his wife screaming that someone was breaking into the house, according to a police report. The neighbor yelled through the door for Albrecht to leave and then fired his handgun through the door.

Albrecht was shot in the head and died at the scene, police said.

The neighbor believed a burglar was trying to break in and fired a shot through the door around 4 a.m., Dallas police spokesman Sgt. Gil Cerda said. The case is under investigation and no arrests have been made.

News reports cited police saying Albrecht beat up his girlfriend and then tried to kick down the neighbor's door in a drunken rage. The couple had no history of domestic violence, but the girlfriend had bruises on her face, police said. She did not suffer serious injury.

Albrecht apparently struck his girlfriend in the face several times and hit her in the back once she fell. She later managed to lock him out of the house, according to the reports.

"He was at his girlfriend's house last night," said Danny Balis, Albrecht's roommate. "He left the house and went next door and â?? for whatever reason, which we don't know â?? he knocked on the neighbor's door. And from what I understand, he was persistent. I don't know if there was a verbal exchange, but the person panicked and fired a shot through the door."

The death of Albrecht, who also played keyboard and guitar and sang in the Dallas rock band Sorta with Balis, stunned friends and those who knew him in the North Texas music community.

"He is not a violent person," said Carrie Garcia, Sorta's manager. "He is cool as a cucumber, shy, always wanted to make a joke in a situation that may be a little tense."

Albrecht, who went by his middle name, had been with the New Bohemians since 1999, according to the band's Web site. Albrecht played several times with Brickell's husband, Paul Simon, Garcia said. He also played with Texas musician Charlie Sexton, a renowned guitarist.

Albrecht was working on a solo album that Balis called "the best thing he has ever done."

"He was the best musician I've ever played with â?? no question," Balis said. "He could play anything. It's a shame not enough people outside of Dallas heard him."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 04, 2007, 02:30:00 pm

Steve Fossett?? (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/04/fossett.missing/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on September 05, 2007, 01:10:00 pm

Congressman Paul Gillmor (R-Ohio) (http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/rep.-gillmor-dies-2007-09-05.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on September 06, 2007, 01:35:00 am

Luciano Pavarotti (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RFOO900&show_article=1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 06, 2007, 05:09:00 pm

Effi Barry (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=596&sid=1240597)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on September 17, 2007, 08:21:00 pm

Brett Somers (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070917/ap_on_en_tv/obit_somers)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on September 18, 2007, 06:36:00 am

Leona Helmsley...Effi Barry...Jake Einstein...

all these icons of a certain era

good thing I'm not getting any older like them

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on September 23, 2007, 10:32:00 am

A moment of silence for Marcel Marceau (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/09/23/marceau.ap/index.html).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Marty666 on September 23, 2007, 01:35:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
A moment of silence for Marcel Marceau (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/09/23/marceau.ap/index.html).

Im speechless

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 24, 2007, 11:35:00 am

Ex-Rally Champion Colin McRae (http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?seriesId=99&id=3022712)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 15, 2007, 07:16:00 pm

pour out a little drank in his memory:

Rapper Big Moe, 33, Dies (http://www.click2houston.com/entertainment/14343634/detail.html)

HOUSTON -- Big Moe, a Houston rapper whose 2002 album reached No. 3 on Billboard's hip hop charts, has died.

Big Moe, whose real name was Kenneth Moore, was 33. He died Sunday afternoon at Houston's Ben Taub hospital after being hospitalized for more than a week, said Bryan McLeod, a spokesman for the county public hospital system.

McLeod did not release a cause of death, but numerous hip hop Web sites said the obese rapper suffered a heart attack.

Big Moe, who rapped and sang, was a member of the late DJ Screw's rap collective the Screwed Up Click. DJ Screw died of a heart attack in 2000 after a reported overdose of codeine-laced cough syrup.

Big Moe often rapped about the drug and the titles of his first two albums made reference to it. His first album was called "City of Syrup" and his most successful offering was 2002's "Purple World," for the color most often associated with the drug.

Big Moe's top two singles, "Barre Baby" and "Purple Stuff" were odes to the drug. He also released a third album, "Moe Life," in 2003.

"He was a great influence to the music community here in Houston," said Swishahouse Records founder Michael "5000" Watts. "He was a good person and one of the founding fathers of the music movement here."

He collaborated with various Houston rappers including Mike Jones, Z-Ro and Pimp C.

Other Screwed Up Click members who have died are Big Hawk, who was shot to death last year, and his brother Fat Pat, killed in 1998.

<img src="http://www.click2houston.com/2007/1015/14344730_240X180.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: saco on October 18, 2007, 02:11:00 pm

Joey Bishop (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071018/ap_en_ot/obit_bishop)

Deborah Kerr (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071018/ap_on_en_mo/obit_kerr;_ylt=AkLRfyxQsNe.xlVtz68QbQ2s0NUE)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jm1 on October 19, 2007, 09:03:00 am

Lucky Dube (http://wtop.com/?nid=114&sid=1272699)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 19, 2007, 03:23:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by jm1:
Lucky Dube (http://wtop.com/?nid=114&sid=1272699)

:(

Reggae Star Killed in South Africa Carjacking
By MICHAEL WINES

JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 19 â?? A team of gunmen shot and killed Lucky Dube, an international reggae star and one of the nationâ??s best-known musicians, in an apparent carjacking attempt late Thursday that underscored the continuing peril of violent crime here.

As the provincial police commissioner appointed seven veteran investigators to chase down the attackers, President Thabo Mbeki called on the nation â??to confront this terrible scourge of crime, which has taken the lives of too many of our people, and does so every day.â?

The police said that Mr. Dube, 43, was shot by three hijackers in Rosettenville, just south of downtown Johannesburg, as he dropped off his 15-year-old son at his brotherâ??s house. Mr. Dubeâ??s son was in the car at the time, they said.

The hijackers fled after Mr. Dube crashed his Chrysler into a tree. He died at the scene.

The principal opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, said that â??the circumstances surrounding his murder again illustrate that violent crime in South Africa is out of control, and that the governmentâ??s remedies to address this scourge have failed.â?

South Africans have reduced the murder rate by 41 percent since the nation became a democracy in 1994, experts say, but the pace of murder and other violent crimes remains among the worldâ??s highest, and attacks on both ordinary citizens and high-profile figures, including politicians and the police, are a daily occurrence.

The government has committed to reduce so-called contact crimes, in which criminals confront their victims, by 7 percent annually. Figures for the last annual reporting period, which ended in March, showed declines in attempted murders, assaults, rape and in several other categories.

But homicides rose to 19,200, a 3.5 percent increase, reversing a longstanding drift downward. Aggravated robberies, in which criminals assault as well as rob victims, leaped by nearly 6 percent, to more than 126,000. And carjackings of the sort that killed Mr. Dube rose 6 percent, to a level not seen in four years.

Those increases reflect a disturbing shift toward violence by certain kinds of criminals, said Dr. Johan Burger, a 36-year veteran of the South African Police Service who is an analyst for the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies.

â??This is a change for the worse,â? he said. â??A psychosis of fear is spreading, and this has dangerous, dangerous implications if it is not stopped. Iâ??m not at all convinced that weâ??re doing the right thing at the moment.â?

While both politicians and the press were demanding more police officers to combat the rise in violent crime, he said, South Africa already exceeds international norms for the number of police needed for its population. To reduce the violence, he said, the nation needs to control illegal immigration, especially from war zones, which has fed a population of destitute aliens with military training and experience with violence.

He also said the nation needed to reduce the vast gap between the nationâ??s wealthy class and a jobless underclass that has little hope of climbing out of poverty except by crime.

On Friday, Mr. Dubeâ??s Web site, www.luckydubemusic.com, (http://www.luckydubemusic.com,) said that his death â??leaves a great void in the music industry as 25 years of music suddenly ends in tragedy.â?

Mr. Dube began as a singer of traditional African songs but swept to international stardom in the 1980s when he began singing reggae. He recorded 22 albums during his career and played with Peter Gabriel, Seal and other Western singers, but he spent most of his time in Africa, where his base of fans was strongest.

He is survived by a wife and seven children.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on October 21, 2007, 04:15:00 pm

RIP Paul Raven, bassist for Killing Joke, Ministry, Prong, and others. Very very sad :(

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=83206 (http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=83206)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on October 29, 2007, 12:17:00 pm

Country Legend Porter Wagoner (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20071029/D8SIVU281.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on October 29, 2007, 02:12:00 pm

This is what I imagine ggw looking like when he gets to 80.

<img src="http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/ap/PEOPLE_PORTER_WAGONER.sff_NY137_20071026191547.jpg" alt=" - " />

Quote

Originally posted by RonniStar:
Country Legend Porter Wagoner (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20071029/D8SIVU281.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on October 30, 2007, 09:29:00 am

Judy Mazel, founder of the Beverly Hills Diet (http://www.thatsfit.com/2007/10/29/beverly-hills-diet-founder-dead-at-63/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on October 30, 2007, 08:05:00 pm

Robert Goulet, 73 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21552081/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on October 31, 2007, 02:10:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by eros:
Robert Goulet, 73 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21552081/)

The Coconut Bangers Ball- It's a Wrap (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2zRGQX2QLo)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on October 31, 2007, 06:37:00 pm

Linda Stein, Seymour's ex-wife (http://www.nme.com/news/ramones/32213)

This is so shocking and tragic to me. The interviews I've read and footage I've seen of her always made me feel like she was a really warm and interesting person. I cannot believe it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on October 31, 2007, 06:45:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by bearman:
Linda Stein, Seymour's ex-wife (http://www.nme.com/news/ramones/32213)

Wow. Very sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on November 04, 2007, 01:35:00 am

The Fabulous Moolah (http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/62702/The-Fabulous-Moolah-Passes-Away.htm)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 10, 2007, 09:05:00 am

Pulitzer-winning author Mailer dies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071110/ap_on_en_ot/obit_mailer)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on November 10, 2007, 11:45:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Jaguar:
Pulitzer-winning author Mailer dies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071110/ap_on_en_ot/obit_mailer)

along with some of the beat writers, f. scott, and hemingway, mailer really got me into literature when i was a kid ... now, for some reason, i always think of george plimpton when i think of mailer

mailer was pretty punk rock for his time

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Random Citizen on November 10, 2007, 12:06:00 pm

Noi Chudnoff (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/08/AR2007110802485.html?hpid=features1&hpv=local), owner of Go Mama Go! on 14th Street.

:(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on November 10, 2007, 05:49:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:

Quote
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Pulitzer-winning author Mailer dies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071110/ap_on_en_ot/obit_mailer)
along with some of the beat writers, f. scott, and hemingway, mailer really got me into literature when i was a kid ... now, for some reason, i always think of george plimpton when i think of mailer

mailer was pretty punk rock for his time [/b]

Ditto, except I wasn't a kid (college) and the george plimpton part. Advertisements For Myself is one of my favorite reads ever. His line to the effect of life is the search for the perfect orgasm has stuck with me. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on November 12, 2007, 05:55:00 pm

great mailer obit by hitchens (http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2209681,00.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on November 19, 2007, 03:23:00 pm

Mr. Whipple (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071119/ap_on_en_tv/obit_mr__whipple)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: tigersscareme on November 19, 2007, 03:29:00 pm

Quote

Mr. Whipple

aw...adam from Mythbusters will be sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bags on November 19, 2007, 03:46:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
great mailer obit by hitchens (http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2209681,00.html)

"This article has been removed as the copyright has expired."
:(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 19, 2007, 04:41:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Bags:

Quote
Originally posted by Hoya Paranoia:
great mailer obit by hitchens (http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2209681,00.html)
"This article has been removed as the copyright has expired."
:( [/b]

ici? (http://www.slate.com/id/2177819/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on November 20, 2007, 12:33:00 pm

Patricia Crane, Ex-Wife of Bob Crane, RIP (http://television.aol.com/news/story/_a/hogans-heroes-actress-valdis-dies/20071120065509990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on November 26, 2007, 01:30:00 pm

There are rumors/reports that Kevin DuBrow of Quiet Riot fame was found dead in Vegas this weekend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on November 26, 2007, 01:31:00 pm

I want to know what circles you travel in such that people are spreading Kevin Dubrow rumors.

Quote

Originally posted by Relaxer:
There are rumors/reports that Kevin DuBrow of Quiet Riot fame was found dead in Vegas this weekend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bags on November 26, 2007, 01:43:00 pm

Monday, November 26, 2007

QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali has confirmed the passing of the group's singer, Kevin DuBrow, at the age of 52. In an e-mail to The Metal Circus, which had requested a comment from Banali on the rumors of DuBrow's death, the drummer wrote, "Please respect my privacy as I mourn the passing and honor the memory of my dearest friend Kevin DuBrow."

Michael Politz of The Vegas Eye reported earlier today that DuBrow was found dead in his Las Vegas home on Sunday, November 25. According to Politz, DubRow â?? whom Politz calls "one of my closest friends" â?? recently celebrated his 52nd birthday in New Orleans "where he ate great food and even caught THE CULT at The House of Blues

Although the band has yet to issue an official statement on the matter, bassist Kelly Garni, who was one of the founding members of QUIET RIOT, has posted the following message on the Randy Rhoads (late QUIET RIOT/OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist) web site RandyRhoads.tk:

"I ask this to all of you not only for myself but for other friends and family. I ask that no one here offer any speculation or opinions, theories or other things that could be construed as negative or, and I'm sorry for this, even sympathetic, right at this immediate time. I am already within hours of this having to deal with untrue rumors and speculation and that only adds fuel to that. There is a tendency for the subject of Kevin to incite flames on every board and now is not the time for that. I will explain to everyone here the facts and the truth in the next 24 to 48 hours as I realize this will effect us all. So please, until then, be patient. All details and other pertinate info will be passed on to you here when it becomes available to me. Thank you."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on November 26, 2007, 01:52:00 pm

And Layne Stayley is still dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on November 26, 2007, 01:54:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
I want to know what circles you travel in such that people are spreading Kevin Dubrow rumors.

Quote
Originally posted by Relaxer:
There are rumors/reports that Kevin DuBrow of Quiet Riot fame was found dead in Vegas this weekend.
[/b]

Dude, it's a global market for information these days.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 26, 2007, 04:43:00 pm

Kevin Dubrow, lead singer of Quiet Riot (http://www.tmz.com/2007/11/26/quiet-riot-singer-found-dead-in-his-vegas-home/) From TMZ.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on November 26, 2007, 04:46:00 pm

Thanks for that one. Has anybody mentioned Robert Goulet yet?

Quote

Originally posted by Shemp:
Kevin Dubrow, lead singer of Quiet Riot (http://www.tmz.com/2007/11/26/quiet-riot-singer-found-dead-in-his-vegas-home/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 26, 2007, 04:47:00 pm

Sorry. RIF in the RIP thread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on November 26, 2007, 05:22:00 pm

Quiet Riot's version of "Cum on Feel the Noize" pisses all over Oasis's version. Plus Kevin Dubrow had better hair than the Gallaghers. He will be missed. Especially where I come from. Land of Pennsylvania Rednecks/Heshers.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 27, 2007, 06:38:00 pm

Robert Cade, Gatorade Inventor (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Obit-Cade.html?ex=1353819600&en=e6c818d788f324ae&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 27, 2007, 07:42:00 pm

Hall of Fame jockey Bill Hartack. (http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=horse/news/BJN4114744.htm) Guess how he went.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 27, 2007, 08:35:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Jaguar:
Pulitzer-winning author Mailer dies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071110/ap_on_en_ot/obit_mailer)

Dead author wins bad sex award (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/11/27/mailer.sex.ap/index.html)

anyone know what book this is from?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 28, 2007, 12:55:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by sweetcell:

Quote
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Pulitzer-winning author Mailer dies (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071110/ap_on_en_ot/obit_mailer)
Dead author wins bad sex award (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/11/27/mailer.sex.ap/index.html)

anyone know what book this is from? [/b]

Caetle in the Forest

It would be considered a horrible book if not for the fact that it was written by Mailer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on November 30, 2007, 02:16:00 pm

Writer Who Sued Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown has died! (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20071130/D8T832QO0.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on November 30, 2007, 05:20:00 pm

the motorcycle god himself, evil k.

"stand back jesus, i'm jumping the gates of zion."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on November 30, 2007, 05:43:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by walkonby:
the motorcycle god himself, evil k.

"stand back jesus, i'm jumping the gates of zion."

"Now let me start by saying... Good for you son!
It's always good to see young people taking an interest in danger.
Now a lot of people are going to be telling you you're crazy,
and maybe they're right. But the fact of the matter is:
Bones heal. Chicks dig scars. And the United States of America
has the best doctor-to-daredevil ratio in the world!"
-- Captain Lance Murdoch,

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 04, 2007, 07:46:00 pm

Poker Legend David "Chip" Reese (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/news/story?id=3141655)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 04, 2007, 07:52:00 pm

UGK rapper Pimp C was found dead this morning (Dec. 4) in his room at the Mondrian Hotel on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip. He was 33. Police found the rapper,
whose real name was Chad Butler, dead in his bed after responding to a 911 call.

UGK's publicist at Jive Records confirmed Pimp C's death to Billboard.com and said a statement will be issued soon.

In August, UGK released "Underground Kingz," its first studio album in five years. The set, which spawned the popular single "Intl' Players Anthem" featuring
OutKast, debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200, a first for the group.

UGK, which also features rapper Bun B, was derailed in 2002 when Pimp C was sentenced to eight years in prison on an assault charge. He was released on
Dec. 30, 2005, at which point he quickly began working on new music.

His 2006 solo album, "Pimpalation" reached No. 3 on The Billboard 200. But it was understood that his stint in jail affected the artist's mental and physical
health dramatically, to the point where he was unable to promote "Underground Kingz" in a meaningful way.

Pimp C had performed in Los Angeles Saturday night with labelmate Too Short.

:(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on December 07, 2007, 03:43:00 pm

Karlheinz Stockhausen (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/07/obit.stockhausen.ap/index.html)

On the CNN.com frontpage, the link is listed as "Avant-garde composer on 'Pepper' cover dies."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 07, 2007, 04:14:00 pm

Major loss. :(

Quote

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Karlheinz Stockhausen (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/07/obit.stockhausen.ap/index.html)

On the CNN.com frontpage, the link is listed as "Avant-garde composer on 'Pepper' cover dies."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 07, 2007, 04:16:00 pm

You think they'll send us home early?

Quote

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
Major loss. :(

Quote
Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Karlheinz Stockhausen (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/07/obit.stockhausen.ap/index.html)

On the CNN.com frontpage, the link is listed as "Avant-garde composer on 'Pepper' cover dies."
[/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 07, 2007, 04:44:00 pm

They didn't when Pimp C's death was announced so I doubt it.

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
You think they'll send us home early?

Quote
Originally posted by azaghal1981:
Major loss. :(

Quote
Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Karlheinz Stockhausen (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/07/obit.stockhausen.ap/index.html)

On the CNN.com frontpage, the link is listed as "Avant-garde composer on 'Pepper' cover dies."
[/b]
[/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 11, 2007, 04:17:00 pm

Results are in - Kevin Dubrow - cocaine overdose (http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-12-10-dubrow-overdose_N.htm)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on December 11, 2007, 04:24:00 pm

after oprah, obama chances.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jm1 on December 12, 2007, 05:17:00 pm

Ike Turner...R.I.P.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 13, 2007, 05:54:00 pm

Lynette Knackstedt, Guitarist for Skankin Pickle (http://www.punknews.org/article/26928)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: distance on December 15, 2007, 08:57:00 pm

some dude involved in banging nancy kerrigan (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071215/ap_on_re_us/obit_griffith)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 16, 2007, 10:37:00 pm

Dan Fogelberg (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/16/obit.fogelberg.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sacriforce on December 17, 2007, 02:07:00 pm

damn. way too young.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 18, 2007, 12:38:00 am

Hawthorne Heights guitarist died from an overdose of antidepressants and some funky Polish version of Valium.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=596&sid=1311820 (http://www.wtop.com/?nid=596&sid=1311820)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on December 18, 2007, 07:24:00 am

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/343960_crocodile18.html (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/343960_crocodile18.html)

Seattle's Crocodile Cafe closes
By JOHN MARSHALL
P-I REPORTER

Crocodile Cafe, R.I.P.

Saturday night, the Belltown club was packed once again for sets by Robin Pecknold, J. Tillman and David Bazan, with the usual "Croc" good times under way and the bar doing brisk business. Nothing suggested that those in the crowd were witnesses to the venerable music venue's last waltz.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 24, 2007, 02:26:00 pm

December 24, 2007
Oscar Peterson, Jazz Pianist, Is Dead
By REUTERS
TORONTO (Reuters) - Oscar Peterson, who sat atop the world of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing, technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, died Sunday of kidney failure, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported. He was 82.

One of jazz's most recorded musicians, both as leader and accompanist, Peterson came from working class beginnings in Montreal -- where his father let him pursue music only if he promised to be "the best" -- to become a major influence on generations of top-flight musicians.

Since blasting onto the world stage with a famous appearance at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1949, the beefy high school dropout amassed armfuls of honorary degrees and awards, including a 1997 Grammy for Lifetime Achievement and an International Jazz Hall of Fame Award.

Canada made him a Companion of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor, as well as the first living Canadian to be depicted on a stamp. (Reporting by Jeffrey Jones)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on December 25, 2007, 10:39:00 am

Hollywood and Broadway Choreographer Michael Kidd (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20071225/D8TODNC00.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on December 27, 2007, 09:56:00 am

Benazir Bhutto (http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/pakistan.sharif/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 28, 2007, 08:14:00 pm

Orpheus Records.

Lost their lease. Sale starts on Tuesday January 2, 2008 (30% off all used vinyl).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Barcelona on January 10, 2008, 07:15:00 pm

Edmund Hillary (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7182376.stm)

<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/TenzingonSummit.jpg" alt=" - " />

Tenzing Norgay achieves the summit of Mt. Everest, May 29, 1953. Photograph taken by Edmund Hillary.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on January 11, 2008, 02:20:00 pm

Former Ice Skating Champion Christopher Bowman (http://sports.aol.com/story/_a/skating-champion-bowman-found-dead/20080111013209990001)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 15, 2008, 10:46:00 am

Maila Nurmi, whose "Vampira" TV persona pioneered the spooky-yet-sexy Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner's officials said. She was 85. link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080115/ap_en_ce/obit_nurmi).

<img src="http://www.zombiereportingcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/vampira.JPG" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on January 15, 2008, 12:37:00 pm

Who do you think will get posted on this thread first...

Britney Spears or Amy Winehouse?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on January 15, 2008, 12:39:00 pm

They both look pretty dour these days, but Winehouse really seems to have taken to the smack. Britney is the imminent trainwreck, but I think Winehouse is the keg of gunpowder with the fuse lit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 15, 2008, 01:28:00 pm

dunno. i think britney has a less serious habit (prescription amphetamines and laxitives aren't as bad as coke and heroin) and is surrounded by more people/care-takers who can intervene. on the other hand, winehouse has proven herself to be a survivor. i didn't think she'd last this long, maybe she's indestructable. i'll give a slight edge to amy going down first, if only because the only person there to help her is in even worse shape than she is.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on January 15, 2008, 09:46:00 pm

Actor Brad Renfro, Dead at 25 (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080116/D8U6LSAO0.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: miss pretentious on January 15, 2008, 10:25:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by RonniStar:
Actor Brad Renfro, Dead at 25 (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080116/D8U6LSAO0.html)

omfg. i had the biggest crush on him...like 12 year ago, when he was in 'the client.' crazy crazy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thirsty moore on January 16, 2008, 01:19:00 am

RONALD REAGAN!!!!

Nevermind.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on January 17, 2008, 12:04:00 pm

Wham-O Co-Founder Richard Knerr Dies at 82 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011700175.html?hpid=moreheadlines)

Tags: Frisbee, Slip-n-Slide, Hula Hoop, Superball, Silly String

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on January 18, 2008, 07:54:00 am

Bobby Fischer (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_re_eu/obit_fischer)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on January 18, 2008, 01:06:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Jaguar:
Bobby Fischer (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_re_eu/obit_fischer)

Dies at age 64. 64 squares on a chessboard. Makes you think.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 18, 2008, 01:32:00 pm

Back in high school, I was on the school newspaper. One time, this guy from Sports Illustrated - William Nack - came in to talk to our class (he had two smokin' hot daughters who went to my school). He told this story about trying to find and interview Bobby Fischer. It took him several months to track Fischer down and, when he finally did, and when he was standing just a few feet away from Fischer, Nack realized that Fischer had gone to a hell of a lot of lengths to not be found. So Nack just turned around and walked away; without getting the interview he had spent months working on. I always loved that story.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on January 18, 2008, 02:02:00 pm

Two questions,

When was chess ever a 'sport'?

Why am I not surprised you were a geek involved with a high school newspaper?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on January 18, 2008, 02:33:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Mobius:

Quote
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Bobby Fischer (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_re_eu/obit_fischer)
Dies at age 64. 64 squares on a chessboard. Makes you think. [/b]

32 pieces...he's fucking lucky if you ask me..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on January 18, 2008, 07:05:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Brain Walrus:

Quote
Originally posted by Mobius:

Quote
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Bobby Fischer (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_re_eu/obit_fischer)
Dies at age 64. 64 squares on a chessboard. Makes you think. [/b]
32 pieces...he's fucking lucky if you ask me.. [/b]

He died on 1/18/08. 1* 1 * 8 * 8 = 64.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on January 18, 2008, 07:21:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Mobius:

Quote
Originally posted by Brain Walrus:

Quote
Originally posted by Mobius:

Quote
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Bobby Fischer (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_re_eu/obit_fischer)
Dies at age 64. 64 squares on a chessboard. Makes you think. [/b]
32 pieces...he's fucking lucky if you ask me.. [/b]
He died on 1/18/08. 1* 1 * 8 * 8 = 64. [/b]

BOLLOCKS!!

He died in Europe so it's 18/1/08

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on January 19, 2008, 10:39:00 am

That changes everything!!!!

1 * 8 * 1 * 8 = 64

Thanks for the clarification, Mankie ;)

Quote

Originally posted by Brain Walrus:
He died on 1/18/08. 1* 1 * 8 * 8 = 64.

BOLLOCKS!!

He died in Europe so it's 18/1/08 [/QB][/QUOTE]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on January 19, 2008, 11:46:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by nkotb:
That changes everything!!!!

1 * 8 * 1 * 8 = 64

Thanks for the clarification, Mankie ;)

Quote
Originally posted by Brain Walrus:
He died on 1/18/08. 1* 1 * 8 * 8 = 64.
BOLLOCKS!!

He died in Europe so it's 18/1/08 [/b]

[/QB][/QUOTE]

1 * 8 * 1 * 0 * 8 = 0

:p

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on January 19, 2008, 12:09:00 pm

Georgia Frontiere; Owner Moved Los Angeles Rams to St. Louis (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/18/AR2008011803445.html)

No, I don't care either but at least this thread is back on topic :mad:

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jm1 on January 19, 2008, 12:28:00 pm

...Sam the Butcher

Sam the Butcher to the Deep Freeze
Actor Allan Melvin, best known to "Brady Bunch" fans as Sam the Butcher, boyfriend of Alice -- has gone to the big meat market in the sky.

Melvin died in Los Angeles on Thursday at age 84. His starred in old school hits like "The Phil Silvers Show" and "All in the Family" -- but will best be remembered as Ann B. Davis's meat makin' hottie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 20, 2008, 03:08:00 am

'Newhart' Actress Suzanne Pleshette Dead At 70
LOS ANGELES (CBS) Â¯ Suzanne Pleshette, the beautiful, husky-voiced film and theater star best known for her role as Bob Newhart's sardonic wife on television's
long-running "The Bob Newhart Show," has died, said her attorney Robert Finkelstein. She was 70.

Pleshette, who underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006, died of respiratory failure Saturday evening at her Los Angeles home, said Finkelstein, who
is also a family friend.

"The Bob Newhart Show," a hit throughout its six-year run, starred comedian Newhart as a Chicago psychiatrist surrounded by eccentric patients. Pleshette
provided the voice of reason.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on January 20, 2008, 10:10:00 am

John Stewart of the Kingston Trio Fame and Writer of the Monkees' Daydream Believer (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080120/D8U9I8C00.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 21, 2008, 05:29:00 pm

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Originally posted by RonniStar:
John Stewart of the Kingston Trio Fame and Writer of the Monkees' Daydream Believer (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080120/D8U9I8C00.html)

I just saw that - I'm totally bummed. One of my all-time favorites - to me he's one of those artists from your childhood that you carry with you forever. My folks used to play John Stewart cassette tapes when we were driving the motorhome across the country every summer. I believe, even today, he ranks 28 on my last.fm chart.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 22, 2008, 05:52:00 pm

Heath Ledger (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22788914/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: miss pretentious on January 22, 2008, 05:54:00 pm

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Originally posted by vansmack:
Heath Ledger (http://www.msnbc.com)

DAMN. beat me to it.
NY Times (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/actor-heath-ledger-is-found-dead/index.html?hp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 22, 2008, 06:18:00 pm

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Originally posted by miss pretentious:

Quote
Originally posted by vansmack:
Heath Ledger (http://www.msnbc.com)
DAMN. beat me to it.
NY Times (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/actor-heath-ledger-is-found-dead/index.html?hp) [/b]

Biggie
Tupac
Heath

always in 3s

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: you be betty on January 22, 2008, 06:40:00 pm

this is so, so horrible and sad. he was a really great actor. i feel so awful for his kid.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on January 27, 2008, 05:26:00 pm

Suharto, Former Indonesian Dictator (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/world/asia/28suharto.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin)

Ding dong

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on January 27, 2008, 07:36:00 pm

I'm stunned No mention this:
Marlon brando's Troubled Son, Christian Brando (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080127/D8UE4TJ00.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on January 28, 2008, 01:06:00 pm

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Originally posted by RonniStar:
I'm stunned No mention this:
Marlon brando's Troubled Son, Christian Brando (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080127/D8UE4TJ00.html)

Maybe nobody gave a toss...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 31, 2008, 12:21:00 am

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on January 31, 2008, 12:40:00 am

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Originally posted by azaghal1981:

NDE?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 31, 2008, 09:59:00 am

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Originally posted by azaghal1981:

... did the person came back from the dead? :eek:

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 31, 2008, 11:31:00 am

You can say that.

Let's just say I need to make sure someone's dead via a legitimate source with a link in hand before posting another report.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 01, 2008, 06:18:00 pm

Montgomery County Council member Marilyn Praisner (http://www.foxbaltimore.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.md/3e82513c-www.foxbaltimore.com.shtml)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: TheREALHunter on February 04, 2008, 02:42:00 pm

From dischord.com:

Sean Finnegan (of Void) Passes Away At 43
2.4.08
We are sad to announce that Sean Finnegan, the drummer from Void and an original member of the Dischord family, passed away on Wednesday January 30th of an apparent heart attack, he was 43. Sean's family will receive friends Monday 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. at HARRY H. WITZKE'S FAMILY FUNERAL HOME, INC., 4112 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City, Maryland. Sean played in Void while they we're active from 1980-1983 and was recently working on the set of the HBO production, "The Wire". An obituary and guest book can be found in the Baltimore Sun. Our thoughts and best wishes go out to Sean's many friends and family members.

In lieu of flowers Sean's family ask that donations may be made to the Fisher House, Walter Reed Hospital , Washington, D.C.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on February 05, 2008, 08:36:00 pm

Om
number 9 number 9 number 9
Om
number 9 number 9 number 9
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080205/ap_on_re_eu/obit_maharishi_mahesh_yogi (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080205/ap_on_re_eu/obit_maharishi_mahesh_yogi)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on February 06, 2008, 12:59:00 pm

Barry Morse, actor from the 1960's crime drama "The Fugitive" (http://television.aol.com/news/story/_a/fugitive-actor-barry-morse-dies/20080205135509990003)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on February 11, 2008, 12:14:00 am

Roy Scheider (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/10/obit.scheider.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on February 11, 2008, 12:31:00 am

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Originally posted by bearman:
Roy Scheider (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/10/obit.scheider.ap/index.html)

I just heard about this story right now. He not only starred in Jaws, but Blue Thunder and the series Seaquest DSV

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 11, 2008, 11:48:00 am

My Congressman, Representative Tom Lantos, Dead at 80 (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Obit-Lantos.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on February 11, 2008, 11:58:00 am

There's old Ronnistar, constantly on the celebrity deathwatch. Don't you hate it when one of us beats you to the punch?

Quote

Originally posted by RonniStar:

Quote
Originally posted by bearman:
Roy Scheider (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/10/obit.scheider.ap/index.html)
I just heard about this story right now. He not only starred in Jaws, but Blue Thunder and the series Seaquest DSV [/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 13, 2008, 11:21:00 am

Henri Salvador, who brought rock music to France, dies at 90 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080213/ap_en_ot/obit_salvador)
(*Headline used on Yahoo's homepage.)

At the risk of sounding like my boy Brian Walalce, there's something odd about pairing 'brought rock music to' and 'at 90'.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on February 16, 2008, 01:37:00 pm

Area Man Honored To Be One Who Added Death Date To Heath Ledger's Wikipedia Page (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/area_man_honored_to_be_one_who)

<img src="http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Area-Man-R.article_1.jpg" alt=" - " />
Yardley [RonniStar?] and the computer with which he helped make history.

February 16, 2008 | Issue 44â?¢07

CEDAR RAPIDS, IAâ??Blake Yardley, 34, told reporters Monday that he felt extremely humbled to have been the individual who, amidst the chaos and sadness of actor Heath Ledger's recent untimely passing, had the foresight and due reverence to add the death date to the star's Wikipedia page.

Saying that he is not looking for credit or public acclaim, the Wikipedia editor and Best Value Windows employee called his addition of "â?? 22 January 2008)" to Ledger's online encyclopedia biography a distinct privilege, and something he will cherish for the rest of his life.

"To have my name even associated with Heath Ledger's is a triumph in and of itself," Yardley said at a press conference held at his Cedar Rapids apartment. "But to be the one who was actually responsible for inserting that fateful month, day, and year, and to have essentially closed the parentheses on Mr. Ledger's life, fills me with a tremendous sense of humility, pride, and accomplishment."

"I just want to thank Heath Ledger's family and friends for giving me the opportunity," Yardley added. "I'm sure they knew of his passing well before I did."

According to Yardley, upon reading the news of Ledger's death on CNN.com, his first thoughts were for Ledger's parents, baby daughter, and Michelle Williams, the actor's former fiancÃ©e, . His next thought, for Ledger's Wikipedia page, came immediately, Yardley explained. So immediately, in fact, that, according to a list of IP addresses found in the entry's editing history, Yardley added the date into the free, user-generated online encyclopedia just three minutes after Ledger's death was first reported.

"When I saw that the only thing following Mr. Ledger's name was '4 April 1979,' I knew it was my responsibility as a citizen and a member of the online community to do something," Yardley said. "Somebody had to click on the page's edit function, and, using the correct font and syntax, bring the acclaimed actor's life to the solemn close it rightfully deserved."

Yardley said he had never met Ledger, but just weeks before his death watched A Knight's Tale on TBS and enjoyed it very much.

Knowing that Ledger's Wikipedia page would be read by hundreds of millions of people, Yardley frantically wrote and rewrote the 15-character entry multiple times, repeatedly clicking on the "show preview" option to make sure the spacing was perfect.

"I couldn't decide whether to write January as 'Jan.' or 'January,'" Yardley said. "I ended up spelling out the month because I thought it was the respectful thing to do. That's also how whoever added the day of Anna Nicole Smith's death did it."

However, only moments after clicking on the "Save page" button, Yardley realized he had neglected to change the word following the closing parenthesis from "is" to "was." But when he attempted to make the correction, Yardley told reporters, he was "deeply saddened" to find that somebody, between the time he added the death date and the time the page went live, had already altered that portion of Ledger's biography.

"I was shocked when I saw that," said Yardley, adding that he took a personal moment to grieve the lost opportunity. "But I guess that's how unpredictable life can be sometimes. One second you're on top of the world as the author of a crucial Wikipedia entry, and the next second it's all gone. Poof."

Said Yardley: "If I could go back and change anything about that fateful day, that would surely be it."

Though Yardley is proud of all his contributions to the user-moderated encyclopedia, he noted that this recent triumph brought with it a greater level of fame than any of his previous Wikipedia updates, which include the number of attendees at a 2006 Dave Matthews concert and the name of Bruce Willis's dog.

"I don't want this to turn into some type of media spectacle," Yardley said. "I just want to continue doing what I do, far from the national spotlight, without worrying about who's keeping track."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on February 19, 2008, 04:25:00 pm

NO DEPRESSION MAGAZINE
TO CEASE PUBLISHING
AFTER MAY-JUNE ISSUE

SEATTLE, WA - No Depression, the bimonthly magazine covering a broad range of American roots music since 1995, will bring to an end its print publication with its 75th issue in May-June 2008.

Plans to expand the publicationâ??s website (www.nodepression.net) with additional content will move forward, though it will in no way replace the print edition.

No Depression published its first issue in September 1995 (with Son Volt on the cover) and continued quarterly for its first year, switching to bimonthly in September 1996. ND received an Utne Magazine Award for Arts & Literature Coverage in 2001 and has been nominated for the award on several other occasions (including in 2007). The Chicago Tribune ranked No Depression #20 in its 2004 list of the nationâ??s Top 50 magazines of any kind.

Artists who have appeared on the cover of No Depression over the years include Johnny Cash (2002), Wilco (1996), Willie Nelson (2004), Ryan Adamsâ?? seminal band Whiskeytown (1997), the Drive-By Truckers (2003), Ralph Stanley (1998), Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint (2006), Gillian Welch (2001), Lyle Lovett (2003), Porter Wagoner (2007), and Alejandro Escovedo (1998, as Artist of the Decade).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on February 21, 2008, 11:06:00 am

Jim Jones, ex-guitarist of Pere Ubu (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/48837-pere-ubu-guitarist-jim-jones-rip)

Boy does this bum me out...I met Jim a couple of times and he was just the nicest guy. He signed a couple of posters for me once and was very chatty, very sincere.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on February 26, 2008, 06:06:00 pm

How have I not been beaten to this one yet?

Joe Gibbs (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/48925-joe-gibbs-legendary-reggae-producer-rip)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 26, 2008, 06:15:00 pm

Omar Little (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Little#Season_5) - requiescat in pace

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on February 26, 2008, 06:19:00 pm

Most depressing TV death ever. :(

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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Omar Little (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Little#Season_5) - requiescat in pace

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Here's the thing on February 26, 2008, 09:31:00 pm

NOOOO! I haven't watched it yet!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 27, 2008, 01:03:00 pm

February 27, 2008
William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead at 82

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

William F. Buckley Jr., who marshaled polysyllabic exuberance, famously arched eyebrows and a refined, perspicacious mind to elevate conservatism to the center of American political discourse, died Wednesday at his home in Stamford, Conn.

Mr Buckley, 82, suffered from diabetes and emphysema, his son Christopher said, although the exact cause of death was not immediately known. He was found at his desk in the study of his home, his son said. â??He might have been working on a column,â? Mr. Buckley said.

Mr. Buckleyâ??s winningly capricious personality, replete with ten-dollar words and a darting tongue writers loved to compare with an anteaterâ??s, hosted one of televisionâ??s longest-running programs, â??Firing Line,â? and founded and shepherded the influential conservative magazine, National Review.

He also found time to write more than 45 books, ranging from sailing odysseys to spy novels to celebrations of his own dashing daily life, and edit five more.

The more than 4.5 million words of his 5,600 biweekly newspaper columns, â??On the Right,â? would fill 45 more medium-sized books.

Mr. Buckleyâ??s greatest achievement was making conservatism â?? not just electoral Republicanism, but conservatism as a system of ideas â?? respectable in liberal post-World War II America. He mobilized the young enthusiasts who helped nominate Barry Goldwater in 1964, and saw his dreams fulfilled when Reagan and the Bushes captured the Oval Office.

To Mr. Buckleyâ??s enormous delight, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., the historian, termed him â??the scourge of liberalism.â?

In remarks at National Reviewâ??s 30th anniversary in 1985, President Reagan joked that he picked up his first issue of the magazine in a plain brown wrapper and still anxiously awaited his biweekly edition â?? â??without the wrapper.â?

â??You didnâ??t just part the Red Sea â?? you rolled it back, dried it up and left exposed, for all the world to see, the naked desert that is statism,â? Mr. Reagan said.

â??And then, as if that werenâ??t enough,â? the president continued, â??you gave the world something different, something in its weariness it desperately needed, the sound of laughter and the sight of the rich, green uplands of freedom.â?

The liberal advance had begun with the New Deal, and so accelerated in the next generation that Lionel Trilling, one of Americaâ??s leading intellectuals, wrote in 1950: â??In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition. For it is the plain fact that there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation.â?

Mr. Buckley declared war on this liberal order, beginning with his blistering assault on Yale as a traitorous den of atheistic collectivism immediately after his graduation (with honors) from the university.

â??All great biblical stories begin with Genesis,â? George Will wrote in the National Review in 1980. â??And before there was Ronald Reagan, there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry Goldwater there was National Review, and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind, and the spark in 1980 has become a conflagration.â?

Mr. Buckley weaved the tapestry of what became the new American conservatism from libertarian writers like Max Eastman, free market economists like Milton Friedman, traditionalist scholars like Russell Kirk and anti-Communist writers like Whittaker Chambers. But the persuasiveness of his argument hinged not on these perhaps arcane sources, but on his own tightly argued case for a conservatism based on the national interest and a higher morality.

His most receptive audience became young conservatives first energized by Barry Goldwaterâ??s emergence at the Republican convention in 1960 as the right-wing alternative to Nixon. Some met in Sept., 1960, at Mr. Buckleyâ??s Connecticut estate to form Young Americans for Freedom. Their numbers â?? and influence â?? grew.

Nicholas Lemann observed in Washington Monthly in 1988 that during the Reagan administration â??the 5,000 middle-level officials, journalists and policy intellectuals that it takes to run a governmentâ? were â??deeply influenced by Buckleyâ??s example.â? He suggested that neither moderate Washington insiders nor â??Ed Meese-style provincial conservativesâ? could have pulled off the Reagan tax cut and other reforms.

Speaking of the true believers, Mr. Lemann continued, â??Some of these people had been personally groomed by Buckley, and most of the rest saw him as a role model.â?

Mr. Buckley rose to prominence with a generation of talented writers fascinated by political themes, names like Mailer, Capote, Vidal, Styron and Baldwin. Like the others, he attracted controversy like a magnet. Even conservatives â?? from members of the John Birch Society to disciples of conservative author Ayn Rand to George Wallace to moderate Republicans â?? frequently pounced on him.

Many of varied political stripes came to see his life as something of an art form â?? from racing through city streets on a motorcycle to a quixotic campaign for mayor of New York in 1965 to startling opinions like favoring the decriminalization of marijuana. He was often described as liberalsâ?? favorite conservative, particularly after suavely hosting an adaptation of Evelyn Waughâ??s â??Brideshead Revisitedâ? on public television in 1982.

Norman Mailer may indeed have dismissed Mr. Buckley as a â??second-rate intellect incapable of entertaining two serious thoughts in a row,â? but he could not help admiring his stage presence.

â??No other act can project simultaneous hints that he is in the act of playing Commodore of the Yacht Club, Joseph Goebbels, Robert Mitchum, Maverick, Savonarola, the nice prep school kid next door, and the snows of yesteryear,â? Mr. Mailer said in an interview with Harpers in 1967.

Mr. Buckleyâ??s vocabulary, sparkling with phrases from distant eras and described in newspaper and magazine profiles as sesquipedalian (characterized by the use of long words) became the stuff of legend. Less kind commentators called him â??pleonasticâ? (use of more words than necessary).

And, inescapably, there was that aurora of pure mischief. In 1985, David Remnick, writing in The Washington Post, said, â??He has the eyes of a child who has just displayed a horrid use for the microwave oven and the family cat.â?

William Francis Buckley Jr., was born in Manhattan on Nov. 24, 1925, the sixth of the 10 children of Aloise Steiner Buckley and William Frank Buckley Jr. (According to "William F. Buckley, Jr., Patron Saint of the Conservatives," a biography written by John B. Judis, Mr. Buckley's sister Patricia said he was christened Francis instead of Frank because there was no saint named Frank. Later, in â??Whoâ??s Whoâ? entries and elsewhere, he used Frank.)

The elder Mr. Buckley made a fortune in the oil fields of Mexico, and educated his children with personal tutors at Great Elm, the family estate in Sharon, Conn. They also attended exclusive Roman Catholic schools in England and France.

Young William absorbed his familyâ??s conservatism along with its deep Catholicism. At 6, he wrote the King of England demanding he repay his countryâ??s war debt. At 14, he followed his brothers to the Millbrook School, a preparatory school 15 miles across the New York state line from Sharon.

In his spare time at Millbrook, young Bill typed schoolmatesâ?? papers for them, charging $1 a paper, with a 25-cent surcharge for correcting the grammar.

He did not neglect politics, showing up uninvited to a faculty meeting to complain about a teacher abridging his right to free speech and ardently opposing United Statesâ?? involvement in World War II. His father wrote him to suggest he â??learn to be more moderate in the expression of your views.â?

He graduated from Millbrook in 1943, then spent a half a year at the University of Mexico studying Spanish, which had been his first language. He served in the Army from 1944 to 1946, and managed to make second lieutenant after first putting colleagues off with his mannerisms.

â??I think the army experience did something to Bill,â? his sister, Patricia, told Mr. Judis. â??He got to understand people more.â?

Mr. Buckley then entered Yale where he studied political science, economics and history; established himself as a fearsome debater; was elected chairman of the Yale Daily News, and joined Skull and Bones, the most prestigious secret society.

As a senior, he was given the honor of delivering the speech for Yaleâ??s Alumni Day celebration, but was replaced after the universityâ??s administration objected to his strong attacks on the university. He responded by writing his critique in the book that brought him to national attention, in part because he gave the publisher, Regnery, $10,000 to advertise it.

Published in 1951, â??God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of â??Academic Freedom,â??â? charged the powers at Yale with having an atheistic and collectivist bent and called for the firing of faculty members who advocated values not in accord with those that the institution should be upholding â?? which was to say, his own.

Among the avalanche of negative reviews, the one in Atlantic by McGeorge Bundy, a Yale graduate, was conspicuous. He found the book â??dishonest in its use of facts, false in its theory, and a discredit to its author.â?

But Peter Viereck, writing in The New York Times Sunday Book Review viewed the book as â??a necessary counterbalance.â?

After a year in the Central Intelligence Agency in Mexico City (his case officer was E. Howard Hunt, who went on to win celebrity for his part in the Watergate break-in), Mr. Buckley went to work for the American Mercury magazine, but resigned after spotting anti-Semitic tendencies in the magazine.

Over the next few years, Mr. Buckley worked as a freelance writer and lecturer, and wrote a second book with L. Brent Bozell, his brother-in-law. Published in 1954, â??McCarthy and His Enemiesâ? was a sturdy defense of the senator from Wisconsin who was then in the throes of his campaign against communists, liberals and the Democratic Party.

In 1955, Mr. Buckley started National Review as voice for â??the disciples of truth, who defend the organic moral orderâ? with a $100,000 gift from his father. The first issue, which came out in November, claimed the publication â??stands athwart history yelling Stop.â?

It proved it by lining up squarely behind Southern segregationists, saying blacks should be denied the vote. After some conservatives objected, Mr. Buckley suggested instead that both uneducated whites and blacks should not be allowed to vote.

Mr. Buckley did not accord automatic support to Republicans, starting with Eisenhowerâ??s campaign for re-election in 1956. National Reviewâ??s tepid endorsement: â??We prefer Ike.â?

Circulation increased from 16,000 in 1957 to 125,000 at the time of Goldwaterâ??s candidacy in 1964, and leveled off to around 100,000 in 1980. It is now 155,000. The magazine has always had to be subsidized by readersâ?? donations.

Along with offering a forum to big-gun conservatives like Russell Kirk, James Burnham and Robert Nisbet, National Review cultivated the career of several younger writers, including Garry Wills, Joan Didion and John Leonard, who would shake off the conservative attachment and go their leftward ways.

National Review also helped define the conservative movement by isolating cranks from Mr. Buckleyâ??s chosen mainstream.

â??Bill was responsible or rejecting the John Birch Society and the other kooks who passed off anti-Semitism or some such as conservatism,â? Hugh Kenner, a biographer of Ezra Pound and a frequent contributor to National Review told The Washington Post. â??Without Bill â?? if he had decided to become an academic or a businessman or something else â?? without him, there probably would be no respectable conservative movement in this country.â?

Mr. Buckleyâ??s personal visibility was magnified by his â??Firing Lineâ? program which ran from 1966 to 1999. First carried on WOR-TV and then on the Public Broadcasting Service, it became the longest running show hosted by a single host â?? beating out Johnny Carson by three years. He led the conservative team in 1,504 debates on topics like â??Resolved: The womenâ??s movement has been disastrous.â?

There were exchanges on foreign policy with the likes of Norman Thomas; feminism with Germaine Greer and race relations with James Baldwin. Not a few viewers thought Mr. Buckleyâ??s toothy grin before he scored a point resembled nothing so much as a switchblade.

To New York City politician Mark Green, he purred, â??Youâ??ve been on the show close to 100 times over the years. Tell me, Mark, have you learned anything yet.â?

But Harold Macmillan, former prime minister of Britain, flummoxed the master. â??Isnâ??t this show over yet?â? he asked.

At age 50, Mr. Buckley added two pursuits to his repertoire â?? he took up the harpsichord and became novelist. Some 10 of the novels are spy tales starring Blackford Oakes, who fights for the American way and bedded the Queen of England in the first book.

Others of his books included a historical novel with Elvis Presley as a significant character, another starring Fidel Castro, a reasoned critique of anti-Semitism, and journals that more than succeeded dramatizing a life of taste and wealth â?? his own. For example, in â??Cruising Speed: A Documentary,â? published in 1971, he discussed the kind of meals he liked to eat.

â??Rawle could give us anything, beginning with lobster Newburgh and ending with Baked Alaska,â? he wrote. â??We settle on a fish chowder, of which he is surely the supreme practitioner, and cheese and bacon sandwiches, grilled, with a most prickly Riesling picked up at St. Barts for peanuts,â? he wrote.

Mr. Buckleyâ??s spirit of fun was apparent in his 1965 campaign for mayor of New York on the ticket of the Conservative Party. When asked what he would do if he won, he answered, â??Demand a recount.â? He got 13.4 percent of the vote.

For Murray Kempton, one of his many friends on the left, the Buckley press conference style called up â??an Edwardian resident commissioner reading aloud the 39 articles of the Anglican establishment to a conscript of assembled Zulus.â?

Unlike his brother James who served as a United States senator from New York, Mr. Buckley generally avoided official government posts. He did serve from 1969 to 1972 as a presidential appointee to the National Advisory Commission on Information, and as a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations in 1973.

The merits of the argument aside, Mr. Buckley irrevocably proved that his brand of candor did not lend itself to public life when an Op-Ed article he wrote for The New York Times offered a partial cure for the AIDS epidemic: â??Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm to prevent common needle users, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimization of homosexuals,â? he wrote.

In his last years, as honors like the Presidential Medal of Freedom came his way, Mr. Buckley gradually loosened his grip on his intellectual empire. In 1998, he ended his frenetic schedule of public speeches (some 70 a year over 40 years, he once estimated). In 1999, he stopped â??Firing Line,â? and in 2004, he relinquished his voting stock in National Review. He wrote his last spy novel the 11th in his series), sold his sailboat and stopped playing the harpsichord publicly.

But he began a new historical novel and kept up his columns, including one on the â??bewitching powerâ? of â??The Sopranosâ? television series. He commanded wide attention by criticizing the Iraq war as a failure.

On April 15, 2007, his wife, the former Patricia Alden Austin Taylor, who had carved out a formidable reputation as a socialite and philanthropist but considered her role as a homemaker, mother and wife most important, died. Mr. and Mrs. Buckley called each other â??Ducky.â?

He is survived by his son, Christopher, of Washington, D.C.; his sisters Priscilla L. Buckley, of Sharon, Conn., Patricia Buckley Bozell, of Washington, D.C., and Carol Buckley, of Columbia, S.C.; his brothers James L., of Sharon, and F. Reid, of Camden, S.C., a granddaughter and a grandson

In the end it was Mr. Buckleyâ??s graceful, often self-deprecating wit that endeared him to others. In his spy novel â??Whoâ??s on First,â? he described the possible impact of his National Review through his character Boris Bolgin.

â?? â??Do you ever read the National Review, Jozsef?â?? asks Boris Bolgin, the chief of KGB counter intelligence for Western Europe, â??it is edited by this young bourgeois fanatic.â?? â?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 27, 2008, 02:12:00 pm

TLDR

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on February 27, 2008, 03:55:00 pm

sorry stillerz fans

Myron Cope (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080227/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_obit_cope;_ylt=AlLfp2j88Eun0E7jhoLyD40LMxIF)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on February 27, 2008, 04:05:00 pm

Buddy Miles passes away
2/27/2008 1:01 PM
By: News 8 Austin Staff

Buddy Miles, 60, died Tuesday night in Austin with his family at his side.

He was the drummer and co-founder of the legendary Band of Gypsys with Jimi Hendrix. Miles worked with some of the biggest names in music, including Stevie Wonder, Barry White, David Bowie and George Clinton.

Miles recorded and produced the California Raisins commercials.

A tribute show will be announced shortly and all are welcome to attend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on February 28, 2008, 03:23:00 pm

Boyd Coddington, star of Discovery Series American Hot Rod (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080228/D8V336F80.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on February 28, 2008, 07:26:00 pm

Dave Clark Five lead singer Mike Smith dead
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080228/ten-uk-smith-3334b85.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080228/ten-uk-smith-3334b85.html)

I bet his family are in bits and pieces over it!!
;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 03, 2008, 01:05:00 am

Jeff Healy (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/03/02/guitarist-jeff-healy-dies-at-41.aspx)

On a positive note, we can probably look forward to some memorial showings of Road House on TNT or USA.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 03, 2008, 10:05:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Jeff Healy (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/03/02/guitarist-jeff-healy-dies-at-41.aspx)

first post in a while in this thread that has made me sad :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on March 03, 2008, 02:41:00 pm

Porn baron Paul Raymond dies
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080303/ten-entertainment-britain-pornography-me-a56114e.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080303/ten-entertainment-britain-pornography-me-a56114e.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on March 03, 2008, 06:22:00 pm

Italian tenor Di Stefano dies aged 86
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080303/ten-uk-italy-tenor-d3877cb.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080303/ten-uk-italy-tenor-d3877cb.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: miss pretentious on March 03, 2008, 06:57:00 pm

It baffles me that three months into the year - with 12 people and total of 44 picks in our celebrity detah pool .. NOT ONE PERSON has died on our list. NOT ONE. ugh.

I want my eleven 6-packs of beer plz.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on March 04, 2008, 03:33:00 pm

Gary Gygax, Dungeons & Dragons creator, dies (http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/04/obit.gygax.ap/index.html)

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.

He had been suffering from health problems for several years, including an abdominal aneurysm, said his wife, Gail Gygax.

Gygax and Dave Arneson developed Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 using medieval characters and mythical creatures. The game known for its oddly shaped dice became a hit, particularly among teenage boys, and eventually was turned into video games, books and movies.

cont.

I was in one of the earliest graduating classes of techies at Eleanor Roosevelt High (1982). Lotsa classmates played D&D but it never appealed to me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 04, 2008, 03:48:00 pm

<img src="http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/fox_home_entertainment/futurama___monster_robot_maniac_fun_collection/_group_photos/billy_west2.jpg" alt=" - " />

Al Gore: To my left, you'll recognize Gary Gygax, inventor of Dungeons & Dragons.

Gary Gygax: Greetings, it's a...[rolls dice]... pleasure to meet you!

Quote

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
Gary Gygax, Dungeons & Dragons creator, dies (http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/04/obit.gygax.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on March 17, 2008, 02:28:00 pm

Abba drummer dies in apparent accident ...
David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel yet to comment. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/17/abba.drummer/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 18, 2008, 09:43:00 am

Anthony Minghella

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Breaking-Film-director-Anthony-Minghella.3889444.jp (http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Breaking-Film-director-Anthony-Minghella.3889444.jp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on March 18, 2008, 06:15:00 pm

Arthur C. Clarke (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3579120.ece)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on March 18, 2008, 06:20:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
Arthur C. Clarke (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3579120.ece)

Ooh, do you think we'll get re-runs of the tv show he used to present?

The something something world of Arthur C. Clarke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Darth Ed on March 19, 2008, 02:09:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
Arthur C. Clarke (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3579120.ece)

Fascinating YouTube video, recorded this past December, of Clarke reflecting on the occasion of his 90th "orbit around the sun":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLXQ7rNgWwg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLXQ7rNgWwg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on March 24, 2008, 11:09:00 am

Cuban Bassist/Composer and Mambo Pioneer Israel Lopez (http://music.aol.com/news/story/_a/mambo-pioneer-israel-cachao-lopez-dies/20080322160209990001)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 24, 2008, 11:11:00 am

Corrinne Bailey Rae's husband (would have bet on Amy Winehouse's husband passing first)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 24, 2008, 12:06:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Corrinne Bailey Rae's husband (would have bet on Amy Winehouse's husband passing first)

i love the headline on pollstar:

Corinne Bailey Rae's Musician Husband Found Dead
Monday, Mar 24, 2008 7:11AM
The husband of Grammy-nominated British singer Corinne Bailey Rae has been found dead. >> more
Tags: Corinne Bailey Rae

talk about not having any pull of your own... even in death.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 24, 2008, 12:38:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by RonniStar:
Cuban Bassist/Composer and Mambo Pioneer Israel Lopez (http://music.aol.com/news/story/_a/mambo-pioneer-israel-cachao-lopez-dies/20080322160209990001)

Bummer. I met "Cachao" a couple years ago. Really nice guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on March 24, 2008, 01:03:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Corrinne Bailey Rae's husband (would have bet on Amy Winehouse's husband passing first)

Not really...he's in the pokey at the moment isn't he?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on March 24, 2008, 01:06:00 pm

Beatles music empire supremo dies

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080324/ten-beatles-music-empire-supremo-dies-5f8abb3.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080324/ten-beatles-music-empire-supremo-dies-5f8abb3.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 02, 2008, 04:14:00 pm

Klaus Dinger :(

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/49691-neukraftwerk-drummer-klaus-dinger-rip (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/49691-neukraftwerk-drummer-klaus-dinger-rip)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on April 02, 2008, 10:15:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
Klaus Dinger :(

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/49691-neukraftwerk-drummer-klaus-dinger-rip (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/49691-neukraftwerk-drummer-klaus-dinger-rip)

Yep, a real shame. I like that they linked a couple of cool vids with the article.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on April 04, 2008, 12:46:00 pm

Wayne Frost, aka breakdancing pioneer Frosty Freeze (http://news.aol.com/entertainment/music/music-news-story/ar/_a/breakdance-pioneer-frosty-freeze-dies/20080404070509990001)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on April 04, 2008, 12:57:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by RonniStar:
Wayne Frost, aka breakdancing pioneer Frosty Freeze (http://news.aol.com/entertainment/music/music-news-story/ar/_a/breakdance-pioneer-frosty-freeze-dies/20080404070509990001)

oh no, that sucks, he was like, pretty much a badass.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on April 06, 2008, 12:17:00 am

Charlton Heston RIP!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_en_mo/obit_heston (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_en_mo/obit_heston)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on April 06, 2008, 08:12:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by RatBastard:
Charlton Heston RIP!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_en_mo/obit_heston (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_en_mo/obit_heston)

Has someone been dispatched to pry all the guns from his cold, dead hands?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on April 06, 2008, 10:52:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by chaz:

Quote
Originally posted by RatBastard:
Charlton Heston RIP!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_en_mo/obit_heston (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_en_mo/obit_heston)
Has someone been dispatched to pry all the guns from his cold, dead hands? [/b]

now all the columbine victims can kick his ass to hell.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on April 06, 2008, 11:10:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by walkonby:
now all the columbine victims can kick his ass to hell.

Why would ALL the Columbine victims be in hell? Seems suspect that all 15 would be there.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on April 06, 2008, 02:48:00 pm

i said that they could kick "his" ass "to" hell. where on earth did you draw a line to thinking the victims were there as well to begin with?

it was a simple reference to the nra rally held by charlie after the tragedy in colorado, instead of canceling it. sheesh.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 06, 2008, 03:08:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by chaz:
Has someone been dispatched to pry all the guns from his cold, dead hands?

I'm on it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 06, 2008, 03:34:00 pm

Wow, the last time I saw him was at an in-store apearance at a Bass Pro Shop near Charlotte maybe six years ago. If I had known I'd never run into him again, I would have stopped and chatted.

Quote

Originally posted by RatBastard:
Charlton Heston RIP!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_en_mo/obit_heston (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_en_mo/obit_heston)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on April 06, 2008, 03:37:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by walkonby:
i said that they could kick "his" ass "to" hell. where on earth did you draw a line to thinking the victims were there as well to begin with?

Oh, my apologies, I misread your quote. I understood what you were referencing, the guy was human scum.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cash is King on April 06, 2008, 07:50:00 pm

Heston = Great American.
Or, at the very least, a great actor who believed in protecting the Constitutional freedoms of everybody(he marched with MLK in the pre-Civil Rights days).

You can't possibly think otherwise. Unless of course you think that Cuba has a better health care system then America :roll:

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: xneverwherex on April 14, 2008, 05:17:00 pm

Breakdancing Legend Dies
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:18:16

'Frosty Freeze' was 44
Wayne "Frosty Freeze" Frost, a member of the legendary Rock Steady Crew, has died. He was 44.

Frost was famous for his performance in the 1983 movie "Flashdance," a series of deft dance moves that helped set off the breakdancing craze at the height of hip-hop's golden years. He also appeared in such seminal hip-hop films as Wild Style, Beat Street and Style Wars, and the cover of The Village Voice in 1981.

"He was one of the most charismatic b-boys that ever lived," Benson Lee, director of the documentary Planet B-Boy, told the Associated Press.

Frost died on Thursday at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center after a battle with an unspecified long-term illness. Funeral arrangements are also unknown at this time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 14, 2008, 07:41:00 pm

Wow, he died twice in one week.

Quote

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
Breakdancing Legend Dies
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:18:16

'Frosty Freeze' was 44
Wayne "Frosty Freeze" Frost, a member of the legendary Rock Steady Crew, has died. He was 44.

Frost was famous for his performance in the 1983 movie "Flashdance," a series of deft dance moves that helped set off the breakdancing craze at the height of hip-hop's golden years. He also appeared in such seminal hip-hop films as Wild Style, Beat Street and Style Wars, and the cover of The Village Voice in 1981.

"He was one of the most charismatic b-boys that ever lived," Benson Lee, director of the documentary Planet B-Boy, told the Associated Press.

Frost died on Thursday at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center after a battle with an unspecified long-term illness. Funeral arrangements are also unknown at this time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on April 15, 2008, 12:20:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Wow, he died twice in one week.

Quote
Originally posted by xneverwherex:
Breakdancing Legend Dies
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:18:16

'Frosty Freeze' was 44
Wayne "Frosty Freeze" Frost, a member of the legendary Rock Steady Crew, has died. He was 44.

Frost was famous for his performance in the 1983 movie "Flashdance," a series of deft dance moves that helped set off the breakdancing craze at the height of hip-hop's golden years. He also appeared in such seminal hip-hop films as Wild Style, Beat Street and Style Wars, and the cover of The Village Voice in 1981.

"He was one of the most charismatic b-boys that ever lived," Benson Lee, director of the documentary Planet B-Boy, told the Associated Press.

Frost died on Thursday at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center after a battle with an unspecified long-term illness. Funeral arrangements are also unknown at this time.
[/b]

Cryogenics

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: xneverwherex on April 15, 2008, 11:18:00 am

sorry - just saw planet b boy and it was on my mind but i obviously didnt scroll up enough. aside for the fact im somehow a week off in my head with what day it is. guess it means my mortgage payment is due :(

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Wow, he died twice in one week.

Quote
Originally posted by xneverwherex:
Breakdancing Legend Dies
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:18:16

'Frosty Freeze' was 44
Wayne "Frosty Freeze" Frost, a member of the legendary Rock Steady Crew, has died. He was 44.

Frost was famous for his performance in the 1983 movie "Flashdance," a series of deft dance moves that helped set off the breakdancing craze at the height of hip-hop's golden years. He also appeared in such seminal hip-hop films as Wild Style, Beat Street and Style Wars, and the cover of The Village Voice in 1981.

"He was one of the most charismatic b-boys that ever lived," Benson Lee, director of the documentary Planet B-Boy, told the Associated Press.

Frost died on Thursday at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center after a battle with an unspecified long-term illness. Funeral arrangements are also unknown at this time.
[/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on April 18, 2008, 09:01:00 am

E Street Band's Danny Federici dies (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/17/obit.federici.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on April 23, 2008, 10:24:00 am

Two more: singers Al Wilson (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/23/obit.wilson.ap/index.html)
and Paul Davis (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/23/obit.davis.ap/index.html).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jm1 on April 24, 2008, 12:02:00 pm

Kenneth Kieth Kallenbach
R.I.P.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bags on April 24, 2008, 05:32:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by jm1:
Kenneth Kieth Kallenbach
R.I.P.

ohmigod. Man, Kenneth Keith Kallenbach. Old whack packers -- where do they go (before they die).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on April 29, 2008, 09:00:00 pm

I may be tripping or something but I heard that Albert Hofmann died this morning at the age of 102. Can't factually confirm this yet though. Walkonby knows who he is.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 29, 2008, 09:08:00 pm

I read this on a blog or two but none of them cited credible sources.

Quote

Originally posted by Jaguar:
I may be tripping or something but I heard that Albert Hofmann died this morning at the age of 102. Can't factually confirm this yet though. Walkonby knows who he is.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on April 29, 2008, 09:57:00 pm

Same here which is why I wanted to qualify my statement.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on April 29, 2008, 09:59:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Jaguar:
I may be tripping or something but I heard that Albert Hofmann died this morning at the age of 102. Can't factually confirm this yet though. Walkonby knows who he is.

I misread this at first and thought we were talking about Abbie Hoffman and was like, "He's been dead for close to 2 decades... right?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Dr. Anton Phibes on April 29, 2008, 10:55:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Jaguar:
I may be tripping or something but I heard that Albert Hofmann died this morning at the age of 102. Can't factually confirm this yet though. Walkonby knows who he is.

You were right! He certainly "opened some doors" for the good Doctor Phibes over many years...

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-hofmann30apr30,0,5466127.story (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-hofmann30apr30,0,5466127.story)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sacriforce on April 30, 2008, 01:08:00 am

"Albert Hoffman" is the most googled search term today according to current tv

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on April 30, 2008, 12:41:00 pm

Indeed he has passsed on to the next level...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_re_eu/obit_hofmann (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_re_eu/obit_hofmann)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 30, 2008, 12:46:00 pm

Brings a whole new meaning to the thread title...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: miss pretentious on May 01, 2008, 01:19:00 pm

Guess I should have figured she'd be on suicide watch for my Death Pool.
The DC Madam .. FTW (http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=6440244&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.3.1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 13, 2008, 02:56:00 pm

Robert Rauschenberg

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/design/14rauschenberg.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/design/14rauschenberg.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Aphex on May 13, 2008, 02:59:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Robert Rauschenberg

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/design/14rauschenberg.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/design/14rauschenberg.html)

Man that sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on May 14, 2008, 09:15:00 am

Gospel Singer Joyce "Dottie" Rambo, RIP (http://www.livedaily.com/blog/2002.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on May 16, 2008, 04:26:00 pm

Robert Mondavi (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/16/financial/f131238D60.DTL&tsp=1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on May 26, 2008, 07:23:00 am

J.R. Simplot, potato and computer chip king! (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080526/D90T0K3G1.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on May 26, 2008, 09:02:00 am

Dick Martin (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080526/ap_en_ot/obit_martin;_ylt=Ak7XIfTOaFT0nPhpXJxhkalxFb8C)

:(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 27, 2008, 01:13:00 am

Sydney Pollack, Award-Winning Movie Director, Dies (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=amc5CA0NKZi0&refer=home)

May 26 (Bloomberg) -- Sydney Pollack, the actor, producer and Academy Award-winning director of ``Tootsie'' and ``Out of Africa,'' who used love stories, politics and humor to explore loss and human frailty, has died. He was 73.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on May 27, 2008, 10:13:00 am

<img src="http://www.b12partners.net/mt/Religious_Man.png" alt=" - " /> (http://www.b12partners.net/mt/archives/2007/07/the-nietzsche-family-circus.html)

Thelma Keane (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/05/26/obit.thelmakeane.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch), Bil Keane's wife and inspiration for the Mommy character of The Family Circus.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 29, 2008, 04:54:00 pm

Canucks defenseman Bourdon killed in a motorcycle crash

SHIPPAGAN, N.B. -- Luc Bourdon, a promising rookie defenseman with the Vancouver Canucks, was killed Thursday in a motorcycle crash near his hometown. He was 21.

Bourdon's sister, Eve Bourdon, confirmed the death but declined further comment when reached at the family's home in Shippagan.

"Luc was a winner; he was a competitor," said Kent Hughes, his agent. "There was no quit in him. He persevered through a lot. He was a great guy and a great teammate."

Police in Shippagan wouldn't confirm the identity of the victim but said a motorcyclist was killed in the early afternoon on a road between Shippagan and Lemeque. A report said Bourdon lost control of his motorcycle before hitting a tractor-trailer.

Bourdon was the first-round draft pick of the Canucks in 2005, selected 10th overall. He split time this season with the Canucks and the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League. In 27 games with the Canucks, he scored twice and had no assists.

He was a member of the Canadian team that won the gold medal at the 2007 world junior hockey championship in Vancouver and made the tournament's all-star team. He helped Canada win another gold at the 2007 tournament in Sweden.

link (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/hockey/nhl/specials/playoffs/2008/05/29/bn.nhl.bourdon.killed.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on May 30, 2008, 08:59:00 am

Harvey Korman (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080530/ap_en_mo/obit_korman;_ylt=Akl3Aewmfq8megzkaFdUoANxFb8C)

:(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 01, 2008, 09:49:00 pm

Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080602/ap_on_re_eu/obit_yves_saint_laurent)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on June 02, 2008, 11:29:00 am

Artist Alton Kelley (http://www.answers.com/topic/alton-kelley?cat=entertainment)

more (http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=19029)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on June 02, 2008, 12:17:00 pm

Bo Diddley (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24933262/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on June 02, 2008, 01:41:00 pm

Who's going to replace him at V-Fest?

Quote

Originally posted by eros:
Bo Diddley (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24933262/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on June 02, 2008, 09:04:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Who's going to replace him at V-Fest?

Quote
Originally posted by eros:
Bo Diddley (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24933262/)
[/b]

Diddley squat.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on June 02, 2008, 10:45:00 pm

Pringles can designer dies, ashes buried in own invention (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080602/ap_on_re_us/pringles_burial)

I'd sure love to see the face of the person who opens the wrong can expecting a snack! :eek:

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: BookerT on June 13, 2008, 03:29:00 pm

tim russert

sunday mornings won't be the same...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: manimtired on June 13, 2008, 03:34:00 pm

i loved meet the press...bumbed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on June 13, 2008, 03:44:00 pm

Whoa no way.

That's sudden.

Quote

Originally posted by BookerT:
tim russert

sunday mornings won't be the same...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 13, 2008, 03:50:00 pm

Damn. Not two hours ago I was telling smackette how great it was that there was going to be a real debate on his show this weekend between Lindsay Graham and Joe Biden. The "real" election was about to get started...

Major bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on June 13, 2008, 04:01:00 pm

i'm waiting for john mcnothing to blame this on obama. roll them ads out now. where are the swift boats?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on June 13, 2008, 04:33:00 pm

Wow, a bad day for NBC.

Charlie Jones (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/obituaries/20080614-9999-bn13jones.html)

Tom Brokaw had better be looking over his shoulder.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on June 13, 2008, 11:01:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by BookerT:
tim russert

sunday mornings won't be the same...

Very sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on June 14, 2008, 06:24:00 pm

russert's death has hit me harder than any of the celebrity deaths of recent years ... i feel like i grew up with the guy ... the 1-hr dateline retrospective (been replayed on msnbc) was really good

i've read good obituaries about the man, but this might be the best "story" about his death
Tiny Town: Washington After A Fall (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/weekinreview/15leibovich.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: heather on June 15, 2008, 11:31:00 am

eee. meet the press. thunder road. sad :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jm1 on June 16, 2008, 04:43:00 pm

Effects guru Stan Winston dies of cancer at 62

LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood special-effects maestro Stan Winston has died at age 62.

Winston won visual effects Oscars for 1986's "Aliens, "1992's "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and 1993's "Jurassic Park."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on June 16, 2008, 04:44:00 pm

Wow...that's a total buzzkill.

Quote

Originally posted by jm1:
Effects guru Stan Winston dies of cancer at 62

LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood special-effects maestro Stan Winston has died at age 62.

Winston won visual effects Oscars for 1986's "Aliens, "1992's "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and 1993's "Jurassic Park."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on June 23, 2008, 01:26:00 am

Wow! Thought he'd live forever!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25322638/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25322638/)

RIP George

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_carlin.html (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_carlin.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on June 23, 2008, 01:36:00 am

Now that one hurts. :( :( :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on June 23, 2008, 04:52:00 pm

She made it all the way to 93!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_en_tv/obit_dody_goodman (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_en_tv/obit_dody_goodman)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on June 23, 2008, 04:58:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by RatBastard:
She made it all the way to 93!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_en_tv/obit_dody_goodman (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_en_tv/obit_dody_goodman)

no offense at all to Dody Goodman, but this obit reminds me of the type they run on PBS's newshour ("our market research shows that you, our loyal viewer, are between the ages of 85 and 98, and that you'll therefore be saddened by today's tragic death of silent film legend Obadiah Chesterfield")

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: serpent boy on July 02, 2008, 10:55:00 pm

This sucks. I loved "Nenada" from the Desert Sessions, and Natasha added a lot to the QOTSA Lullabies era.

---

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003824001 (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003824001)
http://www.natashashneider.org (http://www.natashashneider.org)

Eleven's Natasha Shneider Dies Of Cancer
July 02, 2008 , 9:05 PM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

Eleven vocalist Natasha Shneider died today (July 2) of cancer. The age of artist, who was born in Moscow, is unknown.

Shneider, her husband Alain Johannes and Jack Irons formed Eleven in 1990 following the latter's departure from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The rock group released five albums, the best known of which was a 1993 self-titled affair for Hollywood Records.

"Reach Out," the single from the set, became Eleven's only track to dent the Billboard charts, reaching No. 40 on the Mainstream Rock tally.

As the band's recorded output became more sporadic, Shneider and Johannes lent their songwriting and production talents to such projects as No Doubt's "Return of Saturn," Chris Cornell's "Euphoria Morning" and the Josh Homme-led "Desert Sessions." Of late, the pair had recorded and toured with Homme in Queens Of The Stone Age.

A PayPal fund has been set up to defray costs associated with Shneider's medical care.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on July 03, 2008, 07:07:00 pm

Bozo (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_en_tv/obit_harmon)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jm1 on July 04, 2008, 11:11:00 am

Jessie Helms and Bozo. Same damn thing, huh?

Conservative icon Jesse Helms dead at 86

Raleigh, N.C. â?? Jesse Helms, the firebrand U.S. senator whose outspoken, conservative views polarized North Carolina and U.S. voters for decades, died at 1:15 a.m. Friday in Raleigh, according to John Dodd, president of the Jesse Helms Center.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 04, 2008, 02:28:00 pm

Fuck it...I'll say it.

Happy 4th indeed!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on July 04, 2008, 05:03:00 pm

Holy crap...Natasha was SO freakin' talented. That is SO sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on July 04, 2008, 07:14:00 pm

Jesse Helms and some of his buddies:

<img src="http://www.displaysforschools.com/images/kkk2.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on July 12, 2008, 09:18:00 am

Wow, I finally got to post one of these!

Tony Snow has melted.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on July 12, 2008, 07:32:00 pm

Experimental Filmmaker Burce Conner (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/08/BAKA11L94C.DTL)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on July 12, 2008, 09:52:00 pm

Dualistic death day.

A douche bag that helped tell lies to support a bogus war and then Michael E. DeBakey who advanced humanity in countless ways including giving wounded soldier's the care they deserve.

Michael E. DeBakey, 99, the father of modern cardiovascular surgery, who invented scores of medical procedures and instruments, developed the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital and established what later became the Veterans Administration hospital system.

Over a 70-year medical career, Dr. DeBakey became one of the most influential and innovative heart surgeons in history. He changed the practice of cardiac surgery, performed the first successful heart bypass operaton and is credited with saving thousands of lives.

Fuck Tony Stone.

Glad to see Dr. DeBakey was able to have nice long life filled with invaluable contributions to society.

I like to think of it as Karmic Darwinism.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on July 12, 2008, 09:58:00 pm

Dude was a player too.

<img src="http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/07/12/PH2008071200275.jpg" alt=" - " />

Dr. Michael DeBakey, 69, Houston famed heart surgeon, poses with his wife Katrin, 34, for the first public photograph of their two month old daughter Olga Katrina, born on July, 29, 1977 in Houston.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on July 21, 2008, 02:13:00 pm

DJ K-Swift (http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/07/21/20322443.aspx)

<img src="http://www.clubqueenkswift.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/kswift2.jpg" alt=" - " />

Popular female DJ K-Swift died this morning (July 21) in a swimming pool accident in her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland AllHipHop.com has learned.

K-Swift, born Khia Edgerton, was just 28-years-old, at the time of her death, although she started DJâ??ing at the age of 11, due to the influence of other pioneering DJâ??s like Cocoa Channel and Jazzy Joyce.

K-Swift broke ground on Baltimoreâ??s Radio One station 92Q Jams, where she rose to Female Mix Show Coordinator and was the only female in the country to hold the title.

She was also a member of the Violator-All Star DJ Coalition, as well as a member of the all female squad the Murda Mamiâ??s.

"I'm at a loss for words right now,â? Murda Mami founder 1st Lady El told AllHipHop.com. â??K-Swift was not only one of my Murda Mami sisters, she was a great friend. She knocked down doors for women in this industry, so humble and hard working. Legendary in the club music scene and the number one DJ in Baltimore. She will be missed."

In addition to being the only female record pool director in Baltimore (Direct Drive Record Pool), K-Swift also owned Club Queen Entertainment, a graphics management and production company.

Details on her death will be released shortly.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on July 21, 2008, 02:21:00 pm

White men can't jump, Black men can't swim.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on July 22, 2008, 02:08:00 pm

True Story,
I used to watch Golden Girls almost religiously with my grandmother and my two gay (couple) uncles... I'd say I am mostly normal.
Estelle Getty
84
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080722/ap_on_en_tv/obit_getty (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080722/ap_on_en_tv/obit_getty)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on July 29, 2008, 09:47:00 pm

Bennigans (http://consumerist.com/5030457/bennigans-files-for-chapter-7-bankruptcy-closes-restaurants-nationwide)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 29, 2008, 10:12:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by slappy:
Bennigans (http://consumerist.com/5030457/bennigans-files-for-chapter-7-bankruptcy-closes-restaurants-nationwide)

Nearly got my first under age drinking arrest at the Bennigans in Anaheim.

So I'm flirting with the waitress as we're drinking beers and I failed to notice that a girl I used to date was also there with friends. She quietly told the manager that I wasn't 21 (total whore move!). Luckily, the waitress tipped me off and we left her a ton of money for the bill and split. As I was exiting the parking lot, I saw a cop pull up to the restaurant.

Also very luck for me, I decided to head straight home from there and put my jeep in the garage. An Anaheim PD parked his car down the street from my house and waited over an hour hoping that I might be coming home soon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on August 03, 2008, 08:27:00 pm

Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080803/ap_on_re_eu/obit_solzhenitsyn)

A man after my own true free spirit. He will be missed. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cash is King on August 03, 2008, 08:51:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Jaguar:
Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080803/ap_on_re_eu/obit_solzhenitsyn)

A man after my own true free spirit. He will be missed. :(

Very sad. This man was a hero, whose opinions were unique and refreshing when compared to all the sheep around him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 04, 2008, 01:49:00 pm

I wonder how many people under 21 realize what a stud he was.

Quote

Originally posted by Cash is King:

Quote
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080803/ap_on_re_eu/obit_solzhenitsyn)

A man after my own true free spirit. He will be missed. :(
Very sad. This man was a hero, whose opinions were unique and refreshing when compared to all the sheep around him. [/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 04, 2008, 01:53:00 pm

Gerard McDonnell (and 8-10 others) (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/ireland-mourns-its-latest-hero/index.html?hp)

August 4, 2008, 10:22 am
Ireland Mourns Its Latest Hero
By Mike Nizza

<img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/04/arts/gerard531.jpg" alt=" - " />
Gerard McDonnell, the first Irishman to climb K2. (Photo: patfalvey.com, via AFP â?? Getty Images)

â??Let luck and good fortune prevail !!! Fingers crossed.â?

Those words in a blog post began the last adventure of Gerard McDonnell, who would become one of nine victims of an avalanche at the most dangerous section of the most challenging mountain in the world.

Indeed, Mr. McDonnell, 37, hoped to embody a superlative all his own: Becoming the first Irishman to reach the top of K2, a goal that earned a round of headlines as he prepared to climb.

On Friday, he delivered. â??Irish adventurer tops the world,â? one Irish paper reported. â??Limerick native becomes first Irishman to scale K2â? said another.

The news was relayed by Pat Falvey, a well-known Irish explorer who was posting updates (http://www.patfalvey.com/viewnews.php?id=43) from the mountaineers themselves.

Friday began triumphantly when Maarten van Eck, who was running the expeditionâ??s Web site, sent Mr. Falvey a message. â??The are on the Summit!!,â? he wrote. â??Gerard just became the FIRST Irishman to become a K2-summiteer.â?

Still, there was caution, of course. â??The summit is only half way!â? Mr. Van Eck wrote before echoing Mr. McDonnell. â??Keep your fingers crossed.â?

The bad news began rushing in the following day. Just hours after his moment of triumph, Mr. McDonnell was believed to be stuck above the avalanche in dire circumstances. Hope was dwindling by the hour.

Mr. Falvey kept blogging about the expedition as it turned deadly. First, one climber was confirmed dead, and â??6 climbers were spotted motionless,â? probably including Mr. McDonnell. As his status remained â??unknown,â? a later update laid the heartrending situation bare, â??We still do not know were Gerard is.â?

Soon, Mr. Falvey, who had climbed Mount Everest with Mr. McDonnell, and the McDonnell family became convinced that all hope had been lost. The next blog post would be a message from the family mourning and celebrating Irelandâ??s latest hero:

The last few days have been a roller coaster of emotions as we celebrated with joy his historic achievement, and now must try to come to terms with the untimely loss of a great son, brother and friend.

[â?¦] He was a true and proud Irish man.
Indeed, the nationâ??s pride was acknowledged hours later by President Mary McAleese, who described the loss as â??truly heartbreaking.â?
In a column in The Irish Independent, Mr. Falvey assured Mr. McDonnellâ??s family and the nation that he â??died doing what he loved: touching the void.â?

â??There will be no-one else sent up to look for them now because the risks are just too great,â? he wrote. â??We accept, as Gerâ??s family do, that he will not be coming down from that mountain.â?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: earlx on August 04, 2008, 02:02:00 pm

Georgie James

web page (http://www.georgiejames.com/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 04, 2008, 02:13:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by earlx:
Georgie James

web page (http://www.georgiejames.com/)

I'm not exactly mourning this loss. I thought John Davis was a great drummer when he was in Q And Not U. Georgie James was pleasant enough, but I think he should get back to tickling the skins for another frenetic post-funk-disco-punk outfit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: earlx on August 04, 2008, 02:19:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

Quote
Originally posted by earlx:
Georgie James

web page (http://www.georgiejames.com/)
I'm not exactly mourning this loss. I thought John Davis was a great drummer when he was in Q And Not U. Georgie James was pleasant enough, but I think he should get back to tickling the skins for another frenetic post-funk-disco-punk outfit. [/b]

That seems unlikely in light of this:

http://www.myspace.com/titletracksdc (http:// [url=http://www.myspace.com/titletracksdc) ]web page[/URL]

I really liked Georgie James. I still find myself listening to "Places" at least once a week.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 04, 2008, 02:28:00 pm

Those demos are all right. Every Little Bit Hurt has a Jam-esque feel to it. It Was Easy sounds like the Byrds.

Quote

Originally posted by earlx:

web page (http://www.myspace.com/titletracksdc)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on August 09, 2008, 09:47:00 am

Actor/Comedian Bernie Mac (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080809/D92EPRCG0.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 09, 2008, 02:12:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by RonniStar:
Actor/Comedian Bernie Mac (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080809/D92EPRCG0.html)

Gay?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on August 10, 2008, 04:35:00 pm

This one hurts: Isaac Hayes (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/10/hayes.obit/index.html).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: manimtired on August 10, 2008, 04:37:00 pm

when a celeb dies do you people honestly rush to this board to post it? oh wow..first!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: 6949 on August 10, 2008, 05:27:00 pm

^ are you upset that beetsnotbeats beat you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on August 10, 2008, 06:04:00 pm

Dibs for manimtired when Ted Nugent croaks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on August 10, 2008, 07:04:00 pm

Bernie Mac, Isaac Hayes, and Samual L.Jackson all were in a new movie to be released November 14,2008.

i bet mr. jackson's sweating a bit right now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: mr. pretentious on August 11, 2008, 10:46:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
This one hurts: Isaac Hayes (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/10/hayes.obit/index.html).

Poor Isaac. He's singing with the thetans now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on August 11, 2008, 11:01:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by mr. pretentious:

Quote
Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
This one hurts: Isaac Hayes (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/10/hayes.obit/index.html).
Poor Isaac. He's singing with the thetans now. [/b]

Actually, seeing as his thetan was deposited off the coast of California yesterday, he's probably just washed ashore and is looking for a new body to inhabit, or something like that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on August 19, 2008, 10:58:00 pm

Dave Matthews Band saxophonist (http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/obit_leroi_moore)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on August 20, 2008, 09:53:00 am

My hopes that a live Bigfoot finding would finally convince my wife I should quit my job and become a cryptozoologist:

Bigfoot Claim a Fake (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/19/bigfoot.hoax/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on August 20, 2008, 10:45:00 am

http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=70278-qqqx=1.asp (http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=70278-qqqx=1.asp)

<img src="http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishexaminer/pages/RonnieDrewxxx.jpg" alt=" - " />

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on August 26, 2008, 03:33:00 pm

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/2008/08/26/20080826dre.html (http://www.azcentral.com/ent/celeb/articles/2008/08/26/20080826dre.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on August 27, 2008, 03:15:00 pm

Steve Foley, Replacements replacement drummer.
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003843194 (http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003843194)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on August 31, 2008, 11:54:00 pm

Shit this news is a few months old but just stumbled upon it online. Most people probably have no idea who this guy was, but Matt Odietus, guitar player for the Candy Snatchers dies at 40.

Had not seen him for a few years but was buddies with those guys when I lived in Richmond in the early 90's, and we've crossed paths from time to time over the years here and there. Great band if it's your thing.

Sad news.
RIP Matt (http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.Net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=99980)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 01, 2008, 01:30:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I wonder how many people under 21 realize what a stud he was.

Quote
Originally posted by Cash is King:

Quote
Originally posted by Jaguar:
Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080803/ap_on_re_eu/obit_solzhenitsyn)

A man after my own true free spirit. He will be missed. :(
Very sad. This man was a hero, whose opinions were unique and refreshing when compared to all the sheep around him. [/b]
[/b]

DAMN how in the living hell did I miss this? I really hope that he does not fade into oblivion in future generations. What an amazing human being this man was.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: miss pretentious on September 02, 2008, 12:01:00 pm

Don LaFontaine, the voiceover king whose "In a world ..." phrase on movie trailers was much copied -- and much parodied -- has died, according to media reports. He was 68.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/02/obit.lafontaine/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/02/obit.lafontaine/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jm1 on September 02, 2008, 02:15:00 pm

Jerry Reed...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/02/obit.reed.ap/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/02/obit.reed.ap/index.html)

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Jerry Reed, a singer who appeared in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movies, has died of complications from emphysema at age 71, his longtime booking agent said Tuesday.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on September 14, 2008, 08:39:00 am

Novelist David Foster Wallace found dead by Suicide.

That's a bummer. I tried a couple times to read Infinite Jest and could never get more than a few hundred pages into it. But his short stories were great.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on September 15, 2008, 01:17:00 pm

PINK FLOYD's Rick Wright

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091501216.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091501216.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Arthwys on September 15, 2008, 03:00:00 pm

Damn, didn't think to check this thread first...but really, the guy deserves his own thread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on September 15, 2008, 06:14:00 pm

Forgot to post this: Former UFC Champion Evan Tanner (http://www.fightlinker.com/?p=3107)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on September 16, 2008, 12:17:00 am

Bummer? Suicide is a selfish act.

Quote

Originally posted by Relaxer:
Novelist David Foster Wallace found dead by Suicide.

That's a bummer. I tried a couple times to read Infinite Jest and could never get more than a few hundred pages into it. But his short stories were great.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on September 16, 2008, 01:02:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
Bummer? Suicide is a selfish act.

Quote
Originally posted by Relaxer:
Novelist David Foster Wallace found dead by Suicide.

[/b]

Judging people who lose a battle with depression is a selfish act.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thatguy on September 16, 2008, 02:46:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
Bummer? Suicide is a selfish act.

not always. take a look at some of emile durkheim's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim) work, specifically his book Suicide.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on September 27, 2008, 11:00:00 am

<img src="http://www.prisonflicks.com/images/CHLLuke.jpg" alt=" - " />

What we have here is... a failure to continue living.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on September 27, 2008, 03:34:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Relaxer:
<img src="http://www.prisonflicks.com/images/CHLLuke.jpg" alt=" - " />

What we have here is... a failure to continue living.

This made me a little sad when i heard it this morning. Cool Hand Luke is one of my fave movies. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is another great one too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on September 27, 2008, 08:37:00 pm

The salad dressing guy made movies too?

Quote

Originally posted by chaz:

Quote
Originally posted by Relaxer:
<img src="http://www.prisonflicks.com/images/CHLLuke.jpg" alt=" - " />

What we have here is... a failure to continue living.
This made me a little sad when i heard it this morning. Cool Hand Luke is one of my fave movies. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is another great one too. [/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 07, 2008, 11:24:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Mobius:

Quote
Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
Bummer? Suicide is a selfish act.

Quote
Originally posted by Relaxer:
Novelist David Foster Wallace found dead by Suicide.

[/b]
Judging people who lose a battle with depression is a selfish act. [/b]

Experts ponder link between creativity, mood disorders (http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/10/07/creativity.depression/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 08, 2008, 01:18:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by sweetcell:
Experts ponder link between creativity, mood disorders (http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/10/07/creativity.depression/index.html)

Thanks for posting this link. I took a class about 12 years ago on this very subject with Kay Redfield Jamison while I was at Johns Hopkins. Very fascinating subject. She had all of these world class experts come in to lecture like Norman Rosenthal, the guy who coined the term 'seasonal affective disorder'. Since then, it has given me a whole new understanding of people. Also, seasonal issues beyond the obvious holiday blues kinds of depression and related stressors.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 17, 2008, 10:18:00 am

Lifted from another board:

"According to the Motown Alumni Association newsletter...

Levi Stubbs Former Lead Vocalist of the Four Tops Dead at 70

[The] most profound lead vocalist in American history, [Stubbs] died this morning at his Detroit home sources have confirmed. Stubbs, who suffered a series of strokes and other illnesses, had been sick for a number of years prior to today's news. It was most visible during the televised "50 year anniversary Celebration of the Four Tops" broadcast a few years ago."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on October 17, 2008, 10:27:00 am

I finally know who the hell Billy Bragg was singing about...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on October 17, 2008, 11:33:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
I finally know who the hell Billy Bragg was singing about...

Maybe the part about 'She takes off The Four Tops tape' shoulda clued you in.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on October 17, 2008, 11:39:00 am

Couldn't decipher that lyric, or any other from the song, for that matter.

Quote

Originally posted by Shemp:

Quote
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
I finally know who the hell Billy Bragg was singing about...
Maybe the part about 'She takes off The Four Tops tape' shoulda clued you in. [/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 20, 2008, 02:32:00 am

Mr. Blackwell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on October 20, 2008, 10:05:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by Jaguar:
Mr. Blackwell

Whatta bitch....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on October 20, 2008, 11:51:00 am

it would be awesome if all the women wore bjork's swan dress and all the men wore pink tuxedos to the funeral.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on October 20, 2008, 12:42:00 pm

Dionne Warwick's Sister Singer Dee Dee Warwick (http://www.popeater.com/music/article/dee-dee-warwick-dionnes-sister-dies/217481)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on October 20, 2008, 12:54:00 pm

Wow, board appearances from ggw and ronnistarr in the same week! Thank god for the Feelies and DeeDee Warwick.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on October 20, 2008, 12:58:00 pm

lol

The Feelies were alright when they opened for Sonic Youth on July 4th. Certainly not worth the trip to NJ.

Quote

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Wow, board appearances from ggw and ronnistarr in the same week! Thank god for the Feelies and DeeDee Warwick.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on October 21, 2008, 10:21:00 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/21/obit.moore.ap/index.html (http://Rudy Ray Moore)

RIP Dolemite :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 21, 2008, 11:12:00 pm

Quote

Originally posted by nkotb:
Rudy Ray Moore (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/21/obit.moore.ap/index.html)

RIP Dolemite :(

corrected.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on October 22, 2008, 09:11:00 am

Ha...thanks. That's what happens when you've overcome with grief.

Quote

Originally posted by sweetcell:

Quote
Originally posted by nkotb:
Rudy Ray Moore (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/21/obit.moore.ap/index.html)

RIP Dolemite :(
corrected. [/b]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on October 24, 2008, 02:33:00 pm

Merl Saunders (http://www.glidemagazine.com/hiddentrack/in-memorium-merl-saunders-1934-2008/)

Weâ??re extremely saddened to report that Merl Saunders passed away this morning at the age of 74 in San Francisco. Saundersâ?? B-3 playing broke new ground and has influenced many of the Hammond performers that have followed him. Heâ??s best known for his work with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, but he has also performed with with Harry Belafonte, Frank Sinatra, Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt and Paul Butterfield.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 28, 2008, 01:31:00 pm

Gerard Damiano, 'Deep Throat' director, dead at 80 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081028/ap_on_re_us/obit_damiano)

Sorry Rhett. I know you were a fan.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on October 28, 2008, 01:38:00 pm

I recall my mom telling me that my dad tried to take her to see it, but she insisted that they leave immediately.

Never seen it myself, as far as I can recall.

Was he someone you went to high school with? :p

Quote

Originally posted by Jaguar:
Gerard Damiano, 'Deep Throat' director, dead at 80 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081028/ap_on_re_us/obit_damiano)

Sorry Rhett. I know you were a fan.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 28, 2008, 01:55:00 pm

Rhett, believe me, you or your folks didn't miss a thing. As Dupek would say, it both sucked and blowed!

Only saw it unwittingly when someone I use to work for put it on the video while we were either setting up or closing a nightclub I use to work for. Actually, I was very surprised as to how bad it was for reasons other than the obvious. Then again, I paid very little attention to it as I really didn't care about it.

If you're up for porn, get something else. Anything has to be better than this crap.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 01, 2008, 11:14:00 am

Studs Terkel (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081101/ap_en_ce/obit_terkel;_ylt=ApPJk3BBybuaUt7VYSF5d_es0NUE)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 01, 2008, 11:17:00 pm

Oscar-winning producer of 'Platoon,' John Daly, dies at 71
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081102/ap_on_en_mo/obit_daly)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on November 02, 2008, 09:05:00 pm

Shakir Stewart
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081102/ap_on_en_mu/def_jam_executive (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081102/ap_on_en_mu/def_jam_executive)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: beetsnotbeats on November 03, 2008, 11:43:00 am

Yma Sumac (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/03/obit.sumac.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 03, 2008, 07:44:00 pm

Obama's Grandmother (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obama_grandmother)

This has got to be a weird week for the man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Sage 703 on November 05, 2008, 01:50:00 pm

Michael Crichton (http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/11/67369/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 12, 2008, 09:31:00 pm

Mitch Mitchell, drummer for Hendrix, found dead (http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/61861061)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eddie on November 13, 2008, 08:55:00 pm

Jimmy Carl Black
February 1, 1938 - November 1, 2008
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/11/jimmy-carl-black-1938-2008.html (http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2008/11/jimmy-carl-black-1938-2008.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thirsty moore on November 13, 2008, 10:12:00 pm

Is Neil Peart next?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 14, 2008, 11:15:00 am

Quote

Originally posted by econo:
Is Neil Peart next?

I was thinking Ginger Baker. He was always old. Also, much closer to the era of the other two.

Then again, Neil is no youngster anymore either.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on November 14, 2008, 11:24:00 am

Maybe Levon Helm. He's already had throat cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 14, 2008, 12:21:00 pm

Truly a sad moment. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081111/ap_on_fe_st/odd_ugly_dog_dies) :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 25, 2008, 05:13:00 pm

dunno if this is going to mean anything to anyone other than sonick:

Kenny MacLean, bassist for the 1980s Canadian new-wave group Platinum Blonde, was found dead in his Toronto apartment Nov. 24. (http://live.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2008/11/25/627843.aspx)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on November 30, 2008, 12:31:00 pm

Andrew McKelvey, the founder and former chief executive of Monster Worldwide Inc. (http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/bbdp/monster-founder-andrew-mckelvey-dies/262090)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: twangirl on December 12, 2008, 04:12:05 pm

Bettie Page

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 14, 2008, 02:21:01 pm

Quote from: twangirl on December 12, 2008, 04:12:05 pm

Bettie Page

Thank you, Bettie, for everything.

(http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20081205/293.page.bettie.lr.120508.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on December 21, 2008, 04:33:09 pm

dock ellis (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ellis21-2008dec21,0,3291785.story)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on December 25, 2008, 08:05:51 pm

Santa Baby's Eartha Kitt (http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/61935259)

Harold Pinter (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081225/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_obit_pinter)

...I think I'm next.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on December 26, 2008, 10:59:28 am

Johnny Cakes (http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b74986_sopranos_johnny_cakes_dead_of_apparent.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on December 29, 2008, 10:06:03 am

Delaney Bramlett
http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSTRE4BS07W20081229 (http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSTRE4BS07W20081229)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on December 29, 2008, 04:37:41 pm

Quote from: num yummy on December 29, 2008, 10:06:03 am

Delaney Bramlett
http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSTRE4BS07W20081229 (http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSTRE4BS07W20081229)

i like how in this article

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/29/delaney-bramlett-1939-2008/

the writer (in case you did not know bramlett) referenced "superstar" by the carpenters, covered by sonic youth, and that it appears on the juno soundtrack.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 29, 2008, 04:51:48 pm

Quote from: walkonby on December 29, 2008, 04:37:41 pm

i like how in this article

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/29/delaney-bramlett-1939-2008/

the writer (in case you did not know bramlett) referenced "superstar" by the carpenters, covered by sonic youth, and that it appears on the juno soundtrack.

Yeah, but apparently the writer didn't know that The Dream Syndicate recorded "Let It Rain" as a b-side so s/he is still unhip.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 07, 2009, 10:01:58 am

Listening to Jimmy Buffett can kill you:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/jan/05/man-dies-after-fight-over-jukebox-selection-steamb/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 07, 2009, 04:46:16 pm

Quote from: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 07, 2009, 10:01:58 am

Listening to Jimmy Buffett can kill you:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/jan/05/man-dies-after-fight-over-jukebox-selection-steamb/

ididn'tdoit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on January 13, 2009, 09:27:03 am

Andy DeMize of Nekromantix

http://psychobillydeluxe.com/?p=472 (http://psychobillydeluxe.com/?p=472)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 14, 2009, 05:28:29 pm

Ricardo Montalban (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g2qvwJqGvWhocLyY20dKS5R0gL_wD95N5AN00)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on January 28, 2009, 02:37:31 pm

the keyboardist for Skynyrd

You guys really haven't kept up well on this thread lately. Where's RonniStar?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 28, 2009, 02:58:29 pm

in attempts to keep charlie happy:

the rabbit is dead: john updike (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/27/books/AP-Obit-Updike.html?_r=1&hp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on January 29, 2009, 11:57:46 pm

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Master Helio Gracie (http://www.cagepotato.com/bjj-co-founder-helio-gracie-95-passes-away-rio)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bellenseb on January 30, 2009, 12:03:36 am

John Martyn (http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/01/29/solid-air-singer-songwriter-john-martyn-dead-at-60/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on February 04, 2009, 08:37:50 pm

Lux Interior (http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/cramps-lux-interior-rip/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 04, 2009, 09:21:03 pm

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on February 04, 2009, 08:37:50 pm

Lux Interior (http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/cramps-lux-interior-rip/)

Sad sad news. RIP Lux. I had some great times seeing the Cramps and listening to the Cramps over the years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: SPARX on February 04, 2009, 10:12:03 pm

Sad news indeed. I had at least a dozen of the best nights of my life seeing Lux and the band whip a crowd into a frenzy. He was one of the best frontmen I ever laid eyes on

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on February 05, 2009, 09:05:40 am

The Cramps were the first band I ever booked

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on February 05, 2009, 10:12:13 am

That's sad news, he was an incredible front man. I always wished the Cramps would've had a Love Shack type of hit, just to keep the income always rolling in. I must have played Psychedelic Jungle 500 times growing up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 05, 2009, 10:57:48 am

Psychedelic Jungle was great...."you better leave your mouth at home...."

I remember seeing the cover of Bad Music for Bad People in the mall record store before I ever got into punk rock and underground music. I thought it was so cool looking. Probably another year or so before I ever heard the Cramps and got into all that stuff, but just seeing that cover opened my eyes a little to the braver world that awaited me. I don't know why, but I just so vividly remember seeing that record jacket for the first time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: andyrichter on February 05, 2009, 11:10:49 am

Wow. Very sad news indeed. I feel very fortunate to have seen the Cramps, i think it was 03 or 04 at the 9:30 club. What a wild and great show. Lux was such an incredible showman. My thoughts go out to Ivy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 06, 2009, 01:15:13 pm

Buffalo Sringfield drummer Dewey Martin

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-dewey-martin6-2009feb06,0,6541056.story (http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-dewey-martin6-2009feb06,0,6541056.story)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 10, 2009, 01:56:57 am

Buena Vista Social Club bassist Lopez dead at 76 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_obit_cachaito_lopez)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on February 13, 2009, 12:25:55 pm

Ronettes Singer Estelle Bennett (http://www.spinner.com/2009/02/13/ronettes-star-estelle-ben-dies-at-67/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on February 13, 2009, 08:11:07 pm

music as we know it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29187440/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on February 13, 2009, 08:12:15 pm

michael jackson . . . . . almost . . . . .

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29186639/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on February 18, 2009, 04:28:08 pm

Touch and Go Records

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: xneverwherex on February 18, 2009, 04:30:03 pm

Virgin Records Times Square officially closes its doors tomorrow. Lots and lots of sales!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on February 18, 2009, 05:32:40 pm

Quote from: bearman on February 18, 2009, 04:28:08 pm

Touch and Go Records

thats horrible. just horrible. maybe the T&G bands can join the soon to be coming Ticketmaster/Live Nation record label!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 25, 2009, 10:35:49 pm

From Pylon's Facebook and MySpace pages:

This past Monday evening, Randy Bewley had a heart attack while driving his van on Barber Street in Athens, GA. He was taken to Athens Regional Medical Center. Today, our bandmate and brother passed away at a little before 5 p.m. with his family and friends at his side. He will be missed, even as we celebrate his life and creativity. His guitar sound was as special as he was and always will be. Randy's guitar work defined not only a generation of sound but Randy himself. His visual art, painting and photos, combined with his signature sound formed a loose set of boundaries that helps understand him. His quiet devotion to family and friends will become a benchmark for those he leaves behind.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 18, 2009, 08:51:04 pm

Natasha Richardson dies after fall on ski slope (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_natasha_richardson)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on March 19, 2009, 12:08:58 pm

Hip Hop Artist Commits Suicide In Front of Cops! News at 11 p.m. (http://www.theboombox.com/2009/03/18/dipset-rapper-commits-suicide-shoots-himself-during-police-show/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 19, 2009, 12:14:38 pm

When I clicked on your link, I thought it said:

Dipshit Rapper Commits Suicide

Quote from: RonniStar on March 19, 2009, 12:08:58 pm

Hip Hop Artist Commits Suicide In Front of Cops! News at 11 p.m. (http://www.theboombox.com/2009/03/18/dipset-rapper-commits-suicide-shoots-himself-during-police-show/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 26, 2009, 03:27:21 pm

Dan Seals, who was England Dan in the pop duo England Dan and John Ford Coley and later had a successful country career, has died of complications from cancer. (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dan-seals27-2009mar27,0,41514.story)

(fyi, charlie, he did play country)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on March 26, 2009, 03:33:06 pm

Yesterday was a tough day for guys named "Dan".

My friend's husband, also named Dan, died yesterday. He was 37, and a big fan of bluegrass.

Quote from: sweetcell on March 26, 2009, 03:27:21 pm

Dan Seals, who was England Dan in the pop duo England Dan and John Ford Coley and later had a successful country career, has died of complications from cancer. (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dan-seals27-2009mar27,0,41514.story)

(fyi, charlie, he did play country)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 26, 2009, 07:08:06 pm

Damn, just damn.

http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2009/03/25/656669.aspx

Rest in peace.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 27, 2009, 10:12:16 am

Blender (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/business/media/27blender.html?_r=1&ref=business)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 28, 2009, 12:11:06 pm

Alysheba (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hFdIwBdL6tZRxfIe78M47Sqi3C5QD97748BO0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Barcelona on March 31, 2009, 08:15:21 am

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/world/americas/30jagan.html?scp=1&sq=Janet%20Jagan&st=cse

Janet Jagan, Chicago Native Who Led Guyana, Dies at 88

Published: March 29, 2009

Janet Jagan, a daughter of a middle-class family from Chicago who became enmeshed in anticolonial politics in Guyana and rose to become the first woman to be president of that South American nation, died Saturday in Georgetown, the Guyanese capital. She was 88.

Mrs. Jagan died at a government hospital after suffering an abdominal aneurysm, Guyana?s health minister, Leslie Ramsammy, told Reuters.

Born Janet Rosenberg in 1920, she was a student nurse at Cook County Hospital in Chicago when she met Cheddi Jagan, a dentistry student at Northwestern University and the eldest of 11 children of an Indo-Guyanese family of sugar cane workers. His grandparents had arrived in British Guiana from India as indentured laborers.

They married, despite the fierce opposition of her parents, who were Jewish, and in 1943 they moved to British Guiana, where he established a dental practice and they both became involved in radical politics. In 1950, they founded the People?s Progressive Party, and in 1953, in elections under a new Constitution providing greater home rule, Dr. Jagan became chief minister. But the Jagans? Marxist ideas aroused the suspicions of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who sent warships and troops to topple the new government. The Jagans were jailed.

Even after the Jagans? release, colonial police watched their every move. ?I remember taking Cheddi Jr. to school one morning while a policeman was trailing me,? Mrs. Jagan once told The Stabroek News, a newspaper in Georgetown. ?When I bade him goodbye, walked up the street and looked back, I saw him looking through the school window, watching the policeman trailing me.?

A deepening racial rift between Afro-Guyanese, many of them descendants of African slaves, and Indo-Guyanese followed Churchill?s intervention. Dr. Jagan returned to power in 1957, and Mrs. Jagan became labor minister.

Again, their politics, along with their admiration for Fidel Castro?s revolution in Cuba, caused alarm in a foreign capital ? this time, Washington. According to long-classified documents, President John F. Kennedy ordered the Central Intelligence Agency in 1961 to destabilize the Jagan government. The C.I.A. covertly financed a campaign of labor unrest, false information and sabotage that led to race riots and, eventually, the ascension of Forbes Burnham, a black, London-educated lawyer and a leader of the People?s Progressive Party who had become a rival of the Jagans. He became president and prime minister in 1966.

After Guyana achieved independence that year, Mrs. Jagan remained active in public life as a member of Parliament and editor of the newspaper The Mirror. Mr. Burnham veered far to the left, nationalizing companies, banning imports including basic foods, and declaring Guyana a ?cooperative republic? in 1970.

By the end of Mr. Burnham?s rule, with his death in 1985, Guyana had become one of the Western Hemisphere?s poorest nations. In 1992, Dr. Jagan was elected president. During his time in office, Mrs. Jagan served briefly as ambassador to the United Nations.

After her husband died in 1997, she ran for president and won. At campaign rallies, her followers respectfully called her ?bhowji,? a Hindi term meaning ?elder brother?s wife.? But her government was plagued by street protests and tension with the opposition People?s National Congress.

After a mild heart attack in 1999, Mrs. Jagan stepped down, opening the way for her Moscow-educated finance minister, Bharrat Jagdeo, to become president, a position he still holds. This weekend, Mr. Jagdeo cut short a visit to the Middle East to return for a state funeral for Mrs. Jagan, according to news reports.

Mrs. Jagan is survived by her son, Dr. Cheddi Jagan Jr., a daughter, Nadira Jagan-Brancier, and five grandchildren.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on April 09, 2009, 07:36:10 pm

A Silver Spring native passes on.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4055343

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on April 10, 2009, 10:14:35 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090410/ap_on_en_ot/obit_dave_arneson

now he can control all those imaginary people/animals/immortals with god's own twelve sided dice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on April 10, 2009, 10:40:01 am

american power and might.

our military is being held at "bay" by four pirates in a lifeboat. our country is officially a bunch of weak kneed pussies. america should drop the eagle, and adopt a whimpering twat for a logo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/world/africa/10pirates.html?partner=msnbcpolitics&emc=rss

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on April 12, 2009, 08:43:33 pm

Quote from: walkonby on April 10, 2009, 10:40:01 am

american power and might.

our military is being held at "bay" by four pirates in a lifeboat. our country is officially a bunch of weak kneed pussies. america should drop the eagle, and adopt a whimpering twat for a logo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/world/africa/10pirates.html?partner=msnbcpolitics&emc=rss

This just in! The standoff is over, and the Pirates, No Pun Intended, bite the bullets big time (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20090413/D97H88I00.html)! News at 11 p.m.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 13, 2009, 12:18:10 am

Quote from: walkonby on April 10, 2009, 10:40:01 am

american power and might.

our military is being held at "bay" by four pirates in a lifeboat. our country is officially a bunch of weak kneed pussies. america should drop the eagle, and adopt a whimpering twat for a logo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/world/africa/10pirates.html?partner=msnbcpolitics&emc=rss

Right - just fire at the thing. Fuck the captain.

Weak-kneed pussies indeed....

'Somali pirates who had pulled off the first seizure of an American crewman in recent memory were soon staring at the hulls of the USS Halyburton, a guided-missile frigate equipped with helicopters, and the USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship with missile launchers, attack planes and a crew of 1,000, which had joined the Bainbridge.'

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on April 13, 2009, 06:56:33 am

Quote from: walkonby on April 10, 2009, 10:40:01 am

american power and might.

our military is being held at "bay" by four pirates in a lifeboat. our country is officially a bunch of weak kneed pussies. america should drop the eagle, and adopt a whimpering twat for a logo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/world/africa/10pirates.html?partner=msnbcpolitics&emc=rss

Oops, open mouth insert foot!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on April 13, 2009, 12:53:28 pm

i'll gladly be the total ass to have the incident end the way it did. and here i thought the seals had fallen off the radar nowadays.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on April 13, 2009, 02:05:46 pm

Phillies broadcaster dies at Nationals Park.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4064793 (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4064793)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on April 13, 2009, 02:20:51 pm

Porn legend Marilyn Chambers (http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/show_business/porn_legend_marilyn_chambers_dead_at_57_113890.asp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 13, 2009, 06:14:22 pm

Mark 'The Bird' Fidrych (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/04/13/fidrych-death.ap/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on April 22, 2009, 10:04:13 am

http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/22/news/Freddie_Mac_CFO/?cnn=yes (http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/22/news/Freddie_Mac_CFO/?cnn=yes)
David Kellermann, acting chief financial officer of mortgage company Freddie Mac

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on April 22, 2009, 11:04:43 am

Quote from: Sugartastic Tee on April 22, 2009, 10:04:13 am

http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/22/news/Freddie_Mac_CFO/?cnn=yes (http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/22/news/Freddie_Mac_CFO/?cnn=yes)
David Kellermann, acting chief financial officer of mortgage company Freddie Mac

in my line of work, this is some serious news. we look at this and go . . . oh shit, here we go.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on April 25, 2009, 03:58:45 pm

all gay men in the world are crying at this moment.

a glorious golden girl is gone.

:'(

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30407408/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on April 25, 2009, 05:20:49 pm

RIP Ackmena

(http://bensbreakfastblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/ackmena.jpg)

Quote from: walkonby on April 25, 2009, 03:58:45 pm

all gay men in the world are crying at this moment.

a glorious golden girl is gone.

:'(

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30407408/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on April 29, 2009, 04:48:59 pm

Country Music Hitmaker Vern Gosdin (http://www.theboot.com/2009/04/29/vern-gosdin-dies-at-74/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 03, 2009, 10:43:39 am

Jack Kemp (http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/02/kemp.obit/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thatguy on May 03, 2009, 11:46:29 pm

jon blank. played in rezin and wino's band, among others. r.i.p.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MindCage on May 04, 2009, 10:13:44 am

Quote from: Shemp on May 03, 2009, 10:43:39 am

Jack Kemp (http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/02/kemp.obit/index.html)

Oh the fond memories I have of Jack always yelling at me to stop playing those f#C*)(@# drums so loud while his son Jimmy was QBing on the field.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MindCage on May 04, 2009, 10:14:31 am

Quote from: thatguy on May 03, 2009, 11:46:29 pm

jon blank. played in rezin and wino's band, among others. r.i.p.

Very sad about this one :( :( I was shocked when I got the call the other morning.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on May 04, 2009, 03:47:36 pm

Jon Blank dead??! Damn that is heartbreaking... Rezin was one of my fav local bands of all time. I feel lucky to have been present at the 9:30 Club Wino Band gig a few moths back, he was a great bassist with real grooves. That Bakerton Group show will Wino opening just won't be the same now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 05, 2009, 10:55:06 am

A buddy of mine has an empty Absolut Citron bottle that he said Bea Arthur emptied in like 30 minutes. Then she proceeded to call Betty White a c**t. Twice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Sage 703 on May 05, 2009, 11:29:14 am

Dom Deluise

http://www.tmz.com/2009/05/05/dom-deluise-dies/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on May 05, 2009, 01:13:28 pm

Gay guys will invent any kind of story to explain an empty bottle of vodka laying around, won't they. That's quite a good one.
:)

Quote from: bearman on May 05, 2009, 10:55:06 am

A buddy of mine has an empty Absolut Citron bottle that he said Bea Arthur emptied in like 30 minutes. Then she proceeded to call Betty White a c**t. Twice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on May 05, 2009, 01:23:56 pm

12. WE HAVE LOST A LEGEND TODAY. GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY......

Quote from: callat703 on May 05, 2009, 11:29:14 am

Dom Deluise

http://www.tmz.com/2009/05/05/dom-deluise-dies/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on May 08, 2009, 03:28:33 am

Another Free Bird...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090507/ap_on_en_mu/us_obit_evans

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 10, 2009, 11:59:58 am

Dominic DiMaggio, the bespectacled Boston Red Sox center fielder who made his own mark on the major leagues despite playing in the shadow of teammate Ted Williams and DiMaggio's Hall of Fame brother Joe, died early Friday at his Massachusetts home. He was 92.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4151140

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 15, 2009, 11:52:24 am

Wayman Tisdale (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4168852&campaign=rss&source=twitter&ex_cid=Twitter_espn_4168852)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on May 19, 2009, 04:22:12 pm

Dolla (http://new.music.yahoo.com/dolla/news/police-man-arrested-in-la-killing-of-rapper--61988744)

Wouldn't it be ironic if they found out that TWO OF FIDDY CENT'S people did this?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on May 19, 2009, 04:32:18 pm

^Breaking news on the above. Cops now think that it was either a group of 20 people from the Nickleback crew or 100 fans from the band Pennywise that killed Dolla!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 26, 2009, 11:15:10 am

May 26, 2009
Jay Bennett, Ex-Member of Wilco, Dies at 45
By BEN SISARIO
Jay Bennett, a singer and songwriter who was a former member of the rock band Wilco, died on Sunday in Urbana, Ill. He was 45 and lived in Urbana.

The cause is still unknown. Representatives of his management company, Undertow Music Collective, said he died in his sleep. Edward Burch, a friend and collaborator, told The Chicago Sun-Times that an autopsy was being done. No information about survivors was available.

Last month Mr. Bennett complained on his MySpace page about severe pains in his hip. He needed hip-replacement surgery, he said, but did not have proper health insurance.

A burly, dreadlocked figure with a cracking, plaintive rasp, Mr. Bennett played in the Replacements-influenced power-pop band Titanic Love Affair during the 1990s, and released four solo albums. But he is best known for his role in Wilco, the Chicago band that expanded the earthy, folk-influenced sound of the alt-country genre with more abstract, experimental rock.

Mr. Bennett joined Wilco in 1994, shortly after the recording of the band?s first album, ?A.M.,? which was released the next year. Beginning with ?Being There? in 1996, he played keyboards, guitar and various other instruments, and gradually his role grew. With ?Summerteeth? in 1999 and ?Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,? released in 2002, Mr. Bennett became a key part of the band?s songwriting, often as a darker foil to the more fragile style of the lead singer, Jeff Tweedy. A perfectionist in the studio, Mr. Bennett took an active hand in the recording process.

He also played on ?Mermaid Avenue,? the band?s Grammy-nominated 1998 project with Billy Bragg, which set unpublished lyrics by Woody Guthrie to music, as well as on its sequel, ?Mermaid Avenue II,? in 2000.

But as documented in ?I Am Trying to Break Your Heart,? a 2002 film about the recording of ?Yankee Hotel Foxtrot? and the band?s extended struggle with its record company, Mr. Bennett and Mr. Tweedy frequently clashed in the studio, as Mr. Bennett bristled over the band?s increasingly noisy direction.

Mr. Tweedy fired Mr. Bennett from Wilco shortly before the release of ?Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,? which became the band?s commercial breakthrough. Relations between the two men remained chilly. This month Mr. Bennett sued for breach of contract, contending that he was owed royalties from his work on Wilco albums as well as money from the film. The suit has not been settled, a Wilco spokeswoman said.

In a statement on Monday, Mr. Tweedy said: ?We will miss Jay as we remember him ? as a truly unique and gifted human being and one who made welcome and significant contributions to the band?s songs and evolution.?

Born in Rolling Meadows, a suburb of Chicago, in 1963, Mr. Bennett graduated from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, with degrees in secondary education, mathematics and political studies. He was working in a VCR repair shop when Mr. Tweedy recruited him for Wilco, and according to ?Learning How to Die,? Greg Kot?s 2004 book about Wilco, Mr. Bennett often worked there between tours.

In 2002, shortly after leaving Wilco, Mr. Bennett released ?The Palace at 4 a.m. (Part I)? with Mr. Burch. He also founded a recording studio in Champaign, called Pieholden Suite Sound, after a song on ?Summerteeth.?

Mr. Bennett released three more albums of country-tinged folk-rock, and on his most recent MySpace post said that he was hard at work on a new one, ?Kicking at the Perfumed Air.?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on May 26, 2009, 11:43:17 am

a ghost is born

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on May 26, 2009, 01:21:11 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on May 19, 2009, 04:32:18 pm

^Breaking news on the above. Cops now think that it was either a group of 20 people from the Nickleback crew or 100 fans from the band Pennywise that killed Dolla!

i heard they didnt kill him, they just made change.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on May 26, 2009, 07:23:15 pm

The World's Oldest Blogger Maria Amelia Lopez (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20090526/D98DUKUG0.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 27, 2009, 02:59:39 pm

Zezel dies after battling blood disorder

TORONTO -- Peter Zezel, a center who played 15 NHL seasons after breaking into the league with the Philadelphia Flyers as a teenager, has died. He was 44. Zezel struggled with the rare blood disease hemolytic anemia for the past 10 years and died on Tuesday.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=4207698

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on June 03, 2009, 10:35:39 pm

Koko Taylor (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/03/obit.koko.taylor/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on June 04, 2009, 10:08:42 am

(http://www.nndb.com/people/840/000022774/david-carradine-1.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 04, 2009, 10:38:02 am

"Police investigation showed that he hung himself with a rope, the kind that is used with curtains."

"He was described as behind half naked."

Link (http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/06/04/headlines/headlines_30104421.php)

Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and genitals on Thursday morning.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on June 04, 2009, 10:44:46 am

No! Even as a kid I thought of him as his character and believed he'd live a long, peaceful life. RIP Grasshopper.
(that link has the details about the rope ::) c'mon)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on June 04, 2009, 10:56:52 am

(http://www.nndb.com/people/840/000022774/david-carradine-1.jpg),

say hello to...

(http://www.freewebs.com/igors_/michael_hutchence_2.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on June 04, 2009, 08:11:55 pm

Quote from: Shemp on June 04, 2009, 10:38:02 am

"He was described as behind half naked."

do you think it was the right or the left half?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: babystew on June 06, 2009, 07:23:24 pm

Jeff Hanson, RIP. http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/47108762.html (http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/47108762.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on June 18, 2009, 11:45:45 am

Clark Sabine of Statehood.

Quote

We are deeply saddened to tell you that Clark passed away on Tuesday evening at a hospice in Arlington, VA. He was first diagnosed with melanoma in February of 2008, and after a series of surgeries and treatments, we thought he was in the clear. In the fall the cancer returned and spread to other parts of his body. Experimental treatments were in the works, but we needed chemotherapy to shrink some of the tumors before beginning this treatment. In May, we found out that the chemo was not working and that the condition was terminal. Clark was 33 years old.

As a band, we had 10 songs in line for a second Statehood record, and we?ll talk about where we go with that in weeks to come. While Clark was in hospice care, he did some additional tracking with our friends Nikhil and Jason, and we listened to newer recordings to sort out details in the songs. Music was insanely important to Clark, and it gave him comfort to keep working on songwriting until the end.

Playing in a band with Clark was extraordinary and something to look forward to week in and week out. Often at practice we?d be laughing until we couldn?t breathe from Clark?s wild sense of humor and adventure. Anyone who knew him, even in passing, knows exactly what we mean. To say that he will be missed is an absurd understatement.

Thank you to everyone who gave Clark and the band support through these trying times. We will come back with more information as soon as we have it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on June 18, 2009, 08:02:41 pm

Quote from: Julian, Certified WEBLEBRITY on June 18, 2009, 11:45:45 am

Clark Sabine of Statehood.

Quote
We are deeply saddened to tell you that Clark passed away on Tuesday evening at a hospice in Arlington, VA. He was first diagnosed with melanoma in February of 2008, and after a series of surgeries and treatments, we thought he was in the clear. In the fall the cancer returned and spread to other parts of his body. Experimental treatments were in the works, but we needed chemotherapy to shrink some of the tumors before beginning this treatment. In May, we found out that the chemo was not working and that the condition was terminal. Clark was 33 years old.

As a band, we had 10 songs in line for a second Statehood record, and we?ll talk about where we go with that in weeks to come. While Clark was in hospice care, he did some additional tracking with our friends Nikhil and Jason, and we listened to newer recordings to sort out details in the songs. Music was insanely important to Clark, and it gave him comfort to keep working on songwriting until the end.

Playing in a band with Clark was extraordinary and something to look forward to week in and week out. Often at practice we?d be laughing until we couldn?t breathe from Clark?s wild sense of humor and adventure. Anyone who knew him, even in passing, knows exactly what we mean. To say that he will be missed is an absurd understatement.

Thank you to everyone who gave Clark and the band support through these trying times. We will come back with more information as soon as we have it.

That is sad. That hospice is right up the street from me and I know quite a few folks who have either died there or in their care.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on June 23, 2009, 08:28:16 am

Ed McMahon

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,528407,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/23/obit.mcmahon/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on June 23, 2009, 09:12:29 am

Quote

Quote:
Ed McMahon died peacefully in his sleep at the UCLA Medical Center. [17] McMahon publicist and friend Howard Bragman has confirmed Ed McMahon died just past midnight on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. [18] Ed McMahon was 86. He was brutally sodomized by Gary B. Patek

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: brennser on June 23, 2009, 02:59:41 pm

Quote from: ggw on May 26, 2009, 11:15:10 am

May 26, 2009
Jay Bennett, Ex-Member of Wilco, Dies at 45

Jay Bennett autopsy: Accidental pain-killer overdose
Former Wilco member Jay Bennett died of a pain-killer overdose, the Champaign County coroner said Wednesday, and his office is investigating Bennett?s death as an accident.

Tests showed Bennett died from fentanyl, often prescribed to treat chronic pain, said the coronor, Duane Northrup. Bennett, who died May 24 at his home in Urbana, Ill., had posted a few weeks earlier on his MySpace site that he would need hip-replacement surgery.

?A decade plus of multiple nightly stage jumps and various other rock and roll theatrics had finally taken a toll that I could no longer merely deal with or ignore,? he wrote, but added that he did not have health insurance to cover costs of the surgery.

Bennett, born in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows, was a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and engineer in Wilco from 1994 to 2001, when he departed the band acrimoniously. He sued Wilco founder Jeff Tweedy in early May, claiming that he was owed royalties for songs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on June 23, 2009, 03:07:03 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on June 23, 2009, 09:12:29 am

Quote
Quote:
Ed McMahon died peacefully in his sleep at the UCLA Medical Center. [17] McMahon publicist and friend Howard Bragman has confirmed Ed McMahon died just past midnight on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. [18] Ed McMahon was 86. He was brutally sodomized by Gary B. Patek

(http://icanhascheezburger.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/funny-pictures-cubicle-cat-spies-on-you.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on June 23, 2009, 03:07:52 pm

The guy had a triple major which included math and education. He could have easily gotten his teaching certificate, gotten a teaching job, and gotten health insurance.

Quote from: brennser on June 23, 2009, 02:59:41 pm

Quote from: ggw on May 26, 2009, 11:15:10 am
May 26, 2009
Jay Bennett, Ex-Member of Wilco, Dies at 45

Jay Bennett autopsy: Accidental pain-killer overdose
Former Wilco member Jay Bennett died of a pain-killer overdose, the Champaign County coroner said Wednesday, and his office is investigating Bennett?s death as an accident.

Tests showed Bennett died from fentanyl, often prescribed to treat chronic pain, said the coronor, Duane Northrup. Bennett, who died May 24 at his home in Urbana, Ill., had posted a few weeks earlier on his MySpace site that he would need hip-replacement surgery.

?A decade plus of multiple nightly stage jumps and various other rock and roll theatrics had finally taken a toll that I could no longer merely deal with or ignore,? he wrote, but added that he did not have health insurance to cover costs of the surgery.

Bennett, born in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows, was a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and engineer in Wilco from 1994 to 2001, when he departed the band acrimoniously. He sued Wilco founder Jeff Tweedy in early May, claiming that he was owed royalties for songs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on June 23, 2009, 04:05:20 pm

A) I didn't see Wilco has being much a "stage jump" band
B) I *really* didn't see Jay as being the stage-jumper, were there to be some during a Wilco performance
C) It's not the clothes that count, its what's in your heart

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on June 23, 2009, 04:10:18 pm

Kinda hard to pull off getting a teaching gig when you're walking around high on fentanyl patches.

But yeah you're right.

Quote from: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on June 23, 2009, 03:07:52 pm

The guy had a triple major which included math and education. He could have easily gotten his teaching certificate, gotten a teaching job, and gotten health insurance.

Quote from: brennser on June 23, 2009, 02:59:41 pm
Quote from: ggw on May 26, 2009, 11:15:10 am
May 26, 2009
Jay Bennett, Ex-Member of Wilco, Dies at 45

Jay Bennett autopsy: Accidental pain-killer overdose
Former Wilco member Jay Bennett died of a pain-killer overdose, the Champaign County coroner said Wednesday, and his office is investigating Bennett?s death as an accident.

Tests showed Bennett died from fentanyl, often prescribed to treat chronic pain, said the coronor, Duane Northrup. Bennett, who died May 24 at his home in Urbana, Ill., had posted a few weeks earlier on his MySpace site that he would need hip-replacement surgery.

?A decade plus of multiple nightly stage jumps and various other rock and roll theatrics had finally taken a toll that I could no longer merely deal with or ignore,? he wrote, but added that he did not have health insurance to cover costs of the surgery.

Bennett, born in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows, was a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and engineer in Wilco from 1994 to 2001, when he departed the band acrimoniously. He sued Wilco founder Jeff Tweedy in early May, claiming that he was owed royalties for songs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 24, 2009, 03:04:40 pm

RIP: Andy Hughes, producer for The Orb, Basement Jaxx, and Kovak

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/RIP-Andy-Hughes-producer-for-The
http://www.trashmenagerie.com/blog/2009/06/23/the-orbs-andy-hughes-passes-at-the-age-of-44/

this happened on june 12... y'all be slackin'.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on June 24, 2009, 03:10:11 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on June 23, 2009, 04:05:20 pm

A) I didn't see Wilco has being much a "stage jump" band
B) I *really* didn't see Jay as being the stage-jumper, were there to be some during a Wilco performance
C) It's not the clothes that count, its what's in your heart

From what Jay said in his blog post, he injured himself stage jumping while playing with Titantic Love Affair, not Wilco.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on June 24, 2009, 03:16:49 pm

I actually recall Jay jumping around quite a bit onstage, certainly compared to the two dozen other people who've ever been in the band.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on June 24, 2009, 03:19:03 pm

Pat does a fair amount of jumping around these days. And you could almost say what Nels does is "jumping."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on June 24, 2009, 03:24:39 pm

I forgot about Pat, I don't really pay him any attention. :D

And Nels has health issues of his own, probably due to his stage antics...

Quote from: gaaaaaaaaah on June 24, 2009, 03:19:03 pm

Pat does a fair amount of jumping around these days. And you could almost say what Nels does is "jumping."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on June 24, 2009, 03:28:12 pm

I like Pat a lot. He brings the cliche rock star moves to Wilco shows these days. I appreciate him for that.

And I worry about Nels, especially after the interview in Ashes. He goes all out all the time. And he's not exactly young.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Sage 703 on June 24, 2009, 03:31:43 pm

Mark Sanford's political future: http://bit.ly/6VnuT

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 25, 2009, 12:24:22 pm

Sky Saxon of the Seeds

http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2009/06/25/rip_sky_saxon.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on June 25, 2009, 01:11:50 pm

Farrah Fawcett

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 25, 2009, 01:16:19 pm

(http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc96/mdgarciab/farrah-fawcett.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on June 25, 2009, 02:46:08 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on June 25, 2009, 12:24:22 pm

Sky Saxon of the Seeds

http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2009/06/25/rip_sky_saxon.html

This one hurts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on June 25, 2009, 03:45:52 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on June 25, 2009, 01:16:19 pm

(http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc96/mdgarciab/farrah-fawcett.jpg)

I had such a crush on her when I was a kid. I had that poster on my wall for a few years. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 25, 2009, 06:10:31 pm

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on June 25, 2009, 03:45:52 pm

I had such a crush on her when I was a kid. I had that poster on my wall for a few years. :(

Steve Martin:

Boy oh boy, I am so mad at Farrah Fawcett-Majors. She is so conceited. She has never called me once And after the hours I've spent holding up her poster with one hand! Geez!

RIP Farrah

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on June 25, 2009, 07:49:26 pm

Patrick Swayze can rest easy for awhile.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on June 25, 2009, 08:49:23 pm

Do you think Wacko Jacko will come back as a Zombie?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on June 25, 2009, 09:24:37 pm

holy shit . . . has the world gone crazy???

now there are rumours floating around that jeff goldblum has died on the set of his new movie, filming in that country where they eat kangaroos. but still in rumour mode at the present time. somehow i think it is false, but who knows.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on June 25, 2009, 09:25:20 pm

Quote from: walkonby on June 25, 2009, 09:24:37 pm

holy shit . . . has the world gone crazy???

now there are rumours floating around that jeff goldblum has died on the set of his new movie, filming in that country where they eat kangaroos. but still in rumour mode at the present time. somehow i think it is false, but who knows.

Perez says false. It's people playing up the "deaths come in 3's" thing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on June 25, 2009, 09:28:23 pm

but we already had three with ed mcmahon. i guess people who read perez have no clue who he is.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 25, 2009, 09:30:23 pm

It's a rumour that has resurfaced again from the past

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on June 25, 2009, 09:31:15 pm

Quote from: walkonby on June 25, 2009, 09:28:23 pm

but we already had three with ed mcmahon.

OH YEAH.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on June 25, 2009, 10:00:35 pm

well does Caradine count too that makes 4

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on June 25, 2009, 10:51:26 pm

I'm more sad about Sky Saxon than any of these. But 99.9% of the world doesn't know who he is and without google most of this board probably wouldn't either.

WTF....the Michael Jackson thread got locked. I imagine that thread went right where you'd expect it to go. Not my week. I've started two threads....the first was deleted in about 2 minutes and the next gets locked.

You're pushing too hard, pushing too hard on me

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on June 25, 2009, 10:56:10 pm

I'll be the first to admit that I did not recognize the name. When I looked it up it caught me way off guard.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on June 26, 2009, 08:07:14 am

Apparently, we're only allowed to discuss #2 and maybe #3 at the 9:30 board watercooler.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 26, 2009, 09:17:35 am

Just because someone else blogs it, doesn't mean that it needs to be reposted here. While this board often operates in the gray area, this is one of those times when being distasteful isn't called for. There are plenty of other outlets for that type of behavior. Plus, I've already had to deleted an undignified comment about Farrah Fawcett from this thread....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on June 26, 2009, 09:25:11 am

i think that anyone who feels the need to post some insensitive remark about someone whos just died, is a complete and total loser who is simply crying out for some sort of attention or approval that they are not getting in real life.

If your internet persona is cooler than your real persona, you have a real problem.

in other news. my trash men were blaring MJ this morning as they picked up the trash. I expect a full barage of classics this weekend when i'm at the club.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on June 26, 2009, 09:28:18 am

I understand the desire to keep things tasteful here.

However, it seems a bit freakish to delete any (even tasteful) mention that Michael Jackson was an alleged child rapist who by his own admission routinely shared his bed with 13 year old boys, and instead only celebrate his pop culture accomplishments.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 26, 2009, 09:31:12 am

Quote from: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on June 26, 2009, 09:28:18 am

I understand the desire to keep things tasteful here.

However, it seems a bit freakish to delete any (even tasteful) mention that Michael Jackson was an alleged child rapist who by his own admission routinely shared his bed with 13 year old boys, and instead only celebrate his pop culture accomplishments.

I'm sorry but I felt NONE of your comments were tasteful, so how about just dropping it OK.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on June 26, 2009, 09:32:23 am

Quote from: mr. sonick dobalina on June 26, 2009, 09:25:11 am

i think that anyone who feels the need to post some insensitive remark about someone whos just died, is a complete and total loser who is simply crying out for some sort of attention or approval that they are not getting in real life.

If your internet persona is cooler than your real persona, you have a real problem.

in other news. my trash men were blaring MJ this morning as they picked up the trash. I expect a full barage of classics this weekend when i'm at the club.

you're such a hero to our species . . . i think i'll go write an epic poem about you. i'll call it one thing for now, and then change its name every other week to something "cooler" than the last.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on June 26, 2009, 09:35:56 am

Quote from: chaz on June 25, 2009, 10:51:26 pm

I'm more sad about Sky Saxon than any of these. But 99.9% of the world doesn't know who he is and without google most of this board probably wouldn't either.

WTF....the Michael Jackson thread got locked. I imagine that thread went right where you'd expect it to go. Not my week. I've started two threads....the first was deleted in about 2 minutes and the next gets locked.

You're pushing too hard, pushing too hard on me

and i apologize on both counts for the deleted thread and the locked michael jackson thread. both were my fault, i do believe. chaz and i know why the first one was deleted, and my silly (and yes tasteless) pictures posted of perhaps people that michael propositioned, set the clamp down super fast.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on June 26, 2009, 09:37:23 am

What was distasteful about the article I copied and pasted from dailykos.com?

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on June 26, 2009, 09:31:12 am

Quote from: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on June 26, 2009, 09:28:18 am
I understand the desire to keep things tasteful here.

However, it seems a bit freakish to delete any (even tasteful) mention that Michael Jackson was an alleged child rapist who by his own admission routinely shared his bed with 13 year old boys, and instead only celebrate his pop culture accomplishments.

I'm sorry but I felt NONE of your comments were tasteful, so how about just dropping it OK.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on June 26, 2009, 09:38:29 am

Quote from: walkonby on June 26, 2009, 09:32:23 am

Quote from: mr. sonick dobalina on June 26, 2009, 09:25:11 am
i think that anyone who feels the need to post some insensitive remark about someone whos just died, is a complete and total loser who is simply crying out for some sort of attention or approval that they are not getting in real life.

If your internet persona is cooler than your real persona, you have a real problem.

in other news. my trash men were blaring MJ this morning as they picked up the trash. I expect a full barage of classics this weekend when i'm at the club.

you're such a hero to our species . . . i think i'll go write an epic poem about you. i'll call it one thing for now, and then change its name every other week to something "cooler" than the last.

i definitely don't see you doing anything remotely as productive as writing a poem. but if you feel so inclined, go right ahead. a poetry thread on this board would definitely add character and diversity.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on June 26, 2009, 10:53:19 am

As a huge Michael Jackson fan as a child (and a person who was late to work this morning due to the need to learn the bass line to I want you back) I'd still like to make a few mildly tasteless jokes to boost my own morale...

#1. At least he'll be reunited with all of his better, younger more tasteful noses...

#2. Where is Weird Al's tasteful insights on the passing

and #3 looks like the end of Rockwell's comeback dream... won't someone please think of Rockwell...

as I read them I realize... not that funny... but it's done.

the hell with whatever else people may say there was a point in time when Michael Jackson was definitely the shit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on June 26, 2009, 12:12:47 pm

In 10, 9, 8, 7, 6.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sonickteam2 on June 26, 2009, 12:13:56 pm

not to be dramatic.

but between walkonby and charlie and the inabilities of the moderators to care about tasteless trolls.

i am off this messageboard. proceed with your ignorance and feel free to make jokes about me, cause i wont hear them

some of you really need to rethink your values.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: godsshoeshine on June 26, 2009, 12:30:15 pm

drama

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on June 26, 2009, 01:04:30 pm

Quote from: sonickteam2 on June 26, 2009, 12:13:56 pm

not to be dramatic.

but between walkonby and charlie and the inabilities of the moderators to care about tasteless trolls.

i am off this messageboard. proceed with your ignorance and feel free to make jokes about me, cause i wont hear them

some of you really need to rethink your values.

(http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/8172/funr.png)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on June 28, 2009, 10:46:14 am

Quote from: chaz on June 25, 2009, 10:51:26 pm

I'm more sad about Sky Saxon than any of these. But 99.9% of the world doesn't know who he is and without google most of this board probably wouldn't either.

WTF....the Michael Jackson thread got locked. I imagine that thread went right where you'd expect it to go. Not my week. I've started two threads....the first was deleted in about 2 minutes and the next gets locked.

You're pushing too hard, pushing too hard on me

I'm fully with you Chaz on this one. Was a real sad moment when I heard about Sky. He was really making a nice come back to those in the know in the realm of the new Psychedelia. Very sad. Guess it's time to re-upload "Pushing Too Hard" back on Air Atlantic Underground. Had taken it down to give it a breather.

Don't think this was mentioned here yet. Another sad musical moment for me, especially since I have always had a love of good electric guitar playing. Was fortunate enough to see and meet this band several times. Truly a very nice and completely down to earth group of guys who could kick ass on stage.

The Ventures? Bob Bogle Dies (http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2009/06/16/673176.aspx)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: distance on June 28, 2009, 12:26:00 pm

apparently billy mays?

it seems like a really bad time to be a 50 year old these days.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 28, 2009, 01:53:25 pm

Quote from: distance on June 28, 2009, 12:26:00 pm

apparently billy mays?

it seems like a really bad time to be a 50 year old these days.

BILLY MAYS!!! (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/28/mays.death/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on June 28, 2009, 02:07:26 pm

Did his heart go Ka-Boom?

Shamwow Vince is now our greatest living TV pitchman. (And anyone who throws up that lame-ass Ron Popiel in disagreement is going to get a tongue lashing!)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on June 28, 2009, 02:45:16 pm

off topic (but there is a lot of death in it) and i didn't want to start a new thread just based on this. i just watched what had to be the most disturbing, yet probably prophetic, and brilliant films i have seen in a long long time. children of men.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on June 28, 2009, 05:04:20 pm

Quote from: walkonby on June 28, 2009, 02:45:16 pm

off topic (but there is a lot of death in it) and i didn't want to start a new thread just based on this. i just watched what had to be the most disturbing, yet probably prophetic, and brilliant films i have seen in a long long time. children of men.

You know, everyone seems to love that film but thought it was just ok. Maybe I'll have to revisit.

If you want to see a great movie, check out "Let the Right One In". It's a Swedish vampire flick, but unlike any vampire/horror movie I have ever seen. Actually unlike any move I have ever seen period. You yourself a favor and check it ouy.

PS - Be sure to turn on subtitles. The english dub (as any dub usually is) is horrible and I'm pretty sure the DVD defaults to the dubbed soundtrack.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 28, 2009, 05:41:18 pm

Quote from: walkonby on June 28, 2009, 02:45:16 pm

off topic (but there is a lot of death in it) and i didn't want to start a new thread just based on this. i just watched what had to be the most disturbing, yet probably prophetic, and brilliant films i have seen in a long long time. children of men.

What's interesting about this movie is Michael Caine plays his character as futuristic elderly John Lennon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on June 28, 2009, 05:58:13 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on June 28, 2009, 05:41:18 pm

Quote from: walkonby on June 28, 2009, 02:45:16 pm
off topic (but there is a lot of death in it) and i didn't want to start a new thread just based on this. i just watched what had to be the most disturbing, yet probably prophetic, and brilliant films i have seen in a long long time. children of men.

What's interesting about this movie is Michael Caine plays his character as futuristic elderly John Lennon

cough . . . do you taste strawberries? ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 29, 2009, 07:38:44 am

Fred Travalena can't fake death. (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/29/fred.travalena.dies/index.html)

Gale Storm runs out of wind. (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/28/obit.gale.storm/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on June 29, 2009, 06:42:39 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on June 28, 2009, 01:53:25 pm

Quote from: distance on June 28, 2009, 12:26:00 pm
apparently billy mays?

it seems like a really bad time to be a 50 year old these days.

BILLY MAYS!!! (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/28/mays.death/index.html)

His death removes on name from my list of folks to take out when I go nuts, climb a bell tower in Texas, and start shooting people. This guy had to be the most annoying human on the planet.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on June 29, 2009, 08:07:56 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on June 28, 2009, 01:53:25 pm

Quote from: distance on June 28, 2009, 12:26:00 pm
apparently billy mays?

it seems like a really bad time to be a 50 year old these days.

BILLY MAYS!!! (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/28/mays.death/index.html)

Not mine, but I LOLed...

"They say celebs die in threes. Leave it to Billy Mays to throw in an extra COMPLETELY FREE!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on June 30, 2009, 11:19:32 am

Quote from: eros on June 29, 2009, 08:07:56 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on June 28, 2009, 01:53:25 pm
Quote from: distance on June 28, 2009, 12:26:00 pm
apparently billy mays?

it seems like a really bad time to be a 50 year old these days.

BILLY MAYS!!! (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/28/mays.death/index.html)

Not mine, but I LOLed...

"They say celebs die in threes. Leave it to Billy Mays to throw in an extra COMPLETELY FREE!"

BIlly was number 5 if not higher.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 01, 2009, 03:59:04 pm

Karl Malden leaves home without them. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070102607.html?hpid=moreheadlines)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on July 04, 2009, 05:35:00 pm

Steve McNair - Rest In Peace

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: distance on July 04, 2009, 06:34:25 pm

glad i'm not famous. if i keep a low profile, does that mean i'll be immortal?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on July 04, 2009, 06:37:29 pm

Quote from: jeffml on July 04, 2009, 05:35:00 pm

Steve McNair - Rest In Peace

One of the most underrated QBs in NFL history.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on July 05, 2009, 01:56:44 am

Bet a lot of champagne bottles will be cracked open over this one.

Music mogul Allen Klein dies at 77 (http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/04/music-mogul-allen-klein-dies-at-77/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on July 05, 2009, 11:14:14 am

Quote from: Jaguar on July 05, 2009, 01:56:44 am

Bet a lot of champagne bottles will be cracked open over this one.

Music mogul Allen Klein dies at 77 (http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/04/music-mogul-allen-klein-dies-at-77/)

with people and stories such as his . . . it's no wonder the music insdustry collasped into the state it is now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on July 06, 2009, 01:17:30 pm

No, those aren't left over fireworks. They're more champagne corks popping.

Robert McNamara, ex-defense secretary, dies (http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/06/robert.mcnamara.obit/index.html)

We need one more for the triumvirant of evil.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: distance on July 17, 2009, 08:36:19 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/17/walter.cronkite.dead/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on July 18, 2009, 12:45:07 am

Cronkite was one of the last reporters ever on TV. These douche bags like Geraldo, Oberman, Nancy Grace, and the others do nothing close to reporting news. They opine, hype, sensationalize, spin, and conjecture to no end. The whole "fair and balanced" thing that Fox uses is absurd. Fairness and balance are not properties of news reporting, they are properties of subjective opinions being expressed. RIP Walter. You fucking kicked ass at your job like no one else in the profession.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on July 18, 2009, 05:50:15 pm

Gordon of Peter & Gordon:

GORDON WALLER
July 17th 2009
We are deeply saddened to report that some time after 8:00 p.m. last night east coast time, Gordon Waller went into cardiac arrest and was taken to the emergency room. Despite intensive efforts on his behalf by hospital personnel, Gordon passed away early this morning. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

His partner of nearly five decades, Peter Asher, will be issuing a statement shortly. We hope you will join us sending love and condolences to his family.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on July 21, 2009, 11:01:12 am

Frank McCourt, Sunday morning: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901588.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901588.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on July 21, 2009, 11:04:22 am

Quote from: Sugartastic Tee on July 21, 2009, 11:01:12 am

Frank McCourt, Sunday morning: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901588.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901588.html)

Always sad when someone dies, but Angela's Ashes wasn't anything special. I still don't know how he won a Pulitzer for that. Most questionable selection in my lifetime.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on July 21, 2009, 11:20:51 am

I like the way he was able to tell a story from a boy's point of view of growing up Irish Catholic, dirt poor, and in Ireland. The stories are similar or spot on from what I have heard from my own family. It was good in my opinion.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on July 22, 2009, 02:47:44 pm

John "Marmaduke" Dawson of New Riders of the Purple Sage

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on July 22, 2009, 02:49:33 pm

julian's america. :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on July 22, 2009, 03:08:13 pm

Quote from: walkonby on July 22, 2009, 02:49:33 pm

julian's america. :'(

Yeah, that was a little ridiculous. Its not as though I posted a new entry; sweetcell copy and pasted a NY Times article. If you were going to delete the entire thread, why now out of the blue instead of months ago. Could've at least let me know so I could copy all the entries and republish them off-site. Bewildering.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ryanbender87 on July 22, 2009, 03:44:49 pm

the taco bell dog:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32085116?GT1=43001 (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32085116?GT1=43001)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 22, 2009, 03:52:59 pm

They yanked the whole thread?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: distance on July 22, 2009, 05:19:58 pm

"The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on July 22, 2009, 05:24:15 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on July 22, 2009, 03:52:59 pm

They yanked the whole thread?

Yeah.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on July 24, 2009, 06:34:19 pm

off to the great slime over the head gig in the sky. i loved this guy from the best show of my childhood!!!

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=422654&GT1=28103

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slowgraffiti on July 24, 2009, 09:29:20 pm

Quote from: walkonby on July 24, 2009, 06:34:19 pm

off to the great slime over the head gig in the sky. i loved this guy from the best show of my childhood!!!

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=422654&GT1=28103

thought it was going to be marc summers. i would have been so blown.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on July 27, 2009, 02:11:30 pm

No dancing today. :'(

Choreographer Merce Cunningham (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090727/people_nm/us_mercecunningham)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: brennser on July 31, 2009, 08:30:48 am

crossposted from the footy thread

Sir Bobby Robson 1933-2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/jul/31/bobby-robson-dies

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on August 03, 2009, 03:18:31 pm

Space drummer:

http://www.spinner.com/2009/08/03/drummer-from-liverpudlian-band-space-dies-suddenly/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: twangirl on August 03, 2009, 04:00:46 pm

Rockabilly pioneer Billy Lee Riley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 03, 2009, 04:19:41 pm

Quote from: twangirl on August 03, 2009, 04:00:46 pm

Rockabilly pioneer Billy Lee Riley

I knew when I saw your name as the poster on the front page that I was going to be bummed out....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 06, 2009, 05:26:05 pm

John Hughes

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i99e7b38cf6795ab06001811fba7bb00a

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on August 06, 2009, 07:55:56 pm

Quote from: ggw on August 06, 2009, 05:26:05 pm

John Hughes

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i99e7b38cf6795ab06001811fba7bb00a

don't know what's sadder . . . his death, or the fact i mentioned it to some friends of mine (who are younger) and they said, "who in the hell is he?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on August 06, 2009, 10:24:26 pm

Quote from: walkonby on August 06, 2009, 07:55:56 pm

Quote from: ggw on August 06, 2009, 05:26:05 pm
John Hughes

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i99e7b38cf6795ab06001811fba7bb00a

don't know what's sadder . . . his death, or the fact i mentioned it to some friends of mine (who are younger) and they said, "who in the hell is he?"

There is a video clip (YouTube) from "Pretty In Pink", of Duckie dancing - the quote by the poster: "I heard he was in some old movie, and look it's really him, the guy from "Two And A Half Men"" ::)

I found this link 8 min of clips of his movies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3udQw0SBzM
(pretty good when compared to the videos of stills w/ background music!)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jm1 on August 07, 2009, 02:01:15 pm

Willy DeVille

Willy DeVille, a singer who was founder and principal songwriter of the punk group Mink DeVille, has died in New York City. He was 58.

Publicist Carol Kaye says he died of pancreatic cancer. He died Thursday night at Cabrini Hospital.

She says the rock world has lost "another one of its influential pioneers."

Mink DeVille appeared in the 1970s at the legendary CBGB club in Greenwich Village. It was billed as one of the most original groups on the New York punk scene.

Its 1977 album "Cabretta" featured the song "Spanish Stroll." It was a Top 20 hit in the United Kingdom.

Willy DeVille was known for his blend of R&B, blues, Dixieland and French Cajun ballads.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on August 07, 2009, 03:43:32 pm

Quote from: Sugartastic Tee on August 06, 2009, 10:24:26 pm

There is a video clip (YouTube) from "Pretty In Pink", of Duckie dancing - the quote by the poster: "I heard he was in some old movie, and look it's really him, the guy from "Two And A Half Men"" ::)

i'd expect so much more cultural literacy from Two and a Half Men fans

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 07, 2009, 06:54:21 pm

WRT billie mays, julian prophetically asked:

Quote from: Julian, Certified WEBLEBRITY on June 28, 2009, 02:07:26 pm

Did his heart go Ka-Boom?

Autopsy: Cocaine a factor in Billy Mays' death (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/07/florida.mays.cocaine/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thirsty moore on August 11, 2009, 03:11:26 pm

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on August 12, 2009, 11:08:06 pm

Andy Kessler

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 13, 2009, 12:29:02 pm

Les Paul:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32403755/ns/entertainment-music/?GT1=43001

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on August 13, 2009, 02:04:20 pm

Quote from: ggw on August 13, 2009, 12:29:02 pm

Les Paul:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32403755/ns/entertainment-music/?GT1=43001

"Somewhere there's heaven ... that's where you are."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0B2Wtvznfc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0B2Wtvznfc&feature=related)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: twangirl on August 15, 2009, 11:39:23 pm

Musician & producer Jim Dickenson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on August 17, 2009, 01:08:50 pm

Allen Shellenberger (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-allen-shellenberger15-2009aug15,0,6837773.story), drummer for Lit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on August 17, 2009, 05:11:56 pm

Quote from: Venerable Bede on August 17, 2009, 01:08:50 pm

Allen Shellenberger (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-allen-shellenberger15-2009aug15,0,6837773.story), drummer for Lit.

This news makes me come.
This news makes me complete.
This news makes me completely miserable.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on August 17, 2009, 05:12:26 pm

Oh sweet Jesus, yes, I was the first one to get to it. I thought for sure 3 or 4 other people would type it in faster than me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lagas on August 18, 2009, 12:05:24 pm

Robert Novak

http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/1721877,sun-times-columnist-robert-novak-dead-081809.article

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on August 18, 2009, 12:16:13 pm

Quote from: lagas on August 18, 2009, 12:05:24 pm

Robert Novak

http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/1721877,sun-times-columnist-robert-novak-dead-081809.article

While he was a journalist's journalist for most of his years, his legacy is going to be forever stained with his near traitorous actions in the Valerie Plame incident.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: jitterthug on August 18, 2009, 12:39:05 pm

Character actor John Quade
(http://www.thelin.net/laurent/cinema/films/tt0075029/14767.jpg)

John Quade, who played the heavy in some Clint Eastwood movies and was the sheriff in the television mini-series ?Roots,? died on Aug. 9 at his home in the Southern California desert town of Rosamond. He was 71.

Mr. Quade had dozens of television and movie roles in a career that spanned more than a quarter-century. His movies included ?Papillon? , ?High Plains Drifter?, and ?The Outlaw Josey Wales.?

He is perhaps best remembered as the motorcycle gang leader in the Eastwood movie ?Every Which Way but Loose? and its sequel, ?Any Which Way You Can.?

He also played Sheriff Biggs in episodes of ?Roots.?

Before he entered acting, Quade worked in the aerospace industry. According to his widow, he built parts that are still on the moon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on August 18, 2009, 05:54:07 pm

Quote from: Julian, Certified WEBLEBRITY on August 18, 2009, 12:16:13 pm

Quote from: lagas on August 18, 2009, 12:05:24 pm
Robert Novak

http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/1721877,sun-times-columnist-robert-novak-dead-081809.article
While he was a journalist's journalist for most of his years, his legacy is going to be forever stained with his near traitorous actions in the Valerie Plame incident.

oh please, most people have already forgot about that incident . . . and if you do mention it they'll show up with an ak-47 and scream, "2nd amendment!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 18, 2009, 06:32:11 pm

Quote from: walkonby on August 18, 2009, 05:54:07 pm

and if you do mention it they'll show up with an ak-47 and scream, "2nd amendment!"

speaking of which: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/18/obama.protest.rifle/index.html

FUCK YEAH.

</threadjack> (or is it?)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: brennser on August 26, 2009, 07:47:21 am

Ted Kennedy

Quote from: thirsty moore on August 11, 2009, 03:11:26 pm

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on August 26, 2009, 12:47:53 pm

Quote from: brennser on August 26, 2009, 07:47:21 am

Ted Kennedy
Quote from: thirsty moore on August 11, 2009, 03:11:26 pm
Eunice Kennedy Shriver

i've been listening to the dead kennedys all morning in his honour.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 26, 2009, 01:53:46 pm

Quote from: walkonby on August 26, 2009, 12:47:53 pm

Quote from: brennser on August 26, 2009, 07:47:21 am
Ted Kennedy
Quote from: thirsty moore on August 11, 2009, 03:11:26 pm
Eunice Kennedy Shriver

i've been listening to the dead kennedys all morning in his honour.

The first song my phone played in the car this morning was "Forward To Death."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 26, 2009, 02:06:19 pm

Quote from: walkonby on August 26, 2009, 12:47:53 pm

Quote from: brennser on August 26, 2009, 07:47:21 am
Ted Kennedy
Quote from: thirsty moore on August 11, 2009, 03:11:26 pm
Eunice Kennedy Shriver

i've been listening to the dead kennedys all morning in his honour.

you've been waiting to use this one, haven't you?

your use of the british spelling of "honour" is intriguing.

Title: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: D.Enece on August 27, 2009, 09:23:38 am

From todays news.....

The Hillsborough County medical examiner?s office Friday said Mays had last used cocaine days before his death. The report said that although Mays died from heart disease, cocaine use was a contributing cause of death.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on August 28, 2009, 07:14:02 pm

DJ AM

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on August 28, 2009, 07:52:21 pm

Quote from: wml7 on August 28, 2009, 07:14:02 pm

DJ AM

drug overdose. sad. guess we know why he was suing the plane crash.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on August 28, 2009, 07:57:45 pm

I wonder if he was still talking to Travis Barker, sucks he survived a plane crash then to go like this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: saintangelsin on August 28, 2009, 11:18:12 pm

Quote from: wml7 on August 28, 2009, 07:57:45 pm

I wonder if he was still talking to Travis Barker, sucks he survived a plane crash then to go like this.

They still were musical collaborators. I just hope this doesn't mean Blink is gonna cancel Sunday. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on September 07, 2009, 04:59:57 pm

Echo And The Bunnymen keyboardist Jake Brockman died on Tuesday evening in a motorcycle accident.

Brockman, 53, was traveling on the Isle Of Man in the Irish Sea when he collided with a converted ambulance, according to a World Entertainment News article. He was taken to hospital, but died in an intensive care unit.

"Jake was always a classic bike enthusiast, he loved sailing thought he was invariably seasick," his wife Sally Mundy said in a statement. "Music was central to Jake's life."

Brockman joined Echo And The Bunnymen in 1989 and was to appear on their upcoming new album, The Fountain.

Unfortunately, this isn't the only motorcycle-related tragedy to affect Echo And The Bunnymen. Drummer Pete De Freitas died in a motorcycle accident in 1989.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 13, 2009, 08:10:15 pm

People Who Died: Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, Is Dead at 60 (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/books/14carroll.html?_r=1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on September 14, 2009, 07:55:53 am

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on September 13, 2009, 08:10:15 pm

People Who Died: Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker, Is Dead at 60 (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/books/14carroll.html?_r=1)

Bummer. Somewhere I've got a signed copy of the basketball diaries that he signed at a reading in philly. The book I got him to sign had been chewed up a little by a dog and he asked me jokingly "did your dog eat this?". I answered yes and he seemed to think that was pretty funny.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on September 14, 2009, 02:57:32 pm

Sad news about Carroll, saw him do a poetry reading at the old dc space where he read his poem about crab races-not the crustaceans-pretty funny....catholic boy's a great record

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on September 14, 2009, 08:13:39 pm

Patrick Swayze

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on September 14, 2009, 08:27:42 pm

Quote from: Sugartastic Tee on September 14, 2009, 08:13:39 pm

Patrick Swayze

Didn't this happen 15 years ago? Oh wait, that was his career.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on September 14, 2009, 08:33:39 pm

Quote from: Julian, Certified WEBLEBRITY on September 14, 2009, 08:27:42 pm

Quote from: Sugartastic Tee on September 14, 2009, 08:13:39 pm
Patrick Swayze
Didn't this happen 15 years ago? Oh wait, that was his career.

when you go . . . i want to be there to make funny jokes about your "best of moments." i'll start writing some notes this evening.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on September 14, 2009, 08:42:46 pm

Quote from: walkonby on September 14, 2009, 08:33:39 pm

Quote from: Julian, Certified WEBLEBRITY on September 14, 2009, 08:27:42 pm
Quote from: Sugartastic Tee on September 14, 2009, 08:13:39 pm
Patrick Swayze
Didn't this happen 15 years ago? Oh wait, that was his career.

when you go . . . i want to be there to make funny jokes about your "best of moments." i'll start writing some notes this evening.

That would be the greatest tribute imaginable.

"His corpse was kinda pale looking... and it wasn't even Labor Day yet!!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 16, 2009, 04:39:02 pm

NCAA President Myles Brand (http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/NCAANewsArchive/SplashPage/mylesbrand/mainstory.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 16, 2009, 10:16:08 pm

Mary Travers (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/arts/music/17travers.html?_r=1&hp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on September 17, 2009, 09:36:39 am

Henry Gibson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on September 28, 2009, 02:04:41 pm

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (http://new.music.yahoo.com/julian-lennon/news/lucy-of-lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds-fame-dies--61994538)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 28, 2009, 03:56:08 pm

Quote from: Jaguar on September 28, 2009, 02:04:41 pm

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (http://new.music.yahoo.com/julian-lennon/news/lucy-of-lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds-fame-dies--61994538)

2 Points that I learned today (and perhaps question a little bit):

(1) That song is not about drugs?
(2) People in developed countries still die of Lupus?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 29, 2009, 02:21:08 pm

Quote from: walkonby on August 28, 2009, 07:52:21 pm

Quote from: wml7 on August 28, 2009, 07:14:02 pm
DJ AM

drug overdose.

"The toxicology report showed the 36-year-old had in his system cocaine, OxyContin, Hydrocodone or Vicodin, antianxiety drugs Xanax and Ativan, Klonopin which also controls anger, Benadryl, and Levamisole, a drug apparently used to cut cocaine." (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_en_tv/us_dj_am)

wow. that's some major-league cocktailing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 29, 2009, 03:14:59 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 29, 2009, 02:21:08 pm

"The toxicology report showed the 36-year-old had in his system cocaine, OxyContin, Hydrocodone or Vicodin, antianxiety drugs Xanax and Ativan, Klonopin which also controls anger, Benadryl, and Levamisole, a drug apparently used to cut cocaine." (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_en_tv/us_dj_am)

wow. that's some major-league cocktailing.

Raised the bar for me. If I ever have a terminal illness, that's how I'm going out....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on September 30, 2009, 10:48:03 pm

http://www.countrystandardtime.com/news/newsitem.asp?xid=3307
Amy Farris

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 12, 2009, 12:03:52 pm

Stephen Gately, of Irish boy band Boyzone, dies in Spain
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=436022&GT1=28102&

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on October 12, 2009, 12:18:05 pm

My Car

Seriously, I went outside this morning and someone hit-and-run asshole totalled the thing. I have no idea how their car was operational after doing that much damage.

MY FIRST INSURANCE CLAIM EVER!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on October 12, 2009, 12:21:28 pm

that's Richmond for you ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on October 12, 2009, 01:56:12 pm

Quote from: Julian, Certified WEBLEBRITY on October 12, 2009, 12:18:05 pm

My Car

Seriously, I went outside this morning and someone hit-and-run asshole totalled the thing. I have no idea how their car was operational after doing that much damage.

MY FIRST INSURANCE CLAIM EVER!!

perhaps they were upset at your future space of written grammar horribleness. "and someone hit-and-run asshole"????

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on October 12, 2009, 03:25:45 pm

What? Someone hit and ran my asshole. I couldn't have been clearer!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 12, 2009, 03:47:19 pm

Quote from: Julian, Certified WEBLEBRITY on October 12, 2009, 03:25:45 pm

What? Someone hit and ran my asshole. I couldn't have been clearer!

And you didn't see him because it happened behind your back?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on October 12, 2009, 03:49:42 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on October 12, 2009, 03:47:19 pm

And you didn't see him because it happened behind your back?

Obviously!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on October 13, 2009, 09:58:02 am

Brendan Mullen (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/10/local-punk-champion-masque-founder-brendan-mullen-dies.html)

Wow...that is a bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on October 13, 2009, 04:24:26 pm

Blue Cheer's Dickie Peterson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on October 13, 2009, 10:14:33 pm

oh shit......no more Blue Cheer?!?!? I saw them at the Black Cat a few years ago and it was a great show which went criminally under attended. Dickie was shirtless and having a blast on stage. Pentagram's Bobby Liebling was front row rocking out like a 15 year old fan boy. The land of heavy psych has lost a true pioneer.

R.I.P. Dickie

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thirsty moore on October 14, 2009, 12:12:22 am

Mary J. Bilge (lol)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thatguy on October 14, 2009, 01:36:42 pm

captain lou albano

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/2009/10/14/2009-10-14_captain_lou_albano_legendary_wwfera_wrestling_manager_and_ci.html (http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/2009/10/14/2009-10-14_captain_lou_albano_legendary_wwfera_wrestling_manager_and_ci.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MonkeyPants on October 14, 2009, 02:53:19 pm

BYT says the lead singer from Sum 41 died...can't find it anywhere else though....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on October 14, 2009, 03:06:52 pm

Awwwwwwwwwwe...I thought the Mario Bros cartoons were the greatest thing ever as a kid.

Quote from: thatguy on October 14, 2009, 01:36:42 pm

captain lou albano

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/2009/10/14/2009-10-14_captain_lou_albano_legendary_wwfera_wrestling_manager_and_ci.html (http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/2009/10/14/2009-10-14_captain_lou_albano_legendary_wwfera_wrestling_manager_and_ci.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on October 14, 2009, 03:07:58 pm

Quote from: MyraEllen on October 14, 2009, 02:53:19 pm

BYT says the lead singer from Sum 41 died...can't find it anywhere else though....

i didn't know tmz was owned by fox. does that mean i'm actually going to have to read perez now to get celeb gossip? the horror.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MonkeyPants on October 14, 2009, 03:23:12 pm

well, someone has updated his wikipedia page already with date of death, but nothing else...soooo weird...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on October 14, 2009, 03:29:13 pm

Quote from: MyraEllen on October 14, 2009, 02:53:19 pm

BYT says the lead singer from Sum 41 died...can't find it anywhere else though....

So wild if the cocaine-addled panty party kids actually break a mid-level news story. This is the one married (seperated?) from Avril, right?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on October 14, 2009, 03:33:31 pm

I have a hard time believing BYT could break any story hours before any other media outlet.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on October 14, 2009, 03:37:33 pm

false rumor:

http://www.altpress.com/news/whibleyrumor.htm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on October 14, 2009, 03:38:49 pm

Yes! Good god, blogging fucking blows.

Quote from: Hello Sunshine M! on October 14, 2009, 03:37:33 pm

false rumor:

http://www.altpress.com/news/whibleyrumor.htm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on October 14, 2009, 03:43:06 pm

Al Martino

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on October 14, 2009, 03:50:49 pm

Fucking morons. The world would be a better place if they had a drug cocktail/OD party heaven's gate style.

Quote from: Hello Sunshine M! on October 14, 2009, 03:37:33 pm

false rumor:

http://www.altpress.com/news/whibleyrumor.htm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MonkeyPants on October 14, 2009, 03:55:54 pm

Post of the Week!

Quote from: azaghal1981 on October 14, 2009, 03:50:49 pm

Fucking morons. The world would be a better place if they had a drug cocktail/OD party heaven's gate style.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on October 15, 2009, 11:15:51 am

Does anyone know how the singer of Blink182 died?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on October 15, 2009, 11:17:08 am

Quote from: slappy on October 15, 2009, 11:15:51 am

Does anyone know how the singer of Blink182 died?

My dreams... albeit a few months too late to save ShitFest.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: edbert on October 15, 2009, 12:24:45 pm

Quote from: thatguy on October 14, 2009, 01:36:42 pm

captain lou albano

here's a station ID he did for whfs circa 1982 (600k mp3)...
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=1da79c0c37205ebe4c17ca8801618ef7e04e75f6e8ebb871 (http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=1da79c0c37205ebe4c17ca8801618ef7e04e75f6e8ebb871)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on October 21, 2009, 03:01:35 pm

This isn't the most recent of news at this point but I just heard about it. Thee Michelle Gun Elephant guitarist Futoshi Abe. For those that have never heard them do yourself a favor and check out Gear Blues. Crazed rock 'n roll of the very highest order.

http://twitchfilm.net/news/2009/07/thee-michelle-gun-elephant-guitarist-futoshi-abe-dead-at-forty-three.php

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on October 22, 2009, 08:27:52 am

Vic Mizzy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 23, 2009, 01:07:14 am

Mayella Ewell (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091022/people_nm/us_wilcox)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 23, 2009, 06:26:28 am

Soupy Sales (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/23/soupy.sales/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on October 27, 2009, 02:25:12 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/10/27/dead.celebrities/index.html

Had a private tour with my buddy Scott Michaels (who is quoted in this article) earlier this year, looks like I'm competing with Ryan Seacrest now. Cool.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on October 29, 2009, 12:57:06 pm

This one sucks...Chuck Biscuits. Super nice guy when I met him. Sigh.

http://inlog.org/2009/10/29/r-i-p-chuck-biscuits-1965-2009/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on October 29, 2009, 02:10:00 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8331106.stm

My God!!! That's seriously 'effd up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 29, 2009, 04:58:27 pm

August Coppola -- father to Nicolas Cage and brother to filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola -- has died at the age of 75. (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hqpqOnSFCYwa0b5vIpvgg54bXxPgD9BKUAQ02)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on October 30, 2009, 02:27:13 pm

Chuck Biscuits isn't dead, it was a hoax.

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2009/10/30/hoax-death.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on October 30, 2009, 02:47:27 pm

HA! That's classy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 30, 2009, 02:50:04 pm

No. That's fucked up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 30, 2009, 02:53:51 pm

Read the very last paragraph. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if he sent it himself because he just wanted to be left alone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on October 31, 2009, 09:46:42 am

yeah he wanted to left alone...with his cereal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBv9TReG4MU

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 31, 2009, 01:18:45 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on October 31, 2009, 09:46:42 am

yeah he wanted to left alone...with his cereal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBv9TReG4MU

That guy is the Dupek of Halloween cerals!

Makes you wonder where the throat cancer came from with all those dyes and other garbage loaded up in them. Not saying that's definitely the source but could be.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 03, 2009, 06:09:39 pm

Claude Levi-Strauss

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 03, 2009, 06:33:44 pm

Quote from: ggw on November 03, 2009, 06:09:39 pm

Claude Levi-Strauss

woa... heavy.

but to tell you the truth, i didn't realize he was still alive.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 03, 2009, 07:12:27 pm

Quote from: ggw on November 03, 2009, 06:09:39 pm

Claude Levi-Strauss

I was going to make a joke about between him and Don Fisher SF has lost a lot of it's fashion philanthropists, but you two and maybe venerable would be the only one's that would get it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 03, 2009, 07:27:07 pm

I was going to make a fine young cannibals joke but I was sure no one would get it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 03, 2009, 07:57:58 pm

Quote from: ggw on November 03, 2009, 07:27:07 pm

I was going to make a fine young cannibals joke but I was sure no one would get it.

You underestimate sweetcell, but I'll admit that I would not have not have gotten it immediately though it made perfect sense in hindsight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 08, 2009, 04:06:34 pm

I'll admit the crass level on putting this latest passing in this thread is high....

http://gothamist.com/2009/11/08/wburg_party.php

Brooklyn Drummer Dies After Fall Down Elevator Shaft in Williamsburg

The man who died was Gerhardt (Jerry) Fuchs, drummer for the bands The Juan Maclean and Maserati (and former drummer for !!!); the latter just recently ended a tour. A friend writes that he is survived by his parents, two sisters, a brother, and "an impressive canon of records on which he's performed, countless mouth-agape audiences in awe of his work, dozens of heart-crushed former bandmates, and an endless parade of true friends around the world."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on November 08, 2009, 09:15:38 pm

Very, very sad day. I'm still in shock. The Juan Maclean (at least live) will never be the same without him. RIP Jerry.

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 08, 2009, 04:06:34 pm

I'll admit the crass level on putting this latest passing in this thread is high....

http://gothamist.com/2009/11/08/wburg_party.php

Brooklyn Drummer Dies After Fall Down Elevator Shaft in Williamsburg

The man who died was Gerhardt (Jerry) Fuchs, drummer for the bands The Juan Maclean and Maserati (and former drummer for !!!); the latter just recently ended a tour. A friend writes that he is survived by his parents, two sisters, a brother, and "an impressive canon of records on which he's performed, countless mouth-agape audiences in awe of his work, dozens of heart-crushed former bandmates, and an endless parade of true friends around the world."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 11, 2009, 01:08:32 pm

Carl Ballantine disappears. Sorta. (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-carl-ballantine5-2009nov05,0,6542290.story)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on November 16, 2009, 05:46:39 pm

RIP Ken Ober - host of MTV's Remote Control

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/11/ken_ober_host_o.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on November 16, 2009, 10:04:28 pm

I always like Ken Ober, any thoughts on how he died?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on November 16, 2009, 10:20:51 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on November 16, 2009, 10:04:28 pm

I always like Ken Ober, any thoughts on how he died?

the chair he was sitting in went into the wall.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thirsty moore on November 17, 2009, 11:47:05 am

The Washington Blade, walkonby's source of all news.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 17, 2009, 12:11:45 pm

Edward Woodward star of The Equalizer, Breaker Morant and The Wicker Man

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111602636.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on November 17, 2009, 03:59:46 pm

Quote from: thirsty moore on November 17, 2009, 11:47:05 am

The Washington Blade, walkonby's source of all news.

See, that's like really unfair, man. His homosexuality isn't what defines walkonby, it's his crazy conspiracy theory beliefs. Weekly World News is where he gets his 411.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on November 17, 2009, 06:17:41 pm

Quote from: Julian, Certified WEBLEBRITY on November 17, 2009, 03:59:46 pm

Quote from: thirsty moore on November 17, 2009, 11:47:05 am
The Washington Blade, walkonby's source of all news.
See, that's like really unfair, man. His homosexuality isn't what defines walkonby, it's his crazy conspiracy theory beliefs. Weekly World News is where he gets his 411.

actually . . . i like the christian science moniter. it's where i get all my inside fashion gospel gossip.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 17, 2009, 08:05:15 pm

Quote from: walkonby on November 17, 2009, 06:17:41 pm

Quote from: Julian, Certified WEBLEBRITY on November 17, 2009, 03:59:46 pm
Quote from: thirsty moore on November 17, 2009, 11:47:05 am
The Washington Blade, walkonby's source of all news.
See, that's like really unfair, man. His homosexuality isn't what defines walkonby, it's his crazy conspiracy theory beliefs. Weekly World News is where he gets his 411.

actually . . . i like the christian science moniter. it's where i get all my inside fashion gospel gossip.

Are you a Catholic priest?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on November 17, 2009, 08:48:24 pm

he's a cat preacher ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 17, 2009, 09:04:26 pm

Sy Syms (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2009/11/retailer-sy-syms-dies.html?hpid=news-col-blog)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on November 17, 2009, 11:59:55 pm

Quote from: wml7 on November 17, 2009, 08:48:24 pm

he's a cat preacher ;D

(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/funny-pictures-cat-eats-a-church.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 19, 2009, 06:17:54 pm

November 20, 2009
Jeanne-Claude, Collaborator With Christo, Dies at 74 (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/arts/design/20jeanne-claude.html?hp)
By WILLIAM GRIMES

Jeanne-Claude, who collaborated with her husband, Christo, on dozens of environmental arts projects, notably the wrapping of the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin and the installation of 7,503 vinyl gates with saffron-colored nylon panels in Central Park, died Wednesday in Manhattan, where she lived. She was 74.

The cause was complications of a brain aneurysm, her family told The Associated Press.

Jeanne-Claude met her husband, Christo Javacheff, in Paris in 1958. At the time, Christo, a Bulgarian refugee, was already wrapping small objects. Three years later, they collaborated on their first work, a temporary installation on the docks in Cologne, Germany, that consisted of oil drums and rolls of industrial paper wrapped in tarpaulin.

To avoid confusing dealers and the public, and to establish an artistic brand, they used only Christo?s name. In 1994 they retroactively applied the joint name ?Christo and Jeanne-Claude? to all outdoor works and large-scale temporary indoor installations. Other indoor work was credited to Christo alone.

Their working methods, as described on their Web site, remained constant throughout the years. After jointly conceiving of a project, Christo made drawings, scale models and other preparatory works whose sale financed the project. Working with paid assistants, they did the on-site work: wrapping buildings, trees, walls or bridges; erecting umbrellas (?The Umbrellas,? 1991); spreading pink fabric around islands in Biscayne Bay near Miami (?Surrounded Islands,? 1983).

?We want to create works of art of joy and beauty, which we will build because we believe it will be beautiful,? Jeanne-Claude said in a 2002 interview. ?The only way to see it is to build it. Like every artist, every true artist, we create them for us.?

Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon was born on June 13, 1935, in Casablanca, where her father, an officer in the French military, was stationed. After attending schools in France and Switzerland, she earned a baccalaureate in Latin and philosophy in 1952 from the University of Tunis.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by their son, Cyril Christo.

After working with stacked oil barrels, Jeanne-Claude and Christo moved to New York in 1964 and embarked on ever more daring projects, grander in scale and more theatrical in conception. Seemingly, there was nothing too large to be wrapped. In the late 1960s, they wrapped the Kunsthalle in Bern, one of many buildings to come. At the Documenta exhibition in Kassel, Germany, in 1968, they erected, with the assistance of two giant cranes, an inflated cylindrical fabric ?package,? in appearance a bit like a stretched-out Michelin Man, that stood nearly 280 feet tall.

The collaborations became communal events, during construction and after. Enormous numbers of viewers were attracted to ?The Umbrellas,? installed simultaneously in Ibaraki, Japan, and at the Tejon Ranch in Southern California in 1991. ?The Gates,? a series of flapping bannerlike panels installed in Central Park in 2005, also attracted big crowds during the two weeks that the work lasted, with each visitor handed a small sample of the saffron fabric.

Before Jeanne-Claude?s death, she and Christo were at work on two projects: ?Over the River,? a series of fabric panels to be suspended over the Arkansas River in Colorado, and ?The Mastaba,? a stack of 410,000 oil barrels configured as a mastaba, or truncated rectangular pyramid, envisioned for the United Arab Emirates.

Like all of their projects, these were intended to be temporary, a quality at the heart of the artistic enterprise. Whether executed in oil drum or brightly colored fabric, the art of her and her husband, Jeanne-Claude said, expressed ? the quality of love and tenderness that we human beings have for what does not last.?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on November 20, 2009, 06:43:12 pm

poor julian and his silver spoons. "what you talking about willis?" i enjoied the thread while it lasted, though i knew it would not last long. it made me . . . cum diamonds and pearls as i set forth eyes to read it. boo hiss to those meany moderators.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 20, 2009, 07:55:25 pm

Quote from: walkonby on November 20, 2009, 06:43:12 pm

poor julian and his silver spoons. "what you talking about willis?" i enjoied the thread while it lasted, though i knew it would not last long. it made me . . . cum diamonds and pearls as i set forth eyes to read it. boo hiss to those meany moderators.

So what you're saying here is that if Jule's gets his own blog he'll at least have an audience of one?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: brennser on November 24, 2009, 06:22:36 pm

Abe Pollin RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on December 05, 2009, 07:12:53 pm

Jack Rose

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on December 05, 2009, 07:55:30 pm

Any details? I just saw it on twitter.

Update: He died of a heart attack.

Quote from: Relaxer on December 05, 2009, 07:12:53 pm

Jack Rose

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 06, 2009, 03:06:25 am

Terrible. :(

Anyone who's seen him live knows how much of a privilege/pleasure it always was.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: snailhook on December 06, 2009, 06:10:43 am

jack's death has hit me like a ton of bricks. nathan from the black twigs called me early this afternoon and i've been in shock since.

jack played one of the very first shows i ever booked, and played my house 6 times, once for my birthday in 2005. i probably booked jack more than anybody else, as i thought him to be the best acoustic guitarist on earth. he was a cranky bastard, very opinionated, but he had a warm heart and was a good friend. i saw him two weeks ago when he came out to see chris forsyth, and he was happier than i'd ever seen him, gloating about the successful UK tour he just had with the twigs. he was making a living off of his music (which he never compromised), which is something most of us will never be able to say.

he was only 38. cause of death was apparently a massive heart attack, though i wouldn't be surprised if he had something that he was unaware of. 38 is much too young.

RIP, jack. you certainly touched my soul and affected many others. thanks for making me laugh and for talking about the brilliance of chrome and robbie basho and why most indie-rock is totally boring bullshit. you will be missed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Epstein on December 06, 2009, 02:57:12 pm

truely bummed his work with pelt floored me and followed him since

he was set to play test fest III...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 06, 2009, 03:39:56 pm

So sorry to hear about Jack Rose - particularly for Snailhook who I know was a great fan as well as a friend. I only saw Jack once, when he opened for YLT at the Birchmere. I talked to him after the show and he seemed like a genuinely good guy. He was definitely a great musician.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 06, 2009, 05:30:42 pm

Quote from: Epstein on December 06, 2009, 02:57:12 pm

truely bummed his work with pelt floored me and followed him since

he was set to play test fest III...

I was looking forward to that. It had been too long since he last played DC ("No More Bush" show in August of '08).

Terrascope tribute page (http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Features/Jack_Rose_Obituary.htm)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on December 15, 2009, 04:39:52 pm

Oral Roberts

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on December 16, 2009, 07:47:09 pm

Chris Henry

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on December 17, 2009, 11:13:58 am

Chris Henry just got sent to the showers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on December 17, 2009, 11:14:07 am

So to speak

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on December 20, 2009, 03:28:25 pm

Brittany Murphy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on December 20, 2009, 05:32:05 pm

nice edit on the chris henry there, joe marshmallow or whatever the hell you're called these days

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on December 22, 2009, 07:48:04 pm

The Rain Man (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/12/kim_peek_the_real_rain_main_ha.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on December 24, 2009, 11:34:28 am

Sportscaster George Michael :(
Takin' the Sports Machine to the next level.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on December 29, 2009, 03:32:41 pm

http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/12/29/the-rev-dead/
Avenged Sevenfold Drummer The Rev

(for the record, I don't know their music nor do I receive news from MTV...found via Google news.;))

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thirsty moore on December 30, 2009, 12:44:00 pm

Rowland S. Howard

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thirsty moore on December 30, 2009, 12:44:35 pm

Quote from: Sugartastic Tee on December 29, 2009, 03:32:41 pm

http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/12/29/the-rev-dead/
Avenged Sevenfold Drummer The Rev

(for the record, I don't know their music nor do I receive news from MTV...found via Google news.;))

So you typed in Avenged Sevenfold Drummer in Google news?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on December 30, 2009, 11:52:30 pm

rush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on December 31, 2009, 11:36:23 am

Quote from: thirsty moore on December 30, 2009, 12:44:00 pm

Rowland S. Howard

Bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 31, 2009, 12:28:17 pm

Quote from: walkonby on December 30, 2009, 11:52:30 pm

rush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?

not yet: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/rush-limbaugh-resting-comfortably-honolulu-hospital/story?id=9453986

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on December 31, 2009, 03:08:14 pm

Quote from: thirsty moore on December 30, 2009, 12:44:35 pm

Quote from: Sugartastic Tee on December 29, 2009, 03:32:41 pm
http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/12/29/the-rev-dead/
Avenged Sevenfold Drummer The Rev

(for the record, I don't know their music nor do I receive news from MTV...found via Google news.;))

So you typed in Avenged Sevenfold Drummer in Google news?

Google is my home page. The headline was there under entertainment...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Firebutt McGee on December 31, 2009, 06:15:28 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 31, 2009, 12:28:17 pm

Quote from: walkonby on December 30, 2009, 11:52:30 pm
rush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?

not yet: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/rush-limbaugh-resting-comfortably-honolulu-hospital/story?id=9453986

UGH. Didn't he OD on ambien and booze not too long ago? Wasn't that also for "back pain"? Fuck him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on December 31, 2009, 06:34:18 pm

People like Rush, Cheney, Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller, etc., never die. They have no hearts to fail. They just keep spreading their evilness all over the land for the rest of us, with hearts, to continually suffer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 04, 2010, 02:44:10 pm

Lhasa de Sela.

A real bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on January 04, 2010, 03:18:04 pm

artie lange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: xneverwherex on January 04, 2010, 04:04:06 pm

Remy Zero Drummer Gregory Slay Dies at 40

sad, sad news :( and so young!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 05, 2010, 01:15:31 pm

SANDRO!!!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 05, 2010, 04:12:47 pm

(http://thesuperficial.com/2010/01/05/0105_tila_casey_00.jpg)

no, the one on the right

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on January 05, 2010, 05:32:53 pm

when did it become fashionable and cool for "famous" people to give the finger in pictures . . . which has of course led to everybody thinking it is cool to give the finger in pictures?

. . . . waiting for someone to post a picture of somebody giving me the finger.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on January 05, 2010, 05:40:13 pm

(http://justwilliam1959.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/johnny-cash-finger.jpg)

Probably there.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 05, 2010, 05:43:28 pm

Quote from: walkonby on January 05, 2010, 05:32:53 pm

when did it become fashionable and cool for "famous" people to give the finger in pictures . . . which has of course led to everybody thinking it is cool to give the finger in pictures?

The Cash pic is a great answer, but somewhere along the line famous people learned that the paparazzi couldn't sell a picture to most mainstream magazines if you are giving the finger in the shot.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on January 05, 2010, 11:01:32 pm

Willie Mitchell - producer of Al Green's classic 70's lps on the Hi label, Memphis TN

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on January 05, 2010, 11:01:42 pm

Quote from: xneverwherex on January 04, 2010, 04:04:06 pm

Remy Zero Drummer Gregory Slay Dies at 40

sad, sad news :( and so young!

Just read the news, x. Sad.
Didn't know he wrote the theme to Nip/Tuck.
Former Remy Zero drummer Gregory Slay has died at age 40. The cause was cystic fibrosis, Spinner reports. After the band split in 2003, Slay won an Emmy for the theme to Nip/Tuck. ?Gregory inspired all who had the chance to see him perform, to hear the music that he made or just to be around his bountiful spirit,? the band said in a statement.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on January 05, 2010, 11:34:23 pm

Oh man. While I'm pretty buzzed off the H's (Hendricks and Hennessey VSOP) and stunned at the US' phenomenal collapse in the last 4 minutes of the 3rd period in what looked like a sure hallmark IIHF WJC win, let me comment on Gregory Slay's passing.

I know I'm probably going to get slagged for this, but I really liked Remy Zero when they came out. That first album was all kinds of astronomical and a local radio station in Richmond put together a "Birthday Bash" where they blocked a couple of streets in Shockoe Bottom and brought like 12 bands to town for $5. Most were terrible: Cake, Sugarcult, etc. But 3 were really awesome: Abandoned Pools, Pete Yorn, and Remy Zero. It was the one time I got to see Remy Zero.

I must say, I was disappointed. I have never seen a band with such obvious talent among all the members unable to find a sustainable dynamic. It was like a classic middleweight fight, with every member punching and counter-punching, trying to put themself forward as the de facto frontman, wanting their skills to shine through, to be a sonic Town on a Hill we'd all look up to, but inevitably unable to knock the other members out of the occasion. As sport, it would've been beautiful, but as a group performance it was as embarrassing as it was unyielding.

And ultimately, that's the elements that drove Remy Zero apart relatively young. Had the members simply embraced an insouciance to individual accolade, they could've left their mark, but as it stands, they reside as fickle gossamer in the back of my Julian brain. Whenever I think of Remy Zero, I think of Woody Allen's character's favorite joke from Annie Hall about the two women at the restaurant where the one comments about how bad the food was and the other says, "Oh, I know... and what small portions." Remy Zero was that restaurant... what terrible discord, what shallow selfishness ripped them to shreds, and yet what small portions they left behind. What a loss. What a pointless, pointless loss.

-julian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on January 06, 2010, 12:22:58 am

Oh wait, the US came back to win this in OT. Fuck that guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: xneverwherex on January 06, 2010, 01:41:28 pm

cant believe i missed that game. the world juniors have been exciting to watch!

Quote from: Julian, Certified WEBLEBRITY on January 06, 2010, 12:22:58 am

Oh wait, the US came back to win this in OT. Fuck that guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 07, 2010, 02:52:45 pm

(http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/en/f/f7/%27Beginning%27,_magna_on_canvas_painting_by_Kenneth_Noland,_Hirshhorn_Museum_and_Sculpture_Garden,_1958..jpg) (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/01/07/ST2010010702279.html?sid=ST2010010702279)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 07, 2010, 03:33:39 pm

Quote from: Julian, Certified WEBLEBRITY on January 06, 2010, 12:22:58 am

Oh wait, the US came back to win this in OT. Fuck that guy.

POTW.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on January 07, 2010, 04:14:05 pm

Quote from: walkonby on January 04, 2010, 03:18:04 pm

artie lange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?

oh wow!!! man that sucks. i hope he gets all the help he needs and makes a hell of a comeback!

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_seVd99frSks/Sw3M1xk_NQI/AAAAAAAAAJk/GquFdzG5e2w/s400/funny-pictures-sad-cat-blackandwhite.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on January 09, 2010, 11:35:27 am

(http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2005/05/14/gumby-inside.jpg)

goodbye . . . mister genius. you made my childhood.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on January 10, 2010, 12:56:07 am

Ive been neglecting the Stern show as of late... I didnt even hear about Artie till reading this. Shit, what the hell.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on January 10, 2010, 02:29:32 pm

Good observations about Remy Zero, Julian. Check out some of Gregory's side projects / music.
Also, I'm not sure of the entire connection or back story, but I think he played drums for Laura Burhenn last spring.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on January 11, 2010, 11:13:33 am

Quote from: killsaly on January 10, 2010, 12:56:07 am

Ive been neglecting the Stern show as of late... I didnt even hear about Artie till reading this. Shit, what the hell.

Lisa G broke down on air this morning about Artie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 13, 2010, 04:40:07 pm

There's a rumor floating around that Jay Reatard has fled this mortal coil

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on January 13, 2010, 04:59:12 pm

That doesn't look good:

http://www.goner-records.com/board/index.php

Quote from: Relaxer on January 13, 2010, 04:40:07 pm

There's a rumor floating around that Jay Reatard has fled this mortal coil

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 13, 2010, 05:16:31 pm

Quote from: nkotb on January 13, 2010, 04:59:12 pm

That doesn't look good:

http://www.goner-records.com/board/index.php

Quote from: Relaxer on January 13, 2010, 04:40:07 pm
There's a rumor floating around that Jay Reatard has fled this mortal coil

that goner recs board won't load for me, but i found this: http://www.spinner.com/2010/01/13/jay-reatard-death/

Memphis garage rocker Jay Reatard has died at 29. Goner Records, which has put out several of Reatard's releases, confirmed the news on its website, saying "It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our good friend Jay Reatard. Jay died in his sleep last night. We will pass along information about funeral arrangements when they are made public."

According to news outlet Commercial Appeal, Reatard -- whose real name was Jay Lindsey -- was found dead in his Midtown Memphis home at 3:30AM Wednesday morning. Memphis police spokesperson Jennifer Robinson said that an investigation is ongoing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 13, 2010, 05:25:33 pm

Been an awful couple months for the music world. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 13, 2010, 05:30:39 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on January 13, 2010, 04:40:07 pm

There's a rumor floating around that Jay Reatard has fled this mortal coil

My first thought on this was that he was pulling a Johnny Quid from RocknRolla, but it's not looking good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on January 13, 2010, 05:34:05 pm

HeWhoCannotBeNamed

Quote from: vansmack on January 13, 2010, 05:30:39 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on January 13, 2010, 04:40:07 pm
There's a rumor floating around that Jay Reatard has fled this mortal coil

My first thought on this was that he was pulling a Johnny Quid from RocknRolla, but it's not looking good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 13, 2010, 05:38:46 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 13, 2010, 05:30:39 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on January 13, 2010, 04:40:07 pm
There's a rumor floating around that Jay Reatard has fled this mortal coil

My first thought on this was that he was pulling a Johnny Quid from RocknRolla, but it's not looking good.

Man I just watched 3/4 of this movie the other day and vehemently disliked it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on January 13, 2010, 05:58:57 pm

http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/01/13/jay-reatard-confirmed-dead/

More about Jay

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on January 13, 2010, 05:59:31 pm

Man, I feel really bad that I see a story like that and my immediate thought goes to: cocaine.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on January 13, 2010, 06:01:34 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on January 13, 2010, 05:38:46 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 13, 2010, 05:30:39 pm
Quote from: Relaxer on January 13, 2010, 04:40:07 pm
There's a rumor floating around that Jay Reatard has fled this mortal coil

My first thought on this was that he was pulling a Johnny Quid from RocknRolla, but it's not looking good.

Man I just watched 3/4 of this movie the other day and vehemently disliked it

Thats sad about Jay....
I might be in the minority, but i liked that movie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on January 13, 2010, 06:01:55 pm

Saw him open up for the pixies when they just played DAR. First time seeing him and I was quite impressed, sad news and so young.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: godsshoeshine on January 13, 2010, 06:22:39 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 13, 2010, 08:40:27 pm

Quote from: killsaly on January 13, 2010, 06:01:34 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on January 13, 2010, 05:38:46 pm
Man I just watched 3/4 of this movie the other day and vehemently disliked it
I might be in the minority, but i liked that movie.

I'm in the Realxer camp on this one. You're lucky you turned it off - they had the audacity to announce a sequel at the end featuring Johnny Quid.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 14, 2010, 12:59:21 am

Teddy Pendergrass

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on January 14, 2010, 03:55:50 am

wax trax co-founder dannie flesher (http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2010/01/wax-trax-cofounder-dannie-flesher-dies-at-57.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 14, 2010, 11:16:38 am

Quote from: wml7 on January 13, 2010, 05:58:57 pm

http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/01/13/jay-reatard-confirmed-dead/

More about Jay

Well that really sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on January 14, 2010, 09:25:18 pm

hmmmm, now reports saying could be homicide with Reatard
http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/01/14/jay-reatard-death-investigated-as-homicide/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on January 19, 2010, 10:30:43 am

RIP Kate McGarrigle :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on January 20, 2010, 05:13:17 pm

Quote from: wml7 on January 14, 2010, 09:25:18 pm

hmmmm, now reports saying could be homicide with Reatard
http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/01/14/jay-reatard-death-investigated-as-homicide/

i love the comment on the story, claiming jay would freebase coke (while with liquor store) out of a skull shaped bong and leaving large amounts of money lying around that he would light on fire while out of his gourd . . . yeah, that part was good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Darth Ed on January 20, 2010, 06:09:03 pm

Quote from: wml7 on January 13, 2010, 06:01:55 pm

Saw him open up for the pixies when they just played DAR. First time seeing him and I was quite impressed, sad news and so young.

Same here on all accounts. I'm stunned. My friends and I were all very impressed by his performance at the Pixies show. What a loss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 22, 2010, 11:46:12 am

The Life and Death of Alan Carton, 23, the RIAA-Defying Creator of @diditleak

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/01/the_life_and_de.php

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on January 22, 2010, 05:32:18 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 22, 2010, 11:46:12 am

The Life and Death of Alan Carton, 23, the RIAA-Defying Creator of @diditleak

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/01/the_life_and_de.php

Jeez..this was a sad, sad read.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Ardamus on January 22, 2010, 07:37:12 pm

http://www.allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2010/01/22/22104395.aspx (http://www.allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2010/01/22/22104395.aspx)

rest in peace to Apache.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on January 23, 2010, 01:51:26 am

Robert B Parker, Novelist of the Spenser detective Series (http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2010/01/19/spenser_novelist_robert_parker_dies_in_mass/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on January 25, 2010, 02:29:09 pm

Quote from: Ardamus on January 22, 2010, 07:37:12 pm

http://www.allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2010/01/22/22104395.aspx (http://www.allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2010/01/22/22104395.aspx)

rest in peace to Apache.

i thought you were talking about this guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viL3E_1zqU4)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 25, 2010, 04:24:51 pm

Jean Simmons (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100125/ap_on_en_mo/us_obit_jean_simmons_1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 27, 2010, 09:08:02 pm

Howard Zinn is history. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/27/AR2010012704219_pf.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 28, 2010, 02:14:45 pm

JD Salinger
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9688535 (http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9688535)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on January 28, 2010, 04:20:37 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on January 28, 2010, 02:14:45 pm

JD Salinger
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9688535 (http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9688535)

now lennon can slap the inspirational bitch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 28, 2010, 04:51:46 pm

wait, yoko died?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on January 28, 2010, 07:12:42 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on January 28, 2010, 04:51:46 pm

wait, yoko died?

darling . . . when it comes to inspiration, ono is the loneliest number.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on January 28, 2010, 08:51:13 pm

Go into the light, Carol Ann (http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/28/zelda.rubinstein.obit/index.html?hpt=T2)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on January 28, 2010, 09:38:29 pm

Quote from: walkonby on January 28, 2010, 07:12:42 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on January 28, 2010, 04:51:46 pm
wait, yoko died?

darling . . . when it comes to inspiration, ono is the loneliest number.

Good one!

Evil never dies; therefore, Ono lives on to torment our weary souls.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on January 29, 2010, 05:59:28 pm

Quote from: chaz on January 22, 2010, 05:32:18 pm

Jeez..this was a sad, sad read.

It sure was. But that kid was amazing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 30, 2010, 04:24:33 pm

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on January 29, 2010, 05:59:28 pm

Quote from: chaz on January 22, 2010, 05:32:18 pm

Jeez..this was a sad, sad read.

Agreed.

It sure was. But that kid was amazing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 03, 2010, 03:42:40 pm

Quote from: wml7 on January 14, 2010, 09:25:18 pm

hmmmm, now reports saying could be homicide with Reatard
http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/01/14/jay-reatard-death-investigated-as-homicide/

Cocaine toxicity and alcohol (http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/feb/03/medical-examiner-cites-cocaine-toxicity-alcohol-de/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 10, 2010, 05:37:29 pm

Capt. Phil Harris of TV's 'Deadliest Catch' dies after stroke
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/10/obit.captain.phil.deadliest.catch/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 10, 2010, 06:41:00 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 10, 2010, 05:37:29 pm

Capt. Phil Harris of TV's 'Deadliest Catch' dies after stroke
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/10/obit.captain.phil.deadliest.catch/index.html

I'm surprised he lived this long. Was it last season he was taken off the boat with some sort of lung issues? This guy was the color of paste and looked like he was ready to keel over at any moment. I like that show and dig most of the captains. I liked him too. He had a bunch of his boys on the boat with him. Sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on February 10, 2010, 09:00:50 pm

Fightclub DC (http://www.myspace.com/fightclubdc)

Another DIY space that DC doesn't have.

First Lighthouse and Kansas House and now this. Bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on February 11, 2010, 11:57:02 am

no way!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100211/ap_on_en_ot/eu_britain_obit_mcqueen

drug overdose? killed? he was only 40!!! good lord.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on February 11, 2010, 01:15:13 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 11, 2010, 11:57:02 am

no way!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100211/ap_on_en_ot/eu_britain_obit_mcqueen

drug overdose? killed? he was only 40!!! good lord.

9/11 pales in comparison to this tragedy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on February 11, 2010, 01:44:17 pm

Quote from: Julian, Certified WEBLEBRITY on February 11, 2010, 01:15:13 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 11, 2010, 11:57:02 am
no way!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100211/ap_on_en_ot/eu_britain_obit_mcqueen

drug overdose? killed? he was only 40!!! good lord.
9/11 pales in comparison to this tragedy.

but was it an inside job . . . where the police photos will be released ten years from now?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 11, 2010, 04:02:30 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 11, 2010, 11:57:02 am

no way!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100211/ap_on_en_ot/eu_britain_obit_mcqueen

drug overdose? killed? he was only 40!!! good lord.

Suicide.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/fashion/12mcqueen.html?hp

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on February 12, 2010, 07:36:49 pm

Walter Fredrick Morrison, The Inventor of the Frisbee (http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20100211/NEWS06/100211042/0/BUSINESS/Frisbee-inventor-dies-at-90)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 14, 2010, 04:58:22 pm

Knack lead singer Doug Fieger dies of cancer

http://detnews.com/article/20100214/METRO/2140317/Knack-lead-singer-Doug-Fieger-dies-of-cancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 19, 2010, 07:52:53 pm

Dale Hawkins Dies at 73; Rockabilly Author of ?Susie Q?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/arts/music/18hawkins.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on February 19, 2010, 08:49:45 pm

Fuddrucker's in Richmond. The only one in the city. Going to be replaced by a Buzz & Ned's BBQ.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/entertainment/dining/article/W-WTAB0211_20100210-192008/323443/

I dont know, seemed like the right place to put this. Sad news for us Richmonders.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 19, 2010, 09:11:33 pm

Quote from: betao on February 19, 2010, 08:49:45 pm

Fuddrucker's in Richmond. The only one in the city. Going to be replaced by a Buzz & Ned's BBQ.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/entertainment/dining/article/W-WTAB0211_20100210-192008/323443/

I dont know, seemed like the right place to put this. Sad news for us Richmonders.

Wow, if that's sad new in Richmond, Richmond must really be lacking good food.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on February 19, 2010, 09:19:17 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 19, 2010, 09:11:33 pm

Quote from: betao on February 19, 2010, 08:49:45 pm
Fuddrucker's in Richmond. The only one in the city. Going to be replaced by a Buzz & Ned's BBQ.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/entertainment/dining/article/W-WTAB0211_20100210-192008/323443/

I dont know, seemed like the right place to put this. Sad news for us Richmonders.

Wow, if that's sad new in Richmond, Richmond must really be lacking good food.

Yeah, really, betao? Losing a cruddy chain restaurant is sad news? 1 North Belmont shutting down was sad news. Enoteca Sogno and Verbena getting moved/permanently remodeled is sad news.

To each their own I guess.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on February 20, 2010, 03:03:44 pm

Well, to each their own indeed. I love the place and have fond memories of going there when I was young (used to live very close to it). Maybe it's just a personal thing I guess.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 20, 2010, 05:29:57 pm

Quote from: betao on February 20, 2010, 03:03:44 pm

Well, to each their own indeed. I love the place and have fond memories of going there when I was young (used to live very close to it). Maybe it's just a personal thing I guess.

I much prefer Fudds to Five Guys. FG won't cook anything less than well-done (i.e. dried the hell out) while I can get medium-rare at Fudds. FG is far more likely to get onions in my order >:(. Really, Five Guys is by far the most overrated restaurant I know.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on February 21, 2010, 12:13:38 am

What I like better about Fudds are their buns made from scratch. Those things are delicious.

I dont know, I have a personal thing for Fudds. I have fond memories of when I was a kid playing rec soccer, and having our post-season parties there. I'll miss it even if others wont.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 21, 2010, 02:17:48 am

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on February 20, 2010, 05:29:57 pm

Quote from: betao on February 20, 2010, 03:03:44 pm
Well, to each their own indeed. I love the place and have fond memories of going there when I was young (used to live very close to it). Maybe it's just a personal thing I guess.

I much prefer Fudds to Five Guys. FG won't cook anything less than well-done (i.e. dried the hell out) while I can get medium-rare at Fudds. FG is far more likely to get onions in my order >:(. Really, Five Guys is by far the most overrated restaurant I know.

What are you saying? That the people who like FG are "overrating" it?

THe place is doing gangbusters business and like 10 new ones opening up every day..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 21, 2010, 09:11:06 am

Quote from: hutch on February 21, 2010, 02:17:48 am

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on February 20, 2010, 05:29:57 pm
Quote from: betao on February 20, 2010, 03:03:44 pm
Well, to each their own indeed. I love the place and have fond memories of going there when I was young (used to live very close to it). Maybe it's just a personal thing I guess.

I much prefer Fudds to Five Guys. FG won't cook anything less than well-done (i.e. dried the hell out) while I can get medium-rare at Fudds. FG is far more likely to get onions in my order >:(. Really, Five Guys is by far the most overrated restaurant I know.

What are you saying? That the people who like FG are "overrating" it?

THe place is doing gangbusters business and like 10 new ones opening up every day..

And Bud Light is the most popular beer in America.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 21, 2010, 11:40:59 am

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on February 20, 2010, 05:29:57 pm

Quote from: betao on February 20, 2010, 03:03:44 pm
Well, to each their own indeed. I love the place and have fond memories of going there when I was young (used to live very close to it). Maybe it's just a personal thing I guess.

I much prefer Fudds to Five Guys. FG won't cook anything less than well-done (i.e. dried the hell out) while I can get medium-rare at Fudds. FG is far more likely to get onions in my order >:(. Really, Five Guys is by far the most overrated restaurant I know.

The original FG on Columbia Pike in Arlington was so fucking good. They got their buns from a bakery right next door. Not sure why that one closed, but it was great. I tried Elavation Burger in arlington the other day. Tasty, but totally overpriced.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on February 21, 2010, 12:13:50 pm

does the fact that five guys, not fg, but five guys . . . being owned by ex members of the redskins have anything to do with their popularity here? kind of like if five members of the steelers opened a bakery hut called the "working man's bunns" franchise across pennsylvania?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 21, 2010, 01:12:58 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 21, 2010, 02:17:48 am

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on February 20, 2010, 05:29:57 pm
Quote from: betao on February 20, 2010, 03:03:44 pm
Well, to each their own indeed. I love the place and have fond memories of going there when I was young (used to live very close to it). Maybe it's just a personal thing I guess.

I much prefer Fudds to Five Guys. FG won't cook anything less than well-done (i.e. dried the hell out) while I can get medium-rare at Fudds. FG is far more likely to get onions in my order >:(. Really, Five Guys is by far the most overrated restaurant I know.

What are you saying? That the people who like FG are "overrating" it?

THe place is doing gangbusters business and like 10 new ones opening up every day..

They are certainly convenient.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 21, 2010, 01:15:26 pm

Oh shit! We almost forgot.

Al Haig is no longer in control. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/20/AR2010022001270.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 21, 2010, 01:59:49 pm

Five Guys is not owned by ex-Redskins. Mark Moseley works for the founders-owners.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on February 21, 2010, 02:13:29 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 21, 2010, 01:59:49 pm

Five Guys is not owned by ex-Redskins. Mark Moseley works for the founders-owners.

oh . . . and here all this time i thought 5 guys meant 5 ex-redskins players opened it. where i live out in the country, they opened a 5 guys right off the interstate exit ramp. perfect location one would think. it lasted less than a year due to the locals thinking it was crap. the space is now a mexican restaurant and does excellent business.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 21, 2010, 03:25:22 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on February 20, 2010, 05:29:57 pm

Quote from: betao on February 20, 2010, 03:03:44 pm
Well, to each their own indeed. I love the place and have fond memories of going there when I was young (used to live very close to it). Maybe it's just a personal thing I guess.

I much prefer Fudds to Five Guys. FG won't cook anything less than well-done (i.e. dried the hell out) while I can get medium-rare at Fudds. FG is far more likely to get onions in my order >:(. Really, Five Guys is by far the most overrated restaurant I know.

Sounds like you and I enjoy and avoid the same foods. But, you forgot to add all the extra grease that Five Guys adds! :-X :( :'( :-\ >:(

That place is one of the most disgusting places that I've ever eaten on Earth! Ate there once, years ago, with Markie, Lulu and Kosmo and have avoided the place since. Felt sick the entire night from all the grease in their horrible food. Was also flabbergasted because I couldn't for the life of me figure out why so many others had raved about the place. It was definietly a new low in my life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on February 22, 2010, 11:09:48 pm

dick . . . . . . . . ?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 23, 2010, 02:34:22 pm

If you keep eating at 5 Guys, you may make this list sooner than later.

According to this article (http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/46018/americas-worst-french-fries-and-what-you-should-eat-instead):

Worst Regular Order of Fries
Five Guys Fries (large)
1,464 calories
71 g fat (14 g saturated)
213 mg sodium

Quote from: Jaguar on February 21, 2010, 03:25:22 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on February 20, 2010, 05:29:57 pm
Quote from: betao on February 20, 2010, 03:03:44 pm
Well, to each their own indeed. I love the place and have fond memories of going there when I was young (used to live very close to it). Maybe it's just a personal thing I guess.

I much prefer Fudds to Five Guys. FG won't cook anything less than well-done (i.e. dried the hell out) while I can get medium-rare at Fudds. FG is far more likely to get onions in my order >:(. Really, Five Guys is by far the most overrated restaurant I know.

Sounds like you and I enjoy and avoid the same foods. But, you forgot to add all the extra grease that Five Guys adds! :-X :( :'( :-\ >:(

That place is one of the most disgusting places that I've ever eaten on Earth! Ate there once, years ago, with Markie, Lulu and Kosmo and have avoided the place since. Felt sick the entire night from all the grease in their horrible food. Was also flabbergasted because I couldn't for the life of me figure out why so many others had raved about the place. It was definietly a new low in my life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 23, 2010, 03:26:40 pm

To be fair, a small order of fries from that place is more than enough for two people. I'm sure a large is enough for three or four.

That said, Americans are not much for moderation. And when i say "people" I'm referring to me and my normal sized friends.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 23, 2010, 03:28:18 pm

Quote from: chaz on February 23, 2010, 03:26:40 pm

To be fair, a small order of fries from that place is more than enough for two people. I'm sure a large is enough for three or four.

That said, Americans are not much for moderation. And when i say "people" I'm referring to me and my normal sized friends.

How many large orders you reckon Kevin Smith can put away?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on February 23, 2010, 03:57:21 pm

Quote

where i live out in the country, they opened a 5 guys right off the interstate exit ramp. perfect location one would think. it lasted less than a year due to the locals thinking it was crap. the space is now a mexican restaurant and does excellent business.

I know that exit - I often stop there on my way down to Blacksburg. I was really surprised when I saw it had closed.

I think the problem there is they were competing with all the other fast food chain restaurants.

There's another one about 60 miles down the road that seems to do pretty well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: saco on February 24, 2010, 04:04:42 pm

Mosi Tatupu dead at 54.

(http://www.patriotsplanet.net/images/PatriotsPlanet/History/Memorabilia/Topps/1984/Front/333-MosiTatupu.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on February 24, 2010, 04:32:03 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 22, 2010, 11:09:48 pm

dick . . . . . . . . ?

damn . . . he pulled through.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 25, 2010, 06:49:31 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 21, 2010, 02:13:29 pm

the space is now a mexican restaurant and does excellent business.

not so excellent:

(http://hackedirl.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/129104600016937018.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 25, 2010, 11:48:02 pm

Andrew Koenig's Body Found in Vancouver Park (http://omg.yahoo.com/news/andrew-koenigs-body-found-in-vancouver-park/36485?nchttp://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/tv.tvguide.com/tv.tvguide.com-andrew-koenigs-body-found-vancouver)

We are just starting to enter the season for manic depressive suicides so expect to see a few more of these, though most probably won't be anyone with a high enough public profile to make it to this thread. Would be great if it's because it just isn't happening but, sadly, that's just not the norm.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 26, 2010, 08:52:12 am

Quote from: Jaguar on February 25, 2010, 11:48:02 pm

Andrew Koenig's Body Found in Vancouver Park (http://omg.yahoo.com/news/andrew-koenigs-body-found-in-vancouver-park/36485?nchttp://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/tv.tvguide.com/tv.tvguide.com-andrew-koenigs-body-found-vancouver)

We are just starting to enter the season for manic depressive suicides so expect to see a few more of these, though most probably won't be anyone with a high enough public profile to make it to this thread. Would be great if it's because it just isn't happening but, sadly, that's just not the norm.

Back in the day, I watched Growing Pains with religious fervor. Sure, Kirk Cameron was God to most, but back then I told myself, "This guy's the guy to watch out for. This guy is going to be huge. This guy is going to star in multiple Scorcese films. This guy is going to date exotic foreign models. This guy is going to be a spokesperson for the Green movement. This guy is going to be KING OF THE WORLD!"

But alas, it never came to be.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on February 26, 2010, 10:59:04 am

Quote from: Jaguar on February 25, 2010, 11:48:02 pm

Would be great if it's because it just isn't happening but, sadly, that's just not the norm.

Do you mean it would be great if knowledge about depression were made more public? If so, I agree. Poor Andrew and his parents.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 26, 2010, 11:25:59 am

Quote from: Sugartastic Tee on February 26, 2010, 10:59:04 am

Quote from: Jaguar on February 25, 2010, 11:48:02 pm
Would be great if it's because it just isn't happening but, sadly, that's just not the norm.
Do you mean it would be great if knowledge about depression were made more public? If so, I agree. Poor Andrew and his parents.

Actually, I meant that, hopefully, no more suicides. But getting the knowledge out there is good too.

Contrary to popular belief, it's usually the manic depressives (they swing both ways on the mood scales), not the uni-polar depressives, who end up commiting suicide. Don't know a thing about Andrew's case. Don't even know if he was a manic depressive but I bet you he was. Though I remember the name, I can't even remember the tv show! (Must have aired during one of my long bouts of ignoring tv. Or maybe I just didn't like the show.)

For friends and family members of manic depressives: Be especially cognizant when they are about ready to dip out of their manic stages. That's when they tend to be the most suicide prone.

* No, I am not a manic depressive. I just had some excellent training on the subject but, also, I am not a professional; so, take this info as you will.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on March 01, 2010, 03:18:13 pm

t-bone wolk (http://www.billboard.com/news/hall-oates-bassist-t-bone-wolk-dies-1004071711.story#/news/hall-oates-bassist-t-bone-wolk-dies-1004071711.story)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on March 07, 2010, 01:31:13 am

Mark Linkous (http://pitchfork.com/news/38114-rip-sparklehorses-mark-linkous/)

Shit...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on March 07, 2010, 08:36:20 am

i think he opened for the latin playboys (los lobos side project) about 10 yrs ago at the club - very cool evening

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on March 07, 2010, 10:58:42 am

the internet killed the musical star. then it killed the hard working vhs video store owner. next it will kill the movie industry and television hollywood equation in one final swoop . . . but not before it kills little babies. die, non electronic toy, die.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/07/south.korea.baby.dead/index.html?hpt=T2

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on March 07, 2010, 11:04:40 am

Quote from: gaaaaaaaaah on March 07, 2010, 01:31:13 am

Mark Linkous (http://pitchfork.com/news/38114-rip-sparklehorses-mark-linkous/)

Shit...

Shit is right. One of my five favorite acts of all time. We used to live about 2 miles apart. :( :( :( :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 07, 2010, 01:53:03 pm

Wow, that's a buzzkill :(

Quote from: gaaaaaaaaah on March 07, 2010, 01:31:13 am

Mark Linkous (http://pitchfork.com/news/38114-rip-sparklehorses-mark-linkous/)

Shit...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on March 07, 2010, 03:24:01 pm

sad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpae8Nn3_iw

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 08, 2010, 02:23:43 pm

God i find myself being really really bummed about Mark Linkous. Both as a huge huge fan, and a former Richmonder with many friends who have lost a friend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on March 08, 2010, 02:59:58 pm

This Linkous thing has really bummed me out too. Such a talent.

I walked by the studio in Richmond where he recorded some of Vivadixie today. Chilling.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on March 08, 2010, 04:18:36 pm

Yeah I pulled out my auto'd copy of Vivadixie earlier and it made me sad. I remember running into him at a Food Lion when I was like 19 and thinking it was the coolest thing ever that someone that talented lived near me. :(

I hope that 5th album that was "almost completed" comes out in some form a la In A Basement On A Hill.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on March 08, 2010, 04:54:12 pm

He was recording it with Steve Albini. Should be very interesting to hear.

Musician's deaths don't usually hit me like this. But Sparklehorse was a top 5 band for me. I've been listening to Good Morning Spider a lot since I found out, and Happy Man is a pretty powerful song right now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on March 08, 2010, 05:22:53 pm

So they are saying he shot himself in the chest after getting upset over a text message

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iT6ceh9L_ixUa2SuS8ntI-k0QZbQD9EAM1180

I also had a question was he permenantly crippled from his last incident?? Like was he wheel chair bound?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 08, 2010, 05:24:38 pm

He wasn't in a wheelchair but i think he had to wear braces on his legs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 08, 2010, 05:42:07 pm

Quote from: wml7 on March 08, 2010, 05:22:53 pm

I also had a question was he permenantly crippled from his last incident?? Like was he wheel chair bound?

While on tour in 1996, Mr. Linkous collapsed in a hotel room after taking Valium and antidepressants. He briefly went into cardiac arrest before being revived, and he sustained injuries to his legs that put him in a wheelchair for six months. His legs never fully recovered their strength. His convalescence inspired ?St. Mary,? a song on his second album named after the hospital where he recuperated. ?Come on boys,? he sings, ?please let me taste the clean air in my lungs.?
NYT obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/arts/music/08linkous.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on March 08, 2010, 05:56:23 pm

Quote from: chaz on March 08, 2010, 05:24:38 pm

He wasn't in a wheelchair but i think he had to wear braces on his legs.

I never saw him perform with braces on his legs and I saw him several times after that. Although, in theory, he could've had them on under his pants.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 08, 2010, 06:09:28 pm

Quote from: Julian, Certified WEBLEBRITY on March 08, 2010, 05:56:23 pm

Quote from: chaz on March 08, 2010, 05:24:38 pm
He wasn't in a wheelchair but i think he had to wear braces on his legs.
I never saw him perform with braces on his legs and I saw him several times after that. Although, in theory, he could've had them on under his pants.

LA times and Billboard obits both mentioned leg braces, but really who cares...RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on March 08, 2010, 07:34:49 pm

don't you guys find it odd that all these people in the famous world are offing themselves?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on March 10, 2010, 09:32:33 am

Corey Haim (http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/10/corey-haim-dead-died-death-lapd-overdose-corey-feldman-lost-boys-two-coreys/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 10, 2010, 02:31:54 pm

Quote from: eros on March 10, 2010, 09:32:33 am

Corey Haim (http://www.tmz.com/2010/03/10/corey-haim-dead-died-death-lapd-overdose-corey-feldman-lost-boys-two-coreys/)

Texts From This Morning:

Smackette: Lost Boy Down...
Smackie: Haim or Feldman?
Smackette: Haim.
Smackie: Suicide?
Smackette: I was assuming OD....
Smackie: Just checked TMZ. 4 prescriptions bottles found by his body. I'm going with both.
Smackette: Can't say I'm surprised
Smackie: 15 yrs ago I would have been surprised it was Haim and not Feldman but not today.
Smackette: Yeah
Smackie: At least he banged Nicole Eggert before going out - he's go that going for him...
Smackette: But it was pre-boob job. Not sure it still counts
Smackie: Touche

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on March 11, 2010, 12:07:39 am

How terrible is it that when I heard of Corey Haim's passing, in my mind I visualized Feldman. Never could keep those two straight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on March 11, 2010, 12:37:26 am

We need more recaps of conversations between Smackie and Mrs. Smackie and less between Rhett and Celeste.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 11, 2010, 01:00:24 am

how can you say that? i'm informed that celeste is as attractive as smackette. don't hate on the beautiful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 11, 2010, 02:52:16 pm

Merlin Olsen (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/sports/football/12olsen.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 15, 2010, 02:35:12 am

Peter Graves (http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/14/obit.peter.graves/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 17, 2010, 09:30:21 pm

Alex Chilton :(

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/mar/17/memphis-musician-alex-chilton-dies/

Bummed beyond belief at the moment.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bellenseb on March 17, 2010, 10:41:16 pm

Alex Chilton, Sparklehorse, Vic Chesnutt...my record collection is dying off FAST.

Chilton is a real bummer - never saw him in the reunited Big Star. In all the years he's played with the Posies, did they ever play DC? Feel like they played other cities all the time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 17, 2010, 10:44:43 pm

No DC dates for the Posiefied Big Star, I sure hope someone filmed one of those recent shows. It will be interesting to see what comes of their scheduled SXSW appearance. If it turns into a tribute show, I doubt there will be dry eye in the house.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 18, 2010, 01:47:36 pm

(http://insatiable-critic.com/Images/JamieGreatcopy(2edit).jpg)

Jamie Gillis, a legend in adult films during the Golden Era of porn, is dead at 66

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on March 23, 2010, 08:00:37 pm

WOXY (http://pitchfork.com/news/38251-woxy-suspends-live-broadcasts)

Can't say I listened to the actual station with any regularity, but some of my favorite podcasts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 25, 2010, 12:33:06 am

Jim Marshall, Rock ?n? Roll Photographer, Dies at 74 (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/arts/music/25marshall.html?hpw)

By BEN SISARIO
Jim Marshall, a photographer whose images of Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash and others in the 1960s and ?70s helped define their subjects as well as rock ?n? roll photography itself, died overnight on Tuesday in a hotel in New York. He was 74.

His death was confirmed by Peter Blachley of the Morrison Hotel Gallery, which represents him in New York. The cause was not immediately known, but Mr. Blachley said that Mr. Marshall had died in his sleep.

Mr. Marshall, who lived in San Francisco, was in New York to promote ?Match Prints,? his new book with his friend and fellow photographer Timothy White. They had been scheduled to appear at an event at the John Varvatos clothing store in SoHo on Wednesday evening. An exhibition of photographs from the book is to open on Friday at the Staley-Wise Gallery, also in SoHo.

In crisp photographs, shot mostly in black and white and with a stable of trusty Leica rangefinders, Mr. Marshall captured pop stars in their full onstage glory, as well as in unguarded offstage scenes that humanized them as approachable or vulnerable.

(http://www.smashboxstudios.com/yello/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/johnnycashmn72-500x317.jpg)

Among his most famous pictures are Hendrix setting his guitar aflame at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967, which established Hendrix?s early reputation as a wild man; Cash angrily gesturing with his middle finger while at the San Quentin State Prison in 1969; a boyish Bob Dylan following a stray tire down a New York street in 1963; and Janis Joplin clutching a bottle of Southern Comfort backstage in 1968.

To get those pictures he insisted on extraordinary access, and usually got it. He was a favored portraitist for many of his subjects, who sometimes allowed him to follow them for days. He was the only photographer allowed backstage for the Beatles? 1966 farewell concert in San Francisco, was at Woodstock in 1969, and shot the Rolling Stones? 1972 tour on assignment for Life magazine.

Annie Leibovitz once called him ?the rock ?n? roll photographer.?

(http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/.a/6a00df351e888f8834011570ed9ccf970b-450wi)

With an imposing figure and gruff, forceful personality, Mr. Marshall was something of a rock star himself, and musicians respected him as much for his pictures as for his dedication to getting them. Yet he saw his work largely in photojournalistic terms, capturing a natural scene instead of staging an artificial one.

?When I?m photographing people, I don?t like to give any direction,? he wrote in the introduction to his 1997 retrospective book, ?Not Fade Away.? ?There are no hair people fussing around, no make-up artists. I?m like a reporter, only with a camera; I react to my subject in their environment, and, if it?s going well, I get so immersed in it that I become one with the camera.?

Born in Chicago on Feb. 3, 1936, he moved with his family to San Francisco two years later. His father, a housepainter, left when he was a boy, and his mother worked in a laundry. As a child he enjoyed playing with his Kodak Brownie, but it was not until about 1960 that Mr. Marshall, equipped with his first Leica M2, found his calling through a chance encounter with John Coltrane. ?He asked me for directions to a club,? he said in a 2004 interview. ?I told him I?d pick him up and take him there if he?d let me take his picture.?

(http://www.doubleexposure.com/uploads/allman_brothers.jpg)

In addition to Coltrane, he shot Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and other jazz stars, but he is best known for his extensive catalog of 1960s and ?70s rockers, which includes most of the San Francisco psychedelic groups as well as Jim Morrison, the Who, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young and the Allman Brothers Band.

In 1962 Mr. Marshall moved to Greenwich Village, where his neighbors included Mr. Dylan and Judy Collins. But after two years he returned to San Francisco, where he remained. In his career he shot for Rolling Stone and other magazines and had more than 500 album cover credits.

No immediate family members survive.

Mr. Marshall spoke candidly about how his cocaine addiction had sidelined his career in the mid-1970s. By the late 1980s he had re-emerged, and his skills ? and prestige ? were often in demand by younger musicians like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Cult. He had numerous gallery shows in recent years, and some of his work was included in the Brooklyn Museum?s exhibition ?Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present,? which ran from October to January.

?A lot of photography of music is about the look, the style, the celebrity image,? said Gail Buckland, the curator of that show. But Mr. Marshall, she added, ?wasn?t really manufacturing an image.?

?He was trying to see who that person was,? she said.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 29, 2010, 05:06:14 pm

Ricky Martin's straight-man facade

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 29, 2010, 05:17:07 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on March 29, 2010, 05:06:14 pm

Ricky Martin's straight-man facade

lol

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on March 30, 2010, 12:27:35 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 29, 2010, 05:17:07 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on March 29, 2010, 05:06:14 pm
Ricky Martin's straight-man facade

lol

I mean women loved him! I didn't see that one coming

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on March 30, 2010, 08:50:18 am

a lot of people don't see ricky coming . . . he doesn't pull out.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on March 31, 2010, 06:08:39 pm

David Mills, DC area native and Emmy-winning writer/contributor to 'The Wire' and 'The Corner'.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/31/AR2010033101772.html?nav=hcmodule (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/31/AR2010033101772.html?nav=hcmodule)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on April 08, 2010, 02:44:30 pm

Malcolm McLaren of cancer at 64.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on April 08, 2010, 03:00:10 pm

Wow.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on April 12, 2010, 10:09:54 am

Supergrass
http://www.nme.com/news/supergrass/50616

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: DotTheEyes on April 13, 2010, 01:40:14 am

I'll miss Supergrass. I Should Coco is one of my favorite debut albums and their subsequent releases have, for the most part, been consistent and engaging. I wish the U.S. was part of their farewell tour (ha ha).

They were never quite as good as Blur or Pulp, but, still, classic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thatguy on April 15, 2010, 09:33:34 am

peter steele from type o negative and carnivore.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/04/15/r-i-p-peter-steele-of-type-o-negative/ (http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/04/15/r-i-p-peter-steele-of-type-o-negative/)

a truly nice guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 15, 2010, 05:51:24 pm

Quote from: thatguy on April 15, 2010, 09:33:34 am

peter steele from type o negative and carnivore.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/04/15/r-i-p-peter-steele-of-type-o-negative/ (http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/04/15/r-i-p-peter-steele-of-type-o-negative/)

a truly nice guy.

Damn. I havent been a fan for a while, but will definitely miss them.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on April 15, 2010, 06:25:34 pm

Damn, that really f'g sucks. I really like Type O and now I'll regret not seeing them again.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on April 18, 2010, 08:45:36 pm

Drummer from You Say Party We Say Die

http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/04/18/r-i-p-devon-clifford-of-you-say-party-we-say-die/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: oso on April 20, 2010, 10:43:54 am

GURU of Gang Starr

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 20, 2010, 04:19:32 pm

Quote from: oso on April 20, 2010, 10:43:54 am

GURU of Gang Starr

dang. love me some jazzmatazz.

"Guru had written a letter to his fans that was to be released upon his death" - http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1637388/20100420/gang_starr.jhtml

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on April 20, 2010, 09:26:11 pm

Civil Rights pioneer Dorothy Height (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/20/AR2010042001287.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 30, 2010, 08:48:32 am

lala.com - 5/31/10

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on May 10, 2010, 03:54:17 am

Lena Horne (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_horne)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 12, 2010, 01:18:26 pm

US Music Compilation Album Guru Bob Mercer Dies
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 12:56 p.m. ET

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Music industry executive Bob Mercer, who signed the Sex Pistols while at EMI Music in the 1970s and most recently successfully marketed hit-single compilation albums, has died. He was 65.

Mercer died of lung cancer May 5 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his wife of 31 years Margie said.

While at EMI, Mercer signed Queen, the Sex Pistols, Olivia Newton-John, Kate Bush and Marc Bolan. In 1980, he moved to EMI Films before becoming manager for artists such as Roger Waters.

He moved to Nashville in the early 1990s to help launch and run Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Records.

He later became chief executive of the Now That's What I Call Music! album compilation venture that sold 77 million albums in the United States since its 1998 debut. The compilation series originated in Britain 15 years earlier.

Now That's What I Call Music! was launched in the United States as a joint venture between EMI and Polygram. It is now a joint venture between EMI Music, Sony Music and Universal Music Group.

Mercer was working on a ''Now'' TV show that is being developed with ''American Idol'' creator Simon Fuller.

Besides his wife, Mercer is survived by son Jackson and a brother, Mick.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on May 16, 2010, 04:25:41 pm

RIP Dio (I guess this is true, there seemed to be conflicting reports on the net today)

http://www.kerrang.com/blog/2010/05/ronnie_james_dio_-1942-2010.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on May 16, 2010, 04:41:46 pm

Metal Underground reports that it's false...but a tweet from the Iron Sheik says he has passed. Who are you going to believe?

(http://allknowingforce.com/wonderful/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/sheik.gif)

Quote from: Got Haggis? on May 16, 2010, 04:25:41 pm

RIP Dio (I guess this is true, there seemed to be conflicting reports on the net today)

http://www.kerrang.com/blog/2010/05/ronnie_james_dio_-1942-2010.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 16, 2010, 05:36:10 pm

Unfortunately its confirmed by his wife that he passed on this morning...

Who would have thought.. Saw him about two years ago with Heaven and Hell.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 16, 2010, 06:18:04 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 16, 2010, 05:36:10 pm

Unfortunately its confirmed by his wife that he passed on this morning...

http://www.ronniejamesdio.com/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 18, 2010, 11:20:26 am

Wow...30 years ago we lost Ian Curtis.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on May 18, 2010, 11:34:12 am

I think Henry Miller's 30 year is coming up too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 28, 2010, 11:08:17 am

Michael Jordan (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/business/27jordan.html?scp=2&sq=michael%20jordan&st=cse)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 28, 2010, 11:34:44 am

i can't believe no one has mentioned that the bassist from Slipknot died this week. maybe you're all still in mourning, and aren't ready to talk about it yet?

http://www.spinner.com/2010/05/28/slipknot-paul-gray-needle-drugs-claims/
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100528/ENT/100528002/Death-of-Slipknot-s-Paul-Gray-felt-across-globe

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on May 28, 2010, 02:45:53 pm

What you talkin bout willis?

http://www.hollyscoop.com/gary-coleman/gary-coleman-dead_24023.aspx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9oX-kZ_9k&feature=related

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 28, 2010, 02:51:02 pm

that's so weird. i plugged "gary coleman" in to news.google.com no more than 10 minutes ago to get an update on his situation. chaz is pushing fresh shit, man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on May 29, 2010, 02:03:57 pm

One of my all-time favorite actors....

Dennis Hopper.

:( :( :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on May 29, 2010, 02:05:50 pm

I was thinking you were going to say Art Linkletter.

Quote from: Jaguar on May 29, 2010, 02:03:57 pm

One of my all-time favorite actors....

Dennis Hopper.

:( :( :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on May 29, 2010, 02:09:12 pm

^ Rhett, stop confusing me with yourself!

Maybe a little Aricept is needed. Make a note and pin it to your going to the doctor's shirt for your next visit. I'm sure s/he'll be willing to give you a script.

FYI: Richard Linkletter is more my speed, though he's a filmmaker and not an actor.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 31, 2010, 01:09:04 am

Quote from: Got Haggis? on May 16, 2010, 04:25:41 pm

RIP Dio (I guess this is true, there seemed to be conflicting reports on the net today)

http://www.kerrang.com/blog/2010/05/ronnie_james_dio_-1942-2010.html

Church plans to picket rocker Dio's memorial service
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/30/dio.memorial/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on June 03, 2010, 08:17:07 pm

Peter Orlovsky

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/arts/03orlovsky.html?src=me

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: xneverwherex on June 07, 2010, 04:31:57 pm

Stuart Cable (drummer of Stereophonics)
and Marvin Isley (of Isley Brothers)

http://pitchfork.com/news/39058-rip-isley-brothers-bassist-sterephonics-drummer/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 17, 2010, 03:43:38 pm

a moment of silence, please....

www.thisiswhyyourefat.com is no more.

(i've read it's has something to do with the male half of the couple who runs the site being arrested for domestic violence, went to court, partnership being dissolved, etc).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on June 17, 2010, 04:10:25 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 17, 2010, 03:43:38 pm

a moment of silence, please....

www.thisiswhyyourefat.com is no more.

(i've read it's has something to do with the male half of the couple who runs the site being arrested for domestic violence, went to court, partnership being dissolved, etc).

I liked that site and looking at the gluttony of peoples creations. Speaking of which, let this be the stand in ;D http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/

http://thisiswhyyourehuge.com/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on June 17, 2010, 04:30:06 pm

Quote from: wml7 on June 17, 2010, 04:10:25 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 17, 2010, 03:43:38 pm
a moment of silence, please....

www.thisiswhyyourefat.com is no more.

(i've read it's has something to do with the male half of the couple who runs the site being arrested for domestic violence, went to court, partnership being dissolved, etc).

I liked that site and looking at the gluttony of peoples creations. Speaking of which, let this be the stand in ;D http://www.supersizedmeals.com/food/

http://thisiswhyyourehuge.com/

i like the hot dogs with twinkies for buns.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on June 18, 2010, 10:03:23 am

P-Funk member (and local guy) Gary "Starchild" Shider
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127914466

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on June 20, 2010, 06:17:29 pm

Raymond Parks, the last surviving member of the group who created NASCAR
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/news/story?id=5308209

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mark_Read on June 25, 2010, 09:09:14 am

Pete Quaife of The Kinks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10415297.stm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on June 28, 2010, 10:20:07 am

(http://freeasia34.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/congressdebatesemergencysupplementalspending8xuvkuep7jgl.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on June 28, 2010, 10:41:57 am

Quote from: Relaxer on June 28, 2010, 10:20:07 am

(http://freeasia34.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/congressdebatesemergencysupplementalspending8xuvkuep7jgl.jpg)

it's a sad day . . . for the kkk and the god hates fags church.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 05, 2010, 06:59:15 pm

(http://assets.espn.go.com/i/eticket/20080520/photos/etic_g_probert_310.jpg)

Bob Probert (http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=533819)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 07, 2010, 02:07:03 am

Quote from: sweetcell on June 17, 2010, 03:43:38 pm

a moment of silence, please....

www.thisiswhyyourefat.com is no more.

(i've read it's has something to do with the male half of the couple who runs the site being arrested for domestic violence, went to court, partnership being dissolved, etc).

our greasy-fingered prayers have been answered - it's back!!!

http://www.thisiswhyyourefat.com/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on July 11, 2010, 06:00:07 pm

Another sad one:

Sugar Minott (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100711/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_jamaica_obit_sugar_minott)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bellenseb on July 12, 2010, 11:57:52 am

Harvey Pekar. (http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/14171)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on July 12, 2010, 11:27:59 pm

Tuli Kupferberg

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/arts/music/13kupferberg.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on July 13, 2010, 10:28:25 am

Steinbrenner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on August 02, 2010, 12:48:55 pm

Fear Bassist Derf Scratch
http://www.antilabelblog.com/?p=3503 (http://www.antilabelblog.com/?p=3503)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on August 13, 2010, 09:20:00 pm

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/08/13/little-feat-drummer-richie-hayward-dies-waiting-liver-transplant/

saw little feat a couple of times . . . not gonna lie, they were pretty good. drank beer. had a good time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on August 17, 2010, 10:06:38 pm

Bobby (Shot Heard Round The World) Thompson.

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=5471194

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on August 20, 2010, 10:06:14 am

CNN) -- Michael Been of the 1980s alt-rock band The Call -- and father of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Robert Been -- died Thursday. He was 60.

The elder Been was on tour in Belgium as the sound engineer for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club when he died of a heart attack backstage, said publicist Juliana Plotkin.

The Call had several hits in the early 80s, including "The Walls Came Down" and "Let the Day Begin," and earned many notable musicians as fans along the way.

Among them were Bono and Peter Gabriel, both of whom contributed to The Call's albums.

In later years, Been played a key role in Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, said Plotkin -- who represents the band.

"Often referenced as their fourth member, Been spent countless hours in the studio acting in many roles from mentor and guide," she said.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on September 02, 2010, 08:35:52 am

Paste Magazine

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on September 06, 2010, 09:55:50 pm

Standup comic Robert Schimmel (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100905/D9I1DU880.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on September 07, 2010, 05:11:10 pm

ELO cellist Mike Edwards (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1309256/ELO-founding-member-Mike-Edwards-killed-freak-runaway-hay-bale-accident.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 15, 2010, 01:07:14 pm

Edwin Newman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 20, 2010, 08:21:40 pm

Leonard Skinner (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/20/AR2010092004516.html?hpid=moreheadlines) (sound familiar?)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on September 21, 2010, 10:31:47 am

Friend, local guy, old 9:30 employee (I think) and sometime Slickee Boy John Hansen. RIP buddy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JohnQ on September 24, 2010, 10:54:12 am

Arrow.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/arts/music/16cassell.html?scp=1&sq=arrow&st=cse

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 27, 2010, 07:11:38 pm

Football legend George Blanda
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/27/SPSE1FKCKA.DTL

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: xneverwherex on September 28, 2010, 04:09:32 pm

Quentin's long-time editor - Sally Menke

http://www.indiewire.com/article/longtime_tarantino_editor_sally_menke_found_dead_at_56/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on September 29, 2010, 06:01:13 pm

Greg Giraldo.
And Geraldo Rivera continues to live.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on September 29, 2010, 06:14:52 pm

Quote from: slappy on September 29, 2010, 06:01:13 pm

Greg Giraldo.
And Geraldo Rivera continues to live.

first artie lange (almost) . . . then robert schimmel . . . now greg? a stern show curse in the making?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 29, 2010, 07:41:18 pm

Quote from: walkonby on September 29, 2010, 06:14:52 pm

Quote from: slappy on September 29, 2010, 06:01:13 pm
Greg Giraldo.
And Geraldo Rivera continues to live.

first artie lange (almost) . . . then robert schimmel . . . now greg? a stern show curse in the making?

Who said that bedbugs aren't deadly? (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092902887.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on September 29, 2010, 08:21:44 pm

god . . . i love gilbert. i guess twitter is good for something.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 10, 2010, 07:21:15 am

Solomon Burke
Obit (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gN0ywP8kGvhe1lP4-9SCEZveMkIA?docId=CNG.159465f3db6b6affe62dddf979b18cf3.3f1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on October 10, 2010, 08:12:43 pm

oh man. So glad i got to see him.

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on October 10, 2010, 07:21:15 am

Solomon Burke
Obit (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gN0ywP8kGvhe1lP4-9SCEZveMkIA?docId=CNG.159465f3db6b6affe62dddf979b18cf3.3f1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 17, 2010, 03:46:01 am

"Hey Beav, sorry about your Mom." (http://omg.yahoo.com/news/barbara-billingsley-beaver-cleavers-tv-mom-dies/49082?nc)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 17, 2010, 09:21:26 am

Benoit Mandelbrot

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html?_r=1
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Blue-Gold_Mandelbrot_Set.jpg/120px-Blue-Gold_Mandelbrot_Set.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 17, 2010, 12:23:09 pm

wow, that's a biggie. thanks for posting that, koz.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on October 18, 2010, 12:23:34 am

Micheal Larsen AKA Eyedea. He was a nice dude too. Tragic.

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/105151444.html?page=1&c=y

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on October 19, 2010, 01:54:16 pm

Tom Bosley aka Mr. C. He was a nice dude too. Tragic.

Barbara Billingsley and Tom Bosley in the same week. Soon we'll be out of great actors.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on October 19, 2010, 02:01:51 pm

He was also David the Gnome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_the_Gnome) in the American version of the show.

Quote from: James Ford on October 19, 2010, 01:54:16 pm

Tom Bosley aka Mr. C. He was a nice dude too. Tragic.

Barbara Billingsley and Tom Bosley in the same week. Soon we'll be out of great actors.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on October 20, 2010, 11:36:49 pm

Ari-Up

http://www.johnlydon.com/jltalk.html#Arianna

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on October 21, 2010, 12:09:09 am

Quote from: Unsanity on October 20, 2010, 11:36:49 pm

Ari-Up

http://www.johnlydon.com/jltalk.html#Arianna

Fuck! At least she appeared to make the most of her short time.

Dear Penthouse,
I never thought I'd be writing this but... Bob Guccione is dead.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/business/media/21guccione.html?_r=1&hp (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/business/media/21guccione.html?_r=1&hp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on October 21, 2010, 02:02:26 am

wow, a little surprised...i didn't know she had a "serious illness".

Quote from: Unsanity on October 20, 2010, 11:36:49 pm

Ari-Up

http://www.johnlydon.com/jltalk.html#Arianna

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on October 21, 2010, 12:39:11 pm

The Points (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/10/21/the-points-have-broken-up/#more-33139)

Guess I should've went to the velvet show last Friday, eh?
Kind of makes a little sense that when Fight Club died, the Points also pretty much died with it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on October 25, 2010, 10:03:18 am

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2010/10/gregory-isaacs-dies-reggae-sin.html (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2010/10/gregory-isaacs-dies-reggae-sin.html)
Gregory Isaacs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 26, 2010, 11:49:10 am

A true Master whose shared knowledge will live on for many, many generations.

Zecharia Sitchin (http://www.sitchin.com)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on October 26, 2010, 02:47:36 pm

the 12th planet . . . is a must for all people who accept mental disorder as a positive way of life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 26, 2010, 03:04:06 pm

Paul the Octopus
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=836234&sec=global&cc=5901

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 26, 2010, 03:35:51 pm

RIP The Cool Ruler

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 26, 2010, 04:21:51 pm

Quote from: walkonby on October 26, 2010, 02:47:36 pm

the 12th planet . . . is a must for all people who accept mental disorder as a positive way of life.

Well, some people just can't seem to keep their feet grounded when reading his works. ::)

Whatever you think of his theories, he has always been, and probably always will be, considered the world's top expert on the ancient Sumarian language. The man deserves an immense amount of respect for that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on October 26, 2010, 06:13:15 pm

if i were meant to be followed, we'd all be someplace gray and with bookbags, running toward that which is surrounded by fence. jagalicious, i meant what i said . . . as a compliment to the man. i own his works, including 12th planet; his ideas are signs of brillance but maybe i am biased because i enjoy all things sumerian. his life had meaning and measure, his death the natural transition through whatever gate he passes through next

now come over here and give me a nice, smoochity kiss.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/Jeepers/exaggerated-cat-kiss.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 26, 2010, 07:07:08 pm

Meowwww..... :)

A lot of his biggest supporters think that some of his work is a bit flawed, not that they can prove otherwise either. It is both very intriguing and controversial. I've learned a lot from him but don't really know how much of it is all that accurate even though we know that much of the details are. Hard to say at this time with our limited knowledge of the existence of mankind. Would love to know for certain one day but don't think that will happen within our lifetimes. Just another case of knowing when to be discerning while keeping a very open mind.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 26, 2010, 09:06:50 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on October 21, 2010, 12:39:11 pm

The Points (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/10/21/the-points-have-broken-up/#more-33139)

Guess I should've went to the velvet show last Friday, eh?
Kind of makes a little sense that when Fight Club died, the Points also pretty much died with it.

Only saw them once at festival in Greenbelt a couple years ago an excellent hybrid of punk and garage rock. Best part was mid through the set, these fire dancers started "performing" in front of them and band carried on obvious to their presence.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 29, 2010, 05:56:42 am

Danno (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101029/ap_on_en_tv/us_obit_macarthur)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on October 29, 2010, 12:39:22 pm

Maybe the 2010 remake is what finally did him in.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RonniStar on November 01, 2010, 01:51:14 pm

The Founder of Olssons Books and Records (http://dcist.com/2010/11/john_olsson_founder_of_olssons_book.php)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on November 03, 2010, 11:16:33 am

When will people learn Dengue Fever and Methadone don't mix?
3x Surfing World Champ Andy Irons
Dies in Dallas airport hotel on layover from Puerto Rico to home in Hawaii.
http://blogs.surfermag.com/office-blog/breaking-news-andy-irons-passes-away/ (http://blogs.surfermag.com/office-blog/breaking-news-andy-irons-passes-away/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 04, 2010, 07:05:57 pm

Sparky Anderson (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5764168)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 12, 2010, 11:33:52 am

A moment of silence please, for a real Master.

Gorecki (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101112/ap_on_en_mu/eu_poland_obit_gorecki)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 20, 2010, 12:10:11 am

i remember him behind the Hab's bench...

Remembering Pat Burns
http://nhl-red-light.si.com/2010/11/20/remembering-pat-burns/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 20, 2010, 12:13:58 am

Quote from: sweetcell on November 20, 2010, 12:10:11 am

i remember him behind the Hab's bench...

Remembering Pat Burns
http://nhl-red-light.si.com/2010/11/20/remembering-pat-burns/

I just saw this while watching the Ducks game. The announcer's were choking up a little bit...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 25, 2010, 09:09:07 am

R.I.P. Peter ?Sleazy? Christopherson (Throbbing Gristle / X-TG / Psychic TV / Coil) (1955 ? 2010) (http://inlog.org/2010/11/25/r-i-p-peter-sleazy-christopherson-throbbing-gristle-x-tg-1955-2010)

More (http://www.factmag.com/2010/11/25/throbbing-gristles-peter-sleazy-christopherson-dies-aged-55/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 28, 2010, 10:12:19 pm

Surely you can't be serious.

I am serious... and don't call me Shirley. (http://www.tmz.com/2010/11/28/leslie-nielsen-dead-dies-naked-gun-police-squad-airplane/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on November 28, 2010, 11:24:58 pm

he might have been my favorite comedic actor of all time.

RIP frank drebin.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 29, 2010, 02:54:45 pm

- Edit -

False alarm. Sorry about that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 29, 2010, 04:30:13 pm

Quote from: Jaguar on November 29, 2010, 02:54:45 pm

- Edit -

False alarm. Sorry about that.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 29, 2010, 05:11:29 pm

^ The Wilde and wacky world in the fast lane with Smackie.
He takes a lickin' but keeps on tickin'.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lagas on November 29, 2010, 05:57:14 pm

Quote from: betao on November 28, 2010, 11:24:58 pm

he might have been my favorite comedic actor of all time.

RIP frank drebin.

http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/index?id=5863246
RIP Enrico Palazzo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 29, 2010, 06:01:26 pm

Quote from: lagas on November 29, 2010, 05:57:14 pm

RIP Enrico Palazzo

Haha. That was my original headline before going with the Shirley quote.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 29, 2010, 07:30:42 pm

Too bad it wasn't Nordberg.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on November 29, 2010, 09:04:05 pm

The King is not dead.

Quote from: Jaguar on November 29, 2010, 02:54:45 pm

- Edit -

False alarm. Sorry about that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on November 30, 2010, 03:00:35 am

Irvin Kershner

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni5843330/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 06, 2010, 01:11:37 pm

"Dandy Don" Meredith.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on December 07, 2010, 06:01:19 pm

Elizabeth Edwards

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on December 07, 2010, 06:13:58 pm

She died of a broken heart.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on December 07, 2010, 06:15:36 pm

Plus cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on December 07, 2010, 06:40:20 pm

i hate cancer. i hate it. die cancer die. i hope you die and burn in hell.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on December 07, 2010, 07:53:06 pm

Well if you only look at the negative side of cancer, then sure, it's pretty hateful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on December 08, 2010, 03:43:15 pm

Brickskeller
http://dcist.com/2010/12/so_it_looks_like_brickskeller.php (http://dcist.com/2010/12/so_it_looks_like_brickskeller.php)
They should put a sign on the door after it closes that says, "Sorry, We're out of that."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on December 08, 2010, 08:20:01 pm

Bummer. Yet, as this author and others are writing, it did fall short at times with service and environment.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on December 08, 2010, 08:29:35 pm

countdown to when someone can post

(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:iq8TXW8qtLNDaM:http://patdollard.com/wp-content/uploads/aretha1.jpg&t=1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on December 14, 2010, 12:06:53 pm

The Depreciation Guild

2 more shows and that's it. Pursuing other musical endeavors.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 14, 2010, 01:26:37 pm

Too bad.

Had a nice small run.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 16, 2010, 02:00:52 am

Bob Feller (http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2010/12/the_greatest_cleveland_indian.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 16, 2010, 08:25:13 am

The spambot that posted 118 threads, mainly in the ticket exchange forum >:(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 16, 2010, 03:47:05 pm

St. Vitus drummer Armando Acosta

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on December 16, 2010, 03:51:54 pm

The Pink Panther
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/director-blake-edwards-dies-southern-california-ap

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on December 17, 2010, 05:57:57 pm

Captain Beefheart (http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/12/17/captain-beefheart-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 17, 2010, 06:02:31 pm

Ouch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hieronymus on December 17, 2010, 06:34:27 pm

Rest easy, Don.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on December 17, 2010, 09:34:08 pm

just finished that recent Mojo Zappa issue yesterday - worth picking up for lots of Captain-related stuff.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 22, 2010, 08:58:28 am

Steve Landesberg (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/21/AR2010122105124.html?wprss=rss_metro/obituaries)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on December 25, 2010, 02:04:49 am

Final goodbye: A roll call of some who died in '10 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ye_deaths)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 25, 2010, 09:27:15 pm

cap

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 26, 2010, 11:45:34 pm

Teena Marie (http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/26/teena.marie.dead/?hpt=T2)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on January 03, 2011, 01:23:06 pm

Pete Postlewaithe

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: brennser on January 04, 2011, 03:00:20 pm

Phil Lynotts been dead for 25 years.....dayum

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on January 04, 2011, 03:39:20 pm

Abraham Lincoln has him beat.

Quote from: brennser on January 04, 2011, 03:00:20 pm

Phil Lynotts been dead for 25 years.....dayum

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 04, 2011, 05:26:14 pm

Mick Karn (http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/01/mick_karn_rip.php)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 04, 2011, 05:30:00 pm

Gerry Rafferty (http://www.nme.com/news/gerry-rafferty/54434)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on January 08, 2011, 03:33:15 pm

the sanity of our country . . . though i question if that died long ago.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40978517/ns/politics/

very sad day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 08, 2011, 04:02:57 pm

Quote from: walkonby on January 08, 2011, 03:33:15 pm

the sanity of our country . . . though i question if that died long ago.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40978517/ns/politics/

very sad day.

At this point the congress woman is surgery....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on January 08, 2011, 04:10:11 pm

oops . . . the last i saw on msnbc, was that she had died. now that i am looking around, multiple places are saying multiple things. can't the news get anything right?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on January 08, 2011, 04:11:16 pm

and one more thing . . . palin's future in politics.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 08, 2011, 04:26:38 pm

Quote from: walkonby on January 08, 2011, 04:10:11 pm

oops . . . the last i saw on msnbc, was that she had died. now that i am looking around, multiple places are saying multiple things. can't the news get anything right?

no worries i saw the same reports, and weren't they quoting Democratic party sources? obviously no enough double checking took place.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on January 08, 2011, 05:48:41 pm

Jesus Fucking Christ. How did I just know the shooter was a white guy? I mean his name is Jared. Gotta be a white guy, right?

'''

Quote from: walkonby on January 08, 2011, 03:33:15 pm

the sanity of our country . . . though i question if that died long ago.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40978517/ns/politics/

very sad day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 08, 2011, 06:03:58 pm

Sonickteam?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on January 08, 2011, 09:17:32 pm

Quote from: James Ford on January 08, 2011, 05:48:41 pm

Jesus Fucking Christ. How did I just know the shooter was a white guy? I mean his name is Jared. Gotta be a white guy, right?

'''
Quote from: walkonby on January 08, 2011, 03:33:15 pm
the sanity of our country . . . though i question if that died long ago.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40978517/ns/politics/

very sad day.

(http://30-seconds-to-mars.kinyr.com/images/music5_244.jpg)

anybody named jared . . . is disturbed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 10, 2011, 05:55:58 pm

Major Dick Winters (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41001530/ns/today-entertainment/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on January 12, 2011, 11:29:55 am

This was just begging to be posted in here!

Bodies Doubled Up At Cook County Morgue (http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/01/12/bodies-doubled-up-at-cook-county-morgue/)

"CHICAGO (WBBM) ? WBBM Newsradio 780 has learned that the cooler at the Cook County morgue is so crowded right now, bodies are doubled-up on some of the trays.

Why are there so many bodies?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on January 14, 2011, 10:08:16 am

Trish Keenan :'( :'( :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on January 14, 2011, 11:25:46 am

sucks, Broadcast were just added to the ATP stage at Primavera i think. I think I'll be getting my h1n1 flu shot soon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 18, 2011, 01:46:14 pm

Don Kirshner, Rock Producer and Promoter, Dies at 76 (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/don-kirshner-bubblegum-music-promoter-dies-at-77/?hp)
By BEN SISARIO
Don Kirshner, who guided the course of Brill Building and bubblegum pop in the 1950s and ?60s as a music publisher and promoter, and later served as an Ed Sullivan for 1970s artists like Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Kiss and the Ramones with his weekly program ?Don Kirshner?s Rock Concert? on television, died on Monday in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 76. The cause was heart failure.

Born in the Bronx, Mr. Kirshner entered the music business in the mid-1950s, writing commercial jingles with Bobby Darin, whom he had met in a Washington Heights candy shop as Robert Cassotto. When Mr. Darin went on to fame as a singer in 1958 with ?Splish Splash,? Mr. Kirshner assumed a powerful role behind the scenes with his publishing company Aldon, which he founded with Al Nevins.

Aldon published songs by many of the classic songwriters of the Brill Building era, like Neil Sedaka and the teams of Carole King and Gerry Coffin (?Will You Love Me Tomorrow,? ?The Loco-Motion?) and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil (?You?ve Lost That Lovin? Feelin?,? written with Phil Spector). As a producer and impresario, Mr. Kirshner was also responsible for putting together the songs for two manufactured pop groups on television: the Monkees and the Archies. Mr. Nevins died in 1965.

From 1973 to 1981 Mr. Kirshner was the producer and host of ?Don Kirshner?s Rock Concert? on ABC, a live show that opened with a performance by the Rolling Stones and had appearances by Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers, David Bowie and many others.

He is survived by his wife, Sheila; his children Ricky and Daryn; and five grandchildren.

A full obituary is forthcoming.

.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on January 20, 2011, 01:30:44 pm

Alex Kirst
http://www.longislandpress.com/2011/01/20/iggy-pop-drummer-alex-kirst-killed-in-hit-and-run/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: blipvurt on January 31, 2011, 10:44:42 am

RIP John Barry

Composer John Barry has died at the age of 77, following an illustrious career which encompassed work on The Ipcress file, Midnight Cowboy, Zulu, Born Free and Dances With Wolves. Not to mention his huge amount of work on the Bond franchise.

I really worshipped this guy's work. I have several of his film scores hanging in frames in my house.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on January 31, 2011, 12:09:15 pm

John Barry made some fantastic music...You Only Live Twice being among the best

any other recommendations?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: blipvurt on January 31, 2011, 12:20:23 pm

If you can find it the score to Zulu is incredible. Also gotta love his work on "Midnight Cowboy".

Some of his overlooked scores that were great: "The Chase", "The Knack and how to get it" and "The Last Valley".

If you like the spy vibe you have to get "The Ipcress File" and "The Quiller Memorandum".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: blipvurt on January 31, 2011, 05:15:20 pm

Nice article on John Barry here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/jan/31/john-barry-composer-soundtracks?CMP=twt_gu

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on February 02, 2011, 01:51:11 pm

The White Stripes: http://whitestripes.com/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 02, 2011, 01:55:40 pm

Quote from: nkotb on February 02, 2011, 01:51:11 pm

The White Stripes: http://whitestripes.com/

Bands should come with expiration dates. Looks like they get that. Kudos for them.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 02, 2011, 02:03:00 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on February 02, 2011, 01:55:40 pm

Bands should come with expiration dates. Looks like they get that. Kudos for them.

Agreed and well put.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on February 02, 2011, 02:10:39 pm

In 6 years when they reform for Coachella, they'll just command that much more $.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 06, 2011, 04:35:14 pm

Gary Moore (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12377862)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: serpent boy on February 06, 2011, 07:16:55 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on February 06, 2011, 04:35:14 pm

Gary Moore (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12377862)

Aw man. Bummer! I grew up listening to a heavy dose of Gary Moore. I know my Dad will be really upset. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on February 07, 2011, 02:29:59 am

Gorillaz have split

http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/02/06/report-gorillaz-have-split/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 08, 2011, 10:36:54 am

J. Paul Getty III, 54, Dies; Had Ear Cut Off by Captors (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/world/europe/08gettyobit.html?hpw)

By BRUCE WEBER

J. Paul Getty III, who was a grandson of the oil baron once believed to be the richest man in the world and who achieved tragic notoriety in 1973 when he was kidnapped by Italian gangsters, died Saturday at his home near London. He was 54.

His son, the actor Balthazar Getty, confirmed the death in a statement relayed in an e-mail from Laura Hozempa, one of his agents. Mr. Getty had been wheelchair-bound since 1981, when a drug overdose caused him to have a stroke that left him severely paralyzed, unable to speak and partly blind.

At the time of his abduction, Mr. Getty was just 16 and living on his own in Rome, where his father, J. Paul Getty II, had, for a time, helped oversee the family?s Italian business interests.

Expelled from a private school, the young Mr. Getty was living a bohemian life, frequenting nightclubs, taking part in left-wing demonstrations and reportedly earning a living making jewelry, selling paintings and acting as an extra in movies. He disappeared on July 10, 1973, and two days later his mother, Gail Harris, received a ransom request. No longer married, she said she had little money.

?Get it from London,? she was reportedly told over the phone, a reference either to her former father-in-law, J. Paul Getty, the billionaire founder of the Getty Oil Company, or her former husband, who lived in England.

The amount demanded was about $17 million, but the police were initially skeptical of the kidnapping claim, even after Ms. Harris received a plaintive letter from her son, and a phone call in which a man saying he was a kidnapper offered to send her a severed finger as proof he was still alive. Investigators suspected a possible hoax or an attempt by the young Mr. Getty to squeeze some money from his notoriously penurious relatives.

?Dear Mummy,? his note began, ?Since Monday I have fallen into the hands of kidnappers. Don?t let me be killed.?

The eldest Mr. Getty refused to pay the kidnappers anything, declaring that he had 14 grandchildren and ?If I pay one penny now, I?ll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren.? His son said he could not afford to pay.

Three months after the abduction, the kidnappers, who turned out to be Calabrian bandits with a possible connection to organized crime, cut off Mr. Getty?s ear and mailed it, along with a lock of his hair, to a Roman newspaper. Photographs of the maimed Mr. Getty, along with a letter in which he pleaded with his family to pay his captors, subsequently appeared in another newspaper. Eventually the kidnappers reduced their demands to around $3 million. According to the 1995 book, ?Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortune and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty? by John Pearson, the eldest Mr. Getty paid $2.2 million, the maximum that his accountants said would be tax deductible. The boy?s father paid the rest, though he had borrow it from his father ? at 4 percent interest.

The teenager, malnourished, bruised and missing an ear, was released on Dec. 15; he was found at an abandoned service station, shivering in a driving rainstorm. Nine men eventually were arrested. Two were convicted and sent to prison; the others, including the man prosecutors said was the head of the Calabrian Mafia and the mastermind behind the abduction, were acquitted for lack of evidence.

The aftermath of the ordeal left Mr. Getty as a reckless personality; the year after his release he married a German photographer whose name has been variously reported as Gisela Zacher and Martine Zacher. They lived for a time in New York, where they consorted with the art crowd of Andy Warhol. Mr. Getty became a drug user and a heavy drinker. His grandfather had died in 1976, and after his overdose, he sued his father for $28,000 a month to pay for his medical needs.

Mr. Getty?s marriage ended in divorce. Beside his son, survivors include his mother, who cared for him after his stroke; a brother, Mark; two sisters, Aileen and Ariadne; a stepdaughter, Anna Getty, and six grandchildren and stepgrandchildren.

Some time after Mr. Getty?s release, his mother suggested he call his grandfather to thank him for paying the ransom, which he did. The eldest Mr. Getty declined to come to the phone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on February 08, 2011, 02:20:29 pm

Quote from: Unsanity on February 07, 2011, 02:29:59 am

Gorillaz have split

http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/02/06/report-gorillaz-have-split/

lcd soundsystem broke up too? shocking.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 11, 2011, 05:10:22 pm

Chuck Tanner (http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/11/chuck-tanner-1929-2011/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 11, 2011, 09:03:06 pm

Ernie Tyler (http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/blog/2011/02/orioles_umpires_attendant_erni.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 16, 2011, 06:06:28 pm

Fluid guitar player Rick Kulwicki (http://exclaim.ca/News/fluids_rick_kulwicki_dies_at_49)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on February 16, 2011, 10:16:18 pm

(http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/images/uncle_leo.gif)
Uncle Leo...."HELLO"!!!

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2011/02/16/seinfeld_actor_len_lesser_dies_at_88/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 16, 2011, 10:20:58 pm

This guy

(http://www.movieactors.com/actors/Freezes-Characters/youngfrank118.jpeg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 27, 2011, 07:20:15 pm

This Guy (http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/news/story?id=6164805)

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/2789214563_b3accb2c66.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on February 28, 2011, 07:18:05 am

The last US WWI veteran.

http://www.wtvr.com/hm-world-war-i-veteran-frank-buckles-dies-20110227,0,7971300.story?track=rss

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: runwhiteyrun06 on February 28, 2011, 03:07:05 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on February 28, 2011, 07:18:05 am

The last US WWI veteran.

http://www.wtvr.com/hm-world-war-i-veteran-frank-buckles-dies-20110227,0,7971300.story?track=rss

RIP

I was pretty bummed when I saw the headline earlier. On the whole, Americans have very little idea how devastating WW1 was and what kind of hell servicemen from all sides faced. There are now only 2 British veterans left. I wrote my senior thesis on American artillery during World War I and the things servicemen went through were amazing and horrifying. It's saddening so little attention is given to the study of the war.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 28, 2011, 04:02:30 pm

This chick:

(http://www.esquire.com/media/cm/esquire/images/freewheelin-bob-dylan-061808-lg-17830451.jpg)

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/28/suze-rotolo-muse-and-girlfriend-to-bob-dylan-dies-at-67/?hp

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 28, 2011, 07:36:19 pm

Clinton Portis, as a Redskin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 28, 2011, 09:16:27 pm

(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/03/01/arts/01russell_337/01russell_337-popup.jpg)

Jane Russell (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/movies/01russell.html?partner=rss&emc=rss)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: serpent boy on March 08, 2011, 08:43:24 pm

Mike Starr (Alice in Chains) (http://www.tmz.com/2011/03/08/mike-starr-alice-in-chains-bassist-celebrity-rehab-dead-salt-lake-city-utah-felony-possession-painkiller/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 09, 2011, 03:26:15 pm

David Broder

Federal funding for NPR

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: noon30 on March 09, 2011, 06:07:15 pm

RIP Mike Starr

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 09, 2011, 07:12:29 pm

(http://www.dockwalk.com/uploadedImages/Dockwalk/Polls/Cap%27nCrunch.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 13, 2011, 05:17:18 pm

Owsley.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on March 13, 2011, 05:28:38 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on March 13, 2011, 05:17:18 pm

Owsley.

i thought he could never die.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 13, 2011, 06:04:25 pm

Car crash.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on March 14, 2011, 08:39:40 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on March 13, 2011, 05:17:18 pm

Owsley.

:'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on March 15, 2011, 01:53:44 pm

police say smiley culture allegedly pulls an elliott smith during raid.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/15/smiley-culture-dies-police-raid (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/15/smiley-culture-dies-police-raid)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 15, 2011, 02:14:12 pm

Arthur http://www.arthurmag.com/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on March 15, 2011, 05:45:55 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on March 15, 2011, 02:14:12 pm

Arthur http://www.arthurmag.com/

i thought you were going to mean the spirit of the original movie . . . now that the british shithead of the year is attempting to recreate the part. his wife and him are already walking down the lonely road of "it's over johnny."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 15, 2011, 06:01:34 pm

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f51/savvyamigo/aflacduckquack.jpg)

Gilbert

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on March 16, 2011, 03:28:08 am

Nate Dogg (http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/03/rip_nate_dogg.php)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 16, 2011, 07:23:23 am

They are remaking the movie? That is shitty.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on March 16, 2011, 10:29:04 am

Quote from: gaaaaaaaaah on March 16, 2011, 03:28:08 am

Nate Dogg (http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/03/rip_nate_dogg.php)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Q30leiWhA&feature=player_embedded

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Ardamus on March 16, 2011, 05:32:24 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 16, 2011, 10:29:04 am

Quote from: gaaaaaaaaah on March 16, 2011, 03:28:08 am
Nate Dogg (http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2011/03/rip_nate_dogg.php)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Q30leiWhA&feature=player_embedded

rest in peace to one of the dopest.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 16, 2011, 05:50:29 pm

Guess he never really recovered after those strokes (yes the band is terrible but I was not talking about those strokes).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on March 16, 2011, 06:29:46 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on March 16, 2011, 05:50:29 pm

Guess he never really recovered after those strokes (yes the band is terrible but I was not talking about those strokes).

who in the hell has three strokes when you are 41??!!

cocaine is a hella of a drug.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on March 17, 2011, 11:55:52 pm

Alfred Pennyworth

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/batmans-butler-michael-gough-dies-aged-94-ap

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on March 20, 2011, 10:37:20 am

Knut

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/fans-gather-at-berlin-zoo-to-mourn-death-of-polar-bear-knut/2011/03/20/ABODW10_story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 20, 2011, 02:07:05 pm

Ronnie Hammond, singer for Atlanta Rhythm Section (http://www.ajc.com/news/ronnie-hammond-60-ars-873696.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on March 20, 2011, 10:49:07 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on March 20, 2011, 02:07:05 pm

Ronnie Hammond, singer for Atlanta Rhythm Section (http://www.ajc.com/news/ronnie-hammond-60-ars-873696.html)

The Atlanta Rhythm Section headlined the very first concert I ever attended. True story.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 20, 2011, 11:51:32 pm

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on March 20, 2011, 10:49:07 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on March 20, 2011, 02:07:05 pm
Ronnie Hammond, singer for Atlanta Rhythm Section (http://www.ajc.com/news/ronnie-hammond-60-ars-873696.html)

The Atlanta Rhythm Section headlined the very first concert I ever attended. True story.

WPGC's Toys For Tots in 1978? I was there. My first, too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on March 21, 2011, 06:57:25 am

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on March 20, 2011, 11:51:32 pm

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on March 20, 2011, 10:49:07 pm
Quote from: beetsnotbeats on March 20, 2011, 02:07:05 pm
Ronnie Hammond, singer for Atlanta Rhythm Section (http://www.ajc.com/news/ronnie-hammond-60-ars-873696.html)

The Atlanta Rhythm Section headlined the very first concert I ever attended. True story.

WPGC's Toys For Tots in 1978? I was there. My first, too.

That's the one!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on March 22, 2011, 04:12:21 am

Pinetop Perkins (http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news%2Fentertainment&id=8026425)

:'(

Had my tv set on the other night for maybe only the 3rd time in the past 6 months. Was watching old Pinetop on Austin City Limits. A great performance!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 22, 2011, 11:59:28 pm

Well fuck (http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/03/kat_leaves_salo.html)

Guess this means one of the better doom bands around is done.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on March 23, 2011, 02:41:15 am

Damn! they started dropping off shows and now it came to this. I only got to see them once and they were really cool.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 23, 2011, 07:01:46 am

Same here.

I wish they at least did one last tour for that terminal album.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RustyOrgan on March 23, 2011, 09:16:07 am

Elizabeth Taylor DEAD at 79

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 23, 2011, 10:05:34 am

The former General Hospital star?

More importantly, Ralph Mooney, dead at 82.

Quote from: RustyOrgan on March 23, 2011, 09:16:07 am

Elizabeth Taylor DEAD at 79

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on March 23, 2011, 10:43:56 am

Quote from: James Ford on March 23, 2011, 10:05:34 am

The former General Hospital star?

More importantly, Ralph Mooney, dead at 82.

Quote from: RustyOrgan on March 23, 2011, 09:16:07 am
Elizabeth Taylor DEAD at 79

oh yeah . . . old man who played steel guitar and

and an actress who cared about her fellow man by trying to cure one of the world's most horrible diseases.

fuck her

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 13, 2011, 10:56:58 am

?Let?s face it, we?re in the little girl business.? (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/business/media/13laufer.html?_r=1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on April 13, 2011, 11:18:47 am

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on April 13, 2011, 10:56:58 am

?Let?s face it, we?re in the little girl business.? (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/business/media/13laufer.html?_r=1)

The cause was heart failure, his brother, Ira, said.

Don't we all die of that?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 13, 2011, 12:24:57 pm

Sidney Harman (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/business/media/14harman.html?hp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on April 13, 2011, 12:38:52 pm

Anyone over 70 should not be eligible for posting imo. That's a good innings by anyones reckoning.

Some gold-digging bitch down here is suing cigarette companies for millions because her husband smoked and died.....died at 87 years old!!!! WTF???????

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on April 13, 2011, 04:50:46 pm

there is a rumour going around right now . . . don't know if it is true, so don't yell if not.

rip (?)

neil young

edit . . . . . . . sorry . . . . . . . wrong neil young.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 13, 2011, 05:23:41 pm

Quote from: walkonby on April 13, 2011, 04:50:46 pm

there is a rumour going around right now . . . don't know if it is true, so don't yell if not.

rip (?)

neil young

edit . . . . . . . sorry . . . . . . . wrong neil young.

Yeah, that tripped me up a couple of months ago. Dead Neil was a footie player. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/feb/03/neil-young-manchester-city-died)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 14, 2011, 09:34:47 am

according to Madams Organ Ben Andrews has passed...

RIP Ben and thanks for all those great Tuesday nights...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 18, 2011, 09:40:26 pm

The Stills
http://www.arts-crafts.ca/thestills/index.php

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 18, 2011, 11:07:06 pm

William Donald Schaefer (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/19/us/19schaefer.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 19, 2011, 10:51:02 am

One of my running heroes...

http://www.freep.com/article/20110419/SPORTS18/110419024/Northwegian-marathon-great-Grete-Waitz-dies-age-57

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on April 20, 2011, 04:19:42 pm

Gerard Smith - lung cancer - bass player for TV on the Radio

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on April 20, 2011, 04:47:02 pm

Damn, that sucks. I knew it was bad but didn't realize it was that bad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: xneverwherex on April 20, 2011, 05:08:38 pm

Tim Hetherington - photojournalist and co-director of Restrepo
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20055809-503543.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on April 26, 2011, 01:27:23 am

Poly Styrene

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on April 26, 2011, 08:23:58 am

Quote from: bearman on April 26, 2011, 01:27:23 am

Poly Styrene

:-(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on April 26, 2011, 08:30:11 am

Hazel Dickens passed away last Friday, April 22 :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on April 26, 2011, 10:38:01 am

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on April 26, 2011, 08:23:58 am

Quote from: bearman on April 26, 2011, 01:27:23 am
Poly Styrene

:-(

:-{

I saw X-Ray Specs in a double header with Lene Lovitch in Plymouth (UK) way back in 78 or something like that.....Great show from what I can remember of it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 26, 2011, 11:35:48 am

Some of y'all are so old...you'll personally be in this thread in no time! ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on April 26, 2011, 11:54:35 am

Quote from: James Ford on April 26, 2011, 11:35:48 am

Some of y'all are so old...you'll personally be in this thread in no time! ;D

No shit!!!!! ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on April 26, 2011, 11:59:28 am

bunch of old goats ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on April 26, 2011, 02:02:07 pm

Phoebe Snow

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=643162&GT1=28102

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 26, 2011, 02:13:17 pm

Let me guess...you saw her live the year show won best new artist grammy?

Quote from: Frank Gallagher on April 26, 2011, 02:02:07 pm

Phoebe Snow

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=643162&GT1=28102

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on April 26, 2011, 03:35:01 pm

Quote from: James Ford on April 26, 2011, 02:13:17 pm

Let me guess...you saw her live the year show won best new artist grammy?

Quote from: Frank Gallagher on April 26, 2011, 02:02:07 pm
Phoebe Snow

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=643162&GT1=28102

Ha! Very funny but no.....I just happened to see it on yahoo.ie

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on May 01, 2011, 10:53:45 pm

Osama Bin Laden

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on May 01, 2011, 10:58:57 pm

Rot in hell, bitch.

Quote from: gaaaaaaaaah on May 01, 2011, 10:53:45 pm

Osama Bin Laden

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on May 02, 2011, 12:47:07 am

Nobody who chants "U-S-A!" like a moron could possibly have more than a double digit IQ no matter the circumstance.
(regarding the clowns at the White House right now)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on May 02, 2011, 12:56:38 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on May 02, 2011, 12:47:07 am

Nobody who chants "U-S-A!" like a moron could possibly have more than a double digit IQ no matter the circumstance.
(regarding the clowns at the White House right now)

well, i think the crowd is 90% GW students. QED

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 02, 2011, 01:13:23 am

I hear they are burning couches in College Park.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on May 02, 2011, 07:16:23 am

I love the fact that the last sight before he died was US soldiers, rather than from a drone he never saw coming. Rot in hell.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 02, 2011, 11:11:11 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on May 02, 2011, 12:47:07 am

Nobody who chants "U-S-A!" like a moron could possibly have more than a double digit IQ no matter the circumstance.
(regarding the clowns at the White House right now)

Even beating the Russians at hockey?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 02, 2011, 11:14:55 am

British boxer Henry Cooper
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/boxing/13256045.stm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on May 02, 2011, 11:11:11 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on May 02, 2011, 12:47:07 am
Nobody who chants "U-S-A!" like a moron could possibly have more than a double digit IQ no matter the circumstance.
(regarding the clowns at the White House right now)

Even beating the Russians at hockey?

the obvious move here is to make a crack about how moronic it is to get excited about sports at all...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on May 02, 2011, 11:17:27 am

or shows...

Hell, why get excited about anything?

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on May 02, 2011, 11:11:11 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on May 02, 2011, 12:47:07 am
Nobody who chants "U-S-A!" like a moron could possibly have more than a double digit IQ no matter the circumstance.
(regarding the clowns at the White House right now)

Even beating the Russians at hockey?

the obvious move here is to make a crack about how moronic it is to get excited about sports at all...
[/quote]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on May 02, 2011, 11:18:23 am

Quote from: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on May 02, 2011, 07:16:23 am

I love the fact that the last sight before he died was US soldiers, rather than from a drone he never saw coming. Rot in hell.

If he was eating at Quizno's when it all happened, I'll bet he mustered up the energy to take one last dying look at his sandwich in order to deny America this victory. That's what I'd do at least because I get a 10% discount on any sandwich at Quizno's as long as I buy a soda and chips. See, that's where they get you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on May 02, 2011, 11:19:00 am

Quote from: ggw on May 02, 2011, 01:13:23 am

I hear they are burning couches in College Park.

They were just keeping up with Morgantown... (http://www.dailymail.com/News/statenews/201105020560)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 02, 2011, 11:19:34 am

shellac, sir is ON FUCKING FIRE today.

love ya, buddy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on May 03, 2011, 01:10:10 pm

Quote from: ggw on May 02, 2011, 01:13:23 am

I hear they are burning couches in College Park.

you may have been trying to be funny, but you were right:

http://youtu.be/JnpDHNK8XR0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on May 03, 2011, 01:58:55 pm

Sheeple like you would believe the LIES put forward by the AmeriKKKan government to further their ploy of PROBLEM REACTION SOLUTION, in order to perpetuate the phony war on terror so they can control the people and MOLEST YOUR CHILDREN in airports for "safety precautions" with the ultimate goal of ACHIEVING A WORLD POPULATION REDUCTION to enslave you and your family for generations to come. WAKE UP.

Quote from: HoyaSaxa03 on May 03, 2011, 01:10:10 pm

Quote from: ggw on May 02, 2011, 01:13:23 am
I hear they are burning couches in College Park.

you may have been trying to be funny, but you were right:

http://youtu.be/JnpDHNK8XR0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on May 03, 2011, 02:03:05 pm

Quote from: James Ford on May 03, 2011, 01:58:55 pm

Sheeple like you would believe the LIES put forward by the AmeriKKKan government to further their ploy of PROBLEM REACTION SOLUTION, in order to perpetuate the phony war on terror so they can control the people and MOLEST YOUR CHILDREN in airports for "safety precautions" with the ultimate goal of ACHIEVING A WORLD POPULATION REDUCTION to enslave you and your family for generations to come. WAKE UP.

Quote from: HoyaSaxa03 on May 03, 2011, 01:10:10 pm
Quote from: ggw on May 02, 2011, 01:13:23 am
I hear they are burning couches in College Park.

you may have been trying to be funny, but you were right:

http://youtu.be/JnpDHNK8XR0

I guess you didn't have your metamucil this morning ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on May 03, 2011, 02:28:22 pm

I think he's practicing his copy and pasting skills again.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on May 03, 2011, 02:44:50 pm

I think it's pretty obvious I copied and pasted.

I think it's also pretty obvious population reduction is a good idea.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on May 04, 2011, 04:05:50 pm

http://www.facebook.com/sonarbaltimore?sk=wall

Sonar Baltimore.

RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on May 04, 2011, 04:09:47 pm

My favorite comment:

I can assure Mr. Lonnie Fisher he will be sued if he chooses not to refund ticket costs. I will be taking the steps to assure this happens beginning tomorrow morning. If he would like to speak to me I would ask he send an e-mail immediately to ads@umaryland.edu explaining himself or he will be hearing from lawyers quite soon.

Quote from: Got Haggis? on May 04, 2011, 04:05:50 pm

Sonar Baltimore.

RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 04, 2011, 04:13:29 pm

Can't say I'm too sorry. Sonar Sux.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on May 04, 2011, 04:24:08 pm

wow, no wonder all the Sonar shows this week were either canceled or moved...

but why did they announce the Shellac show for September...?

Quote from: Got Haggis? on May 04, 2011, 04:05:50 pm

http://www.facebook.com/sonarbaltimore?sk=wall

Sonar Baltimore.

RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on May 04, 2011, 04:30:49 pm

What will happen to the concerts they have booked is what I am wondering.

Hey Seth, how's about scooping up that Odd Future show? (yes, I know that is much easier said than done)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 04, 2011, 04:32:23 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on May 04, 2011, 04:05:50 pm

Baltimore.

RIP

Would have been better...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on May 05, 2011, 02:15:34 am

This is unacceptable. Sonar and Talking Head were good spots. Someone better reschedule the Deftones! Hey Seth....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on May 05, 2011, 10:58:12 am

there's alot of nasty things being talked about on their FB page. good read.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on May 09, 2011, 07:57:21 pm

RIP John Walker (of The Walker Brothers)

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/rip-john-walker-founder-walker-brothers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 09, 2011, 11:54:28 pm

cornell dupree

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 12, 2011, 01:34:01 am

Former NBA player Robert "Tractor" Traylor
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/11/former-nba-player-robert-tractor-traylor-found-dead/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 16, 2011, 05:46:54 pm

'Dougie' rapper M-Bone dies in drive-by
http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/05/16/rapper.m.bone.killed/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on May 20, 2011, 12:52:06 pm

RIP Randy Macho Man Savage

http://www.tmz.com/2011/05/20/randy-savage-car-accident-macho-man-dead-dies-died-killed-wwe-wrestler-florida/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 20, 2011, 01:37:47 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on May 20, 2011, 12:52:06 pm

RIP Randy Macho Man Savage

http://www.tmz.com/2011/05/20/randy-savage-car-accident-macho-man-dead-dies-died-killed-wwe-wrestler-florida/

i don't turn to TMZ for journalistic excellence, but that... story doesn't... even... make.... a DECENT BLOG post.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on May 20, 2011, 01:39:31 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on May 20, 2011, 12:52:06 pm

RIP Randy Macho Man Savage

http://www.tmz.com/2011/05/20/randy-savage-car-accident-macho-man-dead-dies-died-killed-wwe-wrestler-florida/

Looks like the rapture has started the VIP check-in.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 20, 2011, 01:45:31 pm

Quote from: chaz on May 20, 2011, 01:39:31 pm

Looks like the rapture has started the VIP check-in.

Hilarious.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on May 27, 2011, 04:02:37 pm

Kenickie

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/05/27/jeff.conaway.dead/index.html?hpt=T1

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on May 27, 2011, 09:48:23 pm

Gil Scott-Heron (http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/rip-gil-scott-heron/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on May 28, 2011, 12:30:35 am

Quote from: ggw on May 02, 2011, 01:13:23 am

I hear they are burning couches in College Park.

Just saw this poast. You're the best, ggw. :D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on June 03, 2011, 09:44:03 am

Dr Death:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43265235/ns/us_news-life

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on June 03, 2011, 09:51:07 am

Say it ain't so!

(http://www.japanprobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Dr-Death.jpg)

Quote from: Bagley on June 03, 2011, 09:44:03 am

Dr Death:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43265235/ns/us_news-life

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Ardamus on June 07, 2011, 09:29:01 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on May 27, 2011, 09:48:23 pm

Gil Scott-Heron (http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/rip-gil-scott-heron/)

I went to the tribute at Tap & Parlour. Pretty dope stuff. Rest In Peace to a legend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on June 07, 2011, 05:27:54 pm

Leon Botha

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RoMDwnJlBOs/TUK98EvGUqI/AAAAAAAAAEU/PubTN93CBsk/s1600/crazy_images_weird_laugh_pictures_Leon-Botha-a-Human-Alien-007.jpg)

Goodnight sweet prince

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on June 07, 2011, 08:38:10 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cegdR0GiJl4

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on June 13, 2011, 01:12:33 am

Seth Putnam R.I.P.

http://www.theprp.com/2011/06/12/news/anal-cunt-frontman-passes-away/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on June 18, 2011, 10:39:10 pm

Saxophonist Clarence Clemons Dead at 69 (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/amplifier/89326/saxophonist-clarence-clemons-dead-at-69)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on June 20, 2011, 02:00:29 am

Larry "Wild Man" Fischer

http://themusicsover.com/2011/06/15/wild-man-fischer/

Derailroaded is an essential rock-doc.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on June 20, 2011, 10:39:43 am

Ryan Dunn from Jackass

http://www.tmz.com/2011/06/20/jackass-ryan-dunn-dies-dead-car-crash-accident-pennsylvania/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on June 24, 2011, 02:17:26 pm

Columbo (http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43526826/ns/today-entertainment)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chancegardener on June 30, 2011, 12:28:45 pm

Woman falls to her death from rooftop of the W Hotel

A woman fell to her death from an upper floor of a hotel across from the White House grounds late Wednesday night, authorities said.

Witnesses told a police officer that the woman had been drinking at the bar on the rooftop patio of the W hotel, and that she climbed over a fence on the patio.

D.C. fire department spokesman Pete Piringer said witnesses told authorities that the woman was then seen hanging by her hands from an overhang one story below the rooftop around 11 p.m.

The woman then dropped about 10 stories, Piringer said witnesses reported. She was declared dead at the scene, Piringer said.

Uniformed Secret Service officers and D.C. police were at the scene late last night, and all lanes of 15th St. NW were shut down from New York Avenue south to Pennsylvania Avenue.

The woman was not immediately identified.

The boutique hotel, at 515 15th St. NW, is across from the White House, and the rooftop bar there is a popular attraction.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post_now/post/woman-falls-to-her-death-from-rooftop-of-the-w-hotel/2011/06/29/AGDMibrH_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on June 30, 2011, 12:53:31 pm

I've been in that bar. And believe me, I wanted to jump off the fucking roof too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on June 30, 2011, 01:10:25 pm

Isn't it about time for azaghal1981 to start a songlist thread to mock her death?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 30, 2011, 01:52:13 pm

Quote from: James Ford on June 30, 2011, 01:10:25 pm

Isn't it about time for azaghal1981 to start a songlist thread to mock her death?

obviously he's behind schedule since you've already thrown a wet blanket on the idea - usually he goes first.

snap to it, azag!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on June 30, 2011, 03:33:54 pm

It's Raining (Wo)Men!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonby on June 30, 2011, 04:58:29 pm

"Jump Around", a 1992 song by House of Pain
"Jump (for My Love)", a Pointer Sisters song (later covered by the group Girls Aloud)
"Jump" (Van Halen song)
"Jump" (Kris Kross song)
"Jump" (Simple Plan song)
"Jump" (Every Little Thing song)
"Jump" (Madonna song)
"Jump" (Flo Rida song)
"Jumpin'" (Kara song)
"Jump", a song by The Faders
"Jump", a song by Loverboy from their 1981 album Get Lucky
"Jump!", a 1992 song performed by The Movement
"Jump", a track by Kylie Minogue on her 1997 album Impossible Princess
"Jump", a song by N*E*R*D from the 2004 album Fly or Die
"Jumpin", a song by Liberty X
"Jumpin' Jumpin'", a song by Destiny's Child

there. no more is needed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on July 01, 2011, 09:08:00 am

Quote

Authorities say body found in public pool went undetected for days
By Katie Silver, CNN
June 30, 2011 8:42 p.m. EDT

The body of Marie Joseph, 36, was discovered by teenagers Tuesday evening
in the Vietnam Veterans Swimming Pool in Fall River, Massachusetts, according to Bristol
County district attorney's spokesman Gregg Miliote.

Joseph had gone to the pool on Sunday with a 9-year-old neighbor and his family. She
collided with the boy while the pair careened down a pool slide, Miliote said.
After the collision, the boy surfaced but the woman did not, he said.

It was not clear Thursday what happened after the collision or whether the boy and
his family sought Joseph's whereabouts when they left the pool.
Authorities continued to investigate the cause of death Thursday.

The pool -- which is 12 feet deep at its deepest --- was described as "cloudy" by a health
inspector who examined the pool Tuesday, according to the mayor of Fall River, William Flanagan.
A decomposing body can take a couple of days before it becomes buoyant, Miliote added.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/30/massachusetts.pool.woman.body/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 (http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/30/massachusetts.pool.woman.body/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 03, 2011, 08:50:54 pm

Mr. Weed Eater, George Ballas (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/george-ballas-dies-weed-eater-inventor-was-85/2011/07/03/AGCX5kwH_story.html?hpid=z4)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on July 05, 2011, 11:27:15 pm

Coolest ... chick .... ever.
(http://www.clevescene.com/binary/15ea/1309875344-jane_scott.jpg)
"Jim Morrison invited her backstage for a beer. Jimi Hendrix took her along when he shopped for a blue Corvette. She sang ?California Girls? with Brian Wilson at a hotel piano bar during an interview. When Springsteen played Cleveland, he dedicated ?Dancing in the Dark? to her."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jane-scott-rock-critic-for-cleveland-plain-dealer-dies-at-92/2011/07/05/gHQAx7QbzH_story.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jane-scott-rock-critic-for-cleveland-plain-dealer-dies-at-92/2011/07/05/gHQAx7QbzH_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on July 07, 2011, 09:51:17 am

Baltimore Colts great TE and HOF-er John Mackey

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on July 20, 2011, 04:31:23 pm

The man who invented the album cover:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/business/media/alex-steinweiss-originator-of-artistic-album-covers-dies-at-94.html?hpw

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mark_Read on July 23, 2011, 12:47:48 pm

Amy Winehouse

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14262237

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 23, 2011, 01:06:08 pm

i wonder how?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 23, 2011, 01:18:01 pm

well seeing as Cobain, Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison also all died at 27, i doubt it was clean living..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 23, 2011, 01:27:37 pm

you forgot brian jones.

actually, i just looked at a site for the 27 music club. wow. a lot of musicians die at 27.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on July 23, 2011, 01:30:10 pm

I am guessing by 27 a lot of talented people have had their first flash of brilliance, and are facing high expectations and the long and difficult slog that comes afterwards.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on July 23, 2011, 04:36:50 pm

I'm more pissed than sad. I wanted more Amy Winehouse records. I wanted more Nirvana records. I wanted to see Len Bias play in the NBA. I guess drugs are cooler.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 23, 2011, 04:43:55 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on July 23, 2011, 04:36:50 pm

I'm more pissed than sad. I wanted more Amy Winehouse records. I wanted more Nirvana records. I wanted to see Len Bias play in the NBA. I guess drugs are cooler.

Brian

i was actually thinking of you today and whatever happened to you. do we need more famous dead people just to make you post?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on July 23, 2011, 08:19:38 pm

Quote from: walkonby on July 23, 2011, 04:43:55 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on July 23, 2011, 04:36:50 pm

I'm more pissed than sad. I wanted more Amy Winehouse records. I wanted more Nirvana records. I wanted to see Len Bias play in the NBA. I guess drugs are cooler.

Brian

i was actually thinking of you today and whatever happened to you. do we need more famous dead people just to make you post?

I could probably think of a couple. Absence makes...

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 24, 2011, 09:51:15 pm

is it just me? i don't understand. everywhere i turn, there are stories about amy whinehouse. everywhere. all news sources, all places to write a op ed piece and is about her. only her. her. amy's death has brought the very foundation of news to its brink. nothing else matters. bigger than princess di's death, bigger than jesus's death, bigger than even fucking tupac.

she was a drug addict that had one good album and looked like a trailer park whore who would suck a dick for her next hit. she had one real song that people knew her for. she was everything that is wrong with fame. she was a billboard for "i am a total fuck up; don't be me." that is what the world worships? a fucking junkie? that is what we need to make us feel better about ourselves?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on July 25, 2011, 10:19:01 am

Everyone likes a good train wreck you idiot. Especially a "woulda coulda shoulda been a contender" train wreck.

How old are you? Have you not figured this one out yet? Media response to this is about as predictable as my friday morning trash pickup.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on July 25, 2011, 10:34:14 am

And she actually had TWO good albums, which is two more than Widespread Panic or Phish.

Chaz, you must live in the suburbs if you get such reliable trash service. Be sure the shop around though. We found another trash service in our neighborhood for much cheaper...so ours is now on Mon/Thurs instead of Tues/Fri.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on July 25, 2011, 10:39:25 am

Quote from: James Ford on July 25, 2011, 10:34:14 am

Chaz, you must live in the suburbs if you get such reliable trash service. Be sure the shop around though. We found another trash service in our neighborhood for much cheaper...so ours is now on Mon/Thurs instead of Tues/Fri.

I just moved to Falls Church, where trash pickup is included in property tax bills, which are paid for by my landlord, so price is no concern...and I could set my watch by it. 7:30 a.m. on the dot. Friday only, along with recycling pickup. They show up after I leave for the day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on July 25, 2011, 10:45:39 am

Morrissey

http://www.nhpr.org/letters-heaven-bill-morrissey

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 25, 2011, 11:06:27 am

Quote from: James Ford on July 25, 2011, 10:34:14 am

And she actually had TWO good albums, which is two more than Widespread Panic or Phish.

Chaz, you must live in the suburbs if you get such reliable trash service. Be sure the shop around though. We found another trash service in our neighborhood for much cheaper...so ours is now on Mon/Thurs instead of Tues/Fri.

suck a fat dick and overdose like your cunt hero.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on July 25, 2011, 11:09:12 am

wow :o

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on July 25, 2011, 11:15:51 am

Quote from: walkonby on July 25, 2011, 11:06:27 am

Quote from: James Ford on July 25, 2011, 10:34:14 am
And she actually had TWO good albums, which is two more than Widespread Panic or Phish.

Chaz, you must live in the suburbs if you get such reliable trash service. Be sure the shop around though. We found another trash service in our neighborhood for much cheaper...so ours is now on Mon/Thurs instead of Tues/Fri.

suck a fat dick and overdose like your cunt hero.

What a dick

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: xneverwherex on July 25, 2011, 11:23:25 am

WTF is wrong with you. Someone died - yes she had drug problems galore, but it doesnt make it any less sad. She was someone's daughter and you should really just STFU. This is so unnecessary.

Maybe the lead singer of Phish can OD so we can have a field day and parade it around like this is the best day ever.

Show some compassion.

Ive long come to expect this kind of talk on BrooklynVegan, but I hoped it wouldnt contaminate this board too.

Quote from: walkonby on July 25, 2011, 11:06:27 am

Quote from: James Ford on July 25, 2011, 10:34:14 am
And she actually had TWO good albums, which is two more than Widespread Panic or Phish.

Chaz, you must live in the suburbs if you get such reliable trash service. Be sure the shop around though. We found another trash service in our neighborhood for much cheaper...so ours is now on Mon/Thurs instead of Tues/Fri.

suck a fat dick and overdose like your cunt hero.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on July 25, 2011, 12:43:37 pm

So who will play her in the made for tv movie on channel 4 (uk)]

Also, am I the only one a little irritated at the comments by her closest friends and loved ones with their "shocked" "can't believe it" "at a loss for words" comments? Really? You didn't see this shit coming?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on July 25, 2011, 12:52:53 pm

(http://sarahsilvermanonline.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/sarah-silverman-as-amy-winehouse.jpg)

Sarah Silverman should play her

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on July 25, 2011, 01:51:12 pm

Silverman should eat some sandwiches and play the 'Frank'-era Amy and here's a solid candidate for the 'Blake' years.

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XpzVbtlY8wE/SYn7n9wzzoI/AAAAAAAABfs/JeTtUb0gRcA/s400/pete-doherty.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on July 25, 2011, 03:32:54 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on July 25, 2011, 01:51:12 pm

Silverman should eat some sandwiches and play the 'Frank'-era Amy and here's a solid candidate for the 'Blake' years.

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XpzVbtlY8wE/SYn7n9wzzoI/AAAAAAAABfs/JeTtUb0gRcA/s400/pete-doherty.jpg)

Is he dead yet?

BTW - what's the difference between Amy Winehouse and Sir Alex Ferguson? Ferguson can still play Giggs!!!! (Ask a soccer fan if you don't get it)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on July 25, 2011, 06:22:34 pm

Quote from: Frank Gallagher on July 25, 2011, 12:43:37 pm

So who will play her in the made for tv movie on channel 4 (uk)]

Also, am I the only one a little irritated at the comments by her closest friends and loved ones with their "shocked" "can't believe it" "at a loss for words" comments? Really? You didn't see this shit coming?

I am going to guess that as with most addiction scenarios, her closest friends enabled it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on July 25, 2011, 09:35:58 pm

Isn't more more accurate to say she died from depression?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 26, 2011, 07:53:19 am

Quote from: xneverwherex on July 25, 2011, 11:23:25 am

WTF is wrong with you. Someone died - yes she had drug problems galore, but it doesnt make it any less sad. She was someone's daughter and you should really just STFU. This is so unnecessary.

Maybe the lead singer of Phish can OD so we can have a field day and parade it around like this is the best day ever.

Show some compassion.

Ive long come to expect this kind of talk on BrooklynVegan, but I hoped it wouldnt contaminate this board too.

Quote from: walkonby on July 25, 2011, 11:06:27 am
Quote from: James Ford on July 25, 2011, 10:34:14 am
And she actually had TWO good albums, which is two more than Widespread Panic or Phish.

Chaz, you must live in the suburbs if you get such reliable trash service. Be sure the shop around though. We found another trash service in our neighborhood for much cheaper...so ours is now on Mon/Thurs instead of Tues/Fri.

suck a fat dick and overdose like your cunt hero.

all i did, was question the media coverage of a person who died. like with michael jackson. one day a villian, the next day a hero. it is still going on. then i was called names and told the music i like sucks and maybe the people who front the bands i like should die. nice. and then we have your comment . . . but you're worshipped around here, so i guess i'm in the wrong. did you cry when jeffrey dahmer died? i mean he had problems . . . but he was a person. he was someone's son.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on July 26, 2011, 08:50:00 am

Walkonby, you say Winehouse is a terrible psycopath, I say she is a tragic depressive. Some people just liked her music. I say Phishs soulless goofy music is a worse crime than substance abuse and a death spiral of poisonous relationships. Don't make purposefully offensive statements and then act like a victim. Its embarrassing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sauce07 on July 26, 2011, 09:07:28 am

Am I missing something? Did Phish's crunchy grooves kill Amy Winehouse?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on July 26, 2011, 10:05:06 am

"F*cking good riddance to bad rubbish. I don´t give a f*cking sh*t, and nobody else does either. It is just fun to fake sympathy, that's all they're doing." - Johnny Rotten on Elvis Presely's death.

I have to agree on Walkie on this one.

First of all Mobius, if Winehouse was depressed, we're ALL depressed. Just because she was a good singer with SOME grit doesn't make her an esteemed artist above and immune to the slings and arrows of outrageous Twitter feeds.

I mean it would have been NICE to have a few more Nirvana, Amy Winehouse, etc. records. (But no one really missed any more Sex Pistols records. Sid never played a note anyhow. Talk about famous for being famous. "England for the English...") But they weren't strong enough to handle their drug use or strong enough to quit. Why cry tears? Amy Winehouse had all the resources in the world and was offered help to quit multiple times. Partially because people cared about her but more likely because they could make a lot of money off of her. And she enjoyed doing drugs more than signing. We're supposed to mourn that? A 27 year-old junkie named Amy in Middle America? No one gives a sh*t about her. She's getting no help what-so-ever. No $$$.

You know who REALLY could have helped her. Dr. Drew and Celebrity Rehab. I mean, they've only lost, what? Two this year? Amy Fisher would be next anyhow.

THAT'S why everyone wants to be famous. Because you can get away with anything and all your faults and weaknesses are "tragic" and "sad" post-mortem.

We don't have to worry about Pete Doherty anymore. He's 32!

You know who really gets the shaft in the "Forever 27" club? Robert Johnson. The man made a deal with the DEVIL! That's slightly more badass than bitching, whining and moaning about not being able to do a Bowie cover on "Unplugged." And he influenced EVERYBODY. Well, except for pasty-faced, over-educated, nerdy white boys who worship the Holy Trinity of Cave, Young and Tweedy.

So the Venn Diagram of rock influences is Alex Chilton for the virgins. Robert Johnson for everybody else.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on July 26, 2011, 11:23:29 am

More Nirvana music???

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?? I Would've blown my own brains out had I been sujected to that shit for much longer.

By the way...I just got an email from a dyslexic friend informing me someone died in an army warehouse in north London.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on July 26, 2011, 11:50:40 am

There's a difference between making more music and dying. Some folks succesfully make a definitive statement and walk away when that's best for them, or when circumstances dictate.

I consider Johnny Rottens comment about Elvis to be a political statement relevant to a specific time and geared toward the opposition. . .intended to be controversial. . .not anything relevant to the pros and cons of the Sun Sessions. That attitude led to the sacking of Matlock and the killing of the Sex Pistols . . .which secured their mythology so probably for the best

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 26, 2011, 01:12:47 pm

Quote from: Mobius on July 26, 2011, 08:50:00 am

Walkonby, you say Winehouse is a terrible psycopath, I say she is a tragic depressive. Some people just liked her music. I say Phishs soulless goofy music is a worse crime than substance abuse and a death spiral of poisonous relationships. Don't make purposefully offensive statements and then act like a victim. Its embarrassing.

actually, my original thought process was the "hero worship" that was going on with her after her death. i guess i have a shitty way of expressing my ideas. i believe the same is true with with kurt and jim morrison. in my opinion, when people are struggling to make house payments and feed their family and just survive . . . and you have a people blessed with such talents that most would kill for a chance to have, and these people just piss it away with drugs, a fuck you attitude and a life that seems to be "supported fully" by their fans, i get ticked off.

same goes with phish. trey was becoming a huge drug addict with a huge ego and did what the fuck he wanted, and he was ruining the band. then he hit bottom, cleaned up his act, and pulled off a huge comeback that has the band in top form. i applaud that. would winehouse have cleaned up her act? who knows? why do i care so much? who knows. i just find it a horrible thing that when elizabeth taylor died, one of the greatest stars and humanitarians of my lifetime died, she got what, 2 days top coverage on the news . . . and when a junkie dies, the press never stops. that's all. wasn't try to be a victim or make people mad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: xneverwherex on July 26, 2011, 02:23:39 pm

hahah im worshipped around here? ok im still laughing here. who the hell am i worshipped by? because i live and go to concerts in nyc - and used to see a ton at the 9:30. because i write rational responses without calling people names and acting like a 2 year old.

or is it because i talk here the way i talk to people IRL. If Im worshipped thats f'ing awesome. But Im exactly the same person you see here, as you get irl. dont believe me - ask those that know me from here.

and since when did winehouse kill a bunch of people and eat them? how in the hell do you compare the two? Dahmer clearly had his own demons, but he did not get the death penalty and he did not kill himself with drugs or whatever. Someone else got to him first. Maybe you should try and compare apples to apples.

Quote from: walkonby on July 26, 2011, 07:53:19 am

Quote from: xneverwherex on July 25, 2011, 11:23:25 am
WTF is wrong with you. Someone died - yes she had drug problems galore, but it doesnt make it any less sad. She was someone's daughter and you should really just STFU. This is so unnecessary.

Maybe the lead singer of Phish can OD so we can have a field day and parade it around like this is the best day ever.

Show some compassion.

Ive long come to expect this kind of talk on BrooklynVegan, but I hoped it wouldnt contaminate this board too.

Quote from: walkonby on July 25, 2011, 11:06:27 am
Quote from: James Ford on July 25, 2011, 10:34:14 am
And she actually had TWO good albums, which is two more than Widespread Panic or Phish.

Chaz, you must live in the suburbs if you get such reliable trash service. Be sure the shop around though. We found another trash service in our neighborhood for much cheaper...so ours is now on Mon/Thurs instead of Tues/Fri.

suck a fat dick and overdose like your cunt hero.

all i did, was question the media coverage of a person who died. like with michael jackson. one day a villian, the next day a hero. it is still going on. then i was called names and told the music i like sucks and maybe the people who front the bands i like should die. nice. and then we have your comment . . . but you're worshipped around here, so i guess i'm in the wrong. did you cry when jeffrey dahmer died? i mean he had problems . . . but he was a person. he was someone's son.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on July 26, 2011, 02:51:07 pm

Quote from: walkonby on July 26, 2011, 01:12:47 pm

Quote from: Mobius on July 26, 2011, 08:50:00 am
Walkonby, you say Winehouse is a terrible psycopath, I say she is a tragic depressive. Some people just liked her music. I say Phishs soulless goofy music is a worse crime than substance abuse and a death spiral of poisonous relationships. Don't make purposefully offensive statements and then act like a victim. Its embarrassing.

actually, my original thought process was the "hero worship" that was going on with her after her death. i guess i have a shitty way of expressing my ideas. i believe the same is true with with kurt and jim morrison. in my opinion, when people are struggling to make house payments and feed their family and just survive . . . and you have a people blessed with such talents that most would kill for a chance to have, and these people just piss it away with drugs, a fuck you attitude and a life that seems to be "supported fully" by their fans, i get ticked off.

same goes with phish. trey was becoming a huge drug addict with a huge ego and did what the fuck he wanted, and he was ruining the band. then he hit bottom, cleaned up his act, and pulled off a huge comeback that has the band in top form. i applaud that. would winehouse have cleaned up her act? who knows? why do i care so much? who knows. i just find it a horrible thing that when elizabeth taylor died, one of the greatest stars and humanitarians of my lifetime died, she got what, 2 days top coverage on the news . . . and when a junkie dies, the press never stops. that's all. wasn't try to be a victim or make people mad.

Phish? Top form? The bar for that is lower than a submarine shithouse...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 26, 2011, 04:34:14 pm

Quote from: xneverwherex on July 26, 2011, 02:23:39 pm

hahah im worshipped around here? ok im still laughing here. who the hell am i worshipped by? because i live and go to concerts in nyc - and used to see a ton at the 9:30. because i write rational responses without calling people names and acting like a 2 year old.

or is it because i talk here the way i talk to people IRL. If Im worshipped thats f'ing awesome. But Im exactly the same person you see here, as you get irl. dont believe me - ask those that know me from here.

and since when did winehouse kill a bunch of people and eat them? how in the hell do you compare the two? Dahmer clearly had his own demons, but he did not get the death penalty and he did not kill himself with drugs or whatever. Someone else got to him first. Maybe you should try and compare apples to apples.

Quote from: walkonby on July 26, 2011, 07:53:19 am
Quote from: xneverwherex on July 25, 2011, 11:23:25 am
WTF is wrong with you. Someone died - yes she had drug problems galore, but it doesnt make it any less sad. She was someone's daughter and you should really just STFU. This is so unnecessary.

Maybe the lead singer of Phish can OD so we can have a field day and parade it around like this is the best day ever.

Show some compassion.

Ive long come to expect this kind of talk on BrooklynVegan, but I hoped it wouldnt contaminate this board too.

Quote from: walkonby on July 25, 2011, 11:06:27 am
Quote from: James Ford on July 25, 2011, 10:34:14 am
And she actually had TWO good albums, which is two more than Widespread Panic or Phish.

Chaz, you must live in the suburbs if you get such reliable trash service. Be sure the shop around though. We found another trash service in our neighborhood for much cheaper...so ours is now on Mon/Thurs instead of Tues/Fri.

suck a fat dick and overdose like your cunt hero.

all i did, was question the media coverage of a person who died. like with michael jackson. one day a villian, the next day a hero. it is still going on. then i was called names and told the music i like sucks and maybe the people who front the bands i like should die. nice. and then we have your comment . . . but you're worshipped around here, so i guess i'm in the wrong. did you cry when jeffrey dahmer died? i mean he had problems . . . but he was a person. he was someone's son.

in real life . . . do you say "irl", or "in real life"? what about wtf and stfu? and does saying "Maybe the lead singer of Phish can OD so we can have a field day and parade it around like this is the best day ever" make you better than a 2 year old? and i compared dahmer to winehouse, because according to you, death is death and people should be sad about it. sorry my logic goes over your nyc head. maybe you need to go to another concert . . . and ponder it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on July 26, 2011, 04:36:54 pm

Quote from: walkonby on July 26, 2011, 01:12:47 pm

i just find it a horrible thing that when elizabeth taylor died, one of the greatest stars and humanitarians of my lifetime died, she got what, 2 days top coverage on the news . . . and when a junkie dies, the press never stops. that's all. wasn't try to be a victim or make people mad.

"The other week, ABC and CBS led with Elizabeth Taylor's death for the whole first slug. That's unconscionable. It's not like she was struck down in her prime. They named a sandwich after her at Cedars-Sinai ? she was there a lot."

- Bill Maher

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on July 26, 2011, 04:48:27 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on July 26, 2011, 04:36:54 pm

Quote from: walkonby on July 26, 2011, 01:12:47 pm
i just find it a horrible thing that when elizabeth taylor died, one of the greatest stars and humanitarians of my lifetime died, she got what, 2 days top coverage on the news . . . and when a junkie dies, the press never stops. that's all. wasn't try to be a victim or make people mad.

"The other week, ABC and CBS led with Elizabeth Taylor's death for the whole first slug. That's unconscionable. It's not like she was struck down in her prime. They named a sandwich after her at Cedars-Sinai ? she was there a lot."

- Bill Maher

Brian

I for one, will have a right old shindig when Maher croaks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: xneverwherex on July 26, 2011, 05:09:17 pm

yes your logic went so far over my head. Clearly living in liberal NYC and going to concerts I cant understand your logic.

So heres this for logic IRL - I wouldnt have to say in real life because Id be talking to you. Id then be saying to your face 'youre a fucking asshole and kindly leave me alone.' Trust me, Ive already told friends to STFU (but yes i like to use shorthand when Im online - god forbid), or as youd say 'shut the fuck up' because I dont think her death is cause for celebration of any sorts.

I never said anyone should be sad about her death - I said it was sad that she died. Sure people who knew her or who could relate to her were sad. And they have every right to be. It was sad - it was tragic. Shes 27 years old and had a life ahead of her and hopefully some new great music (and no I was never a fan - although she had one hell of a voice).

Sorry if I cant fit into some fucking mold that you paint others into. And Id gladly tell anyone who was going on about Winehouse's death and make some apt comparison to their favorite band. My point is - just because shes not your favorite singer doesnt give anyone reason to celebrate. Nor would it be any more funny for me to celebrate if Trey ODs. Either way, you obviously missed my point.

With that being said - Im done with this conversation.
If you wish to have any sort of civilized conversation send me an email.

Quote from: walkonby on July 26, 2011, 04:34:14 pm

Quote from: xneverwherex on July 26, 2011, 02:23:39 pm
hahah im worshipped around here? ok im still laughing here. who the hell am i worshipped by? because i live and go to concerts in nyc - and used to see a ton at the 9:30. because i write rational responses without calling people names and acting like a 2 year old.

or is it because i talk here the way i talk to people IRL. If Im worshipped thats f'ing awesome. But Im exactly the same person you see here, as you get irl. dont believe me - ask those that know me from here.

and since when did winehouse kill a bunch of people and eat them? how in the hell do you compare the two? Dahmer clearly had his own demons, but he did not get the death penalty and he did not kill himself with drugs or whatever. Someone else got to him first. Maybe you should try and compare apples to apples.

Quote from: walkonby on July 26, 2011, 07:53:19 am
Quote from: xneverwherex on July 25, 2011, 11:23:25 am
WTF is wrong with you. Someone died - yes she had drug problems galore, but it doesnt make it any less sad. She was someone's daughter and you should really just STFU. This is so unnecessary.

Maybe the lead singer of Phish can OD so we can have a field day and parade it around like this is the best day ever.

Show some compassion.

Ive long come to expect this kind of talk on BrooklynVegan, but I hoped it wouldnt contaminate this board too.

Quote from: walkonby on July 25, 2011, 11:06:27 am
Quote from: James Ford on July 25, 2011, 10:34:14 am
And she actually had TWO good albums, which is two more than Widespread Panic or Phish.

Chaz, you must live in the suburbs if you get such reliable trash service. Be sure the shop around though. We found another trash service in our neighborhood for much cheaper...so ours is now on Mon/Thurs instead of Tues/Fri.

suck a fat dick and overdose like your cunt hero.

all i did, was question the media coverage of a person who died. like with michael jackson. one day a villian, the next day a hero. it is still going on. then i was called names and told the music i like sucks and maybe the people who front the bands i like should die. nice. and then we have your comment . . . but you're worshipped around here, so i guess i'm in the wrong. did you cry when jeffrey dahmer died? i mean he had problems . . . but he was a person. he was someone's son.

in real life . . . do you say "irl", or "in real life"? what about wtf and stfu? and does saying "Maybe the lead singer of Phish can OD so we can have a field day and parade it around like this is the best day ever" make you better than a 2 year old? and i compared dahmer to winehouse, because according to you, death is death and people should be sad about it. sorry my logic goes over your nyc head. maybe you need to go to another concert . . . and ponder it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 27, 2011, 12:04:37 am

I do agree with Walkies on the fact that people (more specifically, musicians) who die due to recklessness/suicide/other misadventure that can be attributed to his/her drama filled life do get a gratuitous amount of attention while people who were known for their music and only their music are lucky to get a mention in the mainstream news media at all. Three examples that quickly come to mind are Trish Kenan, Jack Rose and Clarence Clemons. The first two and their deaths received coverage from plenty of music press outlets and Rose got a couple nice stories on NPR but that was pretty much it. Maybe Keenan got a little press in the British media? Clemons got a little bit more but only because he played an integral role in one of the biggest bands in the world. Still, the attention he received pales in comparison to that of Winehouse. I cannot help but wonder if her fame is due more to her drama/drug filled life than her talents. Would she have gotten much attention in 2006-07 if her first hit single wasn't about her offstage demons? She kind of was a dime a dozen as far as soul singers go; why did her music receive more attention/sales/awards than say, Sharon Jones? Sorry to go off on a tangent but I have been pondering these questions about her fame since "Rehab" first came out.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: xneverwherex on July 27, 2011, 09:47:42 am

Probably because most people are obsessed with watching people fall from grace. I read this article recently (not sure which newspaper/magazine) about the 'new' rising actresses and they said they were all a bit boring since they had no drug/sex scandals to report on. (Emma Watson, Emma Roberts, Emma Stone - thats a lot of Emmas). The paper then said they hoped that Lindsay Lohan had more drama soon so thered be something exciting to report.

Its quite sad that most people wanna read about all this rather than giving someone their dues to actual talent. Im now onto day 3 of the free papers in NYC and theyre still coming up with more stories. Are we that slow in entertainment news - that this is the only story worth reporting on?

Quote from: azaghal1981 on July 27, 2011, 12:04:37 am

I do agree with Walkies on the fact that people (more specifically, musicians) who die due to recklessness/suicide/other misadventure that can be attributed to his/her drama filled life do get a gratuitous amount of attention while people who were known for their music and only their music are lucky to get a mention in the mainstream news media at all. Three examples that quickly come to mind are Trish Kenan, Jack Rose and Clarence Clemons. The first two and their deaths received coverage from plenty of music press outlets and Rose got a couple nice stories on NPR but that was pretty much it. Maybe Keenan got a little press in the British media? Clemons got a little bit more but only because he played an integral role in one of the biggest bands in the world. Still, the attention he received pales in comparison to that of Winehouse. I cannot help but wonder if her fame is due more to her drama/drug filled life than her talents. Would she have gotten much attention in 2006-07 if her first hit single wasn't about her offstage demons? She kind of was a dime a dozen as far as soul singers go; why did her music receive more attention/sales/awards than say, Sharon Jones? Sorry to go off on a tangent but I have been pondering these questions about her fame since "Rehab" first came out.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 27, 2011, 10:57:44 am

Impose Magazine just tweeted this: Man, if we were a smart publication, we would run as many Amy Winehouse stories as possible. Like EVERY OTHER PLACE.
#exploitdeathmuch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 27, 2011, 11:32:46 am

sorry to start a fight over her death. it was stupid. i am stupid sometimes. god i get so mad sometimes and say things that i regret later. i don't know you xneverwherex and i'm sure you are awesome. as awesome as brian wallace (?) . . . well let's not get crazy here.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on July 27, 2011, 11:40:19 am

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Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 28, 2011, 07:45:00 pm

Hideki Irabu (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/28/hideki-irabu-dead-yankees-pitcher_n_912565.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 28, 2011, 08:08:12 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on July 28, 2011, 07:45:00 pm

Hideki Irabu (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/28/hideki-irabu-dead-yankees-pitcher_n_912565.html)

Harakiri.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 28, 2011, 08:11:29 pm

what's going on . . . two sporting greats kill themselves in one week? :o

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on July 29, 2011, 10:22:28 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on July 28, 2011, 07:45:00 pm

Hideki Irabu (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/28/hideki-irabu-dead-yankees-pitcher_n_912565.html)

His final strike out......

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 03, 2011, 11:17:04 pm

Officer Moses Hightower

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on August 04, 2011, 11:00:57 am

That's a sad one indeed, Police Academy is one of my favorite films. The scene where he has do the rope climb gets me every time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on August 04, 2011, 11:32:37 am

Quote from: betao on August 04, 2011, 11:00:57 am

That's a sad one indeed, Police Academy is one of my favorite films. The scene where he has do the rope climb gets me every time.

He was a heck of a football player, too. It's been a bad couple of months for old Colts.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on August 04, 2011, 08:50:22 pm

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/04/grease-actress-annette-charles-dies-at-63/?iref=allsearch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 04, 2011, 10:22:51 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on August 04, 2011, 11:32:37 am

Quote from: betao on August 04, 2011, 11:00:57 am
That's a sad one indeed, Police Academy is one of my favorite films. The scene where he has do the rope climb gets me every time.

He was a heck of a football player, too. It's been a bad couple of months for old Colts.

Brian

Damn. Bubba ruled. Somebody check on Donovan.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on August 07, 2011, 02:30:42 pm

Conrad Schnitzler and Joe Yamanaka
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news

Two more musicians who actually did something to change the musical landscape and will not get one mention in the mainstream media.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on August 07, 2011, 09:30:19 pm

Oh man R.I.P. Joe. I said it when Dickie Peterson died and I'll say it again....Fuck cancer!

Flower Tavellin' Band at the Velvet Lounge was an amazing experience.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on August 07, 2011, 10:50:30 pm

It was honestly a little uneven for me; new stuff was not my bag. The older stuff did play sounded as incredible as ever though.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bellenseb on August 12, 2011, 09:50:49 am

Former Warrant singer Jani Lane dead at 47 (http://"http://music-mix.ew.com/2011/08/12/warrant-jani-lane-dead/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+entertainmentweekly%2Fmusic-mix+%28Entertainment+Weekly%2FEW.com%27s%3A+The+Music+Mix%29")

Quote

Jani Lane, former lead singer of the hair metal band Warrant, was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel Thursday night, the Los Angeles Times has confirmed. He was 47. The cause of death is unknown and the case has been turned over to the L.A. county coroner?s office.
The blond-maned, leather-clad Lane embodied the glammed-out pop-metal genre of the late ?80s and early ?90s. As frontman of Warrant, he wrote the band?s hits ?Heaven,? ?Down Boys,? and ?Cherry Pie.? He left the band in 1992, but rejoined (and quit again) several times since.
Lane was also on an edition of Celebrity Fit Club in 2005 and had a few small acting roles as well.
In 2009, he was arrested for allegedly crashing into a parked car and put on probation after pleading no contest to a DUI charge. He pleaded no contest to a similar charge again in 2010 and served 120 days in jail.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 23, 2011, 06:22:13 am

Not a good week for songwriters

Nick Ashford

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-nick-ashford-obit-20110823,0,1364822.story

Jerry Leiber

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/23/obit.jerry.leiber/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on August 23, 2011, 04:08:33 pm

Budd Hopkins (http://www.intrudersfoundation.org/inside.html)

Artist and one of the world's foremost UFOlogists.

You will be missed, Budd.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on August 24, 2011, 04:04:05 am

Uncle Frank

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on August 24, 2011, 09:40:27 am

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/24/pennsylvania.cheesesteak.owner/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on August 24, 2011, 10:46:35 am

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on August 24, 2011, 09:40:27 am

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/24/pennsylvania.cheesesteak.owner/index.html

I love that description: "Philly cheesesteak shop owner who told customers to order in English dies".

What was the one for Nick Ashford?: "Tall African-American Male who sang 'Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)' at Live Aid...no....not the one in the wheelchair...the other one...dies."

or

Elizabeth Taylor: "Actress who got paid a crapload of coin to play "Cleopatra" and then took up hobby of eating fried chicken dies."

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on August 24, 2011, 11:34:54 am

Haven't tried either, which one is better ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on August 24, 2011, 11:45:06 am

Quote from: wml7 on August 24, 2011, 11:34:54 am

Haven't tried either, which one is better ;D

Pat's

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 24, 2011, 11:52:00 am

doesn't one of them use that horrible melted cheese whiz from a can stuff, like taco bell?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on August 24, 2011, 05:56:13 pm

Quote from: walkonby on August 24, 2011, 11:52:00 am

doesn't one of them use that horrible melted cheese whiz from a can stuff, like taco bell?

yes

But I'm here to tell you...I routinely drive 2 hrs each way for the best BBQ lunch in Texas...and plan entire itineraries around Michelin restaurants in Europe...

And this is one of the greatest tastes in the entire world

Pat's by the way...no question

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on August 25, 2011, 12:05:05 am

Quote from: walkonby on August 24, 2011, 11:52:00 am

doesn't one of them use that horrible melted cheese whiz from a can stuff, like taco bell?

they both make them that way. but you can get them with provolone if you want.
if it's close to dawn when youre done go down the street and get pretzels fresh out of the oven...10 for a dollar.
south philly is a poor man's food paradise.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 25, 2011, 01:32:45 am

Mike Flanagan.

The details are sketchy on this one...

EDIT: Looks like suicide.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 25, 2011, 02:57:33 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on August 24, 2011, 10:46:35 am

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on August 24, 2011, 09:40:27 am
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/24/pennsylvania.cheesesteak.owner/index.html

I love that description: "Philly cheesesteak shop owner who told customers to order in English dies".

http://johnnygoodtimes.com/2011/08/a-few-thoughts-on-the-death-of-joey-vento/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on August 25, 2011, 04:16:30 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 25, 2011, 02:57:33 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on August 24, 2011, 10:46:35 am
Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on August 24, 2011, 09:40:27 am
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/24/pennsylvania.cheesesteak.owner/index.html

I love that description: "Philly cheesesteak shop owner who told customers to order in English dies".

http://johnnygoodtimes.com/2011/08/a-few-thoughts-on-the-death-of-joey-vento/

I refuse to be goaded into such nonsense. Yes, since he simply asked for customers to make the effort to learn the language of the country they made a living in, he was worse than Hitler. Unfortunately, he was taken from us before he could start the ethnic cleansing of South Philly. ::)

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 25, 2011, 04:56:52 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on August 25, 2011, 04:16:30 pm

Yes, since he simply asked for customers to make the effort to learn the language of the country they made a living in, he was worse than Hitler.

did you even read the article? it highlights how the "must order in English" sign was one small symptom of his bigotry. it also pointed out the irony of this grandson of immigrants (who never mastered english themselves) and an italian (a group that has known more than it's share of discrimination) would go out of his way to beat down another immigrant group.

but thanks for bringing hitler into this.

p.s. south philly doesn't need ethnic cleansing - a good shower would do.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on August 25, 2011, 05:24:39 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 25, 2011, 04:56:52 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on August 25, 2011, 04:16:30 pm
Yes, since he simply asked for customers to make the effort to learn the language of the country they made a living in, he was worse than Hitler.

did you even read the article? it highlights how the "must order in English" sign was one small symptom of his bigotry. it also pointed out the irony of this grandson of immigrants (who never mastered english themselves) and an italian (a group that has known more than it's share of discrimination) would go out of his way to beat down another immigrant group.

but thanks for bringing hitler into this.

p.s. south philly doesn't need ethnic cleansing - a good shower would do.

Yes. I did read the article. I'm not getting into this. I know the facts. I'm not some hysterical reactionary who tsks-tsks others and acts morally superior to everyone else to cover up obvious inadequacies. "Beat down." Yes. Obviously he was "beating down" another immigrant group. With bats and hoses and everything.

Have a nice day.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 25, 2011, 08:30:38 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on August 25, 2011, 05:24:39 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 25, 2011, 04:56:52 pm
Quote from: Brian_Wallace on August 25, 2011, 04:16:30 pm
Yes, since he simply asked for customers to make the effort to learn the language of the country they made a living in, he was worse than Hitler.

did you even read the article? it highlights how the "must order in English" sign was one small symptom of his bigotry. it also pointed out the irony of this grandson of immigrants (who never mastered english themselves) and an italian (a group that has known more than it's share of discrimination) would go out of his way to beat down another immigrant group.

but thanks for bringing hitler into this.

p.s. south philly doesn't need ethnic cleansing - a good shower would do.

Yes. I did read the article. I'm not getting into this. I know the facts. I'm not some hysterical reactionary who tsks-tsks others and acts morally superior to everyone else to cover up obvious inadequacies. "Beat down." Yes. Obviously he was "beating down" another immigrant group. With bats and hoses and everything.

Have a nice day.

Brian

well, can't argue with that!

no, i literally can't argue with that because you completely avoided the topic and resorted to platitudes. checking out with a pithy "I know the facts" is worthy of a conspiracy theory nut unable to answer his critics.

but don't worry, brian, someday you'll come to accept the fact that you defended - if not admired - a racist.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on August 26, 2011, 08:21:39 am

Quote from: sweetcell on August 25, 2011, 08:30:38 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on August 25, 2011, 05:24:39 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on August 25, 2011, 04:56:52 pm
Quote from: Brian_Wallace on August 25, 2011, 04:16:30 pm
Yes, since he simply asked for customers to make the effort to learn the language of the country they made a living in, he was worse than Hitler.

did you even read the article? it highlights how the "must order in English" sign was one small symptom of his bigotry. it also pointed out the irony of this grandson of immigrants (who never mastered english themselves) and an italian (a group that has known more than it's share of discrimination) would go out of his way to beat down another immigrant group.

but thanks for bringing hitler into this.

p.s. south philly doesn't need ethnic cleansing - a good shower would do.

Yes. I did read the article. I'm not getting into this. I know the facts. I'm not some hysterical reactionary who tsks-tsks others and acts morally superior to everyone else to cover up obvious inadequacies. "Beat down." Yes. Obviously he was "beating down" another immigrant group. With bats and hoses and everything.

Have a nice day.

Brian

well, can't argue with that!

no, i literally can't argue with that because you completely avoided the topic and resorted to platitudes. checking out with a pithy "I know the facts" is worthy of a conspiracy theory nut unable to answer his critics.

but don't worry, brian, someday you'll come to accept the fact that you defended - if not admired - a racist.

Is this all you have? Really? I mean, do you have a life? Almost, 10,000 posts. Is this all you do? Lord over people and try to act superior to them on a message board? You do have other hobbies, don't you? It must be awful to realize how alone you really are...

I'm not avoiding the topic. He ran a business. He told his customers to please make an effort to learn the language of the country they are living and working in. That's what he did. In MY WORLD, those are called facts. I don't know what they call them in your world. Did he not do that? Please correct me if I got any detail of that wrong. He wasn't a racist. Maybe in your fanboy/alternative rock-loving/wife-leaving world of yours, he's a racist. That's awesome! Have fun in your little, lonely world. Please, tell us more about your cell phones or world policy or too clever jokes about the DAR hall. We're all waiting with baited breath.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 26, 2011, 10:36:44 am

I'm not an Orioles fan, although I've been to many O's games since about 1995..

Mike Flanagan's death hurts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on August 26, 2011, 10:50:13 am

(http://mystuffspace.com/graphic/cat-is-hitler.jpg)
;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on August 26, 2011, 11:46:51 am

I apologize. I told myself I wouldn't be goaded into this and I was. I didn't really mean the hurtful things I said. I am sorry.

Have a nice weekend everyone. The surfing will be FANTASTIC on Delmarva.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on August 26, 2011, 12:07:10 pm

Are Brian and Walky one in the same? ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 26, 2011, 12:44:50 pm

now that would be . . . hot.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on August 26, 2011, 04:47:28 pm

not dead, just getting his space in this thread all ready

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 26, 2011, 05:38:20 pm

you suck relaxer.

can we post pics of your dying relatives next?

wow.

way to go overboard in this thread.

i'm not the same person i ever was.

cancer isn't amusing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 26, 2011, 05:39:25 pm

have to agree with walkie on this one..

no reason to post that picture.. and once you see it its pretty disturbing...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on August 28, 2011, 07:02:40 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on August 26, 2011, 04:47:28 pm

not dead, just getting his space in this thread all ready

Wait! Was it Steve Jobs? I saw a picture of him in a dress this morning. Morally and creatively he died a long time ago so why is everybody getting so upset? It's just a matter of time. He was a pretty awful man. Megalomaniac. Terrible father. Never gave one red cent to charity. Parked in the handicaped parking spot at Apple. Made products for complete idiots with no attention spans. Stole many of "his" "innovations." Cultivated a shitty cult made up of complete idiots. I'd hate to be any of you when you wake up with your hangover when you're done playing "Angry Birds" and can't form a coherent sentence anymore or can't remember your mother's birthday.

If it wasn't Steve Jobs, then nevermind.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on August 28, 2011, 07:46:41 pm

I guess Kosmo thinks he needs to protect fragile men like the above posters from the Internet. Jesus Christ.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 28, 2011, 08:57:52 pm

it's called class . . . obviously you have none.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on August 29, 2011, 08:50:22 am

Wait a minute! So in EVERY OTHER thread you can relentlessly make off-color, tasteless comments about peoples' health and situation but in the "Dropping Like Flies" thread it's SACRED?!?! How DARE you mock ANYONE with CANCER! Do you REALLY want to go back and look at some of the comments that have been made over the years on this message board?

Jeez. The hypocrisy of some of you people is amazing. You can be as mean, ironic and snarky as you want but HOW DARE YOU MAKE FUN OF CANCER! YOU horrible, HORRIBLE PEOPLE!

Cancer is devastating. The damage it causes to families is truly sad. Cancer ISN'T funny. I mean, it's not like I don't work in oncology. But come on! Do you REALLY think Relaxer was mocking and making fun of people with cancer? REALLY? He came on this thread and thought: "You know...people fighting cancer...LOL! FUNNY CATS!"? No. He didn't. Steve Jobs is near death. Fact. That is all Relaxer was doing. Let me mark the date, August 28th. So, every 28 days we should be prepared for certain persons to be super bitchy and retain water.

When, "Mr. Genius/Our Supreme Leader" does finally kick it, please, PLEASE work "...and one more thing" into the post. I'm BEGGING YOU!

Now I'm going to go back to being a racist,

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 29, 2011, 09:14:08 am

you don't have many real friends . . . do you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 29, 2011, 09:47:37 am

YAWN

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 29, 2011, 09:59:10 am

who is "yawn" . . . and how did they die?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on August 29, 2011, 10:04:27 am

Irene ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 29, 2011, 10:13:10 am

i hate it when brian wallace makes me agree with him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 29, 2011, 10:52:55 am

Quote from: sweetcell on August 29, 2011, 10:13:10 am

i hate it when brian wallace makes me agree with him.

what, that you both can be big headed assholes, who think their shit don't stink . . . we already knew that.

you're not the jokers of the board . . . you're just the joke.

now kindly do me a favor, and fuck off.

relaxer was wrong for posting the picture, so i called him out on it.

kosmo was correct in deleting it, so i applaud him.

brian is an attention whore.

you think you own this place.

the end.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 29, 2011, 11:11:11 am

SICK BURN

in other news, we'll be taking up a collection to buy walkonby a dictionary, so he can look up what "to agree with" means.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 29, 2011, 01:12:35 pm

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Cancer2.jpg/240px-Cancer2.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 29, 2011, 03:34:50 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 29, 2011, 11:11:11 am

SICK BURN

in other news, we'll be taking up a collection to buy walkonby a dictionary, so he can look up what "to agree with" means.

i also need to look up anger management. i cannot control my mouth.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 07, 2011, 01:59:07 pm

Lokomotiv (http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=587792)

Confirmed: Coach Brad McCrimmon, forward Pavol Demitra, forward Josef Vasicek, defenseman Karel Rachunek, forward Jan Marek and forward Alexander Vasyunov

~~I have not heard confirmation on Ruslan Salei.~~

Sadly, I can add defenseman Ruslan Salei and goaltending prospect Stefan Liv among the confirmed dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on September 08, 2011, 10:13:20 am

after last night's debate . . . i would say bachmann's chances are dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 13, 2011, 04:02:31 pm

DJ Mehdi, French DJ/Producer, Dead At 34
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1670636/dj-mehdi-dead.jhtml

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 19, 2011, 04:19:07 pm

Joe Barber

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on September 19, 2011, 05:06:19 pm

For those from the Delaware area, this is like O.J. biting it:

Tom Capano

http://www.delawareonline.com/ (http://www.delawareonline.com/)

You can (rightly so) mock the "Kennedys of Delaware" but, like 13 years ago, it was HUGE. The deputy attorney general killing the governor's scheduling secretary. I highly recommend the A&E "City Confidential" episode about it.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on September 19, 2011, 08:27:16 pm

How could y'all miss Walter Mondale and Ted Kennedy's 51 year old daughters dying on the same day?

Also, Wilma Lee Cooper.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on September 20, 2011, 09:12:07 am

you forgot rio . . . the salahi's adorable doberman. how could you?!

i saw him a few times at my local vet when they would bring him in . . . get ready, in a stretched limo. only the best for that pooch. so cute and well behaved for such a big doggie. how sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on September 21, 2011, 01:30:07 pm

REM

http://remhq.com/news_story.php?id=1446

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 21, 2011, 01:41:28 pm

REM has been dead since 1988.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on September 21, 2011, 02:25:47 pm

I went to see "The Baseball Project" in Harrisburg at a Senators game on Labor Day (Alas, no Bryce Harper.). It was very enjoyable because...Steve Wynn! Up close! At a baseball game! But actually Peter Buck dropped out the last few weeks of their tour because of "back problems." I wondering now if it was something else. I thought they were recording a new album? R.E.M., I mean.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on September 22, 2011, 11:37:55 am

The 930 email blast?

Anyone got one lately?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on September 22, 2011, 11:40:38 am

Got one last night.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 26, 2011, 09:06:56 pm

Arch West, 97, inventor of the Dorito (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/arch-west-97-invented-doritos-for-frito-lay/2011/09/26/gIQAfYpE0K_story.html)

More on his legacy (http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/munch-ado-about-doritos-one-mans-iconic-snack/2011/09/26/gIQAFuHH0K_story.html?hpid=z4)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on October 05, 2011, 08:44:11 am

Bert Jansch

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/05/bert-jansch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on October 05, 2011, 11:23:34 am

:(

Glad I got to see him open for Neil.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mr.Whippy on October 05, 2011, 04:45:37 pm

Very sad about Bert Jansch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 05, 2011, 07:38:47 pm

Steve Jobs, according to an announcement on NPR

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 05, 2011, 07:59:57 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 05, 2011, 07:38:47 pm

Steve Jobs, according to an announcement on NPR

Just checking to see who is Mr. Macabre......

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 06, 2011, 12:40:38 am

Quote from: sweetcell on October 05, 2011, 07:38:47 pm

Steve Jobs, according to an announcement on NPR

It's the first thing I had to watch when I heard.

Stanford Commencement Address - How to Live Before You Die (http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html?awesm=on.ted.com_9l3Q&utm_campaign=steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die&utm_medium=on.ted.com-twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=ted.com-talkpage)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 08:32:10 am

I know it's sad when a cult leader dies, but he wasn't a genius. He wasn't a visionary. He didn't make a "dent in the universe." He was a seller of bullshit. Look at all the sheep who obsess over iphones and ipads, etc. Has he really made their lives better? Lazier? Yes. More self-centered? Certainly. Whinier? Obviously.

He didn't invent ANYTHING. He wasn't charitable at ALL (the opposite of Bill Gates. At least Bill Gates is making a difference with regards to world health issues. THAT'S making a dent in the world, at least.)
He was like a glorified Shamwow! guy.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 06, 2011, 10:15:22 am

you have a very high opinion of your opinion, and like hearing it, don't you?

along with classic rock DJs, did steve jobs also touch you when you were a child?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 06, 2011, 10:35:53 am

Quote from: sweetcell on October 05, 2011, 07:38:47 pm

Steve Jobs, according to an announcement on NPR

Best tribute I've seen so far:
http://www.abstrusegoose.com/402

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 10:49:31 am

Steve Jobs had absolutely no impact on my life whatsofuckingever as I never bought any of his gadgets......not out of protest or anything like that, I just don't need anything he invented.

That's not saying he wasn't a genius, he just made techno-toys, not life saving medical devices.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 11:00:31 am

Quote from: sweetcell on October 06, 2011, 10:15:22 am

you have a very high opinion of your opinion, and like hearing it, don't you?

along with classic rock DJs, did steve jobs also touch you when you were a child?

I know you're hurting right now. Do you want a hug? Lyndon LaRouche could use some followers. How about giving him a ring? Or you know what? Scientology! You'd be GREAT there. You have a lot in common with John Travolta and Tom Cruise.

I think people like you idolized Steve Jobs because you saw an unprincipled, self-centered douchebag who was declared a "genius" and thought, you know, if he can do it, so can I! Now we're stuck with people like you. What are you going to do now? Your entire life is lie.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 11:07:35 am

Quote from: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 10:49:31 am

That's not saying he wasn't a genius

HOW WAS HE A GENIUS!?!?!? He made digital knick-knacks. He didn't invent ANYTHING. He was a jerk as a father, son, husband, employer, friend, etc. To use the "simple is best" design philosophy makes someone a genius?
Oh, I'm sorry. You're from the North. "Genius" means something entirely different for you. To you, Noel Gallagher and Lee Mavers were "geniuses." I get it, now.

If he's a genius then Kim Kardashian is a super, MEGA-genius. He was PT Barnum. Selling crap to idiots.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on October 06, 2011, 11:13:58 am

Look, I'm all for poking fun at the b.s. of celebs, pussy rock stars whose music you hate, etc. And though I didn't know Jobs on a personal level, I think that there are plenty of good things he did for Americans (and the rest of the world). I think he was a great communicator and businessman, he didn't just spend his life on a message board shitting all over stuff. He actually did something worthwhile by spreading the word of products that excited him (and clearly millions of people felt that excitement) and he did help revolutionize how we communicate with our friends and family, listen to music, jerk off on Facetime, or WHATEVER. His death means that some of us will pause, reflect, and nod in a move of respect how his achievements affected our own lives, directly or indirectly. But when a different person (we all know who) has zero respect for himself, all he does is crap all over the things that other people find worth and value in. Kind of like Fred Phelps. Just ignore the negativity. Not worth it. And this time not funny or necessary. It contributes nothing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 11:38:58 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 11:07:35 am

Quote from: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 10:49:31 am

That's not saying he wasn't a genius

HOW WAS HE A GENIUS!?!?!? He made digital knick-knacks. He didn't invent ANYTHING. He was a jerk as a father, son, husband, employer, friend, etc. To use the "simple is best" design philosophy makes someone a genius?
Oh, I'm sorry. You're from the North. "Genius" means something entirely different for you. To you, Noel Gallagher and Lee Mavers were "geniuses." I get it, now.

If he's a genius then Kim Kardashian is a super, MEGA-genius. He was PT Barnum. Selling crap to idiots.

Brian

hmmmm....dont' think I ever referred to either of those two as genius's....maybe that was the voices in your head again.

Quote from any 930 board member.... " the sky is blue"

Brian _Wallace
"Look , the sky is not fucking blue....anyone who referes to the sky being blue is a fucking reatard who just likes to push their bullshit lies onto the intelligent members of society. sky appears to be blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.
Don't ram your 'sky is blue' brainwashing bullshit onto me...but then again, you're from the north were you only see grey skies so what the fuck would you know you useless piece of shit"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 06, 2011, 11:44:47 am

Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. (http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/06/arthur-c-nielsen-jr-leader-of-tv-ratings-and-market-research/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 06, 2011, 12:30:58 pm

i've finally found some people even douchier than walalce:

Westboro Baptist Church uses iPhone to announce protest at Steve Jobs?s funeral
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/under-god/post/westboro-baptist-church-uses-iphone-to-announce-steve-jobs-funeral-protest/2011/10/06/gIQAJqBjPL_blog.html

p.s. brian: i never said Jobs was a genius, either. but to deny the impact he had on modern culture is as immature and asinine as... oh, wait. nevermind.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 01:04:55 pm

Quote from: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 11:38:58 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 11:07:35 am
Quote from: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 10:49:31 am

That's not saying he wasn't a genius

HOW WAS HE A GENIUS!?!?!? He made digital knick-knacks. He didn't invent ANYTHING. He was a jerk as a father, son, husband, employer, friend, etc. To use the "simple is best" design philosophy makes someone a genius?
Oh, I'm sorry. You're from the North. "Genius" means something entirely different for you. To you, Noel Gallagher and Lee Mavers were "geniuses." I get it, now.

If he's a genius then Kim Kardashian is a super, MEGA-genius. He was PT Barnum. Selling crap to idiots.

Brian

hmmmm....dont' think I ever referred to either of those two as genius's....maybe that was the voices in your head again.

Quote from any 930 board member.... " the sky is blue"

Brian _Wallace
"Look , the sky is not fucking blue....anyone who referes to the sky being blue is a fucking reatard who just likes to push their bullshit lies onto the intelligent members of society. sky appears to be blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.
Don't ram your 'sky is blue' brainwashing bullshit onto me...but then again, you're from the north were you only see grey skies so what the fuck would you know you useless piece of shit"

Well, we all know that Tony McCarroll was the really genius (the Syd Barrett if you will) in Oasis. Everything they did without him (post-"Some Might Say") sucked hard. Except that Kinks cover from a couple of years ago.

However, VERY CLEVER how you managed to slyly relate how the last few Wilco albums have really sucked. Well played, sir.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on October 06, 2011, 02:37:14 pm

Apple transformed the way the world uses music devices and computers

it was his company

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 03:04:19 pm

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on October 06, 2011, 02:37:14 pm

Apple transformed the way the world uses music devices and computers

it was his company

Not for me....although he did kill the pleasureable experience of browsing the cd store to discover new music by putting most of them out of business with his impersonal iTunes. Some of us don't want to buy everything with the click of a mouse.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lagas on October 06, 2011, 04:31:03 pm

Quote from: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 03:04:19 pm

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on October 06, 2011, 02:37:14 pm
Apple transformed the way the world uses music devices and computers

it was his company

Not for me....although he did kill the pleasureable experience of browsing the cd store to discover new music by putting most of them out of business with his impersonal iTunes. Some of us don't want to buy everything with the click of a mouse.

Jobs didn't do that, the music file sharing sites (Kazaa) did that, Jobs basically gave the music industry another chance to get their act together in a new world (BTW, the WWW code was written on a mac)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lagas on October 06, 2011, 04:44:08 pm

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/10/06/entertainment-us-obit-charles-napier_8721515.html

Charles Napier, a good ol' boy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 04:51:25 pm

Quote from: lagas on October 06, 2011, 04:31:03 pm

Quote from: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 03:04:19 pm
Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on October 06, 2011, 02:37:14 pm
Apple transformed the way the world uses music devices and computers

it was his company

Not for me....although he did kill the pleasureable experience of browsing the cd store to discover new music by putting most of them out of business with his impersonal iTunes. Some of us don't want to buy everything with the click of a mouse.

Jobs didn't do that, the music file sharing sites (Kazaa) did that, Jobs basically gave the music industry another chance to get their act together in a new world (BTW, the WWW code was written on a mac)

You don't think iTunes played a major role in killing the bricks and mortar music store? File stealing sites are just illegal versions of iTunes aren't they?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 06, 2011, 04:51:28 pm

He will always be Tucker McElroy to me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lagas on October 06, 2011, 04:55:35 pm

Quote from: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 04:51:25 pm

Quote from: lagas on October 06, 2011, 04:31:03 pm
Quote from: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 03:04:19 pm
Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on October 06, 2011, 02:37:14 pm
Apple transformed the way the world uses music devices and computers

it was his company

Not for me....although he did kill the pleasureable experience of browsing the cd store to discover new music by putting most of them out of business with his impersonal iTunes. Some of us don't want to buy everything with the click of a mouse.

Jobs didn't do that, the music file sharing sites (Kazaa) did that, Jobs basically gave the music industry another chance to get their act together in a new world (BTW, the WWW code was written on a mac)

You don't think iTunes played a major role in killing the bricks and mortar music store? File stealing sites are just illegal versions of iTunes aren't they?

am saying that the file sharing sites came before iTunes, therefore, iTunes was an answer from the industry, using technology, to turn around their situation, which ultimately they did...Jobs was instrumental to achieve that...but the actual demise of your music store came because of Kazaa et al....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 04:59:50 pm

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mp3-downloads-music-piracy-ifpi,news-3315.html (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mp3-downloads-music-piracy-ifpi,news-3315.html)

So that leaves 5% (max, probably closer to 4%) of all music downloads were bought through itunes. And that was in 2009. It has to be lower now. Wow! Steve Jobs was a real savior to the music industry, then! ::) With friends like these....

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 05:12:12 pm

Quote from: lagas on October 06, 2011, 04:55:35 pm

Quote from: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 04:51:25 pm
Quote from: lagas on October 06, 2011, 04:31:03 pm
Quote from: Frank Gallagher on October 06, 2011, 03:04:19 pm
Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on October 06, 2011, 02:37:14 pm
Apple transformed the way the world uses music devices and computers

it was his company

Not for me....although he did kill the pleasureable experience of browsing the cd store to discover new music by putting most of them out of business with his impersonal iTunes. Some of us don't want to buy everything with the click of a mouse.

Jobs didn't do that, the music file sharing sites (Kazaa) did that, Jobs basically gave the music industry another chance to get their act together in a new world (BTW, the WWW code was written on a mac)

You don't think iTunes played a major role in killing the bricks and mortar music store? File stealing sites are just illegal versions of iTunes aren't they?

am saying that the file sharing sites came before iTunes, therefore, iTunes was an answer from the industry, using technology, to turn around their situation, which ultimately they did...Jobs was instrumental to achieve that...but the actual demise of your music store came because of Kazaa et al....

Ah....point well taken.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on October 06, 2011, 05:14:08 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 04:59:50 pm

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mp3-downloads-music-piracy-ifpi,news-3315.html (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mp3-downloads-music-piracy-ifpi,news-3315.html)

So that leaves 5% (max, probably closer to 4%) of all music downloads were bought through itunes. And that was in 2009. It has to be lower now. Wow! Steve Jobs was a real savior to the music industry, then! ::) With friends like these....

Brian

insufferable douche.

I get it now - apple records, apple computers

bah

einstein was over rated as a scientist.

The beatles are over rated as a band.

Steve Jobs was over rated as an inventor of pleasant consumer electronics.

everyone is over rated

blabety blabety blah blah blah

I don't really care about any of it. I just wanted to point out that you are often an insufferable douche.

That is all.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on October 06, 2011, 05:24:54 pm

sorry . . . the word douche is very overrated. could you please berate brian with a much better word?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 06, 2011, 05:27:44 pm

I nominate "enema" as a replacement for "douche."

You are such an enema Brian.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 05:34:19 pm

Quote from: chaz on October 06, 2011, 05:14:08 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 04:59:50 pm

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mp3-downloads-music-piracy-ifpi,news-3315.html (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mp3-downloads-music-piracy-ifpi,news-3315.html)

So that leaves 5% (max, probably closer to 4%) of all music downloads were bought through itunes. And that was in 2009. It has to be lower now. Wow! Steve Jobs was a real savior to the music industry, then! ::) With friends like these....

Brian
insufferable douche.

I get it now - apple records, apple computers

bah

Ironically, I LOVE fruit. Mmmmm.... Apples. I mean apples aren't in raspberry's or nectarine's league but they're close. A good McIntosh or Granny Smith on a crisp autumn morn after a good workout? Bliss.

I love fruits. I'm all about fruits. Some rot your teeth, though. Unpleasant.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on October 06, 2011, 05:40:57 pm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44806723/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

death of shops

not based on my opinion of the product or if people want to use it . . . but in this day and age and the already image of the government, is this really the smartest move?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on October 06, 2011, 05:58:55 pm

Quote from: ggw on October 06, 2011, 05:27:44 pm

I nominate "enema" as a replacement for "douche."

You are such an enema Brian.

how about butt plug?

Don't be such an insufferable butt plug Brian.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on October 06, 2011, 06:12:26 pm

Brian is a dingleberry.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on October 06, 2011, 07:51:56 pm

Dingleberry is such a great and underused word.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 06, 2011, 07:52:22 pm

Jesus, so much misinformation....

Scientists at Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft transformed the way the world listens to music, and Napster was the first to bring that to the masses. Apple simply brougt it to the masses in a way the record companies thought they could tolerate. The record companies arenalready on record for regretting that decision.

And scientists a Xerox Park transformed the the way we use computers today. Again, Apple simpy brought that to the masses.

Jobs is given way too much credit as an 'innovator' - his real brilliance was seeing technology and applying it to real world situations. Woz was always the true innovator. I owned an Apple IIe and the original Mac and neither of those reach my childhood fingertips without Steve Jobs. By the time I'm a teenager, sure, but not at age 10.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on October 06, 2011, 07:54:12 pm

yeah, but you know how they treat people once they die . . . look at amy whinehouse. ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 08:39:56 pm

"...but I've never seen those flowers in the barrel of a gun.
All I've ever seen you do is run..."

It's iDeath.

I'm a complete idiot "douche" but even I know that Steve Jobs did NONE of the things he's credited for.

He didn't invent the personal computer.

He didn't invent the portable mp3 player.

He didn't invent Pixar.

He didn't invent the tablet computer.

He didn't invent an online store for digital music.

These things were ALL done previously by others and the products they created were just as good if not better than what jobs created.

So what DID he do? He made it easier to be one of the crowd. Which is the ultimate irony. The ad campaign Apple is probably most known for is "Think Different." If you buy an iPhone now, why do you do it? Not because you're unique. Not because you think it's the best cell phone for you. You buy it because EVERYONE ELSE WANTS ONE! Why do you think he made everything simple from a design perspective? Because he wanted sheep! He wanted a cult! Do you remember the person from high school who wore funky, original clothing or do you remember the person who dressed just like everyone else? What's original and "insanely great" about ANYTHING he did? PLEASE TELL ME. I want to know. Because I can't think of ANYTHING. He's like Elvis or Pat Boone. He took something others (African-Americans) did a hell of lot better and put a simple, safe face on it for easy consumption. YUM-YUM!

He didn't even invent NeXT computers. And look how that turned out. GOOGLE IT! It's often referred to as his "only failure." Probably the most "original" thing he did and it was an utter failure.

And I can't get over the fact that maybe Bill Gates is just as big a jerk as Steve Jobs was. But he's using his influence and money to DO SOMETHING. Making a difference. Just for the global vaccine program ALONE. And NO ONE, not even Jared Leto, is going to be tweeting when Bill Gates passes away. Steve Jobs didn't even give any money to pancreatic cancer research!!!! WHAT KILLED HIM! I'm sure the multiple appropriate foundations could have used $35-50 million which is a tax-write off for him! But NOOOOOOO! That's right. He really "dented" the universe.

And don't give me this tired shit about how he "changed" the way people listen to music. You know who changed the way people listen to music? For (actually) TWO HUGE reasons? Les Paul. No one gave a shit when he died. Maybe Slash and Jimmy Page.

You know who else did? You know who is in a large way responsible for why you can't spell, or communicate clearly and walk around like a zombie with ADD? Nobutoshi Kihara. Not Steve Jobs. Not even close.

Sweet dreams.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on October 06, 2011, 10:17:51 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 08:39:56 pm

You know who is in a large way responsible for why you can't spell, or communicate clearly and walk around like a zombie with ADD? Nobutoshi Kihara. Not Steve Jobs. Not even close.

Brian

Thanks for making things clearer, Brain_Walalce.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on October 06, 2011, 10:39:24 pm

Apple made technology optimistic. It took something oppressive and dehumanizng and made it feel positive.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on October 07, 2011, 12:27:37 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 08:39:56 pm

I'm a complete idiot "douche"

Brian

That's the only factual thing said in your mouth-breathing diatribe.

- Bring up one media source that said Jobs actually invented the things you listed.

- Pixar is a company. You don't invent companies, you found or create them. He bought a division of a company to run as a separate company and named it Pixar. He founded Pixar.

- Common sense and logic should tell you that design in technology should be simple so it is easy to use. Creating sheep isn't the intended goal. However! Crossing signals on street corners are there to create sheep so please keep jaywalking in heavy traffic!

- Here's some things he's done since your limited brain function can only work in bitter mode.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/steve-jobs-and-the-patents-that-changed-our-lives/2011/10/06/gIQARV4YQL_gallery.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/steve-jobs-and-the-patents-that-changed-our-lives/2011/10/06/gIQARV4YQL_gallery.html)
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/10/steve-jobs-disability/ (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/10/steve-jobs-disability/)

- NeXT an utter failure??? Tim Berners-Lee used one to write the first web server and the first web browser. The first server node on the World Wide Web was a NeXT box.

In other words, your idiotic douche rantings may have been limited to a My Chemical Romance xeroxed fanzine if it weren't for Jobs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on October 07, 2011, 07:29:06 am

Let's not forget:

-----------------------------------------------------------
Brian_Wallace
Re: Lollapalooza 2010
« Reply #88 on: August 09, 2010, 11:01:58 AM »

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The highlight of the weekend for me was a nearly naked Lady Gaga stage diving 50 feet from me during Semi-Precious Weapons set.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGh9zlN6eLo&playnext=1&list=PL74E25F51DE25E316

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on October 07, 2011, 08:19:19 am

Quote from: slappy on October 07, 2011, 12:27:37 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 08:39:56 pm

I'm a complete idiot "douche"

Brian

That's the only factual thing said in your mouth-breathing diatribe.

- Bring up one media source that said Jobs actually invented the things you listed.

- Pixar is a company. You don't invent companies, you found or create them. He bought a division of a company to run as a separate company and named it Pixar. He founded Pixar.

- Common sense and logic should tell you that design in technology should be simple so it is easy to use. Creating sheep isn't the intended goal. However! Crossing signals on street corners are there to create sheep so please keep jaywalking in heavy traffic!

- Here's some things he's done since your limited brain function can only work in bitter mode.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/steve-jobs-and-the-patents-that-changed-our-lives/2011/10/06/gIQARV4YQL_gallery.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/steve-jobs-and-the-patents-that-changed-our-lives/2011/10/06/gIQARV4YQL_gallery.html)
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/10/steve-jobs-disability/ (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/10/steve-jobs-disability/)

- NeXT an utter failure??? Tim Berners-Lee used one to write the first web server and the first web browser. The first server node on the World Wide Web was a NeXT box.

In other words, your idiotic douche rantings may have been limited to a My Chemical Romance xeroxed fanzine if it weren't for Jobs.

"Slappy." A grown adult male nicknamed "slappy." That's funny. Was SmackAss taken?

Listen. I'm sorry your parents divorced when you were young and this is all you have. I really am. NeXT was a failure, ok? You can try to rewrite history and defend your little friend all you want. He's dead now. And his little cult is breaking and doesn't know what to do. Go home this Friday night and stare at the wall and realize how utterly alone you are. "Slappy." Is your best friend named "Noogy?"

You are REALLY SAYING THAT?!?!?!! That IF it weren't for Steve Jobs we WOULDN'T HAVE THE INTERNET!?!?!?!?!?!?

REALLY!?!?!?

That's what you're saying? If it weren't for NeXT computers, we wouldn't have the internet? We wouldn't have this message board if Steve Jobs didn't found NeXT computers? Wow! What color is the sky in your world?

Jeez. I'm sorry. Really. I mean, did your mother drink when she was pregnant with you?

Brian

P.S. Have you ever had a half-naked, biggest star in the world crowd surf over you? Have you? Then, don't judge. Don't judge.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on October 07, 2011, 08:54:31 am

Does this count? If not, then no :(

(http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music2/jesuslizardfest.jpg)

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 07, 2011, 08:19:19 am

P.S. Have you ever had a half-naked, biggest star in the world crowd surf over you? Have you? Then, don't judge. Don't judge.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on October 07, 2011, 09:18:32 am

What is the technological equivalent of Fall Out Boy? Who is the Pete Wentz of Silicon Valley?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 07, 2011, 09:30:22 am

Quote from: Mobius on October 06, 2011, 10:39:24 pm

Apple made technology optimistic. It took something oppressive and dehumanizng and made it feel positive.

I think the above points to the "genius" of Steve Jobs. He was a genius of image and branding. So many Apple loyalists are among the ranks of the anti-corporate crowd. But Apple is four times more profitable than Exxon. Jobs and other executives falsified records to give themselves extra tens of millions of dollars in bonuses. Apple products are built in sub-human sweatshops and create environmental disaster zones. The true genius of Jobs was getting so many people who are normally aghast at such behavior to turn a blind eye to it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 07, 2011, 09:43:41 am

OK - enough clutter in the dropping like flies thread, start a new thread, tumblr, whatever...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on October 07, 2011, 10:06:21 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 05:34:19 pm

Quote from: chaz on October 06, 2011, 05:14:08 pm
Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 06, 2011, 04:59:50 pm

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mp3-downloads-music-piracy-ifpi,news-3315.html (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/mp3-downloads-music-piracy-ifpi,news-3315.html)

So that leaves 5% (max, probably closer to 4%) of all music downloads were bought through itunes. And that was in 2009. It has to be lower now. Wow! Steve Jobs was a real savior to the music industry, then! ::) With friends like these....

Brian
insufferable douche.

I get it now - apple records, apple computers

bah

Ironically, I LOVE fruit. Mmmmm.... Apples. I mean apples aren't in raspberry's or nectarine's league but they're close. A good McIntosh or Granny Smith on a crisp autumn morn after a good workout? Bliss.

I love fruits. I'm all about fruits. Some rot your teeth, though. Unpleasant.

Brian

Fruit is so overrated. Only enematic douchebags eat nectarines.

The iSheeple are a cult...no really they are. Steve Jobs was a techno Jim Jones. The kool-aid is apple flavored.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on October 07, 2011, 10:09:14 am

do you own any apple products?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on October 07, 2011, 10:26:53 am

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on October 07, 2011, 10:09:14 am

do you own any apple products?

Who? Me? No....but like I said before, not out of any protest or stupid personal boycott, I just have never found the need for anything apple have produced.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 07, 2011, 10:35:53 am

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on October 07, 2011, 10:09:14 am

do you own any apple products?

I own three ipods and an ipad. I think they're great. I think Jobs was great. He and a friend started a company in a garage and earlier this year it was briefly the most valuable company in the U.S. - bigger than Exxon or WalMart or GE. That is a fantastic accomplishment - it's the American Dream. He deserves huge respect for what he accomplished. But I think Jobs is in a cohort with Jack Welch, Sam Walton, and George Merck, not with Edison, Tesla, or Westinghouse.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on October 07, 2011, 11:26:14 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 07, 2011, 08:19:19 am

You are REALLY SAYING THAT?!?!?!! That IF it weren't for Steve Jobs we WOULDN'T HAVE THE INTERNET!?!?!?!?!?!?

REALLY!?!?!?

Awww. Brian's squirming and can't answer the question! C'mon, being reduced to using 4th grade insults is so sad. Put on your grown up pants and try.

- Name one media source that claimed Steve Jobs invented any of things you stated.

- Read my post slooooowly and carefully. Nowhere did I say Steve Jobs was responsible for the internet. The internet is a vehicle for supporting the Web. If you want to be perceived as having arguments that have an ounce of merit, at least learn the basics of your subject.

If this doesn't get through to you.
I am rubber, you are glue.
Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on October 07, 2011, 11:35:29 am

Doom and Wolfenstein 3D were both written on a NeXTCube

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on October 07, 2011, 12:28:37 pm

Quote from: Frank Gallagher on October 07, 2011, 10:26:53 am

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on October 07, 2011, 10:09:14 am
do you own any apple products?

Who? Me? No....but like I said before, not out of any protest or stupid personal boycott, I just have never found the need for anything apple have produced.

and you sound exactly like someone who never did

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on October 07, 2011, 12:36:45 pm

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on October 07, 2011, 12:28:37 pm

Quote from: Frank Gallagher on October 07, 2011, 10:26:53 am
Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on October 07, 2011, 10:09:14 am
do you own any apple products?

Who? Me? No....but like I said before, not out of any protest or stupid personal boycott, I just have never found the need for anything apple have produced.

and you sound exactly like someone who never did

Exactly.....not the cult member type.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on October 07, 2011, 12:55:08 pm

Quote from: slappy on October 07, 2011, 11:26:14 am

The internet is a vehicle for supporting the Web. If you want to be perceived as having arguments that have an ounce of merit, at least learn the basics of your subject.

......and? Just what were you implying with "Tim Berners-Lee used one to write the first web server and the first web browser. The first server node on the World Wide Web was a NeXT box.

In other words, your idiotic douche rantings may have been limited to a My Chemical Romance xeroxed fanzine if it weren't for Jobs."

If it weren't for Steve Jobs we wouldn't have the World Wide Web? That no one would have ever come up with the.... Your point is so stupid, it exhausts me. Enlighten me here. What WERE you trying to say?

I've never owned an Apple product. My mommy and daddy didn't pay for my schooling, either. I "THINK DIFFERENT"-LY. What am I missing out on? "Angry Birds?" Mp3's sound so shitty anyhow. I'd much rather see a live show or hear a record.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: redsock on October 07, 2011, 01:38:11 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 07, 2011, 12:55:08 pm

Quote from: slappy on October 07, 2011, 11:26:14 am
The internet is a vehicle for supporting the Web. If you want to be perceived as having arguments that have an ounce of merit, at least learn the basics of your subject.

......and? Just what were you implying with "Tim Berners-Lee used one to write the first web server and the first web browser. The first server node on the World Wide Web was a NeXT box.

In other words, your idiotic douche rantings may have been limited to a My Chemical Romance xeroxed fanzine if it weren't for Jobs."

If it weren't for Steve Jobs we wouldn't have the World Wide Web? That no one would have ever come up with the.... Your point is so stupid, it exhausts me. Enlighten me here. What WERE you trying to say?

I've never owned an Apple product. My mommy and daddy didn't pay for my schooling, either. I "THINK DIFFERENT"-LY. What am I missing out on? "Angry Birds?" Mp3's sound so shitty anyhow. I'd much rather see a live show or hear a record.

Brian

My mommy and daddy didn't pay for my education and I like apple products. We get it, you think we all suck. Stop being nails on the chalkboard and find someplace else to take a mental dump. It is starting to really stink in here.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 08, 2011, 01:10:38 pm

Raiders owner Al Davis.

This means Danny Snyder is now unquestionably the worst owner in the NFL.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 09, 2011, 10:30:17 am

Quote from: ggw on October 08, 2011, 01:10:38 pm

Raiders owner Al Davis.

This means Danny Snyder is now unquestionably the worst owner in the NFL.

Al Davis was dead 10 years ago. At least.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 09, 2011, 10:37:49 am

Mikey Welsh (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/chicago-police-say-former-weezer-bass-player-mikey-welsh-discovered-dead-in-hotel-room/2011/10/09/gIQAR5oXXL_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on October 14, 2011, 09:41:44 am

Dennis Richie, a man who actually DID invent something that fundamentally provided the basis for
almost all of our technology today.

http://www.muktware.com/news/2683 (http://www.muktware.com/news/2683)

I eagerly await him being on the cover of the next Rolling Stone. However, I missed the R.I.P tweets from Bono.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on October 14, 2011, 10:17:14 pm

Sonic Youth ?

A statement from Matador Records says, "Sonic Youth, with both Kim and Thurston involved, will proceed with its South American tour dates in November. Plans beyond that tour are uncertain. The couple has requested respect for their personal privacy and does not wish to issue further comment."

Bummer.

http://pitchfork.com/news/44318-kim-gordon-thurston-moore-separate/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 15, 2011, 12:25:17 am

Quote from: nkotb on October 14, 2011, 10:17:14 pm

Sonic Youth ?

A statement from Matador Records says, "Sonic Youth, with both Kim and Thurston involved, will proceed with its South American tour dates in November. Plans beyond that tour are uncertain. The couple has requested respect for their personal privacy and does not wish to issue further comment."

Bummer.

http://pitchfork.com/news/44318-kim-gordon-thurston-moore-separate/

I read this...

...on some level that would suck...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on October 15, 2011, 09:37:04 am

I know it seems shocking when the King and Queen of the College Rock Kingdom breakup. All the minions are in panic (it's been a bad month for mindless followers, hasn't it?) How will the country be ruled?!?!?

But relax. I hear they've already worked out a custody agreement. Kim gets Arcade Fire and all of the Crystal Castles territory while Thurston gets Beck and all of The Fall lands.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on October 15, 2011, 10:01:32 am

Kim and Thurston are separated now :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 15, 2011, 10:10:12 am

Have a little compassion Brian. Remember how devestated you were when Pete and Ashlee split. I bet you didn't leave your room for a week.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on October 15, 2011, 11:16:41 am

Hmm, Brazilian vacation centered around a possibly last opportunity to see Sonic Youth, anyone?

P.S. Brian and his obviously pent up rage (this place notwithstanding) sometimes forces me to wonder if he will be the next Metro suicide.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: serpent boy on October 15, 2011, 01:22:11 pm

That really sucks. I hope it doesn't mean the band breaks up, but they can't play forever. I'm glad I saw them in 2000 and 2004.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: andyrichter on October 15, 2011, 03:31:28 pm

kinda kickng myself in the behind for missing their show in williamsburg this summer. i thought they'd be back for sure. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on October 15, 2011, 03:47:56 pm

If they are breaking up, one would think (wishfully) they would play a string of farewell gigs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on October 15, 2011, 11:44:05 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 15, 2011, 09:37:04 am

Thurston gets Beck and all of The Fall lands.

and when she talked about the Fall
I thought she talked about Mark E. Smith
I never understood at all

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Papa_Wallace on October 16, 2011, 12:38:35 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 15, 2011, 09:37:04 am

I know it seems shocking when the King and Queen of the College Rock Kingdom breakup. All the minions are in panic (it's been a bad month for mindless followers, hasn't it?) How will the country be ruled?!?!?

But relax. I hear they've already worked out a custody agreement. Kim gets Arcade Fire and all of the Crystal Castles territory while Thurston gets Beck and all of The Fall lands.

Brian

Boogie, you've been such a good boy lately.

Why do you have to go back to this silliness? Remember that Beatles song I used to play for you? "In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make". Your mother and I love you. Spread some love to the kids instead of being a douche.

Papa

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on October 16, 2011, 10:05:11 am

Quote from: ggw on October 15, 2011, 10:10:12 am

Have a little compassion Brian. Remember how devestated you were when Pete and Ashlee split. I bet you didn't leave your room for a week.

Big difference. Fall Out Boy wrote some actual songs. Actual tunes that a lot of people enjoyed, sang along to, fell in/out of love to, etc. Sonic Youth were a post-rock noise ideal.

Quote from: azaghal1981 on October 15, 2011, 11:16:41 am

Hmm, Brazilian vacation centered around a possibly last opportunity to see Sonic Youth, anyone?

P.S. Brian and his obviously pent up rage (this place notwithstanding) sometimes forces me to wonder if he will be the next Metro suicide.

Why? It's not just a myth is it? There really IS some alt rock bucket list isn't there? Do you get it if you have pitchfork as a web browser favorite? Or do you get it with a special case purchase of PBR? Why go to Brazil (!) to see a band that you clearly ignored when they played the 930 club? I mean, they are a band you respect and admire, but you don't LOVE Sonic Youth. That's probably what Kim Gordon finally realised. Thurston loved her, but he'd always love a cassette tape made by Hungarian postal workers playing Disney Princess dialogue in a death-metal style more. It's the Nirvana effect. Gen-X adults doing things they think they should because their lives are so empty obsessing over cell phones. The Pixies aren't selling out dates in 2011 because their music is so beloved. Don't kid yourselves.

And suicide? No. I have SO MUCH TO LIVE FOR!

- I may wake up and find either Paul or Ringo on their backs, unable to flip over. Then there will FINALLY be a Fab Four reunion.

- The deification (its already happened to St. Steve Jobs. Let's keep it going!) of St. Bruce in Sea Bright. The first sign will be stigmata on Snooki. Like, the Third Testament.

- The great Radiohead scandal of 2013 when some hipster in Williamsburg realizes that Radiohead's new album is just "In Rainbows" played backwards.

, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on October 16, 2011, 10:15:19 am

Thanks for telling me who I do and don't love.

And whoever said I ignored them when they came to town?

I hope you at least decide to leave a note here before you take that leap.

Papa, it is never too late while he is still living! Get him off that computer and into a psych ward.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 16, 2011, 12:11:31 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 16, 2011, 10:05:11 am

I mean, they are a band you respect and admire, but you don't LOVE Sonic Youth.

The above sums up the way I feel about Sonic Youth..

About the only album I liked of theirs was Goo. Never saw them live... they were supposed to open for Pearl Jam at Merriweather back in 2000 or so but did not play due to some tragedy.. I did see Thurston at a solo show at the Black Cat mid 90s or something.. can't remember anything about the show.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Papa_Wallace on October 16, 2011, 01:14:05 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 16, 2011, 10:05:11 am

- I may wake up and find either Paul or Ringo on their backs, unable to flip over. Then there will FINALLY be a Fab Four reunion.

- The deification (its already happened to St. Steve Jobs. Let's keep it going!) of St. Bruce in Sea Bright. The first sign will be stigmata on Snooki. Like, the Third Testament.

- The great Radiohead scandal of 2013 when some hipster in Williamsburg realizes that Radiohead's new album is just "In Rainbows" played backwards.

, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Brian

Boogie, you found my stash of 'shrooms didn't you? Aw man, I told you they just make your anger more nonsensical. The kids here will give you love if you just mellow out. They won't make too much fun of your music tastes if you dropped the superiority shtick. Look at Ringo, he's always been humble and never bummed John out like George and Paul.

Papa

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on October 16, 2011, 06:00:45 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on October 16, 2011, 10:05:11 am

Fall Out Boy wrote some actual songs. Actual tunes that a lot of people enjoyed, sang along to, fell in/out of love to, etc. Sonic Youth were a post-rock noise ideal.

Brian

Source?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on October 16, 2011, 09:32:09 pm

dan wheldon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 16, 2011, 10:28:39 pm

Quote from: James Ford on October 16, 2011, 09:32:09 pm

dan wheldon

Such a bummer - knew it when I saw that crash that not everyone was going to walk away.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on October 20, 2011, 10:44:00 am

Another fly has dropped...Moomar Kadaffi

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on October 20, 2011, 10:52:51 am

Grisly photos at cnn.com :-\

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: imbecile on October 20, 2011, 11:54:58 am

Speaking of grisly:

18 Bengal Tigers, 17 Lions, 6 Black Bears, 2 Grizzly Bears, 3 Mountain Lions, and a Baboon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on October 20, 2011, 12:31:17 pm

Quote from: imbecile on October 20, 2011, 11:54:58 am

Speaking of grisly:

18 Bengal Tigers, 17 Lions, 6 Black Bears, 2 Grizzly Bears, 3 Mountain Lions, and a Baboon.

+ 1 moron

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on October 20, 2011, 04:00:58 pm

Are there any leaders of a nation who even looked half the rock star this guy did?

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N5m1djq-bNk/TaKMgoMS63I/AAAAAAAACUA/eoVnzhvBysY/s1600/gaddafi_dw_politik__545028g.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on October 20, 2011, 04:30:09 pm

Looks like the bloke from Sparks....

(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ahitler.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 20, 2011, 04:51:43 pm

Quote from: James Ford on October 20, 2011, 04:00:58 pm

Are there any leaders of a nation who even looked half the rock star this guy did?

i'm more partial to the communist-leader-in-sunglasses look:

(http://img.timeinc.net/time/europe50/reflow/1979/jaruzelski.jpg)

(http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/41787_32858042290_489898_n.jpg)

(http://www.weirdasianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/KimJongIl-Fashion-Icon.jpg)

(http://iamkoream.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/kim-jong-il-twn.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 20, 2011, 04:52:55 pm

Quote from: James Ford on October 20, 2011, 04:00:58 pm

Are there any leaders of a nation who even looked half the rock star this guy did?

Kim Jong Il

(http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/60500/Kim-Jong-Il-as-Elvis--60823.jpg)

... but only half as much.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 20, 2011, 04:54:01 pm

(http://i.imgur.com/PYFcw.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 20, 2011, 04:58:13 pm

Of course, this guy 'thinks' he's one.

(http://aquapour.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/putin-rocks-out.jpg)

(http://www.cbsnews.com/i/tim/2010/12/12/putin_640_370x278.jpg)

(http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/n_geist_putin_110830.300w.jpg)

"Where's Putin?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on October 20, 2011, 05:00:54 pm

Quote from: Jaguar on October 20, 2011, 04:58:13 pm

Of course, this guy 'thinks' he's one.

(http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/n_geist_putin_110830.300w.jpg)

"Where's Putin?"

He's da Putinator and he'll be back....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 20, 2011, 05:03:32 pm

^ That' what I'm afraid of. ::)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on October 20, 2011, 05:25:36 pm

i know somebody that had a dream that china teamed up with russia and invaded our country with troops like in red dawn, the original, not the remake. they teamed with groups of americans who were in league with them because they hated the american government. like in john carpenter's they live, when some of the humans helped the aliens because they were made all rich and stuff. isn't that weird.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on October 21, 2011, 10:13:56 am

Quote from: walkonby on October 20, 2011, 05:25:36 pm

i know somebody that had a dream that china teamed up with russia and invaded our country with troops like in red dawn, the original, not the remake. they teamed with groups of americans who were in league with them because they hated the american government. like in john carpenter's they live, when some of the humans helped the aliens because they were made all rich and stuff. isn't that weird.

All empires fall...it's just America's turn. Should've learned from the mistakes of Rome and England and not been such a bully and minded your own fucking business....

No biggie!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 21, 2011, 01:15:45 pm

this one hurts a bit... one of the only good things about richmond..

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/business/2011/oct/19/4/plan-9-music-files-for-bankruptcy-ar-1394114/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 23, 2011, 03:53:57 pm

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey-ey,... (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/arts/music/paul-leka-a-songwriter-of-na-na-hey-hey-dies-at-68.html?_r=2&hp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on October 23, 2011, 05:37:16 pm

Quote from: hutch on October 21, 2011, 01:15:45 pm

this one hurts a bit... one of the only good things about richmond..

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/business/2011/oct/19/4/plan-9-music-files-for-bankruptcy-ar-1394114/

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on October 23, 2011, 10:14:57 pm

Plan 9 bankruptcy is no huge shock. They've made it pretty well known that they're looking for a smaller/cheaper space when their current lease ends. Carytown's got to be an expensive area, and their store is huge, so I don't blame them.

Looks like they're not dead yet, but it's not looking too great. Pretty good shop. Not my favorite by any means (CD Cellar all the way) but still a good source for music.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on October 31, 2011, 11:42:54 pm

Technics Turntables
http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2011/10/30/technics-turntables-r-i-p/ (http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2011/10/30/technics-turntables-r-i-p/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on November 02, 2011, 10:22:42 am

I guess he really didn't follow her into the dark, did he?

First the king and queen of over-rated, "Influence is King" noise rock divorce and now the king and queen of Gen-X "Let's wear stupid, dorky glasses and pretend we're in sixth grade forever" culture are splitting up. It's been a bad year for people who watch a lot of TV and have divorced parents.

However, Jann Werner divorcing Bruce Springsteen is the canary in the coal mine, folks. Once that happens, get the hell out. It's just a matter of time, though. They haven't been intimate since "Tunnel of Love."

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Papa_Wallace on November 02, 2011, 11:24:32 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on November 02, 2011, 10:22:42 am

I guess he really didn't follow her into the dark, did he?

First the king and queen of over-rated, "Influence is King" noise rock divorce and now the king and queen of Gen-X "Let's wear stupid, dorky glasses and pretend we're in sixth grade forever" culture are splitting up. It's been a bad year for people who watch a lot of TV and have divorced parents.

However, Jann Werner divorcing Bruce Springsteen is the canary in the coal mine, folks. Once that happens, get the hell out. It's just a matter of time, though. They haven't been intimate since "Tunnel of Love."

Brian

What a bummer ... Brian has found my 'Shrooms stash. In hindsight my sock drawer probably wasn't the best spot.

Papa

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on November 03, 2011, 04:32:21 pm

Flattus Maximus R.I.P.

http://exclaim.ca/News/gwar_guitarist_cory_smoot_found_dead

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 03, 2011, 04:35:49 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on November 05, 2011, 10:20:11 am

Andy Rooney

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 08, 2011, 12:20:25 am

Joe Frazier

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 08, 2011, 07:58:10 pm

Heavy D, Dead at 44 (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2011/11/report-rapper-heavy-d-dead-at-44/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 09, 2011, 04:14:42 pm

(http://willkooi.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/family_circus.gif?w=320&h=365)

Bil Keane (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h46uwJiZg9NRKogBtxRuuGRJ_U9g?docId=013c6c817550450aa2d1449a009e702e)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 09, 2011, 04:34:25 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on November 09, 2011, 04:14:42 pm

Bil Keane (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h46uwJiZg9NRKogBtxRuuGRJ_U9g?docId=013c6c817550450aa2d1449a009e702e)

That choked me up as much as that last cartoon....bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 09, 2011, 05:23:09 pm

I'll take Joe Pa in the death pool of 12'.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 09, 2011, 08:06:14 pm

Quote from: Yada on November 09, 2011, 05:23:09 pm

I'll take Joe Pa in the death pool of 12'.

Before or after Sandusky is killed in prison?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on November 10, 2011, 11:17:25 am

Quote from: Shemp on November 09, 2011, 08:06:14 pm

Quote from: Yada on November 09, 2011, 05:23:09 pm
I'll take Joe Pa in the death pool of 12'.

Before or after Sandusky is killed in prison?

Almost as much vitriol (deserved or not) is being aimed at Mike McQueary. If he's on the sidelines on
Saturday, he better wear a bulletproof vest.

And gingers wonder why everyone hates them so much.

(http://ology.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/post-image/9917290-large.jpg)

(http://media.blurt-online.com/YdBa8AJare3j_m.jpg)

(http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix//2007/06_01/piperevansREX3005_468x342.jpg)

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on November 10, 2011, 11:21:16 am

I have no problem with redheads.

http://www.highestfive.com/entertainment/hottest-women-in-the-world-famous-red-heads/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on November 10, 2011, 02:30:52 pm

i'm a ginger.

lets all gasp in horror.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on November 15, 2011, 02:26:29 pm

Bush Tetras bass player Laura Kennedy

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/laura_kennedy_of_the_bush_tetras_r.i.p

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 21, 2011, 11:12:40 am

Gary Garcia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY_ESTnBlS0&feature=related

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 21, 2011, 11:27:47 pm

Mariners Outfielder Greg Halman, 24, Dies in Stabbing
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/sports/baseball/greg-halman-24-mariners-outfielder-dies-in-stabbing.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 22, 2011, 02:01:19 am

Andrea True (http://theseconddisc.com/2011/11/21/reissue-theory-the-andrea-true-connection/), the original porn rock star

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on November 24, 2011, 01:29:53 pm

The "Black Cat, Black Cat!" guy
http://twitter.com/#!/Marcissist/status/139733758596235264

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 24, 2011, 01:57:01 pm

bummer...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on November 24, 2011, 06:29:02 pm

I used to see him all the time and had several conversations with him. Nice fella. R.I.P. Bill

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Sir HC on November 24, 2011, 09:54:04 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on November 09, 2011, 04:14:42 pm

(http://willkooi.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/family_circus.gif?w=320&h=365)

Bil Keane (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h46uwJiZg9NRKogBtxRuuGRJ_U9g?docId=013c6c817550450aa2d1449a009e702e)

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/c-martin/ceptDaddyHe.jpg)

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/c-martin/butDaddyhastes2.jpg)

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y57/c-martin/finsex.jpg)

RIP, some classics that were unintentional.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on November 25, 2011, 08:09:21 am

http://rockphotographer.blogspot.com/2009/01/black-cat-black-cat-how-bout-some.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 28, 2011, 04:51:30 pm

British film director, Ken Russell (http://omg.yahoo.com/news/british-film-director-ken-russell-dies-84-092929369.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bellenseb on November 29, 2011, 05:18:29 pm

Parasol mail order. (http://"http://www.parasol.com/index.asp") End of an indie pop era. Long since made obsolete, they didn't do downloads, but their new release emails were always good ways to find out what was new.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on November 29, 2011, 05:26:36 pm

http://www.lifeintheoffice.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/T-Bone%2021.jpg

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on November 29, 2011, 06:01:52 pm

/\ I'm guessing that one is about Patrice Oneal? The link didn't work. This sucks! He was so damn funny. The Charlie Sheen roast was much better thanks to him. R.I.P.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 30, 2011, 09:41:10 am

Black Cat Bill, not dead!

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/general/2011/11/30/black-cat-bill-lives/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on December 01, 2011, 07:54:23 pm

that mis-reporting by WeLoveDC and Borderstan on the "Black Cat Bill" story is some of the crappiest reporting I've ever seen. People love to bash the "lamestream media" but at least the pretense of fact checking is still there. They should be lucky the dood is homeless, because someone of means would be seeking a settlement.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on December 02, 2011, 09:12:14 am

That's what William "Willy" Turner told me yesterday afternoon when I visited him at the Deanwood Rehabilitation and Wellness Center on Nannie Hellen Burroughs Avenue NE

Dood isn't homeless...somebody is paying for his bed there.

Quote from: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on December 01, 2011, 07:54:23 pm

that mis-reporting by WeLoveDC and Borderstan on the "Black Cat Bill" story is some of the crappiest reporting I've ever seen. People love to bash the "lamestream media" but at least the pretense of fact checking is still there. They should be lucky the dood is homeless, because someone of means would be seeking a settlement.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 02, 2011, 09:30:04 am

Quote from: James Ford on December 02, 2011, 09:12:14 am

That's what William "Willy" Turner told me yesterday afternoon when I visited him at the Deanwood Rehabilitation and Wellness Center on Nannie Hellen Burroughs Avenue NE

Dood isn't homeless...somebody is paying for his bed there.

Quote from: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on December 01, 2011, 07:54:23 pm
that mis-reporting by WeLoveDC and Borderstan on the "Black Cat Bill" story is some of the crappiest reporting I've ever seen. People love to bash the "lamestream media" but at least the pretense of fact checking is still there. They should be lucky the dood is homeless, because someone of means would be seeking a settlement.

Yeah... sounds like he's living large.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on December 02, 2011, 09:42:19 am

Actually, the article said he's lost weight. So more like living smaller.

Quote from: Yada on December 02, 2011, 09:30:04 am

Quote from: James Ford on December 02, 2011, 09:12:14 am
That's what William "Willy" Turner told me yesterday afternoon when I visited him at the Deanwood Rehabilitation and Wellness Center on Nannie Hellen Burroughs Avenue NE

Dood isn't homeless...somebody is paying for his bed there.

Quote from: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on December 01, 2011, 07:54:23 pm
that mis-reporting by WeLoveDC and Borderstan on the "Black Cat Bill" story is some of the crappiest reporting I've ever seen. People love to bash the "lamestream media" but at least the pretense of fact checking is still there. They should be lucky the dood is homeless, because someone of means would be seeking a settlement.

Yeah... sounds like he's living large.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on December 02, 2011, 07:27:31 pm

the twitter back story to this is fascinating:

http://www.tbd.com/articles/2011/11/how-dave-stroup-convinced-the-d-c-blogosphere-that-black-cat-bill-was-dead-69761.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on December 05, 2011, 01:00:50 pm

Strange that when the dude is supposedly dead everyone cries and says lets have a fundraiser.

Now he is alive, apparently wasting away in what I'll assume is not the nicest institution of its type and all the poor guy wants is a boombox and some James Brown cd's.

Isn't now the time for the fundraiser?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 05, 2011, 01:02:11 pm

Quote from: chaz on December 05, 2011, 01:00:50 pm

Strange that when the dude is supposedly dead everyone cries and says lets have a fundraiser.

Now he is alive, apparently wasting away in what I'll assume is not the nicest institution of its type and all the poor guy wants is a boombox and some James Brown cd's.

Isn't now the time for the fundraiser?

Bunch of fuckin' slacktovists.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on December 05, 2011, 01:03:15 pm

Everybody loves you when you're dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on December 05, 2011, 07:45:46 pm

Quote from: chaz on December 05, 2011, 01:00:50 pm

Strange that when the dude is supposedly dead everyone cries and says lets have a fundraiser.

Now he is alive, apparently wasting away in what I'll assume is not the nicest institution of its type and all the poor guy wants is a boombox and some James Brown cd's.

Isn't now the time for the fundraiser?

One suspects that the fundraiser would've been more about the people and blogs putting it on, rather than person it was purportedly for. That's harder to do when the guy's still alive.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on December 05, 2011, 09:08:44 pm

Hubert Sumlin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/hubert-sumlin-legendary-blues-guitarist-for-howlin-wolf-who-influenced-eric-clapton-and-jimi-hendrix-has-died/2011/12/05/gIQAgh2dXO_story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 07, 2011, 08:47:46 am

Dobie Gray

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/16204592/singer-songwriter-dobie-gray-passes-away

The In Crowd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upwrq1QZKV8

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 07, 2011, 01:51:29 pm

Harry Morgan, Colonel Potter on ?M*A*S*H,? Dies at 96 (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/arts/television/harry-morgan-mash-and-dragnet-actor-dies-at-96.html?_r=1&src=tp&smid=fb-share)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on December 07, 2011, 03:46:45 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on December 07, 2011, 01:51:29 pm

Harry Morgan, Colonel Potter on ?M*A*S*H,? Dies at 96 (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/arts/television/harry-morgan-mash-and-dragnet-actor-dies-at-96.html?_r=1&src=tp&smid=fb-share)

he was my favourite on that show. him and the klinger made it for me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 08, 2011, 11:53:03 am

Update (http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2011/12/07/790544.aspx) :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on December 08, 2011, 12:42:30 pm

is it ironic, with all the blood at a gwar show over the years . . . that the poor guy would die of a blood clot?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on December 12, 2011, 01:09:49 am

Gilles Peterson Worldwide show on BBC1
http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/2011/12/gilles-p-to-leave-bbc-radio-1-after-13-amazing-years/ (http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/2011/12/gilles-p-to-leave-bbc-radio-1-after-13-amazing-years/)

Sucks for not getting the live recordings from Maida Vale anymore. But I'm sure we'll get his next venture streaming on the web.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on December 16, 2011, 01:56:29 am

Christopher Hitchens (http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/12/In-Memoriam-Christopher-Hitchens-19492011)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 16, 2011, 03:13:14 am

Grinderman
http://www.spinner.com/2011/12/12/grinderman-break-up-nick-cave/

matisyahu's beard (and religiosity?)
http://www.spinner.com/2011/12/13/matisyahu-beard-pictures/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on December 17, 2011, 09:54:58 am

http://gawker.com/5868761/christopher-hitchens-unforgivable-mistake

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on December 17, 2011, 03:47:45 pm

Cesaria Evora

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57344683/barefoot-diva-cesaria-evora-dies-at-70/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 18, 2011, 06:12:49 pm

Vaclav Havel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 18, 2011, 11:22:39 pm

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, 69, Has Died (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/12/18/world/asia/AP-AS-Korea-Kim-Jong-Il.html?_r=1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on December 19, 2011, 02:08:51 am

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on December 18, 2011, 11:22:39 pm

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, 69, Has Died (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/12/18/world/asia/AP-AS-Korea-Kim-Jong-Il.html?_r=1)

(http://www.politician-pictures.com/naked-kim-jong-il.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on December 19, 2011, 10:27:18 am

Warren Hellman

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/12/19/remembering-warren-hellman/?section=magazines_fortune

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 19, 2011, 05:22:45 pm

@jstrevino I'd like to think God let Havel and Hitchens pick the third.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 20, 2011, 12:37:31 pm

kim jong-il dropping the bass
http://kimjongildroppingthebass.tumblr.com

these images will appear on a million forthcoming mixtapes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on December 22, 2011, 04:28:28 pm

Joe Strummer....nine years ago today. Gutted again.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on December 22, 2011, 05:29:59 pm

. . . Oh Joe.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on December 28, 2011, 07:58:49 am

Helen Frankenthaler (Abstract Artist) (http://news.yahoo.com/abstract-painter-helen-frankenthaler-dies-83-173955060.html)

Had the pleasure of meeting her while I was in Art school. RIP, Helen. She had a beautiful use of color which had a bit of an influence on my work.

Now this one really surprised me as I had assumed that we lost him many, many years ago:

Cheetah the chimp from 1930s Tarzan flicks dies (http://news.yahoo.com/cheetah-chimp-1930s-tarzan-flicks-dies-050034998.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 28, 2011, 01:18:51 pm

Quote from: Jaguar on December 28, 2011, 07:58:49 am

Now this one really surprised me as I had assumed that we lost him many, many years ago:

Cheetah the chimp from 1930s Tarzan flicks dies (http://news.yahoo.com/cheetah-chimp-1930s-tarzan-flicks-dies-050034998.html)

From CNN: (http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/28/showbiz/obit-tarzan-cheetah/index.html)

The chimpanzee died Saturday after suffering kidney failure the week before, the sanctuary foundation said on the site. He was roughly 80 years old, Debbie Cobb, the sanctuary's outreach director, told CNN affiliate WFLA.

Cobb recalled Cheetah as an outgoing chimp who loved finger painting and watching football and who was soothed by Christian music, the station said. [emphasis added]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on December 28, 2011, 03:28:14 pm

My father- Ira-passed away 12/26/11... Many fond memories to cherish from over the years, especially the musical ones- i. e. Bob Marley and the Wailers at the Lenox, Ma music shed, Patti Smith
reading poetry and doing a sound check , Dexter Gordon steadying himself on a mic stand-too drunk to stand on his own and Charles Mingus playing from a wheelchair in his last days, all at a small club in Woodstock, NY

All of which I had the pleasure of experiencing with him, due to his kindness and generosity

RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on December 28, 2011, 04:02:17 pm

Quote from: Bagley on December 28, 2011, 03:28:14 pm

My father- Ira-passed away 12/26/11... Many fond memories to cherish from over the years, especially the musical ones- i. e. Bob Marley and the Wailers at the Lenox, Ma music shed, Patti Smith
reading poetry and doing a sound check , Dexter Gordon steadying himself on a mic stand-too drunk to stand on his own and Charles Mingus playing from a wheelchair in his last days, all at a small club in Woodstock, NY

All of which I had the pleasure of experiencing with him, due to his kindness and generosity

RIP

aww, sorry to hear that. my thoughts and prayers are with you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on December 28, 2011, 04:15:22 pm

Sorry to hear that as well. Those are some amazing memories, though.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on December 28, 2011, 04:20:02 pm

Very sorry to hear that. Sounds like he was a cool man. Would have loved to had seen that Mingus show. My condolences to you and your family.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on December 28, 2011, 05:53:02 pm

So sorry to hear, Bagley.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on December 28, 2011, 06:38:28 pm

Quote from: Bagley on December 28, 2011, 03:28:14 pm

My father- Ira-passed away 12/26/11... Many fond memories to cherish from over the years, especially the musical ones- i. e. Bob Marley and the Wailers at the Lenox, Ma music shed, Patti Smith
reading poetry and doing a sound check , Dexter Gordon steadying himself on a mic stand-too drunk to stand on his own and Charles Mingus playing from a wheelchair in his last days, all at a small club in Woodstock, NY

All of which I had the pleasure of experiencing with him, due to his kindness and generosity

RIP

very sorry

how about a couple of tickets on me to cheer you up...we'll say it's from him

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 28, 2011, 07:11:58 pm

(real nice gesture above)

Bummer Bagley.... sorry to read that.
--------------------------------------------------------

Bob Marley, Mingus and Dexter Gordon?

wow.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 28, 2011, 07:41:25 pm

Whoa, sorry.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on December 29, 2011, 09:43:19 am

Quote from: Bagley on December 28, 2011, 03:28:14 pm

My father- Ira-passed away 12/26/11... Many fond memories to cherish from over the years, especially the musical ones- i. e. Bob Marley and the Wailers at the Lenox, Ma music shed, Patti Smith
reading poetry and doing a sound check , Dexter Gordon steadying himself on a mic stand-too drunk to stand on his own and Charles Mingus playing from a wheelchair in his last days, all at a small club in Woodstock, NY

All of which I had the pleasure of experiencing with him, due to his kindness and generosity

RIP

I am very sorry to hear this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on December 29, 2011, 04:46:25 pm

Thank you everyone for your kind words on this sad occasion

Seth-

I can't tell how much I appreciate your message. It brought a smile to my face and tears to my eyes.
What a wonderful gesture. Your club has been like a second home to me over the years. (Actually the site of the first date for my wife and I- Mekons in July of 1988 at the old place.) As well as countless other "special" shows over the years including the 30th anniversary show.

I would like to take you up on your gracious offer!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on January 01, 2012, 03:31:08 am

that's a pretty awesome first date.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 10, 2012, 10:21:48 pm

sad to add this name..

Tom Ardolino

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: thatguy on January 12, 2012, 03:58:22 am

bryan "big b" burrell. long time 9:30 staph and dj.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on January 17, 2012, 03:20:52 am

Jimmy Castor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JohnQ on January 20, 2012, 10:03:39 am

Johnny Otis, best known for "Willie and the Hand Jive".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on January 20, 2012, 12:31:29 pm

Etta James

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 20, 2012, 05:30:44 pm

Quote from: JohnQ on January 20, 2012, 10:03:39 am

Johnny Otis, best known for "Willie and the Hand Jive".

and Shuggie's dad!

Actually an early rock and roll pioneer!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 20, 2012, 05:31:33 pm

Quote from: bearman on January 20, 2012, 12:31:29 pm

Etta James

Poor Etta..did not go in a good way..

I will spin Rocks the House in her honor tonight!

saw her at the Warner Theatre a few years ago... boy was she bawdy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on January 20, 2012, 05:54:24 pm

Ridiculous amounts of soul and R&B deaths lately.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on January 20, 2012, 07:13:32 pm

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/402982_10150593936088454_180201188453_10719892_378511990_n.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on January 21, 2012, 09:56:57 pm

Just heard Joe Paterno died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on January 21, 2012, 10:11:16 pm

Guess it's not true yet...but he's not well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on January 22, 2012, 11:49:07 am

Looks like it is true, now.

According to CNN, Joe Paterno dead at 85.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/22/us/pennsylvania-obit-paterno/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 25, 2012, 07:13:50 pm

Dick Tufeld dies at 85; actor who intoned 'Danger, Will Robinson!' (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dick-tufeld-20120125,0,7332046.story)

(http://roguebride.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lost-in-Space-Danger-will-robinson.jpg)
(http://www.cloudster.com/sets&vehicles/RobotB9/robot06.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 25, 2012, 11:22:22 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on January 25, 2012, 07:13:50 pm

Dick Tufeld dies at 85; actor who intoned 'Danger, Will Robinson!' (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dick-tufeld-20120125,0,7332046.story)

(http://roguebride.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lost-in-Space-Danger-will-robinson.jpg)
(http://www.cloudster.com/sets&vehicles/RobotB9/robot06.jpg)

Awwwww the "robut!" Bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 27, 2012, 09:55:45 am

(http://www.celebritynooz.com/images2/robert-hegyes-then2.jpg)

Epstein

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on January 27, 2012, 10:29:04 am

Was it the hair that killed him, or the obesity?

(http://media.nj.com/entertainment_impact_celebrities/photo/10488744-large.jpg)

Quote from: Shemp on January 27, 2012, 09:55:45 am

(http://www.celebritynooz.com/images2/robert-hegyes-then2.jpg)

Epstein

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on January 27, 2012, 11:13:02 am

RIP The Puerto Rican Jew

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on February 01, 2012, 10:41:53 am

Don Cornelius
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/soul-train-creator-don-cornelius-dead-in-apparent-suicide.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 05, 2012, 11:57:07 pm

General in Afghanistan has heart attack and dies while playing video games.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/brig-gen-terence-g-hildner-of-fairfax-dies-in-afghanistan-of-apparent-natural-causes/2012/02/05/gIQATlZWsQ_story.html?hpid=z4

He was 49 but looked 60.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on February 06, 2012, 12:46:27 am

Odd word choice from his dad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on February 06, 2012, 04:44:21 am

Hmmm, he went to my elementary school.

Wonder if he was playing Medal of Honor, Call of Duty or something similar?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on February 06, 2012, 04:04:11 pm

Jerry Gray
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/gerald-poulsen-wamus-bluegrass-spinning-jerry-gray-dies-at-78/2012/02/05/gIQAegeisQ_story.html?hpid=z6 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/gerald-poulsen-wamus-bluegrass-spinning-jerry-gray-dies-at-78/2012/02/05/gIQAegeisQ_story.html?hpid=z6)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 08, 2012, 06:18:50 pm

Luis Alberto Spinetta

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 11, 2012, 09:16:12 pm

A terrorist attack? Obama got shot? Tornado warning? Must be something major if they're interrupting the Charlie Brown Valentine special.

Nope, just Whitney Houston, dropping like a fly.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 12, 2012, 12:10:08 pm

no matter what you think about her or her music.

we just lost a big one there.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 12, 2012, 12:58:09 pm

On Friday, I saw some news site (Yahoo, maybe?) post a story and photo of Whitney looking and being a mess leaving some club. Didn't seem to be one of those Fashionista things either but more what would be an appropriate Celebrity Crime & Scandal Blog entry. Wasn't all that interested so never clicked on the link for the story.

The next day, she's dead.

Wasn't in the least surprised as it's not like she was some long shot in the betting pool of up coming celebrity deaths. A real shame, nonetheless.

Whitney was a perfect example of just because one has been blessed with all the right gifts and those around her to support and prop her up along the Golden Road of Life doesn't necessarily mean that it's an easy road to travel.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 17, 2012, 03:10:45 am

first baseball player to catch my attention way back when... the frenchies really did love him.

Expos great Gary Carter dies
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baseball/expos-great-gary-carter-dies/article2341187/

(yeah yeah, he played for the mets too)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on February 17, 2012, 12:29:33 pm

WaPo/NYT reporter Anthony Shadid dies while on assignment in Syria (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-a-new-york-times-reporter-dies-in-syria.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all?src=tp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 19, 2012, 11:56:08 am

Michael Davis

Bassist from '60s band MC5 dies at age 68 (http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_15996/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=BD0DslSB)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on February 28, 2012, 02:46:14 pm

Nerdcore rapper MC Gigahertz. http://www.facebook.com/mcgigahertz

I know he isnt famous, but im pretty upset. He has been an internet friend of mine for about 6 or 7 years now... I even designed him a MC Gigahertz logo for a T shirt (which he never got to use) featuring robot Tesla...
RIP man
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f235/killsaly/mcgigahertz.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on February 29, 2012, 02:08:17 pm

RIP Davy Jones

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/davy-jones-dead-singer-monkees_n_1310769.html?1330538511&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 29, 2012, 02:14:45 pm

66 is old for a monkey.

Quote from: Got Haggis? on February 29, 2012, 02:08:17 pm

RIP Davy Jones

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/davy-jones-dead-singer-monkees_n_1310769.html?1330538511&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008

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Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 29, 2012, 02:17:48 pm

that is a shame. i loved the monkees growing up and loved their show and loved their songs. no joke. it was just one of many television obsessions i had as a kid. i was really hoping that all four of them could have gotten together and done something, anything . . . and now the "white out kid" will have to forever live with himself that he was the lone ass that refused to make that happen.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on February 29, 2012, 02:46:42 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_9kjsr398U

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 29, 2012, 02:49:35 pm

Though I probably won't say the same thing when i'm 64, a heart attack at 66 seems like a pretty good way to go.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 01, 2012, 11:07:08 am

is this true? can't find it anywhere except here.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/andrew-breitbart-publisher-author-dead/story?id=15824337#.T0-LzMx-xF9

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 01, 2012, 11:36:11 am

I wish I had this on my tombstone :(

"Breitbart was the first to post the infamous Twitter photos of U.S. Rep Anthony Weiner last year, showing the congressman bare-chested in his underpants."

Quote from: walkonby on March 01, 2012, 11:07:08 am

is this true? can't find it anywhere except here.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/andrew-breitbart-publisher-author-dead/story?id=15824337#.T0-LzMx-xF9

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Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 01, 2012, 11:46:06 am

weiner was hot . . . don't care what anybody says. his wife was, too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 05, 2012, 11:03:19 am

Ronnie Montrose (http://www.straight.com/article-623651/vancouver/rockguitar-legend-ronnie-montrose-dies-prostate-cancer-age-64)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 06, 2012, 10:29:43 am

A day late, but RIP Ralph McQuarrie. That guy's art had a huge impact on me growing up...and his concepts probably helped make me the geek I am today.

(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120304093832-mcquarrie-star-wars-sketch-story-top.jpg)

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/04/showbiz/star-wars-death/index.html?hpt=hp_bn4

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 13, 2012, 05:16:19 pm

Michael Hossack, Dobbie Brothers drummer (http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/13/4333998/longtime-doobie-brothers-drummer.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#mi_rss=Latest News)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: notme on March 14, 2012, 01:45:20 am

bugs henderson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 25, 2012, 05:23:13 pm

Eric Lowen (https://www.facebook.com/lownav)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 28, 2012, 09:04:43 pm

Earl Scruggs (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/son-bluegrass-legend-banjo-pioneer-earl-scruggs-dies-in-nashville-at-age-88-changed-music/2012/03/28/gIQAwf3RhS_story.html?hpid=z7)

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Post by: Got Haggis? on April 05, 2012, 09:54:28 am

Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/he-shaped-the-sound-of-rock-and-roll-jim-marshall-founder-of-marshall-amplification-dies/2012/04/05/gIQAzUJGxS_story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 07, 2012, 10:10:13 pm

One of my WWF heroes growing up....Chief Jay Strongbow

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 08, 2012, 10:57:18 am

Mike Wallace, star interviewer on CBS News? ?60 Minutes? for decades, dies at age 93 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mike-wallace-60-minutes-star-interviewer-dies/2012/04/08/gIQAdKiq3S_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 08, 2012, 12:40:03 pm

One of the greatest artists of all time

Thomas Kinkade

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Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 08, 2012, 12:55:44 pm

Quote from: James Ford on April 08, 2012, 12:40:03 pm

One of the greatest artists of all time

Thomas Kinkade

coming from a man . . . known for what?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bellenseb on April 08, 2012, 11:18:20 pm

Cyndi Dall (http://pitchfork.com/news/46064-rip-cynthia-dall/). Kind of gutted by this one. Pulling out Untitled.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on April 09, 2012, 06:52:16 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on April 08, 2012, 10:57:18 am

Mike Wallace, star interviewer on CBS News? ?60 Minutes? for decades, dies at age 93 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mike-wallace-60-minutes-star-interviewer-dies/2012/04/08/gIQAdKiq3S_story.html)

One of the last true news REPORTERS. Almost all of the 'celebs' on 'news' shows today do nothing more than spout opinion and create 'news' in hopes of higher ratings and getting the lemmings to believe their babble. RIP Mike.

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Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on April 18, 2012, 03:03:26 am

http://www.billboard.com/news/levon-helm-in-final-stages-of-cancer-1006790752.story

This one hurts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on April 18, 2012, 09:49:36 am

Arg. . . wanted to post something last night but didn't want to play all reaper-ish. . . I will probably be watching a lot of The Last Waltz soon. Really wanted to check out a midnight ramble. . . But I am lame. Awesome musician.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on April 18, 2012, 10:44:54 am

i never got to see levon :(
definitely gonna kick myself for years about that. those rambles sounded like incredible events

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on April 18, 2012, 11:49:30 am

Quote from: evilizac on April 18, 2012, 09:49:36 am

Arg. . . wanted to post something last night but didn't want to play all reaper-ish. . . I will probably be watching a lot of The Last Waltz soon. Really wanted to check out a midnight ramble. . . But I am lame. Awesome musician.

The Last Waltz is shown on Palladia a lot for those that don't own it.
May 3 & 4th are the next dates.
I caught it a few weeks ago. It's aging really well.

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Post by: hutch on April 18, 2012, 11:50:05 am

ummm.. isn't he still alive???

wish him the best... I believe he was just at the Fillmore..

have to say if there is one act I don't get its "the band"... every few years i listen to their stuff (I have it all on LP) and I just don't get them...and I say that as a huge fan of Dylan and his stuff with the Band.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 18, 2012, 12:28:56 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 18, 2012, 11:50:05 am

ummm.. isn't he still alive???

wish him the best... I believe he was just at the Fillmore..

have to say if there is one act I don't get its "the band"... every few years i listen to their stuff (I have it all on LP) and I just don't get them...and I say that as a huge fan of Dylan and his stuff with the Band.

Why do you have their albums if you're not a fan?

What people tend to forget, The Band really only put out two good albums. The rest are pretty shitty.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 18, 2012, 12:37:41 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 18, 2012, 12:28:56 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 18, 2012, 11:50:05 am
ummm.. isn't he still alive???

wish him the best... I believe he was just at the Fillmore..

have to say if there is one act I don't get its "the band"... every few years i listen to their stuff (I have it all on LP) and I just don't get them...and I say that as a huge fan of Dylan and his stuff with the Band.

Why do you have their albums if you're not a fan?

What people tend to forget, The Band really only put out two good albums. The rest are pretty shitty.

I'm a record collector.

sometimes you buy stuff and hope it gets you..sometimes the first time it doesn't and then a few years later...

lots of reasons.. the big pink cover is of course a dylan drawing...

maybe i like moondog matinee

the last waltz comes with a really cool book

lots of reasons..

I don't believe I paid more than a dollar for any of them.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 18, 2012, 01:01:37 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 18, 2012, 12:37:41 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 18, 2012, 12:28:56 pm
Quote from: hutch on April 18, 2012, 11:50:05 am
ummm.. isn't he still alive???

wish him the best... I believe he was just at the Fillmore..

have to say if there is one act I don't get its "the band"... every few years i listen to their stuff (I have it all on LP) and I just don't get them...and I say that as a huge fan of Dylan and his stuff with the Band.

Why do you have their albums if you're not a fan?

What people tend to forget, The Band really only put out two good albums. The rest are pretty shitty.

I'm a record collector.

sometimes you buy stuff and hope it gets you..sometimes the first time it doesn't and then a few years later...

lots of reasons.. the big pink cover is of course a dylan drawing...

maybe i like moondog matinee

the last waltz comes with a really cool book

lots of reasons..

I don't believe I paid more than a dollar for any of them.

If you don't like the Last Waltz, you've got some problems breah.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on April 18, 2012, 01:46:46 pm

Never 'got' The Band. Respected their influence but didn't care for their music so much. Then saw Last Waltz at that movie theater in Dupont that's now Benetton about 10 years ago. Amazing experience. That film reflected something intangible and transported you to some deeper level where the music and characters involved really revealed their genius.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 18, 2012, 03:01:49 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 18, 2012, 01:01:37 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 18, 2012, 12:37:41 pm
Quote from: Yada on April 18, 2012, 12:28:56 pm
Quote from: hutch on April 18, 2012, 11:50:05 am
ummm.. isn't he still alive???

wish him the best... I believe he was just at the Fillmore..

have to say if there is one act I don't get its "the band"... every few years i listen to their stuff (I have it all on LP) and I just don't get them...and I say that as a huge fan of Dylan and his stuff with the Band.

Why do you have their albums if you're not a fan?

What people tend to forget, The Band really only put out two good albums. The rest are pretty shitty.

I'm a record collector.

sometimes you buy stuff and hope it gets you..sometimes the first time it doesn't and then a few years later...

lots of reasons.. the big pink cover is of course a dylan drawing...

maybe i like moondog matinee

the last waltz comes with a really cool book

lots of reasons..

I don't believe I paid more than a dollar for any of them.

If you don't like the Last Waltz, you've got some problems breah.

I got a lot of problems! But not being into the Band is not one of them.. Its just personal preferences.. I'd hate to be a person that liked everything everyone else did or everything critics told me I should like!

Like I said : I got the records and someday I'll give them another spin.

I do love the 5CD Dylan-Band Bootleg Series

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 18, 2012, 03:11:02 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 18, 2012, 03:01:49 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 18, 2012, 01:01:37 pm
Quote from: hutch on April 18, 2012, 12:37:41 pm
Quote from: Yada on April 18, 2012, 12:28:56 pm
Quote from: hutch on April 18, 2012, 11:50:05 am
ummm.. isn't he still alive???

wish him the best... I believe he was just at the Fillmore..

have to say if there is one act I don't get its "the band"... every few years i listen to their stuff (I have it all on LP) and I just don't get them...and I say that as a huge fan of Dylan and his stuff with the Band.

Why do you have their albums if you're not a fan?

What people tend to forget, The Band really only put out two good albums. The rest are pretty shitty.

I'm a record collector.

sometimes you buy stuff and hope it gets you..sometimes the first time it doesn't and then a few years later...

lots of reasons.. the big pink cover is of course a dylan drawing...

maybe i like moondog matinee

the last waltz comes with a really cool book

lots of reasons..

I don't believe I paid more than a dollar for any of them.

If you don't like the Last Waltz, you've got some problems breah.

I do love the 5CD Dylan-Band Bootleg Series

That album is da titties.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 18, 2012, 03:46:41 pm

Dick Clark

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on April 19, 2012, 03:59:18 pm

Levon Helm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 19, 2012, 04:20:24 pm

Greg Ham

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Post by: Unsanity on April 20, 2012, 03:05:09 am

Jonathan Frid. (Barnabas from the original Dark Shadows soap and movies.)

Greg Ham? Weird, Colin Hay is doing an in-store at RTX for Record Store Day.

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Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on April 23, 2012, 11:09:17 am

Chris Ethridge

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Post by: hutch on April 23, 2012, 11:35:51 am

I hate this thread.. its like a carcrash you can't help rubberneckin'

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on April 26, 2012, 07:49:03 pm

The Killers Saxophonist Tommy Marth Commits Suicide (http://music.yahoo.com/news/killers-saxophonist-tommy-marth-commits-suicide-163034999.html)

Don't like the band at all but still think this is sad. Bet you he was bipolar. March and April are the biggest months of the year for bipolar suicides.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on April 27, 2012, 08:35:29 am

Really?? I wonder why that is.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 27, 2012, 09:41:48 am

drugs.

if you're in a band, and you die

drugs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on April 27, 2012, 11:26:11 am

Quote from: bearman on April 27, 2012, 08:35:29 am

Really?? I wonder why that is.

Bipolar (aka manic depression) suicides will almost always occur when the person is about to drop off from a manic state. That's why you will often hear their friends and family saying things like that they were doing so well or that they were finally happy with things just before the event. Apparently, the patient, so to speak, knows their syndrome well enough to recognize that a drop is coming up which leads to a bout of serious depression. That's what they can't handle and, unfortunately, sometimes decide to take drastic measures into their hands. Many avoid the Lithium prescribed to them because that has so many bad side effects that they can't deal with.

In the spring, we get more light. Signs that summer is on the way. Many of us, bipolar and others (no, I am not bipolar but I have suffered bouts of major depression since I was 4 years old), get that nice spring fever lift. That can bring on a manic stage for a bipolar. People who suffer with bipolar disorders are usually very affected by light and seasonal disorders (aka SAD). It would seem that March and April is when we get the biggest lift from the benefits from more light (at least, in the northern hemispheres) which would also lead to more manic stages for bipolars; hence more eventual manic drops which bring on more of those going to extremes to avoid the onset of a major depressive stage.

*Clinical depressives (or sometimes referred to as unipolars because they don't get the manic side) are much less likely to go the suicide route because it is believed that they tend to just get too laid back and out of it to bother doing anything about it. Not that it's never happened but it's the bipolars who tend to be needing watched when it comes to serious suicide watches.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on May 02, 2012, 02:56:45 pm

Junior Seau

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/report-nfl-legend-junior-seau-dead-182120394.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 02, 2012, 03:12:40 pm

Quote from: chaz on May 02, 2012, 02:56:45 pm

Junior Seau

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/report-nfl-legend-junior-seau-dead-182120394.html

I'm still shaking my head at this one. Couldn't have been a nicer guy who seemed extremely well adjusted the many times I've met him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on May 02, 2012, 03:16:11 pm

Apparently shot himself in the chest a-la Dave Duerson, presumably to preserver the brain for concussion research.

The NFL has a problem of epic proportions on its hands.

Was never a big fan of Seau or anything, but this is seriously sad news.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 02, 2012, 03:19:00 pm

Quote from: chaz on May 02, 2012, 03:16:11 pm

The NFL has a problem of epic proportions on its hands.

So does that Charger's team:

http://deadspin.com/5867720/death-is-stalking-the-1994-chargers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on May 02, 2012, 03:22:22 pm

Yeah, I was aware that this team had more than it's fair share of early demises, but this:

"In 1998, LB Doug Miller was struck by lightning while camping in Colorado. CPR was being performed on Miller when he was struck again by a second bolt."

W T F

Who the hell gets struck by lightning twice in a row???

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 02, 2012, 03:42:22 pm

Quote from: chaz on May 02, 2012, 03:22:22 pm

"In 1998, LB Doug Miller was struck by lightning while camping in Colorado. CPR was being performed on Miller when he was struck again by a second bolt."

W T F

Who the hell gets struck by lightning twice in a row???

Look at the team's emblem.

Coincidence....??

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 02, 2012, 03:47:31 pm

can't stand the NFL but knew enough to be saddened...seemed like a real nice guy...

they must be real sad in Samoa too... when I visited could tell they were real proud...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 02, 2012, 03:47:59 pm

Quote from: ggw on May 02, 2012, 03:42:22 pm

Quote from: chaz on May 02, 2012, 03:22:22 pm
"In 1998, LB Doug Miller was struck by lightning while camping in Colorado. CPR was being performed on Miller when he was struck again by a second bolt."

W T F

Who the hell gets struck by lightning twice in a row???

Look at the team's emblem.

Coincidence....??

POTW

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on May 04, 2012, 12:54:51 pm

On another board there's a thread discussing the validity of a rumor regarding Adam Youch's demise. Hope this is not true.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eltee on May 04, 2012, 01:08:03 pm

Quote from: Jaguar on April 26, 2012, 07:49:03 pm

The Killers Saxophonist Tommy Marth Commits Suicide (http://music.yahoo.com/news/killers-saxophonist-tommy-marth-commits-suicide-163034999.html)

Don't like the band at all but still think this is sad. Bet you he was bipolar. March and April are the biggest months of the year for bipolar suicides.

Jaggy, thanks for the add'l details above. You mentioned this a few years ago on the board. I think you explained simply (which I have relayed to people) is through the winter months some have depression / SAD and when spring arrives while everyone else is out enjoying the light and has normal energy, those that are depressed are still weighted down. They are hard on themselves for not being able to get up and out, and thus become more depressed (esp. Mar/Apr). Something like that. anyhow, made sense, and as mentioned, have used that example when have SAD / spring change discussions with others or when unfortunate suicides make the news this time of year.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on May 04, 2012, 10:56:10 pm

Quote from: eltee on May 04, 2012, 01:08:03 pm

Quote from: Jaguar on April 26, 2012, 07:49:03 pm
The Killers Saxophonist Tommy Marth Commits Suicide (http://music.yahoo.com/news/killers-saxophonist-tommy-marth-commits-suicide-163034999.html)

Don't like the band at all but still think this is sad. Bet you he was bipolar. March and April are the biggest months of the year for bipolar suicides.
Jaggy, thanks for the add'l details above. You mentioned this a few years ago on the board. I think you explained simply (which I have relayed to people) is through the winter months some have depression / SAD and when spring arrives while everyone else is out enjoying the light and has normal energy, those that are depressed are still weighted down. They are hard on themselves for not being able to get up and out, and thus become more depressed (esp. Mar/Apr). Something like that. anyhow, made sense, and as mentioned, have used that example when have SAD / spring change discussions with others or when unfortunate suicides make the news this time of year.

Eltee, what I wrote was a bit over-simplified and can't fit for all. Manic depression and SAD are actually 2 different syndromes though SAD will often affect other disorders. Clinical depression is yet something else altogether and can also be affected by SAD.

People who are affected by SAD usually either are most effected in the dead of winter or deep into summer. July is a big hitter. My SAD hits in the winter and the depression can be long lasting. I always think of April 21st as being my turn around point. I get lots of sunlight where I work now and I've found that it's done amazing wonders with keeping it under control.

April and March tend to be the most likely months for bipolars with suicidal tendencies to take action in that direction. It's still a disorder that they haven't fully cracked yet. I learned a lot about it while taking at course at Johns Hopkins on the relationship between the psyche and the arts. GREAT class! The professor, Kay Redfield Jamison, suffers from a bipolar disorder herself so, naturally, she tended to focus more in that area. She wrote a good book on the subject which I bought before the course was even offered. Had no idea at the time that she was local. She brought in every week some world class professional to lecture on the subject. One was Norman Rossenthal (sp?), the guy who wrote the book on SAD. Also, the guy (forget his name) who is the head of the Human Genome project. Learned a lot of interesting things, much of what were still very new findings. (Now, if only I could remember it all!)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on May 08, 2012, 08:39:36 am

Maurice Sendak
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html?_r=1&hp

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on May 08, 2012, 02:42:44 pm

Quote from: evilizac on May 08, 2012, 08:39:36 am

Maurice Sendak
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html?_r=1&hp

I like this quote by him
In an interview earlier this year with Comedy Central Talk Show Host Stephen Colbert, Sendak offered his unvarnished opinion on ebooks. ?F___k Them. I hate those ebooks. They cannot be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won?t give a sh_t.?
;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 09, 2012, 09:56:48 am

THIS is an obituary:

Sydney Wignall, explorer, spy and marine archaeologist, died on April 6th, aged 89
http://www.economist.com/node/21554174

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 10, 2012, 02:48:31 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on May 09, 2012, 09:56:48 am

THIS is an obituary:

Sydney Wignall, explorer, spy and marine archaeologist, died on April 6th, aged 89
http://www.economist.com/node/21554174

The Economist has some of the best obits. 1/3 of the time I have no idea who they're talking about but the story told is well worth the listen (I podcast most of the Economist).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RustyOrgan on May 10, 2012, 06:42:22 pm

Maurice Sendak is AWESOME!
Everyone go see his doc!!

Quote from: wml7 on May 08, 2012, 02:42:44 pm

Quote from: evilizac on May 08, 2012, 08:39:36 am
Maurice Sendak
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html?_r=1&hp

I like this quote by him
In an interview earlier this year with Comedy Central Talk Show Host Stephen Colbert, Sendak offered his unvarnished opinion on ebooks. ?F___k Them. I hate those ebooks. They cannot be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won?t give a sh_t.?
;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on May 10, 2012, 08:14:37 pm

Don't think I want to go see the doctor of a dead guy.

Quote from: RustyOrgan on May 10, 2012, 06:42:22 pm

Maurice Sendak is AWESOME!
Everyone go see his doc!!

Quote from: wml7 on May 08, 2012, 02:42:44 pm
Quote from: evilizac on May 08, 2012, 08:39:36 am
Maurice Sendak
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html?_r=1&hp

I like this quote by him
In an interview earlier this year with Comedy Central Talk Show Host Stephen Colbert, Sendak offered his unvarnished opinion on ebooks. ?F___k Them. I hate those ebooks. They cannot be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won?t give a sh_t.?
;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 13, 2012, 09:33:28 am

the world just got a little less groovier... :(

Donald "Duck" Dunn

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/bass-player-donald-duck-dunn-of-booker-t-and-the-mgs-dies-in-tokyo/2012/05/13/gIQAprexLU_story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on May 14, 2012, 10:40:27 am

Awe. . . Yeah it did. Love some Stax, plus the Blues Brothers was my gateway into real, good music.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Che on May 14, 2012, 09:08:57 pm

Belita Woods, female vocalist of the P-Funk died today.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 16, 2012, 04:39:06 pm

say it ain't so..

Chuck Brown

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 17, 2012, 12:50:34 pm

geez..

Donna Summer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 17, 2012, 02:51:12 pm

you know . . . the old walky would have said "fuck her, she hated gay people."

the new walkonby . . . says, "she was a legend and will be missed. her songs were awesome, and i loved to dance to them."

rest in peace!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on May 17, 2012, 04:06:57 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 17, 2012, 12:50:34 pm

geez..

Donna Summer

fuck her, she hated gay people

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on May 17, 2012, 04:12:07 pm

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on May 17, 2012, 04:06:57 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 17, 2012, 12:50:34 pm
geez..

Donna Summer

fuck her, she hated gay people

Take THAT PC forum police who forbid speaking ill of the dead or legendary.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 17, 2012, 05:22:01 pm

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on May 17, 2012, 04:06:57 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 17, 2012, 12:50:34 pm
geez..

Donna Summer

fuck her, she hated gay people

its vaguely coming back to me that this is true.. I didn't remember it til now..

well I'm still not sure whats what.. she denied it. here's the story:

http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/music/2012/05/17/exclusive-donna-summer-denies-making-antigay-remarks-hurt-her

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 17, 2012, 07:19:12 pm

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on May 17, 2012, 04:06:57 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 17, 2012, 12:50:34 pm
geez..

Donna Summer

fuck her, she hated gay people

(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lisy1dkz4R1qcs8sq.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 17, 2012, 07:19:53 pm

(http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/111989_o.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 17, 2012, 08:06:56 pm

"Donna died from lung cancer. Several sources are telling us Donna believed she contracted it by inhaling toxic particles after the 9/11 attack in New York City."

damn . . . just damn.

seth, needs his ass spanked red now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on May 18, 2012, 10:22:17 am

Another day, another music death.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/05/2012518453588361.html?utm_content=automate&utm_campaign=Trial6&utm_source=NewSocialFlow&utm_term=plustweets&utm_medium=MasterAccount

Crazy streak.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 18, 2012, 11:27:25 am

you read aljazeera?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on May 18, 2012, 11:31:22 am

Yes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 18, 2012, 12:33:09 pm

Remembering 'A Born God' Among Singers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/05/18/152991743/remembering-a-born-god-among-singers-dietrich-fischer-dieskau)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on May 20, 2012, 06:53:18 pm

Robin Gibb (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/robin-gibb-bee-gees-co-founder-dead-at-62-20120520)

Sheesh. These are dangerous times for musicians.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on May 20, 2012, 09:40:41 pm

Bruce Stephens (once a member of Blue Cheer)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on May 21, 2012, 08:04:43 am

Quote from: eros on May 20, 2012, 06:53:18 pm

Robin Gibb (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/robin-gibb-bee-gees-co-founder-dead-at-62-20120520)

Sheesh. These are dangerous times for musicians.

The Mayans were actually talking about legends of the Disco-era

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on May 30, 2012, 09:41:00 am

Doc Watson

any recommendations for best compilation on spotify? I'm listening to "the best of" from 2012 this morning.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 03, 2012, 11:24:29 am

Richard Dawson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 03, 2012, 01:48:40 pm

Quote from: Shemp on June 03, 2012, 11:24:29 am

Richard Dawson

Wiki: "Upon retiring, Dawson took up residence in Beverly Hills, California with his wife since 1991, the former Gretchen Johnson, whom he met when she was a member of one of the contestant families on Family Feud in 1981. They had a daughter named Shannon Nicole Dawson. He did not kiss the female contestants in his second run on Family Feud due to a commitment he made to his wife and daughter."

So not just saying hello.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 04, 2012, 11:04:43 am

RIP Eduard Khil, 1934-2012 http://trololololololololololo.com/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on June 06, 2012, 10:23:15 am

Ray Bradbury.

http://io9.com/5916175/rip-ray-bradbury-author-of-fahrenheit-451-and-the-martian-chronicles

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 07, 2012, 07:45:46 pm

Bob Welch (http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/07/showbiz/bob-welch-dead/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on June 11, 2012, 10:15:41 am

"Sam Drucker"

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=735258

Hooterville will never be the same!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: distance on June 17, 2012, 12:55:06 pm

rodney king?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 17, 2012, 03:26:02 pm

Quote from: distance on June 17, 2012, 12:55:06 pm

rodney king?

yup: http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/17/us/obit-rodney-king/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lagas on June 26, 2012, 06:10:54 pm

Nora Ephron?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 26, 2012, 06:14:52 pm

Quote from: lagas on June 26, 2012, 06:10:54 pm

Nora Ephron?

Very strange, right? They're definitely friends...

http://www.wowowow.com/liz-smith/liz-smith-on-nora-ephron/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 26, 2012, 07:12:52 pm

nope

http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/26/12423870-nora-ephron-reportedly-gravely-ill?lite

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lagas on June 26, 2012, 09:02:43 pm

yeap

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/nora-ephron-prolific-author-and-screenwriter-dies-at-age-71/2012/06/26/gJQAMOtN5V_story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 26, 2012, 09:31:39 pm

damn

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on July 03, 2012, 10:18:20 am

Andy Griffith

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on July 03, 2012, 10:39:36 am

Sad. . . he was awesome in Waitress. . .
Plus looooooooooved me some Matlock time with my grandma.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on July 03, 2012, 01:11:51 pm

At least we can take comfort that Eddie Griffin is still alive to wreck another Ferrari.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 03, 2012, 07:06:28 pm

Quote from: evilizac on July 03, 2012, 10:39:36 am

Sad. . . he was awesome in Waitress. . .
Plus looooooooooved me some Matlock time with my grandma.

sorry . . . i must say it . . . fuck matlock. fuck that show all to hell.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 03, 2012, 08:00:34 pm

Quote from: walkonby on July 03, 2012, 07:06:28 pm

Quote from: evilizac on July 03, 2012, 10:39:36 am
Sad. . . he was awesome in Waitress. . .
Plus looooooooooved me some Matlock time with my grandma.

sorry . . . i must say it . . . fuck matlock. fuck that show all to hell.

just cause he ate at chik fil a on that season 5 episode??

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on July 05, 2012, 10:03:08 am

Quote from: walkonby on July 03, 2012, 07:06:28 pm

Quote from: evilizac on July 03, 2012, 10:39:36 am
Sad. . . he was awesome in Waitress. . .
Plus looooooooooved me some Matlock time with my grandma.

sorry . . . i must say it . . . fuck matlock. fuck that show all to hell.

Well. . . He was certainly no Perry Mason.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on July 05, 2012, 04:10:57 pm

Eric Sykes

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on July 08, 2012, 07:07:29 pm

Ernest Borgnine

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on July 09, 2012, 07:42:35 am

RIP Sonar/TalkingHead in Baltimore

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on July 09, 2012, 09:00:49 am

read the tweets last night...what are they doing with the Talking Head?

Quote from: Got Haggis? on July 09, 2012, 07:42:35 am

RIP Sonar/TalkingHead in Baltimore

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on July 09, 2012, 09:23:55 am

ohh looks like all of Sonar, not just Talking Head

Quote from: Vas Deferens on July 09, 2012, 09:00:49 am

read the tweets last night...what are they doing with the Talking Head?

Quote from: Got Haggis? on July 09, 2012, 07:42:35 am
RIP Sonar/TalkingHead in Baltimore

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 09, 2012, 11:00:57 am

"Uncle" Lionel Batiste

a sad day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on July 09, 2012, 11:26:16 am

Quote from: Vas Deferens on July 09, 2012, 09:23:55 am

ohh looks like all of Sonar, not just Talking Head

Quote from: Vas Deferens on July 09, 2012, 09:00:49 am
read the tweets last night...what are they doing with the Talking Head?

Quote from: Got Haggis? on July 09, 2012, 07:42:35 am
RIP Sonar/TalkingHead in Baltimore

yep, first i heard of it...didn't realize there was a final shindig. Pretty sure this time its for good....since I think the owner is up for federal drug trafficking charges or something

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 10, 2012, 12:56:21 pm

sonar was a front for a pot-smuggling ring?

Feds Name-Drop Baltimore?s Sonar Nightclub in New Pot-Conspiracy Indictment
http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/2012/05/feds-name-drop-baltimores-sonar-nightclub-in-new-pot-conspiracy-indictment/

"They also are accused of laundering money together by wiring pot-dealing proceeds to ?purchase sound equipment for Sonar? in July 2007." - sweet!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on July 10, 2012, 07:50:33 pm

Someone call David Simon . . .sounds like a storyline for a new Wire season!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on July 16, 2012, 02:23:32 pm

DEEP PURPLE's Jon Lord

Great organ/keyboard sounds from that guy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/entertainment-arts-18864409

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 16, 2012, 04:59:09 pm

Kitty Wells (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/arts/music/kitty-wells-country-singer-dies-at-92.html)

Bob Babbitt (http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120716/ENT09/207160405/1361/Motown-bassist-and-Funk-Brother-Bob-Babbitt-dies-at-74)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Here's the thing on July 16, 2012, 05:38:34 pm

Stephen Covey
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/16/us/obit-stephen-covey/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 16, 2012, 06:43:18 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on July 16, 2012, 04:59:09 pm

Kitty Wells (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/17/arts/music/kitty-wells-country-singer-dies-at-92.html)

Bob Babbitt (http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120716/ENT09/207160405/1361/Motown-bassist-and-Funk-Brother-Bob-Babbitt-dies-at-74)

The number of truly great tracks Bob Babbitt played bass is staggering..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 16, 2012, 08:30:33 pm

Bob Babbitt Bass Player/Funk Brother - Scorpio, Ball of Confusion, Cool Jerk, Open the Door to Your Heart, etc- RIP

http://open.spotify.com/user/djwren/playlist/7x3Bw9NXP6r6kJxlvNB94W

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on July 17, 2012, 01:36:25 pm

William Raspberry

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 18, 2012, 12:02:11 am

this year has sucked royale... to have both dunn and babbit die within a few weeks of each other...wtf

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 19, 2012, 08:24:34 pm

Tom Davis, ?SNL? writer and comedy partner of Al Franken, dies at 59 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tom-davis-snl-writer-and-comedy-partner-of-al-franken-dies-at-59/2012/07/19/gJQAf5fXwW_story.html?hpid=z3)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 22, 2012, 01:30:38 pm

Alexander Cockburn (http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/21/farewell-alex-my-friend/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 24, 2012, 12:31:53 am

Ride, Sally Ride
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/science/space/sally-ride-trailblazing-astronaut-dies-at-61.html?src=me&ref=general

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on July 24, 2012, 01:45:29 am

Quote from: sweetcell on July 24, 2012, 12:31:53 am

Ride, Sally Ride
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/science/space/sally-ride-trailblazing-astronaut-dies-at-61.html?src=me&ref=general

A pioneer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on July 24, 2012, 03:05:17 pm

Capital Q BBQ in Chinatown. I literally was on my way there for lunch today and found all the windows papered over. Bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on July 24, 2012, 03:21:10 pm

I met Sally Ride. That makes me really sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 24, 2012, 04:42:30 pm

Sherman Hemsley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 24, 2012, 05:28:04 pm

Quote from: grateful on July 24, 2012, 04:42:30 pm

Sherman Hemsley

Moving up to a deluxe apartment in the sky. #couldntresist

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 25, 2012, 04:51:03 pm

Chad Everett (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-chad-everett-dead-medical-center-20120724,0,4308588.story)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 25, 2012, 06:22:53 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on July 24, 2012, 01:45:29 am

Quote from: sweetcell on July 24, 2012, 12:31:53 am
Ride, Sally Ride
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/science/space/sally-ride-trailblazing-astronaut-dies-at-61.html?src=me&ref=general

A pioneer.

Do you think her partner should get the benefits that a widow or widower would get?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/23/1113014/-DOMA-Sally-Ride-s-Partner-of-27-Years-Denied-Federal-Benefits-Is-Romney-Smiling

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 25, 2012, 06:28:37 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on July 24, 2012, 03:05:17 pm

Capital Q BBQ in Chinatown. I literally was on my way there for lunch today and found all the windows papered over. Bummer.

Have you seen any of the many pieces written in the last few weeks about restaurants closing at a crazy rapid rate in the city? Pretty amazing and depressing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: showlistdc on July 26, 2012, 10:41:04 am

RIP Baltimore's Starscape festival
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/after-14-years-officials-pull-plug-on-baltimores-starscape-festival/2012/07/25/gJQAfd3t8W_story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 26, 2012, 11:34:49 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on July 25, 2012, 06:28:37 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on July 24, 2012, 03:05:17 pm
Capital Q BBQ in Chinatown. I literally was on my way there for lunch today and found all the windows papered over. Bummer.

Have you seen any of the many pieces written in the last few weeks about restaurants closing at a crazy rapid rate in the city? Pretty amazing and depressing.

Maybe because for everyone that's closing there are three more opening? Cap Q was gross anyway.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: saco on July 26, 2012, 12:02:13 pm

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/orleans-co-founder-larry-hoppen-dead-at-61-20120726

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on July 31, 2012, 01:22:40 pm

Bill Doss

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 31, 2012, 03:23:25 pm

He was way young. 43 I believe. Talk about shocking.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on August 01, 2012, 12:07:56 am

Gore Vidal.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 06, 2012, 11:00:28 pm

bummer about Bill from Olivia Tremor Control... just found out

Gore Vidal was the last of a generation.. we won't see his kind again. I'm going to peruse (its like 1000 pages) his Essays book I have in the basement.. maybe I'll listen to the first OTC album while I do so for maximum observance.

Tonight though I'm a Sikh American and I'm sportin' a turban and my name is Hutch Singh.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 07, 2012, 09:23:01 am

Marvin Hamlisch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on August 07, 2012, 09:32:00 am

Tonight I'm a Jewish American and I'm sportin' a yamaka and my name is James Hamlisch.

Quote from: Shemp on August 07, 2012, 09:23:01 am

Marvin Hamlisch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 07, 2012, 09:48:38 am

Quote from: James Ford on August 07, 2012, 09:32:00 am

Tonight I'm a Jewish American and I'm sportin' a yamaka and my name is James Hamlisch.

Quote from: Shemp on August 07, 2012, 09:23:01 am
Marvin Hamlisch

What is a "yamaka"?

Oh did he get gunned down in his place of worship in a mass murder killing spree by a white supremacist?

Dang, I had no idea when I saw him at the Kennedy Center that he'd come to such an end.

Rest in Peace Marvin.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on August 07, 2012, 11:20:05 am

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Yamaka

I was referring to the second definition, at least that's my hope for tonight.

Maybe you need to take one of these:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chill%20pill

Parenthood got ya stressed?

Quote from: hutch on August 07, 2012, 09:48:38 am

Quote from: James Ford on August 07, 2012, 09:32:00 am

Tonight I'm a Jewish American and I'm sportin' a yamaka and my name is James Hamlisch.

Quote from: Shemp on August 07, 2012, 09:23:01 am
Marvin Hamlisch
What is a "yamaka"?

Oh did he get gunned down in his place of worship in a mass murder killing spree by a white supremacist?

Dang, I had no idea when I saw him at the Kennedy Center that he'd come to such an end.

Rest in Peace Marvin.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on August 07, 2012, 11:58:18 am

yamaha? (http://youtu.be/nP8oGRmi0iE)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 14, 2012, 08:35:57 am

(https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/386854_10151154791213454_1446058976_n.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 14, 2012, 01:21:05 pm

Arnold Horshack :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on August 20, 2012, 04:05:01 am

Tony Scott...and Scott McKenzie

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 20, 2012, 03:36:13 pm

(http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/phyllis-diller.jpg)

Phillis Diller (http://www.npr.org/2012/08/20/154540372/phyllis-diller-comedys-self-deprecating-pioneer)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 20, 2012, 04:09:41 pm

Rep. Akin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 20, 2012, 11:57:22 pm

Quote from: hutch on August 20, 2012, 04:09:41 pm

Rep. Akin's political career

fixed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on August 25, 2012, 03:48:37 pm

Super sad about this:

Neil Armstrong (http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/25/13478643-astronaut-neil-armstrong-first-man-to-walk-on-moon-dies-at-age-82?chromedomain=usnews)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 25, 2012, 05:08:42 pm

yeah . . . unlike "entertainers" who i know are people too . . . someone special like this person will be remembered forever. plus he was awesome.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on August 25, 2012, 06:16:27 pm

A REAL American Idol. I clearly remember watching this unfold. And unlike the nut jobs who have nothing better to do then to create their own 15 minutes, I fully believe that we did send this guy (and 11 others) to walk on the moon. The courage it took to step out of the LEM onto the surface of the moon was great. Rest well sir. You certainly earned it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 25, 2012, 08:48:56 pm

An eagle lands and the planet
Full of people raises its hands
All hail the men who will walk up in heaven today

INSPIRAL CARPETS - SATURN 5

http://youtu.be/03cy86u6Wi4

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on September 02, 2012, 01:20:22 pm

Vance Bockis of 9353. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on September 02, 2012, 03:33:07 pm

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on September 02, 2012, 01:20:22 pm

Vance Bockis of 9353. :(

very sad news

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on September 02, 2012, 11:20:10 pm

Rev. Moon, Times founder, dies at 92 (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/2/rev-sun-myung-moon-founder-times-dies-92)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 03, 2012, 11:01:49 am

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on September 02, 2012, 01:20:22 pm

Vance Bockis of 9353. :(

Sorry to hear this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on September 03, 2012, 12:50:20 pm

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on September 02, 2012, 01:20:22 pm

Vance Bockis of 9353. :(

what happened?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on September 03, 2012, 01:19:22 pm

Sad about the guy from 9353. I must have listened to their frist album a 1000 times when it first came out.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 03, 2012, 01:25:11 pm

While I hate to speculate, Vance had some serious drug problems. I used to see him panhandling outside Foggy Bottom metro. Tremendously nice guy. I'm hoping it was something other than heroin that killed him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: yohansen5b on September 03, 2012, 07:45:27 pm

Michael Clarke Duncan (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/green-mile-actor-michael-clarke-duncan-dead-at-54-following-july-13-heart-attack/2012/09/03/5ccf4806-f610-11e1-a93b-7185e3f88849_story.html) has died at age 54.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: BookerT on September 03, 2012, 08:13:30 pm

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on September 03, 2012, 12:50:20 pm

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on September 02, 2012, 01:20:22 pm
Vance Bockis of 9353. :(

what happened?

"Vance Bockis, a popular fixture in D.C.'s punk rock scene, known both for his charismatic stage presence and recovery from heroin addiction, has died following shoulder surgery. He was 50."

...

"Bockis' wife said he had previous blood clots, high blood pressure, and circulation problems attributable to his prior drug use."

http://www.wtop.com/41/3019587/Magnetic-DC-rocker-Vance-Bockis-dies

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on September 03, 2012, 09:17:21 pm

Starship guitarist Mark Abrahamian dies at 46 (http://news.yahoo.com/starship-guitarist-mark-abrahamian-dies-46-231907293.html)

*I'm on a cosmic death roll lately in this thread. Moon (Neil Armstrong), Moon and Starship.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on September 03, 2012, 09:46:31 pm

shoulder surgery

there's a lesson here somewhere

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on September 03, 2012, 09:58:17 pm

Shame about Vance.

I always remember him from the Factory, not 9353, for some reason.

Edit: that documentary is amazing. Thanks for posting the link.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 03, 2012, 10:37:28 pm

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on September 03, 2012, 09:46:31 pm

shoulder surgery

there's a lesson here somewhere

let's ask thatguy about it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 03, 2012, 10:45:35 pm

Green Mile star Michael Clarke Duncan dies at 54

Actor Michael Clarke Duncan, who rose to prominence playing a death row inmate in the acclaimed film The Green Mile, has died at the age of 54.

Duncan suffered a heart attack in July and died at a hospital in Los Angeles after failing to recover.

A former bodyguard, the 6ft 4in (1.93m) Duncan was an imposing figure who played a wide variety of screen roles.

He was nominated for an Oscar in 1999 for The Green Mile, but also played action roles and voiced animated parts.

His versatility saw him team up with Bruce Willis to save the Earth in Armageddon, play it for laughs in the Will Ferrell racing car comedy Talladega Nights, and take a succession of roles in TV sitcoms, including Two and a Half Men.

He will be remembered primarily for his role alongside Tom Hanks in the adaptation of Stephen King's novel The Green Mile.

Duncan played convicted murderer John Coffey, a man possessed of a gentle demeanour and extraordinary healing powers.

His unexpected performance won him a nomination as best supporting actor and kick-started an acting career that only began once he gave up bodyguard work in his 30s.

Following his death Duncan's fiancee, Reverend Omarosa Marigault, asked for privacy until the funeral and memorial events were announced.

(he was also in the dark knight - the convict on the ferry who takes the detonator and throws it out the window)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: yohansen5b on September 04, 2012, 08:06:52 am

Quote from: sweetcell on September 03, 2012, 10:45:35 pm

Green Mile star Michael Clarke Duncan dies at 54

...

(he was also in the dark knight - the convict on the ferry who takes the detonator and throws it out the window)

That was Tommy Lister (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001474/), who is still alive.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 04, 2012, 08:59:22 am

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on September 03, 2012, 09:46:31 pm

shoulder surgery

there's a lesson here somewhere

Don't do heroin?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on September 04, 2012, 09:36:52 am

Quote from: yohansen5b on September 04, 2012, 08:06:52 am

Quote from: sweetcell on September 03, 2012, 10:45:35 pm
Green Mile star Michael Clarke Duncan dies at 54

...

(he was also in the dark knight - the convict on the ferry who takes the detonator and throws it out the window)

That was Tommy Lister (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001474/), who is still alive.

and . . . was awesome in "friday."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on September 04, 2012, 10:47:43 am

Quote from: Shemp on September 04, 2012, 08:59:22 am

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on September 03, 2012, 09:46:31 pm
shoulder surgery

there's a lesson here somewhere

Don't do heroin?

No the lesson is don't publicly speculate on the cause of death when a person dies. Particularly on a message board likely frequented by more than a few people who knew him personally.

And also, yeah, drugs are bad for you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on September 06, 2012, 03:32:08 am

Joe South

:-(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 06, 2012, 08:50:33 am

Art Modell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 14, 2012, 05:52:23 pm

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on September 02, 2012, 01:20:22 pm

Vance Bockis of 9353. :(

DC punk rocker gets one last show (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-punk-rocker-vance-bockis-gets-one-last-show/2012/09/14/69847aca-fe7c-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html?hpid=z5)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: showlistdc on September 14, 2012, 06:04:25 pm

I talked to the Howard Theatre yesterday, and my contact there said that the Factory is trying to see if they can still do the show opening for Kix, with a guest vocalist.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 18, 2012, 01:47:48 pm

Steve Sabol

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on September 21, 2012, 12:11:55 am

Quote from: Yada on September 18, 2012, 01:47:48 pm

Steve Sabol

I had to look him up. Seems he had something to do with NFL films. Then I had to look up what NFL films is. Kind of still don't know what NFL Films is.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 21, 2012, 08:37:52 am

Quote from: atomicfront on September 21, 2012, 12:11:55 am

Quote from: Yada on September 18, 2012, 01:47:48 pm
Steve Sabol

I had to look him up. Seems he had something to do with NFL films. Then I had to look up what NFL films is. Kind of still don't know what NFL Films is.

Kids.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 21, 2012, 08:59:19 am

Quote from: atomicfront on September 21, 2012, 12:11:55 am

Quote from: Yada on September 18, 2012, 01:47:48 pm
Steve Sabol

I had to look him up. Seems he had something to do with NFL films. Then I had to look up what NFL films is. Kind of still don't know what NFL Films is.

Sounds like you most likely raged Dungeons and Dragons in your youth.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 21, 2012, 09:13:24 am

just picked up the last NFL films super bowl dvd set..wish they would just release the entire games..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on September 21, 2012, 04:12:08 pm

Quote from: Yada on September 21, 2012, 08:59:19 am

Quote from: atomicfront on September 21, 2012, 12:11:55 am
Quote from: Yada on September 18, 2012, 01:47:48 pm
Steve Sabol

I had to look him up. Seems he had something to do with NFL films. Then I had to look up what NFL films is. Kind of still don't know what NFL Films is.

Sounds like you most likely raged Dungeons and Dragons in your youth.

No i have never played dungeons and dragons. I watched plenty of football games growing up but I still don't know what NFL films does.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 21, 2012, 04:13:41 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on September 21, 2012, 04:12:08 pm

Quote from: Yada on September 21, 2012, 08:59:19 am
Quote from: atomicfront on September 21, 2012, 12:11:55 am
Quote from: Yada on September 18, 2012, 01:47:48 pm
Steve Sabol

I had to look him up. Seems he had something to do with NFL films. Then I had to look up what NFL films is. Kind of still don't know what NFL Films is.

Sounds like you most likely raged Dungeons and Dragons in your youth.

No i have never played dungeons and dragons. I watched plenty of football games growing up but I still don't know what NFL films does.

I'm sorry but that does not compute.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on September 26, 2012, 10:22:47 am

Andy Williams (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20570219,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines)

One of the few of his ilk that I really liked. Innovative and pleasant.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Frank Gallagher on September 26, 2012, 12:32:53 pm

Quote from: Jaguar on September 26, 2012, 10:22:47 am

Andy Williams (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20570219,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines)

One of the few of his ilk that I really liked. Innovative and pleasant.

I can't get used to losing him!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 27, 2012, 01:27:14 pm

Actor Johnny Lewis (http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/27/4859672/suspect-in-killing-of-los-angeles.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#mi_rss=Latest News)

Or "Chili" from The OC as I knew him. Strange circumstances too...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 27, 2012, 01:30:30 pm

Herbert Lom

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on October 10, 2012, 11:28:25 am

Alex Karras

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 10, 2012, 11:58:06 am

Big Bird

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on October 10, 2012, 12:23:03 pm

Quote from: Shemp on October 10, 2012, 11:28:25 am

Alex Karras

Wow this guy had quite a resume. But I guess punching the horse in Blazing Saddles would be anyone highpoint

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on October 14, 2012, 02:32:01 pm

Arlen Specter

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on October 14, 2012, 07:41:30 pm

Decent Republicans are literally a dying breed.
Bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on October 18, 2012, 04:00:52 pm

Sylvia Kristel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 23, 2012, 01:14:31 am

Another sad one:

Russell Means (http://widgets.outbrain.com/nanoWidget/3rd/comScore/comScore.htm)

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_404h/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/10/22/Production/WashingtonPost/Images/Obit_Means_02026-2228.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: stevewizzle on October 23, 2012, 01:16:34 am

st louis cardinals

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 27, 2012, 04:10:45 pm

Jo Dunne, Fuzzbox guitarist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-20109648

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on October 27, 2012, 05:33:09 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 27, 2012, 04:10:45 pm

Jo Dunne, Fuzzbox guitarist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-20109648

Well, Damn. I didn't realize they got back together. I caught them at the old club in the mid-80s. What a great, silly, fun show.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 28, 2012, 06:20:17 pm

Terry Callier

http://www.clickmusic.com/news/article/jazz-and-folk-singer-songwriter-terry-callier-dies-aged-67

It was this duet with Paul Weller that introduced me to this talented artist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HlYJNh2-GU

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on October 28, 2012, 08:26:34 pm

He also did some nice stuff with Beth Orton.

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on October 28, 2012, 06:20:17 pm

Terry Callier

http://www.clickmusic.com/news/article/jazz-and-folk-singer-songwriter-terry-callier-dies-aged-67

It was this duet with Paul Weller that introduced me to this talented artist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HlYJNh2-GU

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 28, 2012, 08:46:59 pm

Quote from: James Ford on October 28, 2012, 08:26:34 pm

He also did some nice stuff with Beth Orton.

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on October 28, 2012, 06:20:17 pm
Terry Callier

http://www.clickmusic.com/news/article/jazz-and-folk-singer-songwriter-terry-callier-dies-aged-67

It was this duet with Paul Weller that introduced me to this talented artist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HlYJNh2-GU

Yeah i need to get a hold of that EP, his last album was also produced by Massive Attack.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on October 31, 2012, 08:44:24 pm

My mother. :'(

This has been one hell of a week!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: serpent boy on October 31, 2012, 08:47:02 pm

Ahh man. That's horrible. Condolences! Stay strong. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on October 31, 2012, 09:37:36 pm

sorry to hear that Jagy, my thoughts and prayers are with you

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 31, 2012, 09:48:58 pm

sorry to read that Jaguar...cant imagine what that must feel like...my condolences.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on November 01, 2012, 09:08:11 am

:( How awful. My condolences.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on November 01, 2012, 09:17:07 am

sorry about your loss, my forum sister.

(http://www.wallcoo.net/animal/Love_of_Animal/images/hugging_kitten.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on November 01, 2012, 09:46:43 am

So sorry, Jag. :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on November 01, 2012, 10:21:33 am

Life is just too fucking short. That all I have to say.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 01, 2012, 11:50:37 am

Sorry to hear about your Mother Jaguar. Condolences and sending good thoughts your way.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on November 01, 2012, 05:22:59 pm

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on October 27, 2012, 05:33:09 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 27, 2012, 04:10:45 pm
Jo Dunne, Fuzzbox guitarist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-20109648

Well, Damn. I didn't realize they got back together. I caught them at the old club in the mid-80s. What a great, silly, fun show.

I had tickets to a show at the old 930 club back in the day but ended up not being able to make it. Now I will never see them. Reallly sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on November 02, 2012, 03:35:10 am

Mitch Lucker, Sucide Silence singer. I wasn't a fan of their music but they were getting pretty big. I think he had a wife and kid too.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/suicide-silence-singer-lucker-dies-california-motorcycle-accident-015544056.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: showlistdc on November 02, 2012, 04:02:29 pm

Quote from: Unsanity on November 02, 2012, 03:35:10 am

Mitch Lucker, Sucide Silence singer. I wasn't a fan of their music but they were getting pretty big. I think he had a wife and kid too.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/suicide-silence-singer-lucker-dies-california-motorcycle-accident-015544056.html

He was riding drunk, without a proper helmet. This article gives more info:
http://www.metalinjection.net/editorials/could-suicide-silence-frontman-mitch-luckers-death-been-avoided

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on November 02, 2012, 04:42:24 pm

Oy. As a motorcyclist I hate hearing about anyone getting killed on one. But yeah, sounds like this guy was begging for it. Doesn't make it any less sad that little girl has no dad now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on November 24, 2012, 05:53:41 am

Larry Hagman (http://tv.yahoo.com/news/larry-hagman-dead-81-portrayed-notorious-tv-villain-044041015.html)

PS: Thank you to those who very kindly gave me condolences about my mother. Much appreciated.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on November 24, 2012, 12:11:29 pm

Hector Macho Camacho
http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/8667942/hector-macho-camacho-removed-life-support-dies-50

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 24, 2012, 02:46:03 pm

Quote from: wml7 on November 24, 2012, 12:11:29 pm

Hector Macho Camacho
http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/8667942/hector-macho-camacho-removed-life-support-dies-50

:'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on November 25, 2012, 12:09:20 pm

Grandpa Edd.....long time 930 regular and scene fixture since before the original club even opened. RIP buddy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on November 25, 2012, 04:34:14 pm

Quote from: wml7 on November 24, 2012, 12:11:29 pm

Hector Macho Camacho
http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/8667942/hector-macho-camacho-removed-life-support-dies-50

The Camacho vs. boom boom mancini bout was the last boxing match I ever watched. Boom Boom obviously beat Hector but the judges gave it to Hector. The crowd booed the decision of course. But I realized boxing was obviously fixed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on November 26, 2012, 10:09:45 am

Is there an obit for Grandpa Edd? What happened to him? Poor guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on November 28, 2012, 12:29:23 pm

Quote from: bearman on November 26, 2012, 10:09:45 am

Is there an obit for Grandpa Edd? What happened to him? Poor guy.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=EDWIN-JACOBS&pid=161287784#fbLoggedOut

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on December 05, 2012, 01:10:18 pm

Take 5, Dave Brubeck

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 05, 2012, 01:12:17 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on December 05, 2012, 01:10:18 pm

Take 5, Dave Brubeck

oh no

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on December 12, 2012, 12:58:01 am

Ravi Shankar @ 92

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on December 12, 2012, 10:18:50 am

:'(

i loved that man, and i love his daughter (anoushka, not nora). i was blessed to see them live. i am blessed that he leaves behind a life filled with incredible music.

thank you, ravi!!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 17, 2012, 07:06:09 pm

Senator Daniel Inouye (D - Hawaii)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on December 18, 2012, 10:43:11 am

his son Kenny used to work at the old 930

Kenny & I were in a band together...Skatley Crue

Kenny introduced me to his Dad at a Rolling Stones RFK concert...his dad asked me "Why aren't you doing this concert?"...I responded with "Why aren't you president?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 19, 2012, 11:05:36 am

Robert Bork

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on December 21, 2012, 04:55:04 am

Jet Set

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 21, 2012, 07:52:14 am

His legacy will consist of him being mentioned whenever a Supreme Court nominee gets rejected.
And thank fucking God.

Quote from: Shemp on December 19, 2012, 11:05:36 am

Robert Bork

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on December 21, 2012, 10:39:52 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on December 21, 2012, 07:52:14 am

His legacy will consist of him being mentioned whenever a Supreme Court nominee gets rejected.
And thank fucking God.

Quote from: Shemp on December 19, 2012, 11:05:36 am
Robert Bork

this is what ted kennedy said about him (too bad he isn't around to give bork's eulogy):

??Robert Bork?s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens? doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the government and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens,? Kennedy said.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 21, 2012, 01:33:06 pm

Larry L. King

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on December 22, 2012, 06:02:57 am

Lee Dorman, the bass player of Iron Butterfly. R.I.P.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on December 24, 2012, 09:34:01 am

MARVA WHITNEY

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on December 24, 2012, 09:36:19 am

http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2012/12/24/16116271-ministry-guitarist-mike-scaccia-dies-after-onstage-collapse?lite

noooooo!!! . . . . how very sad. god i loved him and this band. how odd too . . . that last night i actually couldn't get scarecrow out of head as i couldn't sleep and told myself it would be nice to listen to it this morning while i did some cleaning. weird!

i'll listen just for you!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on December 24, 2012, 11:13:48 am

Wow, that sucks about Mike.

I listened to Ministry in the car a couple of days ago. The Land of Rape and Honey holds up pretty well, I think. Though that 1st live album is even better.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on December 24, 2012, 12:56:24 pm

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on December 18, 2012, 10:43:11 am

his son Kenny used to work at the old 930

Kenny & I were in a band together...Skatley Crue

Kenny introduced me to his Dad at a Rolling Stones RFK concert...his dad asked me "Why aren't you doing this concert?"...I responded with "Why aren't you president?"

His son was in Marginal Ma as well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 24, 2012, 09:04:40 pm

Jack Klugman :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on December 25, 2012, 08:30:33 am

Charles Durning - always enjoyed his performances at the Memorial Day concerts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Sieve-Fisted on December 27, 2012, 10:28:51 am

SPIN Magazine. I heard it was coming, but I received the letter in the mail yesterday: "Please be advised that SPIN Magazine ceased publication after the September/October 2012 issue."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JohnQ on December 27, 2012, 11:32:49 am

Ray Collins, Mother of Invention: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/arts/music/ray-collins-of-the-mothers-of-invention-dies.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 27, 2012, 12:50:37 pm

Fontella Bass

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 27, 2012, 05:58:48 pm

Am I missing something here? Or do I just need to do a little post cleaning to get this thread back....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 27, 2012, 08:30:50 pm

I meant in this thread specifically, am aware of the behavior of a certain member and am hoping it plays itself out soon. Otherwise thatguy and I will huddle at some point. Think it's best i just prune a couple off topic comments out of this thread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on December 27, 2012, 10:05:01 pm

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/27/16197379-desert-storm-commander-norman-schwarzkopf-dies-at-78?lite

though i didn't approve of the war . . . i approve of the man. he was a great military mind. and god, i hate cancer. can we find a way to someday cure it, please!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 27, 2012, 11:16:38 pm

Not looking too great for his boss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 02, 2013, 06:41:41 pm

Patti Page

popularized both You Belong to Me and Conquest...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on January 13, 2013, 01:38:37 am

The Hogettes hang up their snouts:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8835791/washington-redskins-fans-hogettes-retiring-30-years

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 14, 2013, 08:45:24 pm

The death of Aaron Swartz hit me hard this weekend.

I didn't always agree with his tactics, but I did think he was the next Lawrence Lessig as philosopher and great thinker of what the web should be.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/01/remembering-aaron-swartz?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/aaronswartz

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on January 14, 2013, 09:31:18 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 14, 2013, 08:45:24 pm

The death of Aaron Swartz hit me hard this weekend.

I didn't always agree with his tactics, but I did think he was the next Lawrence Lessig as philosopher and great thinker of what the web should be.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/01/remembering-aaron-swartz?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/aaronswartz

This is a really sad one and much, much bigger than most would understand. A serious loss to humanity as well as technology.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on January 15, 2013, 02:44:37 am

Sad to see this very talented young man pass (I wish I had 1% of his talent), but as the saying goes if you can't do the time...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 15, 2013, 11:03:49 am

Quote from: RatBastard on January 15, 2013, 02:44:37 am

Sad to see this very talented young man pass (I wish I had 1% of his talent), but as the saying goes if you can't do the time...

does your judging him count as "too soon" and "being disrespectful to the dead"? or because gun control isn't the judgement being passed, it's ok to get going on this?

just checking.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 15, 2013, 12:14:18 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on January 15, 2013, 02:44:37 am

Sad to see this very talented young man pass (I wish I had 1% of his talent), but as the saying goes if you can't do the time...

It was his assertion that what he was doing was not a crime, therefore that cute little saying is bogus.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 15, 2013, 01:46:38 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on January 15, 2013, 02:44:37 am

Sad to see this very talented young man pass (I wish I had 1% of his talent), but as the saying goes if you can't do the time...

Hard to get me to resort to petty name calling but you always find a way.

You truly are a cold piece of shit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 16, 2013, 05:56:35 pm

Dead: the tragic story behind Manti Teo's dead girlfriend.

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax (http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on January 17, 2013, 06:35:23 am

Quote from: Relaxer on January 16, 2013, 05:56:35 pm

Dead: the tragic story behind Manti Teo's dead girlfriend.

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax (http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax)

Wow so now if a tragedy isn't there to take advantage of we just make them up...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 17, 2013, 10:01:13 am

Quote from: RatBastard on January 17, 2013, 06:35:23 am

Quote from: Relaxer on January 16, 2013, 05:56:35 pm
Dead: the tragic story behind Manti Teo's dead girlfriend.

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax (http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax)

Wow so now if a tragedy isn't there to take advantage of we just make them up...

But who is 'we'?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 17, 2013, 10:14:56 am

Society

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 17, 2013, 10:27:59 am

I dunno. It was a hoax that went too far. The fake death aspect was picked up by the media (Sports Illustrated, espn) and gas was thrown on the fire. Now whether Te'o was involved and used it as motivation remains to be seen.
Still waiting on the facts.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on January 17, 2013, 10:30:37 am

i just heard all about this in the press, but was too lazy to read past the headlines. how awful of me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on January 17, 2013, 10:33:53 am

Quote from: Shemp on January 17, 2013, 10:01:13 am

Quote from: RatBastard on January 17, 2013, 06:35:23 am
Quote from: Relaxer on January 16, 2013, 05:56:35 pm
Dead: the tragic story behind Manti Teo's dead girlfriend.

http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax (http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax)

Wow so now if a tragedy isn't there to take advantage of we just make them up...

But who is 'we'?

According to what I have read the football player was the primary part of 'we' in this case, but in general the 'we' is people who have no legitimate point or support for their agenda and need non-relevant outside events to push the snake oil they are selling, quite often to the masses who follow along so obediently.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 17, 2013, 10:51:34 am

Quote from: walkonby on January 17, 2013, 10:30:37 am

i just heard all about this in the press, but was too lazy to read past the headlines. how awful of me.

One theory is he created a fake girlfriend to hide his homosexuality.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on January 17, 2013, 11:27:40 am

ok . . . i'm in.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bellenseb on January 17, 2013, 11:34:07 am

Conrad Bain ("Mr. Drummond")

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on January 17, 2013, 11:51:13 am

Quote from: walkonby on January 17, 2013, 11:27:40 am

ok . . . i'm in.

LMAO

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on January 17, 2013, 12:21:54 pm

Quote from: Shemp on January 17, 2013, 10:27:59 am

I dunno. It was a hoax that went too far. The fake death aspect was picked up by the media (Sports Illustrated, espn) and gas was thrown on the fire. Now whether Te'o was involved and used it as motivation remains to be seen.
Still waiting on the facts.....

just reading this why would have anyone fallen for the hoax. If you have a real girlfriend you don't skip her funeral to play a college football game. And if he wasn't involved in the hoax why would he have said he had a girlfriend if the person tweeting him was a dude. I am sure he never met "her" and was tricked. the whole thing is pathetic. and why anyone was thinking this was a great story when it was real has serious issues. College football is not important. You relationships with people in your life were important.

A real good story would have been if he quit football to take care of his girlfriend. Not playing footbally and ignoring a dying girlfriend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on January 17, 2013, 12:38:31 pm

this story is just incomprehensible...read this from october. my mind is blown.

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/manti-teo-notre-dame-comforts-parents-of-dying-girl-with-letter-grief-cancer-102512

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on January 17, 2013, 03:32:35 pm

Quote from: chaz on January 17, 2013, 12:38:31 pm

this story is just incomprehensible...read this from october. my mind is blown.

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/manti-teo-notre-dame-comforts-parents-of-dying-girl-with-letter-grief-cancer-102512

I never heard of the guy before today but what is incomprehensible to me is that someone couldn't read about this story and know he is full of shit. No one would skip their girlfriends funeral to play a football game. And for someone who did such a thing people should not celebrate him. What the heck is wrong with people who watch college football. They support rapists, child molestors etc. just so they can win a game. They actually think it is heroic that a guy skipped a funeral so he could play a stupid game.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on January 17, 2013, 03:36:31 pm

Dear Abby (http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/dear-abbys-pauline-phillips-dies-94-185625189--abc-news-celebrities.html)
Dear Abby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qbOfnbeH84)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 17, 2013, 04:00:37 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on January 17, 2013, 03:32:35 pm

Quote from: chaz on January 17, 2013, 12:38:31 pm
this story is just incomprehensible...read this from october. my mind is blown.

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/manti-teo-notre-dame-comforts-parents-of-dying-girl-with-letter-grief-cancer-102512

I never heard of the guy before today but what is incomprehensible to me is that someone couldn't read about this story and know he is full of shit. No one would skip their girlfriends funeral to play a football game. And for someone who did such a thing people should not celebrate him. What the heck is wrong with people who watch college football. They support rapists, child molestors etc. just so they can win a game. They actually think it is heroic that a guy skipped a funeral so he could play a stupid game.

trolls gonna troll

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on January 17, 2013, 04:15:20 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on January 17, 2013, 03:32:35 pm

Quote from: chaz on January 17, 2013, 12:38:31 pm
this story is just incomprehensible...read this from october. my mind is blown.

http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/manti-teo-notre-dame-comforts-parents-of-dying-girl-with-letter-grief-cancer-102512

I never heard of the guy before today but what is incomprehensible to me is that someone couldn't read about this story and know he is full of shit. No one would skip their girlfriends funeral to play a football game. And for someone who did such a thing people should not celebrate him. What the heck is wrong with people who watch college football. They support rapists, child molestors etc. just so they can win a game. They actually think it is heroic that a guy skipped a funeral so he could play a stupid game.

Are you waging an imaginary war against an invisible enemy? Chill out. We're all here to support you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 17, 2013, 05:42:39 pm

Before you make another wise crack, remember this: a girl who never existed is dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 17, 2013, 05:44:53 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 17, 2013, 05:42:39 pm

Before you make another wise crack, remember this: a girl who never existed is dead.

this

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 17, 2013, 05:47:16 pm

Honestly, I think Manti faked her death to protect her from Brent Musburger.

There's really only one move left:

Go on Oprah, come clean, and come out. After the draft of course.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on January 17, 2013, 08:20:29 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 17, 2013, 05:47:16 pm

Honestly, I think Manti faked her death to protect her from Brent Musburger.

There's really only one move left:

Go on Oprah, come clean, and come out. After the draft of course.

I thought Oprah's show was canceled. I have never seen an episode though.

I am surprised this story is getting so much attention as I have never heard of this guy or his make believe girlfriend. I guess the real story is how sloppy journalists are these days. No one even checked out any of his story and just wrote articles about him in major magazines.

As for Armstrong I don't know what he can say. His lawsuit against the British paper is pretty deplorable. He should be doing jail time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on January 17, 2013, 09:18:06 pm

Dear Abbey

I wonder if Dan Savage will buy her desk too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 17, 2013, 09:38:03 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 17, 2013, 05:42:39 pm

Before you make another wise crack, remember this: a girl who never existed is dead.

Plagiarist! Stolen from a Seth Meyers tweet!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 17, 2013, 09:43:21 pm

there is no plagiary on the internet
now get off the internet, your grandma needs to use the phone

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 17, 2013, 10:05:54 pm

Now THERE'S a girl who existed and is, in fact, dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 17, 2013, 11:12:31 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on January 17, 2013, 08:20:29 pm

I am surprised this story is getting so much attention as I have never heard of this guy

Me too, seeing as how you are the sole bell weather for all things that get reported on.

Quote from: atomicfront on January 17, 2013, 08:20:29 pm

I guess the real story is how sloppy journalists are these days. No one even checked out any of his story and just wrote articles about him in major magazines.

A large part of the reporting on this is definitely reporters who are angered that they were duped.

It is funny to me now to see all of the reporters tear apart Manti's story with all the facts that show why she obviously doesn't exist when none of them questioned the facts as they were reporting them, my favorite being that she had luekemia, died and he never went to her bed side or her funeral. They all knew that then, but all they chose to report on was his courageous performance in the game.

I really hope this is just a bad decision by a 21 year old that got out of hand and became lie on top of lie, and I compel any journalist who casts a stone in his direction to take a long hard look in the mirror and ask themselves, what could I have done differently?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 17, 2013, 11:12:44 pm

I shoulda read the rest of the thread....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 17, 2013, 11:16:12 pm

Quote from: Shemp on January 17, 2013, 09:38:03 pm

Plagiarist! Stolen from a Seth Meyers tweet!

I did not expect that I was the only person on this board that followed Seth Myers on twitter, and have seen that joke plastered everywhere in critical takes on the coverage.

The Oprah "suggestion" on the other hand was all Smackie. I don't call it a joke because its not yet out of the realm of possibility.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on January 18, 2013, 03:35:15 pm

RIP Prop Joe from The Wire

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RustyOrgan on January 18, 2013, 06:11:20 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on January 18, 2013, 03:35:15 pm

RIP Prop Joe from The Wire

Rest In Peace

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on January 19, 2013, 10:20:26 am

RIP Earl Weaver :( :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWQbN0jFo_k

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on January 19, 2013, 10:20:39 am

Quote from: Got Haggis? on January 19, 2013, 10:20:26 am

RIP Earl Weaver :( :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWQbN0jFo_k

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on January 19, 2013, 09:56:31 pm

Stan the Man. Tough day for baseball.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on January 24, 2013, 05:20:12 am

R.I.P. The Mars Volta? Cedric Bixler posted a ton of tweets like this one:

?Thank u 2 all VOLTA fans u deserved more especially after the way u rooted for us on this album. I tried my hardest to keep it going But Bosnian Rainbows was what we all got instead. I can?t sit here and pretend any more. I no longer am a member of Mars Volta. I honestly thank all of you for buying our records and coming to our shows. You guys were a blast to play in front of We could never had done it with out you. My dream was to get us to the point were Jon Theodore and Ikey Owens came back but sadly it?s over?

I know they were a very polarizing band. But I came of age to these guys and their one and only Washington DC show at 9:30 Club in 2003 was one of my favorite concerts ever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on January 24, 2013, 08:53:12 am

first three albums plus the live one . . . awesome. moving. the voice of another world.

latest music . . . not very good. saw this coming.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on January 24, 2013, 10:38:02 am

Mars Volta are god awful. I am glad they are dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on January 24, 2013, 11:37:01 am

Quote from: atomicfront on January 24, 2013, 10:38:02 am

Mars Volta are god awful. I am glad they are dead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9XHwmAojLw

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 24, 2013, 11:52:20 am

good studio band, painful live act.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on January 24, 2013, 12:53:29 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 24, 2013, 11:52:20 am

good studio band, painful live act.

Actually I thought the exact opposite. I did not care for their CDs but really enjoyed the one time I saw them live.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on January 24, 2013, 12:56:51 pm

you like the mars volta? i knew i liked you for good reasons.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on January 24, 2013, 02:30:18 pm

Had no idea what I was getting into when I first saw them and I thought they were great. This was right around the time when Francis the Mute came out.

Second time I saw them (at RML) they were just a wall of sound. Nowhere near as enjoyable as that first show.

First two albums and the live ep are all I ever go back to at this point and even then a lot of stuff gets skipped.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on January 25, 2013, 04:51:09 pm

The Devil's Blood 2007-2013

I'm sure not a whole lot of folks on here have heard of them but they were pretty cool and were growing in notoriety. Very sudden break up, as they still had concerts scheduled.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 01, 2013, 08:23:49 am

Ed Koch.

I once saw him in tears leaving the movie The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover with his boyfriend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 04, 2013, 06:42:43 pm

Reg Presley of The Troggs.

Glad that I got to see them many years ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on February 07, 2013, 06:39:52 pm

Jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd - one of my favorite musicians (composer and music educator, too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KvM2T40RQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KvM2T40RQ)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 07, 2013, 06:44:01 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on February 07, 2013, 06:39:52 pm

Jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd - one of my favorite musicians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KvM2T40RQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KvM2T40RQ)

yah..I just heard too... a big bummer... although I don't know I was entirely cognizant of the fact he was still alive..

Horace Silver is still alive although may not be fully there.. who else? Butch Warren in DC (was an unheralded sideman on a lot of legendary dates including Dexter Gordon's GO)....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on February 08, 2013, 11:02:30 am

Quote from: dyecraig on February 07, 2013, 06:39:52 pm

Jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd - one of my favorite musicians (composer and music educator, too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KvM2T40RQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KvM2T40RQ)

Gotta have 'Rock Creek Park' in the mix.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkXh4kRTBVk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkXh4kRTBVk)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 14, 2013, 09:35:09 am

Oscar Pistolrius' girlfriend, and his fake running career.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 14, 2013, 12:04:50 pm

I thought Pistorius' life needed to be made into a movie...now this? unreal story..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on February 14, 2013, 03:55:14 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 14, 2013, 12:04:50 pm

I thought Pistorius' life needed to be made into a movie...now this? unreal story..

movie should be more interesting now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 14, 2013, 04:39:18 pm

Yeah, but what actor is purposely going to get his legs amputated to play the role?

And if he does, tell me that guy aint a lock for an Oscar.

Quote from: hutch on February 14, 2013, 12:04:50 pm

I thought Pistorius' life needed to be made into a movie...now this? unreal story..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on February 14, 2013, 04:47:07 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on February 14, 2013, 03:55:14 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 14, 2013, 12:04:50 pm
I thought Pistorius' life needed to be made into a movie...now this? unreal story..

movie should be more interesting now.

Already made, plus its South African to boot

(http://www.film-blogbuster.de/images//district9.png)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 14, 2013, 04:52:27 pm

I thought his running against two legged guys was a little bogus anyway. I mean, they won't let Lance Armstrong shoot a little dope to help him bike, but they will let this guy have scissor legs as long as he wants to have them? What is the world coming to?

Kind of like wheelchair racers in a marathon. You get to do a marathon sitting down? Hardly seems right. Everytime one comes close to mowing me over on a downhill I want to start popping tires.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 14, 2013, 05:43:12 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 14, 2013, 04:39:18 pm

Yeah, but what actor is purposely going to get his legs amputated to play the role?

CGI, no amputation needed. remember Forrest Gump?

"The CGI removal of actor Gary Sinise's legs, after his character had them amputated, was achieved by wrapping his legs with a blue fabric, which later facilitated the work of the "roto-paint" team to paint out his legs from every single frame. At one point, while hoisting himself into his wheelchair, his legs are used for support." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump#Visual_effects

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 14, 2013, 06:00:09 pm

the guy lost his legs . . . let him kill who he wants.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 14, 2013, 06:11:00 pm

Well yeah, I suppose they could go that route. But the question is, would they want to?

Quote from: sweetcell on February 14, 2013, 05:43:12 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 14, 2013, 04:39:18 pm
Yeah, but what actor is purposely going to get his legs amputated to play the role?

CGI, no amputation needed. remember Forrest Gump?

"The CGI removal of actor Gary Sinise's legs, after his character had them amputated, was achieved by wrapping his legs with a blue fabric, which later facilitated the work of the "roto-paint" team to paint out his legs from every single frame. At one point, while hoisting himself into his wheelchair, his legs are used for support." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump#Visual_effects

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on February 14, 2013, 07:37:32 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 14, 2013, 06:00:09 pm

the guy lost his legs . . . let him kill who he wants.

Wasnt he born without legs? If so, he didn't really lose them because he never had them to begin with.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on February 14, 2013, 07:38:47 pm

Unless I'm wrong in which case I am a tragic victim because I lost my second, third and fourth dongs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 14, 2013, 08:50:33 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 14, 2013, 04:39:18 pm

Yeah, but what actor is purposely going to get his legs amputated to play the role?

And if he does, tell me that guy aint a lock for an Oscar.

Quote from: hutch on February 14, 2013, 12:04:50 pm
I thought Pistorius' life needed to be made into a movie...now this? unreal story..

Gary Oldman could do it and that's without cutting off his legs. That guy is amazing! Saw him play a dwarf in some film. Full views and all. Took me 3/4s of the film to finally realize which character he was playing. Still have no idea how it was done. Good film too.

Besides, this would be a perfect film for him since he has a thing for playing crazy not your run of the mill murderers.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 14, 2013, 08:52:17 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on February 14, 2013, 07:37:32 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 14, 2013, 06:00:09 pm
the guy lost his legs . . . let him kill who he wants.

Wasnt he born without legs? If so, he didn't really lose them because he never had them to begin with.

oh really? oh . . . well, that changes that i guess. born without legs. god, is that worse? maybe i should just step away and leave this all alone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 14, 2013, 08:58:03 pm

Quote from: Jaguar on February 14, 2013, 08:50:33 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 14, 2013, 04:39:18 pm
Yeah, but what actor is purposely going to get his legs amputated to play the role?

And if he does, tell me that guy aint a lock for an Oscar.

Quote from: hutch on February 14, 2013, 12:04:50 pm
I thought Pistorius' life needed to be made into a movie...now this? unreal story..

Gary Oldman could do it and that's without cutting off his legs. That guy is amazing! Saw him play a dwarf in some film. Full views and all. Took me 3/4s of the film to finally realize which character he was playing. Still have no idea how it was done. Good film too.

Besides, this would be a perfect film for him since he has a thing for playing crazy not your run of the mill murderers.

Well but Gary's a bit long in the tooth, no?

agree about his chops...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 14, 2013, 09:01:41 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 14, 2013, 08:58:03 pm

Quote from: Jaguar on February 14, 2013, 08:50:33 pm
Quote from: James Ford on February 14, 2013, 04:39:18 pm
Yeah, but what actor is purposely going to get his legs amputated to play the role?

And if he does, tell me that guy aint a lock for an Oscar.

Quote from: hutch on February 14, 2013, 12:04:50 pm
I thought Pistorius' life needed to be made into a movie...now this? unreal story..

Gary Oldman could do it and that's without cutting off his legs. That guy is amazing! Saw him play a dwarf in some film. Full views and all. Took me 3/4s of the film to finally realize which character he was playing. Still have no idea how it was done. Good film too.

Besides, this would be a perfect film for him since he has a thing for playing crazy not your run of the mill murderers.

Well but Gary's a bit long in the tooth, no?

agree about his chops...

Yeah, maybe. I thought of that but he also has an incredible ability to completely transform himself. One actor I wouldn't put it past to be able to pull it off.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on February 14, 2013, 09:27:48 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwRDEsdYUyE

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 15, 2013, 12:32:18 am

Yeah, a chain smoking 55 year old alcoholic playing a 26 year old Olympian. Nice call, Jag! :P

And then there's this, on Gary:

In 2001, former wife Donya Fiorentino claimed that Oldman had a drug habit and abused her, a claim which was investigated by the family courts, child custody evaluator, the police, and Los Angeles city attorney.

On second though, maybe he COULD pull it off!

Quote from: Jaguar on February 14, 2013, 09:01:41 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 14, 2013, 08:58:03 pm
Quote from: Jaguar on February 14, 2013, 08:50:33 pm
Quote from: James Ford on February 14, 2013, 04:39:18 pm
Yeah, but what actor is purposely going to get his legs amputated to play the role?

And if he does, tell me that guy aint a lock for an Oscar.

Quote from: hutch on February 14, 2013, 12:04:50 pm
I thought Pistorius' life needed to be made into a movie...now this? unreal story..

Gary Oldman could do it and that's without cutting off his legs. That guy is amazing! Saw him play a dwarf in some film. Full views and all. Took me 3/4s of the film to finally realize which character he was playing. Still have no idea how it was done. Good film too.

Besides, this would be a perfect film for him since he has a thing for playing crazy not your run of the mill murderers.

Well but Gary's a bit long in the tooth, no?

agree about his chops...

Yeah, maybe. I thought of that but he also has an incredible ability to completely transform himself. One actor I wouldn't put it past to be able to pull it off.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 15, 2013, 02:04:42 am

^ We were discussing him playing a role in a fake movie, not selecting the next Pope. ::)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 15, 2013, 09:04:28 am

hi, my name is tim tebow . . . and my career is almost over. did it ever begin?

http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2013/02/14/tim-tebow-to-speak-at-virulently-anti-gay-anti-semitic-dallas-megachurch/#comments

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 15, 2013, 10:26:45 am

Quote from: Relaxer on February 14, 2013, 07:37:32 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 14, 2013, 06:00:09 pm
the guy lost his legs . . . let him kill who he wants.

Wasnt he born without legs? If so, he didn't really lose them because he never had them to begin with.

I suppose this is the distinction between "unlegged" and "delegged", no?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on February 15, 2013, 10:48:07 am

Quote from: grateful on February 15, 2013, 10:26:45 am

Quote from: Relaxer on February 14, 2013, 07:37:32 pm
Quote from: walkonby on February 14, 2013, 06:00:09 pm
the guy lost his legs . . . let him kill who he wants.

Wasnt he born without legs? If so, he didn't really lose them because he never had them to begin with.

I suppose this is the distinction between "unlegged" and "delegged", no?

i think he had them removed when he was a 1 year old. Just think if he would have won the gold medal olympic hopefuls around the world would start having their legs removed to get an advantage.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on February 15, 2013, 11:28:19 am

You're right, he lost them at age one.
Too bad he can't become a politician now. He'd have a helluva stump speech.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 15, 2013, 11:32:05 am

Quote from: Relaxer on February 15, 2013, 11:28:19 am

You're right, he lost them at age one.
Too bad he can't become a politician now. He'd have a helluva stump speech.

god

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 15, 2013, 02:39:46 pm

Quote from: Jaguar on February 14, 2013, 08:50:33 pm

Gary Oldman could do it and that's without cutting off his legs. That guy is amazing! Saw him play a dwarf in some film. Full views and all. Took me 3/4s of the film to finally realize which character he was playing. Still have no idea how it was done. Good film too.

It's called Tiptoes and it's "Gary Oldman, in the performance of a lifetime." Also starring Kate Beckinsale and Matthew McConaughey.

And it's not a good film, but it is borderline Epic on the amazing scale. There should be some evidence on here somewhere of me blindly sending out DVD copies to about a dozen friends one weekend. Hilarity ensues.

Your storyline:

Two brothers - a dwarf (Rolfe) and one normal-sized (Steve). When Steve's girlfriend Carol becomes pregnant, the pair are fearful that the baby will inherit the dwarfism gene. Matters are complicated still further when she finds herself falling in love with Rolfe.

My favorite quote of the movie: (Kate Beckinsale to Matthew McConaughy) "So you had a circle jerk with a bunch of little people? I would love to see that!"

A couple years later Tosh.0 did one of his Spoiler Alert segments on it:

edited (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1sue-7Hllg)

Uncut (http://tosh.comedycentral.com/blog/2011/02/22/tiptoes-spoiler-alert-uncut/)

Bottomline - good date movie, if you know the girl really, really well and she wouldn't be appalled by Smackie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on February 15, 2013, 04:00:11 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 15, 2013, 02:39:46 pm

Quote from: Jaguar on February 14, 2013, 08:50:33 pm
Gary Oldman could do it and that's without cutting off his legs. That guy is amazing! Saw him play a dwarf in some film. Full views and all. Took me 3/4s of the film to finally realize which character he was playing. Still have no idea how it was done. Good film too.

It's called Tiptoes and it's "Gary Oldman, in the performance of a lifetime." Also starring Kate Beckinsale and Matthew McConaughey.

And it's not a good film, but it is borderline Epic on the amazing scale. There should be some evidence on here somewhere of me blindly sending out DVD copies to about a dozen friends one weekend. Hilarity ensues.

Your storyline:

Two brothers - a dwarf (Rolfe) and one normal-sized (Steve). When Steve's girlfriend Carol becomes pregnant, the pair are fearful that the baby will inherit the dwarfism gene. Matters are complicated still further when she finds herself falling in love with Rolfe.

My favorite quote of the movie: (Kate Beckinsale to Matthew McConaughy) "So you had a circle jerk with a bunch of little people? I would love to see that!"

A couple years later Tosh.0 did one of his Spoiler Alert segments on it:

edited (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1sue-7Hllg)

Uncut (http://tosh.comedycentral.com/blog/2011/02/22/tiptoes-spoiler-alert-uncut/)

Bottomline - good date movie, if you know the girl really, really well and she wouldn't be appalled by Smackie.

I love Gary Oldman but hate that movie so much. I can't stand Peter Dinklage is probably the main reason.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on February 15, 2013, 05:52:03 pm

Quote from: grateful on February 15, 2013, 10:26:45 am

Quote from: Relaxer on February 14, 2013, 07:37:32 pm
Quote from: walkonby on February 14, 2013, 06:00:09 pm
the guy lost his legs . . . let him kill who he wants.

Wasnt he born without legs? If so, he didn't really lose them because he never had them to begin with.

I suppose this is the distinction between "unlegged" and "delegged", no?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 16, 2013, 08:04:52 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 15, 2013, 02:39:46 pm

Bottomline - good date movie, if you know the girl really, really well and she wouldn't be appalled by Smackie.

Oh, this would be a great 1st date movie for me. If he doesn't like the film, than I'd know he doesn't have a good sense of humor which would have me reconsidering whether or not to waste anymore time with the guy. If he liked it, than we'd be off to a good start.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 16, 2013, 09:36:46 pm

Sounds like you and Smackie need to go on a date!

Quote from: Jaguar on February 16, 2013, 08:04:52 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 15, 2013, 02:39:46 pm
Bottomline - good date movie, if you know the girl really, really well and she wouldn't be appalled by Smackie.

Oh, this would be a great 1st date movie for me. If he doesn't like the film, than I'd know he doesn't have a good sense of humor which would have me reconsidering whether or not to waste anymore time with the guy. If he liked it, than we'd be off to a good start.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 17, 2013, 07:19:16 pm

Tony Sheridan, Singer On First Beatles Single, Dead At 72 (http://www.noise11.com/news/tony-sheridan-singer-on-first-beatles-single-dead-at-72-20130217)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 17, 2013, 07:49:58 pm

Tandyn Almer, composer of 'Along Comes Mary' (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2013/02/16/76d3ebba-5f44-11e2-a389-ee565c81c565_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on February 17, 2013, 11:35:21 pm

http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/our-country/report-mindy-mccready-dead-apparent-suicide-030042125.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 18, 2013, 02:39:36 pm

Jerry Buss - owned the Lakers (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2013/02/18/lakers-owner-jerry-buss-dies-at-80/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 18, 2013, 02:56:38 pm

Quote from: Shemp on February 18, 2013, 02:39:36 pm

Jerry Buss - owned the Lakers (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2013/02/18/lakers-owner-jerry-buss-dies-at-80/)

wonder what this means for phil jackson..isn't he dating jerry's daughter?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 18, 2013, 04:10:31 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 18, 2013, 02:56:38 pm

wonder what this means for phil jackson..isn't he dating jerry's daughter?

Engaged after a 10+ year courtship.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 18, 2013, 08:08:04 pm

I wonder how many bimbos were thrown under that Buss.

http://deadspin.com/5985106/jerry-buss-surrounded-by-boobs-a-tribute-to-the-greatest-nba-owner-ever/gallery/1

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 18, 2013, 08:26:09 pm

Quote from: Shemp on February 18, 2013, 08:08:04 pm

I wonder how many bimbos were thrown under that Buss.

http://deadspin.com/5985106/jerry-buss-surrounded-by-boobs-a-tribute-to-the-greatest-nba-owner-ever/gallery/1

A true American Hero.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on February 20, 2013, 10:19:59 am

i'm only seeing reports on twitter so far, but kevin ayers :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on February 20, 2013, 11:48:25 am

Quote from: gaaaaaaaaah on February 20, 2013, 10:19:59 am

i'm only seeing reports on twitter so far, but kevin ayers :(

Unfortunately, it's true. :'(

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/feb/20/kevin-ayers-dies-aged-68

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 25, 2013, 06:54:22 pm

C. Everett Koop (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/25/surgeon-general-koop/1947347/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 27, 2013, 01:20:38 pm

Van Cliburn (http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/american-pianist-van-cliburn-whose-1958-triumph-at-a-moscow-competition-impressed-world-dies/2013/02/27/8d8a1dec-8100-11e2-a671-0307392de8de_story.html?hpid=z1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 05, 2013, 06:04:12 pm

Hugo Chavez

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 05, 2013, 06:04:48 pm

He died doing what he loved: venting bile.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on March 05, 2013, 06:12:26 pm

Oh, they're finally admitting it. Yesterday they claimed that it was only a rumor, but you know how those things sometimes go.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 05, 2013, 06:15:32 pm

If Sean Penn is a pallbearer at his funeral, the paparazzi should take this opportunity to take a bunch of pictures because his hands will be full and he won't be able to punch them.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 05, 2013, 11:16:45 pm

Jewel Akens

http://www.examiner.com/article/jewel-akens-singer-of-the-birds-and-the-bees-dies

(sorry about the ads on this page, two auto start streaming ads and a layover ad :P)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on March 06, 2013, 06:01:47 am

Speaking of pallbearers.......

http://www.inquisitr.com/558313/paul-bearer-dies-legendary-wwe-manager-dead-at-58/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 06, 2013, 01:27:40 pm

Alvin Lee of Ten Years After

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/ten-years-afters-alvin-lee-dies-571954

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on March 06, 2013, 01:44:57 pm

Quote from: Unsanity on March 06, 2013, 06:01:47 am

Speaking of pallbearers.......

http://www.inquisitr.com/558313/paul-bearer-dies-legendary-wwe-manager-dead-at-58/

I was just about to post that... RIP, I guess the Undertaker will have to do Wrestlemania without him this year.

The last time he was on TV, it was so his other 'son' Kane could lock him in a meat locker, last year, and they never let him out...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 06, 2013, 04:08:37 pm

you sure know a lot about wrestling. i used to love wrestling, but that was when cyndi lauper was doing videos with them. oh that crazy old cyndi lauper.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on March 06, 2013, 04:19:04 pm

I was too young to enjoy it then. I enjoy it now (though i did watch for a bit in 97-99, but didnt start again until summer of 2011). I dont hide my fondness for Pro Wrestling. I always post in the This Week's Roll Call thread every time I go to a live event for WWE or (my favorite) Ring of Honor. We do not have a Wrestling Thread, and never will, so I usually keep my opinion of the sport to a minimum, outside of the aforementioned thread, or if one of the wrestlers pass away. I enjoy the performance aspect and storytelling of it. To me, its similar to watching a (very violent) play.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on March 06, 2013, 04:20:17 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on March 06, 2013, 01:27:40 pm

Alvin Lee of Ten Years After

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/ten-years-afters-alvin-lee-dies-571954

this one is very sad for me

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 06, 2013, 04:22:47 pm

And yrt, you're probably one of those people who make fun of NASCAR(?)

Quote from: killsaly on March 06, 2013, 04:19:04 pm

I was too young to enjoy it then. I enjoy it now (though i did watch for a bit in 97-99, but didnt start again until summer of 2011). I dont hide my fondness for Pro Wrestling. I always post in the This Week's Roll Call thread every time I go to a live event for WWE or (my favorite) Ring of Honor. We do not have a Wrestling Thread, and never will, so I usually keep my opinion of the sport to a minimum, outside of the aforementioned thread, or if one of the wrestlers pass away. I enjoy the performance aspect and storytelling of it. To me, its similar to watching a (very violent) play.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on March 06, 2013, 04:38:09 pm

No I do not make fun of (or watch) Nascar. I can appreciate racing, and the couple of races I watched a few years back were pretty entertaining. That could also have been due to the people I watched it with being big fans and really getting into it.

Anyways, sorry to derail... It really is sad about Paul Bearer, he was only 58.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 07, 2013, 05:38:31 pm

Stompin' Tom Connors (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-stompin-tom-connors-canadian-countryfolkie-dead-at-77-20130307,0,5942208.story)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 07, 2013, 06:46:36 pm

Quote from: Shemp on March 07, 2013, 05:38:31 pm

Stompin' Tom Connors (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-stompin-tom-connors-canadian-countryfolkie-dead-at-77-20130307,0,5942208.story)

nooooooooooooooooooooooo...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmimLBSTEUw

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 07, 2013, 06:59:01 pm

NASCAR..what a shitshow...

you want skill in driving> find a competition where a driver has to turn the wheel both ways.. you know, like, LIFE

they go around a frickin' oval 500 times and the guy who wins does so by 2 seconds? what a waste of time.

Formula 1. Any. Day.

Lets not even talk about the fans...I can think of few places I'd rather be less than at a NASCAR event.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 07, 2013, 07:43:49 pm

Formula 1. Where they drive the same route for 80 laps and nobody passes anybody.

Quote from: hutch on March 07, 2013, 06:59:01 pm

NASCAR..what a shitshow...

you want skill in driving> find a competition where a driver has to turn the wheel both ways.. you know, like, LIFE

they go around a frickin' oval 500 times and the guy who wins does so by 2 seconds? what a waste of time.

Formula 1. Any. Day.

Lets not even talk about the fans...I can think of few places I'd rather be less than at a NASCAR event.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 07, 2013, 07:48:59 pm

(http://southernwatch1011.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bring_out_your_dead.jpg)

Or stay inside.

Thank you

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 08, 2013, 09:30:57 am

Quote from: James Ford on March 07, 2013, 07:43:49 pm

Formula 1. Where they drive the same route for 80 laps and nobody passes anybody.

Quote from: hutch on March 07, 2013, 06:59:01 pm
NASCAR..what a shitshow...

you want skill in driving> find a competition where a driver has to turn the wheel both ways.. you know, like, LIFE

they go around a frickin' oval 500 times and the guy who wins does so by 2 seconds? what a waste of time.

Formula 1. Any. Day.

Lets not even talk about the fans...I can think of few places I'd rather be less than at a NASCAR event.

just not true... other than monaco of course..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on March 12, 2013, 07:00:49 am

Peter Banks, original guitarist with Yes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 12, 2013, 08:47:34 am

Quote from: hutch on March 08, 2013, 09:30:57 am

Quote from: James Ford on March 07, 2013, 07:43:49 pm
Formula 1. Where they drive the same route for 80 laps and nobody passes anybody.

Quote from: hutch on March 07, 2013, 06:59:01 pm
NASCAR..what a shitshow...

you want skill in driving> find a competition where a driver has to turn the wheel both ways.. you know, like, LIFE

they go around a frickin' oval 500 times and the guy who wins does so by 2 seconds? what a waste of time.

Formula 1. Any. Day.

Lets not even talk about the fans...I can think of few places I'd rather be less than at a NASCAR event.

just not true... other than monaco of course..

F1 is a tad on the boring side. The cars look all cool and high tech but in the end at least it is not as boring as professional kickball (aka soccer). Nothing is that boring.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on March 12, 2013, 08:52:37 am

http://www.abc27.com/story/21554320/gibbles-snack-food-line-to-end

RIP Gibbles potato chips and cheese puffys.

I am SO SAD about this. A mainstay in my family for many many years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 12, 2013, 09:12:07 am

the cheesy puffs ruled . . . chips, not so much, and the pretzels were the worst. this brand was a staple of a good redneck lifestyle. will be missed, and fuck the owners. they buy the company, tell nobody that you are changing the company overnight after it has been a beloved company since 1950 something, and fires all employees without notice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 12, 2013, 09:47:29 am

can't believe no one has posted this yet:

NYC soda ban (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/03/11/judge-puts-cap-on-super-sized-soda-ban/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: imbecile on March 12, 2013, 09:54:43 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 12, 2013, 09:47:29 am

can't believe no one has posted this yet:

NYC soda ban (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/03/11/judge-puts-cap-on-super-sized-soda-ban/)

The best part of the article is the people they highlight for it; the bigger of the two (based on the pictures) is against the ban, while the thinner one is for the ban. Is there anyway that wasn't intentional?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on March 12, 2013, 10:01:59 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 12, 2013, 09:47:29 am

can't believe no one has posted this yet:

NYC soda ban (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/03/11/judge-puts-cap-on-super-sized-soda-ban/)

what I found interesting is that Starbucks (probably the worst offender) said they wouldn't abide by law if it were enacted. Starbucks has to have the worst coffee in the world. I always wondered why they were so popular and then I realized that everyone who drinks coffee there has a drink with mostly chocalate and whip cream. I wonder why starbucks doesn't get put in with mcdonalds and all the other junk food places to avoid.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on March 12, 2013, 10:08:41 am

Quote from: walkonby on March 12, 2013, 09:12:07 am

the cheesy puffs ruled . . . chips, not so much, and the pretzels were the worst. this brand was a staple of a good redneck lifestyle. will be missed, and fuck the owners. they buy the company, tell nobody that you are changing the company overnight after it has been a beloved company since 1950 something, and fires all employees without notice.

SO SAD. And I agree about the owners.

You don't like the chips as much because you haven't had the rainbow dip I make with them :)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on March 12, 2013, 10:09:29 am

Quote from: atomicfront on March 12, 2013, 10:01:59 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 12, 2013, 09:47:29 am
can't believe no one has posted this yet:

NYC soda ban (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/03/11/judge-puts-cap-on-super-sized-soda-ban/)

what I found interesting is that Starbucks (probably the worst offender) said they wouldn't abide by law if it were enacted. Starbucks has to have the worst coffee in the world. I always wondered why they were so popular and then I realized that everyone who drinks coffee there has a drink with mostly chocalate and whip cream. I wonder why starbucks doesn't get put in with mcdonalds and all the other junk food places to avoid.

They do have the worst coffee, but on a hot summer day, there is nothing better than their grande doubleshot with just a touch of sweetner and 2% milk!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 12, 2013, 10:23:28 am

McDonalds McCafe Frappe Mocha: 450 calories, 19g fat
Starbucks Grande Mocha Lite Frappucino: 130 calories, 0.5g fat

Quote from: atomicfront on March 12, 2013, 10:01:59 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 12, 2013, 09:47:29 am
can't believe no one has posted this yet:

NYC soda ban (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/03/11/judge-puts-cap-on-super-sized-soda-ban/)

what I found interesting is that Starbucks (probably the worst offender) said they wouldn't abide by law if it were enacted. Starbucks has to have the worst coffee in the world. I always wondered why they were so popular and then I realized that everyone who drinks coffee there has a drink with mostly chocalate and whip cream. I wonder why starbucks doesn't get put in with mcdonalds and all the other junk food places to avoid.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 12, 2013, 11:13:34 am

Back when I was a CPA and an auditor for the state of Virginia I went to lunch one day with this woman in my office who weighed 300 pounds if she weighed an ounce. No ankles what-so-ever, just legs that ended in constantly swollen feet. So we go to a local Burger King and this woman orders TWO whoppers with cheese, a large order of fries, and a small diet coke. I asked her "why do you order diet coke"? Her reply was literally "you have to save your calories where you can".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on March 12, 2013, 12:48:43 pm

Quote from: James Ford on March 12, 2013, 10:23:28 am

McDonalds McCafe Frappe Mocha: 450 calories, 19g fat
Starbucks Grande Mocha Lite Frappucino: 130 calories, 0.5g fat

And McCafe is 4oz smaller @ 12oz!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 12, 2013, 04:52:12 pm

Me...when I took a killer spill during my lunch time run on King Street. Nice scrap on my hand and knee and ripped my brand new running shoes. At least I managed to do it right in one of the busiest parts...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on March 12, 2013, 05:07:26 pm

Quote from: James Ford on March 12, 2013, 10:23:28 am

McDonalds McCafe Frappe Mocha: 450 calories, 19g fat
Starbucks Grande Mocha Lite Frappucino: 130 calories, 0.5g fat

Quote from: atomicfront on March 12, 2013, 10:01:59 am
Quote from: sweetcell on March 12, 2013, 09:47:29 am
can't believe no one has posted this yet:

NYC soda ban (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/03/11/judge-puts-cap-on-super-sized-soda-ban/)

what I found interesting is that Starbucks (probably the worst offender) said they wouldn't abide by law if it were enacted. Starbucks has to have the worst coffee in the world. I always wondered why they were so popular and then I realized that everyone who drinks coffee there has a drink with mostly chocalate and whip cream. I wonder why starbucks doesn't get put in with mcdonalds and all the other junk food places to avoid.

if you believe the calories on the starbucks light grande frappucino you are quite guillible.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 12, 2013, 06:21:42 pm

(http://southernwatch1011.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/bring_out_your_dead.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on March 13, 2013, 10:17:48 am

Another extra sad one. Was a really big fan of this band while in high school. They set a lot of standards for those who came later.

Nic Potter, bass player with the mighty Van der Graaf Generator.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on March 13, 2013, 10:40:08 am

Quote from: K8teebug on March 12, 2013, 08:52:37 am

http://www.abc27.com/story/21554320/gibbles-snack-food-line-to-end

RIP Gibbles potato chips and cheese puffys.

I am SO SAD about this. A mainstay in my family for many many years.

This really bothers me though, in my world, Gibbles Potato Chips have been half dead for decades once they changed the recipe. Don't know why they did it but they are not the same chips I grew up with. Completely different. They use to be really thick and crunchy. All twisted up with a great bite and taste. I've never been a big fan of potato chips but loved those things. Then at some point, they started making them to be much more like Utz. Different but much closer to Utz than their original form.

When I was a kid I use to love visiting my grandparents and taking a walk up to the Martin's store for a treat. Grew up with Gibbles Potato Chips, Martin's Potato Rolls and Yingling Beer well before either of those made their way here. Okay, so it was the adults in my family drinking the beer and me swiping sips on occassion. Still not impressed with the beer, the chips lost what made them so good but those potato rolls better stay around as long as I'm here.

In some weird way, it's sort of like losing a family member. Even a bit more shaking that Gibbles went only months after my mother dying as these things are all things I relate to her side of the family.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on March 14, 2013, 01:38:19 am

Clive Burr, Iron Maiden's drummer for the first 3 albums.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 18, 2013, 11:42:03 am

Jason Molina :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on March 18, 2013, 11:48:32 am

WHAT?? :'(

Quote from: Relaxer on March 18, 2013, 11:42:03 am

Jason Molina :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 18, 2013, 11:53:37 am

https://twitter.com/threelobed/status/313674980405678080

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on March 18, 2013, 11:58:43 am

goddamnit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 18, 2013, 12:19:38 pm

http://pitchfork.com/news/50000-rip-jason-molina/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 18, 2013, 03:29:44 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on March 18, 2013, 11:42:03 am

Jason Molina :'(

That one hurts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 18, 2013, 03:33:33 pm

damn. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 18, 2013, 06:14:00 pm

Addiction is one fucked up disease...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on March 19, 2013, 07:59:35 am

so sad

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 20, 2013, 03:15:36 pm

Harry Reems
not as sad as Jason Molina but probably more of an influence to my 12-year-old self.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 20, 2013, 03:21:48 pm

The man had a threesome with Ginger Lynn and Traci Lords. Yeah, what a tough life he led.

Quote from: Relaxer on March 20, 2013, 03:15:36 pm

Harry Reems
not as sad as Jason Molina but probably more of an influence to my 12-year-old self.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 20, 2013, 03:29:31 pm

What makes you think he had a tough life?
Though he provides a solid, relatively eloquent interpretation of the legal problems he had right here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmQMZr-r-K4&feature=player_embedded)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 20, 2013, 03:38:52 pm

I was just ineloquently agreeing with your comparison to Jason Molina, in a roundabout way.

Quote from: Relaxer on March 20, 2013, 03:29:31 pm

What makes you think he had a tough life?
Though he provides a solid, relatively eloquent interpretation of the legal problems he had right here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmQMZr-r-K4&feature=player_embedded)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 20, 2013, 03:41:34 pm

you remember traci lords and ginger lynn? jerking off to the days of vhs? god . . . we are old. go watch this, it is awesome.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1291547/

sorry . . . you may get back to the normal, morbid death watch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 22, 2013, 12:36:03 pm

Chinua Achebe

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 23, 2013, 07:45:05 am

My Chemical Romance

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 24, 2013, 12:43:28 am

Joe Weider (http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/23/health/california-weider-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 25, 2013, 03:34:15 pm

Quote from: grateful on March 23, 2013, 07:45:05 am

My Chemical Romance

:( :'( :-[

This blows. They were my generation's Cheap Trick.
Wait, my generation's Cheap Trick was probably actually Cheap Trick but still, MCR made solid power pop and I lament the loss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 25, 2013, 04:10:52 pm

(http://www.nme.com/images/gallery/0862_125119_mcrvsdmailRC_04.jpg)

here is a picture of fans mourning the loss of a life centered around bands. somewhere in there is relaxer. i wonder where he is . . . see that guy on the left with the mcr shirt and the black/grey striped hoodie thing. see that guy? now look behind him. that guy right behind him. that must be him. yeahhhh.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 25, 2013, 05:20:21 pm

No, I'm the creepy old guy waaaay back sitting on the parkbench with my arms wide open because I will accept all of these little goths into my body for sharing.

"Come to me. Let me give you the love your parents never could."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on March 26, 2013, 11:23:06 am

Scott Hardkiss

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 30, 2013, 03:37:24 pm

Phil Ramone

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 30, 2013, 05:30:29 pm

Talk of the Nation

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 01, 2013, 02:03:39 pm

Shain Gandee Of 'BUCKWILD' Found Dead In West Virginia
http://remotecontrol.mtv.com/2013/04/01/shain-gandee-buckwild-dead/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on April 04, 2013, 03:46:31 pm

Roger Ebert

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 04, 2013, 04:02:25 pm

http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/04/04/17603130-film-critic-roger-ebert-dies-at-70?lite

sad. i liked him. his mind wrapped around the realness of the film, without the bs. only two things in his career did i hate. he thought edward scissorhands was horrible . . . and said videogames were not art.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on April 04, 2013, 04:12:18 pm

I wonder if Vincent Gallo feels bad for wishing Roger Ebert got cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: radley17 on April 04, 2013, 04:15:49 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on April 04, 2013, 03:46:31 pm

Roger Ebert

Little known is that he penned the scripts to three Russ Meyer campy classics...Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Up!, and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on April 04, 2013, 04:32:49 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on April 04, 2013, 04:12:18 pm

I wonder if Vincent Gallo feels bad for wishing Roger Ebert got cancer.

http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/gallo-regrets-roger-ebert-curse (http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/gallo-regrets-roger-ebert-curse)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 04, 2013, 04:39:00 pm

for some reason i thought vincent gallo was one of the guys who made gallo wine.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 04, 2013, 04:43:23 pm

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/must-read/roger-ebert-and-roger-me

great story involving roger.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on April 04, 2013, 05:01:29 pm

A guy I know ran into Ebert a long time ago and said "Fantastic Four was the bomb, my nigga!" And Ebert immediately replied "None of those things are true."

Best dude, I will miss him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on April 04, 2013, 06:00:07 pm

Quote from: walkonby on April 04, 2013, 04:43:23 pm

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/must-read/roger-ebert-and-roger-me

great story involving roger.

As soon as I saw it had something done by Michael Moore I knew it was not worth wasting my time on.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on April 04, 2013, 10:38:16 pm

That's exactly what I think when I see your name on a thread's "Last Post"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on April 05, 2013, 01:39:42 am

Quote from: Relaxer on April 04, 2013, 10:38:16 pm

That's exactly what I think when I see your name on a thread's "Last Post"

That would require you being able to actually think.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 05, 2013, 09:20:40 am

Quote from: RatBastard on April 05, 2013, 01:39:42 am

That would require you being able to actually think.

coming from someone who regurgitates AM radio non-stop, that's some class B trolling.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on April 05, 2013, 02:21:35 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 05, 2013, 09:20:40 am

Quote from: RatBastard on April 05, 2013, 01:39:42 am
That would require you being able to actually think.

coming from someone who regurgitates AM radio non-stop, that's some class B trolling.

I don't think I have listened to ANY radio in at least 25 years let alone AM. I think maybe I listed to AM back in the late 60s or so. Try again, maybe if you think hard you can say something that makes sense. I have heard that every one in a while liberals actually do that, but usually it is by accident!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 05, 2013, 02:26:26 pm

somebody died . . . now fuck off.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 08, 2013, 09:10:51 am

Thatcher

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 08, 2013, 09:28:08 am

Scottish musician Twitter is unreal right now. Never seen such an outpouring of glee for the death of somebody.

twitter.com/plasmatron
twitter.com/aidanjohnmoffat
twitter.com/mogwaiband

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 08, 2013, 10:57:13 am

Thatcher is kind of Reagan; disagree almost universally with her politics but can't deny she was an effective leader

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 08, 2013, 11:10:49 am

And to them we say...

somebody died . . . now fuck off.

Quote from: azaghal1981 on April 08, 2013, 09:28:08 am

Scottish musician Twitter is unreal right now. Never seen such an outpouring of glee for the death of somebody.

twitter.com/plasmatron
twitter.com/aidanjohnmoffat
twitter.com/mogwaiband

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 08, 2013, 11:30:00 am

Quote from: James Ford on April 08, 2013, 11:10:49 am

And to them we say...

somebody died . . . now fuck off.

Quote from: azaghal1981 on April 08, 2013, 09:28:08 am
Scottish musician Twitter is unreal right now. Never seen such an outpouring of glee for the death of somebody.

twitter.com/plasmatron
twitter.com/aidanjohnmoffat
twitter.com/mogwaiband

Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-death-etiquette)

There's something distinctively creepy - in a Roman sort of way - about this mandated ritual that our political leaders must be heralded and consecrated as saints upon death. This is accomplished by this baseless moral precept that it is gauche or worse to balance the gushing praise for them upon death with valid criticisms. There is absolutely nothing wrong with loathing Margaret Thatcher or any other person with political influence and power based upon perceived bad acts, and that doesn't change simply because they die. If anything, it becomes more compelling to commemorate those bad acts upon death as the only antidote against a society erecting a false and jingoistically self-serving history.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on April 08, 2013, 01:45:37 pm

Annette Funicello

"M.I.C. K.E.Y......"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: showlistdc on April 08, 2013, 02:02:40 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on April 08, 2013, 09:28:08 am

Never seen such an outpouring of glee for the death of somebody.

There was this much glee when Reagan died as well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 08, 2013, 02:24:41 pm

Quote from: showlistdc on April 08, 2013, 02:02:40 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on April 08, 2013, 09:28:08 am
Never seen such an outpouring of glee for the death of somebody.
There was this much glee when Reagan died as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Ronald_Reagan

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 08, 2013, 02:49:13 pm

Quote from: Shemp on April 08, 2013, 02:24:41 pm

Quote from: showlistdc on April 08, 2013, 02:02:40 pm
Quote from: azaghal1981 on April 08, 2013, 09:28:08 am
Never seen such an outpouring of glee for the death of somebody.
There was this much glee when Reagan died as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Ronald_Reagan

It's still "National" to me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on April 08, 2013, 02:55:26 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on April 08, 2013, 02:49:13 pm

It's still "National" to me.

Same here. I refuse to call it anything but.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on April 08, 2013, 03:21:24 pm

Ditto. I never call it by the "official" name.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on April 08, 2013, 04:38:42 pm

National Airport

that's what it is

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on April 08, 2013, 04:42:35 pm

Do you say MCI Center or Verizon Center. BWI used to be called Friendship Airport. I guess no one minds that name change.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on April 08, 2013, 04:56:27 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on April 08, 2013, 04:42:35 pm

Do you say MCI Center or Verizon Center. BWI used to be called Friendship Airport. I guess no one minds that name change.

BWI is officially the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, you damn racist.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on April 08, 2013, 05:06:16 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on April 08, 2013, 04:56:27 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on April 08, 2013, 04:42:35 pm
Do you say MCI Center or Verizon Center. BWI used to be called Friendship Airport. I guess no one minds that name change.

BWI is officially the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, you damn racist.

That is a lot to say. And it sucks they have next to no international flighs and southwest runs the joint. I have to drive up to PHL or IAD. I don't even know what PHL stands for.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on April 08, 2013, 05:44:32 pm

PHL = Philadelphia, but I know that you really do know that.

I use to always call BWI Friendship until I was a travel agent which then required me to say BWI, or it's full name before the change. I've never called it by it's full name since because it's just way too much of a mouthful. BWI it is unless I'm talking to someone who needs the details to where it is located.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 08, 2013, 05:53:18 pm

Probably true. But there was no Twitter on which to express it. Should have said "never seen this much glee concentrated in one place for the death of someone." There was that Ween show at the Club the night before his funeral where Gene paraded around in a Reagan mask somebody tossed onstage to Dean playing Hail to the Chief after calling him "the man of the hour."

Quote from: showlistdc on April 08, 2013, 02:02:40 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on April 08, 2013, 09:28:08 am
Never seen such an outpouring of glee for the death of somebody.
There was this much glee when Reagan died as well.

And yes. National forever.
One of the weekend weather guys on Channel 4 refuses to call it anything but National. Nothing but respect to that man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on April 08, 2013, 06:01:29 pm

Does anyone even fly out of National?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 08, 2013, 06:06:39 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on April 08, 2013, 06:01:29 pm

Does anyone even fly out of National?

I use the Virgin America direct flight to and from SFO out of National at least 4 times a years. It's probably the best flight between the DC Area and the Bay Area there is.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on April 08, 2013, 06:22:49 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on April 08, 2013, 06:01:29 pm

Does anyone even fly out of National?

I arrived at national yesterday morning aftet a weeks vacation in florida
in fact, its the only airport I've used in more than a year because my wife insists on it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 08, 2013, 07:32:59 pm

I do. Ten minute drive to the Metro. Long term parking at Metro for $4.75 for as long as I want (free if i come home on a weekend). Then 20 minute Metro ride to National.

Definitely beats a 40 min drive and $10/day parking at Dulles and then waiting in the parking lot for a shuttle to come by and pick you up.

I think the better question is "Why would anyone choose Dulles over National?"

Quote from: atomicfront on April 08, 2013, 06:01:29 pm

Does anyone even fly out of National?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 08, 2013, 08:13:13 pm

I was just trying to point out there are many, many things named after Reagan.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 08, 2013, 08:21:24 pm

National is by far my preferred airport... Dulles blows.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 08, 2013, 09:08:05 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on April 08, 2013, 11:30:00 am

Quote from: James Ford on April 08, 2013, 11:10:49 am
And to them we say...

somebody died . . . now fuck off.

Quote from: azaghal1981 on April 08, 2013, 09:28:08 am
Scottish musician Twitter is unreal right now. Never seen such an outpouring of glee for the death of somebody.

twitter.com/plasmatron
twitter.com/aidanjohnmoffat
twitter.com/mogwaiband

Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-death-etiquette)

There's something distinctively creepy - in a Roman sort of way - about this mandated ritual that our political leaders must be heralded and consecrated as saints upon death. This is accomplished by this baseless moral precept that it is gauche or worse to balance the gushing praise for them upon death with valid criticisms. There is absolutely nothing wrong with loathing Margaret Thatcher or any other person with political influence and power based upon perceived bad acts, and that doesn't change simply because they die. If anything, it becomes more compelling to commemorate those bad acts upon death as the only antidote against a society erecting a false and jingoistically self-serving history.

Yay somebody else here reads Glenn Greenwald.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 09, 2013, 11:21:19 am

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/9980978/Margaret-Thatcher-was-barbaric-and-a-terror-says-Morrissey.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 09, 2013, 01:47:05 pm

She was a saucy minx.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on April 12, 2013, 01:11:57 pm

Jonathan Winters

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 13, 2013, 06:44:56 am

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/69699?recache=1&t=1231311&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news5

Judy Garland, the new Sex Pistols?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on April 14, 2013, 02:24:10 am

Oh man this one hurts. Always been a huge Deftones fan and always hoped he would come back from this.

http://www.examiner.com/article/deftones-bassist-chi-cheng-succumbs-to-medical-complications-after-5-year-coma

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on April 14, 2013, 05:31:41 pm

Hey Beav,

.... Lumpy Rutherford.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 16, 2013, 06:39:59 pm

Pat Summerall. Unlike the shouters of today, he was smooth, elegant and understated.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on April 17, 2013, 09:01:12 pm

Scott Warren Miller (http://www.loudfamily.com/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 17, 2013, 09:03:57 pm

this one really hurts - genius yet one of the most under appreciated pop song writers out there. And he was only two years older than me

Scott Miller - Loud Family / Game Theory

http://www.loudfamily.com/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 17, 2013, 10:26:30 pm

Evan Funk Davies is playing a bunch of Loud Family and Game Theory right now on FMU: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50290

Kosmo, I think this show should be up your alley anyway.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 17, 2013, 11:42:23 pm

This is great stuff. Only heard a song or two in passing before tonight. Going on until midnight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 18, 2013, 05:08:27 am

there is a dropbox link so people can download the out of print game theory records on http://www.loudfamily.com/ but right now as expected it's been disabled due to popularity. I've got most of the loud family records and "lolita nation" on CD, so that's what I'll be listening to today. The last Loud Family "what if it works" is one of my all time favorite albums...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 18, 2013, 08:35:13 pm

Not that it should come as a shock, but the best mainstream blog article on Scott Miller is in the Guardian. Even Mitch Easter posts in the comments. The rest I've seen are just re-writes of the website info.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2013/apr/18/scott-miller-game-theory-loud-family-dies

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 18, 2013, 09:43:41 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 18, 2013, 05:08:27 am

there is a dropbox link so people can download the out of print game theory records on http://www.loudfamily.com/ but right now as expected it's been disabled due to popularity. I've got most of the loud family records and "lolita nation" on CD, so that's what I'll be listening to today. The last Loud Family "what if it works" is one of my all time favorite albums...

In the spirit of giving, I've uploaded both of my Game Theory CDs to Dropbox in ALAC:

Real Nighttime (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f6vi6p6d9l9s1pn/BEj5J7s7dS)

The Big Shot Chronicles (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tk8w6ssq3ftnpkz/q3DxY2pB4K)

Dropbox's bandwidth limit is 20GB per day. The two folders are 647MB so there won't be many of you who can download them. I'll send the links to loudfamily.com in a day or so.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 18, 2013, 09:59:33 pm

I was listening to Lolita Nation today and remembered why I like that album so much, Scott and co had a knack for being arty with going overboard. If I get a chance I'll rip it into FLAC over the weekend. People are asking close to $100 for that CD. And yes we should start another thread for Scott Miller discussion.. d

They really should put them up on Bandcamp...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on April 19, 2013, 01:59:25 am

Our world continues to pass us by.

Storm Thorgerson dies aged 69
British graphic designer was responsible for some of the most memorable album artwork of all time (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/apr/18/storm-thorgerson-dies-69)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 22, 2013, 09:26:36 am

http://entertainment.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/22/17858936-i-touch-myself-singer-chrissy-amphlett-dead-at-53?lite

fuck cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on April 22, 2013, 09:50:49 am

Quote from: walkonby on April 22, 2013, 09:26:36 am

http://entertainment.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/22/17858936-i-touch-myself-singer-chrissy-amphlett-dead-at-53?lite

fuck cancer.

This is sad as she was so young. I never got to see them play.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 22, 2013, 12:10:43 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on April 18, 2013, 09:43:41 pm

In the spirit of giving, I've uploaded both of my Game Theory CDs to Dropbox in ALAC:

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 22, 2013, 04:01:33 pm

Cordell 'Boogie' Mosson, P-Funk bassist, dies at 60

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2013/04/cordell_boogie_mosson_p-funk_b.html

He contributed to almost all of the great mid-'70s Parliament-Funkadelic classic concept sets, including "One Nation Under a Groove," "Mothership Connection," and "The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on April 22, 2013, 04:11:31 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 22, 2013, 04:01:33 pm

Cordell 'Boogie' Mosson, P-Funk bassist, dies at 60

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2013/04/cordell_boogie_mosson_p-funk_b.html

He contributed to almost all of the great mid-'70s Parliament-Funkadelic classic concept sets, including "One Nation Under a Groove," "Mothership Connection," and "The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein."

I read this and thought 'Bootsy Collins played bass on those albums". Turns out they had 2 bassists. Great band.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 22, 2013, 04:41:05 pm

Richie Havens

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on April 26, 2013, 10:27:27 am

George Jones

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: moeszyslak on April 26, 2013, 10:54:12 am

Quote from: Got Haggis? on April 26, 2013, 10:27:27 am

George Jones

Damn Damn DAMN!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 26, 2013, 11:00:08 am

Bummer way to start the weekend, though completely unsurprising. A minor miracle he lived this long.

Quote from: Got Haggis? on April 26, 2013, 10:27:27 am

George Jones

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 26, 2013, 11:27:27 am

i guess . . . he stopped loving her, today.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on April 26, 2013, 02:15:26 pm

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on April 29, 2013, 09:18:53 pm

(Never mind. Old news. ::) )

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: showlistdc on May 01, 2013, 11:19:17 pm

Chris ("Kross" (http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/showbiz/georgia-chris-kelly-obituary/index.html)) Kelly

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on May 02, 2013, 07:06:40 pm

Jeff Hanneman, Slayer....liver failure.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on May 02, 2013, 08:14:38 pm

He certainly had it tough of late.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 02, 2013, 09:16:46 pm

WTF????

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on May 02, 2013, 10:34:47 pm

Fuck spiders

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 03, 2013, 09:08:52 am

Quote from: Unsanity on May 02, 2013, 10:34:47 pm

Fuck spiders

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzU6vinZwhc

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 03, 2013, 02:16:01 pm

(http://questionablecontent.net/comics/2439.png)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Jaguar on May 11, 2013, 02:09:15 am

Taylor Mead - One of the Warhol gang.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 11, 2013, 02:04:20 pm

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/18/article-2146182-1325E7A2000005DC-428_964x770.jpg)

goodbye, taylor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on May 16, 2013, 07:54:13 pm

Dick Trickle goes out with a blast.

He used to smoke while stock car racing. Man, I hate smoking, but it doesn't get any cooler than that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 17, 2013, 12:39:32 am

mikaela lynch

rest in peace beautiful

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 17, 2013, 10:20:36 am

Quote from: James Ford on May 16, 2013, 07:54:13 pm

Dick Trickle goes out with a blast.

He used to smoke while stock car racing. Man, I hate smoking, but it doesn't get any cooler than that.

shouldnt this say, rather . . . dick trickle goes out like a pussy and kills himself, leaving the pain behind him that he doesnt, but everybody else, has to deal with. ive seen what happens to people who kill themselves. ive been to those places, ive seen the stairs that lead into the darkness, beyond the great grey cities. ive been touched by the watchmen and shown the door of remembering. you dont want to go there. dont kill yourself, children of god.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 17, 2013, 07:03:29 pm

US Open Champion, Ken Venturi (http://blog.sfgate.com/ongolf/2013/05/17/sf-native-ken-venturi-former-u-s-open-champion-dies-at-age-82/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 18, 2013, 02:44:53 am

Ian Curtis, 33 years ago today.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 18, 2013, 07:47:27 am

Quote from: vansmack on May 18, 2013, 02:44:53 am

Ian Curtis, 33 years ago today.

You forgot:
http://www.historyorb.com/deaths/may/18

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on May 18, 2013, 02:55:13 pm

Quote from: walkonby on May 17, 2013, 10:20:36 am

shouldnt this say, rather . . . ian curtis goes out like a pussy and kills himself, leaving the pain behind him that he doesnt, but everybody else, has to deal with. ive seen what happens to people who kill themselves. ive been to those places, ive seen the stairs that lead into the darkness, beyond the great grey cities. ive been touched by the watchmen and shown the door of remembering. you dont want to go there. dont kill yourself, children of god.

Quote from: vansmack on May 18, 2013, 02:44:53 am

Ian Curtis, 33 years ago today.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 19, 2013, 12:56:26 pm

Romanthony (http://pitchfork.com/news/50805-rip-romanthony-house-producer-and-daft-punk-collaborator/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 20, 2013, 05:39:01 pm

Ray Manzarek. That one really bums me out.

http://www.tmz.com/2013/05/20/ray-manzarek-dead-the-doors-cancer/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 20, 2013, 06:08:18 pm

This is enough to make ya cry

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/20/health/sobiech-viral-video-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 21, 2013, 12:10:08 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 20, 2013, 06:08:18 pm

This is enough to make ya cry

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/20/health/sobiech-viral-video-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NjKgV65fpo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 29, 2013, 06:01:43 pm

Lewis Yocum (http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_/id/9319742/los-angeles-angels-noted-tommy-john-surgeon-lewis-yocum-dies)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 29, 2013, 06:08:42 pm

you know, i guess i get why you posted that death (you obviously hero worship baseball) . . . but really vansmack? does some doctor who was on some baseball teams roster, really need to be discussed; do i need to post when every first rate, cat doctor dies?

actually . . . i wonder what are the rules for posting deaths in here? are there rules? i always thought it had to be famous people, maybe even super famous people, and if it was music related, bonus points.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on May 29, 2013, 06:18:40 pm

Yes, Dr. Yocum should be posted. He saved the careers of many players from many teams.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 29, 2013, 09:50:18 pm

Cat doctor? Seriously?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 30, 2013, 10:21:09 am

like this guy who died in 2007.

http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?126214-Sad-news-Cornell-s-famous-cat-doctor-dies

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/obituaries/26richards.html?_r=0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 30, 2013, 10:31:55 am

Quote from: walkonby on May 29, 2013, 06:08:42 pm

you know, i guess i get why you posted that death (you obviously hero worship baseball) . . . but really vansmack? does some doctor who was on some baseball teams roster, really need to be discussed; do i need to post when every first rate, cat doctor dies?

actually . . . i wonder what are the rules for posting deaths in here? are there rules? i always thought it had to be famous people, maybe even super famous people, and if it was music related, bonus points.

After Hutch posted whoever that person was that died that I never heard of, I figured I could post the story of the "clouds" kid.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on May 30, 2013, 10:38:56 am

Quote from: hutch on April 08, 2013, 08:21:24 pm

National is by far my preferred airport... Dulles blows.

Good luck getting a flight to Europe at National Airport. I have started to fly out of Philly for my International flight needs. Much easier to get to and customs moves so much faster. Never flown out of National as really what is the point? You can fly out of BWI for national flights.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 30, 2013, 10:40:41 am

Quote from: Shemp on May 29, 2013, 09:50:18 pm

Cat doctor? Seriously?

Dropping like fleas?

http://www.telegram.com/article/20120925/NEWS/109259861/1116

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on May 30, 2013, 10:51:29 am

He left a family with awkward task of having to tell people, "Grandpa died of a beaver bite".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/29/beaver-kills-man-belarus (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/29/beaver-kills-man-belarus)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on May 30, 2013, 11:37:08 am

As a resident of Northern Virginia, please remind me why I would ever choose to fly out of BWI rather than National for a domestic flight?

Or why a DC resident would?

Or even a Silver Spring resident (which is where Hutch lives I think?)?

Quote from: atomicfront on May 30, 2013, 10:38:56 am

Quote from: hutch on April 08, 2013, 08:21:24 pm
National is by far my preferred airport... Dulles blows.

Good luck getting a flight to Europe at National Airport. I have started to fly out of Philly for my International flight needs. Much easier to get to and customs moves so much faster. Never flown out of National as really what is the point? You can fly out of BWI for national flights.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 30, 2013, 11:56:56 am

Quote from: James Ford on May 30, 2013, 11:37:08 am

As a resident of Northern Virginia, please remind me why I would ever choose to fly out of BWI rather than National for a domestic flight?

Or why a DC resident would?

Or even a Silver Spring resident (which is where Hutch lives I think?)?

Quote from: atomicfront on May 30, 2013, 10:38:56 am
Quote from: hutch on April 08, 2013, 08:21:24 pm
National is by far my preferred airport... Dulles blows.

Good luck getting a flight to Europe at National Airport. I have started to fly out of Philly for my International flight needs. Much easier to get to and customs moves so much faster. Never flown out of National as really what is the point? You can fly out of BWI for national flights.

I live in SS and it's easier to fly out of BWI unless I'm leaving directly from work in the city, then I choose National.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 30, 2013, 12:05:19 pm

Stupidest threadjack ever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 30, 2013, 12:09:04 pm

Quote from: James Ford on May 30, 2013, 11:37:08 am

As a resident of Northern Virginia, please remind me why I would ever choose to fly out of BWI rather than National for a domestic flight?

Or why a DC resident would?

Or even a Silver Spring resident (which is where Hutch lives I think?)?

Quote from: atomicfront on May 30, 2013, 10:38:56 am
Quote from: hutch on April 08, 2013, 08:21:24 pm
National is by far my preferred airport... Dulles blows.

Good luck getting a flight to Europe at National Airport. I have started to fly out of Philly for my International flight needs. Much easier to get to and customs moves so much faster. Never flown out of National as really what is the point? You can fly out of BWI for national flights.

I live in the Socialist Republic of Arlington! :D

BWI is out of the question for us...

I got it made out here... I can be at National or Dulles real quick and easy if the Feds come a-lookin'...

;D

But National is just a real nice low key low hassle airport.... just has a good vibe I think... of course its an aiport for domestic flights (mainly if not exclusively)......

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on May 30, 2013, 12:50:19 pm

Quote from: James Ford on May 30, 2013, 11:37:08 am

As a resident of Northern Virginia, please remind me why I would ever choose to fly out of BWI rather than National for a domestic flight?

Or why a DC resident would?

Or even a Silver Spring resident (which is where Hutch lives I think?)?

Quote from: atomicfront on May 30, 2013, 10:38:56 am
Quote from: hutch on April 08, 2013, 08:21:24 pm
National is by far my preferred airport... Dulles blows.

Good luck getting a flight to Europe at National Airport. I have started to fly out of Philly for my International flight needs. Much easier to get to and customs moves so much faster. Never flown out of National as really what is the point? You can fly out of BWI for national flights.

Safety reasons. National Airport isn't the safest for landings and take-offs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on May 30, 2013, 12:50:44 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on May 30, 2013, 12:05:19 pm

Stupidest threadjack ever.

You mean the post after post of people who died that no one ever heard of is better?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on May 30, 2013, 12:53:25 pm

well the Flies part was right anyway

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 30, 2013, 12:57:04 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on May 30, 2013, 12:50:44 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on May 30, 2013, 12:05:19 pm
Stupidest threadjack ever.

You mean the post after post of people who died that no one ever heard of is better?

Whenever I need advice on airports, I turn to the obituaries.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on May 30, 2013, 01:06:09 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on May 30, 2013, 12:57:04 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on May 30, 2013, 12:50:44 pm
Quote from: beetsnotbeats on May 30, 2013, 12:05:19 pm
Stupidest threadjack ever.

You mean the post after post of people who died that no one ever heard of is better?

Whenever I need advice on airports, I turn to the obituaries.

Well blame it on azaghal1981 he brought it up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on May 31, 2013, 11:40:41 am

Quote from: atomicfront on May 30, 2013, 12:50:19 pm

Safety reasons. National Airport isn't the safest for landings and take-offs.

At least one commercial pilot agrees with you ...

http://jethead.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/why-you-should-never-fly-into-washington-national-airport/ (http://jethead.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/why-you-should-never-fly-into-washington-national-airport/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 31, 2013, 12:46:11 pm

Quote from: slappy on May 31, 2013, 11:40:41 am

Quote from: atomicfront on May 30, 2013, 12:50:19 pm
Safety reasons. National Airport isn't the safest for landings and take-offs.

At least one commercial pilot agrees with you ...

http://jethead.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/why-you-should-never-fly-into-washington-national-airport/ (http://jethead.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/why-you-should-never-fly-into-washington-national-airport/)

how many accidents have there been due to the airport?

oh wait. ..................ummmm yeah.............................zero.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on May 31, 2013, 01:06:03 pm

In my experience, DCA is generally way more expensive to fly in and out of than BWI (though it might be offset by metro accessibility)

Plus, Thurgood Marshall > Ronald Reagan (because this wasn't threadjacked enough)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on May 31, 2013, 01:22:17 pm

Both are dead, right?

In general, I think BWI is cheaper, but i can do long term parking at my Metro station a 20 min ride to DCA for the price of one day, whereas long term parking at BWI is (?)

Quote from: eros on May 31, 2013, 01:06:03 pm

In my experience, DCA is generally way more expensive to fly in and out of than BWI (though it might be offset by metro accessibility)

Plus, Thurgood Marshall > Ronald Reagan (because this wasn't threadjacked enough)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 31, 2013, 01:36:03 pm

Quote from: eros on May 31, 2013, 01:06:03 pm

In my experience, DCA is generally way more expensive to fly in and out of than BWI (though it might be offset by metro accessibility)

definitely more expensive..cause its the better option... you pay a premium for that..well worth it... shit the idea of getting on 495 to go to BWI which might as well be Baltimore... ..talk about stress...

clever marketing calling it BWI....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on May 31, 2013, 01:46:33 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 31, 2013, 01:36:03 pm

Quote from: eros on May 31, 2013, 01:06:03 pm
In my experience, DCA is generally way more expensive to fly in and out of than BWI (though it might be offset by metro accessibility)

definitely more expensive..cause its the better option... you pay a premium for that..well worth it... shit the idea of getting on 495 to go to BWI which might as well be Baltimore... ..talk about stress...

clever marketing calling it BWI....

You could take the MARC to BWI. National is dangerous. Pilots don't like to fly there. Only reason it is open is because congress is too lazy to go to Dulles. I think BWI is cheaper because it is almost all Southwest and Airtran. Discount airlines mean cheaper fares. Anyway like I said there is never a reason for me to fly out of National. BWI has all the domestic routes. National doesn't do international. So Philly is actually the best option. I can get direct flights to most every where in Europe and if they dont' have it odds are Dulles doesn't either. Well I did fly to Iceland from Dulles last year as Dulles has direct flight. But it is such a pain to get to.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 31, 2013, 01:49:52 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on May 31, 2013, 01:46:33 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 31, 2013, 01:36:03 pm
Quote from: eros on May 31, 2013, 01:06:03 pm
In my experience, DCA is generally way more expensive to fly in and out of than BWI (though it might be offset by metro accessibility)

definitely more expensive..cause its the better option... you pay a premium for that..well worth it... shit the idea of getting on 495 to go to BWI which might as well be Baltimore... ..talk about stress...

clever marketing calling it BWI....

You could take the MARC to BWI. National is dangerous. Pilots don't like to fly there. Only reason it is open is because congress is too lazy to go to Dulles. I think BWI is cheaper because it is almost all Southwest and Airtran. Discount airlines mean cheaper fares. Anyway like I said there is never a reason for me to fly out of National. BWI has all the domestic routes. National doesn't do international. So Philly is actually the best option. I can get direct flights to most every where in Europe and if they dont' have it odds are Dulles doesn't either. Well I did fly to Iceland from Dulles last year as Dulles has direct flight. But it is such a pain to get to.

National rocks... Not one airport related accident...nice shops... small terminal.... metro stop right there..beautiful views....can't be beat

the only downside is that Southwest doesn't fly out of there...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on May 31, 2013, 01:50:51 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 31, 2013, 01:49:52 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on May 31, 2013, 01:46:33 pm
Quote from: hutch on May 31, 2013, 01:36:03 pm
Quote from: eros on May 31, 2013, 01:06:03 pm
In my experience, DCA is generally way more expensive to fly in and out of than BWI (though it might be offset by metro accessibility)

definitely more expensive..cause its the better option... you pay a premium for that..well worth it... shit the idea of getting on 495 to go to BWI which might as well be Baltimore... ..talk about stress...

clever marketing calling it BWI....

You could take the MARC to BWI. National is dangerous. Pilots don't like to fly there. Only reason it is open is because congress is too lazy to go to Dulles. I think BWI is cheaper because it is almost all Southwest and Airtran. Discount airlines mean cheaper fares. Anyway like I said there is never a reason for me to fly out of National. BWI has all the domestic routes. National doesn't do international. So Philly is actually the best option. I can get direct flights to most every where in Europe and if they dont' have it odds are Dulles doesn't either. Well I did fly to Iceland from Dulles last year as Dulles has direct flight. But it is such a pain to get to.

National rocks... Not one airport related accident...nice shops... small terminal.... metro stop right there..beautiful views....can't be beat...

Tell that to the people who crashed into the 14th street bridge. I am sure short runways had nothing do with that crash.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 31, 2013, 01:55:33 pm

but they have nice shops.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 31, 2013, 01:55:54 pm

Dropping Like Flies thread

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 31, 2013, 01:59:43 pm

i blame myself, beets . . . i should have never questioned vansmacks doctor post.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on May 31, 2013, 02:00:33 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on May 31, 2013, 01:50:51 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 31, 2013, 01:49:52 pm
Quote from: atomicfront on May 31, 2013, 01:46:33 pm
Quote from: hutch on May 31, 2013, 01:36:03 pm
Quote from: eros on May 31, 2013, 01:06:03 pm
In my experience, DCA is generally way more expensive to fly in and out of than BWI (though it might be offset by metro accessibility)

definitely more expensive..cause its the better option... you pay a premium for that..well worth it... shit the idea of getting on 495 to go to BWI which might as well be Baltimore... ..talk about stress...

clever marketing calling it BWI....

You could take the MARC to BWI. National is dangerous. Pilots don't like to fly there. Only reason it is open is because congress is too lazy to go to Dulles. I think BWI is cheaper because it is almost all Southwest and Airtran. Discount airlines mean cheaper fares. Anyway like I said there is never a reason for me to fly out of National. BWI has all the domestic routes. National doesn't do international. So Philly is actually the best option. I can get direct flights to most every where in Europe and if they dont' have it odds are Dulles doesn't either. Well I did fly to Iceland from Dulles last year as Dulles has direct flight. But it is such a pain to get to.

National rocks... Not one airport related accident...nice shops... small terminal.... metro stop right there..beautiful views....can't be beat...

Tell that to the people who crashed into the 14th street bridge. I am sure short runways had nothing do with that crash.

It's pretty widely recognized that the pilots fucked up in de-icing the wings....as in they didn't.

All 3 airports are relatively painless for me to fly out of. I go with whoever is cheapest and has the departure times i need.

But I digress...perhaps this should be taken to the Commentary on Dropping Like Flies thread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on May 31, 2013, 02:07:19 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 31, 2013, 01:49:52 pm

the only downside is that Southwest doesn't fly out of there...

They actually do (as of last year)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 31, 2013, 03:42:36 pm

No direct flights out of BWI to Burlington. :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on May 31, 2013, 03:48:59 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 31, 2013, 03:42:36 pm

No direct flights out of BWI to Burlington. :'(

Why would anyone want to fly to Burlington, Vermont? I actually was there after hiking to the state highpoints in New Hampshire and Vermont.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 31, 2013, 04:21:36 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on May 31, 2013, 03:48:59 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 31, 2013, 03:42:36 pm
No direct flights out of BWI to Burlington. :'(

Why would anyone want to fly to Burlington, Vermont? I actually was there after hiking to the state highpoints in New Hampshire and Vermont.

Because they don't want to drive 9 hours each way is my guess.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 31, 2013, 05:49:08 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on May 31, 2013, 03:48:59 pm

Why would I want to fly to Burlington, Vermont?

fixed that for you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 31, 2013, 05:54:57 pm

you like . . . to fix, dont you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 31, 2013, 09:02:43 pm

Quote from: eros on May 31, 2013, 02:07:19 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 31, 2013, 01:49:52 pm
the only downside is that Southwest doesn't fly out of there...

They actually do (as of last year)

oh..good to know

see. this threadjack was useful in the end...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on May 31, 2013, 11:59:03 pm

Because they make better beer in Vermont than they do in Germany.

Quote from: atomicfront on May 31, 2013, 03:48:59 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 31, 2013, 03:42:36 pm
No direct flights out of BWI to Burlington. :'(

Why would anyone want to fly to Burlington, Vermont? I actually was there after hiking to the state highpoints in New Hampshire and Vermont.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on June 01, 2013, 12:16:52 am

And here I thought a bunch of people had died. This thread seems very dead though.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on June 01, 2013, 02:08:10 pm

Quote from: James Ford on May 31, 2013, 11:59:03 pm

Because they make better beer in Vermont than they do in Germany.

Quote from: atomicfront on May 31, 2013, 03:48:59 pm
Quote from: Yada link=topic=11001.msg362359#
msg362359 date=1370029356
No direct flights out of BWI to Burlington. :'(
[/quote

Why would anyone want to fly to Burlington, Vermont? I actually was there after hiking to the state highpoints in New Hampshire and Vermont.
are you on drugs?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 01, 2013, 06:25:36 pm

Edith Bunker

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on June 01, 2013, 08:52:58 pm

Bummed me out a bit. Comedic genius. I had no idea she was as old as she was.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 02, 2013, 08:51:17 am

Harvey Norman from the other day mid threadjack

The 11th Doctor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on June 02, 2013, 11:19:58 am

She played a grandmother in a 1970's sitcom.

Quote from: azaghal1981 on June 01, 2013, 08:52:58 pm

Bummed me out a bit. Comedic genius. I had no idea she was as old as she was.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 02, 2013, 02:35:36 pm

Andreas Thein, co-founder of Propaganda (http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/06/02/andreas-thein-propaganda-dies-cancer/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: stevewizzle on June 02, 2013, 02:50:42 pm

lou reed's liver

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 04, 2013, 11:51:56 am

Quote from: stevewizzle on June 02, 2013, 02:50:42 pm

lou reed's liver

New Liver Complains Of Difficulty Working With Lou Reed (http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-liver-complains-of-difficulty-working-with-lou,32669/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 04, 2013, 01:19:55 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 04, 2013, 11:51:56 am

Quote from: stevewizzle on June 02, 2013, 02:50:42 pm
lou reed's liver

New Liver Complains Of Difficulty Working With Lou Reed (http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-liver-complains-of-difficulty-working-with-lou,32669/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 04, 2013, 02:18:51 pm

Yothu Yindi Frontman Mandawuy Yunupingu

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 04, 2013, 03:05:31 pm

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2013/06/maxwells_hoboken_closing_react.html

Too bad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 06, 2013, 03:50:20 pm

Esther Williams (http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/esther-williams-champion-swimmer-and-movie-star-dies-at-91/2013/06/06/8f0781e4-d833-11e1-91e1-eed6436f6d13_story.html?hpid=z1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 06, 2013, 04:53:30 pm

Putin's marriage: http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/06/world/europe/russia-putin-marriage/index.html

paging smackie...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 07, 2013, 12:59:02 pm

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qskaSRkns8A/S5iNp01BsgI/AAAAAAAAMQk/kNyQA1UyxP0/s640/richard-ramirez03.jpg)

"hello? . . . satan?"

"yes?"

"hey, im ready to come on down. i have my invitation right here on my hand."

"ok"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 07, 2013, 01:30:15 pm

Quote from: walkonby on June 07, 2013, 12:59:02 pm

"hey, im ready to come on down. i have my invitation right here on my hand."

I was about 11 years old in So Cal when he was on the loose and that was a crazy time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 07, 2013, 01:36:56 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 06, 2013, 04:53:30 pm

Putin's marriage: http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/06/world/europe/russia-putin-marriage/index.html

paging smackie...

I miss Sarkozy.

I really hope that he's been secretly with Berlusconi's Ruby this whole time and WWIII breaks out over it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 07, 2013, 01:55:52 pm

Quote from: vansmack on June 07, 2013, 01:30:15 pm

Quote from: walkonby on June 07, 2013, 12:59:02 pm
"hey, im ready to come on down. i have my invitation right here on my hand."

I was about 11 years old in So Cal when he was on the loose and that was a crazy time.

i thought california . . . was always crazy time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 07, 2013, 03:27:17 pm

Quote from: walkonby on June 07, 2013, 01:55:52 pm

i thought california . . . was always crazy time.

As with all things Walkie, there are different levels of crazy, and this was exceptional. Be home before dark, no walking home alone, all windows and doors locked, AC running at night instead of open windows. This was little different for my little suburban OC. I had forgotten all about it, but as soon as I saw his name, it all came back in a flash.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on June 07, 2013, 03:31:39 pm

Now you've piqued my interest. Who are you talking about?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 07, 2013, 03:33:17 pm

besides me being all shades of crazy time . . . im pretty interested myself. go post in your vansmack thread, an entire breakdown of what you can remember. that would be nice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 07, 2013, 04:22:15 pm

Quote from: James Ford on June 07, 2013, 03:31:39 pm

Now you've piqued my interest. Who are you talking about?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/07/justice/california-night-stalker-ramirez-dead/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on June 07, 2013, 04:23:33 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 07, 2013, 04:22:15 pm

Quote from: James Ford on June 07, 2013, 03:31:39 pm
Now you've piqued my interest. Who are you talking about?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/07/justice/california-night-stalker-ramirez-dead/index.html

Never heard of this guy before. Read his bio and was totally freaked out. Can't say this guy will be missed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on June 07, 2013, 04:33:48 pm

I do vaguely remember this guy now.

For some reason, his name is lumped in with the Steven and Cary Stayner stories for me. Though it's not related. Just more California weirdness I guess.

Quote from: sweetcell on June 07, 2013, 04:22:15 pm

Quote from: James Ford on June 07, 2013, 03:31:39 pm
Now you've piqued my interest. Who are you talking about?

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/07/justice/california-night-stalker-ramirez-dead/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 08, 2013, 05:57:10 pm

Arturo Vega, designer of the Ramones? iconic logo, 1948-2013 (http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/06/08/arturo-vega-dead-ramones-logo-designer/)

(http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ramones.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on June 13, 2013, 09:24:37 pm

Jason Leffler

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on June 15, 2013, 03:52:35 am

Darondo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: showlistdc on June 16, 2013, 08:11:06 pm

Quote from: atomicfront on June 07, 2013, 04:23:33 pm

Never heard of this guy before. Read his bio and was totally freaked out. Can't say this guy will be missed.

you obviously don't listen to Macabre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8mRQsemQpQ

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 17, 2013, 01:19:37 am

Scottish Author, Iain Banks (http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/06/remembering-iain-banks?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/feckintreasured)

If Markie and Lulu were still around, I'd thank them for lending me their copy of "The Crow Road"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on June 18, 2013, 10:01:14 pm

Man, this one is painful.

Michael Hastings (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michael-hastings-rolling-stone-contributor-dead-at-33-20130618#ixzz2WcQNqq60)

And at only 33 :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 18, 2013, 10:13:20 pm

tough loss there. so young and so talented.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on June 19, 2013, 06:42:31 pm

Twitter idiots are already starting up with the conspiracy theories.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 19, 2013, 07:31:28 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on June 19, 2013, 06:42:31 pm

Twitter idiots are already starting up with the conspiracy theories.

I think they're going to be disappointed when they find he was at fault if not (criminally) negligent. I think Buzzfeed was intentionally nondescript in their obit.

Single car crash at 4:25am is usually speeding, drunk or fell asleep.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 19, 2013, 07:47:13 pm

http://www.eonline.com/news/431808/james-gandolfini-dead-at-51

another tough loss. wow . . . so sad! what a great guy!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on June 19, 2013, 08:05:30 pm

Quote from: vansmack on June 19, 2013, 07:31:28 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on June 19, 2013, 06:42:31 pm
Twitter idiots are already starting up with the conspiracy theories.

I think they're going to be disappointed when they find he was at fault if not (criminally) negligent. I think Buzzfeed was intentionally nondescript in their obit.

Single car crash at 4:25am is usually speeding, drunk or fell asleep.

Definitely read the phrase "high speed car crash" somewhere.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on June 19, 2013, 09:49:35 pm

Slim Whitman. So young, another tough loss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on June 20, 2013, 10:15:43 am

I always liked his name and enjoyed reading his articles when you could still access the Rolling Stone Archives for free. . .

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/chet-flippo-former-rolling-stone-editor-dead-20130619

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 24, 2013, 07:52:00 am

Bobby "Blue" Bland

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 24, 2013, 12:34:57 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on June 24, 2013, 07:52:00 am

Bobby "Blue" Bland

bummer... what was his last area show? I think he cancelled the Birchmere one for health reasons (which was a modest $25) but did play the Hamilton I guess last year?

BB King is the last survivor of that group of memphis cats

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on June 24, 2013, 03:28:59 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 24, 2013, 12:34:57 pm

BB King is the last survivor of that group of memphis cats

James Cotton is also still alive.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 24, 2013, 05:08:19 pm

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/06/24/13/2-congressmen-who-died-after-stem-cell-therapy-named

fascinating. i would think something like this would be bigger news.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 26, 2013, 06:09:04 am

Alan Myers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 11, 2013, 05:30:28 pm

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/ryan-davis-1979-2013/1100-4685/

this one was a tear jerker for me. i have loved this guy, their show, their contributions to the world of video games for a long time. not some punk kid, not some nerd who you could not relate to, but an awesome guy who made adults feel great about being obsessed with the art of the video game. he will be missed by a lot of people and fans. he was the best. god . . . i can't believe i am getting this emotional about somebody i have never met.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 14, 2013, 01:57:05 am

Corey Monteith, of Glee fame (Finn).

http://perezhilton.com/2013-07-14-cory-monteith-dead-glee#.UeI9zJ_n-Ag

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 14, 2013, 03:10:54 pm

(http://www.pstracks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bose-901.jpg)

Amar G. Bose, Acoustic Engineer and Inventor, Dies at 83 (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/business/amar-g-bose-acoustic-engineer-and-inventor-dies-at-83.html?_r=0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 16, 2013, 04:44:38 pm

T-Model Ford (http://www.npr.org/2008/10/07/95475405/t-model-ford-jack-daniel-time)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 16, 2013, 05:05:51 pm

clyde, my 92 year old neighbor.

there is zero chance that i'll be as active as he was, at 92. he was clearly a child of the great depression. on weekends he would go to flea markets and do things like buy broken lawn mowers for $10, fix them up (he had an amazing tool collection) and sell them for $25. he made his own cigarettes and planted a big ol' garden. when he heard how much i was going to spend on a new rain-barrel, he told me not to - and built one for me. he was driving as of a month ago. he was a proud WW2 vet, his car was covered with "remember pearl harbor"-type stickers.

gonna miss having him in the 'hood.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 16, 2013, 05:13:29 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 14, 2013, 01:57:05 am

Corey Monteith, of Glee fame (Finn).

Heroin, alcohol.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on July 20, 2013, 11:21:36 am

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/helen-thomas-dead-94511.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 20, 2013, 06:07:20 pm

^Last member of the White House press corps to have any balls (for lack of a better term). T-Model Ford news was a drag too. That Velvet show was a good one. Sweetcell's neighbor sounds swell too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 20, 2013, 08:39:47 pm

i wanted to comment on how awesome she was . . . but that last scandal she suffered through, really still divides her praises amongst notions of it is ok to give her praises.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 20, 2013, 10:33:38 pm

Fuck that. People say the same thing she said in Israel itself & the rest of the world on a daily basis with no recourse. Our media/government seem to feel it is their duty to coddle them at all costs and she was one of the few who didn't stand for it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 21, 2013, 08:52:45 am

Her comments were certainly impolitic.....

Unfortunately you can't say much of anything critical of Israel.. you certainly can't say you don' think Israel should exist....

I'm glad the free local paper here in Falls Church offered her a place for continuing to publish her column..

It always struck me as strange that she could cover the White House for decades, be celebrated and respected, and then for making a few off the cuff comments she's essentially banished to Siberia. But we all know the reality of the American media.

My thinking would be : if we have to pay Israel billions.. if they basically take American citizens, give them Israeli citizenship and send them back to DC to be their Ambassador to America, if their leaders often times speak better American english than our own, if our presidential campaigns devolve into "who can kiss Israel's butt the hardest..." (anyone remember how Romney went over there to be photographed with the great Netanyahu and get the official Israel badge of approval), if so much of the world despises us for our position.... why don't we make it official and have Israel be the 51st state? We certainly pay enough in blood and treasure for their benefit..we love them so much...everything about it is so great...let's just make it official and own it and then I would understand why we love it so much, "hey its the 51st state!!!!!!!!!! its america!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 21, 2013, 03:35:56 pm

Yeah pretty much all that. I didn't know she continued writing for anyone after she was booted from the press corps.

Quote from: hutch on July 21, 2013, 08:52:45 am

Her comments were certainly impolitic.....

Unfortunately you can't say much of anything critical of Israel.. you certainly can't say you don' think Israel should exist....

I'm glad the free local paper here in Falls Church offered her a place for continuing to publish her column..

It always struck me as strange that she could cover the White House for decades, be celebrated and respected, and then for making a few off the cuff comments she's essentially banished to Siberia. But we all know the reality of the American media.

My thinking would be : if we have to pay Israel billions.. if they basically take American citizens, give them Israeli citizenship and send them back to DC to be their Ambassador to America, if their leaders often times speak better American english than our own, if our presidential campaigns devolve into "who can kiss Israel's butt the hardest..." (anyone remember how Romney went over there to be photographed with the great Netanyahu and get the official Israel badge of approval), if so much of the world despises us for our position.... why don't we make it official and have Israel be the 51st state? We certainly pay enough in blood and treasure for their benefit..we love them so much...everything about it is so great...let's just make it official and own it and then I would understand why we love it so much, "hey its the 51st state!!!!!!!!!! its america!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on July 22, 2013, 01:34:46 pm

First Gandolfini, now Dennis Farina. Damn.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: radley17 on July 22, 2013, 01:46:44 pm

Faye Hunter-Let's Active bassist and vocalist

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on July 22, 2013, 02:36:53 pm

Quote from: radley17 on July 22, 2013, 01:46:44 pm

Faye Hunter-Let's Active bassist and vocalist

Really sorry to hear about the circumstances that led up to it.
Always thought they were underrated.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/21/3046951/faye-hunter-part-of-80s-band-lets.html (http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/21/3046951/faye-hunter-part-of-80s-band-lets.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on July 22, 2013, 05:39:41 pm

Quote from: radley17 on July 22, 2013, 01:46:44 pm

Faye Hunter-Let's Active bassist and vocalist

Oh no!!! I was just thinking about her the other day wodnering if Mitch would ever get back together with her. Saw her back in the early 80's at old 930 club. Great show.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on July 23, 2013, 10:01:48 am

Quote from: bearman on July 22, 2013, 01:34:46 pm

First Gandolfini, now Dennis Farina. Damn.

I think Farina's character died on the New Girl last season. I enjoyed him in Snatch the most.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 23, 2013, 06:57:17 pm

I have an autographed "Let's Active" record, oh wait.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 27, 2013, 11:47:30 am

JJ Cale

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/27/showbiz/jj-cale-obit/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 04, 2013, 10:53:31 pm

Art Donovan.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on August 05, 2013, 06:22:29 am

I'm just mad about safron / Safron's just mad about me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 06, 2013, 01:28:18 pm

George Duke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on August 06, 2013, 01:42:24 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 27, 2013, 11:47:30 am

JJ Cale

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/27/showbiz/jj-cale-obit/index.html

When I was at a Dawes show they said that a rock legend died and they would be doing a bunch of his songs tonight and then they broke into "After Midnight" and I thought Eric Clapton died. Turns out it was JJ Cale wrote that song. Did Eric Clapton write any of his own hits. As "Cocaine" was by jj cale as well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 06, 2013, 02:17:29 pm

Shawn Burr one of the Red Wings best grinders

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on August 06, 2013, 03:16:34 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on August 06, 2013, 01:28:18 pm

George Duke

Wow - saw him a few years back at the Clifford Brown jazz fest in Wilmington DE (a great all-free fest).
Totally engaging and flowing with love for the appreciative crowd - some of the most mind-boggling, out-there, virtuoso yet accessible jazz that I've ever heard.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on August 08, 2013, 09:44:40 pm

Karen Black of easy rider and family plot game.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 08, 2013, 10:14:57 pm

sean sasser. sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on August 13, 2013, 07:11:41 am

Jon Brookes, drummer with the Charlatans UK. Heck of a nice guy and a terrific drummer. Very sad news.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 13, 2013, 08:08:48 am

Quote from: atomicfront on August 08, 2013, 09:44:40 pm

Karen Black of easy rider and family plot game.

to me she'll always be remembered for that Airport movie with Charlston Heston

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on August 13, 2013, 03:07:49 pm

Quote from: bearman on August 13, 2013, 07:11:41 am

Jon Brookes, drummer with the Charlatans UK. Heck of a nice guy and a terrific drummer. Very sad news.

Second member of that band to die.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on August 13, 2013, 03:08:14 pm

Quote from: hutch on August 13, 2013, 08:08:48 am

Quote from: atomicfront on August 08, 2013, 09:44:40 pm
Karen Black of easy rider and family plot game.

to me she'll always be remembered for that Airport movie with Charlston Heston

I have that on DVD ... I should watch that tonight in her honor.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 13, 2013, 04:24:08 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/arts/music/eydie-gorme-blame-it-on-the-bossa-nova-singer-dies-at-84.html?_r=0

she was great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05pU6l4PEJw

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 15, 2013, 04:11:54 pm

this guy...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/world/europe/switzerland-stuntman-death/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

and

this lady...

Lisa Robin Kelly

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomicfront on August 20, 2013, 10:28:41 am

Elmore Leonard

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 21, 2013, 11:23:16 pm

Sid Bernstein, who brought The Beatles to U.S., dies
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/21/showbiz/sid-bernstein-obit/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on August 21, 2013, 11:35:07 pm

Atomicfront? What happened?

I have been making an effort to stick to the music threads only. Did somebody harsh his mellow a bit too hard, finally?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 22, 2013, 07:40:02 am

dunno.. I read the forum in WAP mode on my phone, so didn't see the change in status until I got home. And there was no meltdown in the last thread about the actresses in Girls.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 22, 2013, 08:39:02 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on August 21, 2013, 11:35:07 pm

Atomicfront? What happened?

very strange for a guy who was posting all the time.
People were starting to gang up on him...but truth be told he brought it on himself
attacking atomicfront was akin to legit rape :P

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on August 22, 2013, 08:48:18 am

hopefully his employer put a stop to it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on August 22, 2013, 09:24:46 am

I type this as I'm on VACATION at home...but isn't about 95% of what is posted on here posted on work time anyway?

Quote from: Vas Deferens on August 22, 2013, 08:48:18 am

hopefully his employer put a stop to it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 22, 2013, 09:29:48 am

yes . . . if you want to call it, work.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on August 22, 2013, 09:30:57 am

yes, so what's your point...maybe his employer has an IT dept and saw his posts?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 22, 2013, 09:37:38 am

that script worked so well! :o :o :o :o

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 22, 2013, 09:44:37 am

maybe he just had a mini meltdown like that time walky did... he'll prob. get his username reinstated at some point or come back as a new poster in the near term. I predict you'll be able to spot him quite easily with his asinine posts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on August 22, 2013, 09:54:35 am

What about his posts would make an IT department disconnect his account on a message board? Other than the sheer amount of them (which others of us would be guilty as well)?

Quote from: Vas Deferens on August 22, 2013, 09:30:57 am

yes, so what's your point...maybe his employer has an IT dept and saw his posts?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 22, 2013, 09:57:50 am

Quote from: James Ford on August 22, 2013, 09:54:35 am

What about his posts would make an IT department disconnect his account on a message board? Other than the sheer amount of them (which others of us would be guilty as well)?

Quote from: Vas Deferens on August 22, 2013, 09:30:57 am
yes, so what's your point...maybe his employer has an IT dept and saw his posts?

It's all a cry for attention. He's reading this post right now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on August 22, 2013, 10:05:25 am

probably doesn't happen with the Feds, James Ford...but it happens at other companies...at least the ones that I used to work for.

my last employer even had ways to keep track of what you were doing while on a Word document (like creating a resume)...and websites you go to.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 22, 2013, 10:14:44 am

well i'd miss atomicfront.. we got off to a rocky start but he kind of grew on me.. he definitely added to the board..

then again i always root for the underdog..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on August 22, 2013, 10:18:32 am

I'd miss his threats on my life, i have to admit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on August 22, 2013, 10:33:57 am

Of course he's reading this.

Nobody ganged up on him, they just ignored him altogether.

Please. Don't go.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 22, 2013, 10:38:42 am

Quote from: Yada on August 22, 2013, 09:57:50 am

It's all a cry for attention. He's reading this post right now.

Hammer...meet the head of this nail...bang

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on August 24, 2013, 03:41:05 am

Joey LaCaze, drummer of Eyehategod.

Details are sketchy...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 28, 2013, 11:23:43 am

Gus the Polar Bear (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/29/nyregion/gus-new-yorks-most-famous-polar-bear-dies-at-27.html?hp&_r=0)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8F6MnCsiOc

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on August 28, 2013, 11:32:30 am

Quote from: chaz on August 22, 2013, 10:33:57 am

Of course he's reading this.

Nobody ganged up on him, they just ignored him altogether.

Please. Don't go.

I never left. Just changed my name to the name I use on other forums. Made it easier to log in.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on August 28, 2013, 11:34:15 am

I never, ever thought I'd say this given our (ancient) history, but welcome back....ggw.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on August 28, 2013, 01:21:10 pm

Quote from: James Ford on August 28, 2013, 11:34:15 am

I never, ever thought I'd say this given our (ancient) history, but welcome back....ggw.

Well thank you JF. I don't know what ggw means but I am sure it is something pleasant. Don't worry if I am gone for a while. I am about to head out to Germany and Austria in a couple of days to drink the finest beer in the world.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 28, 2013, 01:49:04 pm

girls gone wild.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: showlistdc on August 28, 2013, 02:00:40 pm

Chris Friedrich, bass player for Caspian.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 28, 2013, 04:43:21 pm

The Reef

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 28, 2013, 08:51:40 pm

Quote from: James Ford on August 28, 2013, 11:34:15 am

I never, ever thought I'd say this given our (ancient) history, but welcome back....ggw.

All this talk about "twerking" made me miss you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 30, 2013, 10:46:18 am

Seamus Heaney (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/arts/seamus-heaney-acclaimed-irish-poet-dies-at-74.html?_r=0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 01, 2013, 12:01:34 pm

David Frost

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Sieve-Fisted on September 01, 2013, 12:12:08 pm

Electric Zoo

http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2013b%2Fpr289-13.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1 (http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2013b%2Fpr289-13.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on September 01, 2013, 12:23:07 pm

This bummed me out.
Even the most recent stuff he was doing for Al Jazeera was all brilliant.

Quote from: Shemp on September 01, 2013, 12:01:34 pm

David Frost

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 04, 2013, 03:35:23 am

Ariel Castro, Cleveland kidnapper, found hanged in prison cell
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/justice/ariel-castro-cleveland-kidnapper-death/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Venerable Bede on September 04, 2013, 06:44:14 pm

Ronald Coase (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-03/ronald-coase-nobel-winner-who-studied-corporations-dies-at-102.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 04, 2013, 08:20:18 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 04, 2013, 03:35:23 am

Ariel Castro, Cleveland kidnapper, found hanged in prison cell
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/justice/ariel-castro-cleveland-kidnapper-death/index.html

I wonder what the over/under was on this

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 04, 2013, 08:35:43 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on September 04, 2013, 08:20:18 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 04, 2013, 03:35:23 am
Ariel Castro, Cleveland kidnapper, found hanged in prison cell
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/justice/ariel-castro-cleveland-kidnapper-death/index.html

I wonder what the over/under was on this

He was most certainly not going to be alive long enough to be treated as he treated his victims, that was for sure.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 12, 2013, 06:23:58 pm

A moment of silence for Ray Dolby (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-sound-pioneer-ray-dolby-has-died-20130912,0,254453.story)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on September 13, 2013, 03:18:41 pm

RIP Baltimore Gran Prix 2014-2015

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on September 19, 2013, 02:21:08 am

Ken Norton.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on September 20, 2013, 10:11:26 am

Bob Showacre aka Bob "Here" of WHFS fame evidently died on Sept 5th.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on September 20, 2013, 10:33:47 am

Quote from: atomic on September 20, 2013, 10:11:26 am

Bob Showacre aka Bob "Here" of WHFS fame evidently died on Sept 5th.

Sad. One of my favorite DJs ever. Loved his mellow demeanor and all the Grateful Dead stuff he played

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on September 20, 2013, 11:30:36 am

Lindsay Cooper (of Comus, Henry Cow, etc)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on September 20, 2013, 09:10:01 pm

Freddie McCullough
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/savannah/obituary.aspx?n=william-mccullough&pid=166950349#fbLoggedOut (http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/savannah/obituary.aspx?n=william-mccullough&pid=166950349#fbLoggedOut)

(http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1359300/thumbs/n-WILLIAM-FREDDIE-MCULLOUGH-large.jpg?6)

William Freddie McCullough - BLOOMINGDALE - The man. The myth. The legend. Men wanted to be him and women wanted to be with him. William Freddie McCullough died on September 11, 2013. Freddie loved deep fried Southern food smothered in Cane Syrup, fishing at Santee Cooper Lake, Little Debbie Cakes, Two and a Half Men, beautiful women, Reeses Cups and Jim Beam. Not necessarily in that order. He hated vegetables and hypocrites. Not necessarily in that order. He was a master craftsman who single -handedly built his beautiful house from the ground up. Freddie was also great at growing fruit trees, grilling chicken and ribs, popping wheelies on his Harley at 50 mph, making everyone feel appreciated and hitting Coke bottles at thirty yards with his 45. When it came to floor covering, Freddie was one of the best in the business. And he loved doing it. Freddie loved to tell stories. And you could be sure 50% of every story was true. You just never knew which 50%. Marshall Matt Dillon, Ben Cartwright and Charlie Harper were his TV heroes. And he was the hero for his six children: Mark, Shain, Clint, Brandice, Ashley and Thomas. Freddie adored the ladies. And they adored him. There isn't enough space here to list all of the women from Freddie's past. There isn't enough space in the Bloomingdale phone book. A few of the more colorful ones were Momma Margie, Crazy Pam, Big Tittie Wanda, Spacy Stacy and Sweet Melissa (he explained that nickname had nothing to do with her attitude). He attracted more women than a shoe sale at Macy's. He got married when he was 18, but it didn't last. Freddie was no quitter, however, so he gave it a shot two more times. It didn't work out with any of the wives, but he managed to stay friends with them and their parents. In between his many adventures, Freddie appeared in several films including The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd, A Time for Miracles, The Conspirator, Double Wide Blues and Pretty Fishes. When Freddie took off for that pool party in the sky, he left behind his sons Mark McCullough, Shain McCullough and his wife Amy, Clint McCullough and his wife Desiree, and Thomas McCullough and his wife Candice; and his daughters Brandice Chambers and her husband Michael, Ashley Cooler and her husband Justin; his brothers Jimmie and Eddie McCullough; and his girlfriend Lisa Hopkins; and seven delightful grandkids. Freddie was killed when he rushed into a burning orphanage to save a group of adorable children. Or maybe not. We all know how he liked to tell stories. Savannah Morning News September 14, 2013

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on September 25, 2013, 07:56:31 am

Quote from: atomic on September 20, 2013, 10:11:26 am

Bob Showacre aka Bob "Here" of WHFS fame evidently died on Sept 5th.

Well, damn. Sorry to hear that. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on September 25, 2013, 08:01:05 am

Carolyn Cassady (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/books/carolyn-cassady-beat-generation-writer-dies-at-90.html?_r=0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on October 02, 2013, 10:29:10 am

Tom Clancy
I'm so sorry ratbastard.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on October 02, 2013, 10:32:20 am

I gotta say, though, as much as he was a fascist and fetishized military equipment like it was foot porn, a Clancy thousand-pager made for a GREAT vacation book. I rarely read novels but I read almost all of his novels.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 08, 2013, 01:04:34 pm

Philip Chevron

(of the Pogues)

:'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 08, 2013, 01:17:55 pm

I should also sadly add

Butch Warren

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 10, 2013, 01:20:31 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on September 04, 2013, 08:20:18 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 04, 2013, 03:35:23 am
Ariel Castro, Cleveland kidnapper, found hanged in prison cell
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/justice/ariel-castro-cleveland-kidnapper-death/index.html

I wonder what the over/under was on this

I bet you didn't have this on the list:

Castro Death cited as Auto-erotic asphyxiation (http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/10/20899519-prison-review-of-ariel-castros-death-cites-possibility-of-auto-erotic-asphyxiation?lite)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on October 10, 2013, 07:00:36 pm

Scott Carpenter (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/scott-carpenter-pioneering-astronaut-and-2nd-american-in-orbit-dies-at-age-88/2013/10/10/a3d20f38-31ea-11e3-ad00-ec4c6b31cbed_story.html?hpid=z4)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 11, 2013, 09:13:04 am

Quote from: Shemp on October 10, 2013, 07:00:36 pm

Scott Carpenter (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/scott-carpenter-pioneering-astronaut-and-2nd-american-in-orbit-dies-at-age-88/2013/10/10/a3d20f38-31ea-11e3-ad00-ec4c6b31cbed_story.html?hpid=z4)

My initial thought was "...from The Carpenters?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 17, 2013, 11:55:52 am

Hans Riegel, inventor of the gummy bear
http://nypost.com/2013/10/16/gummy-bear-creator-dies-at-90/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on October 17, 2013, 06:40:33 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 17, 2013, 11:55:52 am

Hans Riegel, inventor of the gummy bear
http://nypost.com/2013/10/16/gummy-bear-creator-dies-at-90/

Oh no. I was just eating some of his companies creations this morning and now he is dead?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 17, 2013, 08:15:59 pm

OMG atomic killed the gummi bears!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 18, 2013, 10:44:50 am

Quote from: atomic on October 17, 2013, 06:40:33 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 17, 2013, 11:55:52 am
Hans Riegel, inventor of the gummy bear
http://nypost.com/2013/10/16/gummy-bear-creator-dies-at-90/

Oh no. I was just eating some of his companies creations this morning and now he is dead?

Gummy bears for breakfast?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on October 19, 2013, 11:26:18 am

Bum Phillips

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 20, 2013, 02:52:02 pm

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g16/beetsnotbeats/ahmad_zpsc6b54737.jpg) (https://twitter.com/ahmadmzaghal)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on October 21, 2013, 01:24:14 pm

http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/remembering-elliott-smith-10th-anniversary-649705

Anyone else see Elliott's shows? I saw Heatmiser at the Black Cat, as well as his shows in 2000 at the Black Cat and the 9:30 Club. Autumn gets it right. When he played acoustic, there was not a single word spoken by anyone in that room. Hushed awe. I'll never forget that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 21, 2013, 10:27:48 pm

Twitter Music App

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on October 22, 2013, 11:04:53 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on October 21, 2013, 10:27:48 pm

Twitter Music App

Like a lot of the posts in this thread. Never heard of it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on October 26, 2013, 06:24:52 pm

Edna Krabappel is dead.

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/r-p-marcia-wallace-152245968.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on October 27, 2013, 01:27:51 pm

lou reed

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-and-rock-pioneer-dead-at-71-20131027

fuck

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 27, 2013, 01:40:04 pm

Quote from: gaaaaaaaaah on October 27, 2013, 01:27:51 pm

lou reed

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-and-rock-pioneer-dead-at-71-20131027

fuck

"Fuck" is right. Given his history, it's probably surprising he made it to 71, but it still sucks. Glad I got to see him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 27, 2013, 01:42:39 pm

awful news... just awful

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on October 27, 2013, 05:38:27 pm

Quote from: gaaaaaaaaah on October 27, 2013, 01:27:51 pm

lou reed

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-and-rock-pioneer-dead-at-71-20131027

fuck

The return of the day that the music died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on October 28, 2013, 02:02:49 pm

Nerdapalooza 2007 - 2013

This might not matter to most of you, but I was personally upset by today's announcement. I only went to Nerdapalooza (aka NAP) once (2009) and it was some of the most fun I have EVER had at a music festival.

For those who dont know what i am talking about, NAP was a yearly gathering of nerdy folks who would converge upon the city of Orlando for a weekend of Nerdcore and other nerdy types of music.

Unfortunately, the promoters were a bit overambitious this year, and bankrupted their organization (1000 people attended, and they were planning for 3000).

Personally i think they were expanding at a nice pace over the years, but this year they went a little too far for this niche community.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on October 28, 2013, 02:13:38 pm

I think the problem is that adult nerds already have a place that they go to in Orlando. It's called Disney World.

There are many nerds in DC. They should have held it here.

Quote from: killsaly on October 28, 2013, 02:02:49 pm

Nerdapalooza 2007 - 2013

This might not matter to most of you, but I was personally upset by today's announcement. I only went to Nerdapalooza (aka NAP) once (2009) and it was some of the most fun I have EVER had at a music festival.

For those who dont know what i am talking about, NAP was a yearly gathering of nerdy folks who would converge upon the city of Orlando for a weekend of Nerdcore and other nerdy types of music.

Unfortunately, the promoters were a bit overambitious this year, and bankrupted their organization (1000 people attended, and they were planning for 3000).

Personally i think they were expanding at a nice pace over the years, but this year they went a little too far for this niche community.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on October 28, 2013, 02:16:01 pm

Quote from: James Ford on October 28, 2013, 02:13:38 pm

I think the problem is that adult nerds already have a place that they go to in Orlando. It's called Disney World.

There are many nerds in DC. They should have held it here.

Quote from: killsaly on October 28, 2013, 02:02:49 pm
Nerdapalooza 2007 - 2013

This might not matter to most of you, but I was personally upset by today's announcement. I only went to Nerdapalooza (aka NAP) once (2009) and it was some of the most fun I have EVER had at a music festival.

For those who dont know what i am talking about, NAP was a yearly gathering of nerdy folks who would converge upon the city of Orlando for a weekend of Nerdcore and other nerdy types of music.

Unfortunately, the promoters were a bit overambitious this year, and bankrupted their organization (1000 people attended, and they were planning for 3000).

Personally i think they were expanding at a nice pace over the years, but this year they went a little too far for this niche community.

Do you include yourself in that group? I think you are at least a beer nerd.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on October 28, 2013, 03:49:08 pm

Sure, of course I am a nerd. I majored in Math.

Although I'd never go to Disney World as an adult. Not even with my kid.

Quote from: atomic on October 28, 2013, 02:16:01 pm

Quote from: James Ford on October 28, 2013, 02:13:38 pm
I think the problem is that adult nerds already have a place that they go to in Orlando. It's called Disney World.

There are many nerds in DC. They should have held it here.

Quote from: killsaly on October 28, 2013, 02:02:49 pm
Nerdapalooza 2007 - 2013

This might not matter to most of you, but I was personally upset by today's announcement. I only went to Nerdapalooza (aka NAP) once (2009) and it was some of the most fun I have EVER had at a music festival.

For those who dont know what i am talking about, NAP was a yearly gathering of nerdy folks who would converge upon the city of Orlando for a weekend of Nerdcore and other nerdy types of music.

Unfortunately, the promoters were a bit overambitious this year, and bankrupted their organization (1000 people attended, and they were planning for 3000).

Personally i think they were expanding at a nice pace over the years, but this year they went a little too far for this niche community.

Do you include yourself in that group? I think you are at least a beer nerd.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on October 28, 2013, 05:21:36 pm

Quote from: James Ford on October 28, 2013, 03:49:08 pm

Sure, of course I am a nerd. I majored in Math.

Although I'd never go to Disney World as an adult. Not even with my kid.

Quote from: atomic on October 28, 2013, 02:16:01 pm
Quote from: James Ford on October 28, 2013, 02:13:38 pm
I think the problem is that adult nerds already have a place that they go to in Orlando. It's called Disney World.

There are many nerds in DC. They should have held it here.

Quote from: killsaly on October 28, 2013, 02:02:49 pm
Nerdapalooza 2007 - 2013

This might not matter to most of you, but I was personally upset by today's announcement. I only went to Nerdapalooza (aka NAP) once (2009) and it was some of the most fun I have EVER had at a music festival.

For those who dont know what i am talking about, NAP was a yearly gathering of nerdy folks who would converge upon the city of Orlando for a weekend of Nerdcore and other nerdy types of music.

Unfortunately, the promoters were a bit overambitious this year, and bankrupted their organization (1000 people attended, and they were planning for 3000).

Personally i think they were expanding at a nice pace over the years, but this year they went a little too far for this niche community.

Do you include yourself in that group? I think you are at least a beer nerd.

So you like stuff like "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter"?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on October 28, 2013, 06:22:45 pm

i love being a nerd. you know shit, and stuff. end of nerd jack in the death thread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 28, 2013, 09:05:24 pm

Who was on the front page of the Financial Times today? Not Angela Merkel, not Mario Draghi, not Ben Bernanke, not Haruhiko Kuroda. Lou Reed - that's who. You know you're a stud when the FT honors your passing with a front page spread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 04, 2013, 01:26:25 pm

Phyllis Diller
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/20/showbiz/phyllis-diller-obit/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on November 04, 2013, 02:29:32 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 04, 2013, 01:26:25 pm

Phyllis Diller
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/20/showbiz/phyllis-diller-obit/index.html

Oh no!!! I remember her best from her guest appearance on Scooby Do.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on November 04, 2013, 03:34:56 pm

a loss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 05, 2013, 12:26:38 am

the restaurant that was the source of "Automatic for the People":

Athens loses a landmark restaurant made famous by R.E.M.
http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2013/11/04/athens-loses-a-landmark-restaurant-made-famous-by-r-e-m/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 11, 2013, 01:39:24 pm

The Yellow Dogs
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20131111/east-williamsburg/enraged-musician-kills-bandmates-williamsburg-police-reports-say

Lots more info and discussion:
http://www.metafilter.com/133708/The-Yellow-Dogs-RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on November 11, 2013, 04:49:05 pm

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/yellow-dogs
According to this, that report is wrong.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 11, 2013, 07:08:00 pm

Quote from: killsaly on November 11, 2013, 04:49:05 pm

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/yellow-dogs
According to this, that report is wrong.

Well that changes EVERYTHINHG.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on November 12, 2013, 04:07:05 pm

Quote from: grateful on November 11, 2013, 07:08:00 pm

Quote from: killsaly on November 11, 2013, 04:49:05 pm
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/yellow-dogs
According to this, that report is wrong.

Well that changes EVERYTHINHG.

This has the CIA written all over it. They're covering up what really happen to keep a dark operation intact. Majid Javadi or one of Nazir's thugs were probably involved.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on November 12, 2013, 04:10:25 pm

As someone who is a season behind on Homeland, I'm going to ignore that comment.

Quote from: slappy on November 12, 2013, 04:07:05 pm

Quote from: grateful on November 11, 2013, 07:08:00 pm
Quote from: killsaly on November 11, 2013, 04:49:05 pm
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/yellow-dogs
According to this, that report is wrong.

Well that changes EVERYTHINHG.

This has the CIA written all over it. They're covering up what really happen to keep a dark operation intact. Majid Javadi or one of Nazir's thugs were probably involved.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 12, 2013, 04:55:22 pm

Quote from: slappy on November 12, 2013, 04:07:05 pm

Quote from: grateful on November 11, 2013, 07:08:00 pm
Quote from: killsaly on November 11, 2013, 04:49:05 pm
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/yellow-dogs
According to this, that report is wrong.

Well that changes EVERYTHINHG.

This has the CIA written all over it. They're covering up what really happen to keep a dark operation intact. Majid Javadi or one of Nazir's thugs were probably involved.

Well played.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 13, 2013, 04:34:37 pm

Quote from: killsaly on November 11, 2013, 04:49:05 pm

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/yellow-dogs
According to this, that report is wrong.

Surviving Members of Yellow Dogs and Free Keys Release Statement About Murder-Suicide
http://pitchfork.com/news/52997-surviving-members-of-yellow-dogs-and-free-keys-release-statement-about-murder-suicide/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 13, 2013, 04:54:15 pm

Does anyone know if the remaining members are spread out throughout all the instruments so the two half-bands can easily form one whole-band at this point or do we just have like 3 bass players and a drummer left between the two with no guitarists or vocalists?

My apologies if asking this is, in some way, considered gauche.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 14, 2013, 12:27:00 am

too soon?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on November 14, 2013, 09:38:08 am

Who cares. There are far too many bands in the world anyway. It's not going to kill anybody is there are two less mediocre bands in the world.

Quote from: Julian, Former Weblebrity on November 13, 2013, 04:54:15 pm

Does anyone know if the remaining members are spread out throughout all the instruments so the two half-bands can easily form one whole-band at this point or do we just have like 3 bass players and a drummer left between the two with no guitarists or vocalists?

My apologies if asking this is, in some way, considered gauche.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on November 14, 2013, 10:20:57 am

Don't dismiss reconfiguring surviving band members to maximize profit.

Who's dead in The Who? A drummer and a bass player. Who is still living in the Beatles? A drummer and bass player.

The Whotles? The Bho? OMG! They would CLEAN UP on the Baby Boomer circuit! You think tix are expensive for Sting and Paul Simon??!?!?

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 14, 2013, 10:29:24 am

Quote from: sweetcell on November 14, 2013, 12:27:00 am

too soon?

Pardon me for being concerned about the ability of the survivors to care for their financial well-being going forward.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 14, 2013, 10:30:11 am

Quote from: James Ford on November 14, 2013, 09:38:08 am

It's not going to kill anybody...

Goodness, gracious!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 14, 2013, 10:30:44 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on November 14, 2013, 10:20:57 am

Who's dead in The Who? A drummer and a bass player. Who is still living in the Beatles? A drummer and bass player.

The Whotles? The Bho? OMG! They would CLEAN UP on the Baby Boomer circuit!

This is ridiculously plausible when you stop and think about it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on November 14, 2013, 10:33:28 am

Except when you actually consider Ringo's drumming ability.

Or were you referring to Pete Best?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 14, 2013, 10:36:17 am

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on November 14, 2013, 10:33:28 am

Except when you actually consider Ringo's drumming ability.

Right, because Ringo's drumming ability certainly held the Beatles back in terms of making mad cash.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on November 14, 2013, 10:39:19 am

I could have played drums for the Beatles and it wouldn't have changed a thing. Except for the songs he sang, I guess. Cause I can't sing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on November 14, 2013, 11:38:37 am

People hate on Ringo so much. I think he's horribly underrated. He wasn't a flashy basher like Moon or Bonham...but his chops were always tasty and totally on point for the song at hand. Ringo always got the exact right feel for the song.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 14, 2013, 11:47:38 am

I love Ringo's drumming... on a lot of stuff he has a really great sound..particularly the later sound.. i'm guessing some will credit George Martin and the recording but I always think its Ringo's doing..

just don't get the criticism for the guy...to me it seems to have become a commonly accepted view that sprung from a joke or something...

I mean when the Beatles decided to upgrade from Pete they went out to get Ringo because they thought he was real good.. .its true he didn't get the sound George Martin wanted on one of the early songs (I thnk)..maybe the whole thing stems from that..

I mean they didn't get him for his looks! they went out and from what i read got the most respected drummer in the Liverpool scene..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on November 14, 2013, 11:57:40 am

When they were getting ready to record their first single , Love Me Do, Martin told the band that live they could do what they wished, but that if they recorded with him that he would bring in a pro. Apparently pete didn't really fit into the group dynamic anyway, so they dumped him. Martin remained stubborn and insisted on using his guy for the track, but soon learned Ringo was more than up to the task as he obviously drummed on everything else.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 14, 2013, 12:05:40 pm

Quote from: chaz on November 14, 2013, 11:57:40 am

When they were getting ready to record their first single , Love Me Do, Martin told the band that live they could do what they wished, but that if they recorded with him that he would bring in a pro. Apparently pete didn't really fit into the group dynamic anyway, so they dumped him. Martin remained stubborn and insisted on using his guy for the track, but soon learned Ringo was more than up to the task as he obviously drummed on everything else.

"Love Me Do" was recorded by the Beatles on three different occasions with three different drummers at EMI Studios at 3 Abbey Road in London:

- EMI Artist Test on 6 June 1962 with Pete Best on drums.[13] This version (previously thought to be lost) is available on Anthology 1.
- First proper recording session 4 September 1962. In August, Best had been replaced with Ringo Starr. Producer George Martin did not approve of Best's drumming for studio work. It was the norm at that time to have a specialist studio drummer who knew the ways of studio work. The decision to fire Best was not Martin's. The Beatles with Starr recorded a version at EMI Studios.[14]
- Second recording session 11 September 1962. One week later, the Beatles returned to the same studio and they made a recording of "Love Me Do" with session drummer Andy White on drums. Starr was relegated to playing tambourine. As tambourine is not present on the 4 September recording, this is the easiest way to distinguish between the Starr and White recordings.

from da wiki.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 14, 2013, 12:14:34 pm

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on November 14, 2013, 10:39:19 am

I could have played drums for the Beatles and it wouldn't have changed a thing. Except for the songs he sang, I guess. Cause I can't sing.

LOL

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on November 14, 2013, 12:33:41 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 14, 2013, 12:05:40 pm

Quote from: chaz on November 14, 2013, 11:57:40 am
When they were getting ready to record their first single , Love Me Do, Martin told the band that live they could do what they wished, but that if they recorded with him that he would bring in a pro. Apparently pete didn't really fit into the group dynamic anyway, so they dumped him. Martin remained stubborn and insisted on using his guy for the track, but soon learned Ringo was more than up to the task as he obviously drummed on everything else.

"Love Me Do" was recorded by the Beatles on three different occasions with three different drummers at EMI Studios at 3 Abbey Road in London:

- EMI Artist Test on 6 June 1962 with Pete Best on drums.[13] This version (previously thought to be lost) is available on Anthology 1.
- First proper recording session 4 September 1962. In August, Best had been replaced with Ringo Starr. Producer George Martin did not approve of Best's drumming for studio work. It was the norm at that time to have a specialist studio drummer who knew the ways of studio work. The decision to fire Best was not Martin's. The Beatles with Starr recorded a version at EMI Studios.[14]
- Second recording session 11 September 1962. One week later, the Beatles returned to the same studio and they made a recording of "Love Me Do" with session drummer Andy White on drums. Starr was relegated to playing tambourine. As tambourine is not present on the 4 September recording, this is the easiest way to distinguish between the Starr and White recordings.

from da wiki.

stupid wikipedia turns everyone into an internet expert on everything

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 14, 2013, 12:48:20 pm

Since we don't have an un-Dropping Like Flies thread:

Andy Kaufman's Brother Says comedian is Alive, in Love, and has a Daughter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/andy-kaufmans-brother-says-comedian-655760)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on November 14, 2013, 01:21:54 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 14, 2013, 12:48:20 pm

Since we don't have an un-Dropping Like Flies thread:

Andy Kaufman's Brother Says comedian is Alive, in Love, and has a Daughter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/andy-kaufmans-brother-says-comedian-655760)

Whether true or a prank from beyond the grave, this is beyond awesome. Beyond-the-grave-awesome!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 14, 2013, 01:40:10 pm

Quote from: chaz on November 14, 2013, 01:21:54 pm

Whether true or a prank from beyond the grave, this is beyond awesome. Beyond-the-grave-awesome!

100% Agree.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on November 14, 2013, 02:40:30 pm

Well that was disappointingly short lived.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 14, 2013, 04:22:12 pm

Quote from: chaz on November 14, 2013, 02:40:30 pm

Well that was disappointingly short lived.

Yep.

Boo. (http://defamer.gawker.com/the-girl-claiming-to-be-andy-kaufmans-daughter-is-a-ne-1464436787/@maxread)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: radley17 on November 14, 2013, 09:20:25 pm

For what its worth, Ringo's son Zak Starkey did play drums for the Who on at least 1 tour

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 14, 2013, 11:49:43 pm

Quote from: radley17 on November 14, 2013, 09:20:25 pm

For what its worth, Ringo's son Zak Starkey did play drums for the Who on at least 1 tour

Saw him with Oasis too. He was "solid" to say the least.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 15, 2013, 08:55:44 am

Zak is a great drummer... Ringo naysayers will probably point out Keith Moon had more influence on him , personally and stylistically, as a drummer...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on November 15, 2013, 09:57:07 am

Quote from: Julian, Former Weblebrity on November 14, 2013, 11:49:43 pm

Quote from: radley17 on November 14, 2013, 09:20:25 pm
For what its worth, Ringo's son Zak Starkey did play drums for the Who on at least 1 tour
Saw him with Oasis too. He was "solid" to say the least.

Geez! You saw OASIS with ZAK STARKEY?!?!? You didn't see them with Tony McCaroll (when they were peerless. He only played on the first six singles and "Definitely Maybe". That's like batting 1.000.) You didn't even see them with Alan White.

I know it's tough to select one specific nadir with a band like Oasis, but that's like seeing Kiss with Vinnie Vincent.

I'm disappointed. I thought you thought you were hip.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on November 15, 2013, 10:19:22 am

Can we bring back Dupek too?

Oh what a Xmas present that would be.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on November 15, 2013, 10:31:37 am

you know what i would love. this dupek guy finally comes back. finally, after all these years, after all these people mentioning him, after all these times his name has come up . . . and then him being boring and sucking at posts and then you ask yourself, why did we want him to come back. thats what i would love. like brian. brian is boring now, past his prime and sucks at posts. why did we want him to come back, again?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 15, 2013, 10:51:37 am

Quote from: walkonby on November 15, 2013, 10:31:37 am

you know what i would love. this dupek guy finally comes back. finally, after all these years, after all these people mentioning him, after all these times his name has come up . . . and then him being boring and sucking at posts and then you ask yourself, why did we want him to come back. thats what i would love. like brian. brian is boring now, past his prime and sucks at posts. why did we want him to come back, again?

who wanted brian to come back?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 15, 2013, 10:58:46 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on November 15, 2013, 09:57:07 am

I'm disappointed. I thought you thought you were hip.

Well that's an idiotic assumption. Absolutely everyone on here could've told you I'm nowhere near hip.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on November 15, 2013, 11:01:38 am

julian . . . brian . . . atomic . . . atomic front . . . sidehatch . . . dupek

which one is real, which one is dead?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 15, 2013, 11:54:01 am

Quote from: walkonby on November 15, 2013, 11:01:38 am

julian . . . brian . . . atomic . . . atomic front . . . sidehatch . . . dupek

I guess a bad rep is better than none at all...but surprised I'm getting associated with motely crew

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on November 15, 2013, 12:35:01 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on November 15, 2013, 11:54:01 am

Quote from: walkonby on November 15, 2013, 11:01:38 am
julian . . . brian . . . atomic . . . atomic front . . . sidehatch . . . dupek
I guess a bad rep is better than none at all...but surprised I'm getting associated with motely crew

Yeah, you are not worthy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 15, 2013, 01:07:00 pm

Quote from: atomic on November 15, 2013, 12:35:01 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on November 15, 2013, 11:54:01 am
Quote from: walkonby on November 15, 2013, 11:01:38 am
julian . . . brian . . . atomic . . . atomic front . . . sidehatch . . . dupek
I guess a bad rep is better than none at all...but surprised I'm getting associated with motely crew

Yeah, you are not worthy.

Dupek and I are legitimately beloved on here. The rest of that list are legitimately hated.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on November 15, 2013, 01:58:13 pm

who looks better naked . . . you or dupek? you or atomic? football built, goes a long way, naked.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on November 15, 2013, 02:45:07 pm

Quote from: Julian, Former Weblebrity on November 15, 2013, 01:07:00 pm

Quote from: atomic on November 15, 2013, 12:35:01 pm
Quote from: Sidehatch on November 15, 2013, 11:54:01 am
Quote from: walkonby on November 15, 2013, 11:01:38 am
julian . . . brian . . . atomic . . . atomic front . . . sidehatch . . . dupek
I guess a bad rep is better than none at all...but surprised I'm getting associated with motely crew

Yeah, you are not worthy.
Dupek and I are legitimately beloved on here. The rest of that list are legitimately hated.

Funny when you were gone all people did was talk about how much they hated you. People claimed you and I were the same person so I read your posts and thought what an idiot. Or maybe that was Brian Wallace's posts I read. I don't know there are so many people that they claimed were me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on November 15, 2013, 02:46:17 pm

Quote from: walkonby on November 15, 2013, 01:58:13 pm

who looks better naked . . . you or dupek? you or atomic? football built, goes a long way, naked.

I guess it depends if you like tall natural blondes with broad shoulders. Some might prefer bald short guys who lack muscles. Every lid has a pot.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 15, 2013, 02:47:01 pm

Jay Bennett would have been 50 today...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 15, 2013, 03:21:57 pm

Quote from: atomic on November 15, 2013, 02:45:07 pm

Funny when you were gone all people did was talk about how much they hated you. People claimed you and I were the same person so I read your posts and thought what an idiot. Or maybe that was Brian Wallace's posts I read. I don't know there are so many people that they claimed were me.

You're thinking of Brian Wallace. No one would mistake you for my trademark style and grace.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on November 15, 2013, 03:30:08 pm

How much would he have weighed?

Quote from: hutch on November 15, 2013, 02:47:01 pm

Jay Bennett would have been 50 today...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 15, 2013, 05:00:27 pm

Quote from: James Ford on November 15, 2013, 03:30:08 pm

How much would he have weighed?

Quote from: hutch on November 15, 2013, 02:47:01 pm
Jay Bennett would have been 50 today...

I'm guessing ten pounds on top of his weight at the time of his death....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 20, 2013, 06:02:07 pm

(http://haverzine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/winamp_main.png)

RIP Winamp: iconic media player to be discontinued December 20th, 2013 (http://haverzine.com/2013/11/20/rip-winamp-iconic-media-player-to-be-discontinued-december-20th-2013/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on November 20, 2013, 06:15:23 pm

looks like something out of final fantasy four

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 20, 2013, 06:31:27 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on November 20, 2013, 06:02:07 pm

RIP Winamp: iconic media player to be discontinued December 20th, 2013 (http://haverzine.com/2013/11/20/rip-winamp-iconic-media-player-to-be-discontinued-december-20th-2013/)

oh noes! i love me some winamp. it all that i use, i hate itunes. i can manage my ipod through winamp, a lot easier and nicer than itunes. so much lighter than itunes. i'll be downloading and keeping a copy of 5.66's installer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 20, 2013, 06:34:51 pm

It survived iTunes competition. It did not survive the cloud.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 20, 2013, 06:52:25 pm

the cloud won't sync tracks to my ipod :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 20, 2013, 06:54:27 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 20, 2013, 06:52:25 pm

the cloud won't sync tracks to my ipod :(

That's not the cloud's fault.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 20, 2013, 07:35:33 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 20, 2013, 06:54:27 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 20, 2013, 06:52:25 pm
the cloud won't sync tracks to my ipod :(

That's not the cloud's fault.

stop being a cloud apologist.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 20, 2013, 08:06:19 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 20, 2013, 07:35:33 pm

stop being a cloud apologist.

Stop complaining that a third party product you use for free to make up for the shortcomings of the software required to use a limited yet overpriced device you own that hasn't changed how it operates in over ten years is being discontinued.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 22, 2013, 04:25:21 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on November 20, 2013, 06:02:07 pm

RIP Winamp: iconic media player to be discontinued December 20th, 2013 (http://haverzine.com/2013/11/20/rip-winamp-iconic-media-player-to-be-discontinued-december-20th-2013/)

Premature or just as well?:

Source: Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL (http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/21/source-microsoft-in-talks-to-buy-shoutcast-and-winamp-from-aol/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 22, 2013, 04:53:43 pm

Turntable.fm 12/2 - when I was able to use I had a great time in the Daily Theme Room. At it's peak I heard some great tunes and hung out with cool people. The Facebook Tt.fm groups will out live the service....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 22, 2013, 05:07:30 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 22, 2013, 04:53:43 pm

Turntable.fm 12/2 -

That's a shame, I definitely had a fun time on there, but it's been a while since I've been back

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 22, 2013, 11:40:05 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on November 22, 2013, 05:07:30 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 22, 2013, 04:53:43 pm
Turntable.fm 12/2 -
That's a shame, I definitely had a fun time on there, but it's been a while since I've been back

You could see it coming, even the craptastic EDM rooms were fading away on that site. There were some great soul music rooms where people played some of their own rare 45 rips, but those faded away. The genre/era specific rooms got boring after awhile, which is why when I could get away with spending time in it, The Daily Theme was a great place to hang. Oh well... It was a fun couple of years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on November 22, 2013, 11:59:37 pm

If you guys want to talk about things going away that aren't people you start a new thread. I really dont' care that some software that I last heard about in the 90's is being shutdown. Next you will be telling me Prodigy doesn't offer an online community anymore.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 23, 2013, 12:04:55 am

Quote from: atomic on November 22, 2013, 11:59:37 pm

If you guys want to talk about things going away that aren't people you start a new thread. I really dont' care that some software that I last heard about in the 90's is being shutdown. Next you will be telling me Prodigy doesn't offer an online community anymore.

BOOM!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on November 30, 2013, 11:02:20 pm

Estrogen in the Pixies:

http://www.nme.com/news/pixies/74145 (http://www.nme.com/news/pixies/74145)

I was going to say "Vaginas in the Pixies" but Black Francis is pretty much a bitch anyway.

Hey! D'arcy from the Smashing Pumpkins is available isn't she? She plays bass! She'll fit right in!

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on November 30, 2013, 11:07:15 pm

Who will be playing bass for them in January?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on November 30, 2013, 11:53:53 pm

Paul Walker

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2013, 12:33:50 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on November 30, 2013, 11:02:20 pm

Estrogen in the Pixies:

http://www.nme.com/news/pixies/74145 (http://www.nme.com/news/pixies/74145)

I was going to say "Vaginas in the Pixies" but Black Francis is pretty much a bitch anyway.

Hey! D'arcy from the Smashing Pumpkins is available isn't she? She plays bass! She'll fit right in!

Brian

It has to be someone named "Kim"

Maybe Deal is coming back... I hope so cause this is starting to look like a shitshow..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on December 02, 2013, 02:38:30 pm

Junior Murvin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nz_uSssKTw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nz_uSssKTw)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on December 05, 2013, 05:48:13 pm

Nelson Mandela

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 05, 2013, 05:52:29 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on December 05, 2013, 05:48:13 pm

Nelson Mandela

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on December 06, 2013, 11:43:42 am

nelson who . . . this country is still too busy talking about that handsome actor who died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on December 06, 2013, 11:49:26 am

I guess we read different newspapers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Quote from: walkonby on December 06, 2013, 11:43:42 am

nelson who . . . this country is still too busy talking about that handsome actor who died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on December 06, 2013, 11:53:30 am

(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/_archive/News/_International%20News/Africa/ss-090717-Nelson-Mandela-NEW/ss-120601-mandela-tease.photoblog600.jpg)

"Ayo Paul Walker, I'ma let you die but..."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 06, 2013, 12:47:39 pm

Mandy Patinkin's Beard

http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/12/06/Mandy-Patinkin-shaves-off-iconic-Homeland-beard/3151386336574/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on December 06, 2013, 04:34:46 pm

Best thing about Nelson is that they have that song by Special Aka "Free Nelson Mendela"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on December 09, 2013, 10:20:12 am

The Walkmen.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 11, 2013, 12:07:47 am

Jim Hall

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on December 11, 2013, 09:08:18 am

Quote from: K8teebug on December 09, 2013, 10:20:12 am

The Walkmen.

I guess it makes me a bad person to be more upset about the Walkmen breaking up than Mandela dying. But let's look on the bright side. Now that Nelson Mandela is tits up, we don't have to deal with U2 AND Oprah Winfrey anymore, right? RIGHT?!??!?!

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 11, 2013, 10:36:35 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on December 11, 2013, 09:08:18 am

Quote from: K8teebug on December 09, 2013, 10:20:12 am
The Walkmen.

I guess it makes me a bad person to be more upset about the Walkmen breaking up than Mandela dying. But let's look on the bright side. Now that Nelson Mandela is tits up, we don't have to deal with U2 AND Oprah Winfrey anymore, right? RIGHT?!??!?!

Brian

I was banking on your "edgy" post to be related to the death of Paul Walker, but whoa!!! You're breaking new ground here Brian! Amazing post!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on December 11, 2013, 11:04:15 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on December 11, 2013, 09:08:18 am

Quote from: K8teebug on December 09, 2013, 10:20:12 am
The Walkmen.

I guess it makes me a bad person to be more upset about the Walkmen breaking up than Mandela dying. But let's look on the bright side. Now that Nelson Mandela is tits up, we don't have to deal with U2 AND Oprah Winfrey anymore, right? RIGHT?!??!?!

Brian

I hate bands like the Walkman that just copy one other act. I am glad they are dead and actually I thought they died long ago. But this post shouldn't have bands in it unless the band members all die. Please move it to some other thread.

Also, if you list some obscure person die you should at least put a sentence or two of why he is important enough to be in this thread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on December 11, 2013, 12:32:48 pm

Ok, I'll bite. Who were the Walkmen "copying"?

Quote from: atomic on December 11, 2013, 11:04:15 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on December 11, 2013, 09:08:18 am
Quote from: K8teebug on December 09, 2013, 10:20:12 am
The Walkmen.

I guess it makes me a bad person to be more upset about the Walkmen breaking up than Mandela dying. But let's look on the bright side. Now that Nelson Mandela is tits up, we don't have to deal with U2 AND Oprah Winfrey anymore, right? RIGHT?!??!?!

Brian

I hate bands like the Walkman that just copy one other act. I am glad they are dead and actually I thought they died long ago. But this post shouldn't have bands in it unless the band members all die. Please move it to some other thread.

Also, if you list some obscure person die you should at least put a sentence or two of why he is important enough to be in this thread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on December 11, 2013, 01:11:43 pm

Quote from: James Ford on December 11, 2013, 12:32:48 pm

Ok, I'll bite. Who were the Walkmen "copying"?

Quote from: atomic on December 11, 2013, 11:04:15 am
Quote from: Brian_Wallace on December 11, 2013, 09:08:18 am
Quote from: K8teebug on December 09, 2013, 10:20:12 am
The Walkmen.

I guess it makes me a bad person to be more upset about the Walkmen breaking up than Mandela dying. But let's look on the bright side. Now that Nelson Mandela is tits up, we don't have to deal with U2 AND Oprah Winfrey anymore, right? RIGHT?!??!?!

Brian

I hate bands like the Walkman that just copy one other act. I am glad they are dead and actually I thought they died long ago. But this post shouldn't have bands in it unless the band members all die. Please move it to some other thread.

Also, if you list some obscure person die you should at least put a sentence or two of why he is important enough to be in this thread.

My guess is that that Atomic thinks the Walkmen copied.....The Strokes? Which is silly if you knew either band beyond a few songs.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on December 11, 2013, 01:55:59 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on December 11, 2013, 01:11:43 pm

Quote from: James Ford on December 11, 2013, 12:32:48 pm
Ok, I'll bite. Who were the Walkmen "copying"?

Quote from: atomic on December 11, 2013, 11:04:15 am
Quote from: Brian_Wallace on December 11, 2013, 09:08:18 am
Quote from: K8teebug on December 09, 2013, 10:20:12 am
The Walkmen.

I guess it makes me a bad person to be more upset about the Walkmen breaking up than Mandela dying. But let's look on the bright side. Now that Nelson Mandela is tits up, we don't have to deal with U2 AND Oprah Winfrey anymore, right? RIGHT?!??!?!

Brian

I hate bands like the Walkman that just copy one other act. I am glad they are dead and actually I thought they died long ago. But this post shouldn't have bands in it unless the band members all die. Please move it to some other thread.

Also, if you list some obscure person die you should at least put a sentence or two of why he is important enough to be in this thread.

My guess is that that Atomic thinks the Walkmen copied.....The Strokes? Which is silly if you knew either band beyond a few songs.

Brian

Bob Dylan. I mean it is pretty obvious. Do you guys listen to music?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on December 11, 2013, 02:20:56 pm

Put a guy with a different sounding voice in front of the Walkmen and they sound absolutely nothing like Bob Dylan.

I thought you were going to say Joe Henry. They sounds way more like Joe Henry than Bob Dylan.

Quote from: atomic on December 11, 2013, 01:55:59 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on December 11, 2013, 01:11:43 pm
Quote from: James Ford on December 11, 2013, 12:32:48 pm
Ok, I'll bite. Who were the Walkmen "copying"?

Quote from: atomic on December 11, 2013, 11:04:15 am
Quote from: Brian_Wallace on December 11, 2013, 09:08:18 am
Quote from: K8teebug on December 09, 2013, 10:20:12 am
The Walkmen.

I guess it makes me a bad person to be more upset about the Walkmen breaking up than Mandela dying. But let's look on the bright side. Now that Nelson Mandela is tits up, we don't have to deal with U2 AND Oprah Winfrey anymore, right? RIGHT?!??!?!

Brian

I hate bands like the Walkman that just copy one other act. I am glad they are dead and actually I thought they died long ago. But this post shouldn't have bands in it unless the band members all die. Please move it to some other thread.

Also, if you list some obscure person die you should at least put a sentence or two of why he is important enough to be in this thread.

My guess is that that Atomic thinks the Walkmen copied.....The Strokes? Which is silly if you knew either band beyond a few songs.

Brian

Bob Dylan. I mean it is pretty obvious. Do you guys listen to music?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 11, 2013, 02:28:31 pm

Quote from: atomic on December 11, 2013, 01:55:59 pm

[Bob Dylan. I mean it is pretty obvious. Do you guys listen to music?

Wait. I thought Dylan was one of the creators. Doesn't everybody either copy Dylan, Elvis, The Beatles, Zeppelin, Floyd or Bowie? There might be a few more bands on this list, but I think we could identify the bands that invented music, and everyone else is derivative.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on December 11, 2013, 02:39:05 pm

Quote from: atomic on December 11, 2013, 01:55:59 pm

[Bob Dylan. I mean it is pretty obvious. Do you guys listen to music?

We try not to. It just gets in the way.

Quote from: grateful on December 11, 2013, 02:28:31 pm

Wait. I thought Dylan was one of the creators. Doesn't everybody either copy Dylan, Elvis, The Beatles, Zeppelin, Floyd or Bowie? There might be a few more bands on this list, but I think we could identify the bands that invented music, and everyone else is derivative.

More artists in 2013 copy The Band, Kraftwerk and Donna Summer than any of those six artists you mentioned.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 11, 2013, 02:49:15 pm

Dylan --> The Band
Floyd --> Kraftwerk
Bowie --> Donna Summer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on December 11, 2013, 03:02:29 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on December 11, 2013, 02:39:05 pm

Quote from: atomic on December 11, 2013, 01:55:59 pm
[Bob Dylan. I mean it is pretty obvious. Do you guys listen to music?

We try not to. It just gets in the way.

Quote from: grateful on December 11, 2013, 02:28:31 pm
Wait. I thought Dylan was one of the creators. Doesn't everybody either copy Dylan, Elvis, The Beatles, Zeppelin, Floyd or Bowie? There might be a few more bands on this list, but I think we could identify the bands that invented music, and everyone else is derivative.

More artists in 2013 copy The Band, Kraftwerk and Donna Summer than any of those six artists you mentioned.

Brian

Everyone should copy Donna Summer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 11, 2013, 04:16:33 pm

Bowie --> Donna Summer --> MGMT

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on December 11, 2013, 04:19:08 pm

Quote from: atomic on December 11, 2013, 03:02:29 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on December 11, 2013, 02:39:05 pm

Quote from: atomic on December 11, 2013, 01:55:59 pm
[Bob Dylan. I mean it is pretty obvious. Do you guys listen to music?

We try not to. It just gets in the way.

Quote from: grateful on December 11, 2013, 02:28:31 pm
Wait. I thought Dylan was one of the creators. Doesn't everybody either copy Dylan, Elvis, The Beatles, Zeppelin, Floyd or Bowie? There might be a few more bands on this list, but I think we could identify the bands that invented music, and everyone else is derivative.

More artists in 2013 copy The Band, Kraftwerk and Donna Summer than any of those six artists you mentioned.

Brian

Everyone should copy Donna Summer.

you mean, pretend to like the gays, so you can profit off of them?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 12, 2013, 01:03:42 pm

Quote from: grateful on December 11, 2013, 04:16:33 pm

Bowie --> Donna Summer --> MGMT

uh oh you stepped on it...short of a Lydon or Chick-fil-a mention....this is as bad as it gets..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 12, 2013, 10:40:47 pm

Mac McGarry

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 13, 2013, 10:15:28 am

Jan Song-Thaek

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 13, 2013, 01:35:00 pm

would it be too much to ask that posters include a link to an obituary or a news story about the person who died? Jim Hall, Jan Song-Thaek and Mac McGarry aren't exactly household names. it would be honoring these people's memory more effectively if you let others learn who they were.

or has posting a name on this thread become this board's version of "FIRST!!!!!111"?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 13, 2013, 03:29:33 pm

Sorry. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2013)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on December 13, 2013, 03:32:03 pm

Quote from: grateful on December 13, 2013, 03:29:33 pm

Sorry. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2013)

That is pretty useless. If I wanted that I could just go to wikipedia instead of this site. Just post a sentence about who they are would be helpful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 13, 2013, 03:33:59 pm

Quote from: atomic on December 13, 2013, 03:32:03 pm

Quote from: grateful on December 13, 2013, 03:29:33 pm
Sorry. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2013)

That is pretty useless. If I wanted that I could just go to wikipedia instead of this site. Just post a sentence about who they are would be helpful.

Sorry.

Jang Sung-taek, 67, North Korean politician, Vice-Chairman of the National Defence Commission (2010?13), executed.[3]
Mac McGarry, 87, American television quiz show host (It's Academic), pneumonia.[6]
Jim Hall, 83, American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger.[15]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 13, 2013, 03:35:54 pm

Perhaps posters could also include a picture so we know what these people looked like...

I tend to think a picture of a person in their 30s or 40s .. I hate it when in the obituaries they use a picture of someone the week before they died..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 13, 2013, 03:41:13 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 13, 2013, 03:35:54 pm

Perhaps posters could also include a picture so we know what these people looked like...

I tend to think a picture of a person in their 30s or 40s .. I hate it when in the obituaries they use a picture of someone the week before they died..

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8d/Jang_Sung-thaek.jpg/220px-Jang_Sung-thaek.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 13, 2013, 03:42:10 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 13, 2013, 03:35:54 pm

Perhaps posters could also include a picture so we know what these people looked like...

I tend to think a picture of a person in their 30s or 40s .. I hate it when in the obituaries they use a picture of someone the week before they died..

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Mac_McGarry_-_It%27s_Academic.jpg/250px-Mac_McGarry_-_It%27s_Academic.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 13, 2013, 03:42:44 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 13, 2013, 03:35:54 pm

Perhaps posters could also include a picture so we know what these people looked like...

I tend to think a picture of a person in their 30s or 40s .. I hate it when in the obituaries they use a picture of someone the week before they died..

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Guitarist_jim_hall.jpg/300px-Guitarist_jim_hall.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 13, 2013, 03:43:51 pm

awesome grateful! you're the man..

everybody look and learn how its done! (I will do a better job too)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 13, 2013, 03:47:23 pm

LMK if theres anything else you need. I got "google searching" on my resume.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on December 13, 2013, 03:49:38 pm

Quote from: grateful on December 13, 2013, 03:33:59 pm

Quote from: atomic on December 13, 2013, 03:32:03 pm
Quote from: grateful on December 13, 2013, 03:29:33 pm
Sorry. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2013)

That is pretty useless. If I wanted that I could just go to wikipedia instead of this site. Just post a sentence about who they are would be helpful.

Sorry.

Jang Sung-taek, 67, North Korean politician, Vice-Chairman of the National Defence Commission (2010?13), executed.[3]
Mac McGarry, 87, American television quiz show host (It's Academic), pneumonia.[6]
Jim Hall, 83, American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger.[15]

This is good. I notice by looking at these I know who Mac McGarry is and feel sad. The other 2 I don't need to look into any further.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 13, 2013, 03:53:14 pm

Happy to make your web browsing that much more efficient. Now you are free for some other self-improvement exercise. Like walking under trees, or breathing in fresh air.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 13, 2013, 04:06:34 pm

Okey dokey

(http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style820_546/public/131213-Zbigniew-Karkowski.jpg)

Pioneering Noise Musician Zbigniew Karkowski Dead at 55 (http://www.spin.com/articles/zbigniew-karkowski-dead-obituary/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 13, 2013, 04:11:55 pm

Zbigniew Karkowski (http://www.spin.com/articles/zbigniew-karkowski-dead-obituary/)

Sucks that the only live memory I have of him is that of a roughly 8-minute obviously half-assed set.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 13, 2013, 04:12:53 pm

This is what happens when you don't read the replies that pop up when you try to post before posting anyway, kids.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 13, 2013, 04:13:52 pm

unbelievable... he was only diagnosed with pancreatic cancer TEN weeks ago...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on December 13, 2013, 04:25:06 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 13, 2013, 04:13:52 pm

unbelievable... he was only diagnosed with pancreatic cancer TEN weeks ago...

My dad kept going to the doctor complaining about pains in his hands and they kept telling him he had arthritis. I told him arthritis doesn't cause nausea and told him to go to the hospital in the city the next day. They diagnosed him with leukemia and lung cancer and he was dead in 3 weeks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on December 13, 2013, 04:35:51 pm

Pancreatic cancer is a bitch. I want to say my dad lasted nine months with it but he probably would have been better off dying after 10 weeks.

Quote from: hutch on December 13, 2013, 04:13:52 pm

unbelievable... he was only diagnosed with pancreatic cancer TEN weeks ago...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 13, 2013, 04:37:48 pm

Quote from: James Ford on December 13, 2013, 04:35:51 pm

Pancreatic cancer is a bitch. I want to say my dad lasted nine months with it but he probably would have been better off dying after 10 weeks.

Quote from: hutch on December 13, 2013, 04:13:52 pm
unbelievable... he was only diagnosed with pancreatic cancer TEN weeks ago...

yes I know.. but I still can't believe it!..

I have a friend who was diagnosed with bile duct cancer in August..

I'm just hoping for the best...he does seem to be doing well

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on December 13, 2013, 06:10:32 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 13, 2013, 01:35:00 pm

... [and] Mac McGarry aren't exactly household names.

Mac was definitely a household name if you grew up here.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 13, 2013, 06:18:08 pm

Atomic, James Ford

so sorry about your dads...that's brutal

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 14, 2013, 06:02:30 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 13, 2013, 06:18:08 pm

Atomic, James Ford

so sorry about your dads...that's brutal

Agreed...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on December 15, 2013, 03:23:12 pm

Peter O'Toole

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 15, 2013, 08:34:54 pm

Tom Laughlin, or as I knew him, Billy Jack. (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-tom-laughlin-billy-jack-films-dies-20131215,0,5952470.story#axzz2nagkGBru)

(http://www.trbimg.com/img-52ae48d5/turbine/la-et-mn-tom-laughlin-star-of-billy-jack-films-001/486)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on December 16, 2013, 06:13:12 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on December 14, 2013, 06:02:30 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 13, 2013, 06:18:08 pm
Atomic, James Ford

so sorry about your dads...that's brutal

Agreed...

Make that three. That really, really sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on December 16, 2013, 09:14:14 pm

james . . . sorry. atomic . . . i never believe anything you say.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on December 16, 2013, 09:46:06 pm

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ray-price-dead-at-87-country-star-loses-cancer-battle-20131216

one of my fathers favorites. i was forced to listen to him growing up . . . and he kinda grew on me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 18, 2013, 11:38:08 am

Ronnie Biggs (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/19/world/europe/ronnie-biggs-great-train-robber-dies-at-84.html)

(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/12/19/world/19biggs-1/19biggs-1-articleLarge.jpg)

Ronnie Biggs, a carpenter and petty crook who became an international celebrity for his role in one of Britain?s most famous crimes, the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and for the decades he spent afterward eluding a worldwide manhunt by Scotland Yard, died on Wednesday in London, according to his publicists. He was 84.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 18, 2013, 11:41:11 am

He had a publicist. That is funny.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 18, 2013, 12:24:28 pm

also technically a member of the sex pistols

Biggs recorded vocals on two songs for The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Julien Temple's film about the Sex Pistols. The basic tracks for "No One is Innocent" (aka "The Biggest Blow (A Punk Prayer)"/"Cosh The Driver") and "Belsen Was a Gas" were recorded with guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook at a studio in Brazil shortly after the Sex Pistols' final performance, with overdubs added in an English studio at a later date. "No One is Innocent" was released as a single in the UK on 30 June 1978 and reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart. The sleeve showed a British actor dressed as Nazi leader Martin Bormann playing bass with the group.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 19, 2013, 04:44:08 pm

Al Goldstein (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/nyregion/al-goldstein-pioneering-pornographer-dies-at-77.html)

(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/12/20/obituaries/20goldstein/20goldstein-popup.jpg)

Al Goldstein, the scabrous publisher whose Screw magazine pushed hard-core pornography into the cultural mainstream, died on Thursday at a nursing home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. He was 77. Mr. Goldstein did not invent the dirty magazine, but he was the first to present it to a wide audience without the slightest pretense of classiness or subtlety. Sex as depicted in Screw was seldom pretty, romantic or even particularly sexy. It was, primarily, a business, with consumers and suppliers like any other.

The manifesto in Screw?s debut issue in 1968 was succinct. ?We promise never to ink out a pubic hair or chalk out an organ,? it read. ?We will apologize for nothing. We will uncover the entire world of sex. We will be the Consumer Reports of sex.?

?He clearly coarsened American sensibilities,? Alan M. Dershowitz, the civil liberties advocate and Mr. Goldstein?s sometime lawyer, said in 2004. ?Hefner did it with taste,? Mr. Dershowitz added, referring to Hugh Hefner, the founder and publisher of Playboy, which predated Screw by 15 years. ?Goldstein?s contribution is to be utterly tasteless.?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 19, 2013, 05:13:21 pm

I thought about posting that this morning, but couldn't find a suitable picture to attach to abide by the boards new rules...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on December 19, 2013, 05:32:10 pm

Quote from: vansmack on December 19, 2013, 05:13:21 pm

I thought about posting that this morning, but couldn't find a suitable picture to attach to abide by the boards new rules...

There are new rules? Oh you mean the rules about the sentence and picture of people who died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 19, 2013, 05:53:08 pm

personally i think a photo isn't required... an obit or a link is what's really needed (unless a person's appearance is really relevant to his/her importance, which is arguable in the case of mr. goldstein)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on December 19, 2013, 06:00:09 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 19, 2013, 05:53:08 pm

personally i think a photo isn't required... an obit or a link is what's really needed (unless a person's appearance is really relevant to his/her importance, which is arguable in the case of mr. goldstein)

I don't like links. Put a sentence or two about the person. I don't want to waste my time clicking on a link that it turns out I don't care about the person. If it is someone like Peter O'toole you probably dont' need a sentence but it is always possible someone never heard of him.. Also their age is helpful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 19, 2013, 06:06:45 pm

I'm a big fan of googling the person's name if I've never heard of them, ya lazy fucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on December 19, 2013, 06:28:52 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 19, 2013, 06:06:45 pm

I'm a big fan of googling the person's name if I've never heard of them, ya lazy fucks.

The lazy person is the person who just types in a name.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 19, 2013, 06:47:54 pm

If I can't make a subtle porn joke without being questioned...then this place really has gone to hell.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 19, 2013, 07:03:33 pm

Quote from: vansmack on December 19, 2013, 06:47:54 pm

If I can't make a subtle porn joke without being questioned...then this place really has gone to hell.

i'm guilty of having gone to hell, then... i missed that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on December 19, 2013, 07:04:41 pm

I got it, Smackie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on December 19, 2013, 07:29:30 pm

I liked the picture

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 19, 2013, 10:43:34 pm

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on December 19, 2013, 07:29:30 pm

I liked the picture

Can't argue with that. If only my office had that much authenticity. I actually thought the story part detracted from the photo.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 23, 2013, 10:03:47 pm

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/862/MI0001862041.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)

Yusef Lateef

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 23, 2013, 11:19:50 pm

Mikhail Kalashnikov (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-23/mikhail-kalashnikov-whose-ak-47-fuels-war-worldwide-dies-at-94.html)

(http://www.bloomberg.com/image/iSdKXHbVbEIM.jpg)

Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the world?s most popular assault rifle, the AK-47, a simple and durable weapon of war used by tens of millions in about 100 countries, has died. He was 94.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on December 30, 2013, 07:14:05 pm

Benjamin Curtis (School of Seven Bells/Secret Machines)

so sad :/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on December 31, 2013, 12:51:00 am

Really liked Secret Machines. Dude was only 35 - really, really sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 31, 2013, 10:38:33 am

horrible news indeed. both So7B and SM have put out some great music.

there's another band that i need to add to my "i fucked up and didn't see them while i should have" list.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on December 31, 2013, 10:46:51 am

Quote from: Vas Deferens on December 30, 2013, 07:14:05 pm

Benjamin Curtis (School of Seven Bells/Secret Machines)

so sad :/

I saw him in Secret Machines and School of Seven Bells but didn't know same guy was in both bands.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: andyrichter on January 01, 2014, 02:44:11 pm

James Avery aka Uncle Phil from the Fresh Prince, Shredder in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on January 01, 2014, 04:59:41 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 31, 2013, 10:38:33 am

horrible news indeed. both So7B and SM have put out some great music.

there's another band that i need to add to my "i fucked up and didn't see them while i should have" list.

Probably best you didn't see School of Seven Bells live. Loved their albums but their live shows were pretty bad. You can have a better memory of the band without the live experience.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 01, 2014, 05:21:39 pm

Quote from: andyrichter on January 01, 2014, 02:44:11 pm

James Avery aka Uncle Phil from the Fresh Prince, Shredder in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.

No one else did quite so much to make the absentee-parent issues in the African-American community look like so much fun!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 03, 2014, 10:10:14 am

what a way to go!

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/03/22156917-kim-jong-uns-executed-uncle-was-eaten-alive-by-120-hungry-dogs-report?lite

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on January 03, 2014, 11:24:42 am

A very keen sense of irony. The dogs get their revenge for all of those years of it being the other way around.

Quote from: Yada on January 03, 2014, 10:10:14 am

what a way to go!

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/03/22156917-kim-jong-uns-executed-uncle-was-eaten-alive-by-120-hungry-dogs-report?lite

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 03, 2014, 11:32:28 am

Quote from: James Ford on January 03, 2014, 11:24:42 am

A very keen sense of irony. The dogs get their revenge for all of those years of it being the other way around.

Quote from: Yada on January 03, 2014, 10:10:14 am
what a way to go!

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/03/22156917-kim-jong-uns-executed-uncle-was-eaten-alive-by-120-hungry-dogs-report?lite

This is why you're a HoFer. You're race baiting in two ethnicities today and it's not even 11am on the east coast!

I can only imagine being Smackie or someone else in PST waking up and logging on only to see you've already done this much work. Your ethic is strong and your will indefatigable.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on January 03, 2014, 11:38:32 am

excuse my ignorance . . . what is a hofer?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 03, 2014, 11:42:01 am

Quote from: walkonby on January 03, 2014, 11:38:32 am

excuse my ignorance . . . what is a hofer?

Hall of Famer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on January 03, 2014, 11:44:05 am

oh darn . . . i assumed it was new kid slang for white man hating on the non white man. i was going to start using it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 03, 2014, 12:01:28 pm

Quote from: walkonby on January 03, 2014, 11:38:32 am

excuse my ignorance . . . what is a hofer?

hater of foreigners.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on January 03, 2014, 11:05:55 pm

apparently that news report about his uncle being fed to the dogs isn't true

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/03/259386090/did-kim-jong-un-feed-his-uncle-to-120-dogs-be-skeptical?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 03, 2014, 11:14:59 pm

Quote from: betao on January 03, 2014, 11:05:55 pm

apparently that news report about his uncle being fed to the dogs isn't true

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/03/259386090/did-kim-jong-un-feed-his-uncle-to-120-dogs-be-skeptical?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook

Drats...it was such good imagery. I was a little skeptical when it mentioned it had the dogs starved for 5 days...that's a lot of planning. Had the whole james bond villain type of way to get rid of someone

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 03, 2014, 11:21:47 pm

Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers dies at 74

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on January 04, 2014, 06:16:18 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on January 03, 2014, 11:14:59 pm

Quote from: betao on January 03, 2014, 11:05:55 pm
apparently that news report about his uncle being fed to the dogs isn't true

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/01/03/259386090/did-kim-jong-un-feed-his-uncle-to-120-dogs-be-skeptical?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook

Drats...it was such good imagery. I was a little skeptical when it mentioned it had the dogs starved for 5 days...that's a lot of planning. Had the whole james bond villain type of way to get rid of someone

yes, that and.... 120 dogs? for one person? that's a bit, uhhhh, overkill isn't it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 06, 2014, 05:03:37 pm

Bo Diddley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 06, 2014, 05:08:15 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 06, 2014, 05:03:37 pm

Bo Diddley

ummmmm...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on January 06, 2014, 05:15:44 pm

That one is so 2008.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 06, 2014, 06:18:08 pm

Quote from: James Ford on January 06, 2014, 05:15:44 pm

That one is so 2008.

i lol'ed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 11, 2014, 03:42:37 pm

Ariel Sharon (http://www.thenation.com/article/177883/how-ariel-sharon-shaped-israels-destiny# )

Still curious as to why he was kept in a vegetative state for eight years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 11, 2014, 03:49:30 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 11, 2014, 03:42:37 pm

Ariel Sharon (http://www.thenation.com/article/177883/how-ariel-sharon-shaped-israels-destiny# )

Still curious as to why he was kept in a vegetative state for eight years.

He was only supposed to stay in a vegetative state for one year, but thru the miracle of Hannukkah, Dr. Maccabee made it last for eight years!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on January 11, 2014, 04:11:45 pm

That one is so 2006.

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 11, 2014, 03:42:37 pm

Ariel Sharon (http://www.thenation.com/article/177883/how-ariel-sharon-shaped-israels-destiny# )

Still curious as to why he was kept in a vegetative state for eight years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 11, 2014, 05:58:53 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 11, 2014, 03:42:37 pm

Ariel Sharon (http://www.thenation.com/article/177883/how-ariel-sharon-shaped-israels-destiny# )

Still curious as to why he was kept in a vegetative state for eight years.

Hope it was a very painful 8 years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 11, 2014, 07:19:01 pm

The pain he caused the thousands of families of innocents whose deaths he was responsible for will linger for much longer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 11, 2014, 10:35:07 pm

you're getting all political... ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 12, 2014, 05:33:32 pm

So, this went well. (https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/422156380641169408)
This, too. (https://twitter.com/UncleRUSH/status/422139145276751872)

OK I am done with this now. Promise.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on January 12, 2014, 11:49:52 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 11, 2014, 07:19:01 pm

The pain he caused the thousands of families of innocents whose deaths he was responsible for will linger for much longer.

Come on this is an obituary thread, show some respect.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on January 16, 2014, 04:55:06 pm

The Professor...

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/gilligans-island-star-russell-johnson-dies-kidney-failure/story?id=21561740

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 16, 2014, 05:04:06 pm

Travis Jackson (The Points, Windian) (http://dcist.com/2014/01/man_killed_after_drivers_loses_cont.php)

Talk about stomach-turning.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 16, 2014, 07:21:46 pm

and Dave Madden (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/16/dave-madden-dead-dies_n_4612468.html) (Reuben Kincaid on The Partridge Family)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on January 16, 2014, 11:16:09 pm

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on January 16, 2014, 07:21:46 pm

and Dave Madden (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/16/dave-madden-dead-dies_n_4612468.html) (Reuben Kincaid on The Partridge Family)

WTF? Reuben and the Professor on the same day?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on January 16, 2014, 11:28:23 pm

"So I gave him a message: 'If Joel Wasserstein doesn't have a fun at his Bar Mitzvah, you're not getting paid.'"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIUPgqnc0Zc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIUPgqnc0Zc)

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on January 16, 2014, 07:21:46 pm

and Dave Madden (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/16/dave-madden-dead-dies_n_4612468.html) (Reuben Kincaid on The Partridge Family)

"He should have named that group ME 2, not U2!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2X8zPYhNag (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2X8zPYhNag)

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on January 17, 2014, 11:45:36 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 16, 2014, 05:04:06 pm

Travis Jackson (The Points, Windian) (http://dcist.com/2014/01/man_killed_after_drivers_loses_cont.php)

Talk about stomach-turning.

A fund has been set up to assist his family.

https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/fgGY8/ab/72eU96

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 17, 2014, 12:40:38 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 16, 2014, 05:04:06 pm

Travis Jackson (The Points, Windian) (http://dcist.com/2014/01/man_killed_after_drivers_loses_cont.php)

Talk about stomach-turning.

fucking horrible...

people in this area drive like such maniacs...

there is no justice in the world... a man with a one year old daughter working construction is hit by a woman driving a BMW SUV who loses control of her vehicle...she is just fine..

i hope she burns in hell.

oh..there is no hell ..bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 17, 2014, 12:53:26 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 17, 2014, 12:40:38 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 16, 2014, 05:04:06 pm
Travis Jackson (The Points, Windian) (http://dcist.com/2014/01/man_killed_after_drivers_loses_cont.php)

Talk about stomach-turning.

fucking horrible...

people in this area drive like such maniacs...

there is no justice in the world... a man with a one year old daughter working construction is hit by a woman driving a BMW SUV who loses control of her vehicle...she is just fine..

i hope she burns in hell.

oh..there is no hell ..bummer.

Would you wish she burn in hell if she was driving a 1987 Toyota Corolla?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 17, 2014, 01:01:23 pm

Quote from: ggw on January 17, 2014, 12:53:26 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 17, 2014, 12:40:38 pm
Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 16, 2014, 05:04:06 pm
Travis Jackson (The Points, Windian) (http://dcist.com/2014/01/man_killed_after_drivers_loses_cont.php)

Talk about stomach-turning.

fucking horrible...

people in this area drive like such maniacs...

there is no justice in the world... a man with a one year old daughter working construction is hit by a woman driving a BMW SUV who loses control of her vehicle...she is just fine..

i hope she burns in hell.

oh..there is no hell ..bummer.

Would you wish she burn in hell if she was driving a 1987 Toyota Corolla?

honestly probably yes but there is far less chance of losing control of a bmw suv than a 30 year old car.

she was probably drunk..

yeah i'm ticked off.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on January 17, 2014, 03:31:09 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 17, 2014, 12:40:38 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 16, 2014, 05:04:06 pm
Travis Jackson (The Points, Windian) (http://dcist.com/2014/01/man_killed_after_drivers_loses_cont.php)

Talk about stomach-turning.

fucking horrible...

people in this area drive like such maniacs...

there is no justice in the world... a man with a one year old daughter working construction is hit by a woman driving a BMW SUV who loses control of her vehicle...she is just fine..

i hope she burns in hell.

oh..there is no hell ..bummer.

Wow really? Why? Because she happens to drive a vehicle that you deem to indicates that she has too much money and thus should be damned for everything bad in the world? You have no idea what happen to cause this accident, yet solely because the driver does not fit your chosen sector of society you wish her eternity in hell?

I absolutely believe that if negligence on her part led to the man's death she should be held fully liable, but I sure as heck am not going to wish her life in hell based solely on the limited facts we now so far. On a side note, the laws for killing someone with a motor vehicle are far too lax in this country. A vehicle is just as much a deadly weapon as any other in cases like this and if there is culpability then the punishment should be equal ti that of a homicide committed by means of any such deadly weapon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on January 17, 2014, 03:32:57 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 17, 2014, 01:01:23 pm

Quote from: ggw on January 17, 2014, 12:53:26 pm
Quote from: hutch on January 17, 2014, 12:40:38 pm
Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 16, 2014, 05:04:06 pm
Travis Jackson (The Points, Windian) (http://dcist.com/2014/01/man_killed_after_drivers_loses_cont.php)

Talk about stomach-turning.

fucking horrible...

people in this area drive like such maniacs...

there is no justice in the world... a man with a one year old daughter working construction is hit by a woman driving a BMW SUV who loses control of her vehicle...she is just fine..

i hope she burns in hell.

oh..there is no hell ..bummer.

Would you wish she burn in hell if she was driving a 1987 Toyota Corolla?

honestly probably yes but there is far less chance of losing control of a bmw suv than a 30 year old car.

she was probably drunk..

yeah i'm ticked off.

65.24% of statistics are probably made up. The is less chance that the rest are.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on January 17, 2014, 06:55:21 pm

The Lollipop Guild!

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/wizard-oz-munchkin-ruth-robinson-duccini-dies-21566311

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 17, 2014, 07:03:05 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on January 17, 2014, 06:55:21 pm

The Lollipop Guild!

The entire guild??! Oh, the munchkanity!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on January 17, 2014, 07:08:25 pm

dwarf'd

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 20, 2014, 12:30:32 pm

Claudio Abbado (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/20/us-claudioabbado-death-idUSBREA0J0L620140120)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 21, 2014, 04:32:49 pm

RIP Sid Osborne, 930 crew chief.

my condolences to the 930 family. it's been a rough year for staph.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 21, 2014, 04:44:27 pm

Oh, shit. Very sorry.

Quote from: sweetcell on January 21, 2014, 04:32:49 pm

RIP Sid Osborne, 930 crew chief.

my condolences to the 930 family. it's been a rough year for staph.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 21, 2014, 06:41:12 pm

Can't catch a break. Hang in there, team.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 21, 2014, 07:05:22 pm

my condolences..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MonkeyPants on January 23, 2014, 01:06:03 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 21, 2014, 04:32:49 pm

RIP Sid Osborne, 930 crew chief.

my condolences to the 930 family. it's been a rough year for staph.

Anyone know what happened? if there will be a memorial? My heart breaks every time another member of the 9:30 family dies. ugh.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: showlistdc on January 23, 2014, 01:49:53 pm

Alexi Petersen, singer of the AKs, was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/21/alexandros-petersen-1984-2014.html#url=/articles/2014/01/21/alexandros-petersen-1984-2014.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 23, 2014, 10:07:27 pm

Quote from: showlistdc on January 23, 2014, 01:49:53 pm

Alexi Petersen, singer of the AKs, was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/21/alexandros-petersen-1984-2014.html#url=/articles/2014/01/21/alexandros-petersen-1984-2014.html

Sounds like a smart and interesting fella, rip.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MonkeyPants on January 26, 2014, 07:44:51 pm

Sid's obituary: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=sidney-m-osborne&pid=169281172&fhid=2205

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 27, 2014, 02:06:14 am

Quote from: showlistdc on January 23, 2014, 01:49:53 pm

Alexi Petersen, singer of the AKs, was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/21/alexandros-petersen-1984-2014.html#url=/articles/2014/01/21/alexandros-petersen-1984-2014.html

I was at a show last Monday where The Max Levine Ensemble did a short tribute and mentioned that he died. Didn't know that this was how.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 27, 2014, 11:02:24 am

I just can't get my arms around dying from complications of the flu...

just awful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 27, 2014, 11:43:21 am

Quote from: hutch on January 27, 2014, 11:02:24 am

I just can't get my arms around dying from complications of the flu...

just awful.

Imma guess something else played a part in those complications.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on January 27, 2014, 12:37:11 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 27, 2014, 11:02:24 am

I just can't get my arms around dying from complications of the flu...

just awful.

And he was just 39. That is sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on January 27, 2014, 12:50:31 pm

Marlboro Man - Eric Lawson

(http://brandalyzer.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/marlboro_man2.jpg)

http://news.yahoo.com/ex-marlboro-man-dies-smoking-related-disease-034350253.html (http://news.yahoo.com/ex-marlboro-man-dies-smoking-related-disease-034350253.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 27, 2014, 12:57:50 pm

The Marlboro Man died of cancer? He wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on January 27, 2014, 02:14:07 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on January 27, 2014, 12:57:50 pm

The Marlboro Man died of cancer? He wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.

People did not know that smoking caused cancer when he started smoking.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 27, 2014, 07:32:59 pm

Quote from: atomic on January 27, 2014, 02:14:07 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on January 27, 2014, 12:57:50 pm
The Marlboro Man died of cancer? He wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.

People did not know that smoking caused cancer when he started smoking.

Did you hear that? It was the sound of my reference whizzing over your head.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 27, 2014, 07:35:38 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 27, 2014, 11:02:24 am

I just can't get my arms around dying from complications of the flu...

just awful.

Same happened to Trish Keenan I think.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on January 28, 2014, 03:01:31 am

pete seeger
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html?_r=0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 28, 2014, 11:16:05 am

Quote from: gaaaaaaaaah on January 28, 2014, 03:01:31 am

pete seeger
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html?_r=0

after raffi, pete seeger's "Children's Concert At Town Hall" is the most-played album at our place these days. the kiddos will be listening to it on repeat today, per my mother-in-law.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on January 28, 2014, 11:18:51 am

Quote from: gaaaaaaaaah on January 28, 2014, 03:01:31 am

pete seeger
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html?_r=0

Very sad. I got to see him perform at Newport Folk Festival 3 years ago. He was probably the highlight of thtat festival. He got evereyone to sing along for the songs he performed: "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Where have all the flowers gone".

Evidently he got blacklisted by refusing to testify to congress during McCarthyism and taught Martin Luther King Jr "we shall overcome". Seems he had quite a life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 28, 2014, 11:51:49 am

PS - a rare man who actually walked the walk and talked the talk...with a killer banjo lick to boot
he will be missed, but surely never forgotten

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on January 30, 2014, 06:10:29 pm

Colonel Meow has died...
(https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1/1621839_352443011564652_340414009_n.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on January 30, 2014, 07:59:16 pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on January 30, 2014, 08:00:54 pm

at least, we still have . . . lil bub.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2014, 11:37:14 pm

The Mighty Hannibal
Funk-Soul Iconoclast, Dead at 74 (http://www.spin.com/articles/the-mighty-hannibal-dead-74-funk-soul-james-shaw/)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ujxTJoMhroU/TPvpyKCE3tI/AAAAAAAACKM/H2RO02Di3Ao/s1600/hannibal1.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on January 31, 2014, 03:03:37 pm

Quote from: walkonby on January 30, 2014, 08:00:54 pm

at least, we still have . . . lil bub.

His words...

Quote

Dear Colonel,
You are without question the most remarkable, impressive, and regal living creature I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. Despite your intimidating facade, you were an incredibly kind and loving feline that brought millions of humans great joy. Your legacy will never be forgotten Colonel, and we will miss you dearly. See you in space my dear friend.

Lub,
BUB

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on February 02, 2014, 02:31:18 pm

phillip seymour hoffman
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 02, 2014, 03:13:09 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on February 02, 2014, 02:31:18 pm

phillip seymour hoffman
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878.html

http://www.tmz.com/2014/02/02/phillip-seymour-hoffman-dead-apparent-overdose/

fucking heroin. that drug is making a serious comeback. in my area of nowheresville, it is a serious, serious problem. just the other day in the "arrest records of the week" of the local paper, out of the twelve indictments, seven were for heroin.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 02, 2014, 03:22:52 pm

He was my favorite living actor. Amazing filmography.

Fucking heroin.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 02, 2014, 04:06:02 pm

people just can't stay away from heroin... so fuckin lame.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on February 02, 2014, 05:17:01 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on February 02, 2014, 03:22:52 pm

He was my favorite living actor. Amazing filmography.

Fucking heroin.

Ugh. You're my Player on the Other Side:

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Wrathcomics.png)

I HATED him as an actor. So self satisfied. So smug. So fat. Weak apparently. Are we really supposed to be sad when a celebrity dies over any run of the mill junkie? Phillip Seymour Hoffman is s celebrity cypher. "That guy" was a real person.

Why couldn't it have been Alec Baldwin or Sarah Jessica Parker? I've never hated a movie like I hated "State & Main."

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 02, 2014, 06:57:39 pm

Do you ever have thoughts you just want to keep to yourself? Or is pretty much diarrhea of the month with you...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 02, 2014, 07:57:32 pm

Hey Rhett - Brian's stealing your schtick.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 02, 2014, 08:14:55 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 02, 2014, 03:13:09 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on February 02, 2014, 02:31:18 pm
phillip seymour hoffman
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878.html

http://www.tmz.com/2014/02/02/phillip-seymour-hoffman-dead-apparent-overdose/

fucking heroin. that drug is making a serious comeback. in my area of nowheresville, it is a serious, serious problem. just the other day in the "arrest records of the week" of the local paper, out of the twelve indictments, seven were for heroin.

I don't understand why people still do heroin. So many people die from it. You would think people would learn. Anyway really sad that Hoffman has died. I wish he did more movies like Along Came Polly. He was also in the Big Lebowski, arguably the best movie of all time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 02, 2014, 08:32:03 pm

what I don't understand is why people try it in the first place..

once they try it they are hooked....its a real bitch to kick... if not impossible... Hoffman was an addict.

kiedis' book really goes into heroin addiction in depth...

i thought Hoffman had some great performances but lately I started to think he was a bit uni-dimensional in the types of characters he played...but I'm not sure if that is true..

its always the Hoffman' s and Ledger's that seem to go...

a real bummer...

I must admit I have trouble relating to a man with three children who does heroin..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 02, 2014, 08:50:41 pm

It is as if they have never seen "Trainspotting" or "Basketball Diaries".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 03, 2014, 09:21:38 am

The greatest actor of our time has perhaps pulled off the greatest acting feat of our time. He laid down his life (in such dramatic fashion!!!!! NEEDLE STILL IN ARM!!!) for the sake of Woody. He knew, brilliant man that he was, that if he kicked the bucket in the most dramatic fashion possible, it would transfer the collective focus of Cate Blanchett, Louis C.K., and Facebookers around the world off of the Woody Allen scandal and onto something else.

So the world's greatest actor is now the world's greatest martyr. And Cate Blanchett still has a hard on for Woody.

Quote from: ggw on February 02, 2014, 07:57:32 pm

Hey Rhett - Brian's stealing your schtick.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lagas on February 03, 2014, 10:04:57 am

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/02/02/philip_seymour_hoffman_death_his_great_performance_in_paul_thomas_anderson.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on February 03, 2014, 10:58:33 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 02, 2014, 06:57:39 pm

Do you ever have thoughts you just want to keep to yourself? Or is pretty much diarrhea of the month with you...

Heroin's a horrible drug. Almost impossible to fully get clean from. That's not the sad part. There are non-celebrities out there who get addicted to junk and have no resources and no money to fight their addiction. Phillip Seymour Hoffman had the money and the resources that 100 junkies didn't have. Supposedly he was able to be clean for 20+ years. Do you and I have that option? No. Also, when you or I OD no one is penning heartfelt Twitter tributes to our "genius talent". So forgive me if I cry no tears or have "diarrhea of the mouth".

Brian

P.S. However, if you have diarrhea of the MONTH, kosmo, I'd see your doctor. You may be eating too much fiber.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on February 03, 2014, 11:52:27 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on February 03, 2014, 10:58:33 am

Heroin's a horrible drug. Almost impossible to fully get clean from. That's not the sad part. There are non-celebrities out there who get addicted to junk and have no resources and no money to fight their addiction. Phillip Seymour Hoffman had the money and the resources that 100 junkies didn't have. Supposedly he was able to be clean for 20+ years. Do you and I have that option? No. Also, when you or I OD no one is penning heartfelt Twitter tributes to our "genius talent". So forgive me if I cry no tears or have "diarrhea of the mouth".

Brian

Upon hearing the news yesterday I felt sad, then mad and that's exactly what I said to someone yesterday. He had access to resources, people who would want to help him, financial resources and ability to get care that some of us could only dream about...but I think that a lot of great artists and actors have their own demons and often that's what makes them so talented. They're able to put themselves so fully into some roles that it consumes them and they think the only way to remove themselves from those dark places is through drugs. Gandolfini greatly struggled with removing himself from his Sopranos role and was grateful to move on from it because it took so much out of him. Incredible that after being clean for 20+ years PSH still succumbed to addiction. But I do feel a certain level of empathy, especially for his kids and family. You don't have to shed tears. But I think most of us also feel disappointed, upset, and have a hard time accepting it because it seems senseless. But if nobody cries for you if you OD, maybe you didn't do enough with your life or reach out to enough people that made them feel sorry for you being gone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on February 03, 2014, 11:59:08 am

And for what it's worth, this is still one of my favorite roles he did:

http://www.spin.com/articles/philip-seymour-hoffman-lester-bangs-almost-famous/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 03, 2014, 12:21:15 pm

Quote from: bearman on February 03, 2014, 11:52:27 am

Incredible that after being clean for 20+ years PSH still succumbed to addiction.

no way that we know this to be a fact.. and i would be very skeptical that it was so..

but it doesn't matter anymore...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on February 03, 2014, 12:25:51 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 03, 2014, 12:21:15 pm

Quote from: bearman on February 03, 2014, 11:52:27 am
Incredible that after being clean for 20+ years PSH still succumbed to addiction.

no way that we know this to be a fact.. and i would be very skeptical that it was so..

but it doesn't matter anymore...

True. We know that he went to rehab in 2012. Good point. Though it was reported from various news sources that he was clean through much of that. Who knows. It still sucks. Another nice piece:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-the-greatest-actor-of-his-generation/283523/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 03, 2014, 12:30:20 pm

It is easy to find fault with others. If you don't have anything good to say about someone who just died it is best not to say anything at all. We don't know any of these celebrities that die so it really doesn't affect us too much but I think the purpose of this thread is to honor people and not to make you feel better about yourself because you didn't die of heroin overdose.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 03, 2014, 12:41:08 pm

Quote from: atomic on February 03, 2014, 12:30:20 pm

I think the purpose of this thread is to honor people and not to make you feel better about yourself because you didn't die of heroin overdose.

My pride in not dying because of a heroin overdose is the only thing that keeps me from such cripplingly low self-esteem I cannot function in society. Thanks, jerk.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 03, 2014, 12:42:35 pm

Many people get clean from heroin and stay clean for the remainder of their lives. For sure it is a monumentally difficult process though.

But many do not.

I do truly believe some people are beyond hope or help. I've no idea if PSH falls into this category. One thing i do know is that it takes a lot more than money to get clean. Sure money helps in the process, but it will ultimately not factor in when a person zigs when they should have zagged.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on February 03, 2014, 12:44:41 pm

Quote from: atomic on February 03, 2014, 12:30:20 pm

It is easy to find fault with others. If you don't have anything good to say about someone who just died it is best not to say anything at all. We don't know any of these celebrities that die so it really doesn't affect us too much but I think the purpose of this thread is to honor people and not to make you feel better about yourself because you didn't die of heroin overdose.

I can say whatever I want. I'm not going to be tsk tsked from a grown man who goes by the name "atomic." Why are we "honoring" an actor? Would we "honor" your third grade teacher? Your dentist? Your garbage man? They affect your life far more than the fat guy from "Hunger Games." Someone you've never met. If Phillip Seymour Hoffman really affected your life then I suggest you step away from the computer, go outside, get some fresh air and maybe meet a girl.

You ACTUALLY typed the words "I think the purpose of this thread...(is) not to make you feel better about yourself because you didn't die of heroin overdose." What a stupid mofo you are.

I don't know who Jared Padalecki is but much props:

http://www.toofab.com/2014/02/03/jared-padalecki-levar-burton-philip-seymour-hoffman-tweets/ (http://www.toofab.com/2014/02/03/jared-padalecki-levar-burton-philip-seymour-hoffman-tweets/)

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 03, 2014, 12:48:22 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on February 03, 2014, 12:44:41 pm

Why are we "honoring" an actor? Would we "honor" your third grade teacher? Your dentist? Your garbage man?

Who is honoring anyone? Its an on-going thread of famous people's deaths. Virtually everyone on here would agree their third grade teacher was a bigger influence on their life than PSH and we would "honor" them by taking twenty seconds to reflect and go "oh, Miss _____ died? That sucks. She taught me about turtles," the same way we respond to PSH's death with twenty seconds of "Oh, he died? That's sad. He was good in Magnolia." You act like people are being wildly histrionic about the whole thing despite the fact none of us are.

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on February 03, 2014, 12:44:41 pm

If Phillip Seymour Hoffman really affected your life then I suggest you step away from the computer, go outside, get some fresh air and maybe meet a girl.

Again, who is claiming PSH affected their life in a real way? Nice strawman there, Bernard.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 03, 2014, 12:49:44 pm

How fucking obtuse does a person have to be to not see that it is sad?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 03, 2014, 12:50:27 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 03, 2014, 12:21:15 pm

Quote from: bearman on February 03, 2014, 11:52:27 am
Incredible that after being clean for 20+ years PSH still succumbed to addiction.
no way that we know this to be a fact.. and i would be very skeptical that it was so..

Why skeptical?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 03, 2014, 12:52:17 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 03, 2014, 12:50:27 pm

Why skeptical?

From my absurdly limited knowledge about recidivism patterns among drug addicts, it is extraordinarily rare that someone kicks something for 20 years (without relapsing) before going back. It's like 500 times* more likely that there were several relapses in that interim period, statistically.*

* - Completely made up statistics that are not intended to be passed off as actual statistics, but rather hyperbole culled from anecdotal evidence.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 03, 2014, 12:55:18 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on February 03, 2014, 12:52:17 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 03, 2014, 12:50:27 pm
Why skeptical?
From my absurdly limited knowledge about recidivism patterns among drug addicts, it is extraordinarily rare that someone kicks something for 20 years (without relapsing) before going back. It's like 500 times* more likely that there were several relapses in that interim period, statistically.*

* - Not actual statistics, purely anecdotal.

Both scenarios happen. Neither one is that rare. Certain scenarios are absolutely more likely to occur than others, but it's not like it they are extremely isolated incidents.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 03, 2014, 12:58:32 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on February 03, 2014, 12:44:41 pm

Quote from: atomic on February 03, 2014, 12:30:20 pm
It is easy to find fault with others. If you don't have anything good to say about someone who just died it is best not to say anything at all. We don't know any of these celebrities that die so it really doesn't affect us too much but I think the purpose of this thread is to honor people and not to make you feel better about yourself because you didn't die of heroin overdose.

I can say whatever I want. I'm not going to be tsk tsked from a grown man who goes by the name "atomic." Why are we "honoring" an actor? Would we "honor" your third grade teacher? Your dentist? Your garbage man? They affect your life far more than the fat guy from "Hunger Games." Someone you've never met. If Phillip Seymour Hoffman really affected your life then I suggest you step away from the computer, go outside, get some fresh air and maybe meet a girl.

You ACTUALLY typed the words "I think the purpose of this thread...(is) not to make you feel better about yourself because you didn't die of heroin overdose." What a stupid mofo you are.

I don't know who Jared Padalecki is but much props:

http://www.toofab.com/2014/02/03/jared-padalecki-levar-burton-philip-seymour-hoffman-tweets/ (http://www.toofab.com/2014/02/03/jared-padalecki-levar-burton-philip-seymour-hoffman-tweets/)

Brian

I can truthfully state that Phillip Seymour Hoffman had a more positive affect on my life than my third grade teacher. I have never had a cavity or any dental problems and my dentist spends about 30 seconds with me each month to say keep up the good work. As for my garbage man, I have never met him but he seems to do a good job.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 03, 2014, 12:59:25 pm

When "heroes" kill themselves society wants them to remain heroes....hence the rationalizations we hear about how artists are different and this difference which gives us their art leads them to be martyrs for their art.....I kind of think its all bullshit.

Kurt Cobain wasn't' a hero ... he blew his brains out leaving a baby behind... there probably was mental illness... yes, that is true..

but you do wonder.. if PSH had issues with drugs all he had to do was drop out of society and buy an island in the pacific...what does it say that he didn't prioritize staying clean? cause living in NYC where you were an admitted heroin addict does not seem like prioritizing staying clean..and i'm not buying he was clean for 20 years... that is what you say in the interviews.. you have to say that... you don't say.. "oh yeah every once in a while i do some heroin or a line of blow"...

shooting heroin when you have three kids is something i can't understand or respect really..

and, no, i dont feel better about myself writing these words..not at all.. i'm sad the guy is dead because he was an interesting actor...when he was in a movie you know it had some real potential..yes its selfish but i'm sad because i won't see him in any new movies and when i do see an old movie of his i'll think "what a waste!"... i'm also sad for his three kids...cause i have kids so i thinkk about that shit.

but i think there is quite a double standard here...in how we react to movie or music stars going by way of drugs or alcohol and mere mortals.... some guy in the hood without a penny to his name and no job dies of a heroin overdose and we as a society call him a loser, a failure, a fuckup... we may even think, as a society: "good riddance"... when PSH dies we create a construct to try to explain or rationalize his death...

ymmv

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on February 03, 2014, 01:03:21 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on February 03, 2014, 12:48:22 pm

Again, who is claiming PSH affected their life in a real way? Nice strawman there, Bernard.

So we're "honoring" someone's death and it's very "sad" yet this person did not affect anyone's life in a real way?

Whatever. I can't speak with less-educated people than I. I'm not even disappointed that you all fell for it. Man, it is so easy to pick all of you off, the intellectually disabled. You're like gnats. Incredibly annoying but easy to get rid of.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 03, 2014, 01:08:03 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on February 03, 2014, 01:03:21 pm

So we're "honoring" someone's death and it's very "sad" yet this person did not affect anyone's life in a real way?

No, if you read my post, I specifically said no one was "honoring" him. If you don't think it's sad to hear someone died at 46 from something stupid, even if that person hasn't affected your life, then I don't know what to tell you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 03, 2014, 01:10:02 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 03, 2014, 12:59:25 pm

but you do wonder.. if PSH had issues with drugs all he had to do was drop out of society and buy an island in the pacific...what does it say that he didn't prioritize staying clean? cause living in NYC where you were an admitted heroin addict does not seem like prioritizing staying clean..and i'm not buying he was clean for 20 years... that is what you say in the interviews.. you have to say that... you don't say.. "oh yeah every once in a while i do some heroin or a line of blow"...

Really!?!?

Becoming a hermit is the only way to stay clean?

There are no recovered addicts living in NYC?

Anyone in NYC who claims to be clean for years is lying?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 03, 2014, 01:10:49 pm

Fairly well put Hutch...at least the first paragraph or two.

What I don't get if people's refusals to even try to understand struggles they do not endure themselves.

It's called empathy.

Though in this case, it is admittedly hard to wrap your head around this guy's decisions when he had the world in his hand, and more importantly 3 kids that are now fatherless.

Addiction is a cruel and baffling adversary. As someone who has dealt with it first hand, has lost countless friends to it, it is very upsetting to hear people dismiss any addicts death as "just a junkie getting what was coming to him". Nobody here said anything quite to that extent, but addiction has a face well beyond the addict himself.

Brian I don't hear anyone honoring his death. But I do honor his life and his contributions. And if you don't think it's sad, tell that to his kids. Tell it to my kids who buried their mom over this shit 6 months ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 03, 2014, 01:13:35 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 03, 2014, 01:10:02 pm

Really!?!?

Becoming a hermit is the only way to stay clean?

I don't think that's what hutch was trying to say at all. He appears, to me, to be pointing out PSH had unrivaled resources to combat his addiction and could take hysterically over-the-top measures to assist himself if he chose to do so.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 03, 2014, 01:14:22 pm

Quote from: chaz on February 03, 2014, 01:10:49 pm

Tell it to my kids who buried their mom over this shit 6 months ago.

My goodness. Sorry to hear that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 03, 2014, 01:23:18 pm

Quote from: chaz on February 03, 2014, 01:10:49 pm

It's called empathy.

And you sir, have both my empathy and sympathy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 03, 2014, 01:29:17 pm

I'm very sorry to hear that Chaz..that is rough.

empathy is a strange thing... can i empathize with what a multi-millionaire with three kids is going through or feeling that would cause him to do heroin... no, i don't think so .. i can sympathize.. i can feel for him..but "feel like him"? no. i don't think so.

one last thought.. i've come to think recently that there are genetic factors that may explain why some peoplle have an easier time with empathy than others....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 03, 2014, 01:34:17 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 03, 2014, 01:23:18 pm

Quote from: chaz on February 03, 2014, 01:10:49 pm
It's called empathy.

And you sir, have both my empathy and sympathy.

Thank you, and also you Julian. edit: and you too hutch

My intent with talking about this is not to pander attention. People can just be so crass and dense. Of course anyone who picks up heroin that first time is a fucking idiot.

Sometimes you can see this shit coming from a mile away and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. You just hope for the best.

And btw, kiddos are doing great, all things considered. They are brave and beautiful and pretty much kicking the world's ass right now. They are well loved by me and their step mom, who became their legal guardian just last month. Life has not been fair to them but our family has much to be grateful and excited about.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 03, 2014, 01:36:14 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 03, 2014, 01:29:17 pm

one last thought.. i've come to think recently that there are genetic factors that may explain why some peoplle have an easier time with empathy than others....

For this i'll take nurture over nature all day. Though i see scientific community may not think so.

Addiction on the other hand, is solidly both.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on February 03, 2014, 01:51:54 pm

I am sorry for your loss, chaz.

If anyone reads what I have written on this matter, my only belief is that I feel we should stop deifying and weeping over celebrities with addiction issues and realize that those that are closest to us are the ones that matter and the ones we should focus our sympathies on. It's easy to say that when it comes to addiction, everyone is the same. Maybe so. However, some people get thousands of life savers thrown at them (whether they choose to grab on or not) and some get none. And it seems to me, we should be helping out the ones who we know personally as much as we can instead of remembering how awesome someone we never met was in "Almost Famous".

That is all.

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family, chaz.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 03, 2014, 01:58:52 pm

you know what else is an addiction . . . attention. you all should go get sober, from it. kosmo should lock this stupid thread. people die every day in every way. we dont need this "me first" attitude spewing slavery this thing has become followed by "my opinion" of the facts of why people die. jesus christ, and satan too, go back to jerking off according to who is playing baltimore and not dc.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 03, 2014, 01:59:47 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on February 03, 2014, 01:51:54 pm

I am sorry for your loss, chaz.

If anyone reads what I have written on this matter, my only belief is that I feel we should stop deifying and weeping over celebrities with addiction issues and realize that those that are closest to us are the ones that matter and the ones we should focus our sympathies on. It's easy to say that when it comes to addiction, everyone is the same. Maybe so. However, some people get thousands of life savers thrown at them (whether they choose to grab on or not) and some get none. And it seems to me, we should be helping out the ones who we know personally as much as we can instead of remembering how awesome someone we never met was in "Almost Famous".

That is all.

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family, chaz.

Brian

Nobody deified anyone. An incredibly talented guy with seemingly everything to live for, dead. 3 fatherless children. A sad conclusion to a promising life. I've yet to hear anyone opine any differently than that.

Except for those that take the road you chose to.

Thanks for your kind words.

While my ex wife suffered her addiction, so too did her kids. And so did I. At least now we are not.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 03, 2014, 02:09:08 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 03, 2014, 01:58:52 pm

you know what else is an addiction . . . attention. you all should go get sober, from it. kosmo should lock this stupid thread. people die every day in every way. we dont need this "me first" attitude spewing slavery this thing has become followed by "my opinion" of the facts of why people die. jesus christ, and satan too, go back to jerking off according to who is playing baltimore and not dc.

Or he could just ban Brian Wallace. Or suspend him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 03, 2014, 02:25:23 pm

banning anybody is dumb. unless they threaten someones life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 03, 2014, 02:31:30 pm

BW, taking trolling to a whole new level. How sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 03, 2014, 03:04:10 pm

im still mad . . . about baltimore

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 03, 2014, 05:33:23 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 03, 2014, 03:04:10 pm

im still mad . . . about baltimore

Baltimore is still alive and well, thank you very much.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Brian_Wallace on February 04, 2014, 08:58:14 am

Quote from: atomic on February 03, 2014, 02:09:08 pm

Or he could just ban Brian Wallace. Or suspend him.

Quote from: Yada on February 03, 2014, 02:31:30 pm

BW, taking trolling to a whole new level. How sad.

The crazy part is you ACTUALLY think that would bother me. That taking away the self-obsessed mirror of the 9:30 message board would bother me. How would it affect any of YOU who feel inadequate in your real life and you're grown men (I'm 24. Born March XX, 1989 and my real name is....wait for it....Brian Wallace) and you can revert to your childhood where you can have silly names like "Vansmack!" and "Sweetcell!" and "Atomic!" and "Yada!"

Ban me. Suspend me. Take "trolling" to a new level. For the simple fact of stating that Phillip Seymour Hoffman's death was not "sad" and not "tragic". He had tremendous resources to fight his problem and failed. For stating THAT opinion, I'm a "troll" and should be banned.

His death wasn't tragic. You know what else isn't tragic? Attending a concert at D.A.R. Or driving to Silver Spring. Or not getting great Nick Cave seats. You want sad? You want tragic? I volunteer at CHOP. I'll sign you up. I'll show you "sad."

I'm done . Good bye. It's shame I never was able to tell the difference between "vansmack" and "Sweetcell". I know three facts about those two: one lives in San Francisco, one's obsessed with cell phones and one was married for like, two weeks.

Brian

kosmo - Real name or not, I don't think it's wise to post a birth date on a public forum.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 04, 2014, 09:21:49 am

Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia?

Christian House of Prayer?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 04, 2014, 09:22:40 am

Do you want a cookie?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 04, 2014, 09:43:54 am

I think it's that faux gourmet fast food salad place. I had one once, but an hour later I was hungry again and had to go buy a sandwich.

Quote from: ggw on February 04, 2014, 09:21:49 am

Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia?

Christian House of Prayer?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 04, 2014, 09:52:20 am

And sorry, I don't buy that Brian is 24 either. He's talked about seeing shows back in the 90's.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on February 04, 2014, 10:32:16 am

I just skipped thru last few pages of babbling to add that Happiness was my favorite FSH film

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 04, 2014, 10:57:18 am

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on February 04, 2014, 10:32:16 am

I just skipped thru last few pages of babbling to add that Happiness was my favorite FSH film

My favorite as well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 04, 2014, 11:16:36 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on February 04, 2014, 08:58:14 am

Quote from: atomic on February 03, 2014, 02:09:08 pm

Or he could just ban Brian Wallace. Or suspend him.

Quote from: Yada on February 03, 2014, 02:31:30 pm
BW, taking trolling to a whole new level. How sad.

The crazy part is you ACTUALLY think that would bother me. That taking away the self-obsessed mirror of the 9:30 message board would bother me. How would it affect any of YOU who feel inadequate in your real life and you're grown men (I'm 24. Born March XX, 1989 and my real name is....wait for it....Brian Wallace) and you can revert to your childhood where you can have silly names like "Vansmack!" and "Sweetcell!" and "Atomic!" and "Yada!"

Ban me. Suspend me. Take "trolling" to a new level. For the simple fact of stating that Phillip Seymour Hoffman's death was not "sad" and not "tragic". He had tremendous resources to fight his problem and failed. For stating THAT opinion, I'm a "troll" and should be banned.

His death wasn't tragic. You know what else isn't tragic? Attending a concert at D.A.R. Or driving to Silver Spring. Or not getting great Nick Cave seats. You want sad? You want tragic? I volunteer at CHOP. I'll show you "sad."

I'm done . Good bye. It's shame I never was able to tell the difference between "vansmack" and "Sweetcell". I know three facts about those two: one lives in San Francisco, one's obsessed with cell phones and one was married for like, two weeks.

Brian

kosmo - Real name or not, I don't think it's wise to post a birth date on a public forum.

You are that bitter at 24? I didn't even have a TV at 24 as I was spending all my time out having fun.

And What? Someone was married for only 2 weeks? That seems to need a follow-up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on February 04, 2014, 11:32:05 am

Good riddance BW. Guy is just a contrarian.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 04, 2014, 11:50:00 am

Quote from: atomic on February 04, 2014, 11:16:36 am

And What? Someone was married for only 2 weeks? That seems to need a follow-up.

He's being extremely hyperbolic. Its common knowledge a boardee got a divorce although after a much longer period of time than 2 weeks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on February 04, 2014, 11:52:55 am

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on February 04, 2014, 08:58:14 am

The crazy part is you ACTUALLY think that would bother me. That taking away the self-obsessed mirror of the 9:30 message board would bother me. How would it affect any of YOU who feel inadequate in your real life and you're grown men (I'm 24. Born March XX, 1989 and my real name is....wait for it....Brian Wallace) and you can revert to your childhood where you can have silly names like "Vansmack!" and "Sweetcell!" and "Atomic!" and "Yada!"

Ban me. Suspend me. Take "trolling" to a new level. For the simple fact of stating that Phillip Seymour Hoffman's death was not "sad" and not "tragic". He had tremendous resources to fight his problem and failed. For stating THAT opinion, I'm a "troll" and should be banned.

His death wasn't tragic. You know what else isn't tragic? Attending a concert at D.A.R. Or driving to Silver Spring. Or not getting great Nick Cave seats. You want sad? You want tragic? I volunteer at CHOP. I'll show you "sad."

I'm done . Good bye. It's shame I never was able to tell the difference between "vansmack" and "Sweetcell". I know three facts about those two: one lives in San Francisco, one's obsessed with cell phones and one was married for like, two weeks.

Brian

kosmo - Real name or not, I don't think it's wise to post a birth date on a public forum.

RIP...
Died so we can still complain about the food at the Birchmere...

(http://www.tshirtroundup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/life-of-brian---bright-side-of-life-faniseto.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 04, 2014, 12:07:34 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on February 04, 2014, 11:50:00 am

Quote from: atomic on February 04, 2014, 11:16:36 am
And What? Someone was married for only 2 weeks? That seems to need a follow-up.
He's being extremely hyperbolic. Its common knowledge a boardee got a divorce although after a much longer period of time than 2 weeks.

I got a divorce after 17 years. I wish I got divorced sooner as I wouldn't still be paying alimony.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 04, 2014, 12:07:37 pm

All we need now is his mother's maiden name and it's new identities for all. Which apparently we are in dire need of.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 04, 2014, 12:08:20 pm

Kinda wishing somebody famous would kick it so we could just move on.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 04, 2014, 12:34:16 pm

Quote from: Brian_Wallace on February 04, 2014, 08:58:14 am

Quote from: atomic on February 03, 2014, 02:09:08 pm

Or he could just ban Brian Wallace. Or suspend him.

Quote from: Yada on February 03, 2014, 02:31:30 pm
BW, taking trolling to a whole new level. How sad.

The crazy part is you ACTUALLY think that would bother me. That taking away the self-obsessed mirror of the 9:30 message board would bother me. How would it affect any of YOU who feel inadequate in your real life and you're grown men (I'm 24. Born March XX, 1989 and my real name is....wait for it....Brian Wallace) and you can revert to your childhood where you can have silly names like "Vansmack!" and "Sweetcell!" and "Atomic!" and "Yada!"

Ban me. Suspend me. Take "trolling" to a new level. For the simple fact of stating that Phillip Seymour Hoffman's death was not "sad" and not "tragic". He had tremendous resources to fight his problem and failed. For stating THAT opinion, I'm a "troll" and should be banned.

His death wasn't tragic. You know what else isn't tragic? Attending a concert at D.A.R. Or driving to Silver Spring. Or not getting great Nick Cave seats. You want sad? You want tragic? I volunteer at CHOP. I'll show you "sad."

I'm done . Good bye. It's shame I never was able to tell the difference between "vansmack" and "Sweetcell". I know three facts about those two: one lives in San Francisco, one's obsessed with cell phones and one was married for like, two weeks.

Brian

kosmo - Real name or not, I don't think it's wise to post a birth date on a public forum.

A+

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 04, 2014, 12:52:29 pm

Maximilian Schell, the ruggedly handsome Austrian-born actor who won an Academy Award for his role in ?Judgment at Nuremberg,? died early Saturday in Innsbruck, Austria. He was 83.

(http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/02/02/movies/02schell3/02schell3-master675.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 04, 2014, 01:10:05 pm

Richard Bull - Actor Died at 89 of natural causes. Best known for his role of the shopkeeper Nels Oleson on Little House on the Prairie.

(http://www.zunshine.com/prairiepics/season1/nels1.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 04, 2014, 01:14:29 pm

Wow, so sad. I loved that show though I haven't seen it lately.

Quote from: atomic on February 04, 2014, 01:10:05 pm

Richard Bull - Actor Died at 89 of natural causes. Best known for his role of the shopkeeper Nels Oleson on Little House on the Prairie.

(http://www.zunshine.com/prairiepics/season1/nels1.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 04, 2014, 01:17:34 pm

Alex Shear, Owner of 100,000 Pieces of American Kitsch, Dies at 73 (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/nyregion/alex-shear-a-collector-of-american-kitsch-dies-at-73.html?ref=obituaries)

They were all his Rosebuds: the vacuum cleaner shaped like a rocket ship, the toaster shaped like a piece of toast, the suitcase with an electric iron in the handle, the potato mashers (he owned about 500), the tin soldiers, the fallout-shelter sign and the gasoline-powered pogo stick.

When Alex Shear died in New York at 73 this month, he left behind a collection widely described as one of the largest assemblages ? quite possibly the largest one ? of pop-culture artifacts in private hands, with holdings so vast they once spanned 11 storage facilities in three states.

It was, as he put it, a window into the American soul, built from the literal stuff of life, a tangible hedge against the passage of time.

(http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/01/25/nyregion/shear-obit-1/shear-obit-1-master675.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 04, 2014, 01:30:11 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 04, 2014, 01:14:29 pm

Wow, so sad. I loved that show though I haven't seen it lately.

Quote from: atomic on February 04, 2014, 01:10:05 pm
Richard Bull - Actor Died at 89 of natural causes. Best known for his role of the shopkeeper Nels Oleson on Little House on the Prairie.

(http://www.zunshine.com/prairiepics/season1/nels1.jpg)

how dare you feel sad about an 89 year old man everyone assumed was dead...dying..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 04, 2014, 01:32:40 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 04, 2014, 01:17:34 pm

Alex Shear, Owner of 100,000 Pieces of American Kitsch, Dies at 73 (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/nyregion/alex-shear-a-collector-of-american-kitsch-dies-at-73.html?ref=obituaries)

They were all his Rosebuds: the vacuum cleaner shaped like a rocket ship, the toaster shaped like a piece of toast, the suitcase with an electric iron in the handle, the potato mashers (he owned about 500), the tin soldiers, the fallout-shelter sign and the gasoline-powered pogo stick.

When Alex Shear died in New York at 73 this month, he left behind a collection widely described as one of the largest assemblages ? quite possibly the largest one ? of pop-culture artifacts in private hands, with holdings so vast they once spanned 11 storage facilities in three states.

It was, as he put it, a window into the American soul, built from the literal stuff of life, a tangible hedge against the passage of time.

(http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/01/25/nyregion/shear-obit-1/shear-obit-1-master675.jpg)

Why are we honoring a hoarder? How irresponsible of him to saddle his family with this stuff. In what way did this guys collection affect your life in any real way??

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 04, 2014, 02:25:20 pm

(http://images.jailbase.com/arrested/tx-tc/2013-11-27/brian-wallace-20131127-0789968.pic1.jpg)
;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 04, 2014, 02:28:24 pm

Not our guy, but thanks for playing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 04, 2014, 02:30:17 pm

I know...but seemed fitting...there were some older dudes too, but he 'said' he was 24

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 04, 2014, 02:30:35 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on February 04, 2014, 02:28:24 pm

Not our guy, but thanks for playing.

Funny, that is exactly what I thought Brian Wallace looked like.

Or maybe like this;

(http://www.nndb.com/people/527/000022461/HenryR1.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 04, 2014, 03:45:33 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on February 04, 2014, 02:28:24 pm

Not our guy, but thanks for playing.

I kind of assumed you and BW were friends IRL. I bet you guys send private messages to each other all day on here pumping each other up about your posts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 04, 2014, 03:49:28 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 04, 2014, 03:45:33 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on February 04, 2014, 02:28:24 pm
Not our guy, but thanks for playing.

I kind of assumed you and BW were friends IRL. I bet you guys send private messages to each other all day on here pumping each other up about your posts.

Uh, no.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 04, 2014, 03:58:48 pm

when julian is bored, he posts as brian. when brian is bored . . . he murders all things bright and beautiful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 04, 2014, 03:59:50 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on February 04, 2014, 03:49:28 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 04, 2014, 03:45:33 pm
Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on February 04, 2014, 02:28:24 pm
Not our guy, but thanks for playing.

I kind of assumed you and BW were friends IRL. I bet you guys send private messages to each other all day on here pumping each other up about your posts.
Uh, no.

how do you know what that nozzle looks like?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 04, 2014, 04:11:24 pm

https://www.google.com/search?q=brian+wallace&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=U0nxUr7-EoqEyAH0ooH4Aw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAg&biw=1080&bih=1829#q=bryan%20wallace&revid=181607259&safe=off&tbm=isch&imgdii=_

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 04, 2014, 04:27:15 pm

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR4vV7HwZtHVDvDv8aE2fd17ZlkQs0-z_SaDCMh_XXtWilQJwcW)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 04, 2014, 04:38:51 pm

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSyr_bfB7xYihLlkNxVowQ_mbOEnI9JedDoAPyGYeaZOJMT0QXi)

Could this be our Brian Wallace? He is described as Holocaust Revisionist. I could see our Brian Wallace being one of those.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 04, 2014, 04:43:09 pm

you did notice that it switched it from brian, to bryan . . . so it is none of those photos. darn.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on February 04, 2014, 06:23:02 pm

Quote from: bearman on February 03, 2014, 11:52:27 am

Incredible that after being clean for 20+ years PSH still succumbed to addiction.

Using any particular substance is a SYMPTOM of the disease of addiction. Being clean for any amount of time does not CURE someone from having the disease.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 04, 2014, 06:31:41 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on February 04, 2014, 06:23:02 pm

Quote from: bearman on February 03, 2014, 11:52:27 am
Incredible that after being clean for 20+ years PSH still succumbed to addiction.

Using any particular substance is a SYMPTOM of the disease of addiction. Being clean form any amount of time does not CURE someone from having the disease.

It's always great to find common ground with someone I generally patently disagree with. But here I am. I generally try to avoid using the term disease, because the disease model in general is so polarizing where it pertains to addiction. But like a disease it is progressive and fatal if left untreated.

We (I) are flogging a dead horse here. But love him or hate him, Russell Brand nails it in this column.

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/mar/09/russell-brand-life-without-drugs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 04, 2014, 07:08:50 pm

Quote from: chaz on February 04, 2014, 06:31:41 pm

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/mar/09/russell-brand-life-without-drugs

what an insightful read.

"Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution." (...) "It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 04, 2014, 09:07:57 pm

heres an idea famous people . . . go find other famous people that are doing drugs that are, still, alive, and fuck them up until they get sober. and then continue to fuck them up, if they fall off the wagon. shame all famous people who are doing drugs. make sure they get fired from all their jobs. throw shit at them during award shows. boo them to their fucking face. then, i would care.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 04, 2014, 09:08:12 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 04, 2014, 07:08:50 pm

Quote from: chaz on February 04, 2014, 06:31:41 pm
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/mar/09/russell-brand-life-without-drugs

what an insightful read.

"Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution." (...) "It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?"

People addicted to gambling. I don't get that one. At least with drugs you are getting some sort of pleasure. Gamblers who leave their kids in the car in the cold while they throw their money away.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 05, 2014, 02:01:55 pm

FYI - had to edit a couple posts today because certain info posted turned out to be bogus. And that is all I'll say on the matter.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 05, 2014, 02:07:37 pm

how bogus, of you, not to say anything else, on the matter.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 05, 2014, 02:20:13 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 05, 2014, 02:01:55 pm

FYI - had to edit a couple posts today because certain info posted turned out to be bogus. And that is all I'll say on the matter.

The e-mail address and phone number Brian Wallace posted were not really his? How shocking.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 06, 2014, 02:05:35 pm

Quote from: atomic on February 05, 2014, 02:20:13 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 05, 2014, 02:01:55 pm
FYI - had to edit a couple posts today because certain info posted turned out to be bogus. And that is all I'll say on the matter.

The e-mail address and phone number Brian Wallace posted were not really his? How shocking.

have noticed that BW hasn't posted since...but hasn't deleted his account
kind of an @hole and won't be missed by me

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 02:16:37 pm

He may be my all time favorite board member. This place will go back to being boring without him.

Quote from: Sidehatch on February 06, 2014, 02:05:35 pm

Quote from: atomic on February 05, 2014, 02:20:13 pm
Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 05, 2014, 02:01:55 pm
FYI - had to edit a couple posts today because certain info posted turned out to be bogus. And that is all I'll say on the matter.

The e-mail address and phone number Brian Wallace posted were not really his? How shocking.

have noticed that BW hasn't posted since...but hasn't deleted his account
kind of an @hole and won't be missed by me

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 06, 2014, 02:57:00 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 02:16:37 pm

He may be my all time favorite board member. This place will go back to being boring without him.

I can't decide whether to respond "Troll knows troll," or "Celeste will take this news hard."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 06, 2014, 03:26:44 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 02:16:37 pm

He may be my all time favorite board member. This place will go back to being boring without him.

i wouldn't say he's my favorite, but i certainly have an appreciation of his style. when he hits his stride, those rants are epic.

i also agree with a lot of what he said here regarding how people are (over)reacting to PSH's overdose. dammit. i hate it when i have to agree with wallace.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 03:52:56 pm

Ok, maybe I should have said "favorite board member I haven't met". Because of course the ones I have met have all been lovely people.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 06, 2014, 04:26:29 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 03:52:56 pm

Ok, maybe I should have said "favorite board member I haven't met". Because of course the ones I have met have all been lovely people.

You haven't met me yet.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 04:31:15 pm

And I'm sure if I did, I'd think you were a lovely guy too. ;)

I'm just saying, I'm a big fan of Brian's rants.

Quote from: chaz on February 06, 2014, 04:26:29 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 03:52:56 pm
Ok, maybe I should have said "favorite board member I haven't met". Because of course the ones I have met have all been lovely people.
You haven't met me yet.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 06, 2014, 04:37:39 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 02:16:37 pm

He may be my all time favorite board member. This place will go back to being boring without him.

Quote from: Sidehatch on February 06, 2014, 02:05:35 pm
Quote from: atomic on February 05, 2014, 02:20:13 pm
Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 05, 2014, 02:01:55 pm
FYI - had to edit a couple posts today because certain info posted turned out to be bogus. And that is all I'll say on the matter.

The e-mail address and phone number Brian Wallace posted were not really his? How shocking.

have noticed that BW hasn't posted since...but hasn't deleted his account
kind of an @hole and won't be missed by me

Was he your alter-ego? I think he was like you but worse.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 04:41:07 pm

Nah, I don't have neither the writing talent nor the fake anger to write rants like that. And neither do you.

Quote from: atomic on February 06, 2014, 04:37:39 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 02:16:37 pm
He may be my all time favorite board member. This place will go back to being boring without him.

Quote from: Sidehatch on February 06, 2014, 02:05:35 pm
Quote from: atomic on February 05, 2014, 02:20:13 pm
Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 05, 2014, 02:01:55 pm
FYI - had to edit a couple posts today because certain info posted turned out to be bogus. And that is all I'll say on the matter.

The e-mail address and phone number Brian Wallace posted were not really his? How shocking.

have noticed that BW hasn't posted since...but hasn't deleted his account
kind of an @hole and won't be missed by me

Was he your alter-ego? I think he was like you but worse.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 06, 2014, 04:45:42 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 04:41:07 pm

Nah, I don't have neither the writing talent nor the fake anger to write rants like that. And neither do you.

Quote from: atomic on February 06, 2014, 04:37:39 pm
Quote from: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 02:16:37 pm
He may be my all time favorite board member. This place will go back to being boring without him.

Quote from: Sidehatch on February 06, 2014, 02:05:35 pm
Quote from: atomic on February 05, 2014, 02:20:13 pm
Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 05, 2014, 02:01:55 pm
FYI - had to edit a couple posts today because certain info posted turned out to be bogus. And that is all I'll say on the matter.

The e-mail address and phone number Brian Wallace posted were not really his? How shocking.

have noticed that BW hasn't posted since...but hasn't deleted his account
kind of an @hole and won't be missed by me

Was he your alter-ego? I think he was like you but worse.

I think he brought nothing to the table. Seemed like he like shitty old music like Bruce Springsteen. Had stupid opinions on most things and then when he left he tried to make it like we were the ones with the issues and left a fake phone number and email address if we wanted to contact him to do charity work.

Pretty lame. I still think he was you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 04:49:37 pm

Brian liked Bruce Springsteen? If this is like, I'd hate the see hate.

Great. Yes. A version of "Ghost of Tom Joad?" WITH Tom Morello? What the world is waiting for. Kill me now.

You can hate that fat, fake fuck from Jersey just for his lame album covers. No wants to see what 60+ Bohemian Jersey looks like, Bruce. Put it away.

Let me spell out for you. Springsteen is horrible. And it's simple to pick out other horrible bands as well. If you WORSHIP Springsteen you suck too:

Tom Morello? Horrible. Wants to educate us on the injustices going on in third world countries while also being a "Guitar Hero" character. Which is the only 21st century time waster that actually isn't popular anymore. No one's asking for "Rock Band-Lou Reed" this Christmas.

Arcade Fire? The snotty art kids who think they are smarter than they are. Want to tell you how to dress.

Gaslight Anthem? A DeVry degree is a terrible thing to waste......

They are all like, shitiness squared.

Wait. Who's that lesbian who worships Springsteen AND Lennon? Etheridge? Melissa Etheridge? She's....just....the....worst. She's even worse than Alanis. She's shitiness cubed.

Brian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 06, 2014, 04:53:14 pm

can somebody please die . . . so we can get back on topic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 04:58:38 pm

I thought we were talking about Brian's board death.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 06, 2014, 05:10:34 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 04:58:38 pm

I thought we were talking about Brian's board death.

I wonder if he'll come back and whine like a little bitch about people being mean to him -- like you did.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 06, 2014, 05:13:29 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 04:58:38 pm

I thought we were talking about Brian's board death.

We've come to bury Caesar!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 06, 2014, 05:49:03 pm

I can only imagine what Brian Wallace would have said about this

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/06/russell-brand-philip-seymour-hoffman-drug-laws

Once again, Russel nails it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 06, 2014, 09:41:55 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 06, 2014, 05:10:34 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 04:58:38 pm
I thought we were talking about Brian's board death.

I wonder if he'll come back and whine like a little bitch about people being mean to him -- like you did.

Link?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 07, 2014, 12:05:52 am

Quote from: James Ford on February 06, 2014, 04:49:37 pm

Gaslight Anthem? A DeVry degree is a terrible thing to waste......

Brian[/i]

now that's some funny sh!+

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 07, 2014, 12:25:00 pm

Baseball great Ralph Kiner.

Quote from: walkonby on February 06, 2014, 04:53:14 pm

can somebody please die . . . so we can get back on topic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on February 11, 2014, 09:18:16 am

Shirley Temple dies at age 85

http://www.wric.com/story/24688689/agent-shirley-temple-black-dead-at-85

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 11, 2014, 11:56:01 am

Quote from: betao on February 11, 2014, 09:18:16 am

Shirley Temple dies at age 85

http://www.wric.com/story/24688689/agent-shirley-temple-black-dead-at-85

Oh no. I just read about her in a list of a stars that were still alive that you thought were dead. I hope Zsa Zsa is safe.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 11, 2014, 12:06:07 pm

Of course she's safe.

(http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Entertainment/spl_zsa_zsa_gabor_jef_120207_wmain.jpg)

Quote from: atomic on February 11, 2014, 11:56:01 am

Quote from: betao on February 11, 2014, 09:18:16 am
Shirley Temple dies at age 85

http://www.wric.com/story/24688689/agent-shirley-temple-black-dead-at-85

Oh no. I just read about her in a list of a stars that were still alive that you thought were dead. I hope Zsa Zsa is safe.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 11, 2014, 01:51:06 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 11, 2014, 12:06:07 pm

Of course she's safe.

(http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Entertainment/spl_zsa_zsa_gabor_jef_120207_wmain.jpg)
Quote from: atomic on February 11, 2014, 11:56:01 am
Quote from: betao on February 11, 2014, 09:18:16 am
Shirley Temple dies at age 85

http://www.wric.com/story/24688689/agent-shirley-temple-black-dead-at-85

Oh no. I just read about her in a list of a stars that were still alive that you thought were dead. I hope Zsa Zsa is safe.

Is that Mickey Rooney?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 11, 2014, 01:52:46 pm

It looks like a real life version of the grandfather on King of the Hill. Amirite guys?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 11, 2014, 02:13:47 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 11, 2014, 01:51:06 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 11, 2014, 12:06:07 pm
Of course she's safe.

(http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Entertainment/spl_zsa_zsa_gabor_jef_120207_wmain.jpg)
Quote from: atomic on February 11, 2014, 11:56:01 am
Quote from: betao on February 11, 2014, 09:18:16 am
Shirley Temple dies at age 85

http://www.wric.com/story/24688689/agent-shirley-temple-black-dead-at-85

Oh no. I just read about her in a list of a stars that were still alive that you thought were dead. I hope Zsa Zsa is safe.

Is that Mickey Rooney?

Is that atomic in 10 years?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 11, 2014, 02:56:13 pm

Nah, that's atomic's wife in 10 years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 11, 2014, 03:04:01 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 11, 2014, 02:13:47 pm

Is that atomic in 10 years?

Just off camera: his many foster children, multiple degrees, and famous Nordic good looks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 11, 2014, 06:26:50 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 11, 2014, 02:56:13 pm

Nah, that's atomic's wife in 10 years.

No that is your wife right now. Why would you say something like that? If I ever meet you in person now I will have to punch you in the face. Not something I want to do but it will have to be done.

I did think that was Mickey Rooney when I saw the photo.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 11, 2014, 07:03:07 pm

If Atomic and James Ford exchanged fisticuffs, it'd be the greatest event in board history. Bar none.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 11, 2014, 07:29:52 pm

Ah, he's all talk. He seems like a lover, not a fighter. And the idea of me hitting anything...laughable.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on February 12, 2014, 05:41:39 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 11, 2014, 07:29:52 pm

Ah, he's all talk. He seems like a lover, not a fighter. And the idea of me hitting anything...laughable.

(http://ct.fra.bz/ol/fz/sw/i45/5/2/6/fbz_d329ebb44b971a184af1aaee2b9e8449.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on February 13, 2014, 04:13:41 am

Sid Caesar
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/sid-caesar-dies-pathbreaking-comedian/2014/02/12/f2e37274-9423-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html?wprss=rss_entertainment

My dad was a huge fan of "Your Show of Shows"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 13, 2014, 08:22:39 pm

Angels great, Jim Fregosi. 71

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on February 16, 2014, 02:23:21 pm

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/celebrities/john-henson-dead-son-of-muppets-creator-jim-henson-died-after-playing-in-snow-1.7093463

Quote

SAUGERTIES, N.Y. - Puppeteer John Henson, the son of the late Muppets creator Jim Henson, has died in New York. He was 48.

Cheryl Henson says her brother died of a "massive heart attack" at his home in Saugerties on Friday. She says it happened after he had been building an igloo in the snow with his daughter.

Henson followed in his famous father's footsteps as a puppeteer, performing as Sweetums the ogre in several films, including "Muppet Treasure Island" and "It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie."

Cheryl said her brother also made appearances in the original Coca-Cola Polar Bear suit. She described him as an "artist who also loved working the land."

Henson was a shareholder and board member of The Jim Henson Company.

Henson leaves behind his wife Gyongyi and two daughters, ages 10 and 15. A private funeral service is planned.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 16, 2014, 05:46:20 pm

Quote

9:54 AM: Jamie Coots, one of the stars of National Geographic?s reality show Snake Salvation, died Saturday of a poisonous snake bite. According to reports he refused medical attention after being bitten in his Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name in Middlesboro, Kentucky and died shortly thereafter in his home. The show debuted last Fall centered on two Pentecostal preachers who handle deadly snakes as part of a century-old Appalachian practice originating from a Bible passage that suggests those anointed by God will not be harmed by a poisonous snake bite. Coots had previously been bitten nine times and lost a finger to a rattlesnake bite

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 16, 2014, 05:51:31 pm

Quote from: atomic on February 16, 2014, 05:46:20 pm

Quote
9:54 AM: Jamie Coots, one of the stars of National Geographic?s reality show Snake Salvation, died Saturday of a poisonous snake bite. According to reports he refused medical attention after being bitten in his Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name in Middlesboro, Kentucky and died shortly thereafter in his home. The show debuted last Fall centered on two Pentecostal preachers who handle deadly snakes as part of a century-old Appalachian practice originating from a Bible passage that suggests those anointed by God will not be harmed by a poisonous snake bite. Coots had previously been bitten nine times and lost a finger to a rattlesnake bite

I guess he wasn't a true believer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on February 18, 2014, 01:40:40 pm

Bob Casale of Devo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on February 19, 2014, 12:32:33 pm

Big Daddy V/Mabel/Viscera
(http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Viscera-2.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on February 19, 2014, 02:08:34 pm

Quote from: Hexenjagd on February 19, 2014, 12:32:33 pm

Big Daddy V/Mabel/Viscera
(http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Viscera-2.jpg)

Let me guess: Heart Attack?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on February 19, 2014, 02:34:19 pm

Yep. 43 years old.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 19, 2014, 02:37:47 pm

Let me guess...was he a bouncer at the 9:30 Club?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on February 19, 2014, 02:40:54 pm

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-nelson-frazier-wwe-viscera-big-daddy-v-20140219,0,6038101.story#axzz2tnJf19hZ

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 19, 2014, 02:52:26 pm

RIP to an old friend of mine, Scott Phillips. Nice to see him get this write up in the City Paper.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/02/14/the-weird-wild-legacy-of-d-c-noise-musician-scott-phillips/#.UwTRhIaYr7c.facebook

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 19, 2014, 04:00:58 pm

Chaz, I swear you've known more people that died in the past year than I've known to die in my entire life. Maybe you just know a lot more people than I do.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 19, 2014, 04:07:48 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 19, 2014, 04:00:58 pm

Chaz, I swear you've known more people that died in the past year than I've known to die in my entire life. Maybe you just know a lot more people than I do.

It's been a fucked up year. A dangerous year to be my friend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 23, 2014, 11:40:28 pm

Samuel Sheinbein (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/world/middleeast/american-held-in-israeli-prison-dies-in-shootout.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on February 24, 2014, 09:00:16 am

Haven't been in this thread in a while. Great dude/huge loss/amazing talent. There was a while there where I would run into him everywhere; always a fun person to chat up. You weren't at the memorial held for him in Takoma Park that week, were you?

Quote from: chaz on February 19, 2014, 02:52:26 pm

RIP to an old friend of mine, Scott Phillips. Nice to see him get this write up in the City Paper.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/02/14/the-weird-wild-legacy-of-d-c-noise-musician-scott-phillips/#.UwTRhIaYr7c.facebook

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 24, 2014, 10:53:36 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on February 24, 2014, 09:00:16 am

Haven't been in this thread in a while. Great dude/huge loss/amazing talent. There was a while there where I would run into him everywhere; always a fun person to chat up. You weren't at the memorial held for him in Takoma Park that week, were you?

Quote from: chaz on February 19, 2014, 02:52:26 pm
RIP to an old friend of mine, Scott Phillips. Nice to see him get this write up in the City Paper.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/02/14/the-weird-wild-legacy-of-d-c-noise-musician-scott-phillips/#.UwTRhIaYr7c.facebook

Was unable to get to the memorial. I had not spoken to Scott in a few years. He was a hilarious and interesting guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on February 24, 2014, 11:34:32 am

Yeah, he kind of dropped off the face of the earth for the last year. Never expected he'd resurface like this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 24, 2014, 11:44:37 am

I knew he'd gone back to hard drugs, so it wasn't that huge of a shock that this happened. He'd put that stuff to bed for a long time. It's a shame.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Nigel Tufnel on February 24, 2014, 01:37:51 pm

Harold Ramis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 25, 2014, 01:41:47 am

Quote from: Nigel Tufnel on February 24, 2014, 01:37:51 pm

Harold Ramis

What a run that guy had. Totally sad, but he definitely shaped my sense of humor, even if I took it too far.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 25, 2014, 11:33:52 am

there goes, ghostbusters three.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 25, 2014, 11:42:05 am

Quote from: vansmack on February 25, 2014, 01:41:47 am

Quote from: Nigel Tufnel on February 24, 2014, 01:37:51 pm
Harold Ramis

What a run that guy had. Totally sad, but he definitely shaped my sense of humor, even if I took it too far.

For real. This guy's movies were solid gold back when I was a kid. Animal House, Caddyshack, Meatballs, Stripes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 25, 2014, 02:15:43 pm

(https://s1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UiegUuhsYlxnCi3Xfx6FEw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/movies/2014-02-24/436c4b40-9d97-11e3-bc16-b55edd9f02d5_Harold-Ramis-Stripes-Learn.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 26, 2014, 12:10:59 pm

Paco de Lucia

his recordings with Camaron de la Isla remain the pinnnacle of modern flamenco (at least to this novice)

glad I saw Paco once at Lisner in the mid 1990s I want to say..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on February 26, 2014, 12:22:47 pm

Former NBC newsanchor Garrick Utley.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 26, 2014, 01:15:35 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 26, 2014, 12:10:59 pm

Paco de Lucia

aww crap. what a loss. i've listened to "Entre Dos Aguas" about a million times over the years. live rendition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oyhlad64-s

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 26, 2014, 07:53:59 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 25, 2014, 11:33:52 am

there goes, ghostbusters three.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/ghostbusters-iii-moving-forward-after-harold-ramis-death-20140226

nevermind

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 27, 2014, 10:10:00 pm

(http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhfdUM7CUAEiLH0.jpg)

Jim Lange as you probably knew him. I also remember him as a newscaster on KGO-TV (Channel 7) in San Francisco. And if I remember correctly, he interrupted morning programming to play the first communique tape from Patty Hearst.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 27, 2014, 10:39:21 pm

(http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140227211306-parker-helvetica-horizontal-gallery.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 04, 2014, 02:53:33 pm

You know, I usually have a thick skin for this sort of thing. But this pisses me off. This guy Bob Casale was a member of a wildly successful rock band, worked for a wildlly successful music soundtrack shop, and he has NO will and NO LIFE INSURANCE? His family has to beg on the Internet to pay for his funeral and medical expenses?

I'm just a regular schmuck and even I have this stuff. And for a while there it wasn't the easiest thing for me to make those life insurance premium payments, but I always did and do. And thanks to that my kids and wife won't be left holding the bag if something unforeseen happens to me.

http://www.spin.com/articles/devo-robert-bob-casale-family-fund-donations-death/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 04, 2014, 03:05:29 pm

Quote from: chaz on March 04, 2014, 02:53:33 pm

You know, I usually have a thick skin for this sort of thing. But this pisses me off. This guy Bob Casale was a member of a wildly successful rock band, worked for a wildlly successful music soundtrack shop, and he has NO will and NO LIFE INSURANCE? His family has to beg on the Internet to pay for his funeral and medical expenses?

I'm just a regular schmuck and even I have this stuff. And for a while there it wasn't the easiest thing for me to make those life insurance premium payments, but I always did and do. And thanks to that my kids and wife won't be left holding the bag if something unforeseen happens to me.

http://www.spin.com/articles/devo-robert-bob-casale-family-fund-donations-death/

I'm actually in the process of getting life insurance right now, what a fucking crock of shit... but a must if you have a family that you care about. I'm sure this will spawn another thread or this could belong in the parenting or herpes thread.

But yeah, that guy is an irresponsible idiot.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 04, 2014, 03:22:33 pm

I wonder if there really a need for life insurance if you've got two healthy 401K's, two above average incomes, a healthy college fund, a healthy bank account, only one kid, and don't spend your money on $300 bottles of liquor?

Death insurance has always seemed like a scam to me. And I don't want a funeral. Cremate me as cheaply as possible.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 04, 2014, 03:31:27 pm

rip bob 2....seems like yesterday i saw him at the state theatre......

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 04, 2014, 03:32:33 pm

Quote from: James Ford on March 04, 2014, 03:22:33 pm

I wonder if there really a need for life insurance if you've got two healthy 401K's, two above average incomes, a healthy college fund, a healthy bank account, only one kid, and don't spend your money on $300 bottles of liquor?

Death insurance has always seemed like a scam to me. And I don't want a funeral. Cremate me as cheaply as possible.

I assumed you wouldn't have life insurance... I guess it comes down to what you feel is healthy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 04, 2014, 04:09:11 pm

Quote from: James Ford on March 04, 2014, 03:22:33 pm

I wonder if there really a need for life insurance if you've got two healthy 401K's, two above average incomes, a healthy college fund, a healthy bank account, only one kid, and don't spend your money on $300 bottles of liquor?

Death insurance has always seemed like a scam to me. And I don't want a funeral. Cremate me as cheaply as possible.

Just a cremation is 2 or 3 grand. No matter though. My life insurance is so that lump sum can be used to pay off whatever is owed on the house if something happens to me. And then some.

I don't want the savings to have to go towards the here and now. It can be for the future, like it's always been intended.

PS : My will says cremate me and scatter wherever survivors see fit. Whatever gives the most peace...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on March 06, 2014, 05:00:27 am

Selim Lemouchi, founder and guitar player for Dutch band The Devil's Blood. They broke up only a little over a year ago and now this? R.I.P.

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-the-devils-blood-frontman-selim-lemouchi-reportedly-dead/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 07, 2014, 12:40:23 pm

Quote from: chaz on March 04, 2014, 04:09:11 pm

Quote from: James Ford on March 04, 2014, 03:22:33 pm
I wonder if there really a need for life insurance if you've got two healthy 401K's, two above average incomes, a healthy college fund, a healthy bank account, only one kid, and don't spend your money on $300 bottles of liquor?

Death insurance has always seemed like a scam to me. And I don't want a funeral. Cremate me as cheaply as possible.
Just a cremation is 2 or 3 grand. No matter though. My life insurance is so that lump sum can be used to pay off whatever is owed on the house if something happens to me. And then some.

I don't want the savings to have to go towards the here and now. It can be for the future, like it's always been intended.

PS : My will says cremate me and scatter wherever survivors see fit. Whatever gives the most peace...

You would have a huge tax bill if you took the money out of your 401k. Plus 401k is for retirement. Term life insurance makes sense if you have children and it is pretty cheap if your healthy. No reason not to get it.

Maybe James Ford wouldn't be so miserable f. if he actually spent some money.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 07, 2014, 12:52:31 pm

So I just went to the first web-site of a known insurance company and for a 20 year term life insurance policy that would cover me until I was 69 and paid 300,000 dollars for my demographics would cost me 65 bucks a month. So I would pay out 15,600 dollars over the next 20 years for a little peace of mind. I guess if you are extremely overweight, smoke, have a bad driving record, have bad health in the family you will pay more. Seems pretty reasonable to me. Better choice than draining your 401k to pay for daily expenses.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 07, 2014, 12:58:08 pm

I guess your wife doesn't make very much money.

We all have our individual situations. I don't think life insurance is a good investment for us.

Did you calculate how much additional money you'd have in your 401K after 20 years if you put the $65/month there instead? Obviously not 300K, but well beyond 15K if you get good returns.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on March 07, 2014, 02:20:42 pm

Ahh I disagree. Term life is cheap if you are in your 40s. Do you really want your 401K savings to pay for your mortgage and debts when your spouse dies? (and get taxed too in the process).

Quote from: James Ford on March 04, 2014, 03:22:33 pm

I wonder if there really a need for life insurance if you've got two healthy 401K's, two above average incomes, a healthy college fund, a healthy bank account, only one kid, and don't spend your money on $300 bottles of liquor?

Death insurance has always seemed like a scam to me. And I don't want a funeral. Cremate me as cheaply as possible.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 07, 2014, 02:26:14 pm

I'm pretty sure we could pay our bills on a combination of one of our existing salaries and existing non-401K savings. We're thrifty like that.
;)

Quote from: Vas Deferens on March 07, 2014, 02:20:42 pm

Ahh I disagree. Term life is cheap if you are in your 40s. Do you really want your 401K savings to pay for your mortgage and debts when your spouse dies? (and get taxed too in the process).

Quote from: James Ford on March 04, 2014, 03:22:33 pm
I wonder if there really a need for life insurance if you've got two healthy 401K's, two above average incomes, a healthy college fund, a healthy bank account, only one kid, and don't spend your money on $300 bottles of liquor?

Death insurance has always seemed like a scam to me. And I don't want a funeral. Cremate me as cheaply as possible.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on March 07, 2014, 02:28:44 pm

ok, please lend me some money for Europe? ha ha.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 07, 2014, 02:36:21 pm

Quote from: James Ford on March 07, 2014, 12:58:08 pm

I guess your wife doesn't make very much money.

We all have our individual situations. I don't think life insurance is a good investment for us.

Did you calculate how much additional money you'd have in your 401K after 20 years if you put the $65/month there instead? Obviously not 300K, but well beyond 15K if you get good returns.

I am already putting max into 401k so I can't put more money in it. But thanks for the suggestion. I already get 2 times my salary from work in life insurance. So I think she will be all right. We only owe 50k on the house. An extra 300k for 60 bucks a month until 69 will give me a sense of security.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 07, 2014, 03:00:36 pm

I don't know why James Ford all wants us all to live a life of poverty like him. As much as the allure of living like I am destitute appeals to me I think I will continue to buy things and enjoy life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 07, 2014, 04:08:11 pm

Well it sounds like we are both ok with our situations, so bravo for both of us.

I think if we did get life insurance, we'd both get it. So assuming rates and conditions similar to yours, that would be 2x$65 per month, right? or do you get a couples discount, like you do at the swingers club?

Quote from: atomic on March 07, 2014, 02:36:21 pm

Quote from: James Ford on March 07, 2014, 12:58:08 pm
I guess your wife doesn't make very much money.

We all have our individual situations. I don't think life insurance is a good investment for us.

Did you calculate how much additional money you'd have in your 401K after 20 years if you put the $65/month there instead? Obviously not 300K, but well beyond 15K if you get good returns.

I am already putting max into 401k so I can't put more money in it. But thanks for the suggestion. I already get 2 times my salary from work in life insurance. So I think she will be all right. We only owe 50k on the house. An extra 300k for 60 bucks a month until 69 will give me a sense of security.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 07, 2014, 04:16:38 pm

My wife and I both live a more lavish lifestyle than we did growing up. Why would we want to live too much differently than the way we were raised?

Quote from: atomic on March 07, 2014, 03:00:36 pm

I don't know why James Ford all wants us all to live a life of poverty like him. As much as the allure of living like I am destitute appeals to me I think I will continue to buy things and enjoy life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on March 07, 2014, 04:23:07 pm

...and James Ford sees the same 3-4 bands every year. Dr. Dog. Robbie Fulks. Old 97s. It doesn't change!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 07, 2014, 04:24:00 pm

Quote from: James Ford on March 07, 2014, 04:16:38 pm

My wife and I both live a more lavish lifestyle than we did growing up. Why would we want to live too much differently than the way we were raised?

I'm fine with however anyone wants to live their life, but this reasoning is just stupid.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 07, 2014, 04:28:10 pm

Quote from: chaz on March 07, 2014, 04:24:00 pm

Quote from: James Ford on March 07, 2014, 04:16:38 pm
My wife and I both live a more lavish lifestyle than we did growing up. Why would we want to live too much differently than the way we were raised?

I'm fine with however anyone wants to live their life, but this reasoning is just stupid.

And this is coming from someone (JamesFord) who whinned about his wife's parents not paying for her college education.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 07, 2014, 04:29:14 pm

Quote from: James Ford on March 07, 2014, 04:16:38 pm

My wife and I both live a more lavish lifestyle than we did growing up. Why would we want to live too much differently than the way we were raised?

Quote from: atomic on March 07, 2014, 03:00:36 pm
I don't know why James Ford all wants us all to live a life of poverty like him. As much as the allure of living like I am destitute appeals to me I think I will continue to buy things and enjoy life.

So your parents drove a 30 year old car and only had 3 oz of beer a night, and had a 2 hour train ride to work?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 07, 2014, 04:33:32 pm

We should have a seperate thread where James Ford gives everyone life advice so not every thread turns into the same thing.

Interesting enough insurance companies don't make money off your premiums. They make money off investing your money from the time your premiums until the time you get money out of the policy. I think they call it float.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 07, 2014, 04:53:22 pm

We should start a finances thread, I think.

I'm definitely not one to give financial advice to anyone on here. I'm only stating what works for me, and hopefully I'm not telling anyone they should live like me, from a financial perspective.

I do think this guy manages to talk some sense though.
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

And I do really think people should look into attachment parenting more though. Read the blog article I posted in atomic's baby store thread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 07, 2014, 05:17:22 pm

(http://okobaka.ru/wp-content/_up_loads/2011/08/Kote_s_yazikom.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 07, 2014, 06:33:17 pm

Ke$ha (http://www.avclub.com/article/keha-has-dropped-dollar-sign-her-name-just-plain-o-201951)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 07, 2014, 06:39:52 pm

the rapture
http://www.avclub.com/article/rapture-has-broken-201952

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 07, 2014, 06:40:25 pm

Quote from: vansmack on March 07, 2014, 06:33:17 pm

Ke$ha (http://www.avclub.com/article/keha-has-dropped-dollar-sign-her-name-just-plain-o-201951)

DUDE I just thought she had legitimately died for like 10 seconds. Wtf man, board responsibly!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 07, 2014, 06:41:59 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 07, 2014, 06:39:52 pm

the rapture
http://www.avclub.com/article/rapture-has-broken-201952

DUDE I just thought our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ had returned and taken the true believers to heaven for like ten seconds. WTF man, board responsibly!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 07, 2014, 06:50:31 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 07, 2014, 06:39:52 pm

the rapture
http://www.avclub.com/article/rapture-has-broken-201952

Saw them a couple of times. "Pieces of People we Love" is a masterpiece. THey will be missed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on March 08, 2014, 05:52:56 am

I always did love "House of jealous Lovers" and their "Dumb Waiters" cover. Saw them once and they were not that great but "Echoes" is a decent record for sure.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 08, 2014, 11:49:11 am

Quote from: atomic on March 07, 2014, 04:33:32 pm

We should have a seperate thread where James Ford gives everyone life advice so not every thread turns into the same thing.

Was thinking the exact same thing...but I don't think anyone would read it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 08, 2014, 05:54:26 pm

http://www.nbcnews.com/#/pop-culture/tv/honeymooners-actress-sheila-macrae-dies-92-n47661

to the moon . . . .

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 09, 2014, 08:29:27 pm

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2014/03/09/buren-fowler-drivin-cryin-rem-dies/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 10, 2014, 05:03:33 pm

http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/10/news/companies/sbarro-bankruptcy/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

goodbye, shitty mall pizza

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on March 10, 2014, 06:15:36 pm

The article says that Sbarro is only closing some stores, not all of them. It's a re-financing move for future growth.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 15, 2014, 07:12:16 pm

David Brenner, comedian and long time Tonight Show guest host.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 15, 2014, 07:47:24 pm

Never realized he was married to figure skater Tai Babilonia.

And by you posting that and me following up, I think we are proving we are both old.

Quote from: atomic on March 15, 2014, 07:12:16 pm

David Brenner, comedian and long time Tonight Show guest host.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 15, 2014, 09:34:51 pm

soon, wewill all be on this thread. wont that be fun.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on March 16, 2014, 11:46:22 am

Newman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 16, 2014, 01:56:11 pm

there is rumor that fred phelps is dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on March 16, 2014, 04:02:15 pm

Hoax. Alive and well

Quote from: Hexenjagd on March 16, 2014, 11:46:22 am

Newman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on March 16, 2014, 05:01:22 pm

Why in the world would someone want to create an elaborate hoax that Wayne Knight, of all people, was dead?
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/wayne-knight-not-dead-seinfeld-newman-victim-death-hoax-2014163

Quote

"Some of you will be glad to hear this, others strangely disappointed, but?.I am alive and well!" he joked. And after his name started trending, he continued, "Does someone have to DIE to trend? Geez! Thanks for all the love everybody. I didn?t know you cared. Glad to be breathing!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 16, 2014, 05:21:09 pm

Quote from: Hexenjagd on March 16, 2014, 05:01:22 pm

Why in the world would someone want to create an elaborate hoax that Wayne Knight, of all people, was dead?
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/wayne-knight-not-dead-seinfeld-newman-victim-death-hoax-2014163
Quote
"Some of you will be glad to hear this, others strangely disappointed, but?.I am alive and well!" he joked. And after his name started trending, he continued, "Does someone have to DIE to trend? Geez! Thanks for all the love everybody. I didn?t know you cared. Glad to be breathing!"

Same thing with Chumlee from Pawn Stars earlier in the week. I think the idea is that if you go with an A-list celebrity obviously people are going to immediately know it's not true because they would run that on the bottom of the screen on CNN all day long. If you go with someone that everyone knows like Newman from Seinfeld it's easier for people to believe because that doesn't seem like the kind of person that there would be a large media coverage of their death about.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on March 16, 2014, 06:04:15 pm

Scott Asheton (drummer from The Stooges)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on March 16, 2014, 06:06:32 pm

Quote from: Vas Deferens on March 16, 2014, 06:04:15 pm

Scott Asheton (drummer from The Stooges)

I'm so bummed...3/4 of the original Stooges, 3/4 of the Ramones...sigh.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 16, 2014, 06:12:43 pm

RIP Asheton

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on March 16, 2014, 06:15:35 pm

really glad I saw Stooges twice in 2007

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: emmanuel on March 16, 2014, 06:18:05 pm

Quote from: Vas Deferens on March 16, 2014, 06:15:35 pm

really glad I saw Stooges twice in 2007

RIP. Also glad I saw the Stooges twice in 2007 and 2008.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 16, 2014, 06:32:43 pm

I got tired of asking in the Hey Seth thread for Iggy and the Stooges (with Williamson).. a shame it never happened..

very grateful for the 930 club show in 2007.

RIP Asheton

I should go dig out my Fun House promo lp...kinda beat up but still kicking

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 16, 2014, 06:45:05 pm

(http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af43/hutch699/P1390116_zpsc30ea219.jpg) (http://s992.photobucket.com/user/hutch699/media/P1390116_zpsc30ea219.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 16, 2014, 06:55:48 pm

(http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af43/hutch699/P1390117_zps49b74ccc.jpg) (http://s992.photobucket.com/user/hutch699/media/P1390117_zps49b74ccc.jpg.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 16, 2014, 09:18:07 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 16, 2014, 01:56:11 pm

there is rumor that fred phelps is dead.

Still waiting...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on March 17, 2014, 09:50:44 am

i read he was on his death bed at a hospice somewhere.

but yeah, i'm waiting for that one too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 17, 2014, 10:01:55 am

I just hope his kids don't keep the insanity going.
But I for some reason even when he does leave this mortal coil that his 'church' will still go on being the biggest @holes on the planet

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 17, 2014, 10:37:57 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on March 17, 2014, 10:01:55 am

I just hope his kids don't keep the insanity going.
But I for some reason even when he does leave this mortal coil that his 'church' will still go on being the biggest @holes on the planet

If there is a hell he is heading for it. This is all the media's fault. If they totally ignored his "church" they would have quit protesting after a couple of events.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 17, 2014, 10:54:34 am

Really hard not to notice and cover when they show up a soldiers funerals with really heinous signs
but it is true, that his only 'gift' is getting the news to eat out of his hands

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 17, 2014, 01:57:24 pm

Jagger's girlfriend (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/wren-scott-fashion-designer-found-dead-hanging-apartment-cops-article-1.1724198)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 17, 2014, 03:36:16 pm

Quote from: Shemp on March 17, 2014, 01:57:24 pm

Jagger's girlfriend (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/wren-scott-fashion-designer-found-dead-hanging-apartment-cops-article-1.1724198)

oh wow..that is shocking

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 17, 2014, 03:44:07 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 17, 2014, 03:36:16 pm

Quote from: Shemp on March 17, 2014, 01:57:24 pm
Jagger's girlfriend (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/wren-scott-fashion-designer-found-dead-hanging-apartment-cops-article-1.1724198)

oh wow..that is shocking

I know, way to be a dick to your assistant
hey why don't you come over to tell everyone about my dead body
I also don't understand how one can hang yourself from a doorknob unless your Hervé Villechaize

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 17, 2014, 03:53:52 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on March 17, 2014, 03:44:07 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 17, 2014, 03:36:16 pm
Quote from: Shemp on March 17, 2014, 01:57:24 pm
Jagger's girlfriend (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/wren-scott-fashion-designer-found-dead-hanging-apartment-cops-article-1.1724198)

oh wow..that is shocking
I know, way to be a dick to your assistant
hey why don't you come over to tell everyone about my dead body
I also don't understand how one can hang yourself from a doorknob unless your Hervé Villechaize

http://lostallhope.com/suicide-methods/hanging/short-drop/simple-suspension

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 17, 2014, 05:05:08 pm

Rachel ?Bunny? Mellon, the Listerine fortune heiress who married arts patron and philanthropist Paul Mellon, was a confidante of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and redesigned the White House Rose Garden, died March 17 at her home in Upperville, Va. She was 103.

he Mellons donated more than 1,000 objects to the National Gallery of Art, including paintings by Cezanne, Degas and van Gogh. With Mellon?s sister and a family foundation, they also funded the construction of the gallery?s East Building, designed by architect I.M. Pei, in the 1970s.. ...

John Edwards, a North Carolina Democrat, was tried in 2012 on charges that he took nearly $1 million in illegal campaign contributions from wealthy donors to support his mistress, Rielle Hunter, and conceal her from voters during his 2008 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Prosecutors attributed more than $700,000 to Mrs. Mellon.

In her 90s, her husband and many of her friends, including Jackie Kennedy, had died. Her daughter, struck by a truck in New York, was in a coma for eight years before her death. In her loneliness, Mrs. Mellon found John Edwards charming and handsome, and she recalled the aura of John Kennedy.

During Edwards?s trial, observers sought to explain why Mrs. Mellon would funnel money to the politician while trying to hide the payments from her attorney, Alexander Forger. ?She liked him as a person,? Forger said.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 17, 2014, 10:36:47 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 16, 2014, 06:32:43 pm

I got tired of asking in the Hey Seth thread for Iggy and the Stooges (with Williamson).. a shame it never happened..

very grateful for the 930 club show in 2007.

RIP Asheton

I should go dig out my Fun House promo lp...kinda beat up but still kicking

Really glad for the show and the great bootleg that is freely available as well!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on March 18, 2014, 03:00:28 am

Gary Burger, frontman of The Monks.

http://pitchfork.com/news/54366-the-monks-gary-burger-dead-at-72/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 18, 2014, 01:02:11 pm

The other fat lady (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-clarissa-dickson-wright-has-died-last-of-tvs-two-fat-ladies-20140317,0,1781665.story#axzz2wKoKItD7)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 18, 2014, 01:20:05 pm

Quote from: Unsanity on March 18, 2014, 03:00:28 am

Gary Burger, frontman of The Monks.

http://pitchfork.com/news/54366-the-monks-gary-burger-dead-at-72/

Their sole LP is a wild, wild time. Great fucking band.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 18, 2014, 01:37:21 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on March 17, 2014, 10:36:47 pm

Really glad for the show and the great bootleg that is freely available as well!

yeah i guess that is why , the radio recording, why the show is well known...on another board i posted about how i was grateful to have seen the stooges at a club show in 2007 (my avatar shows i a from dc i guess) and someone from switzerland chimed in "The 930 Club show!!!!!!!!!"

its a show that whoever i talk to has fond memories of... funny thing is i had an extra i couldn't give away and tried to sell at the front of the club..well i got like $15 for it in the end but i felt insulted...mind you there is nobody worse at getting rid of extras or selling them out front or wherever...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 18, 2014, 01:54:31 pm

For sure that show is one of my greatest concert memories ever. Saw them in NY the same year but dc show was better.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 18, 2014, 02:07:53 pm

iggy & the stooges @ 930 = one of my all-time top five shows.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on March 18, 2014, 05:29:26 pm

Quote from: chaz on March 18, 2014, 01:20:05 pm

Quote from: Unsanity on March 18, 2014, 03:00:28 am
Gary Burger, frontman of The Monks.

http://pitchfork.com/news/54366-the-monks-gary-burger-dead-at-72/
Their sole LP is a wild, wild time. Great fucking band.

and hair
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HVBhNplHglo/S2Dzo_0yB7I/AAAAAAAACLE/nucMD0PMGbI/s1600/scan0001.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: emmanuel on March 19, 2014, 02:28:46 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 18, 2014, 02:07:53 pm

iggy & the stooges @ 930 = one of my all-time top five shows.

and now Iggy says they have no plan to play as The Stooges again. I'm also glad I saw them with James Williamson a few times, including the classic ATP New York Show available on DVD, and a few cool European shows in small towns. I'm surprised they did not play here.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 19, 2014, 04:05:27 pm

Quote from: emmanuel on March 19, 2014, 02:28:46 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 18, 2014, 02:07:53 pm
iggy & the stooges @ 930 = one of my all-time top five shows.

and now Iggy says they have no plan to play as The Stooges again. I'm also glad I saw them with James Williamson a few times, including the classic ATP New York Show available on DVD, and a few cool European shows in small towns. I'm surprised they did not play here.

I would rather see Iggy without the Stooges. That way you get to hear all his songs not just the stooges ones.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 19, 2014, 06:03:42 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 26, 2014, 07:53:59 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 25, 2014, 11:33:52 am
there goes, ghostbusters three.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/ghostbusters-iii-moving-forward-after-harold-ramis-death-20140226

nevermind

never, nevermind

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/director-ivan-reitman-backs-out-of-ghostbusters-sequel-20140319

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 20, 2014, 12:45:19 pm

Quote from: grateful on March 16, 2014, 09:18:07 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 16, 2014, 01:56:11 pm
there is rumor that fred phelps is dead.

Still waiting...

wait no more.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/20/fred-phelps-dead_n_5000577.html
http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Family-Member-Confirms-Fred-Phelps-Has-Died-251212461.html

love this one: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/03/20/dry-eyes-for-fred-phelps/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 20, 2014, 12:57:09 pm

you know, they say, that when anton szandor lavey was on his death bed and about to pass on, he had a vision of god coming to him to show him the light, and that anton had confessed that he had been wrong and had done wrong all those years before. i have a funny feeling, the same thing, happened to fred. i still say, rest in peace, broken man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on March 20, 2014, 04:31:28 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 20, 2014, 12:45:19 pm

Quote from: grateful on March 16, 2014, 09:18:07 pm
Quote from: walkonby on March 16, 2014, 01:56:11 pm
there is rumor that fred phelps is dead.

Still waiting...

wait no more.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/20/fred-phelps-dead_n_5000577.html
http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Family-Member-Confirms-Fred-Phelps-Has-Died-251212461.html

love this one: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/03/20/dry-eyes-for-fred-phelps/

(http://img.fark.net/images/cache/850/2/2f/fark_2fr06StKOE959tl7bkHzH0zzqrc.jpg?t=Xa7zepI62fVhrY1mRW4h9Q&f=1395633600)
(http://img.fark.net/images/cache/850/m/mL/fark_mL9Huj5hpvBTPNFQhCXPThc6mtk.gif?t=g2q6C7vHc-_towb44kun_A&f=1395633600)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 20, 2014, 05:55:57 pm

your photo x failures . . . have me curious as to what they were. god hates xs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 20, 2014, 08:21:24 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 20, 2014, 12:45:19 pm

Quote from: grateful on March 16, 2014, 09:18:07 pm
Quote from: walkonby on March 16, 2014, 01:56:11 pm
there is rumor that fred phelps is dead.

Still waiting...

wait no more.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/20/fred-phelps-dead_n_5000577.html
http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Family-Member-Confirms-Fred-Phelps-Has-Died-251212461.html

love this one: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/03/20/dry-eyes-for-fred-phelps/

World's Least Visible "so sad": _{so sad}

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 21, 2014, 09:31:51 am

Quote from: walkonby on March 20, 2014, 05:55:57 pm

your photo x failures . . . have me curious as to what they were. god hates xs.

Here are the links behind the broken pix...some kinda fark thing:

"http://img.fark.net/images/cache/850/2/2f/fark_2fr06StKOE959tl7bkHzH0zzqrc.jpg"

"http://img.fark.net/images/cache/850/m/mL/fark_mL9Huj5hpvBTPNFQhCXPThc6mtk.gif?t=g2q6C7vHc-_towb44kun_A&f=1395633600"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 21, 2014, 01:01:41 pm

Quote from: grateful on March 21, 2014, 09:31:51 am

Quote from: walkonby on March 20, 2014, 05:55:57 pm
your photo x failures . . . have me curious as to what they were. god hates xs.

Here are the links behind the broken pix...some kinda fark thing:

"http://img.fark.net/images/cache/850/2/2f/fark_2fr06StKOE959tl7bkHzH0zzqrc.jpg"

"http://img.fark.net/images/cache/850/m/mL/fark_mL9Huj5hpvBTPNFQhCXPThc6mtk.gif?t=g2q6C7vHc-_towb44kun_A&f=1395633600"

unfortunately those don't work either, for Fark you need to link to the page that they're one. they don't allow you to link directly to the JPG. bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 21, 2014, 01:05:04 pm

god hates farks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 24, 2014, 07:53:38 am

Dave Brockie, aka Oderus Urungus, of GWAR.

Condolences to family and friends, which is basically all of Richmond. A huge loss for that community.

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/gwar-frontman-dave-brockie-a-k-a-oderus-urungus-reportedly-dead-at-50/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 24, 2014, 08:52:24 am

Wow! I always thought I'd see them, one more time again.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on March 24, 2014, 09:08:47 am

that is too bad...i remember the first time i saw them was in DC at what I think was a roller skating rink (kalorama ave or something?) with dread zeppelin. I think it was 1992. I wore my blood stained white tshirt to class the next day and everyone was in awe.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 24, 2014, 10:48:27 am

I know...I always looked fwd to taking my son to see them when he got a little older.

Having lived in rva from 89-94 I've got a lot of GWAR memories. Dave was a really nice guy and had an insane work ethic. he will be missed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2014, 10:49:04 am

wow, that sucks. I too remember seeing them at one of the last shows at the old 930

I wore a white shirt and I was covered in all different types of liquids

I somehow managed to stay sober and drove home...and got pulled over by the police
I thought for sure he was going to freak out on us when he saw I was covered in fake blood
but alas he just gave me a warning (can't even remember why he pulled me over?) and never even commented on the blood

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on March 24, 2014, 03:36:41 pm

Oh wow R.I.P. Dave! He seemed like a smart, funny guy. I got to see GWAR several times at the 9:30 Club and each time was a blast! The RVA scene has lost a giant.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on March 24, 2014, 07:52:34 pm

he was a really good guy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 24, 2014, 08:00:19 pm

I found his music completely meritless and terrible, but I did meet him many times around town and he could not seem to be a nicer person.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 24, 2014, 08:55:50 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/24/showbiz/gwar-dave-brockie-dead/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

not only did his death make the top of cnn.com . . . i enjoy the picture list in the article showing all the legends of entertainment we have lost lately, with oderus proudly among them.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 25, 2014, 09:03:51 pm

For those who follow NASCAR...

http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cup/story/_/id/10672818/wife-nascar-hall-famer-richard-petty-dies

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 25, 2014, 09:05:27 pm

talk shit about danica patrick . . . your wife dies. too soon?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 25, 2014, 09:07:49 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 25, 2014, 09:05:27 pm

talk shit about danica patrick . . . your wife dies. too soon?

God I love your sense of humor! However Danica FlatChick can't drive for shit. All she is is a publicity stunt to get 13 year old boys interested in NASCAR! :)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 25, 2014, 09:12:45 pm

i always thought damnica, was a secret trick to use a hot woman figurehead to get redneck men to actually be interested in the world of indyseries. which, will like, never happen.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 26, 2014, 12:03:21 am

Quote from: walkonby on March 25, 2014, 09:12:45 pm

i always thought damnica, was a secret trick to use a hot woman figurehead to get redneck men to actually be interested in the world of indyseries. which, will like, never happen.

You never know, it could be a trick to get the redneck lesbian crowd involved in NASCAR. Stranger things have happened my friend. BTW don't forget to let me know when y'all are headed to Richmond. Janice and I ARE going to take y'all out for dinner.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 26, 2014, 07:54:21 am

Quote from: RatBastard on March 25, 2014, 09:07:49 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 25, 2014, 09:05:27 pm
talk shit about danica patrick . . . your wife dies. too soon?

God I love your sense of humor! However Danica FlatChick can't drive for shit. All she is is a publicity stunt to get 13 year old boys interested in NASCAR! :)

She's 27 out of 56 here in points, so apparently there are almost 30 duded who drive for shit worse than her.

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/sprint-cup-series/standings.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 26, 2014, 02:16:51 pm

Quote from: chaz on March 26, 2014, 07:54:21 am

Quote from: RatBastard on March 25, 2014, 09:07:49 pm
Quote from: walkonby on March 25, 2014, 09:05:27 pm
talk shit about danica patrick . . . your wife dies. too soon?

God I love your sense of humor! However Danica FlatChick can't drive for shit. All she is is a publicity stunt to get 13 year old boys interested in NASCAR! :)
She's 27 out of 56 here in points, so apparently there are almost 30 duded who drive for shit worse than her.

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/sprint-cup-series/standings.html

1) 10 of those 56 are not earning points as they are not points drivers.
2) 10 other drivers have driver fewer races than she has.
3) Several of the remaining 10 drivers are rookies learning the game.
4) She can drive a car but she has no idea how to race.

All a publicity stunt and based on the way she blames every one of her poor finished on someone or something other than herself, she has a visit from her friend every single weekend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 26, 2014, 02:58:56 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on March 26, 2014, 02:16:51 pm

Quote from: chaz on March 26, 2014, 07:54:21 am
Quote from: RatBastard on March 25, 2014, 09:07:49 pm
Quote from: walkonby on March 25, 2014, 09:05:27 pm
talk shit about danica patrick . . . your wife dies. too soon?

God I love your sense of humor! However Danica FlatChick can't drive for shit. All she is is a publicity stunt to get 13 year old boys interested in NASCAR! :)
She's 27 out of 56 here in points, so apparently there are almost 30 duded who drive for shit worse than her.

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/sprint-cup-series/standings.html

1) 10 of those 56 are not earning points as they are not points drivers.
2) 10 other drivers have driver fewer races than she has.
3) Several of the remaining 10 drivers are rookies learning the game.
4) She can drive a car but she has no idea how to race.

All a publicity stunt and based on the way she blames every one of her poor finished on someone or something other than herself, she has a visit from her friend every single weekend.

You are being sexist. Who cares anyway; it is Nascar.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 26, 2014, 03:02:46 pm

Yeah, I really am sick of hearing how Danica Patrick is ruining an excuse for racist white-trash to get together and drink beer. ::)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on March 26, 2014, 04:13:55 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on March 26, 2014, 03:02:46 pm

Yeah, I really am sick of hearing how Danica Patrick is ruining an excuse for racist white-trash to get together and drink beer. ::)

I was driving past Dover a couple of years ago and it seemed liked there were a thousand a-holes driving badly in huge pickups with truck-nuts on them. I couldn't figure it out. Then I drove by Dover Downs and saw it was Nascar weekend and everything became clear.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 26, 2014, 06:19:47 pm

Quote from: atomic on March 26, 2014, 02:58:56 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on March 26, 2014, 02:16:51 pm
Quote from: chaz on March 26, 2014, 07:54:21 am
Quote from: RatBastard on March 25, 2014, 09:07:49 pm
Quote from: walkonby on March 25, 2014, 09:05:27 pm
talk shit about danica patrick . . . your wife dies. too soon?

God I love your sense of humor! However Danica FlatChick can't drive for shit. All she is is a publicity stunt to get 13 year old boys interested in NASCAR! :)
She's 27 out of 56 here in points, so apparently there are almost 30 duded who drive for shit worse than her.

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/sprint-cup-series/standings.html

1) 10 of those 56 are not earning points as they are not points drivers.
2) 10 other drivers have driver fewer races than she has.
3) Several of the remaining 10 drivers are rookies learning the game.
4) She can drive a car but she has no idea how to race.

All a publicity stunt and based on the way she blames every one of her poor finished on someone or something other than herself, she has a visit from her friend every single weekend.

You are being sexist. Who cares anyway; it is Nascar.

Not at all. The fact she is a female has nothing to do with the fact she cannot drive a race car for shit. You cared enough to reply!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on March 26, 2014, 06:43:19 pm

+1 Danica sucks.

If she's driving a Tony Stewart car and that's the best she can do, she sucks.

She is 27th out of 36 drivers who have raced all five races (she's actually behind one who has only raced in four).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 27, 2014, 04:43:37 pm

Local Led Zeppelin concert hall (http://www.wtop.com/52/3590760/Wheaton-Youth-Center-wont-get-historic-designation)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on March 27, 2014, 07:28:37 pm

Christo from the Vandelles and Dead Leaf Ech... RIP.

I'm glad I was able to experience the Vandelles live with Jaguar.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Sieve-Fisted on March 27, 2014, 09:44:39 pm

Mumford & Sons Break Up: Banjo Player Says ?It?s Over?

http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/03/27/mumford-and-sons-break-up-band-over/ (http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/03/27/mumford-and-sons-break-up-band-over/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 27, 2014, 09:57:42 pm

Quote from: Sieve-Fisted on March 27, 2014, 09:44:39 pm

Mumford & Sons Break Up: Banjo Player Says ?It?s Over?

http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/03/27/mumford-and-sons-break-up-band-over/ (http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/03/27/mumford-and-sons-break-up-band-over/)

my parents are going to be sooooooo upset.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 28, 2014, 11:14:43 pm

A hero...

http://weaselzippers.us/180987-rip-vietnam-pow-hero-jeremiah-denton-who-blinked-torture-in-morse-code-during-tv-interview-dies/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 31, 2014, 02:17:33 pm

http://exclaim.ca/News/do_guitarist_dave_gregg_passes_away

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 31, 2014, 02:20:53 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 31, 2014, 02:17:33 pm

http://exclaim.ca/News/do_guitarist_dave_gregg_passes_away

Bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 31, 2014, 02:23:01 pm

i know . . . i loved them when i was in the seventh grade, after i discovered that kind of music.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on April 01, 2014, 12:02:20 am

RIP Frankie Knuckles

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 01, 2014, 09:29:24 am

Quote from: Hexenjagd on April 01, 2014, 12:02:20 am

RIP Frankie Knuckles

i haven't been into house for a long, long time, but back when i was Frankie Knuckles was a giant in the scene. what a loss.

http://www.factmag.com/2014/04/01/r-i-p-frankie-knuckles-1955-2014/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 01, 2014, 09:46:24 am

Frankie created great dance music without a laptop or guest stars .

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on April 01, 2014, 10:56:16 am

Quote from: walkonby on March 31, 2014, 02:23:01 pm

i know . . . i loved them when i was in the seventh grade, after i discovered that kind of music.

My brain nearly exploded the first time I heard "Fuck You" in 9th grade.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 06, 2014, 09:35:12 pm

Comedian John Pinette Dead at 50 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/comedian-john-pinette-dead-at-693981)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 06, 2014, 11:18:15 pm

Mickey Rooney (http://variety.com/2014/film/news/mickey-rooney-golden-age-box-office-giant-dies-at-93-1201153308/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on April 07, 2014, 03:18:49 am

Jason McCash, bass player of metal band The Gates of Slumber.

This was the newest post on their facebook:

"My best friend died last night. There will be no reunion - no more of TGoS. It's dead beyond dead, and I've lost a brother. Please be respectful or silent. It's a small world and I'm still alive. Remember that shit."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 07, 2014, 03:03:16 pm

sad

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/04/07/report-peaches-geldof-has-died-at-age-25/7424203/

i really liked her, and love her dad

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 07, 2014, 07:14:37 pm

Quote from: walkonby on April 07, 2014, 03:03:16 pm

sad

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/04/07/report-peaches-geldof-has-died-at-age-25/7424203/

i really liked her, and love her dad

that family is on a bad roll..... hutchence, yates and now peaches... and all the bad blood between everyone over the years....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 08, 2014, 11:58:00 am

Quote from: beetsnotbeats on April 06, 2014, 11:18:15 pm

Mickey Rooney (http://variety.com/2014/film/news/mickey-rooney-golden-age-box-office-giant-dies-at-93-1201153308/)

Sad about Mickey Rooney but I guess he had been around for a while. I saw him at the Air & Space Museum in Virginia when it first opened. He seemed like a happy guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on April 08, 2014, 12:17:45 pm

Ween

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on April 08, 2014, 12:31:03 pm

Quote from: Hexenjagd on April 08, 2014, 12:17:45 pm

Ween

ok we get it. you probably go to the birchmere for the food, too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on April 08, 2014, 12:39:02 pm

I've never been to the birchmore. I don't eat food at shows.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 08, 2014, 12:57:32 pm

Quote from: Hexenjagd on April 08, 2014, 12:39:02 pm

I've never been to the birchmore. I don't eat food at shows.

Does your mom pack your dinner for you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on April 08, 2014, 01:01:54 pm

Have fun being 50 with a baby

Rip Mickey

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 08, 2014, 01:02:58 pm

Quote from: Hexenjagd on April 08, 2014, 01:01:54 pm

Have fun being 50 with a baby

Rip Mickey

I will. Have fun living in your parents basement at 50.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 08, 2014, 01:04:32 pm

He'll do fine as long as he doesn't take her sledding.

Quote from: Hexenjagd on April 08, 2014, 01:01:54 pm

Have fun being 50 with a baby

Rip Mickey

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on April 08, 2014, 01:05:01 pm

I'm a successful person who owns my own house. My parents (who are about your age) live in Louisiana.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 08, 2014, 01:28:49 pm

Quote from: Hexenjagd on April 08, 2014, 01:01:54 pm

Have fun being 50 with a baby

Rip Mickey

PWNT

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 08, 2014, 01:38:32 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 08, 2014, 01:28:49 pm

Quote from: Hexenjagd on April 08, 2014, 01:01:54 pm
Have fun being 50 with a baby

Rip Mickey

PWNT

I have no idea what PWNT means. Another example of laziness. If you can't type the words out it must not be worth putting in a post.

I do hope Killsally is in good enough shape when he is 50 to procreate. And still in shape enough to get women in the child bearing years. What man wouoldn't want to procreate their entire life? Some guy in India is making babies in his 90's. He is my hero.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 08, 2014, 01:41:17 pm

Quote from: atomic on April 08, 2014, 01:38:32 pm

What man wouoldn't want to procreate their entire life? Some guy in India is making babies in his 90's. He is my hero.

This is one of the most horrifying things I've read in a long long time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 08, 2014, 01:47:15 pm

Quote from: grateful on April 08, 2014, 01:41:17 pm

Quote from: atomic on April 08, 2014, 01:38:32 pm
What man wouoldn't want to procreate their entire life? Some guy in India is making babies in his 90's. He is my hero.

This is one of the most horrifying things I've read in a long long time.

He is almost twice my age. 96!!! Looks like a young Keith Richards.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nxUXiaBoAng/TR7TGgGkRFI/AAAAAAAAEaU/c8qc6S5hD6E/s1600/World%2527s+Oldest+Dad++Father+In+The+Indian+History+World+Record+Ever+%25281%2529.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 08, 2014, 02:23:15 pm

(http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/04/06/magazine/06matthiessen3/06matthiessen3-master495.jpg)

Peter Matthiessen, a roving author and naturalist whose impassioned nonfiction explored the remote endangered wilds of the world and whose prizewinning fiction often placed his mysterious protagonists in the heart of them, died on Saturday at his home in Sagaponack, N.Y. He was 86.

Mr. Matthiessen was one of the last survivors of a generation of American writers who came of age after World War II and who all seemed to know one another, socializing in New York and on Long Island?s East End as a kind of movable literary salon peopled by the likes of William Styron, James Jones, Kurt Vonnegut and E. L. Doctorow.

In the early 1950s, he shared a sojourn in Paris with fellow literary expatriates and helped found The Paris Review, a magazine devoted largely to new fiction and poetry. His childhood friend George Plimpton became its editor.

A rugged, weather-beaten figure who was reared and educated in privilege ? an advantage that left him uneasy, he said ? Mr. Matthiessen was a man of many parts: littérateur, journalist, environmentalist, explorer, Zen Buddhist, professional fisherman and, in the early 1950s, undercover agent for the Central Intelligence Agency in Paris. Only years later did Mr. Plimpton discover, to his anger and dismay, that Mr. Matthiessen had helped found The Review as a cover for his spying on Americans in France.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 08, 2014, 03:10:20 pm

What kid wouldn't want to be fatherless before they are 10?

Quote from: atomic on April 08, 2014, 01:38:32 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 08, 2014, 01:28:49 pm
Quote from: Hexenjagd on April 08, 2014, 01:01:54 pm
Have fun being 50 with a baby

Rip Mickey

PWNT

I have no idea what PWNT means. Another example of laziness. If you can't type the words out it must not be worth putting in a post.

I do hope Killsally is in good enough shape when he is 50 to procreate. And still in shape enough to get women in the child bearing years. What man wouoldn't want to procreate their entire life? Some guy in India is making babies in his 90's. He is my hero.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 08, 2014, 03:22:34 pm

We are through the looking glass here, people!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 08, 2014, 03:54:00 pm

I feel like that 96 year old father will be back in this thread before too long. He will be missed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on April 09, 2014, 01:20:27 am

(http://ringthedamnbell.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/the_ultimate_warrior_photo_by_windows8osx-d509ynp.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 09, 2014, 08:20:07 am

Oh no, another member of GWAR died?

Did he always have erect nipples like that, or only when posing in the near buff?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 09, 2014, 09:56:55 am

james brian hellwig was a superstar in his line of work, who made a shitload of money for the business and was beloved by millions of fans . . . who died suddenly in his early fifties and leaves behind a wife and two daughters. so in other words, james, fuck the fuck off.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on April 09, 2014, 10:20:07 am

James, always classy. ::)

That is sad about Warrior. I just saw him on Monday... :-\

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 09, 2014, 10:39:46 am

Quote from: Hexenjagd on April 09, 2014, 10:20:07 am

James, always classy. ::)

That is sad about Warrior. I just saw him on Monday... :-\

Wait a second did you go to New Orleans to watch wrestlin'?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on April 09, 2014, 03:20:21 pm

pretty weird about ultimate warriors final words on tv, 24 hours before he died

""Every mans heart one day beats it's final beat, his lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others and makes them bleed deeper then something larger then life. Then his essence and his spirit will be immortalized by the storytellers, by the loyalty, by the memory, of those who honor him and make whatever the man did live forever.""

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on April 09, 2014, 03:44:07 pm

I wonder if this is all as fake as wrestling is? What too soon?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 09, 2014, 10:15:20 pm

They were objects of unalloyed lust.

The Ducati 916 and the MV Agusta F4, sport bikes, which are considered two of the most desirable motorcycles ever made, remain coveted on and off the racecourse for their fleet handling and sensuous streamlining.

Both were featured in ?The Art of the Motorcycle,? a 1998 Guggenheim Museum exhibition. Both were designed by Massimo Tamburini, a largely self-taught artisan who died on Sunday at 70.

For decades Mr. Tamburini reigned as ?the Michelangelo of motorcycling,? as The Sunday Express, the British newspaper, called him in 2010, and his work exerted a pervasive influence on the look of motorcycles in the late 20th century.

(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02876/massimo-tamburini_2876165b.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 10, 2014, 09:44:07 am

Awwww Mr. Tamburini man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 10, 2014, 10:24:34 am

Quote from: ggw on April 09, 2014, 10:15:20 pm

They were objects of unalloyed lust.

The Ducati 916 and the MV Agusta F4, sport bikes, which are considered two of the most desirable motorcycles ever made, remain coveted on and off the racecourse for their fleet handling and sensuous streamlining.

Both were featured in ?The Art of the Motorcycle,? a 1998 Guggenheim Museum exhibition. Both were designed by Massimo Tamburini, a largely self-taught artisan who died on Sunday at 70.

For decades Mr. Tamburini reigned as ?the Michelangelo of motorcycling,? as The Sunday Express, the British newspaper, called him in 2010, and his work exerted a pervasive influence on the look of motorcycles in the late 20th century.

(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02876/massimo-tamburini_2876165b.jpg)

He definitely designed beautiful bikes. I was going to add an MV Augusta to my motorcycle collection but then got divorced and ruined all those plans....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 11, 2014, 12:46:59 pm

(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2014/04/11/nyregion/SHAW-OBIT/SHAW-OBIT-sfSpan.jpg)

Steven A. Shaw, a founder of the influential online culinary discussion forum eGullet and one of the first writers to start his own food blog, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 44.

Mr. Shaw?s role in contemporary food journalism was considered pioneering for the open-forum websites he created. The website eGullet and his blog Fat-Guy.com, which has been discontinued, became online hubs where chefs, serious home cooks, gourmands and people just looking for a new restaurant could meet and talk on end about food ? setting a standard for the thousands of other Internet sites that are now the food blogosphere.

Mr. Shaw, a lawyer by training, quit his job with the Manhattan law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore to enter the then-unexplored country of online journalism in the late 1990s.

The venture set off an explosion of clashing online opinions and philosophies of food.

?The eGullet site, at one time, could be a thrilling place, where a simple question might be answered by Anthony Bourdain or the food editor of The Los Angeles Times,? wrote Todd A. Price, a dining writer for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans.

Nathan Myhrvold, a former chief technology officer for Microsoft, started a thread on eGullet in 2004 (asking for advice on sous vide, a method of cooking in sealed vacuum bags) that led him to undertake ?Modernist Cuisine,? a six-volume encyclopedia of food arts, biology and physics, published in 2010. David Chang, the chef and owner of Momofuku in Manhattan, has described it as ?the cookbook to end all cookbooks.?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/nyregion/steven-a-shaw-44-founder-of-an-early-blog-about-food-dies.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JohnQ on April 12, 2014, 01:08:55 am

Jesse Winchester: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/arts/music/jesse-winchester-singer-songwriter-dies-at-69.html?smid=tw-nytimesmusic&seid=auto&_r=0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 15, 2014, 10:07:54 am

AC/DC?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/fans-hope-for-the-best-as-rumours-swirl-about-malcolm-youngs-health-and-acdcs-future/story-fni0b7jg-1226884658411

<cue all the predictable haters...>

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 15, 2014, 12:24:09 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 15, 2014, 10:07:54 am

AC/DC?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/fans-hope-for-the-best-as-rumours-swirl-about-malcolm-youngs-health-and-acdcs-future/story-fni0b7jg-1226884658411

<cue all the predictable haters...>

If they didn't stop being AC/DC when Bon Scott died I see no reason to stop on Malcolms account.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 15, 2014, 02:24:26 pm

Quote from: atomic on April 15, 2014, 12:24:09 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 15, 2014, 10:07:54 am
AC/DC?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/fans-hope-for-the-best-as-rumours-swirl-about-malcolm-youngs-health-and-acdcs-future/story-fni0b7jg-1226884658411

<cue all the predictable haters...>

If they didn't stop being AC/DC when Bon Scott died I see no reason to stop on Malcolms account.

the level of cluelessness you display is astounding.

i'm hoping its an internet hoax ..not so much AC/DC breaking up but that Malcolm Young had a stroke

my favorite band ever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on April 15, 2014, 02:50:08 pm

Quote from: atomic on April 15, 2014, 12:24:09 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 15, 2014, 10:07:54 am
AC/DC?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/fans-hope-for-the-best-as-rumours-swirl-about-malcolm-youngs-health-and-acdcs-future/story-fni0b7jg-1226884658411

<cue all the predictable haters...>

If they didn't stop being AC/DC when Bon Scott died I see no reason to stop on Malcolms account.

I recall they've toured without Malcolm before. Felt like the worst-thing-ever at the time but....when looking back it is a blur of just a fantastic fun concert anyway.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 15, 2014, 02:58:33 pm

I saw AC/DC in maybe 08 or 09 and my ears rang for days...

By the way, what's the best concert going ear plugs? Any advice you avid show goers?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 15, 2014, 03:04:40 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 15, 2014, 02:58:33 pm

I saw AC/DC in maybe 08 or 09 and my ears rang for days...

By the way, what's the best concert going ear plugs? Any advice you avid show goers?

http://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=5075.0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 15, 2014, 03:07:17 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 15, 2014, 02:58:33 pm

By the way, what's the best concert going ear plugs? Any advice you avid show goers?

i still swear by my Etymotics (http://www.etymotic.com/hp/er20.html). there are better plugs out there, if you're willing to spend the cash, but for under $12 you can't beat etys.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 15, 2014, 03:19:33 pm

thanks dudes...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 15, 2014, 05:37:21 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on April 15, 2014, 02:50:08 pm

Quote from: atomic on April 15, 2014, 12:24:09 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on April 15, 2014, 10:07:54 am
AC/DC?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/fans-hope-for-the-best-as-rumours-swirl-about-malcolm-youngs-health-and-acdcs-future/story-fni0b7jg-1226884658411

<cue all the predictable haters...>

If they didn't stop being AC/DC when Bon Scott died I see no reason to stop on Malcolms account.

I recall they've toured without Malcolm before. Felt like the worst-thing-ever at the time but....when looking back it is a blur of just a fantastic fun concert anyway.

They did! and if I recall he was replaced by a cousin or something like that.... it was when Malcolm went into rehab and quit drinking alcohol...i am thinking late 80s...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 16, 2014, 08:55:13 am

not true!

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6053874/acdc-not-quitting-retirement-rumors

hoping malcolm and all of them are healthy

I saw them second row center opening night in wilkes barre last tour (2008) and it remains one of my best memories.. lord knows i'd waited a lifetime.

i could see them being done though......

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 16, 2014, 09:09:22 am

Quote from: hutch on April 16, 2014, 08:55:13 am

not true!

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6053874/acdc-not-quitting-retirement-rumors

hoping malcolm and all of them are healthy

I saw them second row center opening night in wilkes barre last tour (2008) and it remains one of my best memories.. lord knows i'd waited a lifetime.

i could see them being done though......

hutch, I thought about you yesterday.

I'm not kidding, an 18 wheeler going about 75mph missed my car by about two feet, max... The forum was almost one member short as of yesterday. I'd have to say it was one my closest calls in life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 16, 2014, 05:21:40 pm

^Yada glad you are ok... people drive like maniacs.. I'm not sure what was written about my accident.. was driving along at 25 mph in good old Arlington (from the record store of course) when out of nowhere my car starts spinning , the front windshield cracks ...i break and realize i can't get out... paramedics where on scene quick...the end result was 22 plus breaks in 8 ribs, pelvic fractures, 6 fractures in shoulder blade, collapsed lung...and other shit..miracle i did not lose consciousness.... my remaining issue other than a bit of a fear of driving, is the shoulder blade is messed up and am working on it...

what happened? someone couldn't wait to get out of parking lot... truck coming along taps her and she spins into my driver side door destroying the left side of my body.. i'm lucky

i hope i'm not repeating something i already typed here.

------------

but I came on to write that AC/DC has confirmed Malcolm Young is ill and is taking a break from the band...

http://www.acdc.com/us/news/message-acdc

I love Malcolm and am really wishing him all the best.... he's the man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 16, 2014, 09:35:07 pm

I'm 12 weeks into a compression fracture of a vertebrae and the pain just won't let up. Every time it really hurts, I tell myself Hutch has it much, much worse.

The doctor is suggesting a kyphoplasty would cure my ills. Fucking insurance won't pay for it, but I'm thinking it might still be out of pocket money well spent.

Anybody have a medical opinion to share?

I suppose this is the right thread. I feel like my 46 year old body has aged 20 years this year. Atomic will be thrilled to learn I lost a half inch in height.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 16, 2014, 09:53:50 pm

Quote from: James Ford on April 16, 2014, 09:35:07 pm

I'm 12 weeks into a compression fracture of a vertebrae and the pain just won't let up. Every time it really hurts, I tell myself Hutch has it much, much worse.

The doctor is suggesting a kyphoplasty would cure my ills. Fucking insurance won't pay for it, but I'm thinking it might still be out of pocket money well spent.

Anybody have a medical opinion to share?

I suppose this is the right thread. I feel like my 46 year old body has aged 20 years this year. Atomic will be thrilled to learn I lost a half inch in height.

How did this happen?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 16, 2014, 09:55:32 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 16, 2014, 05:21:40 pm

^Yada glad you are ok... people drive like maniacs.. I'm not sure what was written about my accident.. was driving along at 25 mph in good old Arlington (from the record store of course) when out of nowhere my car starts spinning , the front windshield cracks ...i break and realize i can't get out... paramedics where on scene quick...the end result was 22 plus breaks in 8 ribs, pelvic fractures, 6 fractures in shoulder blade, collapsed lung...and other shit..miracle i did not lose consciousness.... my remaining issue other than a bit of a fear of driving, is the shoulder blade is messed up and am working on it...

what happened? someone couldn't wait to get out of parking lot... truck coming along taps her and she spins into my driver side door destroying the left side of my body.. i'm lucky

i hope i'm not repeating something i already typed here.

------------

but I came on to write that AC/DC has confirmed Malcolm Young is ill and is taking a break from the band...

http://www.acdc.com/us/news/message-acdc

I love Malcolm and am really wishing him all the best.... he's the man.

Wow you were seriously messed up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 16, 2014, 10:09:46 pm

Quote from: James Ford on April 16, 2014, 09:35:07 pm

I'm 12 weeks into a compression fracture of a vertebrae and the pain just won't let up. Every time it really hurts, I tell myself Hutch has it much, much worse.

The doctor is suggesting a kyphoplasty would cure my ills. Fucking insurance won't pay for it, but I'm thinking it might still be out of pocket money well spent.

Anybody have a medical opinion to share?

I suppose this is the right thread. I feel like my 46 year old body has aged 20 years this year. Atomic will be thrilled to learn I lost a half inch in height.

I'm glad I can be of some solace..

:)

i'm sorry for your pain man..that blows.... i've had some lower back issues (since right before accident , maybe made worse by accident) and its no fun for sure...

my only comment is to be sure to rule out chiropractors and acupuncturists before any surgery....12 weeks is a long time though.....i recommend deb earley to rule out acupuncture... i don't think acupuncture can help a fracture but it often helps with pain management

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 16, 2014, 10:20:43 pm

Quote from: James Ford on April 16, 2014, 09:35:07 pm

I'm 12 weeks into a compression fracture of a vertebrae and the pain just won't let up. Every time it really hurts, I tell myself Hutch has it much, much worse.

The doctor is suggesting a kyphoplasty would cure my ills. Fucking insurance won't pay for it, but I'm thinking it might still be out of pocket money well spent.

Anybody have a medical opinion to share?

Double down on the roxies.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 17, 2014, 07:35:14 am

Sledding with my kid. I was taking a solo run and went over a snowhill some kids had made ( didn't see it until it was too late). Got airborne and landed awkwardly on my skinny white ass. Heard something crunch and pop and immediately knew i was fucked. Probably wouldn't have bothered a kids bones, but mine are too old for that shit.

Quote from: atomic on April 16, 2014, 09:53:50 pm

Quote from: James Ford on April 16, 2014, 09:35:07 pm
I'm 12 weeks into a compression fracture of a vertebrae and the pain just won't let up. Every time it really hurts, I tell myself Hutch has it much, much worse.

The doctor is suggesting a kyphoplasty would cure my ills. Fucking insurance won't pay for it, but I'm thinking it might still be out of pocket money well spent.

Anybody have a medical opinion to share?

I suppose this is the right thread. I feel like my 46 year old body has aged 20 years this year. Atomic will be thrilled to learn I lost a half inch in height.

How did this happen?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 17, 2014, 09:18:54 am

I consulted with Dr. Google, and he said that procedure is for old women with osteoporosis and not recommended for trauma injuries.

My own back issues were different (blown disc with an impacted nerve), but epidurals were quite effective in mitigating pain for weeks at a time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 17, 2014, 10:30:55 am

Yes, I've spent many hours googling and found many different things. All likely serving the best interests behind the people having them published.

Quote from: ggw on April 17, 2014, 09:18:54 am

I consulted with Dr. Google, and he said that procedure is for old women with osteoporosis and not recommended for trauma injuries.

My own back issues were different (blown disc with an impacted nerve), but epidurals were quite effective in mitigating pain for weeks at a time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 17, 2014, 10:44:13 am

Quote from: James Ford on April 17, 2014, 07:35:14 am

Sledding with my kid. I was taking a solo run and went over a snowhill some kids had made ( didn't see it until it was too late). Got airborne and landed awkwardly on my skinny white ass. Heard something crunch and pop and immediately knew i was fucked. Probably wouldn't have bothered a kids bones, but mine are too old for that shit.

Quote from: atomic on April 16, 2014, 09:53:50 pm
Quote from: James Ford on April 16, 2014, 09:35:07 pm
I'm 12 weeks into a compression fracture of a vertebrae and the pain just won't let up. Every time it really hurts, I tell myself Hutch has it much, much worse.

The doctor is suggesting a kyphoplasty would cure my ills. Fucking insurance won't pay for it, but I'm thinking it might still be out of pocket money well spent.

Anybody have a medical opinion to share?

I suppose this is the right thread. I feel like my 46 year old body has aged 20 years this year. Atomic will be thrilled to learn I lost a half inch in height.

How did this happen?

At least you have a good story to tell about how it happened. I had a lot of broken bones as a kid so it is probably not your age. You are only 45.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on April 17, 2014, 10:44:23 am

What would the procedure cost you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on April 17, 2014, 10:47:45 am

Arbouretum

Quote

An Important Announcement For Our Fans:

Hey everyone, so this is a little long in coming, but I felt I had to reach out to you all, so you know what the deal is.

In a nutshell, Arbouretum is on hiatus right now, and I can't tell you exactly when we'll pick it back up.

There's no bad blood or hard feelings or anything like that, not even the oft-mentioned "creative differences" that have plagued so many bands in the past.

It's just a matter of different lifestyle/logistical factors- two of us are owners of small businesses that need focusing on right now. One of us has another band that is currently in an active cycle. One of us is figuring out how to live a sober lifestyle for the first time in many years.

And for me, I've written two complete songs in the past year, both of which were on commission. Why is this? Well, I think it's because I kind of let the idea of what Arbouretum is all about, or supposed to be all about, get away from me, and so the muse hasn't really been around, at least not where I've been able to see/feel it.

So, I've been focusing on other things. Working on songs that don't sound like Arbouretum songs. Learning folk songs in the British Isles traditions. Getting back into Tai Chi after years of being away from practicing it. And also getting ready for a production project coming up soon, involving an album by a really talented songwriter named Fern.

I have a couple shows planned for the very near future. One is in Chapel Hill this coming Friday at the Night Light. The other is in Baltimore, at Club K on May 11. I'll be sharing those events here in a bit.

I'll be working on getting some new songs ready to go from these strands that are emerging in the dim light of my daydreams and putting them down in a format like a record, maybe even two records. Then shows, and so on. There's really no way I feel like I can stop doing music, but sometimes you have to find new ways of doing things when the ways you've been doing things run into some changes.

The idea of "Arbouretum" has been so tied into the identity of the four of us that have been working on it since 2009, that I don't think it would be appropriate to use the same name for a new project. I'll be doing stuff under my own name, and get some new internet presences that reflect that. I'll be posting these here at first, so you know where to find me.

I really hope you all stick around for this new cycle. You all have been really important to us, and without your support and encouragement, none of it would have been possible at all.

Arbouretum will be back around when the time is right, however long it takes. I love these guys, and am extremely grateful for all the hard work everyone has put into it over the years. You just can't ignore that sort of thing, and I sure am not.

Anyway, just wanted to update you all with the truth of the moment, as completely as I can relate it to you. I feel I owe you that, at least.

peace,
Dave Heumann

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 17, 2014, 10:51:59 am

Quote from: Hexenjagd on April 17, 2014, 10:47:45 am

Arbouretum
Quote
An Important Announcement For Our Fans:

Hey everyone, so this is a little long in coming, but I felt I had to reach out to you all, so you know what the deal is.

In a nutshell, Arbouretum is on hiatus right now, and I can't tell you exactly when we'll pick it back up.

There's no bad blood or hard feelings or anything like that, not even the oft-mentioned "creative differences" that have plagued so many bands in the past.

It's just a matter of different lifestyle/logistical factors- two of us are owners of small businesses that need focusing on right now. One of us has another band that is currently in an active cycle. One of us is figuring out how to live a sober lifestyle for the first time in many years.

And for me, I've written two complete songs in the past year, both of which were on commission. Why is this? Well, I think it's because I kind of let the idea of what Arbouretum is all about, or supposed to be all about, get away from me, and so the muse hasn't really been around, at least not where I've been able to see/feel it.

So, I've been focusing on other things. Working on songs that don't sound like Arbouretum songs. Learning folk songs in the British Isles traditions. Getting back into Tai Chi after years of being away from practicing it. And also getting ready for a production project coming up soon, involving an album by a really talented songwriter named Fern.

I have a couple shows planned for the very near future. One is in Chapel Hill this coming Friday at the Night Light. The other is in Baltimore, at Club K on May 11. I'll be sharing those events here in a bit.

I'll be working on getting some new songs ready to go from these strands that are emerging in the dim light of my daydreams and putting them down in a format like a record, maybe even two records. Then shows, and so on. There's really no way I feel like I can stop doing music, but sometimes you have to find new ways of doing things when the ways you've been doing things run into some changes.

The idea of "Arbouretum" has been so tied into the identity of the four of us that have been working on it since 2009, that I don't think it would be appropriate to use the same name for a new project. I'll be doing stuff under my own name, and get some new internet presences that reflect that. I'll be posting these here at first, so you know where to find me.

I really hope you all stick around for this new cycle. You all have been really important to us, and without your support and encouragement, none of it would have been possible at all.

Arbouretum will be back around when the time is right, however long it takes. I love these guys, and am extremely grateful for all the hard work everyone has put into it over the years. You just can't ignore that sort of thing, and I sure am not.

Anyway, just wanted to update you all with the truth of the moment, as completely as I can relate it to you. I feel I owe you that, at least.

peace,
Dave Heumann

I never saw them for some reason or another. But could we keep this thread to deaths and not bands taking a break.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on April 17, 2014, 10:56:32 am

Would you prefer people talking about their hurt backs? I see you were part of that (multi page) discussion, and didn't say that they were off topic. So basically, I am not going to listen to someone who is off topic and selective with their criticism.

::)

Thanks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 17, 2014, 11:10:11 am

Quote from: Hexenjagd on April 17, 2014, 10:56:32 am

Would you prefer people talking about their hurt backs? I see you were part of that (multi page) discussion, and didn't say that they were off topic. So basically, I am not going to listen to someone who is off topic and selective with their criticism.

::)

Thanks

Well I am responding to stuff on here not creating off-topic posts. I responded to yours as well. Why argue? Put your post in an appropiate thread. First AC/DC and now Arbotreum. Unless a member of a band dies they shouldn't be in here.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on April 17, 2014, 11:13:44 am

You also didn't say anything about people asking about earplugs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 17, 2014, 11:15:25 am

(http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyc7e3S3QR1rnufsxo11_250.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 17, 2014, 11:17:14 am

Quote from: Hexenjagd on April 17, 2014, 11:13:44 am

You also didn't say anything about people asking about earplugs.

Well this is not just to you it is also about the AC/DC posting and all the replies to that one including the ear-plugs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on April 17, 2014, 11:18:26 am

Then why did you not say something to them?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 17, 2014, 12:53:38 pm

Close to 47, but you are right. I did a bone density scan for osteoporosis and I'm normal.

Second broken bone in 16 months, as I fractured a rib in 2012 when I flipped over my mountain bike going too fast on a downhill after hitting a tree root. That one hurt more but recovery was quicker.

Bottom line i think is i shouldn't be doing activities that could cause hard falls at my age.

Quote from: atomic on April 17, 2014, 10:44:13 am

Quote from: James Ford on April 17, 2014, 07:35:14 am
Sledding with my kid. I was taking a solo run and went over a snowhill some kids had made ( didn't see it until it was too late). Got airborne and landed awkwardly on my skinny white ass. Heard something crunch and pop and immediately knew i was fucked. Probably wouldn't have bothered a kids bones, but mine are too old for that shit.

Quote from: atomic on April 16, 2014, 09:53:50 pm
Quote from: James Ford on April 16, 2014, 09:35:07 pm
I'm 12 weeks into a compression fracture of a vertebrae and the pain just won't let up. Every time it really hurts, I tell myself Hutch has it much, much worse.

The doctor is suggesting a kyphoplasty would cure my ills. Fucking insurance won't pay for it, but I'm thinking it might still be out of pocket money well spent.

Anybody have a medical opinion to share?

I suppose this is the right thread. I feel like my 46 year old body has aged 20 years this year. Atomic will be thrilled to learn I lost a half inch in height.

How did this happen?

At least you have a good story to tell about how it happened. I had a lot of broken bones as a kid so it is probably not your age. You are only 45.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 17, 2014, 12:55:00 pm

Something I can afford.

My concerns are with the long terms consequences and risks of choosing to do something or not do something.

Quote from: chaz on April 17, 2014, 10:44:23 am

What would the procedure cost you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 17, 2014, 12:57:41 pm

Back on topic, glad this guy is dead.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-man-put-to-death-for-murdering-3-year-old-two-others/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 17, 2014, 01:06:51 pm

When's your birthday, James?

http://www.lifealert.com/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on April 17, 2014, 01:10:51 pm

Quote from: James Ford on April 17, 2014, 12:57:41 pm

Back on topic, glad this guy is dead.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-man-put-to-death-for-murdering-3-year-old-two-others/

Villegas, a former cook, dishwasher and laborer, was free on bond for a sexual assault charge and was supposed to go on trial the day of the killings for an incident in which a woman said he punched her in the face.

Following his conviction for capital murder, Villegas was convicted of two counts of indecency with a child related to the daughter of the woman he was accused of punching in the face prior to the slayings. Relatives have said Salazar's mother had urged her daughter to break up with Villegas when she learned of the sex charges against him.

Villegas also had convictions for making terroristic threats to kill women, burglary and possessing inhalants.

Sounds like a real winner.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 17, 2014, 01:18:15 pm

Quote from: James Ford on April 17, 2014, 12:55:00 pm

Something I can afford.

My concerns are with the long terms consequences and risks of choosing to do something or not do something.

Quote from: chaz on April 17, 2014, 10:44:23 am
What would the procedure cost you?

James Ford

getting back off topic...as you know i'm clueless bout your issue but here's what i "think"

I spoke with rehab therapist today at my appt ...she's really anti any procedure unless absolutely necessay... exhaust all other avenues... she admits to being conservative about these things though...

personally i think you should try acupuncture with deb earley...go visit her or give her a call..she has a snazzzy practice in dupont circle with a nice website... your insurance may cover it.. otherwise the first visit is $190...half that afterwards...i mean it sounds like your main issue is PAIN.... you are able to walk and move right? also don't chiropractors tend to fix this stuff? or rehabilitation therapy (which is covered by health insurance)

my partner had real back pain for a while... and one day it just went away..

i have a few fractured vertebrae and they don't cause me any pain..not sure why...that info turned up recently at the hospital when they did a million xrays, mri etc.... i have four of them and its not been much of an issue..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on April 17, 2014, 04:46:33 pm

Sad day for Latin culture.
Salsa star José ?Cheo? Feliciano dies in car accident.
Then Gabriel García Márquez this afternoon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 17, 2014, 04:51:39 pm

Quote from: slappy on April 17, 2014, 04:46:33 pm

Then Gabriel García Márquez this afternoon.

Cholera?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on April 17, 2014, 05:04:13 pm

Quote from: ggw on April 17, 2014, 04:51:39 pm

Quote from: slappy on April 17, 2014, 04:46:33 pm
Then Gabriel García Márquez this afternoon.

Cholera?

Solitude

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 17, 2014, 09:10:23 pm

wow...gabriel garcia marquez...well we knew it was coming..

really a giant...

i would say amongst the three greatest latin american authors along with borges and cortazar

there is no telling what bolano could have accomplished if he had not died in his prime...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on April 20, 2014, 01:32:18 pm

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2014/04/20/boxer-rubin-hurricane-carter-dies-at-76/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 20, 2014, 08:29:22 pm

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/04/20/kevin-sharp-dead/7944187/

even though he sang country . . . he did a lot of good stuff with charities.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 22, 2014, 01:54:14 pm

Dead tree OED (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/10777079/RIP-for-OED-as-worlds-finest-dictionary-goes-out-of-print.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on April 22, 2014, 04:10:13 pm

Mike Atta, guitar player for pioneering LA punk band Middle Class.

http://exclaim.ca/News/rip_mike_atta_from_middle_class

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on April 22, 2014, 04:24:03 pm

Were you trying to imply that country singers typically don't do much charity work?

Quote from: walkonby on April 20, 2014, 08:29:22 pm

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/04/20/kevin-sharp-dead/7944187/

even though he sang country . . . he did a lot of good stuff with charities.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 26, 2014, 09:27:36 pm

Well, this made me sick to my stomach. DJ Rashad (http://pitchfork.com/news/54954-dj-rashad-has-died/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 28, 2014, 07:21:37 am

https://music.yahoo.com/news/dj-e-z-rock-takes-two-fame-dead-220750967-rolling-stone.html

DJ E-Z Rock of it takes two fame

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 28, 2014, 10:51:04 am

that song defined my junior year in high school.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on April 28, 2014, 10:53:08 am

(http://k14.vcmedia.vn/Images/Uploaded/Share/2010/08/20/190810CoachNBA05.jpg)

Having grown up in Oregon in the late 70s and early 80s, Jack Ramsay is a well-dressed lion of the NBA in my mind.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: frippy on April 30, 2014, 09:43:45 am

Bob Hoskins.

:'(

One of my favorite actors.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 30, 2014, 05:14:36 pm

Quote from: frippy on April 30, 2014, 09:43:45 am

Bob Hoskins.

:'(

One of my favorite actors.

darn it.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: radley17 on May 01, 2014, 08:13:33 am

Al Feldstein

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/business/media/soul-of-mad-magazine-al-feldstein-dies-at-88.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/business/media/soul-of-mad-magazine-al-feldstein-dies-at-88.html?_r=0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on May 06, 2014, 07:54:03 pm

The Gold Bar (seriously wtf)

http://blogs.citypaper.com/index.php/arts-and-minds/gold-bar-close-end-may/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on May 06, 2014, 08:18:38 pm

seriously.....wtf?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on May 08, 2014, 02:06:02 pm

Lee Marshall, the voice of Tony The Tiger
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/lee-marshal-tony-the-tiger-dies_n_5282963.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on May 13, 2014, 04:55:42 am

Nash The Slash
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/nash-the-slash-a-k-a-jeff-plewman-dead-at-66-1.2640133

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on May 13, 2014, 07:35:55 am

h.r. giger
http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/alien-artist-hr-giger-dies-at-74-1 (http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/alien-artist-hr-giger-dies-at-74-1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 13, 2014, 10:34:51 am

very sad loss to the art world. a true genius.

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hC0AnnYWk1A/TxX7xgZWaQI/AAAAAAAABi4/huKjgtZLFFc/s1600/SCOOK_Giger1.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on May 14, 2014, 03:59:41 am

The director of "Searching for Sugar Man"
http://mashable.com/2014/05/13/searching-for-sugar-man-director-malik-bendjelloul-dead/#:eyJzIjoiZiIsImkiOiJfMzkzZ3Y3bDAwdTBxOHY3YSJ9

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 21, 2014, 08:40:03 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on April 09, 2014, 03:20:21 pm

pretty weird about ultimate warriors final words on tv, 24 hours before he died

""Every mans heart one day beats it's final beat, his lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others and makes them bleed deeper then something larger then life. Then his essence and his spirit will be immortalized by the storytellers, by the loyalty, by the memory, of those who honor him and make whatever the man did live forever.""

As illustrated by Zen Pencils (http://zenpencils.com/comic/151-ultimate-warrior-legacy/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 22, 2014, 10:44:26 am

Not a big 'pro wrestling' fan, but that was a great comic!

Inspiration is an awesome thing, I hope at the very least I have that kind of impact on my kids.
Really is a great speech

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on May 28, 2014, 10:20:20 am

I am surprised nobody here mentioned Maya Angelou yet...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 28, 2014, 10:26:58 am

[quote author=Возвишена Оној кој лови вештерки link=topic=11001.msg387641#msg387641 date=1401286820]
I am surprised nobody here mentioned Maya Angelou yet...

[/quote]

I'm pretty sure it was just public knowledge about 20 minutes ago?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on May 28, 2014, 10:44:49 am

Wrestlers carry more weight than authors around here.

[quote author=Возвишена Оној кој лови вештерки link=topic=11001.msg387641#msg387641 date=1401286820]
I am surprised nobody here mentioned Maya Angelou yet...

[/quote]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 28, 2014, 04:04:58 pm

Manchester United owner, Malcolm Glazer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: stevewizzle on May 29, 2014, 02:04:44 am

delete

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: stevewizzle on May 29, 2014, 02:05:19 am

Quote from: James Ford on May 28, 2014, 10:44:49 am

Wrestlers carry more weight than authors around here.

Quote from: killsaly on May 28, 2014, 10:20:20 am
I am surprised nobody here mentioned Maya Angelou yet...

well maybe she should have sold more t-shirts

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 29, 2014, 08:44:50 am

Quote from: stevewizzle on May 29, 2014, 02:04:44 am

delete

Oh I so want to know what you said...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: stevewizzle on May 29, 2014, 11:06:17 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on May 29, 2014, 08:44:50 am

Quote from: stevewizzle on May 29, 2014, 02:04:44 am
delete

Oh I so want to know what you said...

oh - killsaly's name was doing that dumb broken quote thing, so i thought i clicked modify, but i ended up quoting myself in the second post. so i just modified the second post and deleted the first. anti-climatic, i know.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Hexenjagd on May 29, 2014, 11:43:50 am

That damn killsaly and his wacky ass names.

edit: you are one of the only ones who spell/capitalize killsaly correctly

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 29, 2014, 12:16:46 pm

i have always capitalized killsaly correctly.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 01, 2014, 07:24:05 pm

Alice :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 01, 2014, 07:27:59 pm

Quote from: grateful on June 01, 2014, 07:24:05 pm

Alice :(

A really underrated Woody Allen film. So sad it's died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 02, 2014, 09:42:26 am

It really is quite heartbreaking when old films die.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 02, 2014, 11:25:41 am

Quote from: grateful on June 01, 2014, 07:24:05 pm

Alice :(

Ann B. Davis 88.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 03, 2014, 09:55:14 am

Alexander Shulgin dead: ?Godfather of ecstasy? and pioneering psychedelic pharmacologist dies aged 88

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alexander-shulgin-dead-godfather-of-ecstasy-and-pioneering-pharmacologist-dies-aged-88-9478223.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 03, 2014, 11:21:33 pm

oderus urungus died of heroin overdose

unbelievable but heroin is way back

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 03, 2014, 11:23:21 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 03, 2014, 11:21:33 pm

oderus urungus died of heroin overdose

unbelievable but heroin is way back

Everyone in Richmond knew this a month ago. Also, pasta tastes good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 04, 2014, 12:25:26 am

Quote from: hutch on June 03, 2014, 11:21:33 pm

oderus urungus died of heroin overdose

unbelievable but heroin is way back

unfortunately in a big way.
I have a good friend in NY who is a cop on long island, he said it's really bad.
Every community is really being affected by this drug waaaay more than ever before
skag is all over the burbs and destroying people.

I've seen some sad posts on this board about this as well

it's a shame how music/movies/literature romanticizes it
I just count my self lucky to never really have encountered it directly, as a kid I bought into the romance of it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 04, 2014, 08:59:53 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on June 04, 2014, 12:25:26 am

Quote from: hutch on June 03, 2014, 11:21:33 pm
oderus urungus died of heroin overdose

unbelievable but heroin is way back

unfortunately in a big way.
I have a good friend in NY who is a cop on long island, he said it's really bad.
Every community is really being affected by this drug waaaay more than ever before
skag is all over the burbs and destroying people.

I've seen some sad posts on this board about this as well

it's a shame how music/movies/literature romanticizes it
I just count my self lucky to never really have encountered it directly, as a kid I bought into the romance of it.

Trainspotting and Basketball Diaries movie versions make it look pretty awful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on June 04, 2014, 10:15:29 am

police in annapolis are apparently starting to carry narcan on them to treat h overdoses. i think nyc as well.

i remember way back in the 90s, carroll county in maryland had a huge heroin problem. cumberland, md way out west as well (i think it still does....may even be the heroin capital of maryland)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 04, 2014, 10:20:59 am

Quote from: Got Haggis? on June 04, 2014, 10:15:29 am

police in annapolis are apparently starting to carry narcan on them to treat h overdoses. i think nyc as well.

i remember way back in the 90s, carroll county in maryland had a huge heroin problem. cumberland, md way out west as well (i think it still does....may even be the heroin capital of maryland)

Maybe they could put that on their signs "Welcome to Cumberland Heroin Capital of Maryland since 1973"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 04, 2014, 10:25:02 am

Quote from: Got Haggis? on June 04, 2014, 10:15:29 am

police in annapolis are apparently starting to carry narcan on them to treat h overdoses. i think nyc as well.

i remember way back in the 90s, carroll county in maryland had a huge heroin problem. cumberland, md way out west as well (i think it still does....may even be the heroin capital of maryland)

Shitty towns throughout America are completely fucked with H and Meth. I know the entire state of PA has a HUGE problem.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on June 04, 2014, 10:45:53 am

Depends on your definition of "shitty" town. It's all over Fairfax and Montgomery County high schools. It's a lot cheaper and more accessible than pills.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 04, 2014, 11:01:00 am

Quote from: ggw on June 04, 2014, 10:45:53 am

Depends on your definition of "shitty" town. It's all over Fairfax and Montgomery County high schools. It's a lot cheaper and more accessible than pills.

Non shitty towns* have the problem too... but if your town is shitty, then you definitely have a heroin problem.

*not to say parts of Fairfax/Mont Co. shouldn't be considered shitty.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 04, 2014, 12:09:21 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 04, 2014, 08:59:53 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on June 04, 2014, 12:25:26 am
Quote from: hutch on June 03, 2014, 11:21:33 pm
unbelievable but heroin is way back
it's a shame how music/movies/literature romanticizes it
Trainspotting and Basketball Diaries movie versions make it look pretty awful.

I disagree, trainspotting totally romanticizes it.
Requiem for a Dream
Sid and Nancy
Permanent Midnight
Jesus' Son
The Man with the Golden Arm

the books are endless

Music is endless too...it's my wife, it's my life

Yes they all end badly for the 'hero' , but still doesn't mean it doesn't make it look attractive to impressionable eyes.

Again, I count my lucky stars that it just wasn't available where I was and with who I hung out with

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 04, 2014, 12:14:26 pm

I've always had a mental block against heroin... i would never do it..to me its the equivalent of death.

whereas things like ecstacy, cocaine.... bring it on! those are fun!!!!!!!!!!!! can't figure out why people don't do them more!

i stopped doing pot cause it made me paranoid and more idiotic than normal..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 04, 2014, 12:38:06 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on June 04, 2014, 12:09:21 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 04, 2014, 08:59:53 am
Quote from: Sidehatch on June 04, 2014, 12:25:26 am
Quote from: hutch on June 03, 2014, 11:21:33 pm
unbelievable but heroin is way back
it's a shame how music/movies/literature romanticizes it
Trainspotting and Basketball Diaries movie versions make it look pretty awful.

I disagree, trainspotting totally romanticizes it.
Requiem for a Dream
Sid and Nancy
Permanent Midnight
Jesus' Son
The Man with the Golden Arm

the books are endless

Music is endless too...it's my wife, it's my life

Yes they all end badly for the 'hero' , but still doesn't mean it doesn't make it look attractive to impressionable eyes.

Again, I count my lucky stars that it just wasn't available where I was and with who I hung out with

I blame it on rappers and heavy metal guitarists.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 04, 2014, 12:41:24 pm

I just think if you're going to do drugs, be classy about it and stick to tinctures of opium drank out of heirloom lead-glass drink ware.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 04, 2014, 01:05:28 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on June 04, 2014, 12:09:21 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 04, 2014, 08:59:53 am
Quote from: Sidehatch on June 04, 2014, 12:25:26 am
Quote from: hutch on June 03, 2014, 11:21:33 pm
unbelievable but heroin is way back
it's a shame how music/movies/literature romanticizes it
Trainspotting and Basketball Diaries movie versions make it look pretty awful.

I disagree, trainspotting totally romanticizes it.
Requiem for a Dream
Sid and Nancy
Permanent Midnight
Jesus' Son
The Man with the Golden Arm

the books are endless

Music is endless too...it's my wife, it's my life

Yes they all end badly for the 'hero' , but still doesn't mean it doesn't make it look attractive to impressionable eyes.

Again, I count my lucky stars that it just wasn't available where I was and with who I hung out with

Trainspotting doesn't romantcize it. Dead Baby, Worst toilet in Britain, and Friend dieing of Aids how is that romantic. Requiem for a Dream is the most depressing movie I have ever seen. Sid and Nancy he kills Nancy and then OD's. Permanent Midnight he loses his job and drives around with his baby while doing Heroin. All of those make it depressingly horrible.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 05, 2014, 09:08:54 am

Quote from: hutch on June 04, 2014, 12:14:26 pm

I've always had a mental block against heroin... i would never do it..to me its the equivalent of death.

whereas things like ecstacy, cocaine.... bring it on! those are fun!!!!!!!!!!!! can't figure out why people don't do them more!

i stopped doing pot cause it made me paranoid and more idiotic than normal..

for hutch.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-our-mellow-dude.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 05, 2014, 11:25:18 am

Quote from: Yada on June 05, 2014, 09:08:54 am

Quote from: hutch on June 04, 2014, 12:14:26 pm
I've always had a mental block against heroin... i would never do it..to me its the equivalent of death.

whereas things like ecstacy, cocaine.... bring it on! those are fun!!!!!!!!!!!! can't figure out why people don't do them more!

i stopped doing pot cause it made me paranoid and more idiotic than normal..

for hutch.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-our-mellow-dude.html

wow talk about maureen losing it.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 05, 2014, 11:46:10 am

Quote from: hutch on June 05, 2014, 11:25:18 am

Quote from: Yada on June 05, 2014, 09:08:54 am
Quote from: hutch on June 04, 2014, 12:14:26 pm
I've always had a mental block against heroin... i would never do it..to me its the equivalent of death.

whereas things like ecstacy, cocaine.... bring it on! those are fun!!!!!!!!!!!! can't figure out why people don't do them more!

i stopped doing pot cause it made me paranoid and more idiotic than normal..

for hutch.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-our-mellow-dude.html

wow talk about maureen losing it.....

"She got the warning," Brown reportedly said. "She did what all the reporters did. She listened. She bought some samples ? I don?t remember what exactly. Me and the owner of the dispensary we were at and the assistant manager and the budtender talked with her for 45 minutes at the shop."

Brown said he, like, "really went into depth" with Dowd.

http://www.twcc.com/articles/2014/06/05/r/report-maureen-dowd-went-to-the-mitt-romney-documentary-after-buying-drugs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 05, 2014, 09:03:33 pm

Don Zimmer baseball player and manager. He was 84.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 05, 2014, 09:13:33 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 05, 2014, 09:03:33 pm

Don Zimmer baseball player and manager. He was 84.

Sadly, to people under 40, most famous for this: http://youtu.be/5O0yPrnCQeI

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 05, 2014, 09:26:55 pm

well I hope thats not true but...

didn't he play for the Yankees..I once read a great Billy Martin autobiography and I think Zim was with the Yanks n the 50s but I could be wrong...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on June 05, 2014, 09:32:34 pm

Quote from: Shemp on June 05, 2014, 11:46:10 am

... "Me and the owner of the dispensary we were at and the assistant manager and the budtender talked with her for 45 minutes at the shop." ...

I have no idea in hell who this Brown person is but lets just say his grammar skills are less than that of a 4th grader in public school. The credibility of anyone who speaks like this is diminished greatly by their ignorance.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: stevewizzle on June 08, 2014, 02:02:07 pm

killsaly

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 08, 2014, 02:08:11 pm

i was wondering what happened? gurl . . . get your butt back down hurr.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 08, 2014, 02:39:01 pm

Quote from: stevewizzle on June 08, 2014, 02:02:07 pm

killsaly

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 08, 2014, 02:41:06 pm

you, kind sir, are, a punk

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 08, 2014, 02:44:53 pm

Quote from: walkonby on June 08, 2014, 02:41:06 pm

you, kind sir, are, a punk

And he wasn't? He acted constantly like himself, azag, and vas were this entire community and the rest of us were interlopers who dared to disagree with his bullyish-groupthink.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 08, 2014, 02:50:26 pm

did something happen to make him depart? i missed a few days, and was so wrapped up in handjobs and pizza by the slice, i think i forgot who i was.

and everybody knows, that you, myself, atomic, and sometime sweetcell . . . make up this community. the rest, are just eye candy, for me to fantasize about. especially, that relaxer fellow.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 08, 2014, 03:08:10 pm

Quote from: walkonby on June 08, 2014, 02:50:26 pm

did something happen to make him depart?

Childish petulance, I'm certain, but there wasn't a clear predicate event that I know of v

Quote

and everybody knows, that you, myself, atomic, and sometime sweetcell . . . make up this community. the rest, are just eye candy, for me to fantasize about. especially, that relaxer fellow.

Well, I'd add smacks, James ford, and Kosmo to that, but yes, that's basically the pillars of our community.

Also, I'm quite delighted and relieved that after posting a photo of myself, you are now man crushing on someone else!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 08, 2014, 03:09:12 pm

i still, want into, your burberry boxers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 09, 2014, 12:46:58 am

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on June 08, 2014, 02:39:01 pm

Quote from: stevewizzle on June 08, 2014, 02:02:07 pm
killsaly
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

If you had your way you would be the only one posting.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 09, 2014, 08:02:40 am

Quote from: atomic on June 09, 2014, 12:46:58 am

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on June 08, 2014, 02:39:01 pm
Quote from: stevewizzle on June 08, 2014, 02:02:07 pm
killsaly
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

If you had your way you would be the only one posting.

No I wouldn't. That's absurd.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 09, 2014, 12:08:11 pm

Rik Mayall. Drats, I was always hoping for a Young Ones reunion movie or something
never knew he was a writer

Rik obit (http://news.yahoo.com/british-comedian-rik-mayall-dies-56-152409747.html)

(http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001785423/556166717_2_0000000_answer_1_xlarge.jpeg)
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/6997015191128a4372c464c10146c71a/tumblr_mkhtp4B9iT1rl52wjo1_500.gif)

Dear Echo....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 09, 2014, 12:29:50 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on June 09, 2014, 12:08:11 pm

Rik Mayall. Drats, I was always hoping for a Young Ones reunion movie or something
never knew he was a writer

Rik obit (http://news.yahoo.com/british-comedian-rik-mayall-dies-56-152409747.html)

(http://images.sodahead.com/polls/001785423/556166717_2_0000000_answer_1_xlarge.jpeg)
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/6997015191128a4372c464c10146c71a/tumblr_mkhtp4B9iT1rl52wjo1_500.gif)

Dear Echo....

He was so young. Sad news indeed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 09, 2014, 12:57:36 pm

LOVED HIM. LOVE ALL OF THEM. VERY SAD!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 10, 2014, 03:26:59 pm

Bob Welsh (http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24584780/former-cy-young-winner-bob-welch-dies-at-age-57) (baseball pitcher, not the already dead musician)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 10, 2014, 03:32:32 pm

Quote from: MDR-7506notBeats on June 10, 2014, 03:26:59 pm

Bob Welsh (http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24584780/former-cy-young-winner-bob-welch-dies-at-age-57) (baseball pitcher, not the already dead musician)

It's Welch.

And I'm hoping he went after a night with Steve Howe, but I'm not sure yet.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 10, 2014, 10:08:14 pm

Eric Cantor's congressional career

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on June 11, 2014, 09:23:38 am

Quote

Former congressman Ben Jones (D-Ga.), better known as "Cooter" from Dukes of Hazzard, has a plan to knock Eric Cantor out of the House. He's urging his fellow Democrats to cross over and vote for a tea party-backed candidate in Virginia's primary election.

Cooter, who ran against Cantor in 2002, has penned an open letter calling upon Democrats in his former Virginia district to vote in the open primary next Tuesday for tea party opponent Dave Brat in order to defeat U.S. House Majority Leader Cantor.

Crossing party lines to vote in an open primary has a long tradition in the solidly one-party South, Cooter argues in his letter. "By voting for David Brat in the Seventh District Republican primary, we Democrats, independents, and Libertarians can make a big difference in American politics," he argues. "It is your right to cast that vote. It is an 'open' primary and it doesn?t preclude anyone from voting anyway they wish in November. It may be the only way to empower those who want to make a statement about the dysfunctional Congress and 'politics as usual.'"

(http://i.imgur.com/FX4DLat.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 11, 2014, 11:24:38 am

Could we keep this thread to be about people who actually died? I see a new post in here and I expect to see a famous person I know and love died and you can imagine my disappointment when I see you are talking politics.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 11, 2014, 01:09:48 pm

Gene Ween

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 11, 2014, 01:11:18 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 11, 2014, 11:24:38 am

Could we keep this thread to be about people who actually died? I see a new post in here and I expect to see a famous person I know and love died and you can imagine my disappointment when I see you are talking politics.

Yes, I can see how someone not dying would be a disappointment.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 11, 2014, 01:24:17 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 11, 2014, 01:09:48 pm

Gene Ween

Sorry for your loss. I found this photo of him and they said he was 44 that looks like he is 64. I guess rock n roll lifestyle takes its toll.

(http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/news/46684/ea20d511.png)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 11, 2014, 01:25:54 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 11, 2014, 01:24:17 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 11, 2014, 01:09:48 pm
Gene Ween

Sorry for your loss. I found this photo of him and they said he was 44 that looks like he is 64. I guess rock n roll lifestyle takes its toll.

(http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/news/46684/ea20d511.png)

That ain't Gene Ween buddy...that's Aaron Freeman...

WTF?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 11, 2014, 01:49:17 pm

http://pitchfork.com/news/46681-ween-break-up/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 11, 2014, 02:09:33 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 11, 2014, 01:25:54 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 11, 2014, 01:24:17 pm
Quote from: hutch on June 11, 2014, 01:09:48 pm
Gene Ween

Sorry for your loss. I found this photo of him and they said he was 44 that looks like he is 64. I guess rock n roll lifestyle takes its toll.

(http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/news/46684/ea20d511.png)

That ain't Gene Ween buddy...that's Aaron Freeman...

WTF?

"Gene Ween (born March 17, 1970) is the stage name of Aaron Freeman, American musician and a founding member of the experimental alternative rock group Ween "

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 11, 2014, 10:40:52 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 11, 2014, 02:09:33 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 11, 2014, 01:25:54 pm
Quote from: atomic on June 11, 2014, 01:24:17 pm
Quote from: hutch on June 11, 2014, 01:09:48 pm
Gene Ween

Sorry for your loss. I found this photo of him and they said he was 44 that looks like he is 64. I guess rock n roll lifestyle takes its toll.

(http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/news/46684/ea20d511.png)

That ain't Gene Ween buddy...that's Aaron Freeman...

WTF?

"Gene Ween (born March 17, 1970) is the stage name of Aaron Freeman, American musician and a founding member of the experimental alternative rock group Ween "

Gene Ween passed away a few years ago man from a heroin overdose. As you know Ween was a pretty big band back in the day even playing DAR and selling out the 930 regularly...Gene Ween was a pretty fat fuck towards the end...

The picture you've posted is a recent picture of Aaron Freeman who heads up a group called "Freeman" that is playing the Rock and Roll Hotel... They're just starting out, first album yet to be released, so tickets are fairly inexpensive ($17) and it hasn't sold out...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 11, 2014, 10:51:34 pm

GARY COLEMAN DEAD AT 42; A NATION MOURNS.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 11, 2014, 10:53:23 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on June 11, 2014, 10:51:34 pm

GARY COLEMAN DEAD AT 42; A NATION MOURNS.

fuck...that show is cursed...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 12, 2014, 10:37:12 am

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on June 11, 2014, 10:51:34 pm

GARY COLEMAN DEAD AT 42; A NATION MOURNS.

yeah I got my mourning in May of 2010

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 12, 2014, 11:17:52 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on June 12, 2014, 10:37:12 am

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on June 11, 2014, 10:51:34 pm
GARY COLEMAN DEAD AT 42; A NATION MOURNS.
yeah I got my mourning in May of 2010

Heathern. The rest of the NATION STILL MOURNS.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 12, 2014, 11:52:09 am

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on June 11, 2014, 10:51:34 pm

GARY COLEMAN DEAD AT 42; A NATION MOURNS.

Raise your hand if you had Charlotte Rae v Todd Bridges in the death match finale...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 12, 2014, 12:04:59 pm

Dana Plato was a cutie!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 13, 2014, 04:28:13 pm

(http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/cb/cbf93e6c6d9004ef34ea8fba5656857198f84b93c7a3f5ecef678dff7e0a0eae.jpg)

too, soon?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 13, 2014, 07:06:18 pm

"Little" Jimmy Scott (http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/jimmy-scott-hard-luck-singer-with-a-haunting-voice-dies-at-88/2014/06/13/270725b6-48c3-11e3-a196-3544a03c2351_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on June 13, 2014, 07:46:53 pm

:'(

Quote from: MDR-7506notBeats on June 13, 2014, 07:06:18 pm

"Little" Jimmy Scott (http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/jimmy-scott-hard-luck-singer-with-a-haunting-voice-dies-at-88/2014/06/13/270725b6-48c3-11e3-a196-3544a03c2351_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on June 13, 2014, 08:24:29 pm

Ruby Dee

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on June 14, 2014, 04:54:18 pm

Chuck Noll

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 15, 2014, 11:11:50 am

Casey Kasem top 40 countdown DJ. Grew up listening to his weekly shows. They still play them on Saturdays on XM radio 70's on 7 which I usually catch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on June 15, 2014, 03:53:33 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 15, 2014, 11:11:50 am

Casey Kasem top 40 countdown DJ. Grew up listening to his weekly shows. They still play them on Saturdays on XM radio 70's on 7 which I usually catch.

As a forty-something American, this is a meaningful death. I am an aging hipster, but back in the day, radio meant something and Kasem was its star.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 15, 2014, 05:05:37 pm

(https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTTnVOIsEjDdd5vJZ8IDHxNYi_n4Y7CjeRU16c3t7B9Vdox6kc2)

i loved him, and grew up on those crazy dedications. his voice is what, radio and music, was meant to be. fuck, john tesh.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 16, 2014, 11:37:55 am

Tony Gwynn

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 16, 2014, 11:49:52 am

Quote from: vansmack on June 16, 2014, 11:37:55 am

Tony Gwynn

Damn shame. Dipping is a nasty habit that needs to die.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 16, 2014, 03:02:57 pm

Quote from: Shemp on June 16, 2014, 11:49:52 am

Quote from: vansmack on June 16, 2014, 11:37:55 am
Tony Gwynn

Damn shame. Dipping is a nasty habit that needs to die.

@dschoenfield: Here's a sad note: Tony Gwynn struck out three times in a game just once, 4/14/86. The pitcher who got him all three times? Bob Welch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 16, 2014, 03:15:10 pm

major bummer about Gwynn....

I am a sad panda.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 16, 2014, 03:20:16 pm

Gywnn was so young. Only 5 years older than me. I didn't even know there was such thing as salivary gland cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 16, 2014, 03:35:34 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 16, 2014, 03:20:16 pm

Gywnn was so young. Only 5 years older than me. I didn't even know there was such thing as salivary gland cancer.

Adam Yauch died the same way.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on June 16, 2014, 03:40:31 pm

He didn't seem like the chewing tobacco type.

Quote from: Yada on June 16, 2014, 03:35:34 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 16, 2014, 03:20:16 pm
Gywnn was so young. Only 5 years older than me. I didn't even know there was such thing as salivary gland cancer.

Adam Yauch died the same way.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 16, 2014, 04:33:26 pm

First pack of baseball cards I ever bought at like 4 or 5 years old had a Tony Gwenn All Star card in it. I was convinced it was extremely valuable and he was solidly my favorite baseball player up until the year that Cecil Fielder broke 50 home runs. Sad to hear he died so young.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 16, 2014, 04:34:57 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 16, 2014, 03:35:34 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 16, 2014, 03:20:16 pm
Gywnn was so young. Only 5 years older than me. I didn't even know there was such thing as salivary gland cancer.

Adam Yauch died the same way.

He, too, was struck out 3 times by Bob Welch in a game?!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 16, 2014, 04:54:52 pm

Quote from: James Ford on June 16, 2014, 03:40:31 pm

He didn't seem like the chewing tobacco type.

Quote from: Yada on June 16, 2014, 03:35:34 pm
Quote from: atomic on June 16, 2014, 03:20:16 pm
Gywnn was so young. Only 5 years older than me. I didn't even know there was such thing as salivary gland cancer.

Adam Yauch died the same way.

Evidently heavy cell phone use leads to this type of cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on June 16, 2014, 05:33:17 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvlVxhzH5-U

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on June 17, 2014, 09:51:50 pm

Steve Rosenzweig, guitarist of Baltimore death metal band Visceral Disgorge. This was taken from their fb page:

"It is with the deepest regret that I have to inform everyone in this manner. VISCERAL DISGORGE guitarist/key composer/original member Steve Rosenzweig was found dead this mourning. We are not at liberty to discuss any details regarding his untimely death. I will try to post information on his viewing/funeral for those of you that knew Steve. This news came to a shock to all of us in the band and to his friends in the Baltimore death metal community. The remaining members are getting together tonight to mourn his passing and to discuss if we should carry on as a band. You will be missed greatly brother."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 18, 2014, 11:09:56 am

~~Redskins?~~ merchandise gravy train.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 19, 2014, 10:08:51 am

Horace Silver

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 19, 2014, 11:06:09 am

You guys aren't following the rules of telling who the person who died is.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Nigel Tufnel on June 19, 2014, 12:27:47 pm

Flowers for Algernon author Daniel Keyes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 19, 2014, 01:07:01 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 19, 2014, 11:06:09 am

You guys aren't following the rules of telling who the person who died is.

you should know who Horace silver is

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 19, 2014, 01:27:39 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on June 19, 2014, 01:07:01 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 19, 2014, 11:06:09 am
You guys aren't following the rules of telling who the person who died is.
you should know who Horace silver is

Well I didn't and there was someone on the last page I didn't know either. And I am sure most people have never heard of him before either.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on June 19, 2014, 01:38:29 pm

I would imagine most music geeks have heard of him. Though this board isn't necessarily a hangout for music geeks.

Who was the other one you couldn't identify? Tony Gwynn, Jimmy Scott, Chuck Noll, and Ruby Dee are all pretty well known, if you're into sports and entertainment.

Quote from: atomic on June 19, 2014, 01:27:39 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on June 19, 2014, 01:07:01 pm
Quote from: atomic on June 19, 2014, 11:06:09 am
You guys aren't following the rules of telling who the person who died is.
you should know who Horace silver is

Well I didn't and there was someone on the last page I didn't know either. And I am sure most people have never heard of him before either.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 19, 2014, 01:41:59 pm

Quote from: James Ford on June 19, 2014, 01:38:29 pm

I would imagine most music geeks have heard of him. Though this board isn't necessarily a hangout for music geeks.

Who was the other one you couldn't identify? Tony Gwynn, Jimmy Scott, Chuck Noll, and Ruby Dee are all pretty well known, if you're into sports and entertainment.

Quote from: atomic on June 19, 2014, 01:27:39 pm
Quote from: Sidehatch on June 19, 2014, 01:07:01 pm
Quote from: atomic on June 19, 2014, 11:06:09 am
You guys aren't following the rules of telling who the person who died is.
you should know who Horace silver is

Well I didn't and there was someone on the last page I didn't know either. And I am sure most people have never heard of him before either.

I didn't know who Ruby Dee was but after I just looked her up I realized she starred in Raison in the Sun which I have seen.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 19, 2014, 03:36:50 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on June 19, 2014, 01:07:01 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 19, 2014, 11:06:09 am
You guys aren't following the rules of telling who the person who died is.
you should know who Horace silver is

Sometimes you should just look them up instead of presenting yourself as petty and inerudite.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 19, 2014, 04:09:34 pm

Quote from: MDR-7506notBeats on June 19, 2014, 03:36:50 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on June 19, 2014, 01:07:01 pm
Quote from: atomic on June 19, 2014, 11:06:09 am
You guys aren't following the rules of telling who the person who died is.
you should know who Horace silver is

Sometimes you should just look them up instead of presenting yourself as petty and inerudite.

We agreed to list a brief description of the person who died. I did that for Casey Kasem although I thought everyone should know who he is. If you can't give a description why even bother posting? And I don't know who "Ineurdite" is either. Petty did that song with Stevie Nicks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 19, 2014, 05:29:11 pm

where are the pictures????? we also agreed on that?

from now on we need obits with pictures..

(I wish I knew how to embed pictures)

there was a guy here who was doing a great job of it actually.....but he's let down his guard apparently

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 19, 2014, 05:33:03 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 19, 2014, 05:29:11 pm

where are the pictures????? we also agreed on that?

from now on we need obits with pictures..

(I wish I knew how to embed pictures)

there was a guy here who was doing a great job of it actually.....but he's let down his guard apparently

I agree we should have pictures as well. This is our last time to honor them.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 19, 2014, 06:19:06 pm

Gerry Goffin (http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/06/19/4188972/gerry-goffin-carole-kings-ex-husband.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on June 19, 2014, 06:35:17 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on June 19, 2014, 10:08:51 am

Horace Silver

taught my students 'the preacher' and 'song for my father' many times, many years

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 20, 2014, 10:28:08 am

Quote from: MDR-7506notBeats on June 19, 2014, 06:19:06 pm

Gerry Goffin (http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/06/19/4188972/gerry-goffin-carole-kings-ex-husband.html)

Gerry Goffin, a prolific and multi-dimensional lyricist who with his then-wife and songwriting partner Carole King wrote such hits as "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "Up on the Roof" and "The Loco-Motion,"

wow, that's a pretty impressive list of songs to be associated with
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow," also known as "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"...is one of my all time favorite songs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 20, 2014, 11:38:55 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on June 20, 2014, 10:28:08 am

Quote from: MDR-7506notBeats on June 19, 2014, 06:19:06 pm
Gerry Goffin (http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/06/19/4188972/gerry-goffin-carole-kings-ex-husband.html)
Gerry Goffin, a prolific and multi-dimensional lyricist who with his then-wife and songwriting partner Carole King wrote such hits as "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "Up on the Roof" and "The Loco-Motion,"

wow, that's a pretty impressive list of songs to be associated with
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow," also known as "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"...is one of my all time favorite songs

I think Carole King has wrote/co-wrote more hits than anyone else.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on June 25, 2014, 03:25:53 am

Eli Wallach (Tuco from The Good The Bad & The Ugly, amongst many other roles in the last 60 years) Dead at 98.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: moeszyslak on June 25, 2014, 08:42:24 am

Quote from: Unsanity on June 25, 2014, 03:25:53 am

Eli Wallach (Tuco from The Good The Bad & The Ugly, amongst many other roles in the last 60 years) Dead at 98.

Hate to hear this. He was the best!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on June 27, 2014, 10:00:26 pm

Bobby Womack (for atomic: legendary soul singer Bobby Womack).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 27, 2014, 10:02:55 pm

Quote from: James Ford on June 27, 2014, 10:00:26 pm

Bobby Womack (for atomic: legendary soul singer Bobby Womack).

I really hate that you're too lazy to spell out Robert. How am I supposed to know who you're talking about?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: atomic on June 27, 2014, 10:33:15 pm

Howard Baker 88, White House chief of staff, US senate Majority leader, ambassador to Japan.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Howard_Baker_1989.jpg/220px-Howard_Baker_1989.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on June 27, 2014, 10:51:31 pm

Quote from: James Ford on June 27, 2014, 10:00:26 pm

Bobby Womack (for atomic: legendary soul singer Bobby Womack).

Dang another great soul man gone. I saw him with the Gorillaz at the Patriot Center a few years back. He didn't look too good but he still had an amazing set of pipes! I have several of his 70's albums and they will get some play this weekend for sure. R.I.P.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 27, 2014, 10:53:33 pm

Quote from: atomic on June 27, 2014, 10:33:15 pm

Howard Baker 88, White House chief of staff, US senate Majority leader, ambassador to Japan.

I THOUGHT WE AGREED TO POST A PHOTO FOR EVERYONE? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DISTINGUISH HIM FROM THE OTHER HOWARD BAKER MAJORITY LEADER? THIS IS DISRESPECTFUL!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 02, 2014, 07:39:21 pm

death grips. no photo, for you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 11, 2014, 09:12:50 am

mayberry won 't be the same....Andy Griffith (july 3rd)
(http://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/07/03/timestopics/Andy-Griffith/Andy-Griffith-sfSpan.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 11, 2014, 09:27:48 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on July 11, 2014, 09:12:50 am

mayberry won 't be the same....Andy Griffith (july 3rd)
(http://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/07/03/timestopics/Andy-Griffith/Andy-Griffith-sfSpan.jpg)

Uh, July 3rd, 2012.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on July 11, 2014, 09:27:50 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on July 11, 2014, 09:12:50 am

mayberry won 't be the same....Andy Griffith (july 3rd)

July 3, 2012!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 11, 2014, 09:30:43 am

D'oh...good thing my fact checking cuz'es are on the board

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 11, 2014, 10:25:18 am

Some may have known him on here. Chris Grier. (http://bit.ly/1nezr1L) Not sure if Snailhook still checks this board but they were close and had a band for a while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyE5K5LXAM My condolences, Snailhook. :(

Another gone entirely too young.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: showlistdc on July 11, 2014, 10:57:47 am

Noise Against Fascism remains one of my favorite Black Cat shows, and I saw Chris in a ton of projects over the years. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 11, 2014, 05:49:33 pm

Charlie Haden (http://variety.com/2014/music/news/charlie-haden-legendary-jazz-bassist-dies-at-77-1201261391/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on July 12, 2014, 04:39:06 am

Tommy Ramone
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/12/tommy-ramone-dies-aged-65

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 12, 2014, 10:35:01 am

Quote from: Unsanity on July 12, 2014, 04:39:06 am

Tommy Ramone
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/12/tommy-ramone-dies-aged-65

yeah i woke up to this bummer of news...

tommy was of course scheduled to play at jammin java with glen matlock about two years ago but pulled out due to health..it was going to be bluegrass from what i understood

sidehatch still has my copy of please kill me.. remind me never to lend him a book again...its been like two or three years.. i think he thinks it belongs to him now due to statute of limitations or something..:)... anyways, in the book there is a great oral history of NYC music and punk and i guess what emerges is that Tommy was their first "manager" or something? and then when joey stepped out from behind the drum kit to sing tommy was enlisted to play the drums... obviously he only -as far as i know- played on their first four albums (I dont' think he's on end of the century..too lazy to check).....which are the canonical ramones..

anyways rip Tommy..

he also I think produced the Replacements Let it Be... probably a lot of other stuff I'm not remembering..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 12, 2014, 02:16:03 pm

doh..not let it be....i meant pleased to meet me

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on July 12, 2014, 03:30:20 pm

nope, tim

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 12, 2014, 08:27:22 pm

Quote from: gaaaaaaaaah on July 12, 2014, 03:30:20 pm

nope, tim

yes I had a troubling nagging feeling it was Tim...

ok..I can sleep peacefully now..thank you gaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 13, 2014, 04:12:12 pm

Lorin Maazel (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/arts/music/lorin-maazel-brilliant-intense-and-enigmatic-conductor-dies-at-84.html?_r=0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on July 13, 2014, 05:58:00 pm

Quote from: MDR-7506notBeats on July 13, 2014, 04:12:12 pm

Lorin Maazel (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/arts/music/lorin-maazel-brilliant-intense-and-enigmatic-conductor-dies-at-84.html?_r=0)

Wow, he's practically a local - his concert venue in Castleton is like a miniature Wolf Trap (in the best way) - wonder what will become of that? Witnessed him conducting a concert version of Porgy and Bess a few years back - terrific.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on July 14, 2014, 09:14:29 am

(https://scontent-b-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t1.0-9/p480x480/10553469_10152138114831556_4644296509148430928_n.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on July 15, 2014, 09:02:35 am

Archie (http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/archie-andrews-who-loved-betty-and-veronica-dies-at-73/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JohnQ on July 17, 2014, 07:52:12 am

Johnny Winter, R.I.P.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/07/r-i-p-johnny-winter-blues-legend-dead-at-70/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 20, 2014, 10:14:27 am

James Garner (http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/james-garner-leading-man-of-film-and-television-dies-at-86/2014/07/20/878167f4-c5da-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html?hpid=z6)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 24, 2014, 10:57:57 am

Atomic - last post July 11, 2014, 12:24:15 PM
the world kinda seems like a better place with out his presence here

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 24, 2014, 11:17:12 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on July 24, 2014, 10:57:57 am

the world kinda seems like a better place with out his presence here

Yeah, it's crazy how removing a mean-spirited, offensive, lying troll from a community makes the place nicer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 24, 2014, 11:50:01 am

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on July 24, 2014, 11:17:12 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on July 24, 2014, 10:57:57 am
the world kinda seems like a better place with out his presence here
Yeah, it's crazy how removing a mean-spirited, offensive, lying troll from a community makes the place nicer.

wait...you are still here? :o

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 24, 2014, 12:09:40 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on July 24, 2014, 11:50:01 am

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on July 24, 2014, 11:17:12 am
Quote from: Sidehatch on July 24, 2014, 10:57:57 am
the world kinda seems like a better place with out his presence here
Yeah, it's crazy how removing a mean-spirited, offensive, lying troll from a community makes the place nicer.
wait...you are still here? :o

Har de har har.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 24, 2014, 12:34:38 pm

good, one

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on July 24, 2014, 08:12:10 pm

How did I not even get an honorable mention in the Sidehatch/Julian oratory?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 24, 2014, 09:05:21 pm

good, one, too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 24, 2014, 09:20:47 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on July 24, 2014, 08:12:10 pm

How did I not even get an honorable mention in the Sidehatch/Julian oratory?

I feel like I just called you a jingoistic nutjob like two weeks ago. ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 24, 2014, 09:28:23 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on July 24, 2014, 08:12:10 pm

How did I not even get an honorable mention in the Sidehatch/Julian oratory?

well
1. your still here...
and
2. you've kinda turned into a softy lately offering up fish recipes and kind words

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on July 25, 2014, 07:51:03 am

Now, if we could only permanently rid the world of Ray Rice.

Seems kind of insane that Atomic gets a longer suspension than Ray Rice.

Quote from: Sidehatch on July 24, 2014, 10:57:57 am

Atomic - last post July 11, 2014, 12:24:15 PM
the world kinda seems like a better place with out his presence here

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 25, 2014, 09:14:14 am

Quote from: James Ford on July 25, 2014, 07:51:03 am

Now, if we could only permanently rid the world of Ray Rice.

Seems kind of insane that Atomic gets a longer suspension than Ray Rice.

I thought the more on-point comparison was made by (someone, I forget what NFL guy tweeted it) who said something to the effect of "I guess the next time an NFL player gets caught smoking pot, they should tape the doobie to their girlfriend's face and punch it repeatedly - they'll get their suspension cut in half."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 25, 2014, 09:24:35 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on July 24, 2014, 10:57:57 am

Atomic - last post July 11, 2014, 12:24:15 PM
the world kinda seems like a better place with out his presence here

I think atomic's author must have went on vacation or is having a busy summer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on July 25, 2014, 02:05:17 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on July 24, 2014, 09:28:23 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on July 24, 2014, 08:12:10 pm
How did I not even get an honorable mention in the Sidehatch/Julian oratory?

well
1. your still here...
and
2. you've kinda turned into a softy lately offering up fish recipes and kind words

1) YOU'RE still here too!
2) I'm always a softy, just sometimes I, never mind! (BTW we have another fishing trip out of Hatteras planned in October. This time I am going to personally deliver some fresh mahi mahi to Walkies house.) ;)

(http://bloominbrandscms.blob.core.windows.net/obs-email/140725_15pcOff_Coupon.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 25, 2014, 07:08:37 pm

oh hell yeah . . . and then we can go to outback.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on July 25, 2014, 09:05:32 pm

Quote from: walkonby on July 25, 2014, 07:08:37 pm

oh hell yeah . . . and then we can go to outback.

No need, you will be full... of FOOD. :o

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 25, 2014, 09:22:53 pm

I want my coupon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on July 26, 2014, 08:23:31 am

Quote from: RatBastard on July 25, 2014, 09:05:32 pm

Quote from: walkonby on July 25, 2014, 07:08:37 pm
oh hell yeah . . . and then we can go to outback.

No need, you will be full... of FOOD. :o

i like to be full . . . of food.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 27, 2014, 10:44:17 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on July 25, 2014, 02:05:17 pm

1) YOU'RE still here too!

...like a bad case of crabs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on July 31, 2014, 01:26:18 pm

Dick Wagner, vocalist/guitarist of heavy psych rock bands The Frost and Ursa Major and later played with Alice Cooper and Lou Reed. R.I.P.

http://www.freep.com/article/20140730/ENT04/307300185/dick-wagner-dies-michigan-guitarist

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on August 01, 2014, 04:20:54 pm

Idris Muhammad
http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2014/07/idris_muhammad_legendary_new_o.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on August 02, 2014, 11:25:51 am

1 dead, 1 in critical condition from ODing at Mad Decent Block Party at MPP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on August 02, 2014, 03:53:24 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on August 02, 2014, 11:25:51 am

1 dead, 1 in critical condition from ODing at Mad Decent Block Party at MPP

Well if that isn't mad decent nothing is! Maybe they just got tired of all the shitty music?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 04, 2014, 06:09:29 pm

Heartless comment.

Quote from: RatBastard on August 02, 2014, 03:53:24 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on August 02, 2014, 11:25:51 am
1 dead, 1 in critical condition from ODing at Mad Decent Block Party at MPP

Well if that isn't mad decent nothing is! Maybe they just got tired of all the shitty music?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on August 04, 2014, 08:21:43 pm

Quote from: jeffml on August 04, 2014, 06:09:29 pm

Heartless comment.

Quote from: RatBastard on August 02, 2014, 03:53:24 pm
Quote from: Got Haggis? on August 02, 2014, 11:25:51 am
1 dead, 1 in critical condition from ODing at Mad Decent Block Party at MPP

Well if that isn't mad decent nothing is! Maybe they just got tired of all the shitty music?

That or tongue in cheek humor.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 04, 2014, 08:53:01 pm

Or both

Quote from: RatBastard on August 04, 2014, 08:21:43 pm

Quote from: jeffml on August 04, 2014, 06:09:29 pm
Heartless comment.

Quote from: RatBastard on August 02, 2014, 03:53:24 pm
Quote from: Got Haggis? on August 02, 2014, 11:25:51 am
1 dead, 1 in critical condition from ODing at Mad Decent Block Party at MPP

Well if that isn't mad decent nothing is! Maybe they just got tired of all the shitty music?

That or tongue in cheek humor.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 05, 2014, 05:12:07 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on August 02, 2014, 11:25:51 am

1 dead, 1 in critical condition from ODing at Mad Decent Block Party at MPP

and people say Phish fans are bad...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on August 05, 2014, 06:10:56 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 05, 2014, 05:12:07 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on August 02, 2014, 11:25:51 am
1 dead, 1 in critical condition from ODing at Mad Decent Block Party at MPP

and people say Phish fans are bad...

They are.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 11, 2014, 07:01:15 pm

Robin Williams :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on August 11, 2014, 07:13:58 pm

shazbot :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 11, 2014, 07:23:28 pm

Quote from: grateful on August 11, 2014, 07:01:15 pm

Robin Williams :(

Welp there goes my childhood.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 11, 2014, 07:34:47 pm

I saw him a few years ago here in SF trying new material "off the coke" and he struggled, sweat like a pig and drank water like it was coming out of the faucet. At the end my buddy leans over says, "I don't think we're going have him here much longer."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on August 11, 2014, 08:14:04 pm

He will get all kinds of love despite being an angry ugly person who had, at best, 4 good roles and around a thousand terrible ones. rip dude who made millions reading scripts

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on August 11, 2014, 08:37:06 pm

Patch Adams marathon at our house tonight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 11, 2014, 08:49:39 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on August 11, 2014, 08:14:04 pm

He will get all kinds of love despite being an angry ugly person who had, at best, 4 good roles and around a thousand terrible ones. rip dude who made millions reading scripts

garp, fisher king, dead poets, Mork, awakening, Good Will, Aladdin, Birdcage and Good Morning, Vietnam
All classics in my mind...
Also some great SNL and late night appearances
Of course there were a ton of horrible ones too, but not a bad run IMHO

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: stevewizzle on August 11, 2014, 09:09:06 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on August 11, 2014, 08:14:04 pm

He will get all kinds of love despite being an angry ugly person who had, at best, 4 good roles and around a thousand terrible ones. rip dude who made millions reading scripts

do posts like this make you feel good about yourself?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on August 11, 2014, 09:11:25 pm

I don't care what you type

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: stevewizzle on August 11, 2014, 09:14:04 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on August 11, 2014, 09:11:25 pm

I don't care what you type

yeah, your apathy makes you cool, we get it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 11, 2014, 09:14:27 pm

I don't agree with relaxer but I defend to the death his right to say it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 11, 2014, 10:26:39 pm

you defend, to the death? then, die.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 11, 2014, 11:12:03 pm

in other words, step up to your, plate, of convictions.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on August 12, 2014, 01:35:23 am

My favorite was always Toys. I loved it as a kid and wore out my vhs copy. I also loved The Fisher King, Mrs Doubtfire, Jumanji, Hook, One Hour Photo and probably more. His antics and voices were constantly around me growing up in the 90's. My mom loved Mork & Mindy too and used to quote it a lot haha. R.I.P. Mr. Williams.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 12, 2014, 09:40:29 am

I am sorry, julian . . . I was, being stupid. I still think, you are sexy, as all hell. My phone is not, allowing me, to not capitalize, the first words, of sentences. Stupid, phone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on August 12, 2014, 10:31:42 am

Quote from: Relaxer on August 11, 2014, 08:14:04 pm

He will get all kinds of love despite being an angry ugly person who had, at best, 4 good roles and around a thousand terrible ones. rip dude who made millions reading scripts

Sorry, but I recently saw Good Will Hunting again and his performance negates your negative creep drivel. What have you done that's as great as that?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 12, 2014, 11:34:47 am

Quote from: walkonby on August 12, 2014, 09:40:29 am

I am sorry, julian . . . I was, being stupid.

Hey, don't worry about it, man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on August 12, 2014, 12:16:51 pm

I love Dead Poets Society. That movie changed me. Loved it and watched it all the time.

So so sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 12, 2014, 12:38:27 pm

If I learned anything this past year, it's this:

"Williams actually died of a disease---a terrible, terrible disease. Depression consumed the man, and it killed him, too, even if it used his hands to do it. I can't help but think: if we as a society talked more frankly and openly and without shame about depression, if we took depression more seriously as a disease rather than as an issue of deficient willpower or character, maybe we wouldn't lose so many irreplaceable people---our heroes, our visionaries, our friends, our family---year after year." - Georgetown Professor, David Ebenbach

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: heather on August 12, 2014, 12:50:25 pm

Quote from: vansmack on August 12, 2014, 12:38:27 pm

If I learned anything this past year, it's this:

"Williams actually died of a disease---a terrible, terrible disease. Depression consumed the man, and it killed him, too, even if it used his hands to do it. I can't help but think: if we as a society talked more frankly and openly and without shame about depression, if we took depression more seriously as a disease rather than as an issue of deficient willpower or character, maybe we wouldn't lose so many irreplaceable people---our heroes, our visionaries, our friends, our family---year after year." - Georgetown Professor, David Ebenbach

i really do hope that we continue talking about mental illness and suicide. i'm fortunate in that i sought help and have never had issues discussing my depression & anxiety with virtual strangers. just in the last half a day, i've learned a lot about how i can try to help others dealing with similar issues.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eros on August 12, 2014, 01:07:24 pm

"There is no way Robin Williams could have seen himself the way everyone saw him. What terribly sad and frustrating news."

https://twitter.com/JimNorton/status/498971112198635520 (https://twitter.com/JimNorton/status/498971112198635520)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Stillwater on August 12, 2014, 01:08:27 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on August 11, 2014, 08:14:04 pm

He will get all kinds of love despite being an angry ugly person who had, at best, 4 good roles and around a thousand terrible ones. rip dude who made millions reading scripts

Part of my first job in the Air Force was to give tours of the Pentagon. Sometimes we would give them to visiting dignitaries, sports teams in town for the WH visit and celebrities. I spent over an hour with Robin Williams just talking and walking around the building and he couldn't have been a kinder, more genuine person. You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but it my, admittedly anecdotal, experience he was a good dude.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on August 12, 2014, 01:35:37 pm

One of my favorite roles of his was in the Birdcage, which actually has gotten better over time. That movie is simultaneously hilarious and touching. The scene where he's on the bench with Albert talking about what cemetery he'll be stuck in is one of those moments where 2 actors make you forget you're watching a movie. What they talk about is real, and the scene feels genuine. You don't remember that you're watching Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, you begin to believe that Albert and Armand are real people. That's why it's more than reading off a script. And I suspect that's why people are so bummed. Most people think they have some kind of personal connection to actors or artists or musicians but when their art transcends script, sheet music, or canvas and hits a nerve, it's an innate feeling in all of us that somehow we "know" something about them because they made us feel like they know us. Whether it's John Lennon or Philip Seymour Hoffman or whoever, we can't help but feel crummy. I didn't know Tommy Ramone from a vagrant, but I was still sad when he died. He was part of a band that made my life brim with excitement and joy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 12, 2014, 03:10:26 pm

Quote from: Stillwater on August 12, 2014, 01:08:27 pm

I spent over an hour with Robin Williams just talking and walking around the building and he couldn't have been a kinder, more genuine person.

Norm MacDonald Tweeted a Robin Williams Remebrance (http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/12/5995383/norm-macdonald-tweeted-our-favorite-robin-williams-remembrance-to-date)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 12, 2014, 03:16:39 pm

Quote from: vansmack on August 12, 2014, 12:38:27 pm

If I learned anything this past year, it's this:

"Williams actually died of a disease---a terrible, terrible disease. Depression consumed the man, and it killed him, too, even if it used his hands to do it. I can't help but think: if we as a society talked more frankly and openly and without shame about depression, if we took depression more seriously as a disease rather than as an issue of deficient willpower or character, maybe we wouldn't lose so many irreplaceable people---our heroes, our visionaries, our friends, our family---year after year." - Georgetown Professor, David Ebenbach

Well said... and quite sad. Suicide is anything but painless.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on August 12, 2014, 08:04:16 pm

Lauren Bacall

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 12, 2014, 09:57:02 pm

she picked a horrible time to die. every news story, every facebook post, every article, every sidewalk discussion, every breath of single importance . . . doesnt give, a collective shit, about her death.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 13, 2014, 10:24:20 am

Quote from: walkonby on August 12, 2014, 09:57:02 pm

she picked a horrible time to die. every news story, every facebook post, every article, every sidewalk discussion, every breath of single importance . . . doesnt give, a collective shit, about her death.

I care...one of my first crushes :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: TheREALHunter on August 15, 2014, 03:04:35 pm

R.I.P. Jay Adams

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 15, 2014, 08:33:19 pm

Quote from: TheREALHunter on August 15, 2014, 03:04:35 pm

R.I.P. Jay Adams

Fuck Fuck fuck

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 19, 2014, 08:42:25 am

Don Pardo, the Voice of ?Saturday Night Live,? Dies at 96 (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/19/nyregion/don-pardo-the-voice-of-saturday-night-live-dies-at-96.html?_r=0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 20, 2014, 12:00:05 am

I realize I'm late to the wake but I'm really affected by Robin Williams' death... what a bummer... what terrible news to wake up to...

One of those guys that just made the world a better place....I was hanging out with my my inlaw, with some relatives from Argentina...everybody was just so bummed out..

I think his early 80s (almost surely 82?) stand up act video is brilliant..this is the one where he is wearing the black baggy leather pants and goes on riffs about sperm, the "fuckin islands" (i.e., falkland islands), etc.... its also funny because he is so evidently coked up out of his mind but he lets fly...

a very very sad event....

enjoyed watching some mork and mindy over the weekend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chancegardener on August 20, 2014, 12:13:30 am

Charles M. Young - the great writer for Rolling Stone magazine back in the 70s -- the guy who showed a 15-year-old suburban Philly kid (me) what punk rock was all about back in 1977. Thank god for this man -- he saved me (and plenty of other kids) from a world of Boston, Billy Joel and Earth Wind & Fire.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/charles-m-young-rock-journalist-who-championed-punk-dies-at-63-20140819

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on August 21, 2014, 12:46:47 pm

The Knife

http://pitchfork.com/news/56416-the-knife-call-it-quits/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 21, 2014, 05:38:04 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on August 21, 2014, 12:46:47 pm

The Knife

http://pitchfork.com/news/56416-the-knife-call-it-quits/

uh, can someone please check up on walkies?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 21, 2014, 05:42:42 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 21, 2014, 05:38:04 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on August 21, 2014, 12:46:47 pm
The Knife

http://pitchfork.com/news/56416-the-knife-call-it-quits/

uh, can someone please check up on walkies?

Hey, jerk, I already made this joke in musicology. Stop stealing my material.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 21, 2014, 09:10:33 pm

T,he nerve. No, cat pho,to for, you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 21, 2014, 09:24:21 pm

Quote from: walkonby on August 21, 2014, 09:10:33 pm

T,he nerve. No, cat pho,to for, you.

Commas in the middle of words now? I eagerly await the day your posts devolve to the point they're just strings of commas broken up by randomly placed letters.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 22, 2014, 01:04:34 pm

Quote from: walkonby on August 21, 2014, 09:10:33 pm

cat pho

Thought something was a little off with my Vietnamese noodle soup the other day

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on August 24, 2014, 06:17:01 pm

Sir Richard Attenborough

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/24/richard-attenborough-died-aged-90

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 28, 2014, 11:52:36 am

no, joan . . . no! oh joan, hold on!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 28, 2014, 12:01:12 pm

Quote from: walkonby on August 28, 2014, 11:52:36 am

no, joan . . . no! oh joan, hold on!

Is there anyway we can offer Melissa to the gods as tribute like in Hunger Games?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 01, 2014, 09:42:56 pm

Jimi Jamison, Survivor Lead Singer, Dead at 63 (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jimi-jamison-survivor-lead-singer-dead-at-63-20140901)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on September 02, 2014, 08:10:30 am

Did not do the vox on Eye of the Tiger. That's all I need to know.

Quote from: MDR-7506notBeats on September 01, 2014, 09:42:56 pm

Jimi Jamison, Survivor Lead Singer, Dead at 63 (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jimi-jamison-survivor-lead-singer-dead-at-63-20140901)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 02, 2014, 02:01:15 pm

Steven Sotloff

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 02, 2014, 02:21:13 pm

Quote from: Yada on September 02, 2014, 02:01:15 pm

Steven Sotloff

yowza, f'n idiots. Looks like they want us to bomb the crap out of them.

?Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on September 02, 2014, 03:56:57 pm

yeah i can't tell what is going on there

are they trying to draw the US back into war

or do they think this will really prevent the US from wanting to retaliate

or did the US government have them do this to justify going back in

or do they just hate our freedom fries

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 02, 2014, 06:32:01 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on September 02, 2014, 03:56:57 pm

yeah i can't tell what is going on there

are they trying to draw the US back into war

or do they think this will really prevent the US from wanting to retaliate

or did the US government have them do this to justify going back in

or do they just hate our freedom fries

Or will Bammy just apologize for forcing them kill our citizens?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 02, 2014, 06:35:23 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on September 02, 2014, 06:32:01 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on September 02, 2014, 03:56:57 pm
yeah i can't tell what is going on there

are they trying to draw the US back into war

or do they think this will really prevent the US from wanting to retaliate

or did the US government have them do this to justify going back in

or do they just hate our freedom fries

Or will Bammy just apologize for forcing them kill our citizens?

Yeah that was startling footage where Obama put the gun to the terrorists head and demanded he kill that journalist. Thanks, Obama!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 02, 2014, 07:03:23 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on September 02, 2014, 06:32:01 pm

Or will Bammy just apologize for forcing them kill our citizens?

Bammy
How I love ya
How I love ya
My dear ol' Bammy!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 04, 2014, 02:11:26 pm

Gustavo Cerati

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 04, 2014, 02:21:40 pm

Adios

http://youtu.be/qeCoWQJEwQM

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on September 04, 2014, 03:01:12 pm

Joan Rivers finally left this mortal coil

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 04, 2014, 03:03:08 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on September 04, 2014, 03:01:12 pm

Joan Rivers finally left this mortal coil

my condolences walkie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 04, 2014, 03:06:51 pm

The world of mean-spirited snarkiness has lost a lion.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on September 04, 2014, 03:29:03 pm

Both Robin and Joan were on Louis recently.

Who will be the next one to fall to.... Louis Comedian Killer"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 04, 2014, 03:59:04 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on September 04, 2014, 03:29:03 pm

Both Robin and Joan were on Louis recently.

Who will be the next one to fall to.... Louis Comedian Killer"

Amy Schumer does in a tragic choking-on-gravy accident.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 04, 2014, 05:59:20 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on September 04, 2014, 03:29:03 pm

Who will be the next one to fall to.... Louis Comedian Killer"

Was Betty White on the show?

Betty White, 92, Dyes Peacefully in her Los Angeles Home (http://empirenews.net/actress-betty-white-92-dyes-peacefully-in-her-los-angeles-home/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 04, 2014, 06:20:41 pm

Quote from: vansmack on September 04, 2014, 05:59:20 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on September 04, 2014, 03:29:03 pm
Who will be the next one to fall to.... Louis Comedian Killer"

Was Betty White on the show?

Betty White, 92, Dyes Peacefully in her Los Angeles Home (http://empirenews.net/actress-betty-white-92-dyes-peacefully-in-her-los-angeles-home/)

Im not sure if you're trying to fool people or got fooled yourself.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 04, 2014, 06:42:38 pm

Whether anyone liked the comedy of Joan Rivers or not, damn she broke down some doors. Fuck she kicked them in and and never stopped moving forward. Where ever you are Joan, give 'em hell!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 04, 2014, 07:37:43 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on September 04, 2014, 06:20:41 pm

Im not sure if you're trying to fool people or got fooled yourself.

Really? I would type "Dyes"?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 04, 2014, 07:44:06 pm

If I post a story, I usually c&p the headline. It was a possibility.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 04, 2014, 07:47:02 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on September 04, 2014, 07:44:06 pm

If I post a story, I usually c&p the headline. It was a possibility.

Ah...fair enough. I was called "insensitive" when I posted that in a tribute to Joan. I asked "to Joan or Bette?" Hilarity ensued...some people.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 04, 2014, 08:33:13 pm

my thoughts on Gustavo Cerati's passing (admittedly copied from my FB)... probably be of interest to two people but what the heck..

:::::

Gustavo Cerati died today. some off the cuff thoughts...Somebody dies every day but when the people you "grow up with" die it just means so much more...He was 55... had suffered a stroke that put him into a coma about four years ago....Cerati was the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for Argentine rock band Soda Stereo formed in the early 1980s...heavily influenced by the post-new wave sounds of bands like the Police, U2 and the Cure (on early album cover pics Cerati looks uncannily like Robert Smith) while also being heavily influenced by some great 70s Argentine artists like Luis Alberto Spinnetta... its a little known fact that in the 1970s Argentina produced, far away from the music capitals of the world and in a different language, some of the more exciting rock music... bands like Spinetta's Pescado Rabioso put an original Argentine bent on Led Zeppelin, Pappo on blues rock in general, Seru Giran and others on progressive rock (Genesis, Yes, etc.) which was highly influential down there, etc... Cerati grew up on that stuff and what was coming in from overseas and together with drummer Charly Alberti and bassist Zeta Bosio and putting it all together, at their earliest with a definite overriding Cure influence, came up with an interesting hybrid which was the sound of Soda Stereo...formed in late 1982 they were a definite outgrowth of the artistic freedom that swept through Argentina after the military lost the Malvinas War and gave up power....sort of like in the early 80s in the US/England and anything goes aesthetic permeated the Argentine rock scene...and like the rock mother countries the music videos of Soda Stereo played a role.. but what was particularly important about Soda Stereo is that they were the first spanish rock band to be popular all over Latin America.. be it Chile, Peru, Venezuela or Mexico, all markets with far less evolved rock and roll music scenes, Soda conquered them in 1986.... before that all rock in espanol was distinctly local..still today if I meet someone from Latin America of my generation give or take I know Soda Stereo will be a very important band to them... a band back then could be popular in their home country but that was about it....that is the way it had always been.. the other interesting thing, distinguishing characteristic of Soda Stereo, was that they were not simply following worldwide trends...sure, their early albums (the first two) seemed a bit "naive" lacking the production chops and even their breakout album, Signos, in 1986 which contained mega-anthems still wasn't quite at the technical level..it was still arguably a "third world" album, but at a certain point about 1990 or thereabouts Soda Stereo began to be as interesting, primal, unique, crisp, original as any other band in the world...the Cancion Animal album in 1990...some of it going as far as including a distinct Jorge Luis Borges influence (and that ain't chopped liver folks), they embraced the Nirvana revolution about as quickly as possible (the spectacular 1992 release Dynamo), they embraced electronica before most rock bands in the world (1995 incredible swan song Sueno Stereo)...there was a feeling with them, a sense, that here was a band that was on the same level as any "first world" band despite all the disadvantages that came with being from Argentina.....they were that good...that flawless.... eventually the band broke up... in my estimation at their peak after Sueno Stereo.. Cerati went solo and found some success although never to the degree he'd had with Soda... eventually, again following the arc most bands have these days, they regrouped for a very succesfull tour in 2007... I wasn't able to make the Miami show...I caught Cerati live twice... indicative of his tremendous range, the first time, at the Colon Opera House backed by a large symphonic orchestra reprising his solo and group hits about 2002.. the second time at a relatively small club about a mile and a half or two from where I type (the State Theatre 2006)...the shows were exemplary both times... the truth is his solo material didn't have the reach of Soda but what could? and by that point the legend was cemented and he could record anything he wanted....the word on the street is that his stroke came as a result of adopting an anything goes lifestyle during the Soda Stereo reunion...its not too hard to imagine.. playing stadiums...feeling on top of the world...a couple of packs a day cig smoker starts partying hard in their late 40s after a few health scares...a stroke ensues..coma....eventually end...I can remember the first time I heard Soda Stereo very clearly.... after about 8 years overseas we had moved back to Buenos Aires...early 1987... I was at my grandmother's house trying to go to sleep .. the neighbours or somebody in the hood was having a party and songs by the Cure or whoever kept playing.... but also songs by a band I didn't really know yet, Soda Stereo, and they spoke to me on the same level as the American and English bands and that was unique at the time...songs like Profugos (Runaways) or Persiana America (American shutters) subsequently I fell in love with the great Argentine rock of the 70s and 80s , and boy is it a rich history, but like for many all over Latin America Soda Stereo helped open up that door for me..RIP Cerati. Gone much too soon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 04, 2014, 09:08:43 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 04, 2014, 09:09:31 pm

Quote from: Yada on September 04, 2014, 09:08:43 pm

¶

waste of time when you got the repeating "."

take a breather when you need it.

that does give me a headache... i agree...i think its the white on black or something..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 04, 2014, 09:58:03 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on September 04, 2014, 06:42:38 pm

Whether anyone liked the comedy of Joan Rivers or not, damn she broke down some doors. Fuck she kicked them in and and never stopped moving forward. Where ever you are Joan, give 'em hell!

I always like JR more for her attitude than her comedy(which was top notch too). She just did not give a flying fcuk what you thought
Now and but especially back then, I can think of very few woman who were as comfortable in their own skin as she was
and that's an awesome legacy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 04, 2014, 10:24:35 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on September 04, 2014, 09:58:03 pm

I can think of very few woman were as comfortable in their own skin than she was

there is something wrong with this....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 04, 2014, 11:22:41 pm

societally or my personal observation?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 05, 2014, 12:02:12 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on September 04, 2014, 09:58:03 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on September 04, 2014, 06:42:38 pm
Whether anyone liked the comedy of Joan Rivers or not, damn she broke down some doors. Fuck she kicked them in and and never stopped moving forward. Where ever you are Joan, give 'em hell!
I always like JR more for her attitude than her comedy(which was top notch too). She just did not give a flying fcuk what you thought
Now and but especially back then, I can think of very few woman who were as comfortable in their own skin as she was
and that's an awesome legacy

Except I don't think much of what was left was her own skin... LOL :)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 08, 2014, 02:54:29 pm

Ray Rice's career. Good riddance you filthy fucking animal.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 08, 2014, 03:13:03 pm

Quote from: Yada on September 08, 2014, 02:54:29 pm

Ray Rice's career. Good riddance you filthy fucking animal.

agree and
yes maybe this is a better thread than the Fantasy Football one....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 08, 2014, 04:42:41 pm

Truett Carthy (sic)
Founder of Chick Fil A

Somewhere Walkie is doing his happy gaytastic dance..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on September 08, 2014, 06:57:48 pm

no, i do no dance, and back to my theory of how i will eat anything, anytime, any,place. chick,fil,a was an awesome get away food trip back in the days when you said, what in the hell is a chick,fil,a, mom, and then you go try one one day because you are tired of pizza hut and mcdonalds and burger king and arbys and roy Rodgers and kfc and wendys, and good lord they are all so good and those fucking waffle fries from chick,fil,a. the lemonade all upon itself was pageant winner material. then something changed . . . before the gay controversies, and the demise of a clucking dynasty, the food altered in enjoyment, or somehow was odd and different tasting, not as good, and weak. i saw it, I was there.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: heather on September 08, 2014, 09:33:11 pm

bravo, walky!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 11, 2014, 07:16:16 am

Robert ?Throb? Young Primal Scream guitar hero

http://louderthanwar.com/robert-throb-young-primal-scream-guitar-hero-rip/

"He was there for Screamadelica- one of the classic indie albums of all time and he was there for the comedown albums after- those dark and dangerous records with the great Mani now on board pumping the bass that are still regularily played at LTW and he was there all the way until 2006 for the Country Girl hit before he left for an on going sabbatical to be replaced by Little Barrie."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 11, 2014, 07:41:00 am

Richard Kiel (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/11/richard-kiel-who-played-gentle-giant-jaws-in-james-bond-films-is-dead-at-74/?tid=pm_pop)

(http://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_80x60/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/morning-mix/201409/Images/Scan.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 11, 2014, 09:30:10 am

Quote from: Shemp on September 11, 2014, 07:41:00 am

Richard Kiel (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/11/richard-kiel-who-played-gentle-giant-jaws-in-james-bond-films-is-dead-at-74/?tid=pm_pop)

(http://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_80x60/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/morning-mix/201409/Images/Scan.jpg)

interesting to learn that his wife was 5'1" (he was 7'2")

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 11, 2014, 10:34:03 am

Primal Scream "Rocks" has shown up several times in my Twitter timeline today. I always felt a bit dirty digging that one, given the whole it wasn't Screamadelica. But damn does it stand the test of time well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on September 11, 2014, 01:14:13 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 11, 2014, 06:41:35 pm

Cosimo Matassa

a big loss. basically he had a recording studio in New Orleans and recorded a lot of the great early rock and roll....Little Richard, Fats Domino, etc.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 13, 2014, 01:01:38 pm

joe sample (http://blog.chron.com/rantandrave/2014/09/houston-jazz-great-joe-sample-dies/)

Little know fact that he invented using another artists recorded music in music you release as your own

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on September 16, 2014, 06:28:53 pm

Peter Gutteridge (http://pitchfork.com/news/56702-peter-gutteridge-founding-member-of-the-clean-and-the-chills-has-died/)

Link fixed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on September 21, 2014, 11:47:36 pm

eric the actor . . . ack, ack.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on September 22, 2014, 12:15:14 am

Too bad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on September 22, 2014, 11:36:53 am

I listened to Stern this morning and got a bit choked up. I always really enjoyed his call-ins. He seemed like he had a good soul. He seemed cranky. But at times he seemed happy. He had his hobbies. He took the hand that was dealt to him in life, and played it to the best of his abilities. I was never anti-Eric. He was always entertaining and helped me get through many a commute from the suburbs to DC. I don't really know what to say. RIP little dude, you are missed....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 22, 2014, 11:39:44 am

Quote from: Rogue Riderhood on September 22, 2014, 11:36:53 am

I listened to Stern this morning

(https://33.media.tumblr.com/f1896cfb88377d6e391ea2ce1bd5cf94/tumblr_n0j9shWtev1s8ghqso1_500.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on September 22, 2014, 11:44:11 am

And you felt the need to comment on my post with an eye roll GIF because?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 22, 2014, 12:00:51 pm

Quote from: Rogue Riderhood on September 22, 2014, 11:44:11 am

And you felt the need to comment on my post with an eye roll GIF because?

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/5837e1035d7f1ae88dd1f45cc9865853/tumblr_mz3q7pLGdU1sf3tm7o1_250.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on September 22, 2014, 12:12:49 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 26, 2014, 12:52:52 am

Christopher Hogwood (http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/christopher-hogwood-conductor-who-gave-new-drive-to-classical-warhorses-dies-at-73/2014/09/25/a148ff2a-44cb-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on October 02, 2014, 05:19:05 pm

Spaceape (https://www.facebook.com/Hyperdub.Records/photos/a.10150990281855149.470596.52054255148/10152736411040149/?type=1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 04, 2014, 03:42:20 pm

Jean-Claude Duvalier, ex-Haitian leader known as Baby Doc, dies at 63 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/jean-claude-duvalier-ex-haitian-leader-known-as-baby-doc-dies-at-63/2014/10/04/ecdaa2bc-4be3-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html)

ding dong....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on October 04, 2014, 04:55:52 pm

The world gets slightly better whenever a tyrannical American puppet goes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 05, 2014, 12:18:44 pm

Paul Revere

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on October 06, 2014, 07:30:32 pm

Geoffrey Holder

(http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7322/2593/320/647012/Geoffrey%20Holder%208.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on October 07, 2014, 12:27:00 am

Quote from: MDR-7506notBeats on October 04, 2014, 03:42:20 pm

Jean-Claude Duvalier, ex-Haitian leader known as Baby Doc, dies at 63 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/jean-claude-duvalier-ex-haitian-leader-known-as-baby-doc-dies-at-63/2014/10/04/ecdaa2bc-4be3-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html)

ding dong....

I can't believe there are talks of his getting a state funeral.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on October 08, 2014, 12:14:11 pm

That guy in Dallas with the Ebola...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on October 08, 2014, 01:23:41 pm

Are we still posting when bands are finished in this thread, or was that deemed inappropriate?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on October 08, 2014, 03:58:41 pm

someone just posted about eb,ola . . . what do you think.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 08, 2014, 04:32:12 pm

Quote from: walkonby on October 08, 2014, 03:58:41 pm

someone just posted about eb,ola . . . what do you think.

Well someone actually *died* from Ebola. Unless a band perishes in a place crash, they didn't actually die, they simply stopped being a band (and more often than not, not forever). I always thought that was the distinction.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on October 08, 2014, 07:40:16 pm

(http://webpages.charter.net/jimwebber1/OTSEGO/CigarWoodwardCC.jpg)

Cigar

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on October 13, 2014, 01:30:30 pm

Mark Bell of LFO fame

http://warp.net/records/lfo/mark-bell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 14, 2014, 09:07:27 pm

Ikey Owens, Keyboardist for Mars Volta and Jack White, Dead at 38
The musician had played with Mastodon, Long Beach Dub Allstars and more in his lifetime

Keyboardist Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, who most recently played with Jack White and previously with the Long Beach Dub Allstars and the Mars Volta, has died. The musician was touring with White in Mexico at the time of his death; White has canceled the rest of his tour dates in the country out of respect to the musician. Owens' cause of death has not yet been revealed. He was 38.

continued: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ikey-owens-keyboardist-for-mars-volta-and-jack-white-dead-at-38-20141014

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on October 15, 2014, 01:51:56 am

Wow that one hurts. Ikey was a sweet guy. I saw him with The Mars Volta many times. I also got to see him in his own band, the Free Moral Agents when they opened up for Sage Francis. I talked with him a bit at the Ottobar. He really was nice and passionate about music. I was really happy for him when he landed the Jack White gig. This is just awful....R.I.P.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on October 15, 2014, 09:33:55 pm

Elizabeth Peña
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-elizabeth-pena-dies-20141015-story.html
She was great in Jacob's Ladder.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 16, 2014, 12:47:17 am

would i have seen ikey at the mars volta show opening up for soundgarden at the patriot center?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 16, 2014, 08:33:08 am

Quote from: hutch on October 16, 2014, 12:47:17 am

would i have seen ikey at the mars volta show opening up for soundgarden at the patriot center?

I don't think I was on here at the time of that show but I was at that. I have a friend who was obsessed with Soundgarden and that was his first time seeing him and we got there hours early to be in the front row. (The looks of utter glee on this kids face all concert long was worth the ticket price x10.)

Mars Volta that day will always go down as one of the three worst sets I've ever seen. Utter, open disgust for the crowd. Fuck those guys.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on October 16, 2014, 08:45:21 am

They were awesome, it was the crowd that didn't get them
;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 16, 2014, 12:12:04 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on October 16, 2014, 08:33:08 am

Quote from: hutch on October 16, 2014, 12:47:17 am
would i have seen ikey at the mars volta show opening up for soundgarden at the patriot center?
I don't think I was on here at the time of that show but I was at that. I have a friend who was obsessed with Soundgarden and that was his first time seeing him and we got there hours early to be in the front row. (The looks of utter glee on this kids face all concert long was worth the ticket price x10.)

Mars Volta that day will always go down as one of the three worst sets I've ever seen. Utter, open disgust for the crowd. Fuck those guys.

I thought it was pretty bad myself.... but I took it as just the wrong venue mixed in with a very high meathead bros contingent....

Anyways, was Ivey with them at the time?

I saw Mars Volta at the Showbox in Seattle very early on and they were pretty good...just never been my bag...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 16, 2014, 12:24:50 pm

2003 Mars Volta show at 9:30 was one of the all-time greatest shows I've seen. But I can definitely see how they wouldn't do well as an opening act for a meathead grunge band at an arena.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on October 16, 2014, 12:37:16 pm

Yeah that 2003 gig was one of the best 9:30 Club shows I have ever been to. It was the only time they ever played DC. Ikey was not in the band by the time that Soundgarden tour happened. The band did become insufferable by then I'm sure. I think there was some infighting that might have bled out. Those guys are all cool with each other now but TMV will probably never be back. The official cause of death was a heart attack and only pot was found at the scene. 38 is way too young dammit!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 16, 2014, 01:21:01 pm

Quote from: Unsanity on October 16, 2014, 12:37:16 pm

Yeah that 2003 gig was one of the best 9:30 Club shows I have ever been to. It was the only time they ever played DC. Ikey was not in the band by the time that Soundgarden tour happened. The band did become insufferable by then I'm sure. I think there was some infighting that might have bled out. Those guys are all cool with each other now but TMV will probably never be back. The official cause of death was a heart attack and only pot was found at the scene. 38 is way too young dammit!

thanks for that... i thought as much

this happened in Mexico...lets keep that clear... can't trust any investigation .. if it was any hanky panky they would cover that in exchange for $2....so we'll never know... but it could have been a heart attack

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 16, 2014, 01:40:44 pm

Do we need a "Dropping Like Flies - Commentary Thread"?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 16, 2014, 05:08:12 pm

Quote from: grateful on October 16, 2014, 01:40:44 pm

Do we need a "Dropping Like Flies - Commentary Thread"?

if you can't live a little in the dropping like flies thread i don't know what to say...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on October 17, 2014, 12:23:45 pm

Elizabeth Pena (55), tv mom to Sofia Vergara (42).

A mom 13 years older than her daughter? Talk about ethnic stereotyping.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on October 17, 2014, 12:34:02 pm

one person, equals stereotyping?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on October 17, 2014, 03:41:36 pm

Quote from: James Ford on October 17, 2014, 12:23:45 pm

Elizabeth Pena (55), tv mom to Sofia Vergara (42).

A mom 13 years older than her daughter? Talk about ethnic stereotyping.

They are called ACTORS for a reason. They are ACTING, playing a role.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 17, 2014, 04:17:17 pm

(http://www.pegasusnews.com/media/img/news/tease/2008/06/11/Jon-Lovitz-ACTING_t380.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 17, 2014, 05:22:04 pm

Quote from: James Ford on October 17, 2014, 12:23:45 pm

Elizabeth Pena (55), tv mom to Sofia Vergara (42).

A mom 13 years older than her daughter? Talk about ethnic stereotyping.

In "Blue Bloods", Len Cariou (75) plays the father of Tom Selleck's (69) character.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 17, 2014, 05:25:52 pm

Quote from: James Ford on October 17, 2014, 12:23:45 pm

Elizabeth Pena (55), tv mom to Sofia Vergara (42).

A mom 13 years older than her daughter? Talk about ethnic stereotyping.

Seems like you're the one ethnic stereotyping! I don't think it would have occurred to anyone! You see it all the time in the movies and on TV!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 20, 2014, 10:26:46 pm

Oscar De La Renta (http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/fashion-designer-oscar-de-la-renta-dies-at-82-1201334993/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 20, 2014, 10:30:53 pm

Quote from: vansmack on October 20, 2014, 10:26:46 pm

Oscar De La Renta (http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/fashion-designer-oscar-de-la-renta-dies-at-82-1201334993/)

*rips immaculately designed garments*

WHY LORD WHY???

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: James Ford on October 21, 2014, 08:22:23 am

Until I clicked on the link, I thought you meant the boxer. I was thinking, "So young!"

Quote from: vansmack on October 20, 2014, 10:26:46 pm

Oscar De La Renta (http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/fashion-designer-oscar-de-la-renta-dies-at-82-1201334993/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 21, 2014, 08:35:24 am

Quote from: James Ford on October 21, 2014, 08:22:23 am

Until I clicked on the link, I thought you meant the boxer. I was thinking, "So young!"

He fought back against ignorance, obesity, and clashing colors every day of his life. The Lion of Luxury has went to his impeccably-styled cave to be alone for all time...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 21, 2014, 10:30:27 am

John Holt reggae singer famous for Ali Baba and writing The Tide Is High

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 21, 2014, 10:31:33 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on October 21, 2014, 10:30:27 am

John Holt reggae singer famous for Ali Baba and writing The Tide Is High

i have a few of his LPs... they never did much for me.. didn't realize he wrote that one... I always thought "The Paragons"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 21, 2014, 10:36:25 am

Orbital

http://orbitalofficial.com/news.asp

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on October 21, 2014, 10:36:42 pm

we never got that club show :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on October 22, 2014, 03:46:56 pm

Scary Kids Scaring Kids singer Tyson Stevens
I dont know their music, but it was trending on Facebook. Only 29...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 25, 2014, 12:10:17 pm

Jack Bruce :(
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/25/showbiz/cream-jack-bruce-bass/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on October 25, 2014, 08:22:32 pm

Quote from: grateful on October 25, 2014, 12:10:17 pm

Jack Bruce :(
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/25/showbiz/cream-jack-bruce-bass/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The REAL Bruce. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 26, 2014, 08:37:24 pm

St. louis Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras was killed in car crash in the Dominican Republic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 26, 2014, 09:22:00 pm

"Mrs. Kotter" - Actress Marcia Strassman Dies at 66 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/actress-marcia-strassman-dies-at-744037?facebook_20141026)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on October 28, 2014, 04:29:27 am

Its amazing Ginger Baker outlived Jack Bruce.

Corey Mitchell:
http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/10/27/housecore-horror-film-festival-founder-true-crime-author-metalsucks-contributor-corey-mitchell-tragically-passes-away/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 28, 2014, 10:12:01 am

Stan M. Jay, Seller of Strings to the Stars, Dies at 71 (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/nyregion/stan-m-jay-seller-of-musical-instruments-dies-at-71.html)

Stan M. Jay, owner of the Mandolin Brothers musical instrument store on Staten Island, which has been a pilgrimage destination for recording stars, collectors and other connoisseurs of the guitar, mandolin, banjo and ukulele for more than 40 years, died on Wednesday in Staten Island. He was 71. The cause was Mantle cell lymphoma, his wife, Bea, said.

Mr. Jay played a virtuoso behind-the-scenes role in the musical lives of performers such as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Jimmy Buffett and Paul Simon ? not as a performer, but as one of the country?s premier dealers and restorers of new and vintage fretted instruments. The walls of his office at Mandolin Brothers, located in a tiny commercial strip, were papered with snapshots of him with those musicians and others, a collage of a Woodstock that might have been: Bruce Springsteen, Judy Collins, Lenny Kravitz, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow and Crosby, Stills and Nash, as well as celebrity guitar connoisseurs like Conan O?Brien and the filmmaker Christopher Guest.

Joni Mitchell bought an antique mandolin from Mr. Jay in 1976, and composed a tune, ?Song for Sharon?, that documented the purchase as provably as any sales slip: ?I went to Staten Island, Sharon/To buy myself a mandolin ...?

Paul McCartney did not come personally but sent an assistant to have his Hofner 500/1 violin bass repaired. It was one of two Hofners he had played since the Beatles? early days. The other had been stolen in 1968, so his assistant was apparently under orders to be vigilant. During the two days of repairs, the assistant watched over the work by day, took the guitar back to his hotel overnight and returned with it the next morning. ?Never took his eyes off it,? Mrs. Jay recalled. ?High-strung fellow.?

Mr. McCartney?s testimonial appeared in Bass Player magazine some years later. ?My bass never played in tune,? he was quoted as saying, ?but I brought it to Mandolin Brothers and they set it straight.? His fellow Beatle, George Harrison, walked into the store unannounced one afternoon in 1990 and went on a 40-minute shopping spree, buying a very expensive ukulele and a bundle of other things, as Mr. Jay remembered it.

As his wife recalled, ?I was just about to take the kids to see ?Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,? ? the movie, ?when Stan calls ? ?George Harrison just walked in, get over here,? ? she said in an interview on Friday. Someone had to watch the store. ?Oh, the kids were so disappointed,? she said.

Mr. Jay kept about 900 instruments in his store, which was laid out like a rambling house or a private museum, with room after room hung with instruments and furnished with comfortable couches and chairs for customers to sit in while testing the merchandise.

They were high-end pieces by any measure, including vintage guitars by Martin, Guild, Taylor, Fender, Rickenbacker and Gretsch. (?Mandolin Brothers is not here to sell you your first guitar,? Mr. Jay told The Staten Island Advance in 2006. ?We?re here to sell you your third guitar.?)

He defined a vintage instrument as one produced roughly between 1830 and 1969, using materials currently not available or no longer considered cost-effective, he said in a 2005 interview with Forbes magazine. One example was a Martin acoustic guitar made before 1969, when the company stopped using the Brazilian rosewood that gave it its characteristic clear tone. Another was any mandolin made in the early 20th century by Lloyd Loar, the Stradivari of the mandolin. Mandolin Brothers sold many instruments for sums in the six figures.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 28, 2014, 01:09:07 pm

beady eye

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 28, 2014, 07:49:33 pm

Quote from: grateful on October 25, 2014, 12:10:17 pm

Jack Bruce :(
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/25/showbiz/cream-jack-bruce-bass/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Eric Clapton shares new Track "For Jack" to honor Jack Bruce. (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/eric-clapton-shares-new-track-for-jack-to-honor-jack-bruce-20141028)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 28, 2014, 08:28:25 pm

That rocket.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 31, 2014, 04:25:27 pm

Daylight savings time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuFAYAEgKMA)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 31, 2014, 05:28:09 pm

Quote from: grateful on October 28, 2014, 08:28:25 pm

That rocket.

That other rocketship.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 03, 2014, 07:49:48 pm

sorry grateful your heart was in the right place but, this one returning from the dead...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on November 03, 2014, 07:56:33 pm

Ooooooooooooh zombie thread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 04, 2014, 03:15:32 pm

Further

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 04, 2014, 03:18:42 pm

Quote from: Shemp on November 04, 2014, 03:15:32 pm

Further

Furthur

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 04, 2014, 03:24:12 pm

Quote from: hutch on November 04, 2014, 03:18:42 pm

Quote from: Shemp on November 04, 2014, 03:15:32 pm
Further

Furthur

Farthing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 04, 2014, 03:27:21 pm

Quote from: ggw on November 04, 2014, 03:24:12 pm

Quote from: hutch on November 04, 2014, 03:18:42 pm
Quote from: Shemp on November 04, 2014, 03:15:32 pm
Further

Furthur

Farthing

Farting

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 04, 2014, 03:30:19 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on November 04, 2014, 03:27:21 pm

Quote from: ggw on November 04, 2014, 03:24:12 pm
Quote from: hutch on November 04, 2014, 03:18:42 pm
Quote from: Shemp on November 04, 2014, 03:15:32 pm
Further

Furthur

Farthing
Farting

I can assure you that last one is alive and well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on November 04, 2014, 04:26:28 pm

Long live DSO!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 04, 2014, 08:39:21 pm

Sadly, Duffy's (http://www.popville.com/2014/11/after-8-years-duffys-closing-at-tonight-midnight/)

All drinks are $5 tonight and wings are free while supplies last. I'd appreciate someone pouring one back for me tonight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 04, 2014, 08:52:56 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 04, 2014, 08:39:21 pm

Sadly, Duffy's (http://www.popville.com/2014/11/after-8-years-duffys-closing-at-tonight-midnight/)

All drinks are $5 tonight and wings are free while supplies last. I'd appreciate someone pouring one back for me tonight.

I came here to post this once I saw it cross my feed from you commenting on it. Fuck.

Glad I got there before Slowdive. Love(d) that place.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on November 04, 2014, 11:42:35 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 04, 2014, 08:39:21 pm

Sadly, Duffy's (http://www.popville.com/2014/11/after-8-years-duffys-closing-at-tonight-midnight/)

All drinks are $5 tonight and wings are free while supplies last. I'd appreciate someone pouring one back for me tonight.

Awe man that sucks!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 05, 2014, 08:52:13 am

Quote from: vansmack on November 04, 2014, 08:39:21 pm

Sadly, Duffy's (http://www.popville.com/2014/11/after-8-years-duffys-closing-at-tonight-midnight/)

All drinks are $5 tonight and wings are free while supplies last. I'd appreciate someone pouring one back for me tonight.

Meh...nothing but terrible experiences there and still not sure how their wings were ever rated the best in the city.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on November 05, 2014, 12:28:55 pm

VNV Nation from the Sound of Alliance tour ft: Skinny Puppy, Haujobb and Youth Code

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 06, 2014, 05:41:46 pm

David Redfern, British Photographer of Jazz and Pop, Dies at 78 (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/arts/design/david-redfern-british-photographer-of-jazz-and-pop-dies-at-78.html?ref=obituaries)

David Redfern, whose photographs of Louis Armstrong, John Lennon, Frank Sinatra and others captured a half-century of popular music and formed the core of an extensive archive of musical images, died on Oct. 22 at his home in Uzès, France. He was 78.

(http://donttalktomeaboutheroes.com/images/zoom/DAR_FHU_001_zm_B.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 07, 2014, 03:08:46 pm

Gillespie's chance for a senate seat in 2014

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 07, 2014, 07:10:30 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on November 07, 2014, 03:08:46 pm

Gillespie's chance for a senate seat in 2014

Warner is just terrible.....I wish we could have someone else (a different democrat)

Warner has been saying the same "work across the aisle, centrist agenda...bla bla" baloney for years and years and gotten ZERO done....

I had to hold my nose to vote for him...

he was running those horrible ads about how companies get tax credits to ship jobs overseas and its wrong and he'd work to end it... really WARNER????? REALLY? We KNOW THAT???? WHAT DID YOU DO THE PAST SIX YEARS TO END IT? I mean really, ads about the tax credit to ship jobs overseas???

but that's Virginia..we get the worst democrats here.... the current Governor is another one...

I mean really Sidehatch, name one thing Warner has accomplished in the Senate??? ONE!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on November 07, 2014, 08:58:58 pm

are you seriously turning this thread into politics

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 07, 2014, 09:02:32 pm

Quote from: betao on November 07, 2014, 08:58:58 pm

are you seriously turning this thread into politics

Sidehatch did it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 07, 2014, 09:30:19 pm

Quote from: betao on November 07, 2014, 08:58:58 pm

are you seriously turning this thread into politics

Well, we do have a thread for actual dead people.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 08, 2014, 03:09:24 am

because there in no random thoughts thread any more...

Quote from: hutch on November 07, 2014, 07:10:30 pm

I mean really Sidehatch, name one thing Warner has accomplished in the Senate??? ONE!

name me two things any single senator did in the last 6 years that really individually accomplished anything
(less to do with Obama and more to due with the length of the term)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on November 08, 2014, 03:02:39 pm

You basically just described the party as a whole (and pretty much why they got their asses kicked all over the country).
Will let it go now.

Quote from: hutch on November 07, 2014, 07:10:30 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on November 07, 2014, 03:08:46 pm
Gillespie's chance for a senate seat in 2014

Warner is just terrible.....I wish we could have someone else (a different democrat)

Warner has been saying the same "work across the aisle, centrist agenda...bla bla" baloney for years and years and gotten ZERO done....

I had to hold my nose to vote for him...

he was running those horrible ads about how companies get tax credits to ship jobs overseas and its wrong and he'd work to end it... really WARNER????? REALLY? We KNOW THAT???? WHAT DID YOU DO THE PAST SIX YEARS TO END IT? I mean really, ads about the tax credit to ship jobs overseas???

but that's Virginia..we get the worst democrats here.... the current Governor is another one...

I mean really Sidehatch, name one thing Warner has accomplished in the Senate??? ONE!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on November 09, 2014, 06:10:57 pm

Jonathan Athon, bass player/vocalist for metal band Black Tusk.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 11, 2014, 11:48:20 pm

Big Bank Hank

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljUnyv5XUA8

NBC News weighs in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCeIgt7hMs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 12, 2014, 01:46:38 am

Carol Ann Susi, Unseen Actress on 'Big Bang Theory,' Dies at 62 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/carol-ann-susi-dead-big-748433)

best known for voicing Mrs. Wolowitz

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on November 12, 2014, 05:29:53 am

Quote from: MDR-7506notBeats on November 12, 2014, 01:46:38 am

Carol Ann Susi, Unseen Actress on 'Big Bang Theory,' Dies at 62 (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/carol-ann-susi-dead-big-748433)

best known for voicing Mrs. Wolowitz

Man that sucks. I LOVE that show. It is one of the few shows on TV that I actually watch. I can so relate to Sheldon and his lack of grasping the norms of social interaction. Parsons does a great job in that role.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 12, 2014, 02:14:34 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on November 12, 2014, 05:29:53 am

I can so relate to Sheldon and his lack of grasping the norms of social interaction.

Yes, yes. Welcome to the 9:30 Club Forum.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 19, 2014, 05:44:39 pm

Jimmy Ruffin - one of greatest one hit wonders with "What Becomes of the Broken hearted"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 20, 2014, 08:36:09 am

Director Mike Nichols

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 23, 2014, 07:04:37 am

Mayor For Life Marion F Barry

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on November 23, 2014, 10:34:21 am

Quote from: Shemp on November 23, 2014, 07:04:37 am

Mayor For Life Marion F Barry

Not to speak ill of the dead but it does indeed speak volumes of the electorate when a city will reelect someone mayor who is proven to be hooked on crack and/or meth. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 23, 2014, 10:44:26 am

I will never understand why he was considered such a hero/champion. Not because of the crack thing, but more because he was an out-and-out self-serving crook.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 23, 2014, 10:49:12 am

I'm betting he gets reelected and his nickname is changed to "Mayor in Life and Death"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 23, 2014, 11:33:20 am

Quote from: ggw on November 23, 2014, 10:44:26 am

I will never understand why he was considered such a hero/champion. Not because of the crack thing, but more because he was an out-and-out self-serving crook.

My guess is because he fought for the rights of people that you wouldn't give two shits about and those people used to make up this city.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 23, 2014, 11:33:38 am

Quote from: hutch on November 23, 2014, 10:49:12 am

I'm betting he gets reelected and his nickname is changed to "Mayor in Life and Death"

More likely his son Christopher takes the baton. He's already got the drug, DUI, and B&E charges on his resume.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 23, 2014, 11:53:51 am

Quote from: Yada on November 23, 2014, 11:33:20 am

Quote from: ggw on November 23, 2014, 10:44:26 am
I will never understand why he was considered such a hero/champion. Not because of the crack thing, but more because he was an out-and-out self-serving crook.

My guess is because he fought for the rights of people that you wouldn't give two shits about and those people used to make up this city.

If by "fought for the rights of" you mean "used demagoguery to mask his penchant of blatantly using the city as an ATM for his friends, family, and political supporters," then I agree.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 23, 2014, 11:54:53 am

Quote from: ggw on November 23, 2014, 11:53:51 am

Quote from: Yada on November 23, 2014, 11:33:20 am
Quote from: ggw on November 23, 2014, 10:44:26 am
I will never understand why he was considered such a hero/champion. Not because of the crack thing, but more because he was an out-and-out self-serving crook.

My guess is because he fought for the rights of people that you wouldn't give two shits about and those people used to make up this city.

If by "fought for the rights of" you mean "used demagoguery to mask his penchant of blatantly using the city as an ATM for his friends, family, and political supporters," then I agree.

a rich trust funded white guy would never understand.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 23, 2014, 11:59:51 am

Quote from: Yada on November 23, 2014, 11:54:53 am

Quote from: ggw on November 23, 2014, 11:53:51 am
Quote from: Yada on November 23, 2014, 11:33:20 am
Quote from: ggw on November 23, 2014, 10:44:26 am
I will never understand why he was considered such a hero/champion. Not because of the crack thing, but more because he was an out-and-out self-serving crook.

My guess is because he fought for the rights of people that you wouldn't give two shits about and those people used to make up this city.

If by "fought for the rights of" you mean "used demagoguery to mask his penchant of blatantly using the city as an ATM for his friends, family, and political supporters," then I agree.

a rich trust funded white guy would never understand.

If I find one, I'll ask him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 23, 2014, 03:19:57 pm

Quote from: ggw on November 23, 2014, 11:59:51 am

Quote from: Yada on November 23, 2014, 11:54:53 am
Quote from: ggw on November 23, 2014, 11:53:51 am
Quote from: Yada on November 23, 2014, 11:33:20 am
Quote from: ggw on November 23, 2014, 10:44:26 am
I will never understand why he was considered such a hero/champion. Not because of the crack thing, but more because he was an out-and-out self-serving crook.

My guess is because he fought for the rights of people that you wouldn't give two shits about and those people used to make up this city.

If by "fought for the rights of" you mean "used demagoguery to mask his penchant of blatantly using the city as an ATM for his friends, family, and political supporters," then I agree.

a rich trust funded white guy would never understand.

If I find one, I'll ask him.

Did you need something?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on November 23, 2014, 05:29:59 pm

Quote from: Yada on November 23, 2014, 11:33:20 am

Quote from: ggw on November 23, 2014, 10:44:26 am
I will never understand why he was considered such a hero/champion. Not because of the crack thing, but more because he was an out-and-out self-serving crook.

My guess is because he fought for the rights of people that you wouldn't give two shits about and those people used to make up this city.

I care about all people. I just don't think that giving people stuff for free is how to show you care for them. I believe it is far better to empower them to improve themselves and make their lives better. As one of our presidents once said, the best welfare program ever is a job.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on November 23, 2014, 05:30:45 pm

Quote from: Yada on November 23, 2014, 11:54:53 am

Quote from: ggw on November 23, 2014, 11:53:51 am
Quote from: Yada on November 23, 2014, 11:33:20 am
Quote from: ggw on November 23, 2014, 10:44:26 am
I will never understand why he was considered such a hero/champion. Not because of the crack thing, but more because he was an out-and-out self-serving crook.

My guess is because he fought for the rights of people that you wouldn't give two shits about and those people used to make up this city.

If by "fought for the rights of" you mean "used demagoguery to mask his penchant of blatantly using the city as an ATM for his friends, family, and political supporters," then I agree.

a rich trust funded white guy would never understand.

Well at least you got the white and guy parts correct.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on November 24, 2014, 12:06:27 pm

Viktor Tikhonov (http://espn.go.com/olympics/hockey/story/_/id/11929044/tikhonov-viktor-soviet-hockey-coach-dies-84)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on November 25, 2014, 03:33:06 pm

Pat Quinn (http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/11930043/long-nhl-coach-pat-quinn-dies-71-long-illness)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 25, 2014, 03:54:15 pm

Bad freaking week for hockey. Hang on, Gordie!!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 27, 2014, 02:38:23 pm

P.D. James (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/arts/international/p-d-james-mystery-novelist-known-as-queen-of-crime-dies-at-94.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on November 28, 2014, 03:42:59 am

Clive Palmer, founding member of The Incredible String Band (amongst several other bands)

http://www.cornishman.co.uk/Musicians-pay-tribute-Cornish-folk-scene-legend/story-24675230-detail/story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 01, 2014, 01:59:51 pm

Poet Laureate Mark Strand (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/nyregion/mark-strand-80-dies-pulitzer-winning-poet-laureate.html)

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on December 02, 2014, 05:52:59 pm

Bobby Keys

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 02, 2014, 05:58:05 pm

The Brady Hoke era of Michigan Football

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 02, 2014, 10:25:13 pm

Quote from: Bagley on December 02, 2014, 05:52:59 pm

Bobby Keys

:(
loved hearing the stories in Keef's bio
never knew he played in buddy Holly's band
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B333edTIYAEof3F.jpg:small)
^from keith

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on December 03, 2014, 01:34:40 am

Jean Beliveau (http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/11971338/montreal-canadiens-hall-famer-jean-beliveau-dies)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 03, 2014, 09:52:31 am

Quote from: RatBastard on December 03, 2014, 01:34:40 am

Jean Beliveau (http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/11971338/montreal-canadiens-hall-famer-jean-beliveau-dies)

I'm going to say again, "Hang on, Gordie!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on December 03, 2014, 03:06:24 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on December 03, 2014, 09:52:31 am

Quote from: RatBastard on December 03, 2014, 01:34:40 am
Jean Beliveau (http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/11971338/montreal-canadiens-hall-famer-jean-beliveau-dies)
I'm going to say again, "Hang on, Gordie!"

Unfortunately t will not be much longer. I believe he had yet another set back very recently.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 03, 2014, 03:11:03 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on December 03, 2014, 03:06:24 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on December 03, 2014, 09:52:31 am
Quote from: RatBastard on December 03, 2014, 01:34:40 am
Jean Beliveau (http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/11971338/montreal-canadiens-hall-famer-jean-beliveau-dies)
I'm going to say again, "Hang on, Gordie!"

Unfortunately t will not be much longer. I believe he had yet another set back very recently.

Yes, he had another massive stroke Monday, apparently.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on December 03, 2014, 06:01:37 pm

So much for that reunion. . . I guess Rod will have to go on being schlocky. . .
IAN McLAGAN
http://www.ianmclagan.com

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 03, 2014, 06:03:09 pm

very sad

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 03, 2014, 06:08:36 pm

bobby keys and ian maclagan die within a day of each other....

not a good week for the new barbarians

i met maclagan two or three years ago at jammin' java....nice guy....

very sad loss...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 08, 2014, 10:08:53 pm

Pugsley (http://www.tmz.com/2014/12/08/ken-weatherwax-dead-dies-pugsley-addams-family-heart-attack/)

(http://ll-media.tmz.com/2014/12/08/1208-ken-weatherwax-abc-7.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 13, 2014, 03:09:55 pm

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/local-news/grammywinning-engineer-and-producer-john-hampton-dies_15797095

John Hampton engineer/producer at Ardent Studios, worked with The Replacements, White Stripes, B.B. King and the Cramps, George Thorogood and the Afghan Whigs etc.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 15, 2014, 11:01:52 am

Neil Reshen (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/15/arts/music/neil-reshen-manager-for-country-stars-dies-at-75.html)

Neil Reshen, a New Yorker whose fierce negotiating with record labels helped a couple of twangy Texans named Waylon and Willie become the iconoclastic voices of ?outlaw? country music, died on Dec. 6 in the Bronx. He was 75. His daughter Dawn Reshen-Doty said the cause was complications of Alzheimer?s disease.

By the early 1970s, Waylon Jennings had grown tired of the constraints of the so-called Nashville Sound ? sweet strings, bland themes, hair spray. After 15 years in the music business, his star was fading and he was deep in debt. When he asked his record company for more money and more creative control, it ignored him.

Then a friend urged Mr. Jennings to talk to Mr. Reshen, warning that he might not actually like him. Mr. Reshen was not a lawyer, not a certified public account, and he was by no means Southern. He had a funny beard and had studied accounting at City College before working his way into the good graces of music executives and performers ? including Ken Glancy, the president of RCA, and Miles Davis during his fusion phase ? by doing their income taxes. In time, he began representing a diverse range of artists and entertainers, including Mr. Davis, Frank Zappa, the Velvet Underground and Peter Max.

However wary Mr. Jennings may have been, he was quickly convinced after he saw the fearlessness with which Mr. Reshen confronted executives at RCA, the label where he had been under contract. After a few memorable meetings ? tense silences, the occasional outburst and well-timed walkouts were among Mr. Reshen?s tactics ? Mr. Jennings?s new manager helped him obtain a substantial advance and something perhaps more priceless: artistic freedom.

?He was,? Mr. Jennings later wrote, ?like a mad dog on a leash.?

Over the next several years, Mr. Jennings became a superstar, releasing a string of hit albums, including ?Lonesome, On?ry and Mean,? ?Honky Tonk Heroes,? ?Dreaming My Dreams? (his first No. 1 hit on the country charts, in 1975) and ?Ol? Waylon,? in 1977.

Not long after Mr. Reshen began working with Mr. Jennings, he also started managing Mr. Jennings?s good friend, a respected songwriter who had never made it big as a singer: Willie Nelson. He, too, wanted more freedom.

The first album Mr. Nelson recorded under a contract that Mr. Reshen helped negotiate with Columbia was called ?Red Headed Stranger.? Spare and dark and recorded in just four days in January 1975, the album was not well received by Columbia executives. They delayed its release, proposing changes to make it more marketable.

Mr. Jennings, concerned for his friend, joined Mr. Reshen in a meeting with the label ? and they both walked out, demanding that the label release the record as it was. Released in May, ?Red Headed Stranger? rose to No. 1 on the country charts and No. 28 on the pop charts. Mr. Nelson, too, became a superstar.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 15, 2014, 07:10:12 pm

^thanks for posting that..

I recently read a willie nelson bio and Reshen's in it of course...

how weird.. as i type i 'm listening to the last song on Willie Nelson Christmas

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 17, 2014, 07:16:03 am

Norman Bridwell creator of Clifford the big red dog

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 17, 2014, 09:44:28 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 17, 2014, 07:16:03 am

Norman Bridwell creator of Clifford the big red dog

He's in God's doghouse for being so absolutely unfunny.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on December 17, 2014, 11:45:55 am

I don't think Clifford is supposed to be funny to adults.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 18, 2014, 05:54:49 pm

Not a good couple of weeks for Ardent Studios... John Fry the studio's founder and Big Star producer passed away

http://www.commercialappeal.com/go-memphis/music/news/ardent-studios-founder-big-star-producer-john-fry-dies_32954890

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on December 19, 2014, 01:54:03 am

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on December 17, 2014, 09:44:28 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 17, 2014, 07:16:03 am
Norman Bridwell creator of Clifford the big red dog
He's in God's doghouse for being so absolutely unfunny.

I think it was more supposed to be entertaining for children rather than funny for adults.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 19, 2014, 05:46:53 am

Artisphere

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 19, 2014, 08:11:37 am

Quote from: hutch? on December 19, 2014, 05:46:53 am

Artisphere

Good riddance. Other than the record fair, that thing was a pitiful money suck.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 19, 2014, 03:25:43 pm

Not a good couple of weeks for producers

Larry Smith - Run DMC, Whodini and Kuris Blow

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on December 19, 2014, 08:18:56 pm

Lollapalooze and Austin City Limits

both now owned by Live Nation

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 19, 2014, 08:56:56 pm

Quote from: ggw on December 19, 2014, 08:11:37 am

Quote from: hutch? on December 19, 2014, 05:46:53 am
Artisphere

Good riddance. Other than the record fair, that thing was a pitiful money suck.

as an Arlington resident: agree 100%

just don't know WTF they were thinking in the first place. what a waste of millions!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 22, 2014, 12:44:22 am

Rock Scully (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/arts/music/rock-scully-grateful-dead-manager-who-put-the-band-on-records-dies-at-73.html)

Rock Scully learned his mission in life at an Acid Test, one of the drug-drenched, strobe-lit parties the author Ken Kesey staged in the San Francisco area in the mid-1960s.

Owsley Stanley, the notoriously prodigious maker of LSD, introduced Mr. Scully in 1965 to the scraggly, zonked-out members of a band that had just changed its name from the Warlocks to the Grateful Dead. ?Rock?s going to be your manager,? he said.

?Hey, good luck, dude,? said the band?s guitarist and vocalist Bob Weir, according to ?Living With the Dead? (1996), the memoir Mr. Scully wrote with David Dalton.

So began a long, strange trip that saw the Dead go from a makeshift sort-of-bluegrass band that played for nothing in San Francisco parks to one of the biggest, most remarkable acts in rock ?n? roll history. They sold 35 million albums, many to self-described Deadheads committed to following the band from concert to concert, night after night.

Mr. Scully organized tours, negotiated the group?s first record contracts and successfully demanded that promoters of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair pay the group up front. In 1968, he used a bread truck to smuggle the band onto a Columbia University campus that had been shut down by student strikers. The next year, he may have arranged for Hells Angels to provide what turned out to be grossly inadequate security at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival, where a man was stabbed to death as the Rolling Stones played.

Mr. Scully died at a hospital in Monterey, Calif., on Tuesday. He was 73. His brother, Dicken, said the cause was lung cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on December 22, 2014, 02:30:52 pm

Joe Cocker

http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7435069/joe-cocker

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 22, 2014, 02:33:26 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 22, 2014, 02:47:36 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on December 22, 2014, 02:30:52 pm

Joe Cocker

http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7435069/joe-cocker

I wish he could've stayed just a little bit longer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on December 22, 2014, 04:51:36 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on December 22, 2014, 02:30:52 pm

Joe Cocker

http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7435069/joe-cocker

From the ONLY woodstock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRzKUVjHkGk

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 22, 2014, 04:56:01 pm

Belushi doing Cocker remains one of my favorite acting pieces ever..too bad you can't watch the entire thing on youtube..maybe i'll dig out the complete SNL DVD sets from my mancave tonight but meanwhile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZsOyO_lXD8

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on December 22, 2014, 05:00:33 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on December 22, 2014, 04:51:36 pm

From the ONLY woodstock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRzKUVjHkGk

Nope. Three Woodstock events. You must have missed hearing about the other two.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 22, 2014, 05:02:07 pm

Quote from: killsaly? on December 22, 2014, 05:00:33 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on December 22, 2014, 04:51:36 pm
From the ONLY woodstock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRzKUVjHkGk
So far there has been three Woodstocks.

umm... NO. sorry. try again.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on December 22, 2014, 05:02:49 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_1999

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on December 22, 2014, 05:03:03 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_%2794

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on December 22, 2014, 05:03:12 pm

You are welcome.

Let me guess, you also think that only the Lollapaloozas from the early 90s count as Lollapaloozas.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on December 22, 2014, 05:05:29 pm

Quote from: killsaly? on December 22, 2014, 05:00:33 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on December 22, 2014, 04:51:36 pm
From the ONLY woodstock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRzKUVjHkGk
Nope. Three Woodstock events. You must have missed hearing about the other two.

Nope there was only ONE woodstock. The rest were trying to cash in on he first by using the same name.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on December 22, 2014, 05:06:39 pm

I moved my comments to the random thread, for respect of the dead.

(but you are wrong, they are all Woodstock)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on December 22, 2014, 05:07:34 pm

Quote from: killsaly? on December 22, 2014, 05:03:12 pm

You are welcome.

Let me guess, you also think that only the Lollapaloozas from the early 90s count as Lollapaloozas.

Comparing Lollaoalooza to Woodstock is like comparing a paint by numbers to Breezing Up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on December 22, 2014, 05:08:06 pm

Quote from: killsaly? on December 22, 2014, 05:06:39 pm

I moved my comments to the random thread, for respect of the dead.

(but you are wrong, they are all Woodstock)

You are entitle to your opinion.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on December 22, 2014, 05:09:21 pm

As are you. ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on December 22, 2014, 06:19:08 pm

im waiting for the, dude, bonnaboob is nothing like it used to be, dude. they lost, the magic, dude.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 22, 2014, 06:31:41 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on December 22, 2014, 05:05:29 pm

Quote from: killsaly? on December 22, 2014, 05:00:33 pm
Quote from: RatBastard on December 22, 2014, 04:51:36 pm
From the ONLY woodstock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRzKUVjHkGk
Nope. Three Woodstock events. You must have missed hearing about the other two.

Nope there was only ONE woodstock. The rest were trying to cash in on he first by using the same name.

Damn, I guess I shouldn't have named my firstborn "Joe Cocker", then.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on December 22, 2014, 07:19:49 pm

Quote from: walkonby on December 22, 2014, 06:19:08 pm

im waiting for the, dude, bonnaboob is nothing like it used to be, dude. they lost, the magic, dude.

Dude you shoudl have gone to NYC with us for the Christmas show. It was pretty cool.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Rogue Riderhood on December 28, 2014, 03:55:30 pm

War in Afghanistan: 2001 - 2014
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/america-formally-ends-the-war-in-afghanistan/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 28, 2014, 11:50:39 pm

Quote from: killsaly of the Clan MacLeod on December 28, 2014, 03:55:30 pm

War in Afghanistan: 2001 - 2014
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/america-formally-ends-the-war-in-afghanistan/

Great success!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on December 29, 2014, 01:42:30 am

Quote from: Yada on December 28, 2014, 11:50:39 pm

Quote from: killsaly of the Clan MacLeod on December 28, 2014, 03:55:30 pm
War in Afghanistan: 2001 - 2014
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/america-formally-ends-the-war-in-afghanistan/

Great success!

Noting that "as the insurgency they fought for 13 years remains as ferocious and deadly as at any time since the 2001 invasion", the ending of the 'war' is merely a symbolic gesture. I'm not making any statement on the validity, justification, acceptability, or anything else of this conflict. Simply stating that while on paper this may change things for the "13,500 soldiers, most of them American", in reality things will go on and lives will still be in danger.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on December 30, 2014, 05:27:24 pm

Voice actress Christine Cavanaugh. The voice of Chuckie Finster, Dexter, and Babe the pig amongst many others.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on December 30, 2014, 05:28:35 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on December 22, 2014, 07:19:49 pm

Quote from: walkonby on December 22, 2014, 06:19:08 pm
im waiting for the, dude, bonnaboob is nothing like it used to be, dude. they lost, the magic, dude.

Dude you shoudl have gone to NYC with us for the Christmas show. It was pretty cool.

I tried watching a rockettes Christmas special thing on Netflix. one word . . . no fucking way.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 31, 2014, 07:41:35 pm

Edward Herrman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 31, 2014, 07:57:03 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 31, 2014, 07:41:35 pm

Edward Herrman

?Edward Herrmann dead 2015? : Actor killed by internet death hoax (http://en.mediamass.net/people/edward-herrmann/deathhoax.html)

The story linked above is a hoax itself. mediamass.net is yet another news satire site.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 01, 2015, 09:33:57 pm

GGW must be partying if I best him to the death of a Cuomo :

Mario Cuomo (1932-2015)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 02, 2015, 10:18:41 am

Quote from: vansmack on January 01, 2015, 09:33:57 pm

GGW must be partying if I best him to the death of a Cuomo :

Mario Cuomo (1932-2015)

Orlando Ozio lives on in my dreams.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 02, 2015, 03:41:36 pm

(http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/elly-may-clampett.jpg)

Elly May Clampett

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on January 03, 2015, 02:17:59 am

Little Jimmy Dickens (http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2015/01/02/little-jimmy-dickens-opry-star-dies-obit/21210809/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 04, 2015, 11:07:57 am

Boo-Yah

Stuart Scott (http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/12118296/stuart-scott-espn-anchor-dies-age-49)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on January 04, 2015, 12:27:07 pm

Quote from: ggw on January 04, 2015, 11:07:57 am

Boo-Yah

Stuart Scott (http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/12118296/stuart-scott-espn-anchor-dies-age-49)

Damn... :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 11, 2015, 02:25:21 pm

We won't be having some pizza and learning about Cuba anymore. RIP Taylor Negron.

(http://celebrityletters.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Taylor-Negron-Fast-Times.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 15, 2015, 12:02:48 pm

Marlboro Man (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/01/14/original-marlboro-man-dies-in-wyoming/21782109/)

Impressed that he made it to 85

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 15, 2015, 01:11:27 pm

Quote from: Shemp on January 15, 2015, 12:02:48 pm

Marlboro Man (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/01/14/original-marlboro-man-dies-in-wyoming/21782109/)

Impressed that he made it to 85

The Marlboro Man died of cancer aaaaaaand he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 15, 2015, 09:20:57 pm

Kim Fowley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 15, 2015, 10:20:20 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 15, 2015, 09:20:57 pm

Kim Fowley

Ouch. His show was easily one of the best (along with Ko Melina's).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 19, 2015, 08:23:22 am

Alberto Nisman....it don't pay to investigate the government in Argentina...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30877296

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on January 21, 2015, 05:14:13 am

Dallas Taylor, drummer for cult psychedelic band Clear Light and then Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young) as well as Stephen Stills - Manassas.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 21, 2015, 11:50:38 am

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2015/01/21/ian-allen-negativland-dies/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 22, 2015, 01:22:30 am

Tony Verna (http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tony-verna-tv-sports-producer-and-director-who-invented-instant-replay-dies-at-81/2015/01/20/f4b36b7a-a0bd-11e4-903f-9f2faf7cd9fe_story.html?hpid=z20), TV sports producer and director who invented instant replay, dies at 81

Let's read that again! (http://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=11001.msg400994#msg400994)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 22, 2015, 07:29:35 pm

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102292477#.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 23, 2015, 10:49:57 am

Quote from: vansmack on January 22, 2015, 07:29:35 pm

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102292477#.

The hagiographies in American MSM of a man who oversaw one of the most brutal and repressive governments in the world are amazing. If you do our bidding, we will make sure you are glorified when you die, I guess.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 23, 2015, 10:56:55 am

Quote from: hutch on January 19, 2015, 08:23:22 am

Alberto Nisman....it don't pay to investigate the government in Argentina...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30877296

Yeah, this is some sketch shit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 23, 2015, 11:22:05 am

Quote from: vansmack on January 22, 2015, 07:29:35 pm

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102292477#.

Between this, the ousting of the Saudi-backed president in a pseudo-coup in Yemen, the killing of a Saudi general by ISIL a couple of weeks ago, and the ongoing pressures of sub $50 crude, I've got a sense of foreboding about the whole Arabian peninsula.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 23, 2015, 11:39:50 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 23, 2015, 10:49:57 am

Quote from: vansmack on January 22, 2015, 07:29:35 pm
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102292477#.

The hagiographies in American MSM of a man who oversaw one of the most brutal and repressive governments in the world are amazing. If you do our bidding, we will make sure you are glorified when you die, I guess.

This.

Disgraceful. The AP in particular. Good lord.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 23, 2015, 12:31:19 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 23, 2015, 11:39:50 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 23, 2015, 10:49:57 am
Quote from: vansmack on January 22, 2015, 07:29:35 pm
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102292477#.

The hagiographies in American MSM of a man who oversaw one of the most brutal and repressive governments in the world are amazing. If you do our bidding, we will make sure you are glorified when you die, I guess.

This.

Disgraceful. The AP in particular. Good lord.

Sweet guy. (https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/23/saudi-arabias-king-misremembered-man-peace/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 23, 2015, 12:57:19 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 23, 2015, 10:49:57 am

Quote from: vansmack on January 22, 2015, 07:29:35 pm
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102292477#.

The hagiographies in American MSM of a man who oversaw one of the most brutal and repressive governments in the world are amazing. If you do our bidding, we will make sure you are glorified when you die, I guess.

(http://prophecytracker.org/wp/uploads/2013/09/bush-king-abdulah-of-saudi-arabia-holding-hands.jpg)

Don't think any commentary is needed

I will add, both sides of the story are coming out for people who are paying attention.
not a total brain/whitewash

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 23, 2015, 01:10:11 pm

well but that is the problem isn't it? most Americans don't pay attention...most Americans will get a little blurb from the AP in their local paper or see a 30 second bit on the evening news..that will be IT.

This man was a real piece of work...to see the AP and what they wrote yesterday about him made me want to puke.

The facts are that Iran is a far more open society than Saudi Arabia has ever been yet we will continue to hear the drumbeat for attacking Iran or the world will end.... what was it? 19 of 20 9-11 hijackers were Saudis?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on January 23, 2015, 01:28:30 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 23, 2015, 01:10:11 pm

well but that is the problem isn't it? most Americans don't pay attention...most Americans will get a little blurb from the AP in their local paper or see a 30 second bit on the evening news..that will be IT.

This man was a real piece of work...to see the AP and what they wrote yesterday about him made me want to puke.

The facts are that Iran is a far more open society than Saudi Arabia has ever been yet we will continue to hear the drumbeat for attacking Iran or the world will end.... what was it? 19 of 20 9-11 hijackers were Saudis?

Exactly. (https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/558427181450555392) Fairer accounts of his reign are being given but not on our TV channels or in our newspapers.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on January 23, 2015, 01:55:16 pm

related - The Republican Senator from Israel: http://www.vox.com/2015/1/21/7866089/netanyahu-boehner-congress

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 23, 2015, 02:00:48 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on January 23, 2015, 01:55:16 pm

related - The Republican Senator from Israel: http://www.vox.com/2015/1/21/7866089/netanyahu-boehner-congress

this guy is so wrong to pull this shit..its unreal....he really needs to get waterboarded...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 23, 2015, 02:04:11 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 23, 2015, 10:49:57 am

The hagiographies in American MSM of a man who oversaw one of the most brutal and repressive governments in the world are amazing. If you do our bidding, we will make sure you are glorified when you die, I guess.

Interestingly, that wasn't the original article I linked to.

Originally, it said only that he had passed and that the price of Crude rose 1.5% upon hearing the news. That's why I linked to it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 23, 2015, 02:18:06 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 23, 2015, 02:04:11 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 23, 2015, 10:49:57 am
The hagiographies in American MSM of a man who oversaw one of the most brutal and repressive governments in the world are amazing. If you do our bidding, we will make sure you are glorified when you die, I guess.

Interestingly, that wasn't the original article I linked to.

Originally, it said only that he had passed and that the price of Crude rose 1.5% upon hearing the news. That's why I linked to it.

BOOM! Smackie on roll!!!!!!!!!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on January 23, 2015, 02:55:14 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 23, 2015, 01:10:11 pm

well but that is the problem isn't it? most Americans don't pay attention...most Americans will get a little blurb from the AP in their local paper or see a 30 second bit on the evening news..that will be IT.

This man was a real piece of work...to see the AP and what they wrote yesterday about him made me want to puke.

The facts are that Iran is a far more open society than Saudi Arabia has ever been yet we will continue to hear the drumbeat for attacking Iran or the world will end.... what was it? 19 of 20 9-11 hijackers were Saudis?

IMHO damn near ALL Americans do this. The only different is who they list to, CNN, Fox, or MS/DNC.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 23, 2015, 05:07:30 pm

Well, I hate to get us out of this "stimulating" political discourse, but...

Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on January 23, 2015, 05:23:32 pm

The Keep (which Tangerine Dream did the soundtrack for) had a huge influence on me in High School.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 23, 2015, 05:31:25 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on January 23, 2015, 05:07:30 pm

Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream

wow... will be listening to "Ricochet" and "Force Majeure" tonight. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 23, 2015, 05:40:03 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on January 23, 2015, 05:23:32 pm

The Keep (which Tangerine Dream did the soundtrack for) had a huge influence on me in High School.

Was curious and found this detail....

Music[edit]

Main article: The Keep (Tangerine Dream album)

The theme and incidental music was composed by Tangerine Dream. The band previously worked with Michael Mann on his first theatrical film Thief. The score to The Keep is primarily made up of moody soundscapes, as opposed to straightforward music cues, composed by Tangerine Dream. Most notably, a version of the Brian Eno/David Byrne composition "Mea Culpa" was used for the film's opening sequence,[citation needed] and an ambient cover of Howard Blake's "Walking in the Air" was featured during the end sequence of the film. Additionally, Tangerine Dream's arrangement of the song "Gloria" from Mass for Four Voices by Thomas Tallis can also be heard in the film.

Due to rights issues, the version of the film that is currently available on streaming media sites contains a different score than its original release. A limited run of 150 original soundtrack CDs were sold at a concert by the group in the UK in 1997, and Virgin Records soon announced that the album would be available for general release in early 1998, but legal issues with the film studio stopped the release. The full score can be found in the laserdisc and VHS versions of the film.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 23, 2015, 05:48:44 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on January 23, 2015, 05:23:32 pm

The Keep (which Tangerine Dream did the soundtrack for) had a huge influence on me in High School.

Tangerine Dream did this movie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf6fsyervGw) too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 23, 2015, 06:03:05 pm

Quote from: ggw on January 23, 2015, 05:48:44 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on January 23, 2015, 05:23:32 pm
The Keep (which Tangerine Dream did the soundtrack for) had a huge influence on me in High School.

Tangerine Dream did this movie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf6fsyervGw) too.

i had both of these, along with thief, sorcerer, wavelength and firestarter, back in the day. loved their early soundtrack work.

(i'm kinda lukewarm on that remix... too soon)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 23, 2015, 06:10:29 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 23, 2015, 10:56:55 am

Quote from: hutch on January 19, 2015, 08:23:22 am
Alberto Nisman....it don't pay to investigate the government in Argentina...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30877296

Yeah, this is some sketch shit.

Crazy Cristina has got some of her own theories on his death (http://www.cfkargentina.com/amia-and-prosecutor-nismans-accusation/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on January 24, 2015, 12:05:49 am

ernie banks :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 26, 2015, 10:36:18 am

Greek singer Demis Roussos, who sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, has died aged 68 the Hygeia Hospital in Athens has confirmed to the BBC.

He was best known for his solo hits in the 1970s and 80s, including Forever and Ever, Goodbye and Quand je t'aime.

He was also a member of progressive rock group Aphrodite's Child.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30984851

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 29, 2015, 11:20:21 pm

Rod McKuen, Prolific Poet and Lyricist, Dies at 81 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/arts/rod-mckuen-prolific-poet-and-lyricist-dies-at-81.html)

Rod McKuen, a ubiquitous poet, lyricist and songwriter whose work met with immense commercial success if little critical esteem, died on Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 81.

Mr. McKuen, whom The St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture described as having been, at his height, ?the unofficial poet laureate of America,? was the author of dozens of books of poetry, which together sold millions of copies.

For a generation of Americans at midcentury and afterward, Mr. McKuen?s poetry formed an enduring, solidly constructed bridge between the Beat generation and New Age sensibilities. Ranging over themes of love and loss, the natural world and spirituality, his work was prized by readers for its gentle accessibility while being condemned by many critics as facile, tepid and aphoristic.

Mr. McKuen?s output was as varied as it was vast, spanning song lyrics, including English-language adaptations (?Seasons in the Sun?) of works by his idol, Jacques Brel; music and lyrics, as for ?Jean,? from the 1969 film ?The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,? for which he received an Academy Award nomination; and musical scores, including that of the 1973 television film ?Lisa, Bright and Dark.? He also appeared as a singer on television, on many recordings and in live performance.

But while he may never have won critical laurels, his lyrics were esteemed by many renowned performers. Frank Sinatra released the album ?A Man Alone: The Words and Music of McKuen? in 1969; Mr. McKuen?s songs were also recorded by Johnny Cash, Perry Como, Petula Clark, Barbra Streisand and many others.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 03, 2015, 04:08:34 pm

Quote from: ggw on January 23, 2015, 06:10:29 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on January 23, 2015, 10:56:55 am
Quote from: hutch on January 19, 2015, 08:23:22 am
Alberto Nisman....it don't pay to investigate the government in Argentina...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30877296

Yeah, this is some sketch shit.

Crazy Cristina has got some of her own theories on his death (http://www.cfkargentina.com/amia-and-prosecutor-nismans-accusation/)

Draft of Arrest Warrant for Argentine President Found at Dead Prosecutor?s Home
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/world/americas/argentina-prosecutor-alberto-nisman-arrest-warrant-cristina-de-kirchner.html

wow.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 03, 2015, 05:56:26 pm

yup...its nuts

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 05, 2015, 12:34:22 am

Don Covay

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/don-covay-influential-r-b-artist-songwriter-dead-76-20150203

Wrote songs covered by the Rolling Stone, Aretha Franklin, Little Richard and more

His biggest pop hit, 1964's "Mercy Mercy," which featured Jimi Hendrix on guitar, would go on to be the lead track on the U.S. version of the Rolling Stones' 1965 album Out of Our Heads. And his 1965 hit "See Saw," which he co-wrote with Steve Cropper, would become a Top 10 hit for Aretha Franklin three years after it came out. Prior to that, though, Franklin made a Number Two hit out of "Chain of Fools," a song that Covay had written with Otis Redding in mind in the Fifties.

Additionally, as songwriter and onetime employee at famed songwriting outpost the Brill Building, Covay would write hits for Solomon Burke ("I'm Hanging Up My Heart for You"), Gladys Knight and the Pips ("Letter Full of Tears"), Wilson Pickett ("I'm Gonna Cry") and Little Richard ("I Don't Know What You've Got but It's Got Me"). He also wrote songs for Etta James and Redding, and his own recordings have been covered by several artists, including Gene Vincent, Steppenwolf, Bobby Womack, Small Faces and many others.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 05, 2015, 06:40:57 pm

Radio Shack (http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2015/02/radioshack-has-filed-for-bankruptcy.html/) Finally.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 05, 2015, 06:48:42 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 05, 2015, 06:40:57 pm

Radio Shack (http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2015/02/radioshack-has-filed-for-bankruptcy.html/) Finally.

too bad..... i know people celebrate the end of the brick and mortar store these days...but every once in a while radio shack came in handy....and nobody had to go shop there (apparently most did not) so not sure why radio shack seemed to bother people...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 05, 2015, 10:11:34 pm

I will say RS strayed from it's hobbyist roots and that was the problem
I asked one of my staff to pickup a hard drive and he was like " I went in there and it was all Beats headphones and cell phones"
The internet made that random electrical/hobist stuff waaay to easy to procure and I think that was ultimately their down fall
As the people who typically bought stuff at radio shack didn't like to be caught in sunlight

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 06, 2015, 01:02:36 am

I was actually in one last Friday for the first time in years. I drive past one on the way home from work and needed a longer Toslink cable for my new TV. Best Buy was out of 6 foot cables so I decided I'd pay a little more and go to RS.

The sales guy (50+ overweight white male) was shocked to have a customer, and while being rather nice, was following me around the store. I'm a hobbyist so I was checking out all kinds of strange stuff. At first I thought he was casing me in case I was going to steal something (despite being in a suit), but then I realized that I might be the only customer he sees on his shift so he was going to give me all of his attention.

He gave me a coupon for $10 off my next purchase of $40 or more. Sadly, I won't be able to use it. But truthfully, I've been racking my brain about what I'd buy anyway...for me Monoprice replaced RS years ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 06, 2015, 10:18:20 am

Quote from: vansmack on February 06, 2015, 01:02:36 am

At first I thought he was casing me in case I was going to steal something (despite being in a suit)

and white

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 06, 2015, 11:19:28 am

Quote from: Sidehatch ~~ AKA 'Star Whacker' on February 06, 2015, 10:18:20 am

Quote from: vansmack on February 06, 2015, 01:02:36 am
At first I thought he was casing me in case I was going to steal something (despite being in a suit)
and white

Well played.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 08, 2015, 11:29:32 am

Dean Smith

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on February 08, 2015, 03:00:49 pm

Lt. Cmdr. Joe Langdell - the last living survivor of the USS Arizona

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on February 08, 2015, 05:57:07 pm

Billy Casper

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 08, 2015, 11:43:13 pm

Radioshack

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 08, 2015, 11:52:40 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 08, 2015, 11:43:13 pm

Radioshack

You realize that you yourself discussed this three days ago in this very thread?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 09, 2015, 12:13:17 am

Yes..I'm still in shock...still not quite sinking in...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 09, 2015, 02:05:06 pm

(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/06/17/magazine/17wmt/17wmt-articleLarge.jpg)

Kenji Ekuan (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/09/384924292/from-soy-sauce-to-bullet-trains-famed-japanese-designer-dies-at-85)

As with many elite industrial designers, you know his work even if you don't know his name. Decades after Kenji Ekuan created Kikkoman's iconic soy sauce bottles with their red caps, he designed Japan's Komachi bullet train, in a career driven by a desire to make good design accessible to everyone.

Ekuan died Sunday in Tokyo at age 85; Japanese news outlets say he had suffered from a heart disorder.

A native of Hiroshima, Ekuan was 17 when the city was hit by an atomic bomb toward the end of World War II. In the blast, he lost his sister and father, who was a Buddhist priest. He later said the devastation motivated him to start building things.

"Faced with brutal nothingness, I felt a great nostalgia for something to touch, something to look at," he told Japanese broadcaster NHK. "The existence of tangible things is important. It's evidence that we're here as human beings."

The designer created his most ubiquitous product in 1961: a flask-shaped and leak-resistant soy sauce dispenser that is now used around the world. Ekuan, who was also a Buddhist monk, was credited with numerous corporate logos during Japan's industrial boom era, as well as creating the look of Yamaha's VMAX motorcycles and the Narita Express train that ferries passengers to and from Tokyo's main international gateway.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 09, 2015, 02:36:25 pm

^ ok...so I know this guy above probably had nothing to do with this.
But for me this was one of the first 'viral videos' I'd ever seen and shared

I have no idea what is going on here
what's with the Giko Cat hanging himself?
the Kikkoman fish head guy sleeps with underage girls?

I give you Soy Sauce Warrior Kikkoman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYUHAja3nEI)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 09, 2015, 07:29:36 pm

NFL Films creator Ed Sabol (http://mobile.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/02/09/arts/ap-fbn-obit-ed-sabol.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 10, 2015, 08:21:11 pm

The Daily Show - with Jon Stewart

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 10, 2015, 08:25:43 pm

Quote from: Shemp on February 10, 2015, 08:21:11 pm

The Daily Show - with Jon Stewart

I don't get the timing..... next year is going to be election year... if you're going to suck up the Obama lame duck years why not stick it out and quit after the November 2016 election

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 10, 2015, 11:30:45 pm

Brian Williams's Career (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-11/brian-williams-suspended-as-nbc-news-anchor-for-six-months)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 10, 2015, 11:40:36 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 10, 2015, 11:30:45 pm

Brian Williams's Career (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-11/brian-williams-suspended-as-nbc-news-anchor-for-six-months)

Let the record reflect, if Allison needs comforting, I am on standby.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 11, 2015, 07:17:11 am

Maybe Brian can take over on the Daily Show

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on February 11, 2015, 11:31:04 am

Quote from: hutch on February 10, 2015, 08:25:43 pm

Quote from: Shemp on February 10, 2015, 08:21:11 pm
The Daily Show - with Jon Stewart

I don't get the timing..... next year is going to be election year... if you're going to suck up the Obama lame duck years why not stick it out and quit after the November 2016 election

i agree, also weird that there is no timetable yet for him to leave. and why did they announce on a tuesday? although if he wanted to leave, maybe he thought now would be the perfect time so that someone else can get started for the new election

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 11, 2015, 11:55:59 am

Quote from: hutch on February 10, 2015, 08:25:43 pm

I don't get the timing..... next year is going to be election year... if you're going to suck up the Obama lame duck years why not stick it out and quit after the November 2016 election

Stewart/Franken 2016

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 11, 2015, 01:02:15 pm

Anyone who so much as suggests a Democratic candidate other than Hillary should be taken out in the street and shot.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 11, 2015, 01:03:36 pm

I'm saying it here...I'm a lefty liberal and I don't like Hillary
new blood please

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 11, 2015, 01:07:54 pm

Tark.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 11, 2015, 01:28:17 pm

ok...I'm confused and google let me down this time....

Top Definition   

tark

Someone who wears emo glasses (glasses with thick, dark frames) and likes to be seen as artsy or intellectual. A tark's style of dress is often emo or scene (skinny jeans, converse sneakers, hair longer in the front than in the back), but some tarks, particularly older ones, may dress more conventionally. Most tarks are under the age of 30.

Just because Drew Carey stole Ira Glass's glasses, that doesn't make him a tark.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 11, 2015, 01:41:43 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on February 11, 2015, 11:31:04 am

Quote from: hutch on February 10, 2015, 08:25:43 pm
Quote from: Shemp on February 10, 2015, 08:21:11 pm
The Daily Show - with Jon Stewart

I don't get the timing..... next year is going to be election year... if you're going to suck up the Obama lame duck years why not stick it out and quit after the November 2016 election

i agree, also weird that there is no timetable yet for him to leave. and why did they announce on a tuesday? although if he wanted to leave, maybe he thought now would be the perfect time so that someone else can get started for the new election

His contract is up in the fall and he's not renewing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 11, 2015, 01:43:13 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 11, 2015, 11:55:59 am

Quote from: hutch on February 10, 2015, 08:25:43 pm
I don't get the timing..... next year is going to be election year... if you're going to suck up the Obama lame duck years why not stick it out and quit after the November 2016 election

Stewart/Franken 2016

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/jon-stewart-should-run-for-office-1685171725

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 11, 2015, 01:53:30 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ~~ AKA unabashed Mats evangelist on February 11, 2015, 01:28:17 pm

ok...I'm confused and google let me down this time....

Top Definition   

tark

Someone who wears emo glasses (glasses with thick, dark frames) and likes to be seen as artsy or intellectual. A tark's style of dress is often emo or scene (skinny jeans, converse sneakers, hair longer in the front than in the back), but some tarks, particularly older ones, may dress more conventionally. Most tarks are under the age of 30.

Just because Drew Carey stole Ira Glass's glasses, that doesn't make him a tark.

Jerry Tarkanian, legendary UNLV/Fresno State basketball coach, passed away. He was commonly known as "Tark".

He oversaw probably the dirtiest athletic program in history, or at least of its era.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 11, 2015, 02:12:12 pm

Ok that helps...here I thought it was some wonky insult thrown at me for my Hillary comment :P

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 11, 2015, 02:15:47 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 11, 2015, 01:07:54 pm

Tark.

Suffocated on a towel?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on February 11, 2015, 02:46:15 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 11, 2015, 02:15:47 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 11, 2015, 01:07:54 pm
Tark.

Suffocated on a towel?

I don't think I have ever laughed at a post related to someone passing before reading the above.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on February 11, 2015, 02:51:01 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on February 11, 2015, 01:53:30 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ~~ AKA unabashed Mats evangelist on February 11, 2015, 01:28:17 pm
ok...I'm confused and google let me down this time....

Top Definition   

tark

Someone who wears emo glasses (glasses with thick, dark frames) and likes to be seen as artsy or intellectual. A tark's style of dress is often emo or scene (skinny jeans, converse sneakers, hair longer in the front than in the back), but some tarks, particularly older ones, may dress more conventionally. Most tarks are under the age of 30.

Just because Drew Carey stole Ira Glass's glasses, that doesn't make him a tark.
Jerry Tarkanian, legendary UNLV/Fresno State basketball coach, passed away. He was commonly known as "Tark".

He oversaw probably the dirtiest athletic program in history, or at least of its era.

hence the "Shark" moniker

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 11, 2015, 03:07:51 pm

Joe Maudlin Jr. Bass player for the Crickets

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 11, 2015, 05:06:33 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ~~ AKA unabashed Mats evangelist on February 11, 2015, 01:03:36 pm

I'm saying it here...I'm a lefty liberal and I don't like Hillary
new blood please

could you elaborate please?

"lefty liberal"?? let me guess? you voted for Nader? "lefty liberal" is kind of like saying loser.....

I really don't get it... Hillary is about as liberal as this country is ever going to get, is a woman (when is the US going to have a woman President???), and actually has incredible amount of experience (Senator, Secretary of State, White House First Lady)... yet we are told by lefty liberals to considIer Elizabeth Warren who has what? Two years of experience in congress???? or Sanders? I mean I may like Sanders but the idea that the American people are going to vote for a Socialist is beyond ridiculous

Who else is there??? Biden? Come on now....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 11, 2015, 11:21:48 pm

Bob Simon (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/12/nyregion/bob-simon-cbs-correspondent-is-killed-in-manhattan-car-crash.html)

(http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/02/12/nyregion/SIMONobitWEB/SIMONobitWEB-master180.jpg)

Bob Simon, a longtime CBS News correspondent, was killed in a car crash in Manhattan on Wednesday, according to the network and the authorities. He was 73.

Few details about the crash were immediately available on Wednesday night. The New York Fire Department said two men were taken to local hospitals, one in traumatic arrest and another with injuries that were not life-threatening.

Mr. Simon, who was in his 19th season as a correspondent for ?60 Minutes,? won more than 27 Emmy Awards over a career dating back to the 1960s. He has covered most major news events, and as a war correspondent, was captured by Iraqi forces near the Saudi-Kuwaiti border during the opening days of the Gulf War in January 1991.He recently reported on the persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, and his story about an orchestra in Paraguay whose members made instruments out of trash earned him his most recent Emmy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on February 12, 2015, 02:54:42 am

Quote from: hutch on February 11, 2015, 05:06:33 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ~~ AKA unabashed Mats evangelist on February 11, 2015, 01:03:36 pm
I'm saying it here...I'm a lefty liberal and I don't like Hillary
new blood please

could you elaborate please?

"lefty liberal"?? let me guess? you voted for Nader? "lefty liberal" is kind of like saying loser.....

I really don't get it... Hillary is about as liberal as this country is ever going to get, is a woman (when is the US going to have a woman President???), and actually has incredible amount of experience (Senator, Secretary of State, White House First Lady)... yet we are told by lefty liberals to considIer Elizabeth Warren who has what? Two years of experience in congress???? or Sanders? I mean I may like Sanders but the idea that the American people are going to vote for a Socialist is beyond ridiculous

Who else is there??? Biden? Come on now....

I thought gender didn't matter. People who vote based on asinine and irrelevant factors such as gender, race, height, weight, eye color, state of birth, model of car owned, high school sports record, etc are the people who have no business being allowed to vote.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 12, 2015, 08:15:15 am

Quote from: RatBastard on February 12, 2015, 02:54:42 am

Quote from: hutch on February 11, 2015, 05:06:33 pm
Quote from: Sidehatch ~~ AKA unabashed Mats evangelist on February 11, 2015, 01:03:36 pm
I'm saying it here...I'm a lefty liberal and I don't like Hillary
new blood please

could you elaborate please?

"lefty liberal"?? let me guess? you voted for Nader? "lefty liberal" is kind of like saying loser.....

I really don't get it... Hillary is about as liberal as this country is ever going to get, is a woman (when is the US going to have a woman President???), and actually has incredible amount of experience (Senator, Secretary of State, White House First Lady)... yet we are told by lefty liberals to considIer Elizabeth Warren who has what? Two years of experience in congress???? or Sanders? I mean I may like Sanders but the idea that the American people are going to vote for a Socialist is beyond ridiculous

Who else is there??? Biden? Come on now....

I thought gender didn't matter. People who vote based on asinine and irrelevant factors such as gender, race, height, weight, eye color, state of birth, model of car owned, high school sports record, etc are the people who have no business being allowed to vote.

of course it matters.. when a country where more than half the people are female has never had a female president in over 200 years it matters...it matters a lot....

almost every other industrialized country has had a female head of the executive by now....heck even banana republics like Argentina...places like Chile

and the point is not to elect a woman for the sake of electing a woman.. the point is to avoid NOT electing a woman because she is a woman and in the case of Hillary Clinton it would be hard to avoid any other conclusion if she were to run again and not be elected...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 12, 2015, 10:32:30 am

As someone who works - if not on Wall Street - directly with Wall Street, I would welcome Mrs. Clinton's nomination and potential victory. Like her husband, she will talk a mean progressive populist game, but at the end of the day, she won't forget who butters her bread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 12, 2015, 10:38:25 am

Quote from: ggw on February 12, 2015, 10:32:30 am

As someone who works - if not on Wall Street - directly with Wall Street, I would welcome Mrs. Clinton's nomination and potential victory. Like her husband, she will talk a mean progressive populist game, but at the end of the day, she won't forget who butters her bread.

She'll also, you know, get things done, unlike Obama.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 12, 2015, 10:39:23 am

Quote from: hutch on February 12, 2015, 08:15:15 am

and the point is not to elect a woman for the sake of electing a woman.. the point is to avoid NOT electing a woman because she is a woman and in the case of Hillary Clinton it would be hard to avoid any other conclusion if she were to run again and not be elected...

America has a rarely-discussed ugly history of moving African-American men towards full enfranchisement much quicker than it has white women.

Property ownership, the vote, senate-ship, the Presidency, etc...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on February 12, 2015, 10:45:44 am

She would also help weapons manufacturers/dealers' profits soar by continuing the cycle of endless war (she's essentially John McCain when it comes to foreign policy) and as GGW said, be Wall Street's ideal candidate.

I voted for Jill Stein in the last election and will most likely vote for the Green Party candidate in 2016. Sure, they have no chance of winning but their worldview/ideals are closest to mine and that counts for something. We've been conditioned to vote for the lesser of two evils forever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on February 12, 2015, 12:16:02 pm

I really like Elizabeth Warren, but she said she isn't running

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 12, 2015, 12:21:10 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on February 12, 2015, 10:45:44 am

She would also help weapons manufacturers/dealers' profits soar by continuing the cycle of endless war (she's essentially John McCain when it comes to foreign policy) and as GGW said, be Wall Street's ideal candidate.

I voted for Jill Stein in the last election and will most likely vote for the Green Party candidate in 2016. Sure, they have no chance of winning but their worldview/ideals are closest to mine and that counts for something. We've been conditioned to vote for the lesser of two evils forever.

Nobody cares who you vote for... whoever you vote for will get less than 1% of the vote

you're the classic TYPE who voted for Nader in 2000... how did that work out for you? you're always carping about the horrible US foreign policy and yet its your vote that makes that possible...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 12, 2015, 12:24:32 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on February 12, 2015, 12:16:02 pm

I really like Elizabeth Warren, but she said she isn't running

Even if one likes her, which I do, I'd hardly say she is qualified to be President.

What in her background makes her qualified?

People will say she has the same experience as President Obama but he had been a state legislator for many years BEFORE becoming Illinois' Senator to the US Congress....

Moreover, to the Warren supporters who I hate to say it but seem not to have given any thought to it other than the "I like her": she did not run a campaign that inspires much confidence in defeating Brown in a very liberal state...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 12, 2015, 12:30:47 pm

Philadelphia announced as host city for 2016 Democratic National Convention

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 12, 2015, 12:31:36 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 12, 2015, 12:30:47 pm

Philadelphia announced as host city for 2016 Democratic National Convention

I'm installing 10-1 odds on the eventual candidate coming out onto the dais to Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 12, 2015, 12:59:26 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on February 12, 2015, 12:31:36 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 12, 2015, 12:30:47 pm
Philadelphia announced as host city for 2016 Democratic National Convention

I'm installing 10-1 odds on the eventual candidate coming out onto the dais to Philadelphia Freedom by Elton John.

what else is there??

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 12, 2015, 01:06:37 pm

spirit of 76 by Ween
Punk Rock Girl by Dead Milkmen
Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen
Philadelphia Lawyer by Woody Guthrie, also Flatt & Scruggs, Willie Nelson, Neil Young

ok...none of these would work...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 12, 2015, 01:07:22 pm

The Bitch Is Back if Hillary gets the nomination.

But seriously anything that baby boomers remember that has a general theme of better days ahead is in play.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 12, 2015, 01:55:36 pm

TSOP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 12, 2015, 02:07:55 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on February 12, 2015, 01:07:22 pm

The Bitch Is Back if Hillary gets the nomination.

But seriously anything that baby boomers remember that has a general theme of better days ahead is in play.

Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Daddy" if Jeb is up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 12, 2015, 02:14:18 pm

Elton John is a good bet - His foundation is a donor to the Clinton Global Initiative.

Alternatively, they could go with Bill Conti's Gonna Fly Now

(https://cbsphilly.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/rocky.jpg?w=410)

Although I'm pretty sure Sly's a Republican.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 12, 2015, 06:15:25 pm

Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31449838

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 12, 2015, 08:58:19 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 12, 2015, 06:15:25 pm

Steve Strange, Visage lead singer, dies aged 55
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31449838

Dammit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 13, 2015, 12:09:44 am

Bad week to be a journalist or NCAA hoops coach.

David Carr, Media Columnist for The Times, Is Dead at 58 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/business/media/david-carr-media-equation-columnist-for-the-times-is-dead-at-58.html)

David Carr, who wrote about media as it intersects with business, culture and government in his Media Equation column for The New York Times, collapsed at the office and died at St. Luke?s-Roosevelt Hospital on Thursday. He was 58.

For the past 25 years, Mr. Carr wrote about media. He joined The Times in 2002 as a business reporter covering the magazine publishing industry. His column appeared in the Monday business section and focused on media issues, including print, digital, film, radio and television.

Before joining the Times, Mr. Carr was a contributing writer for The Atlantic Monthly and New York magazine. In 2000, he was the media writer for Inside.com, a website focusing on the business of entertainment and publishing.

Before coming to New York, he served for five years as editor of Washington City Paper, an alternative weekly in Washington, D.C.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on February 13, 2015, 12:23:28 am

This (http://timestalks.com/laura-poitras-glenn-greenwald-edward-snowden.html) just happened a few hours ago! Very surreal.
.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on February 13, 2015, 08:52:49 am

Quote from: hutch on February 12, 2015, 08:15:15 am

Quote from: RatBastard on February 12, 2015, 02:54:42 am
Quote from: hutch on February 11, 2015, 05:06:33 pm
Quote from: Sidehatch ~~ AKA unabashed Mats evangelist on February 11, 2015, 01:03:36 pm
I'm saying it here...I'm a lefty liberal and I don't like Hillary
new blood please

could you elaborate please?

"lefty liberal"?? let me guess? you voted for Nader? "lefty liberal" is kind of like saying loser.....

I really don't get it... Hillary is about as liberal as this country is ever going to get, is a woman (when is the US going to have a woman President???), and actually has incredible amount of experience (Senator, Secretary of State, White House First Lady)... yet we are told by lefty liberals to considIer Elizabeth Warren who has what? Two years of experience in congress???? or Sanders? I mean I may like Sanders but the idea that the American people are going to vote for a Socialist is beyond ridiculous

Who else is there??? Biden? Come on now....

I thought gender didn't matter. People who vote based on asinine and irrelevant factors such as gender, race, height, weight, eye color, state of birth, model of car owned, high school sports record, etc are the people who have no business being allowed to vote.

of course it matters.. when a country where more than half the people are female has never had a female president in over 200 years it matters...it matters a lot....

almost every other industrialized country has had a female head of the executive by now....heck even banana republics like Argentina...places like Chile

and the point is not to elect a woman for the sake of electing a woman.. the point is to avoid NOT electing a woman because she is a woman and in the case of Hillary Clinton it would be hard to avoid any other conclusion if she were to run again and not be elected...

1) Your entire argument is invalid. It does not matter at all. We should vote for the person we each truly think is the better candidate. No of those irrelevant parameters should ever come into play.

2) I would never vote for HC. The very fact alone that she made her 'what difference does it make' comment about American citizens who died under her watch as Secretary of State 100% disqualifies her form ever getting my vote. Being a citizen of this country and a veteran, I would never ever has one ounce of respect for anyone who had that attitude. The list goes on form there why I could not vote for her and whether she has indoor or outdoor plumbing has nothing to do with it.

3) I fail to see anything that HC has done that makes her a worthy candidate in the first place. The mere fact that someone has held whatever combination of offices that he has is not what leads to qualification, it is more what they have actually accomplished and what they did while in those roles. I am not at all impressed by her record.

3) My greatest wish is that for once we actually get two good candidates to pick form. Neither party put up anyone who I would have otherwise voted for in several elections.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 13, 2015, 09:24:41 am

my greatest wish is so much lesser...that you learn to count...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 13, 2015, 09:54:53 am

I'm sorry but its too early in the political season for me to get too worked about it... we know Hillary haters ain't going to go for her......and we know the arguments.. the woman has been vilified by certain people since she became first lady close to a quarter century ago!!!!!!!!!!

If she runs, and she may not given her age and potential health issues that can arise at that age, I'm going to give it 100% on her behalf... just like I did for Obama....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 13, 2015, 09:57:27 am

Can we continue to honor the fallen in this here thread instead of turning into a political thread?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 13, 2015, 10:02:02 am

Quote from: Yada on February 13, 2015, 09:57:27 am

Can we continue to honor the fallen in this here thread instead of turning into a political thread?

yes of course Yada...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on February 13, 2015, 10:04:32 am

Actually after my last post I did get to wondering how we diverted like that and was going to make the same suggestion. I hadn't realized what thread we were in. You know how us old fuckers can get...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 13, 2015, 12:35:30 pm

wait, what?

David Pajo, guitarist and founding member of post-rock luminaries Slint (official), has reportedly survived a suicide attempt.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 13, 2015, 12:40:03 pm

Quote from: grateful on February 13, 2015, 12:35:30 pm

wait, what?

David Pajo, guitarist and founding member of post-rock luminaries Slint (official), has reportedly survived a suicide attempt.

Holy shit. Where are you getting this from? I'm assuming facebook from the "Slint (official)" thing, but I'm seeing nothing on any music facebook pages I subscribe to.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 13, 2015, 12:42:57 pm

http://www.spin.com/articles/david-pajo-slint-suicide-attempt

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 13, 2015, 12:43:27 pm

David posted his suicide note on his site. Major cry for help.

Quote

13.2.15
I SURRENDER TO MY BROKEN HEART

This is where my story ends.

Leila, out of respect for the memory of me, please find the time to sit down, by yourself, and read our WhatsApp exchanges- starting from around August 3rd to the end.

At the beginning, we are both gentle, playful, and understanding. Then by August 8, the day after you first slept with Babak, your tone changes and I immediately sense it. You're in love with Babak. But I won?t know this for another half a year.

The lies flow immediately, endlessly, and without remorse. Note that I'm still kind and validating, as best I can, but I am clearly confused, deeply saddened, and falling quickly into misery. Also note that you are mostly concerned with arranging more trips- so you can see Babak.

For six months I endured this. Absolute loneliness, wretched depression and the notion that suicide is the only relief from my pain and confusion. So many times I asked if there was someone else. So many times you got angry and denied it. From August 8th 2014 to February 8th 2015 this went on.

You have no idea what torture you put me through because you never cared. Your only concern was your love for Babak, your fear of losing him. That fear will never go away.

I cry and cry and moan the obvious question: Why didn't you just tell me. Why didn't you just tell me as soon as it happened? I can handle the truth, I can live with the facts. I told you things will only improve if we are completely transparent with each other, that it will be the hardest thing to do, but worth it. But you chose to betray me, for 186 days. Endless days and nights of me not knowing and looking for answers or evidence in everything.

Why didn't you just tell me?

I made a card and painting for you this Valentine?s Day. I also got you some wind chimes in a beautiful 5 note Tibetan scale for your birthday (I did this before I found out about you and Babak, if you?re wondering). You will find them in the backpack I will be wearing at my time of death. There are also letters for Alina and Lucas- only they are allowed to open them. You or Alina can read my letter to Luc but only he can open it.

Striking you was an awful mistake and there is absolutely no justification for it. You have no idea how much I regret that. It was a thoughtless knee-jerk reaction fueled by the shock of the affair and escalating rage based on the sexual details of the affair. I am so sorry. No matter what led up to it, it does not make it okay.

However I don?t appreciate the way you played up the victim role and dramatized it so that you could leverage yourself against me. It took attention away from your affair, your betrayal, your infidelity and the deep pain you inflicted upon me day after day. You used it as proof that you need freedom from the evil person that I am.

I hope my death exposes the truth. I was searching for answers and literally going insane trying to find the truth about you. When I finally found out, the shock was immense and all-consuming.

I am beyond any kind of help now. You have taken away the people I love more than anything else in the world. You can invent many reasons and justifications, but the truth is: you took my kids away from me. Alina and Lucas.

You shattered my life, stabbed me in the heart, took my kids, and made me the awful villain.

I know you are in love and I know you two are perfect for each other. I truly feel that way. He?s your age, Persian, handsome, business savvy, wealthy, pseudo-Buddhist, charming socialite, surfer, wine-r and dine-r, and good in the sack to boot. He's everything you ever wanted from a husband and who I could never be. I, however, am the same person you chose to marry and have children with, at one point of your life. A loner arty dude.

Like you, he is in love with himself first and foremost.

In your sorrow and guilt, he will comfort you and use your vulnerable state to gain points as the good guy, the rescuing knight beside you, offering solace, money, shelter. So compassionate is Prince Charming.

I spent a decade of my life with you and I know you better than anyone else. You will wallow in the sympathy and attention garnished generously by your friends and family and Babak. You will play the victim role to the hilt, as always, for you need love as we all do.

Unfortunately, I am also human so I also need love.

But make no mistake- you are forever guilty. Guilty of cheating on me. Guilty of lying to me. Guilty of betraying me. Guilty of breaking up the family. Guilty of taking the kids away from their father. Guilty of destroying my life as well as theirs. Guilty of torturing me to the point that I saw no other way out but to hang myself.

They will hug you and tell you not to blame yourself for my actions. As if you had nothing to do with it.

I believe you will live with Babak, have the big, fancy wedding you always dreamed of, have a child with him, and live happily ever after. He will be a father figure to the kids and I will be a distant memory rarely mentioned.

But my parents lost another son. My brother lost another brother. My friends lost another friend. Your children lost their father. And I lost a future that still held so much potential and so many dreams I wanted so badly to realize.

All because of your actions at the wedding. All because of your affair. All because of your selfish lack of concern for me and the kids. All because of this charming man in a fancy car (who will in time- mark my words- break your heart too. If he can have a discrete affair with a married woman now, he will have one later as well).

I hope Babak is worth the misery you have spewed into the universe.

So this is where my story ends.

I have truly had enough of this life. You have buried me into a hole too deep for me to get out of. The only future I have left is to never see my kids and to never have your love. What kind of future is that? I have nothing now. The three of you were all I ever had and all I ever wanted. And not one of you is in my life.

I cannot live without my precious children. I truly cannot live without the love and affection from you, my beloved wife. I would have done anything for you and the kids and you know this to be true in your heart.

Suicide is the only way out of this mess. This legal mess, this financial mess, this emotional mess. I welcome an exit, a chance to start anew.

I have letters for the kids and my family. But this letter- this is for you, Leila. And for the world to see and understand.

You created all this tragedy. You destroyed my life, emotionally, financially, legally, and now physically. The damage is beyond repair. My life is totaled. There is only one way out of this burning car.

But I forgive you, Leila. I forgive you for the torture, the affair, and the lack of concern for what I went through. I forgive you because I truly love you and always have.

I cannot forgive you for taking the kids away from me. I miss them with such intensity that I weep as soon as I imagine holding Alina's little hand or kissing Luc's soft cheek. I think about them constantly so I weep constantly. I am going to miss them and they are going to miss me. I am not going to miss the person you became. You became someone I never met.

All the legal maneuvering you are doing (going on the advice of Babak, your attorney, and your father) you keep pushing me around like a pawn in a chess game. You've won. You've painted me into a corner I can?t escape.

I just can?t take it anymore.

When I finally found out the truth, an unbearable weight was lifted from me. All the confusion was gone, finally, and it all made complete sense: the weight loss, the lingerie, the gym addiction, the facials, the waxing, the Persian cookbook, the love poem you claimed was for me, the Neruda poems, the Buddhist book you claimed was from an ex boyfriend, the What Successful People Do Before Breakfast book, all those trips to LA, the secret meetings in NYC and staying overnight in Philly. Finally, all the pieces fit into place and all my suspicions and intuitive insights were legitimized.

One massive weight was lifted and instantly replaced with another. I can no longer eat, I?ve lost 10 lbs in 4 days. I cannot sleep. I can't even watch TV because romantic love is everywhere and all I can see is you and Babak together. I think only of the two of you together, deceiving me for six months, deceiving me right this very moment. All desire or motivation to do anything, even to breathe, is depleted.

You are in love. I understand love. Why didn?t you just tell me that? You should have told me the truth on Aug 8 2014 and onwards. If you had, I might still be here, co-parenting with you, you could still have Babak, and our beautiful children could still have their father.

You wanted me out of your life and now I am out of your way. You got everything you wanted. You are free.

Somehow, my love for you still burns as strong as ever. When I think of you, just you alone, how you used to be, my heart swells with love. My love burns now, it will burn tomorrow, and every day thereafter. I loved you with all my heart and I still love you so very much, even as I type these words. I would do, and did, everything and anything for you. I never cheated on you the entire decade we were together. I truly hope you find loyalty like that again.

You, Alina and Lucas were all I ever wanted. And for a moment, in a group hug, all my dreams came into fruition. I am so thankful for that moment. I will always have that. I will carry it with me where I am going.

Goodbye Leila
My one and only valentine
Forever and ever

David

PS: I know you?ll deny and cite a million other reasons, but you know this to be the truth: Don?t relocate to LA just because you are afraid of losing Babak. If Babak truly loves you, he will wait. If you need your family, they will come to you. Let the children live and thrive in Haddonfield. They will grow up to be wise and loving here. Always put what?s best for the kids before anything else- your love relationship, your career, your friends, your family, everything. They are untouched and pure as the winter breeze, don?t make this harder on them than it already is. They need stability right now. Their Daddy is gone forever. To uproot them and take them to the other side of the country is foolish.

***

Please send love and compassion to my parents: fdpajo@gmail.com
If you wish to attend the funeral or show support please contact my brother: danpajo@gmail.com

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 13, 2015, 12:49:15 pm

christ.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 13, 2015, 12:51:20 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 13, 2015, 12:49:15 pm

christ.

I thought he died a while ago?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 13, 2015, 01:00:11 pm

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a7PAt5BvOSE/VNtJzFVdfkI/AAAAAAAAAoM/CuQF0trwky0/s1600/suicide02.jpg

(^^ Fair warning: An unpleasant image.)

Good lord, he'd been hyping it up for days ahead of time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 13, 2015, 01:01:34 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 13, 2015, 12:51:20 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 13, 2015, 12:49:15 pm
christ.

I thought he died a while ago?

teeeheee!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 13, 2015, 01:02:57 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 13, 2015, 12:51:20 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 13, 2015, 12:49:15 pm
christ.

I thought he died a while ago?

He's still alive in *my* heart.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 13, 2015, 01:38:46 pm

absolutely heart breaking

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 13, 2015, 07:59:09 pm

(http://www.waitiknowthis.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Gary-Owens.jpg)

Gary Owens (http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/gary-owens-announcer-of-laugh-in-fame-dies-at-80-1201433731/). Can't believe he was only 80.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 13, 2015, 08:17:33 pm

since he didn't manage to kill himself I would never read his suicide note.....

glad he is still alive and hope he gets help

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 16, 2015, 06:02:23 pm

Lesley Gore

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/party-singer-songwriter-lesley-gore-dies-68-29004127

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 16, 2015, 06:11:02 pm

^where seth got the name for IMP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 16, 2015, 06:12:24 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ~~ AKA unabashed Mats evangelist on February 16, 2015, 06:11:02 pm

^where seth got the name for IMP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 20, 2015, 12:14:24 pm

Harris Wittels 'Parks and Recreation' exec dies at 30 (http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/la-me-ln-parks-and-recreation-producer-dead-20150219-story.html)

Believed to have OD'ed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on February 20, 2015, 03:18:21 pm

Quote from: Shemp on February 20, 2015, 12:14:24 pm

Harris Wittels 'Parks and Recreation' exec dies at 30 (http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/la-me-ln-parks-and-recreation-producer-dead-20150219-story.html)

Believed to have OD'ed

Huge PHISH fan and a fun, if somewhat dorky, podcast guest. Seen onscreen in Parks and Rec in the background sometimes, like at town meetings.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 20, 2015, 03:19:04 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on February 20, 2015, 03:18:21 pm

Huge PHISH fan

Let's not speak ill of the dead; it's unbecoming.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 20, 2015, 03:53:19 pm

^ early candidate for POTW

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 20, 2015, 04:22:50 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 20, 2015, 03:53:19 pm

^ early candidate for POTW

that's when you know quality is quite low here!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 20, 2015, 04:32:50 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 20, 2015, 04:22:50 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 20, 2015, 03:53:19 pm
^ early candidate for POTW

that's when you know quality is quite low here!

^resident cynic

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 20, 2015, 04:38:24 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 20, 2015, 04:22:50 pm

that's when you know quality is quite low here!

not any lower than the quality of phish's music!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 20, 2015, 04:50:13 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 20, 2015, 04:38:24 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 20, 2015, 04:22:50 pm
that's when you know quality is quite low here!

not any lower than the quality of phish's music!

LOL

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 22, 2015, 11:45:40 am

Laser Cat Kid (http://news.yahoo.com/-laser-cat--high-school-senior-commits-suicide-212855316.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 22, 2015, 12:26:41 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 22, 2015, 11:45:40 am

Laser Cat Kid (http://news.yahoo.com/-laser-cat--high-school-senior-commits-suicide-212855316.html)

Are you going to go ahead an x-post this in the Walkie thread or should I?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 22, 2015, 12:27:39 pm

I was going to post it somewhere . . . but now, the magic, is gone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on February 22, 2015, 03:31:42 pm

clark terry...damn
http://pitchfork.com/news/58580-jazz-trumpeter-clark-terry-dead-at-94/ (http://pitchfork.com/news/58580-jazz-trumpeter-clark-terry-dead-at-94/)
met him twice, sweet and funny guy, amazing trumpeter, sometimes played two at once - hilarious.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on February 22, 2015, 06:59:36 pm

(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/696/MI0001696025.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)(http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0001/420/MI0001420824.jpg?partner=allrovi.com)(http://images6.hhv.de/catalog/shop_detail/00085/85297.jpg)
3 faves, no such thing as a bad clark terry album

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on February 22, 2015, 10:05:51 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on February 22, 2015, 06:59:36 pm

(http://images6.hhv.de/catalog/shop_detail/00085/85297.jpg)

Why is there a picture of Johnny Cochran on that album?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 22, 2015, 10:25:52 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on February 22, 2015, 10:05:51 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on February 22, 2015, 06:59:36 pm
(http://images6.hhv.de/catalog/shop_detail/00085/85297.jpg)

Why is there a picture of Johnny Cochran on that album?

Thats racist. It's clearly Jackie Chiles.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 27, 2015, 01:20:29 pm

Spock.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 27, 2015, 01:34:14 pm

:'( Nanoo nanoo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 27, 2015, 02:00:46 pm

Quote from: grateful on February 27, 2015, 01:34:14 pm

:'( Nanoo nanoo

Isn't that Mork, not Spock?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 27, 2015, 02:05:33 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 27, 2015, 02:00:46 pm

Quote from: grateful on February 27, 2015, 01:34:14 pm
:'( Nanoo nanoo

Isn't that Mork, not Spock?

That was my thought as well but I didn't know enough about Star Trek to rule out both saying that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 27, 2015, 02:07:48 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 27, 2015, 02:00:46 pm

Quote from: grateful on February 27, 2015, 01:34:14 pm
:'( Nanoo nanoo

Isn't that Mork, not Spock?

Late shout out to Robin Williams?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 27, 2015, 02:56:10 pm

\V/_

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on February 27, 2015, 03:12:48 pm

https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/leonard-nimoy-dies-at-83-171803235.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on February 27, 2015, 06:05:00 pm

When I, die . . . I want press like spock.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: JohnQ on February 27, 2015, 06:12:30 pm

My favorite Leonard Nimoy memory:

http://youtu.be/AGF5ROpjRAU

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 27, 2015, 07:06:33 pm

I never got Star Trek... always seemed like the most moronic show ever with the worst actors too..

maybe its so bad its good?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on February 27, 2015, 07:36:24 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 27, 2015, 07:06:33 pm

I never got Star Trek... always seemed like the most moronic show ever with the worst actors too..

maybe its so bad its good?

You are not the only one. Terrible acting and really cheesy plots. Some of the worst scifi ever and it barely even qualifies as scifi.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on February 27, 2015, 07:47:28 pm

Quote from: walkonby on February 27, 2015, 06:05:00 pm

When I, die . . . I want press like spock.

I, do, not, want, to, die, ever

(I like this cover a lot -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu4WPeccElM so sad that Benjamin passed.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 27, 2015, 11:48:14 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 27, 2015, 07:06:33 pm

I never got Star Trek...

Gene Roddenberry was a visionary of how we'd actually come to live
seriously the Nostradamus of the modern era

There was some pretty schlocky acting, I will never ever deny.
I think spock is a great character done by a good actor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 28, 2015, 02:36:49 am

(http://www.tinymixtapes.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/460_Width/1502/news-15-02-tod-dockstader.jpg)

Tod Dockstader (http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/rip-tod-dockstader-musique-concrete-composer)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 28, 2015, 01:42:30 pm

Beastie Boys' favorite Knick (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/sports/basketball/anthony-mason-bruising-forward-who-personified-mid-90s-knicks-dies-at-48.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on March 02, 2015, 02:39:38 am

TNG stands the test of time better.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 06, 2015, 04:57:29 pm

Albert Maysles, who collaborated along with his late brother David in a documentary film career that included the troubling 1970 concert documentary "Gimme Shelter," has died. He was 88.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/entertainment/feat-obit-albert-maysles-gimme-shelter-thr/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on March 09, 2015, 03:19:28 pm

Sam Simon (co creator of The Simpsons)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 09, 2015, 04:04:20 pm

awww, fuck. sam was an inspiration.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 11, 2015, 01:11:41 pm

The institution of the Dalai Lama? (http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/sinosphere/2015/03/11/dalai-lama-reincarnation-china-communist-party/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 11, 2015, 01:14:14 pm

Quote from: ggw on March 11, 2015, 01:11:41 pm

The institution of the Dalai Lama? (http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/sinosphere/2015/03/11/dalai-lama-reincarnation-china-communist-party/)

Hasn't the current Dalai Lama been saying this for years?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 11, 2015, 02:48:52 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on March 11, 2015, 01:14:14 pm

Quote from: ggw on March 11, 2015, 01:11:41 pm
The institution of the Dalai Lama? (http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/sinosphere/2015/03/11/dalai-lama-reincarnation-china-communist-party/)
Hasn't the current Dalai Lama been saying this for years?

succession through an intricate process of reincarnation that has involved lamas, visiting a sacred lake and divining dreams.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 11, 2015, 04:05:52 pm

Miller High Life delivery guy (from the commercials) dead at 36

(https://scontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/11043008_10155203050940408_8907076847667554506_n.jpg?oh=0f3219a80bf89602a9303613f3978442&oe=55BD89BA)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 11, 2015, 04:28:48 pm

Quote from: Shemp on March 11, 2015, 04:05:52 pm

Miller High Life delivery guy (from the commercials) dead at 36

(https://scontent-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/11043008_10155203050940408_8907076847667554506_n.jpg?oh=0f3219a80bf89602a9303613f3978442&oe=55BD89BA)

That's what he gets for being that excited about beer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 11, 2015, 05:10:10 pm

Quote from: Julian, Community ORGANIZER on March 11, 2015, 04:28:48 pm

That's what he gets for being that excited about boring beer.

FTFY

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 11, 2015, 06:19:50 pm

I miss him already.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 12, 2015, 10:33:58 am

the 9:30 board :o

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 12, 2015, 12:31:57 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on March 12, 2015, 10:33:58 am

the 9:30 board :o

huh? was the database down, or is there talk of killing the forum?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 12, 2015, 12:33:10 pm

Sir Terry Pratchett, renowned fantasy author, dies aged 66
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31858156
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/what-terry-pratchett-said-about-death--gyNKdOm6pl

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 12, 2015, 12:35:22 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 12, 2015, 12:31:57 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on March 12, 2015, 10:33:58 am
the 9:30 board :o

huh? was the database down, or is there talk of killing the forum?

I'm guessing Sidehatch was being overly dramatic in response to lack of "action" on board....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 12, 2015, 01:21:27 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 12, 2015, 12:31:57 pm

or is there talk of killing the forum?

If there was any advance notice, I'm sure one of the regulars would start an unofficial board. And if I agreed to go over there, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the actively posting community would migrate over.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 12, 2015, 01:52:08 pm

Just being a drama queen....I was bored (and should have been working) and there was just about zero posts this morning

punk's not dead, I mean the board's not dead, long live the board

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 12, 2015, 02:37:09 pm

Jesus, cHrist

Not dead either

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 12, 2015, 05:04:16 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on March 12, 2015, 01:52:08 pm

punk's not dead, Walkie's not dead, the board's not dead, long live the board

FTFY

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 13, 2015, 09:55:24 am

PoMo architect and Target housewares designer Michael Graves.

(http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/03/13/obituaries/13A1GRAVES-obit/13A1GRAVES-obit-articleLarge-v2.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 13, 2015, 11:07:05 pm

Gene Gene The Dancing Machine (http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/gene-patton-gene-gene-the-dancing-machine-from-the-gong-show-dies-at-82/ar-AA9K6P3)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 14, 2015, 07:32:22 am

Putin?!? (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/world/europe/russia-putin-seen-in-public.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 14, 2015, 12:22:47 pm

Quote from: ggw on March 14, 2015, 07:32:22 am

Putin?!? (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/world/europe/russia-putin-seen-in-public.html)

Probably on a bender with Kim Jong-un.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 15, 2015, 05:12:24 pm

Toto Bassist Mike Porcaro (http://pitchfork.com/news/58856-toto-bassist-mike-porcaro-dead-at-59/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 15, 2015, 05:14:42 pm

Jimmy Greenspoon, Keyboardist for Three Dog Night (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/14/arts/music/jimmy-greenspoon-keyboardist-for-three-dog-night-dies-at-67.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 16, 2015, 11:13:36 am

Coca-Cola Products, at Live Nation venues

http://www.pollstar.com/news_article.aspx?ID=817040

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 16, 2015, 11:26:07 am

that, is the last straw. awww hellll noooo.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 16, 2015, 03:42:14 pm

Foxygen

http://pitchfork.com/news/58861-foxygen-announce-farewell-tour

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 16, 2015, 06:22:56 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 16, 2015, 11:26:07 am

that, is the last straw.

(http://media.giphy.com/media/lfoC8HjUQlQT6/giphy.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 16, 2015, 06:54:43 pm

Thank you . . . I'm here all week. Tip your, server.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 17, 2015, 11:52:03 am

Daevid Allen, Guitarist, Singer and Founder of Gong and Soft Machine, Dies at 77 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/arts/music/daevid-allen-guitarist-and-leader-of-gong-and-soft-machine-dies-at-77.html)

(http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/03/17/arts/17allen-obit/17allen-obit-blog427.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 17, 2015, 12:18:22 pm

INTERNET EXPLORER - you will not be missed.

http://bgr.com/2015/03/17/internet-explorer-update-rip/
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/goodbye-ie-microsoft-is-dumping-the-internet-explorer-brand/
http://qz.com/364122/microsoft-is-scrapping-internet-explorer/
etc.

i can't believe that pile of coded excrement has lasted this long.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 17, 2015, 12:57:48 pm

Molly Hatchet's original drummer Bruce Crump (http://ultimateclassicrock.com/bruce-crump-molly-hatchet-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 17, 2015, 01:10:10 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 17, 2015, 12:18:22 pm

INTERNET EXPLORER - you will not be missed.

http://bgr.com/2015/03/17/internet-explorer-update-rip/
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/goodbye-ie-microsoft-is-dumping-the-internet-explorer-brand/
http://qz.com/364122/microsoft-is-scrapping-internet-explorer/
etc.

i can't believe that pile of coded excrement has lasted this long.

if it is so shitty, why do almost 70 percent of all computer users, employ ie as their internet exploring option?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 17, 2015, 01:14:31 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 17, 2015, 01:10:10 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 17, 2015, 12:18:22 pm
INTERNET EXPLORER - you will not be missed.

http://bgr.com/2015/03/17/internet-explorer-update-rip/
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/goodbye-ie-microsoft-is-dumping-the-internet-explorer-brand/
http://qz.com/364122/microsoft-is-scrapping-internet-explorer/
etc.

i can't believe that pile of coded excrement has lasted this long.

if it is so shitty, why do almost 70 percent of all computer users, employ ie as their internet exploring option?

^that's not good logic as 65% of users are total idiots....if that wasn't true I wouldn't have been gainfully employed for the last 2 decades

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 17, 2015, 01:30:21 pm

but, I . . . use it. the convenience of it being everywhere and accepted ease of use outweighed my needs to explore other options, plus i think chrome sucks. but, then again, i think widespread panic is good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 17, 2015, 01:38:39 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 17, 2015, 01:10:10 pm

if it is so shitty, why do almost 70 percent of all computer users, employ ie as their internet exploring option?

Uh, because it comes pre-installed on the computer 90% of them bought?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 17, 2015, 01:39:37 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 17, 2015, 01:30:21 pm

but, I . . . use it. the convenience of it being everywhere and accepted ease of use outweighed my needs to explore other options, plus i think chrome sucks. but, then again, i think widespread panic is good.

The ease of use is the exact issue though. You have to use Compatability Mode and add lots of websites to Compatability View lists to get them to work on IE. I'm a Firefox guy, not Chrome.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 17, 2015, 02:27:53 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 17, 2015, 01:10:10 pm

if it is so shitty, why do almost 70 percent of all computer users, employ ie as their internet exploring option?

Um, this is a completely made up statistic and hasn't been true since about ~~2008~~ 2007.

Today's true stats:
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 17, 2015, 03:18:58 pm

Quote from: vansmack on March 17, 2015, 02:27:53 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 17, 2015, 01:10:10 pm
if it is so shitty, why do almost 70 percent of all computer users, employ ie as their internet exploring option?

Um, this is a completely made up statistic and hasn't been true since about ~~2008~~ 2007.

Today's true stats:
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php

To be fair, the second link in Sweetcell's post lists the DESKTOP share for IE at 57% to Chrome's 24% and 57% is, ostensibly, "almost 70" for Walkie spitballing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 17, 2015, 03:29:57 pm

I like, spitballing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 17, 2015, 03:40:01 pm

Quote from: vansmack on March 17, 2015, 02:27:53 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 17, 2015, 01:10:10 pm
if it is so shitty, why do almost 70 percent of all computer users, employ ie as their internet exploring option?

Um, this is a completely made up statistic and hasn't been true since about ~~2008~~ 2007.

Today's true stats:
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php

What is scary about those stats

Operating Systems

1 Windows 7 39.28%
2 Android 4 12.62%
3 Windows 8.1 9.07%
4 iOS 8 8.09%
5 Windows XP 7.36%
6 Mac OS X 6.28%
7 iOS 7 3.33%
8 Linux 2.54%
9 Windows 8 2.52%
10 Windows Vista 2.04%

There are 2 % of users still on Vista!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on March 17, 2015, 03:41:37 pm

uhmm . . . I still use vista. im, too lazy to care. its just a computer; im not fucking it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on March 17, 2015, 03:52:27 pm

Aaron Schock's career.

Let's relive the memories: http://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2015/02/aaron-schock-model-or-congressman/002149-030575.html#.VQiEz-H1-Dl

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 17, 2015, 04:03:40 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 17, 2015, 03:29:57 pm

I like, spitballing

I totally set you up for that one. Glad you spiked it home, gurl.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 17, 2015, 04:23:42 pm

I laugh when I read people blast one browser over another based on such absurd things as security, etc. Every browser has security issues, the biggest of which is the person operating it.

I use FF solely because I like the look and feel of it and that I can configure it exactly the way I want it. It renders pages well and is sufficiently fast.

I cannot use Chrome and it horrid interface, the lack of a menu at the top is alone enough to kill it for anyone other than a tablet user. It has a VERY awkward and highly non-intuitive interface.

I despise that scheme that IE uses in the address bar whereas part of the URL is dimmed and the rest is not. That is very difficult to read. Supposedly it highlights the actual domain of the address, and as such protects me form myself. In the end it is just a pain in the ass.

Of course my opinions may be a tad skewed. I was first in the on line world with a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem running a WWIV BBS. (Get off my lawn).

(Frank Zappa'a Watermelon In Easter Hay is a good song to uh, well yeah that, to.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 17, 2015, 04:24:40 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on March 17, 2015, 01:14:31 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 17, 2015, 01:10:10 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on March 17, 2015, 12:18:22 pm
INTERNET EXPLORER - you will not be missed.

http://bgr.com/2015/03/17/internet-explorer-update-rip/
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/goodbye-ie-microsoft-is-dumping-the-internet-explorer-brand/
http://qz.com/364122/microsoft-is-scrapping-internet-explorer/
etc.

i can't believe that pile of coded excrement has lasted this long.

if it is so shitty, why do almost 70 percent of all computer users, employ ie as their internet exploring option?
^that's not good logic as 65% of users are total idiots....if that wasn't true I wouldn't have been gainfully employed for the last 2 decades

79.43% of all statistics are made up!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 17, 2015, 04:28:43 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 17, 2015, 03:41:37 pm

uhmm . . . I still use vista. im, too lazy to care. its just a computer; im not fucking it.

If you're using Vista, it's fucking you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 17, 2015, 05:11:46 pm

Quote from: vansmack on March 17, 2015, 04:28:43 pm

Quote from: walkonby on March 17, 2015, 03:41:37 pm
uhmm . . . I still use vista. im, too lazy to care. its just a computer; im not fucking it.

If you're using Vista, it's fucking you.

BOOM!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on March 18, 2015, 04:51:10 pm

Andy Fraser, bassist of Free.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31937608

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bellenseb on March 19, 2015, 05:14:24 pm

Insound

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6509187/insound-closing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 20, 2015, 03:20:47 pm

Bad week for drummers.

Twisted Sister drummer A.J. Pero dead at 55 (http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6509316/twisted-sister-drummer-aj-pero-dead-55)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 20, 2015, 04:25:48 pm

It's not been a good week for classic rock

Michael Brown keyboards and principal songwriter for the Left Banke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gaaaaaaaaah on March 26, 2015, 07:59:49 pm

john renbourn

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 26, 2015, 08:03:41 pm

Quote from: gaaaaaaaaah on March 26, 2015, 07:59:49 pm

john renbourn

concha de la lora

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on March 29, 2015, 01:50:43 pm

Chester Nez (http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/04/us/navajo-code-talker-obit/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 31, 2015, 07:28:59 pm

Jeremy Brown

http://www.pollstar.com/news_article.aspx?ID=817342

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 31, 2015, 10:47:37 pm

(http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/04/01/us/01dahl-1-obit/01dahl-1-obit-master675.jpg)

Gary Dahl, Inventor of the Pet Rock, Dies at 78 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/us/gary-dahl-inventor-of-the-pet-rock-dies-at-78.html?_r=0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 01, 2015, 02:37:23 am

I've always had trouble with the idea that anyone invented pet rocks. Seems more like they were domesticated.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 01, 2015, 12:35:22 pm

Cynthia Lennon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 01, 2015, 12:41:22 pm

Andrew Getty

http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/world/oil-heir-andrew-getty-found-dead-in-los-angeles-mansion-with-traumatic-rectal-injury/story-fnjbobed-1227287609232

I probably played with him as a newborn...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 01, 2015, 01:17:26 pm

Quote from: Hutch on April 01, 2015, 12:41:22 pm

Andrew Getty

http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/world/oil-heir-andrew-getty-found-dead-in-los-angeles-mansion-with-traumatic-rectal-injury/story-fnjbobed-1227287609232

I probably played with him as a newborn...

^died from a 'significant rectal injury'.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on April 01, 2015, 02:17:47 pm

Quote from: grateful on April 01, 2015, 02:37:23 am

I've always had trouble with the idea that anyone invented pet rocks. Seems more like they were domesticated.

I think it is abso-fucking-lutely GREAT! Just goes to prove that anyone can make it in a free enterprise system. :)

Of course, as the article hints, the whole thing was the packaging and marketing. the product inside could be total shit but if you dress it up really pretty the gullible public will eat it up. Need I even point out the similarity to Obamacare? ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 01, 2015, 02:26:21 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on April 01, 2015, 01:17:26 pm

Quote from: Hutch on April 01, 2015, 12:41:22 pm
Andrew Getty

http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/world/oil-heir-andrew-getty-found-dead-in-los-angeles-mansion-with-traumatic-rectal-injury/story-fnjbobed-1227287609232

I probably played with him as a newborn...
^died from a 'significant rectal injury'.

So Hutch and Walkie conspired together to kill him?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 01, 2015, 08:38:18 pm

I don't know who, he is. And I love Obama care.

I, get all the new pages.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on April 02, 2015, 11:52:51 am

Your own personal Jesus (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/02/robert-schuller-crystal-cathedral-megachurch-founder-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 02, 2015, 12:19:13 pm

oh how I'll miss the ?Hour of Power?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 02, 2015, 12:20:07 pm

I, can give that to you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on April 05, 2015, 11:30:20 am

Bob Burns (https://www.yahoo.com/music/s/bob-burns-former-lynyrd-skynyrd-drummer-dies-car-194156511.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 07, 2015, 11:36:54 am

Many a tear will be shed over this one.

Roscoe P. Coltrane has passed away.

Statement from Sonny Shroyer costar as Enos Strate on ?The Dukes of Hazzard?:

?James Best will go down as one of the greatest actors that ever lived?a great
friend and the only sheriff I ever really loved. I will always miss him calling
me ?dipstick.? I know he loved me and I loved him.?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on April 07, 2015, 12:25:02 pm

I feel, proud, that space freely gave that one to us. rosco was legend, indeed. his dog, flash, too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 08, 2015, 01:42:16 pm

Only Cooter's passing will disappoint me more from that show.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 08, 2015, 02:13:03 pm

That's a whole lotta guiltys

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 08, 2015, 02:20:10 pm

Quote from: grateful on April 08, 2015, 02:13:03 pm

That's a whole lotta guiltys

If you had the Tsarnaev trial concluding before the Aaron Hernandez trial in your judical wagering portfolio, you are a winner.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 08, 2015, 09:25:23 pm

Twisted Sister

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 13, 2015, 10:33:34 am

Günter Grass (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/world/europe/gunter-grass-german-novelist-dies-at-87.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 13, 2015, 04:46:46 pm

Eduardo Galeano (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-eduardo-galeano-20150413-story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 13, 2015, 04:51:09 pm

Quote from: ggw on April 13, 2015, 04:46:46 pm

Eduardo Galeano (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-eduardo-galeano-20150413-story.html)

yeah..any major dude will tell you he was a major player

i like his book about soccer a lot

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 13, 2015, 05:33:35 pm

This one was quite the bummer.

Quote from: ggw on April 13, 2015, 04:46:46 pm

Eduardo Galeano (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-eduardo-galeano-20150413-story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 14, 2015, 11:09:43 am

Percy Sledge

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 14, 2015, 12:52:36 pm

Quote from: vansmack on April 14, 2015, 11:09:43 am

Percy Sledge

nooooooooooooo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 14, 2015, 10:39:30 pm

Democracy Now's Eduardo Galeano memorial (http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/14/remembering_eduardo_galeano_champion_of_social)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 16, 2015, 03:02:11 pm

Bill Arhos (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/arts/television/bill-arhos-founder-of-austin-city-limits-dies-at-80.html), a frustrated guitarist whose long-running television show, ?Austin City Limits,? introduced much of America to the sound of redneck rock and progressive country and prompted Austin, Tex., to proclaim itself the ?Live Music Capital of the World,? died on Saturday in suburban Austin. He was 80.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 22, 2015, 08:46:06 am

Tinkerbell Hilton (https://www.yahoo.com/style/tinkerbell-hilton-has-died-117038350293.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 22, 2015, 08:53:09 am

Quote from: ggw on April 22, 2015, 08:46:06 am

Tinkerbell Hilton (https://www.yahoo.com/style/tinkerbell-hilton-has-died-117038350293.html)

This is almost enough to prompt me to start a Julian's America III: With A Vengence thread. Almost, but not quite enough.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 28, 2015, 03:30:12 pm

(http://cimg.tvgcdn.net/i/r/2015/04/28/52781b3e-738f-4204-a419-d244ec8655c6/resize/700x1018/ee963728c211966772c4d6caec587d90/150428-news-suzanne-crough.jpg)

Suzanne Crough (http://www.tvguide.com/news/suzanne-crough-dies-partridge-family/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 28, 2015, 08:47:02 pm

'Louie Louie' singer Jack Ely of the Kingsmen dies at 71

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/28/louie-louie-singer-jack-ely-kingsmen-dies-71

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 30, 2015, 12:43:49 pm

Freeman

(now goes by GeneWeen)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 30, 2015, 09:04:26 pm

Grooveshark (http://grooveshark.com/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on May 01, 2015, 07:15:55 am

The first step to getting the old band back together?

Quote from: Sidehatch on April 30, 2015, 12:43:49 pm

Freeman

(now goes by GeneWeen)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 01, 2015, 08:54:20 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on May 01, 2015, 07:15:55 am

The first step to getting the old band back together?

Quote from: Sidehatch on April 30, 2015, 12:43:49 pm
Freeman

(now goes by GeneWeen)

I bet if Ween decided to do a tour with all the boys, it would probably sell out the 930
as it is, the both of them can barely get enough people to show up to fill the Blowtel

So give it a year or two

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 01, 2015, 08:56:05 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on May 01, 2015, 08:54:20 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on May 01, 2015, 07:15:55 am
The first step to getting the old band back together?

Quote from: Sidehatch on April 30, 2015, 12:43:49 pm
Freeman

(now goes by GeneWeen)
I bet if Ween decided to do a tour with all the boys, it would probably sell out the 930
as it is, the both of them can barely get enough people to show up to fill the Blowtel

So give it a year or two

Probably? Most definitely.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 01, 2015, 09:00:55 am

Ok Seth...this means you have to make do your best lorne michaels plea to get the band back together
you could offer them 1 million Friends With Benefits points :)

Like I said, this is made out to Ween - you divide it up any way you want. If you want to give less to Claude, that's up to you - I'd rather not get involved

(http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/pics/75rbeatles1.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 01, 2015, 10:16:14 am

Ben E. King

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 01, 2015, 11:16:26 am

Jaxx (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2015/05/01/empire-the-club-formerly-known-as-jaxx-says-goodbye-this-weekend/)

The closure leaves a gaping hole in the area?s heavy metal community

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 01, 2015, 11:35:41 am

Not surprising. Jaxx went straight downhill after the Road Ducks drummer sold it in 2011. Before that, it was cheesey but occasionally booked some really good acts. Eric Burdon & The Animals, Helmet, Burning Brides, the Dead Kennedys (albeit without Jello), Fishbone. Not to mention all those '80s metal bands.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on May 02, 2015, 01:46:46 pm

Quote from: ggw on May 01, 2015, 11:35:41 am

Not surprising. Jaxx went straight downhill after the Road Ducks drummer sold it in 2011. Before that, it was cheesey but occasionally booked some really good acts. Eric Burdon & The Animals, Helmet, Burning Brides, the Dead Kennedys (albeit without Jello), Fishbone. Not to mention all those '80s metal bands.

yeah....R.I.P. Jaxx/Empire. The place was mostly bad juju, but did get some good tours or stand alone gigs. I saw Death Row reunited in there. Saw Pentagram too. I also saw Mudvayne at the peak of their popularity in there. I was also at that Helmet/Burning Brides show. Melanie even dedicated a song to me because the venue weirded her out and I reassured her that "This is just how Jaxx is"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 02, 2015, 02:47:42 pm

Jaxx was a definite addition to the area's music scene.. Empire was crumbling so its not a huge loss.. I think Jaxx was a big loss...if Jaxx had been around Ace Frehley might have played there instead of the ridiculous Ramshead Annapolis...that says it all.

without Jaxx the area will simply get bypassed /is getting bypassed for many shows in that genre....they had the connections /longstanding relationships with the bands ....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 03, 2015, 10:05:04 pm

Slicing Up Eyeballs (http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2015/05/03/goodbye-farewell-amen/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 04, 2015, 10:56:59 am

i enjoy eras, dying.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on May 04, 2015, 09:55:15 pm

I liked Slicing up Eyeballs. The guy that runs the page does a classic darkwave DJ set on FirstWave on Sirius XM every Sunday that's pretty cool.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 05, 2015, 02:01:18 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on May 03, 2015, 10:05:04 pm

Slicing Up Eyeballs (http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2015/05/03/goodbye-farewell-amen/)

Argh...I really loved this site. That's too bad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 05, 2015, 02:02:56 pm

Quote from: bearman on May 05, 2015, 02:01:18 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on May 03, 2015, 10:05:04 pm
Slicing Up Eyeballs (http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2015/05/03/goodbye-farewell-amen/)

Argh...I really loved this site. That's too bad.

me too...

I am surprised..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 06, 2015, 03:39:10 pm

Errol Brown (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIN36NweL6I)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 07, 2015, 02:53:58 pm

James Garner (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/movies/james-garner-actor-dies-at-86.html?referrer=&_r=0)
:'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 07, 2015, 08:05:43 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on May 07, 2015, 02:53:58 pm

James Garner (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/movies/james-garner-actor-dies-at-86.html?referrer=&_r=0)
:'(

Yeah, you know who else died a long time ago? Robert Freakin' Palmer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 07, 2015, 08:10:00 pm

media,controlled. I saw this yesterday as well somewhere online, and was tricked into thinking he just died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 08, 2015, 08:50:29 am

Quote from: grateful on May 07, 2015, 08:05:43 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on May 07, 2015, 02:53:58 pm
James Garner (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/movies/james-garner-actor-dies-at-86.html?referrer=&_r=0)
:'(

Yeah, you know who else died a long time ago? Robert Freakin' Palmer.

Damn, I did it again!!!
F'n facebook friends...can't trust em (guess I should read the date on the obit too)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on May 11, 2015, 07:31:42 am

Ex-930 staffer Jim Dailey.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 02:07:16 am

BB King (http://www.click2houston.com/news/bb-king-dies-at-age-89-attorney/33036738)

(https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/21892_1419723885014447_8124411043248969352_n.jpg?oh=990393b1898e5c257ab7258734607bc6&oe=560819D0)
Kim and BB...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 15, 2015, 08:30:55 am

man BB toured til he dropped...

I guess BB was the last from that Memphis group..that included Johnny Ace and Bobby Blue Bland...

For whatever reason his music doesn't really hit me......Live at Cook County Jail is probably the closest thing....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 15, 2015, 08:39:58 am

Quote from: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 02:07:16 am

BB King (http://www.click2houston.com/news/bb-king-dies-at-age-89-attorney/33036738)

(https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/21892_1419723885014447_8124411043248969352_n.jpg?oh=990393b1898e5c257ab7258734607bc6&oe=560819D0)
Kim and BB...

who is this kim?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 15, 2015, 08:56:41 am

Quote from: Yada on May 15, 2015, 08:39:58 am

who is this kim?

If I'm not mistaken, from other times he's mentioned her, it's his significant other.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 15, 2015, 09:14:24 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on May 15, 2015, 08:56:41 am

Quote from: Yada on May 15, 2015, 08:39:58 am
who is this kim?
If I'm not mistaken, from other times he's mentioned her, it's his significant other.

That was my assumption, however, I hadn't logged Ratbastard's partner's name in my files.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 15, 2015, 09:49:12 am

Quote from: Yada on May 15, 2015, 09:14:24 am

That was my assumption, however, I hadn't logged Ratbastard's partner's name in my files.

Sounds like your files are kinda shitty.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 15, 2015, 10:24:34 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on May 15, 2015, 09:49:12 am

Quote from: Yada on May 15, 2015, 09:14:24 am
That was my assumption, however, I hadn't logged Ratbastard's partner's name in my files.
Sounds like your files are kinda shitty.

(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs3/3333866_o.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 03:57:23 pm

Kim is a good friend of mine who attended many shows at the club and various other venues with me. She lives across town form me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 03:58:09 pm

Look at the picture carefully and you can see me as well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 15, 2015, 04:06:04 pm

damn, I thought that was Frank Zappa

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 15, 2015, 04:21:04 pm

Post Show Banter >>>> (http://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=22716.msg407195#msg407195)

WHY LORD WHY???????????? that thread was so young, had so much promise... why did kosmoGod take it away from us, in its prime??? was it because we mocked His body type?!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 15, 2015, 04:23:44 pm

the iron fist strikes again.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 15, 2015, 04:25:39 pm

I think I missed something.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 15, 2015, 04:26:51 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 03:58:09 pm

Look at the picture carefully and you can see me as well.

Look carefully? The last time I saw a photo that grainy, it purported to show the Loch Ness Monster.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 15, 2015, 04:27:11 pm

Quote from: grateful on May 15, 2015, 04:25:39 pm

I think I missed something.

I did too... I'm starting to wonder what the rules and regs are here for banning/blocking/deleting/etc.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 15, 2015, 04:27:47 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 15, 2015, 04:27:11 pm

Quote from: grateful on May 15, 2015, 04:25:39 pm
I think I missed something.

I did too... I'm starting to wonder what the rules and regs are here for banning/blocking/deleting/etc.

I think maybe one of the mods clicked lock by accident? I didn't see anything crazy in there.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 15, 2015, 04:36:07 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 15, 2015, 04:50:24 pm

Kinda hard to lock something while in WAP mode, but I'll unlock later

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 15, 2015, 04:52:38 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on May 15, 2015, 04:27:47 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 15, 2015, 04:27:11 pm
Quote from: grateful on May 15, 2015, 04:25:39 pm
I think I missed something.

I did too... I'm starting to wonder what the rules and regs are here for banning/blocking/deleting/etc.
I think maybe one of the mods clicked lock by accident? I didn't see anything crazy in there.

this is my suspicion as well. i am hoping that my melodrama will help spur action. plus, i got to call kosmo pear-shaped.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 15, 2015, 04:53:42 pm

hey watch it there with your slinging around that derogatory term for persons of Italian decent

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on May 15, 2015, 05:11:39 pm

when, all else fails, blame that bitch, hutch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 07:41:26 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on May 15, 2015, 04:26:51 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 03:58:09 pm
Look at the picture carefully and you can see me as well.
Look carefully? The last time I saw a photo that grainy, it purported to show the Loch Ness Monster.

It was taken on the back of a very dimly lit bus with a extremely low resolution camera phone. Don't let the green eyed monster bite you so hard!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 07:43:59 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch on May 15, 2015, 04:06:04 pm

damn, I thought that was Frank Zappa

I've been called by that name in the past.

As well as (for some damn reason):
Ozzy
Howard Stern
Jesus Christ
Charles Manson

I have no idea in hell what to make of that list. I'm am sure that some of you will have wonderful comments to make.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 15, 2015, 08:21:16 pm

That's funny. When I saw you at Jerry last night, I thought Captain Lou Albano.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on May 15, 2015, 08:31:31 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 02:07:16 am

BB King (http://www.click2houston.com/news/bb-king-dies-at-age-89-attorney/33036738)

(https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/21892_1419723885014447_8124411043248969352_n.jpg?oh=990393b1898e5c257ab7258734607bc6&oe=560819D0)
Kim and BB...

nice - he never left a gig until everyone that wanted to meet him got to meet him,
and he would talk to you like he just saw you last week.
"live at the regal" of course and "blues on the bayou" (1998) will be on rotation this weekend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 11:19:59 pm

Quote from: grateful on May 15, 2015, 08:21:16 pm

That's funny. When I saw you at Jerry last night, I thought Captain Lou Albano.

LOL but that wasn't me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 11:27:08 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on May 15, 2015, 08:31:31 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 02:07:16 am
BB King (http://www.click2houston.com/news/bb-king-dies-at-age-89-attorney/33036738)

(https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/21892_1419723885014447_8124411043248969352_n.jpg?oh=990393b1898e5c257ab7258734607bc6&oe=560819D0)
Kim and BB...
nice - he never left a gig until everyone that wanted to meet him got to meet him,
and he would talk to you like he just saw you last week.
"live at the regal" of course and "blues on the bayou" (1998) will be on rotation this weekend.

Kim and I drove down to the Norva for the show. After it was over we went around back to hang for a few minutes at the bar and we see a few people loosely lined up by a tour bus. I take her arm and we go over to the line. Eventually a guy comes out of the bus and says "Whoever is going on the bus line up here". We make the line a little more formal and wait our turn. When we got back to BB, Kim asked "Is it OK if my friend takes of picture of me with you?" BB says "Sure darling, sit down here next to me and act like you like me."

The funny thing was that the young boy who was in front of us was so nervous that he could hardly control himself. He was thanking Jesus for letting him meet BB and getting very flustered. BB showed the patience of a saint with him took a good amount of time and got him to eventually calm down so he could enjoy the moment and remember having met BB.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 16, 2015, 08:19:05 am

Quote from: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 11:27:08 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on May 15, 2015, 08:31:31 pm
Quote from: RatBastard on May 15, 2015, 02:07:16 am
BB King (http://www.click2houston.com/news/bb-king-dies-at-age-89-attorney/33036738)

(https://scontent-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/21892_1419723885014447_8124411043248969352_n.jpg?oh=990393b1898e5c257ab7258734607bc6&oe=560819D0)
Kim and BB...
nice - he never left a gig until everyone that wanted to meet him got to meet him,
and he would talk to you like he just saw you last week.
"live at the regal" of course and "blues on the bayou" (1998) will be on rotation this weekend.

Kim and I drove down to the Norva for the show. After it was over we went around back to hang for a few minutes at the bar and we see a few people loosely lined up by a tour bus. I take her arm and we go over to the line. Eventually a guy comes out of the bus and says "Whoever is going on the bus line up here". We make the line a little more formal and wait our turn. When we got back to BB, Kim asked "Is it OK if my friend takes of picture of me with you?" BB says "Sure darling, sit down here next to me and act like you like me."

The funny thing was that the young boy who was in front of us was so nervous that he could hardly control himself. He was thanking Jesus for letting him meet BB and getting very flustered. BB showed the patience of a saint with him took a good amount of time and got him to eventually calm down so he could enjoy the moment and remember having met BB.

that is awesome!

i love stories like that...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on May 17, 2015, 04:18:27 pm

Terry Jones, vocalist for British cult 70's and 80's band Pagan Altar. They were enjoying a career revival as of late so this news is just awful. I saw Pagan Altar at their very first U.S. appearance (Maryland Death Fest 2013) and they were amazing. Terry seemed so happy and full of pride that his music resinated with so many people decades after it barely saw the light of day on cassette tape.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 21, 2015, 10:30:01 am

Noted Jazz Musician Bob Belden Dies
http://www.pollstar.com/news_article.aspx?ID=818274

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on May 21, 2015, 11:10:33 am

Quote from: Unsanity on May 17, 2015, 04:18:27 pm

Terry Jones, vocalist for British cult 70's and 80's band Pagan Altar. They were enjoying a career revival as of late so this news is just awful. I saw Pagan Altar at their very first U.S. appearance (Maryland Death Fest 2013) and they were amazing. Terry seemed so happy and full of pride that his music resinated with so many people decades after it barely saw the light of day on cassette tape.

yeah , i was at that show as well...they were great. too bad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 22, 2015, 08:41:52 am

Darius Minwalla Posies drummer for the past 14 years

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 24, 2015, 04:30:38 pm

Anne Meara (http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2015/05/24/actress-anne-meara-mom-of-ben-stiller-dies-85/27888225/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 24, 2015, 08:11:45 pm

John Nash and his wife

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 24, 2015, 11:05:34 pm

Anne Meara (http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ap-newsbreak-actress-anne-meara-mom-of-ben-stiller-dies/2015/05/24/87d4cb92-024d-11e5-93f4-f24d4af7f97d_story.html?tid=sm_fb)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 28, 2015, 08:58:36 am

I have it on good authority that ggw has retired from the forum.

RIP ggw's forum career.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 28, 2015, 09:03:32 am

Quote from: Yada on May 28, 2015, 08:58:36 am

I have it on good authority that ggw has retired from the forum.

RIP ggw's forum career.

With the growing anti-obese movement on the forums, I'm not surprised.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 28, 2015, 09:32:20 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on May 28, 2015, 09:03:32 am

Quote from: Yada on May 28, 2015, 08:58:36 am
I have it on good authority that ggw has retired from the forum.

RIP ggw's forum career.
With the growing anti-obese movement on the forums, I'm not surprised.

Dang look at those stats

Name: ggw
Posts: 13294 (2.707 per day)
Date Registered: 16-12-2001, 01:01:01
Last Active: 11-05-2015, 15:18:32

that's some long tenure, seem a pity that we fatshamed him out

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 28, 2015, 09:37:14 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on May 28, 2015, 09:03:32 am

Quote from: Yada on May 28, 2015, 08:58:36 am
I have it on good authority that ggw has retired from the forum.

RIP ggw's forum career.
With the growing anti-obese movement on the forums, I'm not surprised.

you've clearly never met ggw.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 28, 2015, 09:57:12 am

Quote from: sweetcell on May 28, 2015, 09:37:14 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on May 28, 2015, 09:03:32 am
Quote from: Yada on May 28, 2015, 08:58:36 am
I have it on good authority that ggw has retired from the forum.

RIP ggw's forum career.
With the growing anti-obese movement on the forums, I'm not surprised.

you've clearly never met ggw.

I have not. But, to be fair, he hasn't submitted a photo to verify his shitlord'ness.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 28, 2015, 10:31:53 am

Quote from: Yada on May 28, 2015, 08:58:36 am

I have it on good authority that ggw has retired from the forum.

RIP ggw's forum career.

You'd think my presence alone would be enough to inspire him to log on once in awhile and shoot a zinger my way. Alas, I guess I overestimated his hatred for me.

My wife used to insist that he and I HAD to be ex-lovers gone bad because of the seemingly irrational hatred he had for me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 28, 2015, 11:28:09 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on May 28, 2015, 09:57:12 am

I have not. But, to be fair, he hasn't submitted a photo to verify his shitlord'ness.

(http://www.stevegtennis.com/wp-content/uploads/mcenroe.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 28, 2015, 11:30:22 am

I am serious.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 28, 2015, 11:39:52 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on May 28, 2015, 11:30:22 am

I am serious.

Actually, more like this at this point in time.

(http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/72/590x/john-mcenroe-447052.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 28, 2015, 11:43:01 am

Quote from: Space Freely on May 28, 2015, 10:31:53 am

Quote from: Yada on May 28, 2015, 08:58:36 am
I have it on good authority that ggw has retired from the forum.

RIP ggw's forum career.

You'd think my presence alone would be enough to inspire him to log on once in awhile and shoot a zinger my way. Alas, I guess I overestimated his hatred for me.

My wife used to insist that he and I HAD to be ex-lovers gone bad because of the seemingly irrational hatred he had for me.

I don't think it was irrational, I think it was contextual and valid based on the 20k plus posts you've done here

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 28, 2015, 11:45:28 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on May 28, 2015, 11:43:01 am

I don't think it was irrational, I think it was contextual and valid based on the 20k plus posts you've done here

POTW

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 28, 2015, 01:13:09 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch.♪♫?*¨*?.¸¸❤¸¸.?*¨*?♫♪. on May 28, 2015, 11:43:01 am

Quote from: Space Freely on May 28, 2015, 10:31:53 am
Quote from: Yada on May 28, 2015, 08:58:36 am
I have it on good authority that ggw has retired from the forum.

RIP ggw's forum career.

You'd think my presence alone would be enough to inspire him to log on once in awhile and shoot a zinger my way. Alas, I guess I overestimated his hatred for me.

My wife used to insist that he and I HAD to be ex-lovers gone bad because of the seemingly irrational hatred he had for me.
I don't think it was irrational, I think it was contextual and valid based on the 20k plus posts you've done here

And yet among all of those 20K posts, I challenge you to find one where I was mean, insulting, or creepy toward him or his family the way he was toward me.

Of course, his creepiness wasn't only directed toward me. There was the time that he pm'd me to encourage me to mock the disability of a certain biind board member, before his blindness was widely known. That was classy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 28, 2015, 01:28:49 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 28, 2015, 01:13:09 pm

And yet among all of those 20K posts, I challenge you to find one where I was mean, insulting, or creepy toward him or his family the way he was toward me.

Of course, his creepiness wasn't only directed toward me. There was the time that he pm'd me to encourage me to mock the disability of a certain biind board member, before his blindness was widely known. That was classy.

You know, I'm not one to agree with Rhett often, but it did always amaze me the sheer percentage of GGW's oeuvre that was snarky and insulting of others and yet he was always viewed -- it seemed -- as above the fray. Which kind of doesn't make sense.

OTOH, it is a wonderful Julian's America-esque lesson in how having money allows you to live a consequence free life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 28, 2015, 02:02:45 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on May 28, 2015, 01:28:49 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 28, 2015, 01:13:09 pm

And yet among all of those 20K posts, I challenge you to find one where I was mean, insulting, or creepy toward him or his family the way he was toward me.

Of course, his creepiness wasn't only directed toward me. There was the time that he pm'd me to encourage me to mock the disability of a certain biind board member, before his blindness was widely known. That was classy.
You know, I'm not one to agree with Rhett often, but it did always amaze me the sheer percentage of GGW's oeuvre that was snarky and insulting of others and yet he was always viewed -- it seemed -- as above the fray. Which kind of doesn't make sense.

OTOH, it is a wonderful Julian's America-esque lesson in how having money allows you to live a consequence free life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 29, 2015, 04:46:35 pm

U2 Tour Manager Dennis Sheehan (http://www.tmz.com/2015/05/27/u2-tour-manager-dennis-sheehan-dies-found-dead-los-angeles/)

Presumed suicide brought on by having to listen to multiple U2 concerts. :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 29, 2015, 04:48:13 pm

I was wondering what pushed him over the edge.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 29, 2015, 05:01:39 pm

Quote from: grateful on May 29, 2015, 04:48:13 pm

I was wondering what pushed him over the edge.

The Edge.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 05, 2015, 05:05:26 pm

Flesh for Lulu's Nick Marsh (https://sonicmoremusic.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/r-i-p-flesh-for-lulus-nick-marsh-passes-away-june-5-2015/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 05, 2015, 05:10:57 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on May 29, 2015, 04:46:35 pm

U2 Tour Manager Dennis Sheehan (http://www.tmz.com/2015/05/27/u2-tour-manager-dennis-sheehan-dies-found-dead-los-angeles/)

Presumed suicide brought on by having to listen to multiple U2 concerts. :'(

Bono had his bike accident. Edge fell off the stage. Larry Mullen Jr.'s father died during dress rehearsals. Former 1989 tour mate B.B King died. And now their tour manager has died.

That's a run of bad luck. Then again they have homes on the French Riviera.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on June 06, 2015, 06:37:49 am

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on June 05, 2015, 05:10:57 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on May 29, 2015, 04:46:35 pm
U2 Tour Manager Dennis Sheehan (http://www.tmz.com/2015/05/27/u2-tour-manager-dennis-sheehan-dies-found-dead-los-angeles/)

Presumed suicide brought on by having to listen to multiple U2 concerts. :'(

Bono had his bike accident. Edge fell off the stage. Larry Mullen Jr.'s father died during dress rehearsals. Former 1989 tour mate B.B King died. And now their tour manager has died.

That's a run of bad luck. Then again they have homes on the French Riviera.

All of that with such little talent (excluding BB of course), oh well speaks volumes about the music business...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 11, 2015, 07:56:02 am

Christopher Lee

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on June 11, 2015, 08:56:07 am

the wicker man is one of my favorites. dude was in so many great films. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on June 11, 2015, 09:45:22 am

Ornette Coleman. Damn.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 11, 2015, 11:15:35 am

^ :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 11, 2015, 02:10:27 pm

Some wrestler dude.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on June 11, 2015, 02:13:11 pm

Dusty Rhodes
One of the greatest promo guys ever... RIP
(http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1837541/tumblr_mu22sdPUBh1qfrkf9o6_250.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 11, 2015, 02:27:43 pm

god . . . back in the day, I worshipped dusty Rhodes. and the rock n roll express. and the road warriors. and the four horseman. and rick flair.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on June 11, 2015, 02:32:48 pm

Quote from: killsaly on June 11, 2015, 02:13:11 pm

Dusty Rhodes
One of the greatest promo guys ever... RIP
(http://cdn1.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1837541/tumblr_mu22sdPUBh1qfrkf9o6_250.gif)

I'm tearing up :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on June 15, 2015, 10:52:25 am

Dave Zirin on Dusty Rhodes (http://bit.ly/1FPctsA)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on June 15, 2015, 11:51:59 am

great write up of a legend. my memories never fade of prepubescent eras dedicated to watching that god awful sport and frothing at the mouth at characters like dusty and ric.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 15, 2015, 12:47:55 pm

We have Dave Zirin on campus about once every other year, and he's one of my favorite guests.

Super nice guy, super entertaining and I can talk sports with him all night long.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on June 15, 2015, 11:00:43 pm

He and Etan Thomas have a weekly show on WPFW now. Always worth a listen.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 16, 2015, 09:21:04 am

Blaze Starr (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-blaze-starr-20150615-story.html#page=1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 21, 2015, 07:39:01 pm

Gunther Schuller (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/06/21/us/ap-us-obit-gunther-schuller.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 22, 2015, 03:28:33 pm

darryl hamilton

sheesus .so weird.one day you're watching him on MLB Network and the next...he's a goner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 22, 2015, 03:32:18 pm

Quote from: Hutch on June 22, 2015, 03:28:33 pm

darryl hamilton

sheesus .so weird.one day you're watching him on MLB Network and the next...he's a goner

Crazy ass story too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 22, 2015, 03:58:31 pm

Pete Rose's chances of making it to the HOF...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 22, 2015, 04:00:28 pm

Quote from: Hutch on June 22, 2015, 03:58:31 pm

Pete Rose's chances of making it to the HOF...

Saw that. Insane. I mean, I think we all probably assumed but yeah, it's offically DOA now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on June 22, 2015, 04:08:16 pm

Quote from: Hutch on June 22, 2015, 03:58:31 pm

Pete Rose's chances of making it to the HOF...

About time...

http://www.peterosesucks.com

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 22, 2015, 04:11:53 pm

Confederate flag, SC

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 22, 2015, 04:34:43 pm

which is the state that has the confederate flag when you enter it on I95? That is Georgia right? or SC too?

good riddance to bad rubbish...should have been outlawed after the Civil War.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 23, 2015, 12:04:20 am

Composer James Horner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 23, 2015, 11:34:31 am

Dick Van Patten

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on June 23, 2015, 12:01:19 pm

Donald Featherstone

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on June 23, 2015, 02:48:29 pm

Quote from: killsaly on June 23, 2015, 12:01:19 pm

Donald Featherstone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cMWYlQwoQk

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 26, 2015, 05:24:45 pm

One of those two NY prison escapees.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 26, 2015, 06:49:06 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on June 26, 2015, 05:24:45 pm

One of those two NY prison escapees.

The one with the big schlong is still, well, at large.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 28, 2015, 12:41:04 pm

Chris Squire

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 28, 2015, 01:50:14 pm

Falcon 9

(http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/15/26/1435501783-faill.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on June 28, 2015, 04:10:40 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on June 26, 2015, 06:49:06 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on June 26, 2015, 05:24:45 pm
One of those two NY prison escapees.

The one with the big schlong is still, well, at large.

Not anymore.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 28, 2015, 10:31:09 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on June 28, 2015, 12:41:04 pm

Chris Squire (https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11542026_10206597812651378_7066457806647786538_n.jpg?oh=16227e264717377716ec8b54e7953d54&oe=55EDF556)

not sure what that pic is that you linked to...

here's something on topic: http://pitchfork.com/news/59686-yes-bassist-chris-squire-has-died/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on June 29, 2015, 10:57:48 am

Michael Bolton (http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Driver-Ejected-from-I-270-Accident-Killed-310446751.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 29, 2015, 11:21:51 am

Quote from: ggw on June 29, 2015, 10:57:48 am

Michael Bolton (http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Driver-Ejected-from-I-270-Accident-Killed-310446751.html)

Welcome back, legend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 29, 2015, 12:15:53 pm

Quote from: ggw on June 29, 2015, 10:57:48 am

Michael Bolton (http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Driver-Ejected-from-I-270-Accident-Killed-310446751.html)

All I see here is that you have a Google Alert set for Michael Bolton.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 29, 2015, 12:21:59 pm

Quote from: ggw on June 29, 2015, 10:57:48 am

Michael Bolton (http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Driver-Ejected-from-I-270-Accident-Killed-310446751.html)

I'll be honest with you, I love his music. I do. I'm a Michael Bolton fan. For my money, I don't know if it gets any better than when he sings "When a Man Loves a Woman".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on June 29, 2015, 01:38:02 pm

Quote from: ggw on June 29, 2015, 10:57:48 am

Michael Bolton (http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Driver-Ejected-from-I-270-Accident-Killed-310446751.html)

I've got several mutual friends of this guy....He was the founding bass player of a local rockabilly band called Jumpin Jupiter.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on July 06, 2015, 10:18:43 am

Burt Shavitz, co-founder of Burt's Bees (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/06/burt-shavitz-cantankerous-hippie-co-founder-of-burts-bees-dead-at-80/?tid=hp_mm&hpid=z3)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on July 06, 2015, 11:08:40 am

he was the company name, help found the company, and is the spokes model on all products. the company is worth a billion dollars. and he got nothing but fucked by the woman he fucked.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on July 06, 2015, 11:12:29 am

Charanjit Singh

Thankfully azaghal suggested that we go see this innovator last year (we actually saw him twice that day, once at Kennedy Center and then later at Tropacalia).

Look up his Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat album; he accidentally created Acid House with it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 07, 2015, 07:19:27 pm

Amanda Peterson (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amanda-peterson-dead_559b05c3e4b04a9c98e824e6). WTF?

(https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/amanda-peterson-dead.jpg?quality=65&strip=color&w=670)

She was 43.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on July 07, 2015, 07:38:36 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 07, 2015, 07:19:27 pm

Amanda Peterson (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amanda-peterson-dead_559b05c3e4b04a9c98e824e6). WTF?

(https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/amanda-peterson-dead.jpg?quality=65&strip=color&w=670)

She was 43.

Who?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 07, 2015, 08:20:07 pm

That was a fun night.

Quote from: killsaly on July 06, 2015, 11:12:29 am

Charanjit Singh

Thankfully azaghal suggested that we go see this innovator last year (we actually saw him twice that day, once at Kennedy Center and then later at Tropacalia).

Look up his Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat album; he accidentally created Acid House with it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on July 08, 2015, 12:02:45 pm

Phil Austin aka Nick Danger Third Eye (Firesign Theater)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 08, 2015, 12:21:22 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on July 07, 2015, 07:38:36 pm

Who?

If only there was a link in the post that you could click that would tell you who she was and what she was known for....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 08, 2015, 12:59:12 pm

Capitalism! (https://twitter.com/allisonkilkenny/status/618815326009094145)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 08, 2015, 01:32:38 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on July 08, 2015, 12:59:12 pm

Capitalism! (https://twitter.com/allisonkilkenny/status/618815326009094145)

I was thinking of posting something similar
darn software updates never go well
that why you should be nice to your sys admins!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 08, 2015, 01:53:22 pm

Have CNN blamed ISIS yet?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 08, 2015, 02:03:12 pm

2 + hours down...that's some serious sh!+

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 08, 2015, 02:10:16 pm

Twitter's been pretty on point with the hilarity. https://twitter.com/positalya/status/618818302354325504 https://twitter.com/mollycrabapple

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 08, 2015, 02:13:06 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on July 08, 2015, 01:32:38 pm

that why you should be nice to your sys admins!

National Sysadmin Day, Friday 7/31. Timely.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 08, 2015, 02:13:28 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on July 08, 2015, 01:53:22 pm

Have CNN blamed ISIS yet?

Has Trump blamed Mexicans?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 08, 2015, 02:23:22 pm

http://heavy.com/news/2015/07/bane-trending-twitter-nyse-new-york-stock-exchange-outage-hack-attack-terrorism-why-is-bane-trending/?utm_source=twitterfeedutm_medium=twitterutm_campaign=Feed%3A+HeavyTV+%28Heavy.com+%C2%BB+TV%29 ?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 08, 2015, 02:43:37 pm

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/08/new-york-stock-exchange-suspends-trading-wall-street-aftermath

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 08, 2015, 02:55:18 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on July 08, 2015, 01:32:38 pm

Quote from: azaghal1981 on July 08, 2015, 12:59:12 pm
Capitalism! (https://twitter.com/allisonkilkenny/status/618815326009094145)

I was thinking of posting something similar
darn software updates never go well
that why you should be nice to your sys admins!

Just today, my sys admin is blaming "issues" for postponing my PC replacement. Damn you, ISIS!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on July 09, 2015, 01:09:34 am

R.I.P. Cellar Door (the house venue)

Saw many great metal/punk shows there. I think they have a few more planned but alas, the place will be more after July 31st.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 09, 2015, 07:56:55 pm

Former Raiders QB, Ken Stabler.

(No he didn't (http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/oakland-raiders-ken-stabler-dies-age-69-070915))

(But then, yes he did. (http://www.waaytv.com/appnews/ua-confirms-former-alabama-nfl-quarterback-ken-stabler-has-died/article_a27a9a3a-2692-11e5-90b2-63a8c436982d.html))

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 15, 2015, 09:19:42 am

Nick Cave's son.

http://pitchfork.com/news/60398-nick-caves-son-15-dies-in-fall-from-cliff/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 17, 2015, 09:18:51 am

"The end of capitalism has begun" (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/17/postcapitalism-end-of-capitalism-begun?CMP=edit_2221)

Quote from: azaghal1981 on July 08, 2015, 12:59:12 pm

Capitalism! (https://twitter.com/allisonkilkenny/status/618815326009094145)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 20, 2015, 05:26:41 pm

Dieter Moebius (http://www.factmag.com/2015/07/20/dieter-moebius-cluster-harmonia-passed-away/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 21, 2015, 09:21:41 am

Another rough one. Not a good month for electronic music legends.

Possibly my favorite album opening track ever. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd1BH7Nbk8c)

Quote from: beets on July 20, 2015, 05:26:41 pm

Dieter Moebius (http://www.factmag.com/2015/07/20/dieter-moebius-cluster-harmonia-passed-away/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 21, 2015, 09:44:58 am

Kyoko (http://www.factmag.com/2015/07/20/ooioo-guitarist-kyoko-dies/[/url)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 21, 2015, 09:49:11 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on July 21, 2015, 09:44:58 am

Kyoko (http://www.factmag.com/2015/07/20/ooioo-guitarist-kyoko-dies/)

^ fixed the URL.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on July 21, 2015, 09:54:25 am

^Thanks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 23, 2015, 01:01:08 pm

Don Joyce of Negativland (https://www.facebook.com/Negativlandland/posts/1098963353464741)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on July 26, 2015, 10:18:01 pm

Bobbi Kristina Brown

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on July 27, 2015, 05:21:46 pm

VIC FIRTH (http://www.pressherald.com/2015/07/27/visionary-drumstick-maker-vic-firth-formerly-of-maine-dies-at-85/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on July 31, 2015, 06:46:31 pm

Rowdy Roddy Piper

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 01, 2015, 03:22:32 pm

Quote from: killsaly on July 31, 2015, 06:46:31 pm

Rowdy Roddy Piper

always one of my faves as a kid
been a bad year for "wrestling"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on August 03, 2015, 11:11:56 pm

roddy, was indeed, one of the best from that era of wrestling.

but, back to right now.

jared, the subway guy. oh he fucked now. that any hopes of making a comeback . . . dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 09, 2015, 02:49:56 pm

NFL Hall of Famer Frank Gifford

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 09, 2015, 03:00:38 pm

Quote from: vansmack on August 09, 2015, 02:49:56 pm

NFL Hall of Famer Frank Gifford

So, you're saying Kathy Lee is back on the market?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on August 09, 2015, 04:00:36 pm

Sean Price

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sean-price-veteran-rapper-and-boot-camp-clik-member-dead-at-43-20150808

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 16, 2015, 06:32:06 am

Julian Bond :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 17, 2015, 10:19:37 am

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/route-29-batman-is-killed-after-his-car-breaks-down-along-a-maryland-highway/2015/08/17/13f0e9b2-44e3-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html?postshare

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 17, 2015, 05:46:41 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 17, 2015, 10:19:37 am

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/route-29-batman-is-killed-after-his-car-breaks-down-along-a-maryland-highway/2015/08/17/13f0e9b2-44e3-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html?postshare

Why would God take Batman?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 17, 2015, 05:55:23 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on August 17, 2015, 05:46:41 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 17, 2015, 10:19:37 am
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/route-29-batman-is-killed-after-his-car-breaks-down-along-a-maryland-highway/2015/08/17/13f0e9b2-44e3-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html?postshare

Why would God take Batman?

The rapture is upon us. The end is nigh.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 18, 2015, 10:22:25 am

Bob Johnston, 83, Dies; Produced Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash Albums (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/arts/music/bob-johnston-83-dies-produced-bob-dylan-and-johnny-cash-albums.html)

(http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/08/18/arts/18johnston-1-obit/18johnston-1-obit-master675.jpg)

Bob Johnston, who produced a string of classic albums in the 1960s and ?70s including Bob Dylan?s ?Highway 61 Revisited? and ?Blonde on Blonde? and Johnny Cash?s ?At Folsom Prison,? died on Friday in Gallatin, Tenn. He was 83.

...it is Mr. Johnston to whom Mr. Dylan is talking when he asks, ?Is it rolling, Bob?? at the beginning of the song ?To Be Alone With You?

Mr. Johnston worked with Simon and Garfunkel on ?Sounds of Silence? and ?Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme,? and with Leonard Cohen on ?Songs of Love and Hate? and two other albums.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 19, 2015, 09:18:58 am

(http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2013/10/batgirl66.jpg)

Batgirl (http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/batgirl-tv-actress-yvonne-craig-dies-cancer-78-family-n412206)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 19, 2015, 10:42:06 am

So who will round out the Batman-related death triumvirate? I hope it's Ben Affleck, but at 86 years-old, Adam West looks to be the odds-on favorite (with John Astin - aka The Riddler - not far behind).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 21, 2015, 08:17:13 am

Washington Redskins 2015 season.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on August 21, 2015, 10:21:49 am

Quote from: Yada on August 21, 2015, 08:17:13 am

Washington Redskins 2015 season.

Hah, and you thought they had a chance to begin with?

It's funny....they could have been done with RG3 for good after this season. Now, he'll be out 6 weeks or whatever, come back and suck, and they'll say "well he didn't have a full training camp or a complete season, we gotta give it another year and see how he develops."

Sheesh. Talk about a black cloud. I'll say it for the millionth time. This team will be a turkey as long as Danny is at the top. Case closed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 21, 2015, 11:19:11 am

Quote from: chaz on August 21, 2015, 10:21:49 am

It's funny....they could have been done with RG3 for good after this season. Now, he'll be out 6 weeks or whatever, come back and suck, and they'll say "well he didn't have a full training camp or a complete season, we gotta give it another year and see how he develops."

Sheesh. Talk about a black cloud. I'll say it for the millionth time. This team will be a turkey as long as Danny is at the top. Case closed.

Spot on on both points.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 21, 2015, 11:29:36 am

Quote from: Yada on August 21, 2015, 08:17:13 am

Washington Redskins 2015 season.

The Rowdy Roddy Piper drop was much more painful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on August 24, 2015, 10:29:35 am

capitalism

edit: Ugh maybe not. It's like an 80's movie monster that needs to be killed like 20 times I guess.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 24, 2015, 10:57:39 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on August 24, 2015, 10:29:35 am

capitalism

Good thing I converted my trust fund to war bonds several years ago!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on August 24, 2015, 11:40:25 am

i dont know about you, but I am buying. buy I say, buy. in 6 months, ill be fucking rich.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 24, 2015, 11:48:20 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on August 24, 2015, 10:29:35 am

capitalism

edit: Ugh maybe not. It's like an 80's movie monster that needs to be killed like 20 times I guess.

When we're all broke, the first thing to go will be your free public transportation to rock shows. ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on August 24, 2015, 11:58:39 am

It's not free.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on August 24, 2015, 02:24:56 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2015, 11:48:20 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on August 24, 2015, 10:29:35 am
capitalism

edit: Ugh maybe not. It's like an 80's movie monster that needs to be killed like 20 times I guess.

When we're all broke, the first thing to go will be your free public transportation to rock shows. ;)

TANSTAAFL

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on August 24, 2015, 07:35:19 pm

One of my best friends, just died today at 4. It poured rain right at 4. I'm crying. I don't know what else to do. I suck at handling grief. I love her and will never forget her. God . . . I hate you right now. Why do you hurt us like this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 24, 2015, 08:39:35 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on August 24, 2015, 07:35:19 pm

One of my best friends, just died today at 4. It poured rain right at 4. I'm crying. I don't know what else to do. I suck at handling grief. I love her and will never forget her. God . . . I hate you right now. Why do you hurt us like this.

I'm very sorry for your loss, Walkie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on August 24, 2015, 09:26:01 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on August 24, 2015, 07:35:19 pm

One of my best friends, just died today at 4. It poured rain right at 4. I'm crying. I don't know what else to do. I suck at handling grief. I love her and will never forget her. God . . . I hate you right now. Why do you hurt us like this.

Sorry to hear of your friend's passing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 24, 2015, 09:59:57 pm

that sucks Walkie, never easy or welcomed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on August 24, 2015, 10:31:54 pm

Sorry to hear, Walkie. Hang in there.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on August 25, 2015, 08:27:34 am

Dead friends are the worst.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 25, 2015, 09:00:15 am

Quote from: chaz on August 25, 2015, 08:27:34 am

Dead friends are the worst.

His friend just passed, this is no time to cast aspersions about people's shitty, shitty musical taste.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 25, 2015, 09:54:55 am

For most of us, this song thankfully applies 99% of the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIQ1NHa0g6A

Then this kind of shit hits you, and life isn't so easy. Hang in there, time will heal your hurting heart.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 25, 2015, 10:36:48 am

Sorry for your loss, walk,on,by

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on August 25, 2015, 02:42:13 pm

thanks, everyone, for the kind words. I love you guys! and to add insult to injury, another great friend of mine just went into a coma. what, a world, we live in.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 25, 2015, 02:47:36 pm

Coma?!

Black, widow: the walk, on, by story

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on August 25, 2015, 02:49:56 pm

thoughts and prayers going out to you and yours.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 25, 2015, 06:52:44 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 25, 2015, 02:47:36 pm

Coma?!

Black, widow: the walk, on, by story

She fell into a comma. Sorry.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 25, 2015, 07:39:36 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on August 25, 2015, 06:52:44 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 25, 2015, 02:47:36 pm
Coma?!

Black, widow: the walk, on, by story

She fell into a comma. Sorry.

^^ POTW contender on display right there, folks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on August 25, 2015, 08:11:25 pm

Thanks for the, laughs , , , I need them.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on August 25, 2015, 10:12:22 pm

Friend out of her , but condition is still a ?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 25, 2015, 10:29:55 pm

karma comma

...just couldn't resist, hope things turn for the best

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 09:07:49 am

http://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2015/08/26/reports-shots-disrupt-wdbj-live-shot/32389087/

News crew confirmed dead outside Roanoke in shooting during live remote.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 26, 2015, 09:25:14 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 26, 2015, 09:07:49 am

http://www.newsleader.com/story/news/local/2015/08/26/reports-shots-disrupt-wdbj-live-shot/32389087/

News crew confirmed dead outside Roanoke in shooting during live remote.

Dude that is f'ed up, looks like they were shot (with a gun) on live tv
(I won't watch that)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 26, 2015, 09:27:23 am

The video is upsetting, but not graphic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 26, 2015, 09:29:11 am

Julian, the guy that won't look at a girl dancing in a bikini at work but will watch two people being murdered.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 09:29:23 am

Quote from: jaded on August 26, 2015, 09:27:23 am

The video is upsetting, but not graphic.

Agreed, very upsetting, but you cannot really see anything but panicked faces because the guy drops the camera. Multiple outlets confirming 3 victims and both reporter and cameraman is dead. Gunman at large.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 09:29:56 am

Quote from: Yada on August 26, 2015, 09:29:11 am

Julian, the guy that won't look at a girl dancing in a bikini at work but will watch two people being murdered.

Oh, go fuck yourself.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 26, 2015, 09:34:42 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 26, 2015, 09:29:56 am

Quote from: Yada on August 26, 2015, 09:29:11 am
Julian, the guy that won't look at a girl dancing in a bikini at work but will watch two people being murdered.
Oh, go fuck yourself.

(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj0c6lKPbb1qdlkgg.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 10:12:51 am

And now we have a high speed car chase down I-81. My sister in Roanoke is losing her mind.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 26, 2015, 10:20:22 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 26, 2015, 10:12:51 am

My sister in Roanoke is losing her mind.

Why?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on August 26, 2015, 10:22:20 am

That was also my question; probably because nothing like this ever happens out there in the middle of nowhere.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 10:26:35 am

Quote from: ggw on August 26, 2015, 10:20:22 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 26, 2015, 10:12:51 am
My sister in Roanoke is losing her mind.

Why?

She's the type of person who goes into hysterics over things like this. The DC sniper hitting around Fredericksburg back in the day had her terrified for days.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 26, 2015, 10:41:50 am

Got any pics of her in a bikini?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 10:47:10 am

Quote from: ggw on August 26, 2015, 10:41:50 am

Got any pics of her in a bikini?

Nothing recent.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 26, 2015, 10:50:33 am

Quote from: ggw on August 26, 2015, 10:41:50 am

Got any pics of her in a bikini?

No bikini, but here's one in concert gear.

(https://slimgur.com/images/2015/08/17/fdb726d55ef629d6ec1a34ee5cf70c24.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on August 26, 2015, 10:53:25 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 26, 2015, 10:26:35 am

Quote from: ggw on August 26, 2015, 10:20:22 am
Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 26, 2015, 10:12:51 am
My sister in Roanoke is losing her mind.

Why?
She's the type of person who goes into hysterics over things like this. The DC sniper hitting around Fredericksburg back in the day had her terrified for days.

I'm definitely not the type of person that feels unsafe in the world, but that whole thing was pretty unsettling. I had just bought a house in in Arlington at the time and someone got killed outside the Home Depot in Falls Church that I was shopping at practically every day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on August 26, 2015, 11:06:46 am

(https://slimgur.com/images/2015/08/17/fdb726d55ef629d6ec1a34ee5cf70c24.jpg)

This looks like a guy trying to drunkenly explain how one can accidentally penetrate his mate's anus during standard intercourse.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 26, 2015, 11:09:03 am

yeah that DC sniper thing was pretty freaky. Worked/lived right in that area at the time.
I remember blue tarps around gas stations and being paranoid about White Box trucks

That paranoia was somewhat warranted IMO
10 people randomly killed in random places in broad daylight...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 11:11:03 am

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on August 26, 2015, 11:09:03 am

That paranoia was somewhat warranted IMO
10 people randomly killed in random places in broad daylight...

Yes, but she lived an hour away from the closest shooting.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 26, 2015, 11:11:47 am

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/5431/web

(http://i.imgur.com/ih8LLeR.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 11:18:19 am

They've had that still from the cameraman's camera up for an hour and until they released the candid shots of the suspect, I would've sworn the shooter was a white guy in his 50's. This might be the first time in history someone mistakenly identified a criminal as "not a black guy."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 11:21:45 am

The dude GoPro'ed the shooting himself and uploaded it moments ago to twitter. Says the reporter made racist comments.

EDIT: His twitter just got shut down.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 11:27:06 am

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6677803/09dd870f/2.mp4.html

NSFL (not safe for life)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 26, 2015, 11:28:56 am

(http://i.imgur.com/gZeRmWr.png)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on August 26, 2015, 11:34:48 am

Damn... I knew I should not have watched that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 11:36:10 am

CNN's coverage is typically inane and ridiculous. The guy says he did it. He posts a GoPro video of himself doing it. But CNN won't refer to him as anything but "the possible suspect." You're journalists, if you can't put the two together and make the bold leap to declare someone who admits to a shooting and uploads video of himself doing it, maybe you aren't smart enough to be informing the public.

And those tweets, "Adam might refer to the cameraman named Adam." No, shit, really? It's like they're so terrified to say anything wrong they won't acknowledge obvious things to the point where the coverage is totally useless.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 11:37:24 am

Quote from: killsaly on August 26, 2015, 11:34:48 am

Damn... I knew I should not have watched that.

I do not regret watching the first video as I feel it had valid informational value. I greatly regret the momentary lapse in judgment to watch some asshole's sociopathic snuff film.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 11:41:26 am

https://twitter.com/WHSVnews/status/636562781005836288

He's shot himself around mm16 on I-66. Apparently faxed a manifesto to ABC News.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 26, 2015, 11:47:36 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 26, 2015, 11:36:10 am

CNN's coverage is typically inane and ridiculous. The guy says he did it. He posts a GoPro video of himself doing it. But CNN won't refer to him as anything but "the possible suspect." You're journalists, if you can't put the two together and make the bold leap to declare someone who admits to a shooting and uploads video of himself doing it, maybe you aren't smart enough to be informing the public.

And those tweets, "Adam might refer to the cameraman named Adam." No, shit, really? It's like they're so terrified to say anything wrong they won't acknowledge obvious things to the point where the coverage is totally useless.

omg you should be the next john stewart

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 11:48:36 am

Quote from: jaded on August 26, 2015, 11:47:36 am

omg you should be the next john stewart

I hate him with a passion.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 26, 2015, 02:22:49 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 26, 2015, 11:41:26 am

He's shot himself around mm16 on I-66.

And died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 02:46:45 pm

Dude's manifesto said it was in response to Charleston shooting and that if white people want a race war bring it on. That's America for you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 26, 2015, 02:49:46 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 26, 2015, 02:46:45 pm

Dude's manifesto said it was in response to Charleston shooting and that if white people want a race war bring it on. That's America for you.

link to said dude's manifesto?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2015, 02:59:51 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 26, 2015, 02:49:46 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 26, 2015, 02:46:45 pm
Dude's manifesto said it was in response to Charleston shooting and that if white people want a race war bring it on. That's America for you.

link to said dude's manifesto?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-alleged-gunman-details-grievances-suicide-notes/story?id=33336339

The whole thing isn't released but ABC put out an article about what they got.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 26, 2015, 03:07:13 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 26, 2015, 02:49:46 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 26, 2015, 02:46:45 pm
Dude's manifesto said it was in response to Charleston shooting and that if white people want a race war bring it on. That's America for you.

link to said dude's manifesto?

Don't you have a copy in your sent items?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 26, 2015, 03:24:33 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on August 26, 2015, 03:07:13 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 26, 2015, 02:49:46 pm
Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 26, 2015, 02:46:45 pm
Dude's manifesto said it was in response to Charleston shooting and that if white people want a race war bring it on. That's America for you.

link to said dude's manifesto?
Don't you have a copy in your sent items?

(http://static.mybs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/tumblr_lsvvsxADov1qa98iwo1_400.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on August 27, 2015, 01:48:14 pm

http://time.com/4012986/justin-bieber-look-alike-toby-sheldon-dead/
Man Who Surgically Transformed Himself to Look Like Justin Bieber Found Dead

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 27, 2015, 01:55:22 pm

^his rep confirms
he had representation?!
jez

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on August 27, 2015, 01:55:47 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on August 27, 2015, 01:55:22 pm

he had representation?!

Wouldn't you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 27, 2015, 01:58:14 pm

Quote from: killsaly on August 27, 2015, 01:55:47 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on August 27, 2015, 01:55:22 pm
he had representation?!
Wouldn't you?

institualization is the only -tion that I can think of

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on August 27, 2015, 03:37:30 pm

Chocolate Thunder (http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/darryl-dawkins-philadelphia-76ers-dies-082715)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 27, 2015, 03:56:12 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on August 27, 2015, 03:37:30 pm

Chocolate Thunder (http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/darryl-dawkins-philadelphia-76ers-dies-082715)

I am violently angry that they include a list of some of his trademark dunks and left off the greatest name in the history of names - Turbosexophonic Delight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 27, 2015, 04:32:29 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 27, 2015, 03:56:12 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on August 27, 2015, 03:37:30 pm
Chocolate Thunder (http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/darryl-dawkins-philadelphia-76ers-dies-082715)
I am violently angry that they include a list of some of his trademark dunks and left off the greatest name in the history of names - Turbosexophonic Delight.

The fact that you get violently angry over so often and over such little things make me thankful for gun control.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 27, 2015, 04:46:07 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 27, 2015, 04:32:29 pm

The fact that you get violently angry over so often and over such little things make me thankful for gun control.

I just can't live without Rageahol!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on August 27, 2015, 04:53:10 pm

what, gun control?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 30, 2015, 04:03:29 pm

Oliver Sacks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on August 30, 2015, 09:31:47 pm

Wes Craven. :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on August 30, 2015, 11:42:16 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 27, 2015, 04:32:29 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on August 27, 2015, 03:56:12 pm
Quote from: RatBastard on August 27, 2015, 03:37:30 pm
Chocolate Thunder (http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/darryl-dawkins-philadelphia-76ers-dies-082715)
I am violently angry that they include a list of some of his trademark dunks and left off the greatest name in the history of names - Turbosexophonic Delight.

The fact that you get violently angry over so often and over such little things make me thankful for gun control.

Don't you mean people control?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 31, 2015, 08:13:07 am

Marvin Mandel (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-marvin-mandel-20150830-story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 02, 2015, 05:54:57 pm

Disney actor Dean Jones (http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/02/entertainment/dean-jones-dies-disney-feat/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 03, 2015, 11:44:35 am

Roger Goodell's Authority (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/sports/football/tom-brady-suspension-deflategate.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on September 03, 2015, 11:48:57 am

Temple of Bel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 03, 2015, 12:17:34 pm

Quote from: ggw on September 03, 2015, 11:44:35 am

Roger Goodell's Authority (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/04/sports/football/tom-brady-suspension-deflategate.html)

How the owners don't demand he and Wells tender their resignations is beyond me.

I'm not usually a Deadspin guy, but I've been basically saying this (http://deadspin.com/this-is-roger-goodells-defining-defeat-and-the-one-he-1728458158) for months. It's like Goodell never considered at any point in the last several weeks that they could lose when they pushed all of their chips into the middle of the table for the dumbest. scandal. ever. His hubris is off the charts. This guy is Dave Brandon 2.0.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 03, 2015, 03:07:19 pm

good for the judge..; it was all bullshit...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 03, 2015, 06:34:12 pm

It will be very interesting to read the justification by the judge for his ruling. I don't even see where the judge had any standing in the matter at all. ASSUMING that everything was done in accordance with the mutually agreed to CBA, the whole matter should have ended with the commissioner's decision. As it sits now, the judge had told the teams and players that they can do whatever they want whenever they want and not have to answer to anyone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 03, 2015, 08:47:44 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on September 03, 2015, 06:34:12 pm

It will be very interesting to read tyeh justification by the judge for his ruling. I don't even see where the judge had any standing in the matter at all. ASSUMING that everything was done in accordance with the mutually agreed to CBA, the whole matter should have ended with the commissioner's decision. As it sits now, the judge had told the teams and players that they can do whatever they want whenever they want and not have to answer to anyone.

The judge had no right to arrive at a sensible decision. His job was to ensure King Rog was doing what both parties agreed he should do. And he was. While making millions.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 03, 2015, 10:31:43 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on September 03, 2015, 08:47:44 pm

The judge had no right to arrive at a sensible decision.

My hatred for just about all pro sports is well known in these parts
but that this 'not a thing' is such a big THING, astounds me

From a purely business/legal angle, it's quite a precedent that a judge would overrule an internal business decision....or do I have no idea what I'm talking about?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 04, 2015, 09:40:31 am

The judge essentially said that Goodell overstepped the bounds of the CBA and that Brady had no way of knowing that he would be subject to a suspension for having a "general awareness" of the misconduct of others (the equipment guy who deflated the balls). There was no precedent for such a punishment.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 04, 2015, 02:22:55 pm

Quote from: ggw on September 04, 2015, 09:40:31 am

The judge essentially said that Goodell overstepped the bounds of the CBA and that Brady had no way of knowing that he would be subject to a suspension for having a "general awareness" of the misconduct of others (the equipment guy who deflated the balls). There was no precedent for such a punishment.

So in other words it is OK to know about cheating and take advantage of it as long as you do not actively participate in the actual cheating events since it was not written in the CBA that you can't cheat without being penalized. Well we know what views the judge subscribes to.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 04, 2015, 02:25:22 pm

Rico Rodriguez

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 04, 2015, 02:44:00 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on September 04, 2015, 02:22:55 pm

So in other words it is OK to know about cheating and take advantage of it as long as you do not actively participate in the actual cheating events since it was not written in the CBA that you can't cheat without being penalized. Well we know what views the judge subscribes to.

I think the judge more subscribes to the belief that there is no evidence cheating occurred in the first place nor that Tom Brady knew anything about it AND EVEN IF THERE WAS AND HE DID the collectively bargained punishment for that is a $25,000 fine not a 4 game suspension.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 04, 2015, 03:19:57 pm

the judge does not accept that the NFL has the power to do ANYTHING based on the CBA...

there must be reasonable restraints on the NFL's power vis a vis the players..or is anything game? That is the NFLs position..its not that of the NFLPA...they don't believe they signed off on that

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 04, 2015, 03:22:03 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on September 04, 2015, 02:44:00 pm

I think the judge more subscribes to the belief that there is no evidence cheating occurred in the first place nor that Tom Brady knew anything about it

Your a Michigan fan, right?

Just checking....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 04, 2015, 03:23:17 pm

The NFL's attorney admitted in open court they had no evidence. This is hardly some insane bias.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 04, 2015, 03:25:01 pm

Shouldn't this belong in one of your sporting threads? Do we need a Dropping Like Flies - Commentary Thread?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 04, 2015, 04:19:27 pm

Quote from: Hutch on September 04, 2015, 02:25:22 pm

Rico Rodriguez

Bummer one of my all time favorite tracks done by him

Jungle Music

https://youtu.be/TrZRFpKRnLo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 04, 2015, 08:14:48 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on September 04, 2015, 02:44:00 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on September 04, 2015, 02:22:55 pm
So in other words it is OK to know about cheating and take advantage of it as long as you do not actively participate in the actual cheating events since it was not written in the CBA that you can't cheat without being penalized. Well we know what views the judge subscribes to.
I think the judge more subscribes to the belief that there is no evidence cheating occurred in the first place nor that Tom Brady knew anything about it AND EVEN IF THERE WAS AND HE DID the collectively bargained punishment for that is a $25,000 fine not a 4 game suspension.
[/quote
You are 100% mistaken. His ruling specifically stated that he ruled the way he did because the CBA did not tell players if you have knowledge of cheating and don't speak up you can get punished.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 07, 2015, 04:49:07 pm

Martin Milner (http://variety.com/2015/film/news/martin-milner-dead-adam-12-route-66-1201587461/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 07, 2015, 07:52:57 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on September 07, 2015, 04:49:07 pm

Martin Milner (http://variety.com/2015/film/news/martin-milner-dead-adam-12-route-66-1201587461/)

I used to love watching this show... When I was a kid I could never figure out why the dispatcher would always tell them that there was a 'cedar mam' at the scene. I guess I though it was code for a white guy. I have no idea how long it took me to realize she was saying 'see the man' or 'see a man'. DOH!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 08, 2015, 11:25:17 am

Judy Carne (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/08/the-tragic-tale-of-judy-carne-sock-it-to-me-girl-of-laugh-in-dead-at-76/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 08, 2015, 12:15:26 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on September 08, 2015, 11:25:17 am

Judy Carne (http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/08/the-tragic-tale-of-judy-carne-sock-it-to-me-girl-of-laugh-in-dead-at-76/)

:'(
(https://38.media.tumblr.com/665cabc97f0e5f399e669fa0faf8486c/tumblr_mfps8mK6Po1ram4r5o1_r1_500.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on September 08, 2015, 12:33:38 pm

that one, really . . . socked it to me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 08, 2015, 09:30:36 pm

Joaquin Andujar

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on September 11, 2015, 02:42:35 pm

Doc Night :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 11, 2015, 02:45:02 pm

Quote from: Unsanity on September 11, 2015, 02:42:35 pm

Doc Night :'(

Don't worry, there are still 2 more doc nights.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on September 11, 2015, 03:34:46 pm

Quote from: jaded on September 11, 2015, 02:45:02 pm

Quote from: Unsanity on September 11, 2015, 02:42:35 pm
Doc Night :'(

Don't worry, there are still 2 more doc nights.

Not this Doc Night. There was only one of him. If this was some kind of gag I get it but if not then I am talking about the local musician, leader of The Hypnotix (among other things). Not some Documentary Night at AFI or whatever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 11, 2015, 03:45:45 pm

Serena Williams' attempt at a calendar year Grand Slam

300-1 underdog beat her!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 11, 2015, 03:59:23 pm

Quote from: Unsanity on September 11, 2015, 03:34:46 pm

If this was some kind of gag I get it

I believe he was going for a 3 Dog Night joke, to which I'm ashamed to admit that I did chuckle a bit at...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on September 11, 2015, 04:14:04 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on September 11, 2015, 03:45:45 pm

Serena Williams' attempt at a calendar year Grand Slam

300-1 underdog beat her!

you know what I love about tennis . . . people will get all excited about this person who beat serena, and then this person will get destroyed 1000 sets to 0, in the next round.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 11, 2015, 04:22:12 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on September 11, 2015, 04:14:04 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on September 11, 2015, 03:45:45 pm
Serena Williams' attempt at a calendar year Grand Slam

300-1 underdog beat her!

you know what I love about tennis . . . people will get all excited about this person who beat serena, and then this person will get destroyed 1000 sets to 0, in the next round.

They play to 6, Walkie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 11, 2015, 07:30:10 pm

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on September 11, 2015, 04:22:12 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on September 11, 2015, 04:14:04 pm
Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on September 11, 2015, 03:45:45 pm
Serena Williams' attempt at a calendar year Grand Slam

300-1 underdog beat her!

you know what I love about tennis . . . people will get all excited about this person who beat serena, and then this person will get destroyed 1000 sets to 0, in the next round.
They play to 6, Walkie.

They play 3 sets in women's tennis, Julian, but since it's best of three, she'll lose 2 sets to 0 in the next round by Walkie's calculations.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on September 11, 2015, 09:21:07 pm

The very idea that a thing known as "Walkie's calculations" is a thing that exists is both sexilicious and disquieting

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on September 11, 2015, 09:55:33 pm

It,s, Stephen Hawking, approved.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 11, 2015, 10:03:59 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on September 11, 2015, 09:21:07 pm

The very idea that a thing known as "Walkie's calculations" is a thing that exists is both sexilicious and disquieting

Ok, so who is making the urban dictionary add?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 13, 2015, 11:05:43 am

Moses Malone

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on September 13, 2015, 05:15:49 pm

dickie, moore

(http://www.philzone.org/discus/messages/439459/1020426.jpg)

spanky ruled, but this kid was great, too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 14, 2015, 04:09:40 pm

Gary Richrath (http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/14/entertainment/gary-richrath-reo-speedwagon-dies-feat/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 14, 2015, 04:58:05 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on September 13, 2015, 05:15:49 pm

dickie, moore

why am I not surprised, in fact I think you've posted that many times already
you just forgot the ?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 15, 2015, 09:28:56 am

gary rickrath....reo's guitarist...

he left REO in 1989

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 15, 2015, 09:36:37 am

Quote from: Hutch on September 15, 2015, 09:28:56 am

gary rickrath....reo's guitarist...

he left REO in 1989

Amazing that a guy named Gary Richrath and another guy named gary rickrath died the same day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 15, 2015, 09:40:21 am

Quote from: Hutch on September 15, 2015, 09:28:56 am

gary rickrath....reo's guitarist...

he left REO in 1989

umm...did anyone really listen to them after 89??
He wrote "Take It On the Run"
that's worthy in my book

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on September 15, 2015, 11:33:16 am

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on September 14, 2015, 04:58:05 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on September 13, 2015, 05:15:49 pm
dickie, moore
why am I not surprised, in fact I think you've posted that many times already
you just forgot the ?

you know, I read that, and go back to read it again, assuming it,s some amusing sexual related jab or poke into me. see, see, what I did there.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 15, 2015, 05:12:31 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on September 15, 2015, 09:40:21 am

Quote from: Hutch on September 15, 2015, 09:28:56 am
gary rickrath....reo's guitarist...

he left REO in 1989
umm...did anyone really listen to them after 89??
He wrote "Take It On the Run"
that's worthy in my book

exactly... the minute he left they really sucked..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 15, 2015, 11:34:27 pm

Dr. Blues
1-20-15

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on September 18, 2015, 01:51:06 am

Martin "Kiddie" Kearns

http://metalhammer.teamrock.com/news/2015-09-17/bolt-thrower-drummer-martin-kiddie-kearns-dead-at-38

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on September 21, 2015, 10:21:39 am

Ben Carson,s chances. Republicans, everywhere just smiled, because there was no way they were voting for a black guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 21, 2015, 10:28:51 am

Quote from: walk,on,by on September 21, 2015, 10:21:39 am

Ben Carson,s chances. Republicans, everywhere just smiled, because there was no way they were voting for a black guy.

I don't understand why people are so upset by what he said? A fundamentalist Christian (Carson), who wouldn't want a devout Muslim to be President? What is so surprising about that stance?

As an atheist, in no way would I ever want a devout Muslim OR a fundamentalist Christian in the White House. But then again, as an atheist/person of reason, I'm even more despised by likely voters than a devout Muslim or Christian fundamentalist.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 21, 2015, 10:46:41 am

survivor pool participants

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 21, 2015, 11:09:04 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 21, 2015, 10:28:51 am

, as an atheist/person of reason, I'm even more despised by likely voters than a devout Muslim or Christian fundamentalist.

Don't kid yourself that this is the only reason you are more despised (ya just lobbed it out there)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 21, 2015, 12:09:15 pm

Jimmy Olsen (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/arts/television/jack-larson-a-playwright-better-known-as-jimmy-olsen-in-superman-dies-at-87.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 21, 2015, 01:17:03 pm

Volkswagen's Stock (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/21/usa-volkswagen-idINL5N11R0TU20150921)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 21, 2015, 05:18:10 pm

Scott Walker's 2016 Presidential aspirations

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on September 21, 2015, 06:08:24 pm

like we, needed this thread for that. carson, for awhile, actually looked like he had some kind of chance.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 21, 2015, 09:23:41 pm

Robert E. Simon Jr., Who Created a Town, Reston, Va., Dies at 101 (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/realestate/communities/robert-e-simon-jr-founder-of-reston-va-dies-at-101.html)

At a time when millions were fleeing crowded cities for what some sociologists called a colorless life in suburbia, Mr. Simon envisioned a Northern Virginia community that blended the serenity of an Italian hill town, the urban attractions of San Francisco?s Embarcadero and the social equality of a utopia in Finland.

Mr. Simon celebrated his 100th birthday and Reston its 50th year in 2014. He was still remarkably active, attending celebratory events, walking about and chatting with friends. Nearly everyone in Reston knew him as Bob.

By then, it was a city of 60,000, a racially integrated, economically diverse mix of urban and suburban lifestyles, with high-rise apartment buildings, town houses and single-family homes; youth and senior centers; swimming pools; tennis courts; woodland paths; lakeside shops; industries and businesses.

In 2012, CNN Money magazine ranked Reston seventh on its annual ?Best Places to Live in America? list. ?It?s pretty close to what I had hoped it would be,? Mr. Simon said.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 21, 2015, 09:58:43 pm

I've been to Reston and I have no specific complaint but that seems a "bit" over-the-top.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 22, 2015, 04:37:13 am

Quote from: walk,on,by on September 21, 2015, 10:21:39 am

Ben Carson,s chances. Republicans, everywhere just smiled, because there was no way they were voting for a black guy.

You would be surprised. Then again you said Republicans not conservatives. Most conservatives I know vote based on the merit of the individual candidates listed on the ballot and not on superficial things like skin color, age, gender, etc.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 22, 2015, 08:48:35 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on September 21, 2015, 09:58:43 pm

I've been to Reston and I have no specific complaint but that seems a "bit" over-the-top.

It's a magical place.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 09:07:02 am

Quote from: RatBastard on September 22, 2015, 04:37:13 am

Quote from: walk,on,by on September 21, 2015, 10:21:39 am
Ben Carson,s chances. Republicans, everywhere just smiled, because there was no way they were voting for a black guy.

You would be surprised. Then again you said Republicans not conservatives. Most conservatives I know vote based on the merit of the individual candidates listed on the ballot and not on superficial things like skin color, age, gender, etc.

If conservatives are so piously color-blind and pure, why do they so consistently take positions that are opposed by minorities? And why has the conservative movement been overwhelmingly led by white men? And why do you suppose the conservative movement is most strong in a part of America - the South - that has a long and recent history with racism, prejudice, and inequality?

I guess it's all just a weird coincidence.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 22, 2015, 09:10:13 am

wait... is the magical place.
where conservatives vote based on the merit of the individual candidates listed on the ballot and not on superficial things like skin color, age, gender, etc.

because...lets be frank...you can say that, but the polling suggests otherwise
I am sure you can provide pages of anecdotal evidence, but the stats show the truth

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 22, 2015, 09:11:45 am

Quote from: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 09:07:02 am

Quote from: RatBastard on September 22, 2015, 04:37:13 am
Quote from: walk,on,by on September 21, 2015, 10:21:39 am
Ben Carson,s chances. Republicans, everywhere just smiled, because there was no way they were voting for a black guy.

You would be surprised. Then again you said Republicans not conservatives. Most conservatives I know vote based on the merit of the individual candidates listed on the ballot and not on superficial things like skin color, age, gender, etc.

If conservatives are so piously color-blind and pure, why do they so consistently take positions that are opposed by minorities? And why has the conservative movement been overwhelmingly led by white men? And why do you suppose the conservative movement is most strong in a part of America - the South - that has a long and recent history with racism, prejudice, and inequality?

I guess it's all just a weird coincidence.

Dude, it's RatBastard, he's human garbage. None of you call him on it because he has a token gay friend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 22, 2015, 09:12:44 am

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on September 22, 2015, 09:10:13 am

but the stats show the truth

Again, it's RatBastard. His analysis of statistics is notoriously in "flunked out of STAT 101" territory.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 09:19:00 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on September 22, 2015, 09:11:45 am

Dude, it's RatBastard, he's human garbage. None of you call him on it because he has a token gay friend.

I think I've been pretty clear what I think about him and his views.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 09:32:42 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on September 22, 2015, 09:11:45 am

Quote from: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 09:07:02 am
Quote from: RatBastard on September 22, 2015, 04:37:13 am
Quote from: walk,on,by on September 21, 2015, 10:21:39 am
Ben Carson,s chances. Republicans, everywhere just smiled, because there was no way they were voting for a black guy.

You would be surprised. Then again you said Republicans not conservatives. Most conservatives I know vote based on the merit of the individual candidates listed on the ballot and not on superficial things like skin color, age, gender, etc.

After following a number of different political websites, and this forum for awhile, I can report that liberals are every bit as sanctimonious, mean spirited, and nasty as conservatives in online forums. Perhaps even more so.

If conservatives are so piously color-blind and pure, why do they so consistently take positions that are opposed by minorities? And why has the conservative movement been overwhelmingly led by white men? And why do you suppose the conservative movement is most strong in a part of America - the South - that has a long and recent history with racism, prejudice, and inequality?

I guess it's all just a weird coincidence.
Dude, it's RatBastard, he's human garbage. None of you call him on it because he has a token gay friend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 22, 2015, 09:57:22 am

am i the only person here who isn't a fan of Reston? i think it's a boring, over-planned attempt at social engineering. i worked in sterling for a year and ended up in reston pretty regularly (sometimes stayed at a hotel there). if you're ok with a place that went from cow pastures to "city of the future" in 3 years, and all the charm and character that comes with building a city overnight, then yeah... it's magical.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 22, 2015, 10:07:10 am

Quote from: sweetcell on September 22, 2015, 09:57:22 am

am i the only person here who isn't a fan of Reston? i think it's a boring, over-planned attempt at social engineering. i worked in sterling for a year and ended up in reston pretty regularly (sometimes stayed at a hotel there). if you're ok with a place that went from cow pastures to "city of the future" in 3 years, and all the charm and character that comes with building a city overnight, then yeah... it's magical.

wait... what am I missing here? People exist that truly LOVE, Reston? Maybe I forgot to type in my sarcasm font.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 10:12:47 am

Quote from: Yada on September 22, 2015, 10:07:10 am

Quote from: sweetcell on September 22, 2015, 09:57:22 am
am i the only person here who isn't a fan of Reston? i think it's a boring, over-planned attempt at social engineering. i worked in sterling for a year and ended up in reston pretty regularly (sometimes stayed at a hotel there). if you're ok with a place that went from cow pastures to "city of the future" in 3 years, and all the charm and character that comes with building a city overnight, then yeah... it's magical.

wait... what am I missing here? People exist that truly LOVE, Reston? Maybe I forgot to type in my sarcasm font.

One of my best friends grew up in this area, and has lived in Maryland, DC, and Virginia since I've known him (18 years). When it was time to buy a house, that's where he (and his wife) chose. They seem to love it there.

For some reason, I think it's probably hard to grasp the charm in a place where you've only stayed at a mid-level hotel there for work.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 22, 2015, 10:29:36 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 10:12:47 am

Quote from: Yada on September 22, 2015, 10:07:10 am
Quote from: sweetcell on September 22, 2015, 09:57:22 am
am i the only person here who isn't a fan of Reston? i think it's a boring, over-planned attempt at social engineering. i worked in sterling for a year and ended up in reston pretty regularly (sometimes stayed at a hotel there). if you're ok with a place that went from cow pastures to "city of the future" in 3 years, and all the charm and character that comes with building a city overnight, then yeah... it's magical.

wait... what am I missing here? People exist that truly LOVE, Reston? Maybe I forgot to type in my sarcasm font.

One of my best friends grew up in this area, and has lived in Maryland, DC, and Virginia since I've known him (18 years). When it was time to buy a house, that's where he (and his wife) chose. They seem to love it there.

For some reason, I think it's probably hard to grasp the charm in a place where you've only stayed at a mid-level hotel there for work.

I'm happy he's happy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 10:40:57 am

Quote from: Yada on September 22, 2015, 10:29:36 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 10:12:47 am
Quote from: Yada on September 22, 2015, 10:07:10 am
Quote from: sweetcell on September 22, 2015, 09:57:22 am
am i the only person here who isn't a fan of Reston? i think it's a boring, over-planned attempt at social engineering. i worked in sterling for a year and ended up in reston pretty regularly (sometimes stayed at a hotel there). if you're ok with a place that went from cow pastures to "city of the future" in 3 years, and all the charm and character that comes with building a city overnight, then yeah... it's magical.

wait... what am I missing here? People exist that truly LOVE, Reston? Maybe I forgot to type in my sarcasm font.

One of my best friends grew up in this area, and has lived in Maryland, DC, and Virginia since I've known him (18 years). When it was time to buy a house, that's where he (and his wife) chose. They seem to love it there.

For some reason, I think it's probably hard to grasp the charm in a place where you've only stayed at a mid-level hotel there for work.

I'm happy he's happy.

Me too.

I can't think of any neighborhood/town in the DMV area that struck me as a place that I TRULY LOVE. But I could probably find things I like about many area neighborhoods/towns.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 10:46:16 am

I truly love the Cap Hill/Eastern Market/Lincoln Park area of DC. I started living on the Hill in 1992 and have never been tempted to live anywhere else. It was a great neighborhood to live in as a swinging bachelor and it's an even better neighborhood to live in with kids. It's like it a small town nestled in a big city.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 22, 2015, 10:52:20 am

Quote from: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 10:46:16 am

I truly love the Cap Hill/Eastern Market/Lincoln Park area of DC. I started living on the Hill in 1992 and have never been tempted to live anywhere else. It was a great neighborhood to live in as a swinging bachelor and it's an even better neighborhood to live in with kids. It's like it a small town nestled in a big city.

^^I'd agree with that^^

The only downside is it's a bit out of the way in terms of where I hang out, work, travel to often, etc... but I agree.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 10:59:30 am

Quote from: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 10:46:16 am

I truly love the Cap Hill/Eastern Market/Lincoln Park area of DC. I started living on the Hill in 1992 and have never been tempted to live anywhere else. It was a great neighborhood to live in as a swinging bachelor and it's an even better neighborhood to live in with kids. It's like it a small town nestled in a big city.

What's the typical price for home for a family of three or four? How are the public schools in the neighborhood?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 22, 2015, 11:03:58 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 10:59:30 am

Quote from: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 10:46:16 am
I truly love the Cap Hill/Eastern Market/Lincoln Park area of DC. I started living on the Hill in 1992 and have never been tempted to live anywhere else. It was a great neighborhood to live in as a swinging bachelor and it's an even better neighborhood to live in with kids. It's like it a small town nestled in a big city.

What's the typical price for home for a family of three or four? How are the public schools in the neighborhood?

Schools are great, home is probably a million.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 11:05:54 am

Quote from: Yada on September 22, 2015, 11:03:58 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 10:59:30 am
Quote from: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 10:46:16 am
I truly love the Cap Hill/Eastern Market/Lincoln Park area of DC. I started living on the Hill in 1992 and have never been tempted to live anywhere else. It was a great neighborhood to live in as a swinging bachelor and it's an even better neighborhood to live in with kids. It's like it a small town nestled in a big city.

What's the typical price for home for a family of three or four? How are the public schools in the neighborhood?

Schools are great, home is probably a million.

How about racial diversity?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 22, 2015, 11:09:53 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 11:05:54 am

Quote from: Yada on September 22, 2015, 11:03:58 am
Quote from: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 10:59:30 am
Quote from: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 10:46:16 am
I truly love the Cap Hill/Eastern Market/Lincoln Park area of DC. I started living on the Hill in 1992 and have never been tempted to live anywhere else. It was a great neighborhood to live in as a swinging bachelor and it's an even better neighborhood to live in with kids. It's like it a small town nestled in a big city.

What's the typical price for home for a family of three or four? How are the public schools in the neighborhood?

Schools are great, home is probably a million.

How about racial diversity?

More Muslims than Reston.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 11:19:47 am

Quote from: Yada on September 22, 2015, 11:09:53 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 11:05:54 am
Quote from: Yada on September 22, 2015, 11:03:58 am
Quote from: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 10:59:30 am
Quote from: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 10:46:16 am
I truly love the Cap Hill/Eastern Market/Lincoln Park area of DC. I started living on the Hill in 1992 and have never been tempted to live anywhere else. It was a great neighborhood to live in as a swinging bachelor and it's an even better neighborhood to live in with kids. It's like it a small town nestled in a big city.

What's the typical price for home for a family of three or four? How are the public schools in the neighborhood?

Schools are great, home is probably a million.

How about racial diversity?

More Muslims than Reston.

I'd put money on you being wrong.

Fairfax County:
4.63% Muslim
http://www.bestplaces.net/religion/county/virginia/fairfax

DC:
0.67% Muslim
http://www.bestplaces.net/religion/city/district_of_columbia/washington

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 11:21:30 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 10:59:30 am

Quote from: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 10:46:16 am
I truly love the Cap Hill/Eastern Market/Lincoln Park area of DC. I started living on the Hill in 1992 and have never been tempted to live anywhere else. It was a great neighborhood to live in as a swinging bachelor and it's an even better neighborhood to live in with kids. It's like it a small town nestled in a big city.

What's the typical price for home for a family of three or four? How are the public schools in the neighborhood?

It depends on how bourgeois the family is, and where exactly you're located (big difference between 4th and East Cap and 16th and East Cap) but a 3BR/3BA house will start at around $750k and up. That said, if you have a basement apartment that you can rent out, which I do, half or more of your mortgage is being paid by someone else. And I have a huge beautiful park and a wonderful elementary school that both my children attended half a block from my house.

Restaurants, multiple parks, a weekend outdoor market, coffee shops, theaters, bodega-style grocery stores, a free community pool -- all are within 5 blocks and easily walkable. Just a bit further are RFK Stadium, Nationals Park, the Mall, Capitol Hill, Union Station, Schneiders Wine & Spirits, etc. It's a really nice neighborhood. As Yada said, it is a little separate from the rest of DC, but I like that aspect and it's what gives it that 'small town' aura.

I'm feeling like quite the Welcome Wagon/Chamber of Commerce over here.

My street is probably 70/30 Cuacasian/AA

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 22, 2015, 11:25:14 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 22, 2015, 10:12:47 am

For some reason, I think it's probably hard to grasp the charm in a place where you've only stayed at a mid-level hotel there for work.

beyond having lunch there every other week for a year, i also had a friend who owned a row-house in reston which i visited 3-4 times. although it's not the same as being a resident, i felt that i got a good feel for the place... and it isn't my bag.

but like others have said, glad that the reston is working out for your friend!

should we get back to announcing people who have just got dead?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on September 22, 2015, 11:41:20 am

thank you god . . . I am a token gay friend. I need to start a band, called that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 23, 2015, 03:39:39 am

Quote from: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 09:07:02 am

Quote from: RatBastard on September 22, 2015, 04:37:13 am
Quote from: walk,on,by on September 21, 2015, 10:21:39 am
Ben Carson,s chances. Republicans, everywhere just smiled, because there was no way they were voting for a black guy.

You would be surprised. Then again you said Republicans not conservatives. Most conservatives I know vote based on the merit of the individual candidates listed on the ballot and not on superficial things like skin color, age, gender, etc.

If conservatives are so piously color-blind and pure, why do they so consistently take positions that are opposed by minorities? And why has the conservative movement been overwhelmingly led by white men? And why do you suppose the conservative movement is most strong in a part of America - the South - that has a long and recent history with racism, prejudice, and inequality?

I guess it's all just a weird coincidence.

Why are many conservatives minorities and conversely so many minorities conservatives?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 23, 2015, 03:40:49 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on September 22, 2015, 09:11:45 am

Quote from: Relaxer on September 22, 2015, 09:07:02 am
Quote from: RatBastard on September 22, 2015, 04:37:13 am
Quote from: walk,on,by on September 21, 2015, 10:21:39 am
Ben Carson,s chances. Republicans, everywhere just smiled, because there was no way they were voting for a black guy.

You would be surprised. Then again you said Republicans not conservatives. Most conservatives I know vote based on the merit of the individual candidates listed on the ballot and not on superficial things like skin color, age, gender, etc.

If conservatives are so piously color-blind and pure, why do they so consistently take positions that are opposed by minorities? And why has the conservative movement been overwhelmingly led by white men? And why do you suppose the conservative movement is most strong in a part of America - the South - that has a long and recent history with racism, prejudice, and inequality?

I guess it's all just a weird coincidence.
Dude, it's RatBastard, he's human garbage. None of you call him on it because he has a token gay friend.

POT -> KETTLE -> BLACK

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 23, 2015, 03:42:55 am

Quote from: Julian, Verified SHITLORD on September 22, 2015, 09:12:44 am

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on September 22, 2015, 09:10:13 am
but the stats show the truth

Again, it's RatBastard. His analysis of statistics is notoriously in "flunked out of STAT 101" territory.

SH) Stats stats show what the person quoting them want them to show.
J) Comments coming form someone who thinks summing a range of averages shows any significant information what so ever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on September 23, 2015, 03:45:11 am

Quote from: walk,on,by on September 22, 2015, 11:41:20 am

thank you god . . . I am a token gay friend. I need to start a band, called that.

Dude you are not a token anything in my book. I consider you a friend because that is what you are. It has nothing to do with where you work, what your favorite food is, or the fact that you think Seth is hot! :)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 23, 2015, 07:40:57 am

The eminently quotable Yogi Berra.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 23, 2015, 08:21:10 am

(http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/man-killed-to-death-news.jpg)

His spirit lives on. Requiescat in pace and rest in peace.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on September 28, 2015, 07:22:53 pm

Catherine E. Coulson aka Log Lady from Twin Peaks

She was supposed to be in season 3.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on September 28, 2015, 07:26:29 pm

WHHAAAATTTTTTTTT???!!!!!!!

now, they are both trapped in the log.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on September 29, 2015, 08:50:56 am

I am so so so so so so sad about the Log Lady. You know she kept the log safe all these years!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on September 29, 2015, 08:51:30 am

She was also assistant director for Eraserhead. She was so sweet in interviews!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 29, 2015, 08:52:35 am

Quote from: killsaly on September 28, 2015, 07:22:53 pm

Catherine E. Coulson aka Log Lady from Twin Peaks

:(
(http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE1LzA0LzIxLzljL2xvZ2xhZHkuZWZhNGIuZ2lmCnAJdGh1bWIJODUweDg1MD4KZQlqcGc/ce549420/9db/log-lady.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 29, 2015, 09:08:32 am

Can't wait for the 2016 release of All Logs Go To Heaven.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 07, 2015, 08:06:53 pm

Gail Zappa (http://pitchfork.com/news/61535-frank-zappas-widow-gail-zappa-has-died/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on October 08, 2015, 01:02:11 pm

John Boehner's plans to go fishing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 08, 2015, 03:59:27 pm

Olga Hirshhorn (http://hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/olga-hirshhorn/#collection=olga-hirshhorn)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 08, 2015, 04:11:21 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on October 08, 2015, 01:02:11 pm

John Boehner's plans to go fishing

the Freedom Caucus strikes again!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on October 08, 2015, 04:14:45 pm

(http://dailyhaymaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/renee_ellmers_AP.jpg)

"Wait, he named it 'Freedom'?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 08, 2015, 04:23:57 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on October 08, 2015, 04:14:45 pm

(http://dailyhaymaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/renee_ellmers_AP.jpg)

"Wait, he named it 'Freedom'?"

so the reason he's dropping out is that Congresswoman Renee Ellmers had an extra marital affair with him?
you think they would have vetted that before today!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on October 08, 2015, 04:52:45 pm

Paul Prudhomme
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/08/entertainment/paul-prudhomme-obit/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on October 10, 2015, 01:13:08 pm

Robbin Thompson.

:-[

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 11, 2015, 11:34:29 am

Steve Mackay (http://pitchfork.com/news/61586-the-stooges-steve-mackay-has-died/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on October 11, 2015, 01:26:57 pm

Carey Lander of Camera Obscura
http://www.spin.com/2015/10/camera-obscura-carey-lander-dies-cancer/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on October 11, 2015, 01:48:40 pm

Randy Edsall's career at Maryland

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 22, 2015, 01:02:17 am

Cory Wells, founder and co-lead singer for 1970s band Three Dog Night, dies in New York at age 74: http://apne.ws/1KpxPhe

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 23, 2015, 05:17:18 pm

Joe Moss (http://pitchfork.com/news/61761-joe-moss-manager-of-the-smiths-and-johnny-marr-has-died/)

Manager of the Smiths and Johnny Marr

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 25, 2015, 08:18:24 pm

Flip Saunders

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: godsshoeshine on October 25, 2015, 08:54:06 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on October 25, 2015, 08:18:24 pm

Flip Saunders

man...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on October 25, 2015, 10:36:49 pm

Quote from: godsshoeshine on October 25, 2015, 08:54:06 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on October 25, 2015, 08:18:24 pm
Flip Saunders
man...

The team said that doctors described it as a "very treatable and curable form of cancer."

Fuck cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 26, 2015, 06:35:18 pm

Ed Walker

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ed-walker-spent-65-years-on-the-radio-his-last-program-was-unlike-any-other/2015/10/22/13f37a3e-783b-11e5-b9c1-f03c48c96ac2_story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 26, 2015, 09:32:07 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on October 26, 2015, 06:35:18 pm

Ed Walker

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ed-walker-spent-65-years-on-the-radio-his-last-program-was-unlike-any-other/2015/10/22/13f37a3e-783b-11e5-b9c1-f03c48c96ac2_story.html

Sad and fitting he died shortly after listening to his last broadcast
Impressive story and life

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on October 27, 2015, 03:27:21 pm

Trumps chances?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 27, 2015, 10:55:37 pm

Pete Dougherty (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/arts/music/peter-dougherty-who-brought-rap-to-mtv-dies-at-59.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 27, 2015, 11:15:04 pm

Quote from: ggw on October 27, 2015, 10:55:37 pm

Pete Dougherty (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/arts/music/peter-dougherty-who-brought-rap-to-mtv-dies-at-59.html)

Show of hands: who clicked on this quickly thinking the dude from The Libertines finally ODed since GGW -- almost certainly intentionally -- left the 'R' off Peter to make the names phonetically the same?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 28, 2015, 10:55:18 am

^ yup.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 28, 2015, 12:24:04 pm

For some reason I thought he already went out in blaze of glory.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 30, 2015, 02:33:06 pm

Grantland (http://espnmediazone.com/us/espn-statement-regarding-grantland/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 30, 2015, 03:22:38 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on October 30, 2015, 02:33:06 pm

Grantland (http://espnmediazone.com/us/espn-statement-regarding-grantland/)

For some reason I thought he it already went out in blaze of glory.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 30, 2015, 03:25:43 pm

Quote from: vansmack on October 30, 2015, 03:22:38 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on October 30, 2015, 02:33:06 pm
Grantland (http://espnmediazone.com/us/espn-statement-regarding-grantland/)

For some reason I thought he it already went out in blaze of glory.

You're thinking of when they fired Simmons. The site continued on with similar quality and 100% less Simmons-centric blather.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 30, 2015, 03:37:06 pm

I know they make this about Simmons leaving, but this is about ESPN overspending on TV Rights and not being able to afford all of their toys any longer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 30, 2015, 03:38:48 pm

Quote from: vansmack on October 30, 2015, 03:37:06 pm

I know they make this about Simmons leaving, but this is about ESPN overspending on TV Rights and not being able to afford all of their toys any longer.

?? Everyone knows that. They publicly announced they were laying off 450 people like 2 weeks ago. ESPN's overspending has been well documented by Deadspin, Awful Announcing, et al.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 30, 2015, 11:49:42 pm

Al Molinaro

Who even knew he was still alive?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on November 01, 2015, 08:09:18 pm

Fred Thompson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on November 02, 2015, 10:42:34 am

Michael Carlucci, guitarist for Winter Hours

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 02, 2015, 08:57:52 pm

Dr Know is onlife support apparently...wish him the best

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 05, 2015, 11:14:32 pm

Ahmad Chalabi... funny how he is consigned to the dustbin of history...he did have impact though unfortunately

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on November 06, 2015, 02:24:46 pm

Keystone XL pipeline

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 06, 2015, 09:48:30 pm

Quote from: killsaly on November 06, 2015, 02:24:46 pm

Keystone XL pipeline

well they will just resubmit application if republicans win white house

I don't get why pres. Obama felt compelled to rule on this once the company said they were withdrawing their application a few days ago.. seems unnecessary..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on November 08, 2015, 03:11:45 pm

Gunnar Hansen (the first Leatherface)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gavroche on November 08, 2015, 07:21:26 pm

Quote from: Iron Ass on November 06, 2015, 09:48:30 pm

Quote from: killsaly on November 06, 2015, 02:24:46 pm
Keystone XL pipeline

well they will just resubmit application if republicans win white house

I don't get why pres. Obama felt compelled to rule on this once the company said they were withdrawing their application a few days ago.. seems unnecessary..

Because the company's move was a big fuck you to the President. They knew that he was going to reject and so they basically said we aren't going to like the outcome, so we are going to try to wait you out.

There are also people living up and down the pipeline route whose property was going to be taken by imminent domain and so rejecting the permit frees them of that burden and resets the process in a lot of states.

President Obama also likely wanted to send a signal about US action going into the negotiations in Paris in December.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 08, 2015, 07:41:35 pm

tl;dr?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 08, 2015, 07:59:31 pm

Quote from: Bagley on November 02, 2015, 10:42:34 am

Michael Carlucci, guitarist for Winter Hours

They should've been bigger. Played the crap out of that disc. Lead singer died years ago as well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on November 09, 2015, 12:17:26 pm

http://www.inquisitr.com/2546095/johnny-fratto-howard-stern-regular-and-mafia-guru-dies-at-61-of-lung-cancer/

(http://johnnyfratto.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/johnny-fratto-pic-4.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 09, 2015, 04:28:16 pm

Re Keystone - it's a victory of the well-heeled over the common good. The oil will still make its way to market. It will just do so via Warren Buffett's BNSF railway, which is more expensive and more dangerous to the environment. It helps the Dems by giving a gift to a select few deep-pocketed activists. I know Tom Steyer. I like Tom Steyer. But much of his many billions came from investments in coal and oil.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 10, 2015, 03:13:19 am

Former Braves & Angels pitcher Tommy Hanson has passed away at 29 after falling into a coma

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on November 10, 2015, 08:46:50 am

Allen Toussaint

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 10, 2015, 09:44:07 am

Quote from: Vas Deferens on November 10, 2015, 08:46:50 am

Allen Toussaint

damn it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on November 10, 2015, 09:50:13 am

yeah....very sad :-[

Quote from: Yada on November 10, 2015, 09:44:07 am

Quote from: Vas Deferens on November 10, 2015, 08:46:50 am
Allen Toussaint

damn it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 10, 2015, 09:53:28 am

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 10, 2015, 09:57:19 am

Quote from: Vas Deferens on November 10, 2015, 09:50:13 am

yeah....very sad :-[

Quote from: Yada on November 10, 2015, 09:44:07 am
Quote from: Vas Deferens on November 10, 2015, 08:46:50 am
Allen Toussaint

damn it.

Didn't realize all the stuff he wrote. Pretty amazing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/11/10/allen-toussaint-a-giant-of-new-orleans-music-dies-at-77/?hpid=hp_rhp-more-top-stories_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 10, 2015, 12:39:28 pm

Helmut Schmidt

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 10, 2015, 12:41:26 pm

Star Wars fan whose dying last wish was to see the new release.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 10, 2015, 12:44:50 pm

Tommy Hanson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 10, 2015, 12:48:46 pm

Quote from: Yada on November 10, 2015, 12:44:50 pm

Tommy Hanson

Hopefull Zac and Ike keep going as a duo. :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 10, 2015, 12:55:52 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on November 10, 2015, 12:48:46 pm

Quote from: Yada on November 10, 2015, 12:44:50 pm
Tommy Hanson
Hopefull Zac and Ike keep going as a duo. :'(

Maybe they could get their cousin to join the band. Hopefully he wouldn't be a dick like the Wilson brothers' cousin.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 10, 2015, 02:32:18 pm

Quote from: Vas Deferens on November 10, 2015, 08:46:50 am

Allen Toussaint

wow..that really blows.. he was still performing on top of his game...heck I think he had a show scheduled for the Hamilton?

amazingly influential..he played silver spring jazz festival maybe 6-7 years ago... I just walked up and was able to stand there watching his hands playing the piano from a few feet away.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 10, 2015, 02:42:22 pm

Quote from: Iron Ass on November 10, 2015, 02:32:18 pm

I just walked up and was able to stand there watching his hands playing the piano from a few feet away.

From the convenience of your own home, there are websites where you can watch some guy play piano with his penis. PM me for linkz.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 10, 2015, 02:47:41 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on November 10, 2015, 02:42:22 pm

Quote from: Iron Ass on November 10, 2015, 02:32:18 pm
I just walked up and was able to stand there watching his hands playing the piano from a few feet away.
From the convenience of your own home, there are websites where you can watch some guy play piano with his penis. PM me for linkz.

i'm sure i'm sure.. just not into piano penis playing but I respect your lifestyle choices...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 10, 2015, 02:58:45 pm

Quote from: Iron Ass on November 10, 2015, 02:47:41 pm

just not into piano penis playing but I respect your lifestyle choices...

(http://38.media.tumblr.com/676d3e8553fcbe2c2f9a11e6d17c48dd/tumblr_inline_mt6xlo2CoM1qdbs7o.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 10, 2015, 03:10:55 pm

Quote from: Iron Ass on November 10, 2015, 02:32:18 pm

Quote from: Vas Deferens on November 10, 2015, 08:46:50 am
Allen Toussaint

wow..that really blows.. he was still performing on top of his game...heck I think he had a show scheduled for the Hamilton?

amazingly influential..he played silver spring jazz festival maybe 6-7 years ago... I just walked up and was able to stand there watching his hands playing the piano from a few feet away.

So you're saying he played the piano without even touching it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 10, 2015, 03:17:34 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 10, 2015, 03:10:55 pm

Quote from: Iron Ass on November 10, 2015, 02:32:18 pm
Quote from: Vas Deferens on November 10, 2015, 08:46:50 am
Allen Toussaint

wow..that really blows.. he was still performing on top of his game...heck I think he had a show scheduled for the Hamilton?

amazingly influential..he played silver spring jazz festival maybe 6-7 years ago... I just walked up and was able to stand there watching his hands playing the piano from a few feet away.

So you're saying he played the piano without even touching it?

exactly! amazing New Orleans levitation piano playing technique... unlike the penis players Julian is into these days Allen Toussaint led an entire school of players that took it one step further..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 10, 2015, 09:09:43 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 10, 2015, 03:13:19 am

Former Braves & Angels pitcher Tommy Hanson has passed away at 29 after falling into a coma

As I feared, it's looking like an overdose/possible suicide.

He took his younger brothers death very hard with Anaheim and was never the same.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gavroche on November 10, 2015, 10:19:00 pm

Quote from: ggw on November 09, 2015, 04:28:16 pm

Re Keystone - it's a victory of the well-heeled over the common good. The oil will still make its way to market. It will just do so via Warren Buffett's BNSF railway, which is more expensive and more dangerous to the environment. It helps the Dems by giving a gift to a select few deep-pocketed activists. I know Tom Steyer. I like Tom Steyer. But much of his many billions came from investments in coal and oil.

The Keystone XL campaign was started 7 years ago, well before oil trains were a thing.

It's also not as simple as the oil will just get out some other way. The industry has had to seriously reduce projections, even before the bottom fell out of the market. Oil trains are also much more expensive than pipelines and so stopping pipelines changes the price point at which tar sands is economically viable. We are also seeing mines close as a result: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/28/shell-halts-carmon-creek-oil-sands-project-in-alberta-canada

As for Tom Steyer, it is definitely NOT his money that funded the majority of the groups working on tar sands. He only got involved after the campaign had already been going for 3 or 4 years. Like it or not, the pipeline really resonated with people on the ground and that was what made the fight possible.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on November 11, 2015, 05:09:56 am

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on November 10, 2015, 09:57:19 am

Quote from: Vas Deferens on November 10, 2015, 09:50:13 am
yeah....very sad :-[

Quote from: Yada on November 10, 2015, 09:44:07 am
Quote from: Vas Deferens on November 10, 2015, 08:46:50 am
Allen Toussaint

damn it.

Didn't realize all the stuff he wrote. Pretty amazing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2015/11/10/allen-toussaint-a-giant-of-new-orleans-music-dies-at-77/?hpid=hp_rhp-more-top-stories_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Ouch..His music and production has graced my turntable so many times. He did so much! I'm pretty bummed about this. R.I.P. Mr. Toussaint.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on November 12, 2015, 01:23:57 pm

Philthy Animal Taylor

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-motorhead-drummer-phil-philthy-animal-taylor-dies-at-61/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 12, 2015, 03:54:48 pm

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on November 25, 2005, 10:42:00 am

Actor Pat Morita Dies at 73 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051125/ap_on_en_mo/obit_morita)

LOS ANGELES - Actor
Pat Morita, whose portrayal of the wise and dry-witted Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid" earned him an Oscar nomination, has died. He was 73.

RIP Morita. Wax off, indeed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on November 15, 2015, 01:18:11 pm

Don Vito (Bam Margera's uncle)
(http://data.whicdn.com/images/741099/large.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 15, 2015, 06:06:33 pm

Big Bank Hank of Sugarhill Gang (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/big-bank-hank-of-sugarhill-gang-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 15, 2015, 08:05:26 pm

Quote from: killsaly on November 15, 2015, 01:18:11 pm

Don Vito (Bam Margera's uncle)
(http://data.whicdn.com/images/741099/large.gif)

Diabetes, I'm assuming?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 16, 2015, 01:12:54 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on November 15, 2015, 06:06:33 pm

Big Bank Hank of Sugarhill Gang (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/big-bank-hank-of-sugarhill-gang-dies/)

WE LANDED ON THE MOON!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 17, 2015, 01:29:10 pm

Mickey Rooney
http://www.tmz.com/2014/04/06/mickey-rooney-dead/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 17, 2015, 01:42:25 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 17, 2015, 01:29:10 pm

Mickey Rooney
http://www.tmz.com/2014/04/06/mickey-rooney-dead/

Again?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 17, 2015, 01:45:15 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 17, 2015, 01:42:25 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 17, 2015, 01:29:10 pm
Mickey Rooney
http://www.tmz.com/2014/04/06/mickey-rooney-dead/

Again?

LOL! well, i effed that one up. i really should check the dates on these things...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 17, 2015, 02:50:21 pm

P.F. Sloan (http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/eve-of-destruction-songwriter-pf-sloan-dies/ar-BBn590T?ocid=ansmsnent11)

pened tracks like Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man" and Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction,"

Sloan created and played a guitar introduction as a hook to a new song by John Phillips entitled "California Dreamin'", and the same backing track was used for the hit version by Phillips' group the Mamas & the Papas,

Due to its line "You're old enough to kill, but not for votin'", "Eve of Destruction" was used as a rallying cry by supporters of the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which changed the voting age from 21 to 18 as of 1971

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 17, 2015, 03:42:29 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 17, 2015, 01:42:25 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 17, 2015, 01:29:10 pm
Mickey Rooney
http://www.tmz.com/2014/04/06/mickey-rooney-dead/

Again?

Wax off, indeed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on November 24, 2015, 10:02:20 pm

cynthia robinson - trumpet player from sly and the family stone
she was my favorite member of the band
monster chops and cute as a button

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 25, 2015, 11:50:57 am

At first glance, I read that as mutton chops and was like, whaaaaaaaa?!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on November 26, 2015, 11:49:03 am

Quote from: jaded on November 25, 2015, 11:50:57 am

At first glance, I read that as mutton chops and was like, whaaaaaaaa?!?

mutton chops would be everyone else in the band.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 29, 2015, 04:09:06 pm

Sinead?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on November 29, 2015, 04:26:23 pm

too soon

"A representative has confirmed O?Connor is ?unwell and receiving treatment.?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on December 04, 2015, 01:42:00 am

Scott Weiland???

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 04, 2015, 01:55:12 am

Quote from: jeffml on December 04, 2015, 01:42:00 am

Scott Weiland???

Looks that way (http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6785645/scott-weiland-stone-temple-pilots-dead)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 04, 2015, 02:36:25 am

Quote from: ßèétſ on December 04, 2015, 01:55:12 am

Quote from: jeffml on December 04, 2015, 01:42:00 am
Scott Weiland???

Looks that way (http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6785645/scott-weiland-stone-temple-pilots-dead)

Manager just confirmed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on December 04, 2015, 08:11:14 am

Sad. Not surprising, perhaps. Sad nonetheless.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on December 04, 2015, 09:32:24 am

So sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 04, 2015, 09:48:41 am

Are you guys saying it's "so sad" in a sort of generic way that you say it's sad anytime some random person you didn't know dies?

Admittedly, he came from a corner of the music world I'm not that familiar with, but from everything I've read in the past (which is admittedly not that much), he came off as sort of a dick. Perhaps some of you were friends with him and have anecdotal stories that would totally prove that statement off the mark? Did his music stir something deep in your soul, perhaps a connection that I totally missed out on?

Sorry, but Colorado Springs and San Bernadino sort of cornered the market on my sadness for this week.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 04, 2015, 09:52:58 am

when I saw his name flash on the ticker at the bottom of CNN a few hours ago...I had a bad feeling...

I think he was much maligned for no good reason really.. it seemed like in the early to mid 90s everyone wanted to kick around STP but if you listened to their music and followed their career they did some good stuff....they just didn't fit neatly enough into that Seattle tortured artist thing...funny thing is anyone who has seen pictures of the guys from Pearl Jam in their previous bands knows they were trying just as hard to sell records

I also think STP's macho Weiland preening looking like he had just worked out videos didn't help...they seemed to attract a higher lunkhead quotient early on but a few years on every grunge band had the same fans..

at the time I despised them as much as anyone but when I went back a few years ago and listened to their later albums like 4 or Shangrila I found much to like musically... There was definitely a time when hearing Plush made my skin crawl though....

their Thank You cd hits package with the bonus DVD with like 3 hours of footage was a nice touch..

Then of course there was the Pavement STP line which everyone thought was a clever put down...I think a few years ago I read it was no such thing..

Weiland did some weird things though... the Christmas album (which I have yet to hear)?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 04, 2015, 10:17:13 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 04, 2015, 09:48:41 am

Are you guys saying it's "so sad" in a sort of generic way that you say it's sad anytime some random person you didn't know dies?

Admittedly, he came from a corner of the music world I'm not that familiar with, but from everything I've read in the past (which is admittedly not that much), he came off as sort of a dick. Perhaps some of you were friends with him and have anecdotal stories that would totally prove that statement off the mark? Did his music stir something deep in your soul, perhaps a connection that I totally missed out on?

Sorry, but Colorado Springs and San Bernadino sort of cornered the market on my sadness for this week.

On the other hand, we should be allowed to grieve whoever and however we wish without judgment. Sorry to those who I may have offended with that post.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 04, 2015, 10:19:50 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 04, 2015, 10:17:13 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 04, 2015, 09:48:41 am
Are you guys saying it's "so sad" in a sort of generic way that you say it's sad anytime some random person you didn't know dies?

Admittedly, he came from a corner of the music world I'm not that familiar with, but from everything I've read in the past (which is admittedly not that much), he came off as sort of a dick. Perhaps some of you were friends with him and have anecdotal stories that would totally prove that statement off the mark? Did his music stir something deep in your soul, perhaps a connection that I totally missed out on?

Sorry, but Colorado Springs and San Bernadino sort of cornered the market on my sadness for this week.

On the other hand, we should be allowed to grieve whoever and however we wish without judgment. Sorry to those who I may have offended with that post.

thank you Ford..that was an unexpectedly nice thing to read..
I would say lately its

infinita tristeza

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 04, 2015, 12:17:53 pm

Quote from: vansmack on December 04, 2015, 02:36:25 am

Quote from: ßèétſ on December 04, 2015, 01:55:12 am
Quote from: jeffml on December 04, 2015, 01:42:00 am
Scott Weiland???

Looks that way (http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6785645/scott-weiland-stone-temple-pilots-dead)

Manager just confirmed.

passed away in his sleep while on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his band The Wildabouts
yeah...sleep killed him

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 04, 2015, 12:23:19 pm

Quote from: 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on December 04, 2015, 12:17:53 pm

Quote from: vansmack on December 04, 2015, 02:36:25 am
Quote from: ßèétſ on December 04, 2015, 01:55:12 am
Quote from: jeffml on December 04, 2015, 01:42:00 am
Scott Weiland???

Looks that way (http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6785645/scott-weiland-stone-temple-pilots-dead)

Manager just confirmed.
passed away in his sleep while on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his band The Wildabouts
yeah...sleep killed him

To be fair, many people take a nap while on heroin.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chancegardener on December 04, 2015, 01:14:55 pm

Scott Weiland finally drops the mic. Ah well. My main impression of him was seeing Velvet Revolver at the Virgin Fest in Pimlico back in 2007 or so. It had been a kind of ho-hum parade of bands and then these guys came out, fronted by Weiland. Weiland then proceeded to show everyone -- audience and other bands -- how IT WAS DONE. One helluva great, mesmerizing performer and vocalist. ...His uncanny ability to mimic other singers (i.e. Vedder) eventually evolved into his own distinctive and powerful style. And his slithery skinny-leather pants and often shirtless on-stage appearance epitomized what a real rock star should look like. As for his music, Stone Temple Pilot's third record "Tiny Music" is an out-and-out classic, the moment went STP finally produced its own non-derivative vision. My favorite track from that is "Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart" -- just a superb 3 minute rock gem.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on December 04, 2015, 01:18:34 pm

Quote from: chancegardener on December 04, 2015, 01:14:55 pm

Scott Weiland finally drops the mic. Ah well. My main impression of him was seeing Velvet Revolver at the Virgin Fest in Pimlico back in 2007 or so. It had been a kind of ho-hum parade of bands and then these guys came out, fronted by Weiland. Weiland then proceeded to show everyone -- audience and other bands -- how IT WAS DONE. One helluva great, mesmerizing performer and vocalist. ...His uncanny ability to mimic other singers (i.e. Vedder) eventually evolved into his own distinctive and powerful style. And his slithery skinny-leather pants and often shirtless on-stage appearance epitomized what a real rock star should look like. As for his music, Stone Temple Pilot's third record "Tiny Music" is an out-and-out classic, the moment went STP finally produced its own non-derivative vision. My favorite track from that is "Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart" -- just a superb 3 minute rock gem.

Mine is "And So I Know". God, that song is so beautiful. Not at all what people would expect of STP. When they first emerged I remember how much shit they got. People were relentless in their hatred of that band, the media especially. And it's kind of funny now all these years later to see that they were appreciated (which is nice). I never saw Weiland and I wasn't a huge fan, but I appreciated him and I'm very sorry to see that he's gone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 04, 2015, 01:18:38 pm

Quote from: chancegardener on December 04, 2015, 01:14:55 pm

Scott Weiland finally drops the mic. Ah well. My main impression of him was seeing Velvet Revolver at the Virgin Fest in Pimlico back in 2007 or so. It had been a kind of ho-hum parade of bands and then these guys came out, fronted by Weiland. Weiland then proceeded to show everyone -- audience and other bands -- how IT WAS DONE. One helluva great, mesmerizing performer and vocalist. ...His uncanny ability to mimic other singers (i.e. Vedder) eventually evolved into his own distinctive and powerful style. And his slithery skinny-leather pants and often shirtless on-stage appearance epitomized what a real rock star should look like. As for his music, Stone Temple Pilot's third record "Tiny Music" is an out-and-out classic, the moment went STP finally produced its own non-derivative vision. My favorite track from that is "Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart" -- just a superb 3 minute rock gem.

A very nice tribute to a fallen ★.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 04, 2015, 01:36:18 pm

Quote from: chancegardener on December 04, 2015, 01:14:55 pm

As for his music, Stone Temple Pilot's third record "Tiny Music" is an out-and-out classic, the moment went STP finally produced its own non-derivative vision.

I agree with this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 04, 2015, 01:37:08 pm

Quote from: bearman on December 04, 2015, 01:18:34 pm

When they first emerged I remember how much shit they got. People were relentless in their hatred of that band, the media especially. And it's kind of funny now all these years later to see that they were appreciated (which is nice).

Same with Silverchair. Both evolved into really interesting, distinct, bands in their later eras. But then no one bought any of those records.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 04, 2015, 01:48:44 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on December 04, 2015, 01:37:08 pm

Quote from: bearman on December 04, 2015, 01:18:34 pm
When they first emerged I remember how much shit they got. People were relentless in their hatred of that band, the media especially. And it's kind of funny now all these years later to see that they were appreciated (which is nice).
Same with Silverchair. Both evolved into really interesting, distinct, bands in their later eras. But then no one bought any of those records.

you, serious, breaux?

(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/4016279/silverchair-2000-o.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 04, 2015, 01:53:25 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 04, 2015, 01:48:44 pm

you, serious, breaux?

(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/4016279/silverchair-2000-o.gif)

Oh, I'll defend Neon Ballroom and Diorama up and down, mate.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on December 04, 2015, 01:53:44 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on December 04, 2015, 01:37:08 pm

Quote from: bearman on December 04, 2015, 01:18:34 pm
When they first emerged I remember how much shit they got. People were relentless in their hatred of that band, the media especially. And it's kind of funny now all these years later to see that they were appreciated (which is nice).
Same with Silverchair. Both evolved into really interesting, distinct, bands in their later eras. But then no one bought any of those records.

The last Charlatans LP that came out is easily the best thing they've done since the 1990's and I bet few people bought it. It's not on anyone's best of list. Most of the LPs I loved this year aren't, LOL. But it's kind of cool that there's totally brilliant music slipping through the cracks of the mainstream when everyone is off buying Kendrick Lamar and Grimes LPs. I just feel sorta bad for the bands trying to stick around and make a living by not re-hashing the past by playing their first 3 LPs over and over.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on December 04, 2015, 02:52:42 pm

(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtl1/v/t1.0-9/11412177_10204786755690775_6686724222076469016_n.jpg?oh=57285d367e65038a7d9449e030f5691b&oe=56D5F359)
Poignant words. I made this earlier this year. RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 04, 2015, 05:03:27 pm

Quote from: chancegardener on December 04, 2015, 01:14:55 pm

As for his music, Stone Temple Pilot's third record "Tiny Music" is an out-and-out classic, the moment went STP finally produced its own non-derivative vision. My favorite track from that is "Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart" -- just a superb 3 minute rock gem.

Just listened to 'Tiny Music' for the first time in years. It's solid. I always liked that record. Seemed a nice change from their previous, overplayed stuff.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 04, 2015, 05:14:54 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on December 04, 2015, 05:03:27 pm

Quote from: chancegardener on December 04, 2015, 01:14:55 pm
As for his music, Stone Temple Pilot's third record "Tiny Music" is an out-and-out classic, the moment went STP finally produced its own non-derivative vision. My favorite track from that is "Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart" -- just a superb 3 minute rock gem.

Just listened to 'Tiny Music' for the first time in years. It's solid. I always liked that record. Seemed a nice change from their previous, overplayed stuff.

It's totally glam-y and '60s pop-y all at once. Definitely the most interesting thing they ever did. Its considered this huge flop and the end of their popularity but it went 2x platinum and had like three #1 hits in Trippin, Big Bang Baby, and Lady Picture Show. It's weird how that album is remembered. Its definitely the STP record I turn up playing most often.

(Art School Girl is a great track too.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on December 04, 2015, 07:48:05 pm

Velvet Revolver at Pimlico destroyed

one of the best shows I have ever seen

talk about the real deal

I will say it was a surprise he lasted this long

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 05, 2015, 03:35:35 pm

Chuck Williams (of Williams Sonoma)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Nigel Tufnel on December 06, 2015, 06:55:24 pm

Ken Beatrice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 06, 2015, 11:33:13 pm

Quote from: Nigel Tufnel on December 06, 2015, 06:55:24 pm

Ken Beatrice.

He's next.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 07, 2015, 09:59:44 am

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 07, 2015, 10:02:59 am

Quote from: ßèétſ on December 07, 2015, 09:59:44 am

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

even I remembered that was years ago...

notable corrections of the NYT to their obituary.. did they get anything right?

Correction: December 5, 2012

An earlier version of this obituary erroneously attributed a distinction to Mr. Brubeck. He was the second jazz musician to be featured on the cover of Time magazine, not the first. That version also misstated the name of a song at one point. It is ?Take Five,? not ?Time Out.? (?Time Out? is the name of the album on which ?Take Five? first appeared.) It also said that ?Take Five? was the first jazz single to sell a million copies, instead it was the album ?Time Out? that sold over a million copies.

Correction: December 11, 2012

An obituary on Thursday about the jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck referred incorrectly to his military service during World War II. He enlisted in the Army; he was not drafted.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 08, 2015, 01:11:59 am

Letter from Scott Weiland's Ex-wife and children:

December 3rd, 2015 is not the day Scott Weiland died. It is the official day the public will use to mourn him, and it was the last day he could be propped up in front of a microphone for the financial benefit or enjoyment of others. The outpouring of condolences and prayers offered to our children, Noah and Lucy, has been overwhelming, appreciated and even comforting. But the truth is, like so many other kids, they lost their father years ago. What they truly lost on December 3rd was hope.

It only gets more devastating from there: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/scott-weiland-s-family-dont-glorify-this-tragedy-20151207

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 08, 2015, 08:53:28 am

Quote from: vansmack on December 08, 2015, 01:11:59 am

Letter from Scott Weiland's Ex-wife and children:

December 3rd, 2015 is not the day Scott Weiland died. It is the official day the public will use to mourn him, and it was the last day he could be propped up in front of a microphone for the financial benefit or enjoyment of others. The outpouring of condolences and prayers offered to our children, Noah and Lucy, has been overwhelming, appreciated and even comforting. But the truth is, like so many other kids, they lost their father years ago. What they truly lost on December 3rd was hope.

It only gets more devastating from there: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/scott-weiland-s-family-dont-glorify-this-tragedy-20151207

Wow, powerful words.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 10, 2015, 09:48:41 am

Finally read this... what a big sack of shit.

Great way to bring attention to herself (who obviously knew he had a drug problem WAAAAAAAY before they had kids). I'm sure she's not complaining about the Plush royalties that are streaming into her bank account.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 10, 2015, 09:52:37 am

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 09:48:41 am

Finally read this... what a big sack of shit.

Great way to bring attention to herself (who obviously knew he had a drug problem WAAAAAAAY before they had kids). I'm sure she's not complaining about the Plush royalties that are streaming into her bank account.

totally agree... very distasteful....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 10, 2015, 10:23:12 am

Quote from: hutch on December 10, 2015, 09:52:37 am

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 09:48:41 am
Finally read this... what a big sack of shit.

Great way to bring attention to herself (who obviously knew he had a drug problem WAAAAAAAY before they had kids). I'm sure she's not complaining about the Plush royalties that are streaming into her bank account.

totally agree... very distasteful....

I'm conflicted...kinda think she was just looking for attention, but I do think she made a poignant statement about how drug addiction impacts more than the user and the wake of destruction that takes innocent kids in it's path

But the truth is, like so many other kids, they lost their father years ago. What they truly lost on December 3rd was hope.

I really think that statement really stuck with me and I think comes from the heart

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 10, 2015, 10:25:37 am

What do y'all think would be her motivation to seek attention?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 10, 2015, 10:59:09 am

as is typical when someone famous dies, people only highlight the good stuff.

this man abandoned 2 kids and abused this woman. throw in the fact that he was a horrible person to work with (thus threatening the livelihood of others), and he sounds like a douchbag and a total loser. i think she had every right to tell her side of the story. the letter was written with the teenage kids for whom this must have been very therapeutic.

criticizing her reminds me of the NRA criticizing folks who bring up gun control after a shooting.

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 09:48:41 am

I'm sure she's not complaining about the Plush royalties that are streaming into her bank account.

i'm positive that she would trade in that money for a husband and a father.

i really don't understand all the cynicism... was that out of control addict such a big hero to you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 10, 2015, 11:08:09 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 10, 2015, 10:25:37 am

What do y'all think would be her motivation to seek attention?

well I don't think it's that simple, I'm 100% confident that all the news outlets had her on speed dial the moment his death was announced.
I think she deciced to just put out a statement rather than deal with them and having to talk off the cuff about something tramautic and that impacts her kids

So it would be different if she did like a Kim Kardashole type thing where she sold exclusive rights to her statement to TMZ or something

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 10, 2015, 11:23:10 am

Quote from: sweetcell on December 10, 2015, 10:59:09 am

as is typical when someone famous dies, people only highlight the good stuff.

this man abandoned 2 kids and abused this woman. throw in the fact that he was a horrible person to work with (thus threatening the livelihood of others), and he sounds like a douchbag and a total loser. i think she had every right to tell her side of the story. the letter was written with the teenage kids for whom this must have been very therapeutic.

criticizing her reminds me of the NRA criticizing folks who bring up gun control after a shooting.

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 09:48:41 am
I'm sure she's not complaining about the Plush royalties that are streaming into her bank account.

i'm positive that she would trade in that money for a husband and a father.

i really don't understand all the cynicism... was that out of control addict such a big hero to you?

I don't think I've listened to a STP song or album in about 20 years, so no... couldn't give a shit about Weiland. But like I said above, she knew what she was getting into with that "out of control addict" way before she had his kids.

Also, what do you know about their familial situation. Maybe she was a angry bitch that wouldn't let him HAVE a relationship with his kids (even if/when he was sober). They haven't been married for nearly 8 years, so I wonder what his current wife has to say about him? I'm sure he didn't have the parenting ideals as James Ford, but there's always another side to the story.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 10, 2015, 11:47:01 am

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 11:23:10 am

Quote from: sweetcell on December 10, 2015, 10:59:09 am
as is typical when someone famous dies, people only highlight the good stuff.

this man abandoned 2 kids and abused this woman. throw in the fact that he was a horrible person to work with (thus threatening the livelihood of others), and he sounds like a douchbag and a total loser. i think she had every right to tell her side of the story. the letter was written with the teenage kids for whom this must have been very therapeutic.

criticizing her reminds me of the NRA criticizing folks who bring up gun control after a shooting.

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 09:48:41 am
I'm sure she's not complaining about the Plush royalties that are streaming into her bank account.

i'm positive that she would trade in that money for a husband and a father.

i really don't understand all the cynicism... was that out of control addict such a big hero to you?

I don't think I've listened to a STP song or album in about 20 years, so no... couldn't give a shit about Weiland. But like I said above, she knew what she was getting into with that "out of control addict" way before she had his kids.

Also, what do you know about their familial situation. Maybe she was a angry bitch that wouldn't let him HAVE a relationship with his kids (even if/when he was sober). They haven't been married for nearly 8 years, so I wonder what his current wife has to say about him? I'm sure he didn't have the parenting ideals as James Ford, but there's always another side to the story.

I agree that there's always at least two sides to a story, but it seems like you're viewing the situation based on a series of "maybes", "I wonders", and "even ifs" and then coming to a conclusion that the ex-wife is a person behaving badly in this situation.

Maybe she is an "angry bitch". Do you think being dicked over by her ex-husband perhaps made her an "angry bitch"? Or was she an "angry bitch" all along?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 10, 2015, 11:54:41 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 10, 2015, 11:47:01 am

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 11:23:10 am
Quote from: sweetcell on December 10, 2015, 10:59:09 am
as is typical when someone famous dies, people only highlight the good stuff.

this man abandoned 2 kids and abused this woman. throw in the fact that he was a horrible person to work with (thus threatening the livelihood of others), and he sounds like a douchbag and a total loser. i think she had every right to tell her side of the story. the letter was written with the teenage kids for whom this must have been very therapeutic.

criticizing her reminds me of the NRA criticizing folks who bring up gun control after a shooting.

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 09:48:41 am
I'm sure she's not complaining about the Plush royalties that are streaming into her bank account.

i'm positive that she would trade in that money for a husband and a father.

i really don't understand all the cynicism... was that out of control addict such a big hero to you?

I don't think I've listened to a STP song or album in about 20 years, so no... couldn't give a shit about Weiland. But like I said above, she knew what she was getting into with that "out of control addict" way before she had his kids.

Also, what do you know about their familial situation. Maybe she was a angry bitch that wouldn't let him HAVE a relationship with his kids (even if/when he was sober). They haven't been married for nearly 8 years, so I wonder what his current wife has to say about him? I'm sure he didn't have the parenting ideals as James Ford, but there's always another side to the story.

I agree that there's always at least two sides to a story, but it seems like you're viewing the situation based on a series of "maybes", "I wonders", and "even ifs" and then coming to a conclusion that the ex-wife is a person behaving badly in this situation.

Maybe she is an "angry bitch". Do you think being dicked over by her ex-husband perhaps made her an "angry bitch"? Or was she an "angry bitch" all along?

I'm going to keep referring back to my original post that she knew what she was getting into. Who picks a junkie as a partner and expects them to live a perfect life?

She can write editorials criticizing her ex husband of many moons ago for the rest of her life while his royalty checks take care of her and her kids.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 10, 2015, 12:05:04 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 11:54:41 am

She can write editorials criticizing her ex husband of many moons ago for the rest of her life while his royalty checks take care of her and her kids.

What do you want her to do? "No, kids, we can't afford college, Mom is taking a principled stand against your absentee father's money?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 10, 2015, 12:06:13 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 10, 2015, 10:59:09 am

as is typical when someone famous dies, people only highlight the good stuff.

This has categorically not been the case with Weiland.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 10, 2015, 12:07:36 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on December 10, 2015, 12:05:04 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 11:54:41 am
She can write editorials criticizing her ex husband of many moons ago for the rest of her life while his royalty checks take care of her and her kids.
What do you want her to do? "No, kids, we can't afford college, Mom is taking a principled stand against your absentee father's money?"

Yes!!! She should donate it to organizations that raise awareness around addiction and physical abuse.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 10, 2015, 12:14:30 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 12:07:36 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on December 10, 2015, 12:05:04 pm
Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 11:54:41 am
She can write editorials criticizing her ex husband of many moons ago for the rest of her life while his royalty checks take care of her and her kids.
What do you want her to do? "No, kids, we can't afford college, Mom is taking a principled stand against your absentee father's money?"

Yes!!! She should donate it to organization's that raise awareness around addiction and physical abuse.

Let me make sure I'm understanding this: her children, on top of not having a father, should suffer financial hardship.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 10, 2015, 12:15:15 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on December 10, 2015, 12:14:30 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 12:07:36 pm
Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on December 10, 2015, 12:05:04 pm
Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 11:54:41 am
She can write editorials criticizing her ex husband of many moons ago for the rest of her life while his royalty checks take care of her and her kids.
What do you want her to do? "No, kids, we can't afford college, Mom is taking a principled stand against your absentee father's money?"

Yes!!! She should donate it to organization's that raise awareness around addiction and physical abuse.
Let me make sure I'm understanding this: her children, on top of not having a father, should suffer financial hardship.

Oh juls, I was joking.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 10, 2015, 12:30:04 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 12:15:15 pm

Oh juls, I was joking.

I think you were not joking. I think you were being SERIOUS.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 10, 2015, 12:30:43 pm

Dropping Like Flies: Commentary Edition?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 10, 2015, 07:59:23 pm

fuggit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on December 11, 2015, 02:45:17 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 09:48:41 am

Finally read this... what a big sack of shit.

Great way to bring attention to herself (who obviously knew he had a drug problem WAAAAAAAY before they had kids). I'm sure she's not complaining about the Plush royalties that are streaming into her bank account.

I really liked what his ex wrote. I had an experience in my life that very closely mirrors hers, minus the fame and $$.

I don't care what her motivations were. I sent it to a bunch of my friends just to say "Hey, if you want to understand what me and my kids went through a little better than you already do, then read this.".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on December 11, 2015, 02:49:05 pm

I think it came from the anger with dealing with an addict. me me me people get very old, very quick. the human response is to develop anger regarding what could or should have been.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 11, 2015, 03:19:58 pm

Quote from: chaz on December 11, 2015, 02:45:17 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 09:48:41 am
Finally read this... what a big sack of shit.

Great way to bring attention to herself (who obviously knew he had a drug problem WAAAAAAAY before they had kids). I'm sure she's not complaining about the Plush royalties that are streaming into her bank account.

I really liked what his ex wrote. I had an experience in my life that very closely mirrors hers, minus the fame and $$.

I don't care what her motivations were. I sent it to a bunch of my friends just to say "Hey, if you want to understand what me and my kids went through a little better than you already do, then read this.".

Who chooses to marry a heroin addict? Why would you do that to yourself? Maybe if he turned into an addict post marriage, that's one thing... but once an addict, always an addict, and most likely always a selfish prick like most addicts are.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on December 11, 2015, 03:35:17 pm

The fact that he was a rich and famous rock star might have contributed a wee bit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 11, 2015, 03:40:40 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on December 11, 2015, 03:35:17 pm

The fact that he was a rich and famous rock star might have contributed a wee bit.

Which has been my stance the whole time. She shouldn't have had children with the guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 11, 2015, 03:51:30 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 11, 2015, 03:19:58 pm

Quote from: chaz on December 11, 2015, 02:45:17 pm
Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 09:48:41 am
Finally read this... what a big sack of shit.

Great way to bring attention to herself (who obviously knew he had a drug problem WAAAAAAAY before they had kids). I'm sure she's not complaining about the Plush royalties that are streaming into her bank account.

I really liked what his ex wrote. I had an experience in my life that very closely mirrors hers, minus the fame and $$.

I don't care what her motivations were. I sent it to a bunch of my friends just to say "Hey, if you want to understand what me and my kids went through a little better than you already do, then read this.".

Who chooses to marry a heroin addict? Why would you do that to yourself? Maybe if he turned into an addict post marriage, that's one thing... but once an addict, always an addict, and most likely always a selfish prick like most addicts are.

I would like to point out that your statement is very James Ford-ian.

I'm not saying that I disagree with you and James, but do you work in a vocation that deals with a large sample of addicts, or are you just basing your statement on anecdotal evidence and small sample size? Maybe the asshole addicts hog the addict spotlight and there are actually a good many addicts who are not selfish pricks and just happen to be good people who are victims of a disease. I can only think of one addict that I personally know, and I tend to think of him as a goodhearted guy who suffered from abuse as a child and has major problems putting down the bottle. I wouldn't call him a selfish prick though.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 11, 2015, 03:58:39 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 11, 2015, 03:51:30 pm

I can only think of one addict that I personally know, and I tend to think of him as a goodhearted guy who suffered from abuse as a child and has major problems putting down the bottle. I wouldn't call him a selfish prick though.

I will thank you to not make blanket statements about me, Mr. Armchair Psychologist.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 11, 2015, 04:14:40 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 11, 2015, 03:51:30 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 11, 2015, 03:19:58 pm
Quote from: chaz on December 11, 2015, 02:45:17 pm
Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 09:48:41 am
Finally read this... what a big sack of shit.

Great way to bring attention to herself (who obviously knew he had a drug problem WAAAAAAAY before they had kids). I'm sure she's not complaining about the Plush royalties that are streaming into her bank account.

I really liked what his ex wrote. I had an experience in my life that very closely mirrors hers, minus the fame and $$.

I don't care what her motivations were. I sent it to a bunch of my friends just to say "Hey, if you want to understand what me and my kids went through a little better than you already do, then read this.".

Who chooses to marry a heroin addict? Why would you do that to yourself? Maybe if he turned into an addict post marriage, that's one thing... but once an addict, always an addict, and most likely always a selfish prick like most addicts are.

I would like to point out that your statement is very James Ford-ian.

I'm not saying that I disagree with you and James, but do you work in a vocation that deals with a large sample of addicts, or are you just basing your statement on anecdotal evidence and small sample size? Maybe the asshole addicts hog the addict spotlight and there are actually a good many addicts who are not selfish pricks and just happen to be good people who are victims of a disease. I can only think of one addict that I personally know, and I tend to think of him as a goodhearted guy who suffered from abuse as a child and has major problems putting down the bottle. I wouldn't call him a selfish prick though.

Sounds like you're not a good person to have a solid opinion on the matter if you're lucky enough to know one addict. I know many...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 11, 2015, 04:22:08 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 11, 2015, 04:14:40 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 11, 2015, 03:51:30 pm
Quote from: Yada on December 11, 2015, 03:19:58 pm
Quote from: chaz on December 11, 2015, 02:45:17 pm
Quote from: Yada on December 10, 2015, 09:48:41 am
Finally read this... what a big sack of shit.

Great way to bring attention to herself (who obviously knew he had a drug problem WAAAAAAAY before they had kids). I'm sure she's not complaining about the Plush royalties that are streaming into her bank account.

I really liked what his ex wrote. I had an experience in my life that very closely mirrors hers, minus the fame and $$.

I don't care what her motivations were. I sent it to a bunch of my friends just to say "Hey, if you want to understand what me and my kids went through a little better than you already do, then read this.".

Who chooses to marry a heroin addict? Why would you do that to yourself? Maybe if he turned into an addict post marriage, that's one thing... but once an addict, always an addict, and most likely always a selfish prick like most addicts are.

I would like to point out that your statement is very James Ford-ian.

I'm not saying that I disagree with you and James, but do you work in a vocation that deals with a large sample of addicts, or are you just basing your statement on anecdotal evidence and small sample size? Maybe the asshole addicts hog the addict spotlight and there are actually a good many addicts who are not selfish pricks and just happen to be good people who are victims of a disease. I can only think of one addict that I personally know, and I tend to think of him as a goodhearted guy who suffered from abuse as a child and has major problems putting down the bottle. I wouldn't call him a selfish prick though.

Sounds like you're not a good person to have a solid opinion on the matter if you're lucky enough to know one addict. I know many...

Fair enough...

Douglas Tompkins, the entrepreneur and environmentalist who co-founded outdoor equipment giant The North Face almost 50 years ago, has died in a kayaking accident in the Chilean wilderness he dedicated his life to preserving.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 11, 2015, 04:27:34 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 11, 2015, 04:22:08 pm

Douglas Tompkins, the entrepreneur and environmentalist who co-founded outdoor equipment giant The North Face almost 50 years ago, has died in a kayaking accident in the Chilean wilderness he dedicated his life to preserving.

Sounds like he had it coming to him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 11, 2015, 07:31:30 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on December 11, 2015, 03:58:39 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 11, 2015, 03:51:30 pm
I can only think of one addict that I personally know, and I tend to think of him as a goodhearted guy who suffered from abuse as a child and has major problems putting down the bottle. I wouldn't call him a selfish prick though.
I will thank you to not make blanket statements about me, Mr. Armchair Psychologist.

POTW

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 11, 2015, 07:40:55 pm

HARRY MORGAN
(http://keithkarabin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/wp_potter3.jpg)

Yes....it was 2011...but I just found out now

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 11, 2015, 07:59:10 pm

Also, Robert Palmer. Damn :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2015, 02:24:09 am

Quote from: jaded on December 11, 2015, 07:59:10 pm

Also, Robert Palmer. Damn :(

I insincerely believe you just found out

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 18, 2015, 01:12:02 pm

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said Friday that the 48-year-old Weiland had cocaine, ethanol and the amphetamine MDA in his system. The medical examiner also noted a history of cardiovascular disease, asthma and multi-substance dependence.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on December 18, 2015, 01:17:16 pm

Ahhh, there's nothing like a dram of fine ethanol.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqPae7iCcAAJhmT.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 18, 2015, 01:47:15 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on December 18, 2015, 01:12:02 pm

The medical examiner also noted a history of...multi-substance dependence.

No doy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 19, 2015, 11:41:18 am

Kurt Masur (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/20/arts/music/kurt-masur-new-york-philharmonic-conductor-dies.html?smid=fb-share)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 19, 2015, 12:19:24 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on December 18, 2015, 01:12:02 pm

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office said Friday that the 48-year-old Weiland had cocaine, ethanol and the amphetamine MDA in his system. The medical examiner also noted a history of cardiovascular disease, asthma and multi-substance dependence.

from what I read he was a heavy smoker... that really weakens your body

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 22, 2015, 10:48:30 pm

D Boon THIRTY years ago...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 23, 2015, 11:15:26 am

also on 12/22...14 years ago
(https://jimfox.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/joestrummer4mohawk.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 23, 2015, 11:16:26 am

Quote from: Sidehatch 🍺 |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🍺 on December 23, 2015, 11:15:26 am

also on 12/22...14 years ago
(https://jimfox.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/joestrummer4mohawk.jpg)

Yeah, but D Boon wasn't an untalented hack who put out shit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 28, 2015, 10:50:40 am

Dave Henderson (http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/27/us/dave-henderson-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 28, 2015, 11:06:32 am

Meadowlark Lemon (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/29/sports/basketball/meadowlark-lemon-harlem-globetrotter-who-played-basketball-and-pranks-with-virtuosity-dies-at-83.html?_r=0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on December 28, 2015, 04:21:42 pm

i enjoy that in our day and age, the death of famous people is exciting enough for total strangers to pass the news around about it, to other total strangers.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 28, 2015, 08:49:29 pm

Lemmy from Motörhead

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 28, 2015, 10:50:04 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on December 28, 2015, 08:49:29 pm

Lemmy from Motörhead

that blows.

weird I just bought Motorhead's first LP yesterday afternoon and been listening to it on and off since..

glad I saw them open for Black Sabbath (w/Dio) and Judas Priest at Nissan... what a bill!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 28, 2015, 11:01:14 pm

He 'learnt' of his cancer 12/26 and by 12/28 he was dead. He was lucky to make it to 70.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 28, 2015, 11:25:38 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on December 28, 2015, 08:49:29 pm

Lemmy from Motörhead

Is there another Lemmy?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 28, 2015, 11:56:18 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 28, 2015, 11:25:38 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on December 28, 2015, 08:49:29 pm
Lemmy from Motörhead

Is there another Lemmy?

the guys from Laverne and Shirley .. weren't they Lemmy and Squiggly?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on December 29, 2015, 12:11:25 am

Many missed opportunities to hear him live (like strummer), kicking myself. Feel somewhat better knowing he definitely lived his life to the fullest.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on December 29, 2015, 09:06:09 am

Me, too, but I'm not going to beat myself up over it. I tend to get too wrapped up in thinking if I miss them in they're prime it isn't worth it. And while that's sometimes true, it has prevented me from seeing acts like Motorhead, which is just dumb.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 29, 2015, 12:26:45 pm

Specials drummer John Bradbury at age 62
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35194738

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on December 29, 2015, 03:19:39 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on December 28, 2015, 08:49:29 pm

Lemmy from Motörhead

It should have been Lars.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 30, 2015, 06:54:09 am

John "Brad" Bradbury, the drummer for the Specials

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 30, 2015, 07:06:48 am

Quote from: jaded on December 29, 2015, 12:26:45 pm

Specials drummer John Bradbury at age 62
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35194738

I know, right?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 30, 2015, 10:50:14 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 30, 2015, 06:54:09 am

John "Brad" Bradbury, the drummer for the Specials

this is a bummer.. he did not look like he was aging very well at the Specials show I saw him at a couple of years ago at fillmore

specials are done I think...roddy has left the band.. Neville already had.. jerry is fighting with all of them and now Bradbury is dead...

caught them just in the nick of time...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 30, 2015, 10:58:02 am

Quote from: hutch on December 30, 2015, 10:50:14 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 30, 2015, 06:54:09 am
John "Brad" Bradbury, the drummer for the Specials

this is a bummer.. he did not look like he was aging very well at the Specials show I saw him at a couple of years ago at fillmore

specials are done I think...roddy has left the band.. Neville already had.. jerry is fighting with all of them and now Bradbury is dead...

caught them just in the nick of time...

Rico died in sept too

I think 'brad' was one of the ones who came out to meet some fans in the back too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 30, 2015, 11:15:50 am

Quote from: Sidehatch 🍺 |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🍺 on December 30, 2015, 10:58:02 am

Quote from: hutch on December 30, 2015, 10:50:14 am
Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 30, 2015, 06:54:09 am
John "Brad" Bradbury, the drummer for the Specials

this is a bummer.. he did not look like he was aging very well at the Specials show I saw him at a couple of years ago at fillmore

specials are done I think...roddy has left the band.. Neville already had.. jerry is fighting with all of them and now Bradbury is dead...

caught them just in the nick of time...

Rico died in sept too

I think 'brad' was one of the ones who came out to meet some fans in the back too

no.. I looked at my record... he was the one that came out at the end with Terry and got in the SUV and left without a word or wave..so that is the last time we saw Mr. Bradbury...

the ones that came out and talked to us were Lynval Golding, Roddy Radiation and Horace panter (bass)

it was a really good show... glad we caught it..

honestly if you look at Bradbury he looked so much older// yes he was like 6 years older but he looked like Terry's dad!

now if the specials do tour it will just be terry, lynval and Horace panter.... that would be sad...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on December 30, 2015, 02:42:41 pm

It should have been James

(http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1234715/main-met-300.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 01, 2016, 12:20:11 pm

Wayne Rogers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on January 01, 2016, 01:56:12 pm

Natalie Cole

singing unforgettable for real, with her father, now.

She was a great talent.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 01, 2016, 10:23:00 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on January 01, 2016, 12:20:11 pm

Wayne Rogers

(http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsR/tve14893-206-207.jpg)
I really did enjoy this character

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 05, 2016, 12:09:12 pm

Paul Bley (http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/05/canadian-jazz-pianist-paul-bley-dies-aged-83)

I know a guy with the same name but different spelling, so kinda weird for me to post this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 05, 2016, 05:42:30 pm

Robert Stigwood (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-05/robert-stigwood-music-mogul-behind-bee-gees-dies/7068478?section=music)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 06, 2016, 09:25:47 am

Pierre Boulez (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/arts/music/pierre-boulez-french-composer-dies-90.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0)

Did the reaper make some kind of resolution for the new year? A hell of a start.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 06, 2016, 12:54:38 pm

Probably the best Lemmy Obit I've read yet.....

He was a hedonist son of a bitch whose age seemed very nicely stuck at around 25. (http://www.economist.com/news/21685309-how-bullied-english-boy-north-wales-grew-up-be-epitome-rock?fsrc=scn/fb/te/pe/ed/obituarylemmy)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on January 06, 2016, 03:15:44 pm

Riley Martin died last month?????

I didnt ever order one of his drawings so that I would be guaranteed a spot on the Biavian mothership...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on January 06, 2016, 08:06:50 pm

WHAT!!!??? RILEY DIED!!!???

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on January 06, 2016, 08:13:02 pm

(https://d26b02a2hyzk9o.cloudfront.net/photos/2016/01/06/55-30317-rip-riley2-1452080443.jpg)
https://www.howardstern.com/show-staff/24822-farewell-friend-martin-rip-riley-martin/

Quote

The Stern Show was saddened to learn of the death of one of the most notable Wack Packers to ever be heard on the Howard channels ? the one and only Riley Martin. Specifics on the cause of Riley's death are still unclear, but he had recently been experiencing "significant health issues."

"Riley, to me, was one of the greats," Howard said Wednesday morning. "We love you. We will miss you."

"The Riley Martin Show" was broadcast on Howard 101 from 2006 until 2015. The subject matter for Martin's show often revolved around his alleged personal experiences with extraterrestrial beings, specifically an alien race known as the Biaviians. In 1990, Martin penned his book "The Coming of Tan," which outlined his incredible account of being abducted by the Biaviians in 1953 at the age of 7. The leader of the Biaviians, O-Qua Tangin Wann (also known as Tan), is listed as a co-author of that book.

Born on May 9, 1949 in Mississippi, Riley leaves behind his wife Joy, whom he met after she heard him on the Howard Stern Show in the 1990s. Riley and Joy resided in New Jersey.

Fans of the Howard Stern Show will most likely remember Riley's persistent requests for more money from SiriusXM and Howard, often calling in to demand he be paid "a decent salary." Riley also spoke about his use of a "piss jug," a large glass container that he used to relieve himself while broadcasting from his home studio. "Show me the man who's never used a piss jug and I'll show you a woman, " Riley once stated on air. For a time, his online store allowed shoppers to purchase an official Riley Martin piss jug.

In addition to his visits to the Howard Stern Show, Riley also made appearances on television talk shows, such as "The Jerry Springer Show."

"While the news of Riley's passing isn't completely unexpected, it is still very sad for me," said Jim McClure, Senior Director of Programming. "I was Riley's first producer when the show first started and spoke with him on a regular basis until he became very ill in spring of 2015. I spent many nights at Riley's home, where we set up equipment for his broadcast. We even shared a few Thanksgiving dinners back in the day."

McClure continued: "The Riley I knew off the air was a very kind, smart, and funny person. I'll miss Riley and hope that his lovely wife Joy and his close friend Eric 'Eron' McCauley find peace and love when they remember the Space Cowboy."

Riley's former remote broadcast engineer, "Double-O" Al Ragone, added: "It's sad to see the Space Cowboy leave us, but it's finally time for him to board the mother ship once again. 'O-Qua Tangin Wann' my good friend."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 07, 2016, 01:04:40 pm

Pat Harrington Jr. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/pat-harrington-jr-schneider-of-tvs-one-day-at-a-time-dies-at-86/2016/01/07/fb8cf232-b54c-11e5-9388-466021d971de_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_ob-harrington-1015am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory), aka Schneider

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 11, 2016, 05:42:26 am

David Bowie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 11, 2016, 08:38:04 am

talk about horrible news to wake up to.. I can't really believe it.. I turned on the TV and the ticker was saying something about Bowie

so surreal to go to bed thinking about Bowie, listening to his new album, thinking about the Holy Holy show and you get up and he's dead...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 13, 2016, 03:07:49 pm

Lawrence Phillips

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 13, 2016, 03:14:57 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on January 13, 2016, 03:07:49 pm

Lawrence Phillips

Yes, that Lawrence Phillips.

The star running back on University of Nebraska?s national championship teams in 1994 and 1995. A first-round pick, sixth overall, in the 1996 NFL draft. A convicted felon ? sentenced to 31 years for driving his car into three teenagers and assaulting an ex-girlfriend ? under suspicion for the recent death of his cellmate in a maximum-security prison 140 miles north of Los Angeles

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 13, 2016, 03:27:35 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ★ on January 13, 2016, 03:14:57 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on January 13, 2016, 03:07:49 pm
Lawrence Phillips

Yes, that Lawrence Phillips.

The star running back on University of Nebraska?s national championship teams in 1994 and 1995. A first-round pick, sixth overall, in the 1996 NFL draft. A convicted felon ? sentenced to 31 years for driving his car into three teenagers and assaulting an ex-girlfriend ? under suspicion for the recent death of his cellmate in a maximum-security prison 140 miles north of Los Angeles

Dude was good at cursive.

(https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/xxx__lawrence_phillips_4923_73471472-e1433245283917.jpg?w=1000&h=1294)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 13, 2016, 03:41:09 pm

The Ravens were expected to draft Phillips with the #4 pick in '96 - I think Modell was lobbying hard for him. They ended up with Jonathan Ogden instead. Wise choice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on January 14, 2016, 08:47:48 am

rip snape

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-giant-of-british-film-and-theatre-dies-at-69

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 14, 2016, 09:52:20 am

Alan Rickman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 14, 2016, 09:57:11 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 14, 2016, 09:52:20 am

Alan Rickman

(http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_le0zo9IfWm1qcig1w.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 14, 2016, 10:06:53 am

Quote from: Got Haggis? on January 14, 2016, 08:47:48 am

rip snape

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-giant-of-british-film-and-theatre-dies-at-69

Sorry for repeating your post.

I didn't notice your link, and actually thought you were posting that some guy named "Rip Snape" had passed away.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 14, 2016, 10:18:28 am

Yeah I hope no one with the name oliver dies because I grew up idolizing the wrestler Rip Oliver and I'd be just distraught

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on January 14, 2016, 10:49:33 am

This week can go fuck itself.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on January 14, 2016, 10:51:44 am

In the past 3 weeks, we've lost Lemmy, Bowie, and now Rickman.

Cancer, you're a dick.

That is all.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 14, 2016, 10:58:40 am

Quote from: betao on January 14, 2016, 10:51:44 am

In the past 3 weeks, we've lost Lemmy, Bowie, and now Rickman.

Cancer, you're a dick.

That is all.

Bowie quit smoking in 2002, Rickman quit smoking at age 40, and Lemmy is probably still smoking.

All had probably started smoking by the time the surgeon general's first warning came out in 1964.

Why anyone would start smoking today in 2016 is beyond comprehension.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 14, 2016, 11:11:22 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 14, 2016, 10:58:40 am

Quote from: betao on January 14, 2016, 10:51:44 am
In the past 3 weeks, we've lost Lemmy, Bowie, and now Rickman.

Cancer, you're a dick.

That is all.

Bowie quit smoking in 2002, Rickman quit smoking at age 40, and Lemmy is probably still smoking.

All had probably started smoking by the time the surgeon general's first warning came out in 1964.

Why anyone would start smoking today in 2016 is beyond comprehension.

I'm not a Dr, but don't think you can get liver cancer from smoking?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 14, 2016, 11:22:57 am

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ★ on January 14, 2016, 11:11:22 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 14, 2016, 10:58:40 am
Quote from: betao on January 14, 2016, 10:51:44 am
In the past 3 weeks, we've lost Lemmy, Bowie, and now Rickman.

Cancer, you're a dick.

That is all.

Bowie quit smoking in 2002, Rickman quit smoking at age 40, and Lemmy is probably still smoking.

All had probably started smoking by the time the surgeon general's first warning came out in 1964.

Why anyone would start smoking today in 2016 is beyond comprehension.
I'm not a Dr, but don't think you can get liver cancer from smoking?

Not sure if serious. . .

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 14, 2016, 11:23:35 am

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ★ on January 14, 2016, 11:11:22 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 14, 2016, 10:58:40 am
Quote from: betao on January 14, 2016, 10:51:44 am
In the past 3 weeks, we've lost Lemmy, Bowie, and now Rickman.

Cancer, you're a dick.

That is all.

Bowie quit smoking in 2002, Rickman quit smoking at age 40, and Lemmy is probably still smoking.

All had probably started smoking by the time the surgeon general's first warning came out in 1964.

Why anyone would start smoking today in 2016 is beyond comprehension.
I'm not a Dr, but don't think you can get liver cancer from smoking?

There's no proof that smoking caused my dad's pancreatic cancer either, but I'm guessing smoking for 40 years didn't help.

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/study-smoking-dramatically-increases-liver-cancer-risk

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 14, 2016, 11:26:37 am

Ok..IDK that you could get liver cancer from smoking

What are the Causes and Risk Factors of Liver Cancer?

The exact cause of liver cancer is not known. Scientists have found that people with certain risk factors are more likely than others to develop liver cancer. Common risk factors include:

Gender: Men are twice as likely as women to get liver cancer.

Obesity: Obesity increases the risk of developing liver cancer.

Family history: People who have family members with liver cancer may be more likely to get the disease.

Viral infection: The most important risk factor for liver cancer is a chronic infection (on-going) with the hepatitis B or the hepatitis C virus. These viruses can be passed from person to person through blood (such as sharing needles) or sexual contact. An infant may catch these viruses from an infected mother. Liver cancer can develop after many years of infection with the viruses.

Cirrhosis: Cirrhosis is a disease that develops when liver cells are damaged and replaced with scar tissue. It may be caused by alcohol abuse, certain drugs or chemicals and certain viruses or parasites. About 5 percent of people with cirrhosis develop liver cancer.

Smoking and alcohol: There is a link between smoking and liver cancer. The risk may be even greater for people who also abuse alcohol.

Aflatoxin: Liver cancer can be caused by aflatoxin, a harmful substance made by certain types of fungus that can contaminate peanuts, wheat, soybeans, ground nuts, corn and rice. Long-term exposure to aflatoxins increases the risk of liver cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 14, 2016, 12:22:33 pm

well its not that easy to quit unfortunately.. smoking becomes engrained in you.. becomes part of who you are and how you "live"...and it can even become a part of the culture... and of course its a social disease too....obesity is too btw... if a lot of the people you know are smoking then you tended to become a smoker... this is the milieu somebody like david bowie would have been around in the 1960s and 70s...its hard to explain to somebody today, when everyone basically gives you the death stare for smoking in the street and parks say "do not smoke" how it was back then.. I can remember as a kid riding on airplanes long distances and hating the smoke all around me but it was just the way it was.. if you look at pictures of conference meetings back in the day everybody smoked and it was full of ashtrays everywhere...so I try not to be judgmental of somebody who started smoking way back when...I can remember my parents, both not smokers, hosting dinners and having to carry carton after carton of cigarettes..it was the polite thing to do.. the next day i'd come downstairs and the house would smell like an ashtray..so gross..and yet they had to have cigarettes for their guests.. that is just the way it was..

as far as today, it is pretty hard to understand why anyone would smoke today... I mean its not like its very social or much fun to smoke outside a club/bar in the freezing cold often by yourself...

in my case I love smoking very much.. passionately..when I smoked I did because I loved it.. i'm not one of those people who stops smoking and then thinks "oh I can't believe I did that..." and proceeds to hate on those who smoke..god, I hate those people...but I have kids and a partner who hates smoke like the plague.. so many years ago- like 14- I cut way back...how this love for smoking developed seems really weird given how much everyone in my family detests smoking and how I grew up hating it... even after having cut way back and only had a couple of cigs last week next door to the 930 at the satellite room I get incredible cravings for nicotine close to a full week later!..which is really astounding to me considering the previous couple of cigs I had was in like April of last year.... I have no doubt that if I was on my own I would continue smoking..

my aunt had breast cancer, stopped smoking, and quite a few years later she took it up again... it is a very hard habit to kick....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 14, 2016, 01:03:38 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on January 14, 2016, 08:47:48 am

rip snape

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-giant-of-british-film-and-theatre-dies-at-69

I am very disappointed that the post was not

Cancer Kills Snape.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 14, 2016, 01:47:48 pm

heroin does a real number on your liver. i read that bowie's drug of choice back in the 70's was cocaine, but that doesn't mean smack wasn't in the mix for all those years...

Quote from: vansmack on January 14, 2016, 01:03:38 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on January 14, 2016, 08:47:48 am
rip snape

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-giant-of-british-film-and-theatre-dies-at-69

I am very disappointed that the post was not

Cancer Kills Snape.

old-school POTW.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on January 14, 2016, 03:07:11 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 14, 2016, 01:47:48 pm

heroin does a real number on your liver. i read that bowie's drug of choice back in the 70's was cocaine, but that doesn't mean smack wasn't in the mix for all those years...

Heroin on its own really isn't hard on your liver. Hepatitis though, which is commonly transmitted via needles, is real bad for your liver.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 14, 2016, 03:44:12 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 14, 2016, 01:03:38 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on January 14, 2016, 08:47:48 am
rip snape

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-giant-of-british-film-and-theatre-dies-at-69

I am very disappointed that the post was not

Cancer Kills Snape.

I've been waiting all day for flawd101 to show up and say the Dumbledore finally got his revenge. But it doesn't seem to be happening.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 14, 2016, 04:05:30 pm

Quote from: chaz on January 14, 2016, 03:07:11 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 14, 2016, 01:47:48 pm
heroin does a real number on your liver. i read that bowie's drug of choice back in the 70's was cocaine, but that doesn't mean smack wasn't in the mix for all those years...

Heroin on its own really isn't hard on your liver. Hepatitis though, which is commonly transmitted via needles, is real bad for your liver.

Hep is also easily contracted from multiple sex partners, which I can only imagine he had many over the years....now Hans Gruber, that I don't know about, but some women (and men) like the bad guy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 14, 2016, 04:12:18 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ★ on January 14, 2016, 04:05:30 pm

Quote from: chaz on January 14, 2016, 03:07:11 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on January 14, 2016, 01:47:48 pm
heroin does a real number on your liver. i read that bowie's drug of choice back in the 70's was cocaine, but that doesn't mean smack wasn't in the mix for all those years...

Heroin on its own really isn't hard on your liver. Hepatitis though, which is commonly transmitted via needles, is real bad for your liver.

Hep is also easily contracted from multiple sex partners, which I can only imagine he had many over the years....now Hans Gruber, that I don't know about, but some women (and men) like the bad guy

Actually, hep is contracted from ONE sex partner. Having many sex partners just increases your odds. ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 14, 2016, 04:13:00 pm

space always focusing on the details
jezy-peazy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on January 14, 2016, 06:01:00 pm

Cancer, strikes again. Celine Dion's husband, Rene.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 14, 2016, 06:07:06 pm

In case you're keeping track

(https://scontent.fash1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xla1/v/t1.0-9/12548869_1105095076197867_1278030325289217867_n.jpg?oh=e6efc67216002934dc6972415ccdd034&oe=573B3A92)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 14, 2016, 06:24:34 pm

dang stevie's young considering he's been recording since the 60s
and who the hell cares about Billy squire...stroke me
can't believe he is on the list with all these legends

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on January 14, 2016, 06:27:47 pm

Billy, would have been a legend, if it wouldn't have been for that one video.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 14, 2016, 06:28:49 pm

Quote from: jaded on January 14, 2016, 06:07:06 pm

In case you're keeping track

No Keith Richards or Gene Simmons? What the hell kind of list is that....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 14, 2016, 06:30:25 pm

Well, they do meet the criteria of "Aging Musicians". Maybe they're just not "Still With Us"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 14, 2016, 06:39:37 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 14, 2016, 06:28:49 pm

Quote from: jaded on January 14, 2016, 06:07:06 pm
In case you're keeping track

No Keith Richards or Gene Simmons? What the hell kind of list is that....

How about Richard Simmons?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 14, 2016, 06:43:12 pm

Huh. Roger Waters but no David Gilmour.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on January 15, 2016, 07:23:08 am

Did no one mention Angus Scrimm? Phantasm is one of my favorite horror films

.http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-angus-scrimm-20160113-story.html

Also Wayne Static's widow and former pornstar Tera Wray:

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/wayne-statics-widow-tera-wray-static-found-dead/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on January 15, 2016, 12:10:00 pm

Grizzly Adams. They're taking it, pretty rough, out here in the hollers.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 15, 2016, 12:15:05 pm

Hollers of anguish from the bear caves

(https://media.giphy.com/media/yjGdFXMtHLV0Cp1Mcg/giphy.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 16, 2016, 07:07:53 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on January 14, 2016, 06:01:00 pm

Cancer, strikes again. Celine Dion's husband, Rene.

and her brother

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 17, 2016, 01:53:45 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on January 16, 2016, 07:07:53 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on January 14, 2016, 06:01:00 pm
Cancer, strikes again. Celine Dion's husband, Rene.

and her brother

she was married to her brother?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on January 17, 2016, 05:39:56 pm

Blowfly

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on January 17, 2016, 07:40:47 pm

does everybody die of cancer, now? jesus! our reality, is toxic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 18, 2016, 01:24:32 am

Mic Gillette, founding trumpet/trombone member of Tower of Power (https://www.facebook.com/OfficialTowerOfPowerBand/posts/878055698973898)

I think I may have posted this story before, but here it is: In a sense, I literally grew up with Tower of Power. Mic's sister Karen was my babysitter from the mid 60s to the early 70s. She either came to our house or my brothers and I went to theirs. Mic would sometimes lift me over his head. I have one fuzzy memory of seeing Mic and some of his buddies jamming in their living room. The last time I saw Mic was 1975 at Karen's house at her annual Xmas Eve party.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 18, 2016, 12:36:55 pm

that blows.. Mic played on so many great sessions.. I think people would be surprised..

I saw him a few years ago at the State Theatre with TOP

I will unfortunately add Dale "Buffin" Griffin from Mott the Hoople...

I think he was not in great shape for a while as he hardly participated in the Mott shows a few years ago...just was not up for it.. by the way still can't believe Mott never played even one show in the US after those London shows... guess the money wasn't there..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 18, 2016, 06:16:38 pm

Glenn Frey

http://www.tmz.com/2016/01/18/glenn-frey-the-eagles-dead/

I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but as an ulcerative colitis sufferer, this hits home.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 18, 2016, 10:25:47 pm

Dang :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 19, 2016, 07:53:01 am

He wasn't even on the list.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 19, 2016, 10:13:24 am

The List of Stupid Jerks Who Suck? Well that's probably a good thing, at least for his family.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 19, 2016, 10:18:56 am

nother rock-n-rolla going to the big jam in the sky

Dallas Taylor (http://variety.com/2015/music/news/dallas-taylor-former-crosby-stills-nash-young-drummer-dies-at-66-1201408369/)

The rock drummer was a key sideman for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He played at Woodstock, appeared on seven top-selling albums

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 19, 2016, 10:21:12 am

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ★ on January 19, 2016, 10:18:56 am

nother rock-n-rolla going to the big jam in the sky

Dallas Taylor (http://variety.com/2015/music/news/dallas-taylor-former-crosby-stills-nash-young-drummer-dies-at-66-1201408369/)

The rock drummer was a key sideman for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He played at Woodstock, appeared on seven top-selling albums

Ermm.....2015

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 19, 2016, 10:25:38 am

Quote from: jaded on January 19, 2016, 10:21:12 am

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ★ on January 19, 2016, 10:18:56 am
nother rock-n-rolla going to the big jam in the sky

Dallas Taylor (http://variety.com/2015/music/news/dallas-taylor-former-crosby-stills-nash-young-drummer-dies-at-66-1201408369/)

The rock drummer was a key sideman for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He played at Woodstock, appeared on seven top-selling albums

Ermm.....2015

Drats...again! I saw the date was 1/18...neglected to check the year

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 19, 2016, 11:20:31 am

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ★ on January 19, 2016, 10:25:38 am

Quote from: jaded on January 19, 2016, 10:21:12 am
Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ★ on January 19, 2016, 10:18:56 am
nother rock-n-rolla going to the big jam in the sky

Dallas Taylor (http://variety.com/2015/music/news/dallas-taylor-former-crosby-stills-nash-young-drummer-dies-at-66-1201408369/)

The rock drummer was a key sideman for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He played at Woodstock, appeared on seven top-selling albums

Ermm.....2015

Drats...again! I saw the date was 1/18...neglected to check the year

One of my Facebook friends just posted this as if it just happened as well. Weird.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 19, 2016, 11:55:21 am

Quote from: Relaxer on January 19, 2016, 10:13:24 am

The List of Stupid Jerks Who Suck? Well that's probably a good thing, at least for his family.

Good thing you're such a perfect human being, or you'd look like a jerk yourself with that comment. ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 20, 2016, 08:01:34 am

Andrew Dog Johnson brother of Matt Johnson and artist behind those The The album covers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 20, 2016, 04:06:07 pm

Rock legend Animal dead at age 66 (http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/01/20/rock-legend-animal-dies-aged-66/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 20, 2016, 04:10:33 pm

^gonna miss that guy
really overrated as a drummer, but could he party

diagnosed with threadbaring syndrome

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 20, 2016, 04:14:05 pm

even worse....Everyone is dying (http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/01/19/everyone-dying/)

reports from around the world have confirmed that the majority of, if not all people, are currently dying.

Following on from the recent, seemingly never ending deluge of well known individuals from the world of acting, music and beyond in a constant state of passing over to the other side, comes expert testimony confirming everyone is dying as we speak.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 20, 2016, 04:29:20 pm

Quote from: Carlos Spicyweiner, a Julian®©? BRAND on January 20, 2016, 04:06:07 pm

Rock legend Animal dead at age 66 (http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/01/20/rock-legend-animal-dies-aged-66/)

He didn't look a hair over 65.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 20, 2016, 05:17:16 pm

f u c k.. all the music animal played on is frickin' sold out on amazon and people are hawkin' all sorts of animal shit on ebay.. care for an animal drum stick (or so they say..)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 26, 2016, 03:25:42 pm

Abe Vigoda

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 26, 2016, 03:30:02 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 26, 2016, 03:25:42 pm

Abe Vigoda

somebody needs to tell these guys http://www.abevigoda.com/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 26, 2016, 03:32:37 pm

Concepcion Picciotto

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/26/464420101/longtime-white-house-protester-dies-after-vigil-that-started-in-1981

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 26, 2016, 03:44:21 pm

Quote from: jaded on January 26, 2016, 03:32:37 pm

Concepcion Picciotto

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/26/464420101/longtime-white-house-protester-dies-after-vigil-that-started-in-1981

man.. a DC legend... much like compliment man, belvis, the guy who shuffled around town with a paper under his arm in his electric blue suit, etc..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 26, 2016, 03:47:34 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ★ on January 26, 2016, 03:30:02 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 26, 2016, 03:25:42 pm
Abe Vigoda
somebody needs to tell these guys http://www.abevigoda.com/

Done

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 26, 2016, 03:48:26 pm

Quote from: jaded on January 26, 2016, 03:32:37 pm

Concepcion Picciotto

Wow - haven't thought of her in a while. When I worked at 15th and H, I used to give her my leftovers all the time...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 26, 2016, 03:52:10 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 26, 2016, 03:48:26 pm

Quote from: jaded on January 26, 2016, 03:32:37 pm
Concepcion Picciotto

Wow - haven't thought of her in a while. When I worked at 15th and H, I used to give her my leftovers all the time...

humblebrag

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 26, 2016, 03:57:20 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 26, 2016, 03:52:10 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 26, 2016, 03:48:26 pm
Quote from: jaded on January 26, 2016, 03:32:37 pm
Concepcion Picciotto

Wow - haven't thought of her in a while. When I worked at 15th and H, I used to give her my leftovers all the time...

humblebrag

When I used to work at the White House, I talked to her almost every day... beat that. ;)

Good call on newspaper guy, I used to see him all the time as well. Did he pass? Haven't seen him in a loooooong time, however, I don't hang in Adams Morgan/Dupont/U Street too often.

Edit: Also, I used to hear all kinds of crazy things about him, his life, etc... Any deets?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 26, 2016, 04:09:38 pm

Quote from: jaded on January 26, 2016, 03:32:37 pm

Concepcion Picciotto

So I guess that Fugazi reunion really never will happen now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 26, 2016, 04:15:02 pm

Colin Vearncombe, the voice of Black, dies, aged 53 (http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/26/colin-vearncombe-dies-the-voice-of-black-aged-53)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 26, 2016, 04:23:01 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 26, 2016, 03:57:20 pm

Good call on newspaper guy, I used to see him all the time as well. Did he pass? Haven't seen him in a loooooong time, however, I don't hang in Adams Morgan/Dupont/U Street too often.

Edit: Also, I used to hear all kinds of crazy things about him, his life, etc... Any deets?

Hutch had found a city paper article a few years back
but have not see or heard from him in over a decade

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 26, 2016, 07:44:14 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ★ on January 26, 2016, 04:23:01 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 26, 2016, 03:57:20 pm
Good call on newspaper guy, I used to see him all the time as well. Did he pass? Haven't seen him in a loooooong time, however, I don't hang in Adams Morgan/Dupont/U Street too often.

Edit: Also, I used to hear all kinds of crazy things about him, his life, etc... Any deets?
Hutch had found a city paper article a few years back
but have not see or heard from him in over a decade

oh well I saw him a few years back.. maybe 3..

well electric blue suit guy otherwise known as newspaper guy was fascinating.. he had this schedule he would do every day around Adams/Dupont/U Street where he would stop say at a bookstore , buy a paper, then shuffle down the hill to say the record store/. he would talk to the store clerk who would seem mildly irritated- sometimes- then move along and he just spent all day like that going from place to place to place..without exception no matter the weather.. no matter how hot in his electric blue suit..I think he also had a gray suit.. both were quiet OVERSIZED..

when I had a child on the autism spectrum three years back and realized a little about what it was -which took a while- I put 2 and 2 together and began to think maybe he was on the spectrum... probably high functioning maybe aspergers (which is a weird classification).... i think it explains a bit of his behavior which was so repetitive in many aspects: always the same clothes.. always the same stores/.. the same walk in the same order....even the shuffle walk (my child has OT/ST/PT issues)...there used to be a facebook page dedicated to him.. "where is mark" I forget his last name...but it sort of petered out.. I think one time I posted a picture of him on that page...people would be like posting "saw him on the bla bla bus at 3:42 pm Thursday".. the owner of Som records would know where he is that is for sure as he used to stop there all the time even though he never not once bought anything..

he sure walked a lot... one of the last times I saw him was all the way up in Columbia Heights in front of that mall with the Target (on the other side of the street).. probably six years ago

the rumour I always heard was that he was a trust fund guy which afforded him the ability to do pretty much nothing... I can't imagine he would have enjoyed sticking around as the neighborhood became so horribly gentrified and so much of what he was "used to" changed.. it would be horribly "uprooting" for someone on the spectrum who defined his life in terms of doing the same things and having the same limited social interactions with the same people to have that all change so drastically..on the other hand changing environments entirely could be even worse so he might still be around..

I have to say he always seemed like a nice guy.. just a little out of sorts..all the times I walked past him I don't know that I ever said "hi" because there was some really weird vibe.. of course I ran into him so much on those circuits of his- because I had my own circuits for years (2003-2010) so maybe he thought/thinks the same thing about me! And sometimes it does make me wonder...like maybe I'm the socially dysfunctional one..well I kinda am as you can tell.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 26, 2016, 07:54:09 pm

mark kapiloff..

it just came to me like a lightning bolt... that is his name.. there was a facebook page kind of like "where is waldo" but I think it got taken down....

this was the picture I apparently took in 2009 in Columbia Heights... I saw him a few years after.. My nickname for him was "Everywhere man"..

(http://i68.tinypic.com/3586n8k.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 26, 2016, 08:06:14 pm

Wow, we used to see that guy all the time when we lived in Adams Morgan in the early 2000's.

I have no stories to add other than we referred to him as "The Mayor of Adams Morgan", or sometimes just "The Mayor".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on January 26, 2016, 08:13:35 pm

oh yeah "rumpled guy" - all the time in my 90's adams morgan clubbing heyday.
saw him coming out of 'som' maybe 2 years ago.
he hasn't actually dropped like a fly, has he? I hope not.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 26, 2016, 08:22:52 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on January 26, 2016, 08:13:35 pm

oh yeah "rumpled guy" - all the time in my 90's adams morgan clubbing heyday.
saw him coming out of 'som' maybe 2 years ago.
he hasn't actually dropped like a fly, has he? I hope not.

I dont' think so..

we just haven't seen him recently...I saw him at SOM about 3 years ago myself....

we were thinking about local celebrities..like ban nuclear weapon lady in front of the white house (RIP), compliment man (moved south), blelvis, black black cat guy (RIP), rumpled guy....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 26, 2016, 10:30:31 pm

That Oregon standoff

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on January 27, 2016, 01:45:28 am

Woman, white house protestor. She changed, everything.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on January 27, 2016, 01:49:37 am

Marvin minsky. He actually, did things.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 27, 2016, 09:58:05 am

nice recap, hutch...however, I never took you as a creeper.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 27, 2016, 10:02:40 am

Quote from: walk,on,by on January 27, 2016, 01:49:37 am

Marvin minsky. He actually, did things.

Pardon me, walkie, but he did NOT play on some band's record that sold <20,000 copies. WHO CARES?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on January 27, 2016, 12:46:24 pm

Quote from: jaded on January 26, 2016, 10:30:31 pm

That Oregon standoff

not quite dead yet...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 27, 2016, 01:07:47 pm

Quote from: killsaly on January 27, 2016, 12:46:24 pm

Quote from: jaded on January 26, 2016, 10:30:31 pm
That Oregon standoff
not quite dead yet...

And it wasn't Ritzheimer who was killed. That puss turned himself in in Arizona.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on January 27, 2016, 02:00:24 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8XKRnHs68
^those comments...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 28, 2016, 09:37:54 pm

Paul Kantner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 29, 2016, 03:18:40 pm

Jeebus. Joe Cocker. Also, Robert Palmer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 29, 2016, 03:20:27 pm

They are really dropping like flies...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 29, 2016, 03:24:27 pm

Tito Puente

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 29, 2016, 03:36:48 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 29, 2016, 03:20:27 pm

They are really dropping like flies...

Quote from: jaded on January 29, 2016, 03:18:40 pm

Jeebus. Joe Cocker.

Quote from: Space Freely on January 29, 2016, 03:24:27 pm

Tito Puente

Over and over again....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 29, 2016, 03:40:03 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 29, 2016, 03:24:27 pm

Tito Puente

is the show at the Casino MarylandLive cancelled?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on January 29, 2016, 03:44:17 pm

you guys do know, that people get old, and then die . . . right?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 29, 2016, 05:31:37 pm

young people die all the time too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 29, 2016, 05:36:50 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ❄️ on January 29, 2016, 05:31:37 pm

young people die all the time too

walk,y's going through a phase... right now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on January 29, 2016, 05:43:35 pm

I am? I sure hope I don't put colored highlights in my hair, and wear pajama pants outside.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 29, 2016, 07:43:29 pm

help the aged

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on January 30, 2016, 07:46:04 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 29, 2016, 03:24:27 pm

Tito Puente

You don't say...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: brennser on January 31, 2016, 09:49:29 am

Terry Wogan - British and Irish broadcasting icon

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/broadcaster-terry-wogan-dies-aged-77-1.2516936

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on January 31, 2016, 03:30:41 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 28, 2016, 09:37:54 pm

Paul Kantner

Singe Anderson also...
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/01/r-i-p-signe-toly-anderson-original-vocalist-for-jefferson-airplane-dead-at-74/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 31, 2016, 04:42:10 pm

Quote from: killsaly on January 31, 2016, 03:30:41 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 28, 2016, 09:37:54 pm
Paul Kantner
Singe Anderson also...
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/01/r-i-p-signe-toly-anderson-original-vocalist-for-jefferson-airplane-dead-at-74/

wow..i wonder if they... you know...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on January 31, 2016, 04:55:50 pm

Suicide pact?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 31, 2016, 05:19:41 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 31, 2016, 04:42:10 pm

Quote from: killsaly on January 31, 2016, 03:30:41 pm
Quote from: hutch on January 28, 2016, 09:37:54 pm
Paul Kantner
Singe Anderson also...
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/01/r-i-p-signe-toly-anderson-original-vocalist-for-jefferson-airplane-dead-at-74/

wow..i wonder if they... you know...

Were gay? Who cares? What does that have to do with anything!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 31, 2016, 05:24:55 pm

Quote from: killsaly on January 31, 2016, 04:55:50 pm

Suicide pact?

She was already in hospice care herself. She probably wasn't in any shape to carry out a suicide.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 31, 2016, 05:25:33 pm

Quote from: Julian, fantasy COCKGOBBLER on January 31, 2016, 05:19:41 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 31, 2016, 04:42:10 pm
Quote from: killsaly on January 31, 2016, 03:30:41 pm
Quote from: hutch on January 28, 2016, 09:37:54 pm
Paul Kantner
Singe Anderson also...
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/01/r-i-p-signe-toly-anderson-original-vocalist-for-jefferson-airplane-dead-at-74/

wow..i wonder if they... you know...
Were gay? Who cares? What does that have to do with anything!?

One was a guy and one was a girl. Guessing they weren't gay for each other.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 31, 2016, 11:00:48 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 31, 2016, 05:25:33 pm

Quote from: Julian, fantasy COCKGOBBLER on January 31, 2016, 05:19:41 pm
Quote from: hutch on January 31, 2016, 04:42:10 pm
Quote from: killsaly on January 31, 2016, 03:30:41 pm
Quote from: hutch on January 28, 2016, 09:37:54 pm
Paul Kantner
Singe Anderson also...
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/01/r-i-p-signe-toly-anderson-original-vocalist-for-jefferson-airplane-dead-at-74/

wow..i wonder if they... you know...
Were gay? Who cares? What does that have to do with anything!?

One was a guy and one was a girl. Guessing they weren't gay for each other.

Hutch said NOTHING about them being gay for each other!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 01, 2016, 12:10:11 am

I think they slept with each other..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 01, 2016, 10:32:44 am

Benoit Violet
Famed Detroit chef for the Michelin Tire Company (tm)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 01, 2016, 10:34:48 am

Quote from: hutch on February 01, 2016, 12:10:11 am

I think they slept with each other..

So you're asserting their sexual dalliances were a beard situation to cover up their gayness? Man, its weird you're trying so hard to interject homosexuality into these deaths. REAL weird.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 01, 2016, 11:02:11 am

Quote from: Julian, fantasy COCKGOBBLER on February 01, 2016, 10:34:48 am

Quote from: hutch on February 01, 2016, 12:10:11 am
I think they slept with each other..
So you're asserting their sexual dalliances were a beard situation to cover up their gayness? Man, its weird you're trying so hard to interject homosexuality into these deaths. REAL weird.

I can't compete with this..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on February 01, 2016, 04:07:19 pm

Crackhead Bob

This winter has been rough for the Wack Pack...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on February 01, 2016, 04:14:50 pm

yeah, heard that this morning. he was a great one. and yet, high pitch eric will live, forever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on February 01, 2016, 07:26:22 pm

mike minor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ_13ZLzmS0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on February 02, 2016, 03:33:16 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on February 01, 2016, 04:14:50 pm

yeah, heard that this morning. he was a great one. and yet, high pitch eric will live, forever.

(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12642615_345383682251982_8854134763979190427_n.jpg?oh=fef2e9e0fccb3f776c5b6c1077c3e7fd&oe=573AE11A)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 02, 2016, 07:58:51 pm

Jon Bunch of Sense Field :o :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on February 02, 2016, 09:38:38 pm

Quote from: killsaly on February 02, 2016, 03:33:16 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on February 01, 2016, 04:14:50 pm
yeah, heard that this morning. he was a great one. and yet, high pitch eric will live, forever.
(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12642615_345383682251982_8854134763979190427_n.jpg?oh=fef2e9e0fccb3f776c5b6c1077c3e7fd&oe=573AE11A)

awe,some!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 03, 2016, 05:35:07 pm

Bob from 'Bob and Ray' - aka Chris Elliott's dad

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on February 04, 2016, 05:30:43 pm

joe alaskey

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/04/entertainment/joe-alaskey-dead/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 04, 2016, 05:35:10 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on February 04, 2016, 05:30:43 pm

joe alaskey

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/04/entertainment/joe-alaskey-dead/index.html

only voiced Bugs after 1989...
Mel was the voice!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 04, 2016, 06:48:54 pm

Maurice White, Founder of Earth Wind and Fire

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on February 04, 2016, 08:47:40 pm

Dave Mirra
http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/04/dave-mirra-dead-bmx-legend-dies-at-41/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on February 04, 2016, 09:53:09 pm

Axl Rotten

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 04, 2016, 10:30:09 pm

At least we've moved on to C list celebrities.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 04, 2016, 11:15:55 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 04, 2016, 11:17:27 pm

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.................................................................................................

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on February 04, 2016, 11:58:13 pm

We all grieve in our own ways.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 05, 2016, 08:10:44 am

The loss of "." is hard to comprehend,,,,,,,,,,

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 05, 2016, 09:29:27 am

Quote from: hutch on February 05, 2016, 08:10:44 am

The loss of "." is hard to comprehend,,,,,,,,,,

Period. The end.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 05, 2016, 09:56:31 am

(http://i.imgur.com/JG6KAIf.jpg)

too soon?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 05, 2016, 09:57:08 am

Quote from: hutch on February 05, 2016, 08:10:44 am

The loss of "." is hard to comprehend,,,,,,,,,,

At least Walkie has been prepping us with his excessive use of commas all along.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 05, 2016, 10:15:22 am

Quote from: Julian, fantasy COCKGOBBLER on February 05, 2016, 09:57:08 am

Quote from: hutch on February 05, 2016, 08:10:44 am
The loss of "." is hard to comprehend,,,,,,,,,,
At least Walkie has been prepping us with his excessive use of commas all along.

yes, who knew there was a method to his madness,,,,, its making the transition seamless,,,,although my ring finger misses the work while the middle finger is having trouble with the extra load,,,,,

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 05, 2016, 10:18:51 am

Quote from: hutch on February 05, 2016, 10:15:22 am

having trouble with the extra load,,,,,

listening to coldplay this morning??

ba-dum ching

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 05, 2016, 10:22:44 am

Oh no! Not ba-dum ching too! What is even happening?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on February 05, 2016, 06:29:04 pm

Another C list star gone...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/us/edgar-mitchell-moon-astronaut-dies-obit-feat/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 07, 2016, 11:42:44 am

No more hot licks for Dan Hicks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on February 07, 2016, 01:09:48 pm

Bingo, the gorilla drummer for the legendary Banana Splits
https://gooferie.com/2016/01/20/bingo-from-the-banana-splits-dies/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on February 08, 2016, 04:50:34 am

Bill, the bassist of grindcore band Chainsaw to The Face.

They were really good at Maryland Death Fest last year. R.I.P.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on February 11, 2016, 09:00:13 am

Sirius satellite radio station, outq. The only radio station dedicated to gay people is being taken off the air; hosts who have been doing this for 10 to 15 years, fired. Being replaced by a music channel. I guess since Stern demanded more money for 5 more years, the money had to come from somewhere. Guess, I had sirius long enough.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 11, 2016, 09:59:55 am

Quote from: walk,on,by on February 11, 2016, 09:00:13 am

Sirius satellite radio station, outq. The only radio station dedicated to gay people is being taken off the air; hosts who have been doing this for 10 to 15 years, fired. Being replaced by a music channel. I guess since Stern demanded more money for 5 more years, the money had to come from somewhere. Guess, I had sirius long enough.

what kind of content did this "gay station" carry?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on February 11, 2016, 10:04:27 am

it was mainly talk radio . . . there was a morning show that was part music, part pop culture and celebrity interviews, part great host sharing life stories. there was a political show. there was a comedian like show, from a guy who was on the daily show once, which was crazy and felt like a updated laugh in. there was a business show. there was a sports show. there was a night time, raunchier show that dealt with sex, porn stars, comedy, drag queens, late night stuff. and not everything was gay gay gay, 24 hours a day. they covered the straight world too.

All in all, for gay people, it was a one of a kind, offered nowhere else, kind of programming.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on February 11, 2016, 10:09:45 am

Quote from: walk,on,by on February 11, 2016, 10:04:27 am

All in all, for gay people, it was a one of a kind, offered nowhere else, kind of programming.

and this is why I am confident that it will resurface somewhere else. We won't stand for it.

"look Michael, look at what the gays have done to me"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on February 11, 2016, 10:11:04 am

is bob, gay? fas,cinating.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on February 11, 2016, 10:23:17 am

Quote from: walk,on,by on February 11, 2016, 10:11:04 am

is bob, gay? fas,cinating.

yes, I am fascinating

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 11, 2016, 10:24:14 am

Quote from: bob72 on February 11, 2016, 10:09:45 am

Quote from: walk,on,by on February 11, 2016, 10:04:27 am

All in all, for gay people, it was a one of a kind, offered nowhere else, kind of programming.
and this is why I am confident that it will resurface somewhere else. We won't stand for it.

"look Michael, look at what the gays have done to me"

I got to agree here knowing nothing about it, but in todays self publishing world, it's somewhat easy to get out there, especially if you have a big rabid fan base

If the crew stays together and connects with their fan base, they will follow....look at Stern as a perfect example

Only loss would be the platform of satellite radio, but with people streaming on their phones now, that is going to be a thing of the past. I've got my phone connected via Bluetooth in my car...and the world is my kumamoto

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 11, 2016, 10:25:17 am

Quote from: walk,on,by on February 11, 2016, 10:11:04 am

is bob, gay? fas,cinating.

his third post....

Quote from: bob72 on January 22, 2016, 12:57:29 pm

Quote from: wml7 on January 22, 2016, 12:24:38 pm
12. What do you think of cats?
;D
I'm gay and I like cats

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 11, 2016, 10:35:31 am

somewhat on topic...

I've really been enjoying Alec Baldwin's Podcast Here's the thing (BTW I'm not shafting NPR as they are producing it)

But he had a great exchange about modern sexuality and his daughter of all people

Alec Baldwin: People who I work with who are young who shall remain nameless who are listening to this recording right now, they will talk about how people are on a spectrum.

Amy Schumer: Of sexuality?

Alec Baldwin: Yeah, where you don?t sleep with?as my daughter said to me, because she had a girlfriend for a while, and she said to me, ?You don?t sleep with a man or a woman?you sleep with the person. I?m attracted to that person.? So she slept with somebody who was a woman. And I was like, ?Wow.? I?ve met men as much as I loved anybody in my life, but I wasn?t built that way so I think to myself, ?That doesn?t interest me.? I?d rather be with a woman that I want to set on fire and throw off a cliff than be with a guy who was the greatest human being I?ve ever met, who is like Abraham Lincoln meets Montgomery Clift.

Amy Schumer: Oh my god, seriously, you wouldn?t even let Lincoln blow you?

sadly alec would deny Abe, but great insight

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on February 11, 2016, 10:36:51 am

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ❄️ on February 11, 2016, 10:25:17 am

Quote from: walk,on,by on February 11, 2016, 10:11:04 am
is bob, gay? fas,cinating.

his third post....

Quote from: bob72 on January 22, 2016, 12:57:29 pm
Quote from: wml7 on January 22, 2016, 12:24:38 pm
12. What do you think of cats?
;D
I'm gay and I like cats

I just thought he was making a joke at the fact my old name is always on the first page because of some threads, with that comment. even, I am annoyed at that fact about my old name.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 11, 2016, 10:40:54 am

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ❄️ on February 11, 2016, 10:35:31 am

(BTW I'm not shafting NPR as they are producing it)

I sincerely hope NPR does not actually produce it and you know that and are just trying to get Relaxer to lose his shit. My respect for your boarding game would be at an all-time high if that's the case.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on February 11, 2016, 10:42:22 am

Quote from: walk,on,by on February 11, 2016, 10:36:51 am

I just thought he was making a joke

sort of I was, but truthishly I have two cats and they are my babies. I have an IG account for them.

CATS FUCKING RULE!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 11, 2016, 10:44:23 am

Quote from: bob72 on February 11, 2016, 10:42:22 am

Quote from: walk,on,by on February 11, 2016, 10:36:51 am

I just thought he was making a joke
sort of I was, but truthishly I have two cats and they are my babies. I have an IG account for them.

CATS FUCKING RULE!

WILL YOU TWO JUST KISS ALREADY?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on February 11, 2016, 10:52:38 am

im still, too emotional to show such affections. I hate the, I want to get rid of some product because they do something or change something that infuriates me, especially if I am paying for the service, but also I love the service because it offers a variety of cool things.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on February 12, 2016, 05:18:15 am

Two Magic: The Gathering card artwork artists died this week. Christopher Rush (who did many of the the most famous cards in the game including the legendary "Black Lotus") and Wayne England.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on February 13, 2016, 06:23:03 pm

Justice Antonin Scalia
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2016/02/supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-reported-dead.html/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 13, 2016, 07:28:28 pm

Whoa!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 13, 2016, 07:31:54 pm

It's a shame he didn't suffer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 13, 2016, 07:46:30 pm

well.. one could tell in the past few years that he longer had his faculties..

I guess I should not be surprised to hear Republicans arguing that President Obama should not fill the vacancy...Seems insane to me.. Never even ocurred to me until I read their statements....

I assumed Obama would get to fill the vacancy.. which would give him three Supreme Court justices.. but not so fast apparently

I have thought for a long time that Ginsburg should retire - she is not in great health and if a Republican won the presidency could she last- but assuming Obama does get to fill the vacancy this would make that less pressing...anyways its clear Ginsburg has no desire to retire..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 13, 2016, 08:12:36 pm

well... looks like the chances of Obama filling the seat are miniscule

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scalia-obama-replacement_us_56bfabe4e4b08ffac1258cf5?

BTW this is the opposition party which Sanders and his supporters feel will somehow magically roll over when Sanders becomes president....and let him nationalize health care.. because Sanders will somehow use "the people" to implement things... and he will do this more effectively than Obama did..

you can't make this shit up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 13, 2016, 10:57:32 pm

So what is the precedent here?
can they just delay it?

I've got to imagine there are many cases in the last year of a presidency that a justice has left

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 14, 2016, 12:46:25 am

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ❄️ on February 13, 2016, 10:57:32 pm

So what is the precedent here?
can they just delay it?

I've got to imagine there are many cases in the last year of a presidency that a justice has left

no there are not many... some people say Justice Kennedy and LBJ trying to get Abe Fortas confirmed as CHief Justice...

basically they can wipe their ass with the constitution which is what they plan to do...Obama will nominate someone great and put it on them to be assholes which they will gladly do.

when I first heard Scalia died it never crossed my mind the Republicans wouldn't even deign to vote on a nomination but its a distinct possibility now.. not to mention who will want to be nominated under teh circumstances??

this is why I feel Sanders and his supporters need to buy a clue...this idea that he's going to be elected and nationalize health care, raise taxes bigtime, enact free college, hike the minimum wage to $15 based merely on the force of his huuuuuuuuge personality and the "support of the people" is laughable... the Republicans have shown for the past 8 years they will have no problem finding support among the American people and acting like obstructionists.... Honestly, the whole Sanders campaign is sort of insulting to people's intelligence..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 14, 2016, 10:03:32 am

Viola Beach
http://wtop.com/entertainment/2016/02/the-entire-band-of-viola-beach-killed-in-crash-in-sweden-saturday/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 14, 2016, 01:50:47 pm

Quote from: jaded on February 14, 2016, 10:03:32 am

Viola Beach
http://wtop.com/entertainment/2016/02/the-entire-band-of-viola-beach-killed-in-crash-in-sweden-saturday/

I just saw the ovation at the Etihad for the band. Life long City fans apparently.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on February 14, 2016, 04:03:40 pm

LoL JEez

https://twitter.com/search?q=scalia%20murder%20obama&src=typd&lang=en

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 15, 2016, 09:39:31 am

Quote from: hutch on February 14, 2016, 12:46:25 am

this is why I feel Sanders and his supporters need to buy a clue...this idea that he's going to be elected and nationalize health care, raise taxes bigtime, enact free college, hike the minimum wage to $15 based merely on the force of his huuuuuuuuge personality and the "support of the people" is laughable... the Republicans have shown for the past 8 years they will have no problem finding support among the American people and acting like obstructionists.... Honestly, the whole Sanders campaign is sort of insulting to people's intelligence..

This is possibly the smartest thing you've ever said on here. Spot on.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 15, 2016, 08:59:41 pm

Vanity (http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/15/vanity-dies-singer-nasty-girl/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on February 15, 2016, 09:04:57 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on February 15, 2016, 08:59:41 pm

Vanity (http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/15/vanity-dies-singer-nasty-girl/)

that's a shame. I heart the Purple Rain era Prince and friends

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on February 15, 2016, 09:37:40 pm

Quote from: bob72 on February 15, 2016, 09:04:57 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on February 15, 2016, 08:59:41 pm
Vanity (http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/15/vanity-dies-singer-nasty-girl/)
that's a shame. I heart the Purple Rain era Prince and friends

so sad to hear, but glad she was able to keep those demons at bay - that was a musical golden era i remember well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on February 17, 2016, 12:13:16 am

George Gaynes

- Commandant Eric Lassard in the Police Academy movies and Henry Warnimont, the foster dad in Punky Brewster

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/george-gaynes-dead-1201707777/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 17, 2016, 08:51:46 am

Quote from: bob72 on February 15, 2016, 09:04:57 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on February 15, 2016, 08:59:41 pm
Vanity (http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/15/vanity-dies-singer-nasty-girl/)
that's a shame. I heart the Purple Rain era Prince and friends

Ditto. The Purple Rain tour was my first concert. Can't quite remember if Vanity 6 played...I think not since I definitely remember Sheila E and Morris Day performing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 17, 2016, 09:43:58 am

Vanity and Apollonia were so hot back then it was ridiculous.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 17, 2016, 09:47:37 am

Boutros Boutros-Ghali (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/02/16/ex-un-chief-boutros-boutros-ghali-dies/80446688/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 19, 2016, 11:42:10 am

Harper Lee

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 19, 2016, 11:53:06 am

Quote from: hutch on February 19, 2016, 11:42:10 am

Harper Lee

Had her in my 2016 death pool.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 19, 2016, 12:05:13 pm

Quote from: Julian, Authenticated LUXUROPHILE on February 19, 2016, 11:53:06 am

Quote from: hutch on February 19, 2016, 11:42:10 am
Harper Lee

Had her in my 2016 death pool.

at least the last year or so she got a big love fest for her work
It's always nice when an artist people love gets a late lovefest BEFORE they die

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 19, 2016, 12:09:28 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ❄️ on February 19, 2016, 12:05:13 pm

Quote from: Julian, Authenticated LUXUROPHILE on February 19, 2016, 11:53:06 am
Quote from: hutch on February 19, 2016, 11:42:10 am
Harper Lee

Had her in my 2016 death pool.
at least the last year or so she got a big love fest for her work
It's always nice when an artist people love gets a late lovefest BEFORE they die

yes its nice her family forced an 88 year old lady to put out a lame sequel so they could get a fat inheritance... very reminiscent situation to Deep Throat...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 19, 2016, 12:13:27 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 19, 2016, 12:09:28 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ★ |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| ❄️ on February 19, 2016, 12:05:13 pm
Quote from: Julian, Authenticated LUXUROPHILE on February 19, 2016, 11:53:06 am
Quote from: hutch on February 19, 2016, 11:42:10 am
Harper Lee

Had her in my 2016 death pool.
at least the last year or so she got a big love fest for her work
It's always nice when an artist people love gets a late lovefest BEFORE they die

yes its nice her family forced an 88 year old lady to put out a lame sequel so they could get a fat inheritance... very reminiscent situation to Deep Throat...

but for 1 year she was being talked about how great she was

yes the second part is kinda lame, but I think she was able to bask in the glow of how much people liked TKAM
I got to imagine that was gratifying

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 19, 2016, 12:19:23 pm

I refused to read it because it was pretty obvious she was not aware what was going on and being manipulated by her agent.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 19, 2016, 12:40:09 pm

I'm sure your indignation made her final days a bit more bearable.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 19, 2016, 12:43:32 pm

Quote from: jaded on February 19, 2016, 12:40:09 pm

I'm sure your indignation made her final days a bit more bearable.

No, but my indignation kept at least a few additional dollars from the people behind this unseemliness.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on February 19, 2016, 03:03:30 pm

Big ang

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 19, 2016, 03:30:47 pm

Heath Miller's career... he will be missed.

http://www.steelersdepot.com/2016/02/steelers-te-heath-miller-retires/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 19, 2016, 05:50:31 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 19, 2016, 03:30:47 pm

Heath Miller's career... he will be missed.

http://www.steelersdepot.com/2016/02/steelers-te-heath-miller-retires/

HEAPPP!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 19, 2016, 05:51:10 pm

Tony Phillips

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 19, 2016, 10:53:05 pm

Umberto Eco. Bad day for literature.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on February 20, 2016, 05:48:00 pm

Vi Subversa. girl punk way before riot grrrrrrrrrrrrl

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 20, 2016, 10:45:08 pm

Quote from: Julian, Authenticated LUXUROPHILE on February 19, 2016, 10:53:05 pm

Umberto Eco. Bad day for literature.

good day for trees...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 21, 2016, 02:37:30 am

Quote from: hutch on February 20, 2016, 10:45:08 pm

Quote from: Julian, Authenticated LUXUROPHILE on February 19, 2016, 10:53:05 pm
Umberto Eco. Bad day for literature.

good day for trees...

classy, but funny

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 22, 2016, 02:07:53 pm

Robert Mondavi

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 23, 2016, 10:56:36 am

Country music legend Sonny James dies at 87
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/22/entertainment/sonny-james-obit-feat/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on February 26, 2016, 11:06:55 am

Tony Burton has passed away
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35639248

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on February 27, 2016, 03:36:31 pm

Mozart, Salma Hayek's dog
http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/salma-hayek-says-her-dog-was-fatally-shot-her-washington-n527176

Quote

Salma Hayek says her beloved pet dog was fatally shot on her ranch, and authorities are looking for suspects.

Mozart, a 9-year-old dog who the actress "personally delivered out of his mother's womb," was found dead on the "Frida" star's ranch last Friday with a bullet near his heart, Hayek wrote on her Instagram page.

"I am hoping that the Washington State authorities do justice to this wonderful dog whom in 9 years never bit or attacked anyone," Hayek wrote. "He loved his territory and never strayed away...he was the most loving and loyal companion. He didn't deserve a slow and painful death."

(before anybody says anything about me posting about a celebrity's dog, need I remind you of the oh so respectful title of the thread, "Dropping Like Flies")

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on February 27, 2016, 05:36:10 pm

^ agreed - to me, these kind of stories are more painful than most things i see or hear in the news.

...and dog commercials can really mess me up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on February 27, 2016, 05:45:37 pm

I cry during the Sarah McLaughlin ASPCA commercials

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 01, 2016, 09:50:11 am

George Kennedy, the brawny, Oscar-winning character actor known for playing cops, soldiers and blue-collar authority figures in such films as "Cool Hand Luke," "Airport" and the "Naked Gun" films, has died. He was 91.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/29/entertainment/george-kennedy-obit-feat/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 04, 2016, 02:33:10 pm

Bud Collins

man.. well if you watched tennis on TV you know who he was..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 04, 2016, 04:06:00 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 04, 2016, 02:33:10 pm

Bud Collins

man.. well if you watched tennis on TV you know who he was..

86ed at 86

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on March 04, 2016, 09:38:10 pm

Tony Dyson the guy who created R2-D2

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on March 06, 2016, 12:51:17 pm

Nancy Reagan. She was, her own dynasty.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on March 06, 2016, 01:24:02 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on March 06, 2016, 12:51:17 pm

Nancy Reagan. She was, her own dynasty.

wow, I'm surprised it took this long

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 06, 2016, 02:11:28 pm

Nikolaus Harnoncourt (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35739456)

His early 90s recording of the Beethoven symphonies with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe is fantastic and well worth your time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 08, 2016, 02:30:31 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 08, 2016, 02:32:20 pm

Quote from: vansmack on March 08, 2016, 02:30:31 pm

Davy Jones of the Monkees dies at 66.

Gone... but definitely not forgotten all of these years later.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 08, 2016, 02:33:18 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 08, 2016, 02:32:20 pm

Quote from: vansmack on March 08, 2016, 02:30:31 pm
Davy Jones of the Monkees dies at 66.

Gone... but definitely not forgotten all of these years later.

Funny. You're pretty quick because that was up there for all of 30 seconds.

My bad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 08, 2016, 02:50:33 pm

Quote from: vansmack on March 08, 2016, 02:33:18 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 08, 2016, 02:32:20 pm
Quote from: vansmack on March 08, 2016, 02:30:31 pm
Davy Jones of the Monkees dies at 66.

Gone... but definitely not forgotten all of these years later.

Funny. You're pretty quick because that was up there for all of 30 seconds.

My bad.

Dang yada going all snowden on Smakie

jez, you think you would have noticed since I made the crack about the Monkees a little while back when you were coming to town

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 08, 2016, 02:52:36 pm

Ray Tomlinson (http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/06/us/ray-tomlinson-email-creator-obit/)

If you sent an email today, you owe him a debt of gratitude

I think his grave marker should just have: @

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 08, 2016, 02:53:12 pm

it's that pre-modification script I have running in Chrome.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 09, 2016, 01:23:36 am

George Martin (http://pitchfork.com/news/64025-george-martin-beatles-producer-has-died/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on March 09, 2016, 01:51:30 am

As long as it is not RR...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on March 09, 2016, 07:02:09 am

Andrew Loomis, drummer of Dead Moon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 09, 2016, 08:50:31 am

Quote from: killsaly on March 09, 2016, 01:51:30 am

As long as it is not RR...

Ronald Reagan died years ago

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 09, 2016, 08:51:58 am

Quote from: jaded on March 09, 2016, 08:50:31 am

Quote from: killsaly on March 09, 2016, 01:51:30 am
As long as it is not RR...

Ronald Reagan died years ago

but he lives on in every conservatives hearts (with the irony being they wouldn't elect him today)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on March 09, 2016, 01:27:03 pm

Quote from: jaded on March 09, 2016, 08:50:31 am

Quote from: killsaly on March 09, 2016, 01:51:30 am
As long as it is not RR...
Ronald Reagan died years ago

No shit.

George RR Martin, not Ronald, was the "RR" I mentioned.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on March 11, 2016, 04:38:41 pm

Keith Emerson
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/03/r-i-p-keith-emerson-prog-rock-legend-dead-at-age-71/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 11, 2016, 05:03:58 pm

Quote from: killsaly on March 11, 2016, 04:38:41 pm

Keith Emerson
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/03/r-i-p-keith-emerson-prog-rock-legend-dead-at-age-71/

Not a fan, but goddamn, all the classic rockers i grew up on are dying.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on March 11, 2016, 06:31:16 pm

Quote from: killsaly on March 11, 2016, 04:38:41 pm

Keith Emerson
http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/03/r-i-p-keith-emerson-prog-rock-legend-dead-at-age-71/

Emerson Lake and Palmer is some of the lamest crap ever but I enjoyed The Nice stuff on Immediate Records quite a bit. R.I.P. keyboard wizard.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 11, 2016, 08:16:25 pm

Dibs on his Moog. (sorry)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on March 12, 2016, 01:15:29 pm

Reports are out saying Emerson killed himself.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on March 12, 2016, 01:49:48 pm

That's what they're saying. How awful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 16, 2016, 09:45:55 pm

Frank Sinatra redux (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/sinatra-family-frank-sinatra-jr-has-died/2016/03/16/1e16d234-ebd8-11e5-a9ce-681055c7a05f_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-in-the-news%3Apage%2Fin-the-news)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 21, 2016, 06:42:45 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 10, 2015, 09:09:43 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 10, 2015, 03:13:19 am
Former Braves & Angels pitcher Tommy Hanson has passed away at 29 after falling into a coma

As I feared, it's looking like an overdose/possible suicide.

He took his younger brothers death very hard with Anaheim and was never the same.

http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/shattered-dream/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 21, 2016, 07:55:56 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on March 21, 2016, 06:42:45 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 10, 2015, 09:09:43 pm
Quote from: vansmack on November 10, 2015, 03:13:19 am
Former Braves & Angels pitcher Tommy Hanson has passed away at 29 after falling into a coma

As I feared, it's looking like an overdose/possible suicide.

He took his younger brothers death very hard with Anaheim and was never the same.

http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/shattered-dream/

Yeah, I read that this morning. Tough read.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 22, 2016, 11:14:43 am

Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, surprisingly of cancer and not OD / Suicide

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 22, 2016, 11:27:12 am

Quote from: vansmack on March 22, 2016, 11:14:43 am

Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, surprisingly of cancer and not OD / Suicide

This guy has been an amazing shitshow to watch the past few years. He was like a combination of Chris Farley, Charlie Sheen and Donald Trump.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 23, 2016, 07:40:40 am

Phife.

>:(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 23, 2016, 07:44:27 am

Quote from: Yada on March 23, 2016, 07:40:40 am

Phife.

>:(

bummer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on March 23, 2016, 08:10:13 am

I was hopping it was the other Phife. Sad

edit: and it's national puppy day. how ironic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 23, 2016, 03:54:58 pm

Joe Garagiola

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on March 23, 2016, 04:22:38 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 23, 2016, 07:44:27 am

Quote from: Yada on March 23, 2016, 07:40:40 am
Phife.

>:(

bummer

Aww man this sucks. He was only 45 too. I got to see Tribe once and they were truly amazing. I was always hoping they could patch things up and come back. Rest easy Phife Dawg.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 23, 2016, 04:48:08 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on March 22, 2016, 11:27:12 am

Quote from: vansmack on March 22, 2016, 11:14:43 am
Former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, surprisingly of cancer and not OD / Suicide

This guy has been an amazing shitshow to watch the past few years. He was like a combination of Chris Farley, Charlie Sheen and Donald Trump.

in case anyone thinks that Ford was just an addict - he was an all-around dick, too:

On the death of Rob Ford and mourning abusive men
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/feminist-current/2016/03/on-death-rob-ford-and-mourning-abusive-men

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on March 23, 2016, 06:02:09 pm

The best tribute to Mr Ford:
(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlf1/v/t1.0-9/12376673_1052996378072684_5394730611560809865_n.jpg?oh=1cb22de677f698590699a57c51d261bc&oe=578C48C3)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 23, 2016, 07:30:21 pm

The White Shadow

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 24, 2016, 09:29:02 am

Former Dutch Intl, 3 time ballon d?or winner and one of smackie's favorite footballers Johan Cruyff.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 24, 2016, 09:51:24 am

oh.. one of everybody's favorites... sad panda

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 24, 2016, 04:25:38 pm

Garry Shandling ??? :-[

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 24, 2016, 04:43:31 pm

i know he was an icon, but i never really "got" him...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 24, 2016, 05:29:47 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 24, 2016, 04:43:31 pm

i know he was an icon, but i never really "got" him...

Helped to bring post-modernism to mainstream comedy. Paved the way for "Seinfeld".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 24, 2016, 05:52:54 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on March 24, 2016, 05:29:47 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 24, 2016, 04:43:31 pm
i know he was an icon, but i never really "got" him...

Helped to bring post-modernism to mainstream comedy. Paved the way for "Seinfeld".

totally on point

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 24, 2016, 06:18:23 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 24, 2016, 05:52:54 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on March 24, 2016, 05:29:47 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on March 24, 2016, 04:43:31 pm
i know he was an icon, but i never really "got" him...

Helped to bring post-modernism to mainstream comedy. Paved the way for "Seinfeld".

totally on point

Think I prefer the hick humor of Chris Isaak more. :D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 24, 2016, 07:11:03 pm

the Larry Sanders show was the best.. over the years I got to see quite a few episodes and it was always really good.. great supporting cast too..Rip Torn.. that other guy who shows up everywhere...Shandling will be missed..

apparently it was a massive heart attack...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 24, 2016, 09:15:08 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 24, 2016, 05:52:54 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on March 24, 2016, 05:29:47 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on March 24, 2016, 04:43:31 pm
i know he was an icon, but i never really "got" him...

Helped to bring post-modernism to mainstream comedy. Paved the way for "Seinfeld".

totally on point

Agreed. What a shocker.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on March 24, 2016, 10:13:43 pm

Larry Sanders Show...one of the best ever

unbelievably great

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on March 24, 2016, 11:24:38 pm

Hey, now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 25, 2016, 01:26:25 pm

One we missed from a month ago: Wesley A. Clark, Who Designed First Personal Computer, Dies at 88 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/business/wesley-a-clark-made-computing-personal-dies-at-88.html?smid=fb-share)

If you're into computers, this is a great obit to read.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 25, 2016, 01:41:05 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on March 25, 2016, 01:26:25 pm

One we missed from a month ago: Wesley A. Clark, Who Designed First Personal Computer, Dies at 88 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/business/wesley-a-clark-made-computing-personal-dies-at-88.html?smid=fb-share)

If you're into computers, this is a great obit to read.

I didn't put that one or Andy Grove on here, though I was saddened by both.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on March 28, 2016, 04:11:05 pm

Joe Skyward of SDRE and the Posies

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bellenseb on March 28, 2016, 04:15:43 pm

Quote from: AnalogFossa on March 28, 2016, 04:11:05 pm

Joe Skyward of SDRE and the Posies

What a bummer. I remember seeing him with the Posies on a double bill with Velocity Girl back in 96 in Detroit. I was really pumped for the Posies but most of the crowd left after VG. Great show, gonna pull up Amazing Disgrace tonight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 29, 2016, 12:51:39 pm

Patty Duke (http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/patty-duke-dead-69/story?id=38004939)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 04, 2016, 11:36:04 am

Virgin America (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/business/dealbook/alaska-airlines-parent-to-buy-virgin-america-for-2-6-billion-in-cash.html)

This is crushing to Smackie.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 04, 2016, 01:16:39 pm

Quote from: vansmack on April 04, 2016, 11:36:04 am

Virgin America (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/business/dealbook/alaska-airlines-parent-to-buy-virgin-america-for-2-6-billion-in-cash.html)

This is crushing to Smackie.....

jet blue..can't beleive they let this one go!

I know the Virgin from SF to DC was the ONLY option for us
I've been annoyed that Virgin didn't have any DC-> destinations other than CA

they were by far the best air carrier...(although I've never flow Emirates)

too bad you didn't pick up some virgin stock last week
47%

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 04, 2016, 05:08:33 pm

Greene Turtle Sports Bar and Grille (Arlington)

never been...apparently going to be replaced by an Applebys.. not very exciting news I'm afraid..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 04, 2016, 05:11:49 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 04, 2016, 05:08:33 pm

Greene Turtle Sports Bar and Grille (Arlington)

never been...apparently going to be replaced by an Applebys.. not very exciting news I'm afraid..

both places suck...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 04, 2016, 05:15:55 pm

Quote from: SideBernt |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on April 04, 2016, 05:11:49 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 04, 2016, 05:08:33 pm
Greene Turtle Sports Bar and Grille (Arlington)

never been...apparently going to be replaced by an Applebys.. not very exciting news I'm afraid..
both places suck...

yes, when i first moved to arlington i thought i needed a sports bar and I eyed it from the street.. it did not pass my eye test...i have to say since then i decided i really didn't need a sports bar...

maybe at least with an applebys we can take my father in law there or something...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 04, 2016, 09:39:57 pm

by the way there are tons of Greene Turtle bars, that was not the only one (I think it's a ocean city thing)
just think the rent was high and it's kinda a low rent place

I despise sports bars...probably my least favorite place to pay to drink alcohol
the only time I somewhat enjoy them is during the world cup...and even then it's trying

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 05, 2016, 12:00:09 pm

Quote from: SideBernt |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on April 04, 2016, 09:39:57 pm

by the way there are tons of Greene Turtle bars, that was not the only one (I think it's a ocean city thing)

Did someone say there wasn't multiple ones? I know where three are in my county (Anne Arundel) including one five minutes from my house.

I was wondering why a particular location closing would warrant a dropping dead post...

Also it is Applebee's. Not Applebys. That wouldn't even be pronounced the same.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on April 05, 2016, 12:28:26 pm

one came to my area, and I don't know that much about it . . . but for some reason it reminds me of a restructuring of the old ground round restaurant experience.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on April 05, 2016, 12:52:03 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on April 05, 2016, 12:28:26 pm

one came to my area, and I don't know that much about it . . . but for some reason it reminds me of a restructuring of the old ground round restaurant experience.

wow, we had one of those in wexford, pa when I was a kid.
throwing peanut shells on the floor was a big deal.
think they went under for overserving the underaged.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 05, 2016, 12:56:24 pm

Your post reminded me of the restaurant in Louisiana that I used to go to as a kid while we were living in that parish, that also had a pro-peanuts on the floor policy (and an arcade machine of Tron!!!). And then I found out it recently burned down.
http://www.leesvilledailyleader.com/article/20150815/NEWS/150819852

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 05, 2016, 01:11:21 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on April 05, 2016, 12:52:03 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on April 05, 2016, 12:28:26 pm
one came to my area, and I don't know that much about it . . . but for some reason it reminds me of a restructuring of the old ground round restaurant experience.
wow, we had one of those in wexford, pa when I was a kid.
throwing peanut shells on the floor was a big deal.
think they went under for overserving the underaged.

Loved GR for both of those reasons...not sure why, but being able to throw those shells on the ground made me keep asking my parents to go there
and as an underage lad at UofD we often hit the GR (although I did know the townie waiter too)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on April 06, 2016, 02:34:37 am

Thunderclap Newman:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/04/04/andy-thunderclap-newman-pianist---obituary/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 08:18:33 am

Quote from: Unsanity on April 06, 2016, 02:34:37 am

Thunderclap Newman:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/04/04/andy-thunderclap-newman-pianist---obituary/

Best band pic ever. Is that Pete Townshend with the small uncircumsized weiner on the left? If so, a picture is worth a thousand words.

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/obituaries/2016/04/04/Thundering-xlarge_trans++smHtCFxqXDFm99U4H7vl4QVm0FHUIb7hnpqkp0OQOF4.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 06, 2016, 09:12:37 am

not Pete..sorry..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 06, 2016, 10:52:28 am

although Pete does play bass on their only album as Bijou Drains (great boardie name!)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 06, 2016, 11:10:27 am

I thought you were a family man. Why are you checking out other dudes', wieners?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 11:14:35 am

Quote from: killsaly on April 06, 2016, 11:10:27 am

I thought you were a family man. Why are you checking out other dudes', wieners?

I'm sorry your significant other doesn't let you check out anyone else.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 06, 2016, 11:53:59 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 11:14:35 am

Quote from: killsaly on April 06, 2016, 11:10:27 am
I thought you were a family man. Why are you checking out other dudes', wieners?

I'm sorry your significant other doesn't let you check out anyone else.

yeah, gonna have to side with space on this one
My wife and I are fully approved by each other to check out other's dongs (or T&A) when ever we want
commentary is encouraged
jelously is for people who are insecure in their relationship

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on April 06, 2016, 11:57:56 am

damn, that one guy is tall, and so sharp dressed. no one said this guy

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/last-surviving-war-chief-montana-crow-tribe-joseph-medicine-crow-dies-102/

how I feel about native American people, is fascination. so powerful they were, so advanced for simple land livers. they hold a key to something, but everyone has forgotten to look for it, or got lazy by motivations beyond them. damn, the things we don't understand.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 06, 2016, 11:58:23 am

Quote from: SideBernt |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on April 06, 2016, 11:53:59 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 11:14:35 am
Quote from: killsaly on April 06, 2016, 11:10:27 am
I thought you were a family man. Why are you checking out other dudes', wieners?

I'm sorry your significant other doesn't let you check out anyone else.
yeah, gonna have to side with space on this one
My wife and I are fully approved by each other to check out other's dongs (or T&A) when ever we want
commentary is encouraged
jelously is for people who are insecure in their relationship

What the hell are you talking about?

Jealousy?

I thought it was weird that he had to comment on some dude's dick in the death thread.

I do not care if the two of you are bisexual - more power to you and I am glad your wives approve.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 12:05:22 pm

Quote from: SideBernt |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on April 06, 2016, 11:53:59 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 11:14:35 am
Quote from: killsaly on April 06, 2016, 11:10:27 am
I thought you were a family man. Why are you checking out other dudes', wieners?

I'm sorry your significant other doesn't let you check out anyone else.
yeah, gonna have to side with space on this one
My wife and I are fully approved by each other to check out other's dongs (or T&A) when ever we want
commentary is encouraged
jelously is for people who are insecure in their relationship

edit: meant to reply to Sally, not Bernie.

How could you read that article and see that pic and NOT notice that guy's dong?

My wife is always telling me how much she likes seeing pics of rock stars in tight pants and commenting on how much she likes pants that show off guys packages.

First thing I did when i saw that article and pic is send it to my wife to get a reaction.

Somewhere, I bet the late Thunderclap, pipe in hand, is laughing at my comment.

Also, I'm so relieved my sexuality, or what you see as my sexuality, has your blessing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on April 06, 2016, 12:08:29 pm

I come to the death thread, for the wiener talk.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 06, 2016, 12:10:12 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 12:05:22 pm

Also, I'm so relieved my sexuality, or what you see as my sexuality, has your blessing.

No problem!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on April 06, 2016, 12:15:40 pm

[/quote]

Quote from: killsaly on April 06, 2016, 12:10:12 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 12:05:22 pm
Also, I'm so relieved my sexuality, or what you see as my sexuality, has your blessing.
No problem!

Oh, my. Must be "something in the air" today. RIP Clap

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 06, 2016, 01:07:11 pm

its tacky to check out other people when with one's significant other....would never do it.. and i never notice people's dongs in pictures.. like that one from the porn casting call.. i didn't even notice it until walkie pointed it out to sidebernt

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 01:15:08 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 06, 2016, 01:07:11 pm

its tacky to check out other people when with one's significant other....would never do it.. and i never notice people's dongs in pictures.. like that one from the porn casting call.. i didn't even notice it until walkie pointed it out to sidebernt

While I will concede that it's tacky, it is quite natural, and sometimes it simply can't be helped. Hopefully one has a partner who is secure enough in who they are and in the relationship to laugh it off or laugh along.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 06, 2016, 01:17:58 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 01:15:08 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 06, 2016, 01:07:11 pm
its tacky to check out other people when with one's significant other....would never do it.. and i never notice people's dongs in pictures.. like that one from the porn casting call.. i didn't even notice it until walkie pointed it out to sidebernt

While I will concede that it's tacky, it is quite natural, and sometimes it simply can't be helped. Hopefully one has a partner who is secure enough in who they are and in the relationship to laugh it off or laugh along.

its not about "being secure" or "insecure".. if you're walking with your partner next to you and a woman goes by and you turn around to stare at her ass its beyond lame.... I would have to question any relationship where this was accepted behavior....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 01:29:35 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 06, 2016, 01:17:58 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 01:15:08 pm
Quote from: hutch on April 06, 2016, 01:07:11 pm
its tacky to check out other people when with one's significant other....would never do it.. and i never notice people's dongs in pictures.. like that one from the porn casting call.. i didn't even notice it until walkie pointed it out to sidebernt

While I will concede that it's tacky, it is quite natural, and sometimes it simply can't be helped. Hopefully one has a partner who is secure enough in who they are and in the relationship to laugh it off or laugh along.

its not about "being secure" or "insecure".. if you're walking with your partner next to you and a woman goes by and you turn around to stare at her ass its beyond lame.... I would have to question any relationship where this was accepted behavior....

Oh I'm not talking about doing 180's, I'm talking about more subtle glances. I guess it helps to be a boob/pussy/cock lover rather than an ass lover. And I'm fine with my wife doing the same.

My wife has even "caught" me (subtly) checking out other hot women before, and thought it was hysterical because it was such a natural, instinctive reaction.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 06, 2016, 01:38:07 pm

Merle Haggard

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 06, 2016, 01:42:57 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 06, 2016, 01:38:07 pm

Merle Haggard

This one hurts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 06, 2016, 01:47:19 pm

Thank god somebody famous died. That was just getting irritating.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 01:49:27 pm

Quote from: vansmack on April 06, 2016, 01:42:57 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 06, 2016, 01:38:07 pm
Merle Haggard

This one hurts.

Yep. One of my dad's absolute favorites. He was always telling to keep my nose to the grindstone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 01:52:52 pm

Quote from: ja,ded on April 06, 2016, 01:47:19 pm

Thank god somebody famous died. That was just getting irritating.

June is probably in heaven checking out Merle's package, and Johnny and Merle are probably both having a laugh about it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 06, 2016, 01:54:18 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on April 06, 2016, 12:08:29 pm

I come to the death thread, for the wiener talk.

me too

and Hutch to each his own...
I will say...I dind't judge you...but you sure did judge me

We spend half the time at the beach playing 'would you hit it'

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 06, 2016, 02:26:49 pm

boo hoo

I think I am not understanding what it is you claim you do...I definitely have never seen anything resembling what I'm thinking of/visualizing

Peoiple telling each other they think so and so is attractive I don't see at all as strange.. people ogling other people in front of their partner is what I'm referring to... the problem with that isn't the "looking" but that it makes the partner look like a worthless hoe.... if two people had a relationship where it was agreed betweeen the two people that it was ok to ogle, turn around to stare at ass, get lost in someone else's cleavage, etc.. yes I would have to question that...and that is what i'm referring to.. .I thought it would be obvious that there is nothing wrong or strange with two people in a loving secure relationship discussing whether they find other people attractive... but if the two people are knowingly and with the other's consent making the other look rather worthless, yes, that would be a sign of problems..take that a step further even: would one stare at other chicks' tits or ass at the beach in front of their children? Not sure there is anything revolutionary in what I'm saying but people will feel judged and hurt as they see fit!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 03:23:37 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 06, 2016, 02:26:49 pm

boo hoo

I think I am not understanding what it is you claim you do...I definitely have never seen anything resembling what I'm thinking of/visualizing

Peoiple telling each other they think so and so is attractive I don't see at all as strange.. people ogling other people in front of their partner is what I'm referring to... the problem with that isn't the "looking" but that it makes the partner look like a worthless hoe.... if two people had a relationship where it was agreed betweeen the two people that it was ok to ogle, turn around to stare at ass, get lost in someone else's cleavage, etc.. yes I would have to question that...and that is what i'm referring to.. .I thought it would be obvious that there is nothing wrong or strange with two people in a loving secure relationship discussing whether they find other people attractive... but if the two people are knowingly and with the other's consent making the other look rather worthless, yes, that would be a sign of problems..take that a step further even: would one stare at other chicks' tits or ass at the beach in front of their children? Not sure there is anything revolutionary in what I'm saying but people will feel judged and hurt as they see fit!

I think we're talking about two different things. And I don't think that anybody else cares other than you, me, and Bernie. So when the three of us meet up for a beer someday, we can talk about it then. But for now, let's dig up some more dead people to talk about.

James Garner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 06, 2016, 03:31:13 pm

true.. I assume nobody cares about anything I say... its what frees me to say whatever I can think of to say...

I'm sure I misunderstood you guys.. sorry.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 06, 2016, 03:34:15 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 06, 2016, 02:26:49 pm

people ogling other people in front of their partner is what I'm referring to... the problem with that isn't the "looking" but that it makes the partner look like a worthless hoe....

I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pQfd0evuDs)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 06, 2016, 03:37:27 pm

Admit it, it's hard not to ogle an ass when it's shaking like it does at 1:20 in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG2MBf5pL0E&nohtml5=False

rip, Merle

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on April 07, 2016, 09:23:38 am

Leon Haywood

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 07, 2016, 02:32:54 pm

Bowie drummer Dennis Davis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 07, 2016, 02:33:05 pm

Blackjack Mulligan (hall of fame pro wrestler, and grandfather of current WWE superstars Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 07, 2016, 10:49:44 pm

Quote from: killsaly on April 07, 2016, 02:32:54 pm

Bowie drummer Dennis Davis

Young Americans (1975)
Station to Station (1976)
Low (1977)
"Heroes" (1977)
Stage (1978)
Lodger (1979)
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980)

also on The Idiot

love his drumming

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 08, 2016, 05:05:11 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 07, 2016, 10:49:44 pm

Quote from: killsaly on April 07, 2016, 02:32:54 pm
Bowie drummer Dennis Davis

Young Americans (1975)
Station to Station (1976)
Low (1977)
"Heroes" (1977)
Stage (1978)
Lodger (1979)
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980)

also on The Idiot

love his drumming

we did get to catch him at the Blues alley when he was manning the kit for Roy Ayers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 08, 2016, 06:44:58 pm

Quote from: SideBurner |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| on April 08, 2016, 05:05:11 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 07, 2016, 10:49:44 pm
Quote from: killsaly on April 07, 2016, 02:32:54 pm
Bowie drummer Dennis Davis

Young Americans (1975)
Station to Station (1976)
Low (1977)
"Heroes" (1977)
Stage (1978)
Lodger (1979)
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (1980)

also on The Idiot

love his drumming
we did get to catch him at the Blues alley when he was manning the kit for Roy Ayers

you sure about that?

really cool.. too bad i don't think I had any idea at the time.. his drumming is so good on Low and The Idiot.. part of it is also the production which makes it sound really modern even to this day

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 10, 2016, 12:36:00 pm

Tony Conrad (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/arts/artsspecial/tony-conrad-experimental-filmmaker-and-musician-dies-at-76.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 10, 2016, 12:55:59 pm

Former Saints player Will Smith was shot to death in an apparent road rage incident.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 10, 2016, 10:21:15 pm

Maybe not road rage...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/04/10/ex-saints-player-will-smith-shot-to-death-after-new-orleans-auto-accident/?tid=a_inl

Quote

Although a police spokesman said Sunday morning that the shooting ?could possibly have been road rage,? details of Hayes?s background were a focus of investigation Sunday afternoon. A former high school football star in the New Orleans area, Hayes had worked security for the Saints while Smith played for the team.

Hayes also had reached a settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against police in connection with the death of his father in 2005. One of the officers named in the lawsuit was shown with Smith and former Saints running back Pierre Thomas shortly before the Smiths were shot.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on April 11, 2016, 02:25:02 am

Quote from: ßèétſ on April 10, 2016, 12:36:00 pm

Tony Conrad (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/arts/artsspecial/tony-conrad-experimental-filmmaker-and-musician-dies-at-76.html)

aww damn. Outside The Dream Syndicate is an awesome record. That festival the obit mentions looks really cool and Tony was going to be a big part of it. What a bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on April 11, 2016, 09:17:15 am

da, da . . . dum. my conspiracy thread, is waiting, regarding the saints guy who got shot. i was following that story, for some reason.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 21, 2016, 12:39:12 am

http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2016/0420/609943/former-wwe-women-champion-chyna-passes-away/
Chyna

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 21, 2016, 09:36:52 am

We've got to be at 30 + wrestlers who died in the last few years
not a good career if you want to live long

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on April 21, 2016, 10:29:57 am

That, and don't have hhh cheat on you with the bosses daughter, thus ruining your career.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 21, 2016, 10:50:56 am

Quote from: SideBurner |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🚀 on April 21, 2016, 09:36:52 am

We've got to be at 30 + wrestlers who died in the last few years
not a good career if you want to live long

It's looking like drugs is a worse choice than wrestling.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 21, 2016, 10:52:26 am

'Richard Duaine Lyons, a founding member of the group Negativland, died peacefully and pain free at age 57 at eleven ("it's not even funny") PM on his birthday, April 19th, 2016, from complications due to nodular melanoma. He successfully fought off this cancer over 12 years ago, but it had recently returned, with inoperable tumors on his spine, liver and brain, and nothing succeeded in stopping it.'

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 21, 2016, 11:30:12 am

Quote from: ja,ded on April 21, 2016, 10:50:56 am

Quote from: SideBurner |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🚀 on April 21, 2016, 09:36:52 am
We've got to be at 30 + wrestlers who died in the last few years
not a good career if you want to live long

It's looking like drugs is a worse choice than wrestling.

what are you nancy regan

I'd have to say prescription drugs, alcohol and Americans with guns... kill way more ....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 21, 2016, 11:40:54 am

"back in the day"

Wrestler - worked four to six nights a week; gets injured; pops some pills and drinks; keeps wrestling; keeps popping pills; gets prescriptions from doctors who gave them out like candy to these performers; keep wrestling; takes more pills; moves on to crack or heroin; body breaks down from years of bumps (when they hit the mat); takes more pills; gets depressed; no longer has job because gets old; takes more drugs; drinks more alcohol; etc (All while taking steroids cause Vince has a hard on for muscles)... AND getting multiple concussions.

It is not like that anymore. After the Benoit incident, they implemented a three strike wellness policy. They do not do drugs like they used to. The wrestlers are working less dates. Concussions are still HUGE deal, but they are smarter about it... that is why their biggest star of the last half decade had to retire in his mid-30s...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on April 21, 2016, 12:03:17 pm

and its all . . . fake. someone, needs to write a defining article on why the world of wrestling exists as it does today. I'm not talking about the origins of it, people are tired of origin stories (cough cough, batman versus superman), but I'm talking about the era when it exploded into the wrestlemania show stopping spectacle traveling circus of guys in tight shorts and hot hot fucking oiled downed bodies, that it exploded into. the money made and the money needed to run this thing for so long, confounds me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 21, 2016, 12:08:27 pm

The outcomes are per-determined. They do not try to hurt each other. BUT, accidents happen, ALL the time.

An article?

Dude there are books and books written on the subject of pro-wrestling. Especially from the 1980s onward...

or listen to one of the various wrestling podcasts that interview the old timers...

Anyway, out of respect, we can take the wrestling talk to my nerd thread or make a new wrestling one...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on April 21, 2016, 12:14:52 pm

sorry, I should have been more specific. "write an article" was just a figure of speech of how I can't believe the money machine of the "sport" of wrestling just keeps on keeping on. I honestly did not know, there were countless books on what wrestling is. ugh. ok, no one needs to write any articles.

and a wrestling thread would just be you and dfa. no one would read it. the end /

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 21, 2016, 12:48:04 pm

Prince?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on April 21, 2016, 12:51:17 pm

Definitely sounds like it - from the flu. Fuck

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 21, 2016, 12:55:58 pm

no way

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 21, 2016, 12:56:47 pm

fuck fuck fuck

worst year for music

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 21, 2016, 12:57:14 pm

Whoa... RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on April 21, 2016, 01:00:03 pm

wow. No words. Wow. He defined a lot of my memories growing up.

Edit. Okay, this is weird so far. CNN is saying that someone died there but Pitchfork is already saying it's prince and not too many other news sites at this very minute are even reporting it. So who knows. Is it true?

Re,edit. Its true. Wow, again.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on April 21, 2016, 01:07:15 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on April 21, 2016, 01:00:03 pm

wow. No words. Wow.

I can't even

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on April 21, 2016, 01:11:45 pm

speechless.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 21, 2016, 01:17:08 pm

does not compute

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on April 21, 2016, 01:23:04 pm

wow

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 21, 2016, 01:25:08 pm

yeah... this one hurts. blah.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on April 21, 2016, 01:25:11 pm

My first concert was the Purple Rain tour at the Cap Center.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 21, 2016, 01:28:38 pm

Quote from: chaz on April 21, 2016, 01:25:11 pm

My first concert was the Purple Rain tour at the Cap Center.

Not my 1st, but I was at that one too. Kicking myself for passing up the Baltimore show last year.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 21, 2016, 01:28:52 pm

Wow. First Bowie, now this shit. Wow.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 21, 2016, 01:32:06 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on April 21, 2016, 01:28:38 pm

Quote from: chaz on April 21, 2016, 01:25:11 pm
My first concert was the Purple Rain tour at the Cap Center.

Not my 1st, but I was at that one too. Kicking myself for passing up the Baltimore show last year.

Likewise... and the late night at the Warner. Fuck.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 21, 2016, 01:33:09 pm

Sometimes It Snows In April

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on April 21, 2016, 01:34:45 pm

What the hell?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 21, 2016, 01:44:13 pm

Goodnight, sweet Prince.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on April 21, 2016, 01:45:49 pm

one of my favorite Simpsons moments involves Prince:

Quote

John Wayne: [to Prince] Little Sister, is that mustache coming or going?

Prince: Well your wife likes it.

John Wayne: [chuckles] You're okay, goofy grape.

yes, you are OK goofy grape

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 21, 2016, 01:51:24 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on April 21, 2016, 01:28:38 pm

Kicking myself for passing up the Baltimore show last year.

me too
he was back in his prime
thought we'd at least get 15 more good touring years out of him
was on my bucket list
weeping some purple tears

do we think gener killed prince?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on April 21, 2016, 01:51:27 pm

No Bowie, No Lemmy, No Prince.

2016 just leave us the F alone. Enough already.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 21, 2016, 02:05:11 pm

Quote from: bearman on April 21, 2016, 01:51:27 pm

No Bowie, No Lemmy, No Prince.

2016 just leave us the F alone. Enough already.

Please don't leave Merle off that list.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 21, 2016, 02:10:07 pm

For me Prince's extended versions 12"s were and still essential listening.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 21, 2016, 02:42:11 pm

prince streaming for the next 9 hours...

http://www.thecurrent.org/listen

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 21, 2016, 02:57:37 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 21, 2016, 02:05:11 pm

Quote from: bearman on April 21, 2016, 01:51:27 pm
No Bowie, No Lemmy, No Prince.

2016 just leave us the F alone. Enough already.

Please don't leave Merle off that list.

(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/13083365_10153378557012191_2459182997874251742_n.jpg?oh=58eb796d84a0b6f04b4496ba006c702d&oe=577AD1A5)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 21, 2016, 02:58:40 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfhoI6iX5ng

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Darth Ed on April 21, 2016, 04:03:12 pm

Best response ever from a musician about to perform in the rain:

?Can you make it rain harder?? ? Prince at Super Bowl XLI

https://youtu.be/7NN3gsSf-Ys

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 21, 2016, 04:53:49 pm

you know its big news when the Drudge Report goes purple.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 21, 2016, 09:16:18 pm

TMZ says OD?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 21, 2016, 09:59:03 pm

Quote from: ja,ded on April 21, 2016, 09:16:18 pm

TMZ says OD?

Unfortunate. Yet... Not, surprising.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 21, 2016, 10:12:05 pm

other gossip sites say AIDS

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 21, 2016, 10:27:41 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 21, 2016, 10:12:05 pm

other gossip sites say AIDS

Unfortunate. Yet...Not, surprising.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on April 21, 2016, 11:45:51 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 21, 2016, 10:12:05 pm

gossip

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 22, 2016, 08:02:33 am

Quote from: Yada on April 21, 2016, 10:27:41 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 21, 2016, 10:12:05 pm
other gossip sites say AIDS

Unfortunate. Yet...Not, surprising.

But seriously...in developed countries who dies of AIDS anymore?
I am somewhat not versed in the current state of things medical and this issue
but my understanding is it's like diabetes and you just have to manage it through a pill regimen

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on April 22, 2016, 08:08:41 am

Quote from: SideBurner |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| Ƭ̵̬̊. on April 22, 2016, 08:02:33 am

But seriously...in developed countries who dies of AIDS anymore?

you don't die of AIDS per se, you die of other diseases, in most cases a form of cancer, because HIV has destroyed your immune system.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 22, 2016, 08:11:22 am

Quote from: bob72 on April 22, 2016, 08:08:41 am

Quote from: SideBurner |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| Ƭ̵̬̊. on April 22, 2016, 08:02:33 am

But seriously...in developed countries who dies of AIDS anymore?

you don't die of AIDS per se, you die of other diseases, in most cases a form of cancer, because HIV has destroyed your immune system.

Or a terrible case of the flu... or pneumonia... or drug addiction.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 22, 2016, 08:14:33 am

Quote from: bob72 on April 22, 2016, 08:08:41 am

Quote from: SideBurner |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| Ƭ̵̬̊. on April 22, 2016, 08:02:33 am

But seriously...in developed countries who dies of AIDS anymore?

you don't die of AIDS per se, you die of other diseases, in most cases a form of cancer, because HIV has destroyed your immune system.

I just wanted to say this is what I meant.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on April 22, 2016, 08:47:21 am

sure to be lost amongst the sea of Prince tributes...

Pioneering Guitarist Lonnie Mack ? a Major Influence on Stevie Ray Vaughan ? Dead at 74.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 22, 2016, 09:15:50 am

i'd be shocked if its OD. autopsy today. if it is drugs, it'll take a while to confirm.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 22, 2016, 09:32:10 am

Quote from: sweetcell on April 22, 2016, 09:15:50 am

i'd be shocked if its OD. autopsy today. if it is drugs, it'll take a while to confirm.

Once again, "gossip" sites have said it was an emergency landing to get him the "shot."

I can't imagine it being too odd for Prince to be a drug user.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on April 22, 2016, 10:06:15 am

I'd be incredibly surprised if he was a closet drug user.

I'd put my money on diabetes or something else.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on April 22, 2016, 10:10:02 am

his death I'm sure can partly be blamed on shortness

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on April 22, 2016, 10:44:35 am

If it is drugs . . . then yeah, I sort of lose some respect for the guy. I'm pretty sure he hated wendy and lisa of the revolution because of their supposed drug use.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 22, 2016, 10:49:01 am

Quote from: bob72 on April 22, 2016, 08:08:41 am

Quote from: SideBurner |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| Ƭ̵̬̊. on April 22, 2016, 08:02:33 am

But seriously...in developed countries who dies of AIDS anymore?

you don't die of AIDS per se, you die of other diseases, in most cases a form of cancer, because HIV has destroyed your immune system.

that is correct and didn't feel the need to elaborate

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on April 22, 2016, 11:01:40 am

Quote from: SideBurner |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| Ƭ̵̬̊. on April 22, 2016, 10:49:01 am

Quote from: bob72 on April 22, 2016, 08:08:41 am
Quote from: SideBurner |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| Ƭ̵̬̊. on April 22, 2016, 08:02:33 am

But seriously...in developed countries who dies of AIDS anymore?

you don't die of AIDS per se, you die of other diseases, in most cases a form of cancer, because HIV has destroyed your immune system.
that is correct and didn't feel the need to elaborate

ah, ok... I assumed it to be a legitimate question when you said you were not versed in the issue.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 22, 2016, 12:08:47 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on April 22, 2016, 10:44:35 am

If it is drugs . . . then yeah, I sort of lose some respect for the guy. I'm pretty sure he hated wendy and lisa of the revolution because of their supposed drug use.

Yeah.. this was 30 years ago... but I think ole Prince dabbled (not that there is anything wrong with that).

The whole video is worth watching, but the invisible hoagie consumption starts around the 3 minute mark. MJ+JB+Prince = :o :o :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHaFj7gOWh4

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on April 22, 2016, 12:10:24 pm

I am reading, it was percocet problem from an old hip surgery.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 22, 2016, 12:13:54 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on April 22, 2016, 12:10:24 pm

I am reading, it was percocet problem from an old hip surgery.

Percocet problems turn into you know what problems.

link?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on April 22, 2016, 12:17:46 pm

On my phone, so cannot link. Its all over the net.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 22, 2016, 12:51:25 pm

(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/13006459_10106265601032189_3510562207055590954_n.jpg?oh=e826dfc9ff9010280884f2f4ef1341d1&oe=57792C9B)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 22, 2016, 03:43:06 pm

(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12592387_10153613956216194_5612138233209536982_n.jpg?oh=49f216f99a84779ab75ea5a4fe26f3eb&oe=57A50F33)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 22, 2016, 05:07:12 pm

There are no signs that Prince's death involved foul play or suicide, Carver County, Minn., authorities said in a press conference. An autopsy was completed Friday afternoon and results of a full toxicology scan likely wouldn?t be available for weeks, the medical examiner?s office said.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 22, 2016, 08:53:34 pm

http://decibelmagazine.com/blog/2016/4/22/the-music-industrys-morbid-erection

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 23, 2016, 05:29:14 pm

'Pearl' Washington (http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/2016/04/20/syracuse-great-dwayne-pearl-washington/82866634/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 23, 2016, 07:30:23 pm

Cremated.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 24, 2016, 02:08:10 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 21, 2016, 09:59:03 pm

Quote from: ja,ded on April 21, 2016, 09:16:18 pm
TMZ says OD?

Unfortunate. Yet... Not, surprising.

yeah... assuming true, that's just a bit... of a drug problem.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3555292/Prince-s-former-drug-dealer-reveals-extent-addiction.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 24, 2016, 03:34:07 pm

I don't find this very credible.. the Daily Mail is a British rag.. they've interviewed an anonymous guy claiming to be his drug dealer up until 2008 which was eight years ago... anyone could make up the things he said... they seem like they could be true..it could have happened but that is about it... not interested in speculating about the reasons for his death.. although I am curious to find out the cause of his premature death in good time..

There has always been a marked contrast between his extroverted performances on stage and his by all accounts incredibly introverted nature off of the stage but I don't know how unusual that is in performers...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 24, 2016, 09:25:24 pm

Billy Paul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWOTdt9Bovk

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on April 25, 2016, 01:53:31 am

Lonnie Mack

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lonnie-mack-blues-rock-guitar-great-dead-at-74-20160423

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 25, 2016, 08:23:13 am

Quote from: Unsanity on April 25, 2016, 01:53:31 am

Lonnie Mack

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lonnie-mack-blues-rock-guitar-great-dead-at-74-20160423

For the second time in two pages.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on April 25, 2016, 09:57:55 am

Legendary Jamaican musician Lord Tanamo has passed away. Tanamo, born Joseph Abraham Gordon, was a member of the Skatalites, was a drummer/percussionist on many of their classic tracks, and sang on a number of their tracks. He was 82 and passed away at his house in Canada. Lord Tanamo had been unable to speak since 2008 when he suffered a stroke.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on April 26, 2016, 12:41:23 am

Eddie Watkins; Drummer for Polvo
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/polvo-drummer-eddie-watkins-rip/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on April 26, 2016, 03:41:19 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 25, 2016, 08:23:13 am

Quote from: Unsanity on April 25, 2016, 01:53:31 am
Lonnie Mack

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lonnie-mack-blues-rock-guitar-great-dead-at-74-20160423

For the second time in two pages.

For he was so nice, he died twice! I guess Bob's post did get lost in a sea of Prince posts as was foretold.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 29, 2016, 12:08:34 pm

Mr. K-Tel (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/phil-kives-k-tel-pitchman-as-seen-on-tv-who-got-america-hooked-on-classics-dies-at-87/2016/04/28/fb0eda84-0d51-11e6-a6b6-2e6de3695b0e_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-in-the-news%3Apage%2Fin-the-news)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on April 30, 2016, 03:39:18 am

Kylesa is going on indefinite hiatus. I took this from their FB page:

"To our fans and friends... After 15 years of nonstop touring and writing, we decided that it is time for a break. A lot of you have been asking when we are coming to your part of the world and that means a lot to us. However, we feel it should be known that as of now we have no plans to play any shows or work on any new material. We have collectively decided to take a hiatus with no set date to reconvene. We want to give a huge thanks to all our fans, friends, and family for the support over the years. It has been a killer journey and a real pleasure meeting so many amazing people along the way."

They might come back but until then..thanks for the music Kylesa!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on May 02, 2016, 06:17:25 pm

Sports Authority

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on May 02, 2016, 06:45:39 pm

Fuck! I just bought a frisbee from them yesterday at Poto Yard. Me and my boys were playing catch in the store, real long bombs too, crashing into everything, I just didn't give a shit. That place is such an easy hour spent playing with the kids. We've played entire games of football in that back corner. Then I crash'em out at Barnes & Noble. SNORE! Boom, quality time

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on May 02, 2016, 06:49:09 pm

It was awkward when one of Huckle's long bombs sailed into women's active wear and hit a mannequin, scaring the diarrhea out of a lady standing next to it. Whoops! Sorry! [sees no ring on finger] Kids, right? Toughest job you'll ever love. Wonderful, really. So what are you shopping for? You know the petite section is over there, here let me show you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 03, 2016, 09:35:42 am

Afani Shakur (Tupac's momma)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 03, 2016, 10:07:06 am

Quote from: Relaxer on May 02, 2016, 06:49:09 pm

It was awkward when one of Huckle's

Did you name your son Huckleberry!
cruel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on May 03, 2016, 10:38:51 am

No, of course not, don't be silly. I name him Huckle.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 08, 2016, 09:37:34 am

John Stabb (http://wtop.com/music/2016/05/d-c-punk-rocker-john-stabb-dies-after-cancer-battle/)
sadly the day before his benefit show

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 08, 2016, 10:28:47 am

well you can look at it that way or look at it that it was terminal and this event will give people a chance to gather together...

i'm kind of amazed they raised 50K in two months.. that's a lot of money and speaks to the generosity of people in the dc community and beyond.....and to the man.

cancer is such a bitch...certain forms will really just take you out quick.. doesn't matter one whit how you "fight it".. its not a fight.. watching a very close friend die to it last year... he was just about stabb's age too...he didn't stand a chance...this whole industry "cancer centers of america" etc that has emerged preying on people.. and this whole approach of how you can defeat cancer if you just have a good attitude and try hard... i've really grown to resent it..the whole terminology "blah blah lost his fight with cancer..."....its bad enough people die but do they have to be called losers too? and then on the other side you have the "holistic" or natural approach which is just as lame... this friend of mine spent tons of money eating every recommended overpriced natural food .. all bullshit..the fact is if you get an aggressive form of cancer you're going to die...doesn't make you a person who didn't want to live or did something wrong..

anyways, as far as tonight.. got to hand it to thurston moore..he's really stepping up... i noticed he just did a benefit for ivan julian a couple of days ago.. now he comes down to do one for stabb.... getting old and watching people die sure sucks but what is the alternative?...

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 08, 2016, 11:38:53 am

Quote from: Thurston on May 08, 2016, 10:28:47 am

well you can look at it that way or look at it that it was terminal and this event will give people a chance to gather together...

I totally agree and I think it would be a good opportunity for the people who knew him to get together and celebrate the good memories

regardless of you stance on the 'fight' part...there still are I can only imagine huge medical costs his loved ones have to pay, so for that I think it's great thing to do

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on May 08, 2016, 12:02:34 pm

I'm not originally from DC
I do not know John personally
In fact, I've never owned a GI album
But his influence is far reaching and his absence will not go unnoticed
RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 08, 2016, 01:08:27 pm

Quote from: Sidetoast |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 👻 👻 👻 👻 on May 08, 2016, 11:38:53 am

Quote from: Thurston on May 08, 2016, 10:28:47 am
well you can look at it that way or look at it that it was terminal and this event will give people a chance to gather together...

I totally agree and I think it would be a good opportunity for the people who knew him to get together and celebrate the good memories

regardless of you stance on the 'fight' part...there still are I can only imagine huge medical costs his loved ones have to pay, so for that I think it's great thing to do

of coure.. I hope it did not come off as if I was saying people shouldn't see doctors and get treatment for their health problems!

I look forward to seeing some of the DC music community tonight... the Black Cat is always the epicentre of the DC music community

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 08, 2016, 08:45:48 pm

Candye Kane

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on May 08, 2016, 11:09:42 pm

Synthesizer and electronic music pioneer Isao Tomita has died at 84

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 17, 2016, 12:02:53 pm

Guy Clark

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 17, 2016, 06:15:42 pm

R.I.P. Bill Backer, real-life creator of ?I?d Like To Buy The World A Coke? (http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-bill-backer-real-life-creator-id-buy-world-cok-236919)

Or for you young'ins, of Don Draper fame.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on May 17, 2016, 07:22:25 pm

Jane Little, Atlanta's Dainty Double-Bass Player For 71 Years, Dies Onstage (http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2016/05/17/478337126/jane-little-longtime-orchestra-musician-collapses-on-stage-and-dies)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on May 18, 2016, 08:10:27 am

. . . But being a bass player no one noticed until the concert was over and everyone had left. . .

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on May 25, 2016, 04:10:53 pm

the show was all flo and mel . . . but she, was pretty great, too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/arts/television/beth-howland-accident-prone-waitress-from-the-sitcom-alice-dies-at-74.html?mwrsm=Facebook&_r=0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 25, 2016, 04:17:14 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on May 25, 2016, 04:10:53 pm

the show was all flo and mel . . . but she, was pretty great, too.

I knew right from reading your post that you were referring to Vera.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 25, 2016, 05:40:31 pm

She actually died last year. Hmm.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 25, 2016, 06:17:01 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on May 25, 2016, 05:40:31 pm

She actually died last year. Hmm.

according to wiki
Howland died of lung cancer in December 2015 at the age of 74. Her death was not reported to the media until May 24, 2016.[2]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 26, 2016, 06:26:37 pm

It's almost like you guys didn't click the link because the very first paragraph says that she died on New Years Eve and that her husband didn't announce the news of her death at her request.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 26, 2016, 07:32:25 pm

Quote from: vansmack on May 26, 2016, 06:26:37 pm

It's almost like you guys didn't click the link because the very first paragraph says that she died on New Years Eve and that her husband didn't announce the news of her death at her request.

I saw it - that's why I was puzzled. I wasn't criticizing the DLF post for being late.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on May 31, 2016, 12:10:19 pm

Surfer Blood Guitarist Thomas Fekete

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/surfer-blood-guitarist-thomas-fekete-dead-at-27-20160531 (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/surfer-blood-guitarist-thomas-fekete-dead-at-27-20160531)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 31, 2016, 12:30:50 pm

that is very sad..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on May 31, 2016, 09:59:49 pm

Jan Crouch. I would pay anything to have just a fleeting glimpse of the moment when she reaches the Pearly Gates and God questions her on all the money she stole from poor people so she could live a life of gold luxury for Jesus.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 31, 2016, 10:59:52 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on May 31, 2016, 09:59:49 pm

Jan Crouch. I would pay anything to have just a fleeting glimpse of the moment when she reaches the Pearly Gates and God questions her on all the money she stole from poor people so she could live a life of gold luxury for Jesus.

there are no pearly gates

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on May 31, 2016, 11:14:48 pm

How, do you know. I, believe.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 03, 2016, 09:12:16 pm

Christ if Ali dies this will go down as the roughest six months in pop culture history.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 03, 2016, 09:15:12 pm

seems like garrison keilor is hitting a rough patch too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 03, 2016, 09:22:33 pm

Ali .. man he's been real ill for a long time...... it will be a huge deal when he dies... I so wish he had retired from boxing 5-10 years earlier...

the thing about Prince is he was young... Bowie seemed in great shape.. had put out an album.. the element of surprise was a real big deal.... people were expecting a tour announcement and instead he died..

Ali has to be up there...it wouldn't be a shock if he died even if he wasn't ill....but he is 74... probably the average life expectancy... maybe higher than the average life expectancy for people born in his day..

It must be said that whoever comes across Ali always talks about an extremely moving experience and a connection.....so I'm not trying to say he is a vegetable or something...I will always remember his effort lighting the Olympic Torch or whatever it was... it seemed superhuman....super will...

Anyways he ain't gone yet so lets hope for the best..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on June 03, 2016, 10:33:00 pm

^ well-stated.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on June 04, 2016, 12:22:24 am

Muhammad Ali

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 04, 2016, 08:03:07 am

ugh

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 04, 2016, 03:10:21 pm

Quote from: Hutch on June 03, 2016, 09:22:33 pm

Ali .. man he's been real ill for a long time...... it will be a huge deal when he dies... I so wish he had retired from boxing 5-10 years earlier...

the thing about Prince is he was young... Bowie seemed in great shape.. had put out an album.. the element of surprise was a real big deal.... people were expecting a tour announcement and instead he died..

Ali has to be up there...it wouldn't be a shock if he died even if he wasn't ill....but he is 74... probably the average life expectancy... maybe higher than the average life expectancy for people born in his day..

It must be said that whoever comes across Ali always talks about an extremely moving experience and a connection.....so I'm not trying to say he is a vegetable or something...I will always remember his effort lighting the Olympic Torch or whatever it was... it seemed superhuman....super will...

Anyways he ain't gone yet so lets hope for the best..

wow he died 9:10 pm MOUNTAIN TIME so 11:10 Eastern..since the clock on this board is fucked up by one hour I guess that means he died 46 minutes after my post...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 04, 2016, 04:26:04 pm

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGPs6w3tp1r/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on June 04, 2016, 04:32:45 pm

The board's clock works fine for me. ^ It is 4:32pm EST and that is what I see on here for the posted time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 04, 2016, 04:58:11 pm

drats.. then he was already dead..

I guess we were all thinking of him just as he passed...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on June 04, 2016, 06:57:20 pm

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/de/08/59/de085955f8db9204d1c5437c28efe504.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on June 06, 2016, 11:49:04 pm

It is a bad week for fighters, Kimbo Slice also died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 06, 2016, 11:58:50 pm

Quote from: bob72 on June 04, 2016, 06:57:20 pm

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/de/08/59/de085955f8db9204d1c5437c28efe504.jpg)

I do love that shot
as well as the one in the Post,

but also loved these two with the boys from Liverpool
(http://www.todayifoundout.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/muhammad-ali.jpg)(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x117/coxy2112/beatlesandali001.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 07, 2016, 01:12:55 am

He is not taking care of his 45s!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on June 07, 2016, 08:07:08 am

I also like this one, it makes me giggle

(http://www.backstageol.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/prince-muhammad-ali.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 07, 2016, 08:52:55 am

^I much prefer that one...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 07, 2016, 05:20:05 pm

Theresa Saldana Dies: ?Commish? & ?Raging Bull? Actress Who Survived Stalker Knife Attack Was 61 (https://www.yahoo.com/tv/theresa-saldana-dies-commish-raging-195733819.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 07, 2016, 11:02:30 pm

I don't even know what Tidal is but

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/its-princes-birthday-and-officially-prince-day-in-minnesota-tidal-adds-15-prince-lps-other-news/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 08, 2016, 01:36:28 am

Quote from: Hutch on June 07, 2016, 11:02:30 pm

I don't even know what Tidal is

seriously?

i find this surprising, because it's been in the news a lot, we've talked about it here before, etc... one of those things that's hard to miss IMO, but what do i know :)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 08, 2016, 07:17:11 am

Quote from: sweetcell on June 08, 2016, 01:36:28 am

Quote from: Hutch on June 07, 2016, 11:02:30 pm
I don't even know what Tidal is

seriously?

i find this surprising, because it's been in the news a lot, we've talked about it here before, etc... one of those things that's hard to miss IMO, but what do i know :)

I am a luddite

I assume its a streaming thing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 08, 2016, 09:46:23 am

Quote from: Hutch on June 08, 2016, 07:17:11 am

I assume its a streaming thing

yup, correct, it was started with the idea of being "by artists for artists". it's founders is an A-list of the (pop) music world: Jay Z, Beyoncé, Prince, Rihanna, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Daft Punk, Jack White, Madonna, Arcade Fire, Alicia Keys, Usher, Chris Martin, Calvin Harris, deadmau5... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_%28service%29

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 10, 2016, 10:05:25 am

Gordie Howe
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/10/us/gordie-howe-dies/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on June 10, 2016, 11:15:38 am

(http://i.imgur.com/3bqC9Z1.png)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 10, 2016, 11:36:40 am

Ali, Howe...who's next? Joe Namath?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 10, 2016, 01:09:09 pm

(https://usatftw.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/screen-shot-2016-06-10-at-10-12-37-am.jpg?w=1000&h=600&crop=1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 10, 2016, 01:15:23 pm

how did he play so long? i heard on the radio he played in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s.. how is that possible?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 10, 2016, 01:17:21 pm

Sometimes you're the goalie, sometimes you're the puck.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 10, 2016, 01:21:26 pm

Quote from: ja,ded on June 10, 2016, 01:17:21 pm

Sometimes you're the goalie, sometimes you're the puck.

He was the puck?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 10, 2016, 02:26:24 pm

Quote from: Hutch on June 10, 2016, 01:15:23 pm

how did he play so long? i heard on the radio he played in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s.. how is that possible?

He was 18 when he started and 52 when he retired for the second and final time in 1980. He took a few years off after retiring once in the early 70's.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 10, 2016, 02:43:27 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 10, 2016, 02:26:24 pm

Quote from: Hutch on June 10, 2016, 01:15:23 pm
how did he play so long? i heard on the radio he played in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s.. how is that possible?

He was 18 when he started and 52 when he retired for the second and final time in 1980. He took a few years off after retiring once in the early 70's.

wow..that is amazing..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on June 11, 2016, 09:11:58 am

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/11/entertainment/orlando-christina-grimmie-shot/index.html

Did not know who she was. Awful story. Hate to thnk he just walked in with guns but that's the way it appears.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 13, 2016, 04:17:18 pm

Margaret Vinci Heldt, Hairstylist Who Created Beehive Hairdo, Dies at 98 (http://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/Chicago-Area-Woman-Who-Created-Beehive-Hairdo-Dies-at-Age-98-382713171.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on June 13, 2016, 05:03:51 pm

The lady, who was Alf . . . and the voice of Judy Jetson.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 13, 2016, 09:58:12 pm

Hey Lulz Wayne. U tryna be Prince?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 13, 2016, 11:25:59 pm

Quote from: walk,on,by on June 13, 2016, 05:03:51 pm

The lady, who was Alf . . .

lady?

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/13/michu-meszaros-dead-alf-actor-died

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on June 14, 2016, 07:41:38 am

Just, realized my mistake.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on June 14, 2016, 01:39:57 pm

Chips Moman
Lotsa hits from Mr. Chips.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/legendary-producer-chips-moman-dead-at-79-20160614

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on June 14, 2016, 03:19:32 pm

http://www.pwtorch.com/site/2016/06/14/obit-dx-band-singer-chris-warren-dies-age-49/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 17, 2016, 09:15:42 am

Almost...

http://www.jambase.com/article/bernie-worrells-wife-shares-update-legendary-keyboardists-health

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 17, 2016, 11:40:15 am

Also not dead yet: Meatloaf.

http://wtop.com/music/2016/06/singer-meat-loaf-collapses-during-concert-in-canada/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 17, 2016, 11:40:25 am

Do we need a Not Dead Yet thread?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 17, 2016, 07:59:30 pm

Attrell Cordes, Prince Be of P.M. Dawn, sets adrift on a mystery bliss at 46

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 17, 2016, 08:10:20 pm

The stage Meatloaf fell on.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 19, 2016, 04:55:44 pm

Anton Yelchin (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jun/19/anton-yelchin-star-trek-actor-dies-car-crash?CMP=fb_gu) (Chechov 2.0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 20, 2016, 05:12:39 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on June 19, 2016, 04:55:44 pm

Anton Yelchin (https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jun/19/anton-yelchin-star-trek-actor-dies-car-crash?CMP=fb_gu) (Chechov 2.0)

The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that the car that rolled into and killed Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin was a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee, a model that Fiat Chrysler recently recalled after its unconventional gear shifter led to several documented rollaway accidents.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 23, 2016, 09:29:20 pm

Another big one.

Ralph Stanley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on June 23, 2016, 10:13:13 pm

^ saw him on the "o brother" show at bull run.
his set was definitely the highlight of a great event.
"o death", indeed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 24, 2016, 04:24:02 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 17, 2016, 09:15:42 am

Almost...

http://www.jambase.com/article/bernie-worrells-wife-shares-update-legendary-keyboardists-health

RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 25, 2016, 10:39:46 am

once the grim reaper has its hook on you.....

and the year is only half gone....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 25, 2016, 09:55:01 pm

2016 has been a bad year for musicians ...in that lots of the good ones are dying

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on June 25, 2016, 09:57:46 pm

Bill, Cunningham

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on June 25, 2016, 10:15:11 pm

good to see him in that mediocre meryl streep film "rickki and the flash" and the late rick rosas as well.
meryl, whattup with you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 28, 2016, 09:11:56 am

Pat Summit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 28, 2016, 09:54:43 am

Sir Mack Rice biggest hit was Mustang Sally, co-wrote Respect Yourself

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 28, 2016, 11:03:56 am

Former NFL coach Buddy Ryan dies at age 82 (http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000671619/article/former-nfl-coach-buddy-ryan-dies-at-age-82)

also the father of rob and rex. didn't know they are twins.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on June 28, 2016, 11:13:17 am

Lor Scoota

:'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 28, 2016, 11:43:54 am

Quote from: extrasensitivedude on June 28, 2016, 11:13:17 am

Lor Scoota

:'(

sad...Baltimore really is to be avoided at all costs these days

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on June 28, 2016, 11:54:03 am

::)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 28, 2016, 12:00:34 pm

bad day for coaches:

Pat Summitt, legendary women's basketball coach, dies at 64 (http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/us/pat-summitt-obit/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 28, 2016, 12:03:10 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 28, 2016, 12:00:34 pm

bad day for coaches:

Pat Summitt, legendary women's basketball coach, dies at 64 (http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/us/pat-summitt-obit/)

Hutch beat you to it. Scroll back up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 28, 2016, 12:06:47 pm

Quote from: Julian, Authenticated LUXUROPHILE on June 28, 2016, 12:03:10 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 28, 2016, 12:00:34 pm
bad day for coaches:

Pat Summitt, legendary women's basketball coach, dies at 64 (http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/us/pat-summitt-obit/)
Hutch beat you to it. Scroll back up.

wow my bad. I hate doing that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 28, 2016, 09:13:20 pm

Scotty Moore

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 29, 2016, 08:14:00 pm

Rob Wasserman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on June 30, 2016, 08:58:34 am

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on June 29, 2016, 08:14:00 pm

Rob Wasserman

Saw him many times over the years. Didn't see this one coming at all. :-(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 30, 2016, 09:07:26 am

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on June 30, 2016, 08:58:34 am

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on June 29, 2016, 08:14:00 pm
Rob Wasserman

Saw him many times over the years. Didn't see this one coming at all. :-(

Bob Weir posted something on FB yesterday about keeping him in our thoughts...so I knew he was not doing well..at least I knew he was not doing well yestefday...

I wonder if when i saw Ratdog I saw Rob Wasserman...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 03, 2016, 08:01:49 pm

^I definitely saw Wasserman at the 930 at Ratdog....

----------

Elie Wiesel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 07, 2016, 02:21:03 pm

Trayvon Lee, manager of slain Baltimore rapper Lor Scoota and relative of popular dirt bike rider Chino Braxton, was killed near Druid Hill Park last night, police said.
http://bsun.md/29oYncu

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 07, 2016, 04:38:50 pm

I've driven by there a lot taking my kids up to Kennedy Krieger.. nobody should live there.. I have seen things there you don't expect to see.. burning cars.. people motoring along major roads in wheelchairs....cops everywhere.. .crack hoes...you name it..

the low end of baltimore is really low....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on July 10, 2016, 12:27:20 am

Geneviéve Elverum, musician and wife to Phil Elverum of Mt. Eerie and The Microphones.
Fuck cancer. They just had a baby together too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 16, 2016, 10:40:48 pm

Alan Vega

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on July 16, 2016, 11:17:24 pm

That one hurts big time. Always wanted to see Suicide but never got the chance :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 17, 2016, 09:56:43 am

Quote from: betao on July 16, 2016, 11:17:24 pm

That one hurts big time. Always wanted to see Suicide but never got the chance :(

me too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on July 17, 2016, 05:49:48 pm

Suicide was on my short list to see as well. Damn.

R.I.P. Alan Vega.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on July 17, 2016, 09:21:47 pm

i only got into them after hearing springsteen do "dream baby dream" at the patriot center on the 'devils and dust' solo tour.
crap.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 18, 2016, 05:40:42 am

Edgar Froese

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on July 18, 2016, 08:35:14 am

Quote from: le hutch on July 18, 2016, 05:40:42 am

Edgar Froese

Uh he passed away back in 2015.

Although I wouldn't put it past the year of 2016 to kill someone twice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 18, 2016, 08:50:49 am

Quote from: betao on July 18, 2016, 08:35:14 am

Quote from: le hutch on July 18, 2016, 05:40:42 am
Edgar Froese

Uh he passed away back in 2015.

Although I wouldn't put it past the year of 2016 to kill someone twice.

Betao...now in the One Comma club!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 18, 2016, 09:11:56 am

Rip Van Winkle

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 18, 2016, 09:34:52 am

Quote from: le hutch on July 18, 2016, 09:11:56 am

Rip Van Winkle

Dick Van Dyke is still alive

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 18, 2016, 09:39:45 am

Quote from: escotilha lateral |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🍺 👻 on July 18, 2016, 08:50:49 am

Quote from: betao on July 18, 2016, 08:35:14 am
Quote from: le hutch on July 18, 2016, 05:40:42 am
Edgar Froese

Uh he passed away back in 2015.

Although I wouldn't put it past the year of 2016 to kill someone twice.
Betao...now in the One Comma club!

Tres Commas is my favorite tequila.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 18, 2016, 05:57:48 pm

Billy Name

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on July 18, 2016, 09:59:58 pm

Gasp. Warhol. Gasp.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 19, 2016, 05:06:44 pm

Chief Zee

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 19, 2016, 07:21:16 pm

Quote from: mount mushmore on July 19, 2016, 05:06:44 pm

Chief Zee

How sad. Out of tribute, they should change the franchises mascot.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 19, 2016, 11:22:03 pm

Garry Marshall (http://variety.com/2016/film/news/garry-marshall-dead-dies-pretty-woman-happy-days-1201817964/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 20, 2016, 09:25:51 am

Quote from: ßèétſ on July 19, 2016, 11:22:03 pm

Garry Marshall (http://variety.com/2016/film/news/garry-marshall-dead-dies-pretty-woman-happy-days-1201817964/)

Wow, that one hurts, big time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on July 20, 2016, 09:53:43 am

His portrayal oof Larry Kidkill was top notch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 21, 2016, 03:34:51 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 21, 2016, 03:40:24 pm

Those last three years were tough.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 21, 2016, 04:26:10 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🍺 👻 on July 21, 2016, 03:34:51 pm

.

Too soon?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 21, 2016, 04:29:13 pm

Mark Takai, Democratic Congressman from Hawaii

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 21, 2016, 07:08:44 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on July 21, 2016, 04:26:10 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🍺 👻 on July 21, 2016, 03:34:51 pm
.

Too soon?

too late...passed in 2013...was actually going to change it Mark Takai...but had no idea who he was

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 21, 2016, 07:32:12 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🍺 👻 on July 21, 2016, 07:08:44 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on July 21, 2016, 04:26:10 pm
Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🍺 👻 on July 21, 2016, 03:34:51 pm
.

Too soon?
too late...passed in 2013...was actually going to change it Mark Takai...but had no idea who he was

el tipo de star trek creo...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 22, 2016, 11:09:24 am

Michael Elliott (http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21702520-one-liverpools-finest-exports-america-died-july-14th-aged-65-fab-one), the original Lexington Correspondent.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on July 22, 2016, 12:06:54 pm

william "chilly billy" cardille, pittsbugh tv and radio legend, host of "chiller theatre", played the newsman in the original "night of the living dead".
inspiration for sctv's count floyd.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 22, 2016, 12:27:54 pm

Dennis Green (Longtime NFL coach)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 22, 2016, 12:52:01 pm

Quote from: Julian, Authenticated LUXUROPHILE on July 22, 2016, 12:27:54 pm

Dennis Green (Longtime NFL coach)

yo siempre lo conocia como "Denny"... un buen coach...tenia 67...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 22, 2016, 01:08:40 pm

Los Osos son lo que pensamos que eran. Son lo que pensamos que eran. Jugamos contra ellos en pretemporada, ¿quién demonios lleva un tercer partido de la pretemporada como que es mentira? ¡Mierda! Jugamos contra ellos en el tercer juego, todo el mundo jugó tres cuartas partes-los osos son quién pensamos que eran! Es por eso que tomamos el campo maldito. Ahora bien, si usted quiere coronar a ellos, entonces coronar su culo! Pero ellos son los que pensamos que eran! Y dejamos que ellos fuera del gancho!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 22, 2016, 01:58:09 pm

This is getting tiresome.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 22, 2016, 02:19:52 pm

Quote from: mostaza on July 22, 2016, 01:58:09 pm

This is getting tiresome.

chrome extension for instant translate (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instant-translate-select/ihmgiclibbndffejedjimfjmfoabpcke/related?hl=en)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 22, 2016, 02:24:22 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🍺 👻 on July 22, 2016, 02:19:52 pm

Quote from: mostaza on July 22, 2016, 01:58:09 pm
This is getting tiresome.
chrome extension for instant translate (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instant-translate-select/ihmgiclibbndffejedjimfjmfoabpcke/related?hl=en)

I didn't think it was possible, but I find it even easier to ignore him now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 22, 2016, 02:40:48 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 22, 2016, 02:24:22 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🍺 👻 on July 22, 2016, 02:19:52 pm
Quote from: mostaza on July 22, 2016, 01:58:09 pm
This is getting tiresome.
chrome extension for instant translate (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instant-translate-select/ihmgiclibbndffejedjimfjmfoabpcke/related?hl=en)

I didn't think it was possible, but I find it even easier to ignore him now.

me duele leer tus palabras...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 22, 2016, 03:50:32 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🍺 👻 on July 22, 2016, 02:19:52 pm

Quote from: mostaza on July 22, 2016, 01:58:09 pm
This is getting tiresome.
chrome extension for instant translate (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instant-translate-select/ihmgiclibbndffejedjimfjmfoabpcke/related?hl=en)

Is there an extension for not logging in to the forum?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 22, 2016, 03:54:20 pm

callate la boca MOSTAZA!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 22, 2016, 03:57:34 pm

Yelling at your condiments is the fourth sign of insanity.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 25, 2016, 10:58:21 am

Quote from: mostaza on July 22, 2016, 03:57:34 pm

Yelling at your condiments is the fourth sign of insanity.

POTW, and it's only monday!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 25, 2016, 11:07:29 am

Quote from: sweetcell on July 25, 2016, 10:58:21 am

Quote from: mostaza on July 22, 2016, 03:57:34 pm
Yelling at your condiments is the fourth sign of insanity.

POTW, and it's only monday!

Technically he posted that on Friday. Wouldn't it be POLW?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 26, 2016, 02:36:02 pm

Miss Cleo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 26, 2016, 02:36:45 pm

Quote from: I don't know why you call me gerald on July 26, 2016, 02:36:02 pm

Miss Cleo

We can all find some solace in the fact that she saw it coming and had her affairs in order.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 26, 2016, 08:40:06 pm

Sandy Pearlman (http://pitchfork.com/news/67089-producer-sandy-pearlman-dead-at-72/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 26, 2016, 08:55:05 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on July 26, 2016, 08:40:06 pm

Sandy Pearlman (http://pitchfork.com/news/67089-producer-sandy-pearlman-dead-at-72/)

Never talk back to Bruce Dickinson!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 26, 2016, 09:44:34 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on July 26, 2016, 08:40:06 pm

Sandy Pearlman (http://pitchfork.com/news/67089-producer-sandy-pearlman-dead-at-72/)

GEER is my least favorite Clash title...mostly due to the production
but Don?t Fear the Reaper...that will be around for generations

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 26, 2016, 10:22:39 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🍺 👻 on July 26, 2016, 09:44:34 pm

Quote from: ßèétſ on July 26, 2016, 08:40:06 pm
Sandy Pearlman (http://pitchfork.com/news/67089-producer-sandy-pearlman-dead-at-72/)
Don?t Fear the Reaper...that will be around for generations

ummm...no

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 26, 2016, 10:26:33 pm

Miguel is that you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 26, 2016, 10:30:19 pm

I don't think anything about Blue Oyster Cult will be remembered...

but if there was one thing that would be remembered at least another decade or two it will be the "More cowbell" SNL skit...

as far as songs go Burnin' for you was their last commercial gasp... you must be thinkin of Don't Fear the Reaper...

It is interesting that as Patti Smith slept her way to fame she dated one of the guys from BOC... Allen Lanier. I think she even co-wrote a BOC song or two maybe more BEFORE Horses..

Of course she also slept with Tom Verlaine from whom she ripped off her singing approach.. anyone who has listened to Marquee Moon has to hear the similarities... and although one can argue that Marquee Moon came out after Horses- TRUE- but Television was the band that got the whole CBGBs thing started before Patti Smith really got going

anyways none of the people Patti slept with will be remembered but her music surely will be..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 26, 2016, 10:36:42 pm

Quote from: I don't know why you call me gerald on July 26, 2016, 10:26:33 pm

Miguel is that you?

why yes it is.. my middle name actually... ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 28, 2016, 12:14:56 pm

Bald Eagle (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/27/487651658/david-bald-eagle-lakota-chief-musician-cowboy-and-actor-dies-at-97)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 28, 2016, 01:50:52 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 28, 2016, 12:14:56 pm

Bald Eagle (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/27/487651658/david-bald-eagle-lakota-chief-musician-cowboy-and-actor-dies-at-97)

For a minute there I thought you were referring to the woman I dated right before meeting my wife.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 04, 2016, 09:51:48 pm

The Big Lebowski

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 04, 2016, 10:14:21 pm

I guess the bums didn't lose this time. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on August 04, 2016, 10:28:38 pm

I'll bust out the "sleeping tapes" tonight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 08, 2016, 11:25:07 am

Ricci Martin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 08, 2016, 11:57:46 am

Quote from: Julian, the BELOVED on August 08, 2016, 11:25:07 am

Ricci Martin

Latin pop will never be the same.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 08, 2016, 12:01:53 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 08, 2016, 11:57:46 am

Quote from: Julian, the BELOVED on August 08, 2016, 11:25:07 am
Ricci Martin

Latin pop will never be the same.

buah ha ha.. this is dean martin's son

in other related news

you know Draco Rosa also from Menudo will be at State Theatre..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 08, 2016, 01:05:07 pm

Quote from: Michael Hutchinson Jenks on August 08, 2016, 12:01:53 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 08, 2016, 11:57:46 am
Quote from: Julian, the BELOVED on August 08, 2016, 11:25:07 am
Ricci Martin

Latin pop will never be the same.

buah ha ha.. this is dean martin's son

in other related news

you know Draco Rosa also from Menudo will be at State Theatre..

RIP.

(https://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_libycbnhin1qhmj05o1_500.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: moeszyslak on August 08, 2016, 03:00:46 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 08, 2016, 01:05:07 pm

Quote from: Michael Hutchinson Jenks on August 08, 2016, 12:01:53 pm
Quote from: Yada on August 08, 2016, 11:57:46 am
Quote from: Julian, the BELOVED on August 08, 2016, 11:25:07 am
Ricci Martin

Latin pop will never be the same.

buah ha ha.. this is dean martin's son

in other related news

you know Draco Rosa also from Menudo will be at State Theatre..

RIP.

(https://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_libycbnhin1qhmj05o1_500.gif)

This part of Menudo will be at Wolf Trap this month.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 08, 2016, 03:19:04 pm

B. E. Taylor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 08, 2016, 03:36:42 pm

wow...Ricky Martin is got the moves...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on August 08, 2016, 05:22:07 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 08, 2016, 03:19:04 pm

B. E. Taylor

massive loss for the pittsburgh music scene.
genuine and sincere human being and phenomenal talent, zero ego.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 10, 2016, 11:42:51 am

ESPN Announcer, John Saunders. He was 61. (http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/17263104/john-saunders-long-familiar-air-face-espn-nearly-30-years-died-age-61)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 13, 2016, 12:26:20 pm

Michel Richard

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on August 13, 2016, 01:17:33 pm

Kenny Baker aka R2D2

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 13, 2016, 01:21:21 pm

Quote from: killsaly on August 13, 2016, 01:17:33 pm

Kenny Baker aka R2D2

I thought R2D2 was a robot?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 13, 2016, 02:05:39 pm

Quote from: killsaly on August 13, 2016, 01:17:33 pm

Kenny Baker aka R2D2

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/79/fa/b0/79fab07af3c490af06315006ebc911ae.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 13, 2016, 03:27:35 pm

who the heck is Kenny Baker? a robot?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on August 13, 2016, 04:30:45 pm

Are you trying to get me to reply to you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 13, 2016, 08:17:04 pm

No I am curious who this Kenny baker is?

Its not the guy from Minor Threat right?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on August 13, 2016, 09:14:46 pm

That's Brian, silly.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 13, 2016, 09:21:15 pm

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on August 13, 2016, 09:14:46 pm

That's Brian, silly.

oops.. so who is it.. glad its not Brian.. he has been looking kind of old lately...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 13, 2016, 10:01:22 pm

Fuckin' a guys.. its customary to say something bout the person who died....anyways its apparently the guy that was inside R2D2.

read it here to find out more

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kenny-baker-dead-dies-star-wars_us_57af460ae4b007c36e4efbb4?section=&

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 14, 2016, 12:13:43 pm

Marion Barry - OD

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 14, 2016, 05:25:39 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on August 14, 2016, 12:13:43 pm

Marion Barry - OD

The grim reaper follows some people around and everyone can see it but the person in question...

Good lord.. too many of MLK's liutenants seem to have ended a bit on the dodgy side and their children even more so.... you got Jesse Jackson whose son is in jail... Marion Barry RIP and now his son Christopher dead of OD....... James Bevel went to jail after a conviction for incest (released while appealing died of pancreatic cancer then)...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 15, 2016, 01:08:31 pm

Fyvush Finkel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on August 16, 2016, 05:14:41 am

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on August 15, 2016, 01:08:31 pm

Fyvush Finkel

Aww man I was just thinking about that show Boston Public last week for some reason. He was pretty old even then. R.I.P. Harvey Lipschultz

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 16, 2016, 04:41:49 pm

John McLaughlin (http://tvline.com/2016/08/16/john-mclaughlin-dead-age-89-mclaughlin-group-host/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 16, 2016, 04:53:28 pm

I grew up watching his show....

buh bye

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on August 16, 2016, 05:44:18 pm

89?!? I'd say the guy had a good run.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 16, 2016, 05:55:24 pm

Quote from: Michael Hutchinson Jenks on August 16, 2016, 04:53:28 pm

I grew up watching his show....

buh bye

I always liked your impression of him
ISSUE 1

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 16, 2016, 05:58:40 pm

I had an SNL skit idea where McLaughlin (Dana Carvey) was the host of The Weakest Link. Could have been gold, Jerry.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 16, 2016, 10:06:41 pm

Bobby Hutcherson

great vibes player who recorded a ton of great sessions with blue note... he helps make Grant Green's Idle Moments one of the great timeless records.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 17, 2016, 03:19:23 pm

James Woolley (http://www.fgtnews.com/entertainment/former-nine-inch-nails-keyboardist-james-woolley-death-at-50/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 17, 2016, 03:30:31 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on August 17, 2016, 03:19:23 pm

James Woolley (http://www.fgtnews.com/entertainment/former-nine-inch-nails-keyboardist-james-woolley-death-at-50/)

RIP

(https://d29zunrt9sid73.cloudfront.net/speakermedia/350x350/923.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 17, 2016, 03:34:11 pm

I'm playing Wooly Bully in his honor.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on August 17, 2016, 03:43:26 pm

We'll be back in two minutes, two seconds.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 17, 2016, 03:54:03 pm

the Nine Inch Nails guy...not Chuck Woolery

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 17, 2016, 04:02:30 pm

Quote from: The Hutch Award on August 17, 2016, 03:54:03 pm

the Nine Inch Nails guy...not Chuck Woolery

And not JoAnne Worley either.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 17, 2016, 04:03:55 pm

This Nine Inch Nails (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi7q85B1PwA) guy?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 18, 2016, 01:14:09 pm

Gawker (http://gawker.com/gawker-com-to-end-operations-next-week-1785455712)

I am not a gawker fan (although I do check Deadspin regularly) but this is a really scary prospect where a rich person can basically throw his money at inane lawsuits and shut down a media organization he has a vendetta against.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 18, 2016, 02:23:30 pm

Thank god for that.

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on August 17, 2016, 04:02:30 pm

Quote from: The Hutch Award on August 17, 2016, 03:54:03 pm
the Nine Inch Nails guy...not Chuck Woolery

And not JoAnne Worley either.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 18, 2016, 02:42:41 pm

Quote from: The Hutch Award on August 17, 2016, 03:54:03 pm

the Nine Inch Nails guy...not Chuck Woolery

social media is so strange... from his cousin on FB.

Dear Loved Ones planning on attending Jim's services - Please understand that Jim's dad has severe allergies to anything scented - perfumes, lotions, hairsprays, etc. They constrict his airways and he cannot breathe. We ask that you kindly not wear any perfumes, lotions, hairsprays, or anything scented. We look forward to seeing you as we celebrate the life of my beautiful cousin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 18, 2016, 03:05:50 pm

You follow Jim Woolery's cousin on FB?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 18, 2016, 03:07:21 pm

Quote from: I don't know why you call me gerald on August 18, 2016, 03:05:50 pm

You follow Jim Woolery's cousin on FB?

no, do you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 18, 2016, 03:44:34 pm

Quote from: Julian, the BELOVED on August 18, 2016, 01:14:09 pm

inane lawsuits

Interesting.

I think the punishments were harsh, but I didn't think the case was without merit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 18, 2016, 03:54:55 pm

Quote from: vansmack on August 18, 2016, 03:44:34 pm

Quote from: Julian, the BELOVED on August 18, 2016, 01:14:09 pm
inane lawsuits

Interesting.

I think the punishments were harsh, but I didn't think the case was without merit.

While I find celebrity sex tapes (especially of Hulk Hogan) distasteful, I fully support some trash rag publishing them because they are "news." I find the idea of bankrupting a media entity because they show unflattering footage of a reality TV star really gross and think it opens a Pandora's box.

I'm not bemoaning the loss of Gawker (a trash rag that disgustingly outs homosexuals and lowers the level of public discourse), but we've just basically seen a court-validated approach for the next Peter Thiel to go after (insert publication here) because of their political/editorial view.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 20, 2016, 11:02:11 pm

(http://www.billboard.com/files/styles/article_main_image/public/media/01-lou-Pearlman-billboard-1548.jpg)

Lou Pearlman, Disgraced Backstreet Boys, 'NSYNC Svengali, Dies at 62 (http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7480171/lou-pearlman-dead)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 20, 2016, 11:08:43 pm

Is 62 his age or number of chins?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 21, 2016, 09:41:19 am

I hope they raped him a lot in jail.... talk about a scuzzbucket... looks like one too. Kind of reminds me of the Big Lebowski...

He was Art Garfunkel's first cousin....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 21, 2016, 07:38:09 pm

Matt Roberts formerly of 3 Doors Down

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 21, 2016, 11:40:15 pm

Quote from: The Hutch Award on August 21, 2016, 07:38:09 pm

Matt Roberts formerly of 3 Doors Down

3 Doors Down is an American rock band from Escatawpa, Mississippi that formed in 1996. The band originally consisted of Brad Arnold (vocals/drums), Todd Harrell (bass guitar) and Matt Roberts (guitar). In 2012, original guitarist Matt Roberts departed due to health issues.

Genres: Post-grunge, hard rock, alternative rock

Associated acts: Puddle of Mudd, Nickelback, Shinedown

Former guitarist Matt Roberts died on August 20, 2016 at the age of 38 from a prescription drug overdose.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 22, 2016, 08:59:27 am

Toots Thielemans

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on August 22, 2016, 10:25:18 am

Gawker. Sad. I, liked it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 22, 2016, 11:24:48 am

Quote from: The Hutch Award on August 22, 2016, 08:59:27 am

Toots Thielemans

Toots Thielemans was a Belgian jazz musician. He was known for his guitar and harmonica playing, as well as his whistling skills. A jazz standard by Toots Thielemans is "Bluesette," where he used whistling and guitar in unison. First recorded by him in 1962, with lyrics added by Norman Gimbel, the song became a major worldwide hit.

He performed on many film soundtracks, such as Midnight Cowboy and in various television programs, including Sesame Street, whose closing credits (which did not list him accordingly) featured his performance on harmonica of the show's theme.

in 2001, Thielemans was ennobled a baron by King Albert II of Belgium. In 2005 he was nominated for the title of the Greatest Belgian. In the Flemish version he finished in 20th place, and in the Walloon version he came 44th. In 2009, he became an NEA Jazz Master, the highest honour for a jazz musician in the United States.

Thielemans announced his retirement on 12 March 2014, cancelling all scheduled concerts. He died in his sleep on 22 August 2016, at the age of 94.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 22, 2016, 02:22:51 pm

I have a great Toots record on Riverside....I think its called The man with the harmonica.... Drew on piano..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 22, 2016, 11:25:12 pm

The Little Red-Haired Girl (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/08/22/ive-had-a-good-life-donna-wold-the-ex-flame-who-inspired-the-little-red-haired-girl-in-peanuts-dies/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_cr-peanuts-345pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 23, 2016, 03:31:07 pm

(http://cdn2.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/portrait_300x450/2016/04/law_and_order_hill_2a.jpg)

Steven Hill (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-hill-dead-law-order-880765)

Best known for L&O, he was also the leader of the IMF in the first season of Mission:Impossible, before Peter Graves took over.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 25, 2016, 09:25:21 pm

Rudy Van Gelder

amazing recording engineer... so much great jazz was recorded at his two recording studios.. I have hundreds of records with "van gelder" in the dead wax.. always a sign of quality sound.... most of the great Blue Note, Impulse, and Prestige sessions were recorded by him....

You knew the day was coming but still... any jazz afficionado has to be a little turned around by this news...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on August 25, 2016, 09:33:13 pm

^ wow, many of his fine recordings in my collection too.
always loved that slightly out of tune funky piano, just sounded right to me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 25, 2016, 11:02:23 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on August 25, 2016, 09:33:13 pm

^ wow, many of his fine recordings in my collection too.
always loved that slightly out of tune funky piano, just sounded right to me.

yes very true about the piano.. particularly on the Blue Notes....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 26, 2016, 02:14:05 pm

Harold Ramis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2016, 02:16:42 pm

Quote from: John "Hutch" Hutchinson on August 26, 2016, 02:14:05 pm

Harold Ramis

Um, he's been dead for 2 years.

Quote from: Nigel Tufnel on February 24, 2014, 01:37:51 pm

Harold Ramis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 26, 2016, 04:04:37 pm

slow news day...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2016, 04:09:38 pm

Quote from: John "Hutch" Hutchinson on August 26, 2016, 04:04:37 pm

slow news day...

Oh, IDK. We learned Bags is still alive.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 26, 2016, 04:19:24 pm

Quote from: Julian, the BELOVED on August 26, 2016, 04:09:38 pm

Quote from: John "Hutch" Hutchinson on August 26, 2016, 04:04:37 pm
slow news day...
Oh, IDK. We learned Bags is still alive.

Yes, we were able to discredit a false report of Bags' demise....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 28, 2016, 07:28:37 pm

Juan Gabriel

bigly Mexican singer.. and I mean bigly... I always thought he looked like a freak though....and never listened to his music...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on August 28, 2016, 11:47:05 pm

Mr Fuji
http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/17410861/mr-fuji-passes-away-82-wwe

Quote

As a wrestler, Fuji was a five-time WWE tag team champion between 1972 and 1982, teaming three times with Professor Tanaka and twice more with Mr. Saito. It was as a manager, however, that Fuji enjoyed his highest level of fame during the WWE's national expansion in the mid-1980s.

With a signature move of throwing salt packets to the eyes of opponents, Fuji guided some of the WWE's top heels of the era including The Magnificent Muraco, "Cowboy" Bob Orton, The Powers of Pain and Demolition.

But his managerial career would gain new life in 1992, when he ditched his traditional tuxedo look in favor of a Japanese kimono to begin a memorable four-year run beside two-time WWE world champion Yokozuna.

Fuji's greatest addition to the WWE's pop culture lexicon may have come in 1985, when he teamed with Muraco to film a series of vignettes named "Fuji Vice," designed to mock the popular television drama series "Miami Vice." The segments were a regular part of then WWF's weekly "Tuesday Night Titans" variety show, which featured interviews, skits and replays of previously taped matches.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on August 29, 2016, 11:06:46 am

loved him. from that era, when wrestling was GOD.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 29, 2016, 02:00:26 pm

weiner-hummer marriage

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 29, 2016, 03:35:40 pm

Oh, man, Gene Wilder

(http://media.aintitcool.com/media/uploads/2015/quint/genewonka_huge.jpg)

?Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 29, 2016, 04:00:42 pm

Quote from: I don't know why you call me cousin oliver on August 29, 2016, 03:35:40 pm

?Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple?

I wonder what it's like to be an author, such as say, Roald Dahl, and have some of your best work be attributed to the actor who said the brilliant line?

Quote from: I don't know why you call me cousin oliver on December 10, 2015, 12:30:43 pm

Dropping Like Flies: Commentary Edition?

I guess this never happened. I went looking for it....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 29, 2016, 05:52:55 pm

Quote from: I don't know why you call me cousin oliver on August 29, 2016, 03:35:40 pm

Oh, man, Gene Wilder

Letters of Note - from Gene Wilder (http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/part-of-this-world-part-of-another.html?m=1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 30, 2016, 04:44:00 pm

(https://67.media.tumblr.com/f94fd53d343b225cb1da15205be4f396/tumblr_oal0thVxTH1uxticxo2_500.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk,on,by on August 30, 2016, 04:54:17 pm

I hate gifs, in other threads, but mine.

but, this one, is different. It holds, power. Meaning.

damn, beetbeef.

all hail, the god of gifs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 02, 2016, 12:16:32 pm

Character Actor Jon Polito, a Favorite of the Coen Brothers, Dead at 65 (http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/character-actor-jon-polito-dead-at-65.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 04, 2016, 03:53:58 pm

(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/09/04/obituaries/04xp-heller/04xp-heller-master768.jpg)

Jerry Heller, Music Manager Who Promoted N.W.A. and Gangsta Rap, Dies at 75 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/arts/music/jerry-heller-music-manager-who-promoted-nwa-and-gangsta-rap-dies-at-75.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 05, 2016, 08:10:41 pm

Ding dong....

Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative activist, has died at age 92 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/phyllis-schlafly-a-conservative-activist-has-died-at-age-92/2016/09/05/513420e2-73bc-11e6-be4f-3f42f2e5a49e_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_ob-schlafly-8pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 06, 2016, 12:11:33 pm

The world's first face transplant recipient (http://gizmodo.com/the-world-s-first-face-transplant-recipient-has-died-1786251365)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on September 07, 2016, 12:45:42 am

Fabric, famous London nightclub, to close after 17 years:

http://www.timeout.com/london/blog/fabric-one-of-worlds-greatest-clubs-ordered-closed-by-islington-council-090716

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 09, 2016, 02:17:07 pm

Prince Buster, ska pioneer (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/08/prince-buster-dies-ska-jamaica-two-tone)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: killsaly on September 11, 2016, 04:39:38 pm

http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-alexis-arquette-pulp-fiction-and-wedding-singe-242434

Quote

As confirmed by TMZ, actress Alexis Arquette died this morning while ?surrounded by family and friends? and ?listening to David Bowie?s ?Starman.?? Probably best known for her roles in Pulp Fiction and The Wedding Singer, TMZ adds that she was ?a champion for trans rights.? She had reportedly been ?battling an illness? and was 47.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 11, 2016, 09:39:24 pm

Prince Buster... man I would have liked to see him.. he was really out of the scene though....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 12, 2016, 10:08:21 pm

Lewis Merenstein

all I know is he produced Van's Astral WEeks/Moondance

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 13, 2016, 08:19:08 am

Quote from: Deadhead on September 11, 2016, 09:39:24 pm

Prince Buster... man I would have liked to see him.. he was really out of the scene though....

I saw some former big name black ska pioneer guy live when I lived in London in 1991. Could it have been Prince Buster? I'll never remember...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 14, 2016, 10:44:16 am

State Theatre (http://culpepertimes.com/2016/09/14/breaking-news-state-theatre-suspends-operations/157842/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 14, 2016, 10:50:24 am

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on September 14, 2016, 10:44:16 am

State Theatre (http://culpepertimes.com/2016/09/14/breaking-news-state-theatre-suspends-operations/157842/)

nice try ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on September 14, 2016, 11:12:09 am

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on September 14, 2016, 10:44:16 am

State Theatre (http://culpepertimes.com/2016/09/14/breaking-news-state-theatre-suspends-operations/157842/)

don't know if anyone got down there, but it's a beautiful theater and facility.
cool art deco, seats donated from the kennedy center.
closed for many years, lots of time & $ to get it back up and running.
played there a few times and the staff could not be friendlier or more accommodating.
bummer for folks in the area wanting a nice night out.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 14, 2016, 11:16:06 am

While we're discussing the smaller area venues, can anyone review the food at the Birchmere?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 14, 2016, 02:22:32 pm

Quote from: Julian, the BELOVED on September 14, 2016, 11:16:06 am

While we're discussing the smaller area venues, can anyone review the food at the Birchmere?

beer comes in pitchers so a good easy meal

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bob72 on September 15, 2016, 07:03:53 am

Kim McGuire a.k.a Mona "Hatchet-Face" Malnorowski in John Waters' 1990 comedy musical Cry-Baby.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: moeszyslak on September 15, 2016, 09:50:52 am

Quote from: bob72 on September 15, 2016, 07:03:53 am

Kim McGuire a.k.a Mona "Hatchet-Face" Malnorowski in John Waters' 1990 comedy musical Cry-Baby.

Dammit! One of my girlfriends favorite movies. We watch it every time we see it on. I laugh at every scene with her in it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 15, 2016, 10:22:40 am

Quote from: moeszyslak on September 15, 2016, 09:50:52 am

Quote from: bob72 on September 15, 2016, 07:03:53 am
Kim McGuire a.k.a Mona "Hatchet-Face" Malnorowski in John Waters' 1990 comedy musical Cry-Baby.

Dammit! One of my girlfriends favorite movies. We watch it every time we see it on. I laugh at every scene with her in it.

I second, this is a horrible loss. My favorite Waters film.

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Post by: shemptiness on September 15, 2016, 03:12:41 pm

Johnny Dark (http://www.abc2news.com/news/region/carroll-county/carroll-county-radio-legend-johnny-dark-dies)

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Post by: hutch on September 16, 2016, 08:28:46 pm

Edward Albee

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Post by: Justin Tonation on September 16, 2016, 08:45:30 pm

Don Buchla (http://www.factmag.com/2016/09/16/don-buchla-dies-synthesizer/)

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Post by: killsaly on September 18, 2016, 01:53:02 am

C Martin Croker

He was a voice actor on golden era Adult Swim shows.

Best known for the characters Moltar and of course, Zorak.

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 18, 2016, 06:54:13 am

Of course!

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Post by: shemptiness on September 18, 2016, 12:16:24 pm

Croker!

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Post by: killsaly on September 18, 2016, 12:17:31 pm

(https://66.media.tumblr.com/a441716ab6515cbf2aba736f62a0dd94/tumblr_mkz17qHOQN1r2z3jbo1_500.gif)

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Post by: hutch on September 20, 2016, 10:23:25 pm

Curtis Hanson

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 21, 2016, 07:28:48 am

Mmmmmbopped on outta here?

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Post by: hutch on September 21, 2016, 03:02:17 pm

DJ Spank-Spank

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Post by: hutch on September 24, 2016, 09:22:27 am

Buckwheat Zydeco

sad news to get up to... I had not realized he was ill...

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 24, 2016, 07:09:17 pm

Oh man, he was my Z

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Post by: shemptiness on September 25, 2016, 09:56:35 am

Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez - boating accident

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 25, 2016, 02:16:29 pm

Quote from: Nuke LaLush on September 25, 2016, 09:56:35 am

Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez - boating accident

Holy shit. That's stunning.

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Post by: dyecraig on September 25, 2016, 03:25:55 pm

bill nunn - radio raheem from "do the right thing" at 62 in pittsburgh

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Post by: Space Freely on September 25, 2016, 08:57:15 pm

Arnold Palmer...I think he ws the guy who started a tea company featuring high fructose corn syrup teas...

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Post by: vansmack on September 25, 2016, 09:12:56 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on September 25, 2016, 08:57:15 pm

Arnold Palmer...I think he ws the guy who started a tea company featuring high fructose corn syrup teas...

Shit. The best hope for every nontraditional swing.

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 25, 2016, 09:39:21 pm

Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?

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Post by: evilizac on September 26, 2016, 07:37:27 am

Arizona sugar free Arnold Palmer is my favorite lazy mixer.
Work wonders with Rum or Whiskey.

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Post by: vansmack on September 27, 2016, 10:33:42 pm

Shimon Peres

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Post by: hutch on September 28, 2016, 12:38:54 am

Quote from: vansmack on September 27, 2016, 10:33:42 pm

Shimon Peres

he was a good man

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 30, 2016, 03:34:16 pm

Richard Trentlage, songwriter

https://youtu.be/aNddW2xmZp8

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Post by: Justin Tonation on October 02, 2016, 01:29:01 pm

Neville Marriner (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/neville-marriner-led-renowned-academy-of-st-martin-in-the-fields-dies-at-92/2016/10/02/3bfbb3ec-88b2-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html)

By far, his best known recording was the soundtrack to Amadeus.

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Post by: TheREALHunter on October 12, 2016, 08:37:01 pm

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the passing of Robert Goldstein of the Urban Verbs, who also played a part in the 930 Club happening in the first place.

http://www.npr.org/2016/10/08/497108776/remembering-robert-goldstein-nprs-music-librarian-and-our-friend

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Post by: hutch on October 13, 2016, 06:48:25 pm

Dylan Rieder

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Post by: walkie,talkie on October 13, 2016, 06:50:17 pm

I would have to think Pitchfork, after reading that op ed about Dylan winning the Nobel Prize.

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 13, 2016, 07:12:30 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on October 13, 2016, 06:50:17 pm

I would have to think Pitchfork, after reading that op ed about Dylan winning the Nobel Prize.

I agreed with every word of it. That decision is an absurdity. I hope he declines it.

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Post by: vansmack on October 21, 2016, 01:41:26 pm

Speaking of colon cancer, sad news about a personal hero:

William Bowen (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/nyregion/william-bowen-dead.html)

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 21, 2016, 01:52:02 pm

Quote from: vansmack on October 21, 2016, 01:41:26 pm

Speaking of colon cancer, sad news about a personal hero:

William Bowen (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/nyregion/william-bowen-dead.html)

I hope his wife Julie is coping in these hard times.

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Post by: walkie,talkie on October 22, 2016, 07:07:49 am

Kevin Meaney.

Loved, that guy.

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Post by: hutch on October 24, 2016, 07:59:10 am

Tom Hayden

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Post by: hutch on October 24, 2016, 02:43:28 pm

Pete Burns

I will try to dig out You Spin Me Round Round Like a Record Baby

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 24, 2016, 02:46:14 pm

Quote from: Bad Hombre on October 24, 2016, 02:43:28 pm

Pete Burns

I will try to dig out You Spin Me Round Round Like a Record Baby

sorry for him(?) and his family/friends/fans
...but if I never hear that song again...it will be too soon

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Post by: Yada on October 24, 2016, 02:47:01 pm

Quote from: Bad Hombre on October 24, 2016, 02:43:28 pm

Pete Burns

I will try to dig out You Spin Me Round Round Like a Record Baby

It will be missed.

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/4f/08/fb/4f08fb6ac355fd45cfbf4f43b98ac884.jpg)

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Post by: hutch on October 24, 2016, 02:48:27 pm

Quote from: Da'Hatch 🛠⛏|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|🗡⚔ on October 24, 2016, 02:46:14 pm

Quote from: Bad Hombre on October 24, 2016, 02:43:28 pm
Pete Burns

I will try to dig out You Spin Me Round Round Like a Record Baby
sorry for him(?) and his family/friends/fans
...but if I never hear that song again...it will be too soon

thank you for your contribution

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Post by: hutch on October 24, 2016, 02:49:33 pm

Quote from: Yada on October 24, 2016, 02:47:01 pm

Quote from: Bad Hombre on October 24, 2016, 02:43:28 pm
Pete Burns

I will try to dig out You Spin Me Round Round Like a Record Baby

It will be missed.

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/4f/08/fb/4f08fb6ac355fd45cfbf4f43b98ac884.jpg)

yes.. a well known victim of plastic surgery... he was so hot at the beginning though....

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Post by: walkie,talkie on October 24, 2016, 04:05:14 pm

Yes, a human being died. Let's all make fun of him. America.

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Post by: Yada on October 24, 2016, 04:29:00 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on October 24, 2016, 04:05:14 pm

Yes, a human being died. Let's all make fun of him. America.

LoL

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Post by: Space Freely on October 24, 2016, 06:45:41 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on October 24, 2016, 04:05:14 pm

Yes, a human being died. Let's all make fun of him. America.

The remaining band members have decided to carry on under the name "Alive".

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 24, 2016, 08:30:48 pm

Quote from: Yada on October 24, 2016, 04:29:00 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on October 24, 2016, 04:05:14 pm
Yes, a human being died. Let's all make fun of him. America.

LoL

for the record I didn't make fun of him...just can't stand that song
it's up there with 'we built this city"

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Post by: hutch on October 24, 2016, 09:12:08 pm

Quote from: Da'Hatch 🛠⛏|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|🗡⚔ on October 24, 2016, 08:30:48 pm

Quote from: Yada on October 24, 2016, 04:29:00 pm
Quote from: walkie,talkie on October 24, 2016, 04:05:14 pm
Yes, a human being died. Let's all make fun of him. America.

LoL
for the record I didn't make fun of him...just can't stand that song
it's up there with 'we built this city"

Dude this is crazy talk....

We Built this city is amazing.... now its in my head

knee deep in the hoopla!!!!! (best lyric ever!)

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Post by: walkie,talkie on October 24, 2016, 10:31:28 pm

Quote from: Da'Hatch 🛠⛏|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|🗡⚔ on October 24, 2016, 08:30:48 pm

Quote from: Yada on October 24, 2016, 04:29:00 pm
Quote from: walkie,talkie on October 24, 2016, 04:05:14 pm
Yes, a human being died. Let's all make fun of him. America.

LoL
for the record I didn't make fun of him...just can't stand that song
it's up there with 'we built this city"

L,o,L

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Post by: walkie,talkie on October 27, 2016, 08:23:17 am

the man, who killed, The Crow.

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 07, 2016, 05:51:02 am

Janet Reno

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Post by: walkie,talkie on November 10, 2016, 10:15:11 pm

Mr, Cohen

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Post by: hutch on November 10, 2016, 10:17:29 pm

wow I was just told by my better half... 30 seconds ago...damn....what a horrible year.. end it already .. where is the Sweet Meteor of Death...

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Post by: dyecraig on November 10, 2016, 10:20:58 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on November 10, 2016, 10:15:11 pm

Mr, Cohen

That last show at MPP was one of the most beautiful things I've ever experienced.

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 11, 2016, 12:16:32 am

Quote from: hutch on November 10, 2016, 10:17:29 pm

wow I was just told by my better half... 30 seconds ago...damn....what a horrible year.. end it already .. where is the Sweet Meteor of Death...

as if 2016 wasn't the worst year in recorded history

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Post by: gavroche on November 11, 2016, 12:32:24 am

Quote from: dyecraig on November 10, 2016, 10:20:58 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie link=topi=11001.msg454403#msg454403 date=1478830511
Mr, Cohen
That last show at MPP was one of the most beautiful things I've ever experienced.

I love Leonard Cohen and I'm really crushed by his death. I first heard him because a girlfriend in high school who was obsessed with the Jennifer Warnes Famous Blue Raincoat cover album. I was mostly into classic rock and the DC punk scene at the time and other than some early folk and blues stuff hadn't branched out. I loved Dylan, and it all seems so obvious now, but somehow I didn't know Leonard Cohen at the time. I liked Warnes ok, but it was just too sweet for me. But Famous Blue Raincoat stuck with me enough that I searched out the original. I heard it once and was hooked. I had to get everything. Songs of Love and Hate is still my favorite, but there isn't really a Leonard Cohen album I don't love.

I was lucky enough to see Leonard Cohen once, at the Beacon in New York. His first show in almost a decade in the states (though he had done a couple of shows in Canada before the Beacon gig as well as a European leg). It was February 2009 and I'd just started a new job after having knocked on doors for the election. I was also broke, but it didn't matter. I remember hanging around the fan boards for week trying to figure out how to get tickets when it was announced he was touring again. They had a presale for people on the message board, and the password was a leonard cohen lyric you had to get. I remember having trouble with the capitalization and it seemed like it would take me forever to get in. The concert was basically my first month of my new job (the one I sitll have) and I had no vacation yet. That means I had to go up and back to New York in one night. The Greyhound ride back was horrible. I slept for like an hour on the floor of my office before I was woken up by the sound of the first people coming in. Just barely made it through the next day. It didn't matter, it was magic.

I was disappointed that the gig in DC was at Merriweather instead of a theater. I thought about going to Philly but it was too much for me and I was still broke at the time. One of my great concert regrets is that I skipped the DC gig. I though I'd get another chance to see him, and that his second time around would be in a better venue. I came to terms a while back with the reality that there wouldn't be a second chance.

I saw Nick Cave do a question and answer thing for the movie thing in New York a while back and someone asked him if there are any songs that he wished he had written. He immediately said, this one, and played Avalanche.

I'm really sad about Leonard Cohen's passing. His music have meant a lot to me at important times in my life.

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Post by: Unsanity on November 11, 2016, 05:31:21 am

Leonard really was one of the true greats. I know he saw his death coming but still....will 2016 just be over already?

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Post by: betao on November 11, 2016, 09:13:23 am

I saw Leonard at Coachella in 2009, and I wish that back then I was the fan I am now. It was really beautiful though; his voice was one of the most intense sounds I'd ever heard. He opened with "Dance Me To The End Of Love" and a collective shiver went through the entire audience.

One of my greatest musical regrets is not going to the MPP show, and I always tried to brush it off my telling myself to catch him next time. What can you do.

2016, what a year. :(

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Post by: Space Freely on November 11, 2016, 09:19:15 am

I got up and put on a Leonard Cohen album, but was immediate informed by my daughter that she watches King of the Hill when getting ready for school.

Oh well, maybe some Leonard later.

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Post by: hutch on November 11, 2016, 09:21:06 am

Quote from: betao on November 11, 2016, 09:13:23 am

"Dance Me To The End Of Love"

Just listened to it again.. what a great song....top top notch..

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Post by: eddie on November 11, 2016, 03:40:18 pm

From Bob Lefsetz (yes long but probably worth the read):

A great song can be sung by anybody. And even though two covers of Leonard's work are legendary, Judy Collins's "Suzanne" and Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah," it's Don Henley's cover of "Everybody Knows" that sticks with me, that I sing in my head again and again...remember when we could still sing songs?

"Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows"

Sound like our election?

I certainly think it does. I understand the poor feel screwed, that they've been left behind in the march to globalization and digitization, but I have a hard time seeing how cutting taxes on the rich will help them out. As for bringing back manufacturing to America...well, that's fine if you want to pay $2500 for a flat screen that's made by few people anyway, automation is king.

"Everybody Knows" originally appeared on Leonard Cohen's 1988 album "I'm Your Man," which had very little impact, because by this time the buzz was done. After the thrill is gone, after you're no longer the critics' darling, will you continue to compose? The greats do, Leonard Cohen did.

And seven years later, Don Henley included it on his greatest hits album, "Actual Miles," one of three new compositions included to implore completists to purchase the LP, back when that was still a thing, buying albums.

And now it's twenty one years later and most people have still not heard "Everybody Knows," but it's lying in wait, you will be slayed by its truth when you finally discover it. This is the antithesis of today's hit and run music, this is a time bomb, a land mine, waiting to go off when you stumble upon it, a great song is forever, never forget that.

My mother asked me about Leonard Cohen. Which was kind of surprising, because despite her being a culture vulture, I was the pop music king, this was before our parents were our friends, before oldsters turned their progeny on to the Beatles, when to be on the same page as your parents was a rare event.

And the first album made an impact, back when records didn't have to chart, didn't have to have a single, to do so.

You should probably start here, with 1968's "Songs of Leonard Cohen," produced by the unheralded John Simon who's been forgotten by the wankers inducting second-rate poseurs into the Hall of Fame while he midwifed some of the greatest albums in the modern canon.

And "Songs of Leonard Cohen" sounds like a Simon album, in that it's got a slickness, with strings, that most don't think of when they think of Leonard Cohen today, but it's a document, seared into my brain and the culture.

Its most famous song is the aforementioned "Suzanne," which cemented Judy Collins' career, made her a star, transformed her from a folkie into a pop princess. Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" ultimately put her over the top, but it was "Suzanne" that turned the tide, it was unlike today, there was not a baby boomer who hadn't heard it, despite it not being a hit single.

"Suzanne takes you down to her place by the river
You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night forever"

Notice the difference? This is unlike today's lyrics, which are all about status and accomplishment, "Suzanne" is about life, which is why Leonard Cohen's song resonated and still radiates, we're touched by humanity, flash comes and goes, real life sustains. And Leonard's version is even more subtle than Judy's, it's like there's a poet in the corner singing his song, quietly, to the point where you're intrigued and you want to get closer, you need to get closer.

"And just when you want to tell her that you have no love to give her
She gets you on her wavelength and lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover"

That's the power of people as opposed to corporations, they'll surprise you, you'll think they have no effect on you and then you can't live without them. And no recitation of the power of "Suzanne" can be complete without reference to the lyrics about touching her (and his!) perfect body with her mind. We're all seeking perfection, and we find it in the less than perfect, a conundrum that's part of the mystery of life.

And the two other songs that touched me from the debut, they all did, but the ones that immediately come to mind are "So Long, Marianne" and "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye," my college roommate used to play that album again and again, and they were imprinted upon my mind. We now know who Marianne was, she recently passed, but back then it didn't matter, we created a picture in our own mind, the songs were for us. And we never disconnect from those we love, certainly not emotionally, we never really say goodbye, which is why these partings are always so awkward.

Suddenly, with the success of "Songs of Leonard Cohen" Leonard was no longer a poet from the Great White North, he was a member of the pop firmament, no one had previously crossed over, still, he inhabited his own space, he always existed in his own rarefied world.

The follow-up, 1969's "Songs From A Room" is most famous for its opening cut, "Bird on the Wire," which was famously covered by Joe Cocker on his second album, his best, as well as the live album "Mad Dogs & Englishmen," great songs were passed around, sung by everybody.

But Leonard Cohen's commercial impact was waning with each LP. The second and third were produced by Bob Johnston in accordance with Leonard's wishes, but the sounds were less accessible than the John Simon work, but each album had a standout track, on 1971's "Songs of Love and Hate" it was "Famous Blue Raincoat," which Jennifer Warnes made famous as the title track of her 1987 album, her artistic and commercial peak.

And then it was a journey into the wilderness, everybody knew Leonard's name, he got press, but few acquired albums that got no airplay and therefore had little cultural impact. More people remember that 1977's "Death of a Ladies' Man" was produced by Phil Spector than any of the songs. I bought it, it was a curio, kind of like the Ramones album "End of the Century" that Spector also produced, equally a mismatch.

1984's "Various Positions" included "Hallelujah," a modern day standard, but completely ignored upon its release.

And 1988's "I'm Your Man" included "First We Take Manhattan," as well as "Everybody Knows," the former the opening cut on that Jennifer Warnes album "Famous Blue Raincoat," featuring searing guitar work by the dearly departed Stevie Ray Vaughan. You see the public might not have been listening, but the artists were, back when being an artist was just that, you weren't in the hunt for corporate opportunities, you weren't a brand, but a malleable mass in search of experimentation and satiation as well as riches. Pushing the envelope was key, and the music spoke for you.

The music was speaking for Leonard Cohen. Because he wasn't speaking at all. He'd checked out, he'd gone up the road to Mt. Baldy, he'd joined a monastery.

There's this illusion that rock stars live that life 24/7, but the truth is people are paying attention for a very short time, especially in the pre-Internet era, if you weren't making hits and you weren't getting arrested it was like you didn't even exist. When I went to a birthday party in the Valley back in 2003 and Leonard was there he was just an old Jew in a hat, not someone who changed the tenor of the entire assemblage. He radiated a charisma, but he seemed self-contained, in his own bubble, you could lean in, but he was not leaning out, it was very different from the famous people who are looking for attention and adoration, it was like he knew something we did not, that the joke was on us, that money and fame were secondary to personal fulfillment, and that life was hard, and you did your best to soldier on.

And then Leonard Cohen lost all his money and went on the road and became an icon.

How weird is all this. If that woman hadn't stolen from him, he might never have played live again, gotten all that press, those accolades. Funny how life goes. You think you're in charge, but you're not.

Leonard got a victory lap nonpareil. He just released a new album that got rave reviews.

And today he died.

So what are we left with?

The songs. He's no longer here, but his work will live on, he's got a legacy.

And what is that legacy?

Someone who did it differently. Who was in search of pleasure, who experienced the pain. Leonard Cohen was a seeker. Whether it be that foray to Greece way back when or up the hill to the monastery, he was looking for answers.

And now he's revered for that.

Let that be a wake-up call. That despite all the emphasis on money, the constant social networking, life is really a mysterious adventure you go through alone, you've got to put one foot in front of the other, you've got to make choices, they're only your own. And those who are willing to buck the trends, who do it their way, are the ones we look up to.

He was a charming poet from Canada, not the scion of a studio head in Los Angeles.

He followed his muse, it led him to a recording contract and the fruits that ultimately bore.

But when I think of Leonard Cohen today, I think of someone who was sui generis, who was birthed in an era where who you were was more important than what you did. A man who realized that telling his own personal story was more important than playing the game, that ultimately it's not statistics we're drawn to, but truth.

And like I said, there's a lot of truth in "Everybody Knows."

"Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody's talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long-stem rose
Everybody knows"

We all know the truth, we're just afraid to speak it. That's what we depend upon artists for, that's why we're drawn to them.

I feel like my father or my dog just died. I've been at loose ends for forty eight hours.

And when you're in a spot like that, the only thing that resonates is music.

Leonard Cohen made music, and so much more.

He needed to express himself.

We needed to listen.

That's how it goes.

Everybody knows.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 11, 2016, 05:13:22 pm

Robert Vaughn (Man from U.N.C.L.E, Magnificent 7, Hustle)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 11, 2016, 05:38:42 pm

Everybody Knows is one of my favorite songs.... and very fitting in today's world...

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Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on November 13, 2016, 11:17:11 am

Leon Russell.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/13/501911289/leon-russell-dies-southern-rock-legend-was-74

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Post by: Relaxer on November 14, 2016, 03:08:48 pm

Awww Gwen Ifill

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 14, 2016, 03:11:43 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on November 14, 2016, 03:08:48 pm

Awww Gwen Ifill

dang...only 61
apparently she was already in Hospice care

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Post by: hutch on November 14, 2016, 03:15:56 pm

Quote from: sadHatch 🛠|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|⚔ on November 14, 2016, 03:11:43 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on November 14, 2016, 03:08:48 pm
Awww Gwen Ifill
dang...only 61
apparently she was already in Hospice care

wow..that is a shocker.. I really liked her...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 14, 2016, 06:47:31 pm

Gwen Ifill passing makes me really sad.. far sadder than Cohen who we all knew was dying and was like 8000 years old.. and Leon who also I didn't know how he was playing all those shows.. its like they were rolling him out, gluing him to the piano then taking him down along with the equipment , ungluing his fake beard, and hitting the next town. he must have been hard up for cash or something.. same as Johnny Winter who was three sheets to the wind..and yet he kept playing show night after night after night...some of these oldsters you almost wonder what is going on? Why do they play so much? A guy like Brian WIlson who seems to be having ZERO fun up there.. he kind of looks terrified in fact.. WTF? Is he like being controlled by his manager?

anyways, Gwen Ifill was pure quality.. I thought she was still doing the PBS Newshour program? I know I saw her doing it earlier this year... she seemed totally fine.... she will be missed..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 14, 2016, 07:17:20 pm

Gwen took a leave of absence back in April. She then missed repeated dates of return throughout the year. Not sure how you missed that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 14, 2016, 08:10:05 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 14, 2016, 07:17:20 pm

Gwen took a leave of absence back in April. She then missed repeated dates of return throughout the year. Not sure how you missed that.

because I don't watch the PBS news show I guess... I don't watch nightly news shows..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on November 15, 2016, 02:07:40 pm

Lush's last performance will be in Manchester and that's it. Bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 15, 2016, 03:29:02 pm

Quote from: hutch on November 14, 2016, 08:10:05 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 14, 2016, 07:17:20 pm
Gwen took a leave of absence back in April. She then missed repeated dates of return throughout the year. Not sure how you missed that.

because I don't watch the PBS news show I guess... I don't watch nightly news shows..

I knew I'd seen her in this campaign season...I watched PBS for the DNC convention and she did the roundtable
she was great and sad to see her no longer a part of the news stream

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 15, 2016, 03:56:38 pm

Mose Allison

I really like Mose's music...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on November 15, 2016, 05:09:58 pm

Quote from: hutch on November 15, 2016, 03:56:38 pm

Mose Allison

I really like Mose's music...

really crap week.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on November 18, 2016, 07:44:20 am

what.cd has been shut down. :'(

One of the best music sharing sites you could ask for.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 18, 2016, 09:34:18 am

Quote from: betao on November 18, 2016, 07:44:20 am

what.cd has been shut down. :'(

One of the best music sharing sites you could ask for.

That sounds horrible. Where are artists going to go to share their music now?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bekessler on November 18, 2016, 10:00:46 am

Quote from: betao on November 18, 2016, 07:44:20 am

what.cd has been shut down. :'(

One of the best music sharing sites you could ask for.

Came in to post the same thing. Is there anything comparable anymore? If anyone has an invite to share elsewhere, would be incredibly grateful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 18, 2016, 10:08:59 am

I dunno, man. I still haven't gotten over that time when they killed LaLa.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: moeszyslak on November 18, 2016, 10:11:22 am

Quote from: bekessler on November 18, 2016, 10:00:46 am

Quote from: betao on November 18, 2016, 07:44:20 am
what.cd has been shut down. :'(

One of the best music sharing sites you could ask for.

Came in to post the same thing. Is there anything comparable anymore? If anyone has an invite to share elsewhere, would be incredibly grateful.

RIP This hurts worse than when Oink went down. I heard Waffles is MIA as well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 18, 2016, 11:02:50 am

Those of us who aren't criminals who hate musicians and actually buy our music DGAF.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on November 18, 2016, 11:15:56 am

Quote from: Julian, the BELOVED on November 18, 2016, 11:02:50 am

Those of us who aren't criminals who hate musicians and actually buy our music DGAF.

Word, to your mother.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 18, 2016, 11:16:50 am

hate to agree with Julian here
but that site was blatant stealing of music

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/torrent-site-whatcd-shuts-down-destroys-user-data-w451239

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 18, 2016, 11:17:47 am

Quote from: moeszyslak on November 18, 2016, 10:11:22 am

Quote from: bekessler on November 18, 2016, 10:00:46 am
Quote from: betao on November 18, 2016, 07:44:20 am
what.cd has been shut down. :'(

One of the best music sharing sites you could ask for.

Came in to post the same thing. Is there anything comparable anymore? If anyone has an invite to share elsewhere, would be incredibly grateful.

RIP This hurts worse than when Oink went down. I heard Waffles is MIA as well.

oink was amazing... what a time and place for stealing music. I actually haven't used waffles or what since Spotify came out, but they will be missed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 18, 2016, 11:18:31 am

Quote from: sidehatch 🛠|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|🚀 on November 18, 2016, 11:16:50 am

hate to agree with Julian here
but that site was blatant stealing of music

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/torrent-site-whatcd-shuts-down-destroys-user-data-w451239

no shit?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on November 18, 2016, 01:07:51 pm

I loved the times, when people bashed artists for dare complaining, about people stealing their music, as if being a musical artist was not a job . . . it was a hobby, you stupid long haired hippy.

case in point, when kid rock told people to go ahead and steal cars and anything else, since stealing music was "ok" and he faced such back,lash.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 18, 2016, 01:29:44 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on November 18, 2016, 01:07:51 pm

I loved the times, when people bashed artists for dare complaining, about people stealing their music, as if being a musical artist was not a job . . . it was a hobby, you stupid long haired hippy.

case in point, when kid rock told people to go ahead and steal cars and anything else, since stealing music was "ok" and he faced such back,lash.

right on, sister.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 18, 2016, 03:54:02 pm

Quote from: Julian, the BELOVED on November 18, 2016, 11:02:50 am

Those of us who aren't criminals who hate musicians and actually buy our music DGAF.

not sure that your use of "DGAF" is kosher...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 18, 2016, 09:50:39 pm

The horrible, horrible year continues.

Sharon Jones

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 18, 2016, 10:29:51 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 18, 2016, 09:50:39 pm

The horrible, horrible year continues.

Sharon Jones

oh no!

she had began to suffer the effects appearance-wise but I was hoping for the best... what a brave woman..

I saw her open for Darryl Hall one time.. at the Warner Theatre... she seemed like the nicest woman

she had pancreatic cancer... pancreatic, bile duct and liver are incredibly difficult cancers... I have no had a friend who got bile duct cancer and he was gone in 18 months... and it was such a painful hard way to go... he couldn't keep any food down and just wasted away literally until one day he was so weak he just died.. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy..

now I'm not saying Sharon's experience was like that.. but yeah, pancreatic cancer is a bitch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 18, 2016, 10:35:05 pm

Man I just can't remember any year that comes even close to 2016 in terms of musicians dying....brutal....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 18, 2016, 11:29:18 pm

I don't want to jinx this shit or whatever, but I'm really quite surprised that all of the Rolling Stones are still alive. I'd like to see them one more time...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 19, 2016, 12:03:27 am

Quote from: hutch on November 18, 2016, 10:29:51 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 18, 2016, 09:50:39 pm
The horrible, horrible year continues.

Sharon Jones

oh no!

she had began to suffer the effects appearance-wise but I was hoping for the best... what a brave woman..

I saw her open for Darryl Hall one time.. at the Warner Theatre... she seemed like the nicest woman

she had pancreatic cancer... pancreatic, bile duct and liver are incredibly difficult cancers... I have no had a friend who got bile duct cancer and he was gone in 18 months... and it was such a painful hard way to go... he couldn't keep any food down and just wasted away literally until one day he was so weak he just died.. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy..

now I'm not saying Sharon's experience was like that.. but yeah, pancreatic cancer is a bitch

My dad died of pancreatic cancer 20 years ago. It is brutal.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 19, 2016, 08:30:28 am

Quote from: Space Freely on November 19, 2016, 12:03:27 am

Quote from: hutch on November 18, 2016, 10:29:51 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on November 18, 2016, 09:50:39 pm
The horrible, horrible year continues.

Sharon Jones

oh no!

she had began to suffer the effects appearance-wise but I was hoping for the best... what a brave woman..

I saw her open for Darryl Hall one time.. at the Warner Theatre... she seemed like the nicest woman

she had pancreatic cancer... pancreatic, bile duct and liver are incredibly difficult cancers... I have no had a friend who got bile duct cancer and he was gone in 18 months... and it was such a painful hard way to go... he couldn't keep any food down and just wasted away literally until one day he was so weak he just died.. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy..

now I'm not saying Sharon's experience was like that.. but yeah, pancreatic cancer is a bitch

My dad died of pancreatic cancer 20 years ago. It is brutal.

wow sorry to hear that Space..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on November 19, 2016, 08:33:45 am

^ i'm sorry space.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 20, 2016, 07:27:00 pm

She was the strongest person any of us had ever known, and she just kept singing. She didn't want to stop singing.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-sharon-jones-gabriel-roth-last-days-20161119-story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 20, 2016, 07:36:23 pm

I was at a brewpub Saturday night and they played Sharon Jones for the who two hours we were there. It was pretty awesome. The whole time I wondered what percentage of the crowd recognized who it was that was playing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on November 20, 2016, 07:53:25 pm

Some people care about things, other people don't care about the things, that some people care about. It's called, life . . . which leads to death, of all caring.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on November 20, 2016, 08:09:24 pm

dempsey at mobius was pumping the sounds of sharon and daptone yesterday as i was waiting for him to price the stuff i brought in.
had a nice chat about her, etc. and felt better for a while.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on November 21, 2016, 12:06:51 am

Kanye's career. thank you, jezus.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 21, 2016, 04:49:30 pm

Klinsmann as USMNT head coach

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 21, 2016, 04:55:39 pm

Quote from: Shemp & Grits on November 21, 2016, 04:49:30 pm

Klinsmann as USMNT head coach

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 21, 2016, 04:57:47 pm

Quote from: Shemp & Grits on November 21, 2016, 04:49:30 pm

Klinsmann as USMNT head coach

This is hugely disappointing as my dream of the USMNT failing to make the World Cup in 2018 is now in increased jeopardy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 21, 2016, 05:27:44 pm

I hope they hire Marcelo Bielsa....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 21, 2016, 06:16:17 pm

Recycled Arena

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 21, 2016, 06:25:25 pm

Quote from: Shemp & Grits on November 21, 2016, 06:16:17 pm

Recycled Arena

THat is what people been sayin' but I really hope its not so... As much as I like Bruce he lost the team his last go around and second acts are never better..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 21, 2016, 06:37:25 pm

Quote from: Shemp & Grits on November 21, 2016, 06:16:17 pm

Recycled Arena

huh? as in bruce arena?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 22, 2016, 11:05:10 am

Inspiral Carpets' drummer Craig Gill dies (http://www.nme.com/news/music/inspiral-carpets-craig-gill-dies-aged-44-1869192?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 22, 2016, 05:38:16 pm

http://www.complex.com/music/2016/11/sharon-jones-reportedly-said-2016-election-results-gave-her-stroke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on November 25, 2016, 05:14:15 am

Florence Henderson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 25, 2016, 09:04:44 pm

Pauline Oliveros

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on November 26, 2016, 02:18:04 am

Fidel Castro

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 26, 2016, 03:07:42 am

Seems like this year people die in 3s in 3s.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on November 26, 2016, 04:38:02 am

Peter Sumner

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/310828/peter-sumner-star-wars-dead-tk-421/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 27, 2016, 01:14:27 pm

Ron Glass

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on November 28, 2016, 12:18:39 pm

Thursday night football?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 28, 2016, 05:30:18 pm

Colonel Abrams

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: RatBastard on November 28, 2016, 08:32:29 pm

Quote from: Unsanity on November 26, 2016, 02:18:04 am

Fidel Castro

<sarcasm>Awe what a shame.</sarcasm>

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 28, 2016, 08:38:35 pm

Quote from: RatBastard on November 28, 2016, 08:32:29 pm

Quote from: Unsanity on November 26, 2016, 02:18:04 am
Fidel Castro

<sarcasm>Awe what a shame.</sarcasm>

I got to say I can't get too bent out of shape from Castro dying but Americans so quick to celebrate should look into Batista's legacy a little bit.. you know.. when the American mafia ran Havanna...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 28, 2016, 08:44:40 pm

or alternatively people so quick to completely dismiss Castro might want to look at how the rest of Latin America did during the same time period..and what interventions the US made...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 28, 2016, 09:19:14 pm

Quote from: wood9 on November 28, 2016, 08:44:40 pm

or alternatively people so quick to completely dismiss Castro might want to look at how the rest of Latin America did during the same time period..and what interventions the US made...

You're not gonna go all idiot Trudeau on us are you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 28, 2016, 09:45:21 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 28, 2016, 09:19:14 pm

Quote from: wood9 on November 28, 2016, 08:44:40 pm
or alternatively people so quick to completely dismiss Castro might want to look at how the rest of Latin America did during the same time period..and what interventions the US made...

You're not gonna go all idiot Trudeau on us are you?

I have no idea what Trudeau did..

I do not mourn Fidel's passing but it is all too easy go all idiot Trump....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 28, 2016, 10:39:46 pm

Quote from: wood9 on November 28, 2016, 09:45:21 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 28, 2016, 09:19:14 pm
Quote from: wood9 on November 28, 2016, 08:44:40 pm
or alternatively people so quick to completely dismiss Castro might want to look at how the rest of Latin America did during the same time period..and what interventions the US made...

You're not gonna go all idiot Trudeau on us are you?

I have no idea what Trudeau did..

I do not mourn Fidel's passing but it is all too easy go all idiot Trump....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/26/trudeau-called-castro-a-remarkable-leader-twitter-imagined-what-he-would-say-about-stalin/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 28, 2016, 11:06:03 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 28, 2016, 10:39:46 pm

Quote from: wood9 on November 28, 2016, 09:45:21 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on November 28, 2016, 09:19:14 pm
Quote from: wood9 on November 28, 2016, 08:44:40 pm
or alternatively people so quick to completely dismiss Castro might want to look at how the rest of Latin America did during the same time period..and what interventions the US made...

You're not gonna go all idiot Trudeau on us are you?

I have no idea what Trudeau did..

I do not mourn Fidel's passing but it is all too easy go all idiot Trump....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/26/trudeau-called-castro-a-remarkable-leader-twitter-imagined-what-he-would-say-about-stalin/

well what part of it do you disagree with? Fidel wasn't a remarkable leader? or maybe you don't agree he was controversial? or larger than life? or beloved by the Cuban people.

please explain

Fidel Castro was an EPIC leader.. US president after president tried to take him down and he said "NOT HERE!"

Like I said.. I don't mourn his loss.. and maybe Trudeau could have toned it down a bit but he's pretty much right on the money and anybody that has studied him would agree..and I did study him in great detail in graduate school... my teacher was a former CIA guy.. and he would agree with everything Trudeau said....Fidel was remarkable.. a truly remarkable leader.. that doesn't make him a good person necessarily.... he was obviously fairly ruthless...and self-serving. my own feeling is he way way overstayed his time...at great cost to the Cuban people... but it is easy to forget what the US was doing at the time...in countries like Argentina.. supporting the military dictatorship that made over 10,000 people "dissapear"....Do you judge American presidents by the same standards? The US presidents were providing weaponry, advice, training to Latin America's right wing dictators .. when there wasn't a dictator they made sure to overthrow the democratically elected presdient be it Arbenz in Guatemala or Allende in Chile... Protecting United Fruit or the mining interests was always more important than the democratic order in these countries...

Well, Fidel said.. "Not here!" and he eventually ceded complete control and power and the US had to make the peace because Obama realized just how ludicrous and insane the whole US vendetta against Cuba had become...

Or you can choose to believe Marco Rubio of course.. a complete and utter tool.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 29, 2016, 11:16:53 am

Quote from: hutch on November 28, 2016, 11:06:03 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 28, 2016, 10:39:46 pm
Quote from: wood9 on November 28, 2016, 09:45:21 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on November 28, 2016, 09:19:14 pm
Quote from: wood9 on November 28, 2016, 08:44:40 pm
or alternatively people so quick to completely dismiss Castro might want to look at how the rest of Latin America did during the same time period..and what interventions the US made...

You're not gonna go all idiot Trudeau on us are you?

I have no idea what Trudeau did..

I do not mourn Fidel's passing but it is all too easy go all idiot Trump....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/26/trudeau-called-castro-a-remarkable-leader-twitter-imagined-what-he-would-say-about-stalin/

well what part of it do you disagree with? Fidel wasn't a remarkable leader? or maybe you don't agree he was controversial? or larger than life? or beloved by the Cuban people.

please explain

Fidel Castro was an EPIC leader.. US president after president tried to take him down and he said "NOT HERE!"

Like I said.. I don't mourn his loss.. and maybe Trudeau could have toned it down a bit but he's pretty much right on the money and anybody that has studied him would agree..and I did study him in great detail in graduate school... my teacher was a former CIA guy.. and he would agree with everything Trudeau said....Fidel was remarkable.. a truly remarkable leader.. that doesn't make him a good person necessarily.... he was obviously fairly ruthless...and self-serving. my own feeling is he way way overstayed his time...at great cost to the Cuban people... but it is easy to forget what the US was doing at the time...in countries like Argentina.. supporting the military dictatorship that made over 10,000 people "dissapear"....Do you judge American presidents by the same standards? The US presidents were providing weaponry, advice, training to Latin America's right wing dictators .. when there wasn't a dictator they made sure to overthrow the democratically elected presdient be it Arbenz in Guatemala or Allende in Chile... Protecting United Fruit or the mining interests was always more important than the democratic order in these countries...

Well, Fidel said.. "Not here!" and he eventually ceded complete control and power and the US had to make the peace because Obama realized just how ludicrous and insane the whole US vendetta against Cuba had become...

Or you can choose to believe Marco Rubio of course.. a complete and utter tool.

I guess if you use the textbook definition of the word "remarkable", Castro was indeed remarkable (so was Hitler). But let's not downplay the bad parts.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/27/don-t-forget-fidel-castro-s-brutal-oppression-of-gay-people.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 29, 2016, 12:13:35 pm

ah the old Hitler analogy.. never fails when in a pinch!

its obvious you don't want to have an actual exchange of ideas... I write 500 words you respond with a link to someone else's thinking... as if "Hey lookie here boys! Somebody else said this so it must all be right and I don't have to think for myself!!!! goodie!"

as I said I will not mourn his passing but over and beyond any human rights crimes Castro committed he is remarkable..the fact that he stayed leader of Cuba in spite of so many efforts by the US to get rid of him decade after decade. .the fact he became a leader of the developing world in the 1970s...the fact under his leadership Cuba played an outsized role all over the world...the fact that he became an iconic figure in the world.. now, in 2016 its hard for people who weren't there and don't believe in reading or studying the past to understand just how big a personality Fidel Castro was back in the day....we more easily remember the past 15 years where he was a shadow of himself and largely off the scene....but there are many remarkable things he did... you just don't happen to know anything about Castro or Cuba... the thousands of Doctors Cuba sent all over the developing world to help people.... go ask about Castro in may African countries and see what they say before you come posting your links... heck, the revolution in Cuba... As I mentioned in a previous post Batista - OUR little dictator in Cuba- wasn't exactly a shrinking violet.. And, again, before you go pointing the finger at someone else's human rights abuses you should look into the human rights abuses the US actively supported, encouraged and funded in many places around the world...

Its very easy to simply say "He killed millions of people and was like Hitler".. its a little harder to learn...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 29, 2016, 12:27:27 pm

Quote from: hutch on November 29, 2016, 12:13:35 pm

ah the old Hitler analogy.. never fails when in a pinch!

its obvious you don't want to have an actual exchange of ideas... I write 500 words you respond with a link to someone else's thinking... as if "Hey lookie here boys! Somebody else said this so it must all be right and I don't have to think for myself!!!! goodie!"

as I said I will not mourn his passing but over and beyond any human rights crimes Castro committed he is remarkable..the fact that he stayed leader of Cuba in spite of so many efforts by the US to get rid of him decade after decade. .the fact he became a leader of the developing world in the 1970s...the fact under his leadership Cuba played an outsized role all over the world...the fact that he became an iconic figure in the world.. now, in 2016 its hard for people who weren't there and don't believe in reading or studying the past to understand just how big a personality Fidel Castro was back in the day....we more easily remember the past 15 years where he was a shadow of himself and largely off the scene....but there are many remarkable things he did... you just don't happen to know anything about Castro or Cuba... the thousands of Doctors Cuba sent all over the developing world to help people.... go ask about Castro in may African countries and see what they say before you come posting your links... heck, the revolution in Cuba... As I mentioned in a previous post Batista - OUR little dictator in Cuba- wasn't exactly a shrinking violet.. And, again, before you go pointing the finger at someone else's human rights abuses you should look into the human rights abuses the US actively supported, encouraged and funded in many places around the world...

Its very easy to simply say "He killed millions of people and was like Hitler".. its a little harder to learn...

I'm sorry, I don't have 500 words worth of work time to dedicate to message board monologues nor do I have it at home either. I agree that he did a number of good things for his people (as did Hitler). I just can't get past the human rights abuses enough to mourn and glorify the dude. Maybe we're not so different in our assessments of the man. Maybe I just like to be contrary and you just like to show us how smart graduate school made you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on November 30, 2016, 12:32:01 pm

grant tinker. not, like hitler.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 30, 2016, 12:54:41 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 29, 2016, 12:27:27 pm

Quote from: hutch on November 29, 2016, 12:13:35 pm
ah the old Hitler analogy.. never fails when in a pinch!

its obvious you don't want to have an actual exchange of ideas... I write 500 words you respond with a link to someone else's thinking... as if "Hey lookie here boys! Somebody else said this so it must all be right and I don't have to think for myself!!!! goodie!"

as I said I will not mourn his passing but over and beyond any human rights crimes Castro committed he is remarkable..the fact that he stayed leader of Cuba in spite of so many efforts by the US to get rid of him decade after decade. .the fact he became a leader of the developing world in the 1970s...the fact under his leadership Cuba played an outsized role all over the world...the fact that he became an iconic figure in the world.. now, in 2016 its hard for people who weren't there and don't believe in reading or studying the past to understand just how big a personality Fidel Castro was back in the day....we more easily remember the past 15 years where he was a shadow of himself and largely off the scene....but there are many remarkable things he did... you just don't happen to know anything about Castro or Cuba... the thousands of Doctors Cuba sent all over the developing world to help people.... go ask about Castro in may African countries and see what they say before you come posting your links... heck, the revolution in Cuba... As I mentioned in a previous post Batista - OUR little dictator in Cuba- wasn't exactly a shrinking violet.. And, again, before you go pointing the finger at someone else's human rights abuses you should look into the human rights abuses the US actively supported, encouraged and funded in many places around the world...

Its very easy to simply say "He killed millions of people and was like Hitler".. its a little harder to learn...

I'm sorry, I don't have 500 words worth of work time to dedicate to message board monologues nor do I have it at home either. I agree that he did a number of good things for his people (as did Hitler). I just can't get past the human rights abuses enough to mourn and glorify the dude. Maybe we're not so different in our assessments of the man. Maybe I just like to be contrary and you just like to show us how smart graduate school made you.

I'm not mourning or glorifying Fidel..as I have said... its possible Trudeau glorified him.. maybe so maybe not.. but you do have to realize Fidel was a pallbearer at his dad's funeral so it is not unexpected he would say a few perhaps exagerated nice words about him when he dies...

there is something to be said for learning and I happened to take a brilliant course on Cuba where I had to work my a s s off.... the CIA dude who taught it was good if somewhat biased coming at it from the pro-US vantage point as I was biased coming at it from the anti-US vantage point...but I learned a lot and lost a lot of respect for Fidel...and I got a lot out of the course... I kind of think the Professor wanted to get me into the CIA or something but I was not interested..

but to simply say he was a bad dude as many like to do ignores the whole picture.... Castro came out of a specific context and as leader I dont' think there is much doubt that he did better than a whole hell of a lot of democratically elected leaders...Americans don't know very much about Latin America and that which they do know seems pretty naive...

I also think Americans are too quick to cast stones at other world leaders and do not understand what their own leaders do... or simply ignore it or excuse in them what they condemn in others... when the US drops a bomb somewhere and kills 30 people celebrating a wedding.... man, there is something wrong with that.... the war we started with Iraq has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians... its nice to ignore it.. it sure helps to go to bed at night... I mean you ever visit Hiroshima? I understand Americans want to think they HAD to drop the atomic bombs.. but man oh man...

Its not all good or all bad for the US.. its not all good or all bad with Castro... its complicated....life is complicated... I wish Castro had given up power in the 1970s but he is not unique in not having done so... Stroessner ruled Paraguay for decades as a dictator with US support...same for Somoza in Nicaragua and you could go on....Pinochet was installed by the US.. what about the dictators in Argentina? They all committed atrocities. in some cases bordering on genocidal....Even Jimmy Carter for all his talk when he was President looked the other way at what was going on in Argentina...My dad actually came to DC as part of the Argentine delegation to among other things act as translator for General Videla in his meeting with President Carter at the White House and trust me they got along swimmingly..... Which dictator did more for their people in the end? The US supported Somoza or Stroessner or Castro? It is not even close. Castro by a country mile.

We all hate the present regime in Iran but the US organized a coup against Iran's democratically elected government (Mossadegh) and installed Reza Pahlevi... who then proceeded to barbecue his own citizens for shits and giggles over decades.. so there was a counter reaction..Khomeini.. and Iran still suffers it..

I don't mourn or glorify him but Fidel represents something very important to Latin Americans and many in the developing world... RESISTANCE to the United States.. If you dont' understand the things the United States has done in the world then of course this will mean nothing to you... You will simply buy the party line that the US is good and oh my god the horror at what our enemies do...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 30, 2016, 03:27:08 pm

the thing about the proscribed american attitude towards its enemies is that once branded an enemy, the person has/had NO redeeming qualities whatsoever. to describe them as anything other than negative is an attempt to reform their image (or some other crime against humanity that i haven't figured out)

to say that he was a dictator, an oppressor, a dispossessor, etc. fits the narrative. but to acknowledge that his regime created one of the best health care systems in the western hemisphere, that they went from a society that could barely feed itself to one that generates world-class scientific discoveries, that they were able to thumb their collective noses to US hegemony... that's something that cannot be allowed. at all.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 30, 2016, 04:54:46 pm

Big Mac Delligatti

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 30, 2016, 06:45:33 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 30, 2016, 03:27:08 pm

the thing about the proscribed american attitude towards its enemies is that once branded an enemy, the person has/had NO redeeming qualities whatsoever. to describe them as anything other than negative is an attempt to reform their image (or some other crime against humanity that i haven't figured out)

to say that he was a dictator, an oppressor, a dispossessor, etc. fits the narrative. but to acknowledge that his regime created one of the best health care systems in the western hemisphere, that they went from a society that could barely feed itself to one that generates world-class scientific discoveries, that they were able to thumb their collective noses to US hegemony... that's something that cannot be allowed. at all.

AKA "The threat of a good example".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 30, 2016, 06:51:52 pm

We're going to play hardball with Cuba... and get a great deal..and if we can't get a great deal to Make America great again then no dice... I expect a Trump Tower Casino Hotel to be built in Havanna and not pay taxes... Also, we want Cuba to go back to the way it was when it was a giant whorehouse casino for American millionaires under Batista... We're willing to extend a little credit on the house to Raulcito...

I'm not sure which one of my kids I will put in charge...definitely not Tiffany.. the timing is not yet right for Barron either...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lagas on November 30, 2016, 08:21:30 pm

I had a friend who went to Cuba recently. He asked his mom, who also went there a few years ago, what he should bring with him in his trip. She said "food". Once in La Habana, he gave some canned food and a sort of kool aid to a family he met, and he was struck when he saw this family making a very watered down kool aid, so they could make it "last longer".

I don't pretend to have a unbiased view of the world, and when my friend told me this story, I thought well, it figures. My friend was pretty disappointed with the "revolution". Fidel is the revolution. Hopefully it will die soon with him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 30, 2016, 09:04:42 pm

Quote from: lagas on November 30, 2016, 08:21:30 pm

I had a friend who went to Cuba recently. He asked his mom, who also went there a few years ago, what he should bring with him in his trip. She said "food". Once in La Habana, he gave some canned food and a sort of kool aid to a family he met, and he was struck when he saw this family making a very watered down kool aid, so they could make it "last longer".

I don't pretend to have a unbiased view of the world, and when my friend told me this story, I thought well, it figures. My friend was pretty disappointed with the "revolution". Fidel is the revolution. Hopefully it will die soon with him.

^That is exactly what I am talking about. Let us open our Hotel and gamble while the Cubanos fan us.... Let us buy your women with our dollars cause they don't have money even for food...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 01, 2016, 02:33:33 am

TV guru Grant Tinker (http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/grant-tinker-appreciation-dead-90-nbc-mtm-1201930239/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on December 01, 2016, 11:08:19 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 01, 2016, 02:33:33 am

TV guru Grant Tinker (http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/grant-tinker-appreciation-dead-90-nbc-mtm-1201930239/)

already posted it, but it was lost in the sea of people fighting, for no reason, in a thread that doesn't want to hear it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 01, 2016, 05:33:53 pm

Gronkowski's 2016 season.

dammit for the Pats, and dammit for my fantasy team.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 01, 2016, 08:38:27 pm

Micky Fitz of The Business.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on December 01, 2016, 11:05:41 pm

Just saw that. Cancer got another one :-[

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on December 02, 2016, 04:22:50 pm

goodbye, ernie the embalmer.

(https://cameravisceradotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/rotld.png?w=474&h=240)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on December 02, 2016, 04:56:00 pm

Quote from: vansmack on December 01, 2016, 08:38:27 pm

Micky Fitz of The Business.

Saw that this morning, pretty sad. Me and all my dorky little friends LOVED that band in the mid 80's. They put out some pretty good tunes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on December 03, 2016, 03:49:44 am

Jean-Jacques Perry

http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-jean-jacques-perrey-pioneer-electronic-pop-mus-245499

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 05, 2016, 04:18:52 pm

?Green Hornet? Star Van Williams

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 05, 2016, 04:54:14 pm

Robert Vaughn dead: American actor passes away at 83
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/entertainment/robert-vaughn-dead/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 05, 2016, 05:13:48 pm

^ kinda got lost in the post trump malaise
happened nov 11th

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on December 05, 2016, 10:48:50 pm

I always enjoy, that feeling that you get when somebody famous passes away, as if you were a part of their extended family who feels the same kind of sadness as if you knew them personally.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 06, 2016, 12:05:41 pm

Peter Vaughn

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 06, 2016, 12:37:16 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on December 05, 2016, 10:48:50 pm

I always enjoy, that feeling that you get when somebody famous passes away, as if you were a part of their extended family who feels the same kind of sadness as if you knew them personally.

Sounds like a non enjoyable feeling to me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 06, 2016, 04:22:56 pm

Colorado Heisman trophy winner Rashaan Salaam, age 42. Found on a park bench.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 08, 2016, 09:53:48 am

Greg Lake

http://teamrock.com/news/2016-12-08/emerson-lake-palmers-greg-lake-dies-aged-69

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 08, 2016, 09:55:46 am

Fuck you

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 08, 2016, 11:39:06 am

Sorry.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 08, 2016, 11:39:21 am

John Lennon, 1980

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 08, 2016, 04:36:57 pm

John Glenn, famous astronaut

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 08, 2016, 04:45:02 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 08, 2016, 04:36:57 pm

John Glenn, famous astronaut

Ole Miss football went down in flames this season, now this. If Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson die soon, the prophecy of Joel is in full effect. :o :o :o

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 13, 2016, 10:31:14 pm

Alan Thicke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 14, 2016, 01:45:08 am

Quote from: shemptiness on December 13, 2016, 10:31:14 pm

Alan Thicke

Growing Pains star Alan Thicke, 69, dies suddenly after suffering a heart attack while playing hockey with son (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4031460/Alan-Thicke-dead-69-Actor-suffers-fatal-heartache-playing-hockey-son.html)

AKA the most canadian thing ever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on December 14, 2016, 10:14:39 pm

Good,night doctor bombay.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on December 15, 2016, 05:50:31 pm

Dammit!

Craig Sager

fought the good fight

He was one of a kind

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 15, 2016, 08:10:31 pm

Quote from: Bagley on December 15, 2016, 05:50:31 pm

Dammit!

Craig Sager

fought the good fight

He was one of a kind

Classy flamboyance. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 17, 2016, 03:46:48 pm

(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcScrfUP3sexq_pDujCPukagd8YDBdQTotFpXAwXYYRaehUf3e3T)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on December 17, 2016, 05:54:19 pm

I'm all, ^ , choked up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 18, 2016, 06:55:03 pm

(https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead.jpg?w=670&h=377&crop=1)

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 19, 2016, 07:30:59 pm

Lou Harris, pollster for presidents and others officeholders, died at 95 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lou-harris-pollster-for-presidents-and-others-officeholders-dies-at-95/2016/12/19/e7f49c2a-c626-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_ob-main-harris-350pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.cf2707c84c04)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 19, 2016, 09:21:52 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 19, 2016, 07:30:59 pm

Lou Harris, pollster for presidents and others officeholders, died at 95 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lou-harris-pollster-for-presidents-and-others-officeholders-dies-at-95/2016/12/19/e7f49c2a-c626-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_ob-main-harris-350pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.cf2707c84c04)

(https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2016/12/19/Obituaries/Images/HARRIS0581454615581.jpg?uuid=11URvsYnEea_SywGTTKkvw&w=600)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 19, 2016, 11:05:47 pm

Bob Coburn (if you listened to a radio program called Rockline in the mid 80s you will remember....)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 23, 2016, 06:30:15 pm

Carrie Fisher?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 23, 2016, 07:11:58 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on December 23, 2016, 06:30:15 pm

Carrie Fisher?

Let us hope for the best...

She hasn't seemed in good health like for forever.. I think I heard her on an NPR show (the one with Terry Gross) just about two months ago...

I remember her talking about her mom and how she had battled through some major stuff and come out of it alright.> i hope Carrie will be allright too..

that movie, Postcards from the Edge, is pretty crazy...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 23, 2016, 09:02:10 pm

she's apparently "stable"... the force is strong in this one..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 25, 2016, 07:19:27 pm

George Michael

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 25, 2016, 07:27:33 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 25, 2016, 07:19:27 pm

George Michael

Autoerotic asphyxiation?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 25, 2016, 07:33:05 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 25, 2016, 07:19:27 pm

George Michael

Fuck You

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 25, 2016, 10:42:11 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 25, 2016, 07:19:27 pm

George Michael

dang ....53
Just watched Keanu (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4139124/) the other night and the george michael is a badass! (https://youtu.be/rXDRTHrgTXI) scene is feeling very appropriate right now

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 27, 2016, 02:02:25 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on December 23, 2016, 06:30:15 pm

Carrie Fisher?

Carrie Fisher.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on December 27, 2016, 02:38:41 pm

I guess the drugs finally caught up with her. :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 27, 2016, 04:40:11 pm

4 more days to go. Who's next in this Year of Death, 2016?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 27, 2016, 04:42:25 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on December 27, 2016, 04:40:11 pm

4 more days to go. Who's next in this Year of Death, 2016?

yes I think we're all thinking that...everybody look both ways before crossing the street...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 27, 2016, 04:43:33 pm

Richard Adams, Author of Watership Down

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 27, 2016, 05:12:49 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on December 27, 2016, 04:43:33 pm

Richard Adams, Author of Watership Down

Fantastic book.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 28, 2016, 12:30:49 am

calling for a 24 hour ceasefire.... unclear if grim reaper has agreed....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on December 28, 2016, 01:16:43 pm

George Irving

The, heat miser.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on December 28, 2016, 01:47:17 pm

Alphonse Mouzon

Larry Coryell's drummer from the Eleventh House- 70's jazz/rock fusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZktZGNXN8z8

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 28, 2016, 09:54:54 pm

aaaand Debbie Reynolds. Somebody is having a worse 2016 than you are.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on December 28, 2016, 11:41:03 pm

Late post, forgot to add

Joey Boots

Bababooey, Bababooey, Howard Stern's Penis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on December 29, 2016, 04:06:07 am

Rick Parfitt, guitarist of long running British band Status Quo

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rick-parfitt-status-quo-guitarist-dead-at-68-w457741

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 29, 2016, 06:23:45 am

Quote from: excontradiction on December 18, 2016, 06:55:03 pm

(https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/zsa-zsa-gabor-dead.jpg?w=670&h=377&crop=1)

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Zsa Zsa Gabor's son.

http://www.9news.com/mb/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/zsa-zsa-gabors-adopted-son-dies-just-days-after-her-death/379859326

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 29, 2016, 02:34:56 pm

Salman Rushdie

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 29, 2016, 02:36:28 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on December 29, 2016, 02:34:56 pm

Salman Rushdie

Oh, cancel that. Rashaan Salaam.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on December 29, 2016, 02:39:02 pm

What,?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 29, 2016, 02:41:01 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on December 29, 2016, 02:36:28 pm

Oh, cancel that. Rashaan Salaam.

The fuck, dude! That was weeks ago. You had me pretty terrified that Salman Rushdie had actually died

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 29, 2016, 02:42:25 pm

It was news to me too!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 29, 2016, 03:32:51 pm

LaVell Edwards, longtime BYU football coach

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on December 29, 2016, 04:01:40 pm

ALF

https://www.bustle.com/p/alf-star-mihaly-meszaros-dies-at-76-after-suffering-a-stroke-26954

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 29, 2016, 04:23:02 pm

Red Solo Cup Guy
http://www.newser.com/story/236120/raise-a-red-solo-cup-to-its-inventor-dead-at-84.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 30, 2016, 09:54:46 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on December 27, 2016, 02:02:25 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on December 23, 2016, 06:30:15 pm
Carrie Fisher?

Carrie Fisher.

Unsure if this belongs here, or in "for nkotb"...

https://mobunited.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/leia-organa-a-critical-obituary/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on December 31, 2016, 11:40:34 am

Allan Williams. Beatles original manager

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4077232/The-Man-Gave-Beatles-Away-Alan-Williams-Fab-Four-s-manager-died-aged-86.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 01, 2017, 01:13:33 am

And the last celebrity was (probably): M*A*S*H actor William Christopher (Father Mulcahy) (http://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/MASH-Actor-William-Christopher-Dies-409038385.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 01, 2017, 01:15:44 am

2016. Good fucking riddance.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on January 02, 2017, 06:53:15 pm

My little princess, Miss Jenkins. The best 19 years a pet can give a human . . . she gave me. Rest in peace and say hello to your older brother for me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 02, 2017, 11:45:18 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on January 02, 2017, 06:53:15 pm

My little princess, Miss Jenkins. The best 19 years a pet can give a human . . . she gave me. Rest in peace and say hello to your older brother for me.

oh no! sorry to read that...19 years is a good run though..I think my cat Ginger is now like 12

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on January 03, 2017, 10:48:08 pm

closer . . . closer . . . closer

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/charles-manson-prison-calif-hospital-report-article-1.2933301

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 04, 2017, 09:04:45 pm

OC Punk Gabby Gaborno, Lead Singer of Cadillac Tramps, Dead at 51.

He is survived by his six year-old son and the music he made throughout his life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on January 04, 2017, 09:07:49 pm

Macys

Landmark and Tysons

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on January 06, 2017, 04:10:21 am

Dave Franklin of Vision

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/dave-franklin-of-njhc-band-vision-rip/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 06, 2017, 10:28:25 am

Om Puri

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on January 06, 2017, 08:06:12 pm

Carrie Fisher's death urn is a giant Prozac pill. Nice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 06, 2017, 08:07:06 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on January 06, 2017, 08:06:12 pm

Carrie Fisher's death urn is a giant Prozac pill. Nice.

was she on prozac?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on January 06, 2017, 08:23:03 pm

http://www.etonline.com/news/206655_carrie_fisher_giant_prozac_pill_urn_explained_by_brother_todd_after_debbie_reynold_funeral/

I believe She also fought depression for part of her life So it was Appropriate.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 08, 2017, 12:34:18 am

Nat Hentoff

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on January 08, 2017, 06:48:46 pm

Watched the HBO special with Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher. Very interesting and sad under the circumstances.

I believe She also fought depression for part of her life So it was Appropriate.
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Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 12, 2017, 04:45:07 pm

Bronski Beat keyboardist Larry Steinbachek - 56

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on January 13, 2017, 02:51:54 pm

William Peter Blatty

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 13, 2017, 04:05:08 pm

David Modell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 13, 2017, 04:08:49 pm

Gotta go somewhere else, I guess.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on January 13, 2017, 04:15:24 pm

Quote from: chaz on January 13, 2017, 02:51:54 pm

William Peter Blatty

damn. what a master.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 15, 2017, 09:10:53 am

The circus

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 15, 2017, 05:08:04 pm

Superfly

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 17, 2017, 12:04:01 am

Gene Cernan, last astronaut on the moon (http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/16/us/eugene-cernan-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 17, 2017, 12:34:01 am

Quote from: shemptiness on January 17, 2017, 12:04:01 am

Gene Cernan, last astronaut on the moon

more please

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 17, 2017, 01:31:01 am

geez Bill Price died late last year....

news just breakin' now..

brilliant sound engineer.. sometimes its hard to tell where the line gets drawn between "producer" and "engineer"... in the case of Bill Price it may be particularly so.. but his role with the Pistols, Clash and Pretenders can't be denied...

wasn't I just writing earlier about how great the Pistols album sounds...marvelous recording

Recording sessions with the Sex Pistols[edit]
In 1976, he was asked by Malcolm McLaren to produce the Sex Pistols.[4] Thomas? colleagues in the recording industry were horrified by his involvement with the Sex Pistols, particularly when he found himself producing the band at the same time as he was working with Paul McCartney. His work with the band also led to one of his most curious album credits. Co-producer Bill Price explained:

? The simple facts of the matter were that Chris was hired by Malcolm (McLaren) to do a series of singles for the Sex Pistols. I was hired by Malcolm to do a series of album tracks with the Sex Pistols. Life got slightly complicated, because I did a few album tracks that Chris remade as singles. Also, Chris started a couple of tracks, which got abandoned as singles, which I remade to be used as album tracks. On quite a large number of songs, when we'd finished the album, we had two versions of the song. I couldn't quite understand why Malcolm kept chopping and changing between different versions of different songs. It slowly dawned on Chris and myself that Malcolm was trying to slip between two stools and not pay Chris or me. So we said, "I'll tell you what, Malcolm. Whatever's on the Sex Pistols' album, it was either done by me or Chris, and you can pay us and we'll divvy it out amongst our little selves." Which is what we did. But it did force that very strange credit, simply because the sleeve was printed long before it was finally decided which version of each individual song was on the record. If we'd known, it would have said 'produced by Bill Price' or 'produced by Chris Thomas'. That's how you ended up with that credit, 'produced by Bill Price or Chris Thomas'

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 17, 2017, 01:36:50 am

^worth reading on the above

http://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/classic-tracks-sex-pistols-anarchy-uk

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 17, 2017, 01:11:31 pm

Songwriter Greg Trooper (http://www.fox5ny.com/news/229579193-story)

Trooper, born in Neptune Township was an acclaimed Americana songwriter whose songs were recorded by several artists, including Billy Bragg, Steve Earle and Vince Gill. Trooper released more than 12 albums on his own.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 18, 2017, 01:48:40 pm

William Onyeabor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 18, 2017, 02:28:43 pm

Keep this thread near the top for a likely upcoming announcement

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 18, 2017, 02:34:22 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on January 18, 2017, 02:28:43 pm

Keep this thread near the top for a likely upcoming announcement

I'm sorry to hear your white blood cell count has plummeted. AIDS is a bitch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 18, 2017, 02:35:44 pm

That would be funny if it was.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 18, 2017, 05:30:27 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on January 18, 2017, 02:28:43 pm

Keep this thread near the top for a likely upcoming announcement

Seems like the Trump presidency may be more than Bush I and his babe of a wife can take. If so, at least thaey lived full, long lives. Would be nice if a four day weekend resulted.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on January 18, 2017, 05:53:19 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on January 18, 2017, 02:34:22 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on January 18, 2017, 02:28:43 pm
Keep this thread near the top for a likely upcoming announcement
I'm sorry to hear your white blood cell count has plummeted. AIDS is a bitch.

this is a horrible post . . . even for you.

you are the shame of rva

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 18, 2017, 06:00:46 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on January 18, 2017, 05:53:19 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on January 18, 2017, 02:34:22 pm
Quote from: Relaxer on January 18, 2017, 02:28:43 pm
Keep this thread near the top for a likely upcoming announcement
I'm sorry to hear your white blood cell count has plummeted. AIDS is a bitch.

this is a horrible post . . . even for you.

you are the shame of rva

I'm glad someone spoke up about this. Even in 2017, AIDS is no joke.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 18, 2017, 06:43:51 pm

It wasn't intended as an AIDS joke. It was intended as a "slut shaming Relaxer" joke.

I see that I did not pull that off. I am so sorry. Totally my bad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 18, 2017, 06:49:11 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on January 18, 2017, 06:43:51 pm

It wasn't intended as an AIDS joke. It was intended as a "slut shaming Relaxer" joke.

I see that I did not pull that off. I am so sorry. Totally my bad.

Good on you for your apology. Gonorreah would have been a very acceptabe alternative, imo.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 18, 2017, 09:42:00 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 18, 2017, 06:49:11 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on January 18, 2017, 06:43:51 pm
It wasn't intended as an AIDS joke. It was intended as a "slut shaming Relaxer" joke.

I see that I did not pull that off. I am so sorry. Totally my bad.

Good on you for your apology. Gonorreah would have been a very acceptabe alternative, imo.

Is Gonorreah fatal? Syphyllis is probably what I should've went with.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on January 18, 2017, 09:51:19 pm

Herpes. Everyone likes to make fun of people with herpes.

Page 333. I'm half satan.

No wait . . . HPV. That will kill you. And slowly too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 18, 2017, 11:01:12 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on January 18, 2017, 09:42:00 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 18, 2017, 06:49:11 pm
Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on January 18, 2017, 06:43:51 pm
It wasn't intended as an AIDS joke. It was intended as a "slut shaming Relaxer" joke.

I see that I did not pull that off. I am so sorry. Totally my bad.

Good on you for your apology. Gonorreah would have been a very acceptabe alternative, imo.
Is Gonorreah fatal? Syphyllis is probably what I should've went with.

I don't think anybody deserves to die for being a slut, but a little pee pain might be fair play. Though I guess this is a death thread...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 19, 2017, 10:39:27 am

Good talk

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 19, 2017, 02:11:36 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 18, 2017, 06:00:46 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on January 18, 2017, 05:53:19 pm
Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on January 18, 2017, 02:34:22 pm
Quote from: Relaxer on January 18, 2017, 02:28:43 pm
Keep this thread near the top for a likely upcoming announcement
I'm sorry to hear your white blood cell count has plummeted. AIDS is a bitch.

this is a horrible post . . . even for you.

you are the shame of rva

I'm glad someone spoke up about this. Even in 2017, AIDS is no joke.

really? why should AIDS be treated any different from cancer, heart disease, or so many other potentially deadly illnesses?

i'm as liberal and PC as the next peacenik, but how is aids still considered an off-limit snowflake?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 19, 2017, 02:23:35 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 19, 2017, 02:11:36 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 18, 2017, 06:00:46 pm
Quote from: walkie,talkie on January 18, 2017, 05:53:19 pm
Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on January 18, 2017, 02:34:22 pm
Quote from: Relaxer on January 18, 2017, 02:28:43 pm
Keep this thread near the top for a likely upcoming announcement
I'm sorry to hear your white blood cell count has plummeted. AIDS is a bitch.

this is a horrible post . . . even for you.

you are the shame of rva

I'm glad someone spoke up about this. Even in 2017, AIDS is no joke.

really? why should AIDS be treated any different from cancer, heart disease, or so many other potentially deadly illnesses?

i'm as liberal and PC as the next peacenik, but how is aids still considered an off-limit snowflake?

I wouldn't make a joke about Relaxer, or any other member of this community, having cancer, heart disease, or any other deadly illness either.

Maybe my point was that in 2017, we've reached a point where for many in wealthy first-world nations, HIV has become a manageable illness. But that still doesn't make it cool to joke about I nsuch a flippant manner.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 19, 2017, 06:18:27 pm

Miguel Ferrer (http://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/Miguel-Ferrer-Dead-at-61-411254085.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 21, 2017, 02:05:24 pm

Maggie Roche (http://pitchfork.com/news/71048-the-roches-maggie-roche-dead-at-65/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 22, 2017, 01:15:07 pm

KC Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura and former MLB 3B Andy Marte died in separate car crashes in the Dominican Republic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 22, 2017, 05:25:17 pm

^Yeah I just heard about Ventura.... man.. that sucks...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on January 22, 2017, 06:35:56 pm

pete "overend" watts - bassist from mott the hoople

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on January 22, 2017, 06:40:03 pm

pittsburgh punk icon karl hendricks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 22, 2017, 06:57:56 pm

The Green Bay Packers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 22, 2017, 08:24:55 pm

Jaki Liebezeit (http://pitchfork.com/news/71067-can-drummer-jaki-liebezeit-dead-at-78/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on January 22, 2017, 09:30:46 pm

Katie Rich's career

#twitter'd

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 25, 2017, 09:49:04 am

Butch Trucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 25, 2017, 10:41:58 am

Quote from: Yada on January 25, 2017, 09:49:04 am

Butch Trucks

Where?

He had pledged to sell his US property and move to his home in the south of France if Trump won.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 25, 2017, 03:48:37 pm

Mary Tyler Moore :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 25, 2017, 04:06:42 pm

or rather, Mary Tyler No Moore

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 25, 2017, 08:41:56 pm

(https://media.giphy.com/media/UpnzDtzrwGQ2A/giphy.gif)

She was great (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E_1K5dXcpA)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 25, 2017, 08:47:29 pm

my mom must be sad.. she absolutely loved the Mary Tyler Moore show (and the Dick Van Dyke show too)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on January 26, 2017, 04:19:12 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 25, 2017, 09:49:04 am

Butch Trucks

apparently a self inflicted gunshot to the head

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4157864/Allman-Brothers-drummer-Butch-Trucks-shot-head.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 26, 2017, 11:30:50 pm

Tom Edwards - Adam Ant guitarist /musical director

a few shows suspended.. not to be morbid but if you saw him at the Lincoln maybe you saw his last notes..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 27, 2017, 01:49:10 am

Mike Connors (http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/mike-connors-dead-dies-joe-mannix-1201971140/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 27, 2017, 01:53:17 am

Dick Gautier (http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/dick-gautier-dead-get-smart-hymie-1201960897/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 27, 2017, 11:04:17 am

The sweetlife festival (http://sweetlifefestival.com/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 27, 2017, 11:12:21 am

Jaki Liebezeit (Can drummer)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on January 27, 2017, 11:21:24 am

Quote from: excontradiction on January 27, 2017, 11:04:17 am

The sweetlife festival (http://sweetlifefestival.com/)

Good. Unorganized garbage.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 27, 2017, 11:45:30 am

Quote from: ggw on January 27, 2017, 11:12:21 am

Jaki Liebezeit (Can drummer)

http://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=11001.msg459068#msg459068

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 28, 2017, 12:19:50 am

John Hurt (http://variety.com/2017/film/news/john-hurt-dead-dies-elephant-man-alien-1201971891/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on January 30, 2017, 10:39:08 pm

Another, master

Masaya Nakamura

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2017, 11:30:57 pm

(https://m.popkey.co/24e0ce/xqr7A.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on January 31, 2017, 11:06:50 am

john wetton of king crimson and asia

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 31, 2017, 11:44:53 am

my favorite of his work is probably the stuff he did with Bryan Ferry....

man the whole prog scene seems to be going under fast...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on February 01, 2017, 12:35:48 pm

frank pellegrino

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 01, 2017, 01:17:06 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on February 01, 2017, 12:35:48 pm

frank pellegrino

I'm pouring out some of his flavored water in his memory.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 03, 2017, 03:58:34 pm

robert dahlqvist (guitarist Hellacopters)

what a huge bummer.. high visibility is an alltime classic.. if people gave a shit about rock and roll it would be one of the great rock records of all time..the fact few cared is proof that rock and roll has gone underground... that album is on a par with the best of Thin Lizzy.. if you ever wondered "If a band from today could record an album as good as ________ would anyone care?" it proves the answer is no

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-the-hellacopters-guitarist-robert-strangen-dahlqvist-dead-at-40/

selfishly i'm bummed dahlqvist won't be a part of any hoped for hellacopters reunion.. any such reunion will no longer really matter as much to me.. because he was an integral part of the albums i really love by them.. i am not into the early hellacopters stuff so many are into

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 06, 2017, 08:47:58 am

David Axlerod the composer and whose work was sampled by several 90s rap and Hip Hop acts

https://www.google.com/amp/www.billboard.com/amp/articles/news/7678074/david-axelrod-dead-musician-producer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 06, 2017, 02:23:55 pm

oh bummer..i love axelrods sound with the popping bass and wacked drums...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on February 07, 2017, 05:35:02 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 06, 2017, 08:47:58 am

David Axlerod the composer and whose work was sampled by several 90s rap and Hip Hop acts

https://www.google.com/amp/www.billboard.com/amp/articles/news/7678074/david-axelrod-dead-musician-producer

Aww bummer. I own several of his records and lots of stuff he produced. Certainly one of the greats. R.I.P.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on February 07, 2017, 11:28:29 am

Comedian Professor Irwin Corey dies suddenly.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/professor-irwin-corey-dead-comedian-928653

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 07, 2017, 11:00:32 pm

Richard Hatch (http://ew.com/tv/2017/02/07/richard-hatch-dead-battlestar-galactica-actor-dies/) (but not the one we wish was already dead)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 07, 2017, 11:04:50 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 07, 2017, 11:00:32 pm

Richard Hatch (http://ew.com/tv/2017/02/07/richard-hatch-dead-battlestar-galactica-actor-dies/) (but not the one we wish was already dead)

Apollo was one of the greats IMO

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 07, 2017, 11:38:29 pm

Steve Lang from April Wine

A total winner...greatest bass player ever..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 10, 2017, 08:31:00 pm

Mike Illitch, Detroit Legend, owner of Little Caesars, the Tigers, and Red Wings

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 10, 2017, 08:31:57 pm

People can now commence shitting on a dead guy out of some weird desire to put Julian in his place or whatever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 10, 2017, 11:02:06 pm

He owned the Tigers in the 80s? Man were they awesome then or what!? That team with Sparky coaching and Alan Trammel that won like the first 98 games of the season was unbelievable.. I think they didn't win the World Series that year but man they were the best...I can't remember the names of the rest of the team right now but they had so many great players...wasn't one of the infielders named Lou something...man I loved Sparky too..

man i got to take some prevagen..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 11, 2017, 11:20:04 am

He bought the red wings in he early 80s and the tigers in the early 90s. He was not the owner for those classic 80s teams or the 1984 Bless You Boys team.

Lou Whitaker is who you're thinking of.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 12, 2017, 03:12:30 pm

al jarreau

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 14, 2017, 05:08:48 pm

Kim Jong Nam - Half-brother of Kim Jong Un - stabbed with poison needles by two women at Kuala Lumpur airport (https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-14/kim-jong-un-s-half-brother-murdered-in-malaysia-yonhap-says)

You gotta love North Korea.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 15, 2017, 02:57:49 pm

iota? (https://www.arlnow.com/2017/02/15/iota-club-building-to-be-demolished-under-market-common-clarendon-redevelopment-proposal/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bags on February 15, 2017, 03:04:50 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 15, 2017, 02:57:49 pm

iota? (https://www.arlnow.com/2017/02/15/iota-club-building-to-be-demolished-under-market-common-clarendon-redevelopment-proposal/)

Hmmmmm.......
When asked about the plans, IOTA co-owner Jane Negrey Inge said she did not expect the renovations to happen ?any time? soon.?

Over the years we?ve seen a lot of excitement around us. In our first couple years Arlington County sold the public alley behind us to the owners of the Sears Building and we became landlocked! It was disappointing but we worked things out and over the years we?ve maintained a spirit of cooperation with our neighbors and various land-owners. As far as we know changes are coming again with new owners but I don?t think 2832 Wilson will come crashing down on our heads any time real soon. Spring is going [to] spring into gear, and we?ll be glad to re-open the IOTA Back Alley for the season and enjoy good weather, good beer, good friends ? which sounds like a good development plan to me!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 15, 2017, 03:07:24 pm

Quote from: Bags on February 15, 2017, 03:04:50 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 15, 2017, 02:57:49 pm
iota? (https://www.arlnow.com/2017/02/15/iota-club-building-to-be-demolished-under-market-common-clarendon-redevelopment-proposal/)
Hmmmmm.......
When asked about the plans, IOTA co-owner Jane Negrey Inge said she did not expect the renovations to happen ?any time? soon.?

Over the years we?ve seen a lot of excitement around us. In our first couple years Arlington County sold the public alley behind us to the owners of the Sears Building and we became landlocked! It was disappointing but we worked things out and over the years we?ve maintained a spirit of cooperation with our neighbors and various land-owners. As far as we know changes are coming again with new owners but I don?t think 2832 Wilson will come crashing down on our heads any time real soon. Spring is going [to] spring into gear, and we?ll be glad to re-open the IOTA Back Alley for the season and enjoy good weather, good beer, good friends ? which sounds like a good development plan to me!

I rarely go there, but that's unfortunate.. I guess the new city winery and the "americana" club will take those acts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 17, 2017, 12:52:55 pm

George the Animal Steele

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on February 17, 2017, 01:05:43 pm

damn. loved him. I wonder, if wrestling today is as what wrestling was, which was a Hollywood styled showboat spectacle.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 17, 2017, 01:09:56 pm

Irwin Stambler - Author of the 1974 tome The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock, and Soul - Some excerpts (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/17/obituaries/17stambler-encyclopedia-excerpts.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 17, 2017, 01:18:56 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on February 17, 2017, 01:05:43 pm

damn. loved him. I wonder, if wrestling today is as what wrestling was, which was a Hollywood styled showboat spectacle.

Supposedly killsally is having a memorial for The Animal this weekend. You may want to reach out to him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on February 17, 2017, 01:28:10 pm

I wonder where. In DC, where can one openly chew on ring turnbuckles until the stuffing goes flying all over the place, as you hold candles and flowers?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 17, 2017, 03:50:08 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 17, 2017, 01:18:56 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on February 17, 2017, 01:05:43 pm
damn. loved him. I wonder, if wrestling today is as what wrestling was, which was a Hollywood styled showboat spectacle.

Supposedly killsally is having a memorial for The Animal this weekend. You may want to reach out to him.

is it me or did like all the famous 'pro' wrestlers from the 70s and the 80s just die in the last two years
who's left...hulk hogan unfortunately

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 17, 2017, 04:02:37 pm

Quote from: Are they friends of yours?🛠|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|🚀 on February 17, 2017, 03:50:08 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 17, 2017, 01:18:56 pm
Quote from: walkie,talkie on February 17, 2017, 01:05:43 pm
damn. loved him. I wonder, if wrestling today is as what wrestling was, which was a Hollywood styled showboat spectacle.

Supposedly killsally is having a memorial for The Animal this weekend. You may want to reach out to him.
is it me or did like all the famous 'pro' wrestlers from the 70s and the 80s just die in the last two years
who's left...hulk hogan unfortunately

The Rock's dad, Rocky Johnson, is still kicking.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on February 17, 2017, 04:42:02 pm

To be honest, I'm completely amazed that George "The Animal" Steele was still alive.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 18, 2017, 02:42:14 pm

Norma "Jane Roe" McCorvey of Roe v. Wade (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/norma-mccorvey-jane-roe-of-roe-v-wade-decision-legalizing-abortion-dies-at-69/2017/02/18/24b83108-396e-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_ob-main-mccorvey-1232pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 18, 2017, 07:28:08 pm

Clyde Stubblefield (aka the Funky Drummer)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 18, 2017, 08:18:42 pm

Real tough week for kilsaly

WWF Legend Ivan Koloff Dies at Age 74

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on February 19, 2017, 11:15:45 am

he was no, nikolai volkoff

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 20, 2017, 08:03:16 pm

Larry Coryell

I'd never heard this before but the article I saw refers to him as "the Godfather of Fusion"....I'm not seeing that..but I guess it does not matter anymore as he is dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 21, 2017, 10:21:06 am

Junie Morrison - Funk Mastermind (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/arts/music/junie-morrison-a-funk-mastermind-dies-at-62.html)

(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/02/20/arts/20MORRISON-obit/20MORRISON-obit-master768.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on February 21, 2017, 11:40:07 am

another person, associated with the wrestling. weird.

Nicole Bass

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 21, 2017, 05:41:20 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 21, 2017, 10:21:06 am

Junie Morrison - Funk Mastermind (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/arts/music/junie-morrison-a-funk-mastermind-dies-at-62.html)

wow...never knew that tale.

great quote at the end

?Musicians, if they choose to, can drive a tonal wedge through the noisome pestilence; the stench that often accompanies our contemporary societal lifestyles,? he said. ?I wanted to conceptualize an escape from the tensions and atmospheric pollution, even if it?s only a temporary psycho-acoustical one.?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 22, 2017, 11:28:41 am

Larry Coryell (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/arts/music/larry-coryell-dead-jazz-rock-guitarist.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 22, 2017, 11:35:28 am

Quote from: ggw on February 22, 2017, 11:28:41 am

Larry Coryell (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/arts/music/larry-coryell-dead-jazz-rock-guitarist.html)

Feel free to ask Hutch to tell you all about him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on February 22, 2017, 01:57:33 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 22, 2017, 11:28:41 am

Larry Coryell (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/arts/music/larry-coryell-dead-jazz-rock-guitarist.html)

"Mr. Coryell never stopped looking to expand his musical horizons. In recent years, Mr. Lappen said, he had completed two operas based on works by Tolstoy, and had been working on another, inspired by James Joyce?s ?Ulysses,? at his death."

Whoah, a lofty pursuit.

Had the pleasure of seeing his band The Eleventh House in the late 70's. Powerful!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 23, 2017, 12:45:37 pm

Alan Colmes (http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/02/alan-colmes-dies-at-66-235301)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 23, 2017, 12:53:52 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 23, 2017, 12:45:37 pm

Alan Colmes (http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/02/alan-colmes-dies-at-66-235301)

wow sorry to hear that.. he was fine a few weeks ago.. wonder what happened

do not read this if you need to stay in your pc/safespace:
he got tired of being beat on at Fox I guess? Man I liked the guy and all but he just got paid to be shat on daily on national TV over and over again....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 23, 2017, 12:59:39 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 18, 2017, 07:28:08 pm

Clyde Stubblefield (aka the Funky Drummer)

Interestin'

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7348492/prince-funky-drummer-clyde-stubblefield-medical-bills

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on February 23, 2017, 11:39:06 pm

Beyonce

Coachella

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 24, 2017, 08:11:38 am

Leon Ware

(wrote a lot of Marvin Gaye's I Want You album among other things)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 24, 2017, 01:14:03 pm

Jamie Fox (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/nyregion/jamie-fox-a-backstage-force-in-new-jersey-state-politics-dies-at-62.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 24, 2017, 03:49:14 pm

^ggw's version of a rickroll

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on February 26, 2017, 11:26:02 am

Bill Paxton

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on February 26, 2017, 01:51:41 pm

1. he was very talented; I really loved him as an actor for some reason.

2. everytime some one who is famous dies, I always come here first. it's a, morbid, obsession.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 26, 2017, 02:56:33 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on February 26, 2017, 01:51:41 pm

1. he was very talented; I really loved him as an actor for some reason.

2. everytime some one who is famous dies, I always come here first. it's a, morbid, obsession.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 26, 2017, 04:07:59 pm

Judge Wapner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 26, 2017, 11:01:54 pm

Quote from: walkie,talkie on February 26, 2017, 01:51:41 pm

1. he was very talented; I really loved him as an actor for some reason.

2. everytime some one who is famous dies, I always come here first. it's a, morbid, obsession.

me too...know it was trite, but this by far was my favorite line

(https://media.giphy.com/media/L6JGhOhkwJSwg/source.gif)

quite possibly my most quoted movie line

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 26, 2017, 11:03:05 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on February 26, 2017, 04:07:59 pm

Judge Wapner

damn...another legend...least he was 97
this guy paved the way for reality tv as we know it!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 27, 2017, 09:56:24 am

Not trying to be flippant, but I was borderline stunned Judge Wapner was still alive.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 27, 2017, 03:52:56 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on February 27, 2017, 09:56:24 am

Not trying to be flippant, but I was borderline stunned Judge Wapner was still alive.

I was too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkie,talkie on February 27, 2017, 04:04:53 pm

judge judy, ruined him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 28, 2017, 07:02:52 pm

Kemp Mill Records (http://www.tmottgogo.com/kempmillclosing/)

Honestly, I thought it was already dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 28, 2017, 07:29:57 pm

^crusty moldy bread

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 05, 2017, 07:13:01 pm

Valerie Carter

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 06, 2017, 10:39:25 am

Quote from: ggw on February 28, 2017, 07:02:52 pm

Kemp Mill Records (http://www.tmottgogo.com/kempmillclosing/)

Honestly, I thought it was already dead.

Wow...can't believe it was still open.

Who remembers those commercials from early 80s maybe...."Kemp Mill Records breaks it's own records", with a guy smashing a turntable with a hammer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzzZxcZ7qOM

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 06, 2017, 11:55:03 am

Met the guy who did the voice-overs a couple of times. Howard something. Couldn't be more mild-mannered in person.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 06, 2017, 01:36:37 pm

Kemp Mill makes me think of Penguin Feather which makes me think of whippits.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 06, 2017, 01:41:29 pm

Quote from: ggw on March 06, 2017, 01:36:37 pm

Kemp Mill makes me think of Penguin Feather which makes me think of whippits.

I remember going into Penguin Feather as a real little kid and seeing all that shit and not knowing what any of it was. The only thing I could identify were the tiny (coke) spoons which seemed just weird and useless and I remember thinking "why do they sell scales in the record store?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 06, 2017, 05:20:10 pm

robert osborne (if you ever watched TCM you know who i'm talking about)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 06, 2017, 05:28:41 pm

horace parlan died a few weeks ago

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 12, 2017, 01:58:24 am

Joni Sledge of Sister Sledge (http://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/Joni-Sledge-Member-of-Sister-Sledge-Dies-at-60-415960483.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 13, 2017, 12:52:51 am

Evan Johns (http://music.blog.austin360.com/2017/03/12/evan-johns-60-left-his-mark-on-austin-music-as-a-firebrand-guitarist/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 13, 2017, 11:29:40 am

Y&T guitarist Joey Alves (http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/7718252/joey-alves-yt-guitarist-dies-63-obit)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 13, 2017, 01:11:26 pm

Chameleons drummer John Lever (http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2017/03/13/john-lever-chameleons-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 14, 2017, 09:45:11 am

Tommy LiPuma

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 16, 2017, 12:02:40 pm

Royal Robbins (https://www.outsideonline.com/2165441/royal-robbins-obituary)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on March 16, 2017, 08:19:02 pm

james cotton - blues harp master

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 16, 2017, 09:44:19 pm

I hate this thread

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 17, 2017, 02:11:31 am

Jay Lynch, Garbage Pail Kids artist (http://boingboing.net/2017/03/16/artist-jay-lynch-of-garbage-p.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 17, 2017, 01:21:11 pm

The boot, the wheelbarrow, and the thimble (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-17/boot-wheelbarrow-thimble-ousted-from-monopoly-board-game)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 17, 2017, 02:38:10 pm

Derek Walcott, Poet and Nobel Laureate of the Caribbean, Dies at 87
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/books/derek-walcott-dead-nobel-prize-literature.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 18, 2017, 06:31:24 pm

Chuck Berry

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 18, 2017, 06:41:06 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on March 18, 2017, 06:31:24 pm

Chuck Berry

awful.. i had been fearing and dreading it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 18, 2017, 06:42:58 pm

Quote from: Paddy Salmon on March 18, 2017, 06:41:06 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on March 18, 2017, 06:31:24 pm
Chuck Berry

awful.. i had been fearing and dreading it

Yeah that's a big one. May we all make it to 90 however.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 18, 2017, 06:47:45 pm

he definitely had a big full life.. .no complaints .. when he stopped playing live two years ago i knew he was not long for the world... my friend saw the final show in st louis..

just .. to me the real founder of what i call rock and roll.. although i know he took from here and there and it took the efforts of many people...

I always post what Cub Koda said cause it does a far better job than I could ever do:

Of all the early breakthrough rock & roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers. Quite simply, without him there would be no Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, nor a myriad others. There would be no standard "Chuck Berry guitar intro," the instrument's clarion call to get the joint rockin' in any setting. The clippety-clop rhythms of rockabilly would not have been mainstreamed into the now standard 4/4 rock & roll beat. There would be no obsessive wordplay by modern-day tunesmiths; in fact, the whole history (and artistic level) of rock & roll songwriting would have been much poorer without him. Like Brian Wilson said, he wrote "all of the great songs and came up with all the rock & roll beats." Those who do not claim him as a seminal influence or profess a liking for his music and showmanship show their ignorance of rock's development as well as his place as the music's first great creator. Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on March 18, 2017, 07:38:47 pm

^ thanks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on March 19, 2017, 01:29:33 am

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on March 18, 2017, 06:31:24 pm

Chuck Berry

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ayzCVAnGX3k

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 19, 2017, 11:42:26 am

Any thoughts on Chuck pissing in women's mouth, eating their shit, etc? That should definitely go down with his legacy!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 19, 2017, 12:06:28 pm

^um no.

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on March 19, 2017, 01:29:33 am

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on March 18, 2017, 06:31:24 pm
Chuck Berry

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ayzCVAnGX3k

That is awesome Seth! A friend of mine was at Pimlico and filmed the whole thing...my friend passed away two years ago but before he passed we watched it at his place and had a laugh.. as i recall Chuck Berry was pretty happy that day so well done!

My biggest regret concertgoing-wise and there are quite a few is not going to the Chuck Berry show at the 930 Club over $50.. pfft... I saw him a few years ago at the Strathmore but wasn't the same although I had a good time and am glad I saw Chuck Berry one time... This same friend of mine once went to a Lawyer's Conference dinner or something and Chuck Berry was the entertainment.. this was around 2006ish I want to say at some hotel in DC.. I really should have crashed that but did not... He also filmed that and it was pretty hilarious.. Chuck Berry playing right in front of a bunch of lawyers in suits doing the white man's overbite...

I guess I really also regret never shaking the man's hand... for me the most important musician.. I don't want to get into a pissing match over who the "King of rockn'roll" was or who was the most important person in RNR but for me its Chuck Berry bar none/no doubt...

His autobiography is well worth reading...he was definitely one of a kind and that comes through in his own words..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 19, 2017, 08:22:46 pm

Jimmy Breslin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 20, 2017, 01:27:57 pm

David Rockefeller

He was 101....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 20, 2017, 01:37:05 pm

a good friend of mine was at this show.. looking at the picture it is easy to see why it was his last.. chuck looks very very frail.. nothing like a few years back at the strathmore.. we all got to GO sometime i guess..so enjoy your time

http://www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/music/backbeat/2017/03/18/chuck-berry-legend-rock-n-roll/99364878/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 21, 2017, 11:19:54 am

Quote from: Yada on March 19, 2017, 11:42:26 am

Any thoughts on Chuck pissing in women's mouth, eating their shit, etc? That should definitely go down with his legacy!

More of Chuck's legacy.

http://nypost.com/2017/03/21/the-dark-past-of-chuck-berrys-scandal-filled-sex-life/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow&sr_share=facebook

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 21, 2017, 12:03:52 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 21, 2017, 11:19:54 am

Quote from: Yada on March 19, 2017, 11:42:26 am
Any thoughts on Chuck pissing in women's mouth, eating their shit, etc? That should definitely go down with his legacy!

More of Chuck's legacy.

http://nypost.com/2017/03/21/the-dark-past-of-chuck-berrys-scandal-filled-sex-life/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow&sr_share=facebook

I wonder what his wife though about the child porn and the stuff with the 14 yr old girl. I'm glad he at least served time for it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 21, 2017, 03:36:09 pm

Former Bulls GM Jerry Krause Dies at Age 77
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2699297-former-bulls-gm-jerry-krause-dies-at-age-77

Former Chicago Bulls general manager Jerry Krause died Tuesday afternoon. He was 77.

A family member confirmed the news to K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune.

Krause took over as the Bulls' GM in 1985 and held the role until his retirement in 2003. His tenure included the franchise's unmatched success in the 1990s, which featured six NBA championships with the legendary tandem of head coach Phil Jackson and superstar Michael Jordan.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 22, 2017, 07:38:42 am

Chuck Barris rang the final gong.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 22, 2017, 08:58:52 am

Quote from: excontradiction on March 22, 2017, 07:38:42 am

Chuck Barris rang the final gong.

I choose to remember him as he lived.

(http://whowouldwinafight.com/wp-includes/images/contestants/chuck-norris.png)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 22, 2017, 12:17:28 pm

did he really work for the US government and kill over 30 people??

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 22, 2017, 12:29:18 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 22, 2017, 12:17:28 pm

did he really work for the US government and kill over 30 people??

are we talking about Putin?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 22, 2017, 07:15:30 pm

Go-Go Impresario Maxx Kidd (http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/music/blog/20855392/maxx-kidd-gogos-fiercest-advocate-has-died)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 22, 2017, 10:50:40 pm

Dallas Green

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on March 23, 2017, 07:30:55 pm

Ex Boston drummer Sib Hashian dies on stage during legends of rock cruise....
https://www.yahoo.com/music/ex-boston-drummer-sib-hashian-161854462.html (https://www.yahoo.com/music/ex-boston-drummer-sib-hashian-161854462.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on March 24, 2017, 04:24:02 pm

AHCA.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 24, 2017, 04:28:00 pm

Gesundheit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 24, 2017, 04:31:33 pm

Quote from: bearman on March 24, 2017, 04:24:02 pm

AHCA.

TAN: Paul Ryan's Career

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 24, 2017, 04:47:18 pm

my heart bleeds for these pieces of shit...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 24, 2017, 04:52:50 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on March 24, 2017, 04:31:33 pm

TAN: Paul Ryan's Career

ya think?

i suspect he'll scrape through. the whole situation is a mess that is too diffuse to blame on any one person. ryan, house freedom caucus, trump, dems, moderate republicans, obama... who's on first?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 24, 2017, 05:01:28 pm

I think Ryan has been severely weakened.... I suspect Trump doesn't much mind how things turned out because he wanted Ryan weakened if not gone...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 03, 2017, 04:28:07 pm

Ikutaro Kakehashi, founder of Roland (http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2017/04/01/roland-founder-ikutaro-kakehashi-has-died/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 03, 2017, 04:33:10 pm

Arthur Blythe (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/arts/music/arthur-blythe-jazz-saxophonist-dies-at-76.html?_r=0)

Buck Hill (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/buck-hill-jazz-saxophonist-and-dc-local-legend-dies-at-90/2017/03/24/cbb820ce-0fda-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html?utm_term=.74fa065e3c4f)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 03, 2017, 05:34:57 pm

oh man not the wailin' postman!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on April 06, 2017, 11:47:26 am

Paul O'Neil of Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 06, 2017, 02:04:29 pm

Don Rickles

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 06, 2017, 02:08:47 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 06, 2017, 02:04:29 pm

Don Rickles

Just heard on radio and came to post this one. A comedy legend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 06, 2017, 02:46:15 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 06, 2017, 02:04:29 pm

Don Rickles

Truly gutted over this one.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on April 06, 2017, 02:50:33 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 06, 2017, 02:46:15 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 06, 2017, 02:04:29 pm
Don Rickles

Truly gutted over this one.

the greatest, and his episode of "comedians in cars getting coffee" made me laugh till i cried.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on April 06, 2017, 03:04:57 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 06, 2017, 02:04:29 pm

Don Rickles

Sad. It's a shame he didn't get to roast our Commander in Thief

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 06, 2017, 06:45:33 pm

David Peel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 06, 2017, 10:09:08 pm

Jim Marshall

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/04/05/jim-marshall-founder-of-marshall-amps-dies/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 07, 2017, 08:36:27 am

Quote from: hutch on April 06, 2017, 06:45:33 pm

David Peel

who could forget The Pope Smokes Dope * and Santa Claus Rooftop Junkie
*Producers: John Lennon, Yoko Ono

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 11, 2017, 06:48:28 pm

Clay Adler

https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/mtv-reality-star-clay-adler-commits-suicide-172109224.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 11, 2017, 07:25:22 pm

J Geils

oh no

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on April 11, 2017, 09:24:18 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 11, 2017, 07:25:22 pm

J Geils

oh no

damn.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 12, 2017, 12:23:12 am

Dave's (Letterman) mom (https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/04/r-i-p-dorothy-mengering-david-lettermans-mother-has-died-at-the-age-of-95/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 12, 2017, 12:48:35 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 12, 2017, 12:23:12 am

Dave's (Letterman) mom (https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/04/r-i-p-dorothy-mengering-david-lettermans-mother-has-died-at-the-age-of-95/)

This one has me in pieces.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 12, 2017, 01:33:59 pm

Charlie Murphy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on April 13, 2017, 10:51:58 am

Co-founder of JAMIROQUAI, Toby Smith

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on April 13, 2017, 10:54:22 am

Seth's mom
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=selma-hurwitz&pid=185018111

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on April 13, 2017, 11:03:48 am

That's terrible :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 13, 2017, 11:08:03 am

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on April 13, 2017, 11:03:48 am

That's terrible :(

I concur. Condolences.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 13, 2017, 12:01:53 pm

My condolences, Seth.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on April 13, 2017, 12:44:26 pm

It's easy to forget that the uber successful have families too.
Sorry for the loss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 13, 2017, 12:47:27 pm

Quote from: evilizac on April 13, 2017, 12:44:26 pm

It's easy to forget that the uber successful have families too.

Is it though?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 13, 2017, 01:21:33 pm

Wow..sorry to read that...my condolences

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on April 13, 2017, 01:41:08 pm

thinking of you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 13, 2017, 02:23:25 pm

I'm so sorry, Seth. I lost my father last year...one of the hardest things ever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 13, 2017, 02:49:19 pm

Didn't know Lips was Seth's brother. I remember seeing ads for him back in the day at Towson State. RIP to him and Mr. and Mrs. Hurwitz.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on April 13, 2017, 02:51:57 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on April 13, 2017, 12:47:27 pm

Quote from: evilizac on April 13, 2017, 12:44:26 pm
It's easy to forget that the uber successful have families too.
Is it though?

I do think so to some degree. Or maybe it's just easy to forget that anyone other than ourselves has loved ones and people that they do what they do because of or for. Literally, just yesterday my supervisor said that he actively avoids saying anything about deaths in other people's (including non-nuclear family) because it doesn't seem necessary.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: I Know Now Why You Cry on April 13, 2017, 03:37:42 pm

:My condolences...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on April 13, 2017, 03:59:51 pm

Condolences to Seth and Family.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 13, 2017, 05:37:05 pm

Dan Rooney, owner of the Steelers
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/steelers/2017/04/13/dan-rooney-death-pittsburgh-steelers-owner-dies-nfl-united-states-ambassador/stories/202001010028

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: I Know Now Why You Cry on April 13, 2017, 06:22:26 pm

http://thequietus.com/articles/22216-rip-mika-vainio (http://thequietus.com/articles/22216-rip-mika-vainio)

Quote

Experimental electronic music producer Mika Vainio has died aged 53, it has been confirmed by family and friends. No further details are yet known.

Hailing originally from Finland, Vainio formed Pan Sonic (originally known as Panasonic) in 1993, alongside Ilpo Väisänen and Sami Salo. Salo left the project in 1996. From 1994, they released music with the Sähkö label, which Vainio founded in 1993 alongside Tommi Grönlund. Vainio and Väisänen continued to work together as Pan Sonic until the present day, having released a film soundtrack last year.

Vainio also produced a vast collection of solo material under his own name as well as other guises, including most famously Ø and Philus. His work explored various aspects of techno, industrial music, noise and other experimental corners of electronic music. Through his career, he collaborated with the likes of Charlemagne Palestine, Fennesz, Merbow, Franck Vigroux and many more.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 13, 2017, 07:07:00 pm

My condolences Seth.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 14, 2017, 10:29:25 am

Seth, really sorry to hear about your mom.

She was a great artist
(http://www.selmahurwitz.com/graphics/coat.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on April 15, 2017, 12:42:57 pm

I'm so sorry, Seth.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on April 16, 2017, 04:58:51 am

thanks folks

btw I don't consider myself uber successful

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 16, 2017, 07:21:34 am

You've brought joy to so many people, doing what you love. And hopefully made some decent coin in the process. You win!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 16, 2017, 02:57:34 pm

Allan Holdsworth

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 16, 2017, 03:31:13 pm

Dylan guitarist Bruce Langhorne (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/arts/music/bruce-langhorne-dead-guitarist-with-bob-dylan.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 16, 2017, 09:21:44 pm

Quote from: ggw on April 16, 2017, 03:31:13 pm

Dylan guitarist Bruce Langhorne (https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/arts/music/bruce-langhorne-dead-guitarist-with-bob-dylan.html)

wow...quite a storied history including...
He and Odetta performed Aug. 28, 1963, at the March on Washington, just before the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his ?I Have a Dream? speech.

I do love his exit
Mr. Langhorne moved to Hawaii in 1980 to farm macadamia nuts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 16, 2017, 10:09:00 pm

definitely one of MANY people in the Village folk scene that Dylan collaborated with and some might say cannily utilized in the early stages of his career.... some might argue that he got the better of his collaborations, interactions and personal relationships with so many of these people be it Langhorne, Carolyn Hester, Eric Von Schmitt, Dave Van Ronk and most notably of course Joan Baez... We will never know the true story although I suspect John Hammond (son not father) could give us the most honest account about what happened and how a nobody from Minnesota could conquer the world in a period of just a couple of years going from performing initially crummy versions of the folk canon to creating an entirely new folk canon then quickly leaving it in the dust- some would say in an almost unseemly manner- and moving on to creating something entirely new in that thin wild mercury sound... Was Bob talented and did he develop his talent mightily and rapidly.. yes, but a lot more than just having "it' had to fall into place to create "Bob Dylan".. a confluence of a large list of developments, factors, history etc etc...

In fact I find it notable how much of Bob Dylan's early years seems to run through John Hammond be it from getting a contract with Columbia- the number one label at the time- as a nothing 19 year old from legendary Columbia A&R man John Hammond Sr... to getting involved with the Band - initially John Hammond's band... The fact Hammond (son) and Dylan were roommates at least for a little while in Bob's early NYC days must have something to do with it all..It must be said that John Hammond (son) was by all accounts not very close to his father as his parents had divorced or separated..still...

funnily enough I was walking around Bleeker St in the Village exactly this time last night thinking about Bob....

I always figured Bruce Langhorne with that name was some Irish or English bloke.. ha ha...boy was I wrong! ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 18, 2017, 02:54:31 pm

Allan Holdsworth (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-allan-holdsworth-20170417-story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 18, 2017, 03:02:56 pm

Quote from: ggw on April 18, 2017, 02:54:31 pm

Allan Holdsworth (http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-allan-holdsworth-20170417-story.html)

I'll wear one of his jackets this weekend to honor his memory.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 19, 2017, 07:18:16 am

Aaron Hernández

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 19, 2017, 09:10:57 am

Quote from: excontradiction on April 19, 2017, 07:18:16 am

Aaron Hernández

A childhood friend of mine was on the legal team that just got him acquitted in the second trial and she is absolutely stunned. Also in Mar A Lago, but stunned while there.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 19, 2017, 03:23:43 pm

Bill O'Reilly's job

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on April 19, 2017, 03:34:59 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on April 19, 2017, 07:18:16 am

Aaron Hernández

He died an innocent man.

Quote

n the state of Massachusetts, Hernandez technically died an innocent man due to the legal principle of abatement ab initio, where if a person dies and has not exhausted all legal appeals, the case reverts to its status at the beginning; so the person becomes innocent. Hernandez had an appeal pending for his 2014 conviction in the murder of Odin Lloyd.[92]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 19, 2017, 03:37:02 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on April 19, 2017, 03:34:59 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on April 19, 2017, 07:18:16 am
Aaron Hernández

He died an innocent man.

Quote
n the state of Massachusetts, Hernandez technically died an innocent man due to the legal principle of abatement ab initio, where if a person dies and has not exhausted all legal appeals, the case reverts to its status at the beginning; so the person becomes innocent. Hernandez had an appeal pending for his 2014 conviction in the murder of Odin Lloyd.[92]

Lots of speculation that this gets his family his NFL pension/signing bonus now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 19, 2017, 03:37:22 pm

Also, he died doing what he loved.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 19, 2017, 04:34:45 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on April 19, 2017, 03:37:02 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on April 19, 2017, 03:34:59 pm
Quote from: excontradiction on April 19, 2017, 07:18:16 am
Aaron Hernández

He died an innocent man.

Quote
n the state of Massachusetts, Hernandez technically died an innocent man due to the legal principle of abatement ab initio, where if a person dies and has not exhausted all legal appeals, the case reverts to its status at the beginning; so the person becomes innocent. Hernandez had an appeal pending for his 2014 conviction in the murder of Odin Lloyd.[92]
Lots of speculation that this gets his family his NFL pension/signing bonus now.

man that seems weird to me...how much money are we talking about?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 19, 2017, 04:43:37 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 19, 2017, 04:34:45 pm

man that seems weird to me...how much money are we talking about?

I'm not 100% sure. Obviously the lack of a technical criminal conviction doesn't shield his estate from civil charges from victim's families but pensions generally are not touchable.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 19, 2017, 05:11:02 pm

fuckin Tucker Carlson.. is this the fastest rise through a channel? First he took over Megyn.. now a few months later he takes over O'Lielly...

He's one lucky dude..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on April 19, 2017, 05:14:22 pm

Never before has one bow tie held back so much power.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 19, 2017, 06:21:53 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on April 19, 2017, 04:43:37 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 19, 2017, 04:34:45 pm
man that seems weird to me...how much money are we talking about?
I'm not 100% sure. Obviously the lack of a technical criminal conviction doesn't shield his estate from civil charges from victim's families but pensions generally are not touchable.

The Patriots withheld $3.25 million of his signing bonus and $2.5 million of his guaranteed base salary. They withheld it because per the CBA, they have the right if he is convicted of a crime. If his convictions are vacated, the families lawyers will ask that the money be reinstated.

This will end with a settlement somewhere less than that $5 million number, but probably more than $1m.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 19, 2017, 09:19:10 pm

Quote from: vansmack on April 19, 2017, 06:21:53 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on April 19, 2017, 04:43:37 pm
Quote from: hutch on April 19, 2017, 04:34:45 pm
man that seems weird to me...how much money are we talking about?
I'm not 100% sure. Obviously the lack of a technical criminal conviction doesn't shield his estate from civil charges from victim's families but pensions generally are not touchable.

The Patriots withheld $3.25 million of his signing bonus and $2.5 million of his guaranteed base salary. They withheld it because per the CBA, they have the right if he is convicted of a crime. If his convictions are vacated, the families lawyers will ask that the money be reinstated.

This will end with a settlement somewhere less than that $5 million number, but probably more than $1m.

Thank you for clarifying this isn't a pension issue but a contractual one.

My apologies for not including my standard "/I am not a lawyer" proviso.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on April 20, 2017, 03:40:06 am

Matt Holt, vocalist of defunct DC area alt-metal band Nothingface.

http://loudwire.com/nothingface-singer-matt-holt-dead-39/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 20, 2017, 07:12:45 am

j.c. spink

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 20, 2017, 11:19:13 pm

Cuba Gooding

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 21, 2017, 07:27:23 am

^senior

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 22, 2017, 10:27:36 pm

Joanie

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 24, 2017, 02:14:38 pm

I can't recall if there's a soon to be dropping like flies thread, but The Reaper is knocking on Gregg Allman's door.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 24, 2017, 02:19:53 pm

Knock knock knocking on Gregg Allmans door or just regular?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 24, 2017, 05:25:39 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on April 22, 2017, 10:27:36 pm

Joanie

Oh Scott, I'm never amazed at how low you can go.... (http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/erin-moran-dead-scott-baio-god-happy-days-1202393831/)

Monday morning, the Harrison County Coroner?s Office and Sheriff?s Department issued a joint statement saying Moran passed due to complications with her stage 4 cancer. The statement added there were no illegal narcotics found at the scene, but Scott Baio thinks her lifetime of drugs and alcohol abuse may have had something to do with her untimely death.

During an interview with ?The Bernie & Sid Show,? also Monday, Baio admitted he was ?not completely shocked? by his ?Joanie Loves Chachi? co-star?s passing.

?I?m OK, a little shocked but not completely shocked that this happened. My thing is, I feel bad because her whole life, she was troubled, could never find what made her happy and content. For me, you do drugs or drink, you?re gonna die. I?m sorry if that?s cold, but God gave you a brain, gave you the will to live and thrive and you gotta take care of yourself.?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 24, 2017, 05:30:47 pm

what an asshole.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 24, 2017, 06:51:23 pm

So no one has talked about Scott Baio in a few months. That's what I take away from that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 24, 2017, 08:12:06 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on April 24, 2017, 06:51:23 pm

So no one has talked about Scott Baio in a few months. That's what I take away from that.

I thought for sure he'd get a cabinet pick
I think the Exim Bank one is still open

seemed pretty obvious stage 4 cancer was the cause, what a dick move
just looking to make headlines

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 24, 2017, 08:28:07 pm

maybe he's just an idiot/asshole - he does sound stupid- but I think it could be more about pandering to the right wing/conservatives/trumpist constituency.. the bigger a prick you are the more they like you and there is a lot of money to be made there... just one book deal can net you a cool million...

Republican voters just love assholes... Trump, Hannity, O'Reilly... Ted Nugent...Curt Schilling... you name it... its like "HE's A TOTAL DICK! FUCK YA!!!!!!!! TELLING IT LIKE IT IS!!!!!!!!"

its frickin' weird..I really can't deal with these people..they are deplorables.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 24, 2017, 10:56:58 pm

Robert Pirsig

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on April 26, 2017, 10:53:32 am

Jonathan Demme

:(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 11:07:02 am

what?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 26, 2017, 11:28:19 am

Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 11:07:02 am

what?

Jonathan Demme is dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 26, 2017, 11:28:38 am

Variety says it's true. (http://variety.com/2017/film/news/jonathan-demme-dead-silence-of-the-lambs-1202399122/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 11:39:30 am

wow

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 26, 2017, 11:47:05 am

Quote from: ggw on April 26, 2017, 11:28:19 am

Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 11:07:02 am
what?

Jonathan Demme is dead.

bummer,
but IMO his work had been mediocre for the last 20+ years

After 93 (Philadelphia) he had a really long stretch
only exception is Rachel's getting Married (08)

Swimming to Cambodia is one of my favorites, but like Stop Making sense...Demme's contribution seems secondary to the perfomance

he did produce Adaptation, but not really sure what that really means as I thought that it was a Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman movie

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 11:48:47 am

Quote from: good ole SideHatch .🛠|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|🚀 on April 26, 2017, 11:47:05 am

Quote from: ggw on April 26, 2017, 11:28:19 am
Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 11:07:02 am
what?

Jonathan Demme is dead.
bummer,
but IMO his work had been mediocre for the last 20+ years

After 93 (Philadelphia) he had a really long stretch
only exception is Rachel's getting Married (08)

Swimming to Cambodia is one of my favorites, but like Stop Making sense...Demme's contribution seems secondary to the perfomance

he did produce Adaptation, but not really sure what that really means as I thought that it was a Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman movie

well at least you didn't say that if you drink or do drugs you will die...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 26, 2017, 11:51:46 am

Rachel Getting Married is such an underrated film.

Silence of the Lambs is one of the rare films to pull off winning the Big 4 Academy Awards (and 5 of the Big 6 if you expand it out -- damn you, Cinematography!)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 26, 2017, 11:52:16 am

Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 11:48:47 am

well at least you didn't say that if you drink or do drugs you will die...

if you don't drink or do drugs you'll still die, FYI. has anyone told scott baio this?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 26, 2017, 12:06:16 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 26, 2017, 11:52:16 am

Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 11:48:47 am
well at least you didn't say that if you drink or do drugs you will die...

if you don't drink or do drugs you'll still die, FYI. has anyone told scott baio this?

#scottbaio. Get on your knees and pray I never run into you.
? tony moran (her brother)

A few hours later Moran wrote: ?Well guys. Guess what? I was contacted by Scott Baio's wife. His wife! ----ing coward! I've never met her. I do know the scumbag piece of s--- Scott Baio tho. He was a piece of s--- back then and still is. He had his wife contact me! Very apologetic and s---. Doesn't surprise me. It's too late ... Go back under the rock you crawled out from under. There isn't one word I want to hear you speak. Makes me sick to my stomach.?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on April 26, 2017, 02:42:04 pm

Very sad about Jonathan Demme. If you appreciate how someone can use music to elevate their films even more, he was the master. "Something Wild" turned me onto so many bands when I saw it in the late 80's. I would have had no idea who the Feelies were if it wasn't for that movie and I truly fell in love with them. I hope they'll dedicate some songs to him when they play in Philly this weekend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on April 26, 2017, 03:59:23 pm

Trent Dilfer's ESPN career.

Thank you Jesus.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:02:36 pm

Quote from: ggw on April 26, 2017, 03:59:23 pm

Trent Dilfer's ESPN career.

Thank you Jesus.

they also let go of Bowden and Jayson Stark

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:06:19 pm

Dilfer always seemed a little over-amped up.. like he'd just gone to the gym or something... but I thought he was decent..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 26, 2017, 04:16:30 pm

Quote from: ggw on April 26, 2017, 03:59:23 pm

Trent Dilfer's ESPN career.

Thank you Jesus.

Danny Kannell was a much bigger "thank you Jesus" for me but I care about college football coverage way more than NFL.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 26, 2017, 04:20:10 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:02:36 pm

Quote from: ggw on April 26, 2017, 03:59:23 pm
Trent Dilfer's ESPN career.

Thank you Jesus.

they also let go of Bowden and Jayson Stark

Chantell Jennings and Brett McMurphy (and underrated Twitter follow for breaking news) are going to sting.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:28:43 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on April 26, 2017, 04:16:30 pm

Quote from: ggw on April 26, 2017, 03:59:23 pm
Trent Dilfer's ESPN career.

Thank you Jesus.
Danny Kannell was a much bigger "thank you Jesus" for me but I care about college football coverage way more than NFL.

yeah that guy was annoying..did they also get rid of Rusillo?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:29:06 pm

funny how they get shitcanned and go on twitter and thank ESPN for the wonderful years they had...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 26, 2017, 04:31:52 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:29:06 pm

funny how they get shitcanned and go on twitter and thank ESPN for the wonderful years they had...

Not Kanell. He was like "I moved my family to Bristol assholes".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 26, 2017, 04:32:28 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:28:43 pm

did they also get rid of Rusillo?

Apparently not.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:34:47 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on April 26, 2017, 04:32:28 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:28:43 pm
did they also get rid of Rusillo?
Apparently not.

too bad.. he is AWFUL. and why do people love Mike and Mike anyways?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:41:55 pm

I read that reportedly RUsillo's role will be reduced...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 26, 2017, 04:42:30 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:29:06 pm

funny how they get shitcanned and go on twitter and thank ESPN for the wonderful years they had...

they need the reference, and don't want to scare away future employers.

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on April 26, 2017, 04:31:52 pm

Not Kanell. He was like "I moved my family to Bristol assholes".

kinda, he softened up immediately after:
- ?Poured my heart and soul into ESPN for last 8 years. Moved my wife and 3 kids to CT to go ?all in? 5 years ago. Bummed it ended in 3 minutes?
- "But totally get it. All part of a business that is rapidly changing. Thankful for the opportunity I was given and people I got to work with!?
https://twitter.com/dannykanell

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on April 26, 2017, 04:32:28 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:28:43 pm
did they also get rid of Rusillo?
Apparently not.

"Russillo is reportedly not being laid off but is having his role at ESPN reduced."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:45:41 pm

the other guy I can't stand is Van Pelt or whatever his name is....HORRIBLE.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 04:46:40 pm

the worst ever though has to be Ray Lewis.. .he could barely string coherent sentences together..it was painful watching him .. I'd be like "Come on RAY! I know you can do it!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 26, 2017, 05:08:40 pm

Is Diana Russini and Lindsay Czarniak (sp) still employed?

That's all that really matters.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 05:21:39 pm

I take it they are hot?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 26, 2017, 05:22:19 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 05:21:39 pm

I take it they are hot?

Do you even follow DC sports, hutch?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 05:23:43 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 26, 2017, 05:22:19 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 05:21:39 pm
I take it they are hot?

Do you even follow DC sports, hutch?

Some?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 05:25:53 pm

ok I looked up Lindsay Czarniak.. I guess people think she's hot but I don't think she's all that....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 05:26:20 pm

you're so shallow Yada.. reducing people to their hotness.. shame on you!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 26, 2017, 05:37:27 pm

yes, people should be reduced to their latino-ness. latino = caliente! no latino = pfffff...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 05:45:29 pm

I don't even know what we're talking about anymore...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2017, 05:45:58 pm

Walkie where the fuck are you man??? HELP ME!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 27, 2017, 08:20:23 am

So the family was out to dinner last night and thanks to my wife playing on her phone, we were saddened to learn that Eddie Murphy had died. My wife started crying, I started imagining what Scott Baio was going to say about it, and my nine year old asked "Who the fuck is Eddie Murphy?" Nice job at attempting to ruin our dinner, Facebook.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 27, 2017, 08:33:29 am

Quote from: hutch on April 26, 2017, 05:26:20 pm

you're so shallow Yada.. reducing people to their hotness.. shame on you!

Do you even follow DC sports, hutch?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 27, 2017, 08:34:59 am

Some?

WALKIE HELP ME OUT MAN!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 27, 2017, 08:40:24 am

Quote from: hutch on April 27, 2017, 08:34:59 am

Some?

WALKIE HELP ME OUT MAN!

If you haven't put the pieces of this puzzle together just yet, I can help you no longer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 27, 2017, 09:16:48 am

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-even-lift

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 27, 2017, 09:19:52 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 27, 2017, 08:20:23 am

So the family was out to dinner last night and thanks to my wife playing on her phone, we were saddened to learn that Eddie Murphy had died. My wife started crying, I started imagining what Scott Baio was going to say about it, and my nine year old asked "Who the fuck is Eddie Murphy?" Nice job at attempting to ruin our dinner, Facebook.

few things
you know that was a hoax
I'm curious, what do you think baio would say? as Eddie doesn't drink or do drugs
your 9yrold says fuck at the dinner table so casually!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 27, 2017, 09:20:55 am

Quote from: good ole SideHatch .🛠|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|🚀 on April 27, 2017, 09:19:52 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 27, 2017, 08:20:23 am
So the family was out to dinner last night and thanks to my wife playing on her phone, we were saddened to learn that Eddie Murphy had died. My wife started crying, I started imagining what Scott Baio was going to say about it, and my nine year old asked "Who the fuck is Eddie Murphy?" Nice job at attempting to ruin our dinner, Facebook.
few things
you know that was a hoax
I'm curious, what do you think baio would say? as Eddie doesn't drink or do drugs
your 9yrold says fuck at the dinner table so casually!

I can't wait till that kid turns 15!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 27, 2017, 09:55:31 am

Quote from: good ole SideHatch .🛠|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|🚀 on April 27, 2017, 09:19:52 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 27, 2017, 08:20:23 am
So the family was out to dinner last night and thanks to my wife playing on her phone, we were saddened to learn that Eddie Murphy had died. My wife started crying, I started imagining what Scott Baio was going to say about it, and my nine year old asked "Who the fuck is Eddie Murphy?" Nice job at attempting to ruin our dinner, Facebook.
few things
you know that was a hoax
I'm curious, what do you think baio would say? as Eddie doesn't drink or do drugs
your 9yrold says fuck at the dinner table so casually!

1.My wife didn't find out it was a hoax until I googled it when we got home and I told her it was a hoax.

2. I didn't know Eddie abstains. I guess it's just his girl who wants to party all the time?

3. She didn't really say that, I made that part up. But this story is true:

One time we were at the in-laws for Xmas dinner and we were drinking Hennepin with our cheese plate. My blowhard Catholic father-in law launches into this very long, detailed story about "Father Hennepin" which drones on and on. In the middle of a sentence , my then (3?) year old daughter blurts out, "THIS CHEESE IS SO FUCKING GOOD!". Everyone starts cracking up, except for my father- in-law, who continues the story without missing a beat and, noticing everyone is laughing, asks "Wait, what's everyone laughing at?"

Then for many years she avoided swearing (in spite of her mother's and to a much lesser extent father's sailor's mouth). But as she approaches 10, she's taken it up with gusto. For the past couple of weeks, I've been playing the last two albums by the New Pornographers in the car. When I told her the name of the band, (ala Raffi) she asked "What the hell kind of name is that? I explained the benign origins of the name. The next day I played them again and she groaned, "Oh no, not them again. I'm totally ok with the name, but I'm totally not ok with their music."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 27, 2017, 10:06:45 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 27, 2017, 09:55:31 am

She didn't really say that, I made that part up.

I'm stunned. Did not see that coming.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 27, 2017, 11:06:43 am

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on April 27, 2017, 10:06:45 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 27, 2017, 09:55:31 am
She didn't really say that, I made that part up.
I'm stunned. Did not see that coming.

What I meant was that though those may not have been her exact words, it was he exact sentiment. If I told her it was the guy who played Gumby (damnit), it might have clicked for her who he is.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 27, 2017, 11:13:01 am

Ahh. So the confusion stems from the word 'asked', as well as the use of the quotation marks around the thing that was not actually said. Lemme try.

...and my nine-year old, aghast, wondered out loud who Eddie Murphy was.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 27, 2017, 11:18:10 am

god this is boring..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 27, 2017, 11:19:56 am

Quote from: hutch on April 27, 2017, 11:18:10 am

god this is boring..

Agreed. Please post more about that book you read about that dude from New Order, I think there's still some meat on that bone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 27, 2017, 04:37:39 pm

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/0d/c0/ad/0dc0adc947663e9bf31365edde44424c.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 27, 2017, 04:42:04 pm

Quote from: Julian, Coastal ELITE on April 27, 2017, 11:19:56 am

Quote from: hutch on April 27, 2017, 11:18:10 am
god this is boring..
Agreed. Please post more about that book you read about that dude from New Order, I think there's still some meat on that bone.

I have to confess this made me lol.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 02, 2017, 06:54:28 am

Col Bruce Hampton....at his own birthday celebration.

Holy shit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 02, 2017, 07:46:00 am

wow...talk about going out in style... apparently in the middle of the encore Turn on your lovelight..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 02, 2017, 09:46:29 am

Quote from: hutch on May 02, 2017, 07:46:00 am

wow...talk about going out in style... apparently in the middle of the encore Turn on your lovelight..

Quite possibly the most perfect yet fucked up way for him to go out...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 02, 2017, 06:50:22 pm

Kevin Garcia of Grandaddy...massive stroke, age 41. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 02, 2017, 08:28:33 pm

Quote from: bearman on May 02, 2017, 06:50:22 pm

Kevin Garcia of Grandaddy...massive stroke, age 41. RIP.

Fuck.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 04, 2017, 12:14:31 pm

Saxa (born Lionel Augustus Martin) of the Beat he was 87

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 09, 2017, 06:06:16 pm

James Comey's career at the FBI

I hate to agree with Trump but this was long overdue.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 10, 2017, 10:35:10 am

Mario Maglieri (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/arts/music/mario-maglieri-dead-ran-whisky-a-go-go.html)

(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/05/10/arts/10maglieri-obit-2/10maglieri-obit-2-master675.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 10, 2017, 04:48:38 pm

Michael parks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsFIOj9tcBM

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 15, 2017, 03:52:50 pm

Powers Boothe

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 15, 2017, 08:29:25 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on May 15, 2017, 03:52:50 pm

Powers Boothe

(https://img.memesuper.com/4b4ae5d1871ab072cd044ea3b71350fc_bye-meme-tombstone-memesuper-tombstone-well-bye-meme_400-209.jpeg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 15, 2017, 10:17:15 pm

lena horne

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 16, 2017, 08:12:10 am

Quote from: hutch on May 15, 2017, 10:17:15 pm

lena horne

I saw "Lena" and I was about to get excited about this one. Then I saw "Horne" and I thought "What is Hutch tooting that made him wake up in 2010?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 16, 2017, 08:43:56 am

You were, about to get excited that a famous person, named Lena, perhaps had died?

Wow.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 16, 2017, 08:52:35 am

Quote from: herman otto on May 16, 2017, 08:43:56 am

You were, about to get excited that a famous person, named Lena, perhaps had died?

Wow.

Call me part of the Backlash.

Lena Dunham Faces Backlash for Saying She Wishes She?d Had an Abortion

http://people.com/celebrity/lena-dunham-abortion-comment-controversy/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 16, 2017, 08:56:54 am

Do you control your wife's right to her body, the way you try to control some famous person you don't even know.

Why don't you backlash, your ass out of here. You're a piece of s*** for thinking that somebody's death was potential excitement for you, because they advocated abortion.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 16, 2017, 09:04:17 am

Quote from: herman otto on May 16, 2017, 08:56:54 am

Do you control your wife's right to her body, the way you try to control some famous person you don't even know.

Why don't you backlash, your ass out of here. You're a piece of s*** for thinking that somebody's death was potential excitement for you, because they advocated abortion.

Oh come on, I'm pro-choice, but to say you "wish you had had an abortion" is fucking disgusting. She's trash.

And don't we all have a mental shortlist of public figures, who though we don't wish harm on them, we might be a tad bit excited if they dropped dead? I think we all do.

Why don't you focus on the second sentence I posted. Two jokes in one sentence. How clever was that?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 17, 2017, 01:06:28 pm

Steve Palermo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 17, 2017, 01:29:41 pm

PWR BTTM?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 17, 2017, 01:33:25 pm

What? Suddenly, my ears just perked up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 17, 2017, 01:34:49 pm

Last week, PWR BTTM was the Next Big Thing in punk. Now the band is in ruins, and fans are reeling.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/05/16/last-week-pwr-bttm-was-the-next-big-thing-in-punk-now-the-band-is-in-ruins-and-fans-are-reeling/?utm_term=.f41a6db02c12

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 17, 2017, 02:07:39 pm

Maybe they should change the name to, PWR TTOPP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 17, 2017, 02:23:41 pm

Quote from: herman otto on May 17, 2017, 02:07:39 pm

Maybe they should change the name to, PWR TTOPP.

They should change their name to, "who gives a shit." How bout dat.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 17, 2017, 02:29:22 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 17, 2017, 02:23:41 pm

Quote from: herman otto on May 17, 2017, 02:07:39 pm
Maybe they should change the name to, PWR TTOPP.

They should change their name to, "who gives a shit." How bout dat.

It's original, and actually a great name for a band.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 17, 2017, 02:32:44 pm

Thats like totes meta-punk.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: TheREALHunter on May 18, 2017, 05:17:35 am

Chris Cornell R.I.P.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on May 18, 2017, 05:23:12 am

Quote from: TheREALHunter on May 18, 2017, 05:17:35 am

Chris Cornell R.I.P.

Holy crap. That sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 18, 2017, 07:25:11 am

Wtf

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on May 18, 2017, 08:51:35 am

Roger Ailes

that sucks a little less than Chris Cornell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 18, 2017, 09:00:38 am

Quote from: Relaxer on May 18, 2017, 08:51:35 am

Roger Ailes

I know this is in 'chachi style' bad taste to talk negatively of the recently dead
but I am glad that all the allegations and his abrupt firing happened before this...as people would have been like "you can't talk ill of the dead..." even though he was a terrible human being
I am sure the the allegations and firing did contribute to his early demise

Edit...he resigned...papa bear was fired

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 18, 2017, 09:15:41 am

Quote from: SideOfBacon 🥓🥓🥓🥓 on May 18, 2017, 09:00:38 am

Quote from: Relaxer on May 18, 2017, 08:51:35 am
Roger Ailes
I know this is in 'chachi style' bad taste to talk negatively of the recently dead
but I am glad that all the allegations and his abrupt firing happened before this...as people would have been like "you can't talk ill of the dead..." even though he was a terrible human being
I am sure the the allegations and firing did contribute to his early demise

Is 77 really "an early demise" when you're a fat fuck?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on May 18, 2017, 09:16:23 am

His firing must have voided his deal with the devil.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 18, 2017, 09:40:41 am

It's like the Bette Davis quote...

"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good? Joan Crawford is dead. Good."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on May 18, 2017, 10:15:06 am

Back to Chris Cornell...
UGH!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 18, 2017, 10:18:00 am

They're saying, possible suicide.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 18, 2017, 10:26:18 am

i just can't believe chris cornell is dead. .the guy was by all accounts healthy as a fiddle and no bullshit.. family guy...grounded....etc...

shocking. i'm stunned.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on May 18, 2017, 10:43:30 am

Quote from: herman otto on May 18, 2017, 10:18:00 am

They're saying, possible suicide.

Strange timing, with a min-tour going on.
Of course, suicide typically is not conjoined with a solid mental state.

So sad. Gonna miss that voice.
At least he can "Say Hello to Heaven" now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 18, 2017, 10:47:51 am

Quote from: hutch on May 18, 2017, 10:26:18 am

i just can't believe chris cornell is dead. .the guy was by all accounts healthy as a fiddle and no bullshit.. family guy...grounded....etc...

shocking. i'm stunned.

Family guys don't typically kill themselves, but who knows...

Ended their show last night with Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying." If this was suicide, he must've literally left the stage and killed himself within minutes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 18, 2017, 11:04:30 am

^going to ignore what looks like a very weak attempt at black humor

but I just wanted to add just because I'm shocked doesn't mean his death isn't explainable..i'm just surprised... but depression is a terrible thing if you're dealing with it.. and medication can do wacky things to you (particularly if you stop taking it..)... just really surprised
brutal end to so many 90s rock singers; cobain, layne, the mother love bone dude, weiland, cornell.. geez..shannon hoon.. the dude from sublime...i mean its endless..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 18, 2017, 11:12:27 am

Like sidehatch, I don't want to get all Chachi, but Cornell had been dealing with serious opiate addiction on and off for forty years. That takes a serious toll on one's physical and emotional well-being, even if he was on the proverbial wagon. Sad all around.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 18, 2017, 11:21:44 am

Quote from: hutch on May 18, 2017, 11:04:30 am

^going to ignore what looks like a very weak attempt at black humor

but I just wanted to add just because I'm shocked doesn't mean his death isn't explainable..i'm just surprised... but depression is a terrible thing if you're dealing with it.. and medication can do wacky things to you (particularly if you stop taking it..)... just really surprised
brutal end to so many 90s rock singers; cobain, layne, the mother love bone dude, weiland, cornell.. geez..shannon hoon.. the dude from sublime...i mean its endless..

Not trying to be humorous at all... I've been personally touched by multiple people killing themselves as well as drug addiction.

My guess it wasn't "suicide" and just an unfortunate result of years of opiate abuse.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 18, 2017, 11:31:53 am

ok well.. i'm not going to speculate any more....

yada if you weren't trying to crack a joke that is uncanny.. reread what you wrote ..

Ended their show last night with Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying." If this was suicide, he must've literally left the stage and killed himself within minutes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 18, 2017, 11:34:11 am

Quote from: hutch on May 18, 2017, 11:31:53 am

ok well.. i'm not going to speculate any more....

yada if you weren't trying to crack a joke that is uncanny.. reread what you wrote ..

Ended their show last night with Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying." If this was suicide, he must've literally left the stage and killed himself within minutes.

??? Don't see the humor or lack there of in this post... Just calling it like I see it. My guess is he took opiates during or after and unfortunately, his heart stopped... similar to Mr. Nelson.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 18, 2017, 11:40:18 am

Quote from: Yada on May 18, 2017, 11:34:11 am

Quote from: hutch on May 18, 2017, 11:31:53 am
ok well.. i'm not going to speculate any more....

yada if you weren't trying to crack a joke that is uncanny.. reread what you wrote ..

Ended their show last night with Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying." If this was suicide, he must've literally left the stage and killed himself within minutes.

??? Don't see the humor or lack there of in this post... Just calling it like I see it. My guess is he took opiates during or after and unfortunately, his heart stopped... similar to Mr. Nelson.

ended with in my time of dying so he must have killed himself within minutes?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 18, 2017, 11:43:41 am

I suppose TMZ could be full of it.. Chris' wife says he was fine..etc.. but unless this is all a lie..it would appear to be a suicide... it is very very hard to believe for me though..

5:34 AM PT -- TMZ has confirmed with police the family friend had to force his way into Cornell's room and found him with a band around his neck. We're told there was no blood, and police suspect suicide based on the scene.

AP now reporting it too

https://www.yahoo.com/music/latest-police-chris-cornells-death-115152526.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 18, 2017, 11:46:24 am

Quote from: hutch on May 18, 2017, 11:40:18 am

Quote from: Yada on May 18, 2017, 11:34:11 am
Quote from: hutch on May 18, 2017, 11:31:53 am
ok well.. i'm not going to speculate any more....

yada if you weren't trying to crack a joke that is uncanny.. reread what you wrote ..

Ended their show last night with Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying." If this was suicide, he must've literally left the stage and killed himself within minutes.

??? Don't see the humor or lack there of in this post... Just calling it like I see it. My guess is he took opiates during or after and unfortunately, his heart stopped... similar to Mr. Nelson.

ended with in my time of dying so he must have killed himself within minutes?

My assmption the show ended around 11pm like most shows do and he was found dead at midnight... soooo... last song he played was in my time of dying and then he was found dead an hour later... so yea.

edit: welp, based on your posts, I guess he actually killed himself.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on May 18, 2017, 11:55:04 am

Over 120 suicides per day in the US. A moment of silence for the "no names"?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 18, 2017, 05:18:15 pm

Quote from: SideOfBacon 🥓🥓🥓🥓 on May 18, 2017, 09:00:38 am

Quote from: Relaxer on May 18, 2017, 08:51:35 am
Roger Ailes
I know this is in 'chachi style' bad taste to talk negatively of the recently dead
but I am glad that all the allegations and his abrupt firing happened before this...as people would have been like "you can't talk ill of the dead..." even though he was a terrible human being
I am sure the the allegations and firing did contribute to his early demise

Edit...he resigned...papa bear was fired

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-roger-ailes-was-one-of-the-worst-americans-ever-w483013

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 18, 2017, 05:30:49 pm

fuck roger ailes..but i'm honestly sad he died.. i wanted him to live another 10 years in shame.. he basically kind of only had a few months where he probably was forced to keep a low profile... scumbag

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 18, 2017, 06:47:44 pm

Just chose Soundgarden on Pandora. 1st song - 'Pretty Noose'. Shit.

And then there's 'Blow Up the Outside World'

Someone tried to tell me something
Don't let the world bring you down
Nothing will do me in before I do myself
So save it for your own and the ones you can help

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 19, 2017, 08:38:16 am

Nice tribute here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-chris-cornell-did-for-this-pakistani-kid-in-saudi_us_591e5909e4b0b28a33f62b09?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 19, 2017, 08:51:32 am

Quote from: Space Freely on May 19, 2017, 08:38:16 am

Nice tribute here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-chris-cornell-did-for-this-pakistani-kid-in-saudi_us_591e5909e4b0b28a33f62b09?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003

That was pretty cool...

Also, I don't think I've heard this song in close to 20 years. What an amazing tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwT1Q6JeB4

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 19, 2017, 09:08:17 am

To be honest, I was never a huge Soundgarden fan. I only saw them live once, but amazingly I found a review online of that show.

http://buffalonews.com/2013/12/25/tuned-in-2/

The year was 1986. The venue, the QE2, located in downtown Albany. Home for the summer from Fredonia State College, I joined a few friends and my girlfriend at the time to head for the now-closed alternative music haunt ? QE2 was the Albany equivalent of Buffalo?s much-missed Continental ? to catch a buzzed-about heavy rock/funk hybrid from New York City known as Living Colour.

The place was packed, and we were unaware that an opener was on the bill that evening. So it was with a significant degree of shock that I encountered Seattle?s Soundgarden for the first time. Singer Chris Cornell arrived shirtless, and did these guys ever raise a ruckus. The paint appeared to be peeling off the walls as the band played a bunch of what I later learned was the ?Screaming Life EP,? as well as a few tunes from what would be released as ?Louder Than Love.? I recall Cornell jumping up on the QE2 bar, and screaming holy murder from a vantage point a mere few feet in front of me and my group of friends. It was pretty incredible. Soundgarden ended up being one of my favorite bands of the following decade. There?s a photo somewhere of me leaving the QE2 that night with my eyes wide, an emerging scream obfuscated by the Soundgarden sticker my friend Trevor had affixed to my mouth. Good times.

Times made even better, in fact, by the headliner. Living Colour was one of the more interesting bands of the later ?80s. There weren?t a whole lot of legitimately gritty, aggressive funk bands around at the time. Living Colour took a bit from Bad Brains, a bit from Ornette Coleman, a bit from classic heavy metal, and a lot from Defunkt, the band that founder Vernon Reid was a member of for a short time.

Soundgarden would go on to claim the ?grunge? mantle, and then to move into a heavy progressive psychedelia that, happily, brought the band surprising commercial popularity despite its density. Living Colour would have significant success with the debut effort ?Vivid,? but would fold back into cult-level status almost immediately thereafter, releasing a stream of funk-metal masterpieces that continues to this day but enjoying little of the commercial spotlight.

Note: This writer wrote another article about this show, saying it happened in 1989. I'm not sure which is right, I'm actually going to guess 1988.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 19, 2017, 09:15:12 am

always amazed at how early soundgarden got started.. they were on a major label by 1989!

never a huge soundgarden fan either but that voice! it made me listen.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 19, 2017, 10:18:46 am

Toby Keith's career? Even his most die-hard, America first, you'll rip my Confederate flag out of my dead cold hand as I shoot you, fans . . . are turning on him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 23, 2017, 11:10:39 am

Roger Moore

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 23, 2017, 04:00:57 pm

Cortez Kennedy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 24, 2017, 01:51:23 am

Lisa Spoonauer

(http://media.nj.com/entertainment_impact_celebrities/photo/lisa-spoonauer-clerks-caitlinjpg-3c81e425388172ba.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 24, 2017, 09:18:35 am

Quote from: vansmack on May 24, 2017, 01:51:23 am

Lisa Spoonauer

(http://media.nj.com/entertainment_impact_celebrities/photo/lisa-spoonauer-clerks-caitlinjpg-3c81e425388172ba.jpg)

Not sure why, but this made me really, really sad. It's not like I knew anything about her, and didn't even know her name...I just knew her as Caitlyn from Clerks. But I did (and still do) love that movie and her character was awesome. I still laugh so hard at that movie. "...well I didn't just fuck myself!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 26, 2017, 11:24:49 pm

Zbigniew Brzezinski (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/zbigniew-brzezinski-carter-s-national-security-adviser-dies-89-n765351?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 27, 2017, 07:32:42 am

Denis Johnson. Tree of Smoke and Jesus' Son are great reads.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/books/denis-johnsons-poetic-visions-of-a-fallen-world.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 27, 2017, 03:22:09 pm

Jim Bunning

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on May 27, 2017, 03:41:10 pm

Gregg Allman :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on May 27, 2017, 03:42:24 pm

Although he kind of fit in the category of "wait, he was still alive?" e.g. Kissinger or Bob Dole

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 27, 2017, 05:08:53 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on May 27, 2017, 03:41:10 pm

Gregg Allman :(

man that blows even if we sorta had a hunch he was not doing well...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on May 27, 2017, 08:47:56 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 27, 2017, 05:08:53 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on May 27, 2017, 03:41:10 pm
Gregg Allman :(

man that blows even if we sorta had a hunch he was not doing well...

last i had heard was, into a hospice, which is never good according to wifey nurse.
sucks.
never got to check him live.
sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 29, 2017, 03:26:22 pm

Frank Deford

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 30, 2017, 08:34:37 am

Quote from: dyecraig on May 27, 2017, 08:47:56 pm

last i had heard was, into a hospice, which is never good according to wifey nurse.

You needed to consult with a medical professional to know going into hospice wasn't good?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 30, 2017, 08:45:16 am

Quote from: shemptiness on May 29, 2017, 03:26:22 pm

Frank Deford

I've never been a fan of sports (other than the caber toss), but I always enjoyed frank's commentary on what every sport he was describing
that man had a gift, sad to hear this

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 30, 2017, 09:35:40 am

Quote from: Yes, that JULIAN on May 30, 2017, 08:34:37 am

Quote from: dyecraig on May 27, 2017, 08:47:56 pm
last i had heard was, into a hospice, which is never good according to wifey nurse.
You needed to consult with a medical professional to know going into hospice wasn't good?

Hospices are relatively new as far as health care is concerned. While it is a place where you go to die, they make it as comfortable and peaceful as they can (i.e. lots of drugs). The word hasn't really picked up a negative connotation yet so it doesn't sound like what it is: terminal.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 30, 2017, 09:47:06 am

Manuel Noriega

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 30, 2017, 03:07:49 pm

Quote from: Side "derogatory" Hatch 🍻 on May 30, 2017, 08:45:16 am

Quote from: shemptiness on May 29, 2017, 03:26:22 pm
Frank Deford
I've never been a fan of sports (other than the caber toss), but I always enjoyed frank's commentary on what every sport he was describing
that man had a gift, sad to hear this

me too .. i loved the commentaries he did for NPR.. when they seemed to stop about a year or two ago I was very concerned..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on May 30, 2017, 05:04:07 pm

God, I hated his radio pieces. Tt was all old man sneering and knowitall bullshit and he looks like a clown and I'm glad he's dead rest in piss

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on May 30, 2017, 05:04:47 pm

Seriously, he sucked. Just a cynical self-mythologized blowhard in love his atonal voice spewing worthless nostalgic garbage that's just a few steps away from MAGA hat material.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 30, 2017, 06:31:26 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on May 30, 2017, 05:04:47 pm

Seriously, he sucked. Just a cynical self-mythologized blowhard in love his atonal voice spewing worthless nostalgic garbage that's just a few steps away from MAGA hat material.

Wait. Which Boardie died?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 30, 2017, 08:14:56 pm

Kathy Griffin's career?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 31, 2017, 10:04:15 am

Quote from: vansmack on May 30, 2017, 06:31:26 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on May 30, 2017, 05:04:47 pm
Seriously, he sucked. Just a cynical self-mythologized blowhard in love his atonal voice spewing worthless nostalgic garbage that's just a few steps away from MAGA hat material.

Wait. Which Boardie died?

We've been over this: if someone doesn't post for two weeks, they're in rehab. If they go a third week without posting, safe to assume they're dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on May 31, 2017, 10:36:39 am

Quote from: herman otto on May 30, 2017, 08:14:56 pm

Kathy Griffin's career?

Quote from: Relaxer on May 27, 2017, 03:42:24 pm

Although [that] kind of fit in the category of "wait, [it] was still alive?" e.g. Kissinger or Bob Dole

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 31, 2017, 10:56:32 am

Quote from: ggw on May 31, 2017, 10:36:39 am

Quote from: herman otto on May 30, 2017, 08:14:56 pm
Kathy Griffin's career?

Quote from: Relaxer on May 27, 2017, 03:42:24 pm
Although [that] kind of fit in the category of "wait, [it] was still alive?" e.g. Kissinger or Bob Dole

I thought she had pretty consistently always been a nobody. How could this possibly hurt?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 11:27:52 am

The last time she interviewed on Stern, I was surprised to learn that she's worth a fuckload of money.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 11:29:03 am

Quote from: Yes, that JULIAN on May 31, 2017, 10:04:15 am

Quote from: vansmack on May 30, 2017, 06:31:26 pm
Quote from: Relaxer on May 30, 2017, 05:04:47 pm
Seriously, he sucked. Just a cynical self-mythologized blowhard in love his atonal voice spewing worthless nostalgic garbage that's just a few steps away from MAGA hat material.

Wait. Which Boardie died?
We've been over this: if someone doesn't post for two weeks, they're in rehab. If they go a third week without posting, safe to assume they're dead.

Longer than that . . . they're, walkie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 31, 2017, 11:48:36 am

Quote from: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 11:29:03 am

Quote from: Yes, that JULIAN on May 31, 2017, 10:04:15 am
Quote from: vansmack on May 30, 2017, 06:31:26 pm
Quote from: Relaxer on May 30, 2017, 05:04:47 pm
Seriously, he sucked. Just a cynical self-mythologized blowhard in love his atonal voice spewing worthless nostalgic garbage that's just a few steps away from MAGA hat material.

Wait. Which Boardie died?
We've been over this: if someone doesn't post for two weeks, they're in rehab. If they go a third week without posting, safe to assume they're dead.

Longer than that . . . they're, walkie.

I assume you've ODed, went to rehab, died, and been reborn every time you go off on one of your vision quests.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 11:51:10 am

Oh, you

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 31, 2017, 12:03:00 pm

Quote from: Yes, that JULIAN on May 31, 2017, 11:48:36 am

Quote from: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 11:29:03 am
Quote from: Yes, that JULIAN on May 31, 2017, 10:04:15 am
Quote from: vansmack on May 30, 2017, 06:31:26 pm
Quote from: Relaxer on May 30, 2017, 05:04:47 pm
Seriously, he sucked. Just a cynical self-mythologized blowhard in love his atonal voice spewing worthless nostalgic garbage that's just a few steps away from MAGA hat material.

Wait. Which Boardie died?
We've been over this: if someone doesn't post for two weeks, they're in rehab. If they go a third week without posting, safe to assume they're dead.

Longer than that . . . they're, walkie.
I assume you've ODed, went to rehab, died, and been reborn every time you go off on one of your vision quests.

Or been tied up, ball gagged, and chained to Rat Bastard's riding mower.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 12:24:49 pm

G,url. Hot.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 31, 2017, 02:22:24 pm

Quote from: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 11:27:52 am

The last time she interviewed on Stern, I was surprised to learn that she's worth a fuckload of money.

It's more than I'll ever have, but in terms of Hollywood types, can 20 million really be considered "a fuckload of money"?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 02:36:51 pm

For a female comedian . . . yes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 31, 2017, 02:38:37 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 31, 2017, 02:22:24 pm

Quote from: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 11:27:52 am
The last time she interviewed on Stern, I was surprised to learn that she's worth a fuckload of money.

It's more than I'll ever have, but in terms of Hollywood types, can 20 million really be considered "a fuckload of money"?

lolwut

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 31, 2017, 02:47:03 pm

the thing about her is she is totally not funny.. in fact she's unfunny.. really can't stand her...never understood why so many find her funny...

now its tough to argue with her being fired even for me..i think she crossed a line..as much as i loathe trump and the republicans

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 31, 2017, 02:56:23 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 31, 2017, 02:22:24 pm

can 20 million really be considered "a fuckload of money"?

You forgot to log in as Julian.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 31, 2017, 03:27:03 pm

Quote from: Yes, that JULIAN on May 31, 2017, 02:56:23 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 31, 2017, 02:22:24 pm
can 20 million really be considered "a fuckload of money"?
You forgot to log in as Julian.

that was META.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 31, 2017, 03:27:47 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on May 31, 2017, 03:27:03 pm

Quote from: Yes, that JULIAN on May 31, 2017, 02:56:23 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on May 31, 2017, 02:22:24 pm
can 20 million really be considered "a fuckload of money"?
You forgot to log in as Julian.

that was META.

It would've been double-META had you asked "Julian, like you, JULIAN?" and I responded "Yes, that JULIAN."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 31, 2017, 03:46:50 pm

Quote from: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 02:36:51 pm

For a female comedian . . . yes.

Chelsea Handler has twice that much. Plus a nice rack.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 06:31:21 pm

And, who else. Kathy was young and beautiful too. Now . . . well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 01, 2017, 08:32:49 am

Quote from: Space Freely on May 31, 2017, 03:46:50 pm

Quote from: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 02:36:51 pm
For a female comedian . . . yes.

Chelsea Handler has twice that much. Plus a nice rack.

I was also surprised to learn that Sarah Silverman is only worth 3.5 million. She has a nice rack too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 01, 2017, 08:42:52 am

Quote from: Space Freely on June 01, 2017, 08:32:49 am

Quote from: Space Freely on May 31, 2017, 03:46:50 pm
Quote from: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 02:36:51 pm
For a female comedian . . . yes.

Chelsea Handler has twice that much. Plus a nice rack.

I was also surprised to learn that Sarah Silverman is only worth 3.5 million. She has a nice rack too.

You seem to have easy access to a lot of celebrity financial planners.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 01, 2017, 09:06:49 am

Quote from: Yada on June 01, 2017, 08:42:52 am

Quote from: Space Freely on June 01, 2017, 08:32:49 am
Quote from: Space Freely on May 31, 2017, 03:46:50 pm
Quote from: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 02:36:51 pm
For a female comedian . . . yes.

Chelsea Handler has twice that much. Plus a nice rack.

I was also surprised to learn that Sarah Silverman is only worth 3.5 million. She has a nice rack too.

You seem to have easy access to a lot of celebrity financial planners.

This google thing never lies, does it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 01, 2017, 10:37:33 am

GWAR is a little upset that Kathy stole their bit as they did it first (http://www.metalsucks.net/2017/06/01/reminder-gwar-and-brujeria-severed-trumps-head-before-kathy-griffin-did/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 01, 2017, 01:23:29 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 01, 2017, 08:42:52 am

Quote from: Space Freely on June 01, 2017, 08:32:49 am
Quote from: Space Freely on May 31, 2017, 03:46:50 pm
Quote from: herman otto on May 31, 2017, 02:36:51 pm
For a female comedian . . . yes.

Chelsea Handler has twice that much. Plus a nice rack.

I was also surprised to learn that Sarah Silverman is only worth 3.5 million. She has a nice rack too.

You seem to have easy access to a lot of celebrity financial planners.

and a quick recall of their relative breast dimensions.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 10, 2017, 11:24:47 am

(http://hollywoodshow.com/store/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/0/1/011_1_23.jpg) (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/adam-west-dead-batman-star-832264)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on June 13, 2017, 10:46:25 pm

Anita Pallenberg (http://www.vogue.com/article/anita-pallenberg-dies-age-73-obituary)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 15, 2017, 02:43:21 pm

Jim Graham (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/former-dc-council-member-jim-graham-has-died/2017/06/15/c5b96c54-51ee-11e7-91c9-68d33b3025aa_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_graham-145pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.262790a511c1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 16, 2017, 11:29:41 am

Quote from: shemptiness on June 15, 2017, 02:43:21 pm

Jim Graham (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/former-dc-council-member-jim-graham-has-died/2017/06/15/c5b96c54-51ee-11e7-91c9-68d33b3025aa_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_graham-145pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.262790a511c1)

He will be missed, was proud to have him as my ward rep

I swear I just heard him on the radio like 3 days ago

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 16, 2017, 11:36:50 am

Anita Pallenberg

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 16, 2017, 12:09:54 pm

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, largely credited with reunification, dies at 87. (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40307918)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 16, 2017, 01:33:06 pm

Quote from: vansmack on June 16, 2017, 12:09:54 pm

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, largely credited with reunification, dies at 87. (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40307918)

I was going to say but the article mentions how Merkel was a Kohl protege... many people don't realize she came from East Germany and rose very quickly up the party ranks due to Kohl once reunification happened.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on June 16, 2017, 03:26:00 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on June 15, 2017, 02:43:21 pm

Jim Graham (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/former-dc-council-member-jim-graham-has-died/2017/06/15/c5b96c54-51ee-11e7-91c9-68d33b3025aa_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_graham-145pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.262790a511c1)

would run into him at the most random times and places in nova.
always up for a chat.
one of the good guys, for sure.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 18, 2017, 09:53:46 am

(http://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/77/17/1964475306-l.jpg)

Flounder (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-mm-stephen-furst-20170617-story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on June 19, 2017, 02:20:19 pm

Quote

Carrie Fisher had cocaine, methadone, heroin and ecstasy in her system when she died in December, according to an autopsy report released Monday.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 19, 2017, 02:24:47 pm

So lame to make that public...the woman is dead

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 19, 2017, 02:42:15 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 19, 2017, 02:24:47 pm

So lame to make that public...the woman is dead

she went out ragin' that's for sure.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on June 19, 2017, 02:50:40 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 19, 2017, 02:24:47 pm

So lame to make that public...the woman is dead

I think an argument could be made for releasing this. All we knew is that she got on an airplane and when the plane landed, she was dead. So there were all sorts of questions. Plus if you choose to be a public figure and make public figure money and get public figure benefits, then this is the price you pay.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on June 19, 2017, 02:51:32 pm

Has Scott Baio commented on these new developments?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on June 19, 2017, 04:42:24 pm

That dude that was in a coma in North Korea. Kinda feel sad about that one.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 19, 2017, 05:37:57 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on June 19, 2017, 04:42:24 pm

That dude that was in a coma in North Korea. Kinda feel sad about that one.

just awful..

terrible

you know if Hillary was president she'd be getting it left and right about how they don't respect us.. but Trump seems to be innoculated against such charges.. not sure why... there have been plenty of examples the past few months of situations where one could argue a disrespect has been shown towards the United States.. not once I think have I read an article about how they're walking all over us.. something the right wing specialized in during the Obama presidency... I understand that the torture likely happened during the time Obama was president but Trump is president now.. we didn't know about his condition until a few weeks ago.. where is the reaction? Maybe its coming... I'm not a warmonger but this behavior towards an American citizen in captivity is really disturbing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MAGA 2020 on June 20, 2017, 02:15:44 pm

Prodigy of Mobb Deep

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on June 21, 2017, 10:06:54 am

I imagine Julian is pairing a black armband with his pink chambray shirt today:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/style/carla-fendi-dead-fashion-pioneer.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 21, 2017, 10:11:30 am

Quote from: ggw on June 21, 2017, 10:06:54 am

I imagine Julian is pairing a black armband with his pink chambray shirt today:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/style/carla-fendi-dead-fashion-pioneer.html

I don't give a shit about Fendi. Now, that Yves Saint Laurent retrospective at the VMFA currently. . . never forget.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on June 25, 2017, 09:17:25 am

The Stone Roses (again apparently)

So happy I got to see them at Madison Square Garden a year ago. That was one of the best concerts I've ever seen.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 25, 2017, 10:25:03 am

Reunion did their legacy no favors but their pockets are full

In the end two new songs in six years and a smattering of dates prioritizing festivals and large venues....couldnt have done less for their fans if they had tried..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 25, 2017, 09:46:08 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on June 25, 2017, 09:17:25 am

The Stone Roses

grrr...that sucks...asked for them in the Hey seth tread as I thought they'd be a great Anthem show

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on June 25, 2017, 10:47:32 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 25, 2017, 10:25:03 am

Reunion did their legacy no favors but their pockets are full

In the end two new songs in six years and a smattering of dates prioritizing festivals and large venues....couldnt have done less for their fans if they had tried..

I only saw 'em once (the rescheduled after McDonough Gum date) and it was disappointing. I always wanted to see a great show of theirs. Hope it'll happen

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: TheREALHunter on June 26, 2017, 07:02:49 am

Quote from: bearman🐻 on June 25, 2017, 09:17:25 am

The Stone Roses (again apparently)

So happy I got to see them at Madison Square Garden a year ago. That was one of the best concerts I've ever seen.

Arguably that may have been the best sounding show of their career.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 26, 2017, 07:04:26 am

Yah i was at that show....i think the issue is the singer cant sing...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: TheREALHunter on June 26, 2017, 07:24:33 am

Quote from: hutch on June 26, 2017, 07:04:26 am

Yah i was at that show....i think the issue is the singer cant sing...

With the Garden show being one of the exceptions where Ian sounded pretty damn good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 26, 2017, 09:34:07 am

Glad people enjoyed stone roses....usually i like reunions

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: TheREALHunter on June 26, 2017, 09:45:55 am

Quote from: hutch on June 26, 2017, 09:34:07 am

Glad people enjoyed stone roses....usually i like reunions

But not that one? haha

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 28, 2017, 12:55:30 pm

Dave Rosser

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 28, 2017, 07:24:01 pm

Gary DeCarlo, Singer Behind Steam's 'Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye,' Dies at 75 (http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/7849355/gary-decarlo-steam-singer-na-hey-hey-kiss-him-goodbye-dead?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral)

What do you suppose they'll play at the funeral?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 29, 2017, 03:24:43 pm

Dave Semenko, enforcer for the golden-era Oilers.

"Known as Gretzky's protector, former Edmonton Oiler Dave Semenko has passed away at the age of 59. His death comes after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. Kevin Karius takes a look at his career: https://www.facebook.com/GlobalEdmonton/videos/10154526109495927/ "

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 30, 2017, 09:19:00 am

another likely for hutch only:

Albert Minott
14/09/38 – 29/06/17

Albert, lead singer of The Jolly Boys mento band from 2009 passed peacefully sitting on his veranda today, he had suffered from respiratory problems for some time. After just completing a new Jolly Boys album he was ready to launch ‘Day O’ its signature song.

Albert will be remembered as the voice and figure who’s vibrant tones and eclectic dance moves re-launched the band onto the international music scene. Albert’s legacy will live on within the story of this 70 year old group, one of the longest existing bands in the world.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 30, 2017, 09:46:39 am

did a nice cover of Rehab (https://youtu.be/XOwl-bMfIkc)
but never heard of them until this post

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 06, 2017, 09:06:47 am

Pierre Henry (http://thequietus.com/articles/22780-pierre-henry-rip)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on July 06, 2017, 08:44:48 pm

Joan Lee

Wife, of Stan Lee, not wife of William Lee whom he shot in the head, in Naked Lunch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on July 08, 2017, 03:32:04 pm

Nelsan Ellis. Lafayette from, True Blood.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on July 08, 2017, 07:00:59 pm

WOW!!!

The Tobacco Company Restaurant in RVA. Fire. Total loss. Closed indefinitely.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 13, 2017, 12:55:31 pm

China's Conscience, Lui Xiaobo. (https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21725003-suffering-and-death-remarkable-political-prisoner-holds-message-china-and?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/20170713n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/na/46964/n)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 13, 2017, 02:33:10 pm

Per the Director:

2 Live Crew rapper Fresh Kid Ice dead at 53

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 13, 2017, 05:09:34 pm

I never realized there were any other "real" members other than Luke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 14, 2017, 09:19:25 pm

Hootie (https://apnews.com/859428acb11942c9a3a93fcb9d29dff1/Hootie-Johnson,-former-Augusta-National-chairman,-dies?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Sports)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 16, 2017, 06:26:16 pm

George A. Romero (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-george-romero-20170716-story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on July 16, 2017, 08:30:25 pm

Martin Landau

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 16, 2017, 09:36:03 pm

(https://davescorneroftheuniverse.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/lando-cape.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on July 17, 2017, 10:11:37 am

Billy Dee is not dead.

(http://epmgaa.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2016/03/28/billy-dee-williams_t580.jpg?8f1b5874916776826eb17d7e67de7278c987ca33)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 17, 2017, 03:13:18 pm

Quote from: ggw on July 17, 2017, 10:11:37 am

Billy Dee is not dead.

I know I'm a little annoyed at xcon for making me find out he's not

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 17, 2017, 04:03:51 pm

Sorry, wrong Landau.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on July 18, 2017, 05:25:21 pm

The band, Moe.

Cancer strikes again. Damn. Great, great band.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 19, 2017, 08:24:45 am

Walkys liver

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Kemosabe on July 20, 2017, 09:43:47 am

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40667429
French singer Barbara Weldens dies on stage in concert

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 20, 2017, 09:48:25 am

Quote from: Kemosabe on July 20, 2017, 09:43:47 am

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40667429
French singer Barbara Weldens dies on stage in concert

There's something very odd to me about the article including the detail that the village where this occurred is picturesque. Does that make this situation better, like, "oh, at least she died in a picturesque village"? Or does it make it markedly more tragic like "oh, even in the most picturesque of villages, still the icy hand of death can strike down a singer in their prime"? It's a very bizarre word choice tonally.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Kemosabe on July 20, 2017, 02:09:48 pm

http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/linkin-parks-chester-bennington-commits-suicide-rip

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 20, 2017, 03:00:40 pm

Chester, had 6 kids

jez what happened to the old days when rocknrollas would just OD or die in a plane crash

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Post by: ggw on July 20, 2017, 03:06:10 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEG5qaflnU

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 20, 2017, 04:07:36 pm

geez so today would have been cornell's birthday.. and bennington was the replacement in stone temple pilots

this has gotten completely ridiculous.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on July 20, 2017, 04:15:57 pm

And yet, thousands of non famous people commit suicide every day, and nobody gives a s***.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 20, 2017, 04:18:18 pm

Quote from: herman otto on July 20, 2017, 04:15:57 pm

And yet, thousands of non famous people commit suicide every day, and nobody gives a s***.

And yet, someone always chooses to throw this out as if the fact one chimes in about someone in particular dying means one doesn't care about other people..

I mean WTF?? Should be post shit like

Anonymous person committed suicide today somewhere someway

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 20, 2017, 04:18:53 pm

for Walkie:

Unknown person starved to death today in Horn of Africa nation.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 20, 2017, 04:25:26 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 20, 2017, 04:18:53 pm

for Walkie:

Unknown person starved to death today in Horn of Africa nation.

take it easy on walky, he needs a drink.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 20, 2017, 04:40:34 pm

Quote from: Yada on July 20, 2017, 04:25:26 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 20, 2017, 04:18:53 pm
for Walkie:

Unknown person starved to death today in Horn of Africa nation.

take it easy on walky, he needs a drink.

Confession: I thought of that before posting...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on July 20, 2017, 04:48:25 pm

My guess about the fascination with celebrity suicides is linked to some supposed satisfaction we'd expect to have in their situations. I'm guessing in a lot of ways satisfaction, like weight and credit goes faster and lasts longer when it's in negative territory (negative, so to speak).

Hypothetically:
Of course some other loser, nobody slob like "myself" would kill commit suicide. I know the kind of crap useless life I lead and it's amazing I haven't done it yet.

Confession: I'm about to start drinking. Small office, flask at work. It's the little things in life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 20, 2017, 04:50:08 pm

I dunno, I mean I always thought the guy who wrote the Linkin Park songs must be kinda depressed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 20, 2017, 04:53:27 pm

Quote from: evilizac on July 20, 2017, 04:48:25 pm

I'm about to start drinking.

Gin & Tonics?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on July 20, 2017, 05:13:48 pm

I feel like there's depressed depressed and then there's artistic depressed, nfortunately they are not mutually exclusive.
I never took much to gin. . . What am I missing? How terrible is diet tonic? Is it all downhill from here?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on July 20, 2017, 05:29:23 pm

Gin mixes beautifully with fresh watermelon puree and lemonade with a bit of mint. Just sayin'.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 20, 2017, 06:06:14 pm

man, sounds like evilzac is making a cry for help
does the 930 admin get a next of kin info?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on July 20, 2017, 06:14:42 pm

Quote from: ggw on July 20, 2017, 03:06:10 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNEG5qaflnU

DC101 played this today. Sounded great. DJ said they both were geniuses.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 21, 2017, 02:08:10 am

Quote from: Polymath-hatch🍺 |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🍺 on July 20, 2017, 06:06:14 pm

man, sounds like evilzac is making a cry for help

agreed. anyone who admits to being unable to mix gin into something tasty is clearly sending up big red flags...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 21, 2017, 08:22:36 am

Quote from: sweetcell on July 21, 2017, 02:08:10 am

Quote from: Polymath-hatch🍺 |̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅| 🍺 on July 20, 2017, 06:06:14 pm
man, sounds like evilzac is making a cry for help

agreed. anyone who admits to being unable to mix gin into something tasty is clearly sending up big red flags...

Guys, I'm on it. This is clearly my wheelhouse.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on July 21, 2017, 08:40:34 am

I'm almost clearly mostly fine, except for being a gin neophyte.
What would be a good starter gin and a low calorie mixer for the uninitiated?
Full disclosure: I purchased a bottle of Bombay Sapphire once about seven years ago and I've never been a vodka fan, to the chagrin of my more Russian family members.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 21, 2017, 08:50:31 am

A lot of your luxury premade tonic waters like Q Prime or Fever-Tree don't get into the Diet field (although Fever Tree has a "lower" calorie option).

What you want is to make your own. Jack rudy (https://jackrudycocktailco.com/) makes an amazing run of tonic syrups that you mix with regular water and is fantastic. These products never leave my home bar.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on July 21, 2017, 09:32:53 am

Mixers are for pussies.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on July 21, 2017, 12:08:14 pm

Try, Copper Fox "Vir-Gin" Damn, that shit is weird.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on July 21, 2017, 12:08:34 pm

oh . . . and Sean Spicey, out.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 21, 2017, 12:21:18 pm

Quote from: herman otto on July 21, 2017, 12:08:14 pm

Try, Copper Fox "Vir-Gin" Damn, that shit is weird.

The Bowman Brothers' distillery in Fredericksburg has some small batch one-off gins for sale onsite and some of them are borderline amazing.

The James River Distillery in Richmond has multiple gins and 2 of the 3 are really, really solid.

Green Hat in DC deserves some local gin love too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 21, 2017, 12:41:47 pm

Quote from: ggw on July 21, 2017, 09:32:53 am

Mixers are for pussies.

But pussies may be the best proof that God exists.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 21, 2017, 01:02:29 pm

Unknown person in bangladesh

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 21, 2017, 02:24:02 pm

Melissa McCarthy's reoccurring opening slot on SNL

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 22, 2017, 09:58:16 am

Jim Vance.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 22, 2017, 10:09:56 am

Quote from: excontradiction on July 22, 2017, 09:58:16 am

Jim Vance.

Fuck!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 22, 2017, 10:18:07 am

Bummer...always seemed like one of the good guys

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 22, 2017, 05:34:28 pm

Quote from: Yada on July 22, 2017, 10:09:56 am

Quote from: excontradiction on July 22, 2017, 09:58:16 am
Jim Vance.

Fuck!

This one bums me way more than the Lincoln Park guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 22, 2017, 06:33:23 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 22, 2017, 05:34:28 pm

Quote from: Yada on July 22, 2017, 10:09:56 am
Quote from: excontradiction on July 22, 2017, 09:58:16 am
Jim Vance.

Fuck!

This one bums me way more than the Lincoln Park guy.

in the words of walkie: HOW DARE YOU??? JUST BECAUSE HE IS A CELEBRITY!! Random people are dying all over the world..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 22, 2017, 08:59:17 pm

Up the fuck, shut

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 24, 2017, 10:38:59 am

Quote from: Kemosabe on July 20, 2017, 02:09:48 pm

http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/linkin-parks-chester-bennington-commits-suicide-rip

DEAR CHESTER
MON, JULY 24, 2017 AT 7:00 AM LINKIN PARK | 10 COMMENTS

Dear Chester,

Our hearts are broken. The shockwaves of grief and denial are still sweeping through our family as we come to grips with what has happened.

You touched so many lives, maybe even more than you realized. In the past few days, we’ve seen an outpouring of love and support, both public and private, from around the world. Talinda and the family appreciate it, and want the world to know that you were the best husband, son, and father; the family will never be whole without you.

Talking with you about the years ahead together, your excitement was infectious. Your absence leaves a void that can never be filled—a boisterous, funny, ambitious, creative, kind, generous voice in the room is missing. We’re trying to remind ourselves that the demons who took you away from us were always part of the deal. After all, it was the way you sang about those demons that made everyone fall in love with you in the first place. You fearlessly put them on display, and in doing so, brought us together and taught us to be more human. You had the biggest heart, and managed to wear it on your sleeve.

Our love for making and performing music is inextinguishable. While we don’t know what path our future may take, we know that each of our lives was made better by you. Thank you for that gift. We love you, and miss you so much.

Until we see you again,

LP

Visit Chester.LinkinPark.com

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 27, 2017, 01:06:07 am

June Foray, Voice of ‘Bullwinkle Show’s’ Natasha and Rocky (http://variety.com/2017/tv/people-news/june-foray-dead-dies-rocky-natasha-bullwinkle-1202508180/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MAGA 2020 on July 28, 2017, 01:24:06 pm

Cool "Disco" Dan...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 28, 2017, 01:28:56 pm

Also, Charlie Gard

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 31, 2017, 12:16:53 pm

Sam Shepard

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 31, 2017, 02:47:13 pm

Scaramucci out as Trump media chief (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40782299?ocid=socialflow_twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on July 31, 2017, 09:30:53 pm

Jeanne Moreau

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on August 02, 2017, 09:42:03 am

Jeff Brotman, founder of Costco. Great company, that treats its workers so well, that they never want to leave.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 07, 2017, 11:30:53 am

1979 AL MVP, Don Baylor succumbed to cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 07, 2017, 12:08:40 pm

Quote from: vansmack on August 07, 2017, 11:30:53 am

1979 AL MVP, Don Baylor succumbed to cancer.

If we're going to mention Don, we're going to mention Darren Daulton.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 07, 2017, 01:22:30 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 07, 2017, 12:08:40 pm

If we're going to mention Don, we're going to mention Darren Daulton.

Dutch died when If They Only Knew was published.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 07, 2017, 07:24:09 pm

Quote from: vansmack on August 07, 2017, 11:30:53 am

1979 AL MVP, Don Baylor succumbed to cancer.

I remember him like this...

(http://wiki.dee-nee.com/w/images/8/82/BaylorGrichOs.JPG)

And I can't forget this guy....

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ohaDnZOYJf0/TydNNhb2woI/AAAAAAAACj4/L-WNaXjyY_E/s1600/10F.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 08, 2017, 08:50:50 am

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGpShScXUAAqSTN.jpg:large)

Godzilla (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/world/asia/godzilla-actor-haruo-nakajima-japan.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 08, 2017, 04:36:23 pm

Glen Campbell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 08, 2017, 04:56:23 pm

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4387/36053818710_a4648b099e_z.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on August 09, 2017, 08:43:48 am

that guy died back in March

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 09, 2017, 08:46:08 am

Quote from: betao on August 09, 2017, 08:43:48 am

that guy died back in March

I feel like it was Labor Day weekend a few years back but memory is a fickle mistress.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 09, 2017, 09:15:41 am

The Verizon Center

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 09, 2017, 10:13:29 am

Quote from: excontradiction on August 09, 2017, 09:15:41 am

The Verizon Center

We can call it Cap Center now, right? Everyone's going to be cool with that, right?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: eddie on August 13, 2017, 08:31:07 pm

Fred Freak Smith

Beefeater, Strange Boutique

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 15, 2017, 07:33:43 pm

Joi “SJ” Harris, Pioneering Motorcycle Racer, Dies After Deadpool 2 Accident (https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/08/joi-sj-harris-deadpool-2-obit)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 18, 2017, 01:44:50 pm

Sir Bruce

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 18, 2017, 01:45:50 pm

Forsythe

(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/9E9C/production/_97440604_crop-index-forsyth-bbc.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 19, 2017, 10:25:21 pm

Dick Gregory

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on August 20, 2017, 02:35:46 pm

Jerry Lewis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 21, 2017, 02:55:25 pm

Sonny Burgess

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 23, 2017, 12:05:40 am

John Abercrombie

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 24, 2017, 03:45:55 pm

Jay Thomas (http://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/Actor-Jay-Thomas-Dies-at-69-441658903.html)

His great Lone Ranger story, as told on Letterman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfygCxkQZeY)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 24, 2017, 04:11:37 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on August 23, 2017, 12:05:40 am

John Abercrombie

Has anyone checked on Fitch to see how he's taking the news?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on August 31, 2017, 09:22:01 am

Roland Massimino

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 01, 2017, 01:37:42 pm

Oscar Goldman (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/arts/television/richard-anderson-dead-star-of-six-million-dollar-man.html?)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 01, 2017, 02:46:30 pm

Quote from: ggw on September 01, 2017, 01:37:42 pm

Oscar Goldman (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/arts/television/richard-anderson-dead-star-of-six-million-dollar-man.html?)

Well played.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 03, 2017, 09:59:24 am

Walter Becker (https://pitchfork.com/news/steely-dans-walter-becker-dead-at-67/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 05, 2017, 07:30:47 pm

Holger Czukay

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 05, 2017, 08:19:27 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 08, 2017, 06:05:43 pm

Don Williams (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/arts/music/don-williams-dead-country-singer.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 08, 2017, 08:47:58 pm

I just realized that I will be a complete mess when Neil Young dies. Not that it's imminent or anything. I just will never be ready for that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 08, 2017, 08:59:49 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on September 08, 2017, 08:47:58 pm

I just realized that I will be a complete mess when Neil Young dies. Not that it's imminent or anything. I just will never be ready for that.

All jocularity aside, I will take that very hard. Harder than Bowie or Prince. That one will hurt.

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Post by: herman otto on September 08, 2017, 10:09:58 pm

I, don't know Neil personally, so I'll just be a little sad.

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Post by: hutch on September 08, 2017, 10:14:26 pm

He will be an old man so I do not get the drama..all got to go sometime but Prince died way too young..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 09, 2017, 01:37:45 pm

Prince was making some bad, dangerous choices.

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Post by: shemptiness on September 11, 2017, 03:39:11 pm

Don Ohlmeyer (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/sports/don-ohlmeyer-dead-television-abc-nbc.html)

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 12, 2017, 06:18:46 am

Virgil Howe Drummer with Little Barrie and son of Steve Howe

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 12, 2017, 02:04:48 pm

another one to leave so soon

Beachwood Sparks’ Josh Schwartz Dead at 45

https://pitchfork.com/news/beachwood-sparks-josh-schwartz-dead-at-45/

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Post by: bearman🐻 on September 14, 2017, 07:03:42 am

This one hurts.

Grant Hart of Husker Du.

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 14, 2017, 07:40:30 am

yup fuck Cancer... Jessi Zazu singer for Those Darlins also passed away due to cancer, she was only 28 :(

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Post by: hutch on September 14, 2017, 08:16:17 am

That party lori barbero threw for grant was pure class

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 14, 2017, 08:58:07 am

Quote from: bearman🐻 on September 14, 2017, 07:03:42 am

This one hurts.
Grant Hart of Husker Du.

man that sucks...

bob mould posted this...
(https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-0/p261x260/21762874_10155650510815699_9087097463769106740_o.jpg?oh=35ed9049e42a92649d63f418cd587cac&oe=5A53C820)
It was the Fall of 1978. I was attending Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. One block from my dormitory was a tiny store called Cheapo Records. There was a PA system set up near the front door blaring punk rock. I went inside and ended up hanging out with the only person in the shop. His name was Grant Hart.

The next nine years of my life was spent side-by-side with Grant. We made amazing music together. We (almost) always agreed on how to present our collective work to the world. When we fought about the details, it was because we both cared. The band was our life. It was an amazing decade.

We stopped working together in January 1988. We went on to solo careers, fronting our own bands, finding different ways to tell our individual stories. We stayed in contact over the next 29 years — sometimes peaceful, sometimes difficult, sometimes through go-betweens. For better or worse, that’s how it was, and occasionally that’s what it is when two people care deeply about everything they built together.

The tragic news of Grant’s passing was not unexpected to me. My deepest condolences and thoughts to Grant’s family, friends, and fans around the world.

Grant Hart was a gifted visual artist, a wonderful story teller, and a frighteningly talented musician. Everyone touched by his spirit will always remember.

Godspeed, Grant. I miss you. Be with the angels.

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Post by: hutch on September 14, 2017, 09:27:56 am

Sometimes saying nothing is the better course....it is a shame Mould and Hart couldnt work things out...

I wonder if Bob Mould was invited to the "going away" party Lori threw for Grant a few months ago at First Avenue...

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Post by: Justin Tonation on September 14, 2017, 09:40:31 am

Quote from: hutch on September 14, 2017, 09:27:56 am

Sometimes saying nothing is the better course....it is a shame Mould and Hart couldnt work things out...

I wonder if Bob Mould was invited to the "going away" party Lori threw for Grant a few months ago at First Avenue...

A death sentence has a way of making someone get their affairs in order, and I suspect Grant's cancer hastened the effort to get HD's catalog reissued.

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Post by: bearman🐻 on September 14, 2017, 10:21:04 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on September 14, 2017, 09:40:31 am

Quote from: hutch on September 14, 2017, 09:27:56 am
Sometimes saying nothing is the better course....it is a shame Mould and Hart couldnt work things out...

I wonder if Bob Mould was invited to the "going away" party Lori threw for Grant a few months ago at First Avenue...

A death sentence has a way of making someone get their affairs in order, and I suspect Grant's cancer hastened the effort to get HD's catalog reissued.

Sometimes, time and the wisdom that can come with age will enable people to put some acrimonious feelings in the past. I would never speak for Bob or Greg, but I would imagine they can look back and understand that their musical legacy is not something to shy away from. It is something to embrace because what they did is significant. They deserve that respect. I get the sense that they all decided a while ago to become more civil (especially when SST owed them a ton of money...hey, sometimes we need a catalyst), but that's not something you blast out over social media. Especially now, none of the drama matters. What's the point. The music is really what matters. I only met Grant once. He was jocular and pleasant. He seemed grateful. It's not enough to know who he is, but I'm still sad because he was really gifted and I enjoyed his music. I know a lot of folks don't understand why it's sad when "famous" people die. But when music becomes personal, it's really difficult to isolate the emotions you feel from the person who created it. Because something they're saying resonates with you. The lyrics to "Flexible Flyer" always did it for me.

Down on my Flexible Flyer
To the bottom, how fast I would go
Just waiting for me under the tree
And out in the snow

A cowboy, a nurse or a fireman
There's so many things that you can be
You can set bigger goals, but set your soul
Yeah, set your soul free

Times, places and situations
Lead us to an early grave
When we get there we see
Just what did we save?

If your heart is a flame burning brightly
You'll have light and you'll never grow cold
And soon you will know that you just grow
You're not growing old

If the wheels of your wagon are rusty
You can paint them until they are new
You can roll down a hill, but if you can't
Then I pity you

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on September 14, 2017, 11:38:51 am

I found more comfort at age 14 in Zen Arcade than any other record ever in my life. It literally changed my whole world! People say all the time that this or that record changed their lives. Zen Arcade was that one for me, and it's never NOT been in regular rotation for more than 30 years.

And NOBODY ever sounded like ~~Greg~~ Grant behind the kit. His drumming style was so strange....it sometimes had this strange, loping shuffle to it, either right behind or right in front of the rest of the band. Taken on it's own it didn't really make sense to me, but it just fucking worked. And his songs had soul and heart....all right out there. This was crushing news to hear this morning.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 14, 2017, 11:41:58 am

Quote from: chaz on September 14, 2017, 11:38:51 am

And NOBODY ever sounded like ~~Greg~~ Grant behind the kit.

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Post by: Space Freely on September 14, 2017, 12:07:21 pm

Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry.

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Post by: evilizac on September 14, 2017, 12:17:52 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on September 14, 2017, 07:40:30 am

yup fuck Cancer... Jessi Zazu singer for Those Darlins also passed away due to cancer, she was only 28 :(

Not sure if this has been discussed at all, but I wonder if so many musicians die younger and younger of cancer partly because of a lack of medical insurance. I know the ACA has been talked about helping some musicians, but there are still costs in many cases. Also it may be something in the "artist type" to ignore early symptoms or signs that at least seeing a GP regularly might help. These folks are also usually more on the cult or inspiration tier of musicians. . . thinking back: Warren Zevon (Cancer), Alex Chilton (Heart Attack), Grant Hart and the more recent spate of younger artists who have dropped. Obviously universal healthcare isn't a panacea, but maybe if as a nation we were indoctrinated early about seeking regular health care there would be less untimely disease (and health malady) caused deaths.

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Post by: Yada on September 14, 2017, 12:39:52 pm

Quote from: evilizac on September 14, 2017, 12:17:52 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on September 14, 2017, 07:40:30 am
yup fuck Cancer... Jessi Zazu singer for Those Darlins also passed away due to cancer, she was only 28 :(

Not sure if this has been discussed at all, but I wonder if so many musicians die younger and younger of cancer partly because of a lack of medical insurance. I know the ACA has been talked about helping some musicians, but there are still costs in many cases. Also it may be something in the "artist type" to ignore early symptoms or signs that at least seeing a GP regularly might help. These folks are also usually more on the cult or inspiration tier of musicians. . . thinking back: Warren Zevon (Cancer), Alex Chilton (Heart Attack), Grant Hart and the more recent spate of younger artists who have dropped. Obviously universal healthcare isn't a panacea, but maybe if as a nation we were indoctrinated early about seeking regular health care there would be less untimely disease (and health malady) caused deaths.

I don't think there is any correlation. I think a shit load of people just die of cancer in general.

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Post by: hutch on September 14, 2017, 01:01:55 pm

totally agree.. a shitload of people in their 50s die from cancer.. i mean somebody is getting pancreatic/liver/bile duct cancer.. and that is almost guaranteed painful slow death...

my good friend died from bile duct cancer about two and a half years ago...it was hard to watch and be around as he wasted away.... oh, yeah.. he was an attorney.

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Post by: Space Freely on September 14, 2017, 03:00:05 pm

Quote from: hutch on September 14, 2017, 01:01:55 pm

totally agree.. a shitload of people in their 50s die from cancer.. i mean somebody is getting pancreatic/liver/bile duct cancer.. and that is almost guaranteed painful slow death...

my good friend died from bile duct cancer about two and a half years ago...it was hard to watch and be around as he wasted away.... oh, yeah.. he was an attorney.

Plus, and I'm not saying this judgmentally, a lot of musicians lead lifestyles that probably leave them more susceptible to dying young. More so that the general population.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: herman otto on September 14, 2017, 05:51:17 pm

If you have eaten food grown in America over the past 20 years, then f*** yeah you're getting cancer. Monsanto, bitches.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 14, 2017, 07:04:45 pm

Quote from: herman, otto on September 14, 2017, 05:51:17 pm

If you have eaten food grown in America over the past 20 years, then f*** yeah you're getting cancer. Monsanto, bitches.

Fake conspiracy hoax.

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 15, 2017, 06:32:09 am

The Cassini spacecraft.
While I didn't know you personally, you made an impact on my life

VIP (Vaporize In Peace): 2004-2017 (stolen from NDT)
(I know you are gone...the signal hasn't reached us yet)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on September 15, 2017, 09:25:04 am

Quote from: hutch on September 14, 2017, 01:01:55 pm

totally agree.. a shitload of people in their 50s die from cancer.. i mean somebody is getting pancreatic/liver/bile duct cancer.. and that is almost guaranteed painful slow death...

Grant died of liver cancer, which was preceded by hepatitis, which in his case was probably contracted via IV drug use. So in his case as is the case of many, there is a pretty good chance his cancer can be traced back to poor lifestyle choices.

Doesn't make it any less tragic or sad in my eyes....just sayin'.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 15, 2017, 10:02:38 am

People find comfort in thinking others die from doing something wrong that they themselves are not doing. Therefore, often when someone dies there is a race to find out why and make sense of the death as being in some way justified.

This all stems from our societywide obsessive fear of death...

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 15, 2017, 10:46:18 am

Billy Batts -Phil Leotardo (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/frank-vincent-dead-phil-leotardo-sopranos-was-78-1038726)
(https://dorislife.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/68626-shinebox.gif?w=333&h=171)

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Post by: shemptiness on September 15, 2017, 08:02:51 pm

Harry Dean Stanton

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 15, 2017, 11:18:13 pm

This photo essay on HDS is awesome. god he was in so many good films
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2017/sep/15/a-life-in-pictures-harry-dean-stanton

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Post by: Space Freely on September 18, 2017, 10:42:01 pm

Bobby the Brain Heenan

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 20, 2017, 12:46:09 pm

Jake LaMotta

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Post by: sweetcell on September 20, 2017, 11:44:08 pm

The Man Who Singlehandedly Saved The World (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/18/551792129/stanislav-petrov-the-man-who-saved-the-world-dies-at-77)

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 21, 2017, 04:27:18 am

Damn. I had a feeling we might need him again.

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 21, 2017, 10:32:03 am

Quote from: sweetcell on September 20, 2017, 11:44:08 pm

The Man Who Singlehandedly Saved The World (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/18/551792129/stanislav-petrov-the-man-who-saved-the-world-dies-at-77)

I don't read my own press clippings.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MAGA 2020 on September 21, 2017, 03:49:40 pm

President of Lamda Lamda Lamda

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bernie-casey-dead-actor-nfl-910749

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Post by: challenged on September 23, 2017, 02:00:54 pm

Charles Bradley, RIP

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Post by: Justin Tonation on September 28, 2017, 12:00:40 am

(https://peopledotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/hugh-hefner-5-2000.jpg?w=2000&h=1333)

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Post by: rich_WDC on September 28, 2017, 12:16:43 pm

Barry Dennen

He was Pontius Pilate on the original "brown album" of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR -- a seminal recording for many rock stars and fans. Also was Pilate in the 1973 movie version and played King Herod on tour in the 2000s.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 28, 2017, 12:39:21 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on September 28, 2017, 12:16:43 pm

the original "brown album" of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR -- a seminal recording for many rock stars and fans

. . . and lapsed Catholics with an affinity for musical theater.

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Post by: vansmack on September 28, 2017, 12:45:13 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on September 28, 2017, 12:16:43 pm

Barry Dennen

He was Pontius Pilate on the original "brown album" of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR -- a seminal recording for many rock stars and fans. Also was Pilate in the 1973 movie version and played King Herod on tour in the 2000s.

The Original London Concept Album and the only version one should listen to....

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 28, 2017, 12:55:09 pm

Quote from: Julian, a Lust for GLORY on September 28, 2017, 12:39:21 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on September 28, 2017, 12:16:43 pm
the original "brown album" of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR -- a seminal recording for many rock stars and fans
. . . and lapsed Catholics with an affinity for musical theater.

Point in hand:

Quote from: vansmack on September 28, 2017, 12:45:13 pm

The Original London Concept Album and the only version one should listen to....

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Post by: dyecraig on September 28, 2017, 12:58:18 pm

cedell davis

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Post by: sweetcell on September 28, 2017, 01:05:37 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on September 28, 2017, 12:00:40 am

(https://peopledotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/hugh-hefner-5-2000.jpg?w=2000&h=1333)

has anyone checked in on Space today? he must be crushed...

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Post by: Space Freely on September 28, 2017, 03:41:07 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 28, 2017, 01:05:37 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on September 28, 2017, 12:00:40 am
(https://peopledotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/hugh-hefner-5-2000.jpg?w=2000&h=1333)

has anyone checked in on Space today? he must be crushed...

Playboy was at its' best during the bush years.

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Post by: Justin Tonation on September 30, 2017, 06:38:18 pm

(http://www.tvparty.com/bgifs5/montyhead.jpg)

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Post by: Yada on October 02, 2017, 03:20:52 pm

hopefully not Tom Petty... I knew I should've went to see him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 02, 2017, 03:31:04 pm

Oh no..not petty

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on October 02, 2017, 04:15:58 pm

Quote from: hutch on October 02, 2017, 03:31:04 pm

Oh no..not petty

WTF

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Post by: bearman🐻 on October 02, 2017, 04:25:35 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on October 02, 2017, 04:15:58 pm

Quote from: hutch on October 02, 2017, 03:31:04 pm
Oh no..not petty
WTF

Cannot handle the news anymore. Petty just did a show a week ago too. Seems so sudden.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hemisphire on October 02, 2017, 04:55:43 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on October 02, 2017, 04:15:58 pm

Quote from: hutch on October 02, 2017, 03:31:04 pm
Oh no..not petty
WTF

https://soundcloud.com/kctaper/03-knockin-on-heavens-door

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Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 02, 2017, 05:12:08 pm

fuck

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Post by: K8teebug on October 02, 2017, 05:43:39 pm

today sucks.

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Post by: K8teebug on October 02, 2017, 05:46:51 pm

Tom Petty is still alive, but off life support.

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Post by: sweetcell on October 02, 2017, 05:50:59 pm

as of 5:45 pm EST, i'm reading that the reports of petty's death have been retracted. he's in hospital, possibly following a heart attack. condition unknown.

@USATODAY 17 minutes ago
UPDATE: Initial reports of Tom Petty's death have been retracted. His current status is unclear. https://t.co/h0ryVUtyAV

Reports: Rocker Tom Petty hospitalized; condition unclear (https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2017/10/02/report-rocker-tom-petty-dead-66/724545001/#)

LAPD walks back report Tom Petty has died (http://ew.com/music/2017/10/02/tom-petty-dead/)

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/tom-petty-hospitalized-status-unknown/story?id=50238552

http://www.tmz.com/2017/10/02/tom-petty-found-unconscious-full-cardiac-arrest/

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Post by: ggw on October 02, 2017, 06:29:44 pm

He won't back down

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Post by: vansmack on October 02, 2017, 06:53:13 pm

Quote from: ggw on October 02, 2017, 06:29:44 pm

He won't back down

Even the losers get lucky sometimes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 03, 2017, 12:14:12 am

at 12:10 am, i got a notification that Petty's passing had been confirmed. fuck.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/arts/music/tom-petty-dead.html

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Post by: herman otto on October 03, 2017, 12:32:58 am

at a restaurant, this evening . . . the sonos system they had kept playing a lot of his songs, as if the future ghost of petty was controlling the music. he's now learning to fly, and he got those wings.

they even played, some traveling wilburys songs, and gosh darn it, I loved that band.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 03, 2017, 06:23:15 am

Sad...

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Post by: ggw on October 03, 2017, 11:07:32 am

Tom Paley (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/obituaries/tom-paley-dead.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 03, 2017, 11:39:38 am

Quote from: ggw on October 03, 2017, 11:07:32 am

Tom Paley (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/obituaries/tom-paley-dead.html)

Tom Paxton is probably feeling a little uneasy right about now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 03, 2017, 12:06:01 pm

This was a fun read.

http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/tom-petty-still-wont-back-down-20151020

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 04, 2017, 10:26:35 am

Yah a good read even if big fans know most of it...i love Walls!!!

Petty also hates Echo which is a really important album in my life.

Of course after the interview we learned he had a major issue with heroin...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 04, 2017, 11:46:19 am

Rather sad that there's a reason to post this on here for the second straight year, but even if there weren't, watching this would never get old. Nice to read about it from the Petty perspective.

http://diffuser.fm/prince-while-my-guitar-gently-weeps/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 04, 2017, 07:35:24 pm

Primal scream guy (no, the actual scream) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/arthur-janov-psychologist-who-created-the-primal-scream-dies-at-93/2017/10/04/03ab9f9e-a85e-11e7-b3aa-c0e2e1d41e38_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-obit%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.27555a56e8b8)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on October 04, 2017, 09:18:56 pm

Listen To Her Heart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX2ncOG6Sg0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 06, 2017, 06:40:49 pm

Ralph's May, 45
https://g.co/kgs/vTHhu6

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 07, 2017, 11:45:25 am

Bunny Sigler (https://wtop.com/music/2017/10/bunny-sigler-who-helped-create-1970s-philly-sound-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 08, 2017, 10:23:40 am

AIM (https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/6/16435690/aim-shutting-down-after-20-years-aol-instant-messenger)
Jules...are you going to have a wake?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 18, 2017, 09:09:34 am

We knew this was coming: Gord Downie (http://www.macleans.ca/gord-downie-obituary/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 18, 2017, 09:43:54 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on October 18, 2017, 09:09:34 am

We knew this was coming: Gord Downie (http://www.macleans.ca/gord-downie-obituary/)

Very sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 18, 2017, 01:54:29 pm

Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on the death of Gord Downie (http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2017/10/18/statement-prime-minister-canada-death-gord-downie)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 18, 2017, 03:16:38 pm

Quote from: ggw on October 18, 2017, 01:54:29 pm

Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on the death of Gord Downie (http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2017/10/18/statement-prime-minister-canada-death-gord-downie)

I'm still waiting for Trump's statement on Petty's death.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 19, 2017, 01:40:03 am

y'all beat me to it... i meant to post: Gordon Downie, frontman for the Tragically Hip, indigenous rights activist, and Canada's poet laureate, died today at age 53.

(https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/aaSG-i3Rs0-pgAiXQ4UZocCr5OM=/600x0/arc-anglerfish-tgam-prod-tgam.s3.amazonaws.com/public/CQO3D3NR6ZEFNH25R7Z3GDXGDU.JPG)

EDITED: i started to write a diatribe about how much his music meant to me, to that weird country up north, but it isn't coming out right, and let's face it, a lot of folks will have no idea what i'm rambling on about. so check out http://theglobeandmail.com (http://theglobeandmail.com) for some more coherent musings.

there is now talk of him receiving a state funeral. unbelievable that a rock musician would unite an entire country this way.

The Tragically Hip - Full Concert - 07/24/99 - Woodstock 99 East Stage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcK1P491lmk)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 19, 2017, 01:41:20 am

Quote from: ggw on October 18, 2017, 01:54:29 pm

Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada on the death of Gord Downie (http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2017/10/18/statement-prime-minister-canada-death-gord-downie)

Watch Justin Trudeau Cry Over the Death of Gord Downie (https://www.facebook.com/VICE/videos/1621137961276170/?hc_ref=ARRW-f8GS3jvENn8g0xi4H5SBuAZVpI8e5CSY_XMUZpfPwgJZO-BIrq4PuXTdj9Gso0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 19, 2017, 08:14:45 am

Quote from: sweetcell on October 19, 2017, 01:40:03 am

there is now talk of him receiving a state funeral. unbelievable that a rock musician would unite an entire country this way.

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One can only imagine the reaction that's going to occur when Bryan Adams passes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 19, 2017, 09:04:22 am

Not Ryan Adams please!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 24, 2017, 05:16:08 am

George Young member of the Easybeats and producer of the first five AC/DC records

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 24, 2017, 04:41:14 pm

Robert Guillaume (http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/robert-guillaume-dead-dies-benson-1202598171/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 24, 2017, 07:13:41 pm

Not benson!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 25, 2017, 10:55:52 am

Fats Domino

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 25, 2017, 11:41:32 am

Quote from: Yada on October 25, 2017, 10:55:52 am

Fats Domino

Can confirm.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 25, 2017, 12:10:22 pm

Ouch...chuck berry and fats in same year....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 25, 2017, 01:15:33 pm

Quote from: hutch on October 25, 2017, 12:10:22 pm

Ouch...chuck berry and fats in same year....

And Benson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 25, 2017, 01:18:00 pm

Not Benson!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on October 25, 2017, 03:08:29 pm

Looks like Fats was sinkable afterall.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 02, 2017, 08:38:13 pm

DCist

www.dcist.com

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 06, 2017, 06:54:02 pm

Sid Catlett, Star Of The Greatest High School Hoops Game Ever Played (https://deadspin.com/sid-catlett-star-of-the-greatest-high-school-hoops-gam-1820152692)

By Dave McKenna - a good read

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 07, 2017, 06:00:00 pm

Cy young winner roy halladay

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 10, 2017, 07:51:33 am

Higgins (http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/09/entertainment/john-hillerman-magnum-p-i--actor-dead-at-84/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 10, 2017, 10:27:07 am

He displayed the acting range of a mountain weekly...

Fun fact: I was in Waikiki when they shot the Magnum PI pilot

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 10, 2017, 10:58:58 am

Quote from: hutch on November 10, 2017, 10:27:07 am

Fun fact: I was in Waikiki when they shot the Magnum PI pilot

As a fertilized agg, or just an ambitious spermatazoon?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: conorh98 on November 10, 2017, 05:00:52 pm

Fred Cole (Dead Moon, Pierced Arrows, Rats, Range Rats, and probably another dozen or so great bands). Very sad news.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 10, 2017, 06:03:59 pm

Chuck Mosley, Faith No More singer (http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8031275/chuck-mosley-faith-no-more-former-frontman-dead-57?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on November 10, 2017, 07:13:10 pm

paul buckmaster - orchestral arranger for bowie, elton, nilsson.
immediately recognizable musical style.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 11, 2017, 06:19:23 pm

Damn....the whole generation of geniuses is dying...

He did space oddity right?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on November 11, 2017, 06:39:27 pm

Quote from: hutch on November 11, 2017, 06:19:23 pm

Damn....the whole generation of geniuses is dying...

He did space oddity right?

yup.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 12, 2017, 07:26:48 pm

I here that Liz Smith (https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Columnist-Liz-Smith-Dies-WNBC-Live-at-Five-457065723.html) has died. Can you believe it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 16, 2017, 12:01:31 pm

Lil Peep

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 16, 2017, 12:25:31 pm

Peep

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 16, 2017, 01:07:57 pm

I asked my urban music consigliere how he was handling the news of his passing and he said:

“Lol its ****** and man I ain’t worried bout that crusty ass lean addict with his wack music lls”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 16, 2017, 02:31:54 pm

Al Franken's presidential aspirations. Of course he'd be fine if he were a Republican.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 16, 2017, 02:42:38 pm

Not sure he had aspirations but i am bummed...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 16, 2017, 02:53:10 pm

Quote from: hutch on November 16, 2017, 02:42:38 pm

Not sure he had aspirations but i am bummed...

Meant to say "if he had any."

I think he should resign if Trump resigns for the same thing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 16, 2017, 03:04:40 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 16, 2017, 02:53:10 pm

I think he should resign if Trump resigns for the same thing.

Fair is fair.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 18, 2017, 09:36:48 am

Malcom Young

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 18, 2017, 10:11:51 am

Ouch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 18, 2017, 10:42:26 am

An Australian diplomat fell to his death from the balcony of his Manhattan apartment on Wednesday morning after a night out celebrating Australia’s “yes” vote for gay marriage, the police said.

The diplomat, Julian Simpson, 30, had returned home with friends and headed to the seventh-floor balcony of his Clinton Street apartment on the Lower East Side to take in the Empire State Building. The spire was lit in rainbow colors that night to celebrate the Australian decision, in which more than 60 percent of the over 12 million voters who turned out on Wednesday approved legalizing gay marriage.

On the balcony, at about 1:30 a.m., Mr. Simpson, who served as second secretary to the Australian mission, began to twirl around a female colleague, distressing her, according to the police. A few moments later back inside, he was confronted by her husband, the police said. The two men stepped back out to the balcony. There, Mr. Simpson told his colleague’s husband that his intentions were never to scare his wife, according to a police official who declined to be named because the investigation is continuing.

By means of an apology, the police official said, Mr. Simpson suggested the two play a so-called trust game. “I will prove it that you can trust me,” Mr. Simpson told the colleague’s husband, the official said. “Let’s play the trust game.” In the course of the game, which was not described, Mr. Simpson fell off the balcony, landing five stories below.

The death is being treated as an accident, said Sgt. Lee Jones, a spokesman for the New York Police Department. Mr. Simpson was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Medical Center.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 18, 2017, 06:31:48 pm

BOLO David Cassidy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 19, 2017, 01:08:14 pm

Mel Tillis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 19, 2017, 10:13:30 pm

Grandpa Huxtable

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 20, 2017, 01:57:29 am

Charles Manson (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2017/11/20/charles-manson-the-fiery-eyed-cult-leader-whose-savagery-shocked-the-nation-dies-at-83/?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 20, 2017, 07:02:21 am

Jana Novotna, 1998 Wimbledon Champ (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/nov/20/jana-novotna-dies-aged-49-former-wimbledon-tennis-champion)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 20, 2017, 09:30:14 am

Quote from: shemptiness on November 19, 2017, 01:08:14 pm

Mel Tillis

Well that'sssss p-p-probably one l-l-l-less T-Trump voter.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 20, 2017, 09:30:38 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 20, 2017, 01:57:29 am

Charles Manson (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2017/11/20/charles-manson-the-fiery-eyed-cult-leader-whose-savagery-shocked-the-nation-dies-at-83/?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar)

Well that's probably one less Trump voter.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 20, 2017, 10:05:03 am

Quote from: Space Freely on November 20, 2017, 09:30:38 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 20, 2017, 01:57:29 am
Charles Manson (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2017/11/20/charles-manson-the-fiery-eyed-cult-leader-whose-savagery-shocked-the-nation-dies-at-83/?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar)

Well that's probably one less Trump voter.

Unable to confirm.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 20, 2017, 10:56:31 am

http://m.sfgate.com/politics/article/Charles-Manson-election-thoughts-prison-letter-9211022.php

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 20, 2017, 11:22:01 am

Quote from: Space Freely on November 20, 2017, 09:30:38 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 20, 2017, 01:57:29 am
Charles Manson (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2017/11/20/charles-manson-the-fiery-eyed-cult-leader-whose-savagery-shocked-the-nation-dies-at-83/?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar)

Well that's probably one less Trump voter.

Andy borowitz had a funny quote
Trump Drops Manson from List of Supreme Court Picks

I'm pretty sure manson couldn't vote either

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 20, 2017, 12:13:08 pm

Quote from: Brother Love Hatch🚀🚀🚀🚀 on November 20, 2017, 11:22:01 am

I'm pretty sure manson couldn't vote either

Correct, In CA individuals convicted of a felony are ineligible to vote while incarcerated and on parole.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 20, 2017, 12:20:36 pm

Quote from: Brother Love Hatch🚀🚀🚀🚀 on November 20, 2017, 11:22:01 am

Quote from: Space Freely on November 20, 2017, 09:30:38 am
Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 20, 2017, 01:57:29 am
Charles Manson (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2017/11/20/charles-manson-the-fiery-eyed-cult-leader-whose-savagery-shocked-the-nation-dies-at-83/?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar)

Well that's probably one less Trump voter.
Andy borowitz had a funny quote
Trump Drops Manson from List of Supreme Court Picks

I'm pretty sure manson couldn't vote either

At least he had trial experience. (http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/11/11/senate_panel_approves_brett_j_talley_a_lawyer_without_trial_experience_for.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 20, 2017, 02:40:36 pm

Della Reese (http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/della-reese-touched-by-an-angel-star-and-rb-singer-dies-at-86-1202619311/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 20, 2017, 09:03:12 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 20, 2017, 01:57:29 am

Charles Manson (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2017/11/20/charles-manson-the-fiery-eyed-cult-leader-whose-savagery-shocked-the-nation-dies-at-83/?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar)

Should have died in the chair 40 years ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 21, 2017, 10:58:06 am

...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 21, 2017, 12:13:52 pm

Quote from: ggw on November 21, 2017, 10:58:06 am

...

Too soon?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 21, 2017, 03:13:02 pm

Net Neutrality (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/technology/fcc-net-neutrality.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 21, 2017, 10:16:05 pm

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fe/e5/16/fee516839b6397a281a3dc6ff9b927a2.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 22, 2017, 02:02:31 pm

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/dmitri-hvorostovsky-russian-rock-star-of-opera-dies-at-55/2017/11/22/b31629f6-cf8a-11e7-81bc-c55a220c8cbe_story.html?hpid=hp_regional-hp-cards_rhp-card-obits%3Ahomepage%2Fcard)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 23, 2017, 11:46:34 am

George Avakian (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/obituaries/george-avakian-dead-record-producer-and-talent-scout.html)

Over the course of a career that began when he was in college, Mr. Avakian (pronounced a-VOCK-ee-an) was involved in virtually every facet of the music industry. He helped popularize the long-playing record; organized the first jazz reissue series, preserving the recorded legacies of Louis Armstrong and other pioneers; and introduced Édith Piaf to American audiences.

He made his most lasting mark as a jazz producer with Columbia Records in the 1950s. He brought Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis to the label, helping to transform them from artists with a loyal but limited audience to international celebrities. He signed Johnny Mathis, then an unknown jazz singer, and oversaw his emergence as a chart-topping pop star. He persuaded Louis Armstrong to record the German theater song “Mack the Knife,” an unlikely vehicle that became one of his biggest hits. And he supervised the recording of Duke Ellington’s performance at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, which revitalized Ellington’s career.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 23, 2017, 12:07:24 pm

A heavyweight for sure

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on November 23, 2017, 08:19:28 pm

Umm... Tommy Keene. Saw it on a Paul Westerberg Facebook group.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 23, 2017, 08:50:23 pm

yup said news on Tommy Keene...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 23, 2017, 08:53:00 pm

Ugh..what???

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on November 23, 2017, 08:54:59 pm

Does anyone know what happened?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 23, 2017, 08:57:46 pm

His website says he "died peacefully in his sleep"

He was 59 years old.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on November 23, 2017, 09:22:06 pm

Was he sick?

This saddens me. He was always playing around town. And great every time I saw him.

Gonna miss him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 23, 2017, 11:21:06 pm

Fuck

(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23794883_1527361237349171_9150998273879450428_n.jpg?oh=149944e29e74417c3f629e0b67afdd59&oe=5AAA649F)

Opening for Matthew Sweet in Annapolis in September.

Fuck.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 24, 2017, 12:10:19 am

Sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 24, 2017, 12:22:12 am

Pretty sure that's Jay Bennett on lead guitar in this video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCj0nw24UaQ

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on November 24, 2017, 03:09:51 am

oh wow that's awful. R.I.P. Tommy Keene.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 24, 2017, 03:41:54 pm

I’m just glad Bags didn’t live long enough to see this news. Would’ve broken her heart.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 24, 2017, 04:57:22 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 24, 2017, 12:22:12 am

Pretty sure that's Jay Bennett on lead guitar in this video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCj0nw24UaQ

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/00/Keeneten.jpg/220px-Keeneten.jpg)

Additional musicians:
Jay Bennett - guitar on "Turning on Blue" and "We Started Over Again"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 24, 2017, 06:59:44 pm

https://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/the-scene/DC-Power-Pop-Rocker-Tommy-Keene-Dies-at-59-459629203.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on November 24, 2017, 09:39:20 pm

Quote from: Julian, Confirmation VIRTUOSO on November 24, 2017, 03:41:54 pm

I’m just glad Bags didn’t live long enough to see this news. Would’ve broken her heart.

h

Bags?

What happened to her?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 24, 2017, 10:25:51 pm

Pay him no mind. Its a bad joke.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 25, 2017, 07:23:16 am

the honorable gentleman from MD seconds this

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on November 25, 2017, 08:26:01 am

RIP Tommy, such awful news. Saw him at Birchmere in September, and at the Blackcat show as well, and maybe 15 other times. Booked him at college a million years ago. The Keene family has had it rough.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 25, 2017, 12:21:13 pm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/tommy-keene-power-pop-songwriter-and-star-of-80s-dc-music-scene-dies-at-59/2017/11/24/ed373d1c-d12b-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-musicians-and-fans-react-to-the-passing-1511550190-htmlstory.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 25, 2017, 03:59:02 pm

Quote from: Seth Hurwitz on November 24, 2017, 09:39:20 pm

Quote from: Julian, Confirmation VIRTUOSO on November 24, 2017, 03:41:54 pm
I’m just glad Bags didn’t live long enough to see this news. Would’ve broken her heart.
h

Bags?

What happened to her?

Why do you need to know what happened to Bags?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 26, 2017, 09:16:43 pm

(https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/11/25/Style/Images/Wayne_Cochran.JPG?uuid=PsuawNFYEeeoe0fxS3MWKg)

Wayne Cochran, 60's R&B singer (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/wayne-cochran-extraordinary-showman-of-60s-rhythm-and-blues-dies-at-78/2017/11/25/a1dc41d0-d137-11e7-a1a3-0d1e45a6de3d_story.html?utm_term=.9f00a8b0de25)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 28, 2017, 04:40:50 pm

The College Park RTX house.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 28, 2017, 05:19:43 pm

What is that?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 28, 2017, 05:44:23 pm

Record and Tape Exchange. They opened in the mid 70s and had a few locations. The last one (under different ownership) is in Fairfax.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 28, 2017, 05:49:09 pm

I did not know they had one in College Park..I know there is a CD depot there

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 28, 2017, 06:07:50 pm

Quote from: hutch on November 28, 2017, 05:49:09 pm

I did not know they had one in College Park..I know there is a CD depot there

I think it opened in 1977 in a small white house on RT 1, then moved to a nearby strip mall in the early 90s. I'm not sure when it closed but it's been at least 10 years. They also had locations in Annapolis and Bowie (where they sold "special import" LPs, aka bootlegs).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 28, 2017, 06:17:47 pm

So you are not saying the RTX but the house..i getcha..you sure you are not getting it confused with cd game exchange? They used to have one in college park too...on route 1

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 28, 2017, 07:05:27 pm

Quote from: hutch on November 28, 2017, 06:17:47 pm

So you are not saying the RTX but the house..i getcha..you sure you are not getting it confused with cd game exchange? They used to have one in college park too...on route 1

Game Exchange moved out years ago. It was only in CP a few years, never attaining much status. OTOH, College Park RTX was at least semi-legendary. After they moved out, the house hosted a skateboard shop, then Atomic Music, and lastly a cleaners and tux rental shop.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 28, 2017, 07:50:36 pm

Cool..you sure know your College Park...are there any record stores left there other than CD Depot which I have given up on..it is just too much of a mess and there is way too much moldy and beat to hell vinyl there

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 28, 2017, 08:20:38 pm

Quote from: hutch on November 28, 2017, 07:50:36 pm

Cool..you sure know your College Park...are there any record stores left there other than CD Depot which I have given up on..it is just too much of a mess and there is way too much moldy and beat to hell vinyl there

The Depot is all that remains (not counting Best Buy), unless there's some secret store I don't know about. I miss RTX, and the UMD Record Co-op in the student union.

I've also stopped going to CDepot. The owner caught the vinyl bug several years ago, and the worst form of the disease that makes you think anything vinyl is gold. So much garbage. Unnavigable with all those damn boxes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 29, 2017, 08:51:40 am

Pictures from malcolm's funeral made me sad...glad brian was there....phil too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 30, 2017, 02:00:52 pm

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ2MTEyNjMzMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwODE0MzQ2._V1_UY1200_CR81,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 30, 2017, 02:09:01 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 30, 2017, 02:00:52 pm

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ2MTEyNjMzMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwODE0MzQ2._V1_UY1200_CR81,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg)

For a second i thought this was the groper thread. RIP Gomer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 30, 2017, 02:16:41 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on November 30, 2017, 02:09:01 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 30, 2017, 02:00:52 pm
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ2MTEyNjMzMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwODE0MzQ2._V1_UY1200_CR81,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg)

For a second i thought this was the groper thread. RIP Gomer.

I never knew until just now that Jim Nabors was gay, like Walkie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 01, 2017, 05:45:41 pm

Vin Scully (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/obituaries/vincent-scully-97-influential-architecture-historian-dies.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2017, 07:40:19 pm

Vincent

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 03, 2017, 09:05:26 pm

seems silly to start a not dropping like flies just for this so

Pontiac Silverdome 1975 to the present (still standing,)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 03, 2017, 10:48:32 pm

Quote from: ggw on December 01, 2017, 05:45:41 pm

Vin Scully (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/obituaries/vincent-scully-97-influential-architecture-historian-dies.html)

Dont f with us dude. Vin Scully, Billy Graham, Norman Lear, and Betty White are going to live forever. Not necessarily in that order of preference.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 04, 2017, 09:27:56 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 03, 2017, 09:05:26 pm

Pontiac Silverdome 1975 to the present (still standing,)

More resilient than the Lions defense.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 04, 2017, 05:39:45 pm

(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/12/05/obituaries/05anderson1/05anderson1-master768.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 06, 2017, 03:02:54 am

Johnny Hallyday, the Elvis of France, dies at 74 (http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05/entertainment/johnny-hallyday-obit/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 07, 2017, 06:15:56 pm

William H. Gass (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/obituaries/william-h-gass-acclaimed-postmodern-author-dies-at-93.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 12, 2017, 09:09:37 am

Ed Lee (Mayor of San Francisco)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 13, 2017, 02:12:11 am

Pat DiNizio (http://variety.com/2017/music/news/pat-dinizio-smithereens-dead-1202638793/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 13, 2017, 08:43:29 am

Speechless

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 13, 2017, 09:29:06 am

This year couldn’t suck much more than it already does.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 13, 2017, 12:13:17 pm

fuck...that sucks about Pat

Will never forget the house party we had with him, what a great time. He was such a great guy and an amazing pop song writer
really loved that band and have fond memories of seeing them

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: slappy on December 13, 2017, 01:23:13 pm

Quote from: Brother Love Hatch🚀🚀🚀🚀 on December 13, 2017, 12:13:17 pm

fuck...that sucks about Pat

Will never forget the house party we had with him, what a great time. He was such a great guy and an amazing pop song writer
really loved that band and have fond memories of seeing them

Doubt it was as good as the pool party I had with Jim Nabors.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 13, 2017, 01:37:33 pm

Quote from: slappy on December 13, 2017, 01:23:13 pm

Quote from: Brother Love Hatch🚀🚀🚀🚀 on December 13, 2017, 12:13:17 pm
fuck...that sucks about Pat

Will never forget the house party we had with him, what a great time. He was such a great guy and an amazing pop song writer
really loved that band and have fond memories of seeing them

Doubt it was as good as the pool party I had with Jim Nabors.

Pales in comparison to the threesome I had with Lee Trevino and Ted Nugent.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 13, 2017, 03:27:33 pm

Quote from: slappy on December 13, 2017, 01:23:13 pm

Doubt it was as good as the pool party I had with Jim Nabors.

See, not too early...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 15, 2017, 05:36:35 pm

(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/12/15/arts/15nguini-obit1/15nguini-obit1-master768.jpg) (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/obituaries/vincent-nguini-guitarist-with-paul-simon-dies-at-65.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on December 17, 2017, 04:23:53 pm

ralph carney - saxophonist with tom waits and many others.
used to by reeds at a shop nearby.
stories for days.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 17, 2017, 07:39:28 pm

Industrial percussionist Z'EV (http://louderthanwar.com/rip-zev-industrial-music-legend-and-supreme-percussionist/#.Wjb51DYYapY.twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 17, 2017, 07:56:02 pm

Bugs Bunny designer Bob Givens (https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/12/r-i-p-bob-givens-bugs-bunny-designer-dies-at-age-99/?wasp=facebook-ads)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 18, 2017, 11:02:17 am

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4315/35885141261_09616bfeac_b.jpg)

Rock Photographer Bob Seidemann (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/us/bob-seidemann-photographer-dies.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 18, 2017, 12:05:22 pm

K-Pop superstar Kim Jong-Hyun (https://jezebel.com/k-pop-superstar-kim-jong-hyun-dies-at-27-1821383223)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 18, 2017, 02:06:33 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on December 18, 2017, 12:05:22 pm

K-Pop superstar Kim Jong-Hyun (https://jezebel.com/k-pop-superstar-kim-jong-hyun-dies-at-27-1821383223)

joins the fabled 27 club

also in that article...might have to change my screen name
Diddy, whom we are no longer calling Brother Love,
http://www.tmz.com/2017/11/10/diddy-brother-love-name-change-alter-egos/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 18, 2017, 02:14:12 pm

Ralph Carney...sax man...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 18, 2017, 10:18:36 pm

Keely Smith (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/keely-smith-nightclub-singing-sensation-with-husband-louis-prima-dies-at-89/2017/12/18/4057fa08-e3f2-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html?hpid=hp_regional-hp-cards_rhp-card-obits%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.3c846a5f2afe)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 18, 2017, 10:21:25 pm

Jack Boyle (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jack-boyle-concert-promoter-who-founded-a-music-empire-dies-at-83/2017/12/18/3e96a6aa-e402-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html?hpid=hp_regional-hp-cards_rhp-card-obits%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.eadfbd79f18e), Cellar Door owner and founder of Cellar Door Productions

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on December 20, 2017, 06:01:03 am

Reverend Jim Forrester of local heavy rockers Sixty Watt Shaman, Foghound and Serpents of Secrecy.

http://www.wbaltv.com/article/police-investigate-homicide-on-eastern-avenue/14463557

I saw him live several times and this is a shock. Just awful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 20, 2017, 10:44:42 am

(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/12/20/arts/20fox-obit1/20fox-obit1-facebookJumbo.jpg)

Renaissance Festival sword swallower Johnny Fox (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/obituaries/johnny-fox-sword-swallowing-showman-dies-at-64.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 20, 2017, 12:10:30 pm

Heather North, the voice of Scooby-Doo's Daphne, dies at 71. For over 30 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-42425616?__twitter_impression=true

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 20, 2017, 12:16:56 pm

Cellar door by all accounts was a great local co but it turned into live nation..ugh...sometimes i worry bout that happening with imp

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 20, 2017, 08:27:04 pm

DiNizio tribute show in NJ 1/13 will be streamed (http://fullinbloom.com/the-smithereens-stream-pat-dinizio-tribute-concert-count-basie-theatre-in-red-bank-nj/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 20, 2017, 08:57:25 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 20, 2017, 12:10:30 pm

Heather North, the voice of Scooby-Doo's Daphne, dies at 71. For over 30 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-42425616?__twitter_impression=true

Wow, she died for over 30 years? That's a long, slow death.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 21, 2017, 07:31:15 am

Scooby Snacks will get you every time

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 22, 2017, 12:03:53 pm

Dick N. Berg

I finally got one!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on December 22, 2017, 01:42:48 pm

I'm, glad to know, that his death, gets you bonus points on here.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 22, 2017, 03:29:12 pm

Dick Enberg

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 22, 2017, 03:33:58 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 22, 2017, 03:29:12 pm

Dick Enberg

No points for you!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on December 22, 2017, 03:42:21 pm

it's joe strummer day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 22, 2017, 04:01:13 pm

I thought I got points for spelling or is it Engberg?

He was good and always somewhat comforting

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 22, 2017, 04:02:54 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on December 22, 2017, 03:42:21 pm

it's joe strummer day.

now you just made me sad...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 22, 2017, 08:23:44 pm

Quote from: Pagan Hatch ♆ ✯ ㋡ 🖖 ⛄ on December 22, 2017, 04:02:54 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on December 22, 2017, 03:42:21 pm
it's joe strummer day.
now you just made me sad...

Me too. (http://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=4766.0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 23, 2017, 11:02:59 am

Quote from: vansmack on December 22, 2017, 08:23:44 pm

Quote from: Pagan Hatch ♆ ✯ ㋡ 🖖 ⛄ on December 22, 2017, 04:02:54 pm
Quote from: dyecraig on December 22, 2017, 03:42:21 pm
it's joe strummer day.
now you just made me sad...

Me too. (http://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=4766.0)

wow that pulled up this forshadowing post from me

Quote from: Pagan Hatch ♆ ✯ ㋡ 🖖 ⛄ on December 22, 2016, 06:43:08 pm

came up in my fb feed and was very sad
glad Kilsally isn't here to poop on this
As JS was the fuckin man and up there with the likes of Bowie and Prince IMO

can't believe we lost all three...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 23, 2017, 12:32:23 pm

My best friend of the past 20 years and his wife were both murdered Friday morning. Fucking. Heartbreaking. :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 23, 2017, 12:53:52 pm

Jesus. So sorry, Space.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on December 23, 2017, 01:08:45 pm

space . . . I love you on here. truly, a special person. a mind that makes me hard. I am sorry for the loss of your friends. god, now has other plans for them, beyond anything that we can understand. peace be with you, and their memory.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 23, 2017, 01:16:14 pm

Assume this is the story. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-investigate-fatal-shooting-in-fairfax-county/2017/12/22/715b8286-e71d-11e7-86d5-49919905d3e1_story.html?utm_term=.29d5d8bb46d4) So sorry.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 23, 2017, 01:52:43 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 23, 2017, 12:32:23 pm

My best friend of the past 20 years and his wife were both murdered Friday morning. Fucking. Heartbreaking. :'(

Dear heavens. So sorry for your loss. Let me know if you all need anything.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 23, 2017, 02:48:55 pm

Geez how brutal...sorry to hear that space

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 23, 2017, 02:57:24 pm

Their poor 10 year old son.....ugh

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 23, 2017, 03:57:34 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on December 23, 2017, 01:16:14 pm

Assume this is the story. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-investigate-fatal-shooting-in-fairfax-county/2017/12/22/715b8286-e71d-11e7-86d5-49919905d3e1_story.html?utm_term=.29d5d8bb46d4) So sorry.

Yes. Though this probably provides more details.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/teen-charged-with-killing-girlfriends-parents-they-had-worried-he-was-a-neo-nazi/2017/12/23/e2102894-e761-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html?utm_term=.211342d725c1 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/teen-charged-with-killing-girlfriends-parents-they-had-worried-he-was-a-neo-nazi/2017/12/23/e2102894-e761-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html?utm_term=.211342d725c1)

Thanks for your kind words everyone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on December 23, 2017, 04:13:35 pm

we're all with you, space.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 23, 2017, 04:35:36 pm

That article. Wowie wowie wow.

Please let us know if any fund is made for the kids.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 23, 2017, 07:22:40 pm

that is horrible, my condolences space

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on December 23, 2017, 11:10:54 pm

That's awful. My condolences, Space.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on December 24, 2017, 11:37:27 am

I'm at a loss of words after reading that. What is the world coming to.

So sorry for this, Space.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on December 25, 2017, 12:44:53 am

The more I read about it the sadder I get.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 25, 2017, 01:28:59 pm

So sorry for your loss, Rhett. This is undoubtedly hard on your daughter and wife as well. As Julian mentioned, please let us know if there is a gofundme effort for the kids or any other way we can be of help.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on December 25, 2017, 07:58:28 pm

Sick world we are living in. I'm sorry for your loss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 27, 2017, 09:50:17 am

William L Graham son of Katherine Graham of Washington Post fame

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 27, 2017, 12:17:25 pm

Jim Burns, co-creator of MTV Unplugged dies after freak accident in NY (https://www.inquisitr.com/4703230/jim-burns-co-creator-of-mtv-unplugged-dies-after-freak-accident-in-new-york-city/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 27, 2017, 12:46:49 pm

Holly Anderson, poet and artist who wrote Mission of Burma’s ‘Mica’ (http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2017/12/27/holly-anderson-misson-of-burma-lyrics/)

Holly Anderson, the poet and artist whose “White Story” — which she once described as “an anthem to being disconnected” — was turned into the Mission of Burma song “Mica” on the band’s 1982 debut album Vs., died last week, according to the St. Paul, Minn., Pioneer Press.

Anderson, 62, was one of the thousands of 9/11 relief workers diagnosed with cancer after breathing the toxic air at Ground Zero, according to the newspaper. She spent three months working at a relief center near the World Trade Center site following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on New York City.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 27, 2017, 06:52:58 pm

The Avalanche of Rock 'n Roll Death (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/style/rock-n-roll-obituary.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 28, 2017, 10:13:34 pm

Rose Marie (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rose-marie-dead-94_us_5a4590e3e4b06d1621b7e670?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 29, 2017, 12:43:28 pm

Larry Harris, Founder of Casablanca Records (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/obituaries/larry-harris-dead-casablanca-records.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 29, 2017, 02:06:50 pm

Washington Area Music Association

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 29, 2017, 04:52:23 pm

D is for Dropping Like Flies: Sue Grafton (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/29/574659653/sue-grafton-bestselling-author-of-kinsey-millhone-alphabet-mysteries-dies-at-77)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on January 02, 2018, 08:20:53 pm

rick hall of fame studios of muscle shoals, alabama

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 06, 2018, 04:09:45 pm

Jerry Van Dyke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 06, 2018, 04:13:27 pm

The guy from Coach?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 06, 2018, 04:27:19 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on January 06, 2018, 04:09:45 pm

Jerry Van Dyke

In 1973, he portrayed Wes Callison, News Writer, on the season four episode, "Son of 'But Seriously, Folks'" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. He also had roles in The Amazing Cosmic Awareness of Duffy Moon (1976) and 13 Queens Boulevard (1979). In 1988, he made a guest appearance on Scott Baio's sitcom Charles in Charge as Jamie Powell's health teacher, Mr. Merkin.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 06, 2018, 04:36:27 pm

On top of all his other accomplishments, John Young, who just passed away at age 87, was the first astronaut officially reprimanded by NASA because of actions during a space flight.

The reason: he smuggled a corned beef sandwich aboard Gemini 3. https://t.co/660l3RaDZ9

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 06, 2018, 04:40:18 pm

Yeah but Coach...awesome on it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 07, 2018, 11:47:18 am

France Gall nice piece of tail when she was young..sang song about poop

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 07, 2018, 04:59:14 pm

The Moody Blues’ Ray Thomas Has Died
https://www.stereogum.com/1977541/the-moody-blues-ray-thomas-has-died/news/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 07, 2018, 05:08:21 pm

Roy Thomas Baker was a jackass...also major coke head....see Kiedis autobiography

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 07, 2018, 05:47:32 pm

still ded tho, brah

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 07, 2018, 07:22:25 pm

Actually Roy Thomas baker is still alive

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 08, 2018, 11:48:34 pm

Tatsuro Toyoda, former head of Toyota, dies at 88 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/tatsuro-toyoda-former-head-of-toyota-dies-at-88/2018/01/07/af18d148-f30f-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html?hpid=hp_regional-hp-cards_rhp-card-obits%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&utm_term=.55c0881190ec)

The company name is spelled and pronounced with a “T,” instead of the “D’’ as in the family name, because it was considered to bring luck, according to fortune-telling.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 09, 2018, 04:20:46 pm

RIP Chompie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 09, 2018, 11:48:37 pm

Mikio Fujioka of baby metal

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on January 10, 2018, 04:50:50 am

I have heard that Harry "Jack" Reynolds of early 70's bands Silver Metre and Ashman Reynolds has passed away.

Silver Metre were a one shot band that also had Leigh Stevens of Blue Cheer fame and Pete Sears later of Jefferson Starship and Hot Tuna in their ranks. They released one lone album in 1970 and must have been big fans of Elton John as they covered two of his songs on there. Its cool if you are into hard rock of the period and I think they were quite underrated. R.I.P.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 10, 2018, 03:10:25 pm

Al Morris III

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on January 11, 2018, 05:50:10 am

Quote from: Stable Genius on January 10, 2018, 03:10:25 pm

Al Morris III

Ouch. The Maryland doom scene is taking heavy losses in the last few months. I know he had been ill with his worsening diabetes. Last time I saw Iron Man he was playing while sitting down and had to be helped up. Even with all that its still unexpected and sucky to hear this news. R.I.P. Al.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 11, 2018, 12:24:41 pm

Original Motörhead Guitarist Fast Eddie Clark Dies at 67 (https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2018/01/11/original-motorhead-guitarist-fast-eddie-clarke-dies-67/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on January 12, 2018, 05:00:51 am

Oh man. The original Motorhead trio is all gone. That is a huge bummer! R.I.P. Fast Eddie!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 13, 2018, 12:10:34 pm

Sportscaster Keith Jackson. He was simply one of the greats.

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WQicippGDJQ/hqdefault.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 13, 2018, 12:15:11 pm

Definitely great

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 13, 2018, 12:51:09 pm

Quote from: ggw on January 13, 2018, 12:10:34 pm

Sportscaster Keith Jackson. He was simply one of the greats.

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WQicippGDJQ/hqdefault.jpg)

As far as college fb goes, the absolute best. Not great, the best.

Whoa, Nelly.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on January 13, 2018, 04:17:27 pm

(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26230444_10155778825897745_4178532489087913463_n.png?oh=a4ef28261c5a42d5ae820147f08d392d&oe=5AE74D40)

the roof at merriweather

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on January 13, 2018, 06:16:39 pm

The photo of it is dramatic. Thank goodness nobody was hurt.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 13, 2018, 06:34:14 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on January 13, 2018, 06:16:39 pm

The photo of it is dramatic. Thank goodness nobody was hurt.

You're not allowed to talk about a photo unless you post it as well. RIP old roof.

Is this it?

(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26815188_10155779160617745_2382823838231655404_n.png?oh=31e27da9264fbf1f02d7f4f0727f41ff&oe=5AFDC3F8)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 13, 2018, 07:56:35 pm

Quote from: ggw on January 13, 2018, 12:10:34 pm

Sportscaster Keith Jackson. He was simply one of the greats.

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WQicippGDJQ/hqdefault.jpg)

He is a SOFF A MORE.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on January 15, 2018, 01:39:29 pm

Dolores O'Riordan (Cranberries)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 15, 2018, 02:10:20 pm

^ :'( :'( :'(

dammit... another bucket-list act that i'll never see.

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/15/entertainment/dolores-o-riordan-cranberries-singer-dies-intl/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/15/entertainment/dolores-o-riordan-cranberries-singer-dies-intl/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on January 15, 2018, 02:20:25 pm

Quote from: Vas Deferens on January 15, 2018, 01:39:29 pm

Dolores O'Riordan (Cranberries)

Sad, such a beautiful voice

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 15, 2018, 02:23:38 pm

I LOVED the Cranberries for much of my teen years. That one hurts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 15, 2018, 03:08:25 pm

Shocker..did she not cancel 930 show due to illness?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on January 15, 2018, 03:44:29 pm

yeah entire 2017 tour due to "back problems"

Quote from: Shithole Country on January 15, 2018, 03:08:25 pm

Shocker..did she not cancel 930 show due to illness?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on January 15, 2018, 03:48:59 pm

Quote from: wml7 on January 15, 2018, 02:20:25 pm

Quote from: Vas Deferens on January 15, 2018, 01:39:29 pm
Dolores O'Riordan (Cranberries)

Sad, such a beautiful voice

First, you come out of nowhere with a post since like when? And second, you didn't include, "great, just great"

Gurl.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on January 15, 2018, 09:28:32 pm

Also, she had been having problems with her back, they found her dead in a hotel room . . . and I think I know where the rest of the story is going since nobody will say how she died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 15, 2018, 09:32:46 pm

I think it could be a number of things so I can’t speculate...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 15, 2018, 10:06:52 pm

Edwin Hawkins (https://www.apnews.com/c21a210b3411497994d2f0bc4c9e72cb/Gospel-star-Edwin-Hawkins,-known-for-'Oh-Happy-Day,'-dies?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APWestRegion)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on January 16, 2018, 11:53:01 am

Quote from: sweetcell on January 15, 2018, 02:10:20 pm

^ :'( :'( :'(

dammit... another bucket-list act that i'll never see.

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/15/entertainment/dolores-o-riordan-cranberries-singer-dies-intl/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/15/entertainment/dolores-o-riordan-cranberries-singer-dies-intl/index.html)

I'm so sad. Did anyone else skip school to see them in 1995? It was only 1.25 songs, but still a cool day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 16, 2018, 11:58:15 am

I was there too - it was a verrry long lunch for me but my boss didn't seem to notice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 16, 2018, 12:49:42 pm

How the hell is Magda Davitt still on this planet, but we lose Dolores?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 16, 2018, 01:04:06 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 16, 2018, 12:49:42 pm

How the hell is Magda Davitt still on this planet, but we lose Dolores?

I uttered these words to my wife yesterday, though I used her original name.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 17, 2018, 10:20:35 am

Tyler Hilinski

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 17, 2018, 10:56:55 am

I'm not seeing a link here either. Wonder if this is a tech issue. What browser are you using?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 18, 2018, 05:21:55 pm

Lisa Schreiber

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 19, 2018, 08:02:31 pm

Petty OD’d

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 19, 2018, 08:55:03 pm

that sucks...Fentanyl takes another
although that was quite long list
the breaking of the hip bone that get's lost .....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on January 20, 2018, 10:21:57 am

Paul Bocuse.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MAGA 2020 on January 20, 2018, 05:54:26 pm

Quote from: LosthismindHatch ♆ ✯ ㋡ 🖖 ⛄ on January 19, 2018, 08:55:03 pm

that sucks...Fentanyl takes another
although that was quite long list
the breaking of the hip bone that get's lost .....

I don't even know what most of those drugs are. Figured it was an OD when it happened but sad nonetheless. Saw him twice and both times were great..he always just played the hits..which was nice for a barn show on a summer night.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 20, 2018, 06:03:17 pm

Jim rodford who played with the zombies, argent and the kinks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on January 20, 2018, 07:13:31 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 20, 2018, 06:03:17 pm

Jim rodford who played with the zombies, argent and the kinks

bummer - i saw him with the zombies w/love at the state theatre in falls church 2004.
he always looked like he was genuinely enjoying himself and the gig, whatever band he was playing with.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 20, 2018, 09:12:03 pm

Fredo Santana

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 21, 2018, 02:17:24 pm

USA Hockey GM dies at 53 (http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/22169105/usa-hockey-general-manager-jim-johannson-dies-age-53)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on January 22, 2018, 04:28:02 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on January 20, 2018, 07:13:31 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 20, 2018, 06:03:17 pm
Jim rodford who played with the zombies, argent and the kinks
bummer - i saw him with the zombies w/love at the state theatre in falls church 2004.
he always looked like he was genuinely enjoying himself and the gig, whatever band he was playing with.

I've seen him perform a number of times over the years and was at the State Theater show as well. Love took the night easily, IMO.

Most recently saw him play with the Zombies at the Fillmore in SF doing Odessy and Oracle. That was a great night.

Sad loss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 22, 2018, 05:12:05 pm

Rosie the Riveter

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/obituaries/naomi-parker-fraley-the-real-rosie-the-riveter-dies-at-96.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 22, 2018, 10:22:38 pm

Pizza Underground

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 23, 2018, 09:35:13 am

Quote from: hutch on January 22, 2018, 10:22:38 pm

Pizza Underground

like they ever were...

the title of this article from 2014 says it all
https://pitchfork.com/news/55328-macaulay-culkins-the-pizza-underground-booed-off-stage-pelted-with-beer/ (https://pitchfork.com/news/55328-macaulay-culkins-the-pizza-underground-booed-off-stage-pelted-with-beer/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on January 23, 2018, 09:46:31 am

hugh masekela

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 23, 2018, 09:53:59 am

Hugh Masekela :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 23, 2018, 10:19:54 am

Ten things that occurred to me while watching The Pizza Underground's original Black Cat show:

1. This is McCauley Caulkin's manifesto centering on the loneliness of being a celebrity and surrounded by a world that knows how to use you but not how to value and understand you. It shows Caulkin once again able to draw notes from artists who are similarly confined by the definition and revisionism of others.

2. Caulkin has self-possession, poise and high spirits, and they are contained within a world that gives him no way to usefully express them. So he frolics and indulges himself on stage, within a cocoon of vaudevillian absurdity.

3. No, the parody of the Velvet Underground is not informative and detailed about the actual politics and spirit of the period. That is because we are entirely within Caulkin's world, which shuts out all external reality. It is a self-governing musical island, like Kane's Xanadu, that shuts out politics, reality, poverty, society.

4. Matt Colburn representationally conforms to the role of a sexually passive sad sack who would rather commiserate than take an active role musically. Pheobe Kreutz has the voice of an angel.

5. All of Caulkin's post-millennial projects, and this one most of all, uses memory to redefine the lives of established touchstone figureheads such as The Velvet Underground. This is a direct throwback to the early works of French film direct Alain Resnais such as Last Year at Marienbad and Hiroshima Mon amour.

6. The Nirvana parody reminded me of the scene in von Sternberg's "The Scarlett Empress" where Catherine arrives at the court of the Czar and the royal physician immediately crawls under her skirt to check her royal plumbing. Every detail is examined, vivisected, and put on display.

7. Caulkin has been criticized in some circles for his use of a contemporary pop overlay -- hit songs, incongruous dialogue, jarring intrusions of the Now upon the Then. But no one ever lives as Then; it is always Now. Many covers of decades old songs seem somehow aware that they are living in the past. The Pizza Underground seem to think they are twenty-somethings living in the present, which of course they are -- and the contemporary pop references invite the audience to share their present with ours.

8. Everyone in the audience knows The Velvet Underground broke up and I fear we anticipate the Pizza Underground's breakup with an unwholesome curiosity. Caulkin brilliantly sidesteps a breakup, and avoids bloated mob scenes by distributing pizza, sound and a cacophony of incongruity. Hired, essentially, to play a parody, the band are good troupers and faithful to their role. It is impossible to avoid thoughts of Pink Floyd.

9. Every criticism I have read of this band would alter is fragile magic and reduce its romantic and tragic poignancy to the level of a They Might Be Giants children's concert.

10. It is not necessary to know anything about The Velvet Underground to enjoy this band. Some of what we think we know is mistaken. But, paradoxically, the more you know about them, the more you may learn, because Caulkin's oblique and anachronistic point of view shifts the balance away from realism and into an act of empathy for a band swept up by a culture that leave them without personal choices. Before he was a king of rock and roll, before he was a pawn, Lou Reed was a 19-year-old boy who left his home, stripped metaphysically bare, and was examined by powerful men like Warhol like so much horseflesh. It is astonishing with what indifference to his feelings the glitterati of the 60s used him for its pleasure, and in the end of the era, disposes of its guilt.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: notme on January 23, 2018, 10:31:26 am

Billy Hancock

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 23, 2018, 01:11:22 pm

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on January 23, 2018, 10:19:54 am

Ten things that occurred to me while watching The Pizza Underground's original Black Cat show:

1. This is McCauley Caulkin's manifesto centering on the loneliness of being a celebrity and surrounded by a world that knows how to use you but not how to value and understand you. It shows Caulkin once again able to draw notes from artists who are similarly confined by the definition and revisionism of others.

2. Caulkin has self-possession, poise and high spirits, and they are contained within a world that gives him no way to usefully express them. So he frolics and indulges himself on stage, within a cocoon of vaudevillian absurdity.

3. No, the parody of the Velvet Underground is not informative and detailed about the actual politics and spirit of the period. That is because we are entirely within Caulkin's world, which shuts out all external reality. It is a self-governing musical island, like Kane's Xanadu, that shuts out politics, reality, poverty, society.

4. Matt Colburn representationally conforms to the role of a sexually passive sad sack who would rather commiserate than take an active role musically. Pheobe Kreutz has the voice of an angel.

5. All of Caulkin's post-millennial projects, and this one most of all, uses memory to redefine the lives of established touchstone figureheads such as The Velvet Underground. This is a direct throwback to the early works of French film direct Alain Resnais such as Last Year at Marienbad and Hiroshima Mon amour.

6. The Nirvana parody reminded me of the scene in von Sternberg's "The Scarlett Empress" where Catherine arrives at the court of the Czar and the royal physician immediately crawls under her skirt to check her royal plumbing. Every detail is examined, vivisected, and put on display.

7. Caulkin has been criticized in some circles for his use of a contemporary pop overlay -- hit songs, incongruous dialogue, jarring intrusions of the Now upon the Then. But no one ever lives as Then; it is always Now. Many covers of decades old songs seem somehow aware that they are living in the past. The Pizza Underground seem to think they are twenty-somethings living in the present, which of course they are -- and the contemporary pop references invite the audience to share their present with ours.

8. Everyone in the audience knows The Velvet Underground broke up and I fear we anticipate the Pizza Underground's breakup with an unwholesome curiosity. Caulkin brilliantly sidesteps a breakup, and avoids bloated mob scenes by distributing pizza, sound and a cacophony of incongruity. Hired, essentially, to play a parody, the band are good troupers and faithful to their role. It is impossible to avoid thoughts of Pink Floyd.

9. Every criticism I have read of this band would alter is fragile magic and reduce its romantic and tragic poignancy to the level of a They Might Be Giants children's concert.

10. It is not necessary to know anything about The Velvet Underground to enjoy this band. Some of what we think we know is mistaken. But, paradoxically, the more you know about them, the more you may learn, because Caulkin's oblique and anachronistic point of view shifts the balance away from realism and into an act of empathy for a band swept up by a culture that leave them without personal choices. Before he was a king of rock and roll, before he was a pawn, Lou Reed was a 19-year-old boy who left his home, stripped metaphysically bare, and was examined by powerful men like Warhol like so much horseflesh. It is astonishing with what indifference to his feelings the glitterati of the 60s used him for its pleasure, and in the end of the era, disposes of its guilt.

POTY

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on January 23, 2018, 01:48:29 pm

no.

BDOT,Y

bored drone of the, year

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 23, 2018, 01:57:02 pm

I have it under good authority that Julian's post is a work of perjury

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 23, 2018, 01:59:52 pm

It better be

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on January 23, 2018, 02:00:54 pm

whoa!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 23, 2018, 02:04:45 pm

Quote from: LosthismindHatch ♆ ✯ ㋡ 🖖 ⛄ on January 23, 2018, 01:57:02 pm

I have it under good authority that Julian's post is a work of perjury

Its a parody tribute cover review of a parody tribute cover band. I could think of no more apropos send off.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 23, 2018, 02:06:10 pm

Posted by a parody of a person

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 23, 2018, 02:07:35 pm

Quote from: LosthismindHatch ♆ ✯ ㋡ 🖖 ⛄ on January 23, 2018, 01:57:02 pm

I have it under good authority that Julian's post is a work of perjury

Plagiarism?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on January 23, 2018, 02:08:27 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 23, 2018, 02:06:10 pm

Posted by a parody of a person

posted in a reality parody, of a place

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 23, 2018, 02:11:50 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on January 23, 2018, 02:07:35 pm

Quote from: LosthismindHatch ♆ ✯ ㋡ 🖖 ⛄ on January 23, 2018, 01:57:02 pm
I have it under good authority that Julian's post is a work of perjury
Plagiarism?

yes...I guess I only took the part of the definition I liked (I'm sure smakie had an aneurysm when he saw my post)

willfully telling an untruth... (in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation.)

this is like court of public opinion and Julian is constantly dolling out affirmations

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 23, 2018, 02:23:52 pm

Quote from: LosthismindHatch ♆ ✯ ㋡ 🖖 ⛄ on January 23, 2018, 02:11:50 pm

Julian is constantly dolling out affirmations

Can confirm. I am a bastion of positivity in this darkened hovel.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on January 23, 2018, 04:42:07 pm

Did anyone notice this tribute to the Smithereens guy in last Sunday's Prickly City comic strip? His name was spelled Dinzio and since corrected on line.....

http://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/2018/01/21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 24, 2018, 04:23:41 am

for fans of classical sci-fi:

Award-winning science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin dead at 88 (https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/award-winning-science-fiction-writer-ursula-k-le-guin-dead-88/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on January 24, 2018, 03:45:39 pm

I'm hearing Mark E. Smith of the Fall

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 24, 2018, 03:49:00 pm

Oh no

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on January 24, 2018, 04:02:09 pm

it's true :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 24, 2018, 04:34:17 pm

Sucks...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on January 25, 2018, 11:19:17 am

Here's a nice tribute.....

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/24/mark-e-smith-the-fall

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 25, 2018, 01:52:00 pm

i spent many teenage hours drooling and marveling over this man's movies:

Legendary Ski Movie Producer Warren Miller Passed Away Yesterday at 93 (https://snowbrains.com/legendary-ski-movie-producer-warren-miller-passed-away-yesterday-93/)

“If you don’t do it this year, you’ll be one year older when you do.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on January 25, 2018, 04:22:16 pm

Me, too.

Miller was a legend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 28, 2018, 09:37:30 am

Ingvar Kamprad, Ikea founder, world's eighth wealthiest person.

(http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/uploads/monthly_2015_05/ikea_kista_Page_00.jpg.69028e273b016dd4a51a8509521a6fb2.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 28, 2018, 04:27:52 pm

(https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0510/23/miss-buxley-beetle-bailey-original_1_ea5fd784a4e336cfa0091fc0ba36e024.jpg) (http://ew.com/news/2018/01/28/mort-walker-dead-beetle-bailey-creator-dies-94/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 30, 2018, 04:48:32 pm

Mark Salling of the TV Show Glee, of an apparent suicide.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 31, 2018, 10:33:47 am

Quote from: vansmack on January 30, 2018, 04:48:32 pm

Mark Salling of the TV Show Glee, of an apparent suicide.

you left out was awaiting sentencing on charges of child pornography
thank you for saving us the cost of keeping him in prison, although being gang raped for a few years would have been good punishment too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 31, 2018, 12:49:14 pm

Oscar Gamble

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 31, 2018, 01:20:49 pm

Quote from: Hatchamasatch ♆ ✯ ㋡ 🖖 on January 31, 2018, 10:33:47 am

you left out was awaiting sentencing on charges of child pornography
thank you for saving us the cost of keeping him in prison, although being gang raped for a few years would have been good punishment too

Quote from: vansmack on August 29, 2016, 04:00:42 pm

Quote from: I don't know why you call me cousin oliver on December 10, 2015, 12:30:43 pm
Dropping Like Flies: Commentary Edition?
I guess this never happened. I went looking for it....

Still hasn't happened.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 02, 2018, 11:18:03 pm

Nigel the gannet (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2018/02/02/nigel-the-worlds-loneliest-bird-dies-next-to-the-concrete-decoy-he-loved/?hpid=hp_rhp-moretopstories2_animalia-bird-340pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.30bee113b4df)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on February 05, 2018, 07:18:47 pm

John Mahoney, best known as the dad from Frasier (but he was also part of the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble in Chicago).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 05, 2018, 08:07:59 pm

He was great in Frazier...man that show had great writing for a while

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 05, 2018, 08:21:27 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on February 05, 2018, 07:18:47 pm

John Mahoney, best known as the dad from Frasier (but he was also part of the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble in Chicago).

RIP James Court. I find it impossible not to recreate this scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonzBvi97qI) everytime I here Rikki Don't Lose Number.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on February 07, 2018, 06:19:52 pm

John Barlow

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 07, 2018, 06:38:45 pm

Oldest US cd plant

http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/story/37288821/sony-dadc-to-lay-off-hundreds-in-terre-haute

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 07, 2018, 09:33:28 pm

Quote from: Bagley on February 07, 2018, 06:19:52 pm

John Barlow

John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead Lyricist and Internet Pioneer, Dies at 70 (http://variety.com/2018/music/obituaries-people-news/john-barlow-dead-dies-grateful-dead-lyricist-1202691170/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 10, 2018, 02:14:37 am

Reg E. Cathey, ‘House of Cards’ and ‘The Wire’ Actor, Dies at 59 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/reg-cathey-%E2%80%98house-of-cards%E2%80%99-and-%E2%80%98the-wire%E2%80%99-actor-dies-at-59/ar-BBIWauj)

(https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBIW3bu.img?h=410&w=728&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=524&y=255)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 10, 2018, 01:35:28 pm

Dylan Drummer Turned Character Actor Mickey Jones (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/obituaries/mickey-jones-drummer-turned-character-actor-is-dead-at-76.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 12, 2018, 03:52:00 pm

Quote from: Bagley on February 07, 2018, 06:19:52 pm

John Barlow

This is some strange, weird, fucked up shit right here.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ojt8okbbyfrhir/john%20perry%20barlow.mp4?dl=0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on February 12, 2018, 04:34:46 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 12, 2018, 03:52:00 pm

Quote from: Bagley on February 07, 2018, 06:19:52 pm
John Barlow

This is some strange, weird, fucked up shit right here.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ojt8okbbyfrhir/john%20perry%20barlow.mp4?dl=0

Oh, my. As the young people say- Creepy AF

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 14, 2018, 02:36:39 pm

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2018/02/rockvilles-oldest-bar-hank-dietles-destroyed-by-morning-fire/slide/1/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 16, 2018, 10:18:19 am

https://www.sourceofthespring.com/classics-co-owner-releases-statement-closing/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 16, 2018, 10:24:23 am

"After some eleven and a half years, the Montgomery County Government has yet to show any support for the independent businessman in this area. Along with the onerous burden that the ineffective Montgomery County Department of Liquor Control places on an independent operator by their over the normal, for every local jurisdiction, pricing structure to support a bloated and antiquated bureaucracy, and the unfriendly business climate that Montgomery County in general creates, the continuance of this business is untenable. Of course, the loss of a Fortune 500 company directly across the street hastened this decision. (Discovery Channel)"

But tell us how you really feel.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 16, 2018, 10:29:15 am

Paying taxes sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 16, 2018, 10:46:54 am

Michael Landrum isn't the greatest businessman. The "Ray's" parent company has filed for bankruptcy -- twice. You would be hard pressed to find a Ray's franchise that hasn't had a major dispute with its landlords. The food tends to be great, but the business side of those operations is a mess.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 16, 2018, 10:57:36 am

Quote from: Yada on February 16, 2018, 10:18:19 am

https://www.sourceofthespring.com/classics-co-owner-releases-statement-closing/

I tried to go to Ray's Hell Burger in courthouse the other day...closed too
thanks obama

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 16, 2018, 11:11:11 am

Quote from: Sidehatch on February 16, 2018, 10:57:36 am

Quote from: Yada on February 16, 2018, 10:18:19 am
https://www.sourceofthespring.com/classics-co-owner-releases-statement-closing/
I tried to go to Ray's Hell Burger in courthouse the other day...closed too
thanks obama

It closed because they weren't paying their rent.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 16, 2018, 11:18:53 am

Who'd a thunk the closing of a subpar restaurant in SS would've caused the most activity on this forum in months!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 16, 2018, 11:24:12 am

Quote from: Yada on February 16, 2018, 11:18:53 am

Who'd a thunk the closing of a subpar restaurant in SS would've caused the most activity on this forum in months!

It's right up there with the Smashing Pumpkins reunion!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 16, 2018, 11:29:41 am

Quote from: ggw on February 16, 2018, 11:24:12 am

Quote from: Yada on February 16, 2018, 11:18:53 am
Who'd a thunk the closing of a subpar restaurant in SS would've caused the most activity on this forum in months!

It's right up there with the Smashing Pumpkins reunion!

I probably should've created a thread specific for this... next time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 18, 2018, 01:50:27 am

Quote from: ggw on February 16, 2018, 11:24:12 am

Quote from: Yada on February 16, 2018, 11:18:53 am
Who'd a thunk the closing of a subpar restaurant in SS would've caused the most activity on this forum in months!

It's right up there with the Smashing Pumpkins reunion!

speaking of subpar

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 18, 2018, 11:31:57 am

Boom!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 21, 2018, 09:19:28 am

Billy graham

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 21, 2018, 11:10:38 am

Quote from: Cadet Bone Spurs on February 21, 2018, 09:19:28 am

Billy graham

Saw him live at Wembley Arena with musical guest Cliff Richard in 1989. Didn't get saved.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 03, 2018, 09:41:58 pm

David Ogden Stiers, M*A*S*H

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 04, 2018, 12:42:27 pm

Sir Roger Bannister, first person to break the 4 minute mile mark.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 05, 2018, 09:39:27 am

Quote from: vansmack on March 04, 2018, 12:42:27 pm

Sir Roger Bannister, first person to break the 4 minute mile mark.

I remember in my youth I had no idea who this person was
and The Young Ones had a reference to him (https://youtu.be/mb2d5cX29pA) in an episode and asked my dad about why a banister would think 5 minutes was a big deal

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 05, 2018, 10:45:33 am

The glory days of English track and field...we hardly knew you

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 05, 2018, 06:43:51 pm

(http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/8rcgkn/picture203550029/alternates/FREE_768/PK%20JAZZ%20JUBLIEE%20071.JPG)

Russ Solomon (http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article203542104.html), founder of Tower Records

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 05, 2018, 08:09:12 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 05, 2018, 06:43:51 pm

Russ Solomon (http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article203542104.html), founder of Tower Records

“The fat lady has sung….She was off-key. Thank you, Thank you, Thank You.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 12, 2018, 11:11:19 am

Toys R Us

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 12, 2018, 11:14:08 am

Quote from: shemptiness on March 12, 2018, 11:11:19 am

Toys R Us

Who knew hiring Dave Brandon would turn up to be a bad idea for your organization?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 12, 2018, 11:27:22 am

Quote from: shemptiness on March 12, 2018, 11:11:19 am

Toys R Us

does this mean I have to grow up

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 12, 2018, 12:15:20 pm

Hubert Taffin de Givenchy (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43375454)

julian americans will be in mourning for the rest of the week.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 12, 2018, 03:31:33 pm

Kirk Cousins' chance to do something useful with his life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 13, 2018, 08:49:45 am

Rex Tillerson.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 13, 2018, 09:17:52 am

I know some people like to use this thread for people whose careers have ended but can we keep it to those whose metabolic processes have recently become history?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 13, 2018, 09:41:57 am

Craig Mack

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 13, 2018, 12:17:13 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 13, 2018, 09:17:52 am

I know some people like to use this thread for people whose careers have ended but can we keep it to those whose metabolic processes have recently become history?

Seconded.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 13, 2018, 12:32:34 pm

Steve Goldstein

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 13, 2018, 12:57:42 pm

Quote from: vansmack on March 13, 2018, 12:17:13 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 13, 2018, 09:17:52 am
I know some people like to use this thread for people whose careers have ended but can we keep it to those whose metabolic processes have recently become history?

Seconded.

Quote from: David Dennison on March 13, 2018, 12:32:34 pm

Steve Goldstein

#rexit

Not looking like we have a consensus here
maybe we need a Corporations, careers and employment dropping like flies thread
although it probably wouldn't get read as much as this one

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 13, 2018, 01:09:58 pm

"Belly up, fired, and retired"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 13, 2018, 08:48:03 pm

Hip-Hop producer Matt Dike (https://pitchfork.com/news/matt-dike-rap-producer-and-delicious-vinyl-co-founder-dead-at-55/?mbid=social_twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 13, 2018, 11:49:46 pm

Stephen Hawking (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 14, 2018, 12:06:53 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 13, 2018, 11:49:46 pm

Stephen Hawking (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008)

Dammit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 14, 2018, 12:56:53 am

Quote from: vansmack on March 14, 2018, 12:06:53 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 13, 2018, 11:49:46 pm
Stephen Hawking (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008)

Dammit.

Huge, huge loss for humanity.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 14, 2018, 09:44:04 am

Ventures guitarist Nokie Edwards (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/nokie-edwards-influential-lead-guitarist-of-the-ventures-dies-at-82/2018/03/13/00cd3cae-26c8-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html?utm_term=.5efeb75d0b34)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 14, 2018, 05:46:14 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 13, 2018, 01:09:58 pm

"Belly up, fired, and retired"

New thread for business failings, career changes, etc. (http://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=24829.msg474667#msg474667)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 14, 2018, 07:42:49 pm

Charlie Quintana (drummer)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on March 14, 2018, 07:47:12 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 14, 2018, 07:42:49 pm

Charlie Quintana (drummer)

Met him after a Social D show in 2001. He gave me his cell and told me to let him know any time I wanted to see the band. I only took him up on it once. Lovely and talented guy. So sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 15, 2018, 12:15:36 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on March 14, 2018, 07:47:12 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 14, 2018, 07:42:49 pm
Charlie Quintana (drummer)

Met him after a Social D show in 2001. He gave me his cell and told me to let him know any time I wanted to see the band. I only took him up on it once. Lovely and talented guy. So sad.

Dammit. I missed this. Concur, great, great guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2018, 12:28:19 pm

The plugz with Quintana backed Dylan on letterman in 83....legendary...bob the punk

I have an interview of Quintana bout that experience and then his bummer bout auditioning to be dylan’s Permanent drummer and not getting gig

That letterman set is the bomb

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 15, 2018, 12:55:14 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 15, 2018, 12:28:19 pm

The plugz with Quintana backed Dylan on letterman in 83....legendary...bob the punk

I have an interview of Quintana bout that experience and then his bummer bout auditioning to be dylan’s Permanent drummer and not getting gig

That letterman set is the bomb

Is that the Jokerman clip?? I coincidentally just watched that the other day...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2018, 01:02:50 pm

Yup...84 actually

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 15, 2018, 01:13:24 pm

https://www.gofundme.com/bringchalohome

His body is in Mexico as he recently moved there to help homeless dogs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2018, 01:14:31 pm

Yeah I read some sad stuff...about people not helping in his hour of need

Been there....some humans ain’t human

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 15, 2018, 06:46:16 pm

Saints owner Tom Benson

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-15/tom-benson-billionaire-owner-of-new-orleans-saints-dies-at-90

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 15, 2018, 07:49:53 pm

The Greatest College Baseball Coach there ever was:

Augie Garrido (http://www.fullertontitans.com/sports/m-basebl/2017-18/releases/20180315n9h6li)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 20, 2018, 09:06:42 am

Bento. AKA the keyboard cat

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 20, 2018, 09:43:15 am

Quote from: S↑dëHã〒çh ✄ ☪ ☣ ☢ ☠ ☭ ♝ on March 20, 2018, 09:06:42 am

Bento. AKA the keyboard cat

Thoughts and prayers to Walkie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 20, 2018, 10:08:37 am

The last male Northern White Rhino

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43468066

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 20, 2018, 11:01:24 am

Quote from: ggw on March 20, 2018, 10:08:37 am

The last male Northern White Rhino

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43468066

Thoughts and prayers to Relaxer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 20, 2018, 12:09:42 pm

Gary Burden, Designer of Famous Album Covers (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/obituaries/gary-burden-designer-of-famous-album-covers-dies-at-84.html)

(https://img.discogs.com/bOW7HDKpgatDMN2liExF75AjYj0=/fit-in/600x613/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-579392-1151781228.jpeg.jpg)

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91GMQi1e-NL._SX425_.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 22, 2018, 04:35:08 pm

Charles Lazarus

Founder of Toys r us

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 22, 2018, 04:45:33 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 22, 2018, 04:35:08 pm

Charles Lazarus

Founder of Toys r us

Timely

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 22, 2018, 06:11:09 pm

Rene Houseman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 23, 2018, 12:13:35 pm

Hazel Smith, Matriarch of Outlaw Country Music (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/obituaries/hazel-smith-83-nashville-matriarch-of-country-music-dies.html)

Lamenting the state of country music in a 1997 interview with the weekly publication Nashville Scene, Ms. Smith observed: “We’ve got people writing songs who have college degrees. There ain’t nothing wrong with education, but I’d rather hear a song with feeling to it than a bunch of educated words written from the neck up that had no feeling at all."

“The songwriters now come dragging in about 9:30 a.m. wearing clean clothes,” she went on to say, alluding to the corporate approach to country songwriting prevalent in latter-day Nashville. “They’ve slept all night in their very own bed in their very own home beside their wife and not somebody else’s wife. They haven’t been chasing somebody at the Holiday Inn. I don’t know how they get their material.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on March 23, 2018, 01:30:30 pm

Wayne Huizenga

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-23/wayne-huizenga-who-led-waste-management-and-blockbuster-dies

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 23, 2018, 08:17:36 pm

Craigslist personal ads

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 23, 2018, 08:36:10 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 23, 2018, 08:17:36 pm

Craigslist personal ads

Ooooooh you really stepped in it! There is another whole thread for non-person death announcements. What.did.you.do. I'm just gonna step back and let it fly.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 01, 2018, 10:16:17 pm

Steven Bocho (https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/04/steven-broncho-television-producer-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 02, 2018, 11:03:44 am

Winnie Mandela (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/winnie-madikizela-mandela-south-africas-mother-of-the-nation-dies-at-81/2018/04/02/095c5360-3680-11e8-acd5-35eac230e514_story.html?utm_term=.e82421868c24)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 02, 2018, 11:13:36 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 02, 2018, 11:03:44 am

Winnie Mandela (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/winnie-madikizela-mandela-south-africas-mother-of-the-nation-dies-at-81/2018/04/02/095c5360-3680-11e8-acd5-35eac230e514_story.html?utm_term=.e82421868c24)

Is it just me or did any of you mistakenly think she died back in the 1980s?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 02, 2018, 01:51:42 pm

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on April 02, 2018, 11:13:36 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 02, 2018, 11:03:44 am
Winnie Mandela (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/winnie-madikizela-mandela-south-africas-mother-of-the-nation-dies-at-81/2018/04/02/095c5360-3680-11e8-acd5-35eac230e514_story.html?utm_term=.e82421868c24)
Is it just me or did any of you mistakenly think she died back in the 1980s?

She kinda peaked during the wonder years, so that logic follows

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 05, 2018, 10:04:26 am

posting in Kilsaly's absence
WWE Hall of Fame Wrestler Johnny Valiant Killed After Being Hit by a Truck (https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/wwe-hall-of-fame-wrestler-johnny-valiant-killed-after-being-hit-by-a-truck/ar-AAvujjq?ocid=spartanntp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on April 05, 2018, 07:09:09 pm

posting kill,sally's name, as well as a death notice in here, at the same time . . . meta.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 05, 2018, 09:14:48 pm

Cecil Taylor

(all over Twitter; no obits yet)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 09, 2018, 09:21:35 am

https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/chris-charucki-rip/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 11, 2018, 01:08:54 pm

Yvonne Staples of the Staples Singers dead at 80
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/yvonne-staples-of-the-staples-singers-dead-at-80/ar-AAvIQV9

Stand Up Comedy Matriarch Mitzi
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/stand-up-comedy-matriarch-mitzi-shore-has-died/ar-AAvLONc

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 15, 2018, 08:18:48 pm

‘Full Metal Jacket’ sergeant R. Lee Ermey dies at 74 (https://wtop.com/national/2018/04/full-metal-jacket-sergeant-r-lee-ermey-dies-at-74/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 15, 2018, 08:20:30 pm

Art Bell (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/art-bell-mysterious-narrator-of-the-american-nightscape-is-dead-at-72/2018/04/14/b6f2b278-4015-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html?utm_term=.31229acbc85e)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 15, 2018, 08:21:17 pm

Milos Forman (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/milos-forman-oscar-winning-director-of-cuckoos-nest-and-amadeus-dies-at-86/2018/04/14/9973bd02-3feb-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html?utm_term=.4aeee988db51)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 16, 2018, 07:27:42 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 15, 2018, 08:21:17 pm

Milos Forman (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/milos-forman-oscar-winning-director-of-cuckoos-nest-and-amadeus-dies-at-86/2018/04/14/9973bd02-3feb-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html?utm_term=.4aeee988db51)

man he made such a great indoor grill, he will be missed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 16, 2018, 06:44:44 pm

Harry Anderson (https://www.bestofneworleans.com/thelatest/archives/2018/04/16/comic-and-magician-harry-anderson-dead-at-65-tv-star-had-french-quarter-club-and-magic-shop)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 16, 2018, 07:24:26 pm

One of my favorite TV characters
Bummer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on April 17, 2018, 03:53:37 pm

Carl Kasell

:'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 17, 2018, 04:37:43 pm

Yeahhh...That sucks!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 17, 2018, 07:53:37 pm

David Cop-a-Feel's wife.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 17, 2018, 08:11:28 pm

Barbara Bush

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 18, 2018, 01:49:43 pm

Bruno Sammartino

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 18, 2018, 04:05:47 pm

Randy Scruggs (https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/randy-scruggs-award-winning-musician-and-songwriter-dead-at-64/ar-AAw1XaW?ocid=spartanntp&ffid=gz) - 64 :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 18, 2018, 04:58:55 pm

Wow...I think I have a lot of records he plays on...been really getting into flatt and Scruggs lately

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 19, 2018, 04:22:28 pm

David Edgerton, co-inventor of The Whopper (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/david-edgerton-burger-king-co-founder-who-helped-make-the-whopper-dies-at-90/2018/04/18/609b2e18-4313-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html?utm_term=.0fb5a02b4b7d)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 20, 2018, 01:39:38 pm

Avicii (https://wtop.com/entertainment/2018/04/rep-edm-star-avicii-has-died-in-muscat-oman-at-age-28/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 21, 2018, 05:30:47 pm

Verne Troyer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on April 24, 2018, 02:08:10 pm

Bob Dorough
Composer for Schoolhouse Rock!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2018, 05:05:55 pm

Charles Neville

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 29, 2018, 05:21:10 pm

Burning Man founder Larry Harvey (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/obituaries/larry-harvey-burning-man-festival-dead-at-70.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 30, 2018, 10:29:25 pm

We all just got a little older.

Jhoon Rhee, 'Father of American Taekwondo,' Dies at Age 86 (https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Jhoon-Rhee-Dead-481293971.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 01, 2018, 08:44:26 pm

Art Paul. He made this: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/art-paul-playboy-magazine-art-director-who-created-bunny-logo-dies-at-93/2018/04/30/83ee3218-4c85-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?utm_term=.10390cb2c4e5)

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/58/77/68/5877683d9eb94457c2ebad9a6a0d7d1b.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 01, 2018, 09:30:22 pm

Jabo Starks, drummer for James Brown (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/obituaries/jabo-starks-drummer-for-james-brown-dies-at-79.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 02, 2018, 08:54:00 am

Jabo was a beast...although sometimes I have trouble knowing if it is him or Clyde “the funky drummer” Stubblefield playing on James Brown tracks...or both at once

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chancegardener on May 11, 2018, 12:08:38 am

where the hell is Scott Hutchinson?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/search-continues-for-missing-frightened-rabbit-frontman-scott-hutchinson/ar-AAx44vx?ocid=spartanntp&ffid=gz

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 11, 2018, 06:53:16 am

Body found

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MAGA 2020 on May 11, 2018, 08:25:43 am

Quote from: hutch on May 11, 2018, 06:53:16 am

Body found

Looks like he had been planning this for a while. This song pretty much outlines his death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGsYK3xSkio

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on May 11, 2018, 09:37:09 am

Quote from: drewtang on May 11, 2018, 08:25:43 am

Quote from: hutch on May 11, 2018, 06:53:16 am
Body found

Looks like he had been planning this for a while. This song pretty much outlines his death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGsYK3xSkio

PLEASE PLEASE talk to someone, anyone, if you are feeling like life is too much. Scott was an advocate for mental health awareness and so should others. "Though the corners are lit, The dark can return with a flick of a switch" If anyone needs to talk, pm me and I will listen.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 12, 2018, 05:40:04 pm

Don't believe there was any malice intended here, but out of the respect of the band's fans. i did a little clean up..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 12, 2018, 06:32:06 pm

(https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2018/05/11/Obituaries/Images/GettyImages-88524325.jpg?uuid=3HiD8FVCEeim1ModA1ZCzg)

Doreen Simmons, British-born authority on sumo wrestling, dies at 85 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/doreen-simmons-british-born-authority-on-sumo-wrestling-dies-at-85/2018/05/11/de3ad084-5534-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html?utm_term=.2a26fac1bdd3)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 13, 2018, 10:09:17 pm

Chuck Knox

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 14, 2018, 01:11:14 pm

(https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/margot-kidder-dead.jpg?w=1000&h=563&crop=1)

Margot Kidder (http://variety.com/2018/film/news/margot-kidder-superman-actress-dead-dies-1202809752/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on May 14, 2018, 04:40:07 pm

Glenn Branca

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 15, 2018, 11:29:19 am

Tom Wolfe

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 15, 2018, 08:08:40 pm

Matt Marks (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/obituaries/matt-marks-cutting-edge-composer-and-musician-dies-at-38.html), founding member of Alarm Will Sound and total mensch on new music Twitter

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 22, 2018, 03:10:47 pm

Robert Indiana, the pop artist behind the iconic 'Love' image, dies at 89 (https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/us/robert-indiana-love-artist-obit-trnd/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 23, 2018, 12:29:49 am

Philip Roth (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/philip-roth-seminal-author-of-comical-and-simmering-discontents-dies-at-85/2018/05/22/fa5bb262-5e38-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html?utm_term=.91014b91df1c)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 23, 2018, 08:08:45 am

Bad week for American authors

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 26, 2018, 12:39:24 am

Fuzz tone inventor Glenn Snoddy (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/obituaries/glenn-snoddy-96-accidental-inventor-of-the-fuzz-tone-dies.html?action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article&region=Footer&contentCollection=Music)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 26, 2018, 01:06:41 pm

My neighbors' dog.

I pulled into the driveway a few minutes ago and my neighbor, who honestly I rarely talk to because I'm a quiet introvert, came over to tell me his dog had just died. He was very sad. I tried to say comforting words, but I feel like I should have given him a hug.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 26, 2018, 02:08:07 pm

Yea I couldn’t do a hug unless I had a few beers in me...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bellenseb on May 29, 2018, 09:24:12 am

Stu Lupton
https://pitchfork.com/news/jonathan-fireeaters-stewart-lupton-dead-at-43/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 29, 2018, 02:14:53 pm

Josh Harris (anal cunt)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 29, 2018, 03:00:04 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 29, 2018, 02:14:53 pm

Josh Harris (anal cunt)

josh martin?
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/anal-cunts-josh-martin-dies-after-falling-off-escalator/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 29, 2018, 03:18:55 pm

Martin , Josh (anal cunt)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 29, 2018, 04:14:36 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on May 29, 2018, 03:00:04 pm

josh martin?
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/anal-cunts-josh-martin-dies-after-falling-off-escalator/

Two things:

(1) Tell me you searched "Anal cunt" to find the correct name.

(2) How did that death not happen in Florida, because, you know....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 29, 2018, 04:31:58 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on May 29, 2018, 03:00:04 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 29, 2018, 02:14:53 pm
Josh Harris (anal cunt)

josh martin?
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/anal-cunts-josh-martin-dies-after-falling-off-escalator/

Shouldn't this be in the Onion thread?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 04, 2018, 07:51:48 pm

(http://www.totalprosports.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Dwight-Clark-768x432.jpg)

Dwight Clark, of ALS. He was 61.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 04, 2018, 07:58:10 pm

Poor guy....great receiver

Those 49ers teams where the bomb

I went to high school in Menlo/Atherton with bill walsh’s Daughter...cool girl...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 05, 2018, 12:34:00 pm

DAvid Spade's sister in law.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 05, 2018, 12:38:04 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 05, 2018, 12:34:00 pm

DAvid Spade's sister in law.

Fashion Designer Kate Spade, dead at 55 of an apparent suicide.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 05, 2018, 01:07:32 pm

Gosh just seems like so many people commit suicide

Just last week I heard of a 36 year old restaurant manager in dc that killed himself

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 05, 2018, 02:10:16 pm

Quote from: vansmack on June 05, 2018, 12:38:04 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 05, 2018, 12:34:00 pm
DAvid Spade's sister in law.

Fashion Designer Kate Spade, dead at 55 of an apparent suicide.

A nation of Julian Americans weeps.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 05, 2018, 02:43:46 pm

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on June 05, 2018, 02:10:16 pm

Quote from: vansmack on June 05, 2018, 12:38:04 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on June 05, 2018, 12:34:00 pm
DAvid Spade's sister in law.

Fashion Designer Kate Spade, dead at 55 of an apparent suicide.
A nation of Julian Americans weeps.

this is interesting

In 1999, the Spades sold the business to Neiman Marcus Group, and the company changed hands several times after that — in 2006, Neiman Marcus Group sold it to Liz Claiborne, Inc., which eventually shed its other holdings to become the publicly-traded Kate Spade & Company, itself acquired in 2017 by Coach, Inc. (After the Kate Spade acquisition, Coach, Inc. became the holding company Tapestry, which also owns Coach and Stuart Weitzman.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 06, 2018, 05:44:01 pm

(http://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/lollipop-guild-gif.gif)

Jerry Maren (https://www.thedailybeast.com/last-living-wizard-of-oz-munchkin-dies-at-98) (center), last surving Munchkin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 06, 2018, 07:40:14 pm

Savage.

Kathleen Dehmlow (https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2018/06/settling-old-scores-on-the-obituary-page/), not beloved mother.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 07, 2018, 12:47:10 am

Ira Berlin, historian of slavery and University of Maryland professor (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ira-berlin-transformative-historian-of-slavery-in-america-dies-at-77/2018/06/06/eddb33fc-6994-11e8-bf8c-f9ed2e672adf_story.html?utm_term=.593db0a98623)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 07, 2018, 06:39:29 am

Ines Zorreguieta

Another sad suicide

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 07, 2018, 05:24:32 pm

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/FoI-t-wSM-423Q2n4zP4KX_r6K8=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/UBGM3FTJBMI6RIZVYRID2BA6V4.jpg)

Atari co-founder Ted Dabney (left) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ted-dabney-atari-co-founder-whose-engineering-paved-the-way-for-pong-dies-at-81/2018/06/05/ebaeff0c-68ca-11e8-bf8c-f9ed2e672adf_story.html?utm_term=.5341ae46542e)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 07, 2018, 05:33:29 pm

I bet, those guys above all smoked cigarettes and drank all day long while at work, while constantly sexually harassing women.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 07, 2018, 06:40:17 pm

‘Sons of Anarchy’ Actor Alan O’Neill Found Dead at 47
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ (https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/)‘sons-of-anarchy’-actor-alan-o’neill-found-dead-at-47/ar-AAymvTN

Alan O’Neill, who played Hugh on “Sons of Anarchy,” had died, his manager Greg Meyer confirmed to Variety.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 08, 2018, 07:26:47 am

Anthony Bourdain

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on June 08, 2018, 08:03:10 am

Ouch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 08, 2018, 08:06:41 am

Quote from: hutch on June 05, 2018, 01:07:32 pm

Gosh just seems like so many people commit suicide

Just last week I heard of a 36 year old restaurant manager in dc that killed himself

Suicide rates are up 30 percent since 1999, CDC says

Only half of people who died by suicide had diagnosed mental health conditions.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/suicide-rates-are-30-percent-1999-cdc-says-n880926

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 08, 2018, 08:12:49 am

Yeah I just read that yesterday....

There is something about the modern human condition that makes it not worth living

Humans have never been wealthier or better off yet we seem to be struggling mightily

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 08, 2018, 08:21:23 am

Really looking forward to Space commentary on suicide.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 08, 2018, 08:24:27 am

Quote from: Yada on June 08, 2018, 08:21:23 am

Really looking forward to Space commentary on suicide.

I dunno, there are good days and bad days for everyone, I would think. And the thought of a good day beats the thought of no days for me. I guess don’t let yourself get trapped in the moment of hopelessness. Change is inevitable, and sometimes that change will be good.

I'm happy to hear your commentary as well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 08, 2018, 08:54:14 am

Quote from: hutch on June 08, 2018, 08:12:49 am

Yeah I just read that yesterday....

There is something about the modern human condition that makes it not worth living

Humans have never been wealthier or better off yet we seem to be struggling mightily

That would make for an interesting study.

Maybe it's the general move away from religion toward secularity? Maybe people need to believe in fairy tales to give them reasons to live?

What is the socioeconomic breakdown of suicide victims? Is this rise that has been noted consistent across social classes?

Is humanity really wealthier and better off? A minority, sure, but maybe that's just a comment made from a DC bubble? Do you mean there are less people struggling just to get by? And even if that's so, does it then just give people more time to ponder their existential angst?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 08, 2018, 09:03:35 am

Quote from: Space Freely on June 08, 2018, 08:54:14 am

What is the socioeconomic breakdown of suicide victims? Is this rise that has been noted consistent across social classes?

I would venture to guess it's typically those who are better off who commit suicide
It's a Maslow's hierarchy of needs thing
as you don't even get to worry about being self-actualized if you can't even put a roof over your head or food on the table

Quote

Is humanity really wealthier and better off?

More people are moving to the right of the poverty line, out of extreme poverty.
now hardly wealthy, but getting access to clean water and an education way more than only a century ago

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 08, 2018, 09:06:05 am

I think his forte are race relations and ecumenism

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: radley17 on June 15, 2018, 01:07:02 am

D.J. Fontana

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/14/619932066/elvis-presleys-longtime-drummer-d-j-fontana-has-died

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 15, 2018, 08:15:09 pm

Cramps drummer Nick Knox (https://louderthanwar.com/nick-knox-the-cramps-rip/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 15, 2018, 08:50:10 pm

Given the bad week for drummer, one wonders if this tour will come to an early completion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Dead_Yet_Tour

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 15, 2018, 11:55:43 pm

Blues Brothers guitarist Matt “Guitar” Murphy (https://deadline.com/2018/06/matt-guitar-murphy-dies-blues-brothers-guitarist-and-noted-sideman-was-88-1202411826/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: TheREALHunter on June 18, 2018, 07:24:12 pm

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXTentacion

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 19, 2018, 09:39:58 am

Quote from: TheREALHunter on June 18, 2018, 07:24:12 pm

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXTentacion

damn . . . and I was waiting for his next single ("I beat women and go to jail, but in rap music, that gets you street cred") to drop, like a fist, multiple times, until you are almost blind for life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 20, 2018, 03:18:45 pm

Leon White, aka, Vader, aka . . . you don't know who, he is.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 21, 2018, 06:42:16 pm

Koko The Gorilla (https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/622160278/koko-the-gorilla-dies-redrew-the-lines-of-animal-human-communication)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 21, 2018, 07:05:20 pm

Krauthammer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 21, 2018, 07:08:30 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on June 21, 2018, 07:05:20 pm

Krauthammer

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 22, 2018, 08:43:21 am

Hearing all the tributes to the hammer is pretty hard to take....

Personally I rarely found his analysis as brilliant as everyone seems to think it was

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 22, 2018, 10:05:37 am

I don't care what people believe, in terms of their politics. if it floats their, boats. but, I have to give it up to a man who suffered an injury such as he did, at such an early, age . . . and then to have accomplished what he did with his life. most, would have given up and been a miserable ass to everyone around them, but the motherfucker shot for the sun. and, won.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 22, 2018, 10:06:13 am

also, LaVar's dreams, just died today as well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 22, 2018, 10:07:25 am

Quote from: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 22, 2018, 10:06:13 am

also, LaVar's dreams, just died today as well.

Burton?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 22, 2018, 11:23:57 am

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on June 22, 2018, 10:07:25 am

Quote from: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 22, 2018, 10:06:13 am
also, LaVar's dreams, just died today as well.
Burton?

yes julian, lavar burton . . . they had planned an off off broadway musical production, blending roots, reading rainbow and star trek the next generation together. but, now they are not.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 22, 2018, 11:50:46 am

Quote from: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 22, 2018, 11:23:57 am

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on June 22, 2018, 10:07:25 am
Quote from: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 22, 2018, 10:06:13 am
also, LaVar's dreams, just died today as well.
Burton?

yes julian, lavar burton . . . they had planned an off off broadway musical production, blending roots, reading rainbow and star trek the next generation together. but, now they are not.

If funding was an issue, have him contact me. That sounds amazing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on June 22, 2018, 04:02:31 pm

Quote from: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 22, 2018, 10:05:37 am

I don't care what people believe, in terms of their politics. if it floats their, boats. but, I have to give it up to a man who suffered an injury such as he did, at such an early, age . . . and then to have accomplished what he did with his life. most, would have given up and been a miserable ass to everyone around them, but the motherfucker shot for the sun. and, won.

What were his amazing accomplishments? He was a loathsome prick with horrible political views who strongly championed the illegal invasion of Iraq by the US and countless other shitty fucking policies. Who argued against protections and liberties for minorities at every opportunity. Just because he said a few critical things about Trump is making everyone think, oh he was such a balanced thinker. No he wasn't. He was a typical fucking conservative asshole who loudly and arrogantly pushed for benefits for the rich on the backs of the poor and underprivileged. I'm glad he's dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 22, 2018, 04:46:58 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on June 22, 2018, 04:02:31 pm

Quote from: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 22, 2018, 10:05:37 am
I don't care what people believe, in terms of their politics. if it floats their, boats. but, I have to give it up to a man who suffered an injury such as he did, at such an early, age . . . and then to have accomplished what he did with his life. most, would have given up and been a miserable ass to everyone around them, but the motherfucker shot for the sun. and, won.

What were his amazing accomplishments? He was a loathsome prick with horrible political views who strongly championed the illegal invasion of Iraq by the US and countless other shitty fucking policies. Who argued against protections and liberties for minorities at every opportunity. Just because he said a few critical things about Trump is making everyone think, oh he was such a balanced thinker. No he wasn't. He was a typical fucking conservative asshole who loudly and arrogantly pushed for benefits for the rich on the backs of the poor and underprivileged. I'm glad he's dead.

dude . . . I'm not talking about anything political. talking politics . . . is boring. i'm, not a politician. read his resume, from college on.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: TheREALHunter on June 23, 2018, 03:37:37 am

Vinnie Paul

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8462386/vinnie-paul-dead-pantera-damageplan-hellyeah

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 24, 2018, 07:24:48 pm

Donald Hall

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on June 25, 2018, 12:40:40 pm

Richard, Harrison . . . pawn stars. I, loved that guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 27, 2018, 12:32:43 pm

Joe Jackson

I know he was a proud smoker but still seems premature....I still love the Look Sharp album

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 27, 2018, 12:37:07 pm

Joe Jackson, patriarch of the Jackson 5 family, dead at 89.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 27, 2018, 12:38:38 pm

That is a fucked up coincidence

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 27, 2018, 01:44:12 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 27, 2018, 12:32:43 pm

Joe Jackson

I know he was a proud smoker but still seems premature....I still love the Look Sharp album

Where are you reading that?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on June 28, 2018, 03:19:24 pm

Adolescents' Steve Soto.

They were literally here days ago. RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on June 29, 2018, 02:27:54 am

Quote from: AnalogFossa on June 28, 2018, 03:19:24 pm

Adolescents' Steve Soto.

They were literally here days ago. RIP

Damn. I thought about going to that one. Electric Frankenstein was opening up too! I met Steve Soto at MPP last year. He was a swell guy and very humble. Adolescents always rocked ass live so this is a huge bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on June 29, 2018, 08:40:00 am

Assuming it's a weak attempt at humor?

Quote from: Space Freely on June 27, 2018, 01:44:12 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 27, 2018, 12:32:43 pm
Joe Jackson

I know he was a proud smoker but still seems premature....I still love the Look Sharp album

Where are you reading that?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 03, 2018, 10:47:15 am

Richard Swift

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 03, 2018, 11:26:03 am

Quote from: Yada on July 03, 2018, 10:47:15 am

Richard Swift

Thoughts and prayers to Taylor in her time of need.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 03, 2018, 11:43:42 am

Bummer...was just listening to him on the last Pretenders record

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 04, 2018, 10:45:32 am

Alan Longmuir of The Bay City Rollers (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/alan-longmuir-co-founder-of-the-bay-city-rollers-dies-at-70/2018/07/03/b55bff2e-7ee9-11e8-b660-4d0f9f0351f1_story.html?utm_term=.e8d0feea62e9)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 05, 2018, 02:00:32 pm

Ed Schultz

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 06, 2018, 11:50:56 am

Quote from: hutch on July 05, 2018, 02:00:32 pm

Ed Schultz

Conservative host->liberal host->RT host?

Odd career arc.

Never much cared for the Ed show

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 09, 2018, 02:17:33 pm

Tab Hunter (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/tab-hunter-heartthrob-of-1950s-hollywood-and-star-of-damn-yankees-dies-at-87/2018/07/09/004b953a-8381-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html?utm_term=.6bbff9eb83e3)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 09, 2018, 02:31:59 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 09, 2018, 02:17:33 pm

Tab Hunter (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/tab-hunter-heartthrob-of-1950s-hollywood-and-star-of-damn-yankees-dies-at-87/2018/07/09/004b953a-8381-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html?utm_term=.6bbff9eb83e3)

CTRL-SHIFT-T

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 09, 2018, 02:49:07 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on July 09, 2018, 02:31:59 pm

CTRL-SHIFT-T

wait, what? is this some Atlanta-based rapper i haven't heard of yet?

or are you telling me they're taking away my ability to re-open a recently-closed tab? NEVER - THIS IS A HILL I WILL DIE ON.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on July 12, 2018, 10:11:28 am

RIP Laura Wilson, 9:30 alum and bartender extraordinaire. Most of all a lovely person and always so kind. This fucking sucks. And to all the wonderful staff I’ve known over the years, please stop dying. Ok?? Thanks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 12, 2018, 01:05:33 pm

That sucks

She was not the one that worked left bar by taco stand for like 15 years, right?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on July 12, 2018, 02:20:17 pm

Star tattoo on the upper arm.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on July 12, 2018, 02:36:35 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 12, 2018, 01:05:33 pm

That sucks

She was not the one that worked left bar by taco stand for like 15 years, right?

By Food Food? Yeah. Always a fixture at the Club.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 12, 2018, 02:42:11 pm

Oh no! Last show I saw her at was Johnny marr(she was into it)...always wondered

She was a favorite of mine...sort of probably why I picked up habit of left side

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 12, 2018, 02:48:26 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 12, 2018, 02:42:11 pm

Oh no! Last show I saw her at was Johnny marr(she was into it)...always wondered

She was a favorite of mine...sort of probably why I picked up habit of left side

:'(
this is sad news, she was one of my faves too
I'd typically wait until she was available when I ordered my drinks
I want to say I remember her from the old 930 club too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 12, 2018, 03:49:28 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ılılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llılılı on July 12, 2018, 02:48:26 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 12, 2018, 02:42:11 pm
Oh no! Last show I saw her at was Johnny marr(she was into it)...always wondered

She was a favorite of mine...sort of probably why I picked up habit of left side
:'(
this is sad news, she was one of my faves too
I'd typically wait until she was available when I ordered my drinks
I want to say I remember her from the old 930 club too

Damn...I share the same sentiments. She was awesome. Ugh.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on July 12, 2018, 08:52:27 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on July 12, 2018, 10:11:28 am

RIP Laura Wilson, 9:30 alum and bartender extraordinaire. Most of all a lovely person and always so kind. This fucking sucks. And to all the wonderful staff I’ve known over the years, please stop dying. Ok?? Thanks.

Heartbroken. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 14, 2018, 08:42:52 am

Nancy Barbato (Sinatra)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on July 15, 2018, 04:05:01 pm

Former NHL goalie Ray Emery dies in apparent drowning (http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nhl/news/former-goalie-ray-emery-dies-drowning-blackhawks-flyers-ducks-senators-nhl-news/1gawjmss3j68o1hinzol4hsgpv)

Emery played in the NHL from 2003-2015 for the Senators, Ducks, Blackhawks and Flyers. He was with the Blackhawks during the 2012-13 season, when they won the Stanley Cup.

He was arrested last year after his ex-fiancee claimed he beat her multiple times.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 15, 2018, 08:50:19 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on July 15, 2018, 04:05:01 pm

Former NHL goalie Ray Emery dies in apparent drowning (http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nhl/news/former-goalie-ray-emery-dies-drowning-blackhawks-flyers-ducks-senators-nhl-news/1gawjmss3j68o1hinzol4hsgpv)

Emery played in the NHL from 2003-2015 for the Senators, Ducks, Blackhawks and Flyers. He was with the Blackhawks during the 2012-13 season, when they won the Stanley Cup.

He was arrested last year after his ex-fiancee claimed he beat her multiple times.

Further proof that goalies can't swim?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 15, 2018, 09:55:22 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 15, 2018, 08:50:19 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on July 15, 2018, 04:05:01 pm
Former NHL goalie Ray Emery dies in apparent drowning (http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nhl/news/former-goalie-ray-emery-dies-drowning-blackhawks-flyers-ducks-senators-nhl-news/1gawjmss3j68o1hinzol4hsgpv)

Emery played in the NHL from 2003-2015 for the Senators, Ducks, Blackhawks and Flyers. He was with the Blackhawks during the 2012-13 season, when they won the Stanley Cup.

He was arrested last year after his ex-fiancee claimed he beat her multiple times.

Further proof that goalies can't swim?

I see what you did there. Well played.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on July 25, 2018, 06:50:47 am

Sergio Marchionne

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on July 25, 2018, 09:21:28 pm

Donald trump's Hollywood walk of fame, star.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on July 28, 2018, 04:22:05 am

Mark "The Shark" Shelton

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/633051009/manilla-roads-mark-the-shark-shelton-traditional-metal-s-innovator-dead-at-60

I just saw him rocking with Manilla Road last October. They were incredible live. This is a big loss for the heavy metal scene. R.I.P.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 30, 2018, 02:17:35 pm

Nikolai Volkoff, who played a villainous Soviet wrestler in the WWE during the Cold War, has died at age 70. (https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/07/29/nikolai-volkoff-obit-orig.cnn)

could have gone in the killsaly thread too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 30, 2018, 02:34:49 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on July 30, 2018, 02:17:35 pm

Nikolai Volkoff, who played a villainous Soviet wrestler in the WWE during the Cold War, has died at age 70. (https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/07/29/nikolai-volkoff-obit-orig.cnn)

could have gone in the killsaly thread too.

were their nerve-agents involved?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 01, 2018, 09:02:10 am

Boo!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 06, 2018, 12:32:56 pm

Joel Robuchon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 06, 2018, 12:37:53 pm

Mrs Garrett

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 06, 2018, 01:01:01 pm

Quote from: The jarring cacophony of screaming Asian teenagers on August 06, 2018, 12:37:53 pm

Mrs Garrett

Bummer
...just found out that I missed The Facts of Life Reunion movie
came out shortly after 9/11...and Jo wasn't there
also learned that Molly R was in the first season...
(https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/webdr02/2013/2/18/12/enhanced-buzz-orig-31714-1361210143-9.jpg?downsize=715:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 09, 2018, 12:01:01 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on May 14, 2018, 01:11:14 pm

(https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/margot-kidder-dead.jpg?w=1000&h=563&crop=1)

Margot Kidder (http://variety.com/2018/film/news/margot-kidder-superman-actress-dead-dies-1202809752/)

Suicide

https://wtop.com/national/2018/08/superman-actress-margot-kidders-death-ruled-a-suicide/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 12, 2018, 10:45:01 am

Zombie Boy

(https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/zombie_boy.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 12, 2018, 10:49:27 am

VS Naipaul (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44820536)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 12, 2018, 12:40:02 pm

I have to say his book or story The Return of Eva Perón had a big impact on me....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 13, 2018, 02:31:40 pm

WWE Legend and Natalya's Father Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart Dies at 63 (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2790767-wwe-legend-and-natalyas-father-jim-the-anvil-neidhart-dies-at-63)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 16, 2018, 10:05:34 am

Aretha

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 16, 2018, 11:49:12 am

Aretha Franklin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 17, 2018, 01:15:12 pm

Jill Janus, singer of the metal band Huntress, dead at 43 (https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2018/08/17/jill-janus-metal-band-huntress-singer-dies-43/1017186002/)

another musician lost to suicide...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 18, 2018, 07:30:30 am

Kofi Annan.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on August 21, 2018, 12:23:24 am

Bianca del rio's career? some,how, I doubt it. she is insult, she is brilliant, and she's not sorry.

i know . . . who?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: moeszyslak on August 21, 2018, 10:24:37 am

Quote from: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on August 21, 2018, 12:23:24 am

Bianca del rio's career? some,how, I doubt it. she is insult, she is brilliant, and she's not sorry.

i know . . . who?

Damn, she is really funny too. Hard to keep walking that edgy line without jokes not landing. She is too talented to go away.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 21, 2018, 10:34:50 am

Quote from: moeszyslak on August 21, 2018, 10:24:37 am

Quote from: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on August 21, 2018, 12:23:24 am
Bianca del rio's career? some,how, I doubt it. she is insult, she is brilliant, and she's not sorry.

i know . . . who?

Damn, she is really funny too. Hard to keep walking that edgy line without jokes not landing. She is too talented to go away.

Isn't "she" really a guy named Roy?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 21, 2018, 05:13:01 pm

The inestimable Stefan Karl, a Julian’s American in honorium.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 21, 2018, 08:45:27 pm

Eddie Willis guitar playing Funk Brother

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 23, 2018, 02:28:13 pm

Ed King, Skynyrd

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 24, 2018, 11:51:18 am

Robin Leach (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2018/08/24/575e8216-a7b1-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html?utm_term=.813b757f19d9)

400 pages. That's a lotta flies.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 24, 2018, 12:45:11 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on August 24, 2018, 11:51:18 am

Robin Leach (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2018/08/24/575e8216-a7b1-11e8-8fac-12e98c13528d_story.html?utm_term=.813b757f19d9)

400 pages. That's a lotta flies.

got to imagine Julian's America is getting ready grant a posthumous knighthood for this key player in the brand

his interview standards seem to match membership critera
anyone with a net worth above $50 million (the minimum cutoff).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 25, 2018, 09:41:56 pm

John McCain

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on August 26, 2018, 12:02:43 pm

Neil Simon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on August 27, 2018, 10:16:58 am

Quote from: ggw on August 26, 2018, 12:02:43 pm

Neil Simon

I have longtime history with his works. He was amazingly prolific and, even with some duds, brought so much laughter and acute observation over many themes.
Him being out of the limelight for over a decade and hitting 91-years-old makes his passing not overly tragic but it still marks an end to an era -- his contributions to the world of comedy and Broadway likely will never be matched.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on August 27, 2018, 10:36:26 am

I was listening, to some head doctor, discuss how it may be a borderline mental illness, to feel the need to be the first person to declare the deaths of famous people on some type of, forum.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 27, 2018, 11:34:49 am

He's just saying that so he can be the one to post first!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on August 27, 2018, 12:30:44 pm

Quote from: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on August 27, 2018, 10:36:26 am

I was listening, to some head doctor, discuss how it may be a borderline mental illness, to feel the need to be the first person to declare the deaths of famous people on some type of, forum.

I've heard it's the race-to-update-Wikipedia that is the gold standard for this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 28, 2018, 03:26:32 pm

Quote from: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on August 27, 2018, 10:36:26 am

I was listening, to some head doctor, discuss how it may be a borderline mental illness, to feel the need to be the first person to declare the deaths of famous people on some type of, forum.

I'd love to hear their thoughts on my participating in dead pools...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on August 29, 2018, 05:21:03 pm

They would say, you are, greedy . . . with a slight Eastwood personality disorder.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 01, 2018, 10:31:56 am

Ellie Mannette, a Trinidadian musician known in the United States as the father of the modern steel drum, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Morgantown, W.Va. He was 90.

The cause was kidney failure, his daughter Juliette Mannette said.

As a child in Port of Spain, Trinidad’s capital, Mr. Mannette became fascinated with the bands he saw using trash cans and buckets as drums, hitting them in different ways to create different sounds. For the rest of his life, he sought to elevate and expand the craft of steel-pan music, and to share it with the world.

He became a master tuner, builder and teacher. His shop, Mannette Instruments in Morgantown, is a major supplier of the instruments in the United States, and he trained students in tuning at West Virginia University for nearly 20 years. Numerous American universities now have steel-pan ensembles of their own, some led by Mr. Mannette’s former apprentices.

Mr. Mannette was among the first to fashion a steel drum that had all the notes of the chromatic scale, so it could play any melody in any key.

“He imagined a sound of this instrument that nobody else had imagined for it,” Shannon Dudley, an ethnomusicologist at the University of Washington, said in a telephone interview. “He strove to create that sound, and it captivated a lot of people.”

Mr. Dudley added that steel pans, now seen as a symbol of innovation and resistance, were once disparaged. Earlier percussion instruments had been banned by colonialists in Trinidad, and in the 1940s and ’50s the music was associated with rivalries and fights. But Mr. Mannette, he said, “helped to bring it out of that denigrated status, by making the music more and more compelling.”

Today the steel drum is the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago.

Kim Johnson, the director of the Carnival Institute of Trinidad and Tobago, said that Mr. Mannette’s greatest contribution was how he shared his knowledge generously, even before he left the island.

“He was a natural teacher,” Mr. Johnson said in a telephone interview. “His way of making pans became the first globalized way, the first way you’d find all over the country, from people he taught, from bands whose instruments he made, and from people trying to copy him.”

Elliott Anthony Mannette was born on Nov. 5, 1927, in the small beach town of Sans Souci. His father, Sydney, was a carpenter and mason, and his mother, Imelda, was a homemaker. He was one of nine children.

He gravitated to carnival celebrations and music as a child and joined his first band when he was 11. Before long, he was creating his own instruments out of old oil drums and other discarded items. By 1940, he had formed the Invaders Steel Orchestra with two of his brothers and other musicians.

He designed and tuned the pans for the band, drawing on skills he picked up working in an iron foundry. He fashioned drums out of 55-gallon barrels and made them concave, like a bowl, which gave them a different sound. He tuned the instruments by ear, tapping with a hammer to get the exact note he wanted from the metal.

In 1951, Trinidad and Tobago sent him to Britain as part of the Trinidad All-Steel Percussion Orchestra. By 1959, the band had a contract with Columbia Records.

In the 1960s, Mr. Mannette traveled to the United States to help develop the Navy Steel Band, which brought steel-band music to the American public.

In 1967 he made the transition permanent, moving to New York to work with urban youth in music programs. He would not return to Trinidad until 2000, when he received the Chaconia Medal from Trinidad and Tobago, the country’s second-highest state decoration. That same year, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine.

Mr. Mannette was named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1999. He was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2003.

https://youtu.be/23Bp59xfAUw

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on September 04, 2018, 12:43:08 am

Conway Savage of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nick-cave-the-bad-seeds-pianist-conway-savage-dead-at-58-718568/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 04, 2018, 07:31:51 am

Bummer...

I do remember when I last saw him in 2013 thinking he looked older than his years

Lots of amazing contributions but it’s always hard for me to know who plays what in the Songs Cave puts out

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on September 06, 2018, 11:46:26 am

Quote from: Vas Deferens on January 15, 2018, 01:39:29 pm

Dolores O'Riordan (Cranberries)

Drowned after drinking (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/arts/music/dolores-oriordan-cranberries-death-drowning.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 06, 2018, 12:06:53 pm

If there is one rule I have always followed is not to drink heavily before my daily bath. I don’t know how many people omit this simple step and pay too harshly for it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on September 06, 2018, 12:13:10 pm

i hate baths. i hate bath salts. i hate bath bombs. i hate the fact that baths take all my hot water, for when i want to take a shower. i hate math, because it rhymes it bath.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 06, 2018, 12:17:56 pm

This tragedy aside, a nice moist bath is most enjoyable.

Just kidding: take a shower like an adult.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on September 06, 2018, 02:54:55 pm

Awwww Burt Reynolds

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 06, 2018, 03:21:56 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on September 06, 2018, 02:54:55 pm

Awwww Burt Reynolds

one of the last macho men...

Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt)
Burt Reynolds & Clint Eastwood were fired from GUNSMOKE & RAWHIDE at the same time. Burt was told he couldn't act and Clint his neck was too skinny. In the parking lot, Burt said to Clint, "I dunno what you're gonna do, but I'm gonna take acting lessons." #RIPBurtReynolds

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 06, 2018, 04:02:07 pm

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on September 06, 2018, 12:17:56 pm

This tragedy aside, a nice moist bath is most enjoyable.

Just kidding: take a shower like an adult.

bonus points for using "moist."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on September 07, 2018, 04:35:32 pm

Dang, rapper Mac Miller died of an OD.
Must have been torture watching Ariana fiddling around so publicly with her new guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 07, 2018, 04:47:27 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on September 07, 2018, 04:35:32 pm

Must have been torture watching Ariana fiddling around so publicly with her new guy.

She's going to feel really bad, I bet.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 07, 2018, 05:29:02 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on September 07, 2018, 04:35:32 pm

Dang, rapper Mac Miller died of an OD.
Must have been torture watching Ariana fiddling around so publicly with her new guy.

He missed the 27 club by 4½ months.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 07, 2018, 05:49:45 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on September 07, 2018, 05:29:02 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on September 07, 2018, 04:35:32 pm
Dang, rapper Mac Miller died of an OD.
Must have been torture watching Ariana fiddling around so publicly with her new guy.

He missed the 27 club by 4½ months.

Missed it by 4.5 months and 100% of the requisite talent, technically.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 07, 2018, 07:48:35 pm

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on September 07, 2018, 04:47:27 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on September 07, 2018, 04:35:32 pm
Must have been torture watching Ariana fiddling around so publicly with her new guy.
She's going to feel really bad, I bet.

Ariana Grande 'Devastated' by Mac Miller's Death, Source Says (Exclusive) (https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/ariana-grande-devastated-by-mac-millers-death-source-says-exclusive/ar-BBN1vzJ)

"source" = julian?!?!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 07, 2018, 07:55:48 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 07, 2018, 07:48:35 pm

Ariana Grande 'Devastated' by Mac Miller's Death, Source Says (Exclusive) (https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/ariana-grande-devastated-by-mac-millers-death-source-says-exclusive/ar-BBN1vzJ)

"source" = julian?!?!?

Wait. MSN still exists and people still go there? For, um, news?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 07, 2018, 08:17:43 pm

I am devastated I don’t know who these people are....guess I really am off the grid

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 07, 2018, 09:04:13 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 07, 2018, 07:48:35 pm

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on September 07, 2018, 04:47:27 pm
Quote from: Relaxer on September 07, 2018, 04:35:32 pm
Must have been torture watching Ariana fiddling around so publicly with her new guy.
She's going to feel really bad, I bet.

Ariana Grande 'Devastated' by Mac Miller's Death, Source Says (Exclusive) (https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/ariana-grande-devastated-by-mac-millers-death-source-says-exclusive/ar-BBN1vzJ)

"source" = julian?!?!?

No, but I did write that Op Ed everyone’s talking about.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 08, 2018, 12:41:29 pm

Bill Daily (https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/bill-daily-dead-dies-major-healey-i-dream-of-jeannie-1202933026/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on September 10, 2018, 10:36:49 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on September 08, 2018, 12:41:29 pm

Bill Daily (https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/bill-daily-dead-dies-major-healey-i-dream-of-jeannie-1202933026/)

man, i loved him. the perfect foil, to major nelson. how my parents did not know i was a screaming faggy homo,sexual, in the sixth grade, while i obsessively watched i dream of jeanie . . . and hazel . . . and green acres . . . and donna reed, i will never know.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 12, 2018, 07:03:31 am

Rachid Taha

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 12, 2018, 05:00:00 pm

Quote from: hutch on September 12, 2018, 07:03:31 am

Rachid Taha

He Rocked The Casbah: Singer Rachid Taha Has Died At Age 59 (https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/647035576/he-rocked-the-casbah-singer-rachid-taha-has-died-at-age-59)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 28, 2018, 06:20:42 pm

Marty Balin (https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/09/marty-balin-jefferson-airplane-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on September 28, 2018, 07:57:28 pm

Face,book. Today . . . the day it died, in the minds of people still wanting to, use it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 29, 2018, 08:35:10 am

Drama queen

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on September 29, 2018, 11:58:48 am

L,ol.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 01, 2018, 09:18:02 am

Aznavour

I was dreading this day....was very fortunate to see him at the Warner around 10 years ago..a bravura performance

I suppose all the links to Piaf and her generation are now gone

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 01, 2018, 08:13:28 pm

Otis Rush (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/otis-rush-blues-singer-and-guitarist-with-intensely-emotional-style-dies-at-83/2018/09/30/ca3ce456-c4be-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html?utm_term=.174fc13fc784)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 02, 2018, 04:23:57 pm

Peggy Sue (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/real-peggy-sue-1958-buddy-holly-song-fame-dies-texas-n915961?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 02, 2018, 04:32:55 pm

Sandy Bodecker

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 02, 2018, 10:51:40 pm

Geoff Emerick

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 08, 2018, 09:41:00 am

John Wicks (http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2018/10/07/john-wicks-the-records-dead/), singer from The Records

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 08, 2018, 09:44:32 am

Oh man Starry Eyes is a perfect song

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on October 08, 2018, 10:47:42 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on October 08, 2018, 09:41:00 am

John Wicks (http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2018/10/07/john-wicks-the-records-dead/), singer from The Records

I listen to this song a helluva lot; on my playlist of power-pop. Always a day-brightener.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on October 08, 2018, 12:03:16 pm

Starry Eyes may just be the greatest power pop song of all time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: heff on October 08, 2018, 02:25:55 pm

I'm pretty sure John Wicks lived in DC back in the early 90s and when Too Much Joy would come into town, they'd bring him up on stage to do their version of "Starry Eyes".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 15, 2018, 06:40:00 pm

Paul Allen, Billionaire Who Co-Founded Microsoft, Dies at 65
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-15/paul-allen-billionaire-who-co-founded-microsoft-dies-at-65 (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-15/paul-allen-billionaire-who-co-founded-microsoft-dies-at-65)

non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 17, 2018, 08:25:04 am

cat house pimp
Dennis Hof (https://apnews.com/d6a66edfe27d4b19b2cfac814ea81a12)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 17, 2018, 03:18:34 pm

"All That Remains" Guitarist Oli Herbert Dead at 44
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/all-that-remains-guitarist-oli-herbert-dead-at-44/ar-BBOvRzc

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 24, 2018, 10:24:06 am

this guy really did drop....
Rapper Jon James, Who Died While Performing Music Video Stunt on a Plane's Wing (https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/what-to-know-about-rapper-jon-james-who-died-while-performing-music-video-stunt-on-a-planes-wing/ar-BBOO8qe?ocid=spartandhp)

was a little surprised he was from Canada, would have pegged him as a Florida resident

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 24, 2018, 12:27:40 pm

Quote from: Unquotable-hatch ılılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llılılı on October 24, 2018, 10:24:06 am

this guy really did drop....
Rapper Jon James, Who Died While Performing Music Video Stunt on a Plane's Wing (https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/what-to-know-about-rapper-jon-james-who-died-while-performing-music-video-stunt-on-a-planes-wing/ar-BBOO8qe?ocid=spartandhp)

was a little surprised he was from Canada, would have pegged him as a Florida resident

to be fair, a disproportionate percentage of florida's population is from canada (during the winter months, at least...)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 26, 2018, 12:18:30 am

Tony Joe White

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on October 26, 2018, 03:29:53 am

Quote from: Space Freely on October 26, 2018, 12:18:30 am

Tony Joe White

Damn. I have a bunch of his records. I think he was a great songwriter. R.I.P.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 28, 2018, 01:03:23 pm

Rose Malinger

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 28, 2018, 02:50:23 pm

Mallinger

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on October 30, 2018, 03:56:46 am

Todd Youth

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on October 30, 2018, 06:39:18 am

Jesse Flati of The Lopez from Pittsburgh.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 30, 2018, 01:27:24 pm

James "Whitey" Bulger

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 30, 2018, 01:30:58 pm

Quote from: Bent Reznor on October 30, 2018, 01:27:24 pm

James "Whitey" Bulger

looks like someone put a hit on him
as he was killed in a maximum security prison

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 30, 2018, 02:15:47 pm

Quote from: Bent Reznor on October 30, 2018, 01:27:24 pm

James "Whitey" Bulger

At least he got to see another Red Sox World Series victory...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 30, 2018, 02:54:38 pm

WaPo: [F]ound dead this morning while completing the first of his two life sentences.

Were there plans for him to also complete his second life sentence?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 31, 2018, 08:13:57 pm

Willie McCovey (https://www.sfchronicle.com/giants/article/Willie-McCovey-Giants-legend-dead-at-80-13352886.php?utm_campaign=twitter-premium&utm_source=CMS%20Sharing%20Button&utm_medium=social)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 03, 2018, 01:03:34 pm

Roy Hargrove (https://www.npr.org/2018/11/03/663895387/roy-hargrove-grammy-winning-jazz-trumpeter-dies-at-49?preview=)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 05, 2018, 05:44:51 pm

Josh Fauver

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 11, 2018, 05:22:31 pm

(https://www.kenyonreview.org/wp-content/uploads/maxresdefault.jpg) (https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/douglas-rain-stratford-festival-actor-and-voice-of-hal-in-2001-a-space-odyssey-dies-at-90-1.4172564)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 11, 2018, 05:32:44 pm

Also, Daniel Tosh's house.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on November 12, 2018, 02:55:25 pm

Stan Lee

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on November 12, 2018, 03:03:25 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on November 12, 2018, 02:55:25 pm

Stan Lee

Damn. I knew it was coming but I still wasn't prepared. Truly a legend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 12, 2018, 03:13:13 pm

Quote from: AnalogFossa on November 12, 2018, 03:03:25 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on November 12, 2018, 02:55:25 pm
Stan Lee
Damn. I knew it was coming but I still wasn't prepared. Truly a legend.

bummer...glad he got to see Marvel explode and get its due
DC comics was always so dominant on TV and the Big Screen in the 60-90s
Marvel really had the best characters/story lines/artwork ...in the 80s Marvel really came into it's own with artists like Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz
comics really changed from the simple art/story lines (that hadn't changed since the 20s) to deep, artistic and very dark

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 12, 2018, 03:25:27 pm

Quote from: A Muse Douche on November 11, 2018, 05:32:44 pm

Also, Daniel Tosh's house.

There's a belly up, fired retired for this kind of news...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 12, 2018, 03:39:52 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on November 12, 2018, 02:55:25 pm

Stan Lee

the one bright side we can all look forward to is an end to his annoying and hammy "cameos" in every marvel movie.

if they CGI him into future movies, i will personally burn down hollywood. all of it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on November 12, 2018, 03:42:42 pm

if they CGI him into future movies, i will personally burn down hollywood. all of it.
[/quote]
You should use CGI, less risk than actual fire (esp cuz they're sensitive about fire in CA)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 14, 2018, 09:56:45 pm

Mrs. Oleson from Little House on the Prairie and NASCAR great David Pearson. A real double whammy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on November 15, 2018, 02:39:13 pm

roy clark, monster musician.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on November 16, 2018, 12:46:09 pm

William Goldman (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/obituaries/william-goldman-dead.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 26, 2018, 01:58:20 pm

(https://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/D9kOXy.gif)

Ricky Jay

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 26, 2018, 02:07:20 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on November 26, 2018, 01:58:20 pm

Ricky Jay

House of Games is such a good movie...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: radley17 on November 26, 2018, 04:38:51 pm

directors Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on November 27, 2018, 02:52:54 pm

Stephen Hillenbug, creator of Spongebob.

ALS is a horrible way to go. RIP Stephen.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 30, 2018, 08:53:10 am

Bleecker Bob

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2018, 09:43:14 am

Quote from: hutch on November 30, 2018, 08:53:10 am

Bleecker Bob

was kinda like mecca to a suburban teen living on the island
(https://villagevoice.freetls.fastly.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/bleeckerbobs.jpg)
I'd never even knew bootlegs existed until I went to this shop
only went a few times, but left a lasting impression
RIP BB

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on November 30, 2018, 11:20:12 am

Quote from: Sidehatch ılılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llılılı on November 30, 2018, 09:43:14 am

Quote from: hutch on November 30, 2018, 08:53:10 am
Bleecker Bob

I'd never even knew bootlegs existed until I went to this shop
only went a few times, but left a lasting impression
RIP BB

Quite an establishment! I made a few pilgrimages way back.

Perhaps interesting: a suitable counterpart to this place, for the cinemaphile world, is Jerry Ohlinger's store in the Village (well it moved around somewhat) and its namesake died like two weeks ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2018, 01:05:44 am

George H W Bush

In retrospect a decent Republican President....a rarity

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 01, 2018, 07:33:25 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 01, 2018, 01:05:44 am

George H W Bush

In retrospect a decent Republican President....a rarity

My (late) dad was a big fan.

Any rumor to his last words being "Hey wanna see a magic trick?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 02, 2018, 04:44:15 pm

Ken Berry (https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/ken-berry-dead-dies-f-troop-mayberry-r-f-d-1203071348/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 05, 2018, 01:10:19 pm

I'm not prone to nostalgia, but the Bush 41 service really makes me miss the days when adults and decent men were not uncommon in DC.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 05, 2018, 01:17:19 pm

Whenever a former President dies the news coverage is pure hagiography

It was always thus- even when Nixon died- and it’s fine as it is about respecting the office (but it is a little overblown)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 05, 2018, 02:02:54 pm

Quote from: ggw on December 05, 2018, 01:10:19 pm

I'm not prone to nostalgia, but the Bush 41 service really makes me miss the days when adults and decent men were not uncommon in DC.

seems like eons ago that our government ran like that...you know who is to blame ....Newt
read this https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/
I know a liberal rag, but the content in this story is spot on IMO

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 05, 2018, 02:16:48 pm

Quote from: ggw on December 05, 2018, 01:10:19 pm

I'm not prone to nostalgia, but the Bush 41 service really makes me miss the days when adults and decent men were not uncommon in DC.

If only someone like him was around today to assist in assassinations.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 05, 2018, 03:48:04 pm

He only headed the CIA for one year...but what a year

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 06, 2018, 05:02:22 pm

Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks)

Bummer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 06, 2018, 05:10:34 pm

Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 06, 2018, 05:42:41 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 06, 2018, 05:02:22 pm

Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks)

Bummer

I was just talking yesterday with my library co-worker and punk expert about the Shelley book of lyrics we got. As much as I liked Shelley, I didn't think it was a book we needed for the collection (it was acquired through a pre-approval program our library has with our main source of books). Now we're keeping it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 06, 2018, 05:55:47 pm

Dammit.

Wasn't really planning on starting the baby's Buzzcock training for another year or two. Guess we'll start today.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on December 06, 2018, 06:42:51 pm

Another one I never saw, intended to see one or more of the last local shows, and failed to do so. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 06, 2018, 09:14:26 pm

I saw them at black cat maybe 8 years ago...Shelley and Diggle still totally had it! I loved it

Everyone listens to their singles comp but they have some killer albums full of deep cuts that few hear....they were damn influential in Manchester...in the early days...as I recall they drove to London to see the Pistols and then got them to play Manchester...that legendary show everyone was at that then formed bands and created the Manchester scene

A really unique and interesting band...smart

Shelley was kind enough to sign my lp

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 06, 2018, 09:19:31 pm

Yup may 11, 2010

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 06, 2018, 09:27:32 pm

http://47west63rd.blogspot.com/2010/05/buzzcocks-at-black-cat-washington-dc.html?m=0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on December 07, 2018, 02:00:06 am

As great as their early stuff was, my favorite memories of he band will be of getting high AF with friends in college and listening to A Different Kind of Tension over and over again.

He was one of the greatest.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 07, 2018, 10:41:34 am

Does anybody remember a song by Pete Shelley from the Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack form about 1987? Only years later did I realize the Pete Shelley was the Buzzcocks guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 07, 2018, 11:09:40 am

Quote from: hutch on December 06, 2018, 09:27:32 pm

http://47west63rd.blogspot.com/2010/05/buzzcocks-at-black-cat-washington-dc.html?m=0

dang forgot about your blog...7 years since the last update
for shame, some good content

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 07, 2018, 11:57:58 am

Well blogs are very last decade I guess...

I could never quite put enough into it.,.

And then kids came

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 14, 2018, 01:00:13 am

Nancy Wson (https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Manager-says-Grammy-winning-jazz-singer-Nancy-13465515.php)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 14, 2018, 08:18:36 am

Sondra Locke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 18, 2018, 01:02:22 pm

Stanley the cat, recipient of $19K kidney transplant, dies (https://wtop.com/baltimore/2018/12/stanley-the-cat-recipient-of-19k-kidney-transplant-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on December 18, 2018, 02:46:11 pm

Penny Marshall

Laverne!!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 20, 2018, 03:22:46 pm

Jerry Chesnut

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 20, 2018, 03:24:49 pm

Too many hot dogs?!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 20, 2018, 03:34:03 pm

Quote from: vansmack on December 14, 2018, 01:00:13 am

Nancy Wson (https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Manager-says-Grammy-winning-jazz-singer-Nancy-13465515.php)

I figured Ann would go 1st.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on December 28, 2018, 05:29:52 pm

Amos Oz

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 01, 2019, 07:47:24 pm

Ray Sawyer, singer for Dr. Hook (https://pagesix.com/2018/12/31/dr-hook-singer-ray-sawyer-dead-at-81/?fbclid=IwAR2ckw1RJHuSPK-Z0JbEZccv90vw_JWvRy_Jw8CNXxlSpfAreQb9FyiWno0)

First real concert I saw was the Toys For Tots show at the Capital Centre in 1978. Dr. Hook, Firefall, Pablo Cruise, and Atlanta Rhythm Section.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 02, 2019, 01:09:51 pm

"Mean" Gene Okerlund
https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2813531-wwe-hall-of-famer-mean-gene-okerlund-dies-at-age-76.amp.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 02, 2019, 01:17:14 pm

so does anyone beside Kilsaly follow 'pro' wrestling? (I know the deaths have been from the 70s/80s era )

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 02, 2019, 01:41:14 pm

Quote from: Skronk-Hatch ılılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llılılı on January 02, 2019, 01:17:14 pm

so does anyone beside Kilsaly follow 'pro' wrestling? (I know the deaths have been from the 70s/80s era )

I followed it enough back in the day to know who Mean Gene Okerlund was. I don't follow it at all now. I think the story lines just got too ridiculous. I blame Bob Mould.

I was also a fan of General Hospital while in my teens and 20's.

Now I get enough drama in my own house, I don't need wrestling or the soaps.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 02, 2019, 02:53:11 pm

Bob Einstein, aka Super Dave Osborne (https://deadline.com/2019/01/bob-einstein-dead-curb-your-enthusiasm-super-dave-osborne-smothers-brothers-1202527938/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 02, 2019, 03:31:05 pm

man...Super Dave....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 02, 2019, 03:55:06 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 02, 2019, 02:53:11 pm

Bob Einstein, aka Super Dave Osborne (https://deadline.com/2019/01/bob-einstein-dead-curb-your-enthusiasm-super-dave-osborne-smothers-brothers-1202527938/)

He'll always be Marty Funkhouser to me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on January 02, 2019, 04:13:58 pm

Agree...Funkhouser

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on January 02, 2019, 03:55:06 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 02, 2019, 02:53:11 pm
Bob Einstein, aka Super Dave Osborne (https://deadline.com/2019/01/bob-einstein-dead-curb-your-enthusiasm-super-dave-osborne-smothers-brothers-1202527938/)
He'll always be Marty Funkhouser to me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 02, 2019, 04:21:13 pm

Quote from: jeffml on January 02, 2019, 04:13:58 pm

Agree...Funkhouser

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on January 02, 2019, 03:55:06 pm
Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 02, 2019, 02:53:11 pm
Bob Einstein, aka Super Dave Osborne (https://deadline.com/2019/01/bob-einstein-dead-curb-your-enthusiasm-super-dave-osborne-smothers-brothers-1202527938/)
He'll always be Marty Funkhouser to me.

I only knew him as Super Dave Osborne. Now I'll know his as Albert Brooks' older brother.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 02, 2019, 05:26:26 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 02, 2019, 01:41:14 pm

Quote from: Skronk-Hatch ılılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llılılı on January 02, 2019, 01:17:14 pm
so does anyone beside Kilsaly follow 'pro' wrestling? (I know the deaths have been from the 70s/80s era )

I followed it enough back in the day to know who Mean Gene Okerlund was. I don't follow it at all now.

same. pretty sure it's the typical pattern.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 02, 2019, 06:08:39 pm

The Captain (Daryl Dragon) (https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Daryl-Dragon-of-Captain-and-Tennille-dead-toni-celebrity-503813061.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand)

Man, 2019 off to a rollicking start....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 02, 2019, 06:16:20 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 02, 2019, 06:08:39 pm

The Captain (Daryl Dragon) (https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Daryl-Dragon-of-Captain-and-Tennille-dead-toni-celebrity-503813061.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand)

Man, 2019 off to a rollicking start....

The Captain, Mean Gene, and Super Dave. All 76.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 02, 2019, 06:21:36 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 02, 2019, 06:16:20 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 02, 2019, 06:08:39 pm
The Captain (Daryl Dragon) (https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Daryl-Dragon-of-Captain-and-Tennille-dead-toni-celebrity-503813061.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand)

Man, 2019 off to a rollicking start....

The Captain, Mean Gene, and Super Dave. All 76.

must say a morbidly cool celebrity death trifecta

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 02, 2019, 09:12:43 pm

Pegi Young

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on January 02, 2019, 09:24:36 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 02, 2019, 09:12:43 pm

Pegi Young

This is the absolute worst. She was an angel. Now I am totally done with NY.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 02, 2019, 10:04:06 pm

Very sad for sure....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on January 03, 2019, 11:53:56 am

stock market.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 03, 2019, 12:07:25 pm

How long til companies begin layoffs?

I loathe Trump but not to the point I cheer when the market tanks and a recession seems to be around the corner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 03, 2019, 12:25:52 pm

Quote from: challenged on January 03, 2019, 11:53:56 am

stock market.

Perspective
DJ on Jan 3 2019 : 22,850~
DJ on Jan 3 2018 : 24,900~
DJ on Jan 6 2017 : 19,900~
DJ on Jan 3 2014 : 16,400~

LOTS of gains in the last 5 years...
could be foreshadowing of a bear market...but overall, you really couldn't lose with your money in the market for the last few years
Not sure I'd recommend getting in big now, but I think some of this is overblown and good headlines
and yes DJ is only a small part of the market...but a good indicator on our economy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on January 03, 2019, 12:44:01 pm

Quote from: Skronk-Hatch ılılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llılılı on January 03, 2019, 12:25:52 pm

Quote from: challenged on January 03, 2019, 11:53:56 am
stock market.
Perspective
DJ on Jan 3 2019 : 22,850~
DJ on Jan 3 2018 : 24,900~
DJ on Jan 6 2017 : 19,900~
DJ on Jan 3 2014 : 16,400~

LOTS of gains in the last 5 years...
could be foreshadowing of a bear market...but overall, you really couldn't lose with your money in the market for the last few years
Not sure I'd recommend getting in big now, but I think some of this is overblown and good headlines
and yes DJ is only a small part of the market...but a good indicator on our economy

It's pretty cool timing-wise. I sold my house, cashed out on 11/1, been back in the stock market since 11/1. My money is really making money.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 03, 2019, 10:37:31 pm

Herb Kelleher

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on January 07, 2019, 12:52:57 pm

Alan R. Pearlman of ARP synths. So many classic synth sounds derived from his hardware.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/43018

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 12, 2019, 08:00:42 pm

Pat Boone's wife.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 15, 2019, 10:41:35 am

Carol Channing (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2019/01/15/ce500c2c-6615-11e0-a4e1-a72fabc2ddae_story.html?_=ddid-4-1547555940&utm_term=.254751f907c2)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 15, 2019, 11:09:22 am

Can Betty White be too far off?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 15, 2019, 01:30:00 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on January 15, 2019, 11:09:22 am

Can Betty White be too far off?

Depends on how far is too far. She lives in LA.

Olivia de Haviland and Kirk Douglas are still alive, both 102.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 15, 2019, 01:33:43 pm

Doris Day is still alive.... I think recently they found out she was one year older than she thought so she is now older than Betty White

Its amazing to think Doris was recording in the 50s and making movies with Sinatra, Rock Hudson etc and she is still here....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on January 15, 2019, 06:07:59 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 15, 2019, 01:33:43 pm

Doris Day is still alive.... I think recently they found out she was one year older than she thought so she is now older than Betty White

Its amazing to think Doris was recording in the 50s and making movies with Sinatra, Rock Hudson etc and she is still here....

She and Kirk Douglas together in one of my favorite movies Young Man With a Horn. There's maybe still time to do a sequel.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 15, 2019, 07:03:41 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on January 15, 2019, 06:07:59 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 15, 2019, 01:33:43 pm
Doris Day is still alive.... I think recently they found out she was one year older than she thought so she is now older than Betty White

Its amazing to think Doris was recording in the 50s and making movies with Sinatra, Rock Hudson etc and she is still here....
She and Kirk Douglas together in one of my favorite movies Young Man With a Horn. There's maybe still time to do a sequel.

Pretty obvious what the sequel should be called.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 15, 2019, 07:11:08 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on January 15, 2019, 06:07:59 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 15, 2019, 01:33:43 pm
Doris Day is still alive.... I think recently they found out she was one year older than she thought so she is now older than Betty White

Its amazing to think Doris was recording in the 50s and making movies with Sinatra, Rock Hudson etc and she is still here....
She and Kirk Douglas together in one of my favorite movies Young Man With a Horn. There's maybe still time to do a sequel.

what a great tag line
(http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/v22vodart/1594/p1594_v_v8_aa.jpg)
and when going for vintage babes...Lauren Bacall is the one for me

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on January 15, 2019, 07:17:19 pm

Quote from: hatchberder ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 15, 2019, 07:11:08 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on January 15, 2019, 06:07:59 pm
Quote from: hutch on January 15, 2019, 01:33:43 pm
Doris Day is still alive.... I think recently they found out she was one year older than she thought so she is now older than Betty White

Its amazing to think Doris was recording in the 50s and making movies with Sinatra, Rock Hudson etc and she is still here....
She and Kirk Douglas together in one of my favorite movies Young Man With a Horn. There's maybe still time to do a sequel.
what a great tag line
(http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/v22vodart/1594/p1594_v_v8_aa.jpg)
and when going for vintage babes...Lauren Bacall is the one for me

Agreed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 15, 2019, 07:53:26 pm

Look if we are going to shallowly objectify now-elderly or deceased actresses, Brigitte Bardot always got my motor running. I have Contempt for this sudden tightness in my pants!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 15, 2019, 08:02:48 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 15, 2019, 07:03:41 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on January 15, 2019, 06:07:59 pm
Quote from: hutch on January 15, 2019, 01:33:43 pm
Doris Day is still alive.... I think recently they found out she was one year older than she thought so she is now older than Betty White

Its amazing to think Doris was recording in the 50s and making movies with Sinatra, Rock Hudson etc and she is still here....
She and Kirk Douglas together in one of my favorite movies Young Man With a Horn. There's maybe still time to do a sequel.

Pretty obvious what the sequel should be called.

Man with a Horn 2?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 15, 2019, 08:29:03 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 15, 2019, 10:41:35 am

Carol Channing (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2019/01/15/ce500c2c-6615-11e0-a4e1-a72fabc2ddae_story.html?_=ddid-4-1547555940&utm_term=.254751f907c2)

My wife says that when she was a kid all the old people would tell her she looked like the young Carol Channing. I don't see it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 15, 2019, 08:30:04 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on January 15, 2019, 08:02:48 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 15, 2019, 07:03:41 pm
Quote from: dyecraig on January 15, 2019, 06:07:59 pm
Quote from: hutch on January 15, 2019, 01:33:43 pm
Doris Day is still alive.... I think recently they found out she was one year older than she thought so she is now older than Betty White

Its amazing to think Doris was recording in the 50s and making movies with Sinatra, Rock Hudson etc and she is still here....
She and Kirk Douglas together in one of my favorite movies Young Man With a Horn. There's maybe still time to do a sequel.

Pretty obvious what the sequel should be called.

Man with a Horn 2: Search For Curlys Gold

FTFY.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on January 16, 2019, 01:45:39 pm

Alan R. Pearlman

(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/01/15/obituaries/15PEARLMAN1/merlin_149163207_ec9fc22e-383e-474b-a9e7-57106e522cb4-articleLarge.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 16, 2019, 10:50:25 pm

Lorna Doom (https://pitchfork.com/news/germs-bassist-lorna-doom-has-died/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on January 17, 2019, 12:17:56 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 16, 2019, 10:50:25 pm

Lorna Doom (https://pitchfork.com/news/germs-bassist-lorna-doom-has-died/)

This makes me so sad. I met her once and she was really sweet.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 17, 2019, 12:46:10 pm

Chris Vadala, saxophonist and director of jazz studies at the University of Maryland. In the 70s and 80s he was in Chuck Mangione's band. He can be heard on Mangione's 1977 smash hit "Feel So Good".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 17, 2019, 02:55:58 pm

couldn't decide what thread...but it had the line dropping like flies (https://www.zdnet.com/article/government-shutdown-tls-certificates-not-renewed-many-websites-are-down/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on January 17, 2019, 03:31:44 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 17, 2019, 12:46:10 pm

Chris Vadala, saxophonist and director of jazz studies at the University of Maryland. In the 70s and 80s he was in Chuck Mangione's band. He can be heard on Mangione's 1977 smash hit "Feel So Good".

He also played all the jazz solos with the NSO at those Capital 4th concerts on PBS. Great musician, educator and human.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 26, 2019, 01:01:43 pm

Michel Legrand (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/michel-legrand-oscar-winning-composer-of-windmills-of-your-mind-dies-at-86/2019/01/26/14182e42-216b-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html?utm_term=.1bf09e2c2ee2)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 29, 2019, 05:03:40 pm

James Ingram (https://pitchfork.com/news/singer-songwriter-james-ingram-dead-at-66/?utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=p4k)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 29, 2019, 05:20:20 pm

Oh ya mo b there!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 29, 2019, 05:29:13 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 29, 2019, 05:03:40 pm

James Ingram (https://pitchfork.com/news/singer-songwriter-james-ingram-dead-at-66/?utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=p4k)

funny was listening to the radio just a few days ago and was thinking how PYT (pretty young thing) probably wouldn't fly in todays climate
was only 66...sad

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on January 30, 2019, 05:22:41 am

Paul Whaley, drummer for pioneering San Fran psych rockers Blue Cheer.

I saw him with Blue Cheer at the Black cat in 2006. He was 59 or 60 years old and he still was quite impressive behind the kit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 01, 2019, 11:34:25 pm

Former Vikings, Cowboys QB Wade Wilson dies at 60
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001015302/article/former-vikings-cowboys-qb-wade-wilson-dies-at-60

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 02, 2019, 01:48:06 pm

Alex Brown of Gorilla Biscuits.

https://www.artforum.com/news/alex-brown-1966-2019-78554

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 02, 2019, 04:16:34 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 02, 2019, 01:48:06 pm

Alex Brown of Gorilla Biscuits.

only 52 :-X
...saw them at my first NYHC punk matinee (http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/gorillabiscuits/atthematinee.html) show at the Pymarid club @ 16
Underdog opened and threw an 8 foot gumby into mosh pit with us
can't believe that was almost 30 years ago, good times

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 03, 2019, 12:24:23 pm

Alex was good friends with many in my So Cal circle and the stories being shared are amazing. Sad loss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on February 04, 2019, 11:14:36 am

https://relix.com/news/detail/in-memoriam-jerry-garcia-band-vocalist-gloria-jones/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on February 04, 2019, 12:31:00 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 02, 2019, 01:48:06 pm

Alex Brown of Gorilla Biscuits.

https://www.artforum.com/news/alex-brown-1966-2019-78554

That's a bummer. I saw them at the Safari Club, in probably 87, their one DC show during their initial run. They were head and shoulders above the other bands of that time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 06, 2019, 12:43:07 pm

VA Attorney General Herring wore blackface....

Who is next in line? The State’s Dogcatcher?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: ggw on February 06, 2019, 12:56:54 pm

Actually, next in line would be Speaker of the House of Delegates - Kirk Cox (R)

This whole thing has been a vast right-wing conspiracy to remove all the Dems in the way of the governorship.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 06, 2019, 02:24:37 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 06, 2019, 12:56:54 pm

This whole thing has been a vast right-wing conspiracy to remove all the Dems in the way of the governorship.

unless the right-wingers planted and/or doctored those photos, i don't see how this is a conspiracy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 06, 2019, 02:30:14 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 06, 2019, 02:24:37 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 06, 2019, 12:56:54 pm
This whole thing has been a vast right-wing conspiracy to remove all the Dems in the way of the governorship.

unless the right-wingers planted and/or doctored those photos, i don't see how this is a conspiracy.

I assumed GGW was saying that very tongue-in-cheek.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 07, 2019, 04:12:10 pm

Frank Robinson (https://apnews.com/urn:publicid:ap.org:c6a3be829592431eae39d49c3b4f394f?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 07, 2019, 04:25:27 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 06, 2019, 02:24:37 pm

Quote from: ggw on February 06, 2019, 12:56:54 pm
This whole thing has been a vast right-wing conspiracy to remove all the Dems in the way of the governorship.

unless the right-wingers planted and/or doctored those photos, i don't see how this is a conspiracy.

I don't know about conspiracy, but the exposure is definitely a hit job by the right.

A racist photograph on the 1984 yearbook page of Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia.

An accusation of sexual assault against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax.

Both reports — the first triggering an earthquake in Virginia politics last week, the second setting off an aftershock on Monday — were originally published by an obscure right-wing news site, Big League Politics, which has promoted conspiracy theories and written favorably about white nationalist candidates.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/us/politics/northam-fairfax-big-league-politics.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 07, 2019, 04:49:22 pm

Bummer

Along with Dusty the only Nats manager I liked...of course they treated him shabby

I wanted to like Davey

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 07, 2019, 10:25:10 pm

John Dingell (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/john-dingell-longest-serving-member-congress-has-died-he-was-n968401)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 07, 2019, 11:07:50 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 07, 2019, 10:25:10 pm

John Dingell (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/john-dingell-longest-serving-member-congress-has-died-he-was-n968401)

One of my favorite people on Twitter...smart, classy and funny

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 08, 2019, 09:25:00 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 07, 2019, 04:12:10 pm

Frank Robinson (https://apnews.com/urn:publicid:ap.org:c6a3be829592431eae39d49c3b4f394f?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP)

I wonder if he taught as many people about life as Joe Strummer did.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 08, 2019, 10:20:13 am

Space crying out for a Joe Strummer meme

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 08, 2019, 10:46:33 am

albert finney

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 10, 2019, 12:12:34 am

Quote from: hutch on February 07, 2019, 11:07:50 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 07, 2019, 10:25:10 pm
John Dingell (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/john-dingell-longest-serving-member-congress-has-died-he-was-n968401)

One of my favorite people on Twitter...smart, classy and funny

For Jules:

John Dingell ✔ @JohnDingell
Switching from this Tigers game to the NBA Finals, because if you can't watch a Michigan team win, you may as well watch an Ohio team lose.
5:48 PM - Jun 2, 2016

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 12, 2019, 06:07:56 pm

Twitter's atwitter that Lyndon LaRouche has croaked. We may never know for sure.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 12, 2019, 06:13:43 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 12, 2019, 06:07:56 pm

Twitter's atwitter that Lyndon LaRouche has croaked. We may never know for sure.

was curious and found this

Jordan Hoffman(@jhoffman)
Wow Lyndon LaRouche has died. His psychotic homophobic supporters used to have a booth near my subway stop in the late 90s. Terrible people!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 12, 2019, 06:21:52 pm

Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank)
I see reports that Lyndon LaRouche has died. I'm not sure Lyndon LaRouche would have believed them.

And so on. Still just twitter.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 12, 2019, 06:27:33 pm

Don’t give the Larouchies your phone number

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 12, 2019, 06:27:51 pm

Don’t join the Zendik cult

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 12, 2019, 06:50:12 pm

for smackie:

Former England Goalkeeper and World Cup Winner Gordon Banks Dies at Age 81
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2820463-former-england-goalkeeper-and-world-cup-winner-gordon-banks-dies-at-age-81 (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2820463-former-england-goalkeeper-and-world-cup-winner-gordon-banks-dies-at-age-81)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 13, 2019, 06:32:44 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 12, 2019, 06:07:56 pm

Twitter's atwitter that Lyndon LaRouche has croaked. We may never know for sure.

His political organization, LaRouche PAC, confirmed the death but did not say where or how he died. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/lyndon-larouche-jr-conspiracy-theorist-and-presidential-candidate-dies-at-96/2019/02/13/22170d42-2f21-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?utm_term=.fb0a6beedd44)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 13, 2019, 06:35:11 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 13, 2019, 06:32:44 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 12, 2019, 06:07:56 pm
Twitter's atwitter that Lyndon LaRouche has croaked. We may never know for sure.

His political organization, LaRouche PAC, confirmed the death but did not say where or how he died. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/lyndon-larouche-jr-conspiracy-theorist-and-presidential-candidate-dies-at-96/2019/02/13/22170d42-2f21-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?utm_term=.fb0a6beedd44)

In the arms of his black, gay lover. Source: rewatched The Bird Cage over the weekend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 13, 2019, 06:48:42 pm

TAN: what percentage of LaRouche's followers have joined the Trump train?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 16, 2019, 12:41:23 pm

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTg1NzE3NTQ1Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTI1Njk3MTI@._V1_.jpg)

Bruno Ganz (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/obituaries/bruno-ganz-dead.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 16, 2019, 12:58:32 pm

Kofi Burbridge

https://jambands.com/news/2019/02/16/in-memoriam-kofi-burbridge-1961-2019/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 16, 2019, 10:17:44 pm

Ken Nordine (https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ent-ken-nordine-dead-0217-story.html)

The world just got less colorful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 18, 2019, 11:56:49 am

(https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/eisenstaedt-v-j-day.jpg?quality=85)

George Mendonsa (https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/sailor-iconic-day-times-square-kiss-photo-dies-61146506?cid=social_twitter_abcn)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 19, 2019, 12:46:59 am

^ i wasn't sure if that belonged her, or in the Groper thread. apparently this dude just grabbed a rando for this pic... she did not know him nor did she appreciate being manhandled like that.

edit: nvm... article confirms as much. apparently.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 19, 2019, 09:42:57 am

Quote from: sweetcell on February 19, 2019, 12:46:59 am

^ i wasn't sure if that belonged her, or in the Groper thread. apparently this dude just grabbed a rando for this pic... she did not know him nor did she appreciate being manhandled like that.

edit: nvm... article confirms as much. apparently.

WHY DO YOU HATE OUR TROOPS? IS IT BECAUSE YOU'RE ANTI-FREEDOM?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 19, 2019, 09:46:20 am

Karl Lagerfeld

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 19, 2019, 01:10:08 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on February 19, 2019, 09:46:20 am

Karl Lagerfeld

Anybody check on Julian?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 19, 2019, 05:40:57 pm

Skip Groff
https://wtop.com/music/2017/07/yesterday-today-early-dc-punks-shopped-worked-at-record-store/slide/1/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on February 19, 2019, 09:08:08 pm

Sorry to hear that. His store was amazing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 20, 2019, 11:39:48 am

Dischord Records on Skip Groff (https://www.dischord.com/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 20, 2019, 01:35:51 pm

(https://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/download.jpeg)

David Horowitz (https://wtop.com/national/2019/02/fight-back-consumer-reported-david-horowitz-dies/) (no, not the rightwing asshat)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 20, 2019, 01:42:16 pm

it is amazing how many people are named "David Horowitz"! Anyone know why?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 20, 2019, 02:05:22 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 20, 2019, 01:35:51 pm

(https://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/download.jpeg)

David Horowitz (https://wtop.com/national/2019/02/fight-back-consumer-reported-david-horowitz-dies/) (no, not the rightwing asshat)

man, this is the image you should have included
(https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Obit_Horowitz_67434-780x520.jpg)

n 1987, Horowitz was taken hostage during a KNBC-TV broadcast by a gunman with mental problems. The journalist read the man’s statements on camera although the hostage-taker didn’t realize the broadcast had been cut. The weapon turned out to be an empty BB gun.

The experience led Horowitz to join a successful campaign to outlaw realistic-looking toy guns in California and other states.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 20, 2019, 02:08:16 pm

I don't know... seems like it could give crazy people a bad idea

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 20, 2019, 02:10:26 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 20, 2019, 02:08:16 pm

I don't know... seems like it could give crazy people a bad idea

well there are a lot of them on this board...so you have a point

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 20, 2019, 04:21:59 pm

Lewis Khan

Great violinist and trombonist on tons of salsa sessions

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on February 20, 2019, 04:50:06 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 20, 2019, 04:21:59 pm

Lewis Khan

Great violinist and trombonist on tons of salsa sessions

Had a nice run with David Byrne, too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 20, 2019, 09:08:50 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 19, 2019, 05:40:57 pm

Skip Groff
https://wtop.com/music/2017/07/yesterday-today-early-dc-punks-shopped-worked-at-record-store/slide/1/

Appreciation by John Davis (https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/skip-we-love-you-remembering-a-pillar-of-dcs-punk-scene/2019/02/20/b3586312-3531-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.f8ce3f4a52d7)

Washington Post obit (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/skip-groff-record-store-owner-who-presided-over-a-dc-punk-paradise-dies-at-70/2019/02/20/a812096c-3523-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.65cb8d88983d)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on February 21, 2019, 01:18:19 pm

Peter Tork from the Monkees

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 21, 2019, 01:19:49 pm

like there is a long list of Peter Tork's out there

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on February 21, 2019, 02:18:42 pm

No but I suspect there are at least a couple people, even on a dumb music message board for jerks, who would see "Peter Tork" and wonder who that was.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 21, 2019, 02:35:54 pm

Really...you don't think 95% of the people here know who Peter Tork is (I suspect James Ford and his family have no idea)
can anyone who never heard of Peter Tork, please comment here ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 21, 2019, 02:36:11 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on February 21, 2019, 02:18:42 pm

a dumb music message board for jerks

Holy fuck, how has that not been the forum's official tagline long before now?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 21, 2019, 02:37:30 pm

Quote from: Defamatory Gist ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 21, 2019, 02:35:54 pm

(I suspect James Ford and his family have no idea)

I would give only 70% odds (35% for the daughter) they know who The Monkees are and am only willing to go as high as 93% that they can identify an actual monkey from a photo.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 21, 2019, 02:46:12 pm

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on February 21, 2019, 02:37:30 pm

Quote from: Defamatory Gist ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 21, 2019, 02:35:54 pm
(I suspect James Ford and his family have no idea)
I would give only 70% odds (35% for the daughter) they know who The Monkees are and am only willing to go as high as 93% that they can identify an actual monkey from a photo.

Everyone my age knows the Monkees. Nobody my kid's age knows the Monkees.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 21, 2019, 02:47:26 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on February 21, 2019, 02:18:42 pm

No but I suspect there are at least a couple people, even on a dumb music message board for jerks, who would see "Peter Tork" and wonder who that was.

More information in this thread is better than less. Don't let them bust your balls, big guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 21, 2019, 02:52:42 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 21, 2019, 02:47:26 pm

let them bust your balls, big guy.

no, this should be the message board tag line ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on February 22, 2019, 11:07:54 am

Quote from: Defamatory Gist ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 21, 2019, 02:35:54 pm

Really...you don't think 95% of the people here know who Peter Tork is (I suspect James Ford and his family have no idea)
can anyone who never heard of Peter Tork, please comment here ;)

Did not know who he was until the headlines said he passed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 22, 2019, 11:51:50 am

Quote from: AnalogFossa on February 21, 2019, 12:03:51 pm

I checked and checked but didn't see anything listed afterwards. I'm not 30 yet and I still was too tired to stay after after 3. I assume it was a DJ. Ty and White Fence were really good but had a short set. Tim Hecker is always my go-to since he doesn't play DC.

Generational divide.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 25, 2019, 12:43:13 pm

Jim Nicholson, champion of the common-man obituary, dies at 76 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jim-nicholson-champion-of-the-common-man-obituary-dies-at-76/2019/02/23/dcf69714-36ff-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.9177ba4f276f)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 25, 2019, 03:22:36 pm

Mark Hollis (according to Twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 25, 2019, 03:57:16 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 25, 2019, 03:22:36 pm

Mark Hollis (according to Twitter)

Man, I was so hoping you were referring to the disgraced, former Michigan State Athletic Director but it appears you mean the Talk Talk guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 25, 2019, 04:53:48 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 25, 2019, 03:22:36 pm

Mark Hollis (according to Twitter)

That would suck

He seemed to fade to the firmament

Isn’t it a pity?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 25, 2019, 06:37:51 pm

Ross Lowell, inventor of gaffer tape (https://www.diyphotography.net/ross-lowell-founder-of-lowel-light-and-gaffer-tape-inventor-dies-at-92/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 25, 2019, 07:48:43 pm

Bluegrass star Mac Wiseman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 26, 2019, 05:18:33 pm

I had no idea Mark Hollis/Talk Talkwas such a musician’s musician, I always enjoyed listening to material, just had no idea they were also influential. I guess if one is going to totally leave the music business, leave a very solid back catalogue

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 26, 2019, 05:42:35 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 26, 2019, 05:18:33 pm

I had no idea Mark Hollis/Talk Talkwas such a musician’s musician, I always enjoyed listening to material, just had no idea they were also influential. I guess if one is going to totally leave the music business, leave a very solid back catalogue

Same here. They played a nice tribute to him on KEXP this morning. Definitely made me appreciate them more, even though I was only half listening at work.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 27, 2019, 01:13:08 am

Andy Anderson
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cure-drummer-andy-anderson-dead-at-68/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 27, 2019, 10:08:37 am

Quote from: excontradiction on February 27, 2019, 01:13:08 am

Andy Anderson
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cure-drummer-andy-anderson-dead-at-68/

Just curious, how long did the Cure have a Black member?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 27, 2019, 10:09:53 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 27, 2019, 10:08:37 am

Quote from: excontradiction on February 27, 2019, 01:13:08 am
Andy Anderson
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cure-drummer-andy-anderson-dead-at-68/

Just curious, how long did the Cure have a Black member?

Technically, they're all black.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 27, 2019, 10:31:35 am

Quote from: excontradiction on February 27, 2019, 10:09:53 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 27, 2019, 10:08:37 am
Quote from: excontradiction on February 27, 2019, 01:13:08 am
Andy Anderson
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cure-drummer-andy-anderson-dead-at-68/

Just curious, how long did the Cure have a Black member?

Technically, they're all black.

(https://media3.giphy.com/media/1O1bHxv9ZzuRo4B0cs/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095c769f135177715736e901f3) (https://media3.giphy.com/media/1O1bHxv9ZzuRo4B0cs/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095c769f135177715736e901f3) (https://media3.giphy.com/media/1O1bHxv9ZzuRo4B0cs/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095c769f135177715736e901f3) (https://media3.giphy.com/media/1O1bHxv9ZzuRo4B0cs/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095c769f135177715736e901f3) (https://media3.giphy.com/media/1O1bHxv9ZzuRo4B0cs/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095c769f135177715736e901f3) (https://media3.giphy.com/media/1O1bHxv9ZzuRo4B0cs/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095c769f135177715736e901f3) (https://media3.giphy.com/media/1O1bHxv9ZzuRo4B0cs/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095c769f135177715736e901f3) (https://media3.giphy.com/media/1O1bHxv9ZzuRo4B0cs/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095c769f135177715736e901f3) (https://media3.giphy.com/media/1O1bHxv9ZzuRo4B0cs/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095c769f135177715736e901f3) (https://media3.giphy.com/media/1O1bHxv9ZzuRo4B0cs/giphy.gif?cid=3640f6095c769f135177715736e901f3) 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Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 27, 2019, 10:33:30 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 27, 2019, 10:08:37 am

Quote from: excontradiction on February 27, 2019, 01:13:08 am
Andy Anderson
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cure-drummer-andy-anderson-dead-at-68/

Just curious, how long did the Cure have a Black member?

83/84

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 27, 2019, 10:45:26 am

Quote from: hutch on February 27, 2019, 10:33:30 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 27, 2019, 10:08:37 am
Quote from: excontradiction on February 27, 2019, 01:13:08 am
Andy Anderson
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cure-drummer-andy-anderson-dead-at-68/

Just curious, how long did the Cure have a Black member?

83/84

played drums on Love Cats...and he's in the video (was really hard to find for some reason)
http://www.timpope.tv/portfolio/the-cure-the-lovecats-video
been a cure fan right after this time, but actually had no idea

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 27, 2019, 10:49:24 am

Quote from: hutch on February 27, 2019, 10:33:30 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 27, 2019, 10:08:37 am
Quote from: excontradiction on February 27, 2019, 01:13:08 am
Andy Anderson
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cure-drummer-andy-anderson-dead-at-68/

Just curious, how long did the Cure have a Black member?

83/84

Thanks. I was curious and looked it up. Had no idea.

I saw them at the Worcester Centrum in 1987 and then Wembley Arena in 1989. Didn't see a Black guy but had such nosebleeds (and was so inebriated for the second show) that I didn't see much at all anyway. I guess he was out before I ever saw them.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 28, 2019, 02:00:57 pm

André Previn (https://variety.com/2019/music/news/andre-previn-dead-dies-composer-gigi-porgy-and-bess-1203152006/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on February 28, 2019, 02:05:50 pm

Ira Gitler

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/obituaries/ira-gitler-dead.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on March 01, 2019, 12:06:06 am

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on February 27, 2019, 10:31:35 am

Quote from: excontradiction on February 27, 2019, 10:09:53 am
Quote from: Space Freely on February 27, 2019, 10:08:37 am
Quote from: excontradiction on February 27, 2019, 01:13:08 am
Andy Anderson
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cure-drummer-andy-anderson-dead-at-68/

Just curious, how long did the Cure have a Black member?

Technically, they're all black.
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wonder showzen . . . is still, one of the most underrated shows in American history.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: IMAmoose24 on March 01, 2019, 12:24:20 pm

Quote from: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on March 01, 2019, 12:06:06 am

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on February 27, 2019, 10:31:35 am
Quote from: excontradiction on February 27, 2019, 10:09:53 am
Quote from: Space Freely on February 27, 2019, 10:08:37 am
Quote from: excontradiction on February 27, 2019, 01:13:08 am
Andy Anderson
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-cure-drummer-andy-anderson-dead-at-68/

Just curious, how long did the Cure have a Black member?

Technically, they're all black.
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wonder showzen . . . is still, one of the most underrated shows in American history.

OH GOOD LORD ITS A KIDS SHOW

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 01, 2019, 02:46:02 pm

(https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/landscape_928x523/2016/03/katherine_helmond_2-h_2016.jpg)

Katherine Helmond, the Man-Crazy Mother on 'Who’s the Boss?' Dies at 89

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 01, 2019, 02:53:37 pm

At one point, I totally wanted to do her. Even though she was 38 years older than me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 01, 2019, 03:01:28 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 01, 2019, 02:53:37 pm

At one point, I totally wanted to do her. Even though she was 38 years older than me.

Was that point recently?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 01, 2019, 03:48:08 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 01, 2019, 02:53:37 pm

At one point, I totally wanted to do her. Even though she was 38 years older than me.

Gross

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 01, 2019, 04:30:55 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 01, 2019, 03:48:08 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 01, 2019, 02:53:37 pm
At one point, I totally wanted to do her. Even though she was 38 years older than me.

Gross

She did attend BJU.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 01, 2019, 04:49:32 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 01, 2019, 04:30:55 pm

She did attend BJU.

Bob Jones University or Blow Job University?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 02, 2019, 12:11:04 pm

Ethel Ennis, Baltimore's 'first lady of jazz' (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ethel-ennis-baltimores-first-lady-of-jazz-dies-at-86/2019/02/26/ed6d4060-39df-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html?utm_term=.195490d72031)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 03, 2019, 05:42:05 pm

One of the greatest obituaries I've ever read

Tony Pike, hotelier who epitomized hedonistic lifestyle, dies at 84

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/tony-pike-hotelier-who-epitomized-hedonistic-lifestyle-dies-at-84/2019/03/01/18b35388-393e-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html?utm_term=.660be0410717

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on March 04, 2019, 07:55:46 am

Keith Flint of Prodigy fame (firestarter) https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-keith-flint-dead-prodigy-14084654?fbclid=IwAR0gmCb4Uy3LS3_bwoykezVev-OYkYGox6Jcv75tZoul1-yMeIQ15Nywkak

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 04, 2019, 08:50:58 am

A headline I got on my phone referred to Prodigy as electro pop

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 04, 2019, 08:57:55 am

Morbid how fast people update Wikipedia

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 04, 2019, 09:26:51 am

Lifted from Twitter

Keith Flint kept a swearbox above the fire in the pub he used to own (The Leather Bottle in Pleshey, Essex). Whenever he put the logs and kindling in and someone piped up with the obvious joke, he'd point to it and charge them a quid. RIP.

https://twitter.com/sanglesey/status/1102541475538239488?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on March 04, 2019, 10:08:14 am

The Prodigy were the band that got me into electronic music when I was in high school.

Fuck, this hurts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 04, 2019, 10:18:14 am

Quote from: hutch on March 04, 2019, 08:50:58 am

A headline I got on my phone referred to Prodigy as electro pop

I don't think that's.... completely ludicrous. I mean, they were pop music that was electronically based.

Bummed about this. I've really enjoyed their last 2 records and I was super excited for the show in April, which I'm sure is now cancelled

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on March 04, 2019, 10:22:28 am

Quote from: betao on March 04, 2019, 10:08:14 am

The Prodigy were the band that got me into electronic music when I was in high school.

Fuck, this hurts.

That guy had presence. I remember when the first LP "Experience" came out and it got pretty panned. I HATED it at first. It was so jumpy and schizophrenic and it was using so much technology...then when I saw Jesus Jones in 1993, they played the LP before they went on and I kept thinking "why is this starting to absorb?" It is still one of my favorite LPs and I can listen to it all, start to finish, and I love it. When people think of the 1990's, they probably think of boy bands, Britney, Nirvana, grunge, etc. I still think that this captures a lot of what I remember about that decade. Say what you will, the Prodigy are masters of what they do, and if you've seen one of their concerts you'll understand.

(https://media1.tenor.com/images/bf4bb86b7c7e674ef2897b842141123b/tenor.gif?itemid=13274831)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 04, 2019, 10:35:42 am

Its impossible in my mind for the band to go on (aside from DJ sets), sans him. His energy was electric. Prodigy at Nation remains one of the best shows I have ever seen. As The Director would say, "there was a vibe in there." The band is so cheesy and retrogressive on their face but bearman is correct: if you saw one of their shows and you saw Keith Flint do what he does with such absolute bravado, then you know what people are talking about. Unless you don't, in which case there is something wrong with you and you're one of those assholes who think not having fun is some badge of artistic honor.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: wml7 on March 04, 2019, 12:03:46 pm

Saw them at the club when Ivaders Must Die tour, awesome crazy show. Sad indeed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on March 04, 2019, 12:08:21 pm

Quote from: Julian, Semi-Retired WUNDERKIND on March 04, 2019, 10:35:42 am

Its impossible in my mind for the band to go on (aside from DJ sets), sans him. His energy was electric. Prodigy at Nation remains one of the best shows I have ever seen. As The Director would say, "there was a vibe in there." The band is so cheesy and retrogressive on their face but bearman is correct: if you saw one of their shows and you saw Keith Flint do what he does with such absolute bravado, then you know what people are talking about. Unless you don't, in which case there is something wrong with you and you're one of those assholes who think not having fun is some badge of artistic honor.

That show at Nation in 2006 was unbelievable. They opened with Break & Enter and the entire place erupted into chaos. The 2009 show at the club was awesome as well.

The last time I saw them was in 2015 in Nottingham, with Public Enemy supporting. Now THAT was a bill! It was different to see them in an arena versus the intimacy of the club gigs they do stateside, but it didn't disappoint.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on March 04, 2019, 12:13:18 pm

Keith did it before Wanye Coyne. Just sayin'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxZvf-Mm4LM

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 04, 2019, 12:52:14 pm

Depression sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on March 04, 2019, 01:50:35 pm

busy day for death - Luke Perry died after his stroke.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 04, 2019, 01:57:07 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on March 04, 2019, 01:50:35 pm

busy day for death

I mean, 150K people die every day, so if we're at 2, I think we're doing alright.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on March 04, 2019, 02:49:02 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on March 04, 2019, 01:57:07 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on March 04, 2019, 01:50:35 pm
busy day for death

I mean, 150K people die every day, so if we're at 2, I think we're doing alright.

but, you don't get points on here, for announcing all those other deaths.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 04, 2019, 02:51:56 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on March 04, 2019, 01:57:07 pm

Quote from: Got Haggis? on March 04, 2019, 01:50:35 pm
busy day for death

I mean, 150K people die every day,

Finally someone understands what the integer thread is all about. Its a rolling compendium of loss. A compendium of souls, people.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on March 04, 2019, 03:23:47 pm

RIP Luke Perry. So sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 05, 2019, 09:07:05 am

Sara Romweber

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 05, 2019, 09:42:51 am

Quote from: Yada on March 05, 2019, 09:07:05 am

Sara Romweber

best known from Let's Active :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 05, 2019, 09:48:57 am

Quote from: Defamatory Gist ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 05, 2019, 09:42:51 am

Quote from: Yada on March 05, 2019, 09:07:05 am
Sara Romweber
best known from Let's Active :(

So basically unknown then?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 05, 2019, 10:10:33 am

Quote from: Julian, Thinly-Veiled Outrage IMPRESARIO on March 05, 2019, 09:48:57 am

Quote from: Defamatory Gist ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 05, 2019, 09:42:51 am
Quote from: Yada on March 05, 2019, 09:07:05 am
Sara Romweber
best known from Let's Active :(
So basically unknown then?

Was she Dexter Romweber's sister or wife?

I'm actually more familiar with Let's Active than Prodigy. True story.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 05, 2019, 10:11:00 am

Older sister

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 05, 2019, 10:38:12 am

Quote from: Space Freely on March 05, 2019, 10:10:33 am

I'm actually more familiar with Let's Active than Prodigy. True story.

Well, considering The Prodigy headlined individual concerts that had more people in attendance than Let's Go's entire discography sold, I would say you are not representative of the general music-listening public.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 05, 2019, 10:49:20 am

I don’t think he said that

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on March 05, 2019, 10:57:43 am

Quote from: Yada on March 05, 2019, 09:07:05 am

Sara Romweber

Really sad. An NC gem.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MAGA 2020 on March 05, 2019, 11:17:28 am

King Kong Bundy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Relaxer on March 05, 2019, 02:15:44 pm

Quote

Well, considering The Prodigy headlined individual concerts that had more people in attendance than Let's Go's entire discography sold, I would say you are not representative of the general music-listening public.

Let's Active was a minor indie band in the 80s but they got pulled along with a lot of REM fandom and were on MTV and it wouldn't surprise me if their total discrography sold 65,000, which is the head count of Prodigy's biggest concert.

I'd have to say that Prodigy probably has Let's Active beat on this, but I don't think its as cut and dry as you might think.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 05, 2019, 02:41:10 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on March 05, 2019, 02:15:44 pm

Quote
Well, considering The Prodigy headlined individual concerts that had more people in attendance than Let's Go's entire discography sold, I would say you are not representative of the general music-listening public.

Let's Active was a minor indie band in the 80s but they got pulled along with a lot of REM fandom and were on MTV and it wouldn't surprise me if their total discrography sold 65,000, which is the head count of Prodigy's biggest concert.

I'd have to say that Prodigy probably has Let's Active beat on this, but I don't think its as cut and dry as you might think.

And prodigy is a terrible group.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 05, 2019, 03:39:47 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 05, 2019, 02:41:10 pm

Quote from: Relaxer on March 05, 2019, 02:15:44 pm
Quote
Well, considering The Prodigy headlined individual concerts that had more people in attendance than Let's Go's entire discography sold, I would say you are not representative of the general music-listening public.

Let's Active was a minor indie band in the 80s but they got pulled along with a lot of REM fandom and were on MTV and it wouldn't surprise me if their total discrography sold 65,000, which is the head count of Prodigy's biggest concert.

I'd have to say that Prodigy probably has Let's Active beat on this, but I don't think its as cut and dry as you might think.

And prodigy is a terrible group.

That's completely immaterial to my 100% correct and inarguable statement that Sara Romweber is "basically unknown". Any attempts to bring Prodigy into the discussion by other people is just an attempt to distract folks from my 100% correct and inarguable statement hurting their feelings.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 05, 2019, 03:45:41 pm

Quote from: Julian, Thinly-Veiled Outrage IMPRESARIO on March 05, 2019, 03:39:47 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 05, 2019, 02:41:10 pm
Quote from: Relaxer on March 05, 2019, 02:15:44 pm
Quote
Well, considering The Prodigy headlined individual concerts that had more people in attendance than Let's Go's entire discography sold, I would say you are not representative of the general music-listening public.

Let's Active was a minor indie band in the 80s but they got pulled along with a lot of REM fandom and were on MTV and it wouldn't surprise me if their total discrography sold 65,000, which is the head count of Prodigy's biggest concert.

I'd have to say that Prodigy probably has Let's Active beat on this, but I don't think its as cut and dry as you might think.

And prodigy is a terrible group.
That's completely immaterial to my 100% correct and inarguable statement that Sara Romweber is "basically unknown". Any attempts to bring Prodigy into the discussion by other people is just an attempt to distract folks from my 100% correct and inarguable statement hurting their feelings.

No hurt feelings here. I'm pretty sure she's more well known than you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 05, 2019, 04:41:20 pm

SLAM!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 05, 2019, 08:33:23 pm

A woman dies and men still have to measure their dicks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 05, 2019, 08:37:18 pm

BOOM!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on March 05, 2019, 09:16:24 pm

exasperation.

anyhoo, wonderful drummer responsible for a lot of great music and an inspiration to many young female percussionists, shattering many boundaries.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 05, 2019, 11:34:32 pm

Jerry Merryman, one of the inventors of the hand-held electronic calculator (https://wtop.com/national/2019/03/brilliant-man-who-was-an-inventor-of-the-calculator-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 08, 2019, 12:31:49 pm

Jan-Michael Vincent

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: IMAmoose24 on March 08, 2019, 01:46:32 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 08, 2019, 12:31:49 pm

Jan-Michael Vincent

Guess we can stop holding our breath for Jan Quadrant Vincent 17.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 08, 2019, 03:47:16 pm

Dan Jenkins (https://deadspin.com/dan-jenkins-had-it-1833158140)

From Kindred (https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/dan-jenkins-made-tough-writing-look-easy-and-made-sentimentality-look-cranky/2019/03/08/c75c1b08-41c8-11e9-922c-64d6b7840b82_story.html?utm_term=.ccf859eabe4d)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 10, 2019, 07:41:10 pm

US Cycling Champion, Kelly Catlin (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/10/kelly-catlin-cycling-team-pursuit-world-champions-dies-age-23)

I post this not because she was well known, but because she was a world champion cyclist, Olympic medalist, grad student in computational and mathematical engineering at Stanford, after competing an undergraduate degree in mathematics and Chinese. She was also a talented violinist and artist.

And she suffered a concussion a few months ago and was unable to cope with recovery. Mental illness is never where you expect it.

Help each other out.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 11, 2019, 01:20:40 pm

Royal Palace

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 11, 2019, 07:10:48 pm

Hal Blaine

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 12, 2019, 06:01:15 am

Hal Blaine supercut

https://youtu.be/hp1FBfjH60g

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 12, 2019, 08:19:02 am

Someone compiled a 250+ song playlist of just tunes influenced by the drum intro to “Be My Baby”. It’s a who’s who of popular music!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 12, 2019, 09:02:16 am

Just like honey

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 12, 2019, 09:04:31 am

Quote from: hutch on March 11, 2019, 07:10:48 pm

Hal Blaine

a fittting obit May he rest forever on 2 and 4

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 12, 2019, 02:52:04 pm

Maryland Food Co-op

Calling all friends of the co-op: Last week we received some very sad news. Stamp intends on shutting us down in May due to outstanding debt. We still have the rest of the semester to fight for our existence, and we're calling on you to help-here are some ways to do so(thread): https://t.co/5iVc4heBFU

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 12, 2019, 03:17:20 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on March 12, 2019, 02:52:04 pm

Maryland Food Co-op

Calling all friends of the co-op: Last week we received some very sad news. Stamp intends on shutting us down in May due to outstanding debt. We still have the rest of the semester to fight for our existence, and we're calling on you to help-here are some ways to do so(thread): https://t.co/5iVc4heBFU

I read this three times and every time my brain processed it as Football Co-op and I was utterly confused.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 12, 2019, 04:02:08 pm

Brexit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 12, 2019, 04:07:59 pm

Asa Brebner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 12, 2019, 05:33:07 pm

Quote from: Julian, Thinly-Veiled Outrage IMPRESARIO on March 12, 2019, 03:17:20 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on March 12, 2019, 02:52:04 pm
Maryland Food Co-op

Calling all friends of the co-op: Last week we received some very sad news. Stamp intends on shutting us down in May due to outstanding debt. We still have the rest of the semester to fight for our existence, and we're calling on you to help-here are some ways to do so(thread): https://t.co/5iVc4heBFU
I read this three times and every time my brain processed it as Football Co-op and I was utterly confused.

Hacky sacks not quarterbacks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 12, 2019, 05:35:00 pm

Pitas not PATs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 12, 2019, 05:35:59 pm

Falafels not field goals

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 12, 2019, 05:49:53 pm

Maryland Crab Cakes not Maryland Coach Kills Kid

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 13, 2019, 04:30:43 pm

Former Maryland Gov. Harry Hughes (https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-harry-hughes-obituary-20190313-story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 13, 2019, 05:05:43 pm

Boeing 737 Max...per the FAA
(too soon?)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on March 13, 2019, 05:56:08 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 13, 2019, 05:05:43 pm

Boeing 737 Max...per the FAA
(too soon?)

DC-10s killed way more people in the 70's, it took them longer to ground them and address issues, and some pilots gave them the nickname "death cruisers"...but they still went on to have a pretty successful life once they fixed what they needed to. The A320 had some issues too and there were crashes before it became a popular plane. Fly-by-wire was a radical concept in 1988. That being said, I'm glad they are looking into what the issue is with the MAX, and I'm certain it'll be a very airworthy craft.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 13, 2019, 06:12:15 pm

The Death Penalty In California!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 13, 2019, 06:45:23 pm

Good

Someday all my views will be standard but I will be dead

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 13, 2019, 07:57:21 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on March 13, 2019, 05:56:08 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 13, 2019, 05:05:43 pm
Boeing 737 Max...per the FAA
(too soon?)

DC-10s killed way more people in the 70's, it took them longer to ground them and address issues, and some pilots gave them the nickname "death cruisers"...but they still went on to have a pretty successful life once they fixed what they needed to. The A320 had some issues too and there were crashes before it became a popular plane. Fly-by-wire was a radical concept in 1988. That being said, I'm glad they are looking into what the issue is with the MAX, and I'm certain it'll be a very airworthy craft.

Two crashes in six months out of literally thousands of flights and people are panicking? Idiots.

Hello page 420.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 13, 2019, 08:11:42 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 13, 2019, 07:57:21 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on March 13, 2019, 05:56:08 pm
Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 13, 2019, 05:05:43 pm
Boeing 737 Max...per the FAA
(too soon?)

DC-10s killed way more people in the 70's, it took them longer to ground them and address issues, and some pilots gave them the nickname "death cruisers"...but they still went on to have a pretty successful life once they fixed what they needed to. The A320 had some issues too and there were crashes before it became a popular plane. Fly-by-wire was a radical concept in 1988. That being said, I'm glad they are looking into what the issue is with the MAX, and I'm certain it'll be a very airworthy craft.

Two crashes in six months out of literally thousands of flights and people are panicking? Idiots.

i was tempted to make the same point, because that was the first thing that hit me. but then i googled "how many boeing 737 MAX are in service" and learned the answer is 350 (as Jan'19, so maybe a few dozen more since then). so out of ~350 planes, 2 have fallen out of the sky. planes need to be more reliable than that - especially since we know the system that is responsible for these crashes. "welcome to XYZ international airport. you have a 1 in 200 chance of ending up very dead today. enjoy your flight!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 13, 2019, 08:55:04 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 13, 2019, 08:11:42 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 13, 2019, 07:57:21 pm
Quote from: bearman🐻 on March 13, 2019, 05:56:08 pm
Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 13, 2019, 05:05:43 pm
Boeing 737 Max...per the FAA
(too soon?)

DC-10s killed way more people in the 70's, it took them longer to ground them and address issues, and some pilots gave them the nickname "death cruisers"...but they still went on to have a pretty successful life once they fixed what they needed to. The A320 had some issues too and there were crashes before it became a popular plane. Fly-by-wire was a radical concept in 1988. That being said, I'm glad they are looking into what the issue is with the MAX, and I'm certain it'll be a very airworthy craft.

Two crashes in six months out of literally thousands of flights and people are panicking? Idiots.

i was tempted to make the same point, because that was the first thing that hit me. but then i googled "how many boeing 737 MAX are in service" and learned the answer is 350 (as Jan'19, so maybe a few dozen more since then). so out of ~350 planes, 2 have fallen out of the sky. planes need to be more reliable than that - especially since we know the system that is responsible for these crashes. "welcome to XYZ international airport. you have a 1 in 200 chance of ending up very dead today. enjoy your flight!"

Your 1 in 200 (actually 1 in 175) assumes each plane makes only one flight in it's lifetime. :P

That said, two crashes is two too many.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on March 14, 2019, 08:25:38 am

No question. 2 is too many. And what Boeing has likely done (though I'll reserve judgment til I know more for sure) is probably criminal. That being said, the shutdown didn't help matters, and we're dealing with an administration that has polluted MANY areas of the government. I suspect there are a lot of issues here beyond Boeing and aircraft safety. Like I said, grounding the planes was the right thing to do because they need to figure out what the issues are, and it's probably more than just one factor. Maybe all we needed was one plane to show us that there's a problem, but bureaucracy and a needless shutdown impaired people from doing their jobs, and now close to 200 more people paid the price for incompetence, negligence and sheer brazen stupidity. It's infuriating and upsetting. But I also think we need to look at all sides of this. Unfortunately, Boeing isn't looking too great in light of how they handled the Hair Force One controversy after Trump said he wanted to cancel the order for the new 747-8s, but somehow that was resolved. Gee, I wonder why.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/chummy-president-donald-trump-boeing-relationship-explained/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/14/trump-wanted-his-personal-pilot-head-faa-critical-job-is-still-vacant-amid-boeing-fallout/?utm_term=.2ab52e1aeea3

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 14, 2019, 08:48:26 am

Quote from: bearman🐻 on March 14, 2019, 08:25:38 am

Hair Force One controversy

probably a typo....but love that!
also methinks Bearman works in the airline industry...
2 is too many, but air travel today is still safer than riding a bike

this data is old, but still proves the point
Dr. Arnold Barnett, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has done extensive research in the field of commercial flight safety. He found that over the fifteen years between 1975 and 1994, the death risk per flight was one in seven million. This statistic is the probability that someone who randomly selected one of the airline's flights over the 19-year study period would be killed in route. That means that any time you board a flight on a major carrier in this country, your chance of being in a fatal accident is one in seven million. It doesn't matter whether you fly once every three years or every day of the year.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on March 14, 2019, 09:30:07 am

Not a typo LOL

I’m just a huge civil aviation buff. I don’t know why, it’s just always fascinated me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 14, 2019, 02:36:09 pm

Birch Bayh

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 15, 2019, 10:24:09 am

Jake Phelps

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 10:39:18 am

Quote from: Yada on March 15, 2019, 10:24:09 am

Jake Phelps

with out a doubt Thrasher's influence on me when it comes to lifestyle, music, fashion and attitude was immeasurable...
(https://usatunofficial.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/screen-shot-2019-03-15-at-8.21.20-am.png?w=1000&h=600&crop=1)
(https://usatunofficial.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/screen-shot-2019-03-15-at-8.03.09-am.png)
Love that last line....who teaches you how to skate? the fuckin' concrete

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 15, 2019, 12:25:31 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 10:39:18 am

with out a doubt Thrasher's influence on me when it comes to lifestyle, music, fashion and attitude was immeasurable...

Ditto

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 15, 2019, 12:30:49 pm

same.

also, thank you sidehatch for posting a bit of context. i didn't recognize the name jake phelps.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 12:35:08 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 15, 2019, 12:30:49 pm

i didn't recognize the name jake phelps.

TBH either did I...was actually going to make some snarky Michael Phelps joke...then I did a websearch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:20:02 pm

So this guy greatly influenced your lives, yet you don't know who he is. Makes sense.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 01:26:41 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:20:02 pm

So this guy greatly influenced your lives, yet you don't know who he is. Makes sense.

when I was 11 yrs old, I didn't look at the masthead, sorry man
but he was the editor and pretty much set the direction for the mag

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 15, 2019, 01:36:13 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 01:26:41 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:20:02 pm
So this guy greatly influenced your lives, yet you don't know who he is. Makes sense.
when I was 11 yrs old, I didn't look at the masthead, sorry man
but he was the editor and pretty much set the direction for the mag

it's kinda painful that this needs to be explained to you, yada.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:36:22 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 01:26:41 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:20:02 pm
So this guy greatly influenced your lives, yet you don't know who he is. Makes sense.
when I was 11 yrs old, I didn't look at the masthead, sorry man
but he was the editor and pretty much set the direction for the mag

You were only 11 in 1993? I thought you were like 50!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:37:41 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 15, 2019, 01:36:13 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 01:26:41 pm
Quote from: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:20:02 pm
So this guy greatly influenced your lives, yet you don't know who he is. Makes sense.
when I was 11 yrs old, I didn't look at the masthead, sorry man
but he was the editor and pretty much set the direction for the mag

it's kinda painful that this needs to be explained to you, yada.

Really? Yeah, I understand someone wouldn't look at the masthead when they were 11... But a beyond popular skate mag that influenced millions, maybe you old skaters would have looked up the history of Thrasher at some point beyond your teen years. My apologies.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 15, 2019, 01:38:13 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:36:22 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 01:26:41 pm
Quote from: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:20:02 pm
So this guy greatly influenced your lives, yet you don't know who he is. Makes sense.
when I was 11 yrs old, I didn't look at the masthead, sorry man
but he was the editor and pretty much set the direction for the mag

You were only 11 in 1993? I thought you were like 50!

Ahh no, my dude. That's Julian, hutch and Space. And me. Also me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2019, 01:48:28 pm

I am not even close to 50 dudes

Carry on

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 15, 2019, 01:49:42 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 15, 2019, 01:48:28 pm

I am not even close to 50 dudes

no, you're more in the 10 to 12 dudes range, i would think. 20 tops.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2019, 01:51:14 pm

I knew I would get called on that...

You people have no mercy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 15, 2019, 01:52:21 pm

Commas save lives.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 01:59:22 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:36:22 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 01:26:41 pm
Quote from: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:20:02 pm
So this guy greatly influenced your lives, yet you don't know who he is. Makes sense.
when I was 11 yrs old, I didn't look at the masthead, sorry man
but he was the editor and pretty much set the direction for the mag

You were only 11 in 1993? I thought you were like 50!

because I am a time traveler

but I guess I need to restate some of this...as I didn't do the due diligence, hence not recognizing his name

but I never said that Jake influenced....

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 10:39:18 am

with out a doubt Thrasher's influence on me when it comes to lifestyle, music, fashion and attitude was immeasurable...

When I read up on this, I falsely assumed that he'd been the editor since the early days...when it said 30 years

I guess my praise should go to The magazine’s first editor Kevin Thatcher
Didn't really read the mag after 91

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 15, 2019, 02:02:54 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 01:59:22 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:36:22 pm
Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 01:26:41 pm
Quote from: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:20:02 pm
So this guy greatly influenced your lives, yet you don't know who he is. Makes sense.
when I was 11 yrs old, I didn't look at the masthead, sorry man
but he was the editor and pretty much set the direction for the mag

You were only 11 in 1993? I thought you were like 50!
because I am a time traveler

but I guess I need to restate some of this...as I didn't do the due diligence, hence not recognizing his name

but I never said that Jake influenced....
Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 10:39:18 am
with out a doubt Thrasher's influence on me when it comes to lifestyle, music, fashion and attitude was immeasurable...

When I read up on this, I falsely assumed that he'd been the editor since the early days...when it said 30 years

I guess my praise should go to The magazine’s first editor Kevin Thatcher
Didn't really read the mag after 91

:o :o :o

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2019, 02:03:32 pm

Now that’s embarrassing

Womp womp

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 15, 2019, 02:10:24 pm

Quote from: vansmack on March 15, 2019, 01:52:21 pm

Commas save lives.

and reputations.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 02:13:09 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 15, 2019, 01:48:28 pm

I am not even close to 50 dudes

I'm curious what you define as 'not even close to'
throw out a number...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2019, 02:15:31 pm

I just turned 48,,,,,,, dude!!!! I mean WTF

Also I feel and look 35!!! Except after a night of partying

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 15, 2019, 02:16:07 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 02:13:09 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 15, 2019, 01:48:28 pm
I am not even close to 50 dudes
I'm curious what you define as 'not even close to'
throw out a number...

Yes, how many Starskys?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2019, 02:17:34 pm

I got carded just a couple of years ago no lying

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 02:24:06 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 15, 2019, 02:15:31 pm

I just turned 48,,,,,,, dude!!!!

well I know that...but I do think that is close to 50, so to be like 'not even close to' is a little fake newsish

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2019, 02:27:05 pm

I am like 5% away!!! It doesn’t get close til you hit 2%

Also I look great

My real age is more like 35...always been a bit of a late bloomer...didn’t smoke sage til I was 23!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 02:28:17 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 15, 2019, 02:27:05 pm

...didn’t smoke sage til I was 23!!

it was lavender

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2019, 02:29:32 pm

Ok proves my point even more....very late bloomer

(Although my memory isn’t quite what it used to be)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2019, 02:32:10 pm

When I am working tickets people tell me I remind them of Mick Jagger or Bob Dylan

That tells you something

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 02:36:34 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 15, 2019, 01:37:41 pm

. But a beyond popular skate mag that influenced millions, maybe you old skaters would have looked up the history of Thrasher at some point beyond your teen years. My apologies.

so I never did look up the history, but decided to do a little research
it's really hard to find info on Kevin Thatcher for some odd reason?

I did learn something new, while it was in fact a popular skate mag that influenced millions (and now the logo is hot with Beebs and other clebs who don't skate)

but came to find out that it was not started with the punk/diy attitude it came to be known by, but as a way to sell Independent trucks (always my fave, but I see now I was played)

https://www.reddit.com/r/skateboarding/comments/66f2n3/found_tons_of_old_skate_magazines_today_thrasher/
This is the first issue of thrasher ever released. My uncle Kevin Thatcher helped put it together and drew the cover art. Thrasher was originally started to be the sole advertising platform for independent truck company since they had very few places to advertise. The magazine was assembled in my grandma's house in Los Gatos, CA which constantly hosted pros of the time and the gnarliest punk bands as well.

Even worse they copied the logo of the other truck company
Action Now was the magazine that declined to publish an Independent ad featuring a topless girl with stickers over her boobs.
They were a shitty corporate "multi-platform" mag that evolved out of the closure of Skateboarder magazine. They featured some skateboarding alongside other like BMX, hula hoops, and even horseback riding(!)
Fausto said "fuck you" and went and started his own skate mag with KT as the original editor..
As the ultimate "fuck you" to Tracker, the Thrasher logo KT designed was actually derived from a Tracker ad that ran in Action Now:
https://www.instagram.com/p/UO_fXHAMQi/

BONUS TRIVIA NUGGET: KT told me once that he added the curve in the logo to emulate the lip of a pool.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 15, 2019, 02:37:53 pm

(https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_18/1522341/160503-dylan-jagger-composite-mdl_d02f743d1c2118a2dea4984a993ca8f6.fit-1240w.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2019, 02:38:05 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 15, 2019, 02:32:10 pm

When I am working tickets people tell me I remind them of Mick Jagger or Bob Dylan

That tells you something

yeah that is because you are OLD
they are not like "hey you remind me of early 60s Mick"

excontradiction nailed it...I can see the resemblance now ;)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2019, 02:40:44 pm

Hey my hair is real!!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 15, 2019, 03:02:03 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on March 15, 2019, 02:37:53 pm

(https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_18/1522341/160503-dylan-jagger-composite-mdl_d02f743d1c2118a2dea4984a993ca8f6.fit-1240w.jpg)

Can we adjust the board's Hutch block feature so I don't see pictures of him either?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 15, 2019, 03:06:50 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 15, 2019, 02:17:34 pm

I got carded just a couple of years ago no lying

i get carded every time i buy alcohol at the grocery store, too. but i don't brag about it...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2019, 03:44:31 pm

I will not apologize for my beautiful looks or youthful visage!

:)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 16, 2019, 10:46:45 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 17, 2019, 01:48:13 am

Fuck not .

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 17, 2019, 03:34:28 pm

Dick Dale

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MAGA 2020 on March 17, 2019, 05:03:58 pm

Almost went and saw him at the Birchmere years ago...more of a novelty thing than a fan but still sad. RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 17, 2019, 05:42:24 pm

I was in Boston with my mom a few years ago and he was playing in Cambridge. Ny wife suggested i take my mom and try to get her a date with him. Alas, we did no go.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 18, 2019, 07:58:28 am

André Williams

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: IMAmoose24 on March 18, 2019, 12:35:20 pm

Millions of songs.

https://pitchfork.com/news/myspace-loses-12-years-of-music/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 19, 2019, 06:36:20 pm

John Harter, DC Channel 7 news reporter (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/john-harter-ii-stalwart-of-channel-7-news-dies-at-79/2019/03/19/e6e76f7e-4996-11e9-93d0-64dbcf38ba41_story.html?utm_term=.693aa2ce5803)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 20, 2019, 10:17:40 pm

#RichardErdman, a veteran character actor best known for his portrayal of Leonard Rodriguez in the NBC comedy series Community, has died at the age of 93.
(https://media.giphy.com/media/bpcnwm6b7xpJK/giphy.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 25, 2019, 07:06:47 am

Scott Walker

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 25, 2019, 08:35:43 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on March 25, 2019, 07:06:47 am

Scott Walker

Non-Former-Governor-of-Wisconsin Edition

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 25, 2019, 08:48:21 am

Yeah should have said Scott Walker formerly of The Walker Brothers and beloved by many British Musicians for his 70s solo albums

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 26, 2019, 04:49:15 pm

Ranking Roger

(All over Twitter right now; no news link yet)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: IMAmoose24 on March 26, 2019, 04:57:01 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 26, 2019, 04:49:15 pm

Ranking Roger

(All over Twitter right now; no news link yet)

Damn. Didn't know he was battling lung cancer. Only 56.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 27, 2019, 12:04:54 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 15, 2019, 10:24:09 am

Jake Phelps

Sen. Wiener: CA State Senate Adjourns in Memory of Jake Phelps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFme4cAGmaw&feature=youtu.be)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 27, 2019, 12:08:15 pm

I’m hoping Dave and Roger we’re back on good terms again... I’ll never forget when that seemingly positive The Beat reunion occurred on the MTV show Bands Reunited show, how right after it aired they were publicly sniping at each other again via if I recall on the shows website.

Anyways, those 80s Beats albums still stand up so very well, and General Public had some great singles. Guess I should check the last album Roger recorded as the The Beat, hopefully it’s better than a solo album I heard of his..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 28, 2019, 07:18:03 pm

Her's

I stumbled across this Duo recently and this is really tragic, both members and their tour manager were killed in a traffic accident.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/liverpool-band-hers-died-tour-us-2468466

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 31, 2019, 09:01:50 pm

Nipsey Hussle

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 04, 2019, 08:25:42 pm

Charles Sanna, creator of Swiss Miss hot cocoa mix, dies at 101 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-sanna-creator-of-swiss-miss-hot-cocoa-mix-dies-at-101/2019/04/03/da0b49c0-561a-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html?utm_term=.6cf585015b89)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 05, 2019, 12:23:49 pm

Kurt Donald Cobain ....25 years ago on this day...man am I getting old

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 05, 2019, 12:34:21 pm

Yeah ...woke up to this deathversary....I remember where I was when I found out....Arlington!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on April 05, 2019, 12:39:54 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 05, 2019, 12:23:49 pm

Kurt Donald Cobain ....25 years ago on this day...man am I getting old

Cue the recollections of PEARL JAM Patriot Center show days later...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 05, 2019, 09:37:18 pm

Dan Robbins, paint-by-number inventor (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/dan-robbins-paint-by-number-inventor-who-made-every-man-a-rembrandt-dies-at-93/2019/04/05/6f80f412-574e-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html?utm_term=.bf6d377e4d7f)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on April 06, 2019, 10:26:59 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 04, 2019, 08:25:42 pm

Charles Sanna, creator of Swiss Miss hot cocoa mix, dies at 101 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-sanna-creator-of-swiss-miss-hot-cocoa-mix-dies-at-101/2019/04/03/da0b49c0-561a-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html?utm_term=.6cf585015b89)

I drank swiss miss k cups that day, after seeing them at target, the day before. my inner brain, told me to just put in the cart because when was the last time you had cocoa, you overgrown kid. not knowing the inventor was going to die on the very day I had my first sip of cocoa in god knows how many, years. it is, a sign.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 06, 2019, 11:37:13 am

Quote from: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on April 06, 2019, 10:26:59 am

it is, a sign.

Yep. It looks like you killed the guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 08, 2019, 04:08:14 pm

local SEA legend Shawn Smith (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/04/08/39839388/shawn-smith-one-of-seattles-greatest-singers-has-died)

He was 53. In a strange coincidence, fellow Seattle luminaries Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) and Layne Staley (Alice in Chains) died on the same date in 1994 and 2002, respectively.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 08, 2019, 04:32:26 pm

That sucks! I saw him with Brad at the Red and the Black....nice guy...he did a great Prince cover

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 10, 2019, 07:00:41 pm

Country singer Earl Thomas Conley dies at 77
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/entertainment/earl-thomas-conley-death-trnd/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 11, 2019, 08:51:18 pm

Greg Haymes (Sarge Blotto)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 17, 2019, 02:00:51 pm

Alan Garcia

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 17, 2019, 02:08:45 pm

Quote from: Donald Trump on April 17, 2019, 02:00:51 pm

Alan Garcia

left a lot out of that one...the little dohicky on the i and this below
Alan García: Peru's former president kills himself ahead of arrest

also refereed to as - 'Latin America's Kennedy'

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 17, 2019, 03:37:20 pm

If Alan Garcia was Latin America’s Kennedy I am America’s Adolf Hitler

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 18, 2019, 02:49:43 pm

Mustafa Akbar
a D.C. nightlife legend. His soulful vocals were featured with Fort Knox Five, Nappy Riddem and Thunderball, among others, and he'll also be remembered as the gatekeeper at Red and ESL.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walkonbyeeeeeeeee on April 19, 2019, 03:39:10 pm

Lorraine Warren

I . . . speak, your name. A true legend, among legends; now, and forever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 19, 2019, 03:53:46 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 18, 2019, 02:49:43 pm

Mustafa Akbar
a D.C. nightlife legend. His soulful vocals were featured with Fort Knox Five, Nappy Riddem and Thunderball, among others, and he'll also be remembered as the gatekeeper at Red and ESL.

Is Sidehatch actually Fritz Hahn?

Fritz Hahn‏Verified account @fritzhahn · Apr 18

Saddened to hear of the passing of Mustafa Akbar, a D.C. nightlife legend. His soulful vocals were featured with Fort Knox Five, Nappy Riddem and Thunderball, among others, and he'll also be remembered as the gatekeeper at Red and ESL. Thoughts with his family.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 19, 2019, 03:56:46 pm

I declare PLAGARISM!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 19, 2019, 03:59:48 pm

Quote from: Julian, Thinly-Veiled Outrage IMPRESARIO on April 19, 2019, 03:56:46 pm

I declare PLAGARISM!!

what the heck happened to this thread...
is it required on this forum to cite my sources...kinda thought we were past that, so 20st century
and yes to answer the question, I am fritz hahn in real life

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 19, 2019, 04:12:48 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 19, 2019, 03:59:48 pm

Quote from: Julian, Thinly-Veiled Outrage IMPRESARIO on April 19, 2019, 03:56:46 pm
I declare PLAGARISM!!
what the heck happened to this thread...
is it required on this forum to cite my sources...kinda thought we were past that, so 20st century
and yes to answer the question, I am fritz hahn in real life

I've taken so much shit on here for doing exactly that. Even when it was obviously something that came from elsewhere and not my small brain.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 19, 2019, 04:18:51 pm

Quote from: Sïdehätch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 19, 2019, 03:59:48 pm

Quote from: Julian, Thinly-Veiled Outrage IMPRESARIO on April 19, 2019, 03:56:46 pm
I declare PLAGARISM!!
is it required on this forum to cite my sources...

If you’re taking this forum for credit hours at the University of Julian’s America, the worlds finest online finishing school, you bet it is.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 29, 2019, 04:35:37 pm

John Singleton
the murders in Boyz N the Hood pop up in my memory all the time and give me the willies
Was only 51!

Edit...loved BNH, but was actually thinking about scenes from Menace II Society

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 30, 2019, 02:56:46 pm

Jah Stitch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 01, 2019, 07:56:18 pm

Level 42 founding member Boon Gould found dead at 64.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 01, 2019, 08:14:50 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 01, 2019, 11:19:42 pm

Riley Howell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 02, 2019, 07:02:35 pm

Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca in Star Wars) Dies at 74

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on May 02, 2019, 07:09:07 pm

Pouring some blue milk out tonight in honor of a real one

Quote from: vansmack on May 02, 2019, 07:02:35 pm

Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca in Star Wars) Dies at 74

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 02, 2019, 07:10:40 pm

Quote from: nkotb on May 02, 2019, 07:09:07 pm

Pouring some blue milk out tonight in honor of a real one

Joonas Suotamo gave quite the shout out to Peter at Star Wars Celebration this year. I thought that was classy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 03, 2019, 02:13:44 pm

John Starling
(Seldom Scene)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 03, 2019, 06:08:43 pm

(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/59521231_992667494258609_70489982514495488_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=eb389e51d643327c0a4040f2b0ff7606&oe=5D695459)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: TheREALHunter on May 10, 2019, 08:13:29 am

Marty Chernoff
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/05/09/creator-and-owner-of-d-c-s-famed-nightclub-tracks-dies-at-76

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 11, 2019, 10:30:18 pm

(https://pmctvline2.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/peggy-lipton-dead-twin-peaks.jpg?w=620)
(https://metvcdn.metv.com/fnaOK-1464187785-411-lists-header.jpg)

Peggy Lipton (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-peggy-lipton-dead-20190511-story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 11, 2019, 10:34:25 pm

(https://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/landscape_928x523/2019/05/jim_fowler.jpg)

Jim Fowler (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jim-fowler-longtime-host-of-wild-kingdom-nature-series-dies-at-87/2019/05/09/4e8f2e26-726b-11e9-9eb4-0828f5389013_story.html?utm_term=.9980b6969a31)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 12, 2019, 09:47:03 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on May 11, 2019, 10:30:18 pm

Peggy Lipton (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-me-peggy-lipton-dead-20190511-story.html)

Had no idea that Rashida Jones (the office/parks and rec and lots of other stuff) was her daughter from a marriage to Quincy Jones

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 12, 2019, 09:51:44 am

Harold Lederman, “unofficial” scorer for HBO boxing matches for basically my entire life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 13, 2019, 09:31:35 am

Doris Day

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 14, 2019, 02:04:33 pm

Tim Conway

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 14, 2019, 02:54:46 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 14, 2019, 02:04:33 pm

Tim Conway

gonna miss ya man...one of my early favorite comedians
(https://media.giphy.com/media/D1qeXa7W1wrsY/giphy.gif)
I think what I enjoyed the most about him is how he could make the others laugh

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 16, 2019, 05:49:27 pm

(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/01/29/arts/pei-obit-1-web/pei-obit-1-web-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp)

I.M. Pei (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/obituaries/im-pei-dead.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 16, 2019, 06:27:06 pm

How funny...my mom and sister are there today

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 17, 2019, 07:49:18 am

Grumpy Cat

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 17, 2019, 07:54:54 am

Someone check on Walkie — Grumpy Cat has passed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 20, 2019, 09:29:06 pm

Niki Lauda

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 22, 2019, 07:55:46 am

Jake (Reverend D Wayne Love) John Black from Alabama 3.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 27, 2019, 05:27:12 pm

Bill Buckner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 28, 2019, 12:33:35 am

Bart Starr, iconic Green Bay Packers quarterback, has died at 85
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bart-starr-died-green-bay-packers-quarterback-dead-at-age-85-cause-of-death-stroke-complications-2019-05-26/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bart-starr-died-green-bay-packers-quarterback-dead-at-age-85-cause-of-death-stroke-complications-2019-05-26/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on May 28, 2019, 03:49:48 pm

Mike Daryoush - Founder of Moby Dick House of Kabob
https://wtop.com/news/2019/05/moby-dick-house-of-kabob-founder-mike-daryoush-dies-at-66/ (https://wtop.com/news/2019/05/moby-dick-house-of-kabob-founder-mike-daryoush-dies-at-66/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 28, 2019, 04:13:27 pm

love some (moby) dick. Sad as he was only 66, quite an empire he built

(not that it really matters...but he did die two weeks ago)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 30, 2019, 12:41:12 pm

Leon Redbone

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 30, 2019, 12:46:41 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 30, 2019, 12:41:12 pm

Leon Redbone

“Leon Redbone crossed the delta for that beautiful shore at the age of 127. He departed our world with his guitar, his trusty companion Rover, and a simple tip of his hat.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 30, 2019, 12:57:54 pm

Mr Belvedere

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: betao on May 31, 2019, 06:36:57 pm

Roky Erickson of the 13th Floor Elevators. :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on May 31, 2019, 06:58:42 pm

What a fucking drag

Quote from: betao on May 31, 2019, 06:36:57 pm

Roky Erickson of the 13th Floor Elevators. :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 31, 2019, 07:10:31 pm

11 dead in a mass shooting in Virginia Beach.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 31, 2019, 10:47:10 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 30, 2019, 12:57:54 pm

Mr Belvedere

He died in 2001.

Also:

“There's also a famous urban legend that production had to be stopped when Christopher Hewett (Mr. Belvedere) injured his testicles. This one, it turns out, is no urban legend: 'Yes, it's true. Mr. Belvedere did sit on his own balls. He fell backwards riding in a convertible in the Hollywood Christmas Parade. We had to shut down for a week while he healed.'”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on June 01, 2019, 03:24:06 pm

Quote from: betao on May 31, 2019, 06:36:57 pm

Roky Erickson of the 13th Floor Elevators. :'(

I am honored and happy to have stumbled in on his set at Lollapalooza some years ago. Was blown away and caught him a coupla more times. He was a legend

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 02, 2019, 03:39:46 pm

Curtis Blake, co-founder of the Friendly’s ice cream chain (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/curtis-blake-co-founder-of-the-friendlys-ice-cream-chain-dies-at-102/2019/05/31/bc0a502c-83b2-11e9-95a9-e2c830afe24f_story.html?utm_term=.78ca588c7287)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 03, 2019, 03:13:02 pm

iTunes

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 03, 2019, 03:19:54 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on June 03, 2019, 03:13:02 pm

iTunes

I have a classic IPOD with 13,000 songs on it and slowly growing. I have iTunes on an old laptop which I use to manage my IPOD. What does this announcement mean to me?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 03, 2019, 03:46:10 pm

you have to join us in 2019 is what it means....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 03, 2019, 05:52:29 pm

For MacOS, iTunes is being split into three apps: Music, TV, Podcasts. It'll still be available for Windows.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8514115/apple-announces-new-music-app-replacing-itunes-wwdc-2019

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 06, 2019, 06:13:47 pm

(https://s22313.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/Dr-John-77.jpg)

Dr. John (https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_a962e500-8877-11e9-991d-2f4782c02ae0.html/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Unsanity on June 07, 2019, 05:19:51 am

aww man. I love Dr. John. He was and American treasure. his debut album Gris Gris might be my favorite album of the 1960's.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 17, 2019, 11:25:50 am

My beloved aunt Gloria.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on June 17, 2019, 12:48:44 pm

Egypt's only elected, and then ousted, president Mohammed Morsi dies in court, during trial

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 17, 2019, 04:44:29 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on June 17, 2019, 11:25:50 am

My beloved aunt Gloria.

Sorry for your loss. Send Anderson our deepest regards.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 20, 2019, 01:11:35 am

Philippe Zdar

Terrible

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 24, 2019, 05:20:33 pm

Romance novelist Judith Krantz (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/judith-krantz-dead-died/2019/06/23/5754fc04-95f5-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html?utm_term=.681a368c110c)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 26, 2019, 12:35:45 am

George Rosenkranz, a creator of the birth control pill, dies at 102 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/george-rosenkranz-a-creator-of-the-birth-control-pill-dies-at-102/2019/06/24/3bf71866-968b-11e9-916d-9c61607d8190_story.html?utm_term=.8e0414525bcf)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 27, 2019, 01:33:21 pm

Billy Drago - bad guy
(https://cdn3.movieweb.com/i/article/qOq6C4s3MdUwZmBdpo0gap22m0sNCr/798:50/Billy-Drago-Dies-73-Years-Old.jpg)
(https://media.giphy.com/media/iQRIPVuPGGs2A/giphy.gif)(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/VigorousEasyCob-size_restricted.gif)(https://66.media.tumblr.com/e0023690f9447d65d60bbd75baf56967/tumblr_pl0lndAQLW1tbcweeo1_400.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 01, 2019, 09:37:32 am

I really dont know where to put this.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7197491/amp/Brain-damage-excessive-drinking-sleep-deprivation-contributed-INXS-Michael-Hutchence-death.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 01, 2019, 09:50:16 am

Gosh that sucks about the brain injury

He was one serious talent...RIP Hutch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 01, 2019, 07:05:22 pm

Tyler Skaggs, Major league baseball pitcher for the Angels. He was 27.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 02, 2019, 10:02:46 pm

Lee Iacocca has driven off into the sunset (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2019/07/02/f9abc080-da34-11e0-9dca-a4d231dfde50_story.html?utm_term=.f3fc3bdc7238)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 03, 2019, 12:48:20 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 02, 2019, 10:02:46 pm

Lee Iacocca has driven off into the sunset (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2019/07/02/f9abc080-da34-11e0-9dca-a4d231dfde50_story.html?utm_term=.f3fc3bdc7238)

In a Mustang or in a Chrysler?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 03, 2019, 11:57:59 pm

(https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--rH4WlQAB--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/seypann1pv8fxwda07sd.png)

Arte Johnson (https://wtop.com/national/2019/07/laugh-in-comedic-actor-arte-johnson-dies-at-90/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 06, 2019, 06:43:30 pm

Joao Gilberto (https://apnews.com/754c43e211ac4592a4d22bab64b8030a?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 06, 2019, 06:46:10 pm

Definitely one of my favorite musicians ...few if any I have listened to more over past 20 years

Sad but I understand he was in ill health for a long time

We traveled up to see him at Carnegie Hall June 18, 2004...one of my most treasured concerts

Curiously enough almost if not every obit is using a picture from that very show.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/07/06/entertainment/joao-gilberto-dies/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on July 09, 2019, 10:28:58 am

Ross Perot

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 09, 2019, 10:30:33 am

I've had this irrational fear the last few days that Paul McCartney is not long for this world. It is an uncomfortable feeling.

Not that I'm glad its anyone else, but I'm glad its not Sir Paul.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 09, 2019, 11:46:57 am

Quote from: shemptiness on July 09, 2019, 10:28:58 am

Ross Perot

“Texas born. Texas bred. When I die, I’ll be Texas dead. Ha!” (last line of his last interview)

Democrats should be very thankful for Perot, as I don't think Clinton would have been elected without him
although...there is “The Perot Myth”. (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-ross-perot-myth/)..so I've yet to dive deep into that to conclude that he wasn't a spoiler

Still will go down as the most impressive attempt of a 3rd party candidate ...19% of the popular vote!
Maybe Weld can learn a lot from Perot's campaign

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 09, 2019, 11:49:34 am

My first vote for US President

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on July 09, 2019, 11:37:44 pm

RIP Rip Torn

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 10, 2019, 12:55:31 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 09, 2019, 11:49:34 am

My first vote for US President

I've seen a few Dem's I know post how they voted for Ross...
I'm actually kind of surprised, but he was Trump...with out all the insults and baggage
and obviously level headed
but he was no liberal, so not sure what the appeal was

I do think he was way ahead of his time on the enactment of electronic direct democracy.
and the 3rd party insurgency really looked like 3rd parties might have a role in future elections

but he sounds pretty conservative to me

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 10, 2019, 01:18:14 pm

Perot was not Trump at all...I need more free time to respond to all the idiocy on this board

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 10, 2019, 01:28:15 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 10, 2019, 01:18:14 pm

Perot was not Trump at all...I need more free time to respond to all the idiocy on this board

of course not
I meant more to the voter....outsider, no political experience, business leader, trying to dismantle the corrupt 2 party system

now we also know that Trump is no conservative, but the people who voted for him think he is

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on July 10, 2019, 01:29:38 pm

How many womyn or people of color were on his staff?

Quote from: hutch on July 09, 2019, 11:49:34 am

My first vote for US President

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 10, 2019, 02:56:44 pm

Quote from: nkotb on July 10, 2019, 01:29:38 pm

How many womyn or people of color were on his staff?

Quote from: hutch on July 09, 2019, 11:49:34 am
My first vote for US President

It was a different time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 10, 2019, 03:14:58 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 10, 2019, 02:56:44 pm

Quote from: nkotb on July 10, 2019, 01:29:38 pm
How many womyn or people of color were on his staff?

Quote from: hutch on July 09, 2019, 11:49:34 am
My first vote for US President
It was a different time.

that kind of relativism is a slippery slope. we've sunk other people's lives for bad choices made a long time ago, don't see why perot gets a pass. JUSTICE NOW.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 10, 2019, 04:25:34 pm

What staff? It was pretty much Perot

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 10, 2019, 04:41:43 pm

As I recall the Draft Perot movement morphed into his ground game but paid staff was probably very few people. There was that bozo Rollins but I think he got shitcanned

Clinton was not an option. I could tell he was a sleaze and liar. I did not realize how much but I knew. Just the same vibe I got from John Edwards.

And since I really liked Perot’s message on the need to curb spending so I was happy to vote for him. Ultimately his message, for a time, won out when Republicans destroyed Clinton in 1994 and he was forced to play ball. To that I think we owe our last burst of prosperity

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 10, 2019, 04:46:19 pm

Henry rollins worked in the Perot campaign!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 10, 2019, 04:51:38 pm

Quote from: Schmolls-Hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 10, 2019, 04:46:19 pm

Henry rollins worked in the Perot campaign!

Is he a womyn or a POC?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 10, 2019, 04:55:01 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 10, 2019, 04:51:38 pm

Quote from: Schmolls-Hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 10, 2019, 04:46:19 pm
Henry rollins worked in the Perot campaign!

Is he a womyn or a POC?

do tattoos count as color?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 10, 2019, 05:16:25 pm

Ed Rollins

I doubt they are related

Henry Rollins is one weird guy....I like his books....He is definitely on the spectrum

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 10, 2019, 06:54:27 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on July 10, 2019, 03:14:58 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 10, 2019, 02:56:44 pm
Quote from: nkotb on July 10, 2019, 01:29:38 pm
How many womyn or people of color were on his staff?

Quote from: hutch on July 09, 2019, 11:49:34 am
My first vote for US President
It was a different time.

that kind of relativism is a slippery slope. we've sunk other people's lives for bad choices made a long time ago, don't see why perot gets a pass. JUSTICE NOW.

The joke went over your head.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 11, 2019, 07:23:49 am

Jim Bouton

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 11, 2019, 11:30:02 am

Violet (https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/11/entertainment/denise-nickerson/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 11, 2019, 12:40:27 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 10, 2019, 06:54:27 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on July 10, 2019, 03:14:58 pm
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 10, 2019, 02:56:44 pm
Quote from: nkotb on July 10, 2019, 01:29:38 pm
How many womyn or people of color were on his staff?

Quote from: hutch on July 09, 2019, 11:49:34 am
My first vote for US President
It was a different time.

that kind of relativism is a slippery slope. we've sunk other people's lives for bad choices made a long time ago, don't see why perot gets a pass. JUSTICE NOW.
The joke went over your head.

ditto, brah.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 12, 2019, 05:18:00 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 03, 2019, 12:48:20 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 02, 2019, 10:02:46 pm
Lee Iacocca has driven off into the sunset (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2019/07/02/f9abc080-da34-11e0-9dca-a4d231dfde50_story.html?utm_term=.f3fc3bdc7238)

In a Mustang or in a Chrysler?

Amazing. His family chose Chrysler. (https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2019/07/10/chrysler-ceo-lee-iacocca-funeral/1657942001/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 16, 2019, 03:40:25 pm

Johnny Clegg (https://www.stereogum.com/2051365/johnny-clegg-dead-66/obit/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 16, 2019, 09:18:18 pm

Leader of the left, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/john-paul-stevens-dead.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 16, 2019, 11:55:02 pm

^ knew you'd be the first to post this one.

stevens was considered right-wing upon his nomination... how times change.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on July 17, 2019, 11:21:31 am

One of the best shows I have ever seen was Johnny Clegg and Juluka back in the 80's at Girards in Baltimore.

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 16, 2019, 03:40:25 pm

Johnny Clegg (https://www.stereogum.com/2051365/johnny-clegg-dead-66/obit/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 17, 2019, 12:04:30 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on July 16, 2019, 11:55:02 pm

^ knew you'd be the first to post this one.

stevens was considered right-wing upon his nomination... how times change.

Well, there's a pretty good chance I've read more of his writings than anyone else on the board by a factor of 10, and yes, there's hope for John Roberts yet. Not so much Gorsuch and Kavanaugh...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gavroche on July 17, 2019, 04:47:35 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 17, 2019, 12:04:30 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on July 16, 2019, 11:55:02 pm
^ knew you'd be the first to post this one.

stevens was considered right-wing upon his nomination... how times change.

Well, there's a pretty good chance I've read more of his writings than anyone else on the board by a factor of 10, and yes, there's hope for John Roberts yet. Not so much Gorsuch and Kavanaugh...

I don't see hope for Roberts to be even as good as Kennedy (and even his "good" opinions are actually pretty horrific when you unpack them).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 20, 2019, 01:39:52 pm

I don't know who this woman was, but she had quite a last name.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/20/india/india-sheila-dikshit-obit-intl/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 22, 2019, 02:48:05 pm

Art Neville

Geez...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 22, 2019, 02:56:27 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 22, 2019, 02:48:05 pm

Art Neville

Geez...

I had to google to determine which brother he was, and found out this about his daughter...

In June 2010, Neville returned to Fox News Channel as a news anchor on America's Newsroom, America's News Headquarters, and Happening Now, a contributor on The O’Reilly Factor and Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld, and fill-in anchor on America Live with Megyn Kelly.[6] She also served as a correspondent from New Orleans for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina for Studio B with Shepard Smith and Fox Report.[7]

Neville is currently the weekend anchor at Fox News Channel with Saturday and Sunday newscasts of America's News Headquarters. On October 28, 2016, Neville was honored at the University of Texas at Austin as a Texas Exes 2016 Distinguished Alum.[8]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 22, 2019, 04:09:47 pm

You have shaken me to my core

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 22, 2019, 05:02:36 pm

Geez with Dave Bartholomew , Dr John and Art Neville that is a lot of New Orleans history and a lot of links to a bygone area going down in past month

Living is watching all your favorite people dying

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on July 23, 2019, 09:28:20 am

Quote from: hutch on July 22, 2019, 05:02:36 pm

Geez with Dave Bartholomew , Dr John and Art Neville that is a lot of New Orleans history and a lot of links to a bygone area going down in past month

Living is watching all your favorite people dying

what about your unfavorite people . . . are you not watching them die. they would like to be watched, too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 23, 2019, 09:34:13 am

No, I am a glass is half empty guy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 23, 2019, 11:00:09 am

so are we 'fill-shaming' glassware now...god this board has gone to shit
Why can't the glass determine the fill level and what they would like it refereed to as

and what is 'full'?
Liquid to the very top and possibly overflowing or is it approximately 1/2 inch from the lip
no one is even talking about how the meniscus plays a part too
I mean there is air in that glass, doesn't that fill it up

people are just making too many assumptions and you know who gets hurt....the glass

so enough with this, I'm taking a zero tolerance stance on 'Fill-shaming' and intentional glass abuse
I plan on taking Seth to court for allowing this kind of activity to happen on his watch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 23, 2019, 01:27:45 pm

the Tea Party (https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/23/politics/debt-deal-budget-ceiling/index.html)
born February 19, 2009- died July 22, 2019.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 23, 2019, 01:47:08 pm

Cillizza is a doofus

How he keeps his job...

Tea Party died years ago

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 23, 2019, 01:52:07 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 23, 2019, 01:47:08 pm

Cillizza is a doofus
Tea Party died years ago

I agree with both, but it's really becoming apparent in the last few weeks
I just liked the headline

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 23, 2019, 03:26:12 pm

Maxim Dadashev

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: frippy on July 24, 2019, 01:30:50 pm

Rutger Hauer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 24, 2019, 02:00:27 pm

delivered one of my favorite movie scenes of all time
RIP Rutger
(https://media1.tenor.com/images/c7397451177a6d1a9d9ec60e2290779b/tenor.gif?itemid=3481470)
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe, Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 24, 2019, 05:18:12 pm

Quote from: I direct you to what’s in the report on July 24, 2019, 02:00:27 pm

delivered one of my favorite movie scenes of all time
RIP Rutger

For starters, if that GIF had been the announcement of his passing, it would have been automatically in the pantheon of all time greatest 9:30 posts.

Anyhow, it led me to think how the hell did he not win Best Supporting Actor Oscar for that? Well, the run of movies from 1982-85 was quite the era for movies, 82 and 83 in particular.

Also, my head would have exploded if he died in Los Angeles in 2019.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: TheREALHunter on August 01, 2019, 03:22:15 pm

Harley Race

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 02, 2019, 09:16:57 am

I know the flag is at half mast in JA
(https://assets.pcmag.com/media/images/657791-amazon-dash-button-for-tide.jpg?thumb=y&width=810&height=456)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 05, 2019, 12:31:53 pm

D.A. Pennebaker

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 06, 2019, 11:19:08 am

Toni Morrison :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 06, 2019, 12:39:32 pm

Quote from: least-racist-hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 05, 2019, 12:31:53 pm

D.A. Pennebaker

We were in Bologna in 2017 and they were having a screening of one of his films and an in person appearance in one of the big town squares. I was surprised he was still alive and as spry as he was.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 07, 2019, 07:23:23 pm

David Berman (!!!)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Here's the thing on August 07, 2019, 07:42:16 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on August 07, 2019, 07:23:23 pm

David Berman (!!!)

This is so heartbreaking.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 07, 2019, 08:42:02 pm

This really really sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 08, 2019, 08:19:23 am

Rosie Ruiz and Cliff Branch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on August 08, 2019, 09:24:45 am

Yeah :(

Was really looking forward to seeing him again 11 years later :(

Quote from: hutch on August 07, 2019, 08:42:02 pm

This really really sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on August 08, 2019, 10:53:38 am

What a fucking bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on August 08, 2019, 12:16:09 pm

Quote from: Here's the thing on August 07, 2019, 07:42:16 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on August 07, 2019, 07:23:23 pm
David Berman (!!!)

This is so heartbreaking.

He touched many hearts-

https://pitchfork.com/news/david-berman-remembered-by-silver-jews-collaborator-bob-nastanovich-deerhunter-more/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 10, 2019, 09:13:02 am

Jeffrey Epstein

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 10, 2019, 09:23:57 am

Quote from: hutch on August 10, 2019, 09:13:02 am

Jeffrey Epstein

Wow, you are on it. Not even on CNN yet.

How does someone on suicide watch manage suicide? Giving new meaning to assisted suicide.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 10, 2019, 09:48:31 am

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 10, 2019, 10:57:49 am

Quote from: Space Freely on August 10, 2019, 09:23:57 am

Quote from: hutch on August 10, 2019, 09:13:02 am
Jeffrey Epstein
How does someone on suicide watch manage suicide? Giving new meaning to assisted suicide.

that is shocking

do you think someone had him killed or it was suicide, as there was a long list of important people that didn't want him to spill the beans

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 10, 2019, 11:09:03 am

Quote from: cruelty is the point ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 10, 2019, 10:57:49 am

Quote from: Space Freely on August 10, 2019, 09:23:57 am
Quote from: hutch on August 10, 2019, 09:13:02 am
Jeffrey Epstein
How does someone on suicide watch manage suicide? Giving new meaning to assisted suicide.
that is shocking

do you think someone had him killed or it was suicide, as there was a long list of important people that didn't want him to spill the beans

I will always think he was "suicided" even after a sham investigation comes to the conclusion that he acted alone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 10, 2019, 11:28:27 am

Far more plausible he killed himself given he already tried and failed. Would a professional hit of this import be likely to fail? I don’t think so.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 10, 2019, 12:21:28 pm

In a prison facility like that and he was on suicide watch you gonna think they’d have a camera on his cell 24 seven

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 10, 2019, 12:30:19 pm

Either way someone bribed the prison so that wouldn’t tell us anything

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 10, 2019, 04:49:26 pm

Apparently he wasn’t on suicide watch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2019, 06:57:10 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on August 07, 2019, 07:23:23 pm

David Berman (!!!)

Suicide
This reminds me of the prodigy guy
New album and tour that everyone was excited for
Suicide is just the worst

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 12, 2019, 08:25:50 am

Berman was always a very reluctant live performer....

I was pretty surprised when I heard he was releasing a new album and shocked that he was going to tour

Then when I realized him and wife Cassie had split I became really worried

I could be wrong but Cassie was the one with the regular job and the breadwinner

My guess is Berman had no choice but to tour....remember he hadn’t worked- as far as I know- in ten years

And touring -particularly without Cassie (had he ever done that?) - was just unbearable

Very sad

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 12, 2019, 08:35:34 am

Can we institute a moratorium on mansplaining people we’ve never met’s suicides?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 12, 2019, 08:47:32 am

More like trying to make sense of the death of someone that meant something to me

I am tired of your posts

I thought you said you had me on ignore...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 12, 2019, 01:23:14 pm

Quote from: cruelty is the point ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2019, 06:57:10 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on August 07, 2019, 07:23:23 pm
David Berman (!!!)
Suicide
This reminds me of the prodigy guy
New album and tour that everyone was excited for
Suicide is just the worst

About as unsurprising as Scott Hutchison, as both artists had flirted with suicidal thoughts in the past. Doesn't make the sting any less.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 12, 2019, 03:14:37 pm

Ralph E. Whittington (https://newtextureblog.blogspot.com/2019/08/shameless.html), an appreciation for a King of Porn

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 16, 2019, 06:53:23 pm

Peter Fonda

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 20, 2019, 12:07:02 am

Katreese Barnes, SNL music writer and director (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/arts/music/katreese-barnes-dead.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on August 23, 2019, 08:24:02 am

Saw reports on Twitter that David Koch died, but don't think it's confirmed yet

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 23, 2019, 08:53:48 am

Quote from: nkotb on August 23, 2019, 08:24:02 am

Saw reports on Twitter that David Koch died, but don't think it's confirmed yet

yep major news sources are confirming it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 23, 2019, 08:56:35 am

Quote from: greatly disloyal - hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 23, 2019, 08:53:48 am

Quote from: nkotb on August 23, 2019, 08:24:02 am
Saw reports on Twitter that David Koch died, but don't think it's confirmed yet
yep major news sources are confirming it

thoughts and prayers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 23, 2019, 09:07:42 am

Quote from: Space Freely on August 23, 2019, 08:56:35 am

Quote from: greatly disloyal - hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 23, 2019, 08:53:48 am
Quote from: nkotb on August 23, 2019, 08:24:02 am
Saw reports on Twitter that David Koch died, but don't think it's confirmed yet
yep major news sources are confirming it

thoughts and prayers

Drewtang must be gutted.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on August 23, 2019, 09:08:27 am

Gonna pour one* out on the ground** for my homey

* bottle of piss

** his grave

Quote from: greatly disloyal - hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 23, 2019, 08:53:48 am

Quote from: nkotb on August 23, 2019, 08:24:02 am
Saw reports on Twitter that David Koch died, but don't think it's confirmed yet
yep major news sources are confirming it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 23, 2019, 09:22:11 am

Quote from: Yada on August 23, 2019, 09:07:42 am

Quote from: Space Freely on August 23, 2019, 08:56:35 am
Quote from: greatly disloyal - hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 23, 2019, 08:53:48 am
Quote from: nkotb on August 23, 2019, 08:24:02 am
Saw reports on Twitter that David Koch died, but don't think it's confirmed yet
yep major news sources are confirming it

thoughts and prayers

Drewtang must be gutted.

not that it matters as people say one thing and do another
In Jan 2019
The Koch brothers' political network,, has informed donors in recent months that it will stay out of the 2020 presidential race and will not support efforts to reelect President Trump
So Team Trump is probably doing a little happy dance right now

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 27, 2019, 08:05:57 am

Neal Casal...

Fuck!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 27, 2019, 08:11:44 am

Neal Casal (November 2, 1968 – August 26, 2019) was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and photographer. First rising to prominence as lead guitar with Rickey Medlocke's Blackfoot from 1988-1993, Casal is best known as a member of Ryan Adams' backing band the Cardinals from 2005 until 2009, with whom he recorded three studio albums. He played in several groups, including the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Hard Working Americans, The Skiffle Players and Circles Around the Sun – and released twelve albums as a solo artist.

In 2010, Casal released a photo-book, Ryan Adams & the Cardinals: A View of Other Windows, documenting his time spent within the band. He released his most recent solo album, Sweeten the Distance, in 2011.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 27, 2019, 09:12:56 am

I know ryan bashing is a sport here, but Neal's contribution on those tours was really great

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 27, 2019, 09:18:11 am

He just played Lockin

This weekend with Oteil

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 27, 2019, 09:26:36 am

Quote from: hutch on August 27, 2019, 09:18:11 am

He just played Lockin

This weekend with Oteil

And with his own band... Guessing suicide or an OD.

Still gutted from David Berman. This just sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 27, 2019, 09:32:54 am

An OD would certainly not be a surprise given the crowd he ran with...anyone seen a picture of Chris Robinson lately?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 27, 2019, 09:54:31 am

Quote from: metaphorical bedbug ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 27, 2019, 09:12:56 am

I know ryan bashing is a sport here, but Neal's contribution on those tours was really great

The last era of Ryan Adams worth listening to.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 27, 2019, 10:18:48 am

Suicide confirmed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 27, 2019, 10:22:45 am

That sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 28, 2019, 06:01:01 am

Pedro Bell who did the artwork for Funkadelic and George Clinton album covers

https://afropunk.com/2019/04/black-utopia-the-funkadelic-art-of-pedro-bell/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 29, 2019, 04:22:46 pm

Quote from: ALL APOLOGIZE! ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 10, 2019, 12:21:28 pm

In a prison facility like that and he was on suicide watch you gonna think they’d have a camera on his cell 24 seven

well they did...but both were 'broke'

@traciemac_Bmore
BREAKING: not one but TWO malfunctioning cameras #Epstein

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on August 29, 2019, 09:05:33 pm

Quote from: ALL APOLOGIZE! ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 29, 2019, 04:22:46 pm

Quote from: ALL APOLOGIZE! ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 10, 2019, 12:21:28 pm
In a prison facility like that and he was on suicide watch you gonna think they’d have a camera on his cell 24 seven
well they did...but both were 'broke'

@traciemac_Bmore
BREAKING: not one but TWO malfunctioning cameras #Epstein

Excuse me . . . I will have you know, the American public has moved on from this, and doesn't care anymore.

Debbie Downer, out.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 29, 2019, 09:57:00 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on August 29, 2019, 09:05:33 pm

Quote from: ALL APOLOGIZE! ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 29, 2019, 04:22:46 pm
Quote from: ALL APOLOGIZE! ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 10, 2019, 12:21:28 pm
In a prison facility like that and he was on suicide watch you gonna think they’d have a camera on his cell 24 seven
well they did...but both were 'broke'

@traciemac_Bmore
BREAKING: not one but TWO malfunctioning cameras #Epstein

Excuse me . . . I will have you know, the American public has moved on from this, and doesn't care anymore.

Debbie Downer, out.

Well I kind of agree...it's erie to be honest
I only brought it up when I saw it today as it was one of the first things I posted about the cameras the day it happened

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 30, 2019, 12:15:13 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 27, 2019, 08:05:57 am

Neal Casal...

Fuck!!!

beautiful tribute...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDkPEHeeuYg

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 30, 2019, 07:42:16 pm

Valerie Harper

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 05, 2019, 04:58:34 pm

This is crazy if you watch her IG stories before they expire.

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kylie-rae-harris-dead-country-singer-dies-at-30/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 05, 2019, 05:50:22 pm

This one hit the wife pretty hard. “Twenty Years From Now” is going to be IMPOSSIBLE for her daughter to listen to - hell it's hard enough for me and I don't know either of them.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 06, 2019, 12:54:17 pm

Robert Mugabe, who once said 'only God' could ever remove him, dies at 95 (https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/06/africa/robert-mugabe-intl-hnk/index.html)

his legacy (https://www.cnn.com/africa/live-news/robert-mugabe-dies-dle-intl/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 06, 2019, 01:16:13 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 06, 2019, 12:54:17 pm

his legacy (https://www.cnn.com/africa/live-news/robert-mugabe-dies-dle-intl/index.html)

Pfft. Any article attempting to cover his legacy that doesn't have an entire section on his impact on Zimbabwean cricket is a trash article.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 06, 2019, 10:59:50 pm

Quote from: Yada on September 05, 2019, 04:58:34 pm

This is crazy if you watch her IG stories before they expire.

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/kylie-rae-harris-dead-country-singer-dies-at-30/

Driving drunk and at fault.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2019/09/06/kylie-rae-harris-caused-double-fatal-new-mexico-crash-taos-sheriff-says/2236658001/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 07, 2019, 02:22:43 am

damn I feel for the EMT

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 07, 2019, 07:22:32 am

Quote from: hutch on September 07, 2019, 02:22:43 am

damn I feel for the EMT

Wow, yeah. Didn't even catch that part the first time i read it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on September 07, 2019, 07:49:25 am

Damn. That's awful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 11, 2019, 03:16:16 pm

T. Boone Pickens
really loved his work on O Brother, Where Art Thou?.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 11, 2019, 03:23:29 pm

Quote from: Volfefe hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 11, 2019, 03:16:16 pm

T. Boone Pickens

And just like that, Oklahoma State football goes back to irrelevance.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on September 11, 2019, 03:37:15 pm

Surprised nothing was posted for this guy-

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/arts/robert-frank-dead-americans-photography.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on September 11, 2019, 04:05:32 pm

Haven't seen it confirmed outside of a tweet, but Daniel Johnston

https://twitter.com/DuglasTStewart/status/1171871714059460614

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 11, 2019, 04:08:46 pm

Quote from: nkotb on September 11, 2019, 04:05:32 pm

Haven't seen it confirmed outside of a tweet, but Daniel Johnston

https://twitter.com/DuglasTStewart/status/1171871714059460614

https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2019-09-11/austin-singer-songwriter-daniel-johnston-dead-at-58/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 11, 2019, 04:27:36 pm

That's sad. Glad I got to see him once.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on September 13, 2019, 10:45:54 am

Eddie Money

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 13, 2019, 11:03:56 am

Quote from: rich_WDC on September 13, 2019, 10:45:54 am

Eddie Money

Summers at Pine Knob will never be the same.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: MAGA 2020 on September 13, 2019, 12:03:36 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on September 13, 2019, 10:45:54 am

Eddie Money

i'm not sure even what to call his style of music...70s/80s pop rock? but he had some hits for sure. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on September 13, 2019, 12:55:53 pm

Am I imagining this, or did someone on this board claim to have pushed Eddie Money in a pool at some point?

Quote from: rich_WDC on September 13, 2019, 10:45:54 am

Eddie Money

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 13, 2019, 01:18:01 pm

Quote from: drewtang on September 13, 2019, 12:03:36 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on September 13, 2019, 10:45:54 am
Eddie Money

i'm not sure even what to call his style of music...70s/80s pop rock? but he had some hits for sure. RIP.

Guido Rock

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 13, 2019, 03:44:31 pm

Quote from: nkotb on September 13, 2019, 12:55:53 pm

Am I imagining this, or did someone on this board claim to have pushed Eddie Money in a pool at some point?

Quote from: SPARX on October 26, 2005, 04:59:00 pm

Quote
Originally posted by frenchpiece:
Eddie Money is the worst singer ever. He should be shot on sight just to prevent a tv exec from crapping out another bad idea, like having him sing the new theme to Tara Reid's show "Two Tickets to Taradise."
I had to sit through one of his sets in Zanesville Ohio at a place called Legend Valley. He was staying at the same motel as we were and came out to hang by the pool. A few friends noticed and went down to say hello. He was such a jerk that they literally picked him up while in his pool chair, and tossed him, chair and all into the pool. He took off running to his room and shut the door. A few seconds later 2 huge bodyguard/bouncer types came from the next room over from his and glared up at us but made no approach. There were alot of us and boy did we laugh.Others at Legend Valley that day were Cars, Cheap Trick and Todd Rundgren's Utopia.Ah,good times!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 13, 2019, 04:00:11 pm

Remember when Eddie Money's drummer sued Eddie for mocking his bladder cancer by calling him "Chemo Drummer?"

I don't either, but I read it on the internet.

https://www.stereogum.com/1890546/eddie-money-fires-back-at-chemo-drummer-and-his-groupie-fiancee-in-new-court-filing/wheres-the-beef/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 13, 2019, 04:14:21 pm

I have read more than one unflattering account but who knows what is really true and the man is dead

The idea of seeing him live never held any appeal...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on September 13, 2019, 04:14:45 pm

YES

Quote from: vansmack on September 13, 2019, 03:44:31 pm

Quote from: nkotb on September 13, 2019, 12:55:53 pm
Am I imagining this, or did someone on this board claim to have pushed Eddie Money in a pool at some point?

Quote from: SPARX on October 26, 2005, 04:59:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by frenchpiece:
Eddie Money is the worst singer ever. He should be shot on sight just to prevent a tv exec from crapping out another bad idea, like having him sing the new theme to Tara Reid's show "Two Tickets to Taradise."
I had to sit through one of his sets in Zanesville Ohio at a place called Legend Valley. He was staying at the same motel as we were and came out to hang by the pool. A few friends noticed and went down to say hello. He was such a jerk that they literally picked him up while in his pool chair, and tossed him, chair and all into the pool. He took off running to his room and shut the door. A few seconds later 2 huge bodyguard/bouncer types came from the next room over from his and glared up at us but made no approach. There were alot of us and boy did we laugh.Others at Legend Valley that day were Cars, Cheap Trick and Todd Rundgren's Utopia.Ah,good times!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 13, 2019, 04:15:38 pm

Yeah, sorry. I didn't have time to track it down this morning, but I knew you were right. You just had to wait until my lunch...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 13, 2019, 04:22:53 pm

This is a very satisfying resolution to nkotb's query. I must have missed this back in the day. 10 out of 10.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on September 13, 2019, 04:33:14 pm

I forget to switch the laundry in the time it takes to walk down the stairs, yet this has lingered in my head for almost 14 years. Normal brain.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 13, 2019, 05:53:43 pm

I remember every time they introduced Eddie Money on Solid Gold, they always mentioned he was a former NYC cop.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 13, 2019, 09:02:45 pm

Guess I can end my long standing beef with Eddie... At The Who, The Clash, Eddie Money Sllverdome show far too many decades ago... Apparently Mr Money felt his set was too short and decided to play longer then allotted, thus cutting The Clash’s set short that evening. Word is he was fined for his antics...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 13, 2019, 09:07:35 pm

Nah...I would hold that grudge forever

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 13, 2019, 09:33:59 pm

Well I was trying to verify this memory and the part I erased from memory was that the crowd loved mr. money and by the time the clash started they were being boo... guess that whole wrong place wrong time for them

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on September 13, 2019, 10:56:31 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on September 13, 2019, 09:02:45 pm

Guess I can end my long standing beef with Eddie... At The Who, The Clash, Eddie Money Sllverdome show far too many decades ago... Apparently Mr Money felt his set was too short and decided to play longer then allotted, thus cutting The Clash’s set short that evening. Word is he was fined for his antics...

How can you play a longer set when you only have like four decent songs? And only get fined?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 15, 2019, 08:30:40 pm

Ric Ocasek (https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Ric-Ocasek-Cars-Singer-Dead-in-NY-at-75-560430391.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 15, 2019, 08:37:03 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on September 15, 2019, 08:30:40 pm

Ric Ocasek (https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Ric-Ocasek-Cars-Singer-Dead-in-NY-at-75-560430391.html)

Fuck.

Literally just flipped on the TV and saw the T-Mobile commercial with Magic :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 15, 2019, 08:45:49 pm

Hard to believe he was the same age as Mick Jagger

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 15, 2019, 09:24:24 pm

Quote from: grateful on September 15, 2019, 08:37:03 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on September 15, 2019, 08:30:40 pm
Ric Ocasek (https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Ric-Ocasek-Cars-Singer-Dead-in-NY-at-75-560430391.html)

Fuck.

Literally just flipped on the TV and saw the T-Mobile commercial with Magic :(

That does really suck
had the cars first album on heavy rotation in the backyard this summer
was always on my bucket list to catch him

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 15, 2019, 09:31:09 pm

The Cars actually played the 930 a few years ago...maybe 2013 around their reunion album Move like this which is good

They were never known for their live performances

I find Ocasek’s production work really interesting...you wouldn’t think it but he produced some groundbreaking stuff with Bad Brains, Suicide (and the Alan Vega LP Saturn Strip is great)..

Unfortunately I think he wasn’t able to do the trick of helping GBV breakthrough but I guess that was never in the cards

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 15, 2019, 09:38:06 pm

2011

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-cars/2011/930-club-washington-dc-43d3cf5b.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 15, 2019, 09:53:42 pm

Me and Phoebe Cates are going to pour one out for Rick tonight....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 15, 2019, 09:56:41 pm

Quote from: hutch on September 15, 2019, 09:31:09 pm

The Cars actually played the 930 a few years ago...

Wasn't that with todd rungrun on vocals
at the time $85 seemed steep, now that's normal concert price

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 15, 2019, 10:05:40 pm

Quote from: shambolic-hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 15, 2019, 09:56:41 pm

Quote from: hutch on September 15, 2019, 09:31:09 pm
The Cars actually played the 930 a few years ago...
Wasn't that with todd rungrun on vocals
at the time $85 seemed steep, now that's normal concert price

No way, it was with Ocasek

T went

Orr was long dead though of course

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 16, 2019, 07:18:22 am

Quote from: vansmack on September 15, 2019, 09:53:42 pm

Me and Phoebe Cates are going to pour one out for Rick tonight....

Judge Reinhold beat you to it...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 16, 2019, 07:55:38 am

I was once in line behind Ric at a record store, and he had a stack of CD's in hand. Madonna, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, and a bunch more I don't recall. I think it was Newbury Comics in Boston, but I'm not sure. I also saw him a second time somewhere, either in NYC or Boston again, I don't recall. I liked to Cars. Always thought he married well. That's all I have.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 16, 2019, 10:05:03 am

Quote from: hutch on September 15, 2019, 10:05:40 pm

Quote from: shambolic-hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 15, 2019, 09:56:41 pm
Quote from: hutch on September 15, 2019, 09:31:09 pm
The Cars actually played the 930 a few years ago...
Wasn't that with todd rungrun on vocals
at the time $85 seemed steep, now that's normal concert price

No way, it was with Ocasek

T went

Orr was long dead though of course

2011....only 10 shows and 930 got one of them
would have liked to have caught that
was in the process of moving back to DC, so couldn't have swung it

Didn't realize that Orr had sung some of these gems:"Just What I Needed", "Let's Go" and "Moving in Stereo" Always thought they were sung by RO
(so the Fast Times ref technically is not accurate ...co-written by Ric Ocasek and the band's keyboard player Greg Hawkes, and sung by bassist Benjamin Orr. )

just stumbled across a demo with Ric singing Moving in Stereo https://youtu.be/cX-MOsg99jw made in his basement in 77 with just Hawkes

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hemisphire on September 16, 2019, 10:06:43 am

Quote from: hutch on September 15, 2019, 10:05:40 pm

Quote from: shambolic-hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 15, 2019, 09:56:41 pm
Quote from: hutch on September 15, 2019, 09:31:09 pm
The Cars actually played the 930 a few years ago...
Wasn't that with todd rungrun on vocals
at the time $85 seemed steep, now that's normal concert price

No way, it was with Ocasek

T went

Orr was long dead though of course

I went to that as well.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/in-concert-the-cars-at-930-club/2011/05/24/AFJV4bAH_blog.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL4iqhXc-XY

You might be thinking of this:
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-new-cars/2006/filene-center-at-wolf-trap-vienna-va-1bcd8954.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on September 16, 2019, 11:24:46 am

Quote from: vansmack on September 15, 2019, 09:53:42 pm

Me and Phoebe Cates are going to pour one out for Rick tonight....

probably the wrong verb choice re: phoebe...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 16, 2019, 12:09:02 pm

Quote from: challanged and calloused on September 16, 2019, 11:24:46 am

Quote from: vansmack on September 15, 2019, 09:53:42 pm
Me and Phoebe Cates are going to pour one out for Rick tonight....

probably the wrong verb choice re: phoebe...

Wouldn't it be: Phoebe and I are planning to pour one out for Ric (and Ben) tonight for his (their) contribution to an iconic scene

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 16, 2019, 03:51:35 pm

I'm sad about Ric, that debut album is soo good, what a catalog of just amazing songs they have

but the number of people who have talked about their love for him did one of two things:
called him RicK
or quoted a Orr sung song as their favorite Ric song: Drive, Moving in stereo, Just what I needed and Let's go

I do recall Orr doing Drive and always thought that was a one off kind of thing
but when most people (myself included) think of the Cars...they (incorrectly assume) that Ric did all the vocals
I hope people learn that Orr sung most of those classics they are attributing to Ric
Now Ric did write almost every song...so they are not totally wrong to attribute it to him

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 16, 2019, 03:53:39 pm

Problem is their voices sound similar

Orr has a bigger role at beginning but it diminished and Ocasek took over

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on September 16, 2019, 04:01:23 pm

Quote from: shambolic-hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 16, 2019, 12:09:02 pm

Quote from: challanged and calloused on September 16, 2019, 11:24:46 am
Quote from: vansmack on September 15, 2019, 09:53:42 pm
Me and Phoebe Cates are going to pour one out for Rick tonight....

probably the wrong verb choice re: phoebe...
Wouldn't it be: Phoebe and I are planning to pour one out for Ric (and Ben) tonight for his (their) contribution to an iconic scene

It was something along the lines of: rubbing one out to the image of Phoebe, while remembering Ric and the band's contribution to that iconic scene.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 16, 2019, 10:51:12 pm

Ric died naturally of heart disease...

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2e8mMWB2Ft/?igshid=bbexzha1xdk6

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 17, 2019, 10:53:26 am

Cokie Roberts

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 17, 2019, 10:53:45 am

Cookie Roberts. 75 is the new 27.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on September 17, 2019, 11:39:42 am

It's almost shocking, that famous people die, of old age now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 17, 2019, 12:58:33 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on September 17, 2019, 11:39:42 am

It's almost shocking, that famous people die, of old age now.

Given that I'm closer to 75 than 27, I'm going to argue that 75 is not old age.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 17, 2019, 01:30:52 pm

Was kind of joking of my mid-life crisis purchase recently and realized that my mid life was over a decade ago with males avg age of 76 in the US.
I'd have to live to 96 for that purchase to be mid-life

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on September 17, 2019, 03:29:32 pm

(https://images.theweek.com/sites/default/files/styles/tw_image_9_4/public/rock_deaths.jpg.webp?itok=Bww4NfGQ&resize=1200x1200)

https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend (https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend)

TL;DR

But there's another sense in which rock is very nearly dead: Just about every rock legend you can think of is going to die within the next decade or so.

Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 17, 2019, 03:32:31 pm

There's already like a whole thread on this topic...SMH

https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=24988.0 (https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=24988.0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 17, 2019, 03:59:00 pm

I like Blondie....but putting Debbie Harry in that list is re-duck-u-less

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 17, 2019, 04:01:39 pm

Quote from: misinformation reporter ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 17, 2019, 03:59:00 pm

I like Blondie....but putting Debbie Harry in that list is re-duck-u-less

You're right. Women do tend to live longer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 17, 2019, 04:04:30 pm

Quote from: challanged and calloused on September 17, 2019, 03:29:32 pm

(https://images.theweek.com/sites/default/files/styles/tw_image_9_4/public/rock_deaths.jpg.webp?itok=Bww4NfGQ&resize=1200x1200)

https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend (https://theweek.com/articles/861750/coming-death-just-about-every-rock-legend)

TL;DR

But there's another sense in which rock is very nearly dead: Just about every rock legend you can think of is going to die within the next decade or so.

Behold the killing fields that lie before us: Bob Dylan (78 years old); Paul McCartney (77); Paul Simon (77) and Art Garfunkel (77); Carole King (77); Brian Wilson (77); Mick Jagger (76) and Keith Richards (75); Joni Mitchell (75); Jimmy Page (75) and Robert Plant (71); Ray Davies (75); Roger Daltrey (75) and Pete Townshend (74); Roger Waters (75) and David Gilmour (73); Rod Stewart (74); Eric Clapton (74); Debbie Harry (74); Neil Young (73); Van Morrison (73); Bryan Ferry (73); Elton John (72); Don Henley (72); James Taylor (71); Jackson Browne (70); Billy Joel (70); and Bruce Springsteen (69, but turning 70 next month).

Those people might be alive but their rock sauce is weak dead...they are legends for their contributions four or five decades ago except Neil

If there is any hope it’s the young

The word rock has come to mean whatever young people play...it has little connection to chuck berry or rock and roll

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 17, 2019, 04:10:29 pm

Quote from: misinformation reporter ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 17, 2019, 03:59:00 pm

I like Blondie....but putting Debbie Harry in that list is re-duck-u-less

One could make the argument she has sold more records than Bryan Ferry, Van Morrison, or Ray Davies (unless I am way off on my sales figures I just googled) and probably has more "recognizable to common people in 2019" songs than all three together. Debbie Harry being on this doesn't seem absurd to me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 17, 2019, 04:12:53 pm

Rock and roll in modern times is more a verb than a noun

More embodying an attitude (which changes) than a style of music

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on September 17, 2019, 04:15:39 pm

I will only be sad when the following famous people die:

* Ric Flair
* Remaining Beastie Boys
* Robert Pollard
* Mick Foley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 17, 2019, 04:21:03 pm

Quote from: nkotb on September 17, 2019, 04:15:39 pm

I will only be sad when the following famous people die:

* Robert Pollard

That will be a sad day indeed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 17, 2019, 04:21:11 pm

Quote from: nkotb on September 17, 2019, 04:15:39 pm

I will only be sad when the following famous people die:

* Ric Flair
* Remaining Beastie Boys
* Robert Pollard
* Mick Foley

You forgot the inventor of the Wet Willie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on September 17, 2019, 04:25:42 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on September 17, 2019, 04:21:11 pm

You forgot the inventor of the Wet Willie.

already dead AND I DIDN'T TAKE IT WELL

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 17, 2019, 04:27:44 pm

Quote from: nkotb on September 17, 2019, 04:25:42 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on September 17, 2019, 04:21:11 pm
You forgot the inventor of the Wet Willie.

already dead AND I DIDN'T TAKE IT WELL

Sorry for your loss. I didn’t know.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 17, 2019, 04:41:40 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on September 17, 2019, 04:10:29 pm

Quote from: misinformation reporter ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 17, 2019, 03:59:00 pm
I like Blondie....but putting Debbie Harry in that list is re-duck-u-less
One could make the argument she has sold more records than Bryan Ferry, Van Morrison, or Ray Davies (unless I am way off on my sales figures I just googled) and probably has more "recognizable to common people in 2019" songs than all three together. Debbie Harry being on this doesn't seem absurd to me.

I almost added Ferry to that list
Davies I get...most people don't understand how important the kinks are
But I'd say VM is more popular overall and has more sales than blondie...but I could be wrong

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 20, 2019, 07:37:18 am

Larry Wallis - Original Guitarist in Motörhead and early Stiff Records recording artist

And my autocorrect just umlauted the o in Motörhead \m/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on September 20, 2019, 08:25:04 am

Suzanne Whang. So sad. She, was incredible. Loved her, so.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 20, 2019, 08:38:03 am

Quote from: WalkOnBack on September 20, 2019, 08:25:04 am

Suzanne Whang. So sad. She, was incredible. Loved her, so.

Born in Arlington

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 20, 2019, 09:06:39 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on September 17, 2019, 04:10:29 pm

Quote from: misinformation reporter ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 17, 2019, 03:59:00 pm
I like Blondie....but putting Debbie Harry in that list is re-duck-u-less
One could make the argument she has sold more records than Bryan Ferry, Van Morrison, or Ray Davies (unless I am way off on my sales figures I just googled) and probably has more "recognizable to common people in 2019" songs than all three together. Debbie Harry being on this doesn't seem absurd to me.

Agreed. My 12 year old wouldn't recognize the names Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry, Van Morrison, Kinks/Ray Davies. She definitely knows Blondie though.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 20, 2019, 09:17:37 am

I think influence outweighs popularity in terms of importance

But Blondie and particularly Debbie Harry has had an incredible influence on women (and men) not so much musically but on what a woman could be, do and represent within rock and roll

Roxy Music is always put down in the US but they are after Bowie the most important UK act until the Sex Pistols and the most important influence on the early 80s New Romantic movement (Duran Duran etc)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 20, 2019, 10:25:50 am

Yonrico Scott

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on September 23, 2019, 08:33:43 am

Sid Haig

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on September 23, 2019, 10:30:00 am

Quote from: WalkOnBack on September 23, 2019, 08:33:43 am

Sid Haig

Wow, didn't know he was 80.
Oh Captain! My Captain!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on September 24, 2019, 01:56:55 pm

Robert Hunter
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robert-hunter-grateful-dead-dead-889788/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 24, 2019, 02:32:24 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on September 24, 2019, 01:56:55 pm

Robert Hunter
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robert-hunter-grateful-dead-dead-889788/

whoops... put him in the belly up thread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 24, 2019, 03:12:22 pm

That sucks but not entirely surprising as he had dropped out of the public eye

Definitely one of the finest American lyricists in modern music...maybe behind Dylan

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 26, 2019, 09:47:34 am

Jacques Chirac

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on September 28, 2019, 07:31:29 am

Hug the ones you are closest with . . . then hug everyone else. You, just never know, how time runs against your chances to say goodbye.

Love you and will always miss you, my dear friend.

Until, I see you again. :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 28, 2019, 10:27:09 am

Quote from: WalkOnBack on September 28, 2019, 07:31:29 am

Hug the ones you are closest with . . . then hug everyone else. You, just never know, how time runs against your chances to say goodbye.

Love you and will always miss you, my dear friend.

Until, I see you again. :'(

I never knew you felt this way about Jacques Chirac.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 28, 2019, 11:23:35 am

I am not a hugger

Sorry for your loss

Now I got Box of Rain in my head

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 29, 2019, 09:45:36 pm

Busbee

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 30, 2019, 05:24:42 pm

Rob Garrison, the Man Who Said Karate Kid's Best Line, Has Died

Yeah, get him a body bag! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPKZSyz4QoI)

Personally, I'm more a Sweep the leg Johnny kind of guy...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 30, 2019, 05:36:08 pm

^a lot of the articles announcing his death only had pictures of mr miyagi/ralph and until you posted that I had no clue which actor it was...very minor role

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 30, 2019, 05:38:49 pm

Quote from: Case closed! hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 30, 2019, 05:36:08 pm

very minor role

Yet, unforgettable....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 30, 2019, 06:03:58 pm

I had forgotten Ric Ocasek produced Weezer debut

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 30, 2019, 06:26:28 pm

Jessye Norman (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jessye-norman-the-international-opera-star-dead-at-74/2019/09/30/8a638f52-e3ca-11e9-b0a6-3d03721b85ef_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 30, 2019, 08:47:10 pm

Jimmy Spicer (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/arts/music/jimmy-spicer-dead.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 02, 2019, 09:32:16 am

Barrie Masters

Eddie and the hot rods is a band that never gets their due but listen to their first album (particularly the extra live tracks)....ferocious and you can see them as a bridge to UK punk

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on October 02, 2019, 10:23:59 am

Quote from: hutch on October 02, 2019, 09:32:16 am

Barrie Masters

Eddie and the hot rods is a band that never gets their due but listen to their first album (particularly the extra live tracks)....ferocious and you can see them as a bridge to UK punk

Onl know about because Ted Leo covers .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xat64Fk5ks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xat64Fk5ks)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 02, 2019, 04:50:16 pm

(https://i.ibb.co/WvqPdYR/Kancheli.jpg) (https://imgbb.com/)

Giya Kancheli (https://www.npr.org/2019/10/02/766505272/composer-giya-kancheli-championed-by-ecm-dies-at-84?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nprmusic&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=music), the king of loud-quiet-loud.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on October 02, 2019, 06:46:05 pm

Kim Shattuck of the Muffs. OMG :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on October 03, 2019, 12:52:57 pm

Blindsided by that one.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 04, 2019, 05:52:43 pm

Diahann Carroll (https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/10/04/without-diahann-carroll-we-wouldnt-have-olivia-pope/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 05, 2019, 12:42:10 pm

Glenmore Brown the rhythm master

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 06, 2019, 07:59:19 am

Ginger Baker.
Rock takes a blow.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 06, 2019, 09:48:52 am

Quote from: grateful on October 06, 2019, 07:59:19 am

Ginger Baker.
Rock takes a blow.

He'll be forming a new band with Eddie Money on a couple of weeks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on October 06, 2019, 10:13:12 am

Quote from: Space Freely on October 06, 2019, 09:48:52 am

Quote from: grateful on October 06, 2019, 07:59:19 am
Ginger Baker.
Rock takes a blow.

He'll be forming a new band with Eddie Money on a couple of weeks.

I think he'd rather be jamming with Bird and Diz.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 06, 2019, 07:01:41 pm

(https://media.giphy.com/media/OxJvpYngBbkwU/giphy.gif)

Rip Taylor (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rip-taylor-dead-flamboyant-comic-host-198-beauty-show-was-84-1196673)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 06, 2019, 07:04:03 pm

Damn. Rip Taylor and Rip Torn in the same year.

RiP all the Rips.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 06, 2019, 07:10:38 pm

(https://consequenceofsound.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/exhex-rips.jpg?quality=80)

Play this record in their honor.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 07, 2019, 07:54:19 am

Jay Gruden as coach

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 07, 2019, 08:11:07 am

Gruden makes me ask the same question as Chris Ash at Rutgers who got fired last week: why did you bring them back for this season exactly? Everyone and their mother knew they were getting fired. Their teams were going to be bad and they had no goodwill left -- what did you gain by bringing these guys back for 4-5 more games and doing this midseason? So silly.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 07, 2019, 08:39:41 am

Quote from: hutch on October 07, 2019, 07:54:19 am

Jay Gruden as coach

Well now he'll really be able to cut loose at Snallygaster.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 07, 2019, 12:49:05 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on October 07, 2019, 08:39:41 am

Quote from: hutch on October 07, 2019, 07:54:19 am
Jay Gruden as coach

Well now he'll really be able to cut loose at Snallygaster.

he's also free to ruin MNF once again. yeay.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 07, 2019, 01:00:34 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 07, 2019, 12:49:05 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on October 07, 2019, 08:39:41 am
Quote from: hutch on October 07, 2019, 07:54:19 am
Jay Gruden as coach

Well now he'll really be able to cut loose at Snallygaster.

he's also free to ruin MNF once again. yeay.

Wrong Gruden bro, bro.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 07, 2019, 01:13:49 pm

yikes, my bad. i hear "bad coach being fired" and "gruden", and my brain goes on autopilot. i mean, c'mon, they barely squeaked past the Broncos for eff's sake.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 08, 2019, 12:15:11 am

Larry Junstrom (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 08, 2019, 08:06:20 am

Don’t forget .38 Special

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 08, 2019, 08:46:36 am

Y'all think "Teacher Teacher" is the best 38 Special song?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 08, 2019, 09:11:36 am

No way

Always partial to If I’d been the one

But they had quite a few good ones

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 08, 2019, 09:14:33 am

Hold on, Lucy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 08, 2019, 09:32:44 am

Quote from: Heilung4eva on October 08, 2019, 09:14:33 am

Hold on, Lucy

Yeah.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 12, 2019, 03:02:12 pm

John Giorno (https://allenginsberg.org/2019/10/john-giorno-1936-2019/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 12, 2019, 03:17:12 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on October 12, 2019, 03:02:12 pm

John Giorno (https://allenginsberg.org/2019/10/john-giorno-1936-2019/)

Well, it's not delivery.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 14, 2019, 04:09:34 pm

Sam Bobrick (https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/10/r-i-p-sam-bobrick/), creator of "Saved By The Bell"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 15, 2019, 09:19:22 am

Harold Bloom

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 17, 2019, 06:46:28 am

Elijah Cummings

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 17, 2019, 07:07:54 am

Quote from: Heilung4eva on October 17, 2019, 06:46:28 am

Elijah Cummings

And yet you know who lives on....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 17, 2019, 07:34:48 am

Damn that sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 17, 2019, 12:40:14 pm

Scotty Bowers

A+ for this obituary

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/scotty-bowers-sexual-procurer-for-hollywoods-closeted-stars-dies-at-96/2019/10/15/770b5ac6-ef63-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 27, 2019, 10:17:31 am

Paul Barrere (little feat)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 28, 2019, 01:00:29 pm

Former Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) died Monday at the age of 66

also on Friday
Don Valentine - founded Sequoia Capital and was an early investor in a few lightweight companies you probably never heard of
Apple, Atari, Cisco, Electronic Arts and Oracle

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 28, 2019, 01:36:58 pm

Bob Evans

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on October 30, 2019, 01:40:58 pm

Fischerspooner

Guess it shouldn't be a shock, but I'm still bummed. They were fun to see live.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 30, 2019, 01:52:33 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on October 30, 2019, 01:40:58 pm

Fischerspooner

Guess it shouldn't be a shock, but I'm still bummed. They were fun to see live.

bummer.

only mention online i could find was this spanish language site/blog: https://jenesaispop.com/2019/10/30/375030/fischerspooner-anuncian-su-separacion/ (other than their cryptic FB post...)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 30, 2019, 01:59:29 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 30, 2019, 01:52:33 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on October 30, 2019, 01:40:58 pm
Fischerspooner

Guess it shouldn't be a shock, but I'm still bummed. They were fun to see live.

bummer.

only mention online i could find was this spanish language site/blog: https://jenesaispop.com/2019/10/30/375030/fischerspooner-anuncian-su-separacion/ (other than their cryptic FB post...)

wrong thread twice over man

Guys ....he needs to focus on his presidential campaign
https://www.towleroad.com/2019/07/casey-spooner-2020/
#spooner2020
(https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/93/92320/full-1854x1854/5d2dd5a4/Spooner2020_MattyRichards_SQUARE_1.jpeg?resolution=0)(https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/93/92322/full-1004x1004/5d2dd807/Spooner_TShirt_Point_SQUARE.jpeg?resolution=0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 30, 2019, 02:05:27 pm

Quote from: infair Process-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|ll on October 30, 2019, 01:59:29 pm

wrong thread twice over man

??

i have a not understanding.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 30, 2019, 02:09:57 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 30, 2019, 02:05:27 pm

Quote from: infair Process-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|ll on October 30, 2019, 01:59:29 pm
wrong thread twice over man

??

i have a not understanding.

should have gone in the fired/retired (or did someone actually die?) or 2020 thread
and honestly...no clue on the musical prowess of Fischerspooner...I looked it up and saw stuff about him (the spooner half) announcing a run for president

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on November 13, 2019, 02:06:33 pm

belated tribute:

https://www.stereogum.com/2064642/david-berman-tennessee-titans/news/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 21, 2019, 12:50:46 am

John Mann, Spirit of the West Singer, Dies at 57 (https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8544378/john-mann-spirit-of-the-west-singer-obit)

in case there was any doubt: Alzheimer’s sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 21, 2019, 10:34:02 am

Quote from: sweetcell on November 21, 2019, 12:50:46 am

John Mann, Spirit of the West Singer, Dies at 57 (https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8544378/john-mann-spirit-of-the-west-singer-obit)

in case there was any doubt: Alzheimer’s sucks.

yikes...Mann was diagnosed with the incurable progressive brain disorder when he was 50
thought I had to worry about my colon and my heart at this age...but this scares the shit out of me

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 21, 2019, 12:28:34 pm

Jake Burton

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 21, 2019, 05:00:25 pm

Quote from: Yada on November 21, 2019, 12:28:34 pm

Jake Burton

Jake Burton Carpenter, the founder of Burton Snowboards, has died (https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/us/jake-burton-carpenter-death-trnd/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 24, 2019, 04:27:07 pm

Goo Hara

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 24, 2019, 04:30:16 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 24, 2019, 04:27:07 pm

Good Hara

Good Chatlotte's Korean cousin?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 25, 2019, 04:06:26 am

People seem to die so much

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 25, 2019, 10:57:32 am

Quote from: starsky on November 25, 2019, 04:06:26 am

People seem to die so much

everyone does it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 02, 2019, 03:13:13 pm

Lil Bub

"RIP Lil Bub, the famous internet cat with a heart of gold" https://twitter.com/i/events/1201559176087883778 (https://twitter.com/i/events/1201559176087883778)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: K8teebug on December 03, 2019, 09:31:04 am

Quote from: Heilung4eva on December 02, 2019, 03:13:13 pm

Lil Bub

"RIP Lil Bub, the famous internet cat with a heart of gold" https://twitter.com/i/events/1201559176087883778 (https://twitter.com/i/events/1201559176087883778)

So SAD.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 03, 2019, 06:27:25 pm

Mariss Jansons (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mariss-jansons-conductor-celebrated-around-the-world-dies-at-76/2019/12/02/a1979522-1504-11ea-9110-3b34ce1d92b1_story.html)

Fantastic conductor. If you only get one set of Tchaikovsky symphonies, it should be his Chandos discs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 08, 2019, 02:16:16 pm

Juice WRLD

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 08, 2019, 03:47:13 pm

Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch

Caroll Spinney, the Sesame Street puppeteer behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, has died

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/08/entertainment/caroll-spinney-sesame-street-died-trnd/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 08, 2019, 06:02:23 pm

Quote from: starsky on December 08, 2019, 02:16:16 pm

Juice WRLD

My wife and daughter knew this one, I did not.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 08, 2019, 06:04:00 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 08, 2019, 06:02:23 pm

Quote from: starsky on December 08, 2019, 02:16:16 pm
Juice WRLD

My wife and daughter knew this one, I did not.

Check!
#updateslist

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 08, 2019, 06:20:55 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 08, 2019, 06:02:23 pm

Quote from: starsky on December 08, 2019, 02:16:16 pm
Juice WRLD

My wife and daughter knew this one, I did not.

Stunned. Stunned. Complete gutted by this news.

Would’ve bet a hundred dollars on your daughter thinking Juice WRLD was a “store for hipsters to buy smoothies.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 08, 2019, 06:40:16 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 08, 2019, 06:20:55 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 08, 2019, 06:02:23 pm
Quote from: starsky on December 08, 2019, 02:16:16 pm
Juice WRLD

My wife and daughter knew this one, I did not.
Stunned. Stunned. Complete gutted by this news.

Would’ve bet a hundred dollars on your daughter thinking Juice WRLD was a “store for hipsters to buy smoothies.”

Honestly when i saw Starsy's post, I thought something along those line and thought it should go in the Belly Up thread.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 08, 2019, 06:52:15 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 08, 2019, 06:40:16 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 08, 2019, 06:20:55 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on December 08, 2019, 06:02:23 pm
Quote from: starsky on December 08, 2019, 02:16:16 pm
Juice WRLD

My wife and daughter knew this one, I did not.
Stunned. Stunned. Complete gutted by this news.

Would’ve bet a hundred dollars on your daughter thinking Juice WRLD was a “store for hipsters to buy smoothies.”

Honestly when i saw Starsy's post, I thought something along those line and thought it should go in the Belly Up thread.

np - mother and child reunion

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 08, 2019, 09:34:34 pm

Rene Auberjonois

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 08, 2019, 10:01:14 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 08, 2019, 09:34:34 pm

Rene Auberjonois

Father John Mulcahy (movie version), Clayton Runnymede Endicott III, the hopelessly highbrow chief of staff at a governor’s mansion on Benson and Odo on deep space 9

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 08, 2019, 10:09:47 pm

He was the spoon who stirred the drink on Boston Legal as well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 09, 2019, 10:08:55 am

Paul Volcker

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 09, 2019, 10:13:19 am

Saw Rene Auberjonois in 2008 as part of the Shakespeare Theater Company production of Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid....he was great in the title role...hilarious play

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 09, 2019, 02:02:02 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on December 09, 2019, 10:08:55 am

Paul Volcker

(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/12/10/obituaries/10volcker-toppix-sub/merlin_165164853_75c04403-c48b-494d-a4be-ebf1ff5732d8-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp)

Paul A. Volcker, Fed Chairman Who Waged War on Inflation, Is Dead at 92 (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/business/paul-a-volcker-dead.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 10, 2019, 02:04:47 am

Quote from: starsky on December 08, 2019, 02:16:16 pm

Juice WRLD

"The officers and agents had been waiting at the Atlantic Aviation hangar at Midway early Sunday because they suspected the private plane from Los Angeles carrying the musician — whose real name was Jarad Higgins — was carrying contraband, the sources said.

The search turned up 41 “vacuum-sealed” bags of marijuana, six bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup, two 9 mm pistols, a .40-caliber pistol, a high-capacity ammunition magazine and metal-piercing bullets, according to the sources. Two men identified by police as working security for Higgins were charged with misdemeanor offenses for illegally possessing the guns and ammunition."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on December 10, 2019, 09:33:21 am

Marie Fredriksen (Roxette)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/10/roxette-singer-marie-fredriksen-dies-aged-61

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 10, 2019, 11:22:51 am

Quote from: vansmack on December 10, 2019, 02:04:47 am

Quote from: starsky on December 08, 2019, 02:16:16 pm
Juice WRLD

"The officers and agents had been waiting at the Atlantic Aviation hangar at Midway early Sunday because they suspected the private plane from Los Angeles carrying the musician — whose real name was Jarad Higgins — was carrying contraband, the sources said.

The search turned up 41 “vacuum-sealed” bags of marijuana, six bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup, two 9 mm pistols, a .40-caliber pistol, a high-capacity ammunition magazine and metal-piercing bullets, according to the sources. Two men identified by police as working security for Higgins were charged with misdemeanor offenses for illegally possessing the guns and ammunition."

How on God's green Earth those that only equate to misdemeanor offenses? I'd think 41 bags of marijuana alone -- even at a hilariously low estimate of a gram per bag -- would get into felony possession amounts in most states.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 10, 2019, 11:36:29 am

Quote from: Vas Deferens on December 10, 2019, 09:33:21 am

Marie Fredriksen (Roxette)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/10/roxette-singer-marie-fredriksen-dies-aged-61

What a heroic battle with cancer...17 years

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 10, 2019, 01:36:37 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 10, 2019, 11:22:51 am

Quote from: vansmack on December 10, 2019, 02:04:47 am
Quote from: starsky on December 08, 2019, 02:16:16 pm
Juice WRLD

"The officers and agents had been waiting at the Atlantic Aviation hangar at Midway early Sunday because they suspected the private plane from Los Angeles carrying the musician — whose real name was Jarad Higgins — was carrying contraband, the sources said.

The search turned up 41 “vacuum-sealed” bags of marijuana, six bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup, two 9 mm pistols, a .40-caliber pistol, a high-capacity ammunition magazine and metal-piercing bullets, according to the sources. Two men identified by police as working security for Higgins were charged with misdemeanor offenses for illegally possessing the guns and ammunition."
How on God's green Earth those that only equate to misdemeanor offenses? I'd think 41 bags of marijuana alone -- even at a hilariously low estimate of a gram per bag -- would get into felony possession amounts in most states.

the bags were vacuum sealed. he was on a private plane. no way in hell those were dime bags. definite felony.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 10, 2019, 01:49:33 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 10, 2019, 01:36:37 pm

41 “vacuum-sealed” bags of marijuana

Quote

the bags were vacuum sealed. he was on a private plane. no way in hell those were dime bags. definite felony.

notice the quotes....small amounts are usually in those bags that you can stick in a hot sealer machine so it looks like they were 'sealed at the factory'
Doubt they sealed like they do a can of coffee

Still I'd bet that each bag on the low end was in the 3 to 8 gram amount each...which is 6-10oz ...even in recreational states can be over the personal limit
now going from a Rec state to a Rec state (as Ill is now The Illinois General Assembly passed a HB 1438 legalizing recreational marijuana use and sale in the state for adults on May 31, 2019. Governor JB Pritzker signed the bill into law on June 25.) makes it a little more complicated

Edit...When will marijuana be legal in Illinois? January 1, 2020....so this is very problematic, should have waited a few weeks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 11, 2019, 04:06:38 pm

nailed it:

Before Death, Juice WRLD Flew on Jet Loaded With Drugs, Police Say (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/arts/music/juice-wrld-guns-drugs.html)

"Authorities said that when the plane landed at the Atlantic Aviation hangar at Midway airport, it was carrying approximately 70 pounds of marijuana in 41 vacuum-sealed bags; six bottles of liquid prescription codeine cough syrup; and three firearms, including two 9 mm pistols and a .40-caliber pistol, along with metal-piercing bullets and a high-capacity ammunition magazine."

per another story (https://defensemaven.io/bluelivesmatter/news/rapper-juice-wrld-dies-after-swallowing-pills-to-hide-them-from-cops-kGiquuR7eEWgXPtV2c1wug/), dude died after swallowing a bunch of percosets, which he did to hide them from the police. narcan didn't work...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 11, 2019, 05:11:16 pm

Law enforcement sources said that the pilot who was flying the private aircraft notified investigators about the drugs and firearms that Higgins and his entourage had brought onto the flight out of Los Angeles, TMZ reported. Federal law enforcement officials were waiting for the plane when it landed at Chicago’s Midway Airport just after 1 a.m., Higgins allegedly downed the pills sometime between when the plane landed and when federal investigators came on board, As police were questioning the dozens of passengers, Higgins suddenly went into convulsions, according to The New York Times. Federal agents administered Narcan and summoned paramedics who arrived at the scene less than seven minutes later

there was some foreshadowing...
Juice Wrld eulogized both Peep and XXXTentacion in an EP, released days after XXX died. One track from the release, “Legends,” has been cited often in reflections on Juice Wrld’s short career. “What’s the 27 Club?” Juice Wrld sings in reference to a group of public figures who infamously died at the age of 27. “We” — his fellow Soundcloud stars — “ain’t making it past 21.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 13, 2019, 12:00:45 pm

Danny Aiello

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 13, 2019, 12:13:09 pm

Quote from: Chill Greta, Chill! ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|ll on December 13, 2019, 12:00:45 pm

Danny Aiello

There's something so poetically amazing about Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/danny-aiello-dead) thinking he was "the star of Do The Right Thing".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 14, 2019, 10:00:59 am

Roy Loney

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 15, 2019, 01:41:58 am

Quote from: starsky on December 14, 2019, 10:00:59 am

Roy Loney

Original Flamin’ Groovies Frontman Roy Loney Dead At 73
https://www.stereogum.com/2068021/original-flamin-groovies-frontman-roy-loney-dead-at-73/obit/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 15, 2019, 10:06:55 am

Quote from: sweetcell on December 15, 2019, 01:41:58 am

Quote from: starsky on December 14, 2019, 10:00:59 am
Roy Loney

Original Flamin’ Groovies Frontman Roy Loney Dead At 73
https://www.stereogum.com/2068021/original-flamin-groovies-frontman-roy-loney-dead-at-73/obit/

If an article starts off by telling us the band was "influential", it must tell us who the band influenced. Otherwise, failed article!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 15, 2019, 11:55:04 am

Gershon Kingsley, Moog synthesizer pioneer (https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8546355/gershon-kingsley-dead)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 16, 2019, 09:46:16 am

A midget dude that Chelsea Handler knew, Chuy Bravo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 16, 2019, 12:29:10 pm

Anna Karina, Singer and French New Wave Actress
In many of Godard’s films, including Une Femme Est Une Femme, Vivre Sa Vie, Bande à Part, Pierrot le Fou, Alphaville, and Made in U.S.A.
She married Godard in 1961; they divorced a few years later.
with Serge Gainsbourg-penned singles “Sous le Soleil Exactement” and “Roller Girl.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 17, 2019, 12:38:38 am

Bob Kinkead (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bob-kinkead-celebrated-washington-chef-with-flair-for-seafood-dies-at-67/2019/12/16/47c19242-2016-11ea-a153-dce4b94e4249_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bellenseb on December 17, 2019, 02:28:59 pm

Satellite Room
https://www.popville.com/2019/12/dc-satellite-room-closing-hilton-brothers-930-club/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 20, 2019, 10:33:03 pm

Junior Johnson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 20, 2019, 10:41:21 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 20, 2019, 10:33:03 pm

Junior Johnson

Im just glad Senior Johnson isn’t still here to see this. Would’ve broken his heart.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 23, 2019, 10:17:48 am

Ram Dass
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4c/c7/49/4cc749d503e0599bc894a782b7acf597.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 25, 2019, 01:38:39 am

Quote from: maybe... a beautiful vase ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|ll on December 23, 2019, 10:17:48 am

Ram Dass

worse name ever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 26, 2019, 09:50:05 am

Quote from: sweetcell on December 25, 2019, 01:38:39 am

Quote from: maybe... a beautiful vase ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|ll on December 23, 2019, 10:17:48 am
Ram Dass

worse name ever.

I dunno, I think Dick Army gets that award (still alive BTW)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 26, 2019, 10:16:07 am

Quote from: maybe... a beautiful vase ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|ll on December 26, 2019, 09:50:05 am

Quote from: sweetcell on December 25, 2019, 01:38:39 am
Quote from: maybe... a beautiful vase ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|ll on December 23, 2019, 10:17:48 am
Ram Dass

worse name ever.
I dunno, I think Dick Army gets that award (still alive BTW)

Wrong.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 26, 2019, 10:23:30 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 26, 2019, 10:16:07 am

Wrong.

which part?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 26, 2019, 06:10:18 pm

Ram Dass is a far worse name, and predicament, than Dick Army. (I know that's not really how you pronounce it.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 27, 2019, 08:13:23 pm

Don Imus (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/radio-broadcaster-don-imus-has-died-n1108081?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma)

Song writer Allee Willis (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/allee-willis-who-co-wrote-earth-wind-and-fires-good-time-hit-september-dies-at-72/2019/12/26/366e840a-274b-11ea-b2ca-2e72667c1741_story.html)

Broadway composer Jerry Herman (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jerry-herman-composer-of-hello-dolly-and-other-broadway-hits-dies-at-88/2019/12/27/4c7f993a-28ba-11ea-9c21-2c2a4d2c2166_story.html)

Classical and opera tenor Peter Schreier (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50920235)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 29, 2019, 11:12:09 am

(https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/shutterstock_editorial_5883683s.jpg)

Sue Lyon (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/sue-lyon-actress-who-portrayed-lolita-in-scandalous-1962-movie-dies-at-73/2019/12/28/95b4386e-29c7-11ea-ad73-2fd294520e97_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 29, 2019, 11:15:38 am

Vaughan Oliver, 4AD graphic designer/art director (all over Twitter, no obit yet)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 29, 2019, 11:34:19 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 29, 2019, 11:12:09 am

(https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/shutterstock_editorial_5883683s.jpg)

Sue Lyon (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/sue-lyon-actress-who-portrayed-lolita-in-scandalous-1962-movie-dies-at-73/2019/12/28/95b4386e-29c7-11ea-ad73-2fd294520e97_story.html)

Weird as we just watched Night of the Iguana on Friday

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 29, 2019, 10:04:40 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 29, 2019, 11:15:38 am

Vaughan Oliver, 4AD graphic designer/art director (all over Twitter, no obit yet)

Press release from 4AD (https://4ad.com/news/29/12/2019/vaughanoliver19572019)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 30, 2019, 10:09:13 am

Neil Innes

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 30, 2019, 07:14:36 pm

Quote from: starsky on December 30, 2019, 10:09:13 am

Neil Innes

Neil Innes: Monty Python songwriter dies aged 75 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50948921)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 02, 2020, 12:19:06 pm

Baseball great Don Larsen
Former NBA Commissioner Howard Stern

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 02, 2020, 12:21:05 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 02, 2020, 12:19:06 pm

Former NBA Commissioner Howard Stern

David, actually. ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 02, 2020, 12:34:37 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 02, 2020, 12:21:05 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 02, 2020, 12:19:06 pm
Former NBA Commissioner Howard Stern
David, actually. ;D

Thanks. I forgot his name and was too lazy to Google, so went with the first thing that popped into my head.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 02, 2020, 03:11:33 pm

And people call me lazy for not posting links to the deceased’s bio....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 03, 2020, 11:02:44 am

Sleepy LaBeef (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/sleepy-labeef-human-jukebox-of-rockabilly-music-dies-at-84/2020/01/02/688f7cd6-2b3e-11ea-bcb3-ac6482c4a92f_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 06, 2020, 06:09:20 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 27, 2019, 08:13:23 pm

Don Imus (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/radio-broadcaster-don-imus-has-died-n1108081?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma)

Song writer Allee Willis (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/allee-willis-who-co-wrote-earth-wind-and-fires-good-time-hit-september-dies-at-72/2019/12/26/366e840a-274b-11ea-b2ca-2e72667c1741_story.html)

Broadway composer Jerry Herman (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jerry-herman-composer-of-hello-dolly-and-other-broadway-hits-dies-at-88/2019/12/27/4c7f993a-28ba-11ea-9c21-2c2a4d2c2166_story.html)

Classical and opera tenor Peter Schreier (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50920235)

also lost Jack Sheldon, Schoolhouse Rock! singer and jazz musician on 12/27

I grew up listening to Don Imus in NY (before radio was political)
he annoyed me since the late 80s

I will never forget his character The Right Rev. Billy Sol Hargis and his theme song
"I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car.
I can go a hundred miles an hour
Long as I got the Almighty's power
Glued up there with my pair of fuzzy dice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 07, 2020, 03:44:53 pm

"Prozac Nation" author Elizabeth Wurtzel dies at 52 from complications with breast cancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 08, 2020, 05:29:56 pm

Silvio Horta, 'Ugly Betty' creator, dies at 45
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/entertainment/silvio-horta-ugly-betty-obit-trnd/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 08, 2020, 06:09:24 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 08, 2020, 05:29:56 pm

Silvio Horta, 'Ugly Betty' creator, dies at 45
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/entertainment/silvio-horta-ugly-betty-obit-trnd/index.html

suicide

between this and the opioid epidemic...crazy how many people we are senselessly losing in the most prosperous country in the world
Suicide is just the worst as the people left in it's wake are just destroyed and sometimes never recover

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 08, 2020, 11:21:34 pm

(https://external-preview.redd.it/YJwQH0Dg2eALPkgsGejv5rx0p7aeiCenlccH2ZehW-c.jpg?s=520c08001a287e4035475d24b17686a0e426927a)

Buck Henry, SNL's "Uncle Roy", dies at 89 (https://deadline.com/2020/01/buck-henry-dead-saturday-night-live-the-graduate-get-smart-1202825337/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 09, 2020, 01:02:38 am

There is an emptiness to modern life...no longer do people struggle to make sense of our purpose..to wonder what we are here for...now it seems our purpose is merely to have fun...and to make as much money as possible in order to pay for that fun..I think there is a hollowness to life for many and it’s related to all these suicides by people we think made it

Do modern day Ben’s exist? The Razor’s Edge seems archaic...Seems like most of us just want to have fun and don’t really care

The ugly Betty idea wasn’t it taken from a Colombian soap?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 10, 2020, 01:40:00 pm

Pete Dye dies (https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/articles/2020/01/legendary-course-architect-pete-dye-dies-at-94.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 10, 2020, 05:08:57 pm

Neil Peart (https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1215738468795650054)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 10, 2020, 05:09:34 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 10, 2020, 05:08:57 pm

Neil Peart (https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1215738468795650054)

WTF...only 67
:(... brain cancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 10, 2020, 05:47:38 pm

well that fucking ruins my friday.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 10, 2020, 06:42:50 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 10, 2020, 05:47:38 pm

well that fucking ruins my friday.

I was getting lunch and a lady tripping out on drugs broke the rear door window of my car, apparently because I represent "the man."

Right then I got the Director's text, and the text was much worse.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 10, 2020, 11:32:28 pm

That really blows about Peart

I don’t think it has sunk in....the news just came out of nowhere

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 11, 2020, 01:08:29 pm

It’s sinking in

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 12, 2020, 04:49:44 am

Quote from: hutch on January 11, 2020, 01:08:29 pm

It’s sinking in

sucks, dunnit?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 12, 2020, 07:31:38 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 12, 2020, 04:49:44 am

Quote from: hutch on January 11, 2020, 01:08:29 pm
It’s sinking in

sucks, dunnit?

Neil Peart sucks,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrMBIH2TBpU&fbclid=IwAR3OY8kSPzl2tfd5HbAT9OAhDapb53gAe1u6Z2Y_4qN6EhMmz8EZ51Qi9FI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrMBIH2TBpU&fbclid=IwAR3OY8kSPzl2tfd5HbAT9OAhDapb53gAe1u6Z2Y_4qN6EhMmz8EZ51Qi9FI)

Everyone knows the best drummer of all time is Michael Shrieve!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 12, 2020, 07:45:21 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 12, 2020, 07:31:38 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 12, 2020, 04:49:44 am
Quote from: hutch on January 11, 2020, 01:08:29 pm
It’s sinking in

sucks, dunnit?

Neil Peart sucks,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrMBIH2TBpU&fbclid=IwAR3OY8kSPzl2tfd5HbAT9OAhDapb53gAe1u6Z2Y_4qN6EhMmz8EZ51Qi9FI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrMBIH2TBpU&fbclid=IwAR3OY8kSPzl2tfd5HbAT9OAhDapb53gAe1u6Z2Y_4qN6EhMmz8EZ51Qi9FI)

Everyone knows the best drummer of all time is Michael Shrieve!!!

Learned a new word the other day: edgelord.

An edgelord is someone on an internet forum who deliberately talks about controversial, offensive, taboo, or nihilistic subjects in order to shock other users in an effort to appear cool, or edgy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 12, 2020, 10:26:21 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 12, 2020, 07:45:21 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 12, 2020, 07:31:38 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on January 12, 2020, 04:49:44 am
Quote from: hutch on January 11, 2020, 01:08:29 pm
It’s sinking in

sucks, dunnit?

Neil Peart sucks,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrMBIH2TBpU&fbclid=IwAR3OY8kSPzl2tfd5HbAT9OAhDapb53gAe1u6Z2Y_4qN6EhMmz8EZ51Qi9FI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrMBIH2TBpU&fbclid=IwAR3OY8kSPzl2tfd5HbAT9OAhDapb53gAe1u6Z2Y_4qN6EhMmz8EZ51Qi9FI)

Everyone knows the best drummer of all time is Michael Shrieve!!!

Learned a new word the other day: edgelord.

An edgelord is someone on an internet forum who deliberately talks about controversial, offensive, taboo, or nihilistic subjects in order to shock other users in an effort to appear cool, or edgy.

Didn't Juli...I mean Brian Wallace invent edgelord?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 17, 2020, 06:02:41 pm

Christopher Tolkien
(died 1/15)
He was the son of author J. R. R. Tolkien and the editor of much of his father's posthumously published work. Tolkien drew the original maps for his father's The Lord of the Rings.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 20, 2020, 11:58:40 am

David Olney, “widely regarded as a founding father of Americana", dies onstage (https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/01/19/singer-songwriter-apologized-closed-his-eyes-dropped-his-head-died-stage/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 20, 2020, 12:00:44 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on January 20, 2020, 11:58:40 am

David Olney, “widely regarded as a founding father of Americana", dies onstage (https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/01/19/singer-songwriter-apologized-closed-his-eyes-dropped-his-head-died-stage/)

until today, never heard of him...but that is the most rock-n-roll way to go

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 20, 2020, 12:26:39 pm

Quote from: Lev in the time of Choleraıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llı on January 20, 2020, 12:00:44 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on January 20, 2020, 11:58:40 am
David Olney, “widely regarded as a founding father of Americana", dies onstage (https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/01/19/singer-songwriter-apologized-closed-his-eyes-dropped-his-head-died-stage/)
until today, never heard of him...but that is the most rock-n-roll way to go

Same as the Sandman and Tiny Tim

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 20, 2020, 01:28:27 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on January 20, 2020, 12:26:39 pm

Quote from: Lev in the time of Choleraıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llı on January 20, 2020, 12:00:44 pm
Quote from: shemptiness on January 20, 2020, 11:58:40 am
David Olney, “widely regarded as a founding father of Americana", dies onstage (https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/01/19/singer-songwriter-apologized-closed-his-eyes-dropped-his-head-died-stage/)
until today, never heard of him...but that is the most rock-n-roll way to go

Same as the Sandman and Tiny Tim

And Col. Bruce.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 22, 2020, 10:48:28 am

Terry Jones, Life of Brian director and Monty Python founder, dies aged 77
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jan/22/terry-jones-monty-python-founder-and-life-of-brian-director-dies-aged-77

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on January 22, 2020, 11:30:35 am

Jimmy Heath

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on January 22, 2020, 12:49:58 pm

Mr. Peanut? https://twitter.com/MrPeanut/status/1220013408180895745

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 22, 2020, 01:34:28 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 22, 2020, 10:48:28 am

Terry Jones, Life of Brian director and Monty Python founder, dies aged 77
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jan/22/terry-jones-monty-python-founder-and-life-of-brian-director-dies-aged-77

~~man been a rough few months for the Python guys...~~
could have sworn we'd heard about another MP death a few months ago...but Graham died in the 80s
I did watch a great documentary on MP recently and Terry Jones was one of the key creatives that rarely gets the credit from that crew

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 22, 2020, 02:46:36 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 22, 2020, 10:48:28 am

Terry Jones, Life of Brian director and Monty Python founder, dies aged 77
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jan/22/terry-jones-monty-python-founder-and-life-of-brian-director-dies-aged-77

Leaving behind an eight year old kid whose only memories of Dad will be an old guy with dementia.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 22, 2020, 05:56:00 pm

Quote from: nkotb on January 22, 2020, 12:49:58 pm

Mr. Peanut? https://twitter.com/MrPeanut/status/1220013408180895745

word on the street is he got 'Epsteined'

@HoodlumRIP
Bill Barr announces that the Mr. Peanut Video has been accidentally deleted.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 23, 2020, 02:24:52 pm

Jim Lehrer

A rarity...a great journalist

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 24, 2020, 08:31:19 pm

Dee Dave

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 24, 2020, 08:39:52 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 24, 2020, 08:31:19 pm

Dee Dave

East Baltimore Rapper ‘Dee Dave’ Killed In Essex Double Shooting
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/01/24/essex-shooting-rapper-dee-dave-kings-mill-apartments-latest/ (https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/01/24/essex-shooting-rapper-dee-dave-kings-mill-apartments-latest/)

(added link given that over 90% of folks here have no idea who this person was)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 24, 2020, 08:50:58 pm

Baltimore is so fucked up

We need a Marshall Plan for it

It’s shameful that we don’t do anything about it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 24, 2020, 08:53:11 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 24, 2020, 08:39:52 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 24, 2020, 08:31:19 pm
Dee Dave

East Baltimore Rapper ‘Dee Dave’ Killed In Essex Double Shooting
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/01/24/essex-shooting-rapper-dee-dave-kings-mill-apartments-latest/ (https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/01/24/essex-shooting-rapper-dee-dave-kings-mill-apartments-latest/)

(added link given that over 90% of folks here have no idea who this person was)

Who did you poll?

We have a vibrant community of bawlmoor forum members.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 25, 2020, 06:32:23 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 24, 2020, 08:50:58 pm

Baltimore is so fucked up

We need a Marshall Plan for it

It’s shameful that we don’t do anything about it

Start with the police.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 26, 2020, 03:40:50 pm

Kobe Bryant

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on January 26, 2020, 04:08:20 pm

Two things . . . fuck helicopters.

Behold, the power of this thread. No one posts on this site except me on the weekends, unless someone dies.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 26, 2020, 04:10:12 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 26, 2020, 03:40:50 pm

Known rapist, Kobe Bryant

FTFY in case anyone was wondering who this person was and why it was newsworthy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 04:17:10 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on January 26, 2020, 04:08:20 pm

Two things . . . fuck helicopters.

Behold, the power of this thread. No one posts on this site except me on the weekends, unless someone dies.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on January 26, 2020, 04:18:44 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 26, 2020, 04:10:12 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 26, 2020, 03:40:50 pm
Known rapist, Kobe Bryant
FTFY in case anyone was wondering who this person was and why it was newsworthy.

Are you trying, to say, that he knew how to drill, a ball?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 26, 2020, 04:20:16 pm

I have never heard the expression “drill a ball” (commas aside) in my life before now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on January 26, 2020, 04:22:10 pm

If we ever meet, I'll show you the phrase, in charades.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 26, 2020, 04:26:55 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on January 26, 2020, 04:22:10 pm

If we ever meet, I'll show you the phrase, in charades.

You tease.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 26, 2020, 04:28:31 pm

"...his own personal helicopter" according to CNN.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 26, 2020, 04:37:09 pm

Helicopters are so dangerous but people keep using them

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 04:44:09 pm

TMZ reporting one of his daughters was on board.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 26, 2020, 05:17:13 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 04:44:09 pm

TMZ reporting one of his daughters was on board.

One of his middle daughters, 13 year old Gianna. They were in the way to her basketball game.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 26, 2020, 05:20:26 pm

Came here for spaces edgelord comments but Jules beat him to it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 26, 2020, 05:35:00 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 26, 2020, 05:20:26 pm

Came here for spaces edgelord comments but Jules beat him to it.

Its because for every snarky comment I miss the opportunity to make because someone beats me to it, I practice typing a thousand more so it never happens again.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on January 26, 2020, 05:38:36 pm

Ah now I remember him!

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 26, 2020, 04:10:12 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 26, 2020, 03:40:50 pm
Known rapist, Kobe Bryant
FTFY in case anyone was wondering who this person was and why it was newsworthy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 26, 2020, 05:40:23 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 26, 2020, 04:37:09 pm

Helicopters are so dangerous but people keep using them

Cars are more dangerous, yet e get in them every day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 26, 2020, 05:42:07 pm

Are they?

Also did Kobe pilot helicopter?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 05:45:33 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 26, 2020, 05:42:07 pm

Are they?

Also did Kobe pilot helicopter?

No, he and his daughter died, another parent and daughter, and the pilot.

Edit: CNN now reporting nine dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 05:47:00 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 26, 2020, 05:20:26 pm

Came here for spaces edgelord comments but Jules beat him to it.

Well, he did have a point.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kobe-bryants-disturbing-rape-case-the-dna-evidence-the-accusers-story-and-the-half-confession

Still, feel sad for the surviving family members as well as family members of the other deceased.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 05:52:18 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 26, 2020, 05:42:07 pm

Are they?

Also did Kobe pilot helicopter?

No. These things are pretty easy to google.

Based on hours alone, helicopters are 85 times more dangerous than driving. ... That means it took drivers approximately 1.47 million hours to travel those 100 million miles, yielding a fatality rate of 0.054 per 100,000 hours in the car. By this measure, helicopter flying is just 27 times more dangerous than driving.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/06/are-helicopters-safer-than-cars.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on January 26, 2020, 06:23:52 pm

You, want sick fucking comments, that show how depraved social media is . . . go on his twitter account, right now.

Jesus . . . kill the human race, soon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 26, 2020, 06:35:00 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 26, 2020, 05:40:23 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 26, 2020, 04:37:09 pm
Helicopters are so dangerous but people keep using them

Cars are more dangerous, yet e get in them every day.

No, man. You are conflating professional aviation with private aviation. Getting on a commercial airliner at an airport is markedly more safe than driving there. Getting on your buddy’s private jet or helicopter (even with a professional pilot) is wildly dangerous. No one talks about this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 26, 2020, 06:48:49 pm

I'm reminded of when we lost John Denver, in a privately owned glider crash. Rocky Mountain High, indeed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 06:56:26 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on January 26, 2020, 06:48:49 pm

I'm reminded of when we lost John Denver, in a privately owned glider crash. Rocky Mountain High, indeed.

What about this accident reminded you of that one?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 26, 2020, 06:57:39 pm

I mean, rich people in private aircraft dropping like flies?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 07:09:24 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on January 26, 2020, 06:57:39 pm

I mean, rich people in private aircraft dropping like flies?

Happens all too frequently.

https://www.nj.com/sports/2020/01/kobe-bryant-and-15-other-athletes-and-celebrities-who-died-in-plane-and-helicopter-crashes.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 26, 2020, 07:28:32 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 07:09:24 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on January 26, 2020, 06:57:39 pm
I mean, rich people in private aircraft dropping like flies?

Happens all too frequently.

https://www.nj.com/sports/2020/01/kobe-bryant-and-15-other-athletes-and-celebrities-who-died-in-plane-and-helicopter-crashes.html

As the person who posted this, shouldn’t you be the exact person who DOESN’T have to inquire what grateful was talking about?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 08:05:12 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 26, 2020, 07:28:32 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 07:09:24 pm
Quote from: Heilung4eva on January 26, 2020, 06:57:39 pm
I mean, rich people in private aircraft dropping like flies?

Happens all too frequently.

https://www.nj.com/sports/2020/01/kobe-bryant-and-15-other-athletes-and-celebrities-who-died-in-plane-and-helicopter-crashes.html
As the person who posted this, shouldn’t you be the exact person who DOESN’T have to inquire what grateful was talking about?

I guess my point was what about John Denver's death specifically was similar to this incident? I don't really see close echoes of Denver's accident in this one.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 26, 2020, 10:04:46 pm

I think John Denver's hoop skills were under-rated.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 10:20:33 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on January 26, 2020, 10:04:46 pm

I think John Denver's hoop skills were under-rated.

Sure, but unlike John Denver, Kobe was no choker.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 26, 2020, 10:24:18 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 10:20:33 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on January 26, 2020, 10:04:46 pm
I think John Denver's hoop skills were under-rated.

Sure, but unlike John Denver, Kobe was no choker.

OMFG Space. You're so right. They're untimely deaths in aircraft crashes bear no resemblance.

Tho tbh, John Denver had a better singing voice, so...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 10:35:26 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on January 26, 2020, 10:24:18 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 26, 2020, 10:20:33 pm
Quote from: Heilung4eva on January 26, 2020, 10:04:46 pm
I think John Denver's hoop skills were under-rated.

Sure, but unlike John Denver, Kobe was no choker.

OMFG Space. You're so right. They're untimely deaths in aircraft crashes bear no resemblance.

Tho tbh, John Denver had a better singing voice, so...

Why did you choose John Denver, instead of say, Troy Gentry, who died in a helicopter crash? Or Roy Halladay who was a similar age and future hall of famer? Or other celebrities, who died in small aircraft accidents in their prime? What was it about Kobe's death that specificially brought to mind John Denver. Help me here, Heiling!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 27, 2020, 11:12:01 am

Never heard of Gentry or Halladay, so that would explain why I didnt think of them.

Theres a long and winding path that took me from being a John Denver fan to becoming a Heilung adherent. Buy me a beer or two and I'll tell you the whole story.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 27, 2020, 11:30:58 am

Quote from: Heilung4eva on January 27, 2020, 11:12:01 am

Never heard of Gentry or Halladay, so that would explain why I didnt think of them.

Theres a long and winding path that took me from being a John Denver fan to becoming a Heilung adherent. Buy me a beer or two and I'll tell you the whole story.

Alright, deal. You can also put me to shame if we compare race times as well.

I remember arguing with a girl in my elementary school about what the B side to the 1975 John Denver 45 "Fly Away" was. A 45 I owned. This must have been a couple years after it was released. I mean, everyone knows it was "Two Shots," right?

When I think of sports heroes/celebrities dying in small aircraft crashes, Thurman Munson is the one that comes to mind. Though I honestly didn't think of any of these yesterday, until I pulled up that article.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 27, 2020, 11:37:05 am

Also on the helicopter, John Altobelli (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/27/altobelli-kobe-crash/), Orange Coast College baseball coach, his wife and 13-year-old daughter.

John's dad, Joe, was the manager of the Orioles the last time they won a World Series - 37 years ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 27, 2020, 11:41:05 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 27, 2020, 11:30:58 am

I remember arguing with a girl in my elementary school about what the B side to the 1975 John Denver 45 "Fly Away" was. A 45 I owned. This must have been a couple years after it was released. I mean, everyone knows it was "Two Shots," right?

OK, so I'll just ask to advance the story: so did you get laid afterwards?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 27, 2020, 11:44:39 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 27, 2020, 11:41:05 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 27, 2020, 11:30:58 am
I remember arguing with a girl in my elementary school about what the B side to the 1975 John Denver 45 "Fly Away" was. A 45 I owned. This must have been a couple years after it was released. I mean, everyone knows it was "Two Shots," right?
OK, so I'll just ask to advance the story: so did you get laid afterwards?

They made love

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 27, 2020, 11:55:10 am

Quote from: Yada on January 27, 2020, 11:44:39 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 27, 2020, 11:41:05 am
Quote from: Space Freely on January 27, 2020, 11:30:58 am
I remember arguing with a girl in my elementary school about what the B side to the 1975 John Denver 45 "Fly Away" was. A 45 I owned. This must have been a couple years after it was released. I mean, everyone knows it was "Two Shots," right?
OK, so I'll just ask to advance the story: so did you get laid afterwards?

They made love

Oh, that's nice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 27, 2020, 01:48:22 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 27, 2020, 11:41:05 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 27, 2020, 11:30:58 am
I remember arguing with a girl in my elementary school about what the B side to the 1975 John Denver 45 "Fly Away" was. A 45 I owned. This must have been a couple years after it was released. I mean, everyone knows it was "Two Shots," right?
OK, so I'll just ask to advance the story: so did you get laid afterwards?

The last time I saw her was at a fraternity party my freshman year of college. Coincidentally, we had both gone out of state to college in a city three hours away. She was at the local junior college, I was at the engineering school.

I was a virgin at the time and I'm pretty sure she wasn't. I was not a member of the fraternity nor was I interested in being one, but I drank their shitty free beer. We did not talk about John Denver and I was still a virgin after the party.

The end.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: chaz on January 28, 2020, 11:16:50 am

C.O.C. drummer Reed Mullin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on January 28, 2020, 01:26:22 pm

Been a bad week for drummers.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 28, 2020, 01:27:19 pm

Why. Why do I live in fear that every new post on this thread is Paul McCartney.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 28, 2020, 01:53:31 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on January 28, 2020, 01:27:19 pm

Why. Why do I live in fear that every new post on this thread is Paul McCartney.

Was he a drummer too?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 28, 2020, 01:55:37 pm

Yes! According to Drum Magazine.

https://drummagazine.com/paul-mccartney-the-beatles-other-drummer/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 28, 2020, 02:15:08 pm

When I think of Paul, I think of healthy vegetarian guy.

One the other hand, when I think of Willie, I think of a guy who was so sick he had to give up his beloved weed. So Willie gets my celebrity concern.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 28, 2020, 02:30:32 pm

Bob Dylan
Bob Weir

My concerns

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 28, 2020, 02:39:05 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 28, 2020, 02:30:32 pm

Bob Dylan
Bob Weir

My concerns

Weir's probably in better shape than most of us who post here.

https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a29491632/the-grateful-dead-bob-weir-workout/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 28, 2020, 02:41:04 pm

I'd think Mickey Hart would be next among that group to ascend to the astral plane...

Which is a horrifying thought.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 30, 2020, 03:12:29 pm

Wes Wilson, creator of exotic rock posters (https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/wes-wilson-creator-of-psychedelic-rock-posters-dies-at-82)

(https://art.famsf.org/sites/default/files/artwork/wilson/6318303131350008.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 30, 2020, 05:34:05 pm

TV guru Fred Silverman (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fred-silverman-dead-legendary-television-programmer-was-82-982205)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on January 31, 2020, 10:07:55 am

john andretti

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on February 01, 2020, 01:16:49 pm

Andy Gill according to Gang of Four on Twitter :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 01, 2020, 01:29:31 pm

That sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 01, 2020, 07:18:23 pm

Former D.R.I. Bassist JOSH PAPPE Dies At 53
https://metaladdicts.com/site/former-d-r-i-bassist-josh-pappe-dies-at-53/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 02, 2020, 12:06:48 pm

Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill dies, leaving punk legacy
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-02/andy-gill-gang-of-four-guitarist-dies/11921958

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 05, 2020, 02:29:33 pm

Harold Beane

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on February 05, 2020, 07:35:19 pm

Kirk Douglas, at 103

I, beat you to, it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 05, 2020, 07:49:37 pm

You did!

A great man

Interesting story

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Douglas

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 05, 2020, 09:33:45 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on February 05, 2020, 07:35:19 pm

Kirk Douglas, at 103

I, beat you to, it.

The death of another accused rapist. First Kobe, now Kirk? These things come in threes. I know who I'm hoping for.

http://classichollywoodactresses.blogspot.com/2017/12/did-kirk-douglas-rape-natalie-wood.html

https://popculture.com/tv-shows/2018/01/08/kirk-douglas-golden-globes-presentation-twitter/

https://gawker.com/5893793/did-robert-downey-jr-really-just-accuse-kirk-douglas-of-a-brutal-rape

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 05, 2020, 09:43:49 pm

You are too flip

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 06, 2020, 12:27:41 am

Buddy Cage

Great pedal steel guitar player

If you have heard Dylan’s BOTT you have heard him (think guitar on Meet Me in the Morning)

Of course he was a key member of NRPS

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 08, 2020, 05:16:27 pm

Actor Orson Bean (not Mr. Bean), hit by two cars while crossing a busy road.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on February 08, 2020, 11:33:45 pm

Robert, Conrad

Beat you, again.

Slow ass, old people.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 11, 2020, 01:42:29 am

Lyle Mays (Pat Metheny Group)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 11, 2020, 12:42:43 pm

Was Roger Kahn mentioned?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 11, 2020, 01:41:20 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 11, 2020, 12:42:43 pm

Was Roger Kahn mentioned?

did he write that Don Henley song?
fun fact...guitarist Mike Campbell from Tom Petty wrote that guitar lick and Tom didn't like it so Jimmy Iovine said, play it for Don

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 11, 2020, 01:43:00 pm

Quote from: Hooker 4 Jesus ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llı on February 11, 2020, 01:41:20 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 11, 2020, 12:42:43 pm
Was Roger Kahn mentioned?
did he write that Don Henley song?

Yes, but through some clever legal maneuvering from Henley, he never got his songwriting credit which made him very upset, hence, the Wrath of Kahn.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 11, 2020, 01:47:53 pm

Wow you guys are really hitting a home run with the dropping the flies humor today.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 11, 2020, 01:58:17 pm

I just read a bio on Petty (the authorized one by Zanes) and there is definitely a section on how ticked off Petty was to have passed on the riff and changing things moving forward

Henley is a dick and his manager Azoff maybe the biggest prick in the music biz and that is saying something

They may have screwed Mike on $ but Campbell’s name appears as a co-writer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on February 11, 2020, 11:01:15 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 11, 2020, 01:42:29 am

Lyle Mays (Pat Metheny Group)

In grad school I played several of the big band charts that he wrote when he was a student at North Texas State University. Definitely some future jazz, still ahead of its time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 17, 2020, 02:00:19 pm

DJ and producer Andrew Weatherall dies (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51535685)

Andrew Weatherall, one of the UK's most respected DJs and record producers, has died aged 56.

The musician, who was born in Windsor, rose to fame during the acid house era, and worked with the likes of New Order and Happy Mondays.

His production and remix work on Primal Scream's Screamadelica turned it into an era-defining album, and earned the band the first Mercury Prize in 1992.

(Continued)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 17, 2020, 02:11:27 pm

Sad news about Andrew Weatherall, definitely a big part of my life’s soundtrack. Always partial to those Two Lone Swordsmen records. His remix of MBV Soon is one of all time favorite tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrZU7YBXhyE

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 18, 2020, 09:29:36 am

https://youtu.be/2mtHQxAipGA

One of Weatherall’s more recent remixes for Confidence Man, a very Screamadelic feel to this one. Also, I totally dig Confidence Man. I once described them as fluffy in all the right ways

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 19, 2020, 03:28:56 pm

Larry Tesler. The Computer Scientist Responsible for Cut, Copy, and Paste, Has Passed Away

Larry Tesler. The Computer Scientist Responsible for Cut, Copy, and Paste, Has Passed Away

Larry Tesler. The Computer Scientist Responsible for Cut, Copy, and Paste, Has Passed Away

Larry Tesler. The Computer Scientist Responsible for Cut, Copy, and Paste, Has Passed Away

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 20, 2020, 05:04:24 pm

Sy Sperling, Hair Club for Men founder and client (https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/20/us/sy-sperling-hair-club-for-men-dies/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 20, 2020, 05:45:00 pm

For a second I thought it was spam

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 20, 2020, 05:59:50 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on February 20, 2020, 05:04:24 pm

Sy Sperling, Hair Club for Men founder and client (https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/20/us/sy-sperling-hair-club-for-men-dies/index.html)

Lemme guess: he died of alopecia.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on February 24, 2020, 01:10:43 pm

Katherine Johnson, mathematician at NASA and subject of the biopic, Hidden Figures, passed at 101.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 25, 2020, 06:50:38 pm

David Roback (Rain Parade, Mazzy Star) (https://pitchfork.com/news/mazzy-stars-david-roback-dead-at-61/?utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=p4k&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on February 26, 2020, 12:56:39 pm

Kasuhisa Hashimoto, creator of the Konami Code for the NES died today. Thanks for the extra lives in Contra!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 26, 2020, 07:27:39 pm

Clive Cussler author of dozens of books that populate thrift stores

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 26, 2020, 08:17:50 pm

Jens Nygaard Knudsen, designer of Lego minifigure, dies at 78

And totally unrelated to his death
...there is some real comedy gold in here tonight

And love

Like three people said they love hutch...
I mean, I love hutch, but he’s an acquired taste
I’ve known the guy for like 25 years
Kinda crazy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 26, 2020, 08:52:26 pm

I see...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 26, 2020, 09:08:51 pm

since no one else mentioned it: Hosni Mubarak
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/world/africa/hosni-mubarak-dead.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 01, 2020, 11:54:42 am

Trader Joe

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 01, 2020, 12:19:18 pm

For a second I was worried about the store...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 01, 2020, 12:23:20 pm

They just added a Trader Joe’s to the downtown area of Richmond (which is something of a food desert - tons of grocery stores but all on the periphery of the city) and the lines have just been completely comical. I like Traders just as much as the next person but it’s been so over the top. Just drive 12 minutes to the existing Traders Joes, people.

Getting super ass hyped over grocery stores is peak middle-class white people shit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: gavroche on March 01, 2020, 05:14:19 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on March 01, 2020, 12:23:20 pm

They just added a Trader Joe’s to the downtown area of Richmond (which is something of a food desert - tons of grocery stores but all on the periphery of the city) and the lines have just been completely comical. I like Traders just as much as the next person but it’s been so over the top. Just drive 12 minutes to the existing Traders Joes, people.

Getting super ass hyped over grocery stores is peak middle-class white people shit.

Or not having a car. I've had to wait in some stupid crazy grocery lines.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 01, 2020, 08:24:28 pm

I got to say the TJ’s lines can look insane but move fast! Many people get just a few items

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 01, 2020, 09:51:45 pm

also, TJ's makes everyone queue in a single line... so instead of 5 lines with 10 people each, you have one line with 50 people. so it looks more impressive, but you're actually slightly better off since you won't be stuck in the one line out of the 5 that has a slow cashier.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 02, 2020, 10:28:07 am

Former GE CEO Jack Welch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 02, 2020, 10:29:45 am

Confession: I've been inside a trader Joe's once about 15 years ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on March 02, 2020, 10:47:06 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 01, 2020, 09:51:45 pm

also, TJ's makes everyone queue in a single line... so instead of 5 lines with 10 people each, you have one line with 50 people. so it looks more impressive, but you're actually slightly better off since you won't be stuck in the one line out of the 5 that has a slow cashier.

Towson TJ's they dont do the single line bit. There are always many very fast moving lines. The parking lot though: Closest I have come to death as a pedestrian.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 02, 2020, 12:26:01 pm

Does Whole Foods not deliver where you folks live?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on March 02, 2020, 04:51:25 pm

James Lipton

https://variety.com/2020/legit/news/james-lipton-dead-dies-inside-the-actors-studio-1203520932/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 02, 2020, 05:02:21 pm

Quote from: jeffml on March 02, 2020, 04:51:25 pm

James Lipton

https://variety.com/2020/legit/news/james-lipton-dead-dies-inside-the-actors-studio-1203520932/

For a second reading that headline I thought he actually died INSIDE the actor's studio

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 06, 2020, 01:15:22 pm

Nate Woods

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 06, 2020, 03:39:04 pm

McCoy Tyner

A jazz giant

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 06, 2020, 04:34:42 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 06, 2020, 03:39:04 pm

McCoy Tyner

A jazz giant

:'(
played on Coltrane's My Favorite Things, Live at Birdland and A Love Supreme
He also appeared as a sideman on many Blue Note albums of the 1960s, although he was often credited as "etc." (due to contract with impulse)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 06, 2020, 05:47:14 pm

Quote from: Milk, Tea and Toast Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llı on March 06, 2020, 04:34:42 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 06, 2020, 03:39:04 pm
McCoy Tyner

A jazz giant
:'(
played on Coltrane's My Favorite Things, Live at Birdland and A Love Supreme
He also appeared as a sideman on many Blue Note albums of the 1960s, although he was often credited as "etc." (due to contract with impulse)

He was also a frequent guest on the Colgate Comedy Hour.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 07, 2020, 06:25:29 pm

Sam “the man” Burns

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 09, 2020, 10:28:11 am

Max von Sydow (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/max-von-sydow-brooding-star-of-ingmar-bergmans-torment-ridden-dramas-dies-at-90/2020/03/09/14a7af2a-6203-11ea-845d-e35b0234b136_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 14, 2020, 04:41:11 pm

Genesis P-Orridge (https://twitter.com/RichardMetzger/status/1238927156656381952)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 16, 2020, 11:22:04 am

Herb Goldsmith, creator of the Members Only jacket (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/herb-goldsmith-whose-members-only-jacket-became-an-80s-fashion-staple-dies-at-92/2020/03/15/9198b562-66cf-11ea-9923-57073adce27c_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 16, 2020, 02:03:50 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 16, 2020, 11:22:04 am

Herb Goldsmith, creator of the Members Only jacket (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/herb-goldsmith-whose-members-only-jacket-became-an-80s-fashion-staple-dies-at-92/2020/03/15/9198b562-66cf-11ea-9923-57073adce27c_story.html)

I know Space is going to pour one out for this tonight

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 16, 2020, 04:30:46 pm

Francisco Garcia
A 21 year old Spanish football coach died from covid19

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 16, 2020, 04:31:37 pm

I now freak out that every new post is Tom Hanks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 16, 2020, 04:50:36 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 16, 2020, 04:30:46 pm

Francisco Garcia
A 21 year old Spanish football coach died from covid19

while that sucks...this is an important note

n unknown pre-existing health condition that resulted in him being more vulnerable to the virus than usual for an individual of his age, though he was only informed of having cancer after going to hospital with symptoms of coronavirus.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 16, 2020, 08:48:34 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on March 16, 2020, 04:31:37 pm

I now freak out that every new post is Tom Hanks.

He's good! (https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=25143.msg498357#msg498357)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 16, 2020, 08:49:59 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 16, 2020, 08:48:34 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on March 16, 2020, 04:31:37 pm
I now freak out that every new post is Tom Hanks.

He's good! (https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=25143.msg498357#msg498357)

Whew! Back to worrying about Paul McCartney!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 17, 2020, 06:35:20 pm

Yada's April shows. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 21, 2020, 06:46:51 am

Oh no Kenny Rogers!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 21, 2020, 08:12:19 am

You got to know when to fold them

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 21, 2020, 02:33:12 pm

He totally knew. I'm 81 years old and I don't need this shit. Good bye world...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on March 21, 2020, 09:54:03 pm

Got to watch The Big Lebowski in tribute.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 22, 2020, 09:08:41 pm

Lorenzo Sanz

President of Real Madrid club

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 23, 2020, 02:59:22 am

Eric Weissberg

(Duelin banjos game...also plays on the greatest album ever recorded)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 24, 2020, 05:09:45 am

Manu Dibango

Some imbecile will say he was just an old man contributing nothing.

Best known for the hit song Soul Makossa

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2020, 08:17:09 am

Quote from: hutch on March 23, 2020, 02:59:22 am

Eric Weissberg

(Duelin banjos game...also plays on the greatest album ever recorded)

Kept trying to figure out what your ref was to the GAER
was it this?
Cabbage Patch Dreams (Cabbage Patch Kids, 1984)?

I mean there are some of the lesser know albums like
Rocky Mountain High (John Denver, 1973)
Piano Man (Billy Joel, 1973)
Blood on the Tracks (Bob Dylan, 1974)
(Dueling came out in 73 too...quite a two-year run)

Or maybe that "Shuckin' The Corn," was sampled on Beastie Boys track "5-Piece Chicken Dinner" from Paul's Boutiuqe

But again, it's gotta be the Cabbage Patch Dreams is what you consider the greatest album ever recorded

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 24, 2020, 08:27:01 am

It's Blood on the Tracks, if I recall correctly. He said this when has chasing down a vinyl test pressing re-issue (a thing that boggles the mind) of it for RSD one year.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 24, 2020, 08:31:25 am

Albert Uderzo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2020, 09:07:23 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on March 24, 2020, 08:27:01 am

It's Blood on the Tracks, if I recall correctly. He said this when has chasing down a vinyl test pressing re-issue (a thing that boggles the mind) of it for RSD one year.

Come on man, you don't think I didn't know that...did my Cabbage Patch Dreams pick really seem plausible?
(https://img.discogs.com/hyu3C_b0yF6Z_74M4I0moWEOLco=/fit-in/600x582/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2060910-1416964573-5308.jpeg.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 24, 2020, 10:08:34 am

Quote from: Gee, that's too bad ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2020, 09:07:23 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on March 24, 2020, 08:27:01 am
It's Blood on the Tracks, if I recall correctly. He said this when has chasing down a vinyl test pressing re-issue (a thing that boggles the mind) of it for RSD one year.
Come on man, you don't think I didn't know that...did my Cabbage Patch Dreams pick really seem plausible?
(https://img.discogs.com/hyu3C_b0yF6Z_74M4I0moWEOLco=/fit-in/600x582/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2060910-1416964573-5308.jpeg.jpg)

True story: as a child I attended the livebirths of at least 5 Cabbage Patch Dolls (over several years and multiple visits to) the Babyland General Cabbage Patch Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Babyland_General_Hospital_%28447680534%29.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2020, 10:25:16 am

now I can see why you are such a disturbed and cranky individual...

thought I'd check in on the state of cbk...still doing 'live' deliveries
Cabbage Patch Kids officially move into their new home on Nov. 21, 2009, with over 70 thousand square feet of space and featuring a Magic Crystal Tree where guests can watch a "live" delivery of a Cabbage Patch Kid. Open daily to the public with no admission fee. Check our calendar for special events and hours.
Althought the new place doesn't have that cute little preschool feel

(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0005/0744/5314/files/2007_1024x.progressive.jpg?v=1527524810)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 24, 2020, 10:28:22 am

Quote from: Gee, that's too bad ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2020, 10:25:16 am

now I can see why you are such a disturbed and cranky individual...

Look, don't blame this on the $400 (in the early-90s) dolls. Mother Cabbage's children did nothing to you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 24, 2020, 03:50:01 pm

Terrence McNally

Playwright

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 24, 2020, 06:04:42 pm

Black N Mild

Bounce musician

Both of these last ones from covid

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2020, 06:07:29 pm

your earlier one too
Manu Dibango

should put a -fromC19 tag or something

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2020, 06:08:24 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 24, 2020, 06:04:42 pm

Black N Mild

44!
result of the coronavirus at the age of 44

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2020, 06:18:07 pm

Asterix comic book creator Albert Uderzo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 24, 2020, 06:31:08 pm

Quote from: black tag hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2020, 06:08:24 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 24, 2020, 06:04:42 pm
Black N Mild
44!
result of the coronavirus at the age of 44

Am sure there is a reason he deserved it and Space is still liking his chances

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on March 24, 2020, 07:04:41 pm

Bill Rieflin - Ministry, Swans, NIN, R.E.M, King Crimson, etc

:(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 24, 2020, 07:12:45 pm

Quote from: black tag hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2020, 06:18:07 pm

Asterix comic book creator Albert Uderzo

wow... the number of hours that grade-school sweetcell spent reading asterix and obelix can't be counted. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 24, 2020, 07:27:42 pm

Quote from: black tag hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2020, 06:18:07 pm

Asterix comic book creator Albert Uderzo

https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=11001.msg498913#msg498913

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 25, 2020, 04:56:48 am

BILL RIEFLIN, DRUMMER FOR MINISTRY, R.E.M., AND KING CRIMSON DEAD AT 59
The drummer was also known for his work with KMFDM and Swans.
https://www.kerrang.com/the-news/bill-rieflin-drummer-for-ministry-r-e-m-and-king-crimson-dead-at-59/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 25, 2020, 06:54:04 am

King Crimson?

You got to have some chops to play with Fripp...

RIP Bill R

I guess the one time I saw The Human Lightbulb 💡 and Rapid Eye Movement at the Vote For Change concert at the Some Phone Company Center Bill R not Bill B would have been behind the kit although it could have been Bill A or Kid A for all anyone would have known

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 25, 2020, 07:10:18 am

Arthur Hurwitz

https://m.facebook.com/DinosaurJr/posts/10163021992370702

From c19

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 25, 2020, 07:21:41 am

https://twitter.com/m_millsey/status/1242772387046862852?s=20

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on March 25, 2020, 07:25:30 am

Quote from: hutch on March 25, 2020, 06:54:04 am

King Crimson?

You got to have some chops to play with Fripp...

RIP Bill R

I guess the one time I saw The Human Lightbulb 💡 and Rapid Eye Movement at the Vote For Change concert at the Some Phone Company Center Bill R not Bill B would have been behind the kit although it could have been Bill A or Kid A for all anyone would have known

REM/Bruce at MCI, Bill R on drums...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SORvqufVe6c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SORvqufVe6c)

Something I read somewhere this morning made me think that Bill R. played bass and keys with King Crimson. But unclear.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 25, 2020, 07:47:58 am

Ok thanks

So it was Bill R

The entire concert was shown live I think on Sundance...I have a very hard to find promo only DVD of it somewhere

My recollections are few but
John Mellencamp started it off and was fantastic..
Pearl Jam was great as always
Dave Matthews Band has the longest set..maybe 75 minutes..and though I usually think I hate them they were great
Stipe looked like a gay human lightbulb..when he sang Patti Smith parts with Bruce on Because the night it was fantastic
My only time seeing Jackson Browne with/and Bonnie Raitt...also James Taylor I think...spellbinding with just a guitar
Bruce’s Mary’s Place with long rap or speech in middle was amazing

One of my best ticket purchases...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on March 25, 2020, 07:59:56 am

Quote from: hutch on March 25, 2020, 07:47:58 am

Ok thanks

So it was Bill R

The entire concert was shown live I think on Sundance...I have a very hard to find promo only DVD of it somewhere

My recollections are few but
John Mellencamp started it off and was fantastic..
Pearl Jam was great as always
Dave Matthews Band has the longest set..maybe 75 minutes..and though I usually think I hate them they were great
Stipe looked like a gay human lightbulb..when he sang Patti Smith parts with Bruce on Because the night it was fantastic
My only time seeing Jackson Browne with/and Bonnie Raitt...also James Taylor I think...spellbinding with just a guitar
Bruce’s Mary’s Place with long rap or speech in middle was amazing

One of my best ticket purchases...

I bought a ticket on the way into that show from a dude who turned out to be a local high end corporate ticket-scalper. Paid $50 I think and had a great seat. I was supposed to go to John Vanderslice/Mountain Goats (who headlined that night?) that night at Black Cat ... because I was friends with John V's mom. I bailed on that show for this one.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 25, 2020, 08:20:29 am

I bought tickets when they went on sale on internet cause I was at some friends wedding in Wisconsin...I still remember it was at the lame “business center” at some lame hotel...maybe one of my first times buying tickets on internet?

Got nosebleeds way up behind stage..expensive awful seats...nevertheless as I said one of my best purchases

I can’t do in person ticket scalping buying or selling..simply never works out for me..I am totally incompetent at it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 25, 2020, 11:29:57 am

Floyd Cardoz

Covid'd

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 25, 2020, 05:26:52 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 25, 2020, 04:56:48 am

BILL RIEFLIN, DRUMMER FOR MINISTRY, R.E.M., AND KING CRIMSON DEAD AT 59
The drummer was also known for his work with KMFDM and Swans.
https://www.kerrang.com/the-news/bill-rieflin-drummer-for-ministry-r-e-m-and-king-crimson-dead-at-59/

didn't even know he had writing credits on some of my favorite ministry songs from a MITTW
the drum parts are critical

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 26, 2020, 07:40:31 pm

Michael Sorkin
Architect

#covid-19

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 26, 2020, 11:05:09 pm

Mark Blum starred opposite Madonna in "Desperately Seeking Susan," He was 69

#covid-19

RIP Curly Neal
played 22 seasons with the Harlem Globetrotters!
(far as I know...not covid)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 27, 2020, 11:15:53 am

A friend's uncle

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/26/metro/coronavirus-deathbed-without-family/?fbclid=IwAR3tFnQifz7IGN1asL0bGkd9u3n0OqKCfbEI33Sj_FyGRN3d7bApfM_k3Jc

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 27, 2020, 02:42:19 pm

Bob Andy

That sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 27, 2020, 02:45:00 pm

Phil Phillips

Original singer of the tune Sea of love

You may have heard Robert Plant massacre it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 27, 2020, 02:47:55 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 27, 2020, 02:45:00 pm

Phil Phillips

Original singer of the tune Sea of love

You may have heard Robert Plant massacre it

I always liked that Honyedrippers version
Phil's is the best
Cat Power has a good one
I just read Iggy and the Heptones did one too (not together)

Was in heavy rotation as sidehatch sing the kids to bed songs (and I always did the honeydrippers version)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 27, 2020, 02:53:48 pm

Hopefully Phillips had the songwriting credits...would have meant a huge chuck of change

Like anything by Plant post Led Zep I try to like it but no

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 27, 2020, 02:58:39 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 27, 2020, 02:53:48 pm

Hopefully Phillips had the songwriting credits...would have meant a huge chuck of change

Like anything by Plant post Led Zep I try to like it but no

That's pretty much the only Plant song post In Through the Out Door that I like

I did dig some of the Firm's stuff (page of course)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 27, 2020, 03:12:54 pm

Page and Paul Rogers

Radioactive is awesome

Diminishing returns after that

I think Page just got burnt out...he had an awesome 15-20 years if you count all his great session work

Plant’s heart is in the right place but his music is so boring

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 27, 2020, 03:52:07 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 27, 2020, 03:12:54 pm

Page and Paul Rogers

Radioactive is awesome

I love satisfaction guaranteed too

I didn't realize paul's history until today with Free and Bad Company.
Singing these classics "All Right Now" "Feel Like Makin' Love", "Can't Get Enough", "Shooting Star", "Bad Company" "Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 27, 2020, 03:56:18 pm

Geezus dude you got to get out more

Paul is really one of the top voices in classic rock

The stuff with Free is so good...their guitarist Kosoff is the man

Of course Zep liked Paul so much they signed Bad Co to their label Swan Song

I frickin live Paul..a big regret not seeing him but he didn’t make it easy and now he passed the decrepitude line so I cannot see him...thanks Paul

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on March 27, 2020, 04:11:01 pm

Saw the Firm at the Cap Center in...84?

Was....ok. Paul can sing but his style is water to Page’s oil. Or vinegar. Whatever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on March 27, 2020, 04:39:44 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 27, 2020, 03:56:18 pm

Paul is really one of the top voices in classic rock

The first show I saw when MCI Center was renamed Verizon Center was Paul+QUEEN. Very different than the Adam Lambert run but killer vocals

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 28, 2020, 11:25:15 am

I wanted to go to that Queen + show....

Anyhow death must go on

Former senator Tom Coburn

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 29, 2020, 10:25:18 am

Krzysztof Penderecki (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-music-penderecki-idUSKBN21G08D?taid=5e805a46e370aa00016238bb&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 29, 2020, 04:12:24 pm

Joe Diffie (https://williamsonsource.com/joe-diffie-dies-of-complications-from-coronavirus/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 29, 2020, 05:11:33 pm

^covid19d

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 29, 2020, 05:32:34 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 29, 2020, 04:12:24 pm

Joe Diffie (https://williamsonsource.com/joe-diffie-dies-of-complications-from-coronavirus/)

My dad was a fan of mainstream country when i was growing up and until his death in the 90's. I was grown and moved away by the time Joe Diffie hit it big. My mom always referred to him as "Joe Dippie." I could never tell if she was being funny or being dim, but it pissed my dad off to no end.

I just told my wife that Joe Diffie died, and she got pissed that I would expect her to know who that was (I actually didn't expect her to, I just mentioned his passing without explaining who he was.) They say you marry your mom, but sometime i feel like i married my dad.

Anyway, RIP, Pickup Man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 29, 2020, 09:26:51 pm

I hope they prop him up beside the jukebox.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 29, 2020, 09:45:55 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 29, 2020, 05:32:34 pm

I just told my wife that Joe Diffie died, and she got pissed that I would expect her to know who that was (I actually didn't expect her to, I just mentioned his passing without explaining who he was.) They say you marry your mom, but sometime i feel like i married my dad.

All joking aside, good Lord, the cringe on some of these. Do you two even like each other anymore? I literally feel like I’m watching a marriage disintegrate. Is this how all marriages are? Is this what I have to look forward to in two decades? Jesus.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 29, 2020, 09:53:19 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on March 29, 2020, 09:45:55 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 29, 2020, 05:32:34 pm
Is this how all marriages are?

I mean, I didnt marry my dad, so....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 29, 2020, 11:59:37 pm

Lou “L.A.” Kouvaris, original guitarist with Riot, died at the age of 66, the band confirmed.

Read More: Riot Guitarist Lou ‘L.A.’ Kouvaris Dead at 66 | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/lou-kouvaris-riot-dead/

Covid-19 like symptoms, not confirmed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 30, 2020, 08:07:41 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on March 29, 2020, 09:45:55 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 29, 2020, 05:32:34 pm
I just told my wife that Joe Diffie died, and she got pissed that I would expect her to know who that was (I actually didn't expect her to, I just mentioned his passing without explaining who he was.) They say you marry your mom, but sometime i feel like i married my dad.
All joking aside, good Lord, the cringe on some of these. Do you two even like each other anymore? I literally feel like I’m watching a marriage disintegrate. Is this how all marriages are? Is this what I have to look forward to in two decades? Jesus.

Will your wife be hitting perimenopause in two decades?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 30, 2020, 08:36:58 am

Ken Shimura

Japanese comedian started as member of Japanese sketch comedy troupe The Drifters

I used to watch the Drifters in the early 80s when living in Japan..even not understanding Japanese that much it was hilarious...probably most of my exposure to Japanese language and even life came through tv: Japanese cartoons, Japanese baseball (Hanshin Tigers) and the Drifters

Covid19’d

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 30, 2020, 09:01:17 am

Alan Merrill
Writer of I love rock n roll

Covid19d

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 30, 2020, 09:24:47 am

Quote from: Space Freely on March 30, 2020, 08:07:41 am

Will your wife be hitting perimenopause in two decades?

Probably closer to one decade, if I had to guess.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 30, 2020, 09:37:59 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on March 30, 2020, 09:24:47 am

Quote from: Space Freely on March 30, 2020, 08:07:41 am
Will your wife be hitting perimenopause in two decades?
Probably closer to one decade, if I had to guess.

I apologize for dumping my personal issues on you guys, my internet acquaintances, some of whom I've met and some whom I haven't, at an increasing rate. It seems that in the past few years, most of my real life, local friends have either moved far away, retreated into family life, and in the case of my best friend and confidante, been shot to death. And being a bit of a social misfit and hermit whose first inclination is to spend time with family rather than mingle sociallt, real life friends and confidantes haven't been replaced so easily and readily.

So you lot have been serving as my surrogate friends and therapists. Feel free to unload on me whenever you'd like.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 30, 2020, 09:43:32 am

Quote from: Space Freely on March 30, 2020, 09:37:59 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on March 30, 2020, 09:24:47 am
Quote from: Space Freely on March 30, 2020, 08:07:41 am
Will your wife be hitting perimenopause in two decades?
Probably closer to one decade, if I had to guess.

I apologize for dumping my personal issues on you guys, my internet acquaintances, some of whom I've met and some whom I haven't, at an increasing rate. It seems that in the past few years, most of my real life, local friends have either moved far away, retreated into family life, and in the case of my best friend and confidante, been shot to death. And being a bit of a social misfit and hermit whose first inclination is to spend time with family rather than mingle sociallt, real life friends and confidantes haven't been replaced so easily and readily.

So you lot have been serving as my surrogate friends and therapists. Feel free to unload on me whenever you'd like.

I think we should get a poker game together or something.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 30, 2020, 09:49:35 am

Quote from: Space Freely on March 30, 2020, 09:37:59 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on March 30, 2020, 09:24:47 am
Quote from: Space Freely on March 30, 2020, 08:07:41 am
Will your wife be hitting perimenopause in two decades?
Probably closer to one decade, if I had to guess.

I apologize for dumping my personal issues on you guys, my internet acquaintances, some of whom I've met and some whom I haven't, at an increasing rate. It seems that in the past few years, most of my real life, local friends have either moved far away, retreated into family life, and in the case of my best friend and confidante, been shot to death. And being a bit of a social misfit and hermit whose first inclination is to spend time with family rather than mingle sociallt, real life friends and confidantes haven't been replaced so easily and readily.

So you lot have been serving as my surrogate friends and therapists. Feel free to unload on me whenever you'd like.

I definitely am not ragging on you for sharing, at all. Everyone needs an outlet. I'm just concerned as a person who has never met you and likely never will (unless you make a beer run to RVA sans the family).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 30, 2020, 09:55:10 am

Amazing how little Joan Jett added to this...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8AT_Pbtyid0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 30, 2020, 10:06:09 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on March 30, 2020, 09:49:35 am

Quote from: Space Freely on March 30, 2020, 09:37:59 am
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on March 30, 2020, 09:24:47 am
Quote from: Space Freely on March 30, 2020, 08:07:41 am
Will your wife be hitting perimenopause in two decades?
Probably closer to one decade, if I had to guess.

I apologize for dumping my personal issues on you guys, my internet acquaintances, some of whom I've met and some whom I haven't, at an increasing rate. It seems that in the past few years, most of my real life, local friends have either moved far away, retreated into family life, and in the case of my best friend and confidante, been shot to death. And being a bit of a social misfit and hermit whose first inclination is to spend time with family rather than mingle sociallt, real life friends and confidantes haven't been replaced so easily and readily.

So you lot have been serving as my surrogate friends and therapists. Feel free to unload on me whenever you'd like.
I definitely am not ragging on you for sharing, at all. Everyone needs an outlet. I'm just concerned as a person who has never met you and likely never will (unless you make a beer run to RVA sans the family).

Thanks for the concern! I'll make a point to reach out to you the next time the world allows me to be in Richmond, or if you (or any other boardies) are going to a show that I am. When we have shows again, sigh.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 30, 2020, 10:06:42 am

Quote from: hutch on March 30, 2020, 09:55:10 am

Amazing how little Joan Jett added to this...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8AT_Pbtyid0

agreed, was shocked when I heard the original 30 years after hearing the JJ one
was kinda right place/right time for JJ.
She has a number of great covers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 30, 2020, 11:07:17 am

Maryland, outdoors.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on March 31, 2020, 07:05:49 pm

Wallace Roney, jazz trumpeter.

Beautiful player.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 31, 2020, 07:43:45 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on March 31, 2020, 07:05:49 pm

Wallace Roney, jazz trumpeter.

Beautiful player.

COVID-19

At this point it might be easier to identify people dying on non-COVID causes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 31, 2020, 07:48:14 pm

Only 59

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 31, 2020, 07:54:11 pm

The dude from Fountains of Wayne is only 52

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 31, 2020, 08:29:19 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 31, 2020, 07:54:11 pm

The dude from Fountains of Wayne is only 52

Improving. Fortunately got a ventilator.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9347158/adam-schlesinger-hospitalized-coronavirus

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on March 31, 2020, 08:49:54 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 31, 2020, 07:54:11 pm

The dude from Fountains of Wayne is only 52

I'm relieved you said is and not was.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 01, 2020, 08:16:32 am

Andrew Jack

(Star Wars)

Covid19d

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lily1 on April 01, 2020, 09:50:56 am

Tomie DePaola

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 01, 2020, 02:27:44 pm

Zantac

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 01, 2020, 03:45:36 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 01, 2020, 02:27:44 pm

Zantac

The rapper?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 01, 2020, 05:06:44 pm

The heartburn drug

Is this the wrong thread?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 01, 2020, 06:35:18 pm

Adam Schlesinger
52 years old

Covid19’d

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 01, 2020, 06:53:28 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 01, 2020, 06:35:18 pm

Adam Schlesinger
52 years old

Covid19’d

If only we could riot in the streets over the disgrace of Pennsylvania Ave and This hurts a LOT

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 01, 2020, 07:01:00 pm

I would riot with you

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on April 01, 2020, 07:09:59 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 01, 2020, 06:53:28 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 01, 2020, 06:35:18 pm
Adam Schlesinger
52 years old

Covid19’d

If only we could riot in the streets over the disgrace of Pennsylvania Ave and This hurts a LOT

this does hurt a LOT, and all I can think is that we are each in for 1000 more of these moments. Friends, loved ones, coworkers, and entertainers with which we have a connection. We will have to pace ourselves.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 01, 2020, 07:20:00 pm

Think about the impact to this board if I were to pass. Whoa.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 01, 2020, 08:18:58 pm

Didn’t realize Adam was involved in the songwriting of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, I now have something need to binge

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 01, 2020, 08:24:25 pm

Cristina

Covid19’d

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 01, 2020, 08:25:48 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 01, 2020, 08:18:58 pm

Didn’t realize Adam was involved in the songwriting of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, I now have something need to binge

That show was amazing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 01, 2020, 08:46:29 pm

Someone referred to That Thing You Do as “ greatest fictional track of all time.”

I did not disagree with at all...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on April 01, 2020, 08:48:14 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 01, 2020, 08:46:29 pm

Someone referred to That Thing You Do as “ greatest fictional track of all time.”

I did not disagree with at all...

Yes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: BrettnotBritt on April 01, 2020, 09:41:56 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on April 01, 2020, 08:25:48 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 01, 2020, 08:18:58 pm
Didn’t realize Adam was involved in the songwriting of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, I now have something need to binge
That show was amazing.

Yeah he wrote some amazing songs for that show. The first two seasons are really good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 01, 2020, 09:51:21 pm

Ellis Marsalis

Covid19’d

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lily1 on April 01, 2020, 10:29:48 pm

This one definitely hurts.

Quote from: hutch on April 01, 2020, 09:51:21 pm

Ellis Marsalis

Covid19’d

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 02, 2020, 08:27:42 am

Quote from: lily1 on April 01, 2020, 10:29:48 pm

This one definitely hurts.

Quote from: hutch on April 01, 2020, 09:51:21 pm
Ellis Marsalis

Covid19’d

85, amazing long life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 02, 2020, 12:55:04 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 01, 2020, 08:24:25 pm

Cristina

Covid19’d

https://pitchfork.com/news/cristina-ze-records-new-wave-singer-dead-at-61andnbsp/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 03, 2020, 08:39:26 am

Guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, 94 COVID19

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bucky-pizzarelli-whose-guitar-mastery-extended-to-seven-strings-dies-at-94-of-coronavirus/2020/04/02/28fc127e-74ee-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 03, 2020, 10:08:59 am

Bill Withers (https://apnews.com/e19138ee60f29a319e45bcfba3e39331?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 03, 2020, 10:12:10 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 03, 2020, 10:08:59 am

Bill Withers (https://apnews.com/e19138ee60f29a319e45bcfba3e39331?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter)

:(
this was a great quote in that article (not sure if it's true, but QL is pretty spot on with things)
“He’s the last African-American Everyman,” musician and band leader Questlove told Rolling Stone in 2015. “Bill Withers is the closest thing black people have to a Bruce Springsteen.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 03, 2020, 10:45:53 am

I think that is a great description

It’s too bad his creativity seemed to dry up quick but his first two studio albums and his live album - all for Suxxex a very interesting label that also had the two first records by the Soul Searchers (Chuck Brown)- are top shelf

Am glad not to see covid mentioned

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 06, 2020, 04:09:30 pm

Hall of Famer Al Kaline

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 06, 2020, 04:16:47 pm

Quote from: vansmack on April 06, 2020, 04:09:30 pm

Hall of Famer Al Kaline

#6 in your programs, #1 in our hearts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 06, 2020, 05:21:39 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on April 06, 2020, 04:16:47 pm

Quote from: vansmack on April 06, 2020, 04:09:30 pm
Hall of Famer Al Kaline
#6 in your programs, #1 in our hearts.

And Baltimore's own. RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 07, 2020, 09:32:06 am

Pussy Galore (https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/honor-blackman-bond-girl-dead-979014/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 07, 2020, 02:10:02 pm

Hal Wilner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 07, 2020, 06:20:22 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 07, 2020, 02:10:02 pm

Hal Wilner

https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-hal-willner-longtime-saturday-night-live-music-1842734833

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 07, 2020, 06:22:22 pm

My former neighbor. Presumptive COVID. Never tested.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 07, 2020, 06:25:31 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on April 07, 2020, 06:22:22 pm

My former neighbor. Presumptive COVID. Never tested.

How old was she and did you ever hit it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 07, 2020, 06:27:51 pm

62 and no.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 07, 2020, 06:28:19 pm

Regret is a hell of a roommate.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 07, 2020, 09:24:30 pm

John Prine

This COVID thing is going to suck.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 07, 2020, 09:40:28 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on April 07, 2020, 09:24:30 pm

John Prine

This COVID thing is going to suck.

Yup

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 07, 2020, 09:42:20 pm

Fuck

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 07, 2020, 09:49:32 pm

I was going to bed early then saw the news and decided I needed to listen to his self-titled debut before I did. Shit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 07, 2020, 09:49:52 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 07, 2020, 09:42:20 pm

Fuck

And you thought Smackie had a bad Sunday....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 07, 2020, 09:51:01 pm

Was just listening to him today and hoping he was doing better. Man

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 07, 2020, 09:58:55 pm

Sad

He really was one of a kind

Ron Sexsmith tweeted that Prine was a Mark Twain like figure...I totally see that

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 07, 2020, 10:02:42 pm

Can we please put Neil Young in mandatory quarantine for the next twelve months?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 07, 2020, 10:57:02 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on April 07, 2020, 10:02:42 pm

Can we please put Neil Young in mandatory quarantine for the next twelve months?

Daryl Hannah is already self isolating. Hence me and the Director going down the rabbit hole over the weekend....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 07, 2020, 10:58:53 pm

Quote from: vansmack on April 07, 2020, 10:57:02 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on April 07, 2020, 10:02:42 pm
Can we please put Neil Young in mandatory quarantine for the next twelve months?

Daryl Hannah is already self isolating. Hence me and the Director going down the rabbit hole over the weekend....

Director and I had a call about this on Friday. Touch base soon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 08, 2020, 07:57:17 am

Allen Garfield actor from ‘Nashville’ and ‘The Conversation’
#covid'ed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 08, 2020, 08:34:01 am

Quote from: vansmack on April 07, 2020, 09:49:52 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 07, 2020, 09:42:20 pm
Fuck

And you thought Smackie had a bad Sunday....

So you're saying John Prine had a worse day or me? Not sure I get it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 08, 2020, 08:48:30 am

Quote from: Yada on April 08, 2020, 08:34:01 am

Quote from: vansmack on April 07, 2020, 09:49:52 pm
Quote from: Yada on April 07, 2020, 09:42:20 pm
Fuck

And you thought Smackie had a bad Sunday....

So you're saying John Prine had a worse day or me? Not sure I get it

I think he was implying that the JP news was worse than the news from last sunday that put him in a bad mood

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 08, 2020, 04:49:21 pm

Linda Tripp

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 12, 2020, 01:55:01 pm

Andy Gonzalez

One of my favorite bassists

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/832007472/bassist-andy-gonzalez-dies-at-69?fbclid=IwAR17l23w3rpbFmyFFtlw2U_d4xvyizMMC0r45KgqyPsCZ_sEsaqVVf64R5A

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 13, 2020, 07:26:38 pm

Former NFL quarterback Tarvaris Jackson has died in a car crash (https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/13/us/tarvaris-jackson-died-car-accident-trnd/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 14, 2020, 03:42:37 pm

Hank Steinbrenner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 14, 2020, 08:37:56 pm

Jimmy Webb, the trashman not the musician.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/jimmy-webb-of-trash-vaudeville-i-need-more-has-died/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 15, 2020, 10:11:53 pm

Lee Konitz

A great sax player

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on April 15, 2020, 10:32:48 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 15, 2020, 10:11:53 pm

Lee Konitz

A great sax player

And what a great career.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 15, 2020, 10:35:30 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 15, 2020, 10:11:53 pm

Lee Konitz

A great sax player

A frequent guest on the Colgate Hour.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 16, 2020, 01:24:49 pm

Brian Dennehy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 17, 2020, 08:19:16 pm

Matthew Seligman, bassist on some of the most futuristic '80s music: Thomas Dolby's "One of Our Submarines" + "She Blinded Me With Science," Thompson Twins' "In the Name of Love," Soft Boys' "I Wanna Destroy You”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 17, 2020, 08:40:26 pm

Oh no

One of Robyn Hitchcock’s Egyptians

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 17, 2020, 08:48:37 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 17, 2020, 08:40:26 pm

Oh no

One of Robyn Hitchcock’s Egyptians

The one we were supposed to walk like??!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 18, 2020, 08:12:01 am

I love this quote

“Pop music is about overstating the obvious” - Matthew Seligman

https://twitter.com/robynhitchcock/status/1251330631075860480?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 18, 2020, 12:03:13 pm

The Office' actor Ranjit Chowdhry dead at 64 (https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/the-office-actor-ranjit-chowdhry-dead-at-64.amp#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s)
Ranjit Chowdhry, best known for playing Vikram on the sitcom “The Office,” has died at 64.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 22, 2020, 03:00:40 pm

(https://preview.redd.it/gg6b9vyvxeu41.jpg?width=768&auto=webp&s=c419c974c0375810a2f1da122fa548f4cf49eb2e)
John Prine tribute at local coffee shop. (Photo not mine.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 22, 2020, 03:31:24 pm

Mike Buchanan, WUSA 9 reporter (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mike-buchanan-multifaceted-local-tv-reporter-and-anchor-dies-at-78/2020/04/17/f936a2b6-7ffb-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 23, 2020, 11:32:19 am

Elizabeth Warren's brother

Covid'd

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 23, 2020, 12:17:48 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on April 23, 2020, 11:32:19 am

Elizabeth Warren's brother

Covid'd

Don Reed Herring (https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/politics/elizabeth-warren-coronavirus-donald-reed-herring-brother/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on April 23, 2020, 12:30:17 pm

On a positive note, Marianne Faithfull recovered.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 23, 2020, 01:27:01 pm

Ashley Mattingly

https://knewz.com/ashley-mattingly-playboy-suicide/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paidsocial&fbclid=IwAR1yUrJnWdS2bn7kQ4WLQuOl7MzrkucObQ0M4ZFSW26DO1R6F_-ZIcmeR1k

Tragic

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 23, 2020, 01:41:33 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on April 23, 2020, 12:30:17 pm

On a positive note, Marianne Faithfull recovered.

That's very encouraging. I'll be eating a Mars bar to celebrate.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 23, 2020, 01:43:20 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 23, 2020, 01:27:01 pm

Ashley Mattingly

https://knewz.com/ashley-mattingly-playboy-suicide/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paidsocial&fbclid=IwAR1yUrJnWdS2bn7kQ4WLQuOl7MzrkucObQ0M4ZFSW26DO1R6F_-ZIcmeR1k

Tragic

I have to admit, I did not know who this person was. My first guess was Don Mattingly's wife.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 23, 2020, 02:52:29 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 23, 2020, 01:43:20 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 23, 2020, 01:27:01 pm
Ashley Mattingly

https://knewz.com/ashley-mattingly-playboy-suicide/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paidsocial&fbclid=IwAR1yUrJnWdS2bn7kQ4WLQuOl7MzrkucObQ0M4ZFSW26DO1R6F_-ZIcmeR1k

Tragic

I have to admit, I did not know who this person was. My first guess was Don Mattingly's wife.

I also was Space Freely’s Daughtering this one and guessing Don Mattingly’s Wife.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 23, 2020, 05:24:13 pm

Wait - this exists?

Celebrity Flatliner
@CelebFlatline

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 24, 2020, 10:16:09 pm

Mike Huckaby - Detroit House and Techno DJ. Bought lots of great records from him from my favorite record store Record Time. He was in charge of the Dance Room there.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/72528

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 25, 2020, 10:41:20 am

Seriously 54 year olds should not be dying of complications related to strokes and covid-19 :'(

https://pitchfork.com/news/detroit-dance-music-legend-mike-huckaby-has-died/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on April 25, 2020, 10:52:17 am

Interesting life, and ultimately horrible end on the Covid for local dentist and record store owner.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-ob-cv-anton-grobani-20200424-ex6qtniwrvalbl55q3uhvki36m-story.html (https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-ob-cv-anton-grobani-20200424-ex6qtniwrvalbl55q3uhvki36m-story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 25, 2020, 11:59:58 am

Wow I knew all about him dying but had not realized it was from covid

I used to shop at RTX in Fairfax all the time until it closed a month ago

Of course he had long ago sold it...how cool that he went back to dentistry in his 60s to pay for his kids college!

I remember though decades ago shopping there and I remember the old man with all that gray hair

Kudos to his family for bringing him home

Apparently if you buy a record and it has one of those “some surface noise” stickers on cover it came from one of his stores...

Definitely from all accounts a very interesting man

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 25, 2020, 01:13:55 pm

I’m calling it... lil Kim

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 25, 2020, 01:16:06 pm

You're calling what lil kim?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 25, 2020, 01:43:50 pm

One can only hope

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 25, 2020, 02:53:35 pm

She was a very important member of the Junior Mafia clique. She will be missed.

Rip Kim

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on April 25, 2020, 03:03:54 pm

Hamilton Bohannon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 25, 2020, 03:33:15 pm

Quote from: Genesis II Church Minister ılıl|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|lıl on April 25, 2020, 01:13:55 pm

I’m calling it... lil Kim

TMZ says so too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 25, 2020, 03:40:27 pm

Kim Jung Ung's Surgeon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 25, 2020, 04:29:30 pm

Quote from: jeffml on April 25, 2020, 03:40:27 pm

Kim Jung Ung's Surgeon

Solid.

Can't wait to get the whole story ...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 25, 2020, 05:41:33 pm

Quote from: dyecraig on April 25, 2020, 03:03:54 pm

Hamilton Bohannon

I feel a bit dumb today as I finally understand the Tom Tom Club reference

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 25, 2020, 06:38:54 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 24, 2020, 10:16:09 pm

Mike Huckaby - Detroit House and Techno DJ. Bought lots of great records from him from my favorite record store Record Time. He was in charge of the Dance Room there.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/72528

It happens. I have a 140 pound 40 year old co-worker who had a stroke. He didn't die though and seemed to fully recover.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 26, 2020, 03:51:26 pm

Steve Dalkowski, Inspiration for Nuke LaLoosh of ‘Bull Durham,’ Dead At 80 Due to COVID-19 (https://deadspin.com/steve-dalkowski-baseball-folk-hero-with-scorching-wil-1843059103)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 26, 2020, 04:37:55 pm

Actor Dimitri Diatchenko of 'Sons of Anarchy' dies at 52 (https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/25/us/dimitri-diatchenko-actor-sons-of-anarchy-chernobyl-diaries-dead/index.html)

also appeared in "Chernobyl Diaries," "Alias" and "Bones."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 30, 2020, 02:37:15 pm

Stezo

Covid~19'd

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 30, 2020, 06:41:37 pm

BREAKING: Fela's Ex-drummer, Tony Allen, Dies In France | Sahara Reporters
Fela once stated that, "Without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat." Allen has also been described by Brian Eno as "perhaps the greatest drummer who ever lived".

Got to see him play with The Good, The Bad and The Queen

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on April 30, 2020, 07:57:52 pm

^ Me too, damn. Couldn't really see him back there in the fog, but definitely heard him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 02, 2020, 09:57:13 pm

Sam Lloyd, TV actor from Seinfeld, West Wing, Scrubs. He was 56 (not COVID).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on May 03, 2020, 10:05:02 am

Richie Cole - jazz alto saxophonist, Alto Madness

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 04, 2020, 10:30:57 am

Don Shula, winningest coach in NFL history

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 04, 2020, 10:57:20 am

Quote from: vansmack on May 04, 2020, 10:30:57 am

Don Shula, winningest coach in NFL history

He will live on through his overpriced steakhouses.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 04, 2020, 02:45:10 pm

David Greenfield Stranglers keyboard player

covid-19

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 04, 2020, 02:55:03 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on May 04, 2020, 02:45:10 pm

David Greenfield Stranglers keyboard player

covid-19

He contracted the virus following a long stay in the hospital for heart problems.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 05, 2020, 12:18:49 am

Cady Groves, pop and country singer, dead at 30 (https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/entertainment/cady-groves-dead-trnd/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 06, 2020, 06:29:04 am

Millie Small

Sad to hear about Millie Small. Her early journey was steered initially by Coxone Dodd's label, then Chris Blackwell's Island..... My Boy Lollipop put island Records on course to become an influential record label with an excellent musical reputation.

https://twitter.com/mikereaduk/status/1257938525024063490?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 06, 2020, 11:19:42 am

Florian Schneider

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on May 06, 2020, 11:21:39 am

^^ https://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/news/obituary/9372433/florian-schneider-dead-kraftwerk-co-founder-dies

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 06, 2020, 11:53:25 am

Interesting says Kraftwerk summer shows cancelled already even though on sale for Anthem

Double bummer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 06, 2020, 01:59:19 pm

Numbers was a bit of a hit in Detroit thanks to the DJ calling himself the Electrifying Mojo, I even bought that Kraftwerk seven inch. Anyways as the tweet says This is #Detroit on #Kraftwerk #RIPFlorian, watch dancers on the New Dance Show enthusiastically moving to Numbers

https://twitter.com/ststerling/status/1258088648332865536?s=20

Electrifying Mojo was also key in helping to break Prince.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 06, 2020, 04:41:46 pm

(https://i.ibb.co/1MCxjQg/Giorgio-Florian.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 07, 2020, 04:41:28 am

Hillard Atkinson, was, isn't anymore.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/hillard-sweet-pea-atkinson-has-died-was-not-was-vocalist-2661291

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 07, 2020, 05:50:36 am

Another artist with a strong Detroit connection :'(

Hillard "Sweet Pea" Atkinson, the fedora-wearing vocalist for Was (Not Was), has died at the age of 74.

The singer was known for hits including Walk The Dinosaur and Spy In The House Of Love, and also performed with Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and Iggy Pop.

https://twitter.com/bbc6music/status/1258324871521673216?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 07, 2020, 08:37:34 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on May 07, 2020, 05:50:36 am

Another artist with a strong Detroit connection :'(

Hillard "Sweet Pea" Atkinson, the fedora-wearing vocalist for Was (Not Was), has died at the age of 74.

The singer was known for hits including Walk The Dinosaur and Spy In The House Of Love, and also performed with Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt and Iggy Pop.

https://twitter.com/bbc6music/status/1258324871521673216?s=21

My daughter's favorite song is, "Walk the Dinosaur." RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 07, 2020, 04:11:55 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 06, 2020, 11:19:42 am

Florian Schneider

Probably my favorite obit yet:

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/852081716/how-florian-schneider-and-kraftwerk-created-pops-future

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 07, 2020, 04:30:51 pm

Quote from: vansmack on May 07, 2020, 04:11:55 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 06, 2020, 11:19:42 am
Florian Schneider

Probably my favorite obit yet:

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/852081716/how-florian-schneider-and-kraftwerk-created-pops-future

good stuff

Kraftwerk operated within pop, yet remained somehow apart and above. When, in 1975, Lester Bangs jocularly enquired what kind of groupies Kraftwerk got, Schneider sternly snapped: "None. There is no such thing." He and Hütter's idea of rock star excess was buying lots of bicycles and taking up long distance cycling (sometimes racing between cities on tours).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 07, 2020, 11:30:54 pm

Brian Howe, hard rock singer who fronted Bad Company, dies aged 66 (https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/07/brian-howe-hard-rock-singer-who-fronted-bad-company-dies-aged-66)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 08, 2020, 09:51:33 pm

(https://media.lasvegasweekly.com/img/photos/2013/10/02/Siegfried_Roy_Las_Vegas_Sun_file_4_t1000.jpg?c76bf34eada957f64a0b14990027a576ff9bf379)

Roy (dark hair) (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roy-horn-siegfried-and-roy-dead_n_5eb602d9c5b69c4b317a7855?twn)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 08, 2020, 10:00:00 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on May 08, 2020, 09:51:33 pm

(https://media.lasvegasweekly.com/img/photos/2013/10/02/Siegfried_Roy_Las_Vegas_Sun_file_4_t1000.jpg?c76bf34eada957f64a0b14990027a576ff9bf379)

Roy (dark hair) (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roy-horn-siegfried-and-roy-dead_n_5eb602d9c5b69c4b317a7855?twn)

COVID or TIGER?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 08, 2020, 10:07:00 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 08, 2020, 10:00:00 pm

COVID or TIGER?

The VID

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 08, 2020, 10:07:14 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 08, 2020, 10:00:00 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on May 08, 2020, 09:51:33 pm
(https://media.lasvegasweekly.com/img/photos/2013/10/02/Siegfried_Roy_Las_Vegas_Sun_file_4_t1000.jpg?c76bf34eada957f64a0b14990027a576ff9bf379)

Roy (dark hair) (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roy-horn-siegfried-and-roy-dead_n_5eb602d9c5b69c4b317a7855?twn)
COVID or TIGER?

covid. He was the fat one who was attacked by tiger in 2003.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 09, 2020, 08:42:39 am

Quote from: Space Freely on May 08, 2020, 10:07:14 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 08, 2020, 10:00:00 pm
Quote from: Justin Tonation on May 08, 2020, 09:51:33 pm
(https://media.lasvegasweekly.com/img/photos/2013/10/02/Siegfried_Roy_Las_Vegas_Sun_file_4_t1000.jpg?c76bf34eada957f64a0b14990027a576ff9bf379)

Roy (dark hair) (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roy-horn-siegfried-and-roy-dead_n_5eb602d9c5b69c4b317a7855?twn)
COVID or TIGER?
covid. He was the fat one who was attacked by tiger in 2003.

Quite a life. Survive a tiger mauling to get taken out by the plandemic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 09, 2020, 08:58:52 am

Like that guy who survived Hiroshima, then fled to Nagasaki to recover. (Survived that too!)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 09, 2020, 09:59:55 am

(https://www.oxfordamerican.org/media/k2/items/cache/85ca514f9886a96d3c067f991afcb736_XL.jpg) (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/little-richard-dead-48505/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 09, 2020, 10:03:01 am

Just saw that

Really sucks even if we half expected it

One of the few true original founding greats of rock and roll

Maybe the last one left...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 09, 2020, 10:09:53 am

Quote from: hutch on May 09, 2020, 10:03:01 am

One of the few true original founding greats of rock and roll

Maybe the last one left...

Pretty much just Roy Orbison left.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 09, 2020, 10:23:36 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 09, 2020, 10:09:53 am

Quote from: hutch on May 09, 2020, 10:03:01 am
One of the few true original founding greats of rock and roll

Maybe the last one left...
Pretty much just Roy Orbison left.

Umm...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 09, 2020, 10:24:25 am

Quote from: Heilung4eva on May 09, 2020, 10:23:36 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 09, 2020, 10:09:53 am
Quote from: hutch on May 09, 2020, 10:03:01 am
One of the few true original founding greats of rock and roll

Maybe the last one left...
Pretty much just Roy Orbison left.

Umm...

What? I met him at an event last month.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 09, 2020, 10:25:13 am

Me too, man. Me too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 09, 2020, 10:26:49 am

Quote from: Heilung4eva on May 09, 2020, 10:25:13 am

Me too, man. Me too.

Then who was that elderly man? HE TOLD ME I COULD BE AN HONORARY JUNIOR WILBURY.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 09, 2020, 10:27:24 am

OH GOD.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on May 09, 2020, 11:10:54 am

Quote from: hutch on May 09, 2020, 10:03:01 am

Just saw that

Really sucks even if we half expected it

One of the few true original founding greats of rock and roll

Maybe the last one left...

Jerry Lee and I think we're done.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 09, 2020, 11:22:21 am

But Jerry Lee is really from the second wave...still I too thought of him

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 09, 2020, 11:38:56 am

Quote from: hutch on May 09, 2020, 11:22:21 am

But Jerry Lee is really from the second wave...still I too thought of him

He broke in 1957. Certainly not "second" wave.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 09, 2020, 11:44:05 am

Maybe but he was definitely after Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Elvis Presley.

By the time Jerry Lee Lewis broke Sam Phillips and the Sun Studio sound was consolidated, Fats Domino has been having hits since 1949, and Elvis had released his TWO groundbreaking albums on RCA after being bought out from Sun.

But YMMV

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 09, 2020, 06:54:13 pm

Holli Ross

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 09, 2020, 08:25:03 pm

Andre Harrell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 09, 2020, 11:32:42 pm

Tommy ‘The Matchmaker’ Curtis, Yacht Club of Bethesda (https://wtop.com/local/2020/05/raconteur-tommy-the-matchmaker-curtis-who-owned-yacht-club-of-bethesda-dies-at-75/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 10, 2020, 10:33:06 am

Betty Wright (trending on Twitter but no links yet)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 10, 2020, 05:46:44 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on May 10, 2020, 10:33:06 am

Betty Wright (trending on Twitter but no links yet)

Sadly, confirmed a couple hours ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 11, 2020, 06:37:30 am

Jerry stiller #Serenitynow

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 11, 2020, 04:47:02 pm

‘Double Rainbow Guy’ Dies at 57 (https://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/viral-video-sensation-double-rainbow-guy-dies-at-57/2299253/?fbclid=IwAR1kDA9a78JK9C2qzBq2gEoFfQNXopq63Ar42IhFxVr3ezihbpEiDXEKCJI)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 11, 2020, 05:12:52 pm

Quote from: SideHatchGate ılıl|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|lıl on May 11, 2020, 04:47:02 pm

‘Double Rainbow Guy’ Dies at 57 (https://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/viral-video-sensation-double-rainbow-guy-dies-at-57/2299253/?fbclid=IwAR1kDA9a78JK9C2qzBq2gEoFfQNXopq63Ar42IhFxVr3ezihbpEiDXEKCJI)

I think Walkie dying deserves its own thread. He was a regular.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 13, 2020, 09:07:32 pm

Moon Martin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 13, 2020, 09:09:14 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 13, 2020, 09:07:32 pm

Moon Martin

Bad case of....COVID?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 13, 2020, 09:17:44 pm

Good one!

No idea

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on May 13, 2020, 09:35:33 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 13, 2020, 09:07:32 pm

Moon Martin

Remember seeing his albums in the dollar bins. Where to begin?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 14, 2020, 04:35:47 pm

Beckett Cypher, Melissa Etheridge's son with former partner Julie Cypher, whose biological father was David Crosby, has died from opioid addiction.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 14, 2020, 04:37:56 pm

Quote from: the darkest winter-hatch ılıl|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|lıl on May 14, 2020, 04:35:47 pm

Beckett Cypher, Melissa Etheridge's son with former partner Julie Cypher, whose biological father was David Crosby, has died from opioid addiction.

Thats so eerie. I was just sharing a lead-crystal glass full of Dilaudid with him last week while we laid on our chaise lounges with damp cloths on our faces. Life is fickle.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 15, 2020, 01:26:49 pm

Phil May singer with The Pretty Things

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 15, 2020, 01:39:56 pm

Santana

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 15, 2020, 01:50:11 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 15, 2020, 01:39:56 pm

Santana

Jorge

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 15, 2020, 01:50:30 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 15, 2020, 01:39:56 pm

Santana

Had me there for a second, not gonna lie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on May 15, 2020, 02:37:41 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 15, 2020, 01:39:56 pm

Santana

THE ONION: Carlos Santana Signs 30-Year Contract Extension With Longtime Hat

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 15, 2020, 02:47:11 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on May 15, 2020, 02:37:41 pm

Carlos Santana Signs 30-Year Contract Extension With Longtime Hat

...

THE ONION

Had me there for a second, not gonna lie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 15, 2020, 02:50:27 pm

Show some respect

Jorge was a legend

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 15, 2020, 02:54:10 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 15, 2020, 02:50:27 pm

Show some respect

Jorge was a legend

In what way is anyone on here disrespecting him other than maybe yourself trying to pass him off as his more famous brother?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 15, 2020, 02:57:57 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 15, 2020, 03:02:57 pm

At least it wasn't Oscar

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 15, 2020, 03:07:52 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on May 15, 2020, 03:02:57 pm

At least it wasn't Oscar

Or Tito "Don't Call Me Chico" Santana.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on May 15, 2020, 03:24:39 pm

loved "Suavecito" RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 16, 2020, 08:59:21 am

Astrid Kirchherr

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on May 16, 2020, 12:56:59 pm

Hadn’t heard that name in a long time. She took some amazing shots.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on May 16, 2020, 01:40:07 pm

Chuck Brown on this day in 2012.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 16, 2020, 02:52:06 pm

Does anyone ever listen to Chuck Brown music?

Serious question and be honest

I get it we all have to like him but damn it if go go Music isn’t a bitch to listen to

I love it that Henry Rollins and Ian swear by it but I can’t even pic them listening to it

Crawl under rock emoji

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 16, 2020, 03:02:33 pm

It was really funny when he got a rock for Halloween. The Vince Guaraldi stuff is good, but i can't picture Henry or Ian listening to it either.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on May 16, 2020, 03:09:11 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 16, 2020, 02:52:06 pm

Does anyone ever listen to Chuck Brown music?

Serious question and be honest

I get it we all have to like him but damn it if go go Music isn’t a bitch to listen to

I love it that Henry Rollins and Ian swear by it but I can’t even pic them listening to it

Crawl under rock emoji

I hope there's some room under that rock. I saw him once at Reston Town Center, a free show in 2009 and it was a lot of fun and the live energy was contagious. Bustin' Loose is the only go-go record I own and I'm probably not alone on that statistic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on May 16, 2020, 03:10:47 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 16, 2020, 03:02:33 pm

It was really funny when he got a rock for Halloween. The Vince Guaraldi stuff is good, but i can't picture Henry or Ian listening to it either.

That's gold, Space! Gold!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on May 16, 2020, 04:19:40 pm

Fred Willard

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on May 16, 2020, 05:33:20 pm

Lynn Shelton

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 16, 2020, 06:16:19 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on May 16, 2020, 04:19:40 pm

Fred Wiilard

the name might not mean much, but i bet everyone recognizes his face:

(https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/9191941ad.jpg?resize=1800,1200&w=1200)

Fred Willard, ‘Best in Show’ and ‘A Mighty Wind’ Actor, Dead at 86 (https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/fred-willard-best-in-show-actor-dead-obit-1000942/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 16, 2020, 06:24:31 pm

He played more imbeciles in movies than Space Freely on this board

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 16, 2020, 06:53:03 pm

His role in Best In Show is one of the most perfect performances ever done.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 16, 2020, 08:29:24 pm

Phyllis George

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 17, 2020, 06:32:33 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 16, 2020, 06:53:03 pm

His role in Best In Show is one of the most perfect performances ever done.

co-signed. he was brilliant as the clueless announcer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 18, 2020, 02:54:40 pm

A sincere moment of silence for Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell) (https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/05/ken-osmond-eddie-haskell-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 19, 2020, 12:22:45 pm

Annie Glenn, widow of astronaut and Ohio Sen. John Glenn, has died from coronavirus.
Mrs. Glenn was 100

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 23, 2020, 12:32:27 pm

Fred Parker, co-founder of Hard Times (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/fred-parker-co-founder-of-hard-times-chili-chain-dies-at-78/2020/05/12/08a14834-9490-11ea-91d7-cf4423d47683_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 25, 2020, 10:05:20 am

Jimmy Cobb

(jazz drummer)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: dyecraig on May 25, 2020, 12:15:46 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 25, 2020, 10:05:20 am

Jimmy Cobb

(jazz drummer)

^ the last of the Kind of Blue band.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 27, 2020, 12:20:59 am

Bucky Baxter

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 27, 2020, 07:04:30 pm

Larry Kramer

(AIDS activist)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on May 27, 2020, 08:50:25 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 27, 2020, 07:04:30 pm

Larry Kramer

(AIDS activist)

hero. bless him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 29, 2020, 01:51:51 pm

Bob Kulick, who recorded and toured with Kiss, Meat Loaf, Grand Funk Railroad, Union, Blackjack, and Lou Reed, has died at the age of 70.
His brother Bruce wrote on Facebook, "I know he is at peace now, with my parents, playing his guitar as loud as possible."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 31, 2020, 05:52:42 pm

(https://d2jv9003bew7ag.cloudfront.net/uploads/Christo-and-Jeanne-Claude-Wrapped-Reichstag-Berlin-1971-95.jpg)

Christo (https://apnews.com/c62953312b2a915582eb896ed8f747a0?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 01, 2020, 08:37:46 pm

Joey Image

(Misfits drummer)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 02, 2020, 10:15:18 am

Wes Unseld (https://wtop.com/washington-wizards/2020/06/wes-unseld-of-bullets-and-wizards-fame-dies-at-74/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 04, 2020, 04:20:23 pm

Are You Ready Steve?

Steve Priest bass player for the Sweet

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 04, 2020, 04:23:25 pm

The Sweet had some great stuff

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 04, 2020, 04:56:21 pm

Spacebomb's Facebook account

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 05:48:07 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 04, 2020, 04:56:21 pm

Spacebomb's Facebook account

without some context, this is going to be meaningless to 90%+ of boardees (and 99%+ of the general population).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 04, 2020, 05:53:48 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 05:48:07 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 04, 2020, 04:56:21 pm
Spacebomb's Facebook account

without some context, this is going to be meaningless to 90%+ of boardees (and 99%+ of the general population).

On Brand

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 04, 2020, 06:33:39 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 05:48:07 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 04, 2020, 04:56:21 pm
Spacebomb's Facebook account

without some context, this is going to be meaningless to 90%+ of boardees (and 99%+ of the general population).

Thanks for pointing that out. Feel free to add context or simply type spacebomb into Google.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 04, 2020, 06:41:07 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 04, 2020, 04:23:25 pm

The Sweet had some great stuff

And someone smarter then I pointed out

By the way, you are not telling me Jack White isn't a fan of Steve Priest's vocal interjections.

And after watching a couple Sweet videos, I can totally hear that

https://twitter.com/simon_price01/status/1268609302266175490?s=21

And I dig Captain Sensible’s remembrance

TOTPs, when Sweet were on.. you sat there in awe thinking - sod the school careers adviser that's the job for me - and they wound your parents up something rotten too, which was a bonus. Steve Priest RIP.

https://twitter.com/sensiblecaptain/status/1268633891545534470?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 04, 2020, 06:43:37 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 04, 2020, 06:33:39 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 05:48:07 pm
Quote from: Yada on June 04, 2020, 04:56:21 pm
Spacebomb's Facebook account

without some context, this is going to be meaningless to 90%+ of boardees (and 99%+ of the general population).

Thanks for pointing that out. Feel free to add context or simply type spacebomb into Google.

Ill provide the context: it’s Hutchesque virtue signaling.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:46:14 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 04, 2020, 06:33:39 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 05:48:07 pm
Quote from: Yada on June 04, 2020, 04:56:21 pm
Spacebomb's Facebook account

without some context, this is going to be meaningless to 90%+ of boardees (and 99%+ of the general population).

Thanks for pointing that out. Feel free to add context or simply type spacebomb into Google.

unfortunately that doesn't work. i learned that it's an innovative studio in richmond. cool. so why is their FB page dead? some sort of protest? they were suspended? nothing about that on the googles.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:46:37 pm

Sandra Clara Catalano

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:46:54 pm

Lowell "Bud" Eschbach

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:47:11 pm

Douglas Edwin Sutherland Horne

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:47:30 pm

Darlene June English

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:47:53 pm

James Thurston "Jim" Hoganson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 04, 2020, 06:48:07 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:46:37 pm

Sandra Clara Catalano

2019

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 04, 2020, 06:48:40 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:47:30 pm

Darlene June English

2019

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 04, 2020, 06:49:09 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:47:53 pm

James Thurston "Jim" Hoganson

2019

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:49:52 pm

Stephen Michael Lewis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:50:16 pm

Jeffrey Robert Cardinel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:53:00 pm

Erlinda V. Alcala

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 04, 2020, 07:02:56 pm

#triggered

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 04, 2020, 07:40:48 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:46:14 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 04, 2020, 06:33:39 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 05:48:07 pm
Quote from: Yada on June 04, 2020, 04:56:21 pm
Spacebomb's Facebook account

without some context, this is going to be meaningless to 90%+ of boardees (and 99%+ of the general population).

Thanks for pointing that out. Feel free to add context or simply type spacebomb into Google.

unfortunately that doesn't work. i learned that it's an innovative studio in richmond. cool. so why is their FB page dead? some sort of protest? they were suspended? nothing about that on the googles.

They’re refusing to use FB anymore because Zuckerberg won’t censor Trump’s comments. So, as I said, virtue signaling.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 07:41:20 pm

#fightingfirewithfire

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 07:41:32 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on June 04, 2020, 07:40:48 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 06:46:14 pm
Quote from: Yada on June 04, 2020, 06:33:39 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on June 04, 2020, 05:48:07 pm
Quote from: Yada on June 04, 2020, 04:56:21 pm
Spacebomb's Facebook account

without some context, this is going to be meaningless to 90%+ of boardees (and 99%+ of the general population).

Thanks for pointing that out. Feel free to add context or simply type spacebomb into Google.

unfortunately that doesn't work. i learned that it's an innovative studio in richmond. cool. so why is their FB page dead? some sort of protest? they were suspended? nothing about that on the googles.
They’re refusing to use FB anymore because Zuckerberg won’t censor Trump’s comments. So, as I said, virtue signaling.

awesome, thanks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hemisphire on June 05, 2020, 12:11:39 pm

Rupert Hine

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 05, 2020, 12:18:07 pm

Quote from: hemisphire on June 05, 2020, 12:11:39 pm

Rupert Hine

produced albums for artists including Rush, Tina Turner, Howard Jones, Saga, The Fixx, Bob Geldof, Thompson Twins, Stevie Nicks, Chris de Burgh, Suzanne Vega, Underworld, Duncan Sheik

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 05, 2020, 02:50:57 pm

He really made the Fixx

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 05, 2020, 04:00:47 pm

Remember when were thought celebrity COVID deaths like Adam Schlesinger and John Prine was going to be an everyday occurrence? When was the last time someone famous died from COVID-19?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 05, 2020, 07:09:12 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 05, 2020, 04:00:47 pm

Remember when were thought celebrity COVID deaths like Adam Schlesinger and John Prine was going to be an everyday occurrence? When was the last time someone famous died from COVID-19?

admittedly one of the 1,031 people who died yesterday were famous. i'm sure that's of great consolation to their families: "mommy died, but it's not like she was famous or anything!!!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 05, 2020, 07:21:35 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 05, 2020, 07:09:12 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 05, 2020, 04:00:47 pm
Remember when were thought celebrity COVID deaths like Adam Schlesinger and John Prine was going to be an everyday occurrence? When was the last time someone famous died from COVID-19?

admittedly one of the 1,031 people who died yesterday were famous. i'm sure that's of great consolation to their families: "mommy died, but it's not like she was famous or anything!!!"

A vast majority of the mothers who dies of COVID yesterday were far too old have kids young enough to call them "Mommy!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 06, 2020, 02:04:02 am

Quote from: Space Freely on June 05, 2020, 07:21:35 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 05, 2020, 07:09:12 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on June 05, 2020, 04:00:47 pm
Remember when were thought celebrity COVID deaths like Adam Schlesinger and John Prine was going to be an everyday occurrence? When was the last time someone famous died from COVID-19?

admittedly one of the 1,031 people who died yesterday were famous. i'm sure that's of great consolation to their families: "mommy died, but it's not like she was famous or anything!!!"

A vast majority of the mothers who dies of COVID yesterday were far too old have kids young enough to call them "Mommy!"

space, your sauce is getting weaker and weaker. if i change "mommy" to "mom" or "nana" would that convince you? just like if i said 99% of black kids are worse off than white kids, as opposed to 100%?

you're not winning on a technicality. you're coming across as an insensitive prick who is more concerned about semantics than people. congrats.

edit: you know who else tried to distract with a difference without distinction? the feds that cleared Lafayette park on monday: "we didn't use tear gas" (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/05/reverse-fact-check-trump-his-supporters-about-tear-gas-falls-apart/).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 06, 2020, 11:02:28 am

I am hoping this “Space” is just some trollish character keyboard warrior is playing on here as a lark...

It’s not funny but he might only be interested in amusing himself..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 06, 2020, 11:35:12 am

I think we can all agree that unless you're expecting to go to heaven when you die, death is the worst moment of life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 06, 2020, 11:47:33 am

Quote from: sweetcell on June 06, 2020, 02:04:02 am

Quote from: Space Freely on June 05, 2020, 07:21:35 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on June 05, 2020, 07:09:12 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on June 05, 2020, 04:00:47 pm
Remember when were thought celebrity COVID deaths like Adam Schlesinger and John Prine was going to be an everyday occurrence? When was the last time someone famous died from COVID-19?

admittedly one of the 1,031 people who died yesterday were famous. i'm sure that's of great consolation to their families: "mommy died, but it's not like she was famous or anything!!!"

A vast majority of the mothers who dies of COVID yesterday were far too old have kids young enough to call them "Mommy!"

space, your sauce is getting weaker and weaker. if i change "mommy" to "mom" or "nana" would that convince you? just like if i said 99% of black kids are worse off than white kids, as opposed to 100%?

you're not winning on a technicality. you're coming across as an insensitive prick who is more concerned about semantics than people. congrats.

edit: you know who else tried to distract with a difference without distinction? the feds that cleared Lafayette park on monday: "we didn't use tear gas" (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/05/reverse-fact-check-trump-his-supporters-about-tear-gas-falls-apart/).

Just a thought: perhaps people should take their mom's into their single family homes rather than putting them in nursing homes? That's where nearly half of the US COVID deaths have taken place.

Also, who do some of you sensitive souls take offense to everything i say? I simply said celebrities aren't dying of COVID at the rates that some predicted. I never implied that just because someone is not a celebrity doesn't mean they didn't matter to those who loved them.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on June 06, 2020, 04:07:45 pm

I more interested, in Space's sauce.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 07, 2020, 06:14:55 pm

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/KYeHeyHoIoa8D5kQ3IaVDvkS-tkbudhTeWbxVJD6d_aN4J-0ZrguR0EWupdzfhX14gP3iJareLZjidd9gxTJKuYDPza5PSG5aqbHwhnJB8DLY7wg2vgvQUiwOkHzih-twnHrli86VtSq5MXzmPiwrYu6cJzyTw)

Jalyn Graham "of Dope" Owens Sr. (https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-krulik/jalyn-graham-owens-sr-rip-1969-2020/10222674194271873/?qid=6835730181924098836&mf_story_key=-6476709030995140411)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on June 07, 2020, 06:27:43 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on June 07, 2020, 06:14:55 pm

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/KYeHeyHoIoa8D5kQ3IaVDvkS-tkbudhTeWbxVJD6d_aN4J-0ZrguR0EWupdzfhX14gP3iJareLZjidd9gxTJKuYDPza5PSG5aqbHwhnJB8DLY7wg2vgvQUiwOkHzih-twnHrli86VtSq5MXzmPiwrYu6cJzyTw)

Jalyn Graham "of Dope" Owens Sr. (https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-krulik/jalyn-graham-owens-sr-rip-1969-2020/10222674194271873/?qid=6835730181924098836&mf_story_key=-6476709030995140411)

I, would like to see, America, return to a world where people dressed like that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 08, 2020, 07:13:59 am

Colston Statue in Bristol

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 08, 2020, 01:45:29 pm

James Hand

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 08, 2020, 02:51:09 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 08, 2020, 01:45:29 pm

James Hand

Had not heard of him, but the family names definitely say "Texan." With that last name you could come up with some good ones.

His sons Shane Machac and Tracer Hand, his brothers Ty and Bimbo Hand, and nephew Cody Hand appreciate all the love and prayers,

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 08, 2020, 05:26:55 pm

Bonnie Pointer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 08, 2020, 07:21:42 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 08, 2020, 02:51:09 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 08, 2020, 01:45:29 pm
James Hand

Had not heard of him, but the family names definitely say "Texan." With that last name you could come up with some good ones.

His sons Shane Machac and Tracer Hand, his brothers Ty and Bimbo Hand, and nephew Cody Hand appreciate all the love and prayers,

(https://irulan18.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/alohamrhand.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on June 08, 2020, 09:15:08 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 08, 2020, 05:26:55 pm

Bonnie Pointer

Diva, queen, legend, forever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: twangirl on June 09, 2020, 01:13:37 am

Quote from: Yada on June 08, 2020, 01:45:29 pm

James Hand

A true Texan honky tonk troubadour. Not many left like James "Slim" Hand. Willie Nelson calls him "the real deal", and he would know.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 09, 2020, 10:06:42 am

Pau Dones

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/06/pau-dones-dead/amp/

Shocking...Never got into his music myself but still shocked

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 16, 2020, 11:05:23 am

Nur Omar Mohamed
Covid’d

(Rep Ilhan Omar’s father)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 17, 2020, 07:56:36 am

Alex Taylor - singer for The Shop Assistants \ Motorcycle Boy

what's strange about this one is that it's been revealed 15 years after her death...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 18, 2020, 02:30:42 pm

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? (https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/880323033/vera-lynn-singer-of-timeless-classics-in-wwii-era-britain-dies-at-103)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 18, 2020, 02:36:22 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on June 18, 2020, 02:30:42 pm

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? (https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/880323033/vera-lynn-singer-of-timeless-classics-in-wwii-era-britain-dies-at-103)

so the demo on her is old....but not that old

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 18, 2020, 02:39:58 pm

Ughh she was 103

And her demo are WWII vets

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 18, 2020, 04:30:13 pm

and pink floyd fans.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 19, 2020, 10:35:40 am

Ian Holm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 19, 2020, 10:58:23 pm

David Gluck, uncredited Pink Flamingos actor (for that other infamous scene) (https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-david-gluck-20200619-tgunh2dcazbl5pvymnvho2ecvy-story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lily1 on June 22, 2020, 01:43:49 pm

Eighteenth Street Lounge

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 22, 2020, 02:01:27 pm

Quote from: lily1 on June 22, 2020, 01:43:49 pm

Eighteenth Street Lounge

wow...

Dupont Nightlife Institution Eighteenth Street Lounge Is Permanently Closed After 25 Years
https://dc.eater.com/2020/6/22/21298957/eighteenth-street-lounge-closing-dupont-circle-25-years-covid-19

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 22, 2020, 02:14:22 pm

Joel Schumacher, Director of Lost Boys (and Batman movies with Kilmer and Clooney) Dies at 80

This was an interesting tidbit...
The openly gay Schumacher was accused of introducing homoerotic elements to the relationship between Batman and Robin; in 2006 Clooney told Barbara Walters that he had played Batman as gay.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 22, 2020, 03:06:15 pm

Quote from: lily1 on June 22, 2020, 01:43:49 pm

Eighteenth Street Lounge

Wow I thought they were going to try to pull through

Farid I think owns a bunch of other stuff

The 18th Street lounge was a nice place to know was around - a possibility-but I hadn’t gone in over a decade

On weekends that part of town turned into a shitshow

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 22, 2020, 03:11:21 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 22, 2020, 03:06:15 pm

Quote from: lily1 on June 22, 2020, 01:43:49 pm
Eighteenth Street Lounge

Wow I thought they were going to try to pull through

Farid I think owns a bunch of other stuff

The 18th Street lounge was a nice place to know was around - a possibility-but I hadn’t gone in over a decade

On weekends that part of town turned into a shitshow

I’ve been as recently as six months ago. I’ll miss it although it’s heyday obviously was long ago.

Article made it sound like landlord was willing to do nothing on rent abatement during a time they legally could not open. Dumb. Who else is going to move in in the interim?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 22, 2020, 03:16:54 pm

Yeah I can’t blame Farid...

https://dc.eater.com/2020/6/22/21298957/eighteenth-street-lounge-closing-dupont-circle-25-years-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR1nqy51tJAeyhlELGK9AEsB45ZQ1TVnjmQ4ZEQJ-ddhcJIEH6Urq6n-KLg

I thought they owned the place

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 23, 2020, 10:33:04 am

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 23, 2020, 12:26:37 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 22, 2020, 02:01:27 pm

Quote from: lily1 on June 22, 2020, 01:43:49 pm
Eighteenth Street Lounge

wow...

Dupont Nightlife Institution Eighteenth Street Lounge Is Permanently Closed After 25 Years
https://dc.eater.com/2020/6/22/21298957/eighteenth-street-lounge-closing-dupont-circle-25-years-covid-19

obituary by hilton:

"Yesterday, many of us lost a second home. Instead of mourning the closure of Eighteenth Street Lounge, I want celebrate what inspired the creation of The Lounge - optimism, creativity, courage, love and friendship.

It took all of these things for Farid, Yama, Aman and me to make ESL a reality. And it took a tremendous amount of sweat and determination. The Lounge is now history, but the spirit inspired ESL is still with in us.

I’ll forever cherish my memories of The Lounge. I met my wife Marcia there. I met Rob Garza there. We recorded our first Thievery Corporation LP in the liquor room at ESL. We made great friendships there, and it was a magical place that meant so much to so many.

My heart goes out to all of the people who will miss climbing those 19 stairs to feel at home. We’re blessed that we got to experience it. But all things pass.

Eighteenth Street Lounge is now a mystical part of the Infinite Everywhere.

Eric Hilton

#eighteenthstreetlounge #18thstreetlounge"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 23, 2020, 04:46:36 pm

The Segway

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 23, 2020, 05:30:50 pm

You dropped your segway? Dude!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on June 28, 2020, 07:38:47 am

Milton Glaser
Legendary Graphic Designer

(https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjIxMTg0MiJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA5MCAtcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MjAwMFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=0ec42ea74ebf55dc)
(https://www.moma.org/media/W1siZiIsIjIxMTg4OCJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA5MCAtcmVzaXplIDIwMDB4MjAwMFx1MDAzZSJdXQ.jpg?sha=f3e81d8841f121af)

(https://image-cdn.hypb.st/https%3A%2F%2Fhypebeast.com%2Fimage%2F2018%2F08%2Faretha-franklin-smithsonian-national-portrait-gallery-exhibition-1.jpg?q=75&w=800&cbr=1&fit=max)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 30, 2020, 09:32:20 am

Carl Reiner, 98

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 30, 2020, 09:34:20 am

He was the best in many ways...

Rest In Peace, sir. Well done

Only sorry he won’t get to see Trump defeated...that was sort of his goal..to make it until November 3

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 30, 2020, 09:50:44 am

Quote from: Heilung4eva on June 30, 2020, 09:32:20 am

Carl Reiner, 98

that sucks...true legend of entertainment

I've loved reading his tweets as of late :'(

This pic is just awesome
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ebw3pPNU8AYZTgH?format=jpg&name=large)
What he and Mel has been doing in their 90s...I'm hoping I can do in my 70s
The force of this guy was immeasurable

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 30, 2020, 08:27:30 pm

Johnny Mandel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 01, 2020, 10:45:34 am

Quote from: hutch on June 30, 2020, 08:27:30 pm

Johnny Mandel

Thought that said Manziel for a second.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 01, 2020, 10:46:29 am

His career died years ago..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 01, 2020, 10:56:02 am

Quote from: hutch on June 30, 2020, 08:27:30 pm

Johnny Mandel

he did write that memorable M.A.S.H. theme song "Suicide Is Painless"

The back story on that is fairly interesting
The song was written specifically for Ken Prymus, the actor playing Private Seidman, who sang it during the faux-suicide of Walter "Painless Pole" Waldowski (John Schuck) in the film's "Last Supper" scene. Director Robert Altman had two stipulations about the song for Mandel: it had to be called "Suicide Is Painless" and it had to be the "stupidest song ever written". Altman attempted to write the lyrics himself, but upon finding it too difficult for his 45-year-old brain to write "stupid enough,"he gave the task to his 14-year-old-son Michael, who wrote the lyrics in five minutes.

in the 1980s, Robert Altman said that while he only made $70,000 for having directed the movie, his son had earned more than $1 million for having co-written the song.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 01, 2020, 11:47:33 am

Quote from: hutch on July 01, 2020, 10:46:29 am

His career died years ago..

He could yet rise from the ashes like a drug-addled phoenix out of Arizona.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 01, 2020, 11:48:07 am

The Bill Evans’ versions are very moving..... for a stupid song

Of course Bill Evans was said to be the longest suicide ever..and his brother and wife preceded him in death..by suicide
So the song meant something to him

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 01, 2020, 11:52:55 am

Quote from: hutch on July 01, 2020, 11:48:07 am

The Bill Evans’ versions are very moving..... for a stupid song

Thanks for the tip...never heard that
also...only the lyrics were stupid...the music Mandel wrote is amazing and always evokes a feeling of sorrow when I hear it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 01, 2020, 12:03:19 pm

A must hear album... my favorite by Bill Evans..released around right after he died

Definitely unique...a very very moving album..I get mega goosebumps just typing about it

It has Suicide is painless

An album for late nights when one is only one up

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Must_Believe_in_Spring_(Bill_Evans_album)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 05, 2020, 07:29:02 pm

I had posted an unconfirmed death

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 05, 2020, 09:36:40 pm

Was it Broadway star Nick Cordero after 90 days with Covid?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 06, 2020, 02:16:29 am

Sadly yes

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 06, 2020, 03:12:37 am

Ennio Morricone

Did some really special work

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 06, 2020, 11:59:08 am

Quote from: hutch on July 06, 2020, 03:12:37 am

Ennio Morricone

Did some really special work

@daveweigel
Noticed that the Ramones' use of "The Ecstasy of Gold" as their walk-on music didn't make it into many of the Morricone obits. Then I realized: Morricone outlived all of the original Ramones by six years. (Tommy died in 2014.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 06, 2020, 12:41:04 pm

Charlie Daniels (https://popculture.com/country-music/news/charlie-daniels-country-music-icon-dead-at-83/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 06, 2020, 01:11:57 pm

Started out promising..playing on some great Dylan! Some good early albums

Turned into wacko southern nut job...just couldn’t keep up with progress... went off the rails

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 06, 2020, 01:38:00 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 05, 2020, 09:36:40 pm

Was it Broadway star Nick Cordero after 90 days with Covid?

now confirmed.
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5232813002

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on July 06, 2020, 01:45:54 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on July 06, 2020, 01:38:00 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 05, 2020, 09:36:40 pm
Was it Broadway star Nick Cordero after 90 days with Covid?

now confirmed.
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5232813002

that Cordero story is a slow motion nightmare death.

To lighten this back up though: Jon Wurster and Charlie Daniels

https://adland.tv/adnews/ups-nascar-charlie-daniels-variant-2002-030-usa (https://adland.tv/adnews/ups-nascar-charlie-daniels-variant-2002-030-usa)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 06, 2020, 02:55:06 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 06, 2020, 01:11:57 pm

Started out promising..playing on some great Dylan! Some good early albums

Turned into wacko southern nut job...just couldn’t keep up with progress... went off the rails

Seems like Mr. Daniels is getting a bit of a pass because of his playing with Dylan and Cohen... Wonder if the Nuge will get the same treatment...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 06, 2020, 03:07:57 pm

Quote from: challenged on July 06, 2020, 01:45:54 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on July 06, 2020, 01:38:00 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on July 05, 2020, 09:36:40 pm
Was it Broadway star Nick Cordero after 90 days with Covid?

now confirmed.
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/5232813002

that Cordero story is a slow motion nightmare death.

Here's an interesting thought experiment: what if we knew definitively there was a heaven and hell style afterlife system in play and we also knew as a provable fact that someone who dies and is missing a limb either goes to heaven and continues limbless forever or goes to hell and their missing limb is used as part of their torture. (The standard processing on whether one goes to heaven or hell depending on their actions while on Earth are still in effect.) Do you think this would curtail individuals amputating limbs in an effort to extend their earthly life course? Does it change the equation if we know if in the heavenly realm one floats vs walking on clouds? Show your work.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 06, 2020, 03:14:12 pm

wut.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 06, 2020, 03:14:50 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on July 06, 2020, 03:14:12 pm

wut.

can confirm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 06, 2020, 03:25:26 pm

Well pardon me for offering up a topic of conversation!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 06, 2020, 03:37:32 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 06, 2020, 02:55:06 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 06, 2020, 01:11:57 pm
Started out promising..playing on some great Dylan! Some good early albums

Turned into wacko southern nut job...just couldn’t keep up with progress... went off the rails

Seems like Mr. Daniels is getting a bit of a pass because of his playing with Dylan and Cohen... Wonder if the Nuge will get the same treatment...

I realize this is being overly harsh as we are flaw'd in some sense... it's pretty well documented that lots of our idols aren’t the most virtuous i.e bowie shacking up with a 14 year old.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 06, 2020, 04:09:36 pm

Jonathan Sackler, co-owner of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, dies at 65

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 06, 2020, 07:47:12 pm

Quote from: Statuesque-hatch ılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|lıl on July 06, 2020, 04:09:36 pm

Jonathan Sackler, co-owner of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, dies at 65

from an overdose, perchance?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 09, 2020, 10:49:30 pm

Naya Rivera

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 10, 2020, 08:03:10 am

Tami Lynn

If you ever wondered who was the woman singing on Stones’ “Let it Loose”... the Stones...always great at not crediting collaborators...she damn well makes that song

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 12, 2020, 09:34:14 pm

Benjamin Keough
(Elvis’ grandson)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 13, 2020, 07:41:59 am

Kelly Preston

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 14, 2020, 05:47:20 am

Grant Imahara - Mythbuster and all around great dude - of a brain aneurysm at 49... how seriously sad

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 16, 2020, 12:29:00 pm

local fishmonger, Cap't White
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdD4CNhXsAE8E3X?format=jpg&name=large)
car Accident

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 16, 2020, 11:31:39 pm

Jamie Oldaker

Drummer for Clapton in the 1970s

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 17, 2020, 12:16:29 am

Ken Chinn

(SNFU)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 17, 2020, 03:08:07 am

Quote from: hutch on July 17, 2020, 12:16:29 am

Ken Chinn

(SNFU)

mr. chi pig... sad. i'm off to listen to "if you swear"... RIP.

edit: Black Cloud (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOibV79vltA&t=746s)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 17, 2020, 04:56:46 pm

Joanna Cole, ‘Magic School Bus’ writer who hooked children on science, dies at 75 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/joanna-cole-magic-school-bus-writer-who-hooked-children-on-science-dies-at-75/2020/07/16/f0b75354-c6e8-11ea-a99f-3bbdffb1af38_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 18, 2020, 12:11:25 am

John Lewis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 18, 2020, 09:24:41 am

Quote from: hutch on July 18, 2020, 12:11:25 am

John Lewis

I have a long time good friend who shares his name and when my wife told me this morning that John Lewis had died...well it wasn't him but this still sucks. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 18, 2020, 09:50:14 am

Quote from: hutch on July 18, 2020, 12:11:25 am

John Lewis

Barack put a touching obit on medium
https://medium.com/@BarackObama/my-statement-on-the-passing-of-rep-john-lewis-fa86761cd964

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 19, 2020, 05:47:53 pm

Emitt Rhodes

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 21, 2020, 03:03:29 am

Visitante

https://www.pollstar.com/article/visitante-half-of-calle-13-is-no-more-meet-cabra-145081

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 21, 2020, 10:22:07 pm

Annie Ross

If anyone here knows her it’s without knowing probably...from the song Twisted that Joni memorably covered

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 25, 2020, 12:04:31 pm

Peter Green

(From Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 25, 2020, 04:16:47 pm

Regis Philbin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 25, 2020, 04:19:16 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 25, 2020, 04:16:47 pm

Regis Philbin

He hasn’t been relevant for longer than his beloved Notre Dame.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on July 25, 2020, 04:50:06 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 25, 2020, 04:19:16 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 25, 2020, 04:16:47 pm
Regis Philbin
He hasn’t been relevant for longer than his beloved Notre Dame.

Also, I think Regis helped normalize Trump back years ago, Regis and Kelly or Kathy or someone would talk about him a lot: "The Donald" this and that, and yada yada. Anyway RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 25, 2020, 08:33:04 pm

John Saxon (https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/07/r-i-p-john-saxon/)

You may know him from just about every 70s TV sci-fi movie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 27, 2020, 10:24:15 am

Olivia de Haviland, actress from Gone With the Wind

gone with the wind at age 104.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 27, 2020, 10:42:04 am

Quote from: Space Freely on July 27, 2020, 10:24:15 am

Olivia de Haviland, actress from Gone With the Wind

gone with the wind at age 104.

She survived both major pandemics (and a bunch of smaller ones too!)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 27, 2020, 02:15:36 pm

Denice Johnson

May not be a household name but her voice has appeared on several classic tracks, Primal Scream (Loaded and Don’t Fight It, Feel It), a certain ratio, Pet Shop Boys, Electronic, New Order etc

https://louderthanwar.com/denice-johnson-much-loved-manchester-and-primal-scream-singer-rip

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/27/denise-johnson-singer-with-primal-scream-dies-aged-53

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 27, 2020, 02:28:01 pm

whoa listening to "Don’t Fight It, Feel It" on it's own instead of as part of the album sequence, Denice Roberts is the only vocalist on this track and she rules....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 27, 2020, 03:18:30 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 27, 2020, 02:28:01 pm

whoa listening to "Don’t Fight It, Feel It" on it's own instead of as part of the album sequence, Denice Roberts is the only vocalist on this track and she rules....

Denice Johnson

Yeah..major vocalist at least to me..super talented

What a shame

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 28, 2020, 10:13:23 am

A much better obit for Denice Johnson and because Getty Images has picture of other singers tagged as her, UK publications have the been publishing incorrect images of her.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/28/denise-johnson-the-voice-of-manchesters-dancefloors

also a good thread of her tracks

https://twitter.com/soniccathedral/status/1287784753664589832?s=20

her first solo album is coming out shortly https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/product.php?pid=134933

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 29, 2020, 06:14:13 pm

Malik B (The Roots)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 30, 2020, 10:17:32 am

Balla Sidibe (Orchestra Baobab)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 30, 2020, 10:24:00 am

Herman Cain

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 30, 2020, 10:30:46 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 30, 2020, 10:24:00 am

Herman Cain

Holy fuck!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 30, 2020, 10:31:35 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 30, 2020, 10:24:00 am

Herman Cain

Oh man, going to go have some cardboard ass pizza in his honor.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 30, 2020, 10:32:35 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 30, 2020, 10:31:35 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 30, 2020, 10:24:00 am
Herman Cain
Oh man, going to go have some cardboard ass pizza in his honor.

they are scheduling the funeral for 9/9 at 9pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 30, 2020, 10:49:08 am

Quote from: Suburban Lifestyle Dreamer lıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 30, 2020, 10:32:35 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 30, 2020, 10:31:35 am
Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 30, 2020, 10:24:00 am
Herman Cain
Oh man, going to go have some cardboard ass pizza in his honor.
they are scheduling the funeral for 9/9 at 9pm

so will Faux News conveniently forget to say he attended the Tulsa Rally without a mask? it's a good thing he probably signed that waiver saying he wouldn't sue...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 30, 2020, 10:53:54 am

I wonder why he attended Tulsa Trump rally without mask given on June 11 Cain posted on his own website to wear a mask and take it seriously!?!? Probably peer pressure....May have cost him his life

They say he travelled a lot prior to catching it but he may have been wearing a mask if he heeded his own advice... I think that’s likely

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 30, 2020, 10:54:07 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 30, 2020, 10:49:08 am

Quote from: Suburban Lifestyle Dreamer lıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 30, 2020, 10:32:35 am
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 30, 2020, 10:31:35 am
Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 30, 2020, 10:24:00 am
Herman Cain
Oh man, going to go have some cardboard ass pizza in his honor.
they are scheduling the funeral for 9/9 at 9pm

so will Faux News conveniently forget to say he attended the Tulsa Rally without a mask? it's a good thing he probably signed that waiver saying he wouldn't sue...

I always feel like someone else is loging into Kosmo's account when he post political stuff

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 30, 2020, 11:17:19 am

This may be the one moment in history that is best for me to tell these merging stories...

I was once on a lunchtime run near my office building and I saw Herman Cain getting out of a car.

Another time, also near my office, I saw John Lewis coming out of a building.

I suppose I could embellish these stories, but that's all i have that's for real.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 30, 2020, 11:24:15 am

Port City Music Hall music venue in Portland

I fear there will be many more...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on July 31, 2020, 12:51:54 pm

Alan Parker

Pink Floyd The Wall, is all that matters.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 31, 2020, 01:11:44 pm

Oh just listening to Pink Floyd

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 01, 2020, 10:39:13 am

Stephen Tataw

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 01, 2020, 11:43:44 pm

(https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Chaucer/13/662413/H4586-L194816313.jpg) (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/obituaries/wilford-brimley-dead.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 02, 2020, 08:13:39 am

it’s crazy is Willford Brimley was 49 during cocoon
What’s sad is I am 49 now and hope people don’t look at me like I could be in cocoon

As a teen hatch my family sat a few tables from him in at a restaurant in coconut grove
I think it was the first time I had been in the presence of a ‘famous’ person... I was star struck
I will always comically pronounce diabetes because of him

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 02, 2020, 09:50:46 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on August 01, 2020, 11:43:44 pm

(https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Chaucer/13/662413/H4586-L194816313.jpg) (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/obituaries/wilford-brimley-dead.html)

Still one of the funniest things I’ve ever read: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wilford-brimley-asks-for-splenda

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on August 03, 2020, 04:11:34 pm

William English, co-inventor of the Mouse.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on August 03, 2020, 04:21:54 pm

Leon Fleisher (classical)

https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-fleisher-advance-20200803-pmiggzedxffopnpzbf3o3wadna-story.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2020/08/02/702978476/leon-fleisher-the-pianist-who-reinvented-himself-dies-at-92

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 03, 2020, 05:07:18 pm

Quote from: challenged on August 03, 2020, 04:11:34 pm

William English, co-inventor of the Mouse.

It’s funny because when that meme was running around on Twitter about what famous person you had met I was reminded about how I had met William English’s partner Douglas Englebart once at Smithsonian where that original mouse was on exhibit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 04, 2020, 04:35:58 pm

Poppie from Seinfeld

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 04, 2020, 05:44:44 pm

Quote from: hutch on August 04, 2020, 04:35:58 pm

Poppie from Seinfeld

Man 2020 has been brutal

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 04, 2020, 05:46:26 pm

Quote from: Pendant-hatch lıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 04, 2020, 05:44:44 pm

Quote from: hutch on August 04, 2020, 04:35:58 pm
Poppie from Seinfeld
Man 2020 has been brutal

Right after Henry Adkins, the Postmaster General. These things come in threes, they say. Everyone hug your Jackie Chileses extra tight tonite.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 07, 2020, 11:32:01 am

Brent Scowcroft

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 07, 2020, 01:10:46 pm

Quote from: hutch on August 07, 2020, 11:32:01 am

Brent Scowcroft

Brent Scowcroft, longtime Bush confidant and former national security adviser, dies at 95 (https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/politics/brent-scowcroft-dies/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 09, 2020, 11:42:56 pm

Martin Birch

Produced/engineered a load of great records

Black Sabbath

All the Iron Maiden classics

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 11, 2020, 07:02:21 pm

“Kamala” Harris
Covid19’d

https://deadline.com/2020/08/james-kamala-harris-dead-wwe-wwf-obituary-1203008558/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 11, 2020, 07:51:50 pm

Trini Lopez

Grohl had some beautiful words to say about Trini a few minutes ago on Foo Fighters Facebook...I was not expecting it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 12, 2020, 07:49:57 am

Quote from: hutch on August 11, 2020, 07:02:21 pm

“Kamala” Harris
Covid19’d

https://deadline.com/2020/08/james-kamala-harris-dead-wwe-wwf-obituary-1203008558/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

When I first heard of the politician Kamala Harris, I called her Kamala the Ugandan Giant, not knowing the real Kamala shared the same last name.

I've since learned that "Kamala" is Sanskrit for "lotus flower." Does it have any meaning in Swahili?

RIP Kamala, one of the legends of my youth. May they new Kamala be a winner like you were.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 12, 2020, 07:52:22 am

Quote from: hutch on August 11, 2020, 07:51:50 pm

Trini Lopez

Grohl had some beautiful words to say about Trini a few minutes ago on Foo Fighters Facebook...I was not expecting it

You forgot the say Covid19'd.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 12, 2020, 11:16:23 am

I was
Not aware

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 13, 2020, 03:20:04 pm

Slim's Nightclub, SF

The Club Replacing Slim's is Named YOLO and Won't Have Live Music—Only DJs
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13884700/the-club-replacing-slims-wont-have-live-music-only-djs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 13, 2020, 04:14:34 pm

^ that's a bummer, saw some great shows there

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 14, 2020, 10:07:13 pm

Julian Bream (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/julian-bream-classical-guitarist-of-profound-influence-dies-at-87/2020/08/14/dac9e9ec-de3c-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 15, 2020, 10:56:11 pm

Robert Trump

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 16, 2020, 07:29:11 am

Quote from: hutch on August 15, 2020, 10:56:11 pm

Robert Trump

I guess they have to invite him to that

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 17, 2020, 07:47:49 pm

Pizza Hut

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 18, 2020, 12:16:04 am

Elizabeth Anne Dwyer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 19, 2020, 04:30:55 pm

Todd Nance, founding drummer of Widespread Panic has died at the age of 57.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on August 19, 2020, 05:13:15 pm

Quote from: HatchOil Salesman ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 19, 2020, 04:30:55 pm

Todd Nance, founding drummer of Widespread Panic has died at the age of 57.

wow . . . some fans will say, not a shock, some fans will say it didn't have to happen . . . he was a great member of a great band, and then he was replaced by someone half his age.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 20, 2020, 06:52:48 pm

according to posts on FB and Reddit, Joe Englert has passed away (https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/ide8u3/joe_englert_has_passed_away/).
DC's long-time bar starter/owner has apparently passed away. If you were here in the 80s and 90s you definitely had been to one of his places: Crow Bar, 15 Minutes, Insect Club, State of the Union, Big Hunt, Penn Ave Pourhouse, Planet Fred, and many many others. His places were usually kitschy and never pricey or pretentious. He was one of the people who invested early in H Street opening Rock n Roll Hotel, Red & the Black/Palace of Wonders, H Street Country Club, the Pug, and a few more. Here's a 2012 Washingtonian profile (https://www.washingtonian.com/2012/03/01/joe-englert-the-life-of-the-party/) describing him as "life of the party". I met him a handful of times, he was a really interesting guy and will be missed.

edit: confirmation from The Washingtonian:
The Joe Englert I Knew (https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/08/20/the-joe-englert-i-knew/)
A lifelong friend remembers the one-time king of DC's bar scene.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 20, 2020, 06:55:28 pm

Isn't he the guy who Blind Ahmed convinced us all we needed to hate?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 20, 2020, 07:45:03 pm

Nope not the guy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on August 20, 2020, 08:26:44 pm

Crow Bar. That was the place for a minute or so way back when....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 20, 2020, 09:15:59 pm

I once attended a show by Milla Jovavich at the 15 Minute Club. When is she going to do another album or movie?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 20, 2020, 09:49:49 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 20, 2020, 06:55:28 pm

Isn't he the guy who Blind Ahmed convinced us all we needed to hate?

No, that was Seth, IIRC.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 20, 2020, 10:01:43 pm

I think this was the guy...Englert

https://dcist.com/story/20/03/02/rock-roll-hotel-abruptly-closes-its-doors/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 20, 2020, 10:03:37 pm

Chi Chi DeVayne

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 20, 2020, 11:27:53 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on August 20, 2020, 09:49:49 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 20, 2020, 06:55:28 pm
Isn't he the guy who Blind Ahmed convinced us all we needed to hate?
No, that was Seth, IIRC.

No there were some guy from the rock ‘n’ roll Hotel who was legit kind of a dick

was it this guy: Jason Martin?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on August 21, 2020, 08:29:33 am

Quote from: hutch on August 20, 2020, 10:03:37 pm

Chi Chi DeVayne

Shocked, that someone here, would mention his death. Chi Chi was a performer extraordinaire. Rest in Power.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 21, 2020, 08:33:49 am

Quote from: WalkOnBack on August 21, 2020, 08:29:33 am

Quote from: hutch on August 20, 2020, 10:03:37 pm
Chi Chi DeVayne

Shocked, that someone here, would mention his death. Chi Chi was a performer extraordinaire. Rest in Power.

I did see that Chi Chi appeared at the 9:30 club in 2016 (possibly other times too)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 21, 2020, 03:06:53 pm

Frankie Banali, the drummer for QuietRiot and WASP

Bangin my head in his honor with my devil horns in the air

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 22, 2020, 11:35:58 pm

Walter Lure guitarist from the Heartbreakers (Johnny Thunders’ band after the New York Dolls split)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on August 23, 2020, 09:13:54 am

He was the last of the living Heartbreakers. I love that album.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 23, 2020, 10:07:34 am

Yup...it’s symptomatic of how it’s pretty much over for a whole generation

Between the forced break from concerts and all the dead musicians it just feels to me like a before and after point

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 23, 2020, 09:20:59 pm

Justin Townes Earle

Ooof.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 24, 2020, 07:40:20 am

Quote from: Yada on August 23, 2020, 09:20:59 pm

Justin Townes Earle

Ooof.

yeah...bummer :(
but we can now confirm that Yada is among the living taking a break from his board quarantine

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 24, 2020, 08:47:31 am

Quote from: low income suburbs plan ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 24, 2020, 07:40:20 am

Quote from: Yada on August 23, 2020, 09:20:59 pm
Justin Townes Earle

Ooof.
yeah...bummer :(
but we can now confirm that Yada is among the living taking a break from his board quarantine

Can confirm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 24, 2020, 08:47:49 am

Quote from: low income suburbs plan ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 24, 2020, 07:40:20 am

but we can now confirm that Yada is among the living taking a break from his board quarantine

yeah...bummer :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 24, 2020, 09:09:21 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on August 24, 2020, 08:47:49 am

Quote from: low income suburbs plan ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 24, 2020, 07:40:20 am
but we can now confirm that Yada is among the living taking a break from his board quarantine
yeah...bummer :(

If nothing else, predictable and on brand. Saw this coming a mile away.

Missed U.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 24, 2020, 09:13:38 am

Quote from: Yada on August 24, 2020, 09:09:21 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on August 24, 2020, 08:47:49 am
Quote from: low income suburbs plan ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 24, 2020, 07:40:20 am
but we can now confirm that Yada is among the living taking a break from his board quarantine
yeah...bummer :(

If nothing else, predictable and on brand. Saw this coming a mile away.

Missed U.

Look, you lob a basketball at a hoop when LeBron is standing nearby, he’s going to alley oop it even if there’s not a game going on. It’s just instinct.

Missed you too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 24, 2020, 09:55:23 am

Sad about JTE. Who would have guessed his dad would outlive him?

Glad that Yada is still with us!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 24, 2020, 09:56:37 am

Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2020, 09:55:23 am

Sad about JTE. Who would have guessed his dad would outlive him?

Glad that Yada is still with us!

Just a small Ayahuasca journey with gw and Walky, but everyone is in good spirits.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: analogfossa on August 26, 2020, 08:31:34 am

Power Trip's Riley Gale

Nightmare Logic was fantastic. Too young to leave this mortal coil.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 26, 2020, 09:35:03 am

Quote from: Yada on August 24, 2020, 09:56:37 am

Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2020, 09:55:23 am
Sad about JTE. Who would have guessed his dad would outlive him?

Glad that Yada is still with us!

Just a small Ayahuasca journey with gw and Walky, but everyone is in good spirits.

So is someone going to work on this fan fiction story

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on August 26, 2020, 08:23:09 pm

Quote from: AnalogFossa on August 26, 2020, 08:31:34 am

Power Trip's Riley Gale

Nightmare Logic was fantastic. Too young to leave this mortal coil.

A real shame.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on August 26, 2020, 08:37:58 pm

Am I an ass,hole . . . for having no respect for anyone blessed with gifts to make them famous, and then they overdose?

f,u,c,k,t,h,e,m

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 26, 2020, 08:47:26 pm

Pretty much...yeah...an asshole...but empathy seems to be in short supply in the modern human condition...so you are not alone

In fact lack of empathy may be the defining characteristic of the modern age

It’s interesting because until 20 yrs ago empathy was a term one hardly ever heard...now it’s everything

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 27, 2020, 06:29:27 pm

Joe Ruby, Co-Creator of Scooby-Doo (https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/08/r-i-p-joe-ruby-co-creator-scooby-doo-dies-87/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 28, 2020, 10:52:21 pm

Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther). He was 43.

#notcovid
#fuckcancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on August 29, 2020, 12:03:30 am

Colon cancer, runs in my family.

#fuckcancer,indeed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 29, 2020, 06:00:08 am

Catching up on overnight Twitter was a bit rough with that news... such tragic news about Chadwick :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 29, 2020, 08:57:11 am

Quote from: WalkOnBack on August 29, 2020, 12:03:30 am

Colon cancer, runs in my family.

#fuckcancer,indeed

Mine too. Coming up on that magical age where I need to get checked for that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 29, 2020, 09:07:43 am

Just finished David Crosby's Long Time Gone. Can't believe that guy made it past the 1980's.
Starting Chris Frantz's Remain in Love.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 29, 2020, 11:42:15 am

is it me or is that kind of funny that jefml responded to the rock book thing in the dropping like flies Thread with David Cosby

and I had to go look if he died too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 31, 2020, 09:47:48 am

Legendary Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 31, 2020, 10:08:33 am

And yet David Cosby lives on.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 31, 2020, 10:29:49 am

Quote from: Space Freely on August 31, 2020, 10:08:33 am

And yet David Cosby lives on.

David Cosby. (https://www.memorialparkfuneralandcemetery.com/obituaries/David-Cosby-32960/#!/PhotosVideos/f88ad51c-bb88-40a2-96c5-14bac82f588f/e50e8b77-327d-44bd-b87d-b3d7e81e4cd9)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 31, 2020, 10:35:28 am

Quote from: Heilung4eva on August 31, 2020, 10:29:49 am

Quote from: Space Freely on August 31, 2020, 10:08:33 am
And yet David Cosby lives on.

David Cosby. (https://www.memorialparkfuneralandcemetery.com/obituaries/David-Cosby-32960/#!/PhotosVideos/f88ad51c-bb88-40a2-96c5-14bac82f588f/e50e8b77-327d-44bd-b87d-b3d7e81e4cd9)

I pray that let both David's keep their mustaches in the afterlife.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 31, 2020, 11:08:30 am

Oops. My bad. Hopefully its not a bad omen for Croz (or Chris Frantz)

Quote from: jeffml on August 29, 2020, 09:07:43 am

Just finished David Crosby's Long Time Gone. Can't believe that guy made it past the 1980's.
Starting Chris Frantz's Remain in Love.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 31, 2020, 01:24:35 pm

Quote from: Side-Neuralink ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 31, 2020, 09:47:48 am

Legendary Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson

HoyaSaxa08 is out there somewhere, crying into his train shaped Cheerios.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 01, 2020, 04:59:09 pm

Quote from: jeffml on August 31, 2020, 11:08:30 am

Oops. My bad. Hopefully its not a bad omen for Croz (or Chris Frantz)

Croz seems to be doing alright

he posted this yesterday
David Crosby@thedavidcrosby

We picked these today and by tomorrow night they will be marinara and frozen
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EguI-68VkAAZqXA?format=jpg&name=large)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 02, 2020, 07:32:13 pm

DJ Erick Morillo, known for 'I Like To Move It', dead at 49 (https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/02/entertainment/dj-erick-morillo-dead-trnd/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 02, 2020, 11:11:32 pm

Hall of Famer Tom Seaver
#covid19
#dimentia

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on September 03, 2020, 09:25:40 am

Quote from: vansmack on September 02, 2020, 11:11:32 pm

Hall of Famer Tom Seaver
#covid19
#dimentia

Actually teared-up about this one last night. First favorite baseball player.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 06, 2020, 07:08:01 pm

Hall of Famer Lou Brock.

Willie Mays can't be too far behind....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 09, 2020, 09:44:39 am

Simeon (Coxe) of Silver Apples (https://obits.al.com/obituaries/mobile/obituary.aspx?n=simeon-coxe&pid=196760627&fhid=18119)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 09, 2020, 08:40:17 pm

Ronald Bell co-founder of Kool and the Gang

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 09, 2020, 08:45:29 pm

Not kool

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 10, 2020, 09:35:22 am

(https://binneyblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/dianarigg2.jpg?w=564)

Diana Rigg (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54106509?at_custom4=F4D3382E-F369-11EA-B3F1-D13A4D484DA4&at_campaign=64&at_custom3=%40BBCBreaking&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_medium=custom7)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 10, 2020, 12:39:48 pm

when i was studying aboard in London, i went to see a play with Diana Rigg in it and having not seen the Avengers her name didn't mean anything to me at the time, i told an older friend about having seen her and the reaction was much different..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 10, 2020, 03:45:27 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on September 10, 2020, 12:39:48 pm

when i was studying aboard in London, i went to see a play with Diana Rigg in it and having not seen the Avengers her name didn't mean anything to me at the time, i told an older friend about having seen her and the reaction was much different..

Surprised you hadn't seen The Avengers. I remember it being fairly popular when I was a little kid, and you're just a little older than me.

Supposedly, her character's name, Emma Peel, was a portmanteau of "M appeal", meaning appealing to men.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 11, 2020, 10:12:19 pm

Stevie Lee. I am completely gutted.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 11, 2020, 10:35:16 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on September 11, 2020, 10:12:19 pm

Stevie Lee. I am completely gutted.

At the risk of sounding totally insensitive: really?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 11, 2020, 10:39:36 pm

Outsnarking the snark?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 11, 2020, 10:42:47 pm

Quote from: hutch on September 11, 2020, 10:39:36 pm

Outsnarking the snark?

Truly not intending to snark. Legitimately confused if he’s serious.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 12, 2020, 04:54:59 am

Toots Hibbert death: Toots and the Maytals frontman dies, aged 77 (https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/toots-hibbert-death-toots-and-maytals-jamaica-kingston-albums-songs-bob-marley-b429941.html)
Jamaican singer had been hospitalised for suspected Covid-19

someone please check up on hutch...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 12, 2020, 08:56:59 am

Oh no

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 12, 2020, 09:32:09 am

Quote from: sweetcell on September 12, 2020, 04:54:59 am

someone please check up on hutch...

I just shot an empty vodka bottle at his dome.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 12, 2020, 09:40:23 am

This hurts or should I say this hurt.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on September 12, 2020, 11:58:02 am

Quote from: hutch on September 12, 2020, 09:40:23 am

This hurts or should I say this hurt.

Sorry, man.
2020 just keeps at it...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 13, 2020, 05:24:25 pm

Peeps

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 13, 2020, 06:21:25 pm

Sid McCray

Original Bad Brains lead singer...I had no idea

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 13, 2020, 06:26:33 pm

Quote from: hutch on September 13, 2020, 06:21:25 pm

Sid McCray

Original Bad Brains lead singer...I had no idea

Me neither
That seems off only because I was watching that HR doc and it didn’t seem like he was taking over to someone else?

Weird... he even played a recent reunion show too
https://loudwire.com/bad-brains-reunite-brooklyn-art-gallery-show-hr-randy-blythe-sid-mccray/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 15, 2020, 07:56:59 pm

Bill Gates Sr

Helped give away $8 billion of his son's money

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 17, 2020, 09:34:49 am

Roy C Hammond, creator of "Impeach the President", a funk track that was a building block of early hip-hop and has been sampled by *everyone*, has died

I happened across this track recently, but had no idea that the drums had been sampled over 600 times and has been used by a variety of artists. Really cool recent interview with him

https://youtu.be/5ah8JNCBQ28

"If you want to hear a song about impeaching a president, you have a lot of options: Flo Rida, Mick Jagger, Freddie Gibbs, Eazy-E, Alanis Morissette. Or you could just go to the source that all those artists have sampled, the obscure funk song that started it all back in 1973, called “Impeach the President.”

The original

https://youtu.be/wqbEsS5kFb8

wow and this only a partial list of songs that have sampled or used the drums from this track

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeach_the_President

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 17, 2020, 01:24:51 pm

^ how was this track not brought up during trump's impeachment?!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 17, 2020, 01:27:29 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 17, 2020, 01:24:51 pm

^ how was this track not brought up during trump's impeachment?!?

it was

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 18, 2020, 09:12:00 am

Quote from: Yada on August 24, 2020, 09:56:37 am

Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2020, 09:55:23 am
Sad about JTE. Who would have guessed his dad would outlive him?

Glad that Yada is still with us!

Just a small Ayahuasca journey with gw and Walky, but everyone is in good spirits.

I assume Yada is back on the Ayahuasca trip

Dad is covering his son's songs
https://www.stereogum.com/2098447/steve-earle-justin-townes-earle-covers-album/news/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 18, 2020, 07:36:08 pm

RBG

2020 officially ended for me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on September 18, 2020, 08:17:36 pm

This is the icing on a shit sandwich of a year.

God help us all if Trump wins.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on September 18, 2020, 08:23:07 pm

Trump wins . . . he replaces Ginsburg. Thomas and Alito and Roberts retire. Trump replaces them. Everything is overturned. Everything is illegal forever. Civil war breaks out. Trump nukes his own country.

The, end.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 18, 2020, 09:58:44 pm

Quote from: vansmack on September 18, 2020, 07:36:08 pm

RBG

2020 officially ended for me.

Holy hell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 20, 2020, 06:08:53 am

Lee Kerslake, drummer for Ozzy Osbourne and Uriah Heep, has died
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/20/entertainment/lee-kerslake-obit/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 21, 2020, 10:29:17 pm

Ron Cobb

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 23, 2020, 10:03:21 am

Gale Sayers (https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/gale-sayers-legendary-bears-running-back-and-pro-football-hall-of-famer-dies-at-77/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 23, 2020, 10:24:38 am

One of the greats back when men were men...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 25, 2020, 12:28:24 pm

My father in sin or law

Covid19’d

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 25, 2020, 01:24:14 pm

Quote from: bitter much on September 25, 2020, 12:28:24 pm

My father in sin or law

Covid19’d

Shit, hutch that sucks, so sorry

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 25, 2020, 01:53:54 pm

Keith Hufnagel, skateboarding icon and streetwear founder, dies at 46 (https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/25/us/keith-hufnagel-skateboarder-huf-worldwide-dead-spt-trnd/index.html)
The founder of the streetwear company, Huf Worldwide, had been battling brain cancer for two years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 27, 2020, 09:25:10 am

Quote from: bitter much on September 25, 2020, 12:28:24 pm

My father in sin or law

Covid19’d

Sorry, Hutch. Condolences to your partner, you, and the rest of your family.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on September 27, 2020, 12:39:05 pm

Quote from: bitter much on September 25, 2020, 12:28:24 pm

My father in sin or law

Covid19’d

Sorry Hutch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on September 28, 2020, 01:15:32 am

Condolences, hutch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on September 28, 2020, 08:16:59 am

my condolences Hutch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on September 28, 2020, 08:45:11 am

Sorry to hear this. My best to you and your family.

Quote from: bitter much on September 25, 2020, 12:28:24 pm

My father in sin or law

Covid19’d

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 28, 2020, 05:12:16 pm

Thanks guys....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 29, 2020, 11:19:26 pm

Helen Reddy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 30, 2020, 05:27:58 am

Mac Davis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 30, 2020, 09:00:23 am

That's two in a row my mom listened to a lot. And both 78.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on September 30, 2020, 09:05:11 am

My parents listened to them as well. Can remember what Mac Davis looked like but do not recall a single tune he sung.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 30, 2020, 10:31:20 am

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on September 30, 2020, 09:05:11 am

My parents listened to them as well. Can remember what Mac Davis looked like but do not recall a single tune he sung.

He wrote "In the Ghetto."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 30, 2020, 12:05:07 pm

Joaquin Salvador Lavado Tejon (Quino)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 02, 2020, 11:26:48 pm

Bob Gibson, to continue the Hall of Fame deaths trend....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 02, 2020, 11:48:10 pm

Poor Cardinal fans

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 06, 2020, 03:35:52 pm

Eddie Van Halen dead at 65.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on October 06, 2020, 03:42:49 pm

Quote from: vansmack on October 06, 2020, 03:35:52 pm

Eddie Van Halen dead at 65.

Yowza. That hits a whole generation headon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 06, 2020, 03:45:29 pm

Damn

Mosdef legend

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 06, 2020, 03:47:02 pm

Quote from: vansmack on October 06, 2020, 03:35:52 pm

Eddie Van Halen dead at 65.

https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/06/eddie-van-halen-dead-dies-cancer-65/ (https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/06/eddie-van-halen-dead-dies-cancer-65/)

fuck cancer >>> fuck 2020.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on October 06, 2020, 04:21:52 pm

This was not a surprise but sad nonetheless. An amazing talent.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 06, 2020, 06:58:42 pm

Quote from: vansmack on October 06, 2020, 03:35:52 pm

Eddie Van Halen dead at 65.

Very on brand 2020
One of my favorite guitarists, just changed my ideas about a guitar

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 06, 2020, 07:04:32 pm

Guy was a piece of work but may have had as much to do with the 80s as anyone

Listen to the debut as I been doing this afternoon (along with Diver Down); one of the best first albums - and it sounds like an 80s record..it’s from 1978

I love how they spent four years playing backyard parties in Southern California building up their chops and fanbase ... to have been at one would have been a kick

I was born in the US and lived here a few years then didn’t make it back til 1985...freshman year of high school in the Bay Area VH was the biggest thing going

When 1984 came out the year and change before moving to NorCal I was in Japan...the videos were completely defining...those videos were gold and just a huge part of growing up at that time

It’s been a rough stretch for an almost 50 year old...2020 feels like a before and after for me...kind of hating it...is this it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on October 06, 2020, 07:19:14 pm

Yes, as a 5th grader waking up Saturday mornings and watching Friday Night Videos taped on Betamax when Jump then Panama then Hot For Teacher were on was the absolute greatest

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 06, 2020, 09:08:15 pm

Johnny Nash of “I Can See Clearly Now” fame at age 80.

He was one of the first non-Jamaican singers to record reggae music in Kingston, Jamaica and helped launched his friend named Bob Marley.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 07, 2020, 12:39:01 am

Bunny “Striker” Lee

Jamaican producer, record label owner etc....legend recorded and put out a ton of great stuff...also was active early on licensing reggae for distribution in UK... had King Tubby dub mix a shitload of stuff...some of my favorites in fact...a lot of the stuff put out in the 90s/00s on Blood and Fire (real quality reissues) was provided to Steve Barrow by Bunny Lee...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 07, 2020, 07:22:11 am

As per usual in time of death I’m listening to albums not heard in decades ... and yup I know this first Van Halen like the back of my hand... memorable albums just become part of one’s DNA

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 07, 2020, 10:00:05 am

My interest in Van Halen waned after the first two records... Definitely due to more interest in new wave/punk/power pop/college rock from the 80s onward at the time. of course the singles from 1984 were pretty much unavoidable due to MTV and they were amazing even for a jaded college student

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 07, 2020, 02:45:03 pm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Lee

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 07, 2020, 03:48:11 pm

I was thinking that with the loss of both Toots, Bunny and also Johnny Nash who helped bring Reggae into the pop mainstream, there can’t be a whole lot of the Pioneers left.. Jimmy Cliff is still with us..

What I did notice about Bunny Lee is it took awhile for the mainstream press to start reporting on his death, guess that ready to go Obit wasn’t done in advance about him... I was glad to pieces being put out about him

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Post by: vansmack on October 09, 2020, 12:08:55 pm

Whitey Ford, to continue the Hall of Fame deaths trend....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 09, 2020, 12:13:18 pm

I believe he had six World Series rings

When I was young I read a great book about the 50s Yankees but can’t remember who wrote it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 09, 2020, 02:09:48 pm

Pierre Kezdy, bass player for influential punk rockers Naked Raygun, other Chicago bands, dead at 58

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/10/9/21438089/pierre-kezdy-naked-raygun-punk-rock-bands-chicago-bass-obituary

Naked Raygun ‘just turned my world upside-down,’ says Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 12, 2020, 05:58:18 am

https://twitter.com/ew/status/1315473788436447232?s=21

Margaret Nolan, Goldfinger and A Hard Day's Night actress, dies at 76

The English performer was best known for playing Bond's masseuse Dink in Goldfinger and for appearing as the gold-painted model in the 1964 film's title sequence. That same year, she appeared in the Beatles' musical comedy film A Hard Day's Night.

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Post by: shemptiness on October 12, 2020, 11:45:37 am

Yet another HOFer - Joe Morgan. Saw him inducted along with Jim Palmer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 12, 2020, 11:53:03 am

That sucks

He was such a great announcer..him teaming up with Miller was inspired

My favorites are probably Morgan, Miller and Garagiola

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 12, 2020, 12:22:56 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on October 12, 2020, 11:45:37 am

Yet another HOFer - Joe Morgan. Saw him inducted along with Jim Palmer.

This one hurts. I have his autographed card from his Hall of Fame induction hanging in my office. I met him many times through work and he was always great to me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 12, 2020, 12:27:09 pm

Quote from: bitter much on October 12, 2020, 11:53:03 am

That sucks

He was such a great announcer..him teaming up with Miller was inspired

My favorites are probably Morgan, Miller and Garagiola

May he rest in peace, but strongly disagree regarding his announcing skills.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/894300-ranking-the-12-worst-color-commentators-in-mlb

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 12, 2020, 12:33:43 pm

I am sure more knowledgeable people can tear him down but I love baseball and I really enjoyed games when he was announcing...

Could he have really been bad and worked as an announcer for 25 years?

Skeptical

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 12, 2020, 12:42:19 pm

I like Tim Mcarver and Rick Sutcliffe too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 12, 2020, 01:36:44 pm

Quote from: bitter much on October 12, 2020, 12:33:43 pm

Could he have really been bad and worked as an announcer for 25 years?

Local broadcast announcing jobs are like SCOTUS seats -- they're given for life no matter how deplorable the individual. Ken "Hawk" Harrelson is the worst announcer maybe in the history of sport and he got 33 years calling the White Sox.

Joe Morgan was "meh" from an announcing standpoint. I never thought he was atrocious or anything.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 18, 2020, 12:58:44 pm

AC/DC former bassist Paul Matters dead (https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ac-dc-guitarist-paul-matters-dead)
He was only briefly in the band in 1975

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 18, 2020, 01:33:37 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 18, 2020, 12:58:44 pm

He was only briefly in the band in 1975

I guess some would argue he doesn’t really Matters then.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 20, 2020, 12:17:53 pm

José Padilla, Ibiza DJ who defined chillout music, dies aged 64 (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/20/jose-padilla-ibiza-dj-who-defined-chillout-music-dies-aged-64)
Spanish DJ and producer, who became famous with the Café del Mar bar and compilation series, dies from colon cancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 20, 2020, 12:32:09 pm

Spencer Davis

and Yesterday

Bob Riggs - founder of Slash Records

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-10-18/bob-biggs-slash-records-founder-dies

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 20, 2020, 07:14:32 pm

Tony Lewis - The Outfield

Sang their biggest hit Your Love, which I couldn’t place until I heard it again and it was oh yeah that one 8)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 20, 2020, 09:32:47 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on October 20, 2020, 07:14:32 pm

Tony Lewis - The Outfield

Sang their biggest hit Your Love, which I couldn’t place until I heard it again and it was oh yeah that one 8)

Would have never recognized the name, but the song is a classic. I'm sure Space has heard it at least 30 times while shopping

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 21, 2020, 07:34:35 am

I was confusing Mr. Mister and The Outfield when I saw that news... both one hit 80s wonders

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 21, 2020, 08:06:39 am

No way Mr Mister had at least two hits:Kyrie and Broken wings

The Outfield had I think three...

You’re slipping Kosmo!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 21, 2020, 08:19:41 am

would you prefer no hits outside of the 80s?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 21, 2020, 09:05:43 am

You could call them one album wonders?

I mean the Outfield album Play Deep has three bonafide hits

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_Deep

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 21, 2020, 09:07:44 am

Actually the Outfield had a hit from their second album

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangin%27

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 21, 2020, 09:42:47 am

"Your Love" was one of those 80s hits that I really, really despised at the time. I'd probably enjoy it now for nostalgia's sake though.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 21, 2020, 10:02:54 am

That line "Josie's on a vacation far away" is one of the most recognizable openers in all the 80s

and this great SNL skit (https://vk.com/video220481363_169188842)
(I love that the subtitles are in Russian ...very 2020)

Actually didn't realize they were a British band (where they barely charted)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 21, 2020, 10:04:18 am

Hot take: The phrase "one-hit wonder" isn't meant to be taken literally.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 21, 2020, 10:10:06 am

Quote from: Heilung4eva on October 21, 2020, 10:04:18 am

Hot take: The phrase "one-hit wonder" isn't meant to be taken literally.

exactly it's also widely applied to bands that have had longevity beyond their hit... i.e Jesus Jones who I think have referred to themselves jokily as a 1.5 Hit wonder

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 21, 2020, 10:59:30 am

Disagree

There are real one hit wonders

You can’t call a band like Mr Mister with two number one hits a one hit wonder

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 21, 2020, 07:10:05 pm

James Randi, Magician and Paranormal Debunker, Dies at 92 (https://www.thewrap.com/james-randi-magician-and-paranormal-debunker-dies-at-92/)
Illusionist known as “The Amazing Randi” also founded Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

"Randi even helped spice up the theatricality of rock star Alice Cooper, helping him to build his guillotine stage prop as well as touring with him in the ’70s."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 21, 2020, 07:13:47 pm

Where do you find this stuff?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 21, 2020, 07:33:13 pm

Quote from: bitter much on October 21, 2020, 07:13:47 pm

Where do you find this stuff?

someone posted it on FB. i used to watch The Amazing Randi on TV...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 24, 2020, 10:33:02 am

Jerry Jeff Walker

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 24, 2020, 11:33:29 am

Quote from: bitter much on October 24, 2020, 10:33:02 am

Jerry Jeff Walker

Jason Narducy has the best stories...
I went to a Chicago radio station early one morning in 1993 because there was a rumor Pete Townshend might show up to do an interview. I was hoping I could meet Pete. I shared an elevator with a man carrying a guitar so I introduced myself. It was Jerry Jeff Walker.
He was doing an interview at the same station. I was honest with him about why I was there. JJW said “Oh yeah - Pete’s great. Say, why don’t you pretend to be my assistant so you can come into the station with me. You’ll have a better chance at meeting Mr. Townshend that way”
I accepted his offer and was excited to get into a little harmless mischief with a legend like him. I stood in the control room while JJW was interviewed. A station employee asked me, “Does Mr. Walker need anything?” I looked up and said “What?” I’d already forgotten my role. “Oh! If Jerry didn’t ask for anything then he’s fine”.
After the interview, we walked down a hallway along with station staff members and JJW smiled and said very loudly “Nice to meet you, Jason!” The staff looked at me, confused. He was really having fun now and I was on my own. I could no longer hang out waiting for Pete.
So I jumped in the elevator to get a couple more mins with Jerry Jeff Walker. I was 22 and starting to get a little attention from the “music industry”. I told him ASCAP wanted to sign me and asked him if BMI was better. He got off the elevator and before the doors closed he said...
“They’ll both fuck you, son”
The doors closed.
#RIPJerryJeffWalker

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 24, 2020, 12:45:20 pm

That is a good one!

One of my college friends was/is a huge JJW fan

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 24, 2020, 10:41:27 pm

Lee Kun-Hee

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 26, 2020, 08:54:41 am

I'm sure it's a sad day for one of our board regulars.

William Blinn, Emmy-winning screenwriter who created ‘Starsky & Hutch,’ dies at 83

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 28, 2020, 01:55:12 pm

Billy Joe Shaver

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 28, 2020, 02:02:34 pm

Quote from: bitter much on October 28, 2020, 01:55:12 pm

Billy Joe Shaver

Tough week for outlaw country singers with three names. So glad Willie doesn't go by Willie Hugh.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 30, 2020, 05:18:32 pm

James Broad - Silver Sun

https://www.nme.com/news/music/james-broad-of-silver-sun-has-died-2805582

When I was knee deep into 90s Power Pop, Silver Sun were one of the best...

If you like harmonies and loud guitars they are worth seeking out...

Also fuck cancer

“Just heard that James Broad has died. Silver Sun were almost my ideal of a band – guitars that could flatten cities and harmonies like the Beach Boys.”

https://twitter.com/michaelahann/status/1322234214675263489?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 31, 2020, 08:38:35 am

Sean Connery

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on October 31, 2020, 09:22:08 am

At a ripe old age in the Bahamas. Well done.

I always think of Trainspotting when I hear his name.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 31, 2020, 09:53:00 am

First James Broad and then James Bond, now James Blunt must be quaking in his boots.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 31, 2020, 09:53:03 am

Quote from: bitter much on October 31, 2020, 08:38:35 am

Sean Connery

Bummer...he was one of my faves

what was odd when kozmo posted about james broad... I first thought he said bond and Sean had died then

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 31, 2020, 10:23:08 am

Quote from: Space Freely on October 31, 2020, 09:53:00 am

First James Broad and then James Bond, now James Blunt must be quaking in his boots.

Also, James Buffett

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 31, 2020, 10:41:14 am

Quote from: bitter much on October 31, 2020, 08:38:35 am

Sean Connery

He’s the man now, Dog.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 31, 2020, 10:42:42 am

I understand Sean Connery means something to people who have very specific, terrible views of “masculinity,” but he truly was a very bad actor despite all the roles considered iconic by people who have very specific, terrible views of “masculinity.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 31, 2020, 10:44:09 am

He was the Will Smith or Zack Braff of his day — he isn’t acting. He never played a character. He just showed up and was Sean Connery even in the times where he was regrettably cast in a role that required him to play someone other than Sean Connery.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 31, 2020, 11:06:10 am

Well I don’t know about his acting chops....always hard to gauge

I loved his portrayal of Bond but as I got older I began to think about his depiction and characterization of masculinity... is there anyone that did more to cement the idea of modern manhood? And if so, looking around the world today... it would seem there may be a lot to answer for...

In the case of the UK the importance of the movies in recasting britannia away from the stodgy failed and poor post WWII state it languished in until the early 60s towards “Cool Britannia” cannot be overemphasized...I believe there is even a book about Bond titled the man who saved Britain

But again as I became a more developed adult I began to be troubled by Connery’s depiction of manhood... slapping women around, treating them as disposable meat, the lack of empathy , the closed off ness, the drinking etc. I don’t think anyone watching the early Bond understood just how damaged the man was instead stooping to hero worship and emulation...is Connery responsible for failing to translate on screen the nuance of Fleming’s 007? Does he unwittingly play a hero as opposed to the antihero? It may have all been accidental! When we look at the US today it’s not overstated to say toxic masculinity is the number one issue and then ask “how did we get here?”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 31, 2020, 11:30:50 am

Typical conservative...blame all of societies' ills on Hollywood.

Just kidding, I actually came back to say the thing I'll remember most about him is he sure knew how to slap a woman.

One less a-hole in the world. Three more days, he'll be in the ground and Trump will be buried, fingers crossed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 31, 2020, 11:38:26 am

I wasn’t even trying to comment on the impact of his characters or his personal behavior, although these are ample fodder for conversation. I am just saying he is so fondly remembered by a certain subset of people yet he objectively was a terrible actor. But tell this to the mouth breathers who think Hunt for Red October is a high point in cinema, and you’ll probably be challenged to a fistfight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 31, 2020, 11:38:40 am

The comedy AND virtue on the board is amazing today
I still think his times on Jeopardy were some of his best moments

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 31, 2020, 11:41:35 am

https://youtu.be/cMRgv11fIjA

Like this is sharknado level acting. I AM FROM SPAIN AND HERE IS MY SPANISH NAME AND I WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO DO A CATALAN ACCENT. This guy never even damn tried.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 31, 2020, 03:29:58 pm

Hutch, I read the last part of your toxic masculinity rant to my wife. She disagrees. She thinks wealth inequality is the biggest problem in society. And she'll sit there in her $200 Bernie hoodie and filibuster her point down your ass.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 31, 2020, 04:01:47 pm

Ok but it wasn’t at all a rant!

Have you seen the male vs female numbers for Trump?

Something has gone wrong with American men.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 31, 2020, 04:17:51 pm

Quote from: bitter much on October 31, 2020, 04:01:47 pm

Ok but it wasn’t at all a rant!

Have you seen the male vs female numbers for Trump?

Something has gone wrong with American men.

Are men supporting Trump in greater numbers than they did other Republican candidates? I know I could look this up but I'm tired from running and raking leaves.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 31, 2020, 04:23:32 pm

Dude way more.. Trump represents the apotheosis of the male American asshole.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on October 31, 2020, 06:02:33 pm

Quote from: bitter much on October 31, 2020, 04:01:47 pm

Something has gone wrong with American men.

Sure, but we began our moral freefall way before 2016.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 31, 2020, 06:36:48 pm

I agree... like 1981...
Maybe earlier

But when did it become a majority of white men?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 01, 2020, 08:31:45 am

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on October 31, 2020, 06:02:33 pm

Quote from: bitter much on October 31, 2020, 04:01:47 pm
Something has gone wrong with American men.

Sure, but we began our moral freefall way before 2016.

let's see...Dr. No came out in 1963. I think we all already agreed it started then
Beatles showing up in 64 defiantly pushed things over the edge into the freefall that hasn't stopped tearing our moral fibers and away from the church

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 01, 2020, 09:14:51 am

Laugh all you want....

Movies can impact (and reflect) culture....

But obviously the point was never that Connery or 007 did anything singlehandedly...

But changing culture takes decades... it’s a processs...no one thing does it By itself

I think we need to try to understand why so many American men want to vote for Trump... and it’s not enough to say they had a tough time dealing with economic dislocation.. there is something deeper at work... the assholeization of America... and it’s disproportionately men

Someone I know once told me the day Bush threw that strike after 9-11 was the day he was proudest of America

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 01, 2020, 04:18:39 pm

Speaking of assholes and Sean....as if on cue makes and it about him (and 100% fabricated is my understanding, by what use are facts for the POTUS)

The legendary actor, 007 Sean Connery, has past on to even greener fairways. He was quite a guy, and a tough character. I was having a very hard time getting approvals for a big development in Scotland when Sean stepped in and shouted,“Let him build the damn thing”. That was........all I needed, everything went swimmingly from there. He was so highly regarded & respected in Scotland and beyond that years of future turmoil was avoided. Sean was a great actor and an even greater man. Sincere condolences to his family!

Donald J. Trump

I think jules will like this SC quote: "Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 01, 2020, 04:36:16 pm

I do like that quote. Julian always awards plaudits for self-awareness

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 01, 2020, 04:48:42 pm

Did Trump misspell "passed" or did you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 01, 2020, 06:38:26 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 01, 2020, 04:48:42 pm

Did Trump misspell "passed" or did you?

Trump did
I intentionally left it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 02, 2020, 04:18:20 am

so one thing i'm not getting about this toxic masculinity discussion y'all are having: you make it sound like men in this country were once good, and recently we've become terrible.

i would counter and say that men have always been terrible. in fact this country has been steadily - but very slowly - making progress. sometimes it was big things like the 19th amendment (which many men didn't give up willingly), other times it was smaller steps. but the patriarchy has been, and continues to be, alive and well in this country. a #metoo hashtag or a few women on the supreme court haven't changed this.

does anyone here believe that gender equality had been achieved, and now we're sliding back?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 02, 2020, 08:28:33 am

Reminds me of the “does anyone believe America wasn’t racist before Trump?” reasoning

No...nobody believes that but that he allowed racism out into the open for new generations? Sure... I would concede that

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 08, 2020, 01:31:31 pm

Alex Trebek

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 08, 2020, 01:40:19 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 08, 2020, 01:31:31 pm

Alex Trebek

CAN WE NOT HAVE ONE NICE WEEKEND

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 08, 2020, 01:48:04 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 08, 2020, 01:31:31 pm

Alex Trebek

Damn. At least he lived to see Trump ousted.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 09, 2020, 07:43:16 am

Bones Hillman's bass was exemplary but his vocals were intrinsic to Midnight Oil's sound

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/09/bones-hillmans-bass-was-exemplary-but-his-vocals-were-intrinsic-to-midnight-oils-sound

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 09, 2020, 07:49:57 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 09, 2020, 07:43:16 am

Bones Hillman's bass was exemplary but his vocals were intrinsic to Midnight Oil's sound

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/09/bones-hillmans-bass-was-exemplary-but-his-vocals-were-intrinsic-to-midnight-oils-sound

:( this was nice to see...their just-released The Makarrata Project, which debuted at No. 1 in the Australian chart the day before his death.
I'm sure it was nice to have some jubilation before his passing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 09, 2020, 08:34:41 am

Quote from: Side-Fore Seasons ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıle on November 09, 2020, 07:49:57 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 09, 2020, 07:43:16 am
Bones Hillman's bass was exemplary but his vocals were intrinsic to Midnight Oil's sound

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/09/bones-hillmans-bass-was-exemplary-but-his-vocals-were-intrinsic-to-midnight-oils-sound
:( this was nice to see...their just-released The Makarrata Project, which debuted at No. 1 in the Australian chart the day before his death.
I'm sure it was nice to have some jubilation before his passingtr

While not the original bass player for the band, he was there for Blue Sky Mining onwards.. and what an interesting career playing with early Aussie and NZ punk bands and when the band was on hiatus moving to Nashville to do session work.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 09, 2020, 09:09:19 am

The joy and elation that Saturday brought was quickly flattened yesterday for me, when I received news that a long time colleague and friend (early 40's, I think) had died in a freak accident.

Fucking 2020 be gone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 09, 2020, 09:18:34 am

Sorry to hear that

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on November 09, 2020, 11:12:53 am

That’s terrible. Sorry to hear that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 09, 2020, 12:19:46 pm

yeah that sucks space, sorry to hear that
life is brief, make the most of it people

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 10, 2020, 08:59:10 am

Saeb Erekat

(Palestinian negotiator)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 10, 2020, 12:20:50 pm

Norm Crosby, the Master of Malaprop (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/obituaries/norm-crosby-dead.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 11, 2020, 09:44:11 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 08, 2020, 01:31:31 pm

Alex Trebek

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1326556884938219520
@RexChapman
Alex Trebeck shooting promos for the phone version of Jeopardy and cussing like a sailor is just what I needed today...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 12, 2020, 09:50:19 pm

Quote from: Dominion voting-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 11, 2020, 09:44:11 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 08, 2020, 01:31:31 pm
Alex Trebek
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1326556884938219520
@RexChapman
Alex Trebeck shooting promos for the phone version of Jeopardy and cussing like a sailor is just what I needed today...

Jeopardy Petition Calls For LeVar Burton To Be The Next Host

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 14, 2020, 01:15:00 pm

Ken Spears, Scooby-Doo co-creator (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ken-spears-scooby-doo-co-creator-who-set-mystery-machine-in-motion-dies-at-82/ar-BB1aY1LZ?ocid=uxbndlbing)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on November 14, 2020, 09:16:34 pm

Linda Tripp.

I know, someone . . . who is laughing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 14, 2020, 11:03:05 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on November 14, 2020, 09:16:34 pm

Linda Tripp.

I know, someone . . . who is laughing.

She died in April. Nothing funny about breast cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on November 15, 2020, 10:34:07 am

Holy crap, I thought I read last night that she just died. I hate when I do that. Sorry. Though breast cancer is not funny, when the person who ruined your life for the rest of your life, dies . . . there is a high probability that you laugh yourself to sleep.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 22, 2020, 11:23:40 pm

Pat Quinn

Rest In Peace

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/22/us/pat-quinn-als-ice-bucket-challenge-dead-trnd/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 23, 2020, 11:55:26 am

Quote from: WalkOnBack on November 15, 2020, 10:34:07 am

Holy crap, I thought I read last night that she just died. I hate when I do that. Sorry. Though breast cancer is not funny, when the person who ruined your life for the rest of your life, dies . . . there is a high probability that you laugh yourself to sleep.

I love when moral high ground Space rears his head.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 24, 2020, 10:00:27 am

Former NYC mayor David Dinkins.

I once ran into him on the street when getting off the Staten Island Ferry. I also once saw Ed Koch attending the same movie I was (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.) Not on the same visit to NYC.

Never saw Rudy, thankfully.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 24, 2020, 10:04:42 am

Quote from: Space Freely on November 24, 2020, 10:00:27 am

Former NYC mayor David Dinkins.

I always think of Dinkins when I listen to Tribe Called Quest
Quite possibly one of just a few politicians that gets a positive name drop in a song

Can I kick it? To my Tribe that flows in layers
Right now, Phife is a poem sayer
At times, I'm a studio conveyor
Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?
You'll be doing us a really big favor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 24, 2020, 10:09:22 am

Quote from: 10-ply-super-soft bitch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 24, 2020, 10:04:42 am

Quote from: Space Freely on November 24, 2020, 10:00:27 am
Former NYC mayor David Dinkins.
I always think of Dinkins when I listen to Tribe Called Quest
Quite possibly one of just a few politicians that gets a positive name drop in a song

Can I kick it? To my Tribe that flows in layers
Right now, Phife is a poem sayer
At times, I'm a studio conveyor
Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?
You'll be doing us a really big favor

Great song!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 24, 2020, 10:52:08 am

Yes I was listening to that the other day and very noticeable endorsement

Has aged much better than their constant Zulu nation namedrops

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 25, 2020, 12:32:30 pm

Diego Maradona

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 25, 2020, 12:35:40 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TOFURKEY-MAKER on November 25, 2020, 12:32:30 pm

Diego Maradona

Oh damn, need to do a wellness check on Hutch
Only 60, heart attack

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 25, 2020, 12:38:03 pm

Damn

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 25, 2020, 05:04:46 pm

The guy was completely nuts, but a helluvan entertaining football player....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 25, 2020, 07:54:30 pm

(https://i.ibb.co/7vZPL5K/A084-F877-4-DC7-463-F-8224-8-E75-E4-EB6-A96.png) (https://ibb.co/Tc76dSt)

(https://i.ibb.co/HDQ63n2/0-BD8-EDB4-5-ECD-4470-8-AB2-9-D12-CF682245.png)
(https://ibb.co/mC7kg6B)

These were taken in Japan January 1982 on a tour by his then team Boca Juniors(coincidentally my favorite club)..after the game

Right after this he was sold to Barcelona...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on November 25, 2020, 10:13:41 pm

Ken Jennings chances of being the permanent host.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 29, 2020, 08:40:19 am

David Prowse best known as the Darth Vader actor, here is a clip of him speaking the lines before they were replaced

https://twitter.com/tokyosexwhale/status/1332992938297741312?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 01, 2020, 03:58:37 pm

Ellen Page

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 01, 2020, 04:01:10 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 01, 2020, 03:58:37 pm

Ellen Page

This is so on-brand for you that I think you should win a marketing award. Do the Clios still exist?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2020, 06:07:19 pm

I need to work on my pronouns

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2020, 06:09:13 pm

Not trying to be insensitive I just don’t understand how one person is referred to as “they” or by “theirs”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 01, 2020, 06:11:37 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 06:09:13 pm

Not trying to be insensitive I just don’t understand how one person is referred to as “they” or by “theirs”

It turns out its not up to you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2020, 06:14:53 pm

Well that’s true... I didn’t say it was.. nor did I say I found anything wrong with it

But clearly not good enough

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 01, 2020, 06:53:22 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 06:14:53 pm

Well that’s true... I didn’t say it was.. nor did I say I found anything wrong with it

But clearly not good enough

You also don't need to understand it or question it. Nunya.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 01, 2020, 07:09:09 pm

Quote

Not trying to be insensitive I just don’t understand how one person is referred to as “they” or by “theirs”

this is the modern-day equivalent to "i don't understand how a man could be in love with another man".

we'll get there, eventually. the times, they are a-changing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2020, 07:47:04 pm

Really, not understanding the use of pronouns is the equivalent of not understanding how a man can love a man!?

Ok then

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 01, 2020, 07:51:19 pm

I agree with hutch... not thinking a man can love a man is philosophical and way more judgmental
While struggling with the they/them pronoun is somewhat grammatical in nature... I think there is way less judgment involved

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2020, 07:53:21 pm

I feel like you guys are pretty damn intolerant

You could have explained the rationale for the pronouns.

Thanks for nothing.

I have nothing against transsexuals. In fact it’s kind of cool. Love and let love.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 01, 2020, 07:55:43 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 07:53:21 pm

I feel like you guys are pretty damn intolerant

You could have explained the rationale for the pronouns.

Thanks for nothing.

I have nothing against transsexuals. In fact it’s kind of cool. Love and let love.

FFS this has nothing to do with transsexuals. The issue is transgendered pronouns. Two totally different things.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2020, 07:57:09 pm

Ok I mistyped

Even better.. good for transgendered people! Nothing against anybody

Unlike you who is a judgmental prick who can’t resist coming down on people cause they don’t get the lingo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 01, 2020, 08:10:42 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 07:57:09 pm

Ok I mistyped

Even better.. good for transgendered people! Nothing against anybody

Unlike you who is a judgmental prick who can’t resist coming down on people cause they don’t get the lingo

I learned alot from my transgendered son.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2020, 08:15:27 pm

Quote from: McGanahan Skjellyfetti on December 01, 2020, 08:10:42 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 07:57:09 pm
Ok I mistyped

Even better.. good for transgendered people! Nothing against anybody

Unlike you who is a judgmental prick who can’t resist coming down on people cause they don’t get the lingo

I learned alot from my transgendered son.

And I learned a lot from my autistic child but I don’t walk around assuming everyone else did...and if they say they don’t understand something I don’t assume they mean it in a bad way..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on December 01, 2020, 08:18:29 pm

Well, that escalated quickly.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 01, 2020, 08:21:30 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 08:15:27 pm

Quote from: McGanahan Skjellyfetti on December 01, 2020, 08:10:42 pm
Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 07:57:09 pm
Ok I mistyped

Even better.. good for transgendered people! Nothing against anybody

Unlike you who is a judgmental prick who can’t resist coming down on people cause they don’t get the lingo

I learned alot from my transgendered son.

And I learned a lot from my autistic child but I don’t walk around assuming everyone else did...and if they say they don’t understand something I don’t assume they mean it in a bad way..

I'll make sure not to say stupid shit about autistic kids then.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2020, 08:24:44 pm

I mean WTF all I wrote was I don’t get the pronouns next thing you know I am being told off..the Sweetcell compares it to people not understanding how a man loves a man

Hey asshat I had a gay roommate when I was 19 in college and it was a pretty helluva conservative place

I just don’t get the rationale for the pronouns

Since nobody here will help I will do some research on it myself

Thanks for your judgment

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 01, 2020, 08:27:36 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 08:24:44 pm

Hey asshat I had a gay roommate when I was 19 in college and it was a pretty helluva conservative place

LOL The modern day equivalent of "Some of my best friends are black"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2020, 08:27:58 pm

Quote from: McGanahan Skjellyfetti on December 01, 2020, 08:21:30 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 08:15:27 pm
Quote from: McGanahan Skjellyfetti on December 01, 2020, 08:10:42 pm
Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 07:57:09 pm
Ok I mistyped

Even better.. good for transgendered people! Nothing against anybody

Unlike you who is a judgmental prick who can’t resist coming down on people cause they don’t get the lingo

I learned alot from my transgendered son.

And I learned a lot from my autistic child but I don’t walk around assuming everyone else did...and if they say they don’t understand something I don’t assume they mean it in a bad way..

I'll make sure not to say stupid shit about autistic kids then.

I didn’t say anything stupid

And people say stupid shit about autistic kids to me all the time but I don’t react the way you do

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2020, 08:35:04 pm

Quote from: McGanahan Skjellyfetti on December 01, 2020, 08:27:36 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 08:24:44 pm

Hey asshat I had a gay roommate when I was 19 in college and it was a pretty helluva conservative place

LOL The modern day equivalent of "Some of my best friends are black"

that wasn’t directed at you but feel free to jump in!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 01, 2020, 08:37:06 pm

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on December 01, 2020, 08:18:29 pm

Well, that escalated quickly.

I know.... who died?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 01, 2020, 08:39:43 pm

As usual I will blame Space Freely

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 01, 2020, 10:36:15 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 08:39:43 pm

As usual I will blame Space Freely

After julie, my go to

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 01, 2020, 11:16:11 pm

Quote from: massive side-dumps ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 01, 2020, 10:36:15 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 08:39:43 pm
As usual I will blame Space Freely
After julie, my go to

Julie? Did he change his pronoun too?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 01, 2020, 11:18:45 pm

I have it on good authority that ze did!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on December 01, 2020, 11:45:36 pm

My hands are down my / mine pants, as I read all of this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 02, 2020, 03:47:26 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 08:24:44 pm

I mean WTF all I wrote was I don’t get the pronouns next thing you know I am being told off..the Sweetcell compares it to people not understanding how a man loves a man

clearly you took this the wrong way, and in your shock you may not have noticed my use of "the modern-day equivalent." back in the day - like 60's and 70's - many folks weren't anti-gay but couldn't wrap their heads around homosexual relationships. they would get hung up on all sorts of minutia ("which one is the girl?") instead of focusing on the real issue: equality, acceptance, etc.

i see a direct parallel with folks who can't get past the grammatical implications of transgenderism. he/she/they isn't the issue, and it's a strange thing (to me) to get hung up on vs. issues of equality, acceptance, etc.

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 01, 2020, 08:24:44 pm

I just don’t get the rationale for the pronouns

i could give you an explanation - about self-reference and personal identity, about non-binary spectrum, about giving requested freedom to the oppressed, etc. - but i'd be concerned that you'd still stuck on the fact that until now, "they" referred to plural.

TL;DR: english is a continuously evolving language and doesn't have a neutral pronoun that we need for folks who don't identify as "he" or "she" so we borrowed "they". the end.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 02, 2020, 09:19:48 am

Sweetcell must be older than me. Back in the 60's and 70's, I didn't even know what a gay person was, much less talk about who was the girl!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 02, 2020, 09:42:51 am

Growing up in an Argentine conservative catholic family we didn’t know any gay people...about all I knew was gay people weren’t getting into heaven....I was definitely taught it was a bad thing

I count sharing a bedroom with an out of the closet gay person at 19 in a conservative college as personal growth but hey sorry I am not woke enough...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 02, 2020, 09:44:49 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 02, 2020, 09:42:51 am

Growing up in an Argentine conservative catholic family we didn’t know any gay people...about all I knew was gay people weren’t getting into heaven....I was definitely taught it was a bad thing

I count sharing a bedroom with an out of the closet gay person at 19 in a conservative college as personal growth but hey sorry I am not woke enough...

Unless you were fellating him/her, it doesn't count as personal growth.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 02, 2020, 09:48:59 am

No can’t say that happened..definitely wasn’t my type.. I did benefit in terms of exposure to some cool dance music

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 02, 2020, 09:51:04 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 02, 2020, 09:48:59 am

No can’t say that happened..definitely wasn’t my type.. I did benefit in terms of exposure to some cool dance music

Yup... doesn't count then as being exposed and accepting him/her/they in full.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 02, 2020, 09:52:52 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 02, 2020, 09:42:51 am

Growing up in an Argentine conservative catholic family we didn’t know any gay people...about all I knew was gay people weren’t getting into heaven....I was definitely taught it was a bad thing

I count sharing a bedroom with an out of the closet gay person at 19 in a conservative college as personal growth but hey sorry I am not woke enough...

I hear ya Hutch. I grew up in an evangelical family in rural, conservative upstate New York (though i started shedding my faith as soon as i started to develop heterosexual feelings, as i don't think *any* pre-marital sexual feelings were acceptable). One of my best friends when i was 19 was a gender confused, sexually ambiguous Madonna-wannabe. 30+ years later, I've lost touch with him/her/they. I'm sure he/she/they now have figured it all out, and now I'm the confused one who woke people think is a dick when i try to tell them this guy was my friend.

This is a problem with liberals, imo. Too much focus on wokeness and moral superiority (just like conservatives) and not enough focus on healthcare and economic issues. We'll probably lose in 2024.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 02, 2020, 10:00:40 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 02, 2020, 09:52:52 am

This is a problem with liberals, imo. Too much focus on wokeness and moral superiority (just like conservatives) and not enough focus on healthcare and economic issues. We'll probably lose in 2024.

Name that logical fallacy! I *think* its red herring, but I've never been great at this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 02, 2020, 10:03:26 am

Well shame on you! How dare you not know the lingo!

Off with your head!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 02, 2020, 10:27:36 am

You know how when gay guys can't understand how another guy could possibly want to eat pussy? That's probably the logical equivalent of people not understanding the concept of the genitals you were biologically born with not defining who you are gender-wise.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 02, 2020, 10:30:06 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 02, 2020, 10:03:26 am

Off with your head!

ahh, simpler times...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 02, 2020, 10:43:16 am

Well isn’t that what the French Revolution turned into: a contest to see who could be most woke?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 02, 2020, 11:36:07 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 02, 2020, 10:43:16 am

. . . the French Revolution . . .

Trigger Warning please. The fall of Julian's France still stings some of us to our very core.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 02, 2020, 11:36:42 am

But seriously, you all are having one hell of a hissyfit. All y'all go outside (socially distanced) and get some fresh air or something. Geez.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 02, 2020, 11:44:38 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 02, 2020, 11:36:42 am

But seriously, you all are having one hell of a hissyfit. All y'all go outside (socially distanced) and get some fresh air or something. Geez.

All ya'll = All three of you get out of here!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 02, 2020, 11:48:34 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 02, 2020, 11:36:42 am

But seriously, you all are having one hell of a hissyfit. All y'all go outside (socially distanced) and get some fresh air or something. Geez.

I don't think in this instance it's me that's having the hissyfit. But it certainly has been on any number of occasions. I think it's often the case for me that other things in my life are stressing me out, and i tend to take it out on strangers, acquaintances, and friends in internet forums. Perhaps that's the case for others? These are stressful times for many, hopefully 2021 brings us much closer to the light at the end of the tunnel.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 02, 2020, 12:19:41 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 02, 2020, 11:44:38 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 02, 2020, 11:36:42 am
But seriously, you all are having one hell of a hissyfit. All y'all go outside (socially distanced) and get some fresh air or something. Geez.

All ya'll = All three of you get out of here!

I mean they are a-rabblin' and a-rousin' up a fit big enough for 8 gender-inspecific human beings, I tell you what.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 02, 2020, 12:46:17 pm

So my feelings don’t count?

You bitch!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 02, 2020, 01:16:06 pm

Quote from: McGanahan Skjellyfetti on December 02, 2020, 10:00:40 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 02, 2020, 09:52:52 am
This is a problem with liberals, imo. Too much focus on wokeness and moral superiority (just like conservatives) and not enough focus on healthcare and economic issues. We'll probably lose in 2024.

Name that logical fallacy! I *think* its red herring, but I've never been great at this.

projection?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on December 02, 2020, 06:06:26 pm

Pat Patterson. Legend. Gay. Double Legend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 02, 2020, 06:06:58 pm

finally somebody died!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on December 02, 2020, 06:08:55 pm

God, that sentence, desperately needed a comma.

My pronoun, is now a comma.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 02, 2020, 06:10:47 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on December 02, 2020, 06:08:55 pm

My pronoun, is now a comma.

can, confirm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 02, 2020, 08:50:03 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 02, 2020, 12:46:17 pm

So my feelings don’t count?

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoRfLghWMAIWRpc?format=jpg&name=900x900)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 02, 2020, 09:14:17 pm

Quote from: play-acting-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 02, 2020, 06:10:47 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on December 02, 2020, 06:08:55 pm
My pronoun, is now a comma.
can, confirm

He’s been a very loosely closeted commasexual for years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 03, 2020, 04:24:36 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 02, 2020, 09:14:17 pm

commasexual

you make it hard for me to keep up the hate when you drop gems like this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 03, 2020, 07:55:50 am

edit -- some ranty comment about how Michigan is the Florida of the north where nobody actually died (and not some NBA news)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 03, 2020, 08:10:02 am

Testing positive goes on this thread now?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on December 03, 2020, 10:00:39 am

Quote from: sweetcell on December 03, 2020, 04:24:36 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 02, 2020, 09:14:17 pm
commasexual

you make it hard for me to keep up the hate when you drop gems like this.

It had, potw, written all over it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 05, 2020, 05:19:54 pm

(https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/david-lander.jpg)

David "Squiggy" Lander (https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/david-lander-dead-dies-squiggy-laverne-shirley-1234847158/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 07, 2020, 01:54:32 am

Former Maryland US senator Paul Sarbanes (https://www.baltimoresun.com/politics/bs-md-paul-sarbanes-20201207-joygkdwykrfb3ehld72brkx7e4-story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 07, 2020, 10:30:48 am

^ I think about him and Oxley every time one of my Financial clients needs to prepare for a SOX audit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 07, 2020, 10:35:25 am

By all accounts a good man...

Seems like a lifetime ago

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 07, 2020, 03:20:56 pm

Quote from: Tennis Anyone?-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 09, 2020, 07:49:57 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 09, 2020, 07:43:16 am
Bones Hillman's bass was exemplary but his vocals were intrinsic to Midnight Oil's sound

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/09/bones-hillmans-bass-was-exemplary-but-his-vocals-were-intrinsic-to-midnight-oils-sound
:( this was nice to see...their just-released The Makarrata Project, which debuted at No. 1 in the Australian chart the day before his death.
I'm sure it was nice to have some jubilation before his passing

In fact, just a few hours before his tragic passing he received confirmation that The Makarrata Project had debuted at the top of the ARIA Album Charts. It was Midnight Oil’s first new music #1 since Hillman’s very first record with the band, Blue Sky Mining, way back in 1990.
“Bonesy leaves giant shoes to fill but we’ll need to find a new bass player for this tour”, said drummer Rob Hirst. “On this issue Bones was clear: ‘the show must go on!’, he said, ‘as soon as it’s safe to play gigs again’. We’re hoping that these Makarrata Live shows will increase awareness of The Uluru Statement From The Heart and further the reconciliation between First Nations and non-Indigenous Australians and we’ll also be dedicating the tour to Bones.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 07, 2020, 11:46:42 pm

Chuck Yeager

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 08, 2020, 01:55:20 pm

40 years ago today....
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EotAqxSWEAIFc_Q?format=jpg&name=large)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on December 08, 2020, 02:12:30 pm

Been gone nearly as long as he was here. Hard to believe.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 08, 2020, 08:44:21 pm

Harold Budd ambient composer and Eno collaborator.. 84 due to covid complications

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 08, 2020, 08:48:50 pm

And I forgotten about Matthew Seligman of the Soft Boys also due COVID

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 08, 2020, 08:59:37 pm

That double sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 08, 2020, 10:40:49 pm

Alejandro Sabella

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 09, 2020, 12:46:49 am

Keyboardist Howard Wales has died. The musician known for his collaborations with Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia suffered a medical emergency on December 6 and his death on December 7 was confirmed by representatives posting on his Facebook page.

Born in Wisconsin, Wales’ early professional career included a short time with James Brown, along with other gigs performing with Lonnie Mack, Ronnie Hawkins, Freddie King, The Four Tops, The Coasters and others.

Continued: https://www.jambase.com/article/howard-wales-death

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 09, 2020, 09:26:40 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 08, 2020, 10:40:49 pm

Alejandro Sabella

Man, only a few days after Maradona...2020 has not been kind to Argentine football

Speaking of...just saw they want to put him on their money
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/590/cpsprodpb/13B5/production/_115954050_gettyimages-984953912.jpg)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-latin-america-55227530

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 09, 2020, 10:27:41 pm

Paolo Rossi

(Italy 1982 World Cup hero)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 11, 2020, 11:50:53 am

Deebo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 11, 2020, 01:13:09 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 11, 2020, 11:50:53 am

Deebo

:( loved him in Friday
(https://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9sq6rs4Ro1qzyj5fo1_500.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 12, 2020, 05:29:54 pm

Charly Pride - 86 of COVID complications and just a month ago preformed on the CMAs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 12, 2020, 06:49:23 pm

That’s a shame

Forever immortalized in Willie’s song “Me and Paul”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 13, 2020, 06:17:04 pm

David Cornwell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 13, 2020, 06:34:05 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 13, 2020, 06:17:04 pm

David Cornwell

Which one?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 13, 2020, 10:48:03 pm

John le Carré: Espionage writer dies aged 89
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55297558 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55297558)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 16, 2020, 02:15:21 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 14, 2020, 09:24:23 am

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/sam-jayne-of-love-as-laughter-missing-since-monday/

FUCK.

https://pitchfork.com/news/love-as-laughter-sam-jayne-is-missing/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on December 16, 2020, 05:02:38 pm

That sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 16, 2020, 05:15:53 pm

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on December 16, 2020, 05:02:38 pm

That sucks.

We saw him play at Iota in 2003 on the same bill as James Mercer (Shins), Sam Beam (Iron and Wine), and Rosie Thomas.

He distinguished himself as the guy who was able to rhyme "Hoboken" with "no jokin'" in a song. Though apparently he didn't make it up.

https://hoboken411.com/archives/48537

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/nyregion/by-the-way-o-hoboken.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 17, 2020, 04:45:14 pm

Bobo Feet

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 17, 2020, 04:51:19 pm

not like you ever saw his face and didn't do the voice
still can't believe he survived the sarlacc

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 18, 2020, 03:22:44 pm

Star Wars' Boba Fett actor Jeremy Bulloch dies aged 75 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55358301)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 18, 2020, 04:04:50 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 18, 2020, 03:22:44 pm

Star Wars' Boba Fett actor Jeremy Bulloch dies aged 75 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55358301)

Dude. Two posts up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 18, 2020, 07:30:31 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 18, 2020, 04:04:50 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 18, 2020, 03:22:44 pm
Star Wars' Boba Fett actor Jeremy Bulloch dies aged 75 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55358301)
Dude. Two posts up.

dude. it was mispelled, and the character Boba Fett didn't die. jeremy bullock did. your "post" provided no info. i fixed that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 18, 2020, 07:42:18 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 18, 2020, 07:30:31 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 18, 2020, 04:04:50 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on December 18, 2020, 03:22:44 pm
Star Wars' Boba Fett actor Jeremy Bulloch dies aged 75 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55358301)
Dude. Two posts up.

dude. it was mispelled, and the character Boba Fett didn't die. jeremy bullock did. your "post" provided no info. i fixed that.

I’m doing the best at this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 18, 2020, 07:46:35 pm

To be fair, I was thinking that Boba tea had died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 20, 2020, 06:10:40 pm

Pelle Alsing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 20, 2020, 06:21:46 pm

Quote from: McGanahan Skjellyfetti on December 18, 2020, 07:46:35 pm

To be fair, I was thinking that Boba tea had died.

That news would give my kid a heart attack Or maybe the tea itself would be the cause.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 21, 2020, 01:07:35 pm

Chad Stuart of Chad & Jeremy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 21, 2020, 04:44:54 pm

KT Oslin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 21, 2020, 04:45:51 pm

Gone too soon. The Olsen twins were a phenom.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 21, 2020, 05:34:25 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 21, 2020, 04:44:54 pm

KT Oslin

I would have never guessed she was 78. How may female country singers release their debut album at age 45?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 23, 2020, 04:21:40 pm

Scottish supermodel Stella Tennant

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 23, 2020, 04:27:07 pm

John “Ecstasy” Fletcher from Whodini

Probably a bit over shadowed at time, but Freaks Come Out At Night, Five Minutes Of Funk and Friends were all jams...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 23, 2020, 06:02:05 pm

Leslie West of Mountain

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 23, 2020, 07:36:50 pm

The song Long Red from Leslie’s first solo album has been sampled in over 600 songs, including this one by Whodini

Rock You Again (Again & Again)

https://youtu.be/QnCLTTe62kc

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on December 25, 2020, 03:21:25 pm

Michael Alig

Over,dose

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 25, 2020, 05:36:49 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on December 25, 2020, 03:21:25 pm

Michael Alig

Over,dose

Just read his Wiki. Good riddance.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 25, 2020, 06:18:30 pm

NBA legend and Grateful Dead song character KC Jones.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 27, 2020, 05:11:50 pm

Hall of Fame knuckleballer legend Phil Niekro.

Which NFL Hall of Fame legend is about to die?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 29, 2020, 11:42:33 am

Armando Manzanero

Legendary Mexican songwriter

Covid’d

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 29, 2020, 11:47:19 am

Legendary designer Pierre Cardin. Not an NFL legend, but i'll bet some NFL legends wore his clothing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 29, 2020, 12:45:32 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 29, 2020, 11:47:19 am

Legendary designer Pierre Cardin. Not an NFL legend, but i'll bet some NFL legends wore his clothing.

The America would be weeping were it still 1974.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 29, 2020, 11:35:05 pm

Luke Letlow

congressman elect from Louisiana

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 30, 2020, 10:14:22 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 29, 2020, 11:35:05 pm

Luke Letlow

congressman elect from Louisiana

man, this gave me the chills
41-year-old Republican had announced his COVID-19 diagnosis just 11 days earlier.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 30, 2020, 10:27:12 am

People just don’t understand what is happening

1 in 960 Americans have died from covid ...my guess is that number understates it and it’s more like 1 out of 700...that’s a hell of a lot of people

Yet there is no reaction

The vaccine rollout seems as flawed as everything else

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 30, 2020, 10:34:33 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 30, 2020, 10:27:12 am

People just don’t understand what is happening

1 in 960 Americans have died from covid ...my guess is that number understates it and it’s more like 1 out of 700...that’s a hell of a lot of people

Yet there is no reaction

The vaccine rollout seems as flawed as everything else

none of this is important as 12k people died due to the swine flu, deficits matter again, and repealing Section 230 could lead the shutdown of this forum and almost any internet forum for that matter...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 30, 2020, 10:37:54 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 30, 2020, 10:34:33 am

and repealing Section 230 could lead the shutdown of this forum and almost any internet forum for that matter...

Yeah, seth better lawyer up as I'm suing the shit out of IMP once that gets repealed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 30, 2020, 01:50:24 pm

N.J. principal Joe Clark who inspired film 'Lean on Me' dies at 82

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 30, 2020, 01:59:29 pm

Alto Reed saxophonist in the Silver Bullet Band real name Thomas Neal Cartmeli 72

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on December 30, 2020, 03:57:54 pm

Dawn Wells. Gilligan's Island's Mary Ann.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 30, 2020, 05:39:35 pm

Quote from: Krakenned on December 30, 2020, 03:57:54 pm

Dawn Wells. Gilligan's Island's Mary Ann.

From covid

Should have stayed on the island

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on December 31, 2020, 09:55:22 am

Tony Rice

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 31, 2020, 11:06:41 am

Rocky Johnson.

Not an NFL legend, but close.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 31, 2020, 11:20:34 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on August 10, 2019, 09:13:02 am

Jeffrey Epstein

Apparently Lin Wood knows something we don't
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqkxeizXcAIzRGE?format=jpg&name=small)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 31, 2020, 04:21:17 pm

Quote from: Emergency Petition-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 30, 2020, 10:14:22 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on December 29, 2020, 11:35:05 pm
Luke Letlow

congressman elect from Louisiana
man, this gave me the chills
41-year-old Republican had announced his COVID-19 diagnosis just 11 days earlier.

An article dated December 9 said he planned to attend a White House Xmas Party. Could he have gotten the Rona there? Diagnosis was December 19, so quite possible.

Letlow is planning to travel to Washington, D.C. this week with his wife, Julia, to attend the White House Christmas Party.

https://www.hannapub.com/ouachitacitizen/news/local_state_headlines/letlow-outlines-priorities-once-sworn-in-as-5th-district-congressman/article_2ddc49ee-3a55-11eb-8a69-27005c6ef596.html

I wonder if he at least got to meet Kid Rock?

https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/12/17/photos-white-house-holiday-party-attendees-show-off-mostly-maskless-selfies/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 31, 2020, 06:34:37 pm

MF Doom is MMM Worm Food

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on December 31, 2020, 06:41:37 pm

Daaaaamn, apparently in October?!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 31, 2020, 06:42:37 pm

Quote from: evilizac on December 31, 2020, 06:41:37 pm

Daaaaamn, apparently in October?!?

Kinda fitting that a dude who spent his professional career in a mask died on Halloween.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 31, 2020, 07:51:05 pm

As 2020 ends, we've lost another great: Eugene Wright, last surviving member of the classic Dave Brubeck Quartet, is gone age 97. He was called the "Senator" & his strong swinging beat also propelled Count Basie, Charlie Parker & Billie Holiday. A gentleman & consummate musician.

https://twitter.com/tedgioia/status/1344776254755639298?s=21

He was the group’s bassist... good thread on him as well

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 31, 2020, 08:14:35 pm

Well written Kosmo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on January 01, 2021, 11:54:32 am

Quote from: evilizac on December 31, 2020, 06:41:37 pm

Daaaaamn, apparently in October?!?

One, last sucker punch from 2020.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 02, 2021, 08:40:32 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 27, 2020, 05:11:50 pm

Hall of Fame knuckleballer legend Phil Niekro.

Which NFL Hall of Fame legend is about to die?

NLF Hall of Fame legend Floyd Little.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 03, 2021, 02:25:42 pm

Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 04, 2021, 12:05:57 pm

Alexi Laiho, 41
Singer and guitarist for Children of Bodom

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 05, 2021, 04:12:08 pm

Actress Tanya Roberts, 65. For real this time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 05, 2021, 04:56:43 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 05, 2021, 04:12:08 pm

Actress Tanya Roberts, 65. For real this time.

How great was this headline:

Tanya Roberts Dead at 65 After Premature Death Announcement

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 07, 2021, 09:39:58 am

Ashli Babbit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 07, 2021, 10:45:55 am

Quote from: Yada on January 07, 2021, 09:39:58 am

Ashli Babbit

think she'll be considered a MAGA martyr and get a monument
There were apparently Parler posts that 'she was still alive and heading home'

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 07, 2021, 04:32:14 pm

Quote from: sacred landslide-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 07, 2021, 10:45:55 am

Quote from: Yada on January 07, 2021, 09:39:58 am
Ashli Babbit
think she'll be considered a MAGA martyr and get a monument

yup:

(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/07/14/37724530-9120779-image-a-32_1610030807217.jpg)

(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/07/14/37724536-9120779-image-a-10_1610030380304.jpg)

(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/07/14/37724542-9120779-image-a-12_1610030383690.jpg)

(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/07/14/37724538-9120779-image-a-30_1610030789904.jpg)

(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/07/14/37724544-9120779-image-a-16_1610030396118.jpg)

etc...

(source (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9120779/PICTURED-Trump-supporter-Air-Force-vet-shot-killed-storming-Capitol.html))

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 08, 2021, 01:25:06 am

Capitol Police officer dies from injuries after clashing with pro-Trump mob (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/capitol-police-officer-has-died-after-clashing-pro-trump-mob-n1253396)
The officer, Brian D. Sicknick, is the fifth person to die from Wednesday's violent clash in Washington.

killing a cop: shit was real, but it just got real real. now i'm starting to believe that all the talk about the 25th and/or impeachment is also real.

(here (https://www.thedailybeast.com/benjamin-philips-kevin-greeson-rosanne-boyland-were-the-three-others-who-died-during-the-capitol-riot)'s a good run-down of who the other 4 people were)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 08, 2021, 09:01:10 am

Sad
It’s crazy that once people started dying shit didn’t change real quick

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 08, 2021, 09:13:15 am

Quote from: sweetcell on January 08, 2021, 01:25:06 am

Capitol Police officer dies from injuries after clashing with pro-Trump mob (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/capitol-police-officer-has-died-after-clashing-pro-trump-mob-n1253396)
The officer, Brian D. Sicknick, is the fifth person to die from Wednesday's violent clash in Washington.

killing a cop: shit was real, but it just got real real. now i'm starting to believe that all the talk about the 25th and/or impeachment is also real.

(here (https://www.thedailybeast.com/benjamin-philips-kevin-greeson-rosanne-boyland-were-the-three-others-who-died-during-the-capitol-riot)'s a good run-down of who the other 4 people were)

That's not really a good run down of who the other four were, at least in regard to one of the dead terrorists. Regarding Kevin Greeson, they give this sanitized version of his online existence, and note what a great worker and family guy he was.

Greeson’s wife also noted that her husband was a “political junkie” who “saw the good and bad in Trump.” His social media accounts confirmed his affinity for the president.

Greeson only posted six times on Twitter since he joined in 2019. While most are tweets supporting Trump’s 2020 campaign, the 55-year-old also called former Ohio Gov. John Kasich—an outspoken critic of Trump—an “idiot.”

But maybe they should have checked his Parler account.

https://twitter.com/ConnorASheets/status/1347253411335589888/photo/1

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 08, 2021, 09:16:46 am

Quote from: Storm-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 08, 2021, 09:01:10 am

Sad
It’s crazy that once people started dying shit didn’t change real quick

That's not what happens in a Revolution. The next battle is January 19, Robert E. Lee's birthday. And of course, the day before the Inauguration. Will law enforcement be ready this time?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 08, 2021, 09:52:07 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 08, 2021, 09:16:46 am

That's not what happens in a Revolution.

I meant that you would have thought once it started getting through the CapPO ranks that one was down, you would have thought it was skull-ckraking time...alas

interesting read from a former CapPO on the prep normally taken on most marches/protests
https://twitter.com/eunique/status/1347177305815318530

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 08, 2021, 09:55:59 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 08, 2021, 09:13:15 am

https://twitter.com/ConnorASheets/status/1347253411335589888/photo/1

I'd like to know if this is true?
isn’t he the guy who attempted to steal a painting and by doing so, accidentally tazered himself in the balls, which caused a heart attack?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 08, 2021, 01:05:47 pm

Tommy Lasorda

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 08, 2021, 01:09:31 pm

Quote from: Very Special-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 08, 2021, 01:05:47 pm

Tommy Lasorda

Oh, crap. Did he taze his own balls too?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 08, 2021, 01:11:59 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 08, 2021, 01:09:31 pm

Quote from: Very Special-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 08, 2021, 01:05:47 pm
Tommy Lasorda

Oh, crap. Did he taze his own balls too?

anything is possible in 2021

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 08, 2021, 04:31:27 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 08, 2021, 01:09:31 pm

Quote from: Very Special-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 08, 2021, 01:05:47 pm
Tommy Lasorda

Oh, crap. Did he taze his own balls too?

Don't knock it till you've...oh wait.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 08, 2021, 05:38:25 pm

Y’all are behind in this thread

Tommy Lasorda

Michael Apted, Director of ‘Up’ Series of Documentaries,

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 08, 2021, 05:51:54 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 08, 2021, 05:38:25 pm

Y’all are behind in this thread

Tommy Lasorda

really, the last four posts were about this?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 08, 2021, 06:23:29 pm

It’s my Friday bloopers “deputy”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 08, 2021, 09:25:38 pm

Trump’s Twitter

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 08, 2021, 10:00:58 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on January 08, 2021, 09:25:38 pm

Trump’s Twitter

He's still got the nuclear codes, though

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 08, 2021, 10:02:47 pm

Good Americans are working on that...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 10, 2021, 01:27:45 pm

Competitive Tetris player Jonas Neubauer has died suddenly at the age of 39.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 10, 2021, 11:12:21 pm

Michael Fonfara

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 11, 2021, 11:21:28 am

Quote from: excontradiction on January 10, 2021, 11:12:21 pm

Michael Fonfara

Long time Lou Reed keyboard player 74-80
and Foreigner’s 1981 hit “Urgent” (which I loved as a 10 yr old mini-hatch)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 12, 2021, 08:31:58 am

Mark Keds of Senseless Things

https://www.loudersound.com/news/senseless-things-frontman-mark-keds-dead-at-50

i have at least this CD somewhere in my collection..

(https://img.discogs.com/wKXQ69FslQ4zh1r58BMvgsGEM80=/fit-in/500x502/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-901175-1171726239.jpeg.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 12, 2021, 09:30:49 am

Sheldon Adelson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 12, 2021, 09:44:24 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on January 12, 2021, 09:30:49 am

Sheldon Adelson

Good riddance.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 12, 2021, 10:05:47 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 12, 2021, 09:44:24 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on January 12, 2021, 09:30:49 am
Sheldon Adelson
Good riddance.

Jez, blew a 1/4 bil on 2020
Filings show that Adelson and his wife gave a record-setting $218 million to Republicans and conservative groups during the 2020 election cycle.

Not that we didn't have enough reasons to hate McCarthy
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy: “Sheldon ....He was freedom’s greatest friend."
putting the $$$ back in freedom

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 14, 2021, 11:59:26 am

Harold Bornstein

(Trump doc)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 14, 2021, 12:02:16 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on January 14, 2021, 11:59:26 am

Harold Bornstein

(Trump doc)

this guy
(https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.hcX1FJ768slQE5QuJxcT-QHaGO?pid=Api&rs=1)
I mean...trump is still alive, so healthier that this guy

Interesting tidbit, but not surprising Bornstein confessed in an interview that it was actually then-candidate Trump who wrote his hyperbolic doctor’s report in 2015.

“He dictated that whole letter. I didn’t write that letter,” Bornstein told CNN. “I just made it up as I went along.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 14, 2021, 12:15:06 pm

Sigfried, of Sigfried and Roy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 14, 2021, 10:17:10 pm

Sylvain Sylvain

This means David Johansen is the last surviving member of the New York Dolls.

Also according to Neal Augenstein
On the anniversary of the 1992 death of New York Dolls drummer Jerry Nolan

https://twitter.com/augensteinwtop/status/1349902104983384065?s=21

Also fuck cancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 14, 2021, 10:22:25 pm

That sucks

I met him once at Jammin Java

A really nice guy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 15, 2021, 01:07:12 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 14, 2021, 10:17:10 pm

Sylvain Sylvain

https://www.stereogum.com/2113149/sylvain-sylvain-new-york-dolls-dead/news/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 15, 2021, 02:45:52 pm

Syl’s death bums me out

He never got the credit cause he was overshadowed by Johnny Thunders on guitar and David Johansen... but you wouldn’t have had the Dolls without him.. and because of the Dolls important place who knows what else wouldn’t have followed

It’s well known that Malcolm Mclaren started out in music mismanaging the Dolls on their last legs.. they were his model for the Sex Pistols..

The mind reels at what might not have happened

Of course partly I feel we are spoon fed the official story by the “winners”...see Legs McNeil’s book “Please Kill Me”...

But if it hadn’t happened like the book describes it would of all had been different

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3855664134487533&id=100001319541894

The official story something like this

VU and Nico —>. Iggy and Stooges / MC5 —> NY Dolls —> Patti Smith —> Ramones —> Sex Pistols —> dozens of bands and acts including Joy Division/The Smiths/Buzzcocks/Nipple Erectors(Shane MacGowan)/The Clash/The Fall/ Pretenders/The Raincoats—> Nirvana

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 17, 2021, 12:25:11 pm

Phil Spector

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 17, 2021, 12:45:57 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 17, 2021, 12:25:11 pm

Phil Spector

Covid'd

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 17, 2021, 02:04:19 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on January 17, 2021, 12:45:57 pm

Quote from: vansmack on January 17, 2021, 12:25:11 pm
Phil Spector

Covid'd

is the 'rona considered a "natural cause" nowadays?

Grammy-winning music producer Phil Spector dies of natural causes (https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/17/entertainment/phil-spector-death/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 17, 2021, 02:28:07 pm

Music Twitter is very complicated today

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 17, 2021, 10:22:20 pm

Junior Mance has died...

A very good jazz pianist

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 17, 2021, 10:37:27 pm

Phil Spector was nuts... but man if he isn’t the link between the 50s and 70s music.. he just revolutionized the sound of music but boy if he didn’t burn out quick..mental illness will limit you

Whenever I read music books lately he comes up.. the Leonard Cohen bio has a great description of him...the Ahmet Ertegun bio I am finishing up had an entire chapter devoted to Ahmet’s relationship with Spector

The Philles record label’s Christmas album is the sound of Christmas to me (if you think you don’t know it...well..you do)..always will be... too bad it has Phil’s spoken word message at end.. I can’t bear to listen to it knowing that he killed a woman and what an asshole he was

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 19, 2021, 12:52:19 am

Ozone (https://variety.com/2020/music/news/adolfo-shabba-doo-quinones-dead-breakin-dancer-actor-1234876798/)
(from breakin' and Electric Boogaloo)
member of The Original Lockers along with Don "Campbellock" Campbell, Fred "Rerun" Berry and Toni Basil

Died Dec 20th .... no cause yet listed...
days earlier had posted a photo of himself smiling and giving the peace sign in bed, writing, “Good news y’all! I’m feeling all better, just a wee bit sluggish from my cold, but the good news is I’m Covid 19 negative! Woo hoo!”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 19, 2021, 11:39:53 am

Jimmie Rodgers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 19, 2021, 11:48:24 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on January 19, 2021, 11:39:53 am

Jimmie Rodgers

(https://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSaM5pIOXR4JGNj6xpeE86IZix7ihgokSydc2Y32YxnGt0yC0J57HLOckwwSOsw)

This guy?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 19, 2021, 11:52:09 am

No..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 19, 2021, 11:54:28 am

Quote from: Just give it to me on January 19, 2021, 11:52:09 am

No..

classic hutch...no link on dead people

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 19, 2021, 10:11:49 pm

MLB legend Don Sutton. No link necessary.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 19, 2021, 10:16:52 pm

Jimmie Rodgers was more famous than Sutton

I guarantee Sidehatch has never heard of Sutton

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 19, 2021, 10:25:37 pm

Quote from: Just give it to me on January 19, 2021, 10:16:52 pm

I guarantee Sidehatch has never heard of Sutton

only heard of Sutton because they were talking about HOF pitcher today and gushing dramatically

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 19, 2021, 11:47:21 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 19, 2021, 10:11:49 pm

MLB legend Don Sutton. No link necessary.

never heard of him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on January 20, 2021, 08:54:23 am

Remember Sutton well. That's what I get for being old.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 21, 2021, 03:35:08 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 19, 2021, 10:11:49 pm

MLB legend Don Sutton. No link necessary.

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on January 20, 2021, 08:54:23 am

Remember Sutton well. That's what I get for being old.

Exactly. Have his autograph somewhere...

Quote from: sweetcell on January 19, 2021, 11:47:21 pm

never heard of him.

Go back to Canada you heathen....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 22, 2021, 01:18:47 am

Ted Thompson, Green Bay Packers GM who picked Aaron Rodgers in NFL draft, won Super Bowl XLV, dies at 68 (https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/30753718/ted-thompson-green-bay-packers-gm-drafted-aaron-rodgers-won-super-bowl-xlv-dies-68)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 22, 2021, 11:42:09 am

Hank Aaron, 86

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 22, 2021, 11:54:20 am

Ok, there is a baseball player I know

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on January 22, 2021, 12:35:21 pm

The TRUE HR king is dead :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 22, 2021, 01:37:57 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 22, 2021, 11:42:09 am

Hank Aaron, 86

Not to go all Qanon, but you think the vaccine killed him?

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/doctors-forge-ahead-allay-fears-about-covid-19-vaccines

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on January 23, 2021, 09:22:41 am

Larry King

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 24, 2021, 06:19:06 pm

Tom Stevens of the Long Ryders

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 24, 2021, 08:55:29 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 24, 2021, 06:19:06 pm

Tom Stevens of the Long Ryders

also a Right Stuff candidate

Brewer dropped out at this point to continue his career as a longshoreman in San Pedro and was replaced by Stevens, a former candidate in the NASA “Right Stuff” space program in Houston.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 27, 2021, 06:08:30 pm

Cloris Leachman ( I know she's a legend, but what a horrible name, she must have been hassled as a kid)

With 22 Emmy noms, she's the most nominated actress in history, and her 8 wins is the most of all time ... tied with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 27, 2021, 06:22:21 pm

Quote from: OfficeOfTheFormerHatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 27, 2021, 06:08:30 pm

Cloris Leachman ( I know she's a legend, but what a horrible name, she must have been hassled as a kid)

With 22 Emmy noms, she's the most nominated actress in history, and her 8 wins is the most of all time ... tied with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

What's wrong with "Cloris?" That's my kid's name.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 27, 2021, 06:30:01 pm

It's the combination I think is what irks me. it does sound like a part of the female anatomy that men legendary don't know how to find

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 27, 2021, 06:57:03 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 27, 2021, 06:22:21 pm

Quote from: OfficeOfTheFormerHatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 27, 2021, 06:08:30 pm
Cloris Leachman ( I know she's a legend, but what a horrible name, she must have been hassled as a kid)

With 22 Emmy noms, she's the most nominated actress in history, and her 8 wins is the most of all time ... tied with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

What's wrong with "Cloris?" That's my kid's name.

Similar to Delores and Mulva, it rhymes with a part of the female anatomy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 27, 2021, 11:03:16 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 27, 2021, 06:57:03 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 27, 2021, 06:22:21 pm
Quote from: OfficeOfTheFormerHatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 27, 2021, 06:08:30 pm
Cloris Leachman ( I know she's a legend, but what a horrible name, she must have been hassled as a kid)

With 22 Emmy noms, she's the most nominated actress in history, and her 8 wins is the most of all time ... tied with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

What's wrong with "Cloris?" That's my kid's name.
Similar to Delores and Mulva, it rhymes with a part of the female anatomy.

She was 94. I don't think most people knew what a clitoris was 80 years ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 27, 2021, 11:04:03 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 27, 2021, 06:22:21 pm

What's wrong with "Cloris?" That's my kid's name.

Cloris Freely?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 27, 2021, 11:09:11 pm

I guess I always found her name distinctive which was cool....

Definitely a funny woman....

RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 28, 2021, 09:27:12 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 27, 2021, 11:03:16 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 27, 2021, 06:57:03 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on January 27, 2021, 06:22:21 pm
Quote from: OfficeOfTheFormerHatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 27, 2021, 06:08:30 pm
Cloris Leachman ( I know she's a legend, but what a horrible name, she must have been hassled as a kid)

With 22 Emmy noms, she's the most nominated actress in history, and her 8 wins is the most of all time ... tied with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

What's wrong with "Cloris?" That's my kid's name.
Similar to Delores and Mulva, it rhymes with a part of the female anatomy.

She was 94. I don't think most people knew what a clitoris was 80 years ago.

Seinfeld reference which was trigged by Julia Louis-Dreyfus also being mentioned in the initial post.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 28, 2021, 09:28:18 am

We got ourselves some keyboard comedians here...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 28, 2021, 08:26:18 pm

Cicely Tyson (https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/cicely-tyson-dead-dies-1234895188/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 29, 2021, 09:03:38 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 28, 2021, 09:27:12 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 27, 2021, 11:03:16 pm
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 27, 2021, 06:57:03 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on January 27, 2021, 06:22:21 pm
Quote from: OfficeOfTheFormerHatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 27, 2021, 06:08:30 pm
Cloris Leachman ( I know she's a legend, but what a horrible name, she must have been hassled as a kid)

With 22 Emmy noms, she's the most nominated actress in history, and her 8 wins is the most of all time ... tied with Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

What's wrong with "Cloris?" That's my kid's name.
Similar to Delores and Mulva, it rhymes with a part of the female anatomy.

She was 94. I don't think most people knew what a clitoris was 80 years ago.
Seinfeld reference which was trigged by Julia Louis-Dreyfus also being mentioned in the initial post.

I saw that episode, as an adult in the 80's.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 29, 2021, 09:10:34 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 29, 2021, 09:03:38 am

I saw that episode, as an adult in the 80's.

I think you mean the 90s.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 29, 2021, 09:47:30 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 29, 2021, 09:10:34 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 29, 2021, 09:03:38 am
I saw that episode, as an adult in the 80's.
I think you mean the 90s.

You are correct. The 20something years all blend together for me. My bad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 29, 2021, 11:02:29 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 29, 2021, 09:10:34 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 29, 2021, 09:03:38 am
I saw that episode, as an adult in the 80's.
I think you mean the 90s.

he was ahead of the times

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 30, 2021, 11:23:38 am

Sophie (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/30/sophie-acclaimed-avant-pop-producer-dies-aged-34?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_b-gdnnews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1612006688)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 30, 2021, 01:55:20 pm

Officially feeling old as I have no clue about SOPHIE and her career...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on January 30, 2021, 02:28:00 pm

It is completely impossible to know every musician and every DJ and every producer in the world of music no matter how young or old you are.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 31, 2021, 11:45:16 am

Hilton Valentine lead guitarist of The Animals

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 01, 2021, 03:10:08 pm

Screech.

(https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/dustin-diamond-obit.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 01, 2021, 03:35:59 pm

Wow, first we come to learn Marilyn Manson isn't a fine upstanding citizen and now this. Have we no heroes left?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on February 01, 2021, 03:36:14 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on February 01, 2021, 03:10:08 pm

Screech.

(https://www.rollingstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/dustin-diamond-obit.jpg)

RIP DD.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on February 01, 2021, 06:42:23 pm

Nothing says the world of entertainment more than when a famous person who is so hated viciously as he was dies and then everybody is sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 01, 2021, 07:55:38 pm

I didn’t hate him? Who hated him!?

He played a total dork on Saved by the bell...that’s about it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on February 02, 2021, 11:08:45 am

Let's see. He was the only person who was not invited back to star in the reboot for starters. He was considered a washed up hack that no one wanted anything to do with. Before his death people who worked with him didn't even want to talk about him and claimed to never speaking to him in years. Hey was considered a joke. But now that he has died all of those same people feel that he was a beloved person and will sadly miss him. But hey I get it who's going to call a person who just died of cancer a loser asshole. I just find it . . . fascinating.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 02, 2021, 11:31:49 am

Welllllllll I had no idea

I just figured he wasn’t interested in the reboot

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 02, 2021, 11:41:19 am

Hal Holbrook at 95

Ricky Powell, Celebrated Hip-Hop Photographer and ‘Fourth Beastie Boy,’ Dead at 59

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ricky-powell-photographer-beastie-boys-obit-tributes-1122319/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 02, 2021, 12:24:09 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on February 02, 2021, 11:08:45 am

Let's see. He was the only person who was not invited back to star in the reboot for starters. He was considered a washed up hack that no one wanted anything to do with. Before his death people who worked with him didn't even want to talk about him and claimed to never speaking to him in years. Hey was considered a joke. But now that he has died all of those same people feel that he was a beloved person and will sadly miss him. But hey I get it who's going to call a person who just died of cancer a loser asshole. I just find it . . . fascinating.

I read that when the show was on, he was actually considerably younger than the other actors, so the others didn't really want to hang with him. Then, years later, he wrote a tell all book that dissed the others, and that's why they didn't want anything to do with him.

I have not read the book.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on February 02, 2021, 01:10:38 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 02, 2021, 11:41:19 am

Hal Holbrook at 95

Another one the kids won’t know.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 02, 2021, 01:16:45 pm

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on February 02, 2021, 01:10:38 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 02, 2021, 11:41:19 am
Hal Holbrook at 95

Another one the kids won’t know.

He pretty much stole the show in Into the Wild.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 02, 2021, 01:33:50 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 02, 2021, 11:31:49 am

I just figured he wasn’t interested in the reboot

It's Dustin Diamond, celebrity boxer -- there is no project that paid him $$ that he wasn't going to be interested in.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 02, 2021, 02:05:45 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on February 02, 2021, 11:08:45 am

Let's see. He was the only person who was not invited back to star in the reboot for starters. He was considered a washed up hack that no one wanted anything to do with. Before his death people who worked with him didn't even want to talk about him and claimed to never speaking to him in years. Hey was considered a joke. But now that he has died all of those same people feel that he was a beloved person and will sadly miss him. But hey I get it who's going to call a person who just died of cancer a loser asshole. I just find it . . . fascinating.

Wasn't Lisa Turtle a manic lunatic?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 02, 2021, 02:42:46 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 02, 2021, 02:05:45 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on February 02, 2021, 11:08:45 am
Let's see. He was the only person who was not invited back to star in the reboot for starters. He was considered a washed up hack that no one wanted anything to do with. Before his death people who worked with him didn't even want to talk about him and claimed to never speaking to him in years. Hey was considered a joke. But now that he has died all of those same people feel that he was a beloved person and will sadly miss him. But hey I get it who's going to call a person who just died of cancer a loser asshole. I just find it . . . fascinating.

Wasn't Lisa Turtle a manic lunatic?

Voorhies has schizoaffective disorder.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 02, 2021, 02:46:54 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 02, 2021, 02:42:46 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 02, 2021, 02:05:45 pm
Quote from: WalkOnBack on February 02, 2021, 11:08:45 am
Let's see. He was the only person who was not invited back to star in the reboot for starters. He was considered a washed up hack that no one wanted anything to do with. Before his death people who worked with him didn't even want to talk about him and claimed to never speaking to him in years. Hey was considered a joke. But now that he has died all of those same people feel that he was a beloved person and will sadly miss him. But hey I get it who's going to call a person who just died of cancer a loser asshole. I just find it . . . fascinating.

Wasn't Lisa Turtle a manic lunatic?

Voorhies has schizoaffective disorder.

Like, officially? Interesting. Did they ever figure out what was wrong with his mother?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 02, 2021, 02:54:36 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 02, 2021, 02:42:46 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 02, 2021, 02:05:45 pm
Quote from: WalkOnBack on February 02, 2021, 11:08:45 am
Let's see. He was the only person who was not invited back to star in the reboot for starters. He was considered a washed up hack that no one wanted anything to do with. Before his death people who worked with him didn't even want to talk about him and claimed to never speaking to him in years. Hey was considered a joke. But now that he has died all of those same people feel that he was a beloved person and will sadly miss him. But hey I get it who's going to call a person who just died of cancer a loser asshole. I just find it . . . fascinating.

Wasn't Lisa Turtle a manic lunatic?

Voorhies has schizoaffective disorder.

Yeah... She won't be coming back to the remake

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 02, 2021, 03:01:16 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 02, 2021, 02:54:36 pm

Yeah... She won't be coming back to the remake

That makes her the only sane one.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 02, 2021, 03:11:08 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on February 02, 2021, 02:46:54 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 02, 2021, 02:42:46 pm
Quote from: Yada on February 02, 2021, 02:05:45 pm
Quote from: WalkOnBack on February 02, 2021, 11:08:45 am
Let's see. He was the only person who was not invited back to star in the reboot for starters. He was considered a washed up hack that no one wanted anything to do with. Before his death people who worked with him didn't even want to talk about him and claimed to never speaking to him in years. Hey was considered a joke. But now that he has died all of those same people feel that he was a beloved person and will sadly miss him. But hey I get it who's going to call a person who just died of cancer a loser asshole. I just find it . . . fascinating.

Wasn't Lisa Turtle a manic lunatic?

Voorhies has schizoaffective disorder.
Like, officially? Interesting. Did they ever figure out what was wrong with his mother?

Whose mother? I got this from Wiki, I don't know anything about it personally.

And this, from the Daily Mail.

Saved By The Bell's Lark Voorhies says a cameo on the show's reboot helped with her schizoaffective disorder.
Diagnosed with the condition, which is a combination of schizophrenia and a mood disorder, Voorhies got candid about the 'many competing voices' in her head on a February Dr. Oz appearance.
Returning to the talk show on Thursday to speak on her progress, the 46-year-old actress who first rose to fame as Lisa Marie Turtle on SBTB in the nineties, credited her Oz appearance with helping her land the revival role.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9068903/Saved-Bell-Lark-Voorhies-says-reboot-helped-schizoaffective-disorder.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 02, 2021, 03:20:43 pm

this amount of SBTB talk here is quite disturbing....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 02, 2021, 04:28:45 pm

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/02/uk/captain-tom-moore-dies-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 02, 2021, 05:10:02 pm

SpaceX's Starship SN9

(https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106834205-1612298094124-sn9_impact.png?v=1612298130&w=740&h=416)

The latest prototype of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket launched successfully on Tuesday but exploded on impact during an attempted landing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 04, 2021, 02:34:50 pm

Danny Roy James Brown's longtime cape man

nice thread on him

https://twitter.com/LilEdit/status/1357374602834415617?s=20

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 04, 2021, 05:56:53 pm

Matt Harris

It is with a very heavy heart we acknowledge that the news circulating today is true. Matt Harris, bassist for the Posies from 2001 til 2014, has passed away. Matt lent his incredible skills, mischievous humor and abject sweetness to many Posies tours and his brilliant bass lines are captured on our albums "Every Kind of Light" (2005) and "Blood Candy" (2010). Rest well, Matt. You will be missed.

Also played bass in Oranger whose CD I have somewhere in the collection

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 05, 2021, 11:02:59 am

Divinity

One of Prince’s doves

Was 28

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 05, 2021, 11:06:43 am

You mean like an actual bird? Does that even count?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 05, 2021, 11:07:27 am

somewhat shocked that a dove can live 28 years
I know some parrots can live like 80

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 05, 2021, 11:23:56 am

maybe I shouldn’t have posted it..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 05, 2021, 11:26:12 am

Quote from: hutch on February 05, 2021, 11:23:56 am

maybe I shouldn’t have posted it..

I think as notable bird deaths go, this qualifies.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 05, 2021, 11:57:09 am

Quote from: excontradiction on February 05, 2021, 11:26:12 am

Quote from: hutch on February 05, 2021, 11:23:56 am
maybe I shouldn’t have posted it..

I think as notable bird deaths go, this qualifies.

can confirm, I think the Aye's have it and notable bird (or other pet/zoo) animal deaths can go on here, but please be reasonable people

this bird has an album credit too!
Divinity subsequently received credits for providing “ambient singing” on the 2002 song ‘Arboretum’.

So who get the royalties now, is there an estate for Divinity?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 05, 2021, 01:22:18 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on February 05, 2021, 11:26:12 am

Quote from: hutch on February 05, 2021, 11:23:56 am
maybe I shouldn’t have posted it..

I think as notable bird deaths go, this qualifies.

LOL

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 05, 2021, 02:18:49 pm

Christopher Plummer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 05, 2021, 02:57:02 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on February 05, 2021, 02:18:49 pm

Christopher Plummer

one of the best gifs ever
(https://www.heyalma.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/flag.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 06, 2021, 08:39:24 pm

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/WEF2FQA4NYI6VF32CWTHCDWW3I.jpg&w=916)

Leon Spinks (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/leon-spinks-who-beat-muhammad-ali-in-historic-upset-in-1978-dies-at-67/2021/02/06/e66b394c-1c4d-11ea-8d58-5ac3600967a1_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 06, 2021, 08:51:40 pm

Thats a real punch in the gut

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 06, 2021, 09:08:00 pm

It hurts

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 07, 2021, 02:01:17 pm

El Morro Garcia

This one really sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 08, 2021, 01:22:25 pm

Rep Ron Wright (R-TX)

First sitting member of Congress to die from covid... was battling cancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 08, 2021, 01:26:24 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 08, 2021, 01:22:25 pm

First sitting member of Congress to die from covid...

This poor guy wins the election and dies before he was even sworn in
Although the pandemic had not claimed the life of any other sitting member of Congress, Rep.-elect Luke Letlow, a Louisiana Republican, died from coronavirus complication just five days before he would have been sworn in.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 08, 2021, 05:59:37 pm

Pedro Gomez, only 58

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/national-sports/ct-soc-pedro-gomez-twitter-reacts-20210208-jypvpiw2kffkhhxzfk342j4ljm-story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 09, 2021, 06:17:02 am

Mary Wilson of the Supremes 78

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 10, 2021, 01:27:13 am

Former NFL coach Marty Schottenheimer (https://www.patriots.com/news/former-nfl-coach-and-boston-patriot-marty-schottenheimer-passes-away)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 10, 2021, 08:07:51 pm

Larry Flynt, pornographer and self-styled First Amendment champion, dies at 78 (WaPo) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/larry-flynt-porn-king-and-self-styled-first-amendment-champion-dies-at-xxx/2021/02/10/5240626c-6bf0-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 10, 2021, 08:27:18 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 10, 2021, 08:07:51 pm

Larry Flynt, pornographer and self-styled First Amendment champion, dies at 78 (WaPo) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/larry-flynt-porn-king-and-self-styled-first-amendment-champion-dies-at-xxx/2021/02/10/5240626c-6bf0-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html)

I admittedly thought he died a long time ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 10, 2021, 08:31:12 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 10, 2021, 08:07:51 pm

Larry Flynt, pornographer and self-styled First Amendment champion, dies at 78 (WaPo) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/larry-flynt-porn-king-and-self-styled-first-amendment-champion-dies-at-xxx/2021/02/10/5240626c-6bf0-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html)

Thoughts and prayers to RustyOrgan who has lost a hero.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 10, 2021, 08:52:17 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 10, 2021, 08:27:18 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 10, 2021, 08:07:51 pm
Larry Flynt, pornographer and self-styled First Amendment champion, dies at 78 (WaPo) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/larry-flynt-porn-king-and-self-styled-first-amendment-champion-dies-at-xxx/2021/02/10/5240626c-6bf0-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html)
I admittedly thought he died a long time ago.

He took out a full page ad offering any woman to come forward with a salacious story with Trump, surprising no one cashed that check

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 10, 2021, 08:56:09 pm

Quote from: AbsolSide-Proof ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 10, 2021, 08:52:17 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 10, 2021, 08:27:18 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on February 10, 2021, 08:07:51 pm
Larry Flynt, pornographer and self-styled First Amendment champion, dies at 78 (WaPo) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/larry-flynt-porn-king-and-self-styled-first-amendment-champion-dies-at-xxx/2021/02/10/5240626c-6bf0-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html)
I admittedly thought he died a long time ago.

He took out a full page ad offering any woman to come forward with a salacious story with Trump, surprising no one cashed that check

Oh yes... Forgot about that

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 10, 2021, 09:17:24 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 10, 2021, 08:27:18 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 10, 2021, 08:07:51 pm
Larry Flynt, pornographer and self-styled First Amendment champion, dies at 78 (WaPo) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/larry-flynt-porn-king-and-self-styled-first-amendment-champion-dies-at-xxx/2021/02/10/5240626c-6bf0-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html)

I admittedly thought he died a long time ago.

The Mandela Effect?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 11, 2021, 12:24:30 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 11, 2012, 09:16:12 pm

A terrorist attack? Obama got shot? Tornado warning? Must be something major if they're interrupting the Charlie Brown Valentine special.

Nope, just Whitney Houston, dropping like a fly.

Whitney Houston, 9 years to the day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 11, 2021, 12:42:41 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on February 11, 2021, 12:24:30 pm

Quote from: James Ford on February 11, 2012, 09:16:12 pm
A terrorist attack? Obama got shot? Tornado warning? Must be something major if they're interrupting the Charlie Brown Valentine special.

Nope, just Whitney Houston, dropping like a fly.

Whitney Houston, 9 years to the day.

That James Ford fella sounds like a lot more fun than me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 11, 2021, 01:58:08 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 11, 2021, 12:42:41 pm

That James Ford fella sounds like a lot more fun than me.

That's a fun game! Fill in the blank!

That James Ford fella sounds like a lot more _____ than me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 11, 2021, 05:32:07 pm

Chick Corea

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 11, 2021, 05:42:59 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 11, 2021, 05:32:07 pm

Chick Corea

Saw him with Bela Fleck at Warner

Another one for the record books

99 minutes of banjo I dare you not to take yourself out

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on February 11, 2021, 06:49:21 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 11, 2021, 05:32:07 pm

Chick Corea

Oh man. That hurts.

I had the good fortune of catching Return to Forever a few times. What a monster jazz-rock fusion supergroup!

RIP

F cancer.....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 12, 2021, 06:30:17 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 12, 2017, 03:12:30 pm

al jarreau

Four years to the day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 14, 2021, 04:54:42 pm

Carlos Menem

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 14, 2021, 04:59:02 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 14, 2021, 04:54:42 pm

Carlos Menem

.

Would have been a rare case where I posted first but I saved it for you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 14, 2021, 05:01:53 pm

Thank you...it is a bit of a sad day

He was unable to bend history but only serious attempt in my life to have Argentina join the first world..he got the closest

I did not vote for him in 1989 for president but the small liberal party I voted for joined his government or was co-opted and almost made it work

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on February 14, 2021, 11:30:02 pm

Sir Ari Gold

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 15, 2021, 08:42:50 am

Quote from: WalkOnBack on February 14, 2021, 11:30:02 pm

Sir Ari Gold

Ari Gold is a fictional character on the comedy-drama television series Entourage. He is played by Jeremy Piven.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on February 15, 2021, 09:08:21 am

Ok, boomer. Noone knows who that is, Regis.

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Post by: hutch on February 15, 2021, 12:09:54 pm

I know Jeremy Piven!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 15, 2021, 02:12:48 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 15, 2021, 12:09:54 pm

I know Jeremy Piven!

but he didn't die...
the person who walky is referencing was in Rupaul's circle and had an upcoming musical career
only 47 :(

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Post by: hutch on February 15, 2021, 02:17:44 pm

Piven is 55!

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 15, 2021, 02:46:03 pm

per Musician twitter on Sat

Robert Neve - known for High-end analog recording equipment, he was 94

https://variety.com/2021/music/obituaries-people-news/rupert-neve-dead-dies-audio-pioneer-console-1234907734/

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 15, 2021, 03:32:54 pm

Quote from: Perseverance-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 15, 2021, 02:12:48 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 15, 2021, 12:09:54 pm
I know Jeremy Piven!
but he didn't die...
the person who walky is referencing was in Rupaul's circle and had an upcoming musical career
only 47 :(

Without knowing who that is, can I just say, I wish of the two it had been Jeremy Piven who had died just so I could laugh at the “Actually Entourage is the greatest show ever” hot takes from the sacks of shit that listen to Joe Rogan until my bile overflows.

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Post by: hutch on February 15, 2021, 04:00:34 pm

And that’s without knowing his metoo issues

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Post by: hutch on February 15, 2021, 07:29:27 pm

Johnny Pacheco

One of the founders of Fania Records... responsible for a lot of great Latin music

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 15, 2021, 08:24:27 pm

Police investigating death of former Bucs, Chargers receiver Vincent Jackson (https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/police-investigating-death-of-former-bucs-chargers-receiver-vincent-jackson/ar-BB1dHHfR)

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 17, 2021, 10:27:17 am

Not dead yet: 99-year old His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Extraordinaire Phillip.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 10:47:29 am

Quote from: excontradiction on February 17, 2021, 10:27:17 am

Not dead yet: 99-year old His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Extraordinaire Phillip.

Wouldn't it be great if we could all stay in the hospital for a few days observation anytime we're "not feeling well."

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Post by: hutch on February 17, 2021, 10:48:33 am

The man is 99.

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 17, 2021, 10:51:07 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 10:47:29 am

Quote from: excontradiction on February 17, 2021, 10:27:17 am
Not dead yet: 99-year old His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Extraordinaire Phillip.

Wouldn't it be great if we could all stay in the hospital for a few days observation anytime we're "not feeling well."

For some reason, this just made me remember than when Trump came out of Walter Reed back to the WH, aides had to convince him not to rip open/unbotton his shirt revealing a Superman logo to the press like he wanted to do. And I laughed for a solid ten seconds because I'm starting to recover from the trauma of his administration.

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Post by: Yada on February 17, 2021, 11:01:09 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 10:47:29 am

Quote from: excontradiction on February 17, 2021, 10:27:17 am
Not dead yet: 99-year old His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Extraordinaire Phillip.

Wouldn't it be great if we could all stay in the hospital for a few days observation anytime we're "not feeling well."

There's the Space we've all grown to love.

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Post by: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 11:16:56 am

Quote from: hutch on February 17, 2021, 10:48:33 am

The man is 99.

In no thanks to preferential health coverage, I'm sure. Do all old people in England get that kind of attention?

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Post by: hutch on February 17, 2021, 11:19:02 am

You are so bitter

My god

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Post by: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 11:22:37 am

Quote from: hutch on February 17, 2021, 11:19:02 am

You are so bitter

My god

Must be all the IPA's I drink.

You're not upset when you see inequity in the world? I mean, it's all relative, I'm not crying tears or anything like that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 17, 2021, 11:25:53 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 11:22:37 am

Quote from: hutch on February 17, 2021, 11:19:02 am
You are so bitter

My god

Must be all the IPA's I drink.

You're not upset when you see inequity in the world? I mean, it's all relative, I'm not crying tears or anything like that.

No...the fact a 99 year old man who is not feeling well goes to the hospital does not upset me.

People not feeling well go to the hospital all the time!

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Post by: Yada on February 17, 2021, 11:53:33 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 11:22:37 am

Quote from: hutch on February 17, 2021, 11:19:02 am
You are so bitter

My god

Must be all the IPA's I drink.

You're not upset when you see inequity in the world? I mean, it's all relative, I'm not crying tears or anything like that.

I think sweetcell is the only person here who still drinks bitter IPAs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 12:06:42 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 17, 2021, 11:53:33 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 11:22:37 am
Quote from: hutch on February 17, 2021, 11:19:02 am
You are so bitter

My god

Must be all the IPA's I drink.

You're not upset when you see inequity in the world? I mean, it's all relative, I'm not crying tears or anything like that.

I think sweetcell is the only person here who still drinks bitter IPAs.

Wrong thread, but you don't consider Other Half's IPA's to be bitter?

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Post by: Yada on February 17, 2021, 12:23:42 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 12:06:42 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 17, 2021, 11:53:33 am
Quote from: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 11:22:37 am
Quote from: hutch on February 17, 2021, 11:19:02 am
You are so bitter

My god

Must be all the IPA's I drink.

You're not upset when you see inequity in the world? I mean, it's all relative, I'm not crying tears or anything like that.

I think sweetcell is the only person here who still drinks bitter IPAs.

Wrong thread, but you don't consider Other Half's IPA's to be bitter?

Not the ones I like...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 01:24:01 pm

Rush, the bigot not the band.

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 17, 2021, 01:25:13 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 01:24:01 pm

Rush, the bigot not the band.

Hooray!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 17, 2021, 01:46:32 pm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0BcNqRStCpdfzUEU-1o_Kc8rFEUIiiMADMIirUdaw6ZoCAql7srtAqBxE&v=Ucj09t9ieeI&feature=youtu.be

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Post by: StoneTheCrow on February 17, 2021, 02:08:08 pm

South Carolina republicans "devastated" by the news. Perhaps they'll lower their I-95 confederate flag to half mast?

https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/sc-republicans-devastated-by-death-of-conservative-radio-host-rush-limbaugh-to-cancer/article_2040a192-7144-11eb-85f6-fb0f518fbc17.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 17, 2021, 02:16:38 pm

Just another dead doper. And a dirt bag.

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Post by: hutch on February 17, 2021, 04:30:35 pm

Francoise Cactus

Of Stereo Total

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Post by: hutch on February 18, 2021, 09:08:59 am

U Roy

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Post by: Bagley on February 18, 2021, 10:00:28 am

Quote from: hutch on February 18, 2021, 09:08:59 am

U Roy

RIP the Toastmaster General

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 18, 2021, 02:30:04 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 17, 2021, 01:24:01 pm

Rush, the bigot not the band.

(https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/150890473_10159097765001081_2473664695211343385_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=Ed5NuLj3NHYAX-FmNQS&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&oh=b6cc8b5f622e679aa213538946d95ba8&oe=6054C5B3)

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Post by: sweetcell on February 18, 2021, 02:43:42 pm

^ savage

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 18, 2021, 04:47:07 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 17, 2021, 04:30:35 pm

Francoise Cactus

Of Stereo Total

Not sure how King Khan has a personal story about every musician in the world....

King Khan And The Shrines

I met Françoise Cactus over 20 years ago in her apartment with Brezel and she was always an immaculate queen bee... She made Lil and I make out in their living room/studio and used the audio for one of their songs while she baby sat an 8 week old Saba Lou. Hearing that song still makes me blush. She lived in her own universe and I feel lucky to have been a part of that intricate place. Stereo Total made music like no other, their music meandered around every analog universe and weaved a pastiche of pure pleasure, comedy, decadence and punk power. Her voice was like no other and as soon as it came on you knew it was her. She was a great writer, a beatnik, a surrealist, a crochet master and made me realize what it takes to be a part of the great "otherworldly underground".... from the moment i met her I knew what true rock n roll royalty she was and she will always be a part of my heart. Rest in Peace and Power.

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Post by: WALKonBack on February 18, 2021, 10:05:06 pm

Motherfucking Prince Markie Dee

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 18, 2021, 10:07:55 pm

Tough week for royalty.

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Post by: Space Freely on February 19, 2021, 11:57:56 am

https://pitchfork.com/news/akronfamilys-miles-seaton-has-died-at-41/

Akron/Family’s Miles Seaton Has Died at 41
The co-founder of the experimental rock band released a series of solo albums in recent years

Side note: I swear I'm not a Pitchfork reader. I just heard about this on the radio and googled in and the PF article came up. BigYawn forever.

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 19, 2021, 12:09:15 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 19, 2021, 11:57:56 am

Side note: I swear I'm not a Pitchfork reader.

sounds like something a pitchfork reader would say

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 22, 2021, 08:48:30 am

This is incredible sad... Gene Taylor Austin based pianist who played recently with The Fabulous Thunderbirds and the Blaster, passed away after being in a house without heat or electricity for 5 days...

https://www.austin360.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/02/21/gene-taylor-austin-pianist-fabulous-thunderbirds-and-more-dies/4535083001/

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Post by: hutch on February 22, 2021, 09:56:57 am

That is very sad

Good article

The saddest is the Sugarland, Texas mom that lost her mother and her three young children...heartbreaking

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 22, 2021, 10:44:37 am

Daft Punk

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 22, 2021, 10:50:24 am

Quote from: hutch on February 22, 2021, 10:44:37 am

Daft Punk

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eu1qXkaXAAEUK5k?format=jpg&name=large)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 22, 2021, 10:54:41 am

Quote from: hutch on February 22, 2021, 10:44:37 am

Daft Punk

I admittedly thought they died a long time ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 22, 2021, 10:58:01 am

Quote from: Yada on February 22, 2021, 10:54:41 am

Quote from: hutch on February 22, 2021, 10:44:37 am
Daft Punk

I admittedly thought they died a long time ago.

I'll have to retract my entry into "Who's the first band to return to the Anthem" contest...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 22, 2021, 10:59:19 am

so you can watch the 5 min video...but the only thing worth your time starts around 3:30
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eu1m2drXIA4VpNw?format=jpg&name=small)

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Post by: hutch on February 22, 2021, 11:59:06 am

The timing is extra depressing

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 23, 2021, 04:48:19 pm

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (101!)
poet/founder of Citylights bookstore in SF
publishing poetry, offbeat and radical books by the likes of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Paul Bowles, Gary Snyder and Gregory Corso.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on February 24, 2021, 10:07:05 am

I remember first encountering Lawrence Ferlinghetti's work via the bit he has in The Last Waltz. As a naive 21 year old, I thought it was some kind of weird joke and he reminded me of Father Guido Sarducci. I haven't watched the film in a few years (tried to convince my wife that we should watch it as a "Thanksgiving move", she declined), his piece is definitely more memorable than Neil Diamond's section.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 24, 2021, 07:25:15 pm

Mercia Bowser

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/muriel-bowser-sister-died-covid/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 25, 2021, 06:44:33 pm

Mark Hollis - Talk Talk lead singer
oops...2 years ago on this day

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Post by: hutch on February 25, 2021, 06:46:49 pm

Reaching

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 25, 2021, 06:48:37 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 25, 2021, 06:46:49 pm

Reaching

yeah...saw a post from Tim's twitter listening party, but didn't see the year...

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Post by: Justin Tonation on February 25, 2021, 11:01:46 pm

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/HA7QQITW6AI6XFEJR562ZVI6OU.jpg&w=916)

Bruce Meyers, creator of the first fiberglass dune buggy, dies at 94 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bruce-meyers-dead/2021/02/25/f75121e2-76b3-11eb-948d-19472e683521_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 26, 2021, 04:42:37 pm

Dave Philips: 1968-2021

The veteran guitarist – who played with Frank Black, Robert Pollard, Tommy Stinson and others – has passed away at the age of 52
https://mailchi.mp/f16031bc2235/dave-philips-guitarist-for-frank-black-perfect-tommy-stinson-bob-pollard-and-jack-logan-dead-at-52

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Post by: WALKonBack on February 28, 2021, 11:07:35 am

Antoine Hodge, Opera Singer. Sang with Charlottesville Opera. 38. Covid.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 28, 2021, 10:04:00 pm

Vi Ripken, a tough old bird

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 02, 2021, 01:19:46 am

(https://www.capitalgazette.com/resizer/eHpdGFG2CfutG6HGwnWYxZMQdFo=/415x581/top/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/O5S2S4F4WBAK3LPQFJWJCXUHRA.jpg)

Naptown legend Carlester “Buckwheat” Smith (https://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2021/03/carlester-buckwheat-smith-an-annapolis-icon-passes-away/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 02, 2021, 12:02:36 pm

Bunny Wailer

Sad..

I met him briefly after his show at the Howard

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 02, 2021, 12:04:50 pm

the Jamaican band in the sky now has quite a rooster, lost so many in the last year or so

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 02, 2021, 12:10:49 pm

Well the Wailers are together again if you believe in that sort of thing

They really were like brothers and their three voices singing together..very special

I believe Bob and Bunny lived together as kids

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 02, 2021, 12:19:12 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 02, 2021, 12:10:49 pm

Well the Wailers are together again if you believe in that sort of thing

I don't...but it always sounds fun

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 02, 2021, 12:23:23 pm

Quote from: Martian-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 02, 2021, 12:04:50 pm

the Jamaican band in the sky now has quite a rooster, lost so many in the last year or so

(http://media1.giphy.com/media/l0NwSvw3kQWZuUW8E/giphy.gif)

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Post by: hutch on March 02, 2021, 12:27:02 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 02, 2021, 12:27:54 pm

spelling was never my forté...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 02, 2021, 12:28:18 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 02, 2021, 12:02:36 pm

Bunny Wailer

Sad..

I met him briefly after his show at the Howard

I got confused and saw the picture above your post and thought it was Lee Scratch Perry walking down the road.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 02, 2021, 03:33:39 pm

This is such a great performance by Bunny with Bob and Peter on harmony

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DFp6oINZqoc

And as if to drive home that the reggae greats from its greatest era are leaving us the flip side follows with U Roy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 03, 2021, 09:49:00 am

Harvey Fry

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on March 03, 2021, 11:26:23 am

O's Manager Joe Altobelli dies at age 88

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on March 03, 2021, 11:29:48 am

Managed their last world series team, no?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 03, 2021, 11:29:57 am

Quote from: jeffml on March 03, 2021, 11:26:23 am

O's Manager Joe Altobelli dies at age 88

Lost his son and granddaughter in the Kobe chopper crash.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on March 03, 2021, 04:27:02 pm

That's right. How tragic.

Quote from: Space Freely on March 03, 2021, 11:29:57 am

Quote from: jeffml on March 03, 2021, 11:26:23 am
O's Manager Joe Altobelli dies at age 88

Lost his son and granddaughter in the Kobe chopper crash.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 03, 2021, 04:47:12 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 03, 2021, 11:29:57 am

Quote from: jeffml on March 03, 2021, 11:26:23 am
O's Manager Joe Altobelli dies at age 88

Lost his son and granddaughter in the Kobe chopper crash.

You sure about that? John Altobelli died in the crash.

According to Wiki - Altobelli resided in Rochester, New York.[1] He married Patsy Ruth Wooten in 1952. Together they had six children: Mike, Mark, Jody, Jackie, Jerry, and Joe

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 03, 2021, 04:51:07 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on March 03, 2021, 04:47:12 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 03, 2021, 11:29:57 am
Quote from: jeffml on March 03, 2021, 11:26:23 am
O's Manager Joe Altobelli dies at age 88

Lost his son and granddaughter in the Kobe chopper crash.

You sure about that? John Altobelli died in the crash.

According to Wiki - Altobelli resided in Rochester, New York.[1] He married Patsy Ruth Wooten in 1952. Together they had six children: Mike, Mark, Jody, Jackie, Jerry, and Joe

Geezus Space we can’t trust you on anything

You really need help

https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-joe-altobelli-obituary-20210303-ytwnuuujwzak7jjgyjd7atgpqe-story.html?outputType=amp

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 08, 2021, 10:00:34 pm

DC Radio Host Kane

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 09, 2021, 01:18:11 pm

Lou Ottens (https://twitter.com/soundblog/status/1369271725825929216?s=20), inventor of the Compact Cassette

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 09, 2021, 05:20:02 pm

Roger Mudd (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/roger-mudd-dead/2021/03/09/78ddf308-8117-11eb-9ca6-54e187ee4939_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on March 09, 2021, 07:23:25 pm

My folks were news junkies and I grew up watching guys like him. I think it's why, I can't watch new news reviews.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 11, 2021, 05:22:50 pm

I haven't heard his name in a long time....

Allan McDonald (https://jalopnik.com/the-man-who-tried-to-stop-the-space-shuttle-challenger-1846441691)

The Man Who Tried To Stop The Space Shuttle Challenger Launch And Exposed NASA's Cover-Up Dies At 83

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 11, 2021, 05:25:36 pm

^
“What we should remember about Al McDonald [is] he would often stress his laws of the seven R’s,” Maier says. “It was always, always do the right thing for the right reason at the right time with the right people. [And] you will have no regrets for the rest of your life.”

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Post by: vansmack on March 11, 2021, 06:15:39 pm

When I first read his case study in college he was not named, just referred to as "an engineer at Morton Thiokol." By the time I got to law school was named in an Ethics class.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 13, 2021, 08:28:03 pm

Marvelous Marvin Hagler

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2021, 05:12:17 pm

'Amityville Horror' killer Ronald DeFeo

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Post by: Justin Tonation on March 16, 2021, 09:49:03 am

(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Tg4or_9unwnR9_4Uo9b4Qw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY1MC4zMjI1ODA2NDUxNjEz/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/N_lmoLWzoEmVVk6Mq2Ouwg--~B/aD00MjA7dz02MjA7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/tvline.com/3194232ffbd2676eb05d3079f4875044)

Yaphet Kotto (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/16/yaphet-kotto-star-of-live-and-let-die-and-alien-dies-aged-81?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1615901745), "Gee" Giardello from Homicide: Life on the Street

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Post by: Justin Tonation on March 17, 2021, 10:18:59 am

James Levine (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/obituaries/james-levine-dead.html)

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 17, 2021, 02:21:14 pm

Dick Hoyt
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/17/metro/longtime-boston-marathon-runner-dick-hoyt-dies-according-baa/

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Post by: hutch on March 17, 2021, 06:30:05 pm

James Levine

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 17, 2021, 06:51:56 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 17, 2021, 10:18:59 am

James Levine (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/obituaries/james-levine-dead.html)

Oh really?

Quote from: hutch on March 17, 2021, 06:30:05 pm

James Levine

You should unblock Justin Tonation

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Post by: hutch on March 17, 2021, 06:53:44 pm

I block nobody

Sorry about the crusty bread

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 19, 2021, 07:01:20 am

Paul Jackson - Bass player probably most famous for this time with Herbie Hancock's Headhunters and of course Chameleon

https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2021/03/18/in-memoriam-paul-jackson/

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Post by: vansmack on March 19, 2021, 04:29:14 pm

Steven Spurrier (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/dining/steven-spurrier-dead.html)

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Post by: StoneTheCrow on March 19, 2021, 07:49:40 pm

Not the Ball Coach but did have Alan Rickman play him in a movie.

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 21, 2021, 05:04:03 am

Dan Sartain

Born on August 13, 1981, Sartain began his career performing with hardcore band Plate Six in the 1990s. The singer-songwriter and guitarist released his first two self-produced albums through independent record labels in 2001 (‘Crimson Guard’) and 2002 (‘Romance In Stereo’).

He followed it up with eight more albums over the next 14 years, with the last being 2016’s ‘Century Plaza’ – his third released on One Little Indian.

Over the years he toured with the likes of The White Stripes and The Hives, and released the single ‘Bohemian Grove’ through Jack White‘s Third Man Records in 2009.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/tributes-paid-to-dan-sartain-who-has-died-aged-40-2904622

Not familiar with him, but clearly a musician’s musician as The Dirtbombs and The Coral have mentioned his passing on Twitter

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Post by: shemptiness on March 22, 2021, 03:55:56 pm

Elgin Baylor - 86

(https://pm1.narvii.com/6702/7708c5930bc6272fc1e49950e53633be5de86b6c_hq.jpg)

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 22, 2021, 04:06:28 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on March 22, 2021, 03:55:56 pm

Elgin Baylor - 86

I have no idea who elgin is, but looked him up and this photo showed up
dude, that white guy looks like he is going to cry
(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/12/09/obituaries/00baylor-toppix/00baylor-toppix-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp)

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Post by: Space Freely on March 22, 2021, 04:10:10 pm

Quote from: Stingy-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 22, 2021, 04:06:28 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on March 22, 2021, 03:55:56 pm
Elgin Baylor - 86

I have no idea who elgin is, but looked him up and this photo showed up
dude, that white guy looks like he is going to cry
(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/12/09/obituaries/00baylor-toppix/00baylor-toppix-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp)

He also had the gayest middle name of any baller out there.

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Post by: shemptiness on March 22, 2021, 04:10:46 pm

Apparently you have no idea who 'that white guy' is either

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 22, 2021, 04:17:41 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on March 22, 2021, 04:10:46 pm

Apparently you have no idea who 'that white guy' is either

Did he play bass in Tuscadero in the 90s...if not have no idea

course I know it's Bill Bradley, I'm a huge fan of court sports from 5 decades ago, pretty much all I ever talk about

Quote from: Space Freely on March 22, 2021, 04:10:10 pm

He also had the gayest middle name of any baller out there.

I don't know if it's the gayest, but it certainly is gay

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Post by: Yada on March 23, 2021, 02:44:11 pm

Dan Sartain

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2021, 04:21:05 am

George segal

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Post by: Yada on March 24, 2021, 06:00:36 pm

Don Heffington

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 25, 2021, 02:44:48 pm

Jessica Walter
(https://i.gifer.com/FdT.gif)

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Post by: sweetcell on March 25, 2021, 05:45:31 pm

Champion snowboarder Julie Pomagalski dies in avalanche
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/sport/snowboarder-julie-pomagalski-death-scli-intl/index.html

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Post by: StoneTheCrow on March 25, 2021, 08:27:59 pm

Quote from: vexatious-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 25, 2021, 02:44:48 pm

Jessica Walter
(https://i.gifer.com/FdT.gif)

She was so f’g great in that show.

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 25, 2021, 08:33:33 pm

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on March 25, 2021, 08:27:59 pm

She was so f’g great in that show.

gotta imagine they are pouring one out in Julian's America for their loss

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 25, 2021, 09:06:17 pm

Quote from: vexatious-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 25, 2021, 08:33:33 pm

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on March 25, 2021, 08:27:59 pm
She was so f’g great in that show.
gotta imagine they are pouring one out in Julian's America for their loss

Our gin and tonics are one part The Botanist gin, one part Jack Rudy tonic syrup, and one part tears tonight.

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Post by: StoneTheCrow on March 25, 2021, 10:48:40 pm

I've been looking to get Jack Rudy's tonic syrup. i take it it's quite good? I've only bought their grenadine before.

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 26, 2021, 07:23:26 am

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on March 25, 2021, 10:48:40 pm

I've been looking to get Jack Rudy's tonic syrup. i take it it's quite good? I've only bought their grenadine before.

not here to comment on it's quality, but did notice this on their site
Our Classic Tonic Syrup (formerly known as our Small Batch Tonic) is essentially a quinine concentrate. It’s designed to pair with your favorite Gin or Vodka, and is then stretched with soda water to make a bright, light, refreshing highball.

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 26, 2021, 07:50:59 am

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on March 25, 2021, 10:48:40 pm

I've been looking to get Jack Rudy's tonic syrup. i take it it's quite good? I've only bought their grenadine before.

Yes if you like gin and tonics, get it at some point. I reviewed it glowingly back in the Julian’s America days.

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Post by: StoneTheCrow on March 26, 2021, 11:05:29 am

G&Ts are a nice summer drink but tonic water has a ton of sugar. This might help with that? Or might not.

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 26, 2021, 12:24:58 pm

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on March 26, 2021, 11:05:29 am

G&Ts are a nice summer drink but tonic water has a ton of sugar. This might help with that? Or might not.

This will definitely help with that. It's not zero sugar but you can definitely blend to taste with soda water and get it real dry if you prefer (which I do).

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Post by: StoneTheCrow on March 26, 2021, 12:31:55 pm

Good to hear. I’ll pick some up then.

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Post by: vansmack on March 26, 2021, 04:45:07 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on March 26, 2021, 07:50:59 am

I reviewed it glowingly back in the Julian’s America days.

You knew this was coming....

Everytime Jules references the JA days of yore, I am reminded that I once purchased a coffee table book memorializing the JA days of yore that never arrived. I doubt The Brand would let it replace her Humans of New York on the coffee table, but it stood a pretty good chance of replacing my Girls of Bond coffee table book.

As you were...

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 26, 2021, 05:10:55 pm

Quote from: vansmack on March 26, 2021, 04:45:07 pm

but it stood a pretty good chance of replacing my Girls of Bond coffee table book.

dude you could likely be canceled by stating this ....watch your back

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 26, 2021, 05:23:34 pm

Quote from: vansmack on March 26, 2021, 04:45:07 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on March 26, 2021, 07:50:59 am
I reviewed it glowingly back in the Julian’s America days.

You knew this was coming....

Everytime Jules references the JA days of yore, I am reminded that I once purchased a coffee table book memorializing the JA days of yore that never arrived. I doubt The Brand would let it replace her Humans of New York on the coffee table, but it stood a pretty good chance of replacing my Girls of Bond coffee table book.

As you were...

It was a handmade art piece based around a single JA review (in your case The Hills), not a coffee table book. And I found it! And then saw you a few months later but forget to bring it! Then lost it again in a move!

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 26, 2021, 05:49:42 pm

probably going to need to do a bespoke recreation of said piece

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Post by: Space Freely on March 26, 2021, 06:49:58 pm

Beverly Cleary

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Post by: WALKonBack on March 26, 2021, 08:08:36 pm

She was my 6th grade everything. Peace to you, creator of awesomeness.

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Post by: StoneTheCrow on March 27, 2021, 06:43:48 am

104. Quite the accomplishment, I suppose*

*I have no intention of lasting that long but hats off to her

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Post by: Bagley on March 28, 2021, 11:14:17 am

Larry Mcmurty

Did not know he married Ken Kesey's widow

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Post by: hutch on March 28, 2021, 11:54:30 am

He spoke at my high school in Buenos Aires around 1988

I have read a little of his work

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 28, 2021, 12:49:31 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 28, 2021, 11:54:30 am

He spoke at my high school in Buenos Aires around 1988

I have read a little of his work

Wild to me that a major American author was just traveling around Argentina talking to high schools. How did this happen??

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Post by: hutch on March 28, 2021, 12:56:04 pm

Yeah me too

It was the American Community School... maybe he did a tour of the ACS in South America or maybe he was visiting Buenos Aires and knew someone who worked at the school

No idea why he showed up..

All I remember is we were ushered in to the auditorium and he spoke for an hour or something..it was unusual and random

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Post by: Space Freely on March 30, 2021, 08:06:43 pm

G Gordon Liddy

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Post by: hutch on March 30, 2021, 08:53:58 pm

A real man

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Post by: rich_WDC on March 31, 2021, 12:27:31 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 30, 2021, 08:53:58 pm

A real man

A smart guy, even if some of his views were skewed.

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Post by: WALKonBack on April 03, 2021, 02:34:31 pm

Yawl gonna make me lose my life . . . up in here, up in here.

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Post by: StoneTheCrow on April 03, 2021, 07:18:11 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on March 31, 2021, 12:27:31 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 30, 2021, 08:53:58 pm
A real man
A smart guy, even if some of his views were skewed.

Best way to put it. Didn’t agree on everything but he was an intelligent guy.

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Post by: hutch on April 03, 2021, 08:56:52 pm

I actually have no opinion of Liddy

My dad used to say - decades ago-that Liddy was a tough guy and laugh

It stayed with me

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Post by: WALKonBack on April 03, 2021, 11:19:27 pm

He was obsessed with Nazi Germany and Hitler.

#fuckhim

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Post by: sweetcell on April 04, 2021, 01:00:59 am

he was also a dirty political operative willing to do anything in the name of power. he was a sycophant. i don't understand all the respect he's getting.

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 04, 2021, 08:49:06 am

Quote from: sweetcell on April 04, 2021, 01:00:59 am

he was also a dirty political operative willing to do anything in the name of power. he was a sycophant. i don't understand all the respect he's getting.

Yeah. Fuck G Gordon Liddy.

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Post by: hutch on April 04, 2021, 09:43:51 am

A lot of keyboard warriors here...

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 05, 2021, 05:54:29 am

RIP to War bassist B.B. Dickerson! That’s him on “Spill the Wine,” “Slippin’ Into Darkness,” “The Cisco Kid,” “The World Is a Ghetto,” “Me and Baby Brother,” “Low Rider,” “Why Can’t We Be Friends?,” and “Galaxy

****

Imagine being the dude that played the “Low Rider” bassline; it just doesn’t get cooler than that

https://twitter.com/dddrewdaniel/status/1378855908248260608?s=21

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Post by: Space Freely on April 05, 2021, 09:31:13 pm

Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley.

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Post by: hutch on April 06, 2021, 11:12:29 am

Rep. Alcee Hastings

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Post by: shemptiness on April 06, 2021, 11:24:53 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 05, 2021, 09:31:13 pm

Kurt Cobain

27 years alive 27 years dead

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 06, 2021, 02:31:01 pm

Joe Krebs

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Post by: Justin Tonation on April 08, 2021, 10:34:59 pm

(https://resizing.flixster.com/PeBAGfKT1I-RX1igoODmQUVdfIw=/506x652/v2/https://flxt.tmsimg.com/v9/AllPhotos/73482/73482_v9_ba.jpg)

James Hampton (https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/james-hampton-f-troop-teen-wolf-actor-dies-age-84-n1263433), ultimate Guy You See In Everything (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0358996/)

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Post by: Yada on April 08, 2021, 11:16:19 pm

Dmx

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 09, 2021, 07:34:02 am

Prince Phillip

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 09, 2021, 07:40:19 am

Quote from: Yada on April 08, 2021, 11:16:19 pm

Dmx

His manager is reporting he's still on life support... but it doesn't sound like the prospects are good

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 09, 2021, 10:03:28 am

oopsie

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyiLj9bXMAUVLd6?format=jpg)

When headlines and intros are kept ready and you desperately want to be the first and forget to remove placeholders as you rush past the gate....

https://twitter.com/saliltripathi/status/1380507006407163904?s=20

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Post by: hutch on April 09, 2021, 10:06:37 am

Death is such a sordid business...

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Post by: Yada on April 09, 2021, 12:26:07 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 09, 2021, 07:40:19 am

Quote from: Yada on April 08, 2021, 11:16:19 pm
Dmx

His manager is reporting he's still on life support... but it doesn't sound like the prospects are good

Confirmed.

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Post by: WALKonBack on April 09, 2021, 12:27:51 pm

Oddly the only major news source saying it's true is people magazine

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Post by: WALKonBack on April 09, 2021, 12:30:43 pm

https://youtu.be/9Ww-TQUeA3E

Tough watch DMX song, especially the beginning of this video.

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Post by: hutch on April 09, 2021, 02:18:44 pm

DMX

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 14, 2021, 10:33:59 am

Bernie Madoff

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Post by: WALKonBack on April 17, 2021, 06:54:41 pm

Felix Silla

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Post by: WALKonBack on April 18, 2021, 07:51:49 pm

If you saw a white outreach van driving around DC distributing clean needles and condoms, chances are it was Maurice Abbey-Bey, or “Jesus of the streets” as some people knew him.

Abbey-Bey died on April 5 after a battle with leukemia. https://t.co/mJrFuU17xH https://t.co/MYEN0NR3Zp

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Post by: hutch on April 19, 2021, 09:03:25 pm

Walter Mondale

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 19, 2021, 09:04:49 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 19, 2021, 09:03:25 pm

Walter Mondale

Truly surprised to learn he was still alive up until today.

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 20, 2021, 01:59:08 pm

Jim Steinman - 73

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 20, 2021, 02:24:48 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 20, 2021, 01:59:08 pm

Jim Steinman - 73

Dang...pretty much wrote bat out of hell

For a week in 1983, the #1 and #2 songs in America, “Total Eclipse Of The Heart” and Air Supply’s “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All,”...both written by Steinman

dang and The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
~~Would have never guessed they were getting their songs written for them~~"This Corrosion" was written by Andrew Eldritch and produced by Jim Steinman
I was a naive goth tween

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Post by: Yada on April 20, 2021, 07:29:41 pm

Robert Lanois

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 22, 2021, 05:23:29 pm

Les McKeown, Roller

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Post by: vansmack on April 22, 2021, 07:08:48 pm

(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/04/les-mckeown-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=618&h=410&crop=1)

Quote from: excontradiction on April 22, 2021, 05:23:29 pm

Les McKeown, Roller

FTFY

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 22, 2021, 07:23:43 pm

Damn at first I thought Yada had posted his picture and got excited

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Post by: Yada on April 22, 2021, 10:35:27 pm

Shock G

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 23, 2021, 08:30:19 am

Quote from: Yada on April 22, 2021, 10:35:27 pm

Shock G

The Humpty Dance is a stone cold classic jam!!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 23, 2021, 09:50:39 am

I once saw a version of the Bay City Rollers live at a club in Albany, NY in the early 90's. It featured Woody, his younger girlfriend, and some other random musicians.

It also featured a shouting match and some tossed beer and some threats of physical violence between the girlfriend and some other young women in the crowd.

Ah, good times.

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 23, 2021, 09:53:53 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 23, 2021, 09:50:39 am

I once saw a version of the Bay City Rollers live at a club in Albany, NY in the early 90's. It featured Woody, his younger girlfriend, and some other random musicians.

It also featured a shouting match and some tossed beer and some threats of physical violence between the girlfriend and some other young women in the crowd.

Ah, good times.

Jeebus. At least you weren't hit in the head with a bottle!

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 23, 2021, 10:54:46 am

Here is a hour long doc on the Bay City Rollers narrated by Clare Grogan (Alerted Images) which apparently touches on how the band sold 120 million records and saw very little of that money due the contracts they signed.

ROLLERMANIA : BRITAINS BIGGEST EVER BOY BAND ( The Story Of The Bay City Rollers )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0YihqJxiz8&t=10s

Wikipedia lays it out a little, but after a decade long lawsuit they each ended up with about 70K in pounds

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 23, 2021, 11:17:55 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 23, 2021, 10:54:46 am

Here is a hour long doc on the Bay City Rollers narrated by Clare Grogan (Alerted Images) which apparently touches on how the band sold 120 million records and saw very little of that money due the contracts they signed.

ROLLERMANIA : BRITAINS BIGGEST EVER BOY BAND ( The Story Of The Bay City Rollers )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0YihqJxiz8&t=10s

Wikipedia lays it out a little, but after a decade long lawsuit they each ended up with about 70K in pounds

Well Woody at least ended up with a hot young singing girlfriend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on April 25, 2021, 09:40:09 pm

A day, when fashion cried

Alber Elbaz

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 26, 2021, 02:13:28 pm

Denny Freeman

(In Bob Dylan band 2005-2009)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 27, 2021, 12:02:22 pm

Al Schmitt

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Schmitt

This guy’s name seemed synonymous with recording quality

RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 27, 2021, 12:54:21 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 27, 2021, 12:02:22 pm

Al Schmitt

wow...one of those guys you never heard of, but touched everything

Producer on a few big ones
Volunteers – Jefferson Airplane (1969)
On the Beach – Neil Young (1974)

this is impressive
Schmitt recorded and mixed more than 150 gold and platinum albums

Got a grammy for this
1977 Best Engineered Recording – Non-Classical Aja Steely Dan

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Post by: hutch on April 27, 2021, 12:56:10 pm

He recorded Sam Cooke!!

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Post by: hutch on April 28, 2021, 08:06:52 am

Anita Lane

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Post by: Space Freely on April 28, 2021, 12:56:54 pm

Apollo II astronaut Michael Collins

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Post by: Yada on April 30, 2021, 03:46:34 pm

Tony Markellis

Damn it!!!!!

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Post by: Space Freely on April 30, 2021, 04:03:57 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 30, 2021, 03:46:34 pm

Tony Markellis

Damn it!!!!!

Resident of Saratoga Springs, NY. He appeared in something I was reading about a couple months ago.

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 30, 2021, 04:10:57 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 28, 2021, 08:06:52 am

Anita Lane

From Her To Eternity is such an amazing song...
https://www.theredhandfiles.com/tell-us-about-anita/

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Post by: Space Freely on May 03, 2021, 02:55:37 pm

Three-time Indy 500 winner Bobby Unser dies at 87

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Post by: vansmack on May 03, 2021, 04:12:15 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 03, 2021, 02:55:37 pm

Three-time Indy 500 winner Bobby Unser dies at 87

One less than his little brother, one more than his nephew. RIP Bobby...

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Post by: WALKonBack on May 03, 2021, 11:36:40 pm

Witchie,Poo

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 08, 2021, 12:54:56 pm

Tawny Kitaen, from your pubescent dreams.

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Post by: Starsky on May 08, 2021, 01:11:46 pm

Lloyd Price

Major early rock and roll figure...we are talking early 50s

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Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on May 08, 2021, 03:16:45 pm

Former 1st dog Bo Obama.

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Post by: Starsky on May 09, 2021, 09:16:08 pm

Curtis Fuller

Noted jazz trombonist

I saw him at the Kennedy Center Millenium stage for free many years ago (with Benny Golson) which was a real treat

Of course casual jazz listeners will have heard Mr Fuller on Coltrane’s Blue Train

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Post by: Space Freely on May 11, 2021, 05:33:40 pm

Former Redskins QB Colt Brennan.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/05/11/colt-brennan-dead/

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Post by: Starsky on May 11, 2021, 05:41:01 pm

What a disaster

Very sad

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/31427087/ex-hawaii-record-setting-qb-colt-brennan-dead-37

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 11, 2021, 05:45:46 pm

Quote from: Starsky on May 11, 2021, 05:41:01 pm

What a disaster

Very sad

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/31427087/ex-hawaii-record-setting-qb-colt-brennan-dead-37

Only hours earlier, Colt Brennan had tried to enter a detox program at an area hospital, but he was turned away because there were no beds available.

I hope that this kind of stuff never happens, but not that uncommon...very sad

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Post by: Space Freely on May 11, 2021, 06:05:29 pm

Quote from: Bamboo-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 11, 2021, 05:45:46 pm

Quote from: Starsky on May 11, 2021, 05:41:01 pm
What a disaster

Very sad

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/31427087/ex-hawaii-record-setting-qb-colt-brennan-dead-37

Only hours earlier, Colt Brennan had tried to enter a detox program at an area hospital, but he was turned away because there were no beds available.

I hope that this kind of stuff never happens, but not that uncommon...very sad

That's not how the Post story spun it:

Brennan’s father, Terry, told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that his son was a patient at a California rehabilitation facility when he was found unconscious a few days ago; he died at a hospital in Newport, Calif.

Brennan’s father told the Star-Advertiser that his son had been in the rehabilitation facility for five months.

“He was doing so well, the spark was back in his eyes, and he was healthy and doing great, and it happened,” Terry Brennan said

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Post by: WALKonBack on May 11, 2021, 11:51:26 pm

Daniel Hutchens

Bloodkin

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Post by: Bagley on May 14, 2021, 08:41:56 am

Bob Koester

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/what-to-watch/ct-ent-bob-koester-obit-20210513-v66jccy335a4xlw4wpojjm7hja-story.html

my friend shared this story with me:

I met this guy in Chicago...
>
> He was washing some mud off boxes of 78’s in his little back office - his roof had leaked all over the records in his store. But he trolled me a bit saying it was no longer a problem because of Viagra...
>
> Viagra had paid him several hundred thousand to license his Hoodoo Man for a recent commercial and Koester funded his new roof...
>
> He told me the story of how he took all the heavy rockers, Mick, Keith and other big names around to the original South Side clubs to hear all the authentic blues guys in the early 60’s. Other stars sought him out later, including Iggy Pop, who stayed at Koester’s house with his band mates. After a couple days of drunken acting out, Koester got fed up and kicked them out, yelling “Get outta here, ya stooges!” Name stuck...

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Post by: Starsky on May 14, 2021, 09:05:07 am

Thanks for posting!

Yeah Delmark put out some classics

RIP Bob Koester...thanks for services rendered

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Post by: Yada on May 15, 2021, 09:05:34 am

Jack Terricloth

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Post by: bellenseb on May 18, 2021, 01:41:49 pm

Charles Grodin

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Post by: Starsky on May 18, 2021, 01:45:52 pm

Bummer...

He was great in many movies including Ishtar..

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Post by: challenged on May 18, 2021, 10:12:26 pm

Quote from: bellenseb on May 18, 2021, 01:41:49 pm

Charles Grodin

So many great and awkward Carson and Letterman appearances.

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Post by: analogfossa on May 19, 2021, 03:04:21 pm

Paul Mooney. He was hysterical on Chappelle show and writing Pryor's episode of SNL was genius.

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Post by: WALKonBack on May 20, 2021, 12:11:41 am

I always enjoyed knowing that Paul could steal the show, from Chappelle, on his own show.

I never knew, the awful rumor about him regarding Richard Pryor. What!?

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Post by: Starsky on May 21, 2021, 06:43:48 pm

Roger Hawkins (Muscle Shoals drummer) deserves a mention

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Post by: Yada on May 23, 2021, 09:44:56 am

Chi Modu

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Post by: Starsky on May 26, 2021, 08:50:45 am

John Warner (former VA Senator)

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Post by: Starsky on May 26, 2021, 07:35:33 pm

Eric Carle

book author

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 26, 2021, 07:59:11 pm

That caterpillar guy? Oh man!

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Post by: Starsky on May 26, 2021, 08:00:43 pm

I know...

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 26, 2021, 08:36:05 pm

Quote from: excontradition on May 26, 2021, 07:59:11 pm

That caterpillar guy? Oh man!

that does suck I loved his work

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Post by: bearman🐻 on May 27, 2021, 02:20:04 pm

Kevin "Freddy Jones" Clark from School of Rock
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/kevin-clark-who-played-kid-drummer-school-rock-dies-32-n1268696

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Post by: Justin Tonation on May 29, 2021, 03:15:10 pm

(https://media4.giphy.com/media/91WApa1BYQ0pO/giphy.gif) (https://variety.com/2021/legit/news/gavin-macleod-dead-dies-love-boat-mary-tyler-moore-show-1234984591/)

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Post by: Starsky on May 29, 2021, 07:32:33 pm

BJ Thomas

I loved this song:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raindrops_Keep_Fallin%27_on_My_Head

Never realized the film version was distinctly different but should have figured it out

First #1 song of the 1970s!

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Post by: Space Freely on June 01, 2021, 10:04:26 am

Clint Eastwood's 92 year old stunt double Buddy Van Horn.

Word on the street is that Clint will be doing his own stunts from here on out.

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 01, 2021, 01:16:02 pm

Lil Loaded

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Post by: Space Freely on June 03, 2021, 05:09:08 pm

F. Lee Bailey

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 04, 2021, 12:15:53 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 22, 2020, 02:01:27 pm

Quote from: lily1 on June 22, 2020, 01:43:49 pm
Eighteenth Street Lounge

wow...

Dupont Nightlife Institution Eighteenth Street Lounge Is Permanently Closed After 25 Years
https://dc.eater.com/2020/6/22/21298957/eighteenth-street-lounge-closing-dupont-circle-25-years-covid-19

Back from the dead
https://www.popville.com/2021/06/eighteenth-street-lounge-esl-shaw-blagden-alley/
The new Eighteenth Street Lounge will be located at 1230 9th Street NW.

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 04, 2021, 12:42:46 pm

I mean, the building was half the charm. I’ll give this a try but I’m skeptical.

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Post by: Starsky on June 04, 2021, 12:48:22 pm

^totally agree

I would say even more than half

It made you feel a bit like a king

If I was Farid I too would want to reuse the name in a new endeavor

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 06, 2021, 09:50:16 pm

Clarence Williams III

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Post by: rich_WDC on June 07, 2021, 11:43:35 am

Quote from: excontradiction on June 06, 2021, 09:50:16 pm

Clarence Williams III

His Linc was ridiculously slick. A cool cat.

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 10, 2021, 09:02:19 am

Dean Parrish a favorite of the Northern Soul crowd best known for "I'm On My Way"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5cGzs8v0cM

another one of his from a Northern Soul collections The Masculine/Northern Soul version of Billie Davis' original (Tell Him)

https://youtu.be/eJvqacpL4IM

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Post by: WALKonBack on June 11, 2021, 10:17:55 am

Geez, Shock G . . . way to ruin your legacy.

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Post by: Space Freely on June 11, 2021, 10:20:24 am

Quote from: WalkOnBack on June 11, 2021, 10:17:55 am

Geez, Shock G . . . way to ruin your legacy.

Did he molest a kid or something?

I thought his drug problems were well known.

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Post by: Starsky on June 11, 2021, 10:31:10 am

Yeah drugs really ruin legacies.....not

I recently read a biography of Bon Scott that laid out a pretty compelling case that he died from a heroin overdose and not alcohol... I always thought this was a strong possibility when I read years ago that on the night of death he had been hanging with Peter Perrett of the only ones (complete heroin junkie)... anyways... the book describes the circle of people Bon was hanging with those weeks in London and it’s so many heroin junkies, dabblers, dealers...very sad.. that same circle took the two guys from the Prrtenders too... it also apparently had something to do with the Iranian Revolution! Rich people fleeing Iran found it easier to get the money out in heroin and the heroin was really powerful..more powerful than what people in London were used to... I guess I can blame the Ayatollah Khomeini for Bon Scott’s death

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Post by: WALKonBack on June 11, 2021, 10:59:22 am

Yeah sorry, I don't respect God given talent that overdoses on Fent and Meth. You do you, though. I Iost respect for Prince for the same reason. But hey, at least they didn't molest kids, right?

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Post by: Starsky on June 11, 2021, 11:12:49 am

Well you can respect it or not but drug overdoses haven’t really hindered legacies... If anything they may have helped!

The list is endless

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pop_musicians_who_died_of_drug_overdose

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Post by: Yada on June 11, 2021, 11:22:20 am

Quote from: WalkOnBack on June 11, 2021, 10:59:22 am

Yeah sorry, I don't respect God given talent that overdoses on Fent and Meth. You do you, though. I Iost respect for Prince for the same reason. But hey, at least they didn't molest kids, right?

It was accidental... not like he did it on purpose.

You could die of a heart attack after your bottle of shiraz and a cannon tonight.

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Post by: Space Freely on June 11, 2021, 11:34:17 am

Quote from: Yada on June 11, 2021, 11:22:20 am

Quote from: WalkOnBack on June 11, 2021, 10:59:22 am
Yeah sorry, I don't respect God given talent that overdoses on Fent and Meth. You do you, though. I Iost respect for Prince for the same reason. But hey, at least they didn't molest kids, right?

It was accidental... not like he did it on purpose.

You could die of a heart attack after your bottle of shiraz and a cannon tonight.

Unless he was a big anti-drug advocate pushing for punishment of users, he's fine in my book.

Did he make stupid choices? Sure. Many of us have. It doesn't make the greatness of his musical output any less.

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Post by: sweetcell on June 11, 2021, 12:30:46 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on June 11, 2021, 10:59:22 am

Yeah sorry, I don't respect God given talent that overdoses on Fent and Meth. You do you, though. I Iost respect for Prince for the same reason. But hey, at least they didn't molest kids, right?

dude, addiction is a disease. of the mind. i would have thought you would have a little sympathy...

also, i've never understood people who can't separate art from the artist. "yeah, that's the most beautiful song ever recorded, but the singer is a jerk so i don't like the song."

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Post by: shemptiness on June 11, 2021, 04:58:59 pm

Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals bassist Juan Nelson, 62

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Post by: Justin Tonation on June 13, 2021, 06:49:31 pm

(https://www.toledoblade.com/image/2003/05/22/1140x_a10-7_cTC/Compilations-give-new-life-to-old-TV-shows.jpg)

Ned Beatty (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ned-beatty-dead-deliverance-1234967321/)

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 17, 2021, 03:17:54 pm

Herb Tarlek

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 17, 2021, 03:33:39 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on June 17, 2021, 03:17:54 pm

Herb Tarlek

I guess you can say he's no longer . . .

(•_•)

( •_•)>⌐■-■

(⌐■_■)

. . . living on the air in Cincinnati.

*cue up that Who song*

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 17, 2021, 04:29:30 pm

A++ would chortle again

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 17, 2021, 06:17:10 pm

Jambi

Mecca lecca hi, mecca hiney ho"

(John Paragon)

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Post by: sweetcell on June 18, 2021, 01:20:58 pm

The head of the 'world's biggest family' has died at age 76 (https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/asia/india-record-family-man-dies-scli-intl/)

(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/210614101014-ziona-family-file-2011-restricted-exlarge-169.jpg)

he leaves behind 38 wives, 89 children and a growing number of grandchildren (currently over 40).

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Post by: Justin Tonation on June 18, 2021, 02:50:41 pm

Absolute baller

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Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 18, 2021, 03:59:22 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on June 18, 2021, 02:50:41 pm

Absolute baller

I mean...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 18, 2021, 05:07:14 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on June 18, 2021, 03:59:22 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on June 18, 2021, 02:50:41 pm
Absolute baller

I mean...

89 kids / 38 wives = 2.3 kids per wife.

national fertility rate for india in 2020: 2.2 children per woman.

not sure i would call this guy a baller - he's barely, barely above average.

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Post by: Starsky on June 19, 2021, 12:09:52 pm

Champ Biden

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Post by: WALKonBack on June 23, 2021, 04:04:00 pm

John McAfee

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 23, 2021, 04:06:41 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on June 23, 2021, 04:04:00 pm

John McAfee

I hope he gave someone the password to his cryptocurrency wallet.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 23, 2021, 04:13:24 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on June 23, 2021, 04:06:41 pm

Quote from: WalkOnBack on June 23, 2021, 04:04:00 pm
John McAfee

I hope he gave someone the password to his cryptocurrency wallet.

one of his last tweets

John McAfee
@officialmcafee
The US believes I have hidden crypto. I wish I did but it has dissolved through the many hands of Team McAfee (your belief is not required), and my remaining assets are all seized. My friends evaporated through fear of association.

I have nothing.

Yet, I regret nothing.

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 24, 2021, 03:06:23 pm

2020 life expectancy in the U.S. fell overall from 78.74 years to 77.43 years, per researchers' estimates: a decline of 1.13 years for the total population, 0.68 for white people, 2.10 for Black people and 3.05 for Latinos.

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Post by: Justin Tonation on June 26, 2021, 07:30:12 pm

Jon Hassell (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1592201941004059/permalink/3612739242283642/)

(Facebook link to family message)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 27, 2021, 08:38:42 am

Space’s favorite presidential candidate mike gravel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on June 27, 2021, 08:40:29 am

Damn it..you beat me to it

Get a life!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on June 27, 2021, 11:39:48 pm

Willy Crook

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 28, 2021, 12:47:46 pm

Johnny Solinger

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 28, 2021, 01:38:01 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 28, 2021, 12:47:46 pm

Johnny Solinger

the poor man's Sebastian Bach

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 30, 2021, 03:28:19 pm

RIP TO AMERICAN PATRIOT DONNY RUMSFELD

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 30, 2021, 03:31:33 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 30, 2021, 03:28:19 pm

RIP TO AMERICAN PATRIOT DONNY RUMSFELD

this is a known-known.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on June 30, 2021, 03:43:37 pm

Damn..

I always wanted to despise him but couldn’t quite muster it…he could be very very funny…a somewhat lovable charlatan and killer…like one of those evil Bond guys

Him and Cheney really cost our country like a trillion $ and helped usher in Trump..of course responsible for tens of thousands of dead

Dubya was just a bumpkin who needed a job…way over his head…I don’t think he had any idea what he was doing.. America’s current problems can be traced to having two of its worst presidents of the past century and a half (since Andrew Johnson) within 8 years of each other

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 30, 2021, 05:09:19 pm

Mircea Popescu

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 30, 2021, 05:11:06 pm

this sums it up for me

Wajahat Ali@WajahatAli
For those too young to know, Donald Rumsfeld was an atrocious human being whose legacy is engineering unlawful, disastrous & unnecessary wars that continue to traumatize generations. He had no remorse or contrition for his role in the bloodshed. May he kick rocks for eternity.

Although I have quoted him many times in business situations
'You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have'

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 01, 2021, 12:35:20 am

Biz Markie (all over Twitter right now)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 01, 2021, 01:18:30 am

Hopefully not

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 01, 2021, 08:01:22 am

Biz Markie Is Still Alive: Manager Denies Reports of NYC Rapper's Death (https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/biz-markie-is-still-alive-manager-denies-reports-of-nyc-rappers-death/3134249/?_osource=db_npd_nbc_wnbc_twt_shr)

First (now deleted) tweet I saw about his supposed death was from Patton Oswalt just after midnight. It was already trending.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 01, 2021, 01:55:06 pm

Hum drummer Bryan St. Pere

Apparently suddenly and unexpected :'(

https://twitter.com/humbandofficial/status/1410636968573165584

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5OW1P5XwAEQsHJ?format=jpg&name=900x900)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 01, 2021, 01:56:44 pm

He was super underrated. A great drummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 03, 2021, 03:11:16 pm

Mr. Mojo Risin', 1971

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 03, 2021, 08:02:25 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on July 03, 2021, 03:11:16 pm

Mr. Mojo Risin', 1971

He dropped his fly

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 05, 2021, 04:52:08 pm

Richard Donner, director of Superman and The Goonies, dies aged 91 (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jul/05/richard-donner-dead-91-director-superman-goonies?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1625516879)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 07, 2021, 08:36:54 am

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse assassinated at his home

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 07, 2021, 09:46:30 am

That was a crazy headline to wake up to

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 07, 2021, 01:41:05 pm

Carlos Reutemann

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on July 10, 2021, 03:58:40 pm

Dave Lampert, Inventor of the Sybian Sex Aid, Dead at 90.

https://t.co/WkthigUoQP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 13, 2021, 10:41:50 am

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s ashes buried after flight with caviar and champagne (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jul/13/zsa-zsa-gabors-ashes-buried-after-flight-with-caviar-and-champagne?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1626182066)

Five years after her death, the Hungarian star’s funeral has taken place, following a first-class journey from Los Angeles to Budapest for her remains

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 15, 2021, 01:17:38 pm

Andy Fordham

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 15, 2021, 01:18:17 pm

Jeff LaBar

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 15, 2021, 01:50:40 pm

Quote from: Yada on July 15, 2021, 01:17:38 pm

Andy Fordham

Andy Fordham, world champion darts player who drank bottles of lager before competing and claimed not to practise
His appearance and mullet hairstyle earned him his nickname, ‘The Viking’, a moniker which belied a self-effacing and gentle nature
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/07/15/andy-fordham-world-champion-darts-player-drank-bottles-lager/ (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/07/15/andy-fordham-world-champion-darts-player-drank-bottles-lager/)

a true legend

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 15, 2021, 01:51:11 pm

Quote from: Yada on July 15, 2021, 01:18:17 pm

Jeff LaBar

Cinderella Guitarist Jeff LaBar Dead at 58
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/cinderella-guitarist-jeff-labar-dead-obituary-1197576/ (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/cinderella-guitarist-jeff-labar-dead-obituary-1197576/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 16, 2021, 08:32:06 pm

Biz Markie

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 16, 2021, 10:42:23 pm

William Regnery II, Reclusive Millionaire Who Financed American Fascists, Dead At 80 (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/william-regnery-dead-white-nationalist-millionaire-financier-richard-spencer_n_60f0f53ae4b01f118957ee93)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 19, 2021, 03:32:54 am

Quote from: sweetcell on July 15, 2021, 01:51:11 pm

Quote from: Yada on July 15, 2021, 01:18:17 pm
Jeff LaBar

Cinderella Guitarist Jeff LaBar Dead at 58
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/cinderella-guitarist-jeff-labar-dead-obituary-1197576/ (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/cinderella-guitarist-jeff-labar-dead-obituary-1197576/)

Gary Corbett Dies: 2nd Member of Cinderella to Pass on Same Day (https://bestclassicbands.com/gary-corbett-obituary-cinderella-producer-songwriter-7-15-21/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 19, 2021, 12:25:14 pm

Robert Steinhardt, Kansas frontman and violinist, dies at 71

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 19, 2021, 12:42:27 pm

He was also in Cinderella at one point…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 19, 2021, 12:51:20 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 19, 2021, 12:25:14 pm

Robert Steinhardt, Kansas frontman and violinist, dies at 71

Oh man! This brings back memories of their show at DAR on their Power tour. I won tickets from a local AOR station, and my seats were on the stage. We had backstage passes, and were given Power flashlights and a cue to be part of the light show. The internet claims that Night Ranger opened the show, but I have no recollection of that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 19, 2021, 01:30:48 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 19, 2021, 12:25:14 pm

Robert Steinhardt, Kansas frontman and violinist, dies at 71

I'm no Kansas historian, but I did look this up. He was the violinist from 1976-1982, then again from 1997-2006.

Steve Walsh was the lead singer from 1967-2014, when he retired and was replaced by some other dude.

No disrespect meant to the dead guy, but I'd argue Steve Walsh was the frontman,

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 19, 2021, 01:34:17 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 19, 2021, 01:30:48 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 19, 2021, 12:25:14 pm
Robert Steinhardt, Kansas frontman and violinist, dies at 71

I'm no Kansas historian, but I did look this up. He was the violinist from 1976-1982, then again from 1997-2006.

Steve Walsh was the lead singer from 1967-2014, when he retired and was replaced by some other dude.

No disrespect meant to the dead guy, but I'd argue Steve Walsh was the frontman,

His lead vocals provided a contrast to the high tenor of singer Steve Walsh. The two often sang in harmony, with Steinhardt taking the lower voice

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 19, 2021, 01:35:29 pm

Quote from: Side-panda ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 19, 2021, 01:34:17 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 19, 2021, 01:30:48 pm
Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 19, 2021, 12:25:14 pm
Robert Steinhardt, Kansas frontman and violinist, dies at 71

I'm no Kansas historian, but I did look this up. He was the violinist from 1976-1982, then again from 1997-2006.

Steve Walsh was the lead singer from 1967-2014, when he retired and was replaced by some other dude.

No disrespect meant to the dead guy, but I'd argue Steve Walsh was the frontman,
His lead vocals provided a contrast to the high tenor of singer Steve Walsh. The two often sang in harmony, with Steinhardt taking the lower voice

Yes, I, too, can copy and paste Wikipedia.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 19, 2021, 01:38:05 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 19, 2021, 01:35:29 pm

Quote from: Side-panda ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 19, 2021, 01:34:17 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on July 19, 2021, 01:30:48 pm
Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 19, 2021, 12:25:14 pm
Robert Steinhardt, Kansas frontman and violinist, dies at 71

I'm no Kansas historian, but I did look this up. He was the violinist from 1976-1982, then again from 1997-2006.

Steve Walsh was the lead singer from 1967-2014, when he retired and was replaced by some other dude.

No disrespect meant to the dead guy, but I'd argue Steve Walsh was the frontman,
His lead vocals provided a contrast to the high tenor of singer Steve Walsh. The two often sang in harmony, with Steinhardt taking the lower voice
Yes, I, too, can copy and paste Wikipedia.

but I did it first and honestly, this was new info to me
next time I'll be sure to change some of the words so it doesn't come up on your 'catch a plagiarist' software

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 19, 2021, 02:03:35 pm

Quote from: Side-panda ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 19, 2021, 01:34:17 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 19, 2021, 01:30:48 pm
Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 19, 2021, 12:25:14 pm
Robert Steinhardt, Kansas frontman and violinist, dies at 71

I'm no Kansas historian, but I did look this up. He was the violinist from 1976-1982, then again from 1997-2006.

Steve Walsh was the lead singer from 1967-2014, when he retired and was replaced by some other dude.

No disrespect meant to the dead guy, but I'd argue Steve Walsh was the frontman,
His lead vocals provided a contrast to the high tenor of singer Steve Walsh. The two often sang in harmony, with Steinhardt taking the lower voice

Correction, Walsh was the singer starting in 1976, not 1967. Did they play a holograph of Stenhardt during the 23 years Walsh was singing and Steinhardt was MIA?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 19, 2021, 02:39:06 pm

I'm really beginning to think the board needs a Kansas historian.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 19, 2021, 02:56:11 pm

Kansas…one of the few bands- along with Styx- that when I hear them I want to blow my brains out…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on July 19, 2021, 04:49:15 pm

Wasn't Walsh the guy who wore knee-high socks on stage?

It's almost embarrassing that I would remember that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 19, 2021, 05:05:09 pm

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on July 19, 2021, 04:49:15 pm

Wasn't Walsh the guy who wore knee-high socks on stage?

It's almost embarrassing that I would remember that.

The internet says you are correct.

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/on_a_scale_of_one_to_all_of_the..._how_much_cocaine_is_the_singer_of_kansas

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 19, 2021, 05:07:09 pm

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on July 19, 2021, 04:49:15 pm

Wasn't Walsh the guy who wore knee-high socks on stage?

It's almost embarrassing that I would remember that.

(https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/made/content/uploads/images/kansas_header_465_396_int.jpg)
the headline of this article seals the deal

ON A SCALE OF ‘ONE’ TO ‘ALL OF THE’... HOW MUCH COCAINE IS THE SINGER OF KANSAS ON HERE? (https://dangerousminds.net/comments/on_a_scale_of_one_to_all_of_the..._how_much_cocaine_is_the_singer_of_kansas)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 19, 2021, 05:10:52 pm

Another good headline from same website:

WILLIAM BURROUGHS: SCANS OF HIS PORN MAG ARTICLES

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 19, 2021, 05:16:11 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 19, 2021, 05:10:52 pm

Another good headline from same website:

WILLIAM BURROUGHS: SCANS OF HIS PORN MAG ARTICLES

I see Hutch is writing under his pen name:Richard Metzger
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/extreme_record_collecting_confessions_of_an_analog_vinyl_snob

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 19, 2021, 07:43:50 pm

(https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.dischord.com/images.d/photo/image/844/FLS0050_photo_1.jpg)

SO MUCH COKE!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 21, 2021, 04:17:55 pm

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/jerry-granelli-jazz-musician-dies-at-80-1.6110699

Jazz legend Jerry Granelli, of Charlie Brown Christmas fame, dies at 80

But he played with so many others throughout his career.. the Grateful Dead, Mose Allison, Ornette Coleman, Sly Stone, the Kingston Trio…

a obituary well worth reading

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 22, 2021, 05:18:43 pm

Palo Pandolfo

What a song (from 1989)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BK9nVAlpPN4

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on July 22, 2021, 05:22:33 pm

Any relation to Pino Palladino?

Quote from: Starsky on July 22, 2021, 05:18:43 pm

Palo Pandolfo

What a song (from 1989)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BK9nVAlpPN4

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 24, 2021, 09:51:55 pm

Jackie Mason (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jackie-mason-rabbi-turned-contentious-comedian-dies-at-93-1234988070/)

(Yes, I thought he was dead already, too)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 24, 2021, 10:21:23 pm

Love him. I feel like he was old 30 years ago… but guess I wasn’t even 20 then, so 63 seemed over the hill

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 24, 2021, 10:24:17 pm

Jackie Mason

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 24, 2021, 11:24:52 pm

Jackie Mason

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 24, 2021, 11:25:07 pm

Jackie Mason

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 24, 2021, 11:25:19 pm

Jackie Mason

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 24, 2021, 11:30:46 pm

Jackie Mason

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 25, 2021, 07:04:40 am

Hope I am first: Jackie Mason

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 25, 2021, 11:43:38 am

I think we have a quorum!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 25, 2021, 01:14:11 pm

Correction: Mackie Jayson still alive.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/435215-Mackie-Jayson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 25, 2021, 01:55:57 pm

I knew it! Fake news

This is why I held out on going with the mob

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 26, 2021, 07:29:35 am

Hutch!

https://www.nme.com/news/music/david-bowie-collaborator-guitarist-john-hutchinson-has-died-3002502

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 26, 2021, 08:52:40 am

Quote from: Side-panda ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 26, 2021, 07:29:35 am

Hutch!

https://www.nme.com/news/music/david-bowie-collaborator-guitarist-john-hutchinson-has-died-3002502

Kinda hoping he’ll return with a mark twain quote

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 27, 2021, 05:24:04 pm

Joey Jordison, Slipknot drummer (https://variety.com/2021/music/obituaries-people-news/joey-jordison-slipknot-dead-dies-1235028746/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 28, 2021, 02:55:12 pm

ZZ Top Bassist Dusty Hill Dies at 72 (https://variety.com/2021/music/news/zz-top-bassist-dusty-hill-dead-dies-1235029656/)

horrible news :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on July 28, 2021, 02:59:07 pm

Bummer for sure

Quote from: sweetcell on July 28, 2021, 02:55:12 pm

ZZ Top Bassist Dusty Hill Dies at 72 (https://variety.com/2021/music/news/zz-top-bassist-dusty-hill-dead-dies-1235029656/)

horrible news :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 28, 2021, 03:07:29 pm

Quote from: jeffml on July 28, 2021, 02:59:07 pm

Bummer for sure

Quote from: sweetcell on July 28, 2021, 02:55:12 pm
ZZ Top Bassist Dusty Hill Dies at 72 (https://variety.com/2021/music/news/zz-top-bassist-dusty-hill-dead-dies-1235029656/)

horrible news :'(

So he died from a hip injury?

https://www.emissourian.com/fair/bass-guitarists-injury-won-t-stop-zz-tops-performance-at-washington-town-country-fair/article_b833faac-ef53-11eb-9e8b-37ef82d2b5ae.html

I clicked on the thread with fingers crossed that it's not Bob Odenkirk.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 28, 2021, 03:41:22 pm

Geezus chraist that sucks

I just read yesterday or day before that he had a hip injury now dude is dead

ZZ Top would have been cool at 930…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 28, 2021, 06:10:04 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 28, 2021, 03:07:29 pm

So he died from a hip injury?

https://www.emissourian.com/fair/bass-guitarists-injury-won-t-stop-zz-tops-performance-at-washington-town-country-fair/article_b833faac-ef53-11eb-9e8b-37ef82d2b5ae.html (https://www.emissourian.com/fair/bass-guitarists-injury-won-t-stop-zz-tops-performance-at-washington-town-country-fair/article_b833faac-ef53-11eb-9e8b-37ef82d2b5ae.html)

they haven't released the cause of death yet, as far as i've seen. you have to suspect that there was some complication or other relationship between the leg/hip injury and his death but nothing confirmed yet.

Quote from: Starsky on July 28, 2021, 03:41:22 pm

ZZ Top would have been cool at 930…

they were. i caught their 9/13/2009 (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/zz-top/2009/930-club-washington-dc-2bd99c3e.html) and 9/14/2009 (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/zz-top/2009/930-club-washington-dc-33d99c3d.html) shows, but unfortunately wasn't around for 2016's Surprise! At the Club! (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/zz-top/2016/930-club-washington-dc-1bfc35e4.html) performance.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 28, 2021, 06:14:05 pm

I guess I saw them at 2012 Freefest?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 28, 2021, 06:21:32 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on July 28, 2021, 06:14:05 pm

I guess I saw them at 2012 Freefest?

Gross.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on July 28, 2021, 06:42:50 pm

Everything that band did after Deguello was gross.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 28, 2021, 07:05:29 pm

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on July 28, 2021, 06:42:50 pm

Everything that band did after Deguello was gross.

I meant Freefest.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 28, 2021, 07:47:59 pm

Ron Popeil, Infomercial King. But wait, there's more! (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ron-popeil-set-forget-infomercial-224647320.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 28, 2021, 08:01:59 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on July 28, 2021, 06:14:05 pm

I guess I saw them at 2012 Freefest?

We were there. My wife just recalled that they "horrible, horrible, horrible." Can't say I disagree but still rip DH.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 28, 2021, 08:16:38 pm

I read he had hepatitis

Who knows what happened..it’s bizarre

Anyways it’s pretty sad…

I saw them at Jackfest in Baltimore about 2006… I had a great ticket like 20th row center..very enjoyable… but once felt like enough… their live sound was a bit processed like their recordings became from Eliminator on…. Give me Tres Hombres, Tejas any day

Still I wouldn’t call Eliminator crap! Legs! Sharp dressed man! Gimme all your loving! Problem is those songs were beat to death but at some point bands have to do what they have to do to sell records.. ZZ Top couldn’t continue being a Texas bar band! After El Loco they realized they needed to make a change

Some of those MTV videos are iconic

Every artist that wants to appeal to new generations and get new fans has to make a change or the fan base dwindles and they fade away

The great ones are able to pull the trick more than twice… the Stones did it at least three times..U2 twice at least.. Bob Dylan five times at least…

I just don’t know why ZZ Top fell apart so bad after Eliminator.. Billy Gibbons is a helluva good guitar player but he ran out of gas songwritingwise

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 28, 2021, 08:46:36 pm

Ironically, MTV saved their career. Videos were supposed to kill off the ugly rock dinosaurs and lift the beautiful. ZZ Top knew this and commenced with the most successful reinventions of a public image ever. They should have died; instead, MTV practically killed supposed rock sex symbol Billy Squire, his "Rock Me Tonite" video being considered one of the worst ever.

(Squire lived on though with sample royalties from hip-hop artists. But his video dancing was all his. Just look at his video for "The Stroke"; his style could be considered a form of juggling.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 28, 2021, 08:57:48 pm

Poor Billy Squier can't even generate enough attention such that anyone even knows how to spell his name. But everyone knows how to spell Billy Gibbons.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 28, 2021, 09:24:22 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 28, 2021, 08:57:48 pm

Poor Billy Squier can't even generate enough attention such that anyone even knows how to spell his name. But everyone knows how to spell Billy Gibbons.

They’re both fifth tier bluegrass/jam acts, yeah?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 28, 2021, 09:27:34 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 28, 2021, 09:24:22 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 28, 2021, 08:57:48 pm
Poor Billy Squier can't even generate enough attention such that anyone even knows how to spell his name. But everyone knows how to spell Billy Gibbons.
They’re both fifth tier bluegrass/jam acts, yeah?

Don't forget Billy Springs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on July 28, 2021, 11:33:26 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 28, 2021, 09:24:22 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 28, 2021, 08:57:48 pm
Poor Billy Squier can't even generate enough attention such that anyone even knows how to spell his name. But everyone knows how to spell Billy Gibbons.
They’re both fifth tier bluegrass/jam acts, yeah?

Julian . . . mines the gems.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 30, 2021, 12:01:22 am

Mike Howe, Metal Church Singer, Dead at 55.
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/mike-howe-metal-church-singer-dead-55 (https://www.revolvermag.com/music/mike-howe-metal-church-singer-dead-55)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 30, 2021, 05:45:58 pm

Chuck E. (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-07-21/chuck-e-weiss-rickie-lee-jones-in-love-dies)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on July 31, 2021, 07:00:25 am

Not the Chuck E. that first came to mind but ok.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 04, 2021, 06:39:11 am

Kelli Hand aka K-Hand

The First Lady of Detroit Techno

Detroit DJ, producer and founder of Acacia records

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 05, 2021, 02:51:01 am

(https://i.imgur.com/QJnFtBp.jpg)

i'm kinda shocked how much this one still stings. been listening to a lot of zz over the past week.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 05, 2021, 09:06:39 pm

Surprised this one was overlooked.

J.R. Richard

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on August 06, 2021, 11:23:53 am

Didn’t hear about that. Had a brilliant career cut short.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 06, 2021, 03:03:36 pm

Chicago house music DJ and music producer Paul Johnson dies at 50 from COVID complications (https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-paul-john-chicago-music-dies-covid-20210806-25dzovbt4fezdoqbw2jrh66r2q-story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 06, 2021, 03:19:09 pm

That sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 09, 2021, 04:10:59 pm

Chucky Thompson, Covid

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 10, 2021, 12:41:12 pm

Walter Yetnikov CBS Records

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 10, 2021, 01:26:14 pm

for those who grew up watching Night Court (and The Fall Guy, apparently, but that show didn't impact me as much):

Actress Markie Post dies at 70 after battle with cancer (https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/08/entertainment/markie-post-actress-died-cancer-night-court/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 10, 2021, 01:32:34 pm

Oh no! She was great on Night Court!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 11, 2021, 12:46:20 pm

Neal Conan, NPR guy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 11, 2021, 04:15:29 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 10, 2021, 01:26:14 pm

for those who grew up watching Night Court (and The Fall Guy, apparently, but that show didn't impact me as much):

Def had the hots for her. Then I saw Connie Britton....

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Post by: Space Freely on August 11, 2021, 05:22:14 pm

Quote from: vansmack on August 11, 2021, 04:15:29 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 10, 2021, 01:26:14 pm
for those who grew up watching Night Court (and The Fall Guy, apparently, but that show didn't impact me as much):

Def had the hots for her. Then I saw Connie Britton....

As my daughter often says, "Why not both?"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 11, 2021, 07:55:30 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 11, 2021, 05:22:14 pm

As my daughter often says, "Why not both?"

I've only met her once, but clearly I made an impression.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 12, 2021, 11:51:13 am

Allen T. Noble (https://www.wsj.com/articles/potato-farmer-provided-early-funding-for-micron-technology-11628776800)

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Post by: Starsky on August 13, 2021, 02:03:43 pm

Nanci Griffith

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 13, 2021, 05:14:30 pm

Nanci Griffith

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Post by: Justin Tonation on August 19, 2021, 08:11:15 pm

Chuck Close (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/chuck-close-dead/2021/08/19/35295436-30aa-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 20, 2021, 10:27:58 am

Larry Harlow

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Harlow_(musician)

I am a sad panda… even though I knew this day was coming

Tremendous piano player/orchestra leader

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HP0dDKtgtQI

Also heavily featured in the Fania All Stars recordings and movies

El judio maravilloso!!!!

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Post by: Starsky on August 20, 2021, 08:17:19 pm

Tom T. Hall

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Post by: Yada on August 21, 2021, 09:51:30 pm

Phil Valentine

Nashville-based conservative radio talk show host who had questioned whether it was necessary for all people to get Covid-19 vaccines, died on Saturday, his employer, WWTN Radio, announced on Twitter. Valentine was 61 years old.

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Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 21, 2021, 10:59:37 pm

Thoughts and prayers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 21, 2021, 11:45:28 pm

Don Everly (just breaking over Twitter)

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Post by: Starsky on August 21, 2021, 11:53:22 pm

Bummer

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Post by: Space Freely on August 22, 2021, 07:03:07 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on August 21, 2021, 11:45:28 pm

Don Everly (just breaking over Twitter)

He was the liberal. His brother was the conservative.

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Post by: shemptiness on August 23, 2021, 05:52:38 pm

Tony Mendez, Letterman's cue card guy

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Post by: Justin Tonation on August 23, 2021, 08:37:32 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on August 23, 2021, 05:52:38 pm

Tony Mendez, Letterman's cue card guy

One time when I attended a taping I went to the Hello Deli beforehand. Mendez came in to buy something and he was actually carrying cue cards. I guess he was very protective of them. Kenny the chain-smoking stagehand also showed up, to buy more smokes, of course.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 24, 2021, 12:42:22 pm

Charlie Watts

I refuse to believe this

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: BrettnotBritt on August 24, 2021, 01:25:59 pm

Quote from: Starsky on August 24, 2021, 12:42:22 pm

Charlie Watts

I refuse to believe this

Damnit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 24, 2021, 01:35:45 pm

knew he backed out of tour, but didn't think it was this serious

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 24, 2021, 01:59:42 pm

Complete bummer.... but can't say surprising. Dude was 80 and has had cancer at least once, maybe twice?

Soon there will be no greats left other than Chris Barron.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 24, 2021, 02:08:59 pm

It’s not entirely surprising except we were told he was undergoing a minor procedure and rejoining tour in future! That’s what makes it shocking to me

Same thing that happened with Dusty Hill

Same playbook even announcing “temporary” replacement

People don’t give Charlie much credit but he had some drumming “moves” and when you hear them you know it’s him…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 24, 2021, 02:16:30 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 24, 2021, 01:59:42 pm

Soon there will be no greats left other than Chris Barron.

and keith richards. he'll outlive us all.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 24, 2021, 02:19:48 pm

That was one of my first thoughts..on what planet does Keef outlive Watts?

Insanity

But the truth is Keef had a very bad 10-15 years (1970-1985 or so) and the rest is just image and stories

And genes always trump image

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on August 24, 2021, 02:20:39 pm

I get the whole "people die every day" argument, but man, The Stones left a major cultural and artistic impact and good chances that they would have been a much lesser band without Charlie Watts. Plus, from all accounts, he was a mild mannered (minus the time he clocked Mick for calling him "his drummer") and pretty solid human being. That and I would easily place him as my favorite drummer, rock or otherwise.
Definitely glad that I caught them two years back after all my hemming and hawing.

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Post by: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 02:33:44 pm

Quote from: Starsky on August 24, 2021, 02:19:48 pm

That was one of my first thoughts..on what planet does Keef outlive Watts?

Insanity

But the truth is Keef had a very bad 10-15 years (1970-1985 or so) and the rest is just image and stories

And genes always trump image

Were either of them still smoking cigarettes?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 24, 2021, 02:37:51 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 02:33:44 pm

Quote from: Starsky on August 24, 2021, 02:19:48 pm
That was one of my first thoughts..on what planet does Keef outlive Watts?

Insanity

But the truth is Keef had a very bad 10-15 years (1970-1985 or so) and the rest is just image and stories

And genes always trump image

Were either of them still smoking cigarettes?

I don’t think either smoke(d) except “Keef” maybe for a very occasional fake picture

People have no idea how much Keef has slowed down….like at least 15 years ago! It’s downright embarrassing

Not to mention Ron Wood has been doing all the heavy lifting on guitar for at least 15 years

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 02:49:42 pm

Quote from: Starsky on August 24, 2021, 02:37:51 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 02:33:44 pm
Quote from: Starsky on August 24, 2021, 02:19:48 pm
That was one of my first thoughts..on what planet does Keef outlive Watts?

Insanity

But the truth is Keef had a very bad 10-15 years (1970-1985 or so) and the rest is just image and stories

And genes always trump image

Were either of them still smoking cigarettes?

I don’t think either smoke(d) except “Keef” maybe for a very occasional fake picture

People have no idea how much Keef has slowed down….like at least 15 years ago! It’s downright embarrassing

Not to mention Ron Wood has been doing all the heavy lifting on guitar for at least 15 years

This says Keith smoked until October 2019.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-rolling-stones-keith-richards-has-finally-quit-smoking-2606213

This says Charlie was an excessive smokers until the late 80's. Sometime the damage is done. My mom quit smoking in her 40's, but I don't think her respiratory system has ever fully recovered.

https://www.cancerhorizons.com/cancer-champions/rock-n-roll-musicians/charlie-watts/

By the way, my middle name is "Keith" and I hate it. Keith Richards is about the only cool thing about the name (imo), so I'm going to call him Keith, not Keef.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 24, 2021, 02:52:02 pm

This Keith says otherwise.

(http://s3.amazonaws.com/NRNArt/KeithSweat-RidinSolo.jpg)

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Post by: Starsky on August 24, 2021, 02:55:03 pm

Yeah well don’t believe every bullshit you read….Keith has had a vested interest in pushing a certain image for four decades now…

I know at least one boardie that named their kid Keith

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 02:59:10 pm

Quote from: Starsky on August 24, 2021, 02:55:03 pm

Yeah well don’t believe every bullshit you read….Keith has had a vested interest in pushing a certain image for four decades now…

I know at least one boardie that named their kid Keith

Alright, maybe most Keith's are Kool, and I'm the exception to the rule.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 24, 2021, 03:09:26 pm

C'mon man - Keith Moon!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 03:12:27 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on August 24, 2021, 03:09:26 pm

C'mon man - Keith Moon!

I was born in 1967. Are you guys saying I may have been named after members of the Stones and the Who? Thanks for making me feel better about myself!

It seems more likely my parents would have named me after Pat Boone or Fabian. Or maybe Hank Williams if I were lucky,

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 24, 2021, 03:15:46 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 03:12:27 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on August 24, 2021, 03:09:26 pm
C'mon man - Keith Moon!

I was born in 1967. Are you guys saying I may have been named after members of the Stones and the Who? Thanks for making me feel better about myself!

It seems more likely my parents would have named me after Pat Boone or Fabian. Or maybe Hank Williams if I were lucky,

So many Keithes to choose from!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_(given_name) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_(given_name))

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 24, 2021, 03:17:36 pm

Keith Partridge dude

Quote from: shemptiness on August 24, 2021, 03:09:26 pm

C'mon man - Keith Moon!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 03:21:16 pm

Quote from: jeffml on August 24, 2021, 03:17:36 pm

Keith Partridge dude

Quote from: shemptiness on August 24, 2021, 03:09:26 pm
C'mon man - Keith Moon!

And the most urban guy in country music...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 24, 2021, 03:25:30 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 03:12:27 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on August 24, 2021, 03:09:26 pm
C'mon man - Keith Moon!

I was born in 1967. Are you guys saying I may have been named after members of the Stones and the Who? Thanks for making me feel better about myself!

It seems more likely my parents would have named me after Pat Boone or Fabian. Or maybe Hank Williams if I were lucky,

knowing you IRL: i know that your first name isn't keith... is it your middle name?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 03:40:22 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 24, 2021, 03:25:30 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 03:12:27 pm
Quote from: shemptiness on August 24, 2021, 03:09:26 pm
C'mon man - Keith Moon!

I was born in 1967. Are you guys saying I may have been named after members of the Stones and the Who? Thanks for making me feel better about myself!

It seems more likely my parents would have named me after Pat Boone or Fabian. Or maybe Hank Williams if I were lucky,

knowing you IRL: i know that your first name isn't keith... is it your middle name?

I hope this is as personal as this thread gets for me for a good 40 years (can we go back to dead people?) but yes, I think you missed the initial comment:

By the way, my middle name is "Keith" and I hate it. Keith Richards is about the only cool thing about the name (imo), so I'm going to call him Keith, not Keef.

And no offense meant toward the boardie who named their kid "Keith." It obviously works for some people, I've just never liked it for myself. Then again, my brother's middle name is "Glen." I'll take Keith over Glen no matter how many rhinestones you give me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on August 24, 2021, 04:45:31 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 03:40:22 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 24, 2021, 03:25:30 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 03:12:27 pm
Quote from: shemptiness on August 24, 2021, 03:09:26 pm
C'mon man - Keith Moon!

I was born in 1967. Are you guys saying I may have been named after members of the Stones and the Who? Thanks for making me feel better about myself!

It seems more likely my parents would have named me after Pat Boone or Fabian. Or maybe Hank Williams if I were lucky,

knowing you IRL: i know that your first name isn't keith... is it your middle name?

I hope this is as personal as this thread gets for me for a good 40 years (can we go back to dead people?) but yes, I think you missed the initial comment:

By the way, my middle name is "Keith" and I hate it. Keith Richards is about the only cool thing about the name (imo), so I'm going to call him Keith, not Keef.

And no offense meant toward the boardie who named their kid "Keith." It obviously works for some people, I've just never liked it for myself. Then again, my brother's middle name is "Glen." I'll take Keith over Glen no matter how many rhinestones you give me.

Lucy Dacus had a Keith related tweet the other day. https://twitter.com/lucydacus/status/1429640387895959552?s=20 (https://twitter.com/lucydacus/status/1429640387895959552?s=20) which was shared with me by one of my sorta stepdaughters.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 24, 2021, 04:47:14 pm

Carry on

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 24, 2021, 07:33:17 pm

Quote from: challenged on August 24, 2021, 04:45:31 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 03:40:22 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on August 24, 2021, 03:25:30 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 03:12:27 pm
Quote from: shemptiness on August 24, 2021, 03:09:26 pm
C'mon man - Keith Moon!

I was born in 1967. Are you guys saying I may have been named after members of the Stones and the Who? Thanks for making me feel better about myself!

It seems more likely my parents would have named me after Pat Boone or Fabian. Or maybe Hank Williams if I were lucky,

knowing you IRL: i know that your first name isn't keith... is it your middle name?

I hope this is as personal as this thread gets for me for a good 40 years (can we go back to dead people?) but yes, I think you missed the initial comment:

By the way, my middle name is "Keith" and I hate it. Keith Richards is about the only cool thing about the name (imo), so I'm going to call him Keith, not Keef.

And no offense meant toward the boardie who named their kid "Keith." It obviously works for some people, I've just never liked it for myself. Then again, my brother's middle name is "Glen." I'll take Keith over Glen no matter how many rhinestones you give me.

Lucy Dacus had a Keith related tweet the other day. https://twitter.com/lucydacus/status/1429640387895959552?s=20 (https://twitter.com/lucydacus/status/1429640387895959552?s=20) which was shared with me by one of my sorta stepdaughters.

This response made me giggle and think of space (was actually at this show)

I saw Wilco at Berkeley Greek Theatre in 2008 & sat in front of a family of four who did needlepoint (or crocheting?) in between bands & sat down the whole time. They yelled at me for standing up during “Spiders;” I just yelled back “It’s rock & roll, I’m sorry, I’m gonna stand.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 08:35:02 pm

Quote from: Sigma-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 24, 2021, 07:33:17 pm

Quote from: challenged on August 24, 2021, 04:45:31 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 03:40:22 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on August 24, 2021, 03:25:30 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on August 24, 2021, 03:12:27 pm
Quote from: shemptiness on August 24, 2021, 03:09:26 pm
C'mon man - Keith Moon!

I was born in 1967. Are you guys saying I may have been named after members of the Stones and the Who? Thanks for making me feel better about myself!

It seems more likely my parents would have named me after Pat Boone or Fabian. Or maybe Hank Williams if I were lucky,

knowing you IRL: i know that your first name isn't keith... is it your middle name?

I hope this is as personal as this thread gets for me for a good 40 years (can we go back to dead people?) but yes, I think you missed the initial comment:

By the way, my middle name is "Keith" and I hate it. Keith Richards is about the only cool thing about the name (imo), so I'm going to call him Keith, not Keef.

And no offense meant toward the boardie who named their kid "Keith." It obviously works for some people, I've just never liked it for myself. Then again, my brother's middle name is "Glen." I'll take Keith over Glen no matter how many rhinestones you give me.

Lucy Dacus had a Keith related tweet the other day. https://twitter.com/lucydacus/status/1429640387895959552?s=20 (https://twitter.com/lucydacus/status/1429640387895959552?s=20) which was shared with me by one of my sorta stepdaughters.
This response made me giggle and think of space (was actually at this show)

I saw Wilco at Berkeley Greek Theatre in 2008 & sat in front of a family of four who did needlepoint (or crocheting?) in between bands & sat down the whole time. They yelled at me for standing up during “Spiders;” I just yelled back “It’s rock & roll, I’m sorry, I’m gonna stand.”

Did you have a rock and roll hairstyle back then?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 24, 2021, 08:59:16 pm

Unfortunately have been going bald since the nineties…. So like eno or phil colins

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 25, 2021, 10:53:23 am

Woke up still floored by the fact Charlie Watts no longer lives…trying to come to terms

For me the grim news means a world where The Rolling Stones are no longer a band. Although I doubt Keith and Mick will hang up the business concern part… This is a very rare case I wish they would. But nobody is asking me to pass on hundreds of millions of dollars or hang up what no doubt keeps them going and what they live and love to do. In other words I understand why they probably will keep going.

Others are able to better put in words what Charlie meant to the band. I think he brought a big element of hipness, cool and class to the group. In addition, of course, to a swing or jazz element and sensibility to the drums themselves. This is hard to qualify for a non musician but the Stones could never have worked with a John Bonham or Keith Moon…one shudders even imagining it. He was also a steady and calming presence in a band that at many points seemed more like an out of control storm. A most necessary centering presence. Charlie Watts always seemed like a man among boys…. The grown up in the band. He was of course a few years older and looked the part choosing (maybe he had no choice) to age gracefully.

While I saw the band four times and am grateful for that I will always regret not seeing Charlie Watts playing jazz in a small club and getting to meet him. It’s just that my own love of jazz came a bit too late to make that a reality.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 25, 2021, 11:29:12 am

Well put. I dug through my stubs today to pull out some memories.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51402093533_3aa6e68963_w.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 25, 2021, 11:39:36 am

almost never hear him speak...here was a great clip that was posted
https://fb.watch/7C7qIK678k/

fried of mine drew a great image too
(https://scontent-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/240531074_4794608313901987_918649993142044765_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=a26aad&_nc_ohc=TLpOUwwGnf0AX8EOQbr&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-2.xx&oh=b7e8b8e599afbf9ba0793406dbb7b6d2&oe=614B9A32)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 25, 2021, 01:36:50 pm

Quote from: Sigma-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 25, 2021, 11:39:36 am

almost never hear him speak...here was a great clip that was posted
https://fb.watch/7C7qIK678k/

fried of mine drew a great image too
(https://scontent-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/240531074_4794608313901987_918649993142044765_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=a26aad&_nc_ohc=TLpOUwwGnf0AX8EOQbr&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-2.xx&oh=b7e8b8e599afbf9ba0793406dbb7b6d2&oe=614B9A32)

I mean, I wouldn’t call this “great”. The head is WAY too big compared to the body and the nose is comically oversized. This is an “ok” image but the artist really needs to work on scale and perception.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 25, 2021, 01:48:49 pm

ok jules, lets see your stick figure drawing of charlie

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 25, 2021, 01:52:06 pm

Did they even draw it? I think they put a picture in some program and out it pops out?

I like it myself…overemphasis on features is very common in caricature

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 25, 2021, 02:01:34 pm

Quote from: Sigma-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 25, 2021, 01:48:49 pm

ok jules, lets see your stick figure drawing of charlie

I mean, if this helps you in your grieving process, sure, man.

(https://i.imgur.com/ftLgGVz.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 25, 2021, 02:02:50 pm

Quote from: Starsky on August 25, 2021, 01:52:06 pm

Did they even draw it?

actually I don't know the answer...I assumed he did as he's an excellent artist
I do think julie was being facetious

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 25, 2021, 02:04:43 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on August 25, 2021, 02:01:34 pm

Quote from: Sigma-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 25, 2021, 01:48:49 pm
ok jules, lets see your stick figure drawing of charlie
I mean, if this helps you in your grieving process, sure, man.

(https://i.imgur.com/ftLgGVz.jpg)

well you got his frame right, last I checked he had ears too
really off on the kit though
rolling stores? no The?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 25, 2021, 02:09:13 pm

Well I like it!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 25, 2021, 02:13:56 pm

The nature of stick figures do not lend themselves to ears. It does say stones, the n and e just run together. I went back and forth on whether to add a "The" or if that seemed presumptuous, but decided against it.

Thanks for enjoying my vision.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 25, 2021, 02:15:04 pm

plop charlie's oversized head on a bobble head body... sell a ton...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on August 25, 2021, 02:27:35 pm

A Charlie thing that I do whenever I'm in a hotel room: Sketching the Room (maybe called Sketching the Bed) before leaving.

Part of his lore is that he'd make a sketch of his rooms when on tour.

I opt for a quick iPhone pic over pencils/charcoal/graphite, tbh. And "Sketching...." had become personal/family shorthand for "didja check the drawers, fridge, bathroom, and under the bed..... to make sure we got everything??" before checkout.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 25, 2021, 02:38:12 pm

Quote from: Starsky on August 25, 2021, 01:52:06 pm

Did they even draw it? I think they put a picture in some program and out it pops out?

I like it myself…overemphasis on features is very common in caricature

My daughter and I got our caricature done at King's Dominion two years about. Apparently, I look like Dax Shepherd and she looks like Hillary Clinton with braces.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 25, 2021, 04:44:54 pm

Wilco and the chick from Sleater Kinney who looks like an elementary school teacher doing a lame version of Honkey Tonk Woman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0kq-nL7DMA

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 25, 2021, 04:52:31 pm

Well you had to be there!

I kind of like it

It’s a hard song to pull off… I would have recommended something else

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 25, 2021, 05:00:25 pm

I mean the temp is just boring… it’s the same on the Stones version

What is supposed to sell the song is the charisma of the lead singer

Tweedy does more of a straight reading and doesn’t get in “character” like Mick… that’s the problem here

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 29, 2021, 11:26:05 am

Lee 'Scratch' Perry (https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Lee_Scratch_Perry_is_dead)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 29, 2021, 12:26:31 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on August 29, 2021, 11:26:05 am

Lee 'Scratch' Perry (https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Lee_Scratch_Perry_is_dead)

Soon we will have no greats

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 29, 2021, 12:33:09 pm

Oh no!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 29, 2021, 01:34:41 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on August 29, 2021, 11:26:05 am

Lee 'Scratch' Perry (https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Lee_Scratch_Perry_is_dead)

Soon we will have no greats

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 29, 2021, 01:44:15 pm

Ed Asner (https://deadline.com/2021/08/ad-asner-dead-lou-grant-mary-tyler-moore-1234823859/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 29, 2021, 02:20:31 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on August 29, 2021, 01:44:15 pm

Ed Asner (https://deadline.com/2021/08/ad-asner-dead-lou-grant-mary-tyler-moore-1234823859/)

Oh no

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 29, 2021, 03:44:08 pm

Iron Butterfly drummer Ron Bushy, who was behind the kit on the rock classic "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and appeared on all of the band's albums, has died at 79

https://twitter.com/rollingstone/status/1432056727512485891?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 30, 2021, 03:43:14 pm

Lots of funnies in this story, but his middle name made me laugh the hardest.

Flashback: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Tries to Bust Paul McCartney Out of Prison for Weed Possession
Angie Martoccio
Mon, August 30, 2021, 12:25 PM·2 min read

Reggae legend Lee “Scratch” Perry is best known as the architect of reggae and dub, his mind-bending solo productions and his work with everyone from Bob Marley and the Wailers to the Clash to Beastie Boys. Less known by the general public, though, is the role he played in trying to extract Paul McCartney from a Japanese prison following a marijuana bust.

On January 16th, 1980, McCartney flew into Tokyo’s Narita International Airport with his wife Linda and their four children. He was five days early for Wings’ tour of Japan, an 11-date stint that would wrap up with three nights at the Budokan in early February. But all of that was cancelled when officials found 7.7 ounces of marijuana in his luggage and the Beatle spent nine days in a Tokyo prison.
“I didn’t try to hide it,” McCartney recalled in 2011. “I had just come from America and still had the American attitude that marijuana isn’t that bad. I didn’t realize just how strict the Japanese attitude is …my first night was the worst. I couldn’t sleep. I was frightened about the possibility of not seeing my family for years.”

Perry had previously worked with the McCartneys in 1977, when they cut Linda’s covers of “Sugartime” and “Mister Sandman” at his Kingston studio Black Ark. He sent a letter to Tokyo’s Minister of Justice voicing support for his friend.

“Dear Sirs, I LEE PIPECOCK JACKSON PERRY would LOVE to express my concern over your consideration of one quarter kilo to be an excessive amount of herbs in the case as it pertains to master PAUL McCARTNEY,” he wrote. “…I find the herbal powers of marijuana in its widely recognized abilities to relax, calm, and generate positive feeling a must. Herbs is his Majesty’s. All singers positive directions and liberty Irrations. Please do not consider the amount of herbs involved excessive. Master PAUL McCARTNEY’s intentions are positive.”

McCartney was released from prison after nine days. Perry’s reaction was kinder than McCartney’s former bandmate John Lennon, who reportedly said, “If he really needs weed, surely there’s enough people who can carry it for him. You’re a Beatle, boy, a Beatle. Your face is in every damn corner of the planet. How could you have been so stupid?”

Perry died on Sunday at the age of 85. Tributes have flooded in following the musician’s death, from Max Romeo and Mad Professor to to Beastie Boys’ Mike D.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 30, 2021, 03:57:35 pm

scratch and Lennon are not wrong...
although 7.7 ounces of marijuana seems a lot for just an 11 date tour, but guess that was for the whole band and crew?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 30, 2021, 03:58:46 pm

Lennon

For someone who preached about peace and love he sure could be a hater…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 30, 2021, 04:34:14 pm

Quote from: Slyhatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 30, 2021, 03:57:35 pm

scratch and Lennon are not wrong...
although 7.7 ounces of marijuana seems a lot for just an 11 date tour, but guess that was for the whole band and crew?

My wife is the biggest pothead I know, but her response to this was "John was right."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 30, 2021, 04:38:57 pm

(https://i.ibb.co/LxV8mDL/2959006-B-CEC6-4921-AD8-C-8-A608-B976-D2-E.png) (https://ibb.co/Wkm6ZNb)

Me and Lee “Scratch” Perry 9 years ago outside State Theatre…after show…he is resting hand on roller bag he wheeled on stage…Nice man!

Fashion critiques welcome

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 30, 2021, 05:02:37 pm

Quote from: Starsky on August 30, 2021, 04:38:57 pm

(https://i.ibb.co/LxV8mDL/2959006-B-CEC6-4921-AD8-C-8-A608-B976-D2-E.png) (https://ibb.co/Wkm6ZNb)

Me and Lee “Scratch” Perry 9 years ago outside State Theatre…after show…he is resting hand on roller bag he wheeled on stage…Nice man!

Fashion critiques welcome

1,111

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 30, 2021, 05:36:47 pm

Which one are you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 30, 2021, 05:39:02 pm

Quote from: jeffml on August 30, 2021, 05:36:47 pm

Which one are you?

ROFL

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 30, 2021, 05:57:02 pm

Quote from: jeffml on August 30, 2021, 05:36:47 pm

Which one are you?

I needed a laugh

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 31, 2021, 04:37:50 am

<died>

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 31, 2021, 08:13:11 am

Funny thing is it ran through my head someone would pull that exact joke…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 31, 2021, 09:03:39 am

I can't believe Lee Scratch Perry didn't know how to post the original picture and only posted the screenshot.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 31, 2021, 09:21:31 am

Believe it!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 03, 2021, 10:50:18 am

Mikis Theodorakis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 03, 2021, 11:00:26 am

Quote from: Starsky on September 03, 2021, 10:50:18 am

Mikis Theodorakis

Thursday

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 04, 2021, 04:52:55 pm

Bozo the clown.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 04, 2021, 05:24:34 pm

(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/wS4AAOSwImRYNPvS/s-l400.jpg) (https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-willard-scott-6041dff3ff473a8014b147ccc3453a94?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on September 04, 2021, 06:00:29 pm

Every,time a famous person dies, I race here to post . . . only to be beat out by the other vultures flying around.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on September 04, 2021, 06:34:25 pm

Hopefully there will be more deaths coming that maybe you'll get to report first.

Quote from: WalkOnBack on September 04, 2021, 06:00:29 pm

Every,time a famous person dies, I race here to post . . . only to be beat out by the other vultures flying around.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 04, 2021, 07:15:14 pm

There is a certain morbid thrill and feeling of accomplishment to being first!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 05, 2021, 11:01:06 am

My f'd up story of the weekend...

My parents went to a 100th birthday party for a friend's mom last weekend.

Yesterday afternoon I was chatting with my dad about it and he mentioned something about the said woman and how someone made a joke smucker's jelly jar for her for the party. We then discussed Willard Scott and I casually said, "Is he still alive."

My dad, "You know, I'm not sure."

Me, "Let me take a look. Well, it appears he's 87 years old, however, this last picture of him he looks pretty old and not in good shape."

Two hours later, "Willard Scott Dead at 87" headline.

I don't think I've thought of Willard Scott in 20+ years and on the day I think of him, he dies a few hours later. So weird...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on September 05, 2021, 11:16:00 am

Yada-Please put me on "ignore"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on September 05, 2021, 09:57:20 pm

Quote from: jeffml on September 04, 2021, 06:34:25 pm

Hopefully there will be more deaths coming that maybe you'll get to report first.

Quote from: WalkOnBack on September 04, 2021, 06:00:29 pm
Every,time a famous person dies, I race here to post . . . only to be beat out by the other vultures flying around.

Sarah Harding of Girls Aloud.

I feel a little odd posting this, because I have no idea who she is.

Just like . . . comedian, Fuquan Johnson.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on September 05, 2021, 11:09:52 pm

Very sad for them and their families, but congrats on being first to report!

Quote from: WalkOnBack on September 05, 2021, 09:57:20 pm

Quote from: jeffml on September 04, 2021, 06:34:25 pm
Hopefully there will be more deaths coming that maybe you'll get to report first.

Quote from: WalkOnBack on September 04, 2021, 06:00:29 pm
Every,time a famous person dies, I race here to post . . . only to be beat out by the other vultures flying around.

Sarah Harding of Girls Aloud.

I feel a little odd posting this, because I have no idea who she is.

Just like . . . comedian, Fuquan Johnson.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on September 06, 2021, 07:41:59 am

They die . . . I try.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 06, 2021, 08:13:11 am

Yeah I too almost posted about Sara Harding as well… anyways someone I followed posted this one… Sara is the one with the short platinum blonde haircut, seen at the end

https://youtu.be/QPWUyAZZfK0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 06, 2021, 09:56:37 am

Jean-Pierre Adams, after 39 years in a coma following a botched knee surgery.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 06, 2021, 11:05:59 am

Jean Paul Belmondo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 06, 2021, 11:11:19 am

Quote from: Starsky on September 06, 2021, 11:05:59 am

Jean Paul Belmondo

Welp, looks like I have an excuse to make my wife agree to rewatching Breathless.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on September 06, 2021, 04:19:31 pm

Michael K Williams
The Wire and Boardwalk Empire Actor
What a great actor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 06, 2021, 04:45:25 pm

Quote from: jeffml on September 06, 2021, 04:19:31 pm

Michael K Williams
The Wire and Boardwalk Empire Actor
What a great actor

Heroin came at the King and it did not, in fact, miss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 06, 2021, 05:22:31 pm

That sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 07, 2021, 08:35:06 am

Dell Furano
“King of merch”

https://www.pollstar.com/article/king-of-merch-dell-furano-dies-at-71-148751

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 07, 2021, 08:36:41 am

Quote from: Starsky on September 07, 2021, 08:35:06 am

Dell Furano
“King of merch”

https://www.pollstar.com/article/king-of-merch-dell-furano-dies-at-71-148751

wow, I apparently owe a lot of my wardrobe to this guy's vision

Dell Furano, who single-handedly created the black concert T-shirt -- along with the rest of the now-lucrative music merchandising industry

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 07, 2021, 02:01:12 pm

Erik Cowie

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: lily1 on September 08, 2021, 10:21:33 am

Bennie Pete, co-founder of the most excellent Hot 8 Brass Band

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 14, 2021, 02:14:27 pm

R.I.P. 70s funk giant, Melvin Dunlap (https://www.soultracks.com/story-melvin-dunlap-dies)
(September 13, 2021) Tonight we say a sad goodbye to bass player supreme, Melvin Dunlap, who was part of many of the greatest R&B and funk songs of the 1970s, from “Express Yourself” to “Lean On Me.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 14, 2021, 02:43:39 pm

Norm MacDonald

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 14, 2021, 02:55:57 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on September 14, 2021, 02:43:39 pm

Norm MacDonald

Probably my inspiration for anything I've ever said and thought was funny. This is crushing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on September 14, 2021, 03:11:38 pm

One of the greats. He’ll be sorely missed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on September 14, 2021, 07:15:23 pm

Comedy, Giant.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on September 15, 2021, 08:58:25 am

Well put. He was definitely both.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on September 15, 2021, 10:10:36 am

George Wein

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 15, 2021, 10:39:29 am

Quote from: Bagley on September 15, 2021, 10:10:36 am

George Wein

Newport Jazz fest Co-founder

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on September 15, 2021, 11:20:28 am

Quote from: Side-Mod ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 15, 2021, 10:39:29 am

Quote from: Bagley on September 15, 2021, 10:10:36 am
George Wein
Newport Jazz fest Co-founder

...Newport Folk and New Orleans Jazz and Heritage fest as well! Quite the impresario.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 16, 2021, 02:59:03 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/16/home-computing-pioneer-sir-clive-sinclair-dies-aged-81

Home computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81
Creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum and the less commercially successful C5 died after a long illness

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 18, 2021, 07:43:46 pm

George Mraz
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mraz

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 20, 2021, 09:56:36 am

Anthony Johnson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 20, 2021, 10:04:45 am

Quote from: Yada on September 20, 2021, 09:56:36 am

Anthony Johnson

I know a lot of people loved I Am A Bird Now but I just could never get into them. Oh well. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 20, 2021, 10:08:14 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on September 20, 2021, 10:04:45 am

Quote from: Yada on September 20, 2021, 09:56:36 am
Anthony Johnson
I know a lot of people loved I Am A Bird Now but I just could never get into them. Oh well. RIP.

Same... he/she/they were never my cup of tea, but I enjoyed a few of their hits.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 20, 2021, 11:50:59 am

Quote from: Yada on September 20, 2021, 09:56:36 am

Anthony Johnson

Anthony Johnson, "Friday" and "House Party" star
not the lou reed protégé Antony

fun fact: saw Antony open for lou reed at the Wolf Trap

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 20, 2021, 07:44:35 pm

Sara Dash - member of LaBelle

Who just Saturday was on stage with Patti

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 21, 2021, 09:26:43 am

Richard H Kirk (https://louderthanwar.com/richard-h-kirk-cabaret-voltaire-rip/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 21, 2021, 09:00:26 pm

Willie Garson
Only 57

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 21, 2021, 09:06:44 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 21, 2021, 09:00:26 pm

Willie Garson
Only 57

Walkie and I are in mourning and we are asking you all to respect our privacy at this time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 22, 2021, 02:05:53 pm

UK music twitter is posting about

Julz Sale, vocalist & guitarist with Delta 5

https://louderthanwar.com/julz-sale-delta-5-founder-rip/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 22, 2021, 02:13:25 pm

Julez Sale? Guys, I am always at MSRP and not one EDIT:~~sent~~ cent less.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 22, 2021, 02:22:27 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on September 22, 2021, 02:13:25 pm

Julez Sale? Guys, I am always at MSRP and not one scent less.

fixed your typo.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 22, 2021, 03:15:43 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 22, 2021, 02:22:27 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on September 22, 2021, 02:13:25 pm
Julez Sale? Guys, I am always at MSRP and not one scent less.

fixed your typo.

he does stink

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on September 22, 2021, 04:28:40 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on September 21, 2021, 09:06:44 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 21, 2021, 09:00:26 pm
Willie Garson
Only 57
Walkie and I are in mourning and we are asking you all to respect our privacy at this time.

Am I still gay, that I did not watch any season of that show? And would not, want to.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 22, 2021, 06:28:33 pm

Mario Van Peebles

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 22, 2021, 06:36:13 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on September 22, 2021, 06:28:33 pm

Mario Van Peebles

Melvin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 22, 2021, 06:52:35 pm

Melvin Van Peebles, fiercely independent filmmaker, dies at 89 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/melvin-van-peebles-dead/2021/09/22/b0af14ca-ca9b-11ea-91f1-28aca4d833a0_story.html)

melvin is the father of mario

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 22, 2021, 08:29:40 pm

Details

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 24, 2021, 06:08:47 pm

Pee Wee Ellis, the influential jazz saxophonist best known for his work with James Brown, Van Morrison, and Ginger Baker, has died at age 80.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 27, 2021, 04:53:19 am

https://bestclassicbands.com/commander-cody-obituary-george-frayne-9-26-21/

Back to sleep i go

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 29, 2021, 06:26:25 am

We're deeply saddened to announce that Hammond B3 organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith passed away today at 79 years old. Doc was one of the funkiest & most inventive organists to ever walk the earth & we were proud to bring this remarkable man's joyous music to fans all over the world.

https://twitter.com/bluenoterecords/status/1443033751194374155?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 29, 2021, 08:27:47 am

That’s a bummer… I really enjoy a number of his records..

Quite a personality with his turban

Never quite managed to put it together to see him live

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 29, 2021, 08:37:23 am

This is a shocker to me..

Olivier Libaux

(Nouvelle Vague)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 29, 2021, 09:14:36 am

Quote from: Starsky on September 29, 2021, 08:37:23 am

Olivier Libaux

(Nouvelle Vague)

oh man, wonder if this is why they cancelled the tour, because he was ill
that sucks

I did see that just yesterday they posted their whole UK tour iterniary for Jan/Feb
so seems unexpected

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 29, 2021, 10:13:02 am

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=420364809446097&id=100044177452190&m_entstream_source=feed_mobile

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 30, 2021, 03:26:12 pm

Greg Gilbert from the band Delays.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 04, 2021, 09:44:07 pm

Alan Kalter

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 05, 2021, 02:56:36 pm

Marc Pilcher, 'Bridgerton' Emmy winner, dies age 53 of Covid-19 (https://www.cnn.com/style/article/marc-pilcher-bridgerton-intl-scli/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 05, 2021, 04:10:10 pm

^ not that every death isn't heartbreaking...but man that really blows

According to the statement, Pilcher was "double vaccinated" and had no underlying health conditions. He took multiple Covid-19 tests and tested negative to make the trip to the US for the Emmy's ceremony and back to the UK.
Soon after returning, he became ill and his condition deteriorated over the weekend. He died on Sunday, Curtis Brown said.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 06, 2021, 01:32:21 pm

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-jazz-butcher-pat-fish-has-died/

Pat Fish, who performed as The Jazz Butcher for nearly 40 years, has died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 07, 2021, 10:28:39 pm

Georgie

https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Bob_Marley%26%238217;s_%26%238216;Georgie%26%238217;_has_died?profile=1606

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 09, 2021, 07:24:50 am

We are deeply sad to announce we have lost another friend & brother today, Everett Morton. Everett was a humble & gentle man in life, but a dynamo on the drums. He was the beat of The Beat. We feel his loss tremendously. Our deepest condolence to his family.

https://twitter.com/theenglishbeat/status/1446606406078001155?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 09, 2021, 03:05:59 pm

Dee Pop - Bush Tetras

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on October 10, 2021, 12:05:26 pm

Cole, the cat . . . of the social media famous duo, "Cole and Marmalade."

Damn, I love everything Chris has done for cat nation.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 11, 2021, 09:41:27 pm

Deon Estus

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 12, 2021, 11:58:09 am

Paddy Moloney leader of the Chieftains, aged 83

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 12, 2021, 12:14:11 pm

Mary T. Cocaine

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 12, 2021, 12:48:28 pm

I read that although she is dead, she is still wide awake, running around dancing in the nude.

Quote from: Yada on October 12, 2021, 12:14:11 pm

Mary T. Cocaine

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 12, 2021, 02:49:34 pm

Quote from: Starsky on October 11, 2021, 09:41:27 pm

Deon Estus

Good thread on who else Deon played with beyond Wham!

including Marvin Gaye in the studio https://youtu.be/xdDSqxVyyyY

https://twitter.com/djsoulsister/status/1447632037331021824?s=20

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 12, 2021, 03:40:12 pm

His bass guitar teacher was James Jamerson of Motown's the Funk Brothers.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 12, 2021, 05:25:02 pm

That of course gives the forum a degree of separation to Andrew Ridgley :o

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 12, 2021, 05:49:43 pm

this was interesting to learn
Since 1982, Ridgeley has reportedly amassed £10 million from sales and royalties of records. Much of his income comes from the 1984 single "Careless Whisper," which was one of the few Wham! songs that Ridgeley had a hand in writing; the two had written the song together several years earlier, when both were 16, and developing it further over the subsequent two years. "Careless Whisper" has sold six million copies worldwide. Ridgeley still receives thousands of pounds a year from his share of "Careless Whisper" royalties.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 12, 2021, 06:23:37 pm

Hard to believe given it was released as a single under the “George Michael”name and not Wham (even though of course it was included on Wham’s Make it big album)

Really hard to believe…reading about the recording of the various versions of the song Ridgeley wasn’t even around

More likely Michael just gave him a credit where he didn’t need to…

There is nothing to suggest Ridgeley knows anything about writing songs and was anything other than Michael’s friend there to help his insecure friend make a go of it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 12, 2021, 06:48:35 pm

Quote from: Starsky on October 12, 2021, 06:23:37 pm

There is nothing to suggest Ridgeley knows anything about writing songs

I can think of 10 million reasons

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 12, 2021, 07:01:02 pm

I think it’s perfectly plausible that George Michael who knew he was leaving Wham and his friend behind - a friend with very little talent who would never amount to anything music wise-gave Ridgeley the writing credit so he would be set for life. Everyone knew it was going to be a huge song.

George Michael was a very generous person. Countless examples of him helping people ….strangers! (most anonymously….many have come to light). Why wouldn’t he help his best friend that had helped Michael as a kid dealing with coming to grips with his sexuality and accompanied him every step of the way to and through stardom?

If you read about the song Ridgeley doesn’t appear to even be present when Michael comes to the US to try to record it with Wexler at Muscle Shoals. It’s Michael making every single decision… for example about the (in)famous saxophone bit..having sax player after sax player tackle it until finally one gets it in a new attempt to get it right in London without Wexler. I believe Michael plays virtually everything in it and Ridgeley doesn’t appear on it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 12, 2021, 07:13:17 pm

I mean Ridgeley isn’t even in the video.

It’s possible his early contribution was considered essential and he in fact co-wrote it but I am extremely skeptical.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 12, 2021, 11:22:55 pm

Never knew we had so many Wham! experts on this board.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 12, 2021, 11:28:57 pm

The only expert is me.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 13, 2021, 06:15:28 am

Quote from: Starsky on October 12, 2021, 11:28:57 pm

The only expert is me.

can confirm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 14, 2021, 08:40:12 pm

One of the zebras.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 18, 2021, 01:25:10 am

Ronnie Tutt, Drummer for Elvis Presley and the Jerry Garcia Band, Dead at 83 (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ronnie-tutt-drummer-elvis-presley-jerry-garcia-band-billy-joel-dead-obit-1243434/)
In-demand musician also played on Billy Joel’s hit “Piano Man,” Buckingham Nicks and Gram Parsons’ solo LPs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 18, 2021, 08:08:47 am

Colin Powell, COVID

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 18, 2021, 08:13:42 am

Oh no!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: WALKonBack on October 18, 2021, 08:57:18 am

And fully vaccinated. God, Covid is a bitch. Please protect your older family members and be extra careful around them. I worry about my 80 year old parents all the the time now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 18, 2021, 09:08:38 am

Didn't realize he was 84.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on October 18, 2021, 09:37:37 am

Quote from: WalkOnBack on October 18, 2021, 08:57:18 am

And fully vaccinated. God, Covid is a bitch. Please protect your older family members and be extra careful around them. I worry about my 80 year old parents all the the time now.

Mine are 86 and while they sort-of get it….they take a lot more chances with things than they should. They were pretty disturbed by this so maybe that’ll help.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 18, 2021, 10:50:04 am

Quote from: excontradiction on October 18, 2021, 08:08:47 am

Colin Powell, COVID

he was at serious risk: "Powell also had multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells that suppresses the body's immune response."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 19, 2021, 11:07:35 am

Quote from: sweetcell on October 18, 2021, 10:50:04 am

Quote from: excontradiction on October 18, 2021, 08:08:47 am
Colin Powell, COVID

he was at serious risk: "Powell also had multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells that suppresses the body's immune response."

Good job by our former POTUS!

https://twitter.com/ScottMGreer/status/1450459790522691586/photo/1

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 19, 2021, 11:11:49 am

Quote from: Space Freely on October 19, 2021, 11:07:35 am

Quote from: sweetcell on October 18, 2021, 10:50:04 am
Quote from: excontradiction on October 18, 2021, 08:08:47 am
Colin Powell, COVID

he was at serious risk: "Powell also had multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells that suppresses the body's immune response."

Good job by our former POTUS!

https://twitter.com/ScottMGreer/status/1450459790522691586/photo/1

Jesus, what a god awful human.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 19, 2021, 11:14:18 am

does this surprise anyone?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 19, 2021, 11:20:59 am

Quote from: Space Freely on October 19, 2021, 11:07:35 am

Quote from: sweetcell on October 18, 2021, 10:50:04 am
Quote from: excontradiction on October 18, 2021, 08:08:47 am
Colin Powell, COVID

he was at serious risk: "Powell also had multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells that suppresses the body's immune response."

Good job by our former POTUS!

https://twitter.com/ScottMGreer/status/1450459790522691586/photo/1

jebus..."but, anyway"

what an absolute garbage person, sure the MAGA crowd loved every word of this
I long for the civility...maybe there never was, but at least in public it appeared so

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 19, 2021, 11:34:54 am

Is this real?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 19, 2021, 11:39:43 am

Quote from: Starsky on October 19, 2021, 11:34:54 am

Is this real?

yeah...I question that at this point too...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 19, 2021, 11:41:21 am

Quote from: Sidehatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 19, 2021, 11:39:43 am

Quote from: Starsky on October 19, 2021, 11:34:54 am
Is this real?
yeah...I question that at this point too...

I did too, but it's being reported on CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/19/politics/donald-trump-colin-powell-death/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 19, 2021, 11:45:51 am

Cilliza is a bozo hack

I still need confirmation

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 19, 2021, 11:48:16 am

Quote from: Sidehatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 19, 2021, 11:20:59 am

what an absolute garbage person, sure the MAGA crowd loved every word of this
I long for the civility...maybe there never was, but at least in public it appeared so

from that cnn article (by hutch's favorite reporter)
That some people will applaud Trump's trolling of a dead man is, perhaps, his most toxic legacy.

can confirm

Quote from: Starsky on October 19, 2021, 11:45:51 am

Cilliza is a bozo hack

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 19, 2021, 12:54:41 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 19, 2021, 11:39:43 am

Quote from: Starsky on October 19, 2021, 11:34:54 am
Is this real?
yeah...I question that at this point too...

i spent a few minutes trying to confirm if that awful statement did, in fact, come from you-know-how because goddamit, it's written like a parody of what you'd expect him to say. i could not 100% confirm it, mostly because the publisher - Save America PAC - doesn't have a website. what. the. actual. fuck. search for it and you get a link to a "donate now" page on winred.com (which is just a fundraising/transaction service). how can they not have a website?

anyhoo, i couldn't go straight to the source since there isn't any, however the veracity of the statement has been questioned by many and the most common response is that the statement was issue via a fundraising email that many folks state is real.

yes, trump has become a parody of himself.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 19, 2021, 12:57:41 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 19, 2021, 12:54:41 pm

. how can they not have a website?

because it's all grift and the less you can find, the better

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 19, 2021, 01:42:08 pm

Tom Morey, inventor of the Boogie Board, dies at 86

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 21, 2021, 12:07:10 am

Leslie Bricusse

Wrote some of my favorite like Charlie and the chocolate factory songs, Goldfinger

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 21, 2021, 11:12:11 pm

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, was killed when actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop gun while filming a western in New Mexico. The director, Joel Souza, was also injured.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 22, 2021, 08:20:22 am

Tommy DeBarge bassist for Switch

based on the wikipedia entry for the DeBarge, looks like Tommy was one of the few of the 10 children who didn't have personal demons

the whole page is some serious Behind The Music stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeBarge_family

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 22, 2021, 09:30:54 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on October 22, 2021, 08:20:22 am

Tommy DeBarge bassist for Switch

based on the wikipedia entry for the DeBarge, looks like Tommy was one of the few of the 10 children who didn't have personal demons

the whole page is some serious Behind The Music stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeBarge_family

Thanks for posting that link. Some fine reading.

This was my favorite part:

Since the release of "Addiction" Chico DeBarge has been sober and touring while recording a new CD.He was arrested in January of 2021 after a relapse. Authorities say he posed as his brother James at the time of arrest.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 22, 2021, 02:53:58 pm

Peter Scolari
The non-tom hanks character in drag in Bosom Buddies
also in ‘Newhart’, and ‘Girls’
two-year battle with cancer, was 66

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 22, 2021, 04:36:01 pm

Quote from: Sidehatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 22, 2021, 02:53:58 pm

Peter Scolari
The non-tom hanks character in drag in Bosom Buddies
also in ‘Newhart’, and ‘Girls’
two-year battle with cancer, was 66

I watched Bosom Buddies when it was on way back when. At the time, I thought Scolari was going to be the bigger star.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 22, 2021, 06:17:11 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on October 22, 2021, 04:36:01 pm

I watched Bosom Buddies when it was on way back when. At the time, I thought Scolari was going to be the bigger star.

Ditto.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 24, 2021, 09:40:07 pm

Diego D’Ambrosio

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVgLK8RFGtm/?utm_medium=copy_link

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 24, 2021, 10:47:21 pm

James Michael Tyler. Tyler was beloved for playing Gunther, the manager at the Central Perk coffee shop where the gang gathered in nearly every episode. The actor died following a long battle with stage 4 prostate cancer. He was 59.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 25, 2021, 06:36:05 am

Jay Black of Jay and the Americans

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 25, 2021, 08:24:22 am

Quote from: jeffml on October 24, 2021, 10:47:21 pm

beloved

???

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 25, 2021, 08:53:07 am

Quote from: jeffml on October 24, 2021, 10:47:21 pm

James Michael Tyler. Tyler was beloved for playing Gunther, the manager at the Central Perk coffee shop where the gang gathered in nearly every episode. The actor died following a long battle with stage 4 prostate cancer. He was 59.

What show?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 25, 2021, 08:59:11 am

Sorry..."Friends". I hastily cut and paste the quote. These were not my words.

Quote from: Space Freely on October 25, 2021, 08:53:07 am

Quote from: jeffml on October 24, 2021, 10:47:21 pm
James Michael Tyler. Tyler was beloved for playing Gunther, the manager at the Central Perk coffee shop where the gang gathered in nearly every episode. The actor died following a long battle with stage 4 prostate cancer. He was 59.

What show?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 01, 2021, 09:13:04 am

Herbie Herbert

https://www.pollstar.com/article/herbie-herbert-original-journey-manager-and-bill-graham-protege-dies-at-73-149080

I was just talking about Bill Graham last week

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 02, 2021, 08:00:04 pm

JFK Jr. Still dead

But, apparently is a huge Rolling Stones fan and will make an appearance at a show soon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 02, 2021, 11:06:19 pm

Messed up bro

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 04, 2021, 09:54:15 am

Johnny Artis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 05, 2021, 11:52:44 am

Ronnie Wilson, founder of The Gap Band (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/arts/music/ronnie-wilson-dead.html?smid=tw-nytimesarts&smtyp=cur)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 06, 2021, 07:16:42 am

Holy shit... one of my biggest (irrational...maybe) fears!!

https://twitter.com/WulfMunkey/status/1456904776021594115?t=CV46SYpg2j3Tf_zQz_jyFg&s=19

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 06, 2021, 10:39:09 am

Horrible

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 06, 2021, 12:24:52 pm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/06/astroworld-travis-scott-deaths-houston/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/06/astroworld-travis-scott-deaths-houston/)

what a nightmare. unfortunately it sometimes takes tragedies like this before organizers will change their operations...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 06, 2021, 08:07:43 pm

Astro - Terence Wilson, vocals trumpet UB40

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 07, 2021, 01:00:30 pm

Andy Barker - 808 State

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 09, 2021, 10:22:39 am

Dean Stockwell (https://consequence.net/2021/11/dean-stockwell-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 11, 2021, 01:58:53 pm

Graeme Edge

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MjUqfRrWwcM

(Drummer)

I will hold my comments in respect of the newly departed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 11, 2021, 04:20:26 pm

Jerry Douglas

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 11, 2021, 04:24:36 pm

But not the fantastic dobro player Jerry Douglas

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 11, 2021, 04:25:59 pm

Ah yes, dobro. Of course.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 11, 2021, 04:39:14 pm

He was just amazing live in Elvis Costello’s band

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobro

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 11, 2021, 05:00:52 pm

Quote from: Starsky on November 11, 2021, 04:24:36 pm

But not the fantastic dobro player Jerry Douglas

unless he also moonlighted for 25 years on TYATR
Jerry Douglas was an American television and film actor. For 25 years Douglas reigned as patriarch John Abbott in the fictional Genoa City on the daytime television serial The Young and the Restless

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 11, 2021, 06:46:49 pm

F.W. de Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, dies at 85 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/fw-deklerk-death-south-africa/2021/11/11/761faa64-8fd4-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html)

a video was released shortly after his death in which he apologized for the harm done by apartheid.

an interview on BBC with a former SA dissident paints a much less rosy picture of the man than what the media is currently painting of him...dissident said that de klerk only abandoned apartheid at the very last second when it was obvious it was going to happen with or without him, gave him little credit for the reconciliation process, and said he negotiated his way out of jail and into a comfortable retirement wherein he kept all his (ill-gotten) assets.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 12, 2021, 04:50:29 pm

The red shirt guy on Shatner's space shot.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/12/business/glen-de-vries-death/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 15, 2021, 04:54:52 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on November 12, 2021, 04:50:29 pm

The red shirt guy on Shatner's space shot.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/12/business/glen-de-vries-death/index.html

I randomly met Glen at at a party through an acquaintance who worked for MEDIDATA.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 15, 2021, 04:56:42 pm

Thomas Randele, AKA, Theodore John Conrad, one of America's most wanted. (https://www.usmarshals.gov/news/chron/2021/111221.htm)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 15, 2021, 05:01:23 pm

Quote from: vansmack on November 15, 2021, 04:56:42 pm

Thomas Randele, AKA, Theodore John Conrad, one of America's most wanted. (https://www.usmarshals.gov/news/chron/2021/111221.htm)

I saw this headline the other day, but mistakenly thought it was DB Cooper!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on November 15, 2021, 08:07:25 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on November 15, 2021, 05:01:23 pm

I saw this headline the other day, but mistakenly thought it was DB Cooper!

I saw Cleveland in my Headline so I didn't get that euphoria. Plus, we all know DB Cooper is in Sweetcell's basement....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 15, 2021, 08:27:18 pm

YES, I DEFINITELY HAVE DB COOPER IN MY BASEMENT. 100% NOT WINNIE COOPER. ONLY DB. JUST TRUST ME. NO MORE QUESTIONS PLEASE.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 17, 2021, 03:38:22 pm

Young Dolph

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 17, 2021, 04:05:23 pm

Quote from: Yada on November 17, 2021, 03:38:22 pm

Young Dolph

interesting tidbits on this story
although sad nonetheless
Maurice Hill, the owner of the shop where the shooting happened, Makeda’s Butter Cookies, told FOX13 his employees said Young Dolph, 36, walked into the store to buy cookies. Someone then drove up and then shot and killed him around 1 p.m. on Wednesday at the bakery in South Memphis.

Yound Dolph’s Lamborghini sat in the parking lot of the bakery

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 18, 2021, 01:51:19 pm

'Schoolhouse Rock!' songwriter and singer Dave Frishberg, who wrote the classic tune 'I'm Just a Bill,' has died at age 88.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 18, 2021, 02:18:37 pm

I had always hoped his name was Bill :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 18, 2021, 09:34:58 pm

Keith Allison best known as a member of Paul Revere and the Raiders

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 18, 2021, 11:58:18 pm

Mick Rock

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 19, 2021, 04:08:21 am

^ no idea who that is/was.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 19, 2021, 07:09:08 am

Here’s a wee hint who mick rock was

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEiJ7_XWYAIuv6c?format=jpg&name=medium)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 19, 2021, 12:25:04 pm

a really bad stylist?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 19, 2021, 12:44:32 pm

clearly not tapped into music twitter :o

R.I.P. Mick Rock, Legendary Photographer Dead at 72
The rock photographer shot iconic album covers including The Stooges' Raw Power, Lou Reed's Transformer, and Queen's Queen

https://consequence.net/2021/11/mick-rock-photographer-dead/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 19, 2021, 12:54:08 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 19, 2021, 12:44:32 pm

clearly not tapped into music ~~twitter~~ history :o

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 19, 2021, 01:07:16 pm

That’s kind of embarrassing actually

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 19, 2021, 02:25:29 pm

there is no other photographer in Rock that I would even consider a peer of Mick Rock
his breadth is amazing and when you think of iconic 70s rock images...typically he's been the person behind the lens

This has been on my short list for a while: SHOT! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra Of Rock (https://youtu.be/ws8zPuCnb2o)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 19, 2021, 02:27:44 pm

Justice. Reason. Sanity.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 19, 2021, 02:38:23 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on November 19, 2021, 02:27:44 pm

Justice. Reason. Sanity.

is that in reaction to this: Jury finds Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of all charges in Kenosha, Wisconsin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 23, 2021, 11:10:47 am

Bet you guys didn't know a woman could die from prostate cancer.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/23/us/stu-rasmussen-first-transgender-mayor-silverton-oregon-obit/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 23, 2021, 02:33:48 pm

Local Meteorologist Doug Hill

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 24, 2021, 02:59:01 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on November 19, 2021, 02:27:44 pm

Justice. Reason. Sanity.

well, we may have gotten some back today...All three men involved in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery found guilty of murder

Won't bring Ahmaud back, but its good to know that lynching is still illegal in the US
So shouldn't the DA or who ever what trying to cover this up also do some jail time...we might have never heard of this case if people hadn't made a stink about it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 24, 2021, 03:04:50 pm

I am weird

If I am not in a jury and don’t hear all the particulars and evidence I don’t get agitated either way…

Although sometimes, as with Rittenhouse, my credulity is tested

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 24, 2021, 03:17:28 pm

Quote from: himpathy-hatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 24, 2021, 02:59:01 pm

So shouldn't the DA or who ever what trying to cover this up also do some jail time...we might have never heard of this case if people hadn't made a stink about it

ok, I thought something was going on

Amee Vanderpool@girlsreallyrule
Former Brunswick District Attorney Jackie Johnson, who was arrested in August for her role in covering up the Ahmaud Arbery murder, and charged with violating her oath as a public officer and obstructing a police officer will stand trial next.

also this is shocking and true
It was one of the defendants attorneys who originally gave the video of the murder of Ahmed Arbery to the press because he thought it was helpful to his case.
That defendant will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 26, 2021, 02:26:26 pm

Charles Moose, the former chief of the Montgomery County Police Department who emerged as a regional leader during the D.C. area sniper attacks, died on Thanksgiving Day. He was 68.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 26, 2021, 06:55:36 pm

Stephen Sondheim. Would have guessed him dead years ago

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 01, 2021, 11:44:45 am

Marcus Lamb

RIP

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/anti-vaccine-televangelist-marcus-lamb-dies-of-covid-19/ar-AARlnT6?ocid=entnewsntp

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 01, 2021, 01:24:04 pm

Alvin Lucier (https://avantmusicnews.com/2021/12/01/rip-alvin-lucier/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 02, 2021, 01:07:28 pm

Carmine "The Big Ragoo" Ragusa

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 05, 2021, 12:57:35 pm

Bob Dole

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 05, 2021, 01:59:06 pm

Quote from: excontredaction on December 05, 2021, 12:57:35 pm

Bob Dole

NGL, kind of thought he was already dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 05, 2021, 02:08:31 pm

Quote from: vansmack on December 05, 2021, 01:59:06 pm

Quote from: excontredaction on December 05, 2021, 12:57:35 pm
Bob Dole

NGL, kind of thought he was already dead.

Could've sworn he died years ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 05, 2021, 04:38:53 pm

Last few years he endorsed and defended Trump. He was the only old school Republican to do that. He attended the 2016 RNC. Not sure if he made an appearance in 2020 virtually. Since he was a former Republican nominee for president it was big news.

He has to be one of the last surviving people to have fought in World War II.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 05, 2021, 04:41:38 pm

Quote from: Starsky on December 05, 2021, 04:38:53 pm

Last few years he endorsed and defended Trump. He was the only old school Republican to do that. He attended the 2016 RNC. Not sure if he made an appearance in 2020 virtually. Since he was a former Republican nominee for president it was big news.

He has to be one of the last surviving people to have fought in World War II.

Approximately 240K still alive.

https://en.as.com/en/2021/11/10/latest_news/1636583978_818308.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 05, 2021, 04:45:09 pm

My bad

So about 15% are still alive or 240,000 out of 16,000,000

So that’s good news

Article says expect last one to die around 2032

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 05, 2021, 05:21:36 pm

Quote from: Starsky on December 05, 2021, 04:45:09 pm

Article says expect last one to die around 2032

There's one in every crowd.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 05, 2021, 07:13:46 pm

Maybe 10 years ago I was doing a lunchtime run past the WW2 Memorial and Dole was speaking. He seemed pretty dead even then.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 05, 2021, 07:31:11 pm

Quote from: Starsky on December 05, 2021, 04:45:09 pm

So about 15% are still alive or 240,000 out of 16,000,000

Uh, that’s 1.5%

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 05, 2021, 07:55:57 pm

Dude WTF

I double checked

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 05, 2021, 08:24:43 pm

RIP Bob Dole. An underestimated member of the #Trainspotting team. His criticism of the film for glamorizing drugs (he’d later confess he hadn’t seen it) piqued the curiosity of American youth and launched a nice little career for me stateside

Irvine Welsh

https://twitter.com/irvinewelsh/status/1467628116109635590?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 06, 2021, 02:57:26 pm

Medina Spirit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 08, 2021, 06:25:52 pm

Robbie Shakespeare

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 08, 2021, 06:26:12 pm

Robbie Shakespeare (https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Robbie_Shakespeare_has_died)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 08, 2021, 07:08:10 pm

Robbie Shakespeare

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 08, 2021, 07:10:00 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 08, 2021, 07:08:10 pm

Robbie Shakespeare

Oh no!

Terrible news

I feel like a couple of years ago I was going to drive to Philly to see Sly and Robbie back MichaelRose but changed my mind

They announced a couple of days before show that Robbie wouldn’t be there and would be replaced by Lloyd Parks

I always so wanted to see Sly and Robbie

RIP Robbie. You played your ass off on earth. Thank you. Take a breather before getting back to it with Bob and all the other greats

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 08, 2021, 07:13:17 pm

Jamaican music has really had a rough few years

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 08, 2021, 07:14:55 pm

Crushing

A lot of these guys never got good health care….or a decent paycheck …it catches up with you

FUCK

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 08, 2021, 09:18:05 pm

Hip hop writer Greg Tate

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 08, 2021, 10:00:36 pm

Barry Harris, beloved jazz pianist devoted to bebop, dies at 91

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/08/1062389633/barry-harris-beloved-jazz-pianist-devoted-to-bebop-dies-at-91

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 09, 2021, 12:02:51 am

Melvin Parker, brother of Maceo and James Brown's drummer (https://ultimateclassicrock.com/melvin-parker-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 09, 2021, 09:54:06 am

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59592187

Bronski Beat founder Steve Bronski dies

Steve Bronski, co-founder and keyboard player in 1980s pop group Bronski Beat, has died at the age of 61.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 09, 2021, 09:58:09 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 09, 2021, 09:54:06 am

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59592187

Bronski Beat founder Steve Bronski dies

Steve Bronski, co-founder and keyboard player in 1980s pop group Bronski Beat, has died at the age of 61.

I love Smalltown Boy
also, the video definitely opened my eyes to the plight of homosexuals just trying to live normal lives and being attacked for it
quite possibly my first exposure

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 09, 2021, 10:20:20 am

Slim 400

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 09, 2021, 12:48:56 pm

Quote from: Brown-hatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 09, 2021, 09:58:09 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 09, 2021, 09:54:06 am
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59592187 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59592187)

Bronski Beat founder Steve Bronski dies

Steve Bronski, co-founder and keyboard player in 1980s pop group Bronski Beat, has died at the age of 61.
I love Smalltown Boy
also, the video definitely opened my eyes to the plight of homosexuals just trying to live normal lives and being attacked for it
quite possibly my first exposure

arguably the most emotional piece of music on youtube: in memoriam (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNhLOfUPHa8)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 09, 2021, 04:11:25 pm

Ralph Tavares of the group Tavares

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 10, 2021, 05:13:31 am

Former NFL star wide receiver Demaryius Thomas dies at age 33 (https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/10/us/demaryius-thomas-nfl-wide-receiver-dies/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 10, 2021, 01:33:10 pm

Michael Nesmith

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 10, 2021, 01:50:07 pm

Quote from: Starsky on December 10, 2021, 01:33:10 pm

Michael Nesmith

Down to two Monkees and two Beatles. They should merge. 1967 won't know what hit it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 10, 2021, 01:52:04 pm

The Monkee Beatle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_beetle)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 10, 2021, 02:02:25 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 10, 2021, 01:50:07 pm

Quote from: Starsky on December 10, 2021, 01:33:10 pm
Michael Nesmith
Down to two Monkees and two Beatles. They should merge. 1967 won't know what hit it.

Only Micky Dolenz is left. Davy Jones died in 2012 and Peter Tork died in 2019.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 10, 2021, 02:06:44 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 10, 2021, 02:02:25 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 10, 2021, 01:50:07 pm
Quote from: Starsky on December 10, 2021, 01:33:10 pm
Michael Nesmith
Down to two Monkees and two Beatles. They should merge. 1967 won't know what hit it.

Only Micky Dolenz is left. Davy Jones died in 2012 and Peter Tork died in 2019.

Oh, damn. I missed that Peter Tork news. Sounds like this is a good time for the Beatles to strike while they have them outnumbered.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bellenseb on December 10, 2021, 02:18:22 pm

Nesmith was just at the Warner with Dolenz a month or so ago...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 10, 2021, 02:18:43 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 10, 2021, 02:06:44 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 10, 2021, 02:02:25 pm
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 10, 2021, 01:50:07 pm
Quote from: Starsky on December 10, 2021, 01:33:10 pm
Michael Nesmith
Down to two Monkees and two Beatles. They should merge. 1967 won't know what hit it.

Only Micky Dolenz is left. Davy Jones died in 2012 and Peter Tork died in 2019.
Oh, damn. I missed that Peter Tork news. Sounds like this is a good time for the Beatles to strike while they have them outnumbered.

Paul on bass, Micky and Ringo on drums. Could be a pretty sick trio.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 10, 2021, 03:28:48 pm

odd outliers here...as it always seems like the drummers are the first ones to go

(https://44.media.tumblr.com/24198c86bdee28055c03ea7679d14f6a/0340117685bf3e02-fc/s500x750_f1/ce824eb67139b271f57d134f7c89e250fc567ad7.gifv)

I did like Nesmith, Repo Man wouldn't have been the same without him
never really got his due for all his talent

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 10, 2021, 03:42:08 pm

Nesmith was also the heir to the 3M fortune and one of the early creators of what morphed into MTV. Was very instrumental on music videos becoming an art form. He was, by far, the most interesting Monkee.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 10, 2021, 03:53:56 pm

All true

Was he a Scientologist?

I got to say other than cheer of the sleepy Jean and a very few other songs I don’t get the monkeys hoopla

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 10, 2021, 03:55:48 pm

Minor musical figures but still sad

Mensi singer with early UK punk band Angelic Upstarts…

Gil Bridges original member of Rare Earth, played sax in the band https://www.instagram.com/p/CXT0OicLzO_/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 10, 2021, 04:04:06 pm

Quote from: Starsky on December 10, 2021, 03:53:56 pm

I got to say other than cheer of the sleepy Jean and a very few other songs I don’t get the monkeys hoopla

Pleasant Valley Sunday, Shades of Grey, I Wanna Be Free -- they had some good ones in there in addition to the cornball pop stuff.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 10, 2021, 04:56:07 pm

For whatever reason I can’t appreciate the Monkees or Nesmiths solo records…not sure why…but it’s obviously my failing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 10, 2021, 06:07:07 pm

Quote from: Starsky on December 10, 2021, 04:56:07 pm

For whatever reason I can’t appreciate the Monkees or Nesmiths solo records…not sure why…but it’s obviously my failing

Disagree. It's all just opinion. If you don't like/appreciate it, that's your feeling, not your failing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 10, 2021, 06:56:22 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 10, 2021, 04:04:06 pm

Quote from: Starsky on December 10, 2021, 03:53:56 pm
I got to say other than cheer of the sleepy Jean and a very few other songs I don’t get the monkeys hoopla
Pleasant Valley Sunday, Shades of Grey, I Wanna Be Free -- they had some good ones in there in addition to the cornball pop stuff.

Umm "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
Although original done by PR and the raiders theirs is the seminal version
And famously covered by the Sex Pistols and minor threat (their only recorded cover?)

Last train to Clarksville is great
Weren’t most of their hits written by Neil diamond

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 10, 2021, 07:09:08 pm

Steppin stone I wasn’t counting because it’s a cover altho you’re right it’s the best version.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 11, 2021, 12:04:34 pm

I like Nesmith’s A Different Drum

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 11, 2021, 07:26:17 pm

Garth Dennis founder of Black Uhuru and later member of Wailing Souls 72

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 12, 2021, 08:35:42 am

Anne Rice
Author
80

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 12, 2021, 11:47:56 am

Vicente Fernandez

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 12, 2021, 09:06:28 pm

Al Unser

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 15, 2021, 07:39:42 am

Joe Simon
Chart-Topping R&B Singer
85

https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/joe-simon-dead-1235010357/

Not a singer I’m familiar with will be giving a listen to today

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 15, 2021, 01:31:52 pm

Phil Chen
Bass Player
80

Played with loads of musician, but per The Wikipedia

He was one of England's most utilized session bassists during the 1970s and 1980s, including Jeff Beck, and the Rod Stewart band from 1977 to 1980, but is probably best known for his later work with Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger of The Doors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Chen

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 15, 2021, 01:40:29 pm

CharlesTheFirst

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 15, 2021, 04:49:00 pm

bell hooks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 15, 2021, 05:04:10 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 15, 2021, 04:49:00 pm

bell hooks

you seem like the target audience for her books

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 15, 2021, 05:19:59 pm

Quote from: beleaguered -hatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 15, 2021, 05:04:10 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 15, 2021, 04:49:00 pm
bell hooks
you seem like the target audience for her books

I'm not sure what that means as i have never read ony of her work.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 15, 2021, 06:31:31 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 15, 2021, 05:19:59 pm

Quote from: beleaguered -hatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 15, 2021, 05:04:10 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on December 15, 2021, 04:49:00 pm
bell hooks
you seem like the target audience for her books

I'm not sure what that means as i have never read ony of her work.

I would have thought you had a whole book shelf designated for the latest feminist lit...maybe I misjudged

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 15, 2021, 06:34:09 pm

(https://i.ibb.co/xHfzbQx/saved-bell-hooks.png) (https://twitter.com/biancaxunise/status/1471178680642809863)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 16, 2021, 06:27:24 pm

William Stuart Adamson (11 April 1958 – 16 December 2001) was a Scottish rock guitarist, and lead singer/frontman of the band Big Country.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 16, 2021, 07:06:17 pm

Quote from: beleaguered -hatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 16, 2021, 06:27:24 pm

William Stuart Adamson (11 April 1958 – 16 December 2001) was a Scottish rock guitarist, and lead singer/frontman of the band Big Country.

Do we have a thread for the 20th anniversary of someone's death?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 16, 2021, 07:39:04 pm

Quote from: vansmack on December 16, 2021, 07:06:17 pm

Quote from: beleaguered -hatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 16, 2021, 06:27:24 pm
William Stuart Adamson (11 April 1958 – 16 December 2001) was a Scottish rock guitarist, and lead singer/frontman of the band Big Country.

Do we have a thread for the 20th anniversary of someone's death?

Aww give him some slack. He's beleaguered.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 16, 2021, 07:52:01 pm

Renay Mandel Corren (https://www.fayobserver.com/obituaries/m0028451)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 16, 2021, 07:58:18 pm

Quote from: excontraindication on December 16, 2021, 07:39:04 pm

Quote from: vansmack on December 16, 2021, 07:06:17 pm
Quote from: beleaguered -hatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 16, 2021, 06:27:24 pm
William Stuart Adamson (11 April 1958 – 16 December 2001) was a Scottish rock guitarist, and lead singer/frontman of the band Big Country.

Do we have a thread for the 20th anniversary of someone's death?

Aww give him some slack. He's beleaguered.

I really thought that said 2021

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 17, 2021, 08:04:50 am

Wanda Rogers
Member of The Marvelettes “Please Mr. Postman”
78

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 17, 2021, 12:06:40 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 16, 2021, 07:52:01 pm

Renay Mandel Corren (https://www.fayobserver.com/obituaries/m0028451)

Yes, you've never heard of her, but you might never forget her after reading her obit written by "her favorite son, the gay one who writes catty obituaries in his spare time, Andy Corren, of - obviously - New York City."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 17, 2021, 01:38:12 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 17, 2021, 12:06:40 pm

Yes, you've never heard of her, but you might never forget her after reading her obit written by "her favorite son, the gay one who writes catty obituaries in his spare time, Andy Corren, of - obviously - New York City."

Easily my best read of 2021.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 17, 2021, 01:45:00 pm

Quote from: vansmack on December 17, 2021, 01:38:12 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 17, 2021, 12:06:40 pm
Yes, you've never heard of her, but you might never forget her after reading her obit written by "her favorite son, the gay one who writes catty obituaries in his spare time, Andy Corren, of - obviously - New York City."

Easily my best read of 2021.

I mean, its really good, but Jonathan Franzen put a new novel out this year too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 17, 2021, 01:50:02 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 17, 2021, 01:45:00 pm

I mean, its really good, but Jonathan Franzen put a new novel out this year too.

I don't read fiction.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 17, 2021, 03:11:17 pm

Quote from: vansmack on December 17, 2021, 01:50:02 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 17, 2021, 01:45:00 pm
I mean, its really good, but Jonathan Franzen put a new novel out this year too.

I don't read fiction.

I mean, you've posted a positive review of a Frank Turner record on here before so ostensibly you read it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 17, 2021, 03:25:28 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 17, 2021, 03:11:17 pm

Quote from: vansmack on December 17, 2021, 01:50:02 pm
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 17, 2021, 01:45:00 pm
I mean, its really good, but Jonathan Franzen put a new novel out this year too.

I don't read fiction.
I mean, you've posted a positive review of a Frank Turner record on here before so ostensibly you read it.

You know... I kind of forgot about that guy and then someone resurected that thread from 2014 and I noticed sidetoast said it was a top show of his that year. Where has Frank gone?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 17, 2021, 04:01:29 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 17, 2021, 03:25:28 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 17, 2021, 03:11:17 pm
Quote from: vansmack on December 17, 2021, 01:50:02 pm
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 17, 2021, 01:45:00 pm
I mean, its really good, but Jonathan Franzen put a new novel out this year too.

I don't read fiction.
I mean, you've posted a positive review of a Frank Turner record on here before so ostensibly you read it.

You know... I kind of forgot about that guy and then someone resurected that thread from 2014 and I noticed sidetoast said it was a top show of his that year. Where has Frank gone?

Ok so Jules reply was POTW material, but to answer yada I think Frank has done zero I like in terms of recorded material since that time
2006-2013 I think it a great body of work...but all downhill and fast since then
I but I guarantee his live shows are still a blast (well I'm glad I missed that praise the ladies album tour)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 17, 2021, 06:49:49 pm

Margaret Everly Dies At Age 102

https://musicrow.com/2021/12/margaret-everly-dies-at-age-102/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 18, 2021, 02:23:22 pm

Kangol Kid (Shaun Fequiere)
UTFO
55

Fuck Cancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 18, 2021, 03:43:35 pm

Henry Orenstein, creator of the Transformers toys

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 20, 2021, 02:00:17 am

Rapper Drakeo the Ruler fatally stabbed backstage at Los Angeles music festival
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/19/entertainment/drakeo-the-ruler-death/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 20, 2021, 06:40:28 am

Billy Conway
Drummer from Morphine
66

Again Fuck Cancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 21, 2021, 07:56:34 pm

Cicely Tyson. Actress and former wife of Miles Davis. No relation to Mike.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on December 22, 2021, 10:27:29 am

She died again?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 22, 2021, 11:55:39 am

Quote from: StoneTheCrow on December 22, 2021, 10:27:29 am

She died again?

Second time this year.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on December 22, 2021, 01:07:57 pm

That’s gotta suck.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 22, 2021, 01:40:42 pm

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81egAaGN5AL._SY445_.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 22, 2021, 01:47:23 pm

Shit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 23, 2021, 03:18:50 pm

Joan Didion

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 26, 2021, 08:20:39 am

Tutu

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 27, 2021, 03:45:09 pm

Sarah Ragle Weddington
an American attorney, law professor, and member of the Texas House of Representatives best known for representing "Jane Roe" in the landmark Roe v. Wade case before the United States Supreme Court

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 27, 2021, 09:41:06 pm

Quote from: Hopeful -hatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 26, 2021, 08:20:39 am

Tutu

Well…Bishop Desmond Tutu

What a character …charismatic

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 27, 2021, 09:58:26 pm

Quote from: Starsky on December 27, 2021, 09:41:06 pm

Quote from: Hopeful -hatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 26, 2021, 08:20:39 am
Tutu

Well…Bishop Desmond Tutu

What a character …charismatic

A top moment in my life was hearing him speak to a small group of a few hundred people.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 27, 2021, 11:32:39 pm

Director Jean Marc Valee.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 28, 2021, 03:29:11 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 27, 2021, 11:32:39 pm

Director Jean Marc Valee.

'Dallas Buyers Club' director Jean-Marc Vallée dies (https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/27/entertainment/jean-marc-vallee-obit/index.html)
Acclaimed film director Jean-Marc Vallée -- who helmed the 2013 drama "Dallas Buyers Club" -- died Sunday near Quebec City, Canada. He was 58 years old.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 28, 2021, 06:25:15 pm

Quote from: Hopeful -hatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 26, 2021, 08:20:39 am

Tutu

Misread this as TaTu at first and was very sad for Smackie.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 28, 2021, 08:26:20 pm

John Madden (https://apnews.com/article/john-madden-oakland-raiders-coach-dies-nfl-cd81635dd3aac611af9e9424ec08d24a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 28, 2021, 08:43:31 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 28, 2021, 08:26:20 pm

John Madden (https://apnews.com/article/john-madden-oakland-raiders-coach-dies-nfl-cd81635dd3aac611af9e9424ec08d24a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP)

He looked Terrible during that x-mas day special, can't say I'm surprised but that's too bad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 28, 2021, 09:02:08 pm

I didn’t see that….he has looked terrible for years

One of those Americans that made life tolerable for the rest…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 28, 2021, 09:10:58 pm

Also, Harry Reid

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 29, 2021, 02:10:45 am

DCRTV Dave Hughes (https://www.pbrtv.com/remembering-dcrtv-dave-i-dont-know-man/?fbclid=IwAR2RtoAL62rorPWj4Um-s9T2E6SQGguonNQVNzITZl-TH0cUv83RXjZatgk)

If you ever seriously followed the goings on of DMV radio and TV media, you probably came across DCRTV.com at some point. In the early WWW days, his site was a must read, especially the Mailbag where media locals of all stripes bantered (rarely the stars, though). Dave got great scoops; he had a small army of ears on the ground. As social media rose, his site became less populated. Updates were fewer, the Mailbag sparser. Great work while it lasted. RIP Dave.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 31, 2021, 03:14:14 pm

TMZ is reporting Betty White, unconfirmed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 31, 2021, 03:28:50 pm

GTFO 2021

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 31, 2021, 03:45:36 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on December 31, 2021, 03:14:14 pm

TMZ is reporting Betty White, unconfirmed

Fuck you, 2021 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/betty-white-dies/2021/12/31/628e2326-d610-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 01, 2022, 12:26:37 am

Celtics great Sam Jones, holder of the second most rings of any NBA baller.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 01, 2022, 01:29:37 pm

Dan Reeves, football coach

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 02, 2022, 11:31:33 am

@mtgreene

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 03, 2022, 12:52:33 am

World-renowned Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey dies at 77
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/02/world/richard-leakey-death/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 03, 2022, 08:59:09 am

Quote from: sweetcell on January 03, 2022, 12:52:33 am

World-renowned Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey dies at 77
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/02/world/richard-leakey-death/index.html

Bladder cancer?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 03, 2022, 01:26:23 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 03, 2022, 08:59:09 am

Quote from: sweetcell on January 03, 2022, 12:52:33 am

World-renowned Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey dies at 77
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/02/world/richard-leakey-death/index.html

Bladder cancer?

couldn't find any mention of that, but it's certainly possible... i did se he had "bouts of skin cancer, kidney and liver disease".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 03, 2022, 01:39:28 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 03, 2022, 01:26:23 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 03, 2022, 08:59:09 am
Quote from: sweetcell on January 03, 2022, 12:52:33 am

World-renowned Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey dies at 77
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/02/world/richard-leakey-death/index.html

Bladder cancer?

couldn't find any mention of that, but it's certainly possible... i did se he had "bouts of skin cancer, kidney and liver disease".

was a dad joke on his last name

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 03, 2022, 01:43:38 pm

ooohhh... i clearly need more caffeine.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 03, 2022, 03:27:49 pm

Traxamillion

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on January 03, 2022, 03:35:22 pm

Denis O'Dell. Head of apple films. Worked with the Beatles throughout the 60's. He was 98.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 03, 2022, 04:09:15 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 03, 2022, 03:27:49 pm

Traxamillion

Yada is my go to source for deaths in the hip-hop community

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 04, 2022, 11:43:53 am

Bogdanoff Twins

Covid'd

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 04, 2022, 02:19:22 pm

^ both un-vaxxed. shocker.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 04, 2022, 02:35:29 pm

Speaking of unvaxxed...you can't make this shit up.

California Deputy DA Who Fought Vaccine Mandate Dies Abruptly After Falling Ill With COVID at Age 46

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kelly-ernby-orange-county-california-deputy-da-dies-abruptly-after-falling-ill-with-covid-at-age-46

Kelly Ernby, a presumed candidate for the state Assembly in 2022, was only 46 years old. According to the Los Angeles Times, she fell ill shortly after speaking out against vaccine mandates at a rally organized by Turning Point USA on Dec. 4.

“There’s nothing that matters more than our freedoms right now,” she was quoted telling the crowd during the rally at Irvine City Hall.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 04, 2022, 02:36:47 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 04, 2022, 02:35:29 pm

Speaking of unvaxxed...you can't make this shit up.

California Deputy DA Who Fought Vaccine Mandate Dies Abruptly After Falling Ill With COVID at Age 46

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kelly-ernby-orange-county-california-deputy-da-dies-abruptly-after-falling-ill-with-covid-at-age-46

Kelly Ernby, a presumed candidate for the state Assembly in 2022, was only 46 years old. According to the Los Angeles Times, she fell ill shortly after speaking out against vaccine mandates at a rally organized by Turning Point USA on Dec. 4.

“There’s nothing that matters more than our freedoms right now,” she was quoted telling the crowd during the rally at Irvine City Hall.

Well, she died a free woman.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 04, 2022, 03:01:48 pm

she was free to die, and as a red-blooded american she availed herself of that freedom. she sure showed... somone... something. so take THAT.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on January 04, 2022, 03:18:45 pm

thoughts and prayers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 05, 2022, 12:54:56 am

Tool, QOTSA Manager, Lollapalooza Co-Founder Ted Gardner Dies In Australia
https://www.pollstar.com/article/tool-qotsa-manager-lollapalooza-co-founder-ted-gardner-dies-in-australia-149412 (https://www.pollstar.com/article/tool-qotsa-manager-lollapalooza-co-founder-ted-gardner-dies-in-australia-149412)

wow, talk about a resume...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 05, 2022, 09:42:43 am

Quote from: sweetcell on January 05, 2022, 12:54:56 am

Tool, QOTSA Manager, Lollapalooza Co-Founder Ted Gardner Dies In Australia
https://www.pollstar.com/article/tool-qotsa-manager-lollapalooza-co-founder-ted-gardner-dies-in-australia-149412 (https://www.pollstar.com/article/tool-qotsa-manager-lollapalooza-co-founder-ted-gardner-dies-in-australia-149412)

wow, talk about a resume...

Quote

The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe tweeted: “The funniest story he told me was of a meeting when Lollapalooza went mega, and he walks in and Perry Farrell goes, ‘Ted, we got Metallica to headline.’

“He goes, ‘Fuck, you just wrecked this festival.’ Perry goes, ‘Ted, they are on speakerphone now.’ Telephone: ‘Hi Ted.’”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 05, 2022, 12:01:16 pm

Quote from: 46 mutations-hatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 03, 2022, 04:09:15 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 03, 2022, 03:27:49 pm
Traxamillion
Yada is my go to source for deaths in the hip-hop community

J $tash and his girlfriend

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 05, 2022, 04:04:29 pm

Luke Spencer (https://ew.com/tv/general-hospital-killed-off-luke-spencer/)

killed in a cable car "accident" in Austria.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 05, 2022, 10:27:50 pm

Quote from: Starsky on August 20, 2021, 08:17:19 pm

Tom T. Hall

ruled a suicide

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 06, 2022, 04:07:11 pm

Doug Kuzma

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 06, 2022, 04:09:33 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 06, 2022, 04:07:11 pm

Doug Kuzma

hiz mixtape was off the hook

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 06, 2022, 04:17:18 pm

Quote from: 46 mutations-hatch ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 06, 2022, 04:09:33 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 06, 2022, 04:07:11 pm
Doug Kuzma
hiz mixtape was off the hook

;D ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 06, 2022, 05:36:44 pm

Peter Bogdanovich

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 07, 2022, 11:22:49 am

Sir Sidney Poitier

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 07, 2022, 12:01:38 pm

I had no idea he directed Stir Crazy!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 08, 2022, 09:47:07 pm

Sinead O'CONNOR's 17 yo son. Suicide. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 08, 2022, 10:19:01 pm

That sucks….

Sinead has endured a lot for one lifetime

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 09, 2022, 09:07:14 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 08, 2022, 09:47:07 pm

Sinead O'CONNOR's 17 yo son. Suicide. :(

what was even more sad is, he was at a hospital on suicide watch and he managed to leave the hospital :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 09, 2022, 02:23:22 pm

Calvin Simon
Parliament-Funkadelic Founder/singer
79

Michael Lang
Woodstock Promoter
77

Still haven’t seen anything official but per social media
R. Dean Taylor
One of the few white singers, songwriters on Motown and had of the most beloved Northern Soul songs “There Is a Ghost In My House” a definite fav of mine
https://youtu.be/m6sGAycOGfM

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 09, 2022, 03:03:08 pm

A song new to me from R. dean Taylor on the Rare Earth Motown imprint and a number one hit in the US

https://youtu.be/xeUAxcQBup0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 09, 2022, 06:37:39 pm

James Mtume
Jazz Percussionist (Miles)\ Chart Topping 80s R&B artist
76

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 09, 2022, 07:52:32 pm

Ohhhh 70s Miles! Likey likey

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: IMAmoose24 on January 09, 2022, 08:40:09 pm

Bob Saget
https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/09/bob-saget-dead-dies-hotel-comedian-full-house/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 09, 2022, 08:53:54 pm

Quote from: Starsky on January 09, 2022, 07:52:32 pm

Ohhhh 70s Miles! Likey likey

Yup 72-75 including a song called Mtume on “On The Corner”

Going to have to dive into this thread about him soon, clearly need to listen and learn more about 80s R&B

https://twitter.com/cosmobaker/status/1480283169626730497?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 09, 2022, 09:01:25 pm

Bob Saget

Daughter: Thats good right, he was a pervert.

Wife: They're doing a special bulletin for thos?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 09, 2022, 09:26:33 pm

Did he commit a crime?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: IMAmoose24 on January 09, 2022, 09:48:03 pm

ABC broke into regularly scheduled programming to cover the Saget news. None other than America's Funniest Home Videos was airing in the East.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 09, 2022, 10:02:04 pm

Quote from: Schulzenstein on January 09, 2022, 09:48:03 pm

ABC broke into regularly scheduled programming to cover the Saget news. None other than America's Funniest Home Videos was airing in the East.

This is what i was referencing above. We saw the bulletin and were expecting the news to be something more dire.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 10, 2022, 12:04:24 am

Dwayne Hickman, TV's Dobie Gillis (https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-los-angeles-generations-baby-boomers-a6144dd1d5b11698339ff0c9e50d6377?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 10, 2022, 12:21:20 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 09, 2022, 09:01:25 pm

Bob Saget

Daughter: Thats good right, he was a pervert.

Wife: They're doing a special bulletin for thos?

Sounds like your family was completely wrong about his persona IRL.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 10, 2022, 01:09:32 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 10, 2022, 12:21:20 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 09, 2022, 09:01:25 pm
Bob Saget

Daughter: Thats good right, he was a pervert.

Wife: They're doing a special bulletin for thos?

Sounds like your family was completely wrong about his persona IRL.

Thanks. I'll be sure to let my daughter know that Bob Saget wasn't a pervert when she gets home from school today.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 10, 2022, 01:36:50 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 10, 2022, 01:09:32 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 10, 2022, 12:21:20 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on January 09, 2022, 09:01:25 pm
Bob Saget

Daughter: Thats good right, he was a pervert.

Wife: They're doing a special bulletin for thos?

Sounds like your family was completely wrong about his persona IRL.

Thanks. I'll be sure to let my daughter know that Bob Saget wasn't a pervert when she gets home from school today.

A father-daughter talk for the ages.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 10, 2022, 01:48:10 pm

I mean he was a very “dirty comedian” but so many are…. Is that a pervert? Someone that tells dirty jokes?

It seems to me that’s drawing it a bit tight…

I always just wanted to punch him cause that comedy sitcom was so horrible. But he played a squeaky clean annoying white bread dad…. Then I learned he was this really dirty comedian. I had a friend who loved that dirty comedy…maybe HE was a pervert come to think of it…he had a stripper pole in his bedroom…he’s dead now….cancer…I guess Space’s family would say good riddance

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 10, 2022, 01:59:06 pm

Quote from: Starsky on January 10, 2022, 01:48:10 pm

I always just wanted to punch him cause that comedy sitcom was so horrible.

i was way more annoyed by his hosting of AFHV. as a kid it used to be one of our "family shows" that we'd all watch together. loved the home videos, constantly cringed at the between-segment monologue.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 10, 2022, 02:01:43 pm

Quote from: Starsky on January 10, 2022, 01:48:10 pm

I mean he was a very “dirty comedian” but so many are…. Is that a pervert? Someone that tells dirty jokes?

It seems to me that’s drawing it a bit tight…

I always just wanted to punch him cause that comedy sitcom was so horrible. But he played a squeaky clean annoying white bread dad…. Then I learned he was this really dirty comedian. I had a friend who loved that dirty comedy…maybe HE was a pervert come to think of it…he had a stripper pole in his bedroom…he’s dead now….cancer…I guess Space’s family would say good riddance

I really know nothing about the guy. He was on a show I didn't watch 30 years ago. I think I saw one of his standup specials many years ago. Beyond that, I wasn't really aware of his career. Which is why it seemed odd (to me) that ABC broke into their regularly scheduled prime time programming to announce that he had died. We watch broadcast tv exactly 30 minutes a week (for Bob's Burgers, I think my tv dial was on ABC because I had watched an NBA game on Xmas day), so I'm not really a broadcast tv expert and don't know what kind of news merits a special bulletin, but I think both my wife and I held our breath for a couple of seconds in anticipation of some kind of "Joe Biden has died" announcement, and instead, it was 80's tv star Bob Saget.

My daughter chimed in with the "Wasn't he a pervert? comment because there are apparent (apparently untrue) internet rumors out there about the guy. I didn't know what she was talking about.

I'm not sure why you would infer that my family would think good riddance. My dad died of cancer, my wife's uncle has cancer, and I have a friend who currently has cancer. It sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 10, 2022, 02:08:07 pm

Ugh cause your daughter according to you said “He was a pervert. Good riddance”

Perverts dying are good riddance?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 10, 2022, 02:11:12 pm

Own what you write dude and think before you post cause it’s overwhelmingly stupid drivel

Don’t share every stupid thought that enters your brain or I will call you out

I mean why are you linking to Fox News as a news source, trying to encourage the insurrection?

Think

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 10, 2022, 02:21:35 pm

Wow, you really take this seriously, don't you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 10, 2022, 02:48:07 pm

I am a serious man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 10, 2022, 03:16:23 pm

Robert Durst

https://www.foxnews.com/us/robert-durst-dead-real-estate-heir

Good riddance. One of the worst singers ever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 10, 2022, 03:47:08 pm

My sister in law's dog. After losing her significant other to suicide in November.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 10, 2022, 03:58:15 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 10, 2022, 03:47:08 pm

My sister in law's dog. After losing her significant other to suicide in November.

:(

We're dealing with a terminally ill dog right now and i've never been more sad in my life. Not sure what that says about me...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 10, 2022, 03:59:20 pm

Quote from: Starsky on January 10, 2022, 02:48:07 pm

I am a serious man.

(https://www-indiewire-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/a-serious-man.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 10, 2022, 04:08:42 pm

Quote from: Starsky on January 10, 2022, 02:48:07 pm

I am a serious man.

can kinda confirm.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 10, 2022, 04:13:59 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 10, 2022, 03:59:20 pm

Quote from: Starsky on January 10, 2022, 02:48:07 pm
I am a serious man.
(https://www-indiewire-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/a-serious-man.jpg)

Wow, did you pull this up from the Spider's archive? Under grad Hutch dressed snappy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 10, 2022, 04:15:39 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 10, 2022, 03:59:20 pm

Quote from: Starsky on January 10, 2022, 02:48:07 pm
I am a serious man.
(https://www-indiewire-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/a-serious-man.jpg)

This is exactly what I was thinking of….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 10, 2022, 04:16:49 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 10, 2022, 03:58:15 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 10, 2022, 03:47:08 pm
My sister in law's dog. After losing her significant other to suicide in November.

:(

We're dealing with a terminally ill dog right now and i've never been more sad in my life. Not sure what that says about me...

I hear you, man. I think I cried more when my childhood dog died than when any human I've known died. My second dog is now 13+, so treasuring whatever time we have left with him. I don't even want to think about how gutted we're going to be.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 10, 2022, 04:27:02 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 10, 2022, 04:16:49 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 10, 2022, 03:58:15 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on January 10, 2022, 03:47:08 pm
My sister in law's dog. After losing her significant other to suicide in November.

:(

We're dealing with a terminally ill dog right now and i've never been more sad in my life. Not sure what that says about me...

I hear you, man. I think I cried more when my childhood dog died than when any human I've known died. My second dog is now 13+, so treasuring whatever time we have left with him. I don't even want to think about how gutted we're going to be.

Gutted is a good description. Two weeks ago I was combo dry heaving/having panic attacks I was so upset. I can hardly look at him without balling. 2022 starting off strong!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 10, 2022, 04:33:41 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 10, 2022, 04:27:02 pm

Gutted is a good description. Two weeks ago I was combo dry heaving/having panic attacks I was so upset. I can hardly look at him without balling. 2022 starting off strong!

Bawling. Balling is something different, unless that's a verrry special dog.

All kidding aside, I'm sorry you're going through this. Pets just hit differently.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 10, 2022, 04:37:02 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 10, 2022, 04:33:41 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 10, 2022, 04:27:02 pm
Gutted is a good description. Two weeks ago I was combo dry heaving/having panic attacks I was so upset. I can hardly look at him without balling. 2022 starting off strong!

Bawling. Balling is something different, unless that's a verrry special dog.

All kidding aside, I'm sorry you're going through this. Pets just hit differently.

Indeed... actually happened when I returned home from the great boardie meatup of 2021...Brutal.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on January 11, 2022, 12:15:08 am

Are you insunuating that a boardie killed your dog? That wouldn't surprise me one bit.

Quote from: Yada on January 10, 2022, 04:37:02 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 10, 2022, 04:33:41 pm
Quote from: Yada on January 10, 2022, 04:27:02 pm
Gutted is a good description. Two weeks ago I was combo dry heaving/having panic attacks I was so upset. I can hardly look at him without balling. 2022 starting off strong!

Bawling. Balling is something different, unless that's a verrry special dog.

All kidding aside, I'm sorry you're going through this. Pets just hit differently.

Indeed... actually happened when I returned home from the great boardie meatup of 2021...Brutal.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on January 11, 2022, 11:35:04 am

And is a "meatup" different than a "meetup"? I imagine it would be a lot more interesting.

Quote from: Yada on January 10, 2022, 04:37:02 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 10, 2022, 04:33:41 pm
Quote from: Yada on January 10, 2022, 04:27:02 pm
Gutted is a good description. Two weeks ago I was combo dry heaving/having panic attacks I was so upset. I can hardly look at him without balling. 2022 starting off strong!

Bawling. Balling is something different, unless that's a verrry special dog.

All kidding aside, I'm sorry you're going through this. Pets just hit differently.

Indeed... actually happened when I returned home from the great boardie meatup of 2021...Brutal.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 11, 2022, 11:46:14 am

Quote from: jeffml on January 11, 2022, 11:35:04 am

And is a "meatup" different than a "meetup"? I imagine it would be a lot more interesting.

Quote from: Yada on January 10, 2022, 04:37:02 pm
Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 10, 2022, 04:33:41 pm
Quote from: Yada on January 10, 2022, 04:27:02 pm
Gutted is a good description. Two weeks ago I was combo dry heaving/having panic attacks I was so upset. I can hardly look at him without balling. 2022 starting off strong!

Bawling. Balling is something different, unless that's a verrry special dog.

All kidding aside, I'm sorry you're going through this. Pets just hit differently.

Indeed... actually happened when I returned home from the great boardie meatup of 2021...Brutal.

IYKYK

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 11, 2022, 11:54:18 am

Quote from: jeffml on January 11, 2022, 11:35:04 am

And is a "meatup" different than a "meetup"? I imagine it would be a lot more interesting.

can confirm it was all dudes, but that's all I can say due to the NDA I signed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 12, 2022, 05:52:05 pm

(https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTE4MDAzNDEwODEwOTMwNzAy/ronnie-spector-17172228-1-402.jpg)

Ronnie Spector (https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-phil-spector-ronnie-spector-84c905db02a01ffa43a6052c3ce66920?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 12, 2022, 06:02:52 pm

Boo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 12, 2022, 06:07:10 pm

Quote from: Starsky on January 12, 2022, 06:02:52 pm

Boo

agreed, forgot she did a duet with Eddie Money

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 12, 2022, 08:29:20 pm

Another girl group loss

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/music/article_7c0d77e4-73bd-11ec-9db6-33c7b0dce3db.html

Dixie Cups singer Rosa Hawkins, of 'Chapel of Love' and 'Iko Iko' fame, has died at 76

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 13, 2022, 12:42:00 pm

Quote from: Schulzenstein on January 09, 2022, 08:40:09 pm

Bob Saget
https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/09/bob-saget-dead-dies-hotel-comedian-full-house/

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CYpki2FM-aC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 13, 2022, 12:47:45 pm

Quote from: Side-web of lies ® ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 03, 2022, 04:09:15 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 03, 2022, 03:27:49 pm
Traxamillion
Yada is my go to source for deaths in the hip-hop community

Jigavelii

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 14, 2022, 09:27:08 am

Quote from: Side-ditious Conspiracy ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 09, 2022, 09:07:14 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 08, 2022, 09:47:07 pm
Sinead O'CONNOR's 17 yo son. Suicide. :(
what was even more sad is, he was at a hospital on suicide watch and he managed to leave the hospital :(

Sinead is not doing well.

https://www.irishcentral.com/news/sinead-o-connor-hospital-threatening-to-take-her-life

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 15, 2022, 08:43:20 pm

Founder of Amsterdam Falafalshop, Scott Bennett

Fully vaxxed, boosted, and physically active. COVID.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/coronavirus/amsterdam-falafel-shop-owner-dies-from-covid-19/2937528/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 15, 2022, 08:44:03 pm

Was going to post this…

A heartbreaker

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 15, 2022, 08:47:32 pm

Rachel Lee Nagy of the Detroit Cobras

Damn…heartbroken

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159736779255498&id=25064585497&m_entstream_source=timeline&anchor_composer=false

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 15, 2022, 09:47:52 pm

Quote from: Starsky on January 15, 2022, 08:47:32 pm

Rachel Lee Nagy of the Detroit Cobras

fuck, that sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 16, 2022, 08:58:52 am

Detroit Cobras set from 2019 which according to setlist.fm is their second to last show :'(

https://youtu.be/ct9J6bf0db0

Don’t think they played around here much, but there was a memorable night with several boardies in attendance at Iota with Reigning Sound where when they were to start their set the band had to wake up Rachel Lee who was asleep in the van..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 16, 2022, 09:34:03 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 16, 2022, 08:58:52 am

Don’t think they played around here much, but there was a memorable night with several boardies in attendance at Iota with Reigning Sound where when they were to start their set the band had to wake up Rachel Lee who was asleep in the van..

Saw them at the club opening for the mc-5 show, once at rnrh, I think once at the black cat and for sure, once at Iota, hutch was definitely at that one. He got a great autograph from her on a record, he should post that

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 16, 2022, 10:21:33 am

Woke up and am still floored by this news…

Admittedly the “band” had been down to Rachel and Mary forever…not recorded a new album in like 15 years… and hardly worked… I also didn’t think much of them the couple of times I saw them live..very short sets that didn’t come close to living up to the studio version of the band

But man that second album is honest to goodness perfection… it doesn’t get any better…it’s a top 100 LP for me… and Rachel’s voice always struck me as one of the great secrets in rock.. combination of bad girl and vulnerability (definitely reminds me of Ronnie Spector a bit) … the Cobras just never made the jump from bar band to next level…I am not entirely sure why? Did they have major production help on those first records and lose it? Did they lose a key member I didn’t realize about? Laziness? Bad management? It seemed like they gave up on being a band.. when one of their biggest boosters Jack White put out a reissue of Life, Love and Leaving I don’t remember them doing anything behind what could have been a big push

Rachel Nagy deserved to be huge. Anyone that can sing those classic songs that well deserved it…we are talking Redding , Toussaint etc … for gods sake songs identified with people like Irma Thomas! And NO it’s not that easy to know which songs to cover, how to do it and actually do it… we are not talking BTO covers here…very obscure diamonds in the rough soul…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 16, 2022, 11:44:57 am

Had to look this up to see who produced the early DC records thinking it might have been Jim Diamond of Ghetto Recording fame.. turns out it was another go to Detroit producer Al Sutton who worked with some of the areas “bigger” names like Big Chief and Kid Rock. Of late he has been working with Greta Van Fleet..

Rachel and Mary certainly have worked with lots of people… in Some recent live clips I saw Eddie Baranek of the Sights, etc, with them, but he is not in set from France as it says in the description…

In the comments it says the guitarist is Steve, whom I’m assuming is Steve Shaw the original DC guitar player…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 16, 2022, 12:00:12 pm

(https://i.ibb.co/dDp3SPN/E1789640-6420-4281-9788-AB9-CDB155317.jpg) (https://ibb.co/PgWbRc2)

It doesn’t get any better than this album.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on January 16, 2022, 01:33:28 pm

https://youtu.be/NnBmHQBw3l4

This is great!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 16, 2022, 02:05:32 pm

Detroit lost an absolute gem today in Rachel Nagy - Lead Singer of the Detroit Cobras. I once heard her voice described, "as warm as that bottle of bourbon you left under your car seat". One of Detroit's best party bands. Samples follow in the thread

https://twitter.com/detlionspodcast/status/1482534911739412481?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 16, 2022, 03:03:32 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 16, 2022, 02:05:32 pm

Detroit lost an absolute gem today in Rachel Nagy - Lead Singer of the Detroit Cobras. I once heard her voice described, "as warm as that bottle of bourbon you left under your car seat". One of Detroit's best party bands. Samples follow in the thread

https://twitter.com/detlionspodcast/status/1482534911739412481?s=21

Aw fuck. That’s a bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on January 17, 2022, 08:44:53 pm

Wavy Navy Pooh

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 18, 2022, 09:48:25 am

Quote from: GAY,GUY on January 17, 2022, 08:44:53 pm

Wavy Navy Pooh

here I thought you were upset about some one dying...but that was his name

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 18, 2022, 03:45:13 pm

Sad Frosty

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 19, 2022, 02:40:19 am

Andre Leon Talley, fashion icon, creative director of Vogue

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 19, 2022, 05:17:31 pm

Today's Herman Cain award goes to:

Hana Horka: Czech singer dies after catching Covid intentionally

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60050996

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 21, 2022, 07:25:41 am

Meat Loaf

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 21, 2022, 09:08:07 am

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 21, 2022, 07:25:41 am

Meat Loaf

My condolences to sideloaf and all of his other fans.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 21, 2022, 10:18:22 am

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 21, 2022, 07:25:41 am

Meat Loaf

@NotHoodlum
We finally figured out what he wouldn’t do for love - get vaccinated.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 21, 2022, 11:13:44 am

Quote from: Side-H@tch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 21, 2022, 10:18:22 am

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 21, 2022, 07:25:41 am
Meat Loaf
@NotHoodlum
We finally figured out what he wouldn’t do for love - get vaccinated.

link to source with proof he was unvaccinated?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 21, 2022, 11:29:10 am

Louis Anderson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 21, 2022, 11:29:32 am

Bad day to be an old fat white dude. Boardies beware!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 21, 2022, 11:46:55 am

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 21, 2022, 11:29:32 am

Bad day to be an old fat white dude. Boardies beware!

(https://tvline.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/louie-anderson-baskets-season-1-finale.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 21, 2022, 12:52:51 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 21, 2022, 11:29:10 am

Louis Anderson

Louie

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 21, 2022, 02:11:31 pm

Quote from: Starsky on January 21, 2022, 12:52:51 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 21, 2022, 11:29:10 am
Louis Anderson

Louie

Well technically Santa was not wrong. Just like my given name is Space, but some people call me Rhett.

Louis Perry "Louie" Anderson (March 24, 1953 – January 21, 2022)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 22, 2022, 10:25:51 am

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJqS0VwXMAA84Rz?format=jpg&name=large) (https://twitter.com/amuzik53/status/1484660460645494785)

h/t Kosmo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 22, 2022, 07:40:31 pm

Don Wilson, co-founder and rhythm guitarist for the influential "Walk, Don't Run" instrumental rock band the Ventures, has died at the age of 88

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: notme on January 23, 2022, 06:27:31 pm

whenever some old famous person dies, i always think they were already dead, died years ago. what's that called?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 23, 2022, 06:32:24 pm

Necrodolia

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 23, 2022, 06:46:20 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 23, 2022, 06:32:24 pm

Necrodolia

I mean, I just made that up. You're probably thinking of The Mandela Effect.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 23, 2022, 07:35:28 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 23, 2022, 06:46:20 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 23, 2022, 06:32:24 pm
Necrodolia

I mean, I just made that up. You're probably thinking of The Mandela Effect.

Thats only if a large number of people share a similar mistaken belief the person was dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 23, 2022, 07:37:47 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 23, 2022, 07:35:28 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 23, 2022, 06:46:20 pm
Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 23, 2022, 06:32:24 pm
Necrodolia

I mean, I just made that up. You're probably thinking of The Mandela Effect.
Thats only if a large number of people share a similar mistaken belief the person was dead.

So if its just one person, then its just forgetfulness?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 23, 2022, 07:45:28 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 23, 2022, 07:37:47 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 23, 2022, 07:35:28 pm
Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 23, 2022, 06:46:20 pm
Quote from: Off-season Santa on January 23, 2022, 06:32:24 pm
Necrodolia

I mean, I just made that up. You're probably thinking of The Mandela Effect.
Thats only if a large number of people share a similar mistaken belief the person was dead.

So if its just one person, then its just forgetfulness?

I would maybe label it “being mistaken but yeah.” If I think something has happened that didn’t, I’m wrong. If millions of people do it; that’s when it qualifies as “Mandela Effect.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 23, 2022, 07:54:23 pm

Millions of people think Mandela is dead?

I thought it was Tutu that died

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 23, 2022, 08:00:11 pm

Nah it was the brother in the Berenstain Bears. Meth.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 23, 2022, 09:22:48 pm

Quote from: Starsky on January 23, 2022, 07:54:23 pm

Millions of people think Mandela is dead?

i have some news for you... and the billions who think otherwise, apparently...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 23, 2022, 09:40:57 pm

Guys, everyone knows 3/16/2022 is when the election gets overturned, and Donald Trump as chief justice of the Supreme Court names Nelson Mandela and JFK Jr the rightful president and Vice President of the UQA.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 23, 2022, 10:33:25 pm

What has JFK Jr been up to!?

He has kept a very low profile since his magazine “George” folded!

It’s bizarre that Caroline has been much more in the news…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 23, 2022, 11:56:36 pm

Quote from: Starsky on January 23, 2022, 10:33:25 pm

What has JFK Jr been up to!?

flying little planes over water at night

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 24, 2022, 12:29:34 am

Quote from: allegedly-H@tch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 23, 2022, 11:56:36 pm

Quote from: Starsky on January 23, 2022, 10:33:25 pm
What has JFK Jr been up to!?
flying little planes over water at night

Those little planes are death but people can’t resist

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 24, 2022, 09:23:44 am

Lost a friend to cancer complications on Saturday. Blood related cancer, just like Louie Anderson. Except this guy was a clean living workout fiend, by his own account. And 15 years younger than Louie Anderson and probably 150 pounds less. Fuck cancer and fuck genetics.

I've lost three friends, all younger, in the last four years. That might not seem like a lot if I were 85, or had tons of friends. But I'm not, and I don't. Total age between the three....143. I reckon if I live to be 170 or so, I can statistically turn us into an average foursome. I got this!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 24, 2022, 09:45:43 am

really sorry to hear that, Space.
life is brief and no guarantee we'll get all 9 innings
so make sure you make the best out of the chance you get and let the ones you love know it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on January 24, 2022, 10:25:41 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 24, 2022, 09:23:44 am

Lost a friend to cancer complications on Saturday. Blood related cancer, just like Louie Anderson. Except this guy was a clean living workout fiend, by his own account. And 15 years younger than Louie Anderson and probably 150 pounds less. Fuck cancer and fuck genetics.

I've lost three friends, all younger, in the last four years. That might not seem like a lot if I were 85, or had tons of friends. But I'm not, and I don't. Total age between the three....143. I reckon if I live to be 170 or so, I can statistically turn us into an average foursome. I got this!

Sorry Spacedude.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 24, 2022, 10:46:35 am

My condolences Space... one thing I've learned over the past 5 or so years is that life is not fair or easy and the only things gauranteed in life are suffering, dying, and taxes*.

*A nun told me this 35+ years ago and it still resonates and probably caused some sort of weird trauma in my life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 24, 2022, 10:51:19 am

Thanks y'all. Random fact: My friend outlived his dad by three days.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on January 24, 2022, 12:19:39 pm

Sorry about the news Space. Hang in there.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on January 24, 2022, 12:40:22 pm

sending sympathy Space

FYI, Some people I know who have loved ones suffering or dying from cancer have been comforted by Ricky Gervais' series After Life

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on January 24, 2022, 01:00:30 pm

Very sorry to hear that, Space.

Sadly, I, too, have hit the age where I attend far more funerals than weddings. Next week I'll be attending a service for the person that introduced me to my wife. Absolutely sucks.

I just finished season 3 of After Life and agree it was a very good watch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 24, 2022, 01:25:27 pm

sorry to hear about your friends, space.

to date i've only lost one friend to cancer, and i fear the day that starts trending upwards... but it'll happen. or, you know, the alternative.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 24, 2022, 01:40:48 pm

I'm just glad I'm not part of the mountain climbing community.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 26, 2022, 09:29:29 pm

Kevin Ward

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 26, 2022, 09:35:07 pm

Suicide sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 26, 2022, 11:45:22 pm

Peter Robbins

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 27, 2022, 09:32:54 am

Quote from: Yada on January 26, 2022, 11:45:22 pm

Peter Robbins

Reading his wiki, I don't ever think I'll watch Peanuts the same way again. RIP Chuck.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 27, 2022, 02:53:24 pm

Ozzie (https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/25/us/ozzie-oldest-gorilla-atlanta-zoo-dies-trnd/)

wow

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 27, 2022, 02:56:56 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 27, 2022, 02:53:24 pm

Ozzie (https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/25/us/ozzie-oldest-gorilla-atlanta-zoo-dies-trnd/)

wow

"Over the past 24 hours, the teams had been treating him when he presented symptoms including facial swelling, weakness, and inability to eat or drink," reads the release. A necropsy will be performed to determine the cause of death.

While we knew this time would come someday, that inevitability does nothing to stem the deep sadness we feel at losing a legend," Raymond B. King, president and CEO of Zoo Atlanta, said in the news release.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 27, 2022, 04:44:09 pm

damn, for a sec I thought we lost the prince of darkness
(https://giffiles.alphacoders.com/913/91305.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on January 27, 2022, 05:01:57 pm

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 27, 2022, 05:03:42 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on January 27, 2022, 05:01:57 pm

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Good riddance.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 27, 2022, 05:35:18 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 27, 2022, 05:03:42 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on January 27, 2022, 05:01:57 pm
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Good riddance.

That's the impression that I get as well.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 27, 2022, 05:49:27 pm

A nation shrugs, but does remember seeing them at Lollapalooza once.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 29, 2022, 08:52:28 pm

Jerry Weber :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 29, 2022, 09:05:11 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 29, 2022, 08:52:28 pm

Jerry Weber :'(

He made a great grill.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 30, 2022, 04:03:12 pm

(https://preview.redd.it/n5128a2p8bc21.jpg?auto=webp&s=691fbd95a94bc7080726ef1475215b7b49215be0)

Howard Hesseman (https://wtop.com/entertainment/2022/01/howard-hesseman-known-for-role-in-wkrp-in-cincinnati-dies-at-81/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 30, 2022, 05:00:25 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hargus_%22Pig%22_Robbins?wprov=sfti1

Hargus "Pig" Robbins
American session keyboard player

Dylan, Dolly, Kenny, Ween, Neil, Tanya, etc.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: challenged on February 01, 2022, 05:19:48 pm

Milltown Mel, Groundhog.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 01, 2022, 05:25:44 pm

Quote from: challenged on February 01, 2022, 05:19:48 pm

Milltown Mel, Groundhog.

NJ canceling groundhog day now too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 02, 2022, 05:19:08 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on September 06, 2021, 04:45:25 pm

Quote from: jeffml on September 06, 2021, 04:19:31 pm
Michael K Williams
The Wire and Boardwalk Empire Actor
What a great actor
Heroin came at the King and it did not, in fact, miss.

Four Men Charged in Overdose Death of Michael K. Williams
The men are accused of selling the actor heroin laced with fentanyl (https://consequence.net/2022/02/four-men-charged-michael-k-williams-death/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 07, 2022, 01:23:58 am

(https://cdn20.patchcdn.com/users/22151002/20220119/011853/1___19011850632.jpg)

George Crumb (https://pitchfork.com/news/george-crumb-prolific-avant-garde-composer-dies-at-92/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 07, 2022, 06:26:00 am

Syl Johnson

https://twitter.com/numerogroup/status/1490357135233863684?s=21

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 08, 2022, 10:51:22 pm

Richard Dickie Shannon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 09, 2022, 01:30:07 pm

per twitter

Betty "They Say I'm Different" Davis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on February 09, 2022, 02:33:56 pm

Assuming she had Betty Davis eyes?

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 09, 2022, 01:30:07 pm

per twitter

Betty "They Say I'm Different" Davis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 09, 2022, 02:36:11 pm

When I was a kid, I thought the lyric was, "She's got better days to die". True story.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on February 09, 2022, 02:36:53 pm

Much better lyric.

Quote from: Off-season Santa on February 09, 2022, 02:36:11 pm

When I was a kid, I thought the lyric was, "She's got better days to die". True story.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 09, 2022, 02:37:00 pm

Quote from: jeffml on February 09, 2022, 02:33:56 pm

Assuming she had Betty Davis eyes?

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 09, 2022, 01:30:07 pm
per twitter

Betty "They Say I'm Different" Davis

Pretty sure they were brown.

And if he had been blind, she could see for miles and Miles.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 09, 2022, 08:17:55 pm

JEREMY GIAMBI

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 09, 2022, 08:44:57 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 09, 2022, 08:17:55 pm

JEREMY GIAMBI

TMZ suggests the exact cause of death you’d assume for a guy who elicits the reaction “Jason Giambi died!? Oh wait, no the other one? Oh ok.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 09, 2022, 08:53:32 pm

Chris Huvane

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 09, 2022, 10:34:36 pm

Bad day to be 47.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 09, 2022, 10:37:18 pm

They had better days to die.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 10, 2022, 10:04:47 am

Quote from: Schulzenstein on January 09, 2022, 08:40:09 pm

Bob Saget
https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/09/bob-saget-dead-dies-hotel-comedian-full-house/

Brain bleed due to blunt force trauma to the back of the head.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 10, 2022, 10:19:18 am

Quote from: Off-season Santa on February 10, 2022, 10:04:47 am

Quote from: Schulzenstein on January 09, 2022, 08:40:09 pm
Bob Saget
https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/09/bob-saget-dead-dies-hotel-comedian-full-house/

Brain bleed due to blunt force trauma to the back of the head.

Is it possible he was mugged and didn't report it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 10, 2022, 10:22:13 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 10, 2022, 10:19:18 am

Quote from: Off-season Santa on February 10, 2022, 10:04:47 am
Quote from: Schulzenstein on January 09, 2022, 08:40:09 pm
Bob Saget
https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/09/bob-saget-dead-dies-hotel-comedian-full-house/

Brain bleed due to blunt force trauma to the back of the head.

Is it possible he was mugged and didn't report it?

It seems most likely it was some sort of head-on-headboard sexual injury. The silent killer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on February 10, 2022, 10:24:48 am

This is kind of what I had that took me to the hospital on Christmas Day….just much worse…obv

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 10, 2022, 10:28:59 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on February 10, 2022, 10:22:13 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 10, 2022, 10:19:18 am
Quote from: Off-season Santa on February 10, 2022, 10:04:47 am
Quote from: Schulzenstein on January 09, 2022, 08:40:09 pm
Bob Saget
https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/09/bob-saget-dead-dies-hotel-comedian-full-house/

Brain bleed due to blunt force trauma to the back of the head.

Is it possible he was mugged and didn't report it?
It seems most likely it was some sort of head-on-headboard sexual injury. The silent killer.

Why wouldn't his wife have called an ambulance?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 10, 2022, 10:31:52 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 10, 2022, 10:28:59 am

Why wouldn't his wife have called an ambulance?

Oh, you sweet summer child.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on February 10, 2022, 10:34:48 am

Starlink?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 10, 2022, 10:42:23 am

Quote from: Starsky on February 10, 2022, 10:24:48 am

This is kind of what I had that took me to the hospital on Christmas Day….just much worse…obv

You were having sex with Bob Saget's wife on Christmas Day? Santa was very generous.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 10, 2022, 10:43:53 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 10, 2022, 10:42:23 am

Quote from: Starsky on February 10, 2022, 10:24:48 am
This is kind of what I had that took me to the hospital on Christmas Day….just much worse…obv

You were having sex with Bob Saget's wife on Christmas Day? Santa was very generous.

[deep bow]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 10, 2022, 05:05:56 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 10, 2022, 10:28:59 am

Why wouldn't his wife have called an ambulance?

she wasn't with him. he was on tour, staying alone in a hotel. when his wife couldn't reach him the next morning (i think he missed his flight), she got security to go check on him and they found him dead in his bed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 10, 2022, 05:17:22 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 10, 2022, 05:05:56 pm

he was on tour, staying alone in a hotel.

I think we've pretty much established as part of my sexual diagnosis that that isn't the case.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 10, 2022, 11:33:24 pm

Quote from: jeffml on February 09, 2022, 02:33:56 pm

Assuming she had Betty Davis eyes?

But not Bette Davis eyes….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 11, 2022, 07:03:37 am

Ian McDonald
Co-Founder of King Crimson and Foreigner
75

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 11, 2022, 08:40:21 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 11, 2022, 07:03:37 am

Ian McDonald
Co-Founder of King Crimson and Foreigner
75

Also played Baritone sax on a little ditty called “Bang A Gong (Get It On)” perhaps one has heard this one

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on February 11, 2022, 02:16:56 pm

why would she have Bette Davis eyes?

Quote from: vansmack on February 10, 2022, 11:33:24 pm

Quote from: jeffml on February 09, 2022, 02:33:56 pm
Assuming she had Betty Davis eyes?

But not Bette Davis eyes….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on February 11, 2022, 02:22:33 pm

The song credits list Ian playing a baritone sax but everyone "in the know", knows it was a customized tenor sax. Ian wasn't happy with the sound sound and didn't quite want the richness of a baritone sax so he had his sax guy, mess around with one of his 4 tenor saxes to come up with modified sax that presented the perfect sound for the song. Listen to the mix without the sax and it is a dramatically different song.

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 11, 2022, 08:40:21 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 11, 2022, 07:03:37 am
Ian McDonald
Co-Founder of King Crimson and Foreigner
75

Also played Baritone sax on a little ditty called “Bang A Gong (Get It On)” perhaps one has heard this one

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 11, 2022, 02:30:58 pm

Quote from: jeffml on February 11, 2022, 02:22:33 pm

The song credits list Ian playing a baritone sax but everyone "in the know", knows it was a customized tenor sax. Ian wasn't happy with the sound sound and didn't quite want the richness of a baritone sax so he had his sax guy, mess around with one of his 4 tenor saxes to come up with modified sax that presented the perfect sound for the song. Listen to the mix without the sax and it is a dramatically different song.

You forgot to log in to the Hutch account.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 11, 2022, 02:33:59 pm

I'm legit stunned at how good of a Hutch parody post ^^ is. Like if we had a contest to write a post in the style of Hutch, no one is beating that if they were actively trying.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 11, 2022, 02:43:08 pm

I'm legit worried about hutch given his fondness for woodwinds in rock music, this should snap him out of if

RIP Ian McDonald. Your playing is all over (arguably) the greatest British rock album, the greatest British jazz album and the greatest British single. Hats off to you, sir.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLT5hy4XwAAEWSP?format=jpg&name=small)

https://twitter.com/dannykellywords/status/1492091738575544321?s=20&t=EPc2c2U37GvJb6QpqZ9yxg

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 13, 2022, 10:09:05 am

Howard Grimes dies: Hi Rhythm drummer provided the backbeat for Al Green, Ann Peebles, more

A thread of tracks he played on

https://twitter.com/bradfarberman/status/1492696385719783425?s=21

Also a member of the Bo-Keys whose albums I have immensely enjoyed of late

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 14, 2022, 05:11:10 am

Ivan Reitman, a storied producer and director behind some of Hollywood's biggest comedies, has died, according to the CEO of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group. He was 75. Reitman was behind some of the 80s and 90s most enduring comedic films, including 1984's "Ghostbusters," which he produced and directed. (continued (https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/entertainment/ivan-reitman-obit/index.html))

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 14, 2022, 09:51:27 pm

Hair of the Dog brewery

A huge chunk of Modern Times brewery

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 15, 2022, 05:13:17 pm

PJ O’Rourke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 15, 2022, 05:36:45 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 14, 2022, 09:51:27 pm

Hair of the Dog brewery

A huge chunk of Modern Times brewery

I was last at Hair of the Dog on Spring 2018. I think they were having some kind of event, and the owner himself was pouring. I recognize him in the picture.
https://www.oregonlive.com/beer/2022/02/hair-of-the-dog-brewery-taproom-to-close-as-legendary-founder-alan-sprints-retiring.html
Wouldh't there be any value in selling?

I also went to Modern Times PDX on the same trip.

Two big quick losses for PDX.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 15, 2022, 06:10:02 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 15, 2022, 05:36:45 pm

Wouldh't there be any value in selling?

you'd think there would be. if he isn't, it must come down to either he doesn't want to (doesn't trust others with his brand/baby?), or he can't (ex: he looked in to selling but no one was interested). i guess they'll shut the place down and sell its equipment and parts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 15, 2022, 06:22:42 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 15, 2022, 06:10:02 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 15, 2022, 05:36:45 pm
Wouldh't there be any value in selling?

you'd think there would be. if he isn't, it must come down to either he doesn't want to (doesn't trust others with his brand/baby?), or he can't (ex: he looked in to selling but no one was interested). i guess they'll shut the place down and sell its equipment and parts.

Member my post about the brewery bubble bursting... anyone with any business acumen has no interest in buying an archaic brewery that makes up probably little to no market share, no matter how important they once were to the industry.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on February 15, 2022, 07:40:59 pm

I want to bring back Foggy Bottom Ale

Maybe this is my chance

I can make Sidehatch brewer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 15, 2022, 10:10:35 pm

Quote from: Starsky on February 15, 2022, 07:40:59 pm

I want to bring back Foggy Bottom Ale

I am not helping you with this

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 15, 2022, 10:50:03 pm

PJ O'Rourke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 15, 2022, 10:51:25 pm

Quote from: Starsky on February 15, 2022, 07:40:59 pm

I want to bring back Foggy Bottom Ale

Maybe this is my chance

I can make Sidehatch brewer

SpaceHatch brewing where the namesake combines powers to produce undrinkable quads, barleywines, and amber ales.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 15, 2022, 11:39:52 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 15, 2022, 10:50:03 pm

PJ O'Rourke

kosmo beat you to it by some five and a half hours...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 15, 2022, 11:47:46 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 15, 2022, 11:39:52 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 15, 2022, 10:50:03 pm
PJ O'Rourke

kosmo beat you to it by some five and a half hours...

I was too overwhelmed by the dead brewery chatter.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 18, 2022, 03:07:40 pm

Dallas Good
The Sadies
48

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on February 18, 2022, 03:08:56 pm

I frivkin hate this thread

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 18, 2022, 04:36:29 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 18, 2022, 03:07:40 pm

Dallas Good
The Sadies
48

A little less Good in the world. :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 20, 2022, 09:34:20 pm

Bernie Madoff’s Sister, Husband Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/bernie-madoff-sister-husband-dead-murder-suicide.html?via=rss_socialflow_twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on February 20, 2022, 09:54:22 pm

Jamal Edwards

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 22, 2022, 03:28:42 pm

Gary Booker
Singer with Procol Harum
76

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 22, 2022, 03:37:41 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 22, 2022, 03:28:42 pm

Gary Booker
Singer with Procol Harum
76

guess he finally skipped the light fandango

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 22, 2022, 03:53:21 pm

That would be Gary Brooker

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 22, 2022, 04:17:32 pm

Mark Lanegan

fuck.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on February 22, 2022, 04:22:35 pm

What?!? Damn

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: StoneTheCrow on February 22, 2022, 04:23:02 pm

What a shitty year this is turning out to be.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 22, 2022, 04:25:29 pm

Dang.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 22, 2022, 04:27:07 pm

J. Ira Harris also died today.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 22, 2022, 04:27:42 pm

Probably a top 10 song of mine ever... and fitting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2mybZ3KT2E

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on February 22, 2022, 06:40:08 pm

THA MOTHER FUCKING QUEEN???!!!

Rumors, flying

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 22, 2022, 11:57:44 pm

Quote from: Walk,on,by on February 22, 2022, 06:40:08 pm

THA MOTHER FUCKING QUEEN???!!!

Rumors, flying

don't look to Jason Lee for breaking news is the lesson learned here

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 23, 2022, 08:50:41 am

Last night my wife learned that the reason her co-worker wasn't returning her emails was because she died in a fire, either over the weekend or yesterday. How does shit like that happen in 2022?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 23, 2022, 01:16:44 pm

Is it just me or doe does seem like a lot of your friends/acquaintances' horrible deaths...

about 6 years ago in our neighborhood a mother and child died in a house fire, it was pretty horrible,
It surely still happens

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 23, 2022, 01:46:39 pm

Quote from: SidePulchritude ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 23, 2022, 01:16:44 pm

Is it just me or doe does seem like a lot of your friends/acquaintances' horrible deaths...

"No, Space, Ricky can't come to the phone right now. He says . . . he said to tell you he died in a house fire and you shouldn't call him again. . . . OK, goodbye!"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 23, 2022, 01:55:14 pm

Quote from: SidePulchritude ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 23, 2022, 01:16:44 pm

Is it just me or doe does seem like a lot of your friends/acquaintances' horrible deaths...

about 6 years ago in our neighborhood a mother and child died in a house fire, it was pretty horrible,
It surely still happens

All deaths are horrible in my book, but yeah fire has to be one of the worst. Unless it's something like you're sleeping and it kills you before you wake.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on February 24, 2022, 08:30:52 am

The Amazing Jonathan

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on February 24, 2022, 08:55:15 am

You scared me

There is only one Jonathan in my life

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 24, 2022, 09:29:14 am

Quote from: Walk,on,by on February 24, 2022, 08:30:52 am

The Amazing Jonathan

Rest in peace you strange Detroiter weirdo.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 24, 2022, 09:32:11 am

Quote from: Starsky on February 24, 2022, 08:55:15 am

There is only one Jonathan in my life

Jonathan Coulton? Jonathan Edwards?
Richman might be a good contender

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 24, 2022, 09:38:09 am

Quote from: SidePulchritude ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 24, 2022, 09:32:11 am

Quote from: Starsky on February 24, 2022, 08:55:15 am
There is only one Jonathan in my life
Jonathan Coulton? Jonathan Edwards?

Like all Argentinian men of advanced age, he loves Jonathan Franzen, an author who rights exclusively about the trials and tribulations of upper-middle-class Midwestern families.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 24, 2022, 09:41:15 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on February 24, 2022, 09:38:09 am

Quote from: SidePulchritude ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 24, 2022, 09:32:11 am
Quote from: Starsky on February 24, 2022, 08:55:15 am
There is only one Jonathan in my life
Jonathan Coulton? Jonathan Edwards?
Like all Argentinian men of advanced age, he loves Jonathan Franzen, an author who rights exclusively about the trials and tribulations of upper-middle-class Midwestern families.

Franzenfreude (https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210928-how-jonathan-franzen-became-americas-most-divisive-novelist)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on February 24, 2022, 09:44:22 am

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XjFU98mEem4

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 24, 2022, 08:27:38 pm

(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sally-kellerman-obit-mash.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=744)

the OG hot lips

although I loved her in Back to School
(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/02/sally-kellerman-7.jpg?quality=90&strip=all)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 27, 2022, 10:04:11 am

Nick Tesco
Lead Singer for The Members

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 27, 2022, 11:04:46 pm

Snootie wild

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 06, 2022, 09:43:54 pm

Armand Debelder

Absolute legend.

*pops bottle of A+G*

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on March 09, 2022, 04:05:32 pm

https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Oligarch-renounces-Russian-citizenship-saying-16988610.php

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 09, 2022, 04:08:04 pm

^not dead...yet

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 09, 2022, 05:03:27 pm

Renee Poussaint (https://wtop.com/dc/2022/03/former-news-anchor-renee-poussaint-dies-at-77/), former news anchor at Channel 7 WJLA

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 09, 2022, 06:10:05 pm

Ron Miles

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 10, 2022, 04:06:42 pm

Mike Cross

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 10, 2022, 04:09:11 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 10, 2022, 04:06:42 pm

Mike Cross

was he the behind the scenes member of Kris Kross?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on March 10, 2022, 05:52:15 pm

the lesser known group Chris Cross, not to be confused with Christopher Cross or Kristopher Kross

Quote from: Side-Shadenfreele ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 10, 2022, 04:09:11 pm

Quote from: Yada on March 10, 2022, 04:06:42 pm
Mike Cross
was he the behind the scenes member of Kris Kross?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on March 10, 2022, 11:34:33 pm

Bobbie Nelson (Willie’s sister)

Bummer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 11, 2022, 02:42:51 am

(https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/220310171934-emilio-delgado-file-restricted-exlarge-169.jpg)

goodbye, luis (https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/entertainment/emilio-delgado-obituary/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 11, 2022, 08:54:34 am

Charles Entenmann, who helped bring baked goods to supermarkets, dies at 92

I remember on Long Island, we had a game against a team who’s school was right next to their facility… got off the buss and it smelled like chocolate chip cookies

We used to crush some boxes of these weekly at baby-hatch’s home

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 11, 2022, 09:38:58 am

They should bury him on an endcap at the front of the snack aisle.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 13, 2022, 05:09:23 pm

William Hurt (https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/william-hurt-dead-obit-1320664/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on March 14, 2022, 10:13:36 pm

Scott Hall.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 15, 2022, 10:43:59 am

Traci Braxton, sister of Toni

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on March 22, 2022, 08:20:45 pm

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

https://pitchfork.com/news/jon-spencer-says-the-blues-explosion-is-no-more/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=p4k&utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_twitter

Not a surprise…but I did not realize Judah had an illness

What a great live band they were…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 23, 2022, 09:38:11 am

Quote from: Starsky on March 22, 2022, 08:20:45 pm

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

damn that sucks. They had some legendary shows. I love Juda and sad to hear he's sick

I just remember being blown away at their show at the old 9:30 back in 95 I think
forgot they did the NYE show in 96, I tend to avoid NYE shows, but that's one I wish I caught

While it wouldn't be the same with out the JBBX crew, it seems criminal that he won't play any of that catalog live anymore either
Last two JSBX shows (Cat and Ust...damn, just confirmed...only shows in DC since 96!)
all he did was play snippets of the 'Hits', so feel like it had been over a decade if not more since a proper blues explosion show

anyone catch them in 95 at the Patriot center opening for the Roots/Beastie boys?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on March 23, 2022, 10:10:26 am

Hmm… I know I saw JSBX at the old and current 930…I want to say the NYE show

Their post hiatus shows at the Jefferson Theater in Cville and Ottobar were my favorites… the Black cat show hardly counts as we were late… U Street Hall was good…

There’s a lot to unpack… why was JSBX treated as a joke? I mean they had a schtick but so do the White Stripes which always seem to claim they come from Flat Duo Jets but weren’t Blues Explosion doing something similar? They never get credited as having any influence on the garage rock revival… and if their schtick was their problem why has it never been an issue for Beck…why is Beck cool for badly imitating Prince and the JSBX uncool for imitating Elvis and the blues …maybe it’s cause they were perceived to be white guys joking about black music?

Then there is the whole DC thing… there was some sort of Pussy Galore vs Dischord thing going on and I think that was a problem

The wheels just fell off with Plastic Fang for whatever reason…they never recovered.. I actually think it’s their Exile on Main Street album in its LP incarnation with four more songs…it’s produced by Steve Jordan currently Stones drummer (and Wino) and like Exile even has a Dr John appearance

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 23, 2022, 11:15:23 am

Quote from: Starsky on March 23, 2022, 10:10:26 am

current 930

I know, I want to say I saw them there too, but Setlist.fm isn't providing the deets on that

Quote

The wheels just fell off with Plastic Fang for whatever reason…they never recovered.. I actually think it’s their Exile on Main Street album in its LP incarnation with four more songs…it’s produced by Steve Jordan currently Stones drummer (and Wino) and like Exile even has a Dr John appearance

I think Acme was the beginning of the end, PF was the end (I actually got some plastic fangs somewhere that I got with purchase)Acme had some good tracks, but really was kind of a dud too

things were looking good to for JSBX around 95-97 with all the Beastie/Beck/Dub Narcotic SS associations
the experimental remixes and then the RL Burnside stuff
they seemed poised to break

I don't think I've listened to the legendary Exile album (guess that's Pussy Galore, not JSBX), but really didn't get into Exile since the pandemic started, so if I did hear it, it meant nothing. Guess I need to track that down

Meat and Bone had potential, and they started touring like crazy again, but by that time, the audience and music had just moved past them. Obviously three year world wide touring didn't really pay the bills or get the fans to show up

does suck for me and their 11 fans :(

The hit makers were fun, but not really a 'must see show' IMO

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on March 23, 2022, 11:23:44 am

Yeah you might be right…Acme was the beginning of the end… then Plastic Fang sold ten copies

Gotta say loyalty is not Americans strong suit… in other countries fans are fans for life… here it’s like five years at most

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 23, 2022, 02:33:39 pm

Albright
84
Wednesday

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 23, 2022, 07:51:52 pm

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/23/22992066/stephen-wilhite-gif-creator-dies

Stephen Wilhite
Creator of the GIF

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2022, 04:15:23 am

his impact wide and created a new way to communicate

this was the first gif (is this an NFT yet?)
(https://thefanatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/01-06-17Avion.gif)

but the gif we probably most remember as the first we remember
(https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/_ML8B-MTZyDlP_rzl5WtdmVtWlk=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23338558/21_baby_custom1.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 24, 2022, 10:58:06 am

(https://c.tenor.com/ZgbW9V5PKoMAAAAC/banana-dance-dancing-banana.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 24, 2022, 02:15:09 pm

reminder, we have our own tribute-thread to Wilhite:

stop posting gifs . . . or seth will just shut the whole sh*t show down (https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=24082.msg407264#msg407264)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 24, 2022, 02:42:05 pm

Also a reminder that even the inventor himself pronounced it jif....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 24, 2022, 02:58:40 pm

Quote from: vansmack on March 24, 2022, 02:42:05 pm

Also a reminder that even the inventor himself pronounced it jif....

yeah, but he's dead now, so we can say it how ever we like

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 24, 2022, 03:01:07 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 24, 2022, 02:15:09 pm

reminder, we have our own tribute-thread to Wilhite:

stop posting gifs . . . or seth will just shut the whole sh*t show down (https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=24082.msg407264#msg407264)

the gifs appreciation thread?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 24, 2022, 03:09:09 pm

Quote from: vansmack on March 24, 2022, 02:42:05 pm

Also a reminder that even the inventor himself pronounced it jif....

Well unlike that dude, the English language is alive and evolving.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 25, 2022, 11:03:29 pm

Taylor Hawkins (https://twitter.com/foofighters/status/1507552958988255234)

No details yet

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on March 25, 2022, 11:12:42 pm

WTF??!!

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 25, 2022, 11:03:29 pm

Taylor Hawkins (https://twitter.com/foofighters/status/1507552958988255234)

No details yet

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 25, 2022, 11:21:05 pm

wow - shocker... apparently found dead in his hotel.

they were supposed to play in Bogota tonight, and Lolla Brazil on sunday.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on March 26, 2022, 02:43:20 am

Horrible

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 26, 2022, 09:34:44 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on March 24, 2022, 10:58:06 am

(https://c.tenor.com/ZgbW9V5PKoMAAAAC/banana-dance-dancing-banana.gif)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOv7StvX0AEGnou?format=jpg&name=medium) (https://twitter.com/ItsDings/status/1507574800503525379)

As you can see, interest is rapidly declining in peanut butter jelly time. if these trends continue, we could see peanut butter jelly time come to an end

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 27, 2022, 11:15:13 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 25, 2022, 11:21:05 pm

wow - shocker... apparently found dead in his hotel.

they were supposed to play in Bogota tonight, and Lolla Brazil on sunday.

Fuck drugs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on March 27, 2022, 11:27:40 am

Maybe drugs killed him maybe not

Nothing released so far proves anything

I mean the substances being listed - some of them- are medical in nature…and I doubt pot is lethal…listing anti depressants!? And why is this our business anyways?

I think it’s lame the Colombian investigation released this info…they should have waited to conclude investigation

The reports have been all over the place from he called with chest pains to they saw powder that “looked” like coke..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on March 27, 2022, 11:31:58 am

Of course when you die in Colombia one thinks…

But I just feel bad for his kids and loved ones…and Grohl (and band mates..)

Dying away from the US also makes the whole thing even more hard..for his loved ones…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 27, 2022, 12:06:11 pm

Quote from: Starsky on March 27, 2022, 11:27:40 am

Maybe drugs killed him maybe not

Nothing released so far proves anything

I mean the substances being listed - some of them- are medical in nature…and I doubt pot is lethal…listing anti depressants!? And why is this our business anyways?

I think it’s lame the Colombian investigation released this info…they should have waited to conclude investigation

The reports have been all over the place from he called with chest pains to they saw powder that “looked” like coke..

Bruh. He had pot, tricyclic antidepressants (highly abused because of it makes people ‘sleepy’), benzos and opioids in his system “among 10 different drugs.” He died from drugs. Don’t be obtuse.

Being in Colombia ain’t got nothing to do with it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on March 27, 2022, 12:19:15 pm

He is not the first rock star to die in Bogota

See Gustavo Cerati

Having drugs in your system doesn’t mean you necessarily died from them…

I find it disrespectful to release this info before the investigation is complete. It’s just a way for Colombia to cover their ass.

In any case doesn’t change anything.

RIP Taylor Hawkins…one of the good guys.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on March 27, 2022, 01:23:20 pm

Enrique Pinti

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 27, 2022, 03:56:18 pm

Jaime Barbini
79
Bogota
Saturday

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 28, 2022, 04:00:59 pm

https://www.nme.com/news/music/producer-and-composer-mira-calix-has-died-3192302

Mira Calix
52
Warp Records Artist

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 28, 2022, 04:12:06 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on March 27, 2022, 03:56:18 pm

Jaime Barbini
79
Bogota
Saturday

was he partying with Taylor?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 30, 2022, 05:17:48 pm

Donald Tabby Diamond lead singer of the Mighty Diamonds killed in a drive by shooting in Jamaica :'( he was 67

Real name Donald Orlando Shaw

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 30, 2022, 05:29:26 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on March 30, 2022, 05:17:48 pm

Real name Donald Orlando Shaw

So he’s just a giant liar like that lady on the submarine in Titanic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 03, 2022, 12:28:08 am

Estelle "Constanza" Harris (https://consequence.net/2022/04/estelle-harris-seinfeld-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 03, 2022, 06:35:42 am

Bill Fries aka C.W. McCall of Convey fame
94

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 03, 2022, 07:56:34 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 03, 2022, 12:28:08 am

Estelle "Constanza" Harris (https://consequence.net/2022/04/estelle-harris-seinfeld-dead/)

Mrs Potato Head

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 03, 2022, 10:53:50 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 03, 2022, 06:35:42 am

Bill Fries aka C.W. McCall of Convey fame
94

It's awesome that he got to see two convoys before passing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 03, 2022, 11:13:51 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 03, 2022, 06:35:42 am

Bill Fries aka C.W. McCall of Convey fame
94

The really funny thing about "Convoy" was the contrast between McCall's tough-guy baritone and the wispy-voiced chorus.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on April 03, 2022, 12:23:24 pm

Inevitable...

https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/movies/2022/04/01/6246787c46163f56258b4582.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 03, 2022, 03:19:04 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 03, 2022, 11:13:51 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 03, 2022, 06:35:42 am
Bill Fries aka C.W. McCall of Convey fame
94

The really funny thing about "Convoy" was the contrast between McCall's tough-guy baritone and the wispy-voiced chorus.

Song was also co-written by Chip Davis, future Mannheim Steamroller founder.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 03, 2022, 04:43:18 pm

Quote from: Vas Deferens on April 03, 2022, 12:23:24 pm

Inevitable...

https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/movies/2022/04/01/6246787c46163f56258b4582.html

Glad he lived to see La Piscine come back in vogue.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 03, 2022, 10:05:33 pm

Bruce Johnson, DC News guy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 03, 2022, 10:30:30 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on April 03, 2022, 10:05:33 pm

Bruce Johnson, DC News guy

Link?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 03, 2022, 10:43:03 pm

https://twitter.com/John7News/status/1510793416690515969?t=JxnVHEh-kwKmYBa8PGG51g&s=19 (https://twitter.com/John7News/status/1510793416690515969?t=JxnVHEh-kwKmYBa8PGG51g&s=19)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on April 05, 2022, 08:15:51 am

Joe Messina

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/people/2022/04/04/joe-messina-motown-guitarist-and-member-funk-brothers-has-died-age-93/7271120001/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 05, 2022, 08:18:16 am

Quote from: Starsky on April 05, 2022, 08:15:51 am

Joe Messina

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/people/2022/04/04/joe-messina-motown-guitarist-and-member-funk-brothers-has-died-age-93/7271120001/

I mean, we still have Jim Messina so that's pretty good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 05, 2022, 08:46:30 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on April 05, 2022, 08:18:16 am

Quote from: Starsky on April 05, 2022, 08:15:51 am
Joe Messina

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/people/2022/04/04/joe-messina-motown-guitarist-and-member-funk-brothers-has-died-age-93/7271120001/
I mean, we still have Jim Messina so that's pretty good.

Weird that you mention him. My wife was making a Kenny Loggins joke just last night. (I don't think she knows who either Messina is.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 05, 2022, 08:49:21 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 05, 2022, 08:46:30 am

My wife was making a Kenny Loggins joke just last night.

Misread this as "my wife was making out with Kenny Loggins last night" and boy was my brain a-racin'.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 05, 2022, 09:26:19 am

Punk icon Jordan
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10684865/Punk-icon-Jordan-Mooney-died-aged-66-losing-fight-against-cancer.html

I recall in Steve Jones book, he talked about her and how she was one of the first that made him think about being in a Punk band rather than a straight-ahead pub-rocker

Looking forward to the new doc too and I see in this trailer there are a few Jordan spotting's
https://youtu.be/8Ol1B3w7NtU

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 05, 2022, 09:46:49 am

Quote from: Side key bump ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 05, 2022, 09:26:19 am

Punk icon Jordan

I mean, we still have Michael Jordan so that's pretty good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 05, 2022, 02:58:16 pm

Francisco González, Los Lobos founding member and guitar-string pioneer, dead at 68

González would leave the group within a year, just before they went on to become the most famous Chicano rock group of them all. But the East L.A. native nevertheless became a musical icon of his own. He became an apostle for son jarocho, fostering relations between jaraneros in the United States and Mexico. He released solo albums and performed in venues as varied as colleges and prisons.

His handmade strings for Mexico’s family of guitars — the sonorous requinto, the high-toned jarana, the deep-bottomed guitarrón, the warm bajo sexto, and others — were lifelines for musicians with no other options in the United States for their instruments.

In Mexico, old-timers said that González’s handiwork made instruments resonate with a sound they hadn’t heard in decades.

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-04-04/francisco-gonzalez-los-lobos-guadalupe-custom-strings

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 05, 2022, 03:04:40 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 05, 2022, 02:58:16 pm

Francisco González, Los Lobos founding member and guitar-string pioneer, dead at 68

González would leave the group within a year, just before they went on to become the most famous Chicano rock group of them all. But the East L.A. native nevertheless became a musical icon of his own. He became an apostle for son jarocho, fostering relations between jaraneros in the United States and Mexico. He released solo albums and performed in venues as varied as colleges and prisons.

His handmade strings for Mexico’s family of guitars — the sonorous requinto, the high-toned jarana, the deep-bottomed guitarrón, the warm bajo sexto, and others — were lifelines for musicians with no other options in the United States for their instruments.

In Mexico, old-timers said that González’s handiwork made instruments resonate with a sound they hadn’t heard in decades.

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-04-04/francisco-gonzalez-los-lobos-guadalupe-custom-strings

I mean, we still have two-time AL MVP Juan González so that's pretty good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 05, 2022, 03:51:49 pm

Gene Shue - Gene Shue, Towson Catholic and Maryland standout who was five-time NBA All-Star and coached Bullets to NBA Finals, dies.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bs-sp-ob-gene-shue-20220405-5lo4vyw7yfe6xedz5avas6mkju-story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 05, 2022, 03:53:09 pm

At least we still have former (and probably still) hottie, Elizabeth Shue. That's pretty good. (sorry Julian)

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on April 05, 2022, 03:51:49 pm

Gene Shue - Gene Shue, Towson Catholic and Maryland standout who was five-time NBA All-Star and coached Bullets to NBA Finals, dies.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bs-sp-ob-gene-shue-20220405-5lo4vyw7yfe6xedz5avas6mkju-story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 05, 2022, 03:59:17 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on April 05, 2022, 03:53:09 pm

At least we still have former (and probably still) hottie, Elizabeth Shue. That's pretty good. (sorry Julian)

No apologies necessary. Just glad to be spreading the gospel of positivity in the face of such loss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 06, 2022, 08:58:50 am

goodness, the infection is spreading

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 10, 2022, 04:30:19 pm

Chris Bailey (https://www.facebook.com/430825873630549/posts/5097509146962175/?d=n)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 10, 2022, 05:08:39 pm

Did anybody mention Dwayne Haskins?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on April 10, 2022, 06:01:24 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 10, 2022, 04:30:19 pm

Chris Bailey (https://www.facebook.com/430825873630549/posts/5097509146962175/?d=n)

That’s too bad

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 10, 2022, 09:11:24 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 10, 2022, 05:08:39 pm

Did anybody mention Dwayne Haskins?

God that one made me feel old as shit. That dude was operating an offense against Michigan like a hot knife thru butter like two years ago and now this. Holy fuck. A dude I’m fifteen years older than not only accomplished all that but he died before me. Life is fucked.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on April 10, 2022, 09:20:19 pm

(https://i.ibb.co/BLhbQ9c/EBB9-C670-DAA8-472-E-B599-5-A018-E82-A754.jpg) (https://ibb.co/7v3PZqj)

Nick Cave learning from the master….Chris Bailey

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 11, 2022, 08:48:27 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on April 10, 2022, 09:11:24 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 10, 2022, 05:08:39 pm
Did anybody mention Dwayne Haskins?
God that one made me feel old as shit. That dude was operating an offense against Michigan like a hot knife thru butter like two years ago and now this. Holy fuck. A dude I’m fifteen years older than not only accomplished all that but he died before me. Life is fucked.

I am sorry for your loss. Please don't feel bad about your own lack of accomplishments, you have counted way higher than he ever did. And Dwayne is in heaven, for sure.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 11, 2022, 08:56:57 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 11, 2022, 08:48:27 am

And Dwayne is in heaven, for sure.

OK and unicorns now have fairy wings.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 11, 2022, 12:25:00 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 11, 2022, 08:48:27 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on April 10, 2022, 09:11:24 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on April 10, 2022, 05:08:39 pm
Did anybody mention Dwayne Haskins?
God that one made me feel old as shit. That dude was operating an offense against Michigan like a hot knife thru butter like two years ago and now this. Holy fuck. A dude I’m fifteen years older than not only accomplished all that but he died before me. Life is fucked.

I am sorry for your loss. Please don't feel bad about your own lack of accomplishments, you have counted way higher than he ever did. And Dwayne is in heaven, for sure.

early contender for POTW, and it's only monday morning.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 12, 2022, 01:30:54 pm

Quote from: Starsky on April 10, 2022, 09:20:19 pm

(https://i.ibb.co/BLhbQ9c/EBB9-C670-DAA8-472-E-B599-5-A018-E82-A754.jpg) (https://ibb.co/7v3PZqj)

Nick Cave learning from the master….Chris Bailey

"Dear Dan,
One week ago today, I was standing in front of a photo on display in the Stranger Than Kindness - The Nick Cave Exhibition in Montreal. It is an extraordinary photo that came to light a few years ago — it shows the singer, Chris Bailey, of the Brisbane band, the Saints, sitting collapsed on stage in a small club in Melbourne, watched by a very young and unformed Nick Cave. In the photo Chris is already committed to his life as perhaps the greatest and most anarchic rock ‘n’ roll singer Australia would ever produce. Conversely, I am in that stonewashed and uncertain state between failing art school and, well, I am not quite sure what. You can almost see the thought bubble forming above my head as an alternate plan presents itself.
In the late seventies, the Saints came down from Brisbane and tore their way through Sydney and Melbourne with their famously anarchic shows. It is impossible to exaggerate the resulting radical galvanising effect on the Melbourne scene – these legendary performances changed the lives of so many people, myself included.
So, it is with immense sadness that we learn of Chris Bailey’s death. Too many great singers have died recently and, once again, I don’t have the words that will in any way adequately measure the extent of our collective loss. I can only simply repeat, for the record, that, in my opinion, the Saints were Australia’s greatest band, and that Chris Bailey was my favourite singer.
Chris and I got to know each other well and went on to do a bunch of things together over the years, but it is this photo that I will treasure – a moment of realisation and divergence, as a drunk singer sits slumped on a stage floor, his very presence in that moment approximating some kind of moral purity or essential truth, and a young man watching transfixed, feeling his own best laid plans fall away as the thought bubble above his head fills with its sudden and outrageous revelation, ‘This is what I want to do and this is who I want to be.’
With enormous gratitude to Chris Bailey and may he rest in peace.
Love, Nick Cave

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 12, 2022, 03:31:59 pm

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQKra_PXIAkB5rc?format=jpg&name=small) (https://twitter.com/RealGilbert/status/1513960910217486342?s=20&t=XLumNxd3st8-W6bimfsK2A)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 12, 2022, 03:36:35 pm

Variety: Gilbert Gottfried, Comedian and ‘Aladdin’ Star, Dies at 67 (https://variety.com/2022/film/news/gilbert-gottfried-dead-dies-comedian-aladdin-1235231387/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 15, 2022, 06:47:46 pm

Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey icon and New York Islanders legend, dies at 65 (https://globalnews.ca/news/8762919/mike-bossy-new-york-islanders-star-dead/)

bossy was my second hockey idol, after lafleur. i remember watching the islanders win those Cups in the early 80's just prior to the gretzky/edmonton era...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 15, 2022, 07:46:55 pm

"Seinfeld's mom" (AKA Liz Sheridan) (https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/entertainment/liz-sheridan-seinfeld-death-cec/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 15, 2022, 08:54:37 pm

This is the last of the 8 actors to play a parent of one of the main Seinfeld characters to pass. End of an era.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on April 15, 2022, 09:16:58 pm

Art Rupe

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/art-rupe-record-mogul-who-helped-launch-little-richard-and-sam-cooke-dies-at-104/ar-AAWgo4v?ocid=uxbndlbing

A key player simply by virtue of putting out Little Richard…..though he did much more

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on April 17, 2022, 06:08:24 pm

Wendy Rieger. :'(

I, loved ❤ her.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on April 17, 2022, 06:41:00 pm

Yes, that’s a bummer…. Chuck Todd also mentioned it on Meet the Press this morning…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 18, 2022, 07:32:26 am

Quote from: Walk,on,by on April 17, 2022, 06:08:24 pm

Wendy Rieger. :'(

I, loved ❤ her.

she was great...big DC LGBTQ ally too when it wasn't so popular. I think she was on all 4 AIDS rides I did (met her once) and made sure the news followed the event by her participation

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 18, 2022, 09:28:47 am

Since Yada has decided not to update us on the latest Hip-hop deaths...

hip hop icon DJ KaySlay dies at 55 after COVID battle

Originally I thought it said DJ Kilsaly and was like!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 21, 2022, 08:36:59 pm

Cynthia Plaster Caster

(https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1232829850127421441/pu/img/xWIKh55vtS48G7-l.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 22, 2022, 12:50:24 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 15, 2022, 06:47:46 pm

bossy was my second hockey idol, after lafleur. i remember watching the islanders win those Cups in the early 80's just prior to the gretzky/edmonton era...

Dude.

Guy LaFleur, 70. Lung cancer?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 22, 2022, 01:06:08 pm

wow... the one-two punch. rough week for the very young hockey-loving kid still inside me.

Canadiens icon Guy Lafleur, one of hockey's flashiest players, dead at 70 (https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/guy-lafleur-obituary-1.5766441)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on April 23, 2022, 11:46:51 pm

Orrin Hatch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 26, 2022, 03:43:11 pm

Earth, Wind & Fire saxophonist Andrew Woolfolk dies at 71 (https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/26/entertainment/andrew-woolfolk-death-earth-wind-and-fire-cec/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on April 27, 2022, 11:09:12 am

Klaus Schulze

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 27, 2022, 12:05:19 pm

^ woah.

https://www.musicradar.com/news/klaus-schulze-dies-aged-74

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 29, 2022, 08:12:16 pm

Founding Autograph bassist Randy Rand has died (https://www.loudersound.com/news/founding-autograph-bassist-randy-rand-has-died)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 30, 2022, 07:13:40 am

Quote from: sweetcell on April 29, 2022, 08:12:16 pm

Founding Autograph bassist Randy Rand has died (https://www.loudersound.com/news/founding-autograph-bassist-randy-rand-has-died)

Shouldn't this go in the Randy thread that we should definitely have?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 30, 2022, 06:10:10 pm

Naomi Judd
76

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 30, 2022, 06:39:28 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 30, 2022, 06:10:10 pm

Naomi Judd
76

For those who like details:

Country music legend Naomi Judd, one half of The Judds, dies age 76
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/30/entertainment/naomi-judd-death-mental-illness/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 01, 2022, 11:42:39 pm

French singer, actress and self-proclaimed inventor of the discotheque Regine has died aged 92. (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-61292332)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 02, 2022, 10:58:48 am

or rather exploding

Ric Parnell aka Mick Shrimpton and his twin brother Ric Shrimpton
70

The details
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/spinal-tap-drummer-ric-parnell-dead-at-age-70-064327523.html

credited with the drums on Toni Basil's Mickey

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 02, 2022, 11:24:54 am

well at least we still have Jean Shrimpton, icon of Swinging London

but I think he's the only Tap drummer to make it past 40, so there is that

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 06, 2022, 06:23:21 pm

Jewell Caples, “The First Lady of Death Row Records,” Dead At 53 (https://www.vibe.com/news/entertainment/jewell-caples-death-row-dead-1234661510/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 07, 2022, 07:11:46 pm

Kenneth Welsh, Twin Peaks and The Day After Tomorrow actor, dies at 80

Welsh appeared in dozens of Canadian and American movies and shows, including The X-Files, Due South, and Lodge 49.

Probably best known as Windom Earle but quite a resume

https://ew.com/celebrity/kenneth-welsh-dies-twin-peaks-actor/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 08, 2022, 10:37:04 am

that is a bummer, but it did answer a question I had, so useful obit
upcoming Kids in the Hall reboot will drop March 13 on Amazon Prime Video

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on May 09, 2022, 02:23:25 pm

Jethro Lazenby

Damn

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 09, 2022, 02:34:49 pm

Quote from: Starsky on May 09, 2022, 02:23:25 pm

Jethro Lazenby

holy shit...I can't believe another one of nick cave's son's has died, just horrible

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 09, 2022, 05:08:12 pm

Quote from: Side toad poison ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 09, 2022, 02:34:49 pm

Quote from: Starsky on May 09, 2022, 02:23:25 pm
Jethro Lazenby
holy shit...I can't believe another one of nick cave's son's has died, just horrible

and talk about a modern family... he was born 10 days before Cave's second son Luke to and didn't me his father until he was 7 or 8... sounds like he led a trouble life just coming out of jail for attacking his mother and previously a girlfriend...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 09, 2022, 05:22:26 pm

I read he was diagnosed with schizophrenia...so that rarely ends well. Especially if layer that with drug abuse
I did read that Nick was absent for most of his early youth, but somewhat mended thing up as he got older, but who knows

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 09, 2022, 05:52:59 pm

all of the above is corroborated here:

Jethro Lazenby, son of Nick Cave, dies aged 31 (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/09/jethro-lazenby-son-of-nick-cave-dies-aged-31)
The fashion model had recently been released from jail in Australia, after being convicted of assault against his mother

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 10, 2022, 10:58:33 am

Mickey Gilley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 10, 2022, 11:00:05 am

Quote from: sweetcell on May 09, 2022, 05:52:59 pm

all of the above is corroborated here:

Jethro Lazenby, son of Nick Cave, dies aged 31 (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/09/jethro-lazenby-son-of-nick-cave-dies-aged-31)
The fashion model had recently been released from jail in Australia, after being convicted of assault against his mother

So he died on Mother's Day?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 10, 2022, 11:18:31 am

Quote from: Space Freely on May 10, 2022, 10:58:33 am

Mickey Gilley

wrote classics like “ Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time,”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 11, 2022, 05:08:39 pm

The Black Dahlia Murder's Trevor Strnad has died at 41 (https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-black-dahlia-murders-trevor-strnad-has-died-at-41/)

like cancer, suicide sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 13, 2022, 01:20:32 pm

Fred Ward, the actor who played gruff but honorable characters in films like Tremors and The Right Stuff
(https://imagez.tmz.com/image/1e/o/2022/05/13/1e76238d17cd4b33a3c16613e5f1f59e_md.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 14, 2022, 06:32:55 pm

Lil Keed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 14, 2022, 06:43:01 pm

Well at least we still have Lil Uzi Vert so that’s pretty good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 15, 2022, 06:46:01 pm

Ricky Gardiner

Played lead guitar on Bowie’s Low and Iggy’s Lust For Life

Per Wikipedia

Since the 1970s Gardiner has played and composed in a variety of music styles, including ambient, classical and rock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Gardiner?wprov=sfti1

And wow that riff on “The Passenger” I can hear it in my head now

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on May 15, 2022, 09:09:08 pm

Wow some of my very favorite music

Thanks 🙏 for your service Gardiner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 16, 2022, 06:07:41 am

https://twitter.com/iggypop/status/1526138345537032195?s=21&t=ZOjcX07nUrsEwhRo6Wj5wQ

MESSAGE FROM IGGY:
"Dearest Ricky, lovely, lovely man, shirtless in your coveralls, nicest guy who ever played guitar.
Thanks for the memories and the songs, rest eternal in peace."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 16, 2022, 01:15:57 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 14, 2022, 06:43:01 pm

Well at least we still have Lil Uzi Vert so that’s pretty good.

but is it, really?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: IMAmoose24 on May 19, 2022, 01:18:13 pm

VANGELIS

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 19, 2022, 02:06:30 pm

Well, at least we still have Van Morrison so that's pretty good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on May 19, 2022, 02:15:31 pm

Quote from: Schulzenstein on May 19, 2022, 01:18:13 pm

VANGELIS

No one, with the cliché . . . "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

How, dare, you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: IMAmoose24 on May 19, 2022, 03:02:04 pm

Quote from: Walk,on,by on May 19, 2022, 02:15:31 pm

Quote from: Schulzenstein on May 19, 2022, 01:18:13 pm
VANGELIS

No one, with the cliché . . . "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

How, dare, you.

I refRAINed due to the cliche nature.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 20, 2022, 11:30:12 am

A bit lost in the shuffle due to Vangelis passing the same day

Bob Neuwirth, Singer-Songwriter and Bob Dylan Collaborator, Dies at 82

Neuwirth was a member of Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue band, recorded Last Day on Earth with John Cale, and co-wrote with Janis Joplin

https://pitchfork.com/news/bob-neuwirth-singer-songwriter-and-bob-dylan-collaborator-dies-at-82/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 20, 2022, 11:45:21 am

Well, at least we still have Bob Newhart so that's pretty good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 21, 2022, 06:18:43 pm

https://rockthebells.com/articles/bernard-wright-80s-rb-star-frequently-sampled-on

BERNARD WRIGHT, JAZZ/R&B STAR FREQUENTLY SAMPLED ON HIP-HOP HITS, DIES AT 58

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 23, 2022, 12:02:57 pm

Cathal Coughlan of Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 23, 2022, 01:12:05 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/23/cathal-coughlan-frontman-with-irish-indie-bands-microdisney-and-fatima-mansions-dies-aged-61

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 24, 2022, 12:11:52 pm

Colin Cantwell, designer of 'Star Wars' Death Star, dies aged 90 (https://www.cnn.com/style/article/colin-cantwell-star-wars-dead-intl-scli/index.html)
"Cantwell was best known for designing and constructing prototypes of the X-Wing, Star Destroyer, TIE Fighter, Death Star and other ships for "Star Wars: A New Hope," the first movie in the blockbuster sci-fi franchise."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 24, 2022, 12:13:01 pm

Well, at least the Supreme Court doesn't look likely to overturn Cantwell v Connecticut, so that's pretty good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 24, 2022, 12:53:39 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on May 24, 2022, 12:11:52 pm

Colin Cantwell, designer of 'Star Wars' Death Star, dies aged 90 (https://www.cnn.com/style/article/colin-cantwell-star-wars-dead-intl-scli/index.html)
"Cantwell was best known for designing and constructing prototypes of the X-Wing, Star Destroyer, TIE Fighter, Death Star and other ships for "Star Wars: A New Hope," the first movie in the blockbuster sci-fi franchise."

Coincidentally over Portugal...
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd0QM4HKUtb/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on May 24, 2022, 12:56:52 pm

He did a great job…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 24, 2022, 01:59:37 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on May 24, 2022, 12:53:39 pm

Coincidentally over Portugal...
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd0QM4HKUtb/

imagine being high AF, unaware that this drone display was scheduled, then looking up and seeing those shapes in the sky...

can't wait for drone swarms to be incorporated into big concerts. i mean, i'm sure they already are, but can't wait to actually see it myself.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 26, 2022, 12:52:07 pm

Ray Liotta

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on May 26, 2022, 01:49:10 pm

Alan White

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_White_(Yes_drummer)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 26, 2022, 03:18:24 pm

Andy Fletcher, Depeche Mode

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 26, 2022, 03:24:56 pm

Quote from: Starsky on May 26, 2022, 01:49:10 pm

Alan White

yes drummer, but also in some other key things
In 1969 White had joined John Lennon & Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band, after Lennon invited him to play at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival, followed by a show at the Lyceum Ballroom. He notably played drums on the singles "Instant Karma!" and "Imagine", as well as on eight tracks on Lennon's Imagine album

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 26, 2022, 03:36:36 pm

Quote from: Sidespeare ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 26, 2022, 12:52:07 pm

Ray Liotta

At least we still have Ray Lamontagne so that’s pretty good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 26, 2022, 03:37:06 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 26, 2022, 03:18:24 pm

Andy Fletcher, Depeche Mode

At least we still have Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode so that’s pretty good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on May 26, 2022, 03:41:13 pm

Wow…didn’t see that coming..dude was only 60

I wish they bring back Alan Wilder now but no doubt they won’t

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 26, 2022, 03:54:40 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 26, 2022, 03:37:06 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 26, 2022, 03:18:24 pm
Andy Fletcher, Depeche Mode
At least we still have Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode so that’s pretty good.

In 1995, I was at a Yo La Tengo concert in Koln, Germany the night Dave Gahan attempted suicide. I thought I heard Ira Kaplan make a snarky comment about it from the stage...but this many years later I'm going to give old Ira the benefit of the doubt and say that I must have misheard him.

That;s my best Depeche Mode story.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 26, 2022, 04:17:37 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 26, 2022, 03:54:40 pm

That;s my best Depeche Mode story.

when I was a kid, we used to pretend that their first MTV video "I just can't get enough" was in fact a commercial for a erectile dysfunction

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on May 26, 2022, 04:27:54 pm

Oh they got enough….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on May 26, 2022, 04:31:05 pm

https://abcnews.go.com/US/widower-teacher-slain-texas-elementary-school-dies-heart/story?id=85000519

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 26, 2022, 07:56:50 pm

23rackz

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 26, 2022, 08:36:08 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 26, 2022, 07:56:50 pm

23rackz

That's alotta ribs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on May 27, 2022, 10:24:42 am

Alan White - drummer Yes, among other bands

https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-united-kingdom-beb8f116767271c36e31e33f753c0645

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 27, 2022, 10:53:28 am

Quote from: Yada on May 26, 2022, 07:56:50 pm

23rackz

while I know Yada has the pulse of the underground hip-hop acts...this was local

Justin Johnson, who performed under the name 23 Rackzs, was killed in the 2200 block of Savannah Terrace, Southeast, around 11:24 am on Thursday, May 26, Metropolitan Police said.

Johnson was reportedly filming a video outside of his home when he was shot,
https://dailyvoice.com/virginia/alexandria/police-fire/dmv-rapper-23-rackzs-shot-dead-at-16-in-southeast-dc-update/833500/

16 years old :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 27, 2022, 10:56:36 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on May 27, 2022, 10:24:42 am

Alan White - drummer Yes, among other bands

https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-united-kingdom-beb8f116767271c36e31e33f753c0645

He died on the previous page.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 27, 2022, 11:16:57 am

Quote from: Space Freely on May 27, 2022, 10:56:36 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on May 27, 2022, 10:24:42 am
Alan White - drummer Yes, among other bands

https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-united-kingdom-beb8f116767271c36e31e33f753c0645

He died on the previous page.

It was a Alan White sample from the Yes recording session for 90125 that launched Art Of Noise

During January 1983, Horn's team were working on the Yes comeback album 90125 – Horn as producer, Langan as engineer, and Dudley and Jeczalik providing arrangements and keyboard programming. During the sessions, Jeczalik and Langan took a scrapped Alan White drum riff and sampled it into the Fairlight using the device's Page R sequencer (the first time an entire drum pattern had been sampled into the machine). Jeczalik and Langan then added non-musical sounds on top of it, before playing the track to Horn. This in turn resulted in the Red & Blue Mix of Yes's "Owner of a Lonely Heart" single, which showcased the prototype sound of The Art of Noise.

Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart (Red and Blue Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuc4arzcdGg

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 27, 2022, 12:05:41 pm

art of noise was amazing and still holds up today
Art of Noise - Close (To The Edit) (https://youtu.be/-sFK0-lcjGU)
this video blew my mind as a little hatch

this is neat...them doing it live in 2004
https://youtu.be/HPiqwvbegq0

this is funny
people didn’t know where we had come from. We were often labelled radical underground dance artists. We even got an award in the US for best black act of 1984
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/03/how-we-made-art-of-noise-close-to-the-edit-anne-dudley-paul-morley

didn't know this either
I love to say that we’re the third most sampled group of all time. The proudest for me was the Prodigy on Firestarter. They wanted our “Hey”, the one on Close (to the Edit) – no other would do. The royalties kept me in coffees for many years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 29, 2022, 07:09:40 pm

Axel James Markle

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 29, 2022, 07:45:09 pm

At least we still have Axl Rose so that’s pretty good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 29, 2022, 07:48:05 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 29, 2022, 07:45:09 pm

At least we still have Axl Rose so that’s pretty good.

B-

Axel Foley was the correct answer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on May 29, 2022, 08:12:29 pm

You’re welcome

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx2gvHjNhQ0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 29, 2022, 09:34:46 pm

Ronnie Hawkins

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 29, 2022, 11:04:03 pm

At least we still have Taylor Hawkins so that’s pretty good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 30, 2022, 02:27:33 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 29, 2022, 11:04:03 pm

At least we still have Taylor Hawkins

uhh... do one of you want to tell him, or does it fall on me again... dammit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 30, 2022, 11:34:30 am

Sidhu Moose

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on May 30, 2022, 11:53:25 am

Wow…hip hop deaths gone global

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 30, 2022, 01:44:43 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on May 30, 2022, 02:27:33 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 29, 2022, 11:04:03 pm
At least we still have Taylor Hawkins

uhh... do one of you want to tell him, or does it fall on me again... dammit.

Should have said Stephen.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 30, 2022, 04:08:20 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 29, 2022, 09:34:46 pm

Ronnie Hawkins

at least we still have the fictional town of Hawkins Indiana

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 01, 2022, 10:09:34 pm

Dave Smith (https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2022/06/01/sequential-founder-father-of-midi-dave-smith-has-died/), inventor of MIDI

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 01, 2022, 10:25:01 pm

At least we still have Midori.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 02, 2022, 03:09:50 pm

Former NFL running back Marion Barber was found dead in Texas (https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102587935/marion-barber-dead)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 02, 2022, 03:22:34 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 02, 2022, 03:09:50 pm

Former NFL running back Marion Barber was found dead in Texas (https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102587935/marion-barber-dead)

Well at least we still have Ronde Barber so that’s pretty good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on June 02, 2022, 03:34:18 pm

Tiki?!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 02, 2022, 03:48:20 pm

Quote from: Starsky on June 02, 2022, 03:34:18 pm

Tiki?!?

FUCK Tiki Barber. Haughty ass motherfucker.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on June 02, 2022, 04:33:46 pm

Cold

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 02, 2022, 05:06:08 pm

Quote from: Starsky on June 02, 2022, 04:33:46 pm

Cold

He knows what he did.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 02, 2022, 08:55:32 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on June 02, 2022, 03:48:20 pm

Quote from: Starsky on June 02, 2022, 03:34:18 pm
Tiki?!?
FUCK Tiki Barber. Haughty ass motherfucker.

Friend of mine got his hair cut by him. It sucked. Everyone saw the proof.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 02, 2022, 09:54:51 pm

deborah mccrary

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 02, 2022, 10:03:33 pm

Kelly Joe Phelps.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 02, 2022, 10:16:50 pm

Kelly Joe Phelps

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 05, 2022, 09:43:55 pm

Trouble

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 05, 2022, 10:47:53 pm

Leslie Joanne Wayne

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on June 05, 2022, 11:31:42 pm

Mr. Alec John Such, original bassist for Bon Jovi has died at the age of 71.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 07, 2022, 03:27:40 pm

Seals (https://variety.com/2022/music/obituaries-people-news/jim-seals-dead-seals-crofts-summer-breeze-soft-rock-1235286748/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 10, 2022, 05:51:38 am

Julee Cruise singer best known for her work with David Lynch 65

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 10, 2022, 07:56:18 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on June 10, 2022, 05:51:38 am

Julee Cruise singer best known for her work with David Lynch 65

She will return in 25 years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on June 10, 2022, 07:21:17 pm

I get beat out, on all the good, death announcements.

She was so incredible in Twin Peaks. I will never, look at motorcycle bars, the same way again.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 12, 2022, 07:54:46 pm

DJ Batman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on June 13, 2022, 10:41:00 am

Ocean City DJ Batman?

Quote from: Yada on June 12, 2022, 07:54:46 pm

DJ Batman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 13, 2022, 01:34:53 pm

Philip Baker Hall has died at the age of 90.
The legendary character actor was known for his roles in Boogie Nights and Magnolia, as well as playing library investigator Mr. Bookman on Seinfeld.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on June 13, 2022, 01:49:45 pm

Ok but who was DJ Batman?!?

Did Michael Keaton die cause he said I’m Batman?!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 13, 2022, 01:51:17 pm

in case there are any old-school ravers/tranceheads here:

A sad news for historical trance music lovers arrives this evening unexpectedly: the German DJ and music producer Thomas Weyer, known by his pseudonym Commander Tom, has passed away. Famous since the end of the 80s, it reaches its peak of success in 1995 with the hard trance hit "Are Am Eye ?" and again in 2004 with "Attention", which takes up the famous song by Tom Novy and Eniac from 1997 "Superstar".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 14, 2022, 10:07:46 pm

Meghan Stabile

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 15, 2022, 08:10:48 am

Quote from: Yada on June 14, 2022, 10:07:46 pm

Meghan Stabile

I googled this one. Some more details. Girlfriend of a Thundercat, but not THEE Stallion. Due to sickness. Also, what are "visionary genes of music?"

https://wepublishnews.com/news/meghan-stabile-died-what-was-her-cause-of-death

Meghan Stabile, a musical pioneer who wowed the audience with her visionary genes of music, died at 36.

Musician Meghan Stabile’s girlfriend of Thundercat dies due to sickness. Boyfriend, Thundercat, a musician, confirms the passing of his girlfriend on Instagram and Twitter.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 16, 2022, 12:57:25 pm

Internet Explorer, star of Windows, dies at 26 (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/15/23167121/microsoft-internet-explorer-end-of-support-retirement)

maybe should have gone in schadenfreude thread...

(https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/220618224304-internet-explorer-gravestone-viral-south-korea-intl-hnk.jpg?c=16x9&q=h_720,w_1280,c_fill) (https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/18/asia/internet-explorer-gravestone-viral-south-korea-intl-hnk/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 19, 2022, 01:11:53 am

for the politicos:

Mark Shields, political analyst on CNN and PBS ‘NewsHour,’ dies at 85 (https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/18/media/mark-shields-obit/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 20, 2022, 10:01:16 pm

Darius Lee

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 20, 2022, 10:47:34 pm

backdoorgloxka

Condolences to Julian and everyone else in Richmond.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 21, 2022, 08:36:41 am

Quote from: Yada on June 20, 2022, 10:47:34 pm

backdoorgloxka

Condolences to Julian and everyone else in Richmond.

Appreciate the thoughts and prayers.

Who, though?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 22, 2022, 10:57:22 am

LilTJay

In emergency surgery

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on June 22, 2022, 12:47:54 pm

Jaylon Ferguson
Ravens linebacker
26

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 22, 2022, 01:53:09 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 22, 2022, 10:57:22 am

LilTJay

In emergency surgery

I'm still a little bemused how Yada is in the loop on underground hip-hop, it's like his brand now
I wonder what percent of his vinyl collection is dedicated to this genre

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on June 22, 2022, 04:09:56 pm

Tony Siragusa. Not a good day for the Ravens/Raven's fans/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 26, 2022, 02:57:03 pm

Patrick Adams (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/26/arts/music/patrick-adams-dead.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesarts), disco producer/impresario

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 26, 2022, 09:12:10 pm

Kept meaning to post about Patrick Adams, whose name and who he worked with didn’t ring a bell. But, people I follow on Twitter mentioned his passing several time.

The only record I caught he was involved with I was aware of was Eric B & Rakim’s album Follow The Leader

Correction he worked on all three of Eric B & Rakim’s records as well as Salt-N-Pepper

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 27, 2022, 11:31:55 am

Full disclosure as a impressable teen in late 70s I fell under the spell of the Disco Sucks movement, even had a Disco Sucks t-shirt that featured three musical figures presumable showing their disapproval. The only figure I remember for sure on it was Beethoven...

The movement start in Detroit as that's where Steve Dahl was at the time, he being of course later had the infamous Disco Demolition event in Chicago.

At the time my exposure to Disco was really just Saturday Night Fever and not much more, not realizing it was a much wider movement that had be co-opted by the white mainstream which resulted in that movie and the Bee Gees, etc doing disco tunes.

I've now of course come to learn a lot of the Disco Sucks movement was also deeply rooted in Racism and Homophobia, as Disco came via Gay Black clubs, etc.

I mention this of course as this movement really did kill an otherwise vibrant music scene... I on occasion will come across a thoroughly enjoyable complication of Underground Disco to further my exposure to the good stuff...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 30, 2022, 12:42:40 pm

Sonny Barger Dies: Hells Angels Founder, ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ Actor & Rolling Stones Nemesis Was 83 (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sonny-barger-dies-hells-angels-152106789.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 30, 2022, 03:14:40 pm

(https://images.saymedia-content.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:eco%2Cw_520/MTc2MjU5NjM0NjU3NTY3OTM0/margaretkeane.webp)

Margaret Keane (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/06/29/big-eyes-artist-margaret-keane-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 02, 2022, 01:18:29 pm

Missed this one, last month

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/06/03/songwriter-paul-vance-dies/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 02, 2022, 03:28:15 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on July 02, 2022, 01:18:29 pm

Missed this one, last month

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/06/03/songwriter-paul-vance-dies/

Leader of the Laundromat! one of my favorite songs as a kid

This was on heavy rotation on my first record player...heavy rotation
(https://images.recordsale.de/430/430/-funky-favorites.jpg)
I think I can still sing some of these songs from start to finish

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 06, 2022, 02:16:36 pm

Lawrence Pfaff, Sr. (https://www.jacksonville.com/obituaries/pfla0245589)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 06, 2022, 02:22:17 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 06, 2022, 02:16:36 pm

Lawrence Pfaff, Sr. (https://www.jacksonville.com/obituaries/pfla0245589)

Hilarious.

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 06, 2022, 02:34:55 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 06, 2022, 02:16:36 pm

Lawrence Pfaff, Sr. (https://www.jacksonville.com/obituaries/pfla0245589)

damn...
It will be challenging to miss Lawrence, Sr. because he was narcissistic. He was incapable of love. Lawrence, Sr.'s passing proves that evil does eventually die, and it marks a time of healing, which will allow his children to get the closure they deserve. Lawrence, Sr. can be remembered for being a father to many, and a dad to none.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 06, 2022, 07:01:58 pm

Quote from: I am the Cuttlefish ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 06, 2022, 02:34:55 pm

Lawrence, Sr. can be remembered for being a father to many, and a dad to none.[/i]

devastating

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 07, 2022, 02:08:14 pm

James Caan
Actor in Godfather, etc
82

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 08, 2022, 04:43:06 am

Geez poor Shinzo Abe…hope he makes it

Just shocking from Japan a country that had 6 gun deaths in a recent year (where we had 33000)

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 08, 2022, 06:38:31 am

Shinzo Abe did not survive the assassination

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 08, 2022, 07:55:00 am

Not my favoritte Abe ever assassinated, but may he RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 08, 2022, 08:33:07 am

Not a good week for Prime Ministers.

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 08, 2022, 08:53:43 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 08, 2022, 08:33:07 am

Not a good week for Prime Ministers.

always comes in threes...who's next!

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 08, 2022, 09:34:37 am

Quote from: I am the Cuttlefish ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 08, 2022, 08:53:43 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 08, 2022, 08:33:07 am
Not a good week for Prime Ministers.
always comes in threes...who's next!

If its Xavier Espot Zamora, Julian's America will be plunged into chaos.

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 08, 2022, 10:21:48 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 08, 2022, 09:34:37 am

Quote from: I am the Cuttlefish ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 08, 2022, 08:53:43 am
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 08, 2022, 08:33:07 am
Not a good week for Prime Ministers.
always comes in threes...who's next!
If its Xavier Espot Zamora, Julian's America will be plunged into chaos.

well there is this
andorra had the highest life expectancy in the world at 81 years

TIL about andorra

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Post by: shemptiness on July 08, 2022, 10:28:47 am

Larry Storch, famously of the show 'F Troop', 6 months shy of his 100th.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 08, 2022, 10:35:59 am

Quote from: I am the Cuttlefish ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 08, 2022, 10:21:48 am

TIL about andorra

It's the Monaco we don't let you normies know about.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on July 08, 2022, 10:42:15 am

Abe Vigoda was not assassinated. He died of natural causes.

Quote from: Space Freely on July 08, 2022, 07:55:00 am

Not my favoritte Abe ever assassinated, but may he RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 08, 2022, 01:23:39 pm

Entertainment Obituary writers are getting a workout today...

so far three actors

Lenny Von Dohlen, 63 best known as Harold Smith in Twin Peaks

Gregory Itzin, 74 played the president in 24 among other roles

Larry Storch, 99 F Troop Actor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 08, 2022, 01:44:57 pm

major upheaval in the world of manga:

Kazuki Takahashi, creator of hit manga 'Yu-Gi-Oh!', dies age 60 (https://www.cnn.com/style/article/kazuki-takahashi-obit-intl-hnk/index.html)

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Post by: sweetcell on July 08, 2022, 05:06:06 pm

Founding Nazareth guitarist Manny Charlton dead at 80 (https://www.loudersound.com/news/founding-nazareth-guitarist-manny-charlton-dead-at-80)

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 08, 2022, 07:24:19 pm

Tony Sorico, best known as Paulie Walnuts from The Sopranos

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 09, 2022, 07:34:21 am

Willie Lee Morrow

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 09, 2022, 06:35:37 pm

L.Q. Jones

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 11, 2022, 11:47:23 am

Archie "Zeebo" Steele - half of See-I, and a frontman for Thievery Corporation (https://www.facebook.com/100044318025230/posts/pfbid0snV37ZD7NCtscwSr3RDrHvpxPydY65u5whTo8Qr4op89BUiUoJhy4sStP8kwhQh6l/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 11, 2022, 12:07:50 pm

Wow…one of the TC reggae boyz

That sucks

In the early days of Thievery the show would begin with the slower down tempo then the reggae boyz took over …I would be like WTF is this? When did Thievery turn into a Jamaican dancehall act?

Of course as I got older and learned more I realized even the down tempo was Jamaican…just more a different slant of Jamaican..dub

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 11, 2022, 12:09:57 pm

That is like THE singer for Thievery that felt most essential, even more than Sista Pat. Wow.

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Post by: Starsky on July 11, 2022, 12:14:07 pm

I am just a sucker for the down tempo with female vocals. If they just did that (like Saudade) I would be happy

Pam Bricker was a huge loss… I saw her at Utopia for years…Lebanese Blonde is great…I have a Mirror Conspiracy LP signed by Pam, Eric and Rob

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 11, 2022, 12:51:33 pm

Quote from: Starsky on July 11, 2022, 12:07:50 pm

In the early days of Thievery the show would begin with the slower down tempo then the reggae boyz took over …I would be like WTF is this?

that transition from dubby intro to two rastas ripping the roof off the place was one of my favorite parts of a TC show. they got the whole room jumping. talk about getting the party started. RIP.

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 11, 2022, 12:55:47 pm

Quote from: Starsky on July 11, 2022, 12:14:07 pm

I have a Mirror Conspiracy LP signed by Pam, Eric and Rob

Nice. I just found like four days ago a copy of Richest Man in Babylon, the original 2002 press on 4xLP, at my local used store. Scooped that right up. Really good condition other than the previous owner handwriting the bpms for each track on the back but beggars can’t be choosers since I’ve never seen another 2002-pressing in the wild.

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Post by: Starsky on July 11, 2022, 02:18:24 pm

That’s a great pressing and hard to find!

Super heavy set!

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Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 11, 2022, 02:25:33 pm

Quote from: Starsky on July 11, 2022, 02:18:24 pm

That’s a great pressing and hard to find!

Yeah, I've had an eye out for it for probably close to ten years -- without it rising to the level of "this is a grail I must own and I'm going to go on discogs and just buy one from across the world" -- and this is the first time one has actually crossed my path at any price point.

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Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 11, 2022, 02:51:42 pm

Monty Norman, 94 composer of The James Bond theme

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 11, 2022, 02:54:17 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 11, 2022, 02:51:42 pm

Monty Norman, 94 composer of The James Bond theme

Was he? Officially yes

Many say John Barry who was working under him came up with it….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 12, 2022, 12:27:15 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 02, 2022, 03:09:50 pm

Former NFL running back Marion Barber was found dead in Texas (https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102587935/marion-barber-dead)

he cooked himself (https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3555180-former-cowboy-marion-barber-iii-died-of-heatstroke-police-say/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 14, 2022, 04:05:02 pm

Ivana Trump

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Post by: Yada on July 14, 2022, 06:30:15 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on July 14, 2022, 04:05:02 pm

Ivana Trump

Out of all of the Trumps!

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 14, 2022, 08:09:57 pm

Quote from: Yada on July 14, 2022, 06:30:15 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on July 14, 2022, 04:05:02 pm
Ivana Trump

Out of all of the Trumps!

I feel ya, at least we still have Mary

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mark_Read on July 15, 2022, 01:15:31 pm

Paul Ryder (Happy Mondays) :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 15, 2022, 01:18:21 pm

Quote from: Mark_Read on July 15, 2022, 01:15:31 pm

Paul Ryder (Happy Mondays) :'(

Paul Ryder, Happy Mondays bassist, dies aged 58 (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/15/paul-ryder-happy-mondays-bassist-dies-aged-58)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 15, 2022, 03:29:51 pm

William "Poogie" Hart lead singer for The Delfonics 77

per Bootsy Collins, he was the writer and producer of their hit songs as well...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 15, 2022, 04:43:52 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on July 15, 2022, 01:18:21 pm

Quote from: Mark_Read on July 15, 2022, 01:15:31 pm
Paul Ryder (Happy Mondays) :'(

Paul Ryder, Happy Mondays bassist, dies aged 58 (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/15/paul-ryder-happy-mondays-bassist-dies-aged-58)

Who had Paul preceding his brother Shawn In death?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 15, 2022, 05:02:30 pm

Quote from: Starsky on July 15, 2022, 04:43:52 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on July 15, 2022, 01:18:21 pm
Quote from: Mark_Read on July 15, 2022, 01:15:31 pm
Paul Ryder (Happy Mondays) :'(

Paul Ryder, Happy Mondays bassist, dies aged 58 (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/15/paul-ryder-happy-mondays-bassist-dies-aged-58)

Who had Paul preceding his brother Shawn In death?

this is very true and while growing old is never graceful for most, Shaun isn't aging at all that well.. talk about yikes what happened to you .. Bez on the other hand looks good for his age given the lifestyle of that band..

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FVeMDHYXsAIe5vQ?format=jpg&name=large)

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 15, 2022, 05:22:07 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 15, 2022, 03:29:51 pm

William "Poogie" Hart lead singer for The Delfonics 77

per Bootsy Collins, he was the writer and producer of their hit songs as well...

always am a little extra sadder when an artist passes, that was older, but had a bunch of dates on a tour coming up

The Delfonics -
OCT 15
Baltimore, MD
Sat 8:00 PM · The Lyric Baltimore

(was a bunch of acts...and really not selling well)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 15, 2022, 05:45:22 pm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YNn51e11_dQ&t=23s

Good times on e

Check out Shaun at 23 seconds

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Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 18, 2022, 03:21:33 pm

Claes Oldenburg
In SF
(https://d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net/?resize_to=width&src=https%3A%2F%2Fartsy-media-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2F9NeTSkh_IaIW5lSaAY3DmQ%252F2246908250_28fc31de44_o.jpg&width=910&quality=80)
a local one
(https://brockelpress.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/oldenburg.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 18, 2022, 06:21:22 pm

Jak Knight, Known for the Netflix Series ‘Big Mouth,’ Dies at 28 (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/16/arts/television/jak-knight-dead.html)
Mr. Knight, who had been a successful stand-up comedian for several years, was also a writer for the ABC sitcom “Black-ish.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 20, 2022, 08:18:12 am

Michael Henderson bass player 71

Several solo albums and several albums with Miles Davis (1970-77)

also worked as a session musician with Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Arethea Franklin, etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Henderson

also among his accomplishments

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/Slingshot_album.jpb.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 20, 2022, 08:20:56 am

That album cover!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 20, 2022, 09:29:03 am

Just saw that James Jamerson had given bass lessons to both Michael Henderson and Billy "Bass" Nelson (original bassist for Funkadelic) so not only were his bass lines widely influential his proteges influence many more.

I knew Jamerson had died young, but never looked up the reason why until today. He was 47 and died of complications from cirrhosis of the liver, heart failure and pneumonia.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 20, 2022, 09:13:15 pm

chank middleton

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 21, 2022, 02:10:26 pm

FordsonRdWuu

My condolences to Julian and the rest of the Richmond hip hop community.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 21, 2022, 03:56:04 pm

Quote from: Yada on July 21, 2022, 02:10:26 pm

FordsonRdWuu

My condolences to Julian and the rest of the Richmond hip hop community.

Thanks fam.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 24, 2022, 10:39:56 am

Rollie Bands

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 25, 2022, 12:50:31 pm

David Warner, British Actor Known for ‘The Omen’ and ‘Tron,’ Dies at 80 (https://variety.com/2022/film/obituaries-people-news/david-warner-dead-dies-omen-tron-1235324582/)

also had iconic roles in Time Bandits and Time After Time

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 25, 2022, 01:56:32 pm

was awesome in time bandits
even was in twin peaks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on July 25, 2022, 02:32:39 pm

Paul Sorvino
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/paul-sorvino-dead-goodfellas-1235324940/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 25, 2022, 02:53:54 pm

yikes, third 'goodfella' to die this year...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 25, 2022, 03:59:51 pm

Quote from: Summer-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 25, 2022, 02:53:54 pm

yikes, third 'goodfella' to die this year...

Sorvino, Liotta, and who else?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 25, 2022, 04:28:33 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 25, 2022, 03:59:51 pm

Quote from: Summer-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 25, 2022, 02:53:54 pm
yikes, third 'goodfella' to die this year...

Sorvino, Liotta, and who else?

pauly
(https://static.independent.co.uk/2020/09/14/13/3%20tony%20sirico.jpg?quality=75&width=640&auto=webp)

https://twitter.com/jamesurbaniak/status/1313908953105887232

pretty much every person in goodfells went on to be in the sopranos
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/goodfellas-the-sopranos-actors-anniversary-lorraine-bracco-michael-imperioli-b435765.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 25, 2022, 04:30:18 pm

So who was the third?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 25, 2022, 04:34:13 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 25, 2022, 04:30:18 pm

So who was the third?

tony sirico ...had a small role in goodfellas
better known as Pauly wallnuts from the soproanos

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 26, 2022, 12:34:39 pm

(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/3cb219f059aa6b18aff64263ffefb6c27b31b99e/c=47-0-1084-1383/local/-/media/2017/10/01/Phoenix/Phoenix/636424934123702613-Tony-Dow-1958.jpg?width=300&height=401&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/26/tony-down-leave-to-beaver-wally-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 26, 2022, 04:51:18 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 26, 2022, 12:34:39 pm

(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/3cb219f059aa6b18aff64263ffefb6c27b31b99e/c=47-0-1084-1383/local/-/media/2017/10/01/Phoenix/Phoenix/636424934123702613-Tony-Dow-1958.jpg?width=300&height=401&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/26/tony-down-leave-to-beaver-wally-dead/)

In the words of Monty Phyton… Not Dead Yet

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 26, 2022, 04:57:26 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 26, 2022, 04:51:18 pm

In the words of Monty Phyton… Not Dead Yet

D'oh! (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/arts/television/tony-dow-dead.html)

Editor’s Note

An obituary of the actor Tony Dow was published in error. The Times based the confirmation of his death on a Facebook post by his representatives, which has since been deleted.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 27, 2022, 04:10:57 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 26, 2022, 12:34:39 pm

(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/3cb219f059aa6b18aff64263ffefb6c27b31b99e/c=47-0-1084-1383/local/-/media/2017/10/01/Phoenix/Phoenix/636424934123702613-Tony-Dow-1958.jpg?width=300&height=401&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp) (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/07/26/tony-down-leave-to-beaver-wally-dead/)

...and now he's dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on July 27, 2022, 05:08:15 pm

That seems to happen more and more…somebody announces a death before the family is ready and they walk it back and then it turns out the person is indeed dead

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 27, 2022, 05:10:23 pm

but was that the case, here? thought i read something that he was recently transferred to a hospice for palliative care, and someone mistook "he's on the way out" for "he's gone".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 27, 2022, 05:41:30 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on July 27, 2022, 05:10:23 pm

but was that the case, here? thought i read something that he was recently transferred to a hospice for palliative care, and someone mistook "he's on the way out" for "he's gone".

Most macabre LITB episode ever.

Who's left of the main and secondary cast?

Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Jerry Mathers)
Judy Hensler (the mean girl) (Jeri Weil)
Larry Mondello (Beaver's chubby friend) (Robert 'Rusty' Stevens)

If Gus the Fireman (Burt Mustin) was alive today, he'd be 138 years old.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on July 27, 2022, 06:49:09 pm

Prove that Gus ain't alive. Haven't seen anything posted on the board about it.

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 27, 2022, 05:41:30 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on July 27, 2022, 05:10:23 pm
but was that the case, here? thought i read something that he was recently transferred to a hospice for palliative care, and someone mistook "he's on the way out" for "he's gone".

Most macabre LITB episode ever.

Who's left of the main and secondary cast?
Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Jerry Mathers)
Judy Hensler (the mean girl) (Jeri Weil)
Larry Mondello (Beaver's chubby friend) (Robert 'Rusty' Stevens)

If Gus the Fireman (Burt Mustin) was alive today, he'd be 138 years old.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 27, 2022, 06:50:36 pm

Thanks for taking us down the beaver rabbit hole.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on July 27, 2022, 07:23:19 pm

better than the beaver beaver hole?

Quote from: Space Freely on July 27, 2022, 06:50:36 pm

Thanks for taking us down the beaver rabbit hole.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 27, 2022, 09:30:23 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on July 27, 2022, 06:49:09 pm

Prove that Gus ain't alive. Haven't seen anything posted on the board about it.

NYT wouldn't lie to you, would they?

Burt Mustin Dropped, Like A Fly, at 94 (https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/29/archives/burt-mustin-dead-94yearold-actor-of-tv-and-screen.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on July 27, 2022, 10:24:05 pm

Are you kidding? NYT, a bastion of fake news from what I've been told by the real president. And they have the nerve not to even mention the iconic Gus the Fireman role in LITB.

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 27, 2022, 09:30:23 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on July 27, 2022, 06:49:09 pm
Prove that Gus ain't alive. Haven't seen anything posted on the board about it.

NYT wouldn't lie to you, would they?

Burt Mustin Dropped, Like A Fly, at 94 (https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/29/archives/burt-mustin-dead-94yearold-actor-of-tv-and-screen.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 28, 2022, 05:33:27 pm

Rapper JayDaYoungan Shot and Killed Outside Louisiana Home (https://www.tmz.com/2022/07/27/jaydayoungan-rapper-shot-outside-home-hospital-critical-condition/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 29, 2022, 08:42:22 am

Quote from: sweetcell on July 28, 2022, 05:33:27 pm

Rapper JayDaYoungan Shot and Killed Outside Louisiana Home (https://www.tmz.com/2022/07/27/jaydayoungan-rapper-shot-outside-home-hospital-critical-condition/)

Any relation to Virginia’s Governor?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 29, 2022, 08:46:10 am

Quote from: sweetcell on July 28, 2022, 05:33:27 pm

Rapper JayDaYoungan Shot and Killed Outside Louisiana Home (https://www.tmz.com/2022/07/27/jaydayoungan-rapper-shot-outside-home-hospital-critical-condition/)

You forgot to log in to your Yada account.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 29, 2022, 09:16:21 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on July 29, 2022, 08:42:22 am

Quote from: sweetcell on July 28, 2022, 05:33:27 pm
Rapper JayDaYoungan Shot and Killed Outside Louisiana Home (https://www.tmz.com/2022/07/27/jaydayoungan-rapper-shot-outside-home-hospital-critical-condition/)
Any relation to Virginia’s Governor?

Yes, both they both adamently deny it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 31, 2022, 01:29:17 pm

Basketball Legend Bill Russell, 88

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 31, 2022, 03:07:09 pm

(https://i.ibb.co/drVwww5/Screenshot-2022-07-31-150433.png) (https://www.thedailybeast.com/nichelle-nichols-who-starred-as-nyota-uhura-in-original-star-trek-star-dies-at-89)

(https://i.ibb.co/pxyNptp/money.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 01, 2022, 10:17:59 pm

Sumohair

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 01, 2022, 10:31:03 pm

Mo Ostin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 01, 2022, 10:53:22 pm

Is yada's keyboard screwed up?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 01, 2022, 11:00:41 pm

Quote from: Peson-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 01, 2022, 10:53:22 pm

Is yada's keyboard screwed up?

Mo Ostin, Legendary Warner Bros. Records Chief, Dies at 95 (https://www.billboard.com/pro/mo-ostin-warner-bros-records-chief-dead-95/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 02, 2022, 07:42:30 am

al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri

Dems seem to be much better at this

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 02, 2022, 12:57:17 pm

Shadows of Knight singer Jimy Sohns, voice of hit ‘Gloria,’ dead at 75, services Saturday

https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2022/8/1/23287571/jimy-sohns-shadows-knight-gloria-garage-rock

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 02, 2022, 01:18:08 pm

John King Ardent Records co-founder and veteran music promoter, 78

"If it wasn't for John, no one would've known Big Star," said band co-founder Jody Stephens. "He was such a creative and enthusiastic guy."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 02, 2022, 11:26:05 pm

Vin Scully

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 03, 2022, 04:15:44 pm

Indiana Republican Rep Jackie Walorski

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 04, 2022, 02:12:05 pm

Quote from: Eric-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 02, 2022, 07:42:30 am

al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri

RX9 (https://www.news9live.com/knowledge/r9x-hellfire-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-ninja-missile-that-killed-al-qaeda-leader-186656)... AKA "ninja bomb (https://www.financialexpress.com/defence/all-you-want-to-know-about-hellfire-r9x/2614708/)"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 04, 2022, 05:15:34 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 04, 2022, 02:12:05 pm

Quote from: Eric-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 02, 2022, 07:42:30 am
al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri

RX9 (https://www.news9live.com/knowledge/r9x-hellfire-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-ninja-missile-that-killed-al-qaeda-leader-186656)... AKA "ninja bomb (https://www.financialexpress.com/defence/all-you-want-to-know-about-hellfire-r9x/2614708/)"

That is fascinating
All in a effort to avoid bad PR, but heck, if there are less civilians killed… seems better

This Air to Ground (AGM) 114 Hellfire missiles are subsonic missiles and have significant anti-tank capacity. The missile used by the US, on August 2, is a warhead-less missile and it is equipped with six razors like blades. And it is these blades that killed the al-Qaeda head

Warhead-less!

I’m sure it will make an appearance in some action flick soon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 04, 2022, 05:27:01 pm

Quote from: Eric-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 04, 2022, 05:15:34 pm

This Air to Ground (AGM) 114 Hellfire missiles are subsonic missiles and have significant anti-tank capacity. The missile used by the US, on August 2, is a warhead-less missile and it is equipped with six razors like blades. And it is these blades that killed the al-Qaeda head

Warhead-less!

subsonic? conflicting info... per a talking head on CNN this morning this hellfire is faster than the speed of sound - thus contributing to its stealth, since you can't hear something coming at you if its supersonic.

technically a missile must have a warhead so the RX9 isn't a missile, it's a kinetic weapon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_energy_weapon). and yes, that's rather academic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 05, 2022, 09:19:58 pm

Anne Heche...not dead yet

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on August 05, 2022, 10:11:00 pm

What, an awful story. There's nothing good, about it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 08, 2022, 02:49:00 pm

Roger E. Mosley -- famous from 'Magnum P.I.,' among other shows -- has died. (https://www.tmz.com/2022/08/07/magnum-pi-star-roger-e-mosley-dead-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 08, 2022, 03:41:07 pm

(https://i8.amplience.net/i/naras/olivia1.jpg.jpg?w=821&sm=c) (https://variety.com/2022/music/news/olivia-newton-dead-grease-xanadu-1235336152/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 08, 2022, 03:48:01 pm

^ sad. possibly my first celeb crush.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 08, 2022, 04:08:08 pm

https://dnyuz.com/2022/08/08/david-mccullough-best-selling-explorer-of-americas-past-dies-at-89/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 09, 2022, 06:57:53 am

Lamont Dozier Motown songwriter 81

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 09, 2022, 07:48:44 am

Issey Miyake

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 09, 2022, 09:42:16 am

Quote from: Yada on August 09, 2022, 07:48:44 am

Issey Miyake

this was an interesting footnote
Miyake was born on 22 April 1938, in Hiroshima, Japan, where he witnessed the atomic bombing in August 1945.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 09, 2022, 03:15:34 pm

Darryl Hunt long standing bass player with The Pogues, from 1986 onwards...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 09, 2022, 04:58:02 pm

If only they had given him a chair...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 09, 2022, 05:00:39 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on August 09, 2022, 04:58:02 pm

If only they had given him a chair...

oh that was pretty good
(https://media4.giphy.com/media/1pofg0cTz5mak/giphy.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 09, 2022, 05:41:04 pm

Shane will probably outlive them all.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 09, 2022, 11:25:25 pm

Gord Lewis, the founding guitarist of Teenage Head, was found dead over the weekend. The musician's son was charged with second-degree murder. (https://www.newsweek.com/punk-rock-star-found-dead-son-charged-second-degree-murder-canada-1732240)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 11, 2022, 06:31:56 pm

Ricky Walter Shiffer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2022, 01:56:44 pm

Anne Heche has died from the injuries she sustained in a car crash last week.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 12, 2022, 02:37:57 pm

Quote from: nuclear-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2022, 01:56:44 pm

Anne Heche has died from the injuries she sustained in a car crash last week.

Aren't you jumping the gun?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2022, 02:50:13 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 12, 2022, 02:37:57 pm

Quote from: nuclear-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2022, 01:56:44 pm
Anne Heche has died from the injuries she sustained in a car crash last week.

Aren't you jumping the gun?

I know it's not the greatest source
https://twitter.com/people/status/1558160309931675654?s=20&t=monVkM0PujSr2HYIDmsj_Q

"her heart is still beating and she has not been taken off life support in order to allow OneLegacy Foundation enough time to find recipients who will be a match."

✌🏼rosanna arquette
@RoArquette
Rest In Peace now Anne .

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on August 12, 2022, 05:14:32 pm

Ben Stern. Howard's father.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2022, 06:00:45 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 12, 2022, 02:37:57 pm

Quote from: nuclear-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2022, 01:56:44 pm
Anne Heche has died from the injuries she sustained in a car crash last week.

Aren't you jumping the gun?

ok abc is reporting it at 5pm
ABC News
@ABC
BREAKING: Anne Heche has died at the age of 53 after suffering serious injuries in a fiery car accident in Los Angeles, her family says.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on August 18, 2022, 09:51:18 am

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1117240799/abdul-wadud-expressive-cellist-who-blazed-a-trail-in-improvised-music-dies-at-75

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 22, 2022, 06:51:04 pm

Michael Bourne

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 22, 2022, 09:11:03 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 22, 2022, 06:51:04 pm

Michael Bourne

at least we still have Jason, who will never be caught by The Government, so that's good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 22, 2022, 09:16:32 pm

Jerry Allison drummer for The Crickets, also co-wrote some of the groups biggest hits "Peggy Sue" and "That'll Be the Day”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 22, 2022, 09:47:25 pm

Bummer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 23, 2022, 09:29:40 am

Quote from: Starsky on August 22, 2022, 09:47:25 pm

Bummer

Hip hopper? If so, shouldn't you login with your Yada account?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 23, 2022, 11:14:53 am

Quote from: Space Freely on August 23, 2022, 09:29:40 am

Quote from: Starsky on August 22, 2022, 09:47:25 pm
Bummer

Hip hopper? If so, shouldn't you login with your Yada account?

Very underground hip hop MC from the projects of Miami focusing on the sub-genre of conscious hip-hop that is characterized by the high-utilization of elements such as introspection and seeks. He will be missed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 23, 2022, 01:18:12 pm

🙏

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 23, 2022, 09:39:11 pm

Jamie Branch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 23, 2022, 09:49:40 pm

Creed Taylor

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/creed-taylor-rip/

A giant

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 24, 2022, 07:51:56 am

Unfortunately we still have creed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 25, 2022, 07:47:20 pm

For the children of the 80's.....

E. Bryant Crutchfield, Gave the World the Trapper Keeper

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 25, 2022, 08:28:37 pm

This sucks

https://www.gofundme.com/f/reopen-in-a-new-location?utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

Sam is the nicest guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 25, 2022, 10:31:22 pm

Joe E. Tata

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 26, 2022, 07:04:20 am

Quote from: Yada on August 25, 2022, 10:31:22 pm

Joe E. Tata

I hope he was saved.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 26, 2022, 07:25:41 am

Quote from: Space Freely on August 26, 2022, 07:04:20 am

Quote from: Yada on August 25, 2022, 10:31:22 pm
Joe E. Tata

I hope he was saved.

I don't get this post, but me too!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 26, 2022, 08:24:26 am

Joey DeFrancesco

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 27, 2022, 07:58:28 am

Quote from: Yada on August 26, 2022, 07:25:41 am

Quote from: Space Freely on August 26, 2022, 07:04:20 am
Quote from: Yada on August 25, 2022, 10:31:22 pm
Joe E. Tata

I hope he was saved.

I don't get this post, but me too!

There's a campaign to get his whole family saved. I am surprised you have not heard of it.

(https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s--wPGZjwnm--/t_Resized%20Artwork/c_fit,g_north_west,h_954,w_954/co_ef4a81,e_outline:48/co_ef4a81,e_outline:inner_fill:48/co_ffffff,e_outline:48/co_ffffff,e_outline:inner_fill:48/co_bbbbbb,e_outline:3:1000/c_mpad,g_center,h_1260,w_1260/b_rgb:eeeeee/c_limit,f_auto,h_630,q_90,w_630/v1584356004/production/designs/8504558_0.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 30, 2022, 04:45:43 pm

Gorbachev

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on August 31, 2022, 07:53:10 am

Camilo Guevara March

(One of Che’s sons)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 01, 2022, 02:00:24 am

Quote from: Starsky on August 30, 2022, 04:45:43 pm

Gorbachev

just got back from 6 days of camping. while completely disconnected from the outside world, i harbored a fantasy of learning of the death of a russian leader upon my emergence from the wilderness.

technically i got my wish. dammit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 01, 2022, 09:50:13 am

Luke Bell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 01, 2022, 09:57:08 am

Falling from a window seems to be much more likely in Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/chairman-russian-oil-producer-lukoil-dies-after-falling-hospital-window-source-2022-09-01/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 01, 2022, 12:37:47 pm

Quote from: Tico-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 01, 2022, 09:57:08 am

Falling from a window seems to be much more likely in Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/chairman-russian-oil-producer-lukoil-dies-after-falling-hospital-window-source-2022-09-01/

Tell that to Clapton.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 01, 2022, 12:40:40 pm

Opponents of Putin fall out of windows everywhere….it’s the darndest thing

Also how do you spell darndest?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 01, 2022, 12:49:17 pm

In Russia, they have a Department of Defenestration

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 01, 2022, 02:33:46 pm

Cross posting to Great Headlines thread

Southwest Pilot Threatens to Turn Plane Around if Unruly Passengers Keep AirDropping Nudes

https://gizmodo.com/southwest-airlines-airdrop-nudes-cabo-1849478920

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 02, 2022, 10:51:05 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on September 01, 2022, 02:33:46 pm

Cross posting to Great Headlines thread

can confirm GH contender for sure

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 02, 2022, 01:55:43 pm

Angus 'Drummie Zeb' Gaye, 62

Drummer and Singer of Aswad

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 04, 2022, 11:42:29 am

Pat Stay

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 04, 2022, 12:15:27 pm

Gustavo Arnal
Bed Bath & Beyond CFO

Who well… see Subject of the thread

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 05, 2022, 12:27:13 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on September 04, 2022, 12:15:27 pm

Gustavo Arnal
Bed Bath & Beyond CFO

Who well… see Subject of the thread

perhaps he was secretly a russian oligarch as well?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 05, 2022, 12:31:50 am

Wes Freed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Freed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 05, 2022, 06:53:58 am

Quote from: sweetcell on September 05, 2022, 12:27:13 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on September 04, 2022, 12:15:27 pm
Gustavo Arnal
Bed Bath & Beyond CFO

Who well… see Subject of the thread

perhaps he was secretly a russian oligarch as well?

now that makes more sense

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on September 08, 2022, 09:36:47 am

Bernard Shaw - news anchor
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/08/media/bernard-shaw-obituary/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 08, 2022, 09:51:02 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on September 08, 2022, 09:36:47 am

Bernard Shaw - news anchor
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/08/media/bernard-shaw-obituary/index.html

He was good….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 08, 2022, 11:22:45 am

Hmm they're calling the family in

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 08, 2022, 12:33:06 pm

Quote from: Off-season Santa on September 08, 2022, 11:22:45 am

Hmm they're calling the family in

Got my Smiths album ready to play.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 08, 2022, 01:07:18 pm

god ...no need to save the queen and her fascist regime

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 08, 2022, 01:35:03 pm

The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.

https://twitter.com/royalfamily/status/1567928275913121792

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 08, 2022, 01:37:46 pm

damn, you must have had that queued up as that was within the minute

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 08, 2022, 01:42:45 pm

So is Prince Charles automatically King or is he acting King until an investiture ceremony

This has never happened in my life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 08, 2022, 01:48:50 pm

It’s amazing she received the new Prime Minister just two days ago.

Say what you will about her but there is something to be said for her mere constancy in a constantly evolving world.

She was literally always…there….until today.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 08, 2022, 01:59:44 pm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_King_of_the_United_Kingdom

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 08, 2022, 02:00:32 pm

Quote from: Starsky on September 08, 2022, 01:42:45 pm

So is Prince Charles automatically King or is he acting King until an investiture ceremony

This has never happened in my life.

he became king the second the queen died. there will be an official coronation ceremony when the crown is formally put on his head, but all rights and duties of the throne became his the moment his mother died.

sorta like how the president-elect becomes president at noon on Jan 20, regardless of whether the oath of office has been taken yet.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 08, 2022, 02:05:20 pm

Right o

Good to know

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 08, 2022, 09:33:42 pm

Quote from: Special-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 08, 2022, 01:37:46 pm

damn, you must have had that queued up as that was within the minute

Operation London Bridge we called it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 08, 2022, 09:37:25 pm

Marciano Cantero

Singer/bassist from an Argentine band (Enanitos Verdes) that made an impression on me in the late 80s. They toured the US successfully for decades. I think the last place they played around here was Fillmore a couple of months ago. (Actually seems like August 7!)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on September 08, 2022, 09:44:50 pm

It may be morbid, pun intended, but I feel bad for anyone famous, who dies within the next week.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 10, 2022, 09:36:53 pm

People mourn in their own ways....

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcUNvYHX0AMYlDD?format=jpg&name=large) (https://twitter.com/holly/status/1568675155563651075)

(edited to make pic clickable to Twitter source)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 12, 2022, 08:34:08 am

Supergrass

One band that never made it easy to see them…. Only caught them once at the club

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 12, 2022, 09:16:14 am

Quote from: Starsky on September 12, 2022, 08:34:08 am

Supergrass

One band that never made it easy to see them…. Only caught them once at the club

Don't think it's quite this drastic... they already broke up once while recording an album... based on what Mick said it sounds like a hiatus again...

"of us about to take the stage for the last time for the foreseeable future"

and yes Gaz did say "final reunion" show so who knows

plus Gaz and Danny both have solo albums on the way... and more Supergrass re-issues in the pipeline

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 12, 2022, 06:14:54 pm

Ramsey Lewis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 12, 2022, 06:16:00 pm

Quote from: Starsky on September 12, 2022, 06:14:54 pm

Ramsey Lewis

Well, at least we still have RAMMSTEIN, so...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 12, 2022, 08:44:02 pm

Marsha Hunt

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 12, 2022, 09:03:24 pm

PnB Rock

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 13, 2022, 08:06:42 am

Jean-Luc Godard

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 13, 2022, 08:18:06 am

Oh….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 13, 2022, 08:35:58 am

Good articulo

https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/murio-el-cineasta-franco-suizo-jean-luc-godard-a-los-91-anos-nid13092022/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on September 13, 2022, 09:12:08 am

Oleksandr Shapoval, the famous Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer, died today at the battlefield. He volunteered into Armed Forces of Ukraine after February 24 invasion & became a soldier.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 13, 2022, 09:27:49 am

Quote from: Walk,on,by on September 13, 2022, 09:12:08 am

Oleksandr Shapovalov, the famous Ukrainian ballet dancer and choreographer, died today at the battlefield. He volunteered into Armed Forces of Ukraine after February 24 invasion & became a soldier.

I am Googling that name and all I'm getting is a hockey player. I was just wondering how old he was.

Edit: His name was spelled wrong in your source.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xcpxm0/oleksandr_shapoval_soloist_of_national_opera/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on September 13, 2022, 09:38:55 am

Damn. The guy gives his life for his county, and I can't even fucking spell his name right. Thanks for the clarity. I think he was 47

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 13, 2022, 11:04:17 am

jez, can you imagine being 47 and having to fight for your country and die
not that it's anymore fun if you are young

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 13, 2022, 01:03:11 pm

Quote from: Special-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 13, 2022, 11:04:17 am

jez, can you imagine being 47 and having to fight for your country and die
not that it's anymore fun if you are young

in ukraine every man under 60 is expected to to this (fight for their country, not die (hopefully)). every one of them. let that sink in.

thanks, putin.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 13, 2022, 02:05:49 pm

my reco for a ruskie who is not in favor with Putin was stay away from windows that can open

now it's don't stand by the sea

Putin ally Ivan Pechorin falls into the sea, adding to list of mysterious deaths suffered by Russian energy bosses.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 13, 2022, 02:37:22 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on September 13, 2022, 08:06:42 am

Jean-Luc Godard

91
by assisted suicide ...
. “He wasn't sick, he was just exhausted. It was his decision and it was important for him that it be known."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 13, 2022, 02:47:34 pm

Quote from: Special-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 13, 2022, 02:37:22 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on September 13, 2022, 08:06:42 am
Jean-Luc Godard
91
by assisted suicide ...
. “He wasn't sick, he was just exhausted. It was his decision and it was important for him that it be known."

That's what naps are for. If he was Spanish, he'd still be alive.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 13, 2022, 05:53:12 pm

Ken Starr, independent counsel who pursued Clinton, dies (https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/politics/ken-starr-died/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 13, 2022, 05:58:08 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 13, 2022, 05:53:12 pm

Ken Starr, independent counsel who pursued Clinton, dies (https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/politics/ken-starr-died/index.html)

dang, while no spring chicken, just saw him on the news in the last few weeks

Starr died of complications from surgery

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 13, 2022, 09:30:06 pm

Ouncie Allen

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 14, 2022, 06:59:54 am

Two Buck Chuck creator Fred Franzia

I’d say pour one out, but don’t stop and pour the whole bottle out

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 14, 2022, 01:34:36 pm

Quote from: Special-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 14, 2022, 06:59:54 am

Two Buck Chuck creator Fred Franzia

I’d say pour one out, but don’t stop and pour the whole bottle out

the WHOLE bottle? two-buck chuck costs more than $2 nowadays, mister - do you think i'm made outta money??

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 19, 2022, 12:39:48 pm

Quote from: vansmack on September 08, 2022, 01:35:03 pm

The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.

(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/305303505_1550276125429393_3161412708422859404_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=0SbT-WPzERgAX8jk9x4&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=00_AT-w6FAzj4wqUJi-V-AAE-MpQ0nbuTJhYorGOGgz9N4Lnw&oe=632E359F)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on September 19, 2022, 12:59:14 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 14, 2022, 01:34:36 pm

Quote from: Special-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 14, 2022, 06:59:54 am
Two Buck Chuck creator Fred Franzia

I’d say pour one out, but don’t stop and pour the whole bottle out

the WHOLE bottle? two-buck chuck costs more than $2 nowadays, mister - do you think i'm made outta money??

I just heard the whole story of this man, and the origin of box wine, and the reason, how two buck chuck came about.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 19, 2022, 01:10:16 pm

It’s 3.99 in Virginia…

You can get Alamos or Trapiche Argentine Malbec for $6.99 at BJs and they are good wines…best value in the US. I mean they are cheaper than all those garbage wines and they are a quality bottle.

Unfortunately most Americans will probably continue buying Concha y Toro, Frontera etc.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 19, 2022, 01:14:01 pm

Quote from: Starsky on September 19, 2022, 01:10:16 pm

It’s 3.99 in Virginia…

You can get Alamos or Trapiche Argentine Malbec for $6.99 at BJs and they are good wines…best value in the US. I mean they are cheaper than all those garbage wines and they are a quality bottle.

Unfortunately most Americans will probably continue buying Concha y Toro, Frontera etc.

+1 on the Alamos. Argentine red are always an excellent wine quality to price Spatio.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 19, 2022, 01:22:31 pm

This cheap ass wine convo is breaking my little Julian’s American heart.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 19, 2022, 01:25:03 pm

But the two Argentine wines I mentioned are not cheap wines..just cheap here in the US cause the wine manufacturers are trying to break into the US market. It’s an anomaly.

The Trapiche in particular is a really good wine!
My mom who lives in Argentina is shocked at how cheap they are here.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 19, 2022, 02:00:45 pm

And I typically buy wines that are in the $10-$24 range, not $3.99 or $6.99. I was just agreeing that $6.99 is a good price for the Alamos.

I think there's a bigger difference in quality between cheap ass and high end beer than there is for cheap end and high end wine.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 19, 2022, 03:38:26 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on September 19, 2022, 02:00:45 pm

I think there's a bigger difference in quality between cheap ass and high end beer than there is for cheap end and high end wine.

Hard disagree.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on September 21, 2022, 10:32:05 pm

Anton Fier

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 22, 2022, 12:54:58 am

Bummer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 23, 2022, 07:50:26 am

Hilary Mantel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 23, 2022, 08:02:29 am

Cherry Valentine

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 23, 2022, 08:20:30 am

Quote from: Starsky on September 23, 2022, 08:02:29 am

Cherry Valentine

Our thoughts are with Walky at this time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on September 23, 2022, 11:31:05 am

That queen, was incredible. Legend.

RestInPower, George Ward.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 23, 2022, 11:43:44 am

Quote from: Walk,on,by on September 23, 2022, 11:31:05 am

That queen, was incredible. Legend.

RestInPower, George Ward.

*psst* I think her name was Elizabeth II.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on September 23, 2022, 12:34:51 pm

Oh, you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 24, 2022, 08:40:40 am

Pharoah Sanders

Bummer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 27, 2022, 11:00:02 am

Joe Bussard

(Area record collector….)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 28, 2022, 09:10:50 am

Mike Causey, 82

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 28, 2022, 02:36:52 pm

I had no idea Grohl’s mom died on August 17….

Tough year for Dave….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 28, 2022, 08:54:58 pm

Coolio

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on September 28, 2022, 08:58:50 pm

Fuck no

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 28, 2022, 09:12:20 pm

Quote from: Yada on September 28, 2022, 08:54:58 pm

Coolio

Living in a Gangstars Afterlife

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 29, 2022, 02:07:58 pm

Saw a couple good Coolie stories but this one is very good

Remember when Coolio did a gig in Preston, ran into a group of random students outside afterwards and went back to their place, where he made Caprese Salad, Chicken á la Daaaamn and Peach Crumble, and they jammed Gangster's Paradise. What a guy.

https://twitter.com/shornKOOMINS/status/1575470243727695873?s=20&t=bGkEYjRSQENCgal5GLl89g

There is a picture of him cooking in the thread

and here is a link to the entire video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvMKgMZsfDM

this ones is also pretty good...

Both the initial post with the video and the a clarification on the legend...

"RIP Coolio. Never forget his appearance on Irish daytime chatshow Open House, who, legend has it, booked him by mistake. They hadn't arranged backing dancers, so he made the middle-age production crew dress up and do it instead. Best TV ever.'

"Correction from replies “I was part of the production team on this. #Coolio was NOT booked by mistake. But the producer misheard at a meeting and thought we'd booked Julio (Iglesias). Upon being set straight he uttered the immortal words: "Coolio? Who the f**k is Coolio?"

https://twitter.com/andrewflood/status/1575532369007755264?s=20&t=bGkEYjRSQENCgal5GLl89g

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 03, 2022, 08:09:33 am

Returned to the ancestors.

Sacheen Littlefeather, who gave Marlon Brando's Oscar rejection speech, dies at 75

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1126515900/sacheen-littlefeather-marlon-brando-dies

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 03, 2022, 12:01:21 pm

a wee bench for scott

(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/309543143_634734768013117_5789960364868096627_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=Y2m_VdGqavcAX-RG80v&tn=FlsTcsgJ8FCnEiRZ&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=00_AT_H8ZoNiIx6ysTM3vQhc4nC0RurQTrlEZ3OYX0LC06OXA&oe=633F66F5)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 04, 2022, 10:47:32 am

Loretta Lynn (https://apnews.com/article/loretta-lynn-dies-5f1545e60e37e482faa42cbb25ae61e8?taid=633c43035486240001a0fef2&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 04, 2022, 11:09:29 am

bummer, did any of you catch her shows at the Lincoln?

Can't believe Jules didn't chime in on my pic of the Scott H bench with a "did frank turner die!'

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on October 04, 2022, 11:09:34 am

ICON. QUEEN. LEGEND. FOREVER.

I saw one show at Lincoln. Incredible. Her brother, was "interesting."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 04, 2022, 11:18:31 am

Quote from: King of hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 04, 2022, 11:09:29 am

bummer, did any of you catch her shows at the Lincoln?

Can't believe Jules didn't chime in on my pic of the Scott H bench with a "did frank turner die!'

His next comment will be #27,000. I think he's planning something epic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 04, 2022, 11:19:37 am

Quote from: King of hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 04, 2022, 11:09:29 am

bummer, did any of you catch her shows at the Lincoln?

Can't believe Jules didn't chime in on my pic of the Scott H bench with a "did frank turner die!'

Hadn't thought of any such thing before now, but now that you've mentioned it, convenient benches for sitting and taking a load off one's orthopedic-shoe-supported feet seems very on-brand for Frank Turner fans.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 04, 2022, 11:25:42 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on October 04, 2022, 11:19:37 am

Quote from: King of hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 04, 2022, 11:09:29 am
bummer, did any of you catch her shows at the Lincoln?

Can't believe Jules didn't chime in on my pic of the Scott H bench with a "did frank turner die!'
Hadn't thought of any such thing before now, but now that you've mentioned it, convenient benches for sitting and taking a load off one's orthopedic-shoe-supported feet seems very on-brand for Frank Turner fans.

27,000

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 04, 2022, 12:18:53 pm

Bummer…I was really into her music in the aughts…sort of burnt out on her and country in general (other than Willie!)

But independent of her music she really was an icon and someone who really was ahead of her time on women’s issues in the ass backwards American south.

Probably one of the last links to her very good friend Patsy Cline. It’s amazing that Patsy died over 60 years ago…

I saw Loretta in Winchester (I believe the birthplace of Patsy which is why she was playing there) and it was great..then I saw her at the 930 and I felt like she was a bit past it but she performed that one song from van Lear rose everyone loves..I think it’s a duet with Jack white

I bought an autographed cookbook at her show in Winchester

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 04, 2022, 12:34:05 pm

Wow..Brenda Lee is still alive

And Willie whose song Crazy Patsy turned into a classic

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 06, 2022, 08:27:47 pm

Judy Tenuta

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: GAY,GUY on October 06, 2022, 08:32:43 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on October 06, 2022, 08:27:47 pm

Judy Tenuta

Omg!! I worshipped her, and that accordion, growing up. Her, and Emo Philips.

RIP, Love Goddess

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 06, 2022, 10:47:58 pm

Sara Lee, former WWE wrestler and ‘Tough Enough’ winner, dead at 30 (https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/entertainment/wwe-wrestler-sara-lee-dies/)

may her cakes live on forever.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 07, 2022, 11:44:12 am

Jody Miller, 'Queen of the House' singer, dead at 80
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/entertainment/jody-miller-obit/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/entertainment/jody-miller-obit/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 11, 2022, 03:48:22 pm

Angela Lansbury

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 11, 2022, 03:50:51 pm

Quote from: grateful on October 11, 2022, 03:48:22 pm

Angela Lansbury

at least we still have Henri Lansbury

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 11, 2022, 03:57:26 pm

Quote from: King of hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 11, 2022, 03:50:51 pm

Quote from: grateful on October 11, 2022, 03:48:22 pm
Angela Lansbury
at least we still have Henri Lansbury

We stopped doing that a while ago, dude. The play here was to make a Murder, She Wrote joke.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 11, 2022, 03:58:34 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on October 11, 2022, 03:57:26 pm

Quote from: King of hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 11, 2022, 03:50:51 pm
Quote from: grateful on October 11, 2022, 03:48:22 pm
Angela Lansbury
at least we still have Henri Lansbury
We stopped doing that a while ago, dude. The play here was to make a Murder, She Wrote joke.

I know, I was honestly thinking about that, but I didn't have a clever bone in my body for that joke...so I went with the old standard

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 11, 2022, 04:00:51 pm

“Rumor says it may have been medically assisted suicide. Looks like she was the Murderer all along!”

It isn’t hard.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 11, 2022, 04:17:36 pm

Quote from: grateful on October 11, 2022, 03:48:22 pm

Angela Lansbury

Admittedly, I thought she died in 1987.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 11, 2022, 04:32:40 pm

"Murde..." she wrote

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 11, 2022, 04:37:18 pm

The inhabitants of Cabot Cove are finally safe. The serial killer is gone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 11, 2022, 04:38:51 pm

Such pour news for Mrs Potts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 11, 2022, 04:40:19 pm

Quote from: grateful on October 11, 2022, 04:37:18 pm

The inhabitants of Cabot Cove are finally safe. The serial killer is gone.

yeah, jules was missing a cabot cove ref

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 12, 2022, 07:27:37 pm

Willie Spence, ‘American Idol’ Season 19 runner-up, dead at 23 (https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/entertainment/willie-spence-dead/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 13, 2022, 10:48:10 am

I can’t believe American Idol is still on?!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 13, 2022, 05:38:10 pm

Well played...so no one suspects you have watched every season since season 1.

Quote from: Starsky on October 13, 2022, 10:48:10 am

I can’t believe American Idol is still on?!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 13, 2022, 06:09:33 pm

Cock, you are annoying me today. Why?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 14, 2022, 09:55:57 am

Now I know how Space must feel all the time.

Quote from: Starsky on October 13, 2022, 06:09:33 pm

Cock, you are annoying me today. Why?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 14, 2022, 09:57:20 am

I feel like Space and I have been getting on well…

I need a Space replacement

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 14, 2022, 09:59:39 am

I'm not capable.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 14, 2022, 01:05:04 pm

Mike shank from American Movie (freaking classic if you have not seen this)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 14, 2022, 01:08:41 pm

Quote from: Starsky on October 13, 2022, 06:09:33 pm

Cock, you are annoying me today. Why?

hutch, you're being overly sensitive IMO. this happens regularly: if someone gets into 2 arguments with you at the same time, you feel personally targeted - as opposed to someone who is in a predictable situation (we disagree here all the time and there are only a few active members, so butting heads on more than one topic concurrently is inevitable). you are quick to feel that you're being ganged up on. about 2 weeks ago you and i were having disagreements on two topics, and i dropped one because i knew if i kept needling at you, you would claim victimhood.

so, calm down. it's not about you. it's an online back-and-forth. sometimes the barrage is a little more constant. it's ok.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 14, 2022, 01:10:35 pm

Robbie Coltrane, actor who starred as Hagrid in the Harry Potter film franchise, has died at the age of 72.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 14, 2022, 01:10:53 pm

That’s true but I wasn’t really that annoyed with Cock….

I feel I been much better the past six months

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 14, 2022, 01:39:12 pm

Quote from: PunchHimOutHatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 14, 2022, 01:05:04 pm

Mike shank from American Movie (freaking classic if you have not seen this)
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Quote from: PunchHimOutHatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 14, 2022, 01:05:04 pm
Mike shank from American Movie (freaking classic if you have not seen this)

I was going to ask is anyone had seen this one, Edgar Wright has been touting this one since his passing. Based on the YouTube clips I saw of this, one would have to be really focused or well stoned to watch it. Would not appear to be streaming anywhere at the moment.

Here is the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23usoyDRLtQ

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 14, 2022, 02:07:18 pm

it's on prime
https://www.amazon.com/American-Movie-Mark-Borchardt/dp/B000NMY7E0

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 14, 2022, 04:13:23 pm

haha. Hutch ain't annoyed by cock. Not that there is anything wrong with that :D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 14, 2022, 08:12:04 pm

Hall of Fane pitcher Bruce Sutter.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 14, 2022, 09:40:37 pm

Legend

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 18, 2022, 02:48:47 pm

Punk Rockabilly dude Robert Gordon.

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/robert-gordon-dead-rockabilly-singer-1235407247/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 18, 2022, 02:49:07 pm

Robert Gordon - bummer
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/robert-gordon-rockabilly-revivalist-singer-164723353.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 18, 2022, 02:59:35 pm

Yet another Robert Gordon. This one enjoyed bowling and billiards and was always upbeat and joking.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/salamancapress/name/robert-gordon-obituary?id=36712204

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 18, 2022, 03:04:08 pm

Tsk tsk…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 18, 2022, 03:09:34 pm

At least we still have Jeff Gordon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 18, 2022, 04:21:04 pm

and in the not to far distant future, we'll have Flash Gordan

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 20, 2022, 02:03:09 pm

Rusty the Panda

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 20, 2022, 02:16:56 pm

Quote from: Yada on October 20, 2022, 02:03:09 pm

Rusty the Panda

At least we still have Flash Gordan.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 20, 2022, 02:19:35 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on October 20, 2022, 02:16:56 pm

Quote from: Yada on October 20, 2022, 02:03:09 pm
Rusty the Panda

At least we still have Flash Gordan.

anyone know if Flesh Gordan is still alive?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 20, 2022, 02:38:53 pm

Quote from: snickett-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 20, 2022, 02:19:35 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on October 20, 2022, 02:16:56 pm
Quote from: Yada on October 20, 2022, 02:03:09 pm
Rusty the Panda

At least we still have Flash Gordan.
anyone know if Flesh Gordan is still alive?

Is this what you are referring to?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesh_Gordon

Your spelling keeps changing and never quite right.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 20, 2022, 02:47:04 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on October 20, 2022, 02:38:53 pm

Quote from: snickett-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 20, 2022, 02:19:35 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on October 20, 2022, 02:16:56 pm
Quote from: Yada on October 20, 2022, 02:03:09 pm
Rusty the Panda

At least we still have Flash Gordan.
anyone know if Flesh Gordan is still alive?
Is this what you are referring to?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesh_Gordon

Your spelling keeps changing and never quite right.

Thanks for doing the homework, didn't want that websearch showing up on my work computer
but what I did find out jason williams is the actor....but actually don't know if he is still alive

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 24, 2022, 02:09:21 pm

Lenny Lipton, who as a college freshman wrote the lyrics to the classic folk tune “Puff the Magic Dragon,” and then used the song’s bountiful royalties to fund years of pioneering research in 3-D filmmaking, He was 82.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 24, 2022, 02:53:17 pm

(https://i0.wp.com/i.imgur.com/lILXRl6.gif?resize=326%2C151&ssl=1)
Leslie Jordan RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 24, 2022, 03:24:55 pm

Car accident. I had assumed old age.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 24, 2022, 03:36:10 pm

Quote from: grateful on October 24, 2022, 03:24:55 pm

Car accident. I had assumed old age.

Sounds like he had a "medical event" while driving causing the wreck.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 24, 2022, 03:39:06 pm

Quote from: grateful on October 24, 2022, 03:24:55 pm

Car accident. I had assumed old age.

Geesh, he was only 67.

On the bright side, we still have Michael Jordan, who is 59. And unfortunately we still have Gym Jordan, who is 58.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 25, 2022, 05:11:34 pm

Vanilla Beane

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 25, 2022, 05:32:16 pm

Quote from: grateful on October 25, 2022, 05:11:34 pm

Vanilla Beane

Well, at least we still have Rocky Road, so at least that’s something.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 25, 2022, 05:33:38 pm

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter dead at 68

Carter notably opened all military combat positions to women and ended the ban on transgender troops serving in the military — a policy that remained in place for about a year before President Donald Trump reinstated the ban.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 25, 2022, 05:39:56 pm

Quote from: siggy-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 25, 2022, 05:33:38 pm

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter dead at 68

Carter notably opened all military combat positions to women and ended the ban on transgender troops serving in the military — a policy that remained in place for about a year before President Donald Trump reinstated the ban.

Well, at least we still have — *confirms real quick* — Jimmy Carter, so at least — *checks again just to be sure* — that’s something.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 25, 2022, 07:58:52 pm

Jules Bass, one half of the prolific Rankin/Bass Productions behind 'Frosty the Snowman' and more TV specials, has died at the age of 87.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 25, 2022, 08:08:57 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on October 25, 2022, 07:58:52 pm

Jules Bass, one half of the prolific Rankin/Bass Productions behind 'Frosty the Snowman' and more TV specials, has died at the age of 87.

Well at least we still have Julian Vanderbilt so at least that’s something.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 25, 2022, 09:52:24 pm

https://wjla-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/wjla.com/amp/news/local/fire-georgetown-historic-blues-alley-jazz-club-dc-wisconsin-avenue-northwest-smoke-washington-district-dmv-flames?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16667491148011&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwjla.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ffire-georgetown-historic-blues-alley-jazz-club-dc-wisconsin-avenue-northwest-smoke-washington-district-dmv-flames

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 25, 2022, 09:54:14 pm

Aw man, not blues alley!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 25, 2022, 10:03:03 pm

Well at least we still have TAKOMA WELLNESS, so that’s at least something.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 26, 2022, 03:43:40 pm

Quote from: siggy-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 25, 2022, 09:54:14 pm

Aw man, not blues alley!

welp, good news

Blues Alley
Blues Alley is temporarily closed due to last nights unfortunate occurrence, they are currently assessing the damage and how long it will take to re-open. Some news reports have exaggerated the severity of the water damage which is confined to the 2nd floor and roof only. The club will re-open very soon.
Any shows cancelled will be rescheduled as soon as possible and we ask you to wait before requesting a refund until the new date is confirmed. If you can’t make the rescheduled date then a refund will be given. We appreciate your patience on this and more information will be available soon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 26, 2022, 06:57:03 pm

Jerry Lee Lewis is the latest in the of dead then not dead yet

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 26, 2022, 07:02:26 pm

Oh no! Last of the Sun Studio rockers….I think

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 27, 2022, 07:05:26 pm

Michael Kopsa, ‘X-Files’ and ‘Fringe’ actor, dead at 66 (https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/26/entertainment/michael-kopsa-dead/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 27, 2022, 08:08:17 pm

Quote from: Starsky on October 26, 2022, 07:02:26 pm

Oh no! Last of the Sun Studio rockers….I think

Will his cousin wife be able to legally drink at the funeral?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on October 28, 2022, 07:19:36 am

Quote from: Space Freely on October 27, 2022, 08:08:17 pm

Quote from: Starsky on October 26, 2022, 07:02:26 pm
Oh no! Last of the Sun Studio rockers….I think

Will his cousin wife be able to legally drink at the funeral?

They divorced over fifty years ago so not sure she will be attending.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 28, 2022, 01:02:07 pm

Jerry Lee Lewis (apparently for real this time) (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jerry-lee-lewis-dead-obituary-1234616945/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 29, 2022, 06:20:22 pm

Dead Kennedys Drummer D. H. Peligro Dead At 63

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 30, 2022, 12:15:17 am

At least we still have John F. Kennedy Jr.

Quote from: sidehammer ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 29, 2022, 06:20:22 pm

Dead Kennedys Drummer D. H. Peligro Dead At 63

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 30, 2022, 10:56:27 am

Quote from: sidehammer ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 29, 2022, 06:20:22 pm

Dead Kennedys Drummer D. H. Peligro Dead At 63

Major bummer. Accidental fall in his home

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 01, 2022, 07:20:46 am

Takeoff

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on November 01, 2022, 09:00:38 am

At least we still have The McKenzie Brothers

(https://i.imgflip.com/1bm7xc.jpg)

but in all seriousness...that is horrible.

Quote from: Yada on November 01, 2022, 07:20:46 am

Takeoff

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 01, 2022, 09:19:21 am

very sad, agreed

but your pick made me find this Take off w/geddy lee (https://youtu.be/8Jm4LoOaAWI)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 01, 2022, 03:07:36 pm

Patrick Haggerty, trailblazing gay country star, dies at 78 (https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/entertainment/patrick-haggerty-lavender-country-death-cec/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 02, 2022, 02:38:34 pm

Paul Morantz, but not by rattlesnake (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/11/02/paul-morantz-attorney-who-crusaded-against-cults-dies-at-77/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 03, 2022, 06:26:46 pm

Ray Guy, football's greatest punter (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/11/03/ray-guy-football-punter-raiders-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 05, 2022, 07:14:34 pm

Aaron Carter

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 05, 2022, 08:05:32 pm

Quote from: grateful on November 05, 2022, 07:14:34 pm

Aaron Carter

That's two Carters in nine days. Oh well we still have Jimmy. Hope he early voted.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 05, 2022, 08:28:36 pm

You hush your mouth

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 05, 2022, 11:58:03 pm

Saw a commercial during football today where Shaquille O’Neal was absolutely acting a fool and this is disgusting considering this Aaron Carter news. I demand satisfaction.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 06, 2022, 05:06:51 am

I don’t like your chances against Shaq…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 06, 2022, 11:59:16 am

Mimi Parker from Low

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 06, 2022, 05:44:37 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on November 06, 2022, 11:59:16 am

Mimi Parker from Low

Listened to Low much of the day and I have no idea how this band could ever play another show without Parker. What a loss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 06, 2022, 09:17:05 pm

Unbelievable…only 55

I think they opened for somebody at Anthem a few months ago but I missed it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 06, 2022, 10:01:33 pm

Coy Gibbs, 49. Joe Gibbs' other son. Oldest son also died at 49.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on November 07, 2022, 01:48:14 am

they canceled that....they were supposed to open for Death Cab for Cutie.

Huge loss..... :'(

Quote from: Starsky on November 06, 2022, 09:17:05 pm

Unbelievable…only 55

I think they opened for somebody at Anthem a few months ago but I missed it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 07, 2022, 10:33:34 am

Quote from: Vas Deferens on November 07, 2022, 01:48:14 am

they canceled that....they were supposed to open for Death Cab for Cutie.

Very late stage ovarian cancer probably makes playing shows a no-go.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 08, 2022, 02:12:32 pm

Member of The Wrens passing along a story about how they finally chose Low as the name of the band, only to find out after the pressed up some singles that Low already existed

https://twitter.com/thewrens/status/1590003837200277505?s=46&t=F8DJ5UIybIudVMkDFUXttw

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 08, 2022, 02:30:43 pm

Julian's America would like to request - nay, demands - that you respect their privacy in these devastating times. no formal statements should be expected. this is a pain and a loss that will take a while to internalize.

Evelyn de Rothschild, Scion of Banking Dynasty, Dies at 91 (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/business/evelyn-de-rothschild-dead.html)

"With his love of racehorses, sports cars, parties and excursions abroad, Mr. Rothschild might have become an international playboy. He failed economics and dropped out of Cambridge University, seemed happier on polo grounds than in banking circles in the City, and had little taste for high finance or investment strategies.

But the Rothschild name and history weighed upon him. Sir Evelyn’s father was the chairman, and his great-great-grandfather the founder, of N.M. Rothschild & Sons, the British branch of the family banking empire that began in 18th-century Frankfurt, Germany, and that, with its networks of couriers and spies, financial wizardry and political alliances, spread across Europe, making fortunes and influencing the destinies of nations for 200 years.

The Rothschilds had financed the armies of Europe in the Napoleonic Wars, salvaged the Bank of England in a liquidity crisis, was instrumental in passage of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, and financed Britain’s 1875 purchase of a controlling interest in the Suez Canal. It had even helped finance construction of the Underground, London’s subway system."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 08, 2022, 03:02:07 pm

Dan McCafferty – lead vocals for Nazareth (1968–2013)
76

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 08, 2022, 04:22:10 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 08, 2022, 02:30:43 pm

Julian's America would like to request - nay, demands - that you respect their privacy in these devastating times. no formal statements should be expected. this is a pain and a loss that will take a while to internalize.

Evelyn de Rothschild, Scion of Banking Dynasty, Dies at 91 (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/business/evelyn-de-rothschild-dead.html)
"With his love of racehorses, sports cars, parties and excursions abroad, Mr. Rothschild might have become an international playboy. He failed economics and dropped out of Cambridge University, seemed happier on polo grounds than in banking circles in the City, and had little taste for high finance or investment strategies.

But the Rothschild name and history weighed upon him. Sir Evelyn’s father was the chairman, and his great-great-grandfather the founder, of N.M. Rothschild & Sons, the British branch of the family banking empire that began in 18th-century Frankfurt, Germany, and that, with its networks of couriers and spies, financial wizardry and political alliances, spread across Europe, making fortunes and influencing the destinies of nations for 200 years.

The Rothschilds had financed the armies of Europe in the Napoleonic Wars, salvaged the Bank of England in a liquidity crisis, was instrumental in passage of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, and financed Britain’s 1875 purchase of a controlling interest in the Suez Canal. It had even helped finance construction of the Underground, London’s subway system."

We are cracking open the Opus One verticals tonight to drown our sorrows.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 08, 2022, 04:32:46 pm

I assume you will pour a whole bottle out in her honor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 08, 2022, 05:14:07 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on November 08, 2022, 04:22:10 pm

We are cracking open the Opus One verticals tonight to drown our sorrows.

wouldn't a Château Mouton or Château Lafite be more appropriate? keeping in the family, and whatnot... or is that like wearing a band's shirt to their show? (or to translate into JA: is it like wearing a designer's clothes to their spring line unveiling?)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 08, 2022, 05:15:41 pm

Quote from: SoldMyPoll4RnR ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 08, 2022, 04:32:46 pm

I assume you will pour a whole bottle out in her honor

SIR Evelyn de Rothschild... the gall.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 08, 2022, 05:20:00 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 08, 2022, 05:15:41 pm

Quote from: SoldMyPoll4RnR ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 08, 2022, 04:32:46 pm
I assume you will pour a whole bottle out in her honor

SIR Evelyn de Rothschild... the gall.

Ack my bad

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 08, 2022, 05:53:43 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 08, 2022, 05:14:07 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on November 08, 2022, 04:22:10 pm
We are cracking open the Opus One verticals tonight to drown our sorrows.

wouldn't a Château Mouton or Château Lafite be more appropriate? keeping in the family, and whatnot... or is that like wearing a band's shirt to their show? (or to translate into JA: is it like wearing a designer's clothes to their spring line unveiling?)

Uh, what do you think are the two wine houses who collaborate on Opus, man?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 08, 2022, 05:54:20 pm

Quote from: SoldMyPoll4RnR ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 08, 2022, 04:32:46 pm

I assume you will pour a whole bottle out in her honor

Yes, down my throat to the hearts of my soul and gullet.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 08, 2022, 06:03:22 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on November 08, 2022, 05:53:43 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 08, 2022, 05:14:07 pm
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on November 08, 2022, 04:22:10 pm
We are cracking open the Opus One verticals tonight to drown our sorrows.

wouldn't a Château Mouton or Château Lafite be more appropriate? keeping in the family, and whatnot... or is that like wearing a band's shirt to their show? (or to translate into JA: is it like wearing a designer's clothes to their spring line unveiling?)
Uh, what do you think are the two wine houses who collaborate on Opus, man?

the rothschild is diluted with mondavi. i thought you were a purist.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 08, 2022, 06:11:27 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 08, 2022, 06:03:22 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on November 08, 2022, 05:53:43 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on November 08, 2022, 05:14:07 pm
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on November 08, 2022, 04:22:10 pm
We are cracking open the Opus One verticals tonight to drown our sorrows.

wouldn't a Château Mouton or Château Lafite be more appropriate? keeping in the family, and whatnot... or is that like wearing a band's shirt to their show? (or to translate into JA: is it like wearing a designer's clothes to their spring line unveiling?)
Uh, what do you think are the two wine houses who collaborate on Opus, man?

the rothschild is diluted with mondavi. i thought you were a purist.

Robert Mondavi is the father of Napa wine and a member of the French Legion of Honor. I will accept no slander on this solemn occasion.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 08, 2022, 08:47:15 pm

Jeff Cook, guitarist and co-founder of the band Alabama, dead at 73
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/entertainment/jeff-cook-alabama-obit/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 08, 2022, 11:05:17 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 08, 2022, 08:47:15 pm

Jeff Cook, guitarist and co-founder of the band Alabama, dead at 73
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/entertainment/jeff-cook-alabama-obit/index.html

At least we still have Jeff

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 09, 2022, 01:48:36 am

Synth legend Don Lewis, creator of LEO and consultant on the Roland TR-808, has died aged 81 (https://www.musicradar.com/news/don-lewis-dies-synths-roland-tr808)
Lewis also designed voices for the Yamaha DX7 and worked with Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on November 09, 2022, 12:24:33 pm

So far so good

Quote from: grateful on November 08, 2022, 11:05:17 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on November 08, 2022, 08:47:15 pm
Jeff Cook, guitarist and co-founder of the band Alabama, dead at 73
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/08/entertainment/jeff-cook-alabama-obit/index.html

At least we still have Jeff

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on November 09, 2022, 12:51:36 pm

Gal Costa

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 09, 2022, 01:03:08 pm

Quote from: Vas Deferens on November 09, 2022, 12:51:36 pm

Gal Costa

Wow..what a bummer…voice of an angel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 09, 2022, 09:01:38 pm

Garry Roberts guitarist for Boomtown Rats
72

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 11, 2022, 11:49:43 am

Gallagher

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 11, 2022, 12:42:43 pm

Oh no!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 11, 2022, 12:46:14 pm

Quote from: grateful on November 11, 2022, 12:42:43 pm

Oh no!

I just hope the families of those watermelons can finally find some closure.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 11, 2022, 12:49:03 pm

$8 per month verification/Twitter Blue

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on November 11, 2022, 04:06:42 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on November 11, 2022, 11:49:43 am

Gallagher

We still have the fake Gallagher, plus those two English gentlemen I've heard about.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 11, 2022, 04:14:53 pm

Quote from: evilizac on November 11, 2022, 04:06:42 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on November 11, 2022, 11:49:43 am
Gallagher
We still have the fake Gallagher, plus those two English gentlemen I've heard about.

Wut? now I'm intrigued? tell me more

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 12, 2022, 01:23:19 pm

Keith Levene
Public Image limited
65

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 12, 2022, 02:01:06 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 12, 2022, 01:23:19 pm

Keith Levene
Public Image limited
65

damn that sucks
Founding member of clash too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 12, 2022, 02:56:54 pm

I got a hardon thinking he was playing somewhere

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 12, 2022, 03:12:46 pm

Quote from: evilizac on November 11, 2022, 04:06:42 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on November 11, 2022, 11:49:43 am
Gallagher
We still have the fake Gallagher, plus those two English gentlemen I've heard about.

We ealso still have Mankie. And David Crosby.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 13, 2022, 12:43:01 pm

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, once stranded in an airport for 18 years, returned to the terminal to live out his final days.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 13, 2022, 11:00:26 pm

Kiko Loiacono

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 14, 2022, 12:04:33 pm

John Aniston, 'Days of Our Lives' Legend and Jennifer Aniston's Father, Dead at 89

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 19, 2022, 04:05:06 pm

B. Smyth

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 22, 2022, 01:15:45 pm

Nicki Aycox, a former actress best known for her role as Meg Masters in Supernatural, died Nov. 16 at the age of 47. (https://ew.com/tv/nicki-aycox-supernatural-actress-dies-47/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 22, 2022, 04:15:48 pm

Pablo Milanés

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 22, 2022, 05:07:31 pm

Erasmo Carlos

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 22, 2022, 05:41:38 pm

Hermano Decidar

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 22, 2022, 08:17:44 pm

oy oy oy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 23, 2022, 07:50:02 am

Wilko Johnson 75

Not only is he considered widely influential with his guitar playing and attitude with Dr. Feelgood in the late 70s, tributes are pouring in from UK musicians on Twitter. Dr. Feelgood is also influential on Blondie..

He was cast in the role of mute executioner Ser Ilyn Payne, in both the first and second season of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 23, 2022, 01:47:07 pm

lets hope the richest man baby pulls in an actual CEO soon so Twitter doesn't die on the vine... music twitter is the best reason to use that hellscape...

were else would you easily get remembrances of a legend like Wilko Johnson...

Andy Lewis ex-bass player with Weller shared this

"He joined the Paul Weller band onstage at a gig in Belfast to play From The Floorboards Up. “Do you know it?” asked Paul backstage. “Yeah, it’s one of mine!” grinned Wilko in reply. He played it brilliantly, in every sense of the phrase."

Also that Steve Albini would be playing clarinet instead of guitar were it not for Wilko

"Wilko Johnson started from scratch and invented a new way to play guitar. Manifesting in his rhythm hand the amphetamine intensity of an era, he inspired a generation of twitchy dorks like me. Without him, I probably play clarinet. Requiescat."

and i will fully admit while I knew of Dr. Feelgood and Wilko wasn't really familiar with their output, but I'm rapidly seeing their influences on punk/post punk/new wave. especially as Billy Bragg said of Lydon, Strummer, and Weller..

Chris Stein says

I frequently remind people how Dr Feelgood was an influence on the early New York and CBGBs music scene. Great guitarist and performer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 23, 2022, 01:51:31 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 23, 2022, 01:47:07 pm

lets hope the richest man baby pulls in an actual CEO soon so Twitter doesn't die on the vine... music twitter is the best reason to use that hellscape...

Dude, following along with live events and "weird and aggressive shirt" twitter is the best reason to have twitter. You're only saying music because like many of the wretched on here, you have a one-track mind instead of a rich, vibrant Julianesque range of interests and inner-life and everything looks like a proverbial nail to a man with proverbial hammers for all four proverbial limbs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 23, 2022, 01:59:38 pm

I'm just glad i was never a habitual Twitter user. Let it burn.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 25, 2022, 08:08:41 pm

I mean, wutthafuggahyagonnado?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 26, 2022, 10:21:12 am

Irene Cara

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 29, 2022, 09:33:05 am

Virginia Rep. Donald McEachin's

Dems seat count just took a hit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 29, 2022, 10:38:55 am

Clarence Gilyard

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: IMAmoose24 on November 30, 2022, 03:39:45 pm

Christine Anne McVie

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on November 30, 2022, 05:14:41 pm

Quote from: Schulzenstein on November 30, 2022, 03:39:45 pm

Christine Anne McVie

I know she lived a long, full life, but this one still makes me incredibly sad. She was my favorite member of Fleetwood Mac. Not just a hell of a songwriter, singer and performer, but also she just seemed to have a kind, quiet, and lovely soul. The story of how she wrote "Songbird" is surreal. I'd argue that's one of the prettiest songs ever written, period. Never fails to make me bawl.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on November 30, 2022, 06:14:31 pm

Yeah that’s a bummer…. I also thought of her as my favorite but Stevie is pretty damn cool too…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 01, 2022, 05:51:17 pm

Gaylord Perry

Legend

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 01, 2022, 08:12:43 pm

Brad Henke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 02, 2022, 04:03:36 pm

Nate Skywalker

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 02, 2022, 04:29:02 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 02, 2022, 04:03:36 pm

Nate Skywalker

least we still have luke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 02, 2022, 05:36:37 pm

Quote from: Smells the Cat ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 02, 2022, 04:29:02 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 02, 2022, 04:03:36 pm
Nate Skywalker
least we still have luke

And Luke Skyywalker.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 02, 2022, 05:39:01 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on November 30, 2022, 05:14:41 pm

Quote from: Schulzenstein on November 30, 2022, 03:39:45 pm
Christine Anne McVie

I know she lived a long, full life, but this one still makes me incredibly sad. She was my favorite member of Fleetwood Mac. Not just a hell of a songwriter, singer and performer, but also she just seemed to have a kind, quiet, and lovely soul. The story of how she wrote "Songbird" is surreal. I'd argue that's one of the prettiest songs ever written, period. Never fails to make me bawl.

This pretty much sums up my thoughts.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 02, 2022, 05:39:20 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 01, 2022, 08:12:43 pm

Brad Henke

At least we still have Tom Henke.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 04, 2022, 08:23:38 pm

Bob McGrath
90

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 04, 2022, 08:41:26 pm

Quentin Oliver Lee

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 05, 2022, 10:46:55 am

Nick Bollettieri

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 05, 2022, 11:06:33 am

Quote from: Starsky on December 05, 2022, 10:46:55 am

Nick Bollettieri

It's just crazy to think that up until today, the inventor of the bottle -- an invention that is so ubiquitous we cannot even imagine what it was like before it was introduced -- was still alive and kicking. Now that's a legacy!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 05, 2022, 05:22:03 pm

Hamish Kilgour

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 05, 2022, 09:32:22 pm

Kirstie Alley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 05, 2022, 10:29:19 pm

Jim Stewart
Co-founder of STAX records
92

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/12/06/jim-stewart-obituary-stax-records-rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame-memphis-music-history/69702156007/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 05, 2022, 10:50:50 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 05, 2022, 09:32:22 pm

Kirstie Alley

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 05, 2022, 10:29:19 pm

Jim Stewart
Co-founder of STAX records
92

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/12/06/jim-stewart-obituary-stax-records-rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame-memphis-music-history/69702156007/

Well, at least we still have Kristen Stewart.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 06, 2022, 12:06:02 am

Bravo.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 06, 2022, 12:08:41 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 05, 2022, 09:32:22 pm

Kirstie Alley

cancer:

<checks calendar, checks watch...>

yup, still sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 06, 2022, 12:15:13 am

Bob, from Sesame Street (https://etcanada.com/news/949028/bob-mcgrath-one-of-the-original-stars-of-sesame-street-dead-at-90/)

aww :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 06, 2022, 12:43:05 am

Quote from: vansmack on December 06, 2022, 12:06:02 am

Bravo.

That *was* my reaction to her bravo performance in Clouds of Sils Maria.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 06, 2022, 08:40:36 am

Quote from: contradiction on December 05, 2022, 10:50:50 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 05, 2022, 09:32:22 pm

Kirstie Alley
Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 05, 2022, 10:29:19 pm
Jim Stewart
Co-founder of STAX records
92

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/12/06/jim-stewart-obituary-stax-records-rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame-memphis-music-history/69702156007/

Well, at least we still have Kristen Stewart.

And, believe it or not, Jackie Stewart.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 06, 2022, 06:25:10 pm

Mills Lane

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 06, 2022, 06:30:30 pm

Janis Gaye

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 06, 2022, 06:53:33 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 06, 2022, 06:25:10 pm

Mills Lane

Well at least we still have Judge Judy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 06, 2022, 06:54:05 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 06, 2022, 06:30:30 pm

Janis Gaye

Well, at least we still have Gaye marriage . . . for a little while, at least.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 07, 2022, 04:29:11 pm

Musician and music journalist Peter Cooper

https://variety.com/2022/music/obituaries-people-news/peter-cooper-dead-country-nashville-journalist-singer-hall-fame-1235453101/?fbclid=IwAR0mloUi02j1qmsx6_EhUmbaQXNwSf9AV2mzi7F_iUvbiZ4hTohO5SKGeiM

At least we still have Eric Brace.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 07, 2022, 06:53:59 pm

Quote from: SideTerminate ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2022, 06:00:45 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 12, 2022, 02:37:57 pm
Quote from: nuclear-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2022, 01:56:44 pm
Anne Heche has died from the injuries she sustained in a car crash last week.

Aren't you jumping the gun?

ok abc is reporting it at 5pm
ABC News
@ABC
BREAKING: Anne Heche has died at the age of 53 after suffering serious injuries in a fiery car accident in Los Angeles, her family says.

Anne Heche had traces of cocaine, cannabinoids, and benzodiazepines in her system at the time of her death, but there is no evidence that drugs were a contributing factor.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 07, 2022, 07:33:00 pm

Quote from: SideTerminate ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 07, 2022, 06:53:59 pm

Quote from: SideTerminate ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2022, 06:00:45 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on August 12, 2022, 02:37:57 pm
Quote from: nuclear-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2022, 01:56:44 pm
Anne Heche has died from the injuries she sustained in a car crash last week.

Aren't you jumping the gun?

ok abc is reporting it at 5pm
ABC News
@ABC
BREAKING: Anne Heche has died at the age of 53 after suffering serious injuries in a fiery car accident in Los Angeles, her family says.

Anne Heche had traces of cocaine, cannabinoids, and benzodiazepines in her system at the time of her death, but there is no evidence that drugs were a contributing factor.

So maybe she was murdered by the illuminati because she was working on a movie about Jeffrey Epstein?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 08, 2022, 01:18:27 am

Quote from: SideTerminate ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 07, 2022, 06:53:59 pm

Quote from: SideTerminate ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2022, 06:00:45 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on August 12, 2022, 02:37:57 pm
Quote from: nuclear-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 12, 2022, 01:56:44 pm
Anne Heche has died from the injuries she sustained in a car crash last week.

Aren't you jumping the gun?

ok abc is reporting it at 5pm
ABC News
@ABC
BREAKING: Anne Heche has died at the age of 53 after suffering serious injuries in a fiery car accident in Los Angeles, her family says.

Anne Heche had traces of cocaine, cannabinoids, and benzodiazepines in her system at the time of her death, but there is no evidence that drugs were a contributing factor.

emphasis on "traces", AKA what anyone who has used drugs in the past (many) years might have in their body.

Anne Heche final autopsy report shows no evidence of illegal drugs in system at time of crash: Medical examiner (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/anne-heche-final-autopsy-report-no-evidence-illegal-drugs-in-system-at-time-of-crash-235623391.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 08, 2022, 01:26:16 am

Why do they make this kind of info public? What business is it of others?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 08, 2022, 10:38:38 am

Quote from: Starsky on December 08, 2022, 01:26:16 am

Why do they make this kind of info public? What business is it of others?

I, for one, enjoy feeling superior to others.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 08, 2022, 11:17:15 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 08, 2022, 10:38:38 am

Quote from: Starsky on December 08, 2022, 01:26:16 am
Why do they make this kind of info public? What business is it of others?
I, for one, enjoy feeling superior to others.

on brand

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 08, 2022, 11:55:48 am

Quote from: SideTerminate ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 08, 2022, 11:17:15 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 08, 2022, 10:38:38 am
Quote from: Starsky on December 08, 2022, 01:26:16 am
Why do they make this kind of info public? What business is it of others?
I, for one, enjoy feeling superior to others.
on brand

Look, if people are going to cue me up to play the hits, I'm going to play the hits.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 08, 2022, 04:32:21 pm

Jet Black (Brian John Duffy)
Drummer and founding member of The Stranglers
84

As the ‘elder statesmen’ of the group, Jet was already a successful businessman in the Guildford area when The Stranglers formed in 1974. Jet owned a fleet of ice cream vans, one of which, as many fans will fondly remember, was used to tour the UK in the early years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 08, 2022, 05:05:09 pm

Jess Barr, one-time guitarist for Slobberbone, dies at 46

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 08, 2022, 05:19:59 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 08, 2022, 04:32:21 pm

Jet Black (Brian John Duffy)
Drummer and founding member of The Stranglers
84

At least we still have Andy Duffy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 08, 2022, 05:49:45 pm

Quote from: SideTerminate ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 08, 2022, 05:05:09 pm

Jess Barr, one-time guitarist for Slobberbone, dies at 46

Jason Isbell
@JasonIsbell
Jess Barr and Peter Cooper were both good friends of mine and I’m so fucking sad that they are gone now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 09, 2022, 12:31:02 pm

Ronnie Turner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 09, 2022, 10:48:39 pm

Grant Wahl, World Cup

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 12, 2022, 11:19:50 am

Manuel Göttsching

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 12, 2022, 11:31:55 am

Quote from: Yada on December 12, 2022, 11:19:50 am

Manuel Göttsching

At least we still have Ash Ra Tempel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 12, 2022, 11:39:07 am

Quote from: Yada on December 09, 2022, 12:31:02 pm

Ronnie Turner

At least we still have Frank!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2022, 12:12:31 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 12, 2022, 11:39:07 am

Quote from: Yada on December 09, 2022, 12:31:02 pm
Ronnie Turner

At least we still have Frank!

and Tina

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 12, 2022, 02:59:23 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 12, 2022, 11:39:07 am

Quote from: Yada on December 09, 2022, 12:31:02 pm
Ronnie Turner

At least we still have Frank!

GOD, CAN WE TRADE!? PLEASE TAKE FRANK INSTEAD!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 12, 2022, 04:26:21 pm

Quote from: Sidefusion ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2022, 12:12:31 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 12, 2022, 11:39:07 am
Quote from: Yada on December 09, 2022, 12:31:02 pm
Ronnie Turner

At least we still have Frank!
and Tina

She's now outlived two of her four sons.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2022, 04:55:16 pm

Herb Deutsch, who invented the Moog synthesizer (with his friend Bob Moog), has died at the age of 90.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2022, 05:15:15 pm

Kawānanakoa

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 12, 2022, 05:39:27 pm

Quote from: Sidefusion ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2022, 04:55:16 pm

Herb Deutsch, who invented the Moog synthesizer (with his friend Bob Moog), has died at the age of 90.

At least Deutschland is still alive in the Worl— oh, my, no.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2022, 05:56:28 pm

Angelo Badalamenti, the renowned composer known for his work on Twin Peaks and several other David Lynch projects, has died at the age of 85.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 12, 2022, 06:16:16 pm

J. J. Barnes
Soul Singer who recorded with numerous 60s labels who later became quite popular on the Northern Soul Scene
79

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 12, 2022, 08:44:48 pm

Quote from: Sidefusion ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2022, 05:15:15 pm

Kawānanakoa

dude.

one, there is ZERO chance anyone on here know who she was. second, she's a gawdang princess. and C, she's of the Hawai'ian royal lineage - HAWAII - so show some frikken respect and post a link if you're going to announce this, will ya??

“Mournful aloha” shared with the passing of Princess Abigail Kawānanakoa (https://mauinow.com/2022/12/12/mournful-aloha-shared-with-the-passing-of-princess-abigail-kawananakoa/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 12, 2022, 08:51:39 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 12, 2022, 08:44:48 pm

Quote from: Sidefusion ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2022, 05:15:15 pm
Kawānanakoa

dude.

one, there is ZERO chance anyone on here know who she was. second, she's a gawdang princess. and C, she's of the Hawai'ian royal lineage - HAWAII - so show some frikken respect and post a link if you're going to announce this, will ya??

Julians America maintains a WHO’s Who style social register of all royalty and people worth above $500million and we stand with Hawaii and their vacationing colonizers in mourning this loss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2022, 10:27:49 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 12, 2022, 08:51:39 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 12, 2022, 08:44:48 pm
Quote from: Sidefusion ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2022, 05:15:15 pm
Kawānanakoa

dude.

one, there is ZERO chance anyone on here know who she was. second, she's a gawdang princess. and C, she's of the Hawai'ian royal lineage - HAWAII - so show some frikken respect and post a link if you're going to announce this, will ya??
Julians America maintains a WHO’s Who style social register of all royalty and people worth above $500million and we stand with Hawaii and their vacationing colonizers in mourning this loss.

Thank you for responding
Chattel of the likes of sweets will never understand

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 13, 2022, 12:10:14 am

hiding behind jules' coattails... tsk tsk.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 14, 2022, 10:43:32 am

Twitch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 14, 2022, 11:10:42 am

Quote from: Yada on December 14, 2022, 10:43:32 am

Twitch

damn, suicide
I remember him from 'you think you can dance' (I know, it was torture, but the things you do for love)
and knew about his Ellen gig, but this was surprising He had become an executive producer on the show in 2020
and of course we know what happened to the ellen show

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on December 14, 2022, 02:34:19 pm

Quote from: Sidefusion ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 14, 2022, 11:10:42 am

Quote from: Yada on December 14, 2022, 10:43:32 am
Twitch
damn, suicide
I remember him from 'you think you can dance' (I know, it was torture, but the things you do for love)

Don't apologize for watching that. Fantastic show. And damn, Twitch was awesome.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bellenseb on December 16, 2022, 10:56:52 am

City Winery DC
https://twitter.com/ecwilliams30/status/1603518600698011660

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 16, 2022, 11:55:54 am

Dino Danelli

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 16, 2022, 11:56:57 am

Quote from: shemptiness on December 16, 2022, 11:55:54 am

Dino Danelli

Well at least we still have Dino Ciccarelli.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 16, 2022, 11:57:14 am

Quote from: bellenseb on December 16, 2022, 10:56:52 am

City Winery DC
https://twitter.com/ecwilliams30/status/1603518600698011660

Well, at least we still have Domaine Clos Rougeard.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 17, 2022, 05:14:56 pm

P-22

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 17, 2022, 05:54:10 pm

At least we still have C3PO

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 17, 2022, 06:30:03 pm

Quote from: contradiction on December 17, 2022, 05:54:10 pm

At least we still have C3PO

Thats the one played by Leonard Nemoy, yes?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 19, 2022, 03:26:48 pm

Shirley Watts, Charlie's wife.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 19, 2022, 06:56:38 pm

Terry Hall (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/19/terry-hall-lead-singer-of-the-specials-dies-aged-63)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 19, 2022, 07:23:43 pm

That one hurts so many great great songs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 19, 2022, 07:28:15 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 19, 2022, 06:56:38 pm

Terry Hall (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/19/terry-hall-lead-singer-of-the-specials-dies-aged-63)

sadness

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on December 19, 2022, 08:17:43 pm

Such a bummer. Definitely a fixture especially during college days

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 19, 2022, 09:00:56 pm

Quote from: Sidefusion ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 19, 2022, 07:28:15 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 19, 2022, 06:56:38 pm
Terry Hall (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/19/terry-hall-lead-singer-of-the-specials-dies-aged-63)
sadness

Unfortunately, he joins Terrie Hall in the great beyond.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/terri-hall-dies-at-53-she-appeared-in-grim-ads-showing-the-dangers-of-smoking/2013/09/18/fd21a638-1fd0-11e3-94a2-6c66b668ea55_story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 20, 2022, 06:27:27 am

Martin Duffy keyboards/guitar in Felt, Primal Scream and The Charlatans. 55

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/20/martin-duffy-primal-scream-and-felt-keyboardist-dies-aged-55

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 20, 2022, 06:31:14 am

Great story about Terry Hall and Suggs taking the piss out of each other in a pub

https://twitter.com/estellecostanza/status/1605116406248472577?s=46&t=JHDaKsyErVw298DGeqsUnA

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on December 20, 2022, 09:15:17 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 20, 2022, 06:27:27 am

Martin Duffy keyboards/guitar in Felt, Primal Scream and The Charlatans. 55

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/20/martin-duffy-primal-scream-and-felt-keyboardist-dies-aged-55

Awful news...between him and Terry Hall, WTF. I remember buying Martin a shot of Jameson at the backbar after a Primal Scream gig in like 2009 I think. Really nice guy. So sad about him and Terry.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 20, 2022, 10:57:57 am

Martin died as a result of a fall at his home :'( and from people who knew him, he was quite the character... he once told some that "mushrooms were the cheese of the forest"

obviously Martin Duffy was a key participant in "Echo Dek" one of my favorite all time albums

need to dive into some of the later Felt albums as they were really never on my radar but a huge influence on bands i've enjoyed over the years

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 20, 2022, 11:04:26 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 20, 2022, 10:57:57 am

Martin died as a result of a fall at his home :'( and from people who knew him, he was quite the character... he once told some that "mushrooms were the cheese of the forest"

That's absurd. Cashews are the cheese of the forest -- ask any vegan.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 20, 2022, 11:07:10 am

Same cause of death as the recently departed DH Peligro. I'm going to move to a home without stairs. (Though obviously there are other ways to fall.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 20, 2022, 11:49:05 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 20, 2022, 11:07:10 am

Same cause of death as the recently departed DH Peligro. I'm going to move to a home without stairs. (Though obviously there are other ways to fall.)

He should have known better -- the danger was right there in his name.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 20, 2022, 12:01:27 pm

Ha ha! That’s good

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 20, 2022, 05:19:52 pm

Bob

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 20, 2022, 05:32:16 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 20, 2022, 05:19:52 pm

Bob

lots of bobs...we need more

or is that the answer to the joke
Who has no arm or legs in the water?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 20, 2022, 05:50:42 pm

Sonya Eddy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 20, 2022, 10:16:38 pm

Pluto TV's Vevo '80s video channel is doing a Terry Hall tribute right now. Mostly Specials so far; one Fun Boy Three.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 21, 2022, 12:26:29 pm

Sad

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02xNcQ99sSzSHxchRjxgVKKX7GLjjRVDemfw6CV2ubPbeF6uy47FEjNG8L9Z6gxrLLl&id=100001396325830

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 21, 2022, 12:41:03 pm

^man, heart wrenching

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 21, 2022, 02:36:30 pm

Franco Harris

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 21, 2022, 04:19:47 pm

little late on this one since it happened in october
Lucious Jackson
(the basketball player the band took their name from...the band is defunct now too)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 21, 2022, 04:46:06 pm

Quote from: Sidefusion ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 21, 2022, 04:19:47 pm

little late on this one since it happened in october
Lucious Jackson
(the basketball player the band took their name from...the band is defunct now too)

Naked Eye made it on to a party playlist this past weekend!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 21, 2022, 07:00:04 pm

Ali Ahmed Aslam, inventor of chicken tikka masala, dies at 77

Invented in Glasgow

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 22, 2022, 12:25:24 pm

I think I've listened to enjoy yourself a dozen times recently and get sad every time I hear this.

(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/320262298_646934137220436_7482358420228933512_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5cd70e&_nc_ohc=Zv-SPmCWj9kAX8Zd-br&tn=ur90puf0bzbhWBfo&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&oh=00_AfDwiNBVbVnmMrFaJYt6UiCL-BKL_uM_Af1Oa11IvtzQwA&oe=63A8C360)
Football Ground in Coventry City pays tribute to Terry.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 22, 2022, 12:34:29 pm

Joe would have been 70 :'(

Joe Strummer died 20 years ago today at the age of 50.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 22, 2022, 09:17:18 pm

Philly Soul producer/songwriter Thom Bell (https://www.inquirer.com/news/thom-bell-sound-of-philadelphia-dead-obituary-20221222.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 24, 2022, 03:22:54 pm

Maxi Jazz frontman for Faithless
65

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 24, 2022, 06:18:23 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 24, 2022, 03:22:54 pm

Maxi Jazz frontman for Faithless
65

At least we still have the New Orleans Jazz of Utah.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 25, 2022, 11:16:35 am

Big Scarr

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 27, 2022, 08:24:43 pm

Joseph Marley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 28, 2022, 04:01:06 pm

Jimmie, who was the oldest known male giraffe in the world according to a zoo in Rising Sun, Md. has died. (https://wjla.com/news/local/jimmie-possibly-the-oldest-giraffe-in-the-world-has-died)

#RIP Jimmie (https://twitter.com/search?q=%22RIP%20Jimmie%22)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 28, 2022, 04:50:50 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 28, 2022, 04:01:06 pm

Jimmie, who was the oldest known male giraffe in the world according to a zoo in Rising Sun, Md. has died. (https://wjla.com/news/local/jimmie-possibly-the-oldest-giraffe-in-the-world-has-died)

#RIP Jimmie (https://twitter.com/search?q=%22RIP%20Jimmie%22)

One last time for Jimmie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTEDpckHqk0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 28, 2022, 05:27:29 pm

Quote from: contradiction on December 28, 2022, 04:50:50 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 28, 2022, 04:01:06 pm
Jimmie, who was the oldest known male giraffe in the world according to a zoo in Rising Sun, Md. has died. (https://wjla.com/news/local/jimmie-possibly-the-oldest-giraffe-in-the-world-has-died)

#RIP Jimmie (https://twitter.com/search?q=%22RIP%20Jimmie%22)

One last time for Jimmie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTEDpckHqk0)

I think this (https://youtu.be/vw5i7TPkYfI)was more his groove

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 28, 2022, 05:45:21 pm

Reggae artist Jo Mersa Marley, grandson of Bob Marley, dead at 31
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/reggae-artist-jo-mersa-marley-grandson-of-bob-marley-dead-at-31-233827277.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 28, 2022, 05:50:57 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 28, 2022, 05:45:21 pm

Reggae artist Jo Mersa Marley, grandson of Bob Marley, dead at 31
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/reggae-artist-jo-mersa-marley-grandson-of-bob-marley-dead-at-31-233827277.html

yada let us know yesterday

Quote from: Yada on December 27, 2022, 08:24:43 pm

Joseph Marley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 28, 2022, 06:00:28 pm

I had mersa once. It was no fun.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 28, 2022, 06:18:16 pm

Quote from: contradiction on December 28, 2022, 06:00:28 pm

I had mersa once. It was no fun.

for those with a "huh?" (https://www.cdc.gov/mrsa/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 28, 2022, 09:00:57 pm

Washington Post's People Who Died 2022 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/12/23/notable-deaths-2022/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 28, 2022, 09:33:08 pm

DCists Restaurants we lost in 2022

https://dcist.com/story/22/12/28/restaurants-dc-lost-2022/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 29, 2022, 03:10:33 pm

Pelé (https://apnews.com/article/pele-soccer-star-dead-f2c5f7d2771b96dbd854cb025ab2563a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 29, 2022, 04:01:14 pm

That’s a real bummer…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 29, 2022, 05:50:08 pm

Vivienne Westwood 81

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 29, 2022, 05:56:36 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 29, 2022, 05:50:08 pm

Vivienne Westwood 81

Icon!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 30, 2022, 03:02:35 pm

Keenan Cahill

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 30, 2022, 03:53:19 pm

Quote from: Yada on December 30, 2022, 03:02:35 pm

Keenan Cahill

at least we still have kenan thompson (jez, he's been on SNL since 2003!)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on December 30, 2022, 05:06:20 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 29, 2022, 03:10:33 pm

Pelé (https://apnews.com/article/pele-soccer-star-dead-f2c5f7d2771b96dbd854cb025ab2563a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter)

at least we still have Seu Jorge

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 30, 2022, 07:30:58 pm

Bill Pence, co-founder of Telluride Film Festival

In spite of Jan 6 dirtbags, at least we still have....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 30, 2022, 08:26:40 pm

Bill Wence?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 30, 2022, 10:44:36 pm

Barbara Walters

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 30, 2022, 11:14:34 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 30, 2022, 10:44:36 pm

Barbara Walters

Baba Wawa

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 31, 2022, 08:38:39 am

Pope Benedict

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 31, 2022, 09:15:47 am

Quote from: contradiction on December 31, 2022, 08:38:39 am

Pope Benedict

At least we still have Benedict Cumberbatch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 31, 2022, 09:33:12 am

Quote from: contradiction on December 31, 2022, 08:38:39 am

Pope Benedict

At least we still have the less creepy pope.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on December 31, 2022, 01:30:34 pm

they are all pretty creepy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 31, 2022, 02:36:27 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on December 31, 2022, 01:30:34 pm

they are all pretty creepy.

If only they would let priests have sex. We'd have priests who were normal people, and the creepy incels who become priests would have to find another line of work.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 01, 2023, 09:29:33 am

Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters has passed at the age of 74.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 01, 2023, 11:11:48 am

Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 01, 2023, 11:12:23 am

Quote from: Side-eFeck ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 01, 2023, 09:29:33 am

Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters has passed at the age of 74.

At least we still have all three of the Pointer Brothers. Unfortunately, we also still have Wagoo.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 01, 2023, 12:28:07 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 01, 2023, 11:11:48 am

Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse

Jesus... from playing here two weeks ago > cancer announced > death. Wow.

At least we still have Seth Green.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 01, 2023, 12:47:58 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 01, 2023, 12:28:07 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 01, 2023, 11:11:48 am
Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse

Jesus... from playing here two weeks ago > cancer announced > death. Wow.

At least we still have Seth Green.

Maybe he shouldn't have gotten the jab.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 01, 2023, 12:57:24 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 01, 2023, 12:47:58 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 01, 2023, 12:28:07 pm
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 01, 2023, 11:11:48 am
Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse

Jesus... from playing here two weeks ago > cancer announced > death. Wow.

At least we still have Seth Green.

Maybe he shouldn't have gotten the jab.

I don't get this post.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 01, 2023, 01:18:24 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 01, 2023, 12:57:24 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 01, 2023, 12:47:58 pm
Quote from: Yada on January 01, 2023, 12:28:07 pm
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 01, 2023, 11:11:48 am
Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse

Jesus... from playing here two weeks ago > cancer announced > death. Wow.

At least we still have Seth Green.

Maybe he shouldn't have gotten the jab.

I don't get this post.

I believe he’s parodying the trend of antivaxers on Twitter (and elsewhere) of attributing every death that happens to a side effect of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 01, 2023, 03:10:55 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 01, 2023, 01:18:24 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 01, 2023, 12:57:24 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on January 01, 2023, 12:47:58 pm
Quote from: Yada on January 01, 2023, 12:28:07 pm
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 01, 2023, 11:11:48 am
Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse

Jesus... from playing here two weeks ago > cancer announced > death. Wow.

At least we still have Seth Green.

Maybe he shouldn't have gotten the jab.

I don't get this post.
I believe he’s parodying the trend of antivaxers on Twitter (and elsewhere) of attributing every death that happens to a side effect of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

It sounds like someone other than me spends too much time reading garbage social media.

I have to admit, it's nore fun trolling MAGA rubes on Facebook than it ever was trolling anyone on this board. But I'm going to pledge to do less of than on 2023, and to lose 10 pounds.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 01, 2023, 03:24:01 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 01, 2023, 03:10:55 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 01, 2023, 01:18:24 pm
Quote from: Yada on January 01, 2023, 12:57:24 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on January 01, 2023, 12:47:58 pm
Quote from: Yada on January 01, 2023, 12:28:07 pm
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 01, 2023, 11:11:48 am
Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse

Jesus... from playing here two weeks ago > cancer announced > death. Wow.

At least we still have Seth Green.

Maybe he shouldn't have gotten the jab.

I don't get this post.
I believe he’s parodying the trend of antivaxers on Twitter (and elsewhere) of attributing every death that happens to a side effect of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

It sounds like someone other than me spends too much time reading garbage social media.

I have to admit, it's nore fun trolling MAGA rubes on Facebook than it ever was trolling anyone on this board. But I'm going to pledge to do less of than on 2023, and to lose 10 pounds.

Throw “add a comma to your net worth” and you’re well on your way to visa approval to visit The America.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 01, 2023, 06:56:49 pm

Gangsta boo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 03, 2023, 12:19:51 pm

Has anyone mentioned Fred White of Earth Wind and Fire?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 03, 2023, 12:39:39 pm

Or this guy...? (https://www.npr.org/2023/01/03/1146636410/ken-block-hoonigan-racing-dc-shoes-snowmobile-accident)

(https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2023/01/03/gettyimages-660470390-bbe152b29b39367468044e9456fa4535c328abc6-s800-c85.webp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 03, 2023, 12:50:45 pm

Or Alan Rankine of The Associates

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 03, 2023, 12:55:34 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 03, 2023, 12:50:45 pm

Or Alan Rankine of The Associates

I mean, he felt more like a friend, you know?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 04, 2023, 09:52:56 am

Alan Rankine

From the B&S page

Richard was a student of his back in 1995 -

“I first met Alan in 1995 when I was a student at Stow College. He was my lecturer on the music business course. The college had its own small record label called Electric Honey Records and because of my connection with the band, I was able to hand in an early demo of ‘Dog on Wheels’. As soon as Alan heard the demo, he made up his mind that this was the song and band that was to represent Electric Honey records that year. Normally, the label would release a two or three song single but Alan had the foresight (and slightly bigger budget than the year before) to ask us if we could record a whole album instead. We did, and the result was Tigermilk, which was recorded in five days at CaVa studios in Glasgow.

I can’t emphasis enough the influence that had on Belle and Sebastian at the very beginning. He was so encouraging. Because of his knowledge and contacts, he managed to promote what we had done with Electric Honey records to the whole music industry and start a real buzz about the band. He also set up the first two gigs we ever did. Stones in Edinburgh was the first gig followed by a gig in Dunkirk. Both gigs were completely shambolic, as most of us in the band didn’t have a clue what we were doing at the time, but Alan remained patient and helped us along the way. If it wasn’t for Alan, our path would’ve been very different. We owe a lot to him.

Alan was a fantastic, generous, and talented person who will be sorely missed by everyone that knew him. He was an unbelievable musician and his musical legacy will live on forever.

Thoughts and condolences go out to his family, from myself and all of Belle and Sebastian.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 04, 2023, 09:59:34 am

Another great story about the early formation of B&S and Stuart insistence that it be vinyl not a cd

In Stuart David's 2015 book, he recalls Murdoch having to convince Rankine of making the CD single into a 7" into a 12". Due mainly to the actual logistics of being able to get an LP recorded in the timeframe of a single. However it happened, Rankine's role and influence was immense.

——————————

With a firm offer to record the Stow College single on the table, Stuart began to ask me searching questions. He remained committed to his San Francisco trip, but he asked if I thought the opportunities that were starting to appear for him in Glasgow would still be there waiting when he came back. He seemed convinced they would be. I told him I wasn't so sure.

'Sometimes you only get one shot,' I told him. 'It's easy just to miss your chance.'

Richard felt the same. He was certain that if you didn't grab your break when it appeared, it might never come again. He couldn't believe Stuart was going off to San Francisco rather than making the single for Stow.

So Stuart, still unconvinced but willing to look into things further, set up another meeting with the class and we went in to talk to them - wearing normal trousers this time.

It was a novelty for us to see Alan Rankine standing still, rather than rushing past in a blur in the Beatbox corridor. He wrote some stuff on the whiteboard to illustrate what the process would involve, and he wrote some dates up there too.

The budget would cover five days in Cava Studios. Three for recording, two for mixing. We'd record a single and a B-side in February, and then the class would act as a record label called Electric Honey and release a thousand copies of the single on CD and promote it. Alan explained that the main purpose of it was to give the students experience of everything that was involved in putting out a record, but that it would be a good thing for us too because we would get some publicity from it and it might generate a bit of a buzz for the band.

The first thing Stuart made clear was his opposition to releasing a CD.

"Singles have to be vinyl, he said. 'Seven inch.'
He explained that a seven-inch single was a magical thing, and that CDs were nothing at all.

Alan hesitated, but he eventually said we could probably do it on vinyl, if we really wanted to.

Stuart gave that some thought then shook his head.

'I don't know,' he said. 'How about if we made an album? I think it has to be an album.'

The pause before Alan replied this time was a lot longer, and he finally told us he didn't think it could be done. Not in five days.

'Five days are plenty,' Stuart replied, and he went up to the whiteboard and wiped a space amongst Alan's doodlings. Then he picked up the marker pen and started writing song titles on the board. 'The State I Am In', 'Expectations', 'She's Losing It; five in one list on the left-hand side of the board, and five in another list on the right-hand side. When he was finished he turned back to look at Alan as if that was all the proof that was needed.

I was getting used to Stuart's ability to get what he wanted where his songs were concerned, but this seemed like a bridge too far. Most of the class were excited by the idea, staring at the whiteboard with wide eyes and smiles on their faces - all except for Richard, who looked a bit seasick. But Alan wasn't convinced. He told Stuart it really wasn't enough time, that you couldn't record an album in three days. Stuart told him how quickly The Beatles had made their first few albums, and told him we'd record it all live, no overdubs. It went back and forward for a while, punctuated by visits from Start to the whiteboard to write something down. And then, quite suddenly, Alan changed his mind. He decided to give Stuart the chance to make the album. I'm not sure if even Alan believed what had just happened.

After the debate was over, and Stuart was talking to some of the students, Alan told me Stuart's attitude reminded him of Billy McKenzie, the singer in The Associates.

'Bill always knew what he wanted,' he said. 'Great artists usually do. You have to give them room to follow their vision.' And so Stuart cancelled his trip to San Francisco.

—Excerpted from "In the All-Night Cafe", Stuart David, p. 94-97

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 04, 2023, 10:21:18 am

BK

https://dcist.com/story/23/01/03/dc-last-burger-king-80s-memorabilia-permanently-closed/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 04, 2023, 10:32:04 am

Quote from: Starsky on January 04, 2023, 10:21:18 am

BK

https://dcist.com/story/23/01/03/dc-last-burger-king-80s-memorabilia-permanently-closed/

I always wondered why there were no BKs here... There used to be that one way back in the day in the Union Market area when it was still the hood.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 04, 2023, 11:08:29 am

Quote from: Yada on January 04, 2023, 10:32:04 am

Quote from: Starsky on January 04, 2023, 10:21:18 am
BK

https://dcist.com/story/23/01/03/dc-last-burger-king-80s-memorabilia-permanently-closed/

I always wondered why there were no BKs here... There used to be that one way back in the day in the Union Market area when it was still the hood.

I mean, there's one just up the road by Korean Korner and that thrift store...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 04, 2023, 11:14:09 am

Quote from: contradiction on January 04, 2023, 11:08:29 am

Quote from: Yada on January 04, 2023, 10:32:04 am
Quote from: Starsky on January 04, 2023, 10:21:18 am
BK

https://dcist.com/story/23/01/03/dc-last-burger-king-80s-memorabilia-permanently-closed/

I always wondered why there were no BKs here... There used to be that one way back in the day in the Union Market area when it was still the hood.

I mean, there's one just up the road by Korean Korner and that thrift store...

No clue where Korean Korner is... and I'm referring to DC the city, not the greater DMV.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 04, 2023, 12:04:17 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 04, 2023, 11:14:09 am

Quote from: contradiction on January 04, 2023, 11:08:29 am
Quote from: Yada on January 04, 2023, 10:32:04 am
Quote from: Starsky on January 04, 2023, 10:21:18 am
BK

https://dcist.com/story/23/01/03/dc-last-burger-king-80s-memorabilia-permanently-closed/

I always wondered why there were no BKs here... There used to be that one way back in the day in the Union Market area when it was still the hood.

I mean, there's one just up the road by Korean Korner and that thrift store...

No clue where Korean Korner is... and I'm referring to DC the city, not the greater DMV.

Fair enough. KK is at the intersection of Veirs Mill and Randolph.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 04, 2023, 12:37:21 pm

Quote from: contradiction on January 04, 2023, 12:04:17 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 04, 2023, 11:14:09 am
Quote from: contradiction on January 04, 2023, 11:08:29 am
Quote from: Yada on January 04, 2023, 10:32:04 am
Quote from: Starsky on January 04, 2023, 10:21:18 am
BK

https://dcist.com/story/23/01/03/dc-last-burger-king-80s-memorabilia-permanently-closed/

I always wondered why there were no BKs here... There used to be that one way back in the day in the Union Market area when it was still the hood.

I mean, there's one just up the road by Korean Korner and that thrift store...

No clue where Korean Korner is... and I'm referring to DC the city, not the greater DMV.

Fair enough. KK is at the intersection of Veirs Mill and Randolph.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 04, 2023, 07:01:21 pm

Walter Cunningham, last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut, has died (https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/world/nasa-astronaut-walter-cunningham-obit-scn/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 04, 2023, 07:06:12 pm

Dave & Buster’s co-founder James ‘Buster’ Corley dies in apparent suicide (https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/04/business/james-buster-corley-death/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 04, 2023, 07:26:25 pm

At least we still have Dave

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 04, 2023, 07:35:47 pm

Quote from: contradiction on January 04, 2023, 07:26:25 pm

At least we still have Dave

This should not be as funny to me as it is.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 04, 2023, 10:18:01 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on January 04, 2023, 07:35:47 pm

Quote from: contradiction on January 04, 2023, 07:26:25 pm
At least we still have Dave
This should not be as funny to me as it is.

I can't stop laughing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 04, 2023, 10:41:28 pm

Quote from: contradiction on January 04, 2023, 07:26:25 pm

At least we still have Dave

if you had actually read the article, you would have known that we do not, in fact, still have Dave.

so insensitive.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 06, 2023, 07:52:49 am

Gianluca Vialli

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 08, 2023, 02:29:43 pm

Adam Rich (https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/entertainment/adam-rich-dead/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 08, 2023, 02:55:01 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 08, 2023, 02:29:43 pm

Adam Rich (https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/entertainment/adam-rich-dead/index.html)

At least we still have generational wealth.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 08, 2023, 04:41:49 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 08, 2023, 02:29:43 pm

Adam Rich (https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/entertainment/adam-rich-dead/index.html)

So weird. Out of the blue, my wife started talking about Eight is Enough this morning, just hours before this story surfaced.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 09, 2023, 10:53:55 pm

Diamond

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 09, 2023, 11:17:32 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 09, 2023, 10:53:55 pm

Diamond

At least we still have Silk

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 10, 2023, 07:35:36 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 09, 2023, 10:53:55 pm

Diamond

On Monday, Trump offered a theory about Diamond's death.

"Probably her big and precious heart just plain gave out,"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 10, 2023, 08:26:23 am

Quote from: Yada on January 09, 2023, 11:17:32 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 09, 2023, 10:53:55 pm
Diamond

At least we still have Silk

Should have gotten the jab.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 10, 2023, 07:59:25 pm

Cardinal George Pell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 10, 2023, 08:12:15 pm

At least we still have Pell grants

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on January 10, 2023, 09:12:36 pm

Russell Banks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 10, 2023, 09:22:05 pm

Quote from: Bagley on January 10, 2023, 09:12:36 pm

Russell Banks

At least we still have the FDIC.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 11, 2023, 06:10:24 pm

Jeff Beck

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 11, 2023, 06:13:54 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 11, 2023, 06:10:24 pm

Jeff Beck

bummer
well at least we still have the Jeff's on the board
(and I confirmed challanged was ok when I had to buy the 3 day THS tix, because it's littlerly the only conversation we have when we see each other)

Is Jonny depp a suspect?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on January 11, 2023, 06:19:55 pm

Bummer. Glad I got to see him at Wolf Trap a few years back.

Also I am ok as well

Quote from: Side-eFeck ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 11, 2023, 06:13:54 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 11, 2023, 06:10:24 pm
Jeff Beck
bummer
well at least we still have the Jeff's on the board
(and I confirmed challanged was ok when I had to buy the 3 day THS tix, because it's littlerly the only conversation we have when we see each other)

Is Jonny depp a suspect?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 11, 2023, 06:28:35 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 11, 2023, 06:10:24 pm

Jeff Beck

At least we still have Beck.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 11, 2023, 06:38:24 pm

Jorge Ballesteros

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on January 11, 2023, 07:53:34 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on January 11, 2023, 06:19:55 pm

Also I am ok as well

Glad to hear.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 12, 2023, 10:03:22 pm

Lisa Marie Presley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 12, 2023, 10:11:51 pm

Awful

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 12, 2023, 10:51:33 pm

A couple of days ago

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/01/11/02/66436329-0-image-a-30_1673403623604.jpg

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 13, 2023, 12:49:36 am

Robbie Bachman, co-founding member and drummer of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has died at the age of 69.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 13, 2023, 07:25:00 am

Quote from: Starsky on January 12, 2023, 10:51:33 pm

A couple of days ago

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/01/11/02/66436329-0-image-a-30_1673403623604.jpg

I think that's Priscilla

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 13, 2023, 08:13:49 am

Quote from: Yada on January 13, 2023, 07:25:00 am

Quote from: Starsky on January 12, 2023, 10:51:33 pm
A couple of days ago

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/01/11/02/66436329-0-image-a-30_1673403623604.jpg

I think that's Priscilla

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11629373/Lisa-Marie-Presley-mom-Priscilla-cried-Golden-Globes-two-days-cardiac-arrest.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 13, 2023, 07:37:38 pm

Robbie Knievel son of Evil

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 16, 2023, 12:13:14 pm

(https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iLwn35qExt_Y/v1/1200x-1.jpg)

Gina Lollobrigida (https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-gina-lollobrigida-rome-movies-35ab673787e5ce2c2c6f5fdf96bb0f59?taid=63c548cd0b9c9700012445b8&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 17, 2023, 11:46:56 am

Charles Simic
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/13/six-poems

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 17, 2023, 05:12:08 pm

Lucille Randon, aka Sister Andre
118

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 18, 2023, 03:07:57 pm

Van Connor bassist/co-founder of Screaming Trees age 55

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 19, 2023, 07:46:25 am

Julian!
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/entertainment/julian-sands-missing-hiker/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 19, 2023, 09:50:00 am

Quote from: Kitara-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 19, 2023, 07:46:25 am

Julian!
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/entertainment/julian-sands-missing-hiker/index.html

Its a Highlander situation. There can only be one, and this only has made me more powerful.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 19, 2023, 03:49:13 pm

Quote from: Creep-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 19, 2023, 07:46:25 am

Julian!
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/entertainment/julian-sands-missing-hiker/index.html

Ok I'm not making fun of the dead, but this is kind of funny

Acclaimed actor Julian Sands went missing on Friday after a hike in the Mt. Baldy area.
Picture below that
(https://s.w-x.co/util/image/w/juliansandsmissing.jpg?crop=16:9&width=980&format=pjpg&auto=webp&quality=60)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 19, 2023, 05:51:53 pm

David Crosby

At least we still have Stills, Nash, and Young

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 19, 2023, 05:55:48 pm

Shit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 19, 2023, 05:57:10 pm

My sources are saying this may not be true... hmm...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 19, 2023, 05:57:57 pm

Hoax!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 19, 2023, 06:10:56 pm

Variety reports:
David Crosby, Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash Co-Founder, Dies at 81 (https://variety.com/2023/music/news/david-crosby-dead-dies-byrds-crosby-stills-nash-1235495467/)

His wife released a statement to Variety, saying, “It is with great sadness after a long illness, that our beloved David (Croz) Crosby has passed away. He was lovingly surrounded by his wife and soulmate Jan and son Django. Although he is no longer here with us, his humanity and kind soul will continue to guide and inspire us. His legacy will continue to live on through his legendary music. Peace, love, and harmony to all who knew David and those he touched. We will miss him dearly. At this time, we respectfully and kindly ask for privacy as we grieve and try to deal with our profound loss. Thank you for the love and prayers.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 19, 2023, 06:21:24 pm

BBC: Rock legend David Crosby dies aged 81 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64341315)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 19, 2023, 06:57:18 pm

Shit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 19, 2023, 08:01:06 pm

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnnVxNaPwsi/?igshid=OGQ2MjdiOTE=

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 19, 2023, 08:05:09 pm

At least we still have Cosby.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 19, 2023, 08:07:21 pm

That sucks! He was apparently fine yesterday!

He was a fun follow on Twitter.

(https://i.ibb.co/ZWtBqbs/8278631-C-4-F4-F-49-EA-9980-DD37-F4-A43-D1-A.png) (https://ibb.co/SRWtFZT)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 19, 2023, 09:43:46 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 19, 2023, 08:05:09 pm

At least we still have Cosby.

No.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on January 22, 2023, 09:11:33 am

Sal Brando

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 22, 2023, 10:44:53 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on January 22, 2023, 09:11:33 am

Sal Brando

Bando, not Brando.

At least we still have Steve-O.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on January 22, 2023, 12:55:56 pm

Yeah Bando. Auto-corrected to Marlon's brother.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 22, 2023, 01:29:25 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on January 22, 2023, 12:55:56 pm

Yeah Bando. Auto-corrected to Marlon's brother.

His brother is former major leaguer Chris Bando. Also with no r.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 23, 2023, 11:27:00 am

Marshall Tucker (https://popculture.com/country-music/news/marshall-tucker-band-reveals-marshall-tucker-died/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 23, 2023, 11:33:27 am

Quote from: shemptiness on January 23, 2023, 11:27:00 am

Marshall Tucker (https://popculture.com/country-music/news/marshall-tucker-band-reveals-marshall-tucker-died/)

99, part of the band in name only.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on January 23, 2023, 06:13:14 pm

David Crosby and Lucinda Williams’ ‘Return of the Grievous Angel’ is incredible. It’s mostly Lucinda. Doesn’t seem like Crosby is doing much, except what he is doing is harmonizing perfectly, adding a layer of depth, elevating the song to another level, and making it resonate even more. So that’s a lot. Such a good song and such a good album.

https://youtu.be/-D3YVmV_paU

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 24, 2023, 10:57:31 am

Gary Oelze (https://wtop.com/alexandria/2023/01/owner-of-alexandrias-birchmere-gary-oelze-dies-at-80/), owner of The Birchmere

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 24, 2023, 10:59:19 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 24, 2023, 10:57:31 am

Gary Oelze (https://wtop.com/alexandria/2023/01/owner-of-alexandrias-birchmere-gary-oelze-dies-at-80/), owner of The Birchmere

At least we still have The Birchmere cuisine.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 24, 2023, 11:03:30 am

I'm going to the wake for the food.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 24, 2023, 11:04:39 am

First selection for the 9:30 Forum reading group?

In 2022, Oelze and Stephen Moore published a book called “All Roads Lead to The Birchmere,” which chronicled the experience and legacy of the venue.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 24, 2023, 11:23:30 am

Quote from: Yada on January 24, 2023, 10:59:19 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 24, 2023, 10:57:31 am
Gary Oelze (https://wtop.com/alexandria/2023/01/owner-of-alexandrias-birchmere-gary-oelze-dies-at-80/), owner of The Birchmere

At least we still have The Birchmere cuisine.

Are we positive that isn’t what killed him?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 24, 2023, 02:11:39 pm

Male Model Jeremy Ruehlemann Dies at 27 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/male-model-jeremy-ruehlemann-dies-at-27/ar-AA16EDyO)

JA will be flying flags at half-mast for the rest of the week.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 25, 2023, 03:08:19 pm

Victor Navasky (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/25/victor-navasky-author-editor-the-nation-dies-90), editor of The Nation

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 25, 2023, 06:01:59 pm

Lance Kerwin, star of James at 15 and James at 16.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 25, 2023, 06:42:13 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 25, 2023, 06:01:59 pm

Lance Kerwin, star of James at 15 and James at 16.

Was that Alexis Texas’ costar in Alexis at 18?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 26, 2023, 08:14:05 pm

Quote from: Creep-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 10, 2023, 07:35:36 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 09, 2023, 10:53:55 pm
Diamond
On Monday, Trump offered a theory about Diamond's death.

"Probably her big and precious heart just plain gave out,"

Montage of Memorial Service of Lynette Hardaway of Diamond & Silk, with Donald Trump, Mike Lindell, Lara Trump, Mark Burns, Silk and family. (https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1617260500869386242)

i need someone else to invest 4 minutes and 31 seconds of their life (thank you in advance) in watching the above, and then WTF. i either need to talk it out, or hug it out. reminder: this is at a person's funeral.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 28, 2023, 06:03:26 pm

Tom Verlaine.

Bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 28, 2023, 07:21:56 pm

Real bummer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 28, 2023, 08:31:16 pm

Triple bummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 28, 2023, 09:05:52 pm

https://youtu.be/WCaOOGMvfOc

https://youtu.be/z920by5Cd-Q

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 29, 2023, 08:32:27 pm

Barrett Strong Motown hit maker 81

Floyd Sneed Drummer with Three Dog night 80

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 29, 2023, 09:40:35 pm

Billy Packer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on January 30, 2023, 02:40:56 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 28, 2023, 06:03:26 pm

Tom Verlaine.

Bummer.

Lucky we got a chance to see Verlaine, Lloyd and original Television lineup at the Club in March 2003.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on January 30, 2023, 02:45:14 pm

Wednesday

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 30, 2023, 02:50:43 pm

Quote from: Mobius on January 30, 2023, 02:40:56 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 28, 2023, 06:03:26 pm
Tom Verlaine.

Bummer.

Lucky we got a chance to see Verlaine, Lloyd and original Television lineup at the Club in March 2003.

as someone pointed out, you are not going find a better A-side ever than Marquee Moon. no argument here and even though I hadn't listened to in years that record is part of my DNA

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 30, 2023, 03:31:37 pm

Quote from: Bagley on January 30, 2023, 02:45:14 pm

Wednesday

Just announced is over there.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 30, 2023, 03:41:20 pm

It's been three hours and nobody has mentioned Bobby Hull? You guys are falling down on the ice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 30, 2023, 04:03:31 pm

Quote from: Bagley on January 30, 2023, 02:45:14 pm

Wednesday

(https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-24-2015/QOLC7W.gif) (https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/lisa-loring-dead-wednesday-addams-family-1235506117/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 30, 2023, 09:43:56 pm

Shirley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 30, 2023, 09:55:50 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 30, 2023, 09:43:56 pm

Shirley

Man, I had watched American Graffiti just this morning.

Cindy Williams, ‘Laverne & Shirley’ Star, Dies at 75 (https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/cindy-williams-dead-laverne-and-shirley-1235507240/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2023, 10:02:22 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 30, 2023, 09:55:50 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 30, 2023, 09:43:56 pm
Shirley

Man, I had watched American Graffiti just this morning.

Cindy Williams, ‘Laverne & Shirley’ Star, Dies at 75 (https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/cindy-williams-dead-laverne-and-shirley-1235507240/)

Just a few hours ago I was spitballing names for a pair of Airstream trailers
Laverne and Shirley were top contenders

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on January 30, 2023, 10:02:44 pm

She was so good on Laverne and Shirley

What a great show that was…they just don’t make them like that anymore

To me the 70s and 80s were the golden age of television cause of the sitcom.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 30, 2023, 10:07:29 pm

Quote from: Sidehaaatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2023, 10:02:22 pm

Just a few hours ago I was spitballing names for a pair of Airstream trailers
Laverne and Shirley were top contenders

A pair of $100K+ trailers? Do tell.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2023, 10:11:34 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 30, 2023, 10:07:29 pm

Quote from: Sidehaaatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2023, 10:02:22 pm

Just a few hours ago I was spitballing names for a pair of Airstream trailers
Laverne and Shirley were top contenders

A pair of $100K+ trailers? Do tell.

Total combined purchase price south of 30k
The names were contenders as the vintage was 79 and 83, same era as the show

But I hope when I’m done with them someone will pay $100k

(BTW the new ones are $100k and up)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2023, 10:17:13 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 30, 2023, 04:03:31 pm

Quote from: Bagley on January 30, 2023, 02:45:14 pm
Wednesday

(https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-24-2015/QOLC7W.gif) (https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/lisa-loring-dead-wednesday-addams-family-1235506117/)

only 64
Show seems older because it was in black and white
but Pretty sure it was made in the color TV era

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 30, 2023, 10:17:45 pm

Quote from: Sidehaaatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2023, 10:11:34 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 30, 2023, 10:07:29 pm
Quote from: Sidehaaatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2023, 10:02:22 pm

Just a few hours ago I was spitballing names for a pair of Airstream trailers
Laverne and Shirley were top contenders

A pair of $100K+ trailers? Do tell.
Total combined purchase price south of 30k
The names were contenders as the vintage was 79 and 83, same era as the show

But I hope when I’m done with them someone will pay $100k

(BTW the new ones are $100k and up)

Quite reasonable, even after (undoubtedly) spiffing them up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 30, 2023, 10:45:20 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 30, 2023, 10:07:29 pm

Quote from: Sidehaaatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2023, 10:02:22 pm

Just a few hours ago I was spitballing names for a pair of Airstream trailers
Laverne and Shirley were top contenders

A pair of $100K+ trailers? Do tell.

Gross. How poor. Nothing could give me the vapors more than this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 30, 2023, 10:46:00 pm

Quote from: Sidehaaatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2023, 10:11:34 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 30, 2023, 10:07:29 pm
Quote from: Sidehaaatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2023, 10:02:22 pm

Just a few hours ago I was spitballing names for a pair of Airstream trailers
Laverne and Shirley were top contenders

A pair of $100K+ trailers? Do tell.
Total combined purchase price south of 30k
The names were contenders as the vintage was 79 and 83, same era as the show

But I hope when I’m done with them someone will pay $100k

(BTW the new ones are $100k and up)

I would say I spoke to soon, but my well-positioned chaise lounge had to catch me as I fell.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 01, 2023, 02:37:43 am

Annie Wersching Dies: Actress In ‘24’, ‘Bosch’ And ‘Timeless’ Was 45 (https://deadline.com/2023/01/annie-wersching-dies-actress-in-24-bosch-and-timeless-was-45-obituary-1235243778/)

also notable: she also played Liana on Star Trek: Enterprise and the Borg Queen in Star Trek: Picard.

(https://static1.moviewebimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Patrick-Stewart-Picard-and-Annie-Wersching-Borg-Queen-0.jpg?q=50&fit=contain&w=1140&h=&dpr=1.5) (https://movieweb.com/borg-queen-picard-history/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 01, 2023, 10:33:02 am

Quote from: sweetcell on February 01, 2023, 02:37:43 am

Annie Wersching Dies: Actress In ‘24’, ‘Bosch’ And ‘Timeless’ Was 45 (https://deadline.com/2023/01/annie-wersching-dies-actress-in-24-bosch-and-timeless-was-45-obituary-1235243778/)

also notable: she also played Liana on Star Trek: Enterprise and the Borg Queen in Star Trek: Picard.

(https://static1.moviewebimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Patrick-Stewart-Picard-and-Annie-Wersching-Borg-Queen-0.jpg?q=50&fit=contain&w=1140&h=&dpr=1.5) (https://movieweb.com/borg-queen-picard-history/)

she was great
I literally just started season two last week

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 01, 2023, 11:14:52 am

Quote from: Sidehaaatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 01, 2023, 10:33:02 am

Quote from: sweetcell on February 01, 2023, 02:37:43 am
Annie Wersching Dies: Actress In ‘24’, ‘Bosch’ And ‘Timeless’ Was 45 (https://deadline.com/2023/01/annie-wersching-dies-actress-in-24-bosch-and-timeless-was-45-obituary-1235243778/)

also notable: she also played Liana on Star Trek: Enterprise and the Borg Queen in Star Trek: Picard.

(https://static1.moviewebimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Patrick-Stewart-Picard-and-Annie-Wersching-Borg-Queen-0.jpg?q=50&fit=contain&w=1140&h=&dpr=1.5) (https://movieweb.com/borg-queen-picard-history/)
she was great
I literally just started season two last week

She also voiced Tess in the "Last of Us" video game.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 01, 2023, 03:44:51 pm

Bob Born, Peeps inventor (https://apnews.com/article/business-6c2c684fad6cad8ca0f1067f77488168)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 01, 2023, 03:55:48 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 01, 2023, 03:44:51 pm

Bob Born, Peeps inventor (https://apnews.com/article/business-6c2c684fad6cad8ca0f1067f77488168)

Bob Born. Bob Died. Circle of Life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 01, 2023, 04:42:13 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on February 01, 2023, 03:55:48 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 01, 2023, 03:44:51 pm
Bob Born, Peeps inventor (https://apnews.com/article/business-6c2c684fad6cad8ca0f1067f77488168)
Bob Born. Bob Peeped. Bob Died. Circle of Life.

FTFY

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 03, 2023, 03:51:13 pm

Spanish-born designer was best known for his Space Age looks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 03, 2023, 03:56:18 pm

Quote from: Sidehaaatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 03, 2023, 03:51:13 pm

Spanish-born designer was best known for his Space Age looks.

At least we still have Taco Ockerse

(https://media.giphy.com/media/l3vRgsBHCRyNo32Mg/giphy.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 03, 2023, 06:35:28 pm

Quote from: Sidehaaatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 03, 2023, 03:51:13 pm

Spanish-born designer was best known for his Space Age looks.

jesus effing christ on a solar-powered pogo stick... we've devolved to the point of turning our posts into riddles?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 03, 2023, 07:46:30 pm

I left a clue...whaddaya want?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 03, 2023, 08:26:38 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 03, 2023, 06:35:28 pm

Quote from: Sidehaaatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 03, 2023, 03:51:13 pm
Spanish-born designer was best known for his Space Age looks.

jesus effing christ on a solar-powered pogo stick... we've devolved to the point of turning our posts into riddles?

If you just put that quote in a search engine it will tell you immediately
I just loved that it had Space in it, seemed to trend with the other topic

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 03, 2023, 08:49:14 pm

Quote from: Sidehaaatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 03, 2023, 08:26:38 pm

If you just put that quote in a search engine it will tell you immediately

i will cop to not having googled it... but i feel like i shouldn't have to google it...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 03, 2023, 09:15:35 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 03, 2023, 08:49:14 pm

Quote from: Sidehaaatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 03, 2023, 08:26:38 pm
If you just put that quote in a search engine it will tell you immediately

i will cop to not having googled it... but i feel like i shouldn't have to google it...

I like that I made sweets get the 'feels'
you are right, but in the end, I think the quote really is the only thing that works
as I'm pretty sure you will have no idea who Paco Rabanne is even if I put it in the post

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 03, 2023, 09:40:30 pm

I wish he had including the day of the week...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 03, 2023, 10:43:30 pm

asidehatch wherr thrvhell are you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on February 04, 2023, 06:16:18 am

Melinda Dillon - Mom from Christmas Story and Close Encounters

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/melinda-dillon-dead-close-encounters-christmas-story-1235317335/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 04, 2023, 11:18:58 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on February 04, 2023, 06:16:18 am

Melinda Dillon - Mom from Christmas Story and Close Encounters

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/melinda-dillon-dead-close-encounters-christmas-story-1235317335/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

She was, unfortunately, pretty unfairly typecast. Always a Mom; never got to see what she could do with a meaty Dad role.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 04, 2023, 01:03:50 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 03, 2023, 10:43:30 pm

asidehatch wherr thrvhell are you?

At least we still have hutch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 04, 2023, 04:38:47 pm

Chinese Spy Balloon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 05, 2023, 01:18:07 pm

Pervez Musharraf, Former President of Pakistan

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 05, 2023, 01:20:04 pm

Bob Born, creator of The Peep

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 05, 2023, 01:22:26 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 05, 2023, 01:20:04 pm

Bob Born, creator of The Peep

We covered this days ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 05, 2023, 07:04:52 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on February 05, 2023, 01:22:26 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 05, 2023, 01:20:04 pm
Bob Born, creator of The Peep
We covered this days ago.

but like peeps, after a few days with the package open, they actually taste better

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 06, 2023, 07:55:44 pm

Harry Whittington, Texas lawyer shot by Dick Cheney during 2006 hunt, dies at 95 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/02/06/harry-whittington-lawyer-shot-by-vice-president-dick-cheney-dies-at-95/)

Who knew that you could be shotgunned point-blank and still live to nearly 100?

Edit: Cheney was actually nearly 100 feet away, plus it was a 28-gauge.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 09, 2023, 11:00:03 am

Burt Bacharach (https://apnews.com/article/burt-bacharach-dead-at-94-c1526b7c1b9b4389b17a3e657676b391?taid=63e509c579b5c9000107dcdd&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on February 09, 2023, 12:09:11 pm

Dude wrote some hit songs

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 09, 2023, 11:00:03 am

Burt Bacharach (https://apnews.com/article/burt-bacharach-dead-at-94-c1526b7c1b9b4389b17a3e657676b391?taid=63e509c579b5c9000107dcdd&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 09, 2023, 12:09:36 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 09, 2023, 11:00:03 am

Burt Bacharach (https://apnews.com/article/burt-bacharach-dead-at-94-c1526b7c1b9b4389b17a3e657676b391?taid=63e509c579b5c9000107dcdd&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter)

:(
(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ba0bbd4f93fd432803830ac/1586749520333-FOPPBPR6G2H1JYIWVP20/cheers-working-from-home.gif?format=1500w)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on February 09, 2023, 12:12:33 pm

So is it correct to say he wrote the music and Hal David the lyrics to most of his 60s hit songs?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 09, 2023, 12:15:02 pm

Quote from: Starsky on February 09, 2023, 12:12:33 pm

So is it correct to say he wrote the music and Hal David the lyrics to most of his 60s hit songs?

I think it is, but not really sure on all those hits

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 09, 2023, 10:21:20 pm

Charles Silverstein

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 09, 2023, 10:26:20 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 09, 2023, 10:21:20 pm

Charles Silverstein

At least we still have Shel Silverstein.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 09, 2023, 10:26:49 pm

^^ DON’T ANY OF YOU DARE CORRECT ME.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 09, 2023, 10:41:33 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on February 09, 2023, 10:26:49 pm

^^ DON’T ANY OF YOU DARE CORRECT ME.

i am here to correct you: unfortunately, we still have shel silverstein. "the giving tree" has caused more trauma among youth than all the drunk cheek-pinching uncles put together.

fun silverstein fact: he wrote "a boy named sue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_Named_Sue)." still doesn't make up for "the giving tree", tho.

edit: Johnny Cash and Shel Silverstein singing boy named sue on the Johnny Cash show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmt7wo0Tnr8)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 09, 2023, 10:44:56 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on February 09, 2023, 10:26:49 pm

^^ DON’T ANY OF YOU DARE CORRECT ME.

correction #2: WE DO NOT HAVE SHEL SILVERSTEIN. he died in 1999.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on February 09, 2023, 11:13:53 pm

Last time I read the Giving Tree I was bawling mid way…. That was a couple of years ago

What a horrible book

I wish Shel was alive so I could ask him WTF

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 09, 2023, 11:30:34 pm

Quote from: Starsky on February 09, 2023, 11:13:53 pm

Last time I read the Giving Tree I was bawling mid way…. That was a couple of years ago

What a horrible book

I wish Shel was alive so I could ask him WTF

Likewise... read it once to my one of my children and never again.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 09, 2023, 11:50:19 pm

Quote from: Starsky on February 09, 2023, 11:13:53 pm

What a horrible book
I wish Shel was alive so I could ask him WTF

my thoughts exactly

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 09, 2023, 11:50:42 pm

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Portrait_of_Shel_Silverstein_in_c._1964_by_Jerry_Yulsman.jpg/1024px-Portrait_of_Shel_Silverstein_in_c._1964_by_Jerry_Yulsman.jpg)

another fun silverstein fact: despite his looks, he "never married, and according to the 2007 biography A Boy Named Shel, slept with 'hundreds, perhaps thousands of women.'"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on February 10, 2023, 12:44:55 pm

Oof, I guess I'm really on the outs, re: popular opinion, in that I love The Giving Tree, clearly, there are problematic elements, and the "Boy" is a dick, but 1.) It was the first gift that my grandmother gave me (sent in the mail with a little handwritten forward by her) and 2.) It kind of hit's different now; my mom died of glioblastoma recently and I'm just now thinking about the little comforts of the past year between learning and her passing. A lot of us are kind of dumbfuck little children throughout most of our lives, in relation to our parents and the developing relationship from our birth to their death.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 10, 2023, 12:47:02 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 09, 2023, 11:50:42 pm

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Portrait_of_Shel_Silverstein_in_c._1964_by_Jerry_Yulsman.jpg/1024px-Portrait_of_Shel_Silverstein_in_c._1964_by_Jerry_Yulsman.jpg)

another fun silverstein fact: despite his looks, he "never married, and according to the 2007 biography A Boy Named Shel, slept with 'hundreds, perhaps thousands of women.'"

Well, yeah, he had all that sweet, sweet giving tree money.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on February 10, 2023, 12:57:14 pm

It’s just the ultimate book about entitlement.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 10, 2023, 01:07:54 pm

Quote from: Starsky on February 10, 2023, 12:57:14 pm

It’s just the ultimate book about entitlement.

Listen, the Julian's America thread is over there.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on February 10, 2023, 01:22:19 pm

Silverstein was definitely riding high on that 60s free love trip. Also, kind of hip and rough and tumble looking for a Jew (says the pale, frail Ashkenaz on this end of the keyboard). I always felt he had a Yul Brynner or Telly Savalas thing going on. I mean, it's a better look for a bald Jew than say a Larry David.
I always viewed the book as a story of the disconnect between a parent and child and the inability to communicate. That and the human drive to expect satisfaction to come from something more complicated than what we have at hand, but I'm a person who says a lot of things and assumes people will understand the barely negotiable subtext that I usually assume is easily seen.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 10, 2023, 04:02:08 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 09, 2023, 10:41:33 pm

fun silverstein fact: he wrote "a boy named sue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_Named_Sue)."

While I was always aware that he wrote Sue (Shel's books were among the most popular in my elementary school library), it was only recently that I became aware that it was about Jean Shepherd, the narrator and co-script writer of A Christmas Story.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 10, 2023, 08:11:50 pm

South African Rapper AKA shot dead in drive-by shooting on Durban’s Florida Road (https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/rapper-aka-shot-dead-in-drive-by-shooting-on-durbans-florida-road-b29c3c28-fb1b-4d5b-9717-74007f6204a2)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 12, 2023, 06:51:14 pm

Trugoy the Dove

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 12, 2023, 07:19:30 pm

Do we need a separate RIP balloon thread?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 12, 2023, 08:53:32 pm

David Jolicoeur of De La Soul

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 12, 2023, 10:56:28 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 12, 2023, 08:53:32 pm

David Jolicoeur of De La Soul

Quote from: Yada on February 12, 2023, 06:51:14 pm

Trugoy the Dove

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 13, 2023, 12:53:03 pm

Nationals' owner Ted Lerner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 14, 2023, 07:08:51 pm

Austin Majors, ‘NYPD Blue’ actor, dead at 27 (https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/13/entertainment/austin-majors-death/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 14, 2023, 08:33:08 pm

I mean, I saw NYPD Blues and while, yes, he was on camera, I hardly think what he was doing constitutes acting.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 15, 2023, 08:47:45 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on February 14, 2023, 08:33:08 pm

I mean, I saw NYPD Blues and while, yes, he was on camera, I hardly think what he was doing constitutes acting.

playing Sipowicz's son for 5 years is harder than you think

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 15, 2023, 04:33:59 pm

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71bI6TeCxFL.jpg)

Raquel (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/02/15/actress-raquel-welch-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 15, 2023, 04:40:37 pm

An immense talent who just could not move her arms when she danced.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 15, 2023, 04:40:56 pm

Her dance film shown on SNL when she hosted in 1976 (https://www.facebook.com/TheFanatic20/videos/raquel-welch-on-snl/1702236323229288/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 15, 2023, 04:44:49 pm

THOSE AREN'T BUOYS!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 15, 2023, 05:05:16 pm

Huey “Piano” Smith 89

Lifted from Wikipedia

was an American rhythm-and-blues pianist whose sound was influential in the development of rock and roll.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 15, 2023, 05:12:25 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 12, 2023, 10:56:28 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 12, 2023, 08:53:32 pm
David Jolicoeur of De La Soul

Quote from: Yada on February 12, 2023, 06:51:14 pm
Trugoy the Dove

Funny. Missed that....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 15, 2023, 05:13:07 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 15, 2023, 04:33:59 pm

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71bI6TeCxFL.jpg)

Raquel (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/02/15/actress-raquel-welch-dead/)

Thank you. Came here only to make certain this was announced appropriately.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Starsky on February 15, 2023, 05:13:30 pm

Yeah I meant to post that

Most people would say a huge influence on New Orleans music although influence doesn’t do him justice…along with Fess, Fats, Toussaint etc he was New Orleans music at that point in time where Nola music was rock and roll. Dr John does a bunch of his songs on Gumbo. Dr John was also in Huey’s band so was a “Clown”

That first Huey album is like a greatest hits and absolutely essential.

https://www.discogs.com/master/498841-Huey-Piano-Smith-His-Clowns-Having-A-Good-Time

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 15, 2023, 05:17:58 pm

Quote from: vansmack on February 15, 2023, 05:13:07 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 15, 2023, 04:33:59 pm
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71bI6TeCxFL.jpg)

Raquel (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/02/15/actress-raquel-welch-dead/)

Thank you. Came here only to make certain this was announced appropriately.

There are better pictures of her.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 15, 2023, 05:21:52 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 15, 2023, 05:17:58 pm

There are better pictures of her.

Go on....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 16, 2023, 03:49:51 pm

Tim McCarver

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 16, 2023, 07:13:54 pm

Quote from: Yada on February 16, 2023, 03:49:51 pm

Tim McCarver

After Dobler. Double wammie for the StL

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 19, 2023, 02:53:19 pm

(https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/gettyimages-146226721-h_2019.jpg?w=1296&h=730&crop=1)

Munch (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/richard-belzer-dead-homicide-law-order-1235329813/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 19, 2023, 02:56:16 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 19, 2023, 02:53:19 pm

(https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/gettyimages-146226721-h_2019.jpg?w=1296&h=730&crop=1)

Munch (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/richard-belzer-dead-homicide-law-order-1235329813/)

Damm.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 19, 2023, 02:57:52 pm

his last words were, ‘Fuck you, motherfucker,'”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 19, 2023, 03:42:27 pm

https://www.theonion.com/older-prostitute-explains-to-younger-prostitute-who-ric-1819577591

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on February 22, 2023, 03:57:40 pm

Jansen Panettiere, Walking Dead and Evens Stevens actor

At least we still have Hayden....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 27, 2023, 01:12:38 pm

madonna's brother
Anthony Gerard Ciccone

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 02, 2023, 01:18:12 pm

Wayne Shorter, Innovator During an Era of Change in Jazz, Dies at 89 (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/arts/music/wayne-shorter-dead.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 02, 2023, 01:25:35 pm

sweet's post trumps mine but

Steve Mackey bass player for Pulp

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 02, 2023, 01:28:07 pm

🙈

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 02, 2023, 04:18:26 pm

Steven Mackey list of accomplishments extended well past being a part of the classic lineup of Pulp. He was a well respected producer, songwriter and remixer.

Lifted from The Beeb

After the band went on hiatus in 2002, Mackey co-wrote and produced songs for artists including MIA (Galang, Sunshowers), Florence + The Machine (Kiss With A Fist) and Arcade Fire (Everything Now).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 03, 2023, 07:51:50 pm

David Lindley (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/david-lindley-dead-obituary-1234690754/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 04, 2023, 12:03:59 am

Tom Sizemore (https://consequence.net/2023/03/tom-sizemore-saving-private-ryan-heat-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 04, 2023, 08:05:29 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 03, 2023, 07:51:50 pm

David Lindley (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/david-lindley-dead-obituary-1234690754/)

I used to listen to the David Lindley & El Rayo-X albums a lot in the 80s haven’t thought of those in decades. Will be checking In again

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 04, 2023, 09:09:07 am

Tom Sizemore

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 04, 2023, 09:20:12 am

At least we still have Grady Sizemore.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 04, 2023, 10:46:47 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 02, 2023, 01:18:12 pm

Wayne Shorter, Innovator During an Era of Change in Jazz, Dies at 89 (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/arts/music/wayne-shorter-dead.html)

I think belzer had better last words

Today at 4am, Wayne Shorter peacefully continued on his immense journey into the unknown. He was surrounded by loving family. In his words, “It’s time to go get a new body and come back to continue the mission.” Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

👣👣

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on March 04, 2023, 03:48:36 pm

Bummer. Loved his work in the 70's with Jackson Browne.

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 03, 2023, 07:51:50 pm

David Lindley (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/david-lindley-dead-obituary-1234690754/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 04, 2023, 03:56:42 pm

Spot (https://www.facebook.com/joe.carducci/posts/pfbid0Jkk6twYfVBtkooSrbsQsUzTARrnyGA5sKuLvqaX5cjetNzbeNmThTtZrJXjJZo27l)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 04, 2023, 04:24:12 pm

Wow that’s too bad

Legend

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 04, 2023, 08:37:56 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 04, 2023, 03:56:42 pm

Spot (https://www.facebook.com/joe.carducci/posts/pfbid0Jkk6twYfVBtkooSrbsQsUzTARrnyGA5sKuLvqaX5cjetNzbeNmThTtZrJXjJZo27l)

wow, I'm shocked at how many things I own/liked he was involved in
I knew ginn was at odds with most at sst, but didn't have any idea to spot's hands on so many things

amazing cannon...
https://www.discogs.com/artist/260821-Spot?sort=year%2Casc&limit=500&type=Credits&subtype=Production&filter_anv=0&page=1

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 05, 2023, 12:16:56 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 04, 2023, 03:56:42 pm

Spot (https://www.facebook.com/joe.carducci/posts/pfbid0Jkk6twYfVBtkooSrbsQsUzTARrnyGA5sKuLvqaX5cjetNzbeNmThTtZrJXjJZo27l)

another good obit: SST Records Producer Glen “SPOT” Lockett Dies at 72 (https://pitchfork.com/news/sst-records-producer-glen-spot-lockett-dies-at-72/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 05, 2023, 10:44:26 pm

Gary Rossington
From lynrd skynrd

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 05, 2023, 11:24:51 pm

Quote from: Hutch on March 05, 2023, 10:44:26 pm

Gary Rossington
From lynrd skynrd

At least we still have Ross Gorrinson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 06, 2023, 03:24:26 am

Quote from: contradiction on March 05, 2023, 11:24:51 pm

Quote from: Hutch on March 05, 2023, 10:44:26 pm
Gary Rossington
From lynrd skynrd

At least we still have Ross Gorrinson

that needed an "inside baseball" warning...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 06, 2023, 10:39:07 am

Quote from: Yada on February 12, 2023, 06:51:14 pm

Trugoy the Dove

This sucks…what happened?

Shit dude had serious heart issues
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jolicoeur

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 06, 2023, 10:01:24 pm

Quote from: Hutch on March 06, 2023, 10:39:07 am

Quote from: Yada on February 12, 2023, 06:51:14 pm
Trugoy the Dove

This sucks…what happened?

Shit dude had serious heart issues
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jolicoeur

Not sure why I didn't know this, but TIL Jolicoeur co-wrote the Gorillaz song "Feel Good Inc.",

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 07, 2023, 12:58:47 pm

"Seeing his name on records was like Mount Rushmore to me" – musicians mourn the passing of session ace bassist Michael Rhodes (https://www.musicradar.com/news/seeing-his-name-on-records-was-like-mount-rushmore-to-me-musicians-mourn-the-passing-of-session-ace-bassist-michael-rhodes)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 09, 2023, 09:32:34 pm

Robert Blake. Not a good man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 09, 2023, 09:50:41 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 09, 2023, 09:32:34 pm

Robert Blake. Not a good man.

At least we still have the rest of the cast of Lost Highway.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 09, 2023, 10:05:27 pm

Queer Eye Star Tom Jackson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 09, 2023, 10:24:16 pm

Topol

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 09, 2023, 11:18:17 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 09, 2023, 09:32:34 pm

Robert Blake. Not a good man.

because he was proven guilty...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 10, 2023, 09:17:20 am

Quote from: Goathatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 09, 2023, 10:05:27 pm

Queer Eye Star Tom Jackson

The word “star” is doing some heavy lifting here.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 10, 2023, 09:33:39 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 09, 2023, 11:18:17 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 09, 2023, 09:32:34 pm
Robert Blake. Not a good man.

because he was proven guilty...

Making OJ a good man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on March 10, 2023, 04:18:09 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on March 09, 2023, 09:32:34 pm

Robert Blake. Not a good man.

Good boy though

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/HD1BHG/the-little-rascalsour-gang-comedies-robert-blake-aka-mickey-gubitosi-HD1BHG.jpg

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 13, 2023, 05:01:17 pm

Dick Fosbury who revolutionized forever high jumping with his Flop.

An apt addition to this thread

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 14, 2023, 10:52:38 am

Joe Pepitone

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 15, 2023, 04:16:26 pm

Bobby Caldwell (https://wtop.com/celebrities/2023/03/bobby-caldwell-what-you-wont-do-for-love-singer-and-songwriter-dead-at-71/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 16, 2023, 11:44:05 am

Jim Gordon, 77

Noted 70s session drummer, member of Derek and The Dominos and drummer on the oft sampled track Apache by the incredible Bongo Band.

Then well he committed a horrible crime and ended up in a psych hospital for the rest of his life…

See the wiki for all the details

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gordon_(musician)?wprov=sfti1

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 16, 2023, 12:15:38 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on March 16, 2023, 11:44:05 am

Jim Gordon, 77

Noted 70s session drummer, member of Derek and The Dominos and drummer on the oft sampled track Apache by the incredible Bongo Band.

Then well he committed a horrible crime and ended up in a psych hospital for the rest of his life…

See the wiki for all the details

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gordon_(musician)?wprov=sfti1

Well, this is kinda odd. The day he killed his mother is the day I was born. Wonder what reincarnationists would say.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 16, 2023, 12:52:31 pm

Isn’t there a ‘waiting period’ for soul transplants. Not sure if it goes to the next vessel the same day.
Also is there a ‘creator’s’ tax on these transactions

YMMV

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 17, 2023, 04:13:31 pm

Actor Lance Reddick

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 21, 2023, 09:20:17 am

Jerry Samuels
the artist behind the 1966 hit novelty song ‘They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!,’

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 24, 2023, 09:52:20 pm

Gordon Moore, founder of Intel.

At least we have Moore’s Law. Or do we?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on March 28, 2023, 12:14:48 pm

Bobbi Ercoline, the woman in this photo.

(https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/03/28/obituaries/24Ercoline2-print1/24Ercoline2-superJumbo.jpg)

Yes, we still have Nick Ercoline.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 28, 2023, 08:01:16 pm

Tom Leadon Dies: Tom Petty’s Mudcrutch Bandmate & Brother Of Eagles Co-Founder Was 70

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 30, 2023, 01:09:31 pm

Mark Russell (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/03/30/mark-russell-satirist-pianist-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 30, 2023, 02:48:00 pm

Keith Reid (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65122226), the lyricist who co-wrote Procol Harum's timeless classic A Whiter Shade Of Pale, has died at the age of 76.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 31, 2023, 07:29:08 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 30, 2023, 02:48:00 pm

Keith Reid (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65122226), the lyricist who co-wrote Procol Harum's timeless classic A Whiter Shade Of Pale, has died at the age of 76.

Always loved this line
“I wandered through my playing cards”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 31, 2023, 08:37:59 am

That song always makes me want to puke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 01, 2023, 08:02:23 pm

DC Brau

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 01, 2023, 09:28:52 pm

Quote from: Hutch on March 31, 2023, 08:37:59 am

That song always makes me want to puke

True story, yesterday I was driving and sampling cd's o picked up at bah day of the library book sale. I was listening to an Annie Lennox album and she covered that song snd I had to trasi the cd immediately.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 02, 2023, 10:16:38 am

Ryuichi Sakamoto (https://www.npr.org/2023/04/02/959184720/ryuichi-sakamoto-a-godfather-of-electronic-pop-has-died?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 02, 2023, 10:57:17 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 02, 2023, 10:16:38 am

Ryuichi Sakamoto (https://www.npr.org/2023/04/02/959184720/ryuichi-sakamoto-a-godfather-of-electronic-pop-has-died?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews)

Oh man I was really dreading that one. Poor genius had a horrible battle with cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 02, 2023, 08:14:37 pm

Seymour Stein

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 02, 2023, 08:24:13 pm

Poor guy…to have such an awful song written about you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 02, 2023, 09:28:15 pm

Quote from: Hutch on April 02, 2023, 08:24:13 pm

Poor guy…to have such an awful song written about you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 03, 2023, 08:55:06 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 02, 2023, 09:28:15 pm

Quote from: Hutch on April 02, 2023, 08:24:13 pm
Poor guy…to have such an awful song written about you.

+1

well played

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 03, 2023, 12:13:28 pm

The Lone Oak tree

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on April 03, 2023, 02:19:38 pm

Quote from: Hutch on April 02, 2023, 08:24:13 pm

Poor guy…to have such an awful song written about you.

I actually like the song, and Stevie Jackson's Tweet sums up what I'd imagine it would be like as a young man daydreaming of a way to get out of Scotland and see the world when you're heartbroken. There are plenty worse songs in B&S's repertoire. "Roy Walker", "The Blues are Still Blue", "Calculating Bimbo".

"Seymour Stein was written by the one band member of B&S who didn’t actually meet him.
I was working in a restaurant that night and feeling blue that my girl had left the city and left me.
Record company men back then, especially those as eminent as Mr Stein, seemed like fantasy figures that could make all your dreams come true,
The song is a silent plea to Seymour to sort out my personal, emotional mess which was actually pretty unrealistic and unreasonable, looking back at it now. Still I wish him well at the song’s end! SJ x"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 03, 2023, 10:38:31 pm

McGrath (https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=25780.msg547297#msg547297)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Thousand Made-Up Loves on April 04, 2023, 06:28:11 am

Quote from: Hutch on April 02, 2023, 08:24:13 pm

Poor guy…to have such an awful song written about you.

Are you kidding? It's an absolutely gorgeous song and tugs at my heartstrings every time I hear it. Stevie Jackson is a killer musician and his singing absolutely nails this song.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Thousand Made-Up Loves on April 04, 2023, 06:29:04 am

Quote from: bearman🐻 on April 03, 2023, 02:19:38 pm

"The Blues are Still Blue"

How can you hate the Blues are Still Blue?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 04, 2023, 07:27:50 am

Quote from: contradiction on April 03, 2023, 10:38:31 pm

McGrath (https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=25780.msg547297#msg547297)

I feel like this guy was once at a 9:30 bottle share. And now he's dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 04, 2023, 09:49:38 am

Quote from: Thousand Made-Up Loves on April 04, 2023, 06:29:04 am

Quote from: bearman🐻 on April 03, 2023, 02:19:38 pm
"The Blues are Still Blue"
How can you hate the Blues are Still Blue?

I don't love this song, but the video made me crack up
https://youtu.be/CQwcqwHvrus

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on April 04, 2023, 11:05:29 am

Quote from: Thousand Made-Up Loves on April 04, 2023, 06:29:04 am

Quote from: bearman🐻 on April 03, 2023, 02:19:38 pm
"The Blues are Still Blue"

How can you hate the Blues are Still Blue?

I hate it less than I used to...but it's still no "Lord Anthony" or "My Wandering Days Are Over" or even a "String Bean Jean".

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 04, 2023, 11:07:15 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 04, 2023, 07:27:50 am

Quote from: contradiction on April 03, 2023, 10:38:31 pm
McGrath (https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=25780.msg547297#msg547297)

I feel like this guy was once at a 9:30 bottle share. And now he's dead.

Yeah, him and brennser used to drink Barleywine together.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 04, 2023, 11:49:54 am

Quote from: Yada on April 04, 2023, 11:07:15 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 04, 2023, 07:27:50 am
Quote from: contradiction on April 03, 2023, 10:38:31 pm
McGrath (https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=25780.msg547297#msg547297)

I feel like this guy was once at a 9:30 bottle share. And now he's dead.

Yeah, him and brennser used to drink Barleywine together.

Yup, that's the guy I was thinking of.

He and GGW must be regretting today of all days, up in heaven.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 04, 2023, 01:51:01 pm

Quote from: Hutch on April 02, 2023, 08:24:13 pm

Poor guy…to have such an awful song written about you.

This version Stevie did solo at XPN in 2012 is pretty darn good
https://youtu.be/CpmzQOJ_gUs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 04, 2023, 01:52:47 pm

Quote from: IncludingAHat ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 04, 2023, 01:51:01 pm

Quote from: Hutch on April 02, 2023, 08:24:13 pm
Poor guy…to have such an awful song written about you.
This version Stevie did solo at XPN in 2012 is pretty darn good
https://youtu.be/CpmzQOJ_gUs

Is it good enough that they would be playing it in heaven?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 04, 2023, 01:54:06 pm

That song is a crime against humanity. Seymour’s death has dredged up traumatic memories.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 04, 2023, 01:54:24 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 04, 2023, 01:52:47 pm

Quote from: IncludingAHat ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 04, 2023, 01:51:01 pm
Quote from: Hutch on April 02, 2023, 08:24:13 pm
Poor guy…to have such an awful song written about you.
This version Stevie did solo at XPN in 2012 is pretty darn good
https://youtu.be/CpmzQOJ_gUs

Is it good enough that they would be playing it in heaven?

I guess you have to believe in heaven first for that to work

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 04, 2023, 06:19:56 pm

Quote from: contradiction on April 03, 2023, 10:38:31 pm

McGrath (https://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=25780.msg547297#msg547297)

possibly suicide (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/04/04/roy-mcgrath-manhunt-shooting/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Thousand Made-Up Loves on April 04, 2023, 09:59:27 pm

Quote from: Hutch on April 04, 2023, 01:54:06 pm

That song is a crime against humanity. Seymour’s death has dredged up traumatic memories.

::) ::) ::)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 05, 2023, 01:52:41 pm

stay safe on those mean streets, smax...

Bob Lee, Cash App Founder, Is Fatally Stabbed in San Francisco (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/technology/cash-app-founder-stabbed-san-francisco.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 06, 2023, 05:42:27 pm

Nora Forster
From Alzheimer’s
German publishing heiress…mother of Ari Up (the Slits), wife of John Lydon

Sad

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nora-forster-john-lydon-wife-ari-up-mother-dead-alzheimers-obit-1234710733/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 06, 2023, 09:08:55 pm

Vivian Trimble (Luscious Jackson)

She kind of bitched me out from the stage at the old 930. They -can’t remember which member- said they had played Richmond the night before. I yelled “Richmond sucks” as I am wont to do. Vivian was not amused and made me feel pretty small.

Not proud.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 06, 2023, 10:10:00 pm

Bummer.... always loved that band. Naked Eye still is played late night at my house quite often.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 06, 2023, 10:55:23 pm

Quote from: Hutch on April 06, 2023, 09:08:55 pm

Vivian Trimble (Luscious Jackson)
She kind of bitched me out from the stage at the old 930. They -can’t remember which member- said they had played Richmond the night before. I yelled “Richmond sucks” as I am wont to do. Vivian was not amused and made me feel pretty small.

Not proud.

Just saw this too and made me sad, good times at the old 9:30
I have so badly wanted them to tour again, I suspect this was some of the reason the didn't :(
In search of Manny was sooo good

I do think this was the first sighting of dark hutch
I wish I could remember what she said to you ...but I remember being like: DAYUM that was a smack down of the first order

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 07, 2023, 09:08:32 am

I saw Luscious Jackson on a bill with The Josephine Wiggs Experience and Buffalo Daughter. Remember being completely blown away by Buffalo Daughter that night. Was surprised to see they are still an active group and recently toured the US, the closest show of course in Philly... Grand Royal Records had a hell of a run in the 90s

also Fuck Cancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 07, 2023, 09:48:42 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 07, 2023, 09:08:32 am

Grand Royal Records had a hell of a run in the 90s

agreed, the 90s had so many good small labels that were just producing some quality product
Matador, Subpop, Kill Rock Stars, Merge, 4AD

I forgot about this
Due to mounting debts, Grand Royal closed down on August 31, 2001, and formally declared bankruptcy in July 2002.[5][6][7] Its assets were sold off via auction on Bid4Assets;

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 07, 2023, 11:30:22 am

Quote from: Yada on September 28, 2022, 08:54:58 pm

Coolio

Coolio’s management team told the Associated Press that the Gangsta’s Paradise star’s cause of death was the use of fentanyl, and that he also had traces of heroin and methamphetamine in his system at the time of his death

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 07, 2023, 12:00:09 pm

Quote from: Hutch on April 01, 2023, 08:02:23 pm

DC Brau

you know this was an April Fools joke

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 07, 2023, 12:31:01 pm

Quote from: WeakestOfSauces ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 07, 2023, 12:00:09 pm

Quote from: Hutch on April 01, 2023, 08:02:23 pm
DC Brau
you know this was an April Fools joke

Was not…they sold out

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 07, 2023, 12:37:18 pm

Umm...

https://twitter.com/dcbrau/status/1642536249125642241?t=6PEcMclDQs_JG1N5MP_1tw&s=19

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 07, 2023, 12:42:03 pm

Wow that is so stupid

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 07, 2023, 02:42:22 pm

Quote from: Hutch on April 07, 2023, 12:42:03 pm

Wow that is so stupid

april fools...isn't that the point

I honestly believed it when you posted it (but didn't really care that much), but then I saw them post an event
and saw what ExConta posted too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 08, 2023, 02:16:43 pm

Former UMD asst. basketball coach Billy Hahn. Also with WVU.

https://athlonsports.com/college-basketball/billy-hahn-death-college-basketball-maryland-west-virgina

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 08, 2023, 04:02:52 pm

maybe smakie or kos knows who this band is?

Paul Cattermole 46, months after band announces reunion tour
member of English pop band S Club 7, known for their hits "Don’t Stop Movin'," "Reach" and "Never Had A Dream Come True," has died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 08, 2023, 05:25:03 pm

S Club 7 just one of numerous UK pop groups that have made no impact over here..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 08, 2023, 05:34:46 pm

Ian Bairnson, guitarist with Pilot, Alan Parsons Project and the five Kate Bush albums with the notable solo on Wuthering Heights

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bairnson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 09, 2023, 09:40:27 pm

Logan Roy?

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-04-09/logan-roy-succession-dead-obituary

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 10, 2023, 09:55:35 am

Quote from: Space Freely on April 09, 2023, 09:40:27 pm

Logan Roy?

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-04-09/logan-roy-succession-dead-obituary

Can’t believe this wasn’t printed on 4/1
Update:
7:02 p.m. April 9, 2023Editor’s Note: This “obituary” for a fictional character is a spoiler from Season 4, Episode 3 of HBO’s “Succession.” It has been updated with a statement from his fictional children.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 10, 2023, 10:11:59 am

Lasse Wellander, ABBA Guitarist, Dead at 70

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 10, 2023, 09:40:45 pm

Al Jafee

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1169162240/mad-magazine-cartoonist-al-jaffee-obituary

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 10, 2023, 10:19:08 pm

Gone too soon.

Quote from: Space Freely on April 10, 2023, 09:40:45 pm

Al Jafee

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1169162240/mad-magazine-cartoonist-al-jaffee-obituary

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 13, 2023, 05:28:44 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 05, 2023, 01:52:41 pm

stay safe on those mean streets, smax...

Bob Lee, Cash App Founder, Is Fatally Stabbed in San Francisco (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/technology/cash-app-founder-stabbed-san-francisco.html)

Still killed by stabbing, just was someone he knew instead of some rando

made an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech executive Bob Lee, following an operation undertaken outside the city’s borders. The alleged killer also works in tech and is a man Lee purportedly knew.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 16, 2023, 07:10:19 pm

Ahmad Jamal

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 16, 2023, 07:17:24 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 16, 2023, 07:10:19 pm

Ahmad Jamal

Oh my God! He was just posting on here last week!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 16, 2023, 07:46:31 pm

He probably couldn’t take being shut out of Hootie at Atlantis

At least we still have kills ally

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 17, 2023, 09:24:49 am

Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on April 16, 2023, 07:17:24 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 16, 2023, 07:10:19 pm

Ahmad Jamal
Oh my God! He was just posting on here last week!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 17, 2023, 10:44:15 am

Quote from: azaghal1981 on April 17, 2023, 09:24:49 am

Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

I will never believe the lying, lamestream media again!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: azaghal1981 on April 17, 2023, 10:53:22 am

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 21, 2023, 03:30:32 pm

Mark Stewart, Pop Group

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 22, 2023, 10:26:10 am

Not really familiar with Mark Stewart or The Pop Group, but this is cool story about how he used to tape NYC hip hop radio stations and then share tapes with artists in Bristol

https://twitter.com/muteuk/status/1649752902884380672?s=46&t=81bsTFbar0Jl_mHBl9WnuA

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 22, 2023, 10:27:29 am

Dame Edna

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 25, 2023, 06:51:20 am

Dean Holland

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 25, 2023, 06:55:01 am

Len Goodman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 25, 2023, 08:33:48 am

Keith Gattis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on April 25, 2023, 09:43:57 am

Harry Belafonte

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 25, 2023, 09:45:08 am

Quote from: vansmack on April 25, 2023, 09:43:57 am

Harry Belafonte

Admittedly, I thought he died years ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 25, 2023, 09:47:10 am

Quote from: vansmack on April 25, 2023, 09:43:57 am

Harry Belafonte

dang and we are still stuck with Prince Harry

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 25, 2023, 09:51:16 am

Was just listening to calypso (essential in any music collection) and thinking about him a few days ago….96!

What a life!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 25, 2023, 10:01:03 am

Quote from: vansmack on April 25, 2023, 09:43:57 am

Harry Belafonte

Well, at least we still have fetish porn star Hairy Bella Shauntay.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 27, 2023, 10:36:35 am

Jerry Springer (https://wtop.com/national/2023/04/jerry-springer-the-onetime-mayor-whose-namesake-tv-show-unleashed-chaos-on-weekday-afternoons-has-died-at-79/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 27, 2023, 06:22:35 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 27, 2023, 10:36:35 am

Jerry Springer (https://wtop.com/national/2023/04/jerry-springer-the-onetime-mayor-whose-namesake-tv-show-unleashed-chaos-on-weekday-afternoons-has-died-at-79/)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cri24_fgbEi/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 27, 2023, 07:52:59 pm

Quote from: contradiction on April 27, 2023, 06:22:35 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 27, 2023, 10:36:35 am
Jerry Springer (https://wtop.com/national/2023/04/jerry-springer-the-onetime-mayor-whose-namesake-tv-show-unleashed-chaos-on-weekday-afternoons-has-died-at-79/)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cri24_fgbEi/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Who would have guessed jerry springer out Julian’ed Julian

Jerry went to a GWAR show and was eaten

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 27, 2023, 11:41:45 pm

Quote from: Fulfilled-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 27, 2023, 07:52:59 pm

Quote from: contradiction on April 27, 2023, 06:22:35 pm
Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 27, 2023, 10:36:35 am
Jerry Springer (https://wtop.com/national/2023/04/jerry-springer-the-onetime-mayor-whose-namesake-tv-show-unleashed-chaos-on-weekday-afternoons-has-died-at-79/)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cri24_fgbEi/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Who would have guessed jerry springer out Julian’ed Julian

Jerry went to a GWAR show and was eaten

Game respects game.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 01, 2023, 10:47:00 am

Tim Bachman, founding guitarist of BTO

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 01, 2023, 12:27:33 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on May 01, 2023, 10:47:00 am

Tim Bachman, founding guitarist of BTO

well at least we still have Eric Bachman, founding member of Aviato.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hemisphire on May 01, 2023, 12:33:35 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 01, 2023, 12:27:33 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on May 01, 2023, 10:47:00 am
Tim Bachman, founding guitarist of BTO
well at least we still have Eric Bachman, founding member of Aviato.

And Randy and Tal Bachman.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 01, 2023, 09:40:24 pm

Gordon Lightfoot

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 01, 2023, 10:42:27 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 01, 2023, 09:40:24 pm

Gordon Lightfoot

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

I was literally enjoying the golden hour in the sun down when I got the news.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 01, 2023, 10:47:00 pm

the world sucks just a little bit more now.

Quote from: sweetcell on April 28, 2023, 02:24:21 pm

Sundown (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8zyBi4ZXk)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 02, 2023, 07:27:41 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on May 01, 2023, 10:47:00 am

Tim Bachman, founding guitarist of BTO

Should have been Michelle Bachman.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 02, 2023, 02:44:03 pm

Howard Kenton “Ken” Potts

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 02, 2023, 02:57:35 pm

Quote from: contradiction on May 02, 2023, 02:44:03 pm

Howard Kenton “Ken” Potts

It would be fairly hilarious if he choked to death on sushi.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 03, 2023, 10:45:29 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on December 20, 2022, 11:49:05 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 20, 2022, 11:07:10 am
Same cause of death as the recently departed DH Peligro. I'm going to move to a home without stairs. (Though obviously there are other ways to fall.)
He should have known better -- the danger was right there in his name.

actually heroin and fent.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 07, 2023, 12:51:32 pm

Vida Blue

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 07, 2023, 02:57:49 pm

Quote from: vansmack on May 07, 2023, 12:51:32 pm

Vida Blue

Big part of my childhood. Not sure how many games I saw him pitch at Oakland Coliseum.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 07, 2023, 03:20:06 pm

A lot of hopped up horses

Bringing this week's death count at Churchill Downs to seven.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 07, 2023, 05:22:09 pm

Quote from: Fulfilled-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 07, 2023, 03:20:06 pm

A lot of hopped up horses

Bringing this week's death count at Churchill Downs to seven.

The orgy pit demands a sacrifice! And to be freshly scraped and buttered! What decadence!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 07, 2023, 05:26:45 pm

Quote from: vansmack on May 07, 2023, 12:51:32 pm

Vida Blue

A very over looked Phish side project... what an unfortunate demise.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 07, 2023, 07:21:48 pm

Wait, Page died?!? WTF

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 07, 2023, 07:30:48 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 07, 2023, 05:26:45 pm

Quote from: vansmack on May 07, 2023, 12:51:32 pm
Vida Blue

A very over looked Phish side project... what an unfortunate demise.

At least we still have The Baseball Project

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 08, 2023, 06:13:08 am

Rob Laakso,
Kurt Vile and the Violators Multi-Instrumentalist, Dead at 44
(Also played/toured on the Courtney Barnett stuff)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 09, 2023, 08:08:05 am

Shawn Soares

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/this-campus-just-isn-t-safe-for-people-loved-ones-remember-vcu-student-killed-in-crash-near-campus/ar-AA1aO2aK

How very sad

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 09, 2023, 12:36:56 pm

Rita Lee founding member of Os Mutantes

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 09, 2023, 12:37:13 pm

Rita Lee Jones (https://apnews.com/article/rita-lee-jones-brazil-queen-of-rock-cc5a47525b592657fb0155e0f65e1922?taid=645a719bdcef4400011c9ee1&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter) (please read that carefully)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 09, 2023, 12:46:15 pm

What a bummer…one of a kind

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on May 09, 2023, 12:53:35 pm

Denny Crum
https://www.wave3.com/2023/05/09/denny-crum-legendary-louisville-basketball-coach-dies-86/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 09, 2023, 12:56:27 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on May 09, 2023, 12:53:35 pm

Denny Crum
https://www.wave3.com/2023/05/09/denny-crum-legendary-louisville-basketball-coach-dies-86/

HEY SETH

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 09, 2023, 01:27:27 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on May 09, 2023, 12:53:35 pm

Denny Crum
https://www.wave3.com/2023/05/09/denny-crum-legendary-louisville-basketball-coach-dies-86/

At least we still have Denny Crane

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Vas Deferens on May 10, 2023, 07:06:37 am

Frank Kozik

https://pitchfork.com/news/frank-kozik-artist-behind-queens-of-the-stone-age-and-melvins-album-covers-dies-at-61/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 11, 2023, 03:03:33 pm

Shawn “Gus” Vitale

930 Front of house sound
(https://i.ibb.co/TcFGyk8/B6-F36785-D206-4-D37-AC68-38-BFA755987-D.png) (https://ibb.co/gyB8Y3T)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 11, 2023, 03:08:11 pm

Quote from: Hutch on May 11, 2023, 03:03:33 pm

Shawn “Gus” Vitale

939 Front of house sound

wow that is really sad, Gus was great to work with and always said Hi when I was at the club... bummer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 11, 2023, 03:28:59 pm

So incredibly sad about Gus. Literally one of the nicest people I've ever met...not hyperbole. RIP Gus.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 11, 2023, 06:04:36 pm

And always Fuck Cancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 15, 2023, 05:04:51 pm

Doyle Brunson, the cowboy hat enthusiast known to poker fans as the "Godfather of Poker", has died aged 89. (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65601158)

i used to watch WSOP every now and then, always enjoyed this guy's laid-back, gentlemanly style of play (and banter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 16, 2023, 06:51:10 pm

Citypaper piece on Gus :'(

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/605092/remembering-beloved-sound-engineer-shawn-gus-vitale/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 16, 2023, 07:44:01 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on May 16, 2023, 06:51:10 pm

Citypaper piece on Gus :'(

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/605092/remembering-beloved-sound-engineer-shawn-gus-vitale/

what a great write-up. what an inspiring person.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 17, 2023, 09:27:14 am

Andy Smart

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 17, 2023, 09:41:30 am

Quote from: contradiction on May 17, 2023, 09:27:14 am

Andy Smart

At least we still have the Smart Car.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 17, 2023, 11:26:42 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 17, 2023, 09:41:30 am

Quote from: contradiction on May 17, 2023, 09:27:14 am
Andy Smart
At least we still have the Smart Car.

and Andy Dick

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 17, 2023, 11:55:53 am

Quote from: Fulfilled-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 17, 2023, 11:26:42 am

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 17, 2023, 09:41:30 am
Quote from: contradiction on May 17, 2023, 09:27:14 am
Andy Smart
At least we still have the Smart Car.
and Andy Dick

"At least" or "unfortunately"?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 17, 2023, 12:22:58 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 17, 2023, 11:55:53 am

Quote from: Fulfilled-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 17, 2023, 11:26:42 am
Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 17, 2023, 09:41:30 am
Quote from: contradiction on May 17, 2023, 09:27:14 am
Andy Smart
At least we still have the Smart Car.
and Andy Dick
"At least" or "unfortunately"?

I'd say the latter, but he's been good for a laugh over the years(at him, not with him)

was looking for him on cameo, but found this and I think your wife needs to have J. Peterman give you a call about a new trenchcoat
https://www.cameo.com/johurley?nodeId=actors&nodeType=category

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 17, 2023, 12:28:09 pm

Quote from: Fulfilled-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 17, 2023, 12:22:58 pm

I think your wife needs to have J. Peterman give you a call about a new trenchcoat
https://www.cameo.com/johurley?nodeId=actors&nodeType=category

There is a real J. Peterman Catalogue (they call it an "Owners Manual"), and I have signed up a handful of unexpecting people for it and it never fails to illicit a good reaction.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 17, 2023, 01:14:39 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 17, 2023, 12:28:09 pm

Quote from: Fulfilled-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 17, 2023, 12:22:58 pm
I think your wife needs to have J. Peterman give you a call about a new trenchcoat
https://www.cameo.com/johurley?nodeId=actors&nodeType=category
There is a real J. Peterman Catalogue (they call it an "Owners Manual"), and I have signed up a handful of unexpecting people for it and it never fails to illicit a good reaction.

(http://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Thats-Gold-Jerry-Gold-Kenny-Bania-Quote-Gif-On-Seinfeld.gif)
https://jpeterman.com/pages/request-a-catalog

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 17, 2023, 01:23:35 pm

I had no idea J. Peterman was still even around, back in the day my parents due to their zipcode got every catalog under to the sun mailed to them including this one.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 17, 2023, 02:30:48 pm

Quote from: Fulfilled-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 17, 2023, 01:14:39 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on May 17, 2023, 12:28:09 pm
Quote from: Fulfilled-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 17, 2023, 12:22:58 pm
I think your wife needs to have J. Peterman give you a call about a new trenchcoat
https://www.cameo.com/johurley?nodeId=actors&nodeType=category
There is a real J. Peterman Catalogue (they call it an "Owners Manual"), and I have signed up a handful of unexpecting people for it and it never fails to illicit a good reaction.
(http://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Thats-Gold-Jerry-Gold-Kenny-Bania-Quote-Gif-On-Seinfeld.gif)
https://jpeterman.com/pages/request-a-catalog

Its a pretty wild read. Seinfeld really didn't satirize it all that heavily.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 17, 2023, 05:15:41 pm

Laura Ingraham on Fox News prime time?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 19, 2023, 04:15:43 am

Andy Rourke (https://twitter.com/johnny_marr/status/1659446614379880450?s=46&t=wEORenN3C71d5uatDPLiZA)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 19, 2023, 06:09:40 am

Fuck cancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 19, 2023, 07:29:02 am

Quote from: Fulfilled-Hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 19, 2023, 06:09:40 am

Fuck cancer

absolutely

and it's hard to believe he was only 59 :'(

it's also sinking in he was in his late teens when the Smiths were recording and creating those amazing basslines.

this showed up on the twitter it's a live demo that he Johnny and Simon Wolstencroft recorded when he was 17!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s-vZtJ3SV8

Simon was an early incarnation of the Stone Roses called Patrol and was the drummer Morrissey wanted to be in The Smiths, but he declined. Best know for being in The Fall

bass twitter is showing it's appreciation of the bass break in "Barbarism Begins At Home" seen here

https://twitter.com/Tim_Burgess/status/1659468301016211457?s=20

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 19, 2023, 07:30:45 am

Oh no.

Terrible news to wake up to…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 19, 2023, 10:03:50 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on May 19, 2023, 04:15:43 am

Andy Rourke (https://twitter.com/johnny_marr/status/1659446614379880450?s=46&t=wEORenN3C71d5uatDPLiZA)

Johnny Marr's (FB post)

Andy Rourke RIP.
Andy and I met as schoolboys in 1975. We were best friends, going everywhere together. When we were fifteen I moved into his house with him and his three brothers and I soon came to realise that my mate was one of those rare people that absolutely no one doesn’t like.
Andy and I spent all our time studying music, having fun, and working on becoming the best musicians we could possibly be. Back then Andy was a guitar player and a good one at that, but it was when he picked up the bass that he would find his true calling and his singular talent would flourish.
Throughout our teens we played in various bands around South Manchester before making our reputations with The Smiths from 1982 to 1987, and it was on those Smiths records that Andy reinvented what it is to be a bass guitar player.
I was present at every one of Andy’s bass takes on every Smiths session. Sometimes I was there as the producer and sometimes just as his proud mate and cheerleader. Watching him play those dazzling baselines was an absolute privilege and genuinely something to behold. But one time which always comes to mind was when I sat next to him at the mixing desk watching him play his bass on the song The Queen Is Dead. It was so impressive that I said to myself ‘I’ll never forget this moment.’
We maintained our friendship over the years, no matter where we were or what was happening and it is a matter of personal pride as well as sadness that the last time Andy played on stage was with me and my band at Maddison Square Garden in September 2022.
It was a special moment that we shared with my family and his wife and soul mate Francesca.
Andy will always be remembered, as a kind and beautiful soul by everyone who knew him, and as a supremely gifted musician by people who love music.
Well done Andy. We’ll miss you brother.
Johnny x

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 19, 2023, 10:41:13 am

I liked Morrissey’s words…am sure people will find hate for them

Weird how I had just been listening to the Queen is dead Wednesday night. I play it rarely. Pure brilliance.

Stuart Murdoch had nice words and called them the greatest band of all time. I like a lot of bands but the Smiths really were just about perfect 1983-1987. I always said Belle and Sebastian got the closest 1996-2000 and had a similar aesthetic and approach.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on May 19, 2023, 03:38:33 pm

Jim Brown

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 19, 2023, 04:44:55 pm

Quote from: Bagley on May 19, 2023, 03:38:33 pm

Jim Brown

At least we still have taupe.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 20, 2023, 12:02:35 am

Quote from: contradiction on May 19, 2023, 04:44:55 pm

Quote from: Bagley on May 19, 2023, 03:38:33 pm
Jim Brown

At least we still have taupe.

POTW.

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Post by: Justin Tonation on May 20, 2023, 04:20:51 pm

Martin Amis (https://apnews.com/article/amis-novelist-british-bad-boy-f99baaeef67d689eaf0c05bab2560baf?taid=6469292b84a2eb0001d8fcd6&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 21, 2023, 04:00:14 am

Rick Dalton Is Dead, Quentin Tarantino Says

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 22, 2023, 12:10:03 am

Quote from: SideUAPhatchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 21, 2023, 04:00:14 am

Rick Dalton Is Dead, Quentin Tarantino Says

‘Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood’ Star Rick Dalton Is Dead, Quentin Tarantino Says (https://deadline.com/2023/05/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-star-rick-dalton-dead-quentin-tarantino-declares-1235373860/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 23, 2023, 09:53:14 am

Algy Ward from the Damned. Performed on Machine Gun Etiquette. Wish he had done more with the band...that bassline on "Love Song" is pure genius.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 23, 2023, 10:11:26 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on May 19, 2023, 04:15:43 am

Andy Rourke (https://twitter.com/johnny_marr/status/1659446614379880450?s=46&t=wEORenN3C71d5uatDPLiZA)

Really having a tough time with this one. Never met the guy. I shouldn't feel that sense of loss that I've lost a friend, but I think the impact of the Smiths for me at such a young age was profound because I was confused, figuring myself out, and the Smiths made it perfectly OK to be the weirdo who didn't listen to heavy metal or whatever pop schlock was popular that week. Nobody can dispute the genius of Johnny Marr. Andy made his own playing the ingredient in the Smiths that somehow was the thing that you constantly heard, but maybe didn't identify right away. No other bass player could bring such a groove to a bummer like "How Soon is Now?" and make it feel like it should be played for the dance floor. There was elegance in "the Boy With the Thorn in His Side", the early versions of "These Things Take Time", "You've Got Everything Now", and of course "Handsome Devil" are downright propulsive. "William, It Was Really Nothing"...I bet if you were to isolate the bass, you'd have a banger that you could dance to all on its own. Marr's playing was like stitching that often enveloped the song so it was tight, but Andy's bass could be so substantial but taken for granted for how perfectly-placed it was. Regardless of what the Smiths' legacy is now, I think what's key is how in an extremely short amount of time they crafted some of the best songs I've ever heard. Andy's contribution was essential, and it still saddens me that he left at such a young age. I suppose his loss reminds me of a pivotal time in my life where I developed the maturity to be my own self...to figure out how to leave behind the idea of what I am supposed to be and realize what I am...weirdo, geek, and different, and know that it's all a very good thing. Great music can do that. And Andy was a great musician.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 23, 2023, 10:27:03 am

Wow…way to cancel Moz

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 23, 2023, 10:40:42 am

Quote from: bearman🐻 on May 23, 2023, 09:53:14 am

Algy Ward from the Damned. Performed on Machine Gun Etiquette. Wish he had done more with the band...that bassline on "Love Song" is pure genius.

I was going to mention this one yesterday, but I lazily wikiepdiaed him and it placed him in The Damned for a year so I figured he was just one of many bassists in the group, didn't realize the impact he had for that one record. He was also briefly in The Saints on their second and third albums, 78-80.

Post Damned he was in a Heavy Metal group called Tank, which I'm going to check out. A group which eventually split in two versions

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 23, 2023, 04:18:10 pm

Quote from: Hutch on May 23, 2023, 10:27:03 am

Wow…way to cancel Moz

LOL. I still think he's a brilliant lyricist. Not sure I'm going to go see him perform anymore, but his eulogy to Andy was spot on. And I forgot to mention Mike Joyce...another amazing and underrated drummer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on May 24, 2023, 02:35:42 pm

Tina Turner? Trending...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/breaking-tina-turner-dies-age-30069386

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 24, 2023, 03:03:04 pm

(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirUHP1TlT4u3O9geQ0gtrf3dObc1yFkslBcW0ILfz6Ph_SnnydZ2bjC031L7DDwa54OzKmyTxlaZwk381P8xVQkdVGXdCpn1L7vPwYx12jiXus9cphffUqWZYZxBw_zFvsYLuFghmqm42eXXY0LQLaw4nIugaWcwGUQyZuJ8-o9p6D57To48IBxaeI/s16000/tina-turner-on-stage-1970s-1.jpg)

Rolling Stone: Tina Turner, Queen of Rock & Roll, Dead at 83 (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tina-turner-dead-obit-192002/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 24, 2023, 04:03:43 pm

Damn

Tina was one of a kind in so many ways

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 24, 2023, 04:07:07 pm

Quote from: vansmack on May 24, 2023, 02:35:42 pm

Tina Turner? Trending...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/breaking-tina-turner-dies-age-30069386

We still have the sweet spot that is Frank Turner.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 24, 2023, 04:21:05 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 24, 2023, 04:07:07 pm

Quote from: vansmack on May 24, 2023, 02:35:42 pm
Tina Turner? Trending...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/breaking-tina-turner-dies-age-30069386

We still have the sweet spot that is Frank Turner.

I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST A TRADE.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 03, 2023, 09:49:15 am

Truman (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1664944025843949569)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 05, 2023, 06:15:47 pm

Mmmmm bop
Hanssen

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 06, 2023, 08:41:46 am

Astrud Gilberto

Dammit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 06, 2023, 06:57:22 pm

George Winston

Tony McPhee (The Groundhogs)

Francoise Gilot - Artist and one time girlfriend of Picasso

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 06, 2023, 09:19:33 pm

Wow!

I saw George Winston at the Kennedy Center in 1988.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 06, 2023, 09:54:57 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on June 06, 2023, 06:57:22 pm

Francoise Gilot - Artist and one time girlfriend of Picasso

Would you say that age difference was Pablo-matic?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 07, 2023, 06:36:44 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on June 06, 2023, 06:57:22 pm

Francoise Gilot - Artist and one time girlfriend of Picasso

He was only five foot three
Girls could not resist his stare
Subsequently, Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 07, 2023, 11:26:43 am

The Iron Sheik

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 07, 2023, 11:45:21 am

Quote from: Yada on June 07, 2023, 11:26:43 am

The Iron Sheik

At least he got to see Saudi Arabia conquer golf. Suck it Hogan.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on June 07, 2023, 12:51:32 pm

(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/60c22deae0d091537f4c74a67b6b04212e2e0d23/0_62_2480_1487/master/2480.jpg?width=1200&height=1200&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=ec229a912aa009fe6a39515a4ce7ad09)

Quote from: SideH@tchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 07, 2023, 06:36:44 am

Subsequently, Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 08, 2023, 08:45:13 am

Pat Robertson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 08, 2023, 08:52:52 am

The Nerves’ Jack Lee, writer of Blondie’s “Hanging on the Telephone,” dead at 71

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 08, 2023, 08:58:47 am

Quote from: contradiction on June 08, 2023, 08:45:13 am

Pat Robertson

Wow…a part of my life for over 40 years!! Gone…just like that

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 08, 2023, 09:20:35 am

Quote from: Hutch on June 08, 2023, 08:58:47 am

Quote from: contradiction on June 08, 2023, 08:45:13 am
Pat Robertson

Wow…a part of my life for over 40 years!! Gone…just like that

It's OK. You can breathe now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 08, 2023, 09:25:28 am

I don’t know that I can…it’s kind of smoky here in Arlington.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 08, 2023, 09:32:08 am

Quote from: contradiction on June 08, 2023, 08:45:13 am

Pat Robertson

(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ULzGDaeVuw0/Uvx2pJVnwmI/AAAAAAAADys/086hoK-FaeQ/s1600/0016.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on June 08, 2023, 12:29:17 pm

On one hand, it's great that Pat Robertson is dead. On the other, he had 93 years to spew his hate, living in the lap of luxury. Doesn't really seem fair. Oh well!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 08, 2023, 06:01:02 pm

It's Two-fer Thursday: James Watt (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/06/08/james-watt-interior-secretary-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 08, 2023, 06:37:08 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on June 08, 2023, 06:01:02 pm

It's Two-fer Thursday: James Watt (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/06/08/james-watt-interior-secretary-dead/)

Finally the Beach Boys can play with a clean conscience.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 08, 2023, 10:56:04 pm

Pat Cooper

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 08, 2023, 11:11:15 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on June 08, 2023, 10:56:04 pm

Pat Cooper

Well, at least we still have Special Agent Dale Cooper, although I do not know in what timeline.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on June 09, 2023, 09:04:46 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on June 08, 2023, 06:01:02 pm

It's Two-fer Thursday: James Watt (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/06/08/james-watt-interior-secretary-dead/)

At least we still have Wayne Newton

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 09, 2023, 09:38:16 pm

Mike Batayeh dead: Breaking Bad actor dies aged 52 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65851444)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 09, 2023, 09:46:17 pm

George Winston, million-selling pianist known for his melodic style, dead at age 73 (https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/george-winston-million-selling-pianist-melodic-style-dead-99905799)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 09, 2023, 10:21:25 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on June 06, 2023, 06:57:22 pm

George Winston

Yep

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 10, 2023, 01:52:33 pm

Unabomber

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 10, 2023, 01:53:04 pm

Quote from: Hutch on June 10, 2023, 01:52:33 pm

Unabomber

Michigan legend!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 10, 2023, 02:06:36 pm

wow, rough week for incarcerated 90's-era national security concerns...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on June 10, 2023, 02:12:43 pm

RIP. Feel like he could've done great things to I mean for Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos

Quote from: Hutch on June 10, 2023, 01:52:33 pm

Unabomber

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 10, 2023, 04:18:21 pm

Quote from: Hutch on June 10, 2023, 01:52:33 pm

Unabomber

At least we still have John Krasinski

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 10, 2023, 05:01:52 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on June 10, 2023, 01:53:04 pm

Quote from: Hutch on June 10, 2023, 01:52:33 pm
Unabomber
Michigan legend!

Same high school as my wife.

I feel like he had some connection to my brother too but I'm currently unable to reach my brother.

I also once taught community college level statistics at a federal prison in NC. One year after I left, he was assigned there

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 10, 2023, 06:39:18 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 10, 2023, 05:01:52 pm

I also once taught community college level statistics at a federal prison in NC. One year after I left, he was assigned there

did teaching help you get out early?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 10, 2023, 06:56:38 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on June 10, 2023, 06:39:18 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 10, 2023, 05:01:52 pm
I also once taught community college level statistics at a federal prison in NC. One year after I left, he was assigned there

did teaching help you get out early?

No, but blowing the guards got me the teaching gig.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 12, 2023, 05:25:37 am

Silvio Berlusconi
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/world/europe/silvio-berlusconi-dead.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 12, 2023, 10:49:50 am

Will JA continue host bunga bunga parties in his absence

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 12, 2023, 12:46:04 pm

Quote from: SideH@tchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 12, 2023, 10:49:50 am

Will JA continue host bunga bunga parties in his absence

If you have to ask, you weren’t getting an invite.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 12, 2023, 02:07:50 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on June 12, 2023, 12:46:04 pm

Quote from: SideH@tchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 12, 2023, 10:49:50 am
Will JA continue host bunga bunga parties in his absence
If you have to ask, you weren’t getting an invite.

BYOBB

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 12, 2023, 02:11:59 pm

SABYOOP (scrape and butter your own orgy pit) too please.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 12, 2023, 10:32:27 pm

Treat Williams

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 13, 2023, 03:35:52 pm

Cormac McCarthy (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/06/13/cormac-mccarthy-novelist-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 13, 2023, 04:26:27 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on June 13, 2023, 03:35:52 pm

Cormac McCarthy (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/06/13/cormac-mccarthy-novelist-dead/)

FUCK

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 13, 2023, 04:48:46 pm

Quote from: Julian, Adroit TASTEMAKER on June 13, 2023, 04:26:27 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on June 13, 2023, 03:35:52 pm
Cormac McCarthy (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/06/13/cormac-mccarthy-novelist-dead/)
FUCK

He's 89. Unless he's your grampa, why be upset? This is bo country for old men .

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 13, 2023, 05:23:40 pm

Bo knows

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 14, 2023, 02:58:10 pm

Blackie Onassis (John Rowan)- Urge Overkill Drummer during the 90s who has had a heroin problem and dropped out of sight in 2000

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 15, 2023, 10:40:44 am

I attended the Memorial for Shawn "Gus" Vitale last night and it was almost two hours of heartfelt tributes to Gus from a number a the production crew members many of which Gus mentored. There was also family, longtime friends, a couple of local musicians, and representation from Positive Force, DCSpaces and Fort Reno. Universally hailed as a really open and friendly person, great to work with and just a true professional who strived to make all bands and artists sound their best. Also, a really great sense of humor. He will be missed by many and was taken far to young. His legacy will last for many years. Really glad I had to chance to hear so many wonderful stories about him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 15, 2023, 10:24:29 pm

Glenda Jackson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 15, 2023, 11:16:19 pm

Ray Lewis III, son of NFL legend Ray Lewis, has passed away at age 28.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on June 19, 2023, 01:55:52 pm

Teresa Nervosa

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 20, 2023, 09:56:44 pm

Donald Triplett, first person diagnosed with autism, dies at 89 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/06/20/donald-triplett-autism-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 23, 2023, 09:25:50 pm

(https://berliner-zeitung.imgix.net/2023/06/23/575db875-4642-4629-8a7a-0f18d66b869f.jpeg?auto=format&fit=max&w=1880&auto=compress)

Peter Brötzmann (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/23/peter-brotzmann-legend-of-free-jazz-dies-at-82)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 24, 2023, 02:27:46 pm

the OG chef (https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/frederic-forrest-dead-apocalypse-now-the-rose-1235653788/)

(https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1185732485/photo/frederic-forrest-on-apocalypse-now-set.jpg?s=1024x1024&w=gi&k=20&c=JiwIid7PNkRw0UT_OGOLb876MVTQvb7aLvB1wHvyj94=)

so many memorable roles
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYjNhMTIxY2QtNWNmMC00M2IyLTk4ZDMtMDdlNjQ4ZGI5OWJkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIwODk1NTQ@._V1_.jpg)
(https://images-cdn.bridgemanimages.com/api/1.0/image/600wm.EVT.17379750.7055475/5794192.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 24, 2023, 02:57:39 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 08, 2023, 04:41:49 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 08, 2023, 02:29:43 pm
Adam Rich (https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/entertainment/adam-rich-dead/index.html)

So weird. Out of the blue, my wife started talking about Eight is Enough this morning, just hours before this story surfaced.

fentanyl (accidental)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 27, 2023, 11:08:13 pm

(https://i.gifer.com/6Mxs.gif)

Joseph Pedott, Chia Pet and Clapper guy (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/06/27/joseph-pedott-chia-clapper-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on June 30, 2023, 12:42:03 pm

Alan Arkin

nsfw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ561uh3tSA

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on July 01, 2023, 10:07:32 pm

Rick Froberg :( gutted on that one

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on July 03, 2023, 01:19:59 pm

Robert DeNiro's grandson

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/entertainment/leandro-de-niro-rodriguez-death/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 11, 2023, 06:51:48 pm

the man who made us all use this
(https://media.gettyimages.com/id/515129112/photo/display-of-tylenol-bottles.jpg?s=1024x1024&w=gi&k=20&c=Yo6x4ApvNiiKjlQ0iN3roMpp9duLXjQ4cc9frPxziyM=)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 11, 2023, 07:31:28 pm

Allegedly.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 11, 2023, 09:57:25 pm

The beer festival
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/11/decline-craft-beer-festival-gabf-2023

Whoa, anchor might be bought out tomorrow
https://vinepair.com/booze-news/anchor-brewing-company-sale/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 12, 2023, 06:59:39 am

Milan Kundera

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 12, 2023, 07:01:17 am

Snallygaster tickets went on sale yesterday. Pretty sure it sells out every year.

Quote from: SideH@tchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 11, 2023, 09:57:25 pm

The beer festival
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/11/decline-craft-beer-festival-gabf-2023

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 12, 2023, 08:53:16 am

Quote from: Space Freely on July 12, 2023, 07:01:17 am

Snallygaster tickets went on sale yesterday. Pretty sure it sells out every year.

Quote from: SideH@tchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 11, 2023, 09:57:25 pm
The beer festival
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/11/decline-craft-beer-festival-gabf-2023

It's not the norm though...thanks for breaking the quote

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 14, 2023, 08:08:08 am

Milan Kundera

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 14, 2023, 08:22:34 am

Quote from: SideH@tchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 14, 2023, 08:08:08 am

Milan Kundera

That was three posts ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 14, 2023, 08:26:23 am

Quote from: Space Freely on July 14, 2023, 08:22:34 am

Quote from: SideH@tchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 14, 2023, 08:08:08 am
Milan Kundera

That was three posts ago.

lost in the suds talk, you get the credit, I will hang my head in shame

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 14, 2023, 08:46:50 am

Kundera was super trendy in the 1980s and then just sort of faded away.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 14, 2023, 09:20:30 am

Quote from: Hutch on July 14, 2023, 08:46:50 am

Kundera was super trendy in the 1980s and then just sort of faded away.

Well he only wrote one book after the year 2000...so once you read him, you were sort of done. I guess maybe what you mean is he didn't really have staying power in the literary world.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 14, 2023, 09:30:41 am

He wasn’t like a Rushdie, Barnes, McEwan churning out great books every 2-3 years. Once all his stuff got translated into English and the West caught up he was sort of done. At least that’s my impression. Most of his stuff is before the fall of the iron curtain. He has no ambition.

On a personal level I found his stuff kind of fluffy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 16, 2023, 09:36:42 am

Jane Birkin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 16, 2023, 10:00:19 am

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on July 16, 2023, 09:36:42 am

Jane Birkin

oh merde

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 21, 2023, 07:17:23 am

hacker Kevin Mitnick

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 21, 2023, 08:51:43 am

Quote from: SideH@tchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 21, 2023, 07:17:23 am

hacker Kevin Mitnick

Oh I thought you were gonna say Tony Bennett

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 21, 2023, 09:18:27 am

At least we still have Toni! and Toné!

(too soon?)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 21, 2023, 10:02:16 am

Wayyyy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 21, 2023, 10:40:56 pm

Does the Rock and Roll HOF get Tony's toupee?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 22, 2023, 12:20:27 am

How dare you!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 22, 2023, 04:32:04 am

Anti-flag

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 24, 2023, 02:40:51 pm

Larry the Cable Guy

Thank Christ it's only a hoax.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 26, 2023, 01:45:22 pm

Sinead?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 26, 2023, 01:58:47 pm

Quote from: Hutch on July 26, 2023, 01:45:22 pm

Sinead?

Sounds like it. (https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 26, 2023, 02:07:07 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 26, 2023, 01:58:47 pm

Quote from: Hutch on July 26, 2023, 01:45:22 pm
Sinead?

Sounds like it. (https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/)

Admittedly, I thought she died years ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 26, 2023, 02:14:19 pm

You really did? Not joking?

There was definitely 30 year cry for help and her oldest son died a year or two ago…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 26, 2023, 02:15:32 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 26, 2023, 01:58:47 pm

Quote from: Hutch on July 26, 2023, 01:45:22 pm
Sinead?

Sounds like it. (https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/)

Corroborated by Variety, Reuters, and others.

Sinéad O’Connor, Irish Singer of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U,’ Dies at 56 (https://variety.com/2023/music/news/sinead-oconnor-dead-nothing-compares-2-u-1235680724/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 26, 2023, 02:20:07 pm

Before reading this thread today, I had just fired up the Make More Noise! Women in Independent UK Music 1977–1987 box set on shuffle, and "Mandinka" was the second song played.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 26, 2023, 02:28:23 pm

Her cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U" was the first and last cassingle I ever bought.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 26, 2023, 02:54:02 pm

I have shaved my head at least a half dozen times in my adult life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 26, 2023, 07:25:12 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 26, 2023, 02:20:07 pm

"Mandinka"

Probably my favorite song by her. The Jake's remix in particular of the Emperor's New Clothes single was a party staple for me....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 26, 2023, 09:29:36 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 26, 2023, 07:25:12 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 26, 2023, 02:20:07 pm
"Mandinka"

Probably my favorite song by her. The Jake's remix in particular of the Emperor's New Clothes single was a party staple for me....

mine as well,
I didn't even know about the remix stuff (https://youtu.be/eKaWko_RkLA)(was not a huge sinade fan)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 27, 2023, 08:59:46 am

Quote from: SideH@tchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 26, 2023, 09:29:36 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 26, 2023, 07:25:12 pm
Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 26, 2023, 02:20:07 pm
"Mandinka"

Probably my favorite song by her. The Jake's remix in particular of the Emperor's New Clothes single was a party staple for me....
mine as well,
I didn't even know about the remix stuff (https://youtu.be/eKaWko_RkLA)(was not a huge sinade fan)

Smackie are referring the Hank Shocklee remix of "Emperor's New Clothes", because that's a bumpin track. https://youtu.be/2aaIF-KDg2Q

The Jakes remix of Mandika is ok, very much a cutup style as was in use at the time.

I'm getting up to speed on Sinead's support of hip hop at the time. She was one of the first to feature a guest rapper on a track. MC Lyte on the 12" release for I Want Your (Hands On Me), they even include her on the cover art with Sinead which was unheard of at the time.

Both the Dance and Street mix on this are great

https://youtu.be/ujDxGbzF7LM
https://youtu.be/MKDWnSU1a6I

There was her support of Public Enemy over their Grammy snub at the time, even the shaving of their logo into her hair for both the Grammy and a Glastonbury appearances. Clearly not forgotten by either Chuck or Flav who posted remembrances yesterday.

And since I really went down the Sinead remix rabbit hole, there is very obvious "How Soon Is Now" sample on this one

I Am Stretched On Your Grave (Night Until Morning Dub / Earthapella) - https://youtu.be/pUAeMIFoeRI

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 27, 2023, 09:04:40 am

She did a great cover of Bob Dylan’s I believe in you. I think it was a b side on a universal mother single

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on July 27, 2023, 02:30:09 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 27, 2023, 08:59:46 am

Smackie are referring the Hank Shocklee remix of "Emperor's New Clothes", because that's a bumpin track. https://youtu.be/2aaIF-KDg2Q

No, but they are on the same CD single. (https://borderlinemusic.com/products/sinead-oconnor-the-emperors-new-clothes-mandinka-japan-remix-ep-cd-used). And I agree that the Mandinka single is very reminiscent of 1990, but that's when I was playing parties.

My friend Joe Nelson (https://www.instagram.com/p/CvLBxziPDmL/) (who rescued a ton of OC punk music and has been releasing them) summed up most of my thoughts on Sinead:

---------------
When the music biz tried to groom her as a “cute” pop star at the BEGINNING of her career she shaved her head.

When the Grammys tried to give her some award she used the platform to blast them for at the time excluding rap as a legit form of music.

When Saturday Night Live had her on she used the space to protest the Catholic Church, accusing them of child abuse and rape - a full 8 years before that shit was all shown to be true.

When some venue demanded she play the American National Anthem before her set, she refused to go on, pretty much destroying her career in the States as all the righties in our fair land “cancel cultured” her.

A true rebel if ever there was one. R.I.P. legend!
------------------

There's even a story on that thread about her playing Bob Dylans's 50th birthday, getting loudly booed and instead of doing the Dylan song she was scheduled to do, she recited the lyrics to War by Bob Marley. So good. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeJifOXAnA)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on July 27, 2023, 05:43:17 pm

This was the 30th Anniversary show for Bob Frickin’ Dylan the great protest singer of his generation and she got booed off the stage for protesting serial institutional child sexual abuse?? Absolutely pathetic and the ultimate OK boomer moment.

The SNL appearance was incredible performance art. She drew you in, cast a spell, hypnotized you so the simple act of tearing a photograph felt like murder. Demonstrated her power, unfortunately it was too effective. And like someone said, you don’t want to be right too soon.

I Do No Want What I Have Not Got was a phenomenon. Artistically pure yet still super commercial. The first great album of the 90s and she totally set the tone of the 90s.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 27, 2023, 08:58:18 pm

Randy Meissner of the Eagles.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 27, 2023, 09:11:52 pm

Bill Cunningham, original voice of Ken doll, dies at 96

Cue tin foil hat crowd claiming seeing the movie did him in

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 28, 2023, 02:19:24 pm

Neal Langford, original bassist for the Shins

https://consequence.net/2023/07/neal-langford-the-shins-dead/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 28, 2023, 02:35:11 pm

I’m going to kill myself
Not if I do it first!

Roy McGrath, the disgraced ex-top aide to former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, died after he was shot in the head both by himself and an FBI agent, Knoxville prosecutors said.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 28, 2023, 09:11:30 pm

Beatle Bob

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/music/beatle-bob-st-louis-dancing-legend-has-died-40552868

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 28, 2023, 10:10:52 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 28, 2023, 09:11:30 pm

Beatle Bob

Bummer, als is a brutal way to go

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 30, 2023, 07:09:03 am

Quote from: Mobius on July 27, 2023, 05:43:17 pm

This was the 30th Anniversary show for Bob Frickin’ Dylan the great protest singer of his generation and she got booed off the stage for protesting serial institutional child sexual abuse?? Absolutely pathetic and the ultimate OK boomer moment.

The SNL appearance was incredible performance art. She drew you in, cast a spell, hypnotized you so the simple act of tearing a photograph felt like murder. Demonstrated her power, unfortunately it was too effective. And like someone said, you don’t want to be right too soon.

I Do No Want What I Have Not Got was a phenomenon. Artistically pure yet still super commercial. The first great album of the 90s and she totally set the tone of the 90s.

Wow!
just read this birthday letter she wrote to Bob in 2011 as an opp Ed…I’m literally floored. Amazing.
Few in this planet of billions of people can really be considered unique, but there really only was one Sinead

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/post_b_866068

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on July 31, 2023, 02:37:07 pm

Pee Wee Herman to the great playhouse in the sky :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 31, 2023, 02:53:04 pm

I thought the forum had dropped like flies there for a little bit!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 31, 2023, 03:02:12 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on July 31, 2023, 02:53:04 pm

I thought the forum had dropped like flies there for a little bit!

My life flashed before my eyes as I thought Seth had pulled the plug…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 31, 2023, 03:05:22 pm

based on being bored for 10 minutes it would appear that the company hosting the forum was having a very bad no good day

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 31, 2023, 03:17:10 pm

Quote from: Hutch on July 31, 2023, 03:02:12 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on July 31, 2023, 02:53:04 pm
I thought the forum had dropped like flies there for a little bit!

My life flashed before my eyes as I thought Seth had pulled the plug…

I’m not sure if some of you would be alright out there in the real world.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 31, 2023, 03:21:02 pm

Definitely not

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 31, 2023, 03:21:28 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on July 31, 2023, 02:53:04 pm

I thought the forum had dropped like flies there for a little bit!

I'm sure they took it offline for a major version upgrade. I can't wait for the polls!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on July 31, 2023, 03:41:47 pm

Stealing my thoughts from elsewhere, but it's pretty impossible to overstate the impact Paul Reubens had on Young Andy. Pee Wee's Big Adventure is permanently burned into my brain, and I still probably quote that (and lines from Prince Gerhardt Hapsburg) once a week.

I can still remember a friend and I flipping the fuck out in my basement, watching the premier of Pee Wee's Playhouse. Like, running around the room and screaming. It blew my mind, man!

It was truly surprising to me when Pee Wee's Big Holiday came out, like how did we get lucky enough to see him one more time. And even though I didn't expect to ever see that character again, there was always kind of a "what if" hanging out there. Bummed I won't have that ever again

No joke, but this is probably closest I've ever come to crying over a celebrity death. Assuming I still don't!

Quote from: Bagley on July 31, 2023, 02:37:07 pm

Pee Wee Herman to the great playhouse in the sky :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 31, 2023, 03:54:06 pm

Quote from: nkotb on July 31, 2023, 03:41:47 pm

It was truly surprising to me when Pee Wee's Big Holiday came out, like how did we get lucky enough to see him one more time.

I cannot believe this sentence exists.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on July 31, 2023, 05:36:10 pm

It’s also impossible to overstate how perfect Pee Wee’s delivery of ‘Heard any good jokes lately?’ was at the 91 MTV Movie Awards.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 01, 2023, 11:13:44 am

the actor who plays the drug dealer on Euphoria, apparently

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 01, 2023, 11:14:58 am

Quote from: sweetcell on August 01, 2023, 11:13:44 am

the actor who plays the drug dealer on Euphoria, apparently

GOING TO HAVE TO NARROW IT DOWN

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 01, 2023, 12:50:29 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on August 01, 2023, 11:14:58 am

Quote from: sweetcell on August 01, 2023, 11:13:44 am
the actor who plays the drug dealer on Euphoria, apparently
GOING TO HAVE TO NARROW IT DOWN

popped up on my news feed again: Angus Cloud, who played Fezco... apparently. confession (humblebrag?): i haven't watched the show, i've only seen a few clips. for some reason, they've all been of Sydney Sweeney and rarely featured much dialog. weird.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 01, 2023, 12:54:22 pm

Its a good show. You should watch it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 01, 2023, 01:02:29 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on August 01, 2023, 12:54:22 pm

Its a good show. You should watch it.

Its a show with wild highs (no drug pun intended) and insanely lows. The writer/creator really needs an editor.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 01, 2023, 02:04:53 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on August 01, 2023, 01:02:29 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on August 01, 2023, 12:54:22 pm
Its a good show. You should watch it.
Its a show with wild highs (no drug pun intended) and insanely lows. The writer/creator really needs an editor.

I'm the only one in the family who hasn't watched this show.

I can Google "Sydney Sweeney nude", so I'm good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 01, 2023, 02:18:06 pm

I mean, if that's what you're after, you'll be fine.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 04, 2023, 07:41:39 pm

The PAC-10/12 Conference

(Although I suspect the remaining 2-4 schools who retain the conference branding and then merge with the Mountain West which will then use the name in hopes of gaining some quick gravitas off the established name.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 04, 2023, 09:52:27 pm

Mark Margolis

https://youtu.be/vsBak0oCgdY

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 08, 2023, 02:41:43 pm

William Friedkin, Director of ‘French Connection’ and ‘Exorcist,’ Dies at 87 (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/07/movies/william-friedkin-dead.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 08, 2023, 03:19:44 pm

DJ Casper, artist behind ‘Cha Cha Slide,’ (https://wtop.com/music/2023/08/dj-casper-artist-behind-cha-cha-slide-has-died/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 09, 2023, 07:20:59 am

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/sixto-rodriguez-detroit-born-musician-and-subject-of-searching-for-sugar-man-documentary-dies-at-81

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 09, 2023, 02:30:25 pm

Jamie Reid creator of the Sex Pistols iconic graphics

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 09, 2023, 02:33:45 pm

Quote from: Hutch on August 09, 2023, 07:20:59 am

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/sixto-rodriguez-detroit-born-musician-and-subject-of-searching-for-sugar-man-documentary-dies-at-81

Just saw a tweet where he showed up a couple of times at the Detroit public radio WDET station to both make contributions in cash and once handed out $100 bills to staffers directly

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 09, 2023, 02:37:13 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on August 09, 2023, 02:30:25 pm

Jamie Reid creator of the Sex Pistols iconic graphics

some iconic stuff
I always thought Malcom and Vivienne were responsible, but that was in my head apparently

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 09, 2023, 04:07:29 pm

Robbie Robertson, 80

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 10, 2023, 02:23:15 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on August 09, 2023, 04:07:29 pm

Robbie Robertson, 80

Oh no!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 10, 2023, 01:49:39 pm

(https://imagez.tmz.com/image/88/4by3/2023/08/10/88ec892ff9f24c95ac1bf829be985edc_md.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 13, 2023, 08:56:24 pm

deadcat (https://www.instagram.com/p/CvqT5ODLHi2/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 14, 2023, 08:28:56 pm

Magoo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 16, 2023, 08:05:20 pm

Jerry Moss, the 'M' of A&M Records, dies

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 16, 2023, 08:08:29 pm

Dang

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 17, 2023, 08:57:33 pm

Gary Young

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 18, 2023, 03:05:35 am

Quote from: Yada on August 17, 2023, 08:57:33 pm

Gary Young

Gary Young, Pavement's original drummer, has died (https://www.brooklynvegan.com/gary-young-pavements-original-drummer-has-died/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 23, 2023, 01:45:03 pm

Prigozhin?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on August 23, 2023, 01:55:01 pm

Quote from: Hutch on August 23, 2023, 01:45:03 pm

Prigozhin?

50% chance it was faked and he's just disappeared from life and 50% chance he was shot down by Putin.

100% chance we will never know the truth.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 23, 2023, 02:01:53 pm

Quote from: Hutch on August 23, 2023, 01:45:03 pm

Prigozhin?

The crash looks like a nearly vertical drop. Don't most plane crashes glide to impact?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 23, 2023, 02:16:15 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on August 23, 2023, 02:01:53 pm

Quote from: Hutch on August 23, 2023, 01:45:03 pm
Prigozhin?

The crash looks like a nearly vertical drop. Don't most plane crashes glide to impact?

Only if it has some lift from the wings, otherwise...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 23, 2023, 03:04:33 pm

Quote from: Hutch on August 23, 2023, 01:45:03 pm

Prigozhin?

rumor mill working overtime on this one. i'm seeing reports that:
- plane was shot down by air defense (could provide for convenient excuses: "we thought it was a uke drone", "a minion pressed the wrong button", etc.), video shows white puffs in the sky around the plane, and witnesses on the ground have apparently stated that they heard two pops prior to see the plane fall - all consistent with AA.
- there were two planes belonging to prigo flying from moscow to st. pete. prigo was listed as a passenger on the first plane, but there is a chance he was on the second one. after the first plane went down, the second one turned around and returned to moscow.

Quote from: Heilung4eva on August 23, 2023, 02:01:53 pm

The crash looks like a nearly vertical drop. Don't most plane crashes glide to impact?

it's the straight drop plus the fact that the plane was clearly on fire that make me believe it was air defense or a bomb onboard.

Quote from: vansmack on August 23, 2023, 01:55:01 pm

100% chance we will never know the truth

disagree. some people will want the truth to be known (ex: prigo's supporters, wagner-sympathetic FSB and GRU officers, etc), so i wouldn't say there is no chance we'll find out.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 23, 2023, 03:28:44 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 23, 2023, 03:04:33 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on August 23, 2023, 02:01:53 pm
The crash looks like a nearly vertical drop. Don't most plane crashes glide to impact?

it's the straight drop plus the fact that the plane was clearly on fire that make me believe it was air defense or a bomb onboard.

Apparently the plane was missing a wing when it fell.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on August 23, 2023, 04:38:56 pm

RIP Terry Funk

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 26, 2023, 01:27:29 pm

Bob Barker.

At least he got to know Trump's weight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 26, 2023, 02:32:33 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 26, 2023, 01:27:29 pm

Bob Barker.

At least he got to know Trump's weight.

Without going over...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 26, 2023, 02:56:43 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 26, 2023, 01:27:29 pm

Bob Barker.

At least he got to know Trump's weight.

At least we still have Travis Barker... or maybe not

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 26, 2023, 03:06:57 pm

At least we still got the carnival barker…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 26, 2023, 04:28:41 pm

Prepare for a pet explosion.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 26, 2023, 11:57:22 pm

New York Thunder and Noble

The track at Saratoga is fucked. NYRA has blood on it hands. More to come soon in a JA investigation.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 27, 2023, 01:30:43 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on August 26, 2023, 11:57:22 pm

New York Thunder and Noble

The track at Saratoga is fucked. NYRA has blood on it hands. More to come soon in a JA investigation.

Aren't these horses worth more dead than alive, from an insurance payout?
it would seem to be a common way to 'thin the heard' of some of your not-top performers

it reminds me of the post someone made years ago: if you need to commit homicide, do it with a car. The odds are in your favor.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 28, 2023, 01:29:21 pm

James Casey

Wow... fuck.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 28, 2023, 01:39:53 pm

Bob Feldman member of The Strangeloves and co-writer of "My Boyfriend's Back", "I Want Candy", and "Sorrow".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Feldman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 28, 2023, 03:31:01 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 28, 2023, 01:29:21 pm

James Casey

Wow... fuck.

At least we still have Jim Carey

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 28, 2023, 03:37:51 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 28, 2023, 01:29:21 pm

James Casey

Wow... fuck.

It's always interesting to try to guess who some of these people were when people don't put links or bios.

My first guess was some political guy, but it's not really like Yada to post about a semi-obscure political figure. He's more likely to post about a niche musician who is probably well known in certain circles by unknown to the masses.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 28, 2023, 03:39:54 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on August 28, 2023, 03:31:01 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 28, 2023, 01:29:21 pm
James Casey

Wow... fuck.

At least we still have Jim Carey

(https://media.tenor.com/LfbI9R91l6YAAAAC/jim-carrey-ace-ventura.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 28, 2023, 04:20:26 pm

Joe the Plumber

At least we still have Joe the President.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 28, 2023, 04:22:16 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 28, 2023, 04:20:26 pm

Joe the Plumber

at least we have G. Gordon Liddy...oh wait, we lost him in 2021

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 28, 2023, 06:07:14 pm

When will 'At least we still have' drop like flies? Talk about beating a dead horse.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 28, 2023, 06:27:13 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on August 28, 2023, 06:07:14 pm

When will 'At least we still have' drop like flies? Talk about beating a dead horse.

at least we still have live horses

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 28, 2023, 06:36:19 pm

Do we though? Do we?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 28, 2023, 07:14:13 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 28, 2023, 06:27:13 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on August 28, 2023, 06:07:14 pm
When will 'At least we still have' drop like flies? Talk about beating a dead horse.

at least we still have live horses

I think wife beating is still around too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 29, 2023, 02:34:36 pm

William MacKaye, father of Amanda, Alec, and Ian (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/08/28/william-mackaye-journalism-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on August 29, 2023, 02:44:02 pm

Quote from: hanky/lanky-Hatchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 28, 2023, 07:14:13 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 28, 2023, 06:27:13 pm
Quote from: shemptiness on August 28, 2023, 06:07:14 pm
When will 'At least we still have' drop like flies? Talk about beating a dead horse.

at least we still have live horses
I think wife beating is still around too

Husband beating as well... ask Space.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 29, 2023, 05:22:40 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on August 29, 2023, 02:34:36 pm

William MacKaye, father of Amanda, Alec, and Ian (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/08/28/william-mackaye-journalism-dead/)

Wow, he was cooler than his kids.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 29, 2023, 05:25:04 pm

Quote from: Yada on August 29, 2023, 02:44:02 pm

Quote from: hanky/lanky-Hatchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 28, 2023, 07:14:13 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on August 28, 2023, 06:27:13 pm
Quote from: shemptiness on August 28, 2023, 06:07:14 pm
When will 'At least we still have' drop like flies? Talk about beating a dead horse.

at least we still have live horses
I think wife beating is still around too

Husband beating as well... ask Space.

I suppose such things do exist, but not anyone I know personally.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/468640

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 31, 2023, 04:24:24 pm

Silvina Luna

Gran Hermano participant from 2001.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 01, 2023, 06:59:20 pm

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 02, 2023, 07:13:38 am

Jimmy Buffett

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 02, 2023, 09:09:41 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 02, 2023, 07:13:38 am

Jimmy Buffett

At least we still have the pizza hut buffet

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 02, 2023, 12:58:37 pm

Bill Richardson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 02, 2023, 02:10:20 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on September 02, 2023, 07:13:38 am

Jimmy Buffett

According to twitter, he played 48 shows at merriweather, more than any other artist.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 02, 2023, 02:30:01 pm

Apparently skin cancer….that progressed to lymphoma

Wear those hats people!

Apparently 2
Paul McCartney visited him and I guess played some songs for him this past week

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 02, 2023, 04:30:01 pm

It's unfortunate he's generalized as margaritaville and cheeseburger in paradise... he really does have some amazing tunes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 02, 2023, 04:44:22 pm

Quote from: Heilung4eva on September 02, 2023, 02:10:20 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on September 02, 2023, 07:13:38 am
Jimmy Buffett

According to twitter, he played 48 shows at merriweather, more than any other artist.

The King of Merriweather is gone. Long live the King.

It’s interesting he holds that record given for decades his area shows seemed to more at the Bristow Root Canal Pavilion. He must have played Merriweather a ton in the 80s!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 02, 2023, 06:07:06 pm

Don't celebrate the life of billionaires - azaghal

Lol

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 02, 2023, 06:40:22 pm

Quote from: Yada on September 02, 2023, 06:07:06 pm

Don't celebrate the life of billionaires - azaghal

Lol

At least we still have Warren Buffett.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 02, 2023, 09:35:07 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on September 02, 2023, 06:40:22 pm

Quote from: Yada on September 02, 2023, 06:07:06 pm
Don't celebrate the life of billionaires - azaghal

Lol

At least we still have Warren Buffett.

agreed, put my trust and a few denerios with Him about 20 years ago and close to the best financial play I’ve made

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 02, 2023, 10:01:52 pm

Quote from: hanky/lanky-Hatchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 02, 2023, 09:35:07 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on September 02, 2023, 06:40:22 pm
Quote from: Yada on September 02, 2023, 06:07:06 pm
Don't celebrate the life of billionaires - azaghal

Lol

At least we still have Warren Buffett.
agreed, put my trust and a few denerios with Him about 20 years ago and close to the best financial play I’ve made for the live music industry

FTFY

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on September 04, 2023, 11:27:48 am

Steve Harwell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 04, 2023, 11:53:10 am

Quote from: Yada on September 04, 2023, 11:27:48 am

Steve Harwell

Steve Harwell, founding lead singer of Smash Mouth, dead at 56
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/04/entertainment/steve-harwell-death

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 04, 2023, 11:59:10 am

Poor man. Rest In Peace.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: adamopp on September 04, 2023, 12:12:50 pm

Tail Dragger Jones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_Dragger_Jones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_Dragger_Jones)

Just heard he passed yesterday. Was booked to headline the DC Blues Festival next month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJP4_xB9w6E&pp=ygUMdGFpbCBkcmFnZ2Vy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJP4_xB9w6E&pp=ygUMdGFpbCBkcmFnZ2Vy)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 04, 2023, 01:29:30 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 04, 2023, 11:53:10 am

Quote from: Yada on September 04, 2023, 11:27:48 am
Steve Harwell

Steve Harwell, founding lead singer of Smash Mouth, dead at 56
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/04/entertainment/steve-harwell-death

I want to hire his manager to write my obituary.

“Steve Harwell was a true American Original. A larger than life character who shot up into the sky like a Roman candle,” Hayes said in a statement to CNN. “Steve should be remembered for his unwavering focus and impassioned determination to reach the heights of pop stardom. And the fact that he achieved this near-impossible goal with very limited musical experience makes his accomplishments all the more remarkable. His only tools were his irrepressible charm and charisma, his fearlessly reckless ambition, and his king-size cajones."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 04, 2023, 09:09:20 pm

Gary Wright, the musician best known for his hit singles 'Dream Weaver' and 'Love Is Alive,' has died. He was 80.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 04, 2023, 10:07:48 pm

Quote from: Yada on September 04, 2023, 11:27:48 am

Steve Harwell

We do still have Steve Harvey, but meh.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 05, 2023, 10:18:29 am

Quote from: Heilung4eva on September 04, 2023, 10:07:48 pm

Quote from: Yada on September 04, 2023, 11:27:48 am
Steve Harwell

We do still have Steve Harvey, but meh.

Oh well.
Har har.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 07, 2023, 01:24:14 pm

The idea that he wrestled as both a Sheik and a Native American, and was childhood friends with Saddam Hussain, kind of blows my mind.

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending/wwe-legend-adnan-al-kaissie-general-adnan-dies-age-84/KVQQQOUF7NA2TODXFJ4BH5QXLI/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 08, 2023, 04:05:14 pm

Whitey von Neida

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 15, 2023, 03:19:53 pm

Fernando Botero, Artist of Whimsical Rotundity

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 18, 2023, 01:49:48 pm

Roger Whittaker, a renowned figure in the world of Schlager music

got me what schlager music is, but maybe has to do with shots

edit: apparently, this is Waterloo by Abba
also a funny quote
Schlager is a form of pop so insipid and saccharine that it is possible the Communists built the Berlin Wall to keep it out.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 18, 2023, 02:26:32 pm

Schlager is basically melodic sentimental pop, often set to well-known classical tunes. Eric Carmen's "All By Myself" and "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" are perfect examples having been set to Rachmaninoff's second movement of his Piano Concerto No. 2 and third movement of Symphony No. 2 respectively.

There are some schlager-like tunes on The Raspberries albums as well. I figured they wanted to have a few tunes that their parents would enjoy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 20, 2023, 12:10:47 pm

Kent Stax
Scream drummer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 25, 2023, 09:43:05 pm

Burkey Belser, designer of ubiquitous nutrition facts label, dies at 76 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/09/25/burkey-belser-designer-of-ubiquitous-nutrition-facts-label-dies-at-76/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on September 25, 2023, 09:49:01 pm

David McCallum - Man from UNCLE actor

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/david-mccallum-dies-beloved-ncis-actor-was-90/ar-AA1hflUi?OCID=ansmsnnews11#image=1

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 26, 2023, 06:03:24 pm

Brooks Robinson, Hall of Fame Orioles third baseman, dies at 86
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/09/26/brooks-robinson-third-baseman-orioles-dead/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 26, 2023, 06:18:13 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 26, 2023, 06:03:24 pm

Brooks Robinson, Hall of Fame Orioles third baseman, dies at 86
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/09/26/brooks-robinson-third-baseman-orioles-dead/

Sad that he didn't make it long enough to see them win the pennant (hoping I'm not jinxing them by saying that.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on September 27, 2023, 01:57:02 pm

As a Baltimoron, I say how dare you link the Washington Post article to announce Brooks Robinson's death.

Quote from: sweetcell on September 26, 2023, 06:03:24 pm

Brooks Robinson, Hall of Fame Orioles third baseman, dies at 86
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/09/26/brooks-robinson-third-baseman-orioles-dead/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on September 28, 2023, 10:16:29 am

Snape killed Dumbledore.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on September 28, 2023, 03:08:25 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on September 27, 2023, 01:57:02 pm

As a Baltimoron, I say how dare you link the Washington Post article to announce Brooks Robinson's death.

Quote from: sweetcell on September 26, 2023, 06:03:24 pm
Brooks Robinson, Hall of Fame Orioles third baseman, dies at 86
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/09/26/brooks-robinson-third-baseman-orioles-dead/

because i don't have a subscription to the baltimore sun?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 28, 2023, 03:17:03 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on September 28, 2023, 03:08:25 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on September 27, 2023, 01:57:02 pm
As a Baltimoron, I say how dare you link the Washington Post article to announce Brooks Robinson's death.

Quote from: sweetcell on September 26, 2023, 06:03:24 pm
Brooks Robinson, Hall of Fame Orioles third baseman, dies at 86
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/09/26/brooks-robinson-third-baseman-orioles-dead/

because i don't have a subscription to the baltimore sun?

My brother moved from Seattle to upstate NY a number of years ago. He still watches the local Seattle tv news.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 29, 2023, 08:52:58 am

Feinstein, 90

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 29, 2023, 09:06:58 am

Quote from: Heilung4eva on September 29, 2023, 08:52:58 am

Feinstein, 90

expected, but whoa

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 29, 2023, 09:13:52 am

Quote from: Heilung4eva on September 29, 2023, 08:52:58 am

Feinstein, 90

I don't quite understand it, but doesn't this create a problem for picking judges or something like that?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on September 29, 2023, 09:31:40 am

Was she vaxxxed?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 29, 2023, 09:32:27 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 29, 2023, 09:13:52 am

Quote from: Heilung4eva on September 29, 2023, 08:52:58 am
Feinstein, 90

I don't quite understand it, but doesn't this create a problem for picking judges or something like that?

I think it depends on how quickly Newsom names a replacement. I’lll cede to others on this.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 01, 2023, 12:10:20 pm

Russell Batiste Jr

RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 01, 2023, 03:01:32 pm

shocking

Quote from: Heilung4eva on September 29, 2023, 08:52:58 am

Feinstein, 90

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 01, 2023, 03:33:15 pm

Tim Wakefield

Damn... one of the best

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 01, 2023, 03:49:39 pm

Quote from: Yada on October 01, 2023, 03:33:15 pm

Tim Wakefield

Damn... one of the best

Yeah, this one hurt. Fuck Curt Schilling.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 01, 2023, 03:52:16 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on September 29, 2023, 09:32:27 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 29, 2023, 09:13:52 am
Quote from: Heilung4eva on September 29, 2023, 08:52:58 am
Feinstein, 90

I don't quite understand it, but doesn't this create a problem for picking judges or something like that?
I think it depends on how quickly Newsom names a replacement. I’lll cede to others on this.

Possibly, but honestly it’s impossible to predict the current Republicans.

Newsom has a bigger problem: he made two promises and can likely only keep one of them. Either a black woman or someone not running to replace her permanently.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vansmack on October 02, 2023, 12:23:21 am

Somehow, he managed:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will name Laphonza Butler, a Democratic strategist and adviser to Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat held by the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a spokesman in his office said Sunday. (https://apnews.com/article/57823d2ff39f2a007640dce8e70045a8)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 02, 2023, 07:26:51 am

So basically Faux News and all it’s clones are going spend several days having coronaries..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 02, 2023, 07:34:58 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on October 02, 2023, 07:26:51 am

So basically Faux News and all it’s clones are going spend several days having fabircated coronaries..

FTFY

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on October 02, 2023, 08:34:54 am

Certainly makes sense with his shitty anti-labor veto

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 05, 2023, 08:08:57 pm

Dick Butkus (https://wtop.com/national/2023/10/dick-butkus-fearsome-hall-of-fame-chicago-bears-linebacker-dies-at-80/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 05, 2023, 09:46:22 pm

My dad.

I had a very fraught relationship with him. No need for any condolences.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 05, 2023, 10:32:30 pm

Quote from: Hutch on October 05, 2023, 09:46:22 pm

My dad.

I had a very fraught relationship with him. No need for any condolences.

Oh no. Sorry man. Never knew you were Dick Butkus’ kid and that Dick Butkus was Argentina’s ambassador to so many countries before now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on October 05, 2023, 11:48:04 pm

Legit lol

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 06, 2023, 11:50:43 am

Quote from: Hutch on October 05, 2023, 09:46:22 pm

My dad.

I had a very fraught relationship with him. No need for any condolences.

In time you'll remember the good things about him and forgive the bad.

At least that's been my experience. My dad passed away 27 years ago tomorrow.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on October 06, 2023, 12:49:45 pm

Losing your parents is probably one of the most singular life experiences that all of us will go through. They are literally the only people who will, or have the chance to know you from the moment you were born.
I was never close with my mom, my dad liked to joke that I was born premature, just to get away from her.
She was an abusive, emotionally and mentally arrested person, who never learned to break through her traumas.
That said in the last year of her life, I learned to reevaluate my expectations of her and what that makes of me. I try to remember her for doing what she thought were the right thing for us along the way and to remember how she was a product of her time and place (Hawaii in the 50s-70s was worlds different than the rest of the US in many ways). In some ways I think that she never stood a chance. I delve a lot into what parts of her are in me for good and bad in therapy, but I try to keep at least one good thought or memory about her in my mind regularly. I hope that you have more than one good thing that you can reflect on.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 06, 2023, 01:09:53 pm

Evilzac with the wise words lately!

also, didn't know Obama used Evilzac as his handle

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 09, 2023, 04:57:31 pm

President Davo

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-baltimore-homicide-weekend-police-20231007-7aiyuz4u5bbuncssupkq3thikq-story.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 09, 2023, 06:15:28 pm

wow, scooped yada with that one. He must be at a phish show

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 12, 2023, 04:59:04 pm

Rudolph Isley, 84

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 13, 2023, 02:25:23 pm

Comedian Keith Giffen (https://x.com/CTropes/status/1712310437256352117?s=20)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on October 13, 2023, 03:32:58 pm

Quote from: gomez4eva on October 13, 2023, 02:25:23 pm

~~Comedian~~ Comic book writer and artist Keith Giffen (https://x.com/CTropes/status/1712310437256352117?s=20)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 14, 2023, 06:02:01 pm

Piper Laurie (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/10/14/piper-laurie-actress-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 15, 2023, 04:07:48 pm

(https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/newscms/2017_46/1297034/suzanne-somers-today-6-171113.jpg)

Suzanne Somers (https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/suzanne-somers-dead-threes-company-1235756992/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 15, 2023, 06:12:08 pm

^ fired from Three's Company when she dared to demand pay equity with her male co-star... the gall!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 18, 2023, 08:50:22 am

Carla Bley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 19, 2023, 05:08:45 am

Dwight Twilley

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 19, 2023, 08:39:51 am

Theo
My best buddy
8/7/08-10/18/23

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 19, 2023, 08:47:34 am

Quote from: Space Freely on October 19, 2023, 08:39:51 am

Theo
My best buddy
8/7/08-10/18/23

that sucks, sorry for your loss

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 19, 2023, 09:03:33 am

Sorry Space

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on October 19, 2023, 10:16:44 am

Aw, man...sorry to hear that, Space. I loved seeing pics of your pup here and there.

We lost our dog last summer...16 years old and we owned her that entire time. That's never easy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 19, 2023, 03:44:18 pm

aww... sorry to hear that, Space. he was a good boy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 19, 2023, 03:53:07 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 19, 2023, 03:44:18 pm

aww... sorry to hear that, Space. he was a good boy.

I don’t want to sound like I’m speaking ill of the dead, but how often did you hang out with Space’s dog to make such an evaluation?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 19, 2023, 03:58:09 pm

DJ Mark the 45 King

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 19, 2023, 04:19:18 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on October 19, 2023, 03:53:07 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 19, 2023, 03:44:18 pm
aww... sorry to hear that, Space. he was a good boy.
I don’t want to sound like I’m speaking ill of the dead, but how often did you hang out with Space’s dog to make such an evaluation?

Oh boy now

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 19, 2023, 05:31:27 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on October 19, 2023, 03:53:07 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 19, 2023, 03:44:18 pm
aww... sorry to hear that, Space. he was a good boy.
I don’t want to sound like I’m speaking ill of the dead, but how often did you hang out with Space’s dog to make such an evaluation?

admittedly it's been a while, but back in the day the sweetcell clan and the space clan occasionally hung out together. i've been to the space casa maybe 4 or 5 times? they were over at ours a similar amount. so yeah, i met theo a number of times - and every time, he was a good boy. i'll leave it up to you to decide whether a half-dozen or so encounters is sufficient to make a definitive determination of good-boyness.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 19, 2023, 06:58:25 pm

We are fast approaching page 666 :-\

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 20, 2023, 12:16:35 am

😰

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 20, 2023, 11:04:49 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on October 19, 2023, 06:58:25 pm

We are fast approaching page 666 :-\

Which legendary Boardie will pass away when we get there!? You'll just have to tune in to see!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 20, 2023, 12:18:55 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on October 19, 2023, 08:39:51 am

Theo
My best buddy
8/7/08-10/18/23

sorry space.. my best pal died last year and it fucked me up real good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 20, 2023, 12:27:16 pm

Quote from: Yada on October 20, 2023, 12:18:55 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on October 19, 2023, 08:39:51 am
Theo
My best buddy
8/7/08-10/18/23

sorry space.. my best pal died last year and it fucked me up real good.

i'm likely next to join the club: my best friend's breed has a typical lifespan of 11-13 years... and she's about to turn 12. she's gone deaf, has really slowed down, she struggles to hop into the trunk (gonna need a ramp soon), we can't bring her on adventures (like camping) anymore, etc. i'm making the most of the time i have left with her...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 20, 2023, 12:29:54 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on October 20, 2023, 12:27:16 pm

Quote from: Yada on October 20, 2023, 12:18:55 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on October 19, 2023, 08:39:51 am
Theo
My best buddy
8/7/08-10/18/23

sorry space.. my best pal died last year and it fucked me up real good.

i'm likely next to join the club: my best friend's breed has a typical lifespan of 11-13 years... and she's about to turn 12. she's gone deaf, has really slowed down, she struggles to hop into the trunk (gonna need a ramp soon), we can't bring her on adventures (like camping) anymore, etc. i'm making the most of the time i have left with her...

sorry man... no different than human getting a death sentence, but my dog went from a perfectly fine 11 year old dog that really had minimal issues his whole life to a death sentence of any minute to six months... He made it four. I don't think I left his side for more than a few hours during that whole span. :'( :'( :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on October 20, 2023, 01:35:28 pm

My pup went so quickly it was crazy...she looked every day of her 16 years, but until the last two months, was her normal self. Seemed so long at the time, as I was sleeping in the basement with her so she didn't fall down the steps, etc.

But even crazier was the relapses back to health. We had two or three separate decisions that her end was near and were scheduling her final vet visit, only for her to wake up seemingly 100% the morning of. Brutal whirlwind as I think I had to make peace with things all over again, but having her back briefly was so nice. She ultimately passed away in our backyard, right next to me as she kind of just faded away. It was really beautiful...not in pain or suffering as near as I could tell, and I was with her to the end.

Now resetting the "Number of days since your cried about your dead dog" back to zero.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 20, 2023, 01:37:57 pm

Sorry man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 20, 2023, 02:10:11 pm

people, not sure I can take any more depressing dog death tales today...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 20, 2023, 02:14:36 pm

Quote from: eat their young-Hatchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 20, 2023, 02:10:11 pm

people, not sure I can take any more depressing dog death tales today...

There's a dead civilians and baby thread over >>>>

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on October 20, 2023, 02:17:37 pm

Just to clarify, outside of my dog somehow being a Highlander and living forever, I wouldn't have traded how her last days went for anything. She ate steak for every meal until she no longer was eating. She got to go to the beach for one last great trip. She died peacefully in her own home with my right by her side, petting her as she drifted off. Anyone would be lucky to have such a graceful exit

Quote from: eat their young-Hatchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 20, 2023, 02:10:11 pm

people, not sure I can take any more depressing dog death tales today...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 20, 2023, 02:29:36 pm

Quote from: Yada on October 20, 2023, 02:14:36 pm

Quote from: eat their young-Hatchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 20, 2023, 02:10:11 pm
people, not sure I can take any more depressing dog death tales today...

There's a dead civilians and baby thread over >>>>

bring it on, I don't get as impacted about their demise

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 20, 2023, 06:13:32 pm

Quote from: eat their young-Hatchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 20, 2023, 02:29:36 pm

Quote from: Yada on October 20, 2023, 02:14:36 pm
Quote from: eat their young-Hatchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 20, 2023, 02:10:11 pm
people, not sure I can take any more depressing dog death tales today...

There's a dead civilians and baby thread over >>>>
bring it on, I don't get as impacted about their demise

Dead puppies aren't much fun, happy boy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on October 23, 2023, 02:33:59 pm

Tasha Butts

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 24, 2023, 07:42:22 am

Massive Attack confirm death of Bristol-born Angelo Bruschini

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 24, 2023, 08:39:08 am

Quote from: eat their young-Hatchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 24, 2023, 07:42:22 am

Massive Attack confirm death of Bristol-born Angelo Bruschini

A touring member of Massive Attack….they have many of those…

Wikipedia has Tricky back in Massive Attack since 2016 which is incorrect.

I think Massive Attack is really just Nadja since 2000…and whoever he feels like sharing the loot with…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 24, 2023, 09:05:10 am

They real controversy is why Banksky isn’t listed as a member of Massive Attack, all signs point to yes ;D

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 24, 2023, 09:48:22 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 23, 2011, 01:18:01 pm

well seeing as Cobain, Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison also all died at 27, i doubt it was clean living..

Quote from: i am gay and i like cats on July 23, 2011, 01:27:37 pm

you forgot brian jones.

actually, i just looked at a site for the 27 music club. wow. a lot of musicians die at 27.

An nerdy overthinking podcast bro covers the 27 Club.

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4907

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 24, 2023, 03:33:59 pm

Mr. Udo

Legend

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 24, 2023, 10:22:44 pm

Shaft

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 28, 2023, 09:07:51 am

(https://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/36400000/Night-Court-image-night-court-36424758-275-183.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 28, 2023, 03:35:17 pm

^ also the voice of Two-Face in at least two animated Batman series.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 28, 2023, 04:25:39 pm

Mike Pence presidential campaign

What a loser

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 28, 2023, 09:07:22 pm

Matthew Perry (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-28/freinds-star-matthew-perry-dead-at-56)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 28, 2023, 09:46:05 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on October 28, 2023, 09:07:22 pm

Matthew Perry (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-28/freinds-star-matthew-perry-dead-at-56)

Keanu Reeves walks among us.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 01, 2023, 08:07:20 pm

Bob Knight (https://wtop.com/ncaa-basketball/2023/11/bob-knight-indianas-combustible-coaching-giant-dies-at-age-83/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 01, 2023, 08:21:54 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 01, 2023, 08:07:20 pm

Bob Knight (https://wtop.com/ncaa-basketball/2023/11/bob-knight-indianas-combustible-coaching-giant-dies-at-age-83/)

Looking forward to a Space father in law/Hoosier story

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 02, 2023, 08:39:43 am

Quote from: Yada on November 01, 2023, 08:21:54 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 01, 2023, 08:07:20 pm
Bob Knight (https://wtop.com/ncaa-basketball/2023/11/bob-knight-indianas-combustible-coaching-giant-dies-at-age-83/)

Looking forward to a Space father in law/Hoosier story

As I read your post, my wife says "Oh my god. My grampa would be devastated. Except he's dead too."

That's all I got. (All of my wife's grandparents were from Chicago (and her uncle played for DePaul.) I guess Bobby had that much pull.

I don't think my father in law (brother of the uncle) really follows much sports.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 08, 2023, 11:32:55 am

Heath

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 08, 2023, 11:37:57 am

Quote from: excontradiction on November 08, 2023, 11:32:55 am

Heath

A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 15, 2023, 01:37:38 pm

Neville Garrick

Created a lot of iconic covers for reggae music

https://www.discogs.com/artist/471081-Neville-Garrick

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on November 17, 2023, 01:21:02 am

Dex Carvey

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 17, 2023, 12:00:59 pm

Quote from: Yada on November 17, 2023, 01:21:02 am

Dex Carvey

Well, at least we still have Dana Carvey.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 19, 2023, 04:16:22 pm

Rosalynn Carter

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 19, 2023, 06:12:59 pm

Well at least we still have Nell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 19, 2023, 06:13:34 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on November 19, 2023, 06:12:59 pm

Well at least we still have Nell

D'oh! Scratch that!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 23, 2023, 03:17:42 pm

Mars Williams, sax player for Psychedelic Furs, Liquid Soul, and the Waitresses.

https://pitchfork.com/news/mars-williams-saxophonist-in-the-psychedelic-furs-and-the-waitresses-dies-at-68/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on November 26, 2023, 03:25:03 pm

Geordie of Killing Joke :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 27, 2023, 09:51:58 am

Quote from: Got Haggis? on November 26, 2023, 03:25:03 pm

Geordie of Killing Joke :(

WTF, that sucks. Appears he had a stroke. Loved his sound so much

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 29, 2023, 02:08:55 am

Charlie Munger

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 29, 2023, 02:11:57 am

Quote from: Hutch on November 29, 2023, 02:08:55 am

Charlie Munger

We will ask everyone to respect our privacy at this time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 29, 2023, 11:43:18 am

Jean Knight who had a hit with "Mr. Big Stuff"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 29, 2023, 11:51:23 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 29, 2023, 11:43:18 am

Jean Knight who had a hit with "Mr. Big Stuff"

who do you think you are

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 29, 2023, 12:44:42 pm

Quote from: Side-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 29, 2023, 11:51:23 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 29, 2023, 11:43:18 am
Jean Knight who had a hit with "Mr. Big Stuff"
who do you think you are

Mr. Big Stuff. Seems pretty obvious to me. Dumb question.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 29, 2023, 12:47:02 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on November 29, 2023, 12:44:42 pm

Quote from: Side-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 29, 2023, 11:51:23 am
Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 29, 2023, 11:43:18 am
Jean Knight who had a hit with "Mr. Big Stuff"
who do you think you are
Mr. Big Stuff. Seems pretty obvious to me. Dumb question.

You're never gonna get my love

(definitely banned at all JA functions with lines like this: I'd rather give my love to a poor guy that has a love that's true)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 29, 2023, 02:11:02 pm

Quote from: Side-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 29, 2023, 12:47:02 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on November 29, 2023, 12:44:42 pm
Quote from: Side-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 29, 2023, 11:51:23 am
Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 29, 2023, 11:43:18 am
Jean Knight who had a hit with "Mr. Big Stuff"
who do you think you are
Mr. Big Stuff. Seems pretty obvious to me. Dumb question.
You're never gonna get my love

(definitely banned at all JA functions with lines like this: I'd rather give my love to a poor guy that has a love that's true)

Fellow Julian, Julian Fellows, just audible gasped.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 29, 2023, 02:13:02 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on November 29, 2023, 02:11:02 pm

Fellow Julian, Julian Fellows, just audible gasped.

so do you know the difference between a marquess and a viscount.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on November 29, 2023, 10:06:58 pm

Suck it

(https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/6472398a985de3.23200184-e1685225811288.jpeg?strip=1)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 29, 2023, 10:08:10 pm

Henry Kissinger (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-dead-obituary/)

I literally threw both fists into the air upon reading that.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 29, 2023, 10:16:27 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 29, 2023, 10:08:10 pm

Henry Kissinger (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-dead-obituary/)

I literally threw both fists into the air upon reading that.

You must really, really old.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 29, 2023, 10:34:14 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 29, 2023, 10:16:27 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 29, 2023, 10:08:10 pm
Henry Kissinger (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-dead-obituary/)

I literally threw both fists into the air upon reading that.

You must really, really old.

I 60 next week.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 29, 2023, 10:52:51 pm

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, HENRY KISSINGER IS BURNING IN HELL!!

(HELL, not being real for anyone other than HENRY KISSINGER!!)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 29, 2023, 11:11:43 pm

If there was an activist God he wouldn’t have made it to 100. And he wouldn’t have avoided jail.

I worry he was right concerning Ukraine.

I don’t think that if there isn’t an activist God there can be a Heaven or a Hell.

In fact Hell is an interesting construct as I don’t believe it’s even mentioned in the Bible.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 29, 2023, 11:38:09 pm

Quote from: Hutch on November 29, 2023, 11:11:43 pm

In fact Hell is an interesting construct as I don’t believe it’s even mentioned in the Bible.

FINE. YOU HAVE LURED ME INTO A THEOLOGICAL CONVERSATION WITH YOYR VERY CORRECT POINT. THIS BOARD IS GOING TO HENRY KISSINGERS CELESTIAL ESTATE.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 29, 2023, 11:40:56 pm

Oops….just reread your post

Really he’s just going to dirt…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 29, 2023, 11:57:15 pm

Quote from: Hutch on November 29, 2023, 11:11:43 pm

In fact Hell is an interesting construct as I don’t believe it’s even mentioned in the Bible.

depending on your translation/version, hell is indeed mentioned: "The King James Bible, which is widely considered to be one of the most inaccurate translations, while also being a fixture in traditionalist Christian circles, contains the most mentions of “hell” at 54 occurrences. More accurate translations like the NASB and even the highly popular NIV show the word “hell” occurring between 13–14 times, ALL of which are found in the New Testament." (source (https://medium.com/@BrazenChurch/hell-a-biblical-staple-the-bible-never-actually-mentions-c28b18b1aaaa), others available upon request)

BUT EVEN IF your preferred version of the bible doesn't contain the letters H-E-L-L in that order, it's because they use a synonym: the valley of fire, the pit, the eternal darkness, or one of two ancient greek terms that meant the same thing: Hades or Gehenna. exact same concept as what we understand hell to be. saying that hell isn't mentioned in the bible is pure semantic hair-splitting.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 30, 2023, 12:06:33 am

I did not know that…

Is it mentioned in the Old Testament?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 30, 2023, 07:31:27 am

Scott “Top Ten” Kempner

Member of The Dictators and founder of the Del-Lords

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 30, 2023, 07:36:59 am

Mike Martt

Member of Tex & the Horseheads and Thelonious Monster before releasing a magnificent album with his band the Low & Sweet Orchestra, featuring guitarist Zander Schloss, the Pogues’ James Fearnley and actor Dermot Mulroney.

https://lbpost.com/news/mike-martt-a-locally-beloved-punk-rock-legend-dies-at-67/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 30, 2023, 08:05:49 am

Shane MacGowan

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 08:21:49 am

Quote from: Hutch on November 30, 2023, 08:05:49 am

Shane MacGowan

oh no, just read he was going home.

Was giddy to post about Kissinger, but now sad about Shane

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 08:25:03 am

Quote from: Hutch on November 30, 2023, 12:06:33 am

I did not know that…

Is it mentioned in the Old Testament?

What’s sad is we already had this discussion
If only GGW was here to find the post

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 30, 2023, 08:26:24 am

I guess I refuse to accept it.

That is sad.

I need to do some penance.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 30, 2023, 08:27:23 am

Quote from: Side-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 08:21:49 am

Quote from: Hutch on November 30, 2023, 08:05:49 am
Shane MacGowan
oh no, just read he was going home.

Was giddy to post about Kissinger, but now sad about Shane

Things move pretty fast around here…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 30, 2023, 09:24:07 am

Quote from: Side-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 08:21:49 am

Quote from: Hutch on November 30, 2023, 08:05:49 am
Shane MacGowan
oh no, just read he was going home.

Was giddy to post about Kissinger, but now sad about Shane

Which one will be drinking in heaven tonight?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 09:51:29 am

Quote from: Space Freely on November 30, 2023, 09:24:07 am

Quote from: Side-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 08:21:49 am
Quote from: Hutch on November 30, 2023, 08:05:49 am
Shane MacGowan
oh no, just read he was going home.

Was giddy to post about Kissinger, but now sad about Shane

Which one will be drinking in heaven tonight?

neither of those two

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 30, 2023, 10:12:50 am

Alan Kinsella
@electionlit

Was at a festival in Cork, Bob Dylan was due to headline but pulled out as he was ill.
Each artist comes on and dedicates a song "this one's for Bob" etc etc
Shane McGowan headlining walks on and says "Fuck Bob Dylan!"
R.I.P.

https://x.com/electionlit/status/1730206104670388306?s=20

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 10:58:35 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 29, 2023, 10:08:10 pm

Henry Kissinger (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-dead-obituary/)

I literally threw both fists into the air upon reading that.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAJmE0UWcAA1TFJ?format=jpg&name=900x900)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 12:51:13 pm

alfranken

Kissinger called SNL once late on a Friday night looking for tix for his son. The Stones were playing that week. I told him that if it hadn’t been for the Xmas bombing, he’d have the tickets

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 30, 2023, 02:18:34 pm

Quote from: Side-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 09:51:29 am

Quote from: Space Freely on November 30, 2023, 09:24:07 am
Quote from: Side-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 08:21:49 am
Quote from: Hutch on November 30, 2023, 08:05:49 am
Shane MacGowan
oh no, just read he was going home.

Was giddy to post about Kissinger, but now sad about Shane

Which one will be drinking in heaven tonight?
neither of those two

I get it that Jews can't get into heaven, but why not Shane? Or do you think they made him give up the bottle to get in?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 02:28:01 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 30, 2023, 02:18:34 pm

Quote from: Side-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 09:51:29 am
Quote from: Space Freely on November 30, 2023, 09:24:07 am
Quote from: Side-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 08:21:49 am
Quote from: Hutch on November 30, 2023, 08:05:49 am
Shane MacGowan
oh no, just read he was going home.

Was giddy to post about Kissinger, but now sad about Shane

Which one will be drinking in heaven tonight?
neither of those two

I get it that Jews can't get into heaven, but why not Shane? Or do you think they made him give up the bottle to get in?

I think he documented a life of Sin and encouraged other to as well

I present this as evidence
"You remember that foul evening when you heard the banshees howl
There was lazy drunken bastards singing Billy in the bowl
They took you up to midnight mass and left you in the lurch
So, you dropped a button in the plate and spewed up in the church"
The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn

but let's be clear, I love me some Sinners, so he was a fine man in my book
hell is a construct used by the church to guilt/sway people into obeidence

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 30, 2023, 03:02:20 pm

Quote from: Hutch on November 30, 2023, 12:06:33 am

Is it mentioned in the Old Testament?

not as "hell", but the OT uses the old hebrew words "Sheol" and "Gehenna" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_in_Christianity) which are translated into english as "the pit", "the grave", etc.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on November 30, 2023, 07:42:18 pm

Quote from: Side-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 30, 2023, 10:58:35 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 29, 2023, 10:08:10 pm
Henry Kissinger (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-dead-obituary/)

I literally threw both fists into the air upon reading that.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAJmE0UWcAA1TFJ?format=jpg&name=900x900)

the onion nails it, again:

Iconic Napalm Rights Advocate Dead At 100 (https://www.theonion.com/iconic-napalm-rights-advocate-dead-at-100-1851061936)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1730286241101369344/ljqHlZht?format=jpg&name=small)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 02, 2023, 09:08:17 pm

Mica Ertegun, 97
(Ahmet’s widow)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 05, 2023, 03:41:02 pm

Denny Laine

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 05, 2023, 04:38:48 pm

I had free front row seats at wolf trap to an ensemble performance of sgt peppers…Todd Rundgren, Denny Laine, Lou Gramm, Christopher Cross.

It was too darn close! I could see Cross’s sweat…he was nervous…also Lou Gramm was not looking too well…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 05, 2023, 06:39:15 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 05, 2023, 03:41:02 pm

Denny Laine

At least we still have Denny Crane.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 05, 2023, 10:29:25 pm

Quote from: excontradiction on December 05, 2023, 06:39:15 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 05, 2023, 03:41:02 pm
Denny Laine

At least we still have Denny Crane.

Do we?

*goes the check*

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 05, 2023, 11:01:25 pm

TBH I had to check too. Serious Mandela shit going on tonight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 06, 2023, 02:29:40 am

Quote from: excontradiction on December 05, 2023, 11:01:25 pm

TBH I had to check too. Serious Mandela shit going on tonight.

we do no have Mandela anymore. he left us in 2013. please try to keep up with the times.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 06, 2023, 09:57:02 am

Norman Lear

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 06, 2023, 10:55:25 am

Quote from: Hutch on December 06, 2023, 09:57:02 am

Norman Lear

legend
I heard him speak a few times over the past few years and was shocked how cogent a 100 year old man could be

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 06, 2023, 12:27:00 pm

Quote from: Rizz-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 06, 2023, 10:55:25 am

Quote from: Hutch on December 06, 2023, 09:57:02 am
Norman Lear
legend
I heard him speak a few times over the past few years and was shocked how cogent a 100 year old man could be

Not in person, but ditto. Based on how cogent and lively he seemed, surprised to see him go. Though I guess at that age, anything can happen.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 06, 2023, 01:29:14 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 06, 2023, 12:27:00 pm

Quote from: Rizz-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 06, 2023, 10:55:25 am
Quote from: Hutch on December 06, 2023, 09:57:02 am
Norman Lear
legend
I heard him speak a few times over the past few years and was shocked how cogent a 100 year old man could be

Not in person, but ditto. Based on how cogent and lively he seemed, surprised to see him go. Though I guess at that age, anything can happen.

mine were not in person either

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 06, 2023, 02:47:49 pm

Let me guess…we all heard him on NPR!

Both him and Archie Bunker were regulars….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 06, 2023, 03:12:08 pm

Quote from: Hutch on December 06, 2023, 02:47:49 pm

Let me guess…we all heard him on NPR!

I saw a bunch of clips from his 100th party and a few vids talking to Carl R

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on December 06, 2023, 05:55:46 pm

Ralph Cirella

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 06, 2023, 07:00:49 pm

Quote from: Rizz-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 06, 2023, 03:12:08 pm

Quote from: Hutch on December 06, 2023, 02:47:49 pm
Let me guess…we all heard him on NPR!
I saw a bunch of clips from his 100th party and a few vids talking to Carl R

Haha, same.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 06, 2023, 08:37:19 pm

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/annie-mae-traffic-reporter-good-day-dc-fox-5-wttg

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 06, 2023, 09:59:07 pm

Oh man. That's a sad and untimely death, right after you land the 4 a.m. traffic reporter dream job :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 06, 2023, 11:18:33 pm

William P. Murphy Jr., medical innovator of vinyl blood bags, dies at 100 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/12/06/william-murphy-blood-bags-dies/)

BTW, this thread has reached page 666

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 08, 2023, 05:37:28 pm

https://www.aol.com/shane-macgowan-funeral-nick-cave-201021708.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 08, 2023, 06:47:45 pm

Ryan O'Neal (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ryan-oneal-dead-love-story-paper-moon-1235730468/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 08, 2023, 08:29:41 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 08, 2023, 06:47:45 pm

Ryan O'Neal (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ryan-oneal-dead-love-story-paper-moon-1235730468/)

.Who will hit on Tatum at his funeral?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 08, 2023, 10:00:31 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 08, 2023, 06:47:45 pm

Ryan O'Neal (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ryan-oneal-dead-love-story-paper-moon-1235730468/)

Just rewatched Barry Lyndon for the first time in twenty years last week so weird coincidence. Is Julian the zeitgeist? PEOPLE ARE TALKING.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 10, 2023, 11:53:04 am

Andrea Faye Friedman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2023, 01:14:13 pm

John “Rambo” stevens
John Lyndon’s best friend and manager

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 12, 2023, 01:29:45 pm

Quote from: Rizz-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2023, 01:14:13 pm

John “Rambo” stevens
John Lydon’s best friend and manager

Oh man! Nice guy…got my record signed for me by taking it in to bus parked outside 930. I think it helped that I knew who he was

Damn ..poor Lydon…both wife and best friend within so little time of each other

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 12, 2023, 03:01:50 pm

Quote from: Hutch on December 12, 2023, 01:29:45 pm

Damn ..poor Lydon…both wife and best friend within so little time of each other

and a row with the rest of the pistols regarding the tv show, it's been rough times for Mr. Lydon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on December 12, 2023, 09:35:35 pm

Andre Braugher at 61. Damn that's young

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 12, 2023, 09:56:30 pm

Quote from: nkotb on December 12, 2023, 09:35:35 pm

Andre Braugher at 61. Damn that's young

Damn. Loved him on Homicide and Men of a Certain Age.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 12, 2023, 10:58:31 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 12, 2023, 09:56:30 pm

Quote from: nkotb on December 12, 2023, 09:35:35 pm
Andre Braugher at 61. Damn that's young

Damn. Loved him on Homicide and Men of a Certain Age.

Theres an entire generation that know him from Brooklyn 99 who’d be stunned by his work on Homicide. A really talented dude.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 12, 2023, 11:22:17 pm

Kinda like Trey?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on December 13, 2023, 02:10:08 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 30, 2023, 07:31:27 am

Scott “Top Ten” Kempner

Member of The Dictators and founder of the Del-Lords

somehow missed this one

Del-Lords was a great live band. Caught them a bunch in the early 80's in Boston (as well as the Del Fuegos). RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 14, 2023, 05:56:16 pm

Pedro Henrique

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 15, 2023, 07:38:59 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on October 28, 2023, 09:07:22 pm

Matthew Perry (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-28/freinds-star-matthew-perry-dead-at-56)

ketamine, with a side of drowning, coronary artery disease and an opioid.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 15, 2023, 07:50:02 pm

I was given ketamine during a hospital stay almost ten years ago now...it’s one hell of a drug….I was given it for pain after a car t-boned into me and broke a lot of my bones….anyways at one point I did begin to hallucinate and at another point became convinced they were trying to kill me….scary stuff

I hear it’s a popular drug for club goers… blows my mind.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 15, 2023, 08:38:33 pm

Quote from: nkotb on December 12, 2023, 09:35:35 pm

Andre Braugher at 61. Damn that's young

Lung cancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 18, 2023, 08:44:44 am

Amp Fiddler Detroit based funk keyboard maestro

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on December 18, 2023, 11:40:40 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on December 18, 2023, 08:44:44 am

Amp Fiddler Detroit based funk keyboard maestro

What a legacy Joseph Amp Fiddler has, played with George Clinton for numerous year, recorded with Prince, Moodymann, Sly and Robbie, Maxwell, Jamiroquai, etc Is credit with mentoring Dilla and introducing him to Q-Tip.

I'm most familiar with his most recent work especially this record with Detroit based Will Sessions.

https://willsessions.bandcamp.com/album/the-one

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 18, 2023, 01:59:43 pm

Eric Montross

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 18, 2023, 05:35:10 pm

Colin Burgess: Founding Member Of AC/DC

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 18, 2023, 08:28:57 pm

The Last DJ

https://www.jimladdrocks.com/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 18, 2023, 08:55:32 pm

Jonathan Major’s career

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 19, 2023, 10:50:24 am

Quote from: Hutch on December 18, 2023, 08:28:57 pm

The Last DJ

https://www.jimladdrocks.com/

when I first saw the photos I thought Michael McKean had passed, sucks for Jimm and his family, but glad we still have McKean

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 19, 2023, 02:48:54 pm

I love that pic of of him holding a bag while rolling a joint and Tom Petty sitting next to him. Bet he had some great stories.

I don’t know that it’s fair to say there are no freeform DJs….just not on the traditional big FM stations but there are left of the dial, right?

Even 1985-1987 living in California it felt like rock stations were pretty formulaic…I mean even the big ones like KOME or KFOG and this was in San Francisco

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 19, 2023, 03:10:25 pm

Quote from: Hutch on December 19, 2023, 02:48:54 pm

I love that pic of of him holding a bag while rolling a joint and Tom Petty sitting next to him.

yes, this was worth the search
(https://blog.siriusxm.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/image-1.png)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 23, 2023, 05:42:37 pm

Laura Lynch, founding member of The Dixie Chicks, dies in car crash in Texas

She recorded three albums with the group before leaving. Natalie Maines replaced her in the band.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 23, 2023, 07:19:21 pm

Quote from: Rizz-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 23, 2023, 05:42:37 pm

Laura Lynch, founding member of The Dixie Chicks, dies in car crash in Texas

She recorded three albums with the group before leaving. Natalie Maines replaced her in the band.

They were a better/more interesting band before the Maines era.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 23, 2023, 09:16:19 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 23, 2023, 07:19:21 pm

Quote from: Rizz-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 23, 2023, 05:42:37 pm
Laura Lynch, founding member of The Dixie Chicks, dies in car crash in Texas

She recorded three albums with the group before leaving. Natalie Maines replaced her in the band.

They were a better/more interesting band before the Maines era.

i.e., before they "went woke"?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 23, 2023, 09:43:29 pm

very sad to die because someone tried a pass on a single lane two way road and the culprit is fine

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on December 23, 2023, 11:43:55 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 23, 2023, 07:19:21 pm

Quote from: Rizz-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 23, 2023, 05:42:37 pm
Laura Lynch, founding member of The Dixie Chicks, dies in car crash in Texas

She recorded three albums with the group before leaving. Natalie Maines replaced her in the band.

They were a better/more interesting band before the Maines era.

Lol, space was a big dixie chicks fan in 1992... saw them for $4 as well

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 24, 2023, 12:50:42 pm

Quote from: Hutch on December 23, 2023, 09:43:29 pm

very sad to die because someone tried a pass on a single lane two way road and the culprit is fine

i am amazed at the risks people take driving…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 24, 2023, 02:55:44 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 23, 2023, 09:16:19 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 23, 2023, 07:19:21 pm
Quote from: Rizz-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 23, 2023, 05:42:37 pm
Laura Lynch, founding member of The Dixie Chicks, dies in car crash in Texas

She recorded three albums with the group before leaving. Natalie Maines replaced her in the band.

They were a better/more interesting band before the Maines era.

i.e., before they "went woke"?

No, before they completely changed their sound. moving away from bluegrass and going to mainstream country-pop:

The Chicks were founded in 1989 as the Dixie Chicks by Laura Lynch on upright bass, Robin Lynn Macy on guitar, and the multi-instrumentalist sisters Martie and Emily Erwin. The Erwin sisters later married and both changed their names twice (Martie to Martie Seidel, then Martie Maguire; Emily to Emily Robison, then Emily Strayer). The band name was taken from the album Dixie Chicken by Lowell George of Little Feat. They initially played predominantly bluegrass and a mix of country standards. All four women played and sang, though Maguire and Strayer provided most of the instrumental accompaniment for the band while Lynch and Macy shared lead vocals. Maguire primarily played fiddle, mandolin, and viola, while Strayer's specialties included five-stringed banjo and dobro.

In 1990, Penny Cook, the daughter of the senator John Tower, gave the Dixie Chicks $10,000 to record an album. Their first studio album, Thank Heavens for Dale Evans, was named after the pioneering performer Dale Evans. They paid $5,000 for the 14-track album. It included two instrumentals. In 1987, Maguire (still known then as Martie Erwin) had won second place, and in 1989, third place in the national fiddle championships held at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas.

A Christmas single was released at the end of the year – a 45 RPM vinyl record titled Home on the Radar Range with "Christmas Swing" on one side and the song on the flip side named "The Flip Side". The record titles were significant; during that period of time, the bandmates dressed up as "cowgirls", and publicity photos reflected this image. However, even with an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry, and Garrison Keillor's radio show A Prairie Home Companion, they did not get much national airplay.

The Dixie Chicks began building a fan base, winning the prize for "best band" at the 1990 Telluride Bluegrass Festival and opening for established country music artists, including such names as Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, and George Strait.

In 1992, a second independent album, Little Ol' Cowgirl, moved towards a more contemporary country sound, as the band enlisted the help of more session musicians, and developed a richer sound with larger and more modern arrangements. ]Robin Lynn Macy was not pleased with the change in sound. She left in late 1992 to devote herself to a "purer" bluegrass sound, remaining active in the Dallas and Austin music scenes. It was during this period that professional steel guitarist Lloyd Maines (who had played on both albums) introduced them to his daughter, Natalie, an aspiring singer. Lloyd Maines thought his daughter would be a good match to replace the departed Macy, and had passed along Natalie's audition demo tape, which had won her a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music, to both Maguire and Strayer. Her distinctive voice was a match for Maguire's soprano and Strayer's alto harmonies. As Maguire and Strayer considered their options and the major record labels waffled over whether they should take a risk on an all-woman band, a few reviewers took note of their talents:

Some record label executives will be kicking themselves soon enough when the Dixie Chicks are queens of the honky-tonk circuit. If their show at the Birchmere last week was any indication, these Chicks have what it takes to make the big time, yet no major label has taken the plunge to sign them.

— Eric Brace, The Washington Post
Lynch, thrust into the role of sole lead singer on their third independent album, Shouldn't a Told You That in 1993, was unable to attract support from a major record label, and the band struggled to expand their fan base beyond Texas and Nashville. Their new manager, Simon Renshaw, approached the executive Scott Siman and he signed them to a developmental deal with Sony Music Entertainment's Nashville division. The deal was finalized with Sony over mid-1995, and Lynch was replaced by Maines.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 27, 2023, 01:16:30 am

South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun of Oscar-winning film ‘Parasite’ is found dead (https://apnews.com/article/actor-lee-sun-kyun-parasite-unconscious-south-korea-2faacd7290f5b84b6a996705d8351cdf)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 27, 2023, 01:18:32 am

shed a tear as you smoosh that avoc on your sourdough this morning.

'Godfather' of avocado toast chef Bill Granger dies, aged 54 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67825337)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 27, 2023, 09:41:32 am

Every morning I wake up and see that more flies have dropped but it's never the one we all want.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 27, 2023, 10:11:43 am

just a matter of time, no one gets out of here alive

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 27, 2023, 10:51:20 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 27, 2023, 09:41:32 am

Every morning I wake up and see that more flies have dropped but it's never the one we all want.

No, Kissinger died. You just missed it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 27, 2023, 01:11:15 pm

Tom Smothers (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/arts/television/tom-smothers-dead.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 27, 2023, 01:16:46 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on December 27, 2023, 10:51:20 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 27, 2023, 09:41:32 am
Every morning I wake up and see that more flies have dropped but it's never the one we all want.
No, Kissinger died. You just missed it.

Do any of you follow Dan Savage (https://twitter.com/fakedansavage) on Twitter?

(https://i.ibb.co/r7RBqs1/Screenshot-2023-12-27-at-12-12-53-PM.png)

(https://i.ibb.co/WsQ3cMs/Screenshot-2023-12-27-at-12-15-35-PM.png)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 27, 2023, 01:42:10 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on December 27, 2023, 09:41:32 am

Every morning I wake up and see that more flies have dropped but it's never the one we all want.

putin is on borrowed time. patience.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on December 28, 2023, 02:54:45 pm

John Cutler

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 30, 2023, 10:00:05 pm

Actor Tom Wilkinson

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/12/30/tom-wilkinson-actor-dies/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 31, 2023, 03:58:29 pm

Cale Yarborough

I hate NASCAR with a passion but one of the alltime greats

RIP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 31, 2023, 09:38:40 pm

Quote from: Hutch on December 31, 2023, 03:58:29 pm

Cale Yarborough

I hate NASCAR with a passion but one of the alltime greats

RIP

Yup. Watched many a race he was in growing up in the 70's.

Random factoid:He was 22 and his wife was 30 when they tied the knot.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on January 02, 2024, 11:13:36 am

Another random factoid: He was 27 and his wife was 35 when they celebrated their 5th wedding anniversary. Think about that!

Quote from: Space Freely on December 31, 2023, 09:38:40 pm

Quote from: Hutch on December 31, 2023, 03:58:29 pm
Cale Yarborough

I hate NASCAR with a passion but one of the alltime greats

RIP

Yup. Watched many a race he was in growing up in the 70's.

Random factoid:He was 22 and his wife was 30 when they tied the knot.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 02, 2024, 06:51:16 pm

Les McCann

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 02, 2024, 11:38:28 pm

Saleh Arouri—a founding member of Hamas’ military wing
(in Lebanon, via Israeli bombs)

may he rot

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 05, 2024, 12:50:53 pm

NOOOOOOO - we lost hutch :( (https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/05/entertainment/david-soul-death/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 05, 2024, 12:54:26 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 05, 2024, 12:50:53 pm

NOOOOOOO - we lost hutch :( (https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/05/entertainment/david-soul-death/index.html)

This is 13% less funny since our Hutch has cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 05, 2024, 05:37:29 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on January 05, 2024, 12:54:26 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 05, 2024, 12:50:53 pm
NOOOOOOO - we lost hutch :( (https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/05/entertainment/david-soul-death/index.html)
This is 13% less funny since our Hutch has cancer.

At least we still have Starsky. and our Hutch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 05, 2024, 08:33:01 pm

Carl Grubbs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 08, 2024, 01:15:34 pm

Beckenbauer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 08, 2024, 01:16:15 pm

Zagallo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on January 08, 2024, 06:14:59 pm

The 930 Forum

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 08, 2024, 06:18:22 pm

Quote from: Yada on January 08, 2024, 06:14:59 pm

The 930 Forum

wut

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 08, 2024, 06:32:05 pm

back from the dead, baby!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 09, 2024, 12:30:14 pm

Quote from: vansmack on July 26, 2023, 01:58:47 pm

Quote from: Hutch on July 26, 2023, 01:45:22 pm
Sinead?

Sounds like it. (https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/)

Natural causes (not suicide, not drug overdose, not an accident)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/09/sinead-oconnor-death-natural-causes-coroner/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 11, 2024, 03:21:39 pm

Renowned Guitarist Larry Collins Passes (https://www.vintageguitar.com/58564/renowned-guitarist-larry-collins-passes/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 11, 2024, 03:41:23 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 11, 2024, 03:21:39 pm

Renowned Guitarist Larry Collins Passes (https://www.vintageguitar.com/58564/renowned-guitarist-larry-collins-passes/)

Well, at least we still have . . . hold on . . . *checks the state of print media quickly* . . . yep, Harper Collins with us. At least for the moment.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 13, 2024, 12:07:57 pm

Tom Shales (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/13/tom-shales-washington-ppost-tv-critic-obituary-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 18, 2024, 01:27:42 am

Peter Schickele, aka P.D.Q. Bach (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/17/peter-schickele-p-d-q-bach-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 18, 2024, 01:39:23 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 18, 2024, 01:27:42 am

Peter Schickele, aka P.D.Q. Bach (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/17/peter-schickele-p-d-q-bach-dead/)

legend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 18, 2024, 10:39:21 am

Saw a least a couple mention they listened to Spike Jones and PDQ Bach growing up, which were frequent listens in my household. Got to see Peter Schickele once with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as a youth, pretty sure I still have his Best of Wurst album buried in the record collection.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 20, 2024, 08:42:23 am

Not a good day for iconic female singers

Mary Weiss - The Lead Singer of The Shangri-Las

Marlena Shaw

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 23, 2024, 03:37:33 pm

Frank Farian: Boney M founder dies aged 82 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68065904) (also founded Milli Vanilli)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 23, 2024, 03:50:18 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on January 23, 2024, 03:37:33 pm

Frank Farian: Boney M founder dies aged 82 (https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68065904) (also founded Milli Vanilli)

Here's a video of Boney M doing "Daddy Cool" that'll make you hate rich people all over again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTpxU66GtuQ

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 23, 2024, 03:51:52 pm

Charles Osgood (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/23/charles-osgood-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 23, 2024, 09:02:30 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 23, 2024, 03:51:52 pm

Charles Osgood (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/23/charles-osgood-dead/)

At least we still have future NHL Hall of Famer, Chris Osgood.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 25, 2024, 02:58:00 am

break out the memorial roller skates...

Melanie, Singer Who Made a Solo Splash at Woodstock, Dies at 76 (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/arts/music/melanie-dead.html)
Just 22 when she charmed the festival crowd, she went on to enjoy success with songs like “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” and “Brand New Key.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 25, 2024, 07:41:53 am

Yikes I haven’t heard that song in decades but I remember it well

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 25, 2024, 04:02:20 pm

Ingenuity

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 26, 2024, 01:41:30 pm

Jesse Jane Dies: Porn Superstar Who Appeared In ‘Entourage’ & ‘The Bad Girls Club’ Found Unresponsive (https://deadline.com/2024/01/jesse-jane-dead-1235804968/)

suspected OD

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 30, 2024, 03:41:26 pm

Brian Griffin photographer of many iconic 80s album covers

Apparently, when he showed up shoot Joe Jackson he said he hesitated because he couldn't turn him into a rockstar, then saw his shoes...

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-68139040

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFHHtcqaoAAKAqa?format=jpg&name=medium)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 30, 2024, 03:50:11 pm

Chito Rivera

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 30, 2024, 03:50:23 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 30, 2024, 03:41:26 pm

Brian Griffin photographer of many iconic 80s album covers

Apparently, when he showed up shoot Joe Jackson he said he hesitated because he couldn't turn him into a rockstar, then saw his shoes...

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-68139040

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFHHtcqaoAAKAqa?format=jpg&name=medium)

At least we still have the cartoon dog from that show.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 30, 2024, 03:50:55 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 30, 2024, 03:50:11 pm

Chito Rivera

At least we found out what was inside Al Capone’s vault.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2024, 05:38:34 pm

Held the TPF and JJ albums in my hands last night and admired both covers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 02, 2024, 03:50:58 pm

Carl Weathers

At least we still have the forecast.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 02, 2024, 05:29:48 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 02, 2024, 03:50:58 pm

Carl Weathers

At least we still have the forecast.

[Insert The Dead Weather joke here.]

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on February 02, 2024, 05:37:57 pm

Baby, he's got a stew going in heaven now

Quote from: Space Freely on February 02, 2024, 03:50:58 pm

Carl Weathers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on February 02, 2024, 06:15:12 pm

Wayne Kramer. This one hurts. I got to meet him a few times and he was absolutely lovely. Just a heck of a sweet, talented, and beautiful soul.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 02, 2024, 06:17:22 pm

At least we still have Wayne Knight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 02, 2024, 06:18:01 pm

Sweetcell's 40s

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 02, 2024, 08:12:41 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on February 02, 2024, 06:18:01 pm

Sweetcell's 40s

shouldn’t hit a man when he’s down

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 02, 2024, 08:16:23 pm

Quote from: Semi-Prime-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 02, 2024, 08:12:41 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on February 02, 2024, 06:18:01 pm
Sweetcell's 40s
shouldn’t hit a man when he’s down

This was meant with all the heteronormative affection in the world.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 03, 2024, 11:13:04 am

wayne kramer MC5
he was fun at the 9:30, glad I caught that show

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 03, 2024, 01:19:36 pm

Quote from: Semi-Prime-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 02, 2024, 08:12:41 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on February 02, 2024, 06:18:01 pm
Sweetcell's 40s
shouldn’t hit a man when he’s down

I'm surviving so far, drowning my sorrows in a brew day. i shall soldier on.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 03, 2024, 01:28:53 pm

Awhile back I was looking into buying some merch to support the Jail Guitar Doors project that Wayne was heavily involved with.. Finally got around to it today

https://www.jailguitardoors.org/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on February 03, 2024, 02:50:39 pm

Aston “Family Man” Barrett

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 03, 2024, 09:34:39 pm

Adele Springsteen, 98

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 03, 2024, 10:58:39 pm

Quote from: Bagley on February 03, 2024, 02:50:39 pm

Aston “Family Man” Barrett

Survived by 44 children :o

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 03, 2024, 11:12:38 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 03, 2024, 09:34:39 pm

Adele Springsteen, 98

At least we still have Patti Scialfa

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 03, 2024, 11:16:13 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 03, 2024, 10:58:39 pm

Quote from: Bagley on February 03, 2024, 02:50:39 pm
Aston “Family Man” Barrett

Survived by 44 children :o

Jah Bless

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 04, 2024, 08:43:24 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 03, 2024, 10:58:39 pm

Quote from: Bagley on February 03, 2024, 02:50:39 pm
Aston “Family Man” Barrett

Survived by 44 children :o

he didn't get that name for nuthin'...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 06, 2024, 09:03:42 am

Toby Keith

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 06, 2024, 09:46:19 am

Quote from: excontradiction on February 06, 2024, 09:03:42 am

Toby Keith

Will you be raising your red Solo cup to his today?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on February 07, 2024, 09:33:34 pm

Mojo Nixon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on February 07, 2024, 10:04:03 pm

"We went to a shopping mall
And laughed at all the shoppers
And security guards trailed us to a record shop
We asked for Mojo Nixon
They said he don't work here
We said if you don't got Mojo Nixon then your store could use some fixin'"

Truer words, haveth not ever been spoken

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 08, 2024, 10:35:32 am

why yes I am fact doin' some listen' to the artist known as Mojo Nixon with his passin'

came across this gem of a "cover"

Girlfriend In A Coma with some additional Mojo Nixon lyrics

"I, Mojo Nixon, am the anti-Morrissey"

https://youtu.be/DGB7M82z4j4

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: evilizac on February 08, 2024, 10:59:43 am

Truly an amalgamation of source influences that could only come from the USA in all the best and best of the worst ways.
Adding this for [the big game] timeliness https://youtu.be/R3g2YM3EhoU?si=o1Rv8A0SwaXujhDh (https://youtu.be/R3g2YM3EhoU?si=o1Rv8A0SwaXujhDh)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 08, 2024, 11:01:38 am

saw this story on bluesky and it's a good one

Isobel Carr

I was backstage at the show where Mojo Nixon demanded the head of Edie Brickell. Brickell was *IN* the audience and came back stage to deliver her own head. You have never seen a man so fucking apologetic. It was Iike his grandmother had been summoned to chastise him. RIP. What a fucking legend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 08, 2024, 01:51:59 pm

Henry Fambrough last remaining original member of The Spinners

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on February 09, 2024, 03:44:29 pm

Seiji Ozawa

Really hits home

He was such a part of the Tanglewood music culture where I spent many a younger day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 09, 2024, 06:37:13 pm

Quote from: Bagley on February 09, 2024, 03:44:29 pm

Seiji Ozawa

Really hits home

He was such a part of the Tanglewood music culture where I spent many a younger day.

I don't have many of his recordings, but if you could only have one of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" get Ozawa's 1968 with the Chicago Symphony on RCA, and crank it up!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 10, 2024, 01:19:53 pm

Damo Suzuki (https://www.stereogum.com/2251276/can-vocalist-damo-suzuki-dead-at-74/news/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 12, 2024, 03:37:57 pm

Bob Edwards

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/12/business/bob-edwards-morning-edition-death/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 12, 2024, 06:01:40 pm

Kelvin Kiptum

Current world record holder in the Marathon

I guess this gives some of you other runners a chance to be the first to do a sub-two hour marathon.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on February 12, 2024, 09:12:43 pm

This thread, just gets more obscure, by the day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 12, 2024, 09:17:27 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 12, 2024, 06:01:40 pm

Kelvin Kiptum

Current world record holder in the Marathon

I guess this gives some of you other runners a chance to be the first to do a sub-two hour marathon.

This is kinda wild. Dude was 33 seconds away from sub-2 and almost certainly would’ve been the dude to crack it but died in a car crash.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 14, 2024, 12:29:32 pm

William “Bill” Post (https://wtop.com/food-restaurant/2024/02/man-credited-with-inventing-the-pop-tart-dies-at-96/), Pop Tart inventor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 14, 2024, 12:48:36 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 14, 2024, 12:29:32 pm

William “Bill” Post (https://wtop.com/food-restaurant/2024/02/man-credited-with-inventing-the-pop-tart-dies-at-96/), Pop Tart inventor

At least he lived long enough to see his dream come true: for Pop Tarts to sponsor a mid-level college football bowl game and roll out an anthropomorphized, edible Pop Tart mascot that the winning team ate as a celebration while fans chanted "CONSUME HIS FLESH" as though it was some bizarre religious transubstantiation ritual. May we all be so lucky to change the world around us.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 14, 2024, 02:30:21 pm

Gotta love a happy ending

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 14, 2024, 02:58:39 pm

Quote from: Semi-Prime-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 14, 2024, 02:30:21 pm

Gotta love a happy ending

That topic is forbidden on here.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 14, 2024, 03:35:51 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on February 14, 2024, 02:58:39 pm

Quote from: Semi-Prime-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 14, 2024, 02:30:21 pm
Gotta love a happy ending
That topic is forbidden on here.

(https://media1.tenor.com/m/vPg1Zelnih4AAAAd/corky-baila-dance.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 16, 2024, 11:08:54 am

Navalny

Tucker Carlson: "Leadership requires killing people."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: radley17 on February 17, 2024, 02:29:05 am

Dexter Romweber

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 17, 2024, 10:33:09 am

Lefty Driesell

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 17, 2024, 10:48:45 am

Quote from: shemptiness on February 17, 2024, 10:33:09 am

Lefty Driesell

at least we still have all these https://people.com/celebrity/left-handed-celebs/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 19, 2024, 04:22:15 pm

Quote from: evilizac on February 07, 2024, 09:33:34 pm

Mojo Nixon

Jimmy Van Eaton

Drummer for Jerry Lee Lewis, who was portrayed by Moho Nixon in the movie Great Balls of Fire.

Three days after Mojo.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on February 19, 2024, 06:48:31 pm

Nex Benedict

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 19, 2024, 06:53:47 pm

Quote from: Blow, me, Joey on February 19, 2024, 06:48:31 pm

Nex Benedict

Libs of TikTok targeted a district, then a non-binary student was killed on campus (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/18/2224306/-Libs-of-TikTok-targeted-a-district-then-a-non-binary-student-was-killed-on-campus)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on February 19, 2024, 09:05:25 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 19, 2024, 06:53:47 pm

Quote from: Blow, me, Joey on February 19, 2024, 06:48:31 pm
Nex Benedict

Libs of TikTok targeted a district, then a non-binary student was killed on campus (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/18/2224306/-Libs-of-TikTok-targeted-a-district-then-a-non-binary-student-was-killed-on-campus)

I am glad this death, which was so fucking horrible, is finally getting the media coverage it deserves.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on February 19, 2024, 09:05:43 pm

Kagney Linn Karter

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on February 19, 2024, 09:16:43 pm

I hope this woman dies as soon a humanly possible

Quote from: sweetcell on February 19, 2024, 06:53:47 pm

Quote from: Blow, me, Joey on February 19, 2024, 06:48:31 pm
Nex Benedict

Libs of TikTok targeted a district, then a non-binary student was killed on campus (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/18/2224306/-Libs-of-TikTok-targeted-a-district-then-a-non-binary-student-was-killed-on-campus)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on February 22, 2024, 05:11:47 pm

Motocross star, Jayden Archer, has died age 27, attempting a triple backflip in practice.

The shit they do now, is crazy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 24, 2024, 09:29:02 am

Flaco the Owl

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 24, 2024, 10:23:38 am

Quote from: Yada on February 24, 2024, 09:29:02 am

Flaco the Owl

Tough way to go. NYC is a rough place.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 24, 2024, 04:24:23 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 24, 2024, 10:23:38 am

Quote from: Yada on February 24, 2024, 09:29:02 am
Flaco the Owl

Tough way to go. NYC is a rough place.

Flaco died, likely after colliding with a building.

He was actually feeding himself and might have lived much longer had that building not been the way

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on February 25, 2024, 12:30:04 pm

Quote from: Semi-Prime-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 24, 2024, 04:24:23 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 24, 2024, 10:23:38 am
Quote from: Yada on February 24, 2024, 09:29:02 am
Flaco the Owl

Tough way to go. NYC is a rough place.
Flaco died, likely after colliding with a building.

He was actually feeding himself and might have lived much longer had that building not been the way

He was elite, that Flaco.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 26, 2024, 01:47:27 pm

aaron bushnell

not many things phase me on the interwebs, but that was a top five most eff'd up thing I've seen on the net.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on February 26, 2024, 02:03:31 pm

Financier Lord Jacob Rothschild

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 26, 2024, 02:27:21 pm

Quote from: Blow, me, Joey on February 26, 2024, 02:03:31 pm

Financier Lord Jacob Rothschild

"julian's america is shocked and saddened by this loss. it asks for privacy in these difficult times. donations of caviar can be sent in lieu of flowers."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 28, 2024, 05:08:35 pm

Richard Lewis (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/02/28/richard-lewis-comedian-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on February 28, 2024, 05:15:32 pm

Such a bummer.

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 28, 2024, 05:08:35 pm

Richard Lewis (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/02/28/richard-lewis-comedian-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 28, 2024, 05:32:34 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 28, 2024, 05:08:35 pm

Richard Lewis (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/02/28/richard-lewis-comedian-dead/)

At least we still have Hugh Anthony Cregg III

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on February 28, 2024, 05:37:07 pm

This place is like, "oh they died . . . let me rush to be the first to poat about on the 930 club forum."

In other words, "I was beat out posting about it."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 28, 2024, 05:38:50 pm

Quote from: Blow, me, Joey on February 28, 2024, 05:37:07 pm

This place is like, "oh they died . . . let me rush to be the first to poat about on the 930 club forum."

In other words, "I was beat out posting about it."

Yeah, I never get any of the big ones.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 28, 2024, 05:39:58 pm

Quote from: Blow, me, Joey on February 28, 2024, 05:37:07 pm

This place is like, "oh they died . . . let me rush to be the first to poat about on the 930 club forum."

In other words, "I was beat out posting about it."

let us have one joy in life with out you pooping on it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 28, 2024, 06:04:18 pm

Quote from: methylene blue-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 28, 2024, 05:39:58 pm

Quote from: Blow, me, Joey on February 28, 2024, 05:37:07 pm
This place is like, "oh they died . . . let me rush to be the first to poat about on the 930 club forum."

In other words, "I was beat out posting about it."
let us have one joy in life with out you pooping on it

This would have made a fantastic Richard Lewis story.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 29, 2024, 11:12:34 am

Cat Janice... god damn that was a gut wrenching story.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 29, 2024, 11:29:30 am

Quote from: Yada on February 29, 2024, 11:12:34 am

Cat Janice... god damn that was a gut wrenching story.

Indeed. And please don't take this as me making light of the situation. But at least we still have Cat Power.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 29, 2024, 07:54:47 pm

Brian Mulroney, former PM of Canada and signer of NAFTA 1.0

edit: Brian Mulroney, one of Canada's most consequential prime ministers, is dead at 84 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/brian-mulroney-passes-away-1.7130287)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on February 29, 2024, 08:35:48 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 29, 2024, 11:29:30 am

Quote from: Yada on February 29, 2024, 11:12:34 am
Cat Janice... god damn that was a gut wrenching story.

Indeed. And please don't take this as me making light of the situation. But at least we still have Cat Power.

We would never assume that space!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 01, 2024, 08:26:54 am

Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney

At least we still have that person from the Bud Light commercials that conservatives lost their shit over

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on March 03, 2024, 07:03:02 pm

Chris Mortensen

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/the-sports-world-mourned-the-death-of-longtime-espn-nfl-reporter-chris-mortensen/ar-BB1jgRmd

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on March 03, 2024, 07:04:27 pm

At least we still have Chris Morten

https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/christopher-morten

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 03, 2024, 10:01:19 pm

At least we still have Morton’s Slaughterhouse.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on March 03, 2024, 10:42:48 pm

Reuben Jackson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 03, 2024, 11:04:20 pm

At least we have the Reuben Sandwich

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 04, 2024, 07:55:32 am

Quote from: Bagley on March 03, 2024, 10:42:48 pm

Reuben Jackson

sadly we also lost Action Jackson last month

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 04, 2024, 08:09:25 am

Brit Turner

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on March 05, 2024, 12:20:15 am

Janice Burgess

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 06, 2024, 05:32:04 pm

Michael Reidy, (The) Razz front man (https://wtop.com/music/2024/03/michael-reidy-dynamic-front-man-of-revered-dc-rock-band-razz-dies-at-73/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 06, 2024, 05:46:34 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 06, 2024, 05:32:04 pm

Michael Reidy, (The) Razz front man (https://wtop.com/music/2024/03/michael-reidy-dynamic-front-man-of-revered-dc-rock-band-razz-dies-at-73/)

Michael Reidy, the whirling dervish singer of Razz, one of D.C.’s most popular bands, has died, at age 73, according to a family member.

I have lived in the DMV since 1997 and have been reading this DC music board since the early 2000's, and have literally never heard of this band. A quick search shows that they have never been mentioned here. May he Rest in Prominence.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 07, 2024, 12:02:34 pm

RAZZ is well known by people who like care about local music. Tommy Keene was briefly in the band. At a time when all DC seemed to produce was rockabilly and roots music Razz where a breath of fresh air…maybe new wavey? I have an early single of theirs…I think they had a connection to Yesterday and Today Records. Of course Seth was Tommy’s manager later on….around 1982… I think

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on March 07, 2024, 12:57:27 pm

They were one of those bands that's legendary, but they didn't put out much music, so they're easily overlooked. Check out the documentary that came out a while back. I caught it at AFI and the place was packed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 07, 2024, 01:18:32 pm

Quote from: Bombay Chutney on March 07, 2024, 12:57:27 pm

They were one of those bands that's legendary, but they didn't put out much music, so they're easily overlooked. Check out the documentary that came out a while back. I caught it at AFI and the place was packed.

I remember DC101 broadcasting one of their shows, back when we had proper radio stations.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 07, 2024, 05:31:06 pm

Steve Lawrence (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/07/steve-lawrence-edyie-gorme-dead-obituary/), younger half of lounge duo with Eydie Gormé

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on March 08, 2024, 02:59:21 am

Akira Toriyama.

Legend.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 10, 2024, 10:50:29 am

Malcolm Holcombe

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 10, 2024, 10:15:12 pm

Michael Reidy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 11, 2024, 07:41:43 am

Quote from: Yada on March 10, 2024, 10:15:12 pm

Michael Reidy

Wow, frontman for the iconic DC band Razz. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 11, 2024, 03:27:40 pm

Per twitter Karl Wallinger 66

And yes it’s been awhile since I’ve listened to World Party or the two records he did with the Waterboys

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 11, 2024, 03:39:41 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on March 11, 2024, 03:27:40 pm

Per twitter Karl Wallinger 66

And yes it’s been awhile since I’ve listened to World Party or the two records he did with the Waterboys

Weird, I just heard the Waterboys on the radio a couple hours ago. Though not Wallinger-era WAterboys.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 11, 2024, 03:46:33 pm

Bummer…I went through a huge World Party phase around 91-93. Then I was really let down by the follow up to Goodbye Jumbo. Saw him at 930…I don’t believe live performance was his strength…..more like in the studio. I think he had a stroke more than 20 years ago which affected him quite a bit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: More_Coffee on March 11, 2024, 03:48:49 pm

"Goodbye Jumbo" an absolutely great record. Almost every song on that is amazing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 11, 2024, 09:27:20 pm

Eric Carmen

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 11, 2024, 09:50:33 pm

Whoa

Now Hungry Eyes popped in my head…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 12, 2024, 08:38:32 pm

BO$$ first female to sign with Def Jam and hailing from Detroit

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on March 12, 2024, 08:49:36 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on March 11, 2024, 03:27:40 pm

Per twitter Karl Wallinger 66

And yes it’s been awhile since I’ve listened to World Party or the two records he did with the Waterboys

Apparently it’s been a while since anyone listened to World Party, judging from Spotify plays - The big hit Way Down Now has only 3M and Put the Message in the Box only 6M. But damn, those songs hold up and are incredible power pop songs perfectly executed. Exhilarating and melancholy - the definitive 90’s formula delivered at the start of the decade.

Found this Mojo interview from 2021 which helps answer the question ‘what happened to Karl Wallinger?’

https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories/karl-wallinger-remembered/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 15, 2024, 09:58:50 am

Stumpy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2024, 11:47:05 am

Quote from: grateful on March 15, 2024, 09:58:50 am

Stumpy

how it Ren taking it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 15, 2024, 11:58:04 am

Quote from: methylene blue-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2024, 11:47:05 am

Quote from: grateful on March 15, 2024, 09:58:50 am
Stumpy
how it Ren taking it?

google is your friend

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2024, 12:06:19 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on March 15, 2024, 11:58:04 am

Quote from: methylene blue-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2024, 11:47:05 am
Quote from: grateful on March 15, 2024, 09:58:50 am
Stumpy
how it Ren taking it?

google is your friend

actually knew it was about a tree, but felt comedy was more appropriate here

small ornamental trees are low in priority IMO
there are 100+ year old trees being cutdown as fast as we can and those we should be more concerned about

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 15, 2024, 02:45:00 pm

Quote from: methylene blue-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2024, 12:06:19 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on March 15, 2024, 11:58:04 am
Quote from: methylene blue-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 15, 2024, 11:47:05 am
Quote from: grateful on March 15, 2024, 09:58:50 am
Stumpy
how it Ren taking it?

google is your friend
actually knew it was about a tree, but felt comedy was more appropriate here

How's Richard Powers taking it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on March 15, 2024, 04:54:49 pm

Going in for multiple lung scans and head, neck ultrasounds next week . . . hopefully my name doesn't wind-up here.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 15, 2024, 06:27:45 pm

Quote from: Blow, me, Joey on March 15, 2024, 04:54:49 pm

Going in for multiple lung scans and head, neck ultrasounds next week . . . hopefully my name doesn't wind-up here.

Sorry to hear that Walkie. Try to stay positive.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on March 15, 2024, 09:33:28 pm

Positive thoughts coming at ya.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on March 15, 2024, 09:49:27 pm

At any other age that I have existed in . . . I would be thus worried. But I have seen my sights within this spectrum, and physical death is nothing less but a spiritual doorway.

I, just don't want to be named on this page. Lol.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 16, 2024, 09:05:23 am

Quote from: Blow, me, Joey on March 15, 2024, 09:49:27 pm

At any other age that I have existed in . . . I would be thus worried. But I have seen my sights within this spectrum, and physical death is nothing less but a spiritual doorway.

I, just don't want to be named on this page. Lol.

How will we know if you passed or are on a walky vision quest?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 16, 2024, 09:31:29 am

Quote from: Yada on March 16, 2024, 09:05:23 am

Quote from: Blow, me, Joey on March 15, 2024, 09:49:27 pm
At any other age that I have existed in . . . I would be thus worried. But I have seen my sights within this spectrum, and physical death is nothing less but a spiritual doorway.

I, just don't want to be named on this page. Lol.

How will we know if you passed or are on a walky vision quest?

I’ve been fastidiously reporting on who is in rehab and who has died for years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 17, 2024, 11:14:32 am

Steve Harley, singer for the British glam rock act Cockney Rebel and their 1975 hit "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)," has died at the age of 73

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 19, 2024, 08:42:10 am

Cola Boyy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 19, 2024, 01:29:58 pm

Richard Simmons...not (https://wtop.com/entertainment/2024/03/richard-simmons-apologizes-for-confusion-after-social-media-posts-spark-concern/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 19, 2024, 02:06:08 pm

But he was right….at that age we are all dying

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 19, 2024, 02:14:53 pm

Sabalenka’s boyfriend

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 20, 2024, 02:55:31 pm

Greg Lee singer with Hepcat

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 20, 2024, 08:45:14 pm

Catturd's Smile

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on March 20, 2024, 09:26:00 pm

Quote from: grateful on March 20, 2024, 08:45:14 pm

Catturd's Smile

Really?! That's where we are at now? Fuck Smiles. Fuck Smiles stupid name. Fuck Catturd. Smiles died, to get away from him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 20, 2024, 10:03:27 pm

I fucking love you, Blow MJ

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 21, 2024, 08:35:09 am

Really annoyed I had to look up what this mean, but lol what a wild ride

Quote from: grateful on March 20, 2024, 08:45:14 pm

Catturd's Smile

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 21, 2024, 08:58:09 am

y'all are really dropping the ball at the moment, surprised this one wasn't posted last night

M. Emmet Walsh

“Roger Ebert once observed that ‘no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.’”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 21, 2024, 09:48:27 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on March 21, 2024, 08:58:09 am

y'all are really dropping the ball at the moment, surprised this one wasn't posted last night

M. Emmet Walsh

“Roger Ebert once observed that ‘no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.’”

Explains why "The Jerk" was trending last night.

(https://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Jerk004.jpg/400px-Jerk004.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 21, 2024, 03:27:04 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 21, 2024, 09:48:27 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on March 21, 2024, 08:58:09 am
y'all are really dropping the ball at the moment, surprised this one wasn't posted last night

M. Emmet Walsh

“Roger Ebert once observed that ‘no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.’”

Explains why "The Jerk" was trending last night.

(https://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Jerk004.jpg/400px-Jerk004.jpg)

He hates those cans!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 21, 2024, 03:31:52 pm

Seeing that picture, I was all happy that maybe Ted Nugent had died. But alas, nope.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 21, 2024, 09:26:45 pm

Quote from: grateful on March 15, 2024, 09:58:50 am

Stumpy

not dead yet
Getting a hell of a victory lap

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 21, 2024, 09:47:00 pm

American newspapers…they keep cutting costs and it’s a neverending cycle down

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/two-major-newspaper-chains-dropped-the-ap-what-will-it-mean-for-readers/ar-BB1kii6X

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 23, 2024, 11:58:20 am

Pianists Byron Janis (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/18/byron-janis-pianist-dead-obituary/) and Maurizio Pollini (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/23/maurizio-pollini-classical-pianist-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 23, 2024, 02:56:40 pm

Peter AngelOs (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/23/peter-angelos-orioles-baltimore-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 26, 2024, 08:32:24 am

Key Bridge

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 27, 2024, 04:06:08 pm

Ted Leonsis' Alexandria (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/27/dc-capitals-wizards-capital-one-arena-alexandria-bowser-leonsis/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 27, 2024, 05:46:28 pm

Joe Lieberman, who actually was what delusional weirdos like NKOTB as his ilk want to imagine Joe Biden is

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 27, 2024, 06:03:54 pm

If only Al Gore had picked Bob Graham as his VP candidate….

Oh well

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 27, 2024, 06:15:22 pm

He didn't do a genocide but he did go after video games which is worse. See you in hell!!!!

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on March 27, 2024, 05:46:28 pm

Joe Lieberman, who actually was what delusional weirdos like NKOTB as his ilk want to imagine Joe Biden is

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 27, 2024, 06:24:02 pm

“Do a genocide”? Are you five?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 27, 2024, 07:44:25 pm

Quote from: Hutch on March 27, 2024, 06:24:02 pm

“Do a genocide”? Are you five?

the dudes signature, titular thread on here is about Star Wars. So yeah, five.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 27, 2024, 07:50:07 pm

Well in my defense I didn't start the thread and technically it's not explicitly about Star Wars...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 27, 2024, 07:53:04 pm

Quote from: nkotb on March 27, 2024, 07:50:07 pm

Well in my defense I didn't start the thread and technically it's not explicitly about Star Wars...

Other things we didn't start:

The fire

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on March 28, 2024, 09:39:39 am

How, dare you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 28, 2024, 08:54:18 pm

Herbert Kroemer, Nobel laserman (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/28/herbert-kroemer-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on March 29, 2024, 10:52:49 am

Lou Gossett Jr

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 30, 2024, 06:22:26 pm

Chance Perdomo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on March 30, 2024, 07:59:10 pm

Not me! Tests went great! My fractured back from 2003 is another story, but the main tests went very well.

Thanks, be!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on March 30, 2024, 11:10:39 pm

Congrats!!

Quote from: Blow, me, Joey on March 30, 2024, 07:59:10 pm

Not me! Tests went great! My fractured back from 2003 is another story, but the main tests went very well.

Thanks, be!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 31, 2024, 10:16:38 am

Fantastic!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 31, 2024, 12:29:02 pm

Hell yes, Joey!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 31, 2024, 02:37:22 pm

Marian Zazeela (https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/marian-zazeela-artist-dead-1234701465/), artist
Wife of La Monte Young

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 01, 2024, 07:50:09 am

Casey Benjamin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 01, 2024, 08:14:34 am

Quote from: Yada on April 01, 2024, 07:50:09 am

Casey Benjamin

Well that blows….

Is it just me or does it seem like a lot of people dying in their 40s/50s?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 01, 2024, 08:27:27 am

Wow Lanny Gordin died late last year. Great Brazilian tropicalia guitarist.

I noticed Jards Macale is touring Europe at 80. Probably too much to hope he will come to US. Not many of the tropicalia masters left….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 01, 2024, 08:46:23 am

Quote from: Hutch on April 01, 2024, 08:14:34 am

Quote from: Yada on April 01, 2024, 07:50:09 am
Casey Benjamin

Well that blows….

Is it just me or does it seem like a lot of people dying in their 40s/50s?

Did he have the jab? /s

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 02, 2024, 06:03:15 am

Chris Cross - Ultravox Bass Player

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 02, 2024, 09:57:24 am

Joe Flaherty

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 02, 2024, 12:06:06 pm

bummer. loved him in SCTV and Freaks and Geeks

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 02, 2024, 09:57:24 am

Joe Flaherty

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 02, 2024, 01:08:15 pm

Larry Lucchino, instrumental in the construction of Camden Yards and Petco Park in SD. And that Red Sox World Series thing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 02, 2024, 02:54:13 pm

John Sinclair

I told my dad I had gone to an event with John Sinclair at a record store, he was less than impressed by that...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on April 02, 2024, 06:58:12 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 02, 2024, 09:57:24 am

Joe Flaherty

Melonville will never be the same

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 04, 2024, 02:41:01 pm

per Twitter

Keith LeBlanc Drummer. notable as house drummer for Sugarhill Records and Tackhead

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 05, 2024, 09:27:42 am

World’s oldest man

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/world-s-oldest-man-dies-two-months-before-115th-birthday/ar-BB1l42c1

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 06, 2024, 12:24:37 pm

Well, we still have the world's 2nd oldest man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 06, 2024, 01:28:08 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on April 06, 2024, 12:24:37 pm

Well, we still have the world's 2nd oldest man.

Well, at least we still have the world's oldest man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 06, 2024, 09:06:03 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 06, 2024, 01:28:08 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on April 06, 2024, 12:24:37 pm
Well, we still have the world's 2nd oldest man.

Well, at least we still have the world's oldest man.

FUCK WE ARE IN A LOOP NOW.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 09, 2024, 06:06:34 pm

Peter Higgs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 09, 2024, 08:43:32 pm

At least he left a particle trail...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 09, 2024, 09:01:22 pm

Good one!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 10, 2024, 08:47:33 pm

Mister Cee

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 10, 2024, 10:32:24 pm

William "Bill" "Jimmie" "Cone" Harris

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 11, 2024, 08:38:15 am

All 4 died? Tragic.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 11, 2024, 10:39:26 am

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 11, 2024, 10:51:13 am

Quote from: Yada on April 11, 2024, 10:39:26 am

OJ

The Juice has expired (https://abcnews.go.com/US/oj-simpson-former-football-star-acquitted-murder-dies/story?id=16354000)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 11, 2024, 10:51:35 am

Damn. Now who is gonna continue the search for Nicole's murderer?

Quote from: Yada on April 11, 2024, 10:39:26 am

OJ

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 11, 2024, 09:58:42 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on April 06, 2024, 09:06:03 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 06, 2024, 01:28:08 pm
Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on April 06, 2024, 12:24:37 pm
Well, we still have the world's 2nd oldest man.

Well, at least we still have the world's oldest man.
FUCK WE ARE IN A LOOP NOW.

At least we still have the world's oldest man

https://www.tmz.com/2024/04/11/world-oldest-man-marcelino-abad-tolentino-peru-guinness-world-records/?adid=social-tmzlikeshop-ig

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 11, 2024, 10:16:50 pm

Oh damn. It is on like donkey kong!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 12, 2024, 01:28:35 am

Do not get sucked in !

OMG what have I done…..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 12, 2024, 02:36:24 am

The world's oldest living person is always alive.

They never die.

They are simply replaced occasionally.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 12, 2024, 06:16:29 am

Thanks for the explanation

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 12, 2024, 02:36:24 am

The world's oldest living person is always alive.

They never die.

They are simply replaced occasionally.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 12, 2024, 08:27:15 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on April 11, 2024, 10:51:35 am

Damn. Now who is gonna continue the search for Nicole's murderer?

Quote from: Yada on April 11, 2024, 10:39:26 am
OJ

Do you mean the "Real Killers?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 12, 2024, 03:11:34 pm

Lori and George Schappell, the world's oldest conjoined twins.

At least we still have the world's oldest conjoined twins.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 12, 2024, 03:39:01 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 12, 2024, 03:11:34 pm

Lori and George Schappell, the world's oldest conjoined twins.

Are their bones for sale yet?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 12, 2024, 03:43:19 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 12, 2024, 03:11:34 pm

Lori and George Schappell, the world's oldest conjoined twins.

At least we still have the world's oldest conjoined twins.

While George's original name was Dori, he actually came out as a transgender man in 2007, changing his name from Reba -- a moniker he took up because he disliked their rhyming names -- to George.

https://youtu.be/YWNJOsn9f_g

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 12, 2024, 03:49:18 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 12, 2024, 03:43:19 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 12, 2024, 03:11:34 pm
Lori and George Schappell, the world's oldest conjoined twins.

At least we still have the world's oldest conjoined twins.

While George's original name was Dori, he actually came out as a transgender man in 2007, changing his name from Reba -- a moniker he took up because he disliked their rhyming names -- to George.

https://youtu.be/YWNJOsn9f_g

Fine, fine, are they/them's bones for sale yet?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 12, 2024, 04:48:05 pm

is it just me, or is JA is a permanent state of mourning these days?

Roberto Cavalli: Italian fashion designer dies aged 83
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68801294.amp (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68801294.amp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 12, 2024, 04:55:58 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 12, 2024, 04:48:05 pm

is it just me, or is JA is a permanent state of mourning these days?

Roberto Cavalli: Italian fashion designer dies aged 83
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68801294.amp (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68801294.amp)

First they Schappell twins, now this guy. It is said that deaths come in threes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 12, 2024, 08:51:49 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 12, 2024, 04:48:05 pm

is it just me, or is JA is a permanent state of mourning these days?

Roberto Cavalli: Italian fashion designer dies aged 83
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68801294.amp (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68801294.amp)

I told you all I was having a very bad year.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 15, 2024, 03:53:55 pm

John Wayne Bobbitt's...... Toes

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 15, 2024, 07:29:03 pm

Ben Eldridge from the Seldom Scene

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 16, 2024, 12:39:26 pm

Whitey Herzog

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 16, 2024, 01:10:47 pm

Man, they just don't name babies "Whitey" anymore

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 16, 2024, 01:26:52 pm

Quote from: grateful on April 16, 2024, 01:10:47 pm

Man, they just don't name babies "Whitey" anymore

Or "Dorrel" or "Elvert" or "Therron" or "Codell" or "Butz" for that matter.

Dorrel Norman Elvert "Whitey" Herzog
His older brother Therron played a year of minor league baseball in 1954 in the Cotton States League.
His younger brother, Codell ("Butz") died on February 20, 2010, at 76

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 17, 2024, 02:52:16 pm

Quote from: Yada on April 11, 2024, 10:39:26 am

OJ

White Ford Bronco issues a statement

https://www.washingtonian.com/2024/04/12/dc-band-white-ford-bronco-weighs-in-on-o-j-simpsons-death/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 18, 2024, 11:56:58 am

Dickey Betts

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 19, 2024, 05:30:30 am

Steve Kille bass player with Dead Meadow

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 19, 2024, 07:16:43 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 19, 2024, 05:30:30 am

Steve Kille bass player with Dead Meadow

I heard about this! Guy from Foehammer was devastated

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 19, 2024, 07:28:06 am

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/us/bob-graham-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU0.omzx.ttbut0cOYOFb&smid=url-share&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2wnPkmWXYw-KopjCrzxjwbincI_fbbp0dURv4bD4ItUfE8t6ZN9I5LkxU_aem_ASWQUlCe8ABy0W7UC5UdKvwe46WhA0nPBqmMEzxnIztnWqs0IWY6s1iu3NGa9ctoDiLlEB4SVexx9zGbBd_UJnT5

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 19, 2024, 08:45:52 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 19, 2024, 05:30:30 am

Steve Kille bass player with Dead Meadow

My neighbor was high school buddies with him and was absolutely despondent over this yesterday.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on April 21, 2024, 09:29:20 pm

Terry Anderson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 25, 2024, 09:26:00 pm

Mike Pinder (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/04/25/mike-pinder-moody-blues-dead-obituary/), Moody Blues founder and keyboardist/Mellotronist

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 28, 2024, 08:48:02 am

Nick Daniels

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 01, 2024, 08:15:55 am

Paul Auster

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on May 01, 2024, 09:24:09 am

Quote from: Hutch on May 01, 2024, 08:15:55 am

Paul Auster

Sad

4 3 2 1 is one of my fave contemporary novels. A bildungsroman with twists....

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 01, 2024, 10:27:39 am

Moon Palace was a crazy read….and gave name to a Luna song

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 01, 2024, 11:21:08 am

I went through a Paul Auster phase years ago.

Predeceased by his son. Yikes. https://nypost.com/2022/04/30/inside-club-kid-life-and-tragic-death-of-daniel-auster/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 01, 2024, 05:49:11 pm

Duane Eddy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on May 03, 2024, 03:20:46 pm

Gary Floyd (https://pitchfork.com/news/gary-floyd-incendiary-singer-of-texan-punk-greats-the-dicks-dies-at-71/) of the Dicks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 03, 2024, 03:44:25 pm

Quote from: nkotb on May 03, 2024, 03:20:46 pm

Gary Floyd (https://pitchfork.com/news/gary-floyd-incendiary-singer-of-texan-punk-greats-the-dicks-dies-at-71/) of the Dicks

he was a dick

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on May 03, 2024, 03:59:09 pm

Frank Wakefield

A bluegrass legend

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on May 03, 2024, 05:00:32 pm

Inspiration for one of the greatest songs in rock n roll history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7mOUgh_OW4

Quote from: ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 03, 2024, 03:44:25 pm

Quote from: nkotb on May 03, 2024, 03:20:46 pm
Gary Floyd (https://pitchfork.com/news/gary-floyd-incendiary-singer-of-texan-punk-greats-the-dicks-dies-at-71/) of the Dicks
he was a dick

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 04, 2024, 08:25:20 pm

Javier Martínez

(Manal)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 05, 2024, 12:46:31 pm

Bernard Hill, ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Titanic’ Actor, Dies at 79
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/bernard-hill-dead-lord-of-the-rings-1235992436/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 05, 2024, 02:58:24 pm

Cesar Luis Menotti

This one hurts

Although on a personal level all I can say is when I happened to travel on the same plane as Argentina’s national soccer team back in 1979 and I went over to hang with the players - my idols- eventually he turned to me and said “bueno tómatela pibe!” (“Ok scram kid!”)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 06, 2024, 05:16:30 am

Richard Tandy, the Electric Light Orchestra’s keyboardist, died this week. He was 76. (https://www.al.com/life/2024/05/rock-and-roll-hall-of-famer-dead-at-76-cause-not-revealed.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 08, 2024, 12:16:31 pm

Steve Albini (https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/), 61, heart attack

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 08, 2024, 12:26:15 pm

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on May 08, 2024, 12:16:31 pm

Steve Albini (https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/), 61, heart attack

Wow, just as Shellac gets the cover of The Wire.

(https://www.thewire.co.uk/img/scale/942/1329/2024/05/03/The_Wire_484_1.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on May 08, 2024, 12:45:31 pm

Well that's the worst

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 08, 2024, 01:22:25 pm

That sucks

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 08, 2024, 02:03:50 pm

There’s a great chapter in the book about Fugazi’s In On the Killtaker about Fugazi trekking to Chicago to cut the album and Albini botching it!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 08, 2024, 02:13:50 pm

The Breeders album the Pod is a great Albini recording.

Stooges The Weirdness was a complete failure and Albini must bear some responsibility.

Really he had great recordings and not so great.

Not sure what I think of his work on In Utero

Obviously Surfer Rosa is his definitive recording.

As far as his own music with Big Black and Shellac: not really my cup of tea.

Always thought it was awesome that if you could scrounge up just a little scratch he would record you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 08, 2024, 03:03:16 pm

my favorite thing from Albini was this article on how signing to a major label is the probably worst decision most bands make
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/albini.html

He also did PJ harvey's break out album too

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 08, 2024, 09:48:18 pm

One of the better stories regarding Albini I saw today

https://x.com/mm6169/status/1788305947070214153?s=46&t=81bsTFbar0Jl_mHBl9WnuA

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 09, 2024, 08:13:12 am

Apparently he had a heart attack when he was 25….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 09, 2024, 10:10:36 am

I'm sure many or most of you know this, but Steve was my neighbor when I was a geeky preteen and teen living in Chicago. Every week, bands would show up in nondescript vans (though the Breeders had a Budget rental van with Ohio plates), unload equipment at odd hours, and for the most part we wouldn't see or hear much of anything happening at the house. But on occasion, me or my folks would cross paths with the likes of the Jesus Lizard, Bailter Space, the Breeders, Jawbreaker, Urge Overkill, Shellac, etc. Everyone was always extremely nice to me, and hence I'd buy their records when they came out, completely stunned at the genius coming out of the house across the street from me. And everyone was weirdly different, vibrating through the universe on a different set of waves than most other folks we knew. It became very easy for me to understand that it was OK to not be like everyone else, and that you could find a sense of community through music. Steve's loss is extremely personal for me, not because I knew him well (though he was incredibly nice to me when I asked if I could see his studio one day, and then another time he let me buy a ton of Shellac merch). All of this is to say that I can say how much of a loss this is not just to musicians, fans, or anyone who bought a Big Black or Shellac LP, or a PJ Harvey or Nirvana LP he engineered. Steve was a necessary and ethical voice who wanted people to think for themselves. He wasn't afraid to be controversial or direct, but I can attest he was patient, kind, and wickedly funny too. Every now and then, someone leaves the party early that leaves such a vacancy, and you know that nobody will ever fill it quite the way they could. Steve is one of those people. A true original, and someone the world needed at the time he was there. 61 seems young, but he used those years well and wisely.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 09, 2024, 10:13:17 am

Wow. I’m sorry

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 09, 2024, 10:16:38 am

Quote from: Hutch on May 08, 2024, 02:13:50 pm

Stooges The Weirdness was a complete failure and Albini must bear some responsibility.

As far as his own music with Big Black and Shellac: not really my cup of tea.

The thing about Albini is he'd never intervene in the material or creative process. He was not a Gil Norton telling the band what note they should be playing or which guitar to use. So other than how the LP sounds (and I haven't listened to it lately), that's really a quality control decision on the band. Albini's techniques could famously expose flaws in the band's material or performance too. You had to have your shit together.

As for Big Black and Shellac, I never saw BB, but Shellac could destroy a room. Love the LPs too..."Atomizer" is pretty much one of the most violent LPs ever recorded, behind "Raw Power" by the Stooges.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 09, 2024, 10:17:15 am

Quote from: Hutch on May 09, 2024, 10:13:17 am

Wow. I’m sorry

Thanks. It sucks. A lot of us were really upset yesterday...a lot of exchanging of texts and sharing of stories. I've got some fun ones.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 09, 2024, 10:19:08 am

^^great story bearman, thanks for sharing^^

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 09, 2024, 10:20:32 am

Quote from: bearman🐻 on May 09, 2024, 10:16:38 am

Quote from: Hutch on May 08, 2024, 02:13:50 pm
Stooges The Weirdness was a complete failure and Albini must bear some responsibility.

As far as his own music with Big Black and Shellac: not really my cup of tea.

The thing about Albini is he'd never intervene in the material or creative process. He was not a Gil Norton telling the band what note they should be playing or which guitar to use. So other than how the LP sounds (and I haven't listened to it lately), that's really a quality control decision on the band. Albini's techniques could famously expose flaws in the band's material or performance too. You had to have your shit together.

As for Big Black and Shellac, I never saw BB, but Shellac could destroy a room. Love the LPs too..."Atomizer" is pretty much one of the most violent LPs ever recorded, behind "Raw Power" by the Stooges.

The LP sounds good and the CD sounds awful.

I hear ya though….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 09, 2024, 10:27:00 am

I do love this letter, especially that it was sent as a fax.

https://x.com/Nirvana/status/1788363101068509223

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 09, 2024, 02:21:13 pm

Chris Richards' appreciation in the WP (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/05/09/steve-albini-producer-musician-tribute/)

Quote from: Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI on May 08, 2024, 12:16:31 pm

Steve Albini (https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/), 61, heart attack

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 09, 2024, 03:56:44 pm

Dennis Thompson, drummer for the MC5

And then there were none and so quickly after Wayne

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2024/05/09/dennis-thompson-mc5-drummer-obituary/73629138007/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 09, 2024, 09:24:30 pm

Lifted from bluesky

just remembered when jerry garcia died, some djs at whpk made a bunch of flyers and posted them around chicago saying "if you miss jerry call this number and leave a message about what he meant to you" but put steve albini's phone number on it. one of the all time great pranks.

Further details

So I went to school at the University of Chicago, starting in 1990. At the time, Chicago had a pretty standard (but great) radio station, WHPK 88.5 fm Pride of the South Side 50 booming watts and I eventually got a show there. Albini was a legendary figure in Chicago, 1/

and somehow a previous station manager had written his phone number on a poster or something, and it quickly became a kind of samizadat, because you could prank call and absolutely 100% get a callback reaction from an incandescently angry Albini. Look, we were assholes. 2/

Eventually we sort of stopped, but one day, August 9th, 1995, as it happens, I got a call from a friend who said, and this is clear as day to me, "hey, I need Albini's number and I can't tell you why, yet". So I gave him the number and forgot about it, more or less. 3/

You may remember that date as the day that Jerry Garcia died. The Dead were going to be in Chicago shortly afterwards for a run of shows, and there were thousands of Deadheads milling aimlessly around Grant Park. Garcia's death hit them hard, 4/

and someone came up with an idea to set up a phone line for them to call and leave their condolences for Jerry's family, and favourite memories of him, and the Dead. They then printed up a bunch of fliers and went down to Grant Park and handed them out. 5/

I think you can put the pieces together, here.

Supposedly, Albini had to call the phone company to get his line diverted or something, because the volume of incoming calls immediately made his phone unusable. 6/

Albini telling his version, at 15:20 in the 1997 documentary Out of the Loop: He calls it "the best prank that I've ever encountered" and offers "hat's off" to the prankster.

https://youtu.be/l9CWxt_dxA4?feature=shared

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 09, 2024, 09:28:24 pm

Were Steve Albini and Jerry Garcia enemies?

Maybe they could pull the same stunt on a Steve Albini enemy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 09, 2024, 09:42:37 pm

Probably not just seem like this station just liked pranking him and it was all timing due to the GD fans being in town for already scheduled concerts

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 10, 2024, 07:59:21 am

Quote from: Space Freely on May 09, 2024, 09:28:24 pm

Were Steve Albini and Jerry Garcia enemies?

Maybe they could pull the same stunt on a Steve Albini enemy.

Pretty sure Jerry had no idea who Albini was….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 10, 2024, 08:30:12 am

Quote from: No 1 Suki Waterhouse fan!! on May 10, 2024, 07:59:21 am

Quote from: Space Freely on May 09, 2024, 09:28:24 pm
Were Steve Albini and Jerry Garcia enemies?

Maybe they could pull the same stunt on a Steve Albini enemy.

Pretty sure Jerry had no idea who Albini was….

Right... and I'm sure there's a punk rocker hates hippies joke somewhere in there. Funny nonetheless!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 10, 2024, 11:05:29 am

Another good Albini story, this time from LOW

Watched Bauhaus at a festival from side of the stage with Mim, Albini, and the Mogwai folks just a few years ago. They were on fire. They finished and Albini turns to us and says very seriously “I’d forgotten how much I’ve stolen from that guy’s guitar sound.”

https://x.com/lowtheband/status/1788718303348674808?s=46&t=81bsTFbar0Jl_mHBl9WnuA

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 10, 2024, 11:17:41 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on May 10, 2024, 11:05:29 am

Another good Albini story, this time from LOW

Watched Bauhaus at a festival from side of the stage with Mim, Albini, and the Mogwai folks just a few years ago. They were on fire. They finished and Albini turns to us and says very seriously “I’d forgotten how much I’ve stolen from that guy’s guitar sound.”

https://x.com/lowtheband/status/1788718303348674808?s=46&t=81bsTFbar0Jl_mHBl9WnuA

Nice to see Daniel Ash get some recognition.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on May 10, 2024, 12:32:03 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on May 09, 2024, 09:42:37 pm

Probably not just seem like this station just liked pranking him and it was all timing due to the GD fans being in town for already scheduled concerts

The concert thing isn't true though. The Dead played their final shows in Chicago in July. Jerry died in August. There were no scheduled Dead shows until September and none of those were anywhere near Chicago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on May 10, 2024, 04:21:17 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on May 09, 2024, 10:27:00 am

I do love this letter, especially that it was sent as a fax.

https://x.com/Nirvana/status/1788363101068509223

‘Sorry I was a couple days late responding, I was too busy working with Fugazi. . . But I’m not anymore’ is like the ultimate early 90’s humblebrag.

Also I had no idea he had been involved with In on the Killtaker . . .recordings available on YouTube

https://youtu.be/YXN_EmhkQSM?si=ZUYsKMowKs5zed_e

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 10, 2024, 05:52:35 pm

Quote from: Mobius on May 10, 2024, 04:21:17 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on May 09, 2024, 10:27:00 am
I do love this letter, especially that it was sent as a fax.

https://x.com/Nirvana/status/1788363101068509223

‘Sorry I was a couple days late responding, I was too busy working with Fugazi. . . But I’m not anymore’ is like the ultimate early 90’s humblebrag.

Also I had no idea he had been involved with In on the Killtaker . . .recordings available on YouTube

https://youtu.be/YXN_EmhkQSM?si=ZUYsKMowKs5zed_e

According to Fugazi, they recorded the LP and the sessions went reasonably well. On the drive back to DC, they were listening to the mixes and were...underwhelmed. I don't think it was Albini's sound, it was just something about the performance and the overall product. So those mixes didn't see the light of day (except on YouTube, but not official release).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on May 10, 2024, 07:06:41 pm

listening to the Albini In Utero mix and it's incredible how much better it sounds. And that's a pretty perfect album already IMO.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 13, 2024, 01:00:06 pm

David Sanborn

Ween nation mourns…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 13, 2024, 01:03:24 pm

Roger Corman

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/12/entertainment/roger-corman-death/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 13, 2024, 01:03:35 pm

ended up stumbling upon the Albini/Garcia video this weekend... Also stumbled upon accusations of him being a pedophile. What are the deetz on that?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 13, 2024, 01:21:14 pm

All I know is he posted crazy stuff on internet but claimed he was an @Edgelord”

I didn’t want to bring it up cuz he just died

Gotta be honest that I think all the hype around his recording is way overdone…but that’s just my personal opinion

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 13, 2024, 01:30:21 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 13, 2024, 01:03:35 pm

ended up stumbling upon the Albini/Garcia video this weekend... Also stumbled upon accusations of him being a pedophile. What are the deetz on that?

Your google is as good as my google. I feel repulsion just reading this.

https://medium.com/@MoonMetropolis/now-that-steve-albini-is-dead-lets-reflect-on-his-admitted-love-and-promotion-of-child-fadf5072288e

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 13, 2024, 02:32:38 pm

Google is also your enemy. Incredible amounts of baseless stories.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on May 13, 2024, 02:45:58 pm

DavidSanborn
@DavidSanborn
·
2h
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.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 14, 2024, 08:28:00 am

David Coleman, of 3 Stars fame.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 14, 2024, 10:29:49 am

Quote from: hutch on May 13, 2024, 01:21:14 pm

All I know is he posted crazy stuff on internet but claimed he was an @Edgelord”

I didn’t want to bring it up cuz he just died

Gotta be honest that I think all the hype around his recording is way overdone…but that’s just my personal opinion

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-beautiful-rawness-of-steve-albini

Part of Albini's lore is that a long time ago he'd say controversial things to be antagonistic. I recommend reading this article to have what I believe is a more balanced, fair, and unfiltered take on both his good side and his flawed side. I wouldn't put a lot of stock on how much is out there. Steve didn't give a shit if a quote got attributed to him with something he didn't say. I actually was at his house once where someone was asking him if he said something, and he admitted being quoted even though he didn't actually say it...because that was part of his dark sense of humor. Sometimes we scrutinize people, especially after they pass, because we tend to ignore all their flaws and instead turn them into idols or saints. Albini would revile that. He knew he wasn't perfect, and he owned that. But as for what you dig up online, there were a lot of people who hated him, and that was not something that bothered him. He didn't expect everyone to like him. That was not his purpose. And that's the same with his production. You don't like it? It's not for you. That's deliberate. For someone like me, there is nothing more satisfying than the shattering snares and scuzzy guitar feedback on "Rub Til It Bleeds" by PJ Harvey, or the rollicking thunder of "Do You Still Hate Me?" by Jawbreaker, or the visceral violence of "Cables" by Big Black. This was an aural aesthetic that wasn't just unprecedented, it defined the sound of the city of Chicago and beyond, and the way he worked reminded people not to overthink what they were doing. I like thinking about Steve because of what I somehow learned from him through osmosis. I love hearing his impact on people that I know. I am still feel incredibly raw about his passing. You can learn a lot from someone who changes the way you think about the world through their work because it's ultimately about the power of the work that shapes the value of how you see things.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 14, 2024, 10:44:00 am

Like I said am sorry for your loss.

I am not saying anything about Albini’s personal life And don’t wish to explore it as it’s of no interest to me.

As far as professional wise he worked on some albums that are masterpieces and he should get some credit for them and likewise he worked on some albums I expected more from like the Stooges and Page Plant.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 14, 2024, 12:08:37 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 14, 2024, 10:44:00 am

Like I said am sorry for your loss.

I am not saying anything about Albini’s personal life And don’t wish to explore it as it’s of no interest to me.

As far as professional wise he worked on some albums that are masterpieces and he should get some credit for them and likewise he worked on some albums I expected more from like the Stooges and Page Plant.

That Stooges record was a bummer. Don't know what the hell happened there. I bet there's a back story.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 14, 2024, 12:55:44 pm

Alice Munro

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 14, 2024, 01:08:43 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 14, 2024, 12:55:44 pm

Alice Munro

Not Lithuanian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 14, 2024, 01:31:43 pm

Stop slandering my ancestors!!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 14, 2024, 01:32:37 pm

How is it slandering them to point out Alice Munro is not Lithuanian?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 14, 2024, 01:33:20 pm

I mean, yes, Lithuanians are biologically incapable of writing short stories as competently as Canadians, but grateful did not actually SAY THAT.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 14, 2024, 01:36:17 pm

She's also not African-American, which is what I thought when I posted.

At least we still have Alice Walker (whom I was probably thinking of.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 14, 2024, 02:03:20 pm

"All Alices look alike"

-Space

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 14, 2024, 02:08:16 pm

Quote from: grateful on May 14, 2024, 02:03:20 pm

"All Alices look alike"

-Space

Well the midwife who delivered my daughter (an Alice) looked more like A. Munro. The doula (who actually wasn't an Alice) looked more like A. Walker.

And then you have Alice from the Brady Bunch. She was really an Ann and not an Alice, so I guess that's her excuse for not looking like one. But amit it, she's kind of Emma Thompson sexy in this picture. https://preview.redd.it/ann-b-davis-alice-was-43-years-old-when-we-watched-her-in-v0-dy1adgdlbtyb1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43477222f7030522d52e370418a4a87c94b2134a

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 14, 2024, 02:39:42 pm

Quote from: grateful on May 14, 2024, 02:03:20 pm

"All Alices look alike"

-Space

I mean, there are stereotypes for a reason, prove me wrong

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 14, 2024, 05:17:38 pm

Slim Shady

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 14, 2024, 05:26:10 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on May 14, 2024, 05:17:38 pm

Slim Shady

No way

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 14, 2024, 05:37:47 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on May 14, 2024, 05:17:38 pm

Slim Shady

Unfortunately, we still have Eminem

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 15, 2024, 03:48:07 am

Quote from: Yada on May 14, 2024, 08:28:00 am

David Coleman, of 3 Stars fame.

aww, that sucks. obit (https://ghsfuneralservices.com/dave-coleman-co-founder-of-3-stars-brewing-company-dies-unexpectedly/).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 15, 2024, 08:58:09 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on May 14, 2024, 05:17:38 pm

Slim Shady

(https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1mon6X.img?w=768&h=1484&m=6)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 16, 2024, 02:06:26 pm

The Wire has posted their interview with Shellac (https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/i-wanted-it-to-be-for-keeps-an-oral-history-of-shellac) on their website.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 17, 2024, 06:59:43 pm

Dabney Coleman (https://wtop.com/national/2024/05/dabney-coleman-actor-who-specialized-in-curmudgeons-dies-at-92/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 19, 2024, 10:53:35 am

Ebrahim Raisi.. most likely

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on May 20, 2024, 01:45:00 am

Quote from: Yada on May 19, 2024, 10:53:35 am

Ebrahim Raisi.. most likely

confirmed, along with the foreign minister and a few other bigwigs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 20, 2024, 07:02:41 am

Quote from: sweetcell on May 20, 2024, 01:45:00 am

Quote from: Yada on May 19, 2024, 10:53:35 am
Ebrahim Raisi.. most likely

confirmed, along with the foreign minister and a few other bigwigs

Odds that some "mysterious" rockets from an unknown location hit Iran this week?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 20, 2024, 08:24:39 am

I wish it was that easy….would take out Khamenei who has now been running things in Iran for 35 years!!!

Anyways one Holocaust denier less….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 24, 2024, 10:48:52 am

Morgan Spurlock, 53
the big C

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 24, 2024, 05:16:14 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 24, 2024, 10:48:52 am

Morgan Spurlock, 53
the big C

damn....wonder if that month of MickyD's did him in
that sucks, he was a great voice/documentarian
that's young considering I'm the same age :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 24, 2024, 06:24:01 pm

Quote from: GetThee2aHatcheryıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 24, 2024, 05:16:14 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 24, 2024, 10:48:52 am
Morgan Spurlock, 53
the big C
damn....wonder if that month of MickyD's did him in
that sucks, he was a great voice/documentarian
that's young considering I'm the same age :(

The Internet tells me he was a big time alcoholic and the liver damage he had after a month of eating McDonald's likely wasn't caused by eating McDonald's. But it made for a fun movie. Also, sexual misconduct, by his own admission.

https://radaronline.com/p/morgan-spurlock-super-size-me-fast-food-mcdonalds-alcohol-liver/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 24, 2024, 07:13:57 pm

You’re no rock and roll fun!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 25, 2024, 01:50:47 am

Stumpy! (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/24/stumpy-removed-tidal-basin/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 26, 2024, 11:56:57 am

Richard M. Sherman (https://wtop.com/national/2024/05/richard-m-sherman-who-fueled-disney-charm-in-mary-poppins-and-its-a-small-world-dies-at-95/), Disney songwriter

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 27, 2024, 01:25:04 pm

Bill Walton

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 27, 2024, 02:20:31 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 27, 2024, 01:25:04 pm

Bill Walton

Rest in peace

Bill was at the San Diego Neil Young show about a month ago…in bad shape apparently…god the end can be brutal…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on May 27, 2024, 08:06:24 pm

As Kandinsky was able to express music through painting, Bill Walton expressed music through basketball. Like synethesia where basketball is a means of musical expression and 5 players interact like a band on the same page. . .like the Grateful Dead (of course)

Injury-wrecked career but he was responsible for artistic peaks of the sport in the early 70s UCLA and 77 Blazers, and then he played a key role on the 86 Celtics.

And his distillation of old school John Wooden through counterculture psychedelic mindset is hugely significant.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 27, 2024, 09:07:37 pm

Johnny Wactor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 27, 2024, 09:14:14 pm

Always loved this story

https://x.com/GratefulDead/status/1750943121888977275?s=19

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on May 28, 2024, 10:03:18 am

Quote from: Yada on May 27, 2024, 09:14:14 pm

Always loved this story

https://x.com/GratefulDead/status/1750943121888977275?s=19

Perfect story, perfectly told, with just the right amount of Waltonian details that probably didn’t happen but are better than the reality and 100% did happen in his mind.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 28, 2024, 10:39:51 am

Another good one Mobius...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7g6K2nA4k0/?igsh=emFreXRnZ3hpZmE5

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on May 28, 2024, 08:03:26 pm

Bette Nash (https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2024/05/28/bette-nash-flight-attendant-dies/), Longest-serving flight attendant dies after 67-year-career

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on May 29, 2024, 05:46:34 pm

Caleb Carr

Son of an original Beat

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on June 04, 2024, 01:24:32 pm

Brother Marquis

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/entertainment/brother-marquis-2-live-crew-death/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 04, 2024, 01:41:12 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on June 04, 2024, 01:24:32 pm

Brother Marquis

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/entertainment/brother-marquis-2-live-crew-death/index.html

Wow a hip hop artist actually died from old age.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 04, 2024, 02:20:32 pm

Appreciate Yada staying in his lane and not breaking the news…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 11, 2024, 03:51:16 pm

Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson lead singer for the Selector

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 11, 2024, 05:42:08 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on June 11, 2024, 03:51:16 pm

Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson lead singer for the Selector

that's a bummer, but always thought of Pauline Black as the lead

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 11, 2024, 07:33:55 pm

Quote from: GetThee2aHatcheryıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 11, 2024, 05:42:08 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on June 11, 2024, 03:51:16 pm
Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson lead singer for the Selector
that's a bummer, but always thought of Pauline Black as the lead

he’s been more identified as the frontman of the group, so shared vocals with Pauline would be more appropriate. He was up until recently still active with the group. I quite enjoyed their 2015 album Subculture

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 11, 2024, 08:22:24 pm

I think we should argue about who the lead singer of the Selector was. Do we need a new thread?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 11, 2024, 09:52:28 pm

Françoise Hardy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 11, 2024, 10:22:12 pm

Sadly, we no longer have Laurelen Hardy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 11, 2024, 10:43:40 pm

Definitely Pauline!! No f doubt

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 12, 2024, 05:23:32 am

The Selecter featured a diverse line-up, both in terms of race and gender, initially consisting of Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson and Pauline Black on lead vocals, Neol Davies and Compton Amanor on guitar, Desmond Brown on Hammond organ, Charley 'Aitch' Bembridge on drums, and Charley Anderson on bass. The band's name comes from the original "The Selecter" track, which appeared on the flip side of The Special AKA's "Gangsters" single in 1979, and was written by Neol Davies and John Bradbury, produced by Roger Lomas and featured Barry Jones on trombone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on June 12, 2024, 10:22:02 am

Jerry West
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/nba-legend-jerry-west-dies-at-86/ar-BB1o5WKb

At least we still have Kany...never mind

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 12, 2024, 07:30:49 pm

Howard Fineman

I had not realized he was sick. Pancreatic cancer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 13, 2024, 05:55:46 pm

hitmaker down:

Mark James, Songwriter of ‘Suspicious Minds,’ ‘Always on My Mind’ and ‘Hooked on a Feeling,’ Dies at 83 (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mark-james-songwriter-suspicious-minds-234445576.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 13, 2024, 06:00:10 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 12, 2024, 07:30:49 pm

Pancreatic cancer.

obligatory "fuck cancer", but especially pancreatic. rarely detected before it's in the final stages. typical report from a doctor: "well, we've finally figure out why you've been so sick recently, and unfortunately it's because of pancreatic cancer... we estimate you have [X] weeks left to live." had a close family friend succumb to it, he went really fast after the diagnosis.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 18, 2024, 07:09:53 pm

Angela Bofill (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/06/18/angela-bofill-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 18, 2024, 08:48:30 pm

James Chance

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on June 18, 2024, 08:57:27 pm

Willie Mays

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 18, 2024, 09:47:59 pm

Quote from: Bagley on June 18, 2024, 08:57:27 pm

Willie Mays

Oh no! Probably the best ball player of his era and beyond.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 20, 2024, 01:44:13 pm

Donald Sutherland

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 20, 2024, 02:09:42 pm

Quote from: grateful on June 20, 2024, 01:44:13 pm

Donald Sutherland

(https://i.makeagif.com/media/7-03-2015/lUvEN8.gif)
nooo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 20, 2024, 02:18:46 pm

Willie Mays, Donald Sutherland, and (not really) Noam Chomsky makes for one of the more prolific Real of 3 trios we’ve had in a bit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 20, 2024, 04:06:22 pm

Quote from: grateful on June 20, 2024, 01:44:13 pm

Donald Sutherland

We were just having a vacation family debate about his death status just two days ago. I hope we didn't cause it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 20, 2024, 04:12:36 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 20, 2024, 04:06:22 pm

We were just having a vacation family debate about his death status . . .

A truly incredible turn of phrase.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on June 25, 2024, 09:36:14 am

Shifty Shellshock

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 25, 2024, 11:47:13 am

Quote from: nkotb on June 25, 2024, 09:36:14 am

Shifty Shellshock

Get outta town. That's too crazy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 25, 2024, 02:52:41 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on June 25, 2024, 11:47:13 am

Quote from: nkotb on June 25, 2024, 09:36:14 am
Shifty Shellshock

Get outta town. That's too crazy.

his poor kids
The musician is survived by his three children, Halo, Gage and Phoenix.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 25, 2024, 03:21:14 pm

I suffered from Halo Shellshock and had to ween off of video games completely.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 27, 2024, 01:12:56 pm

Kinky Friedman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 28, 2024, 11:16:58 pm

Martin Mull (https://variety.com/2024/film/news/martin-mull-dead-clue-arrested-development-1236057168/), comic actor and person thought to have originated the saying "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_about_music_is_like_dancing_about_architecture)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on June 29, 2024, 07:49:49 am

Dancing about architecture actually seems like a totally legit form of expression.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on June 29, 2024, 12:32:29 pm

Quote from: Mobius on June 29, 2024, 07:49:49 am

Dancing about architecture actually seems like a totally legit form of expression.

In this dance, I shall salute brutalism.

You know you love it. (https://www.nbm.org/exhibition/capital-brutalism/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on June 30, 2024, 08:17:28 pm

Martin Mull
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/arts/television/martin-mull-dead.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 03, 2024, 04:55:24 pm

Laurie Lindeen - singer with Zuzu’s Petal

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 09, 2024, 07:59:28 pm

Joe Lee, proprietor of a record paradise, dies at 76 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/09/joe-record-paradise-died/)

Joe's Record Paradise was one of the DMV's most legendary shops.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 09, 2024, 08:17:04 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 09, 2024, 07:59:28 pm

Joe Lee, proprietor of a record paradise, dies at 76 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/09/joe-record-paradise-died/)

Joe's Record Paradise was one of the DMV's most legendary shops.

Man... what a bummer. I'm actually surprised after all of these year's Joe's has survived. I used to spend way too much time in there. I picture hutch's house to be similar to walking into Joe's.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hemisphire on July 10, 2024, 10:18:25 am

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/09/joe-record-paradise-died/

"Mr. Lee helped arrange a major-label deal with Warner Bros., which released one album by Root Boy Slim, then paid him $40,000 not to record a second album. He died in 1993."

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 10, 2024, 10:52:39 am

Ah Root Boy…unique

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on July 10, 2024, 12:14:25 pm

James Inhofe, Oklahoma senator and climate-change denier, dies at 89 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/09/james-inhofe-climate-change-dead/)
The long-serving Republican chaired the Armed Services and Environment committees before retiring from the Senate in 2023.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 10, 2024, 01:47:01 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on July 10, 2024, 12:14:25 pm

James Inhofe, Oklahoma senator and climate-change denier, dies at 89 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/09/james-inhofe-climate-change-dead/)
The long-serving Republican chaired the Armed Services and Environment committees before retiring from the Senate in 2023.

I also read that he was one of the biggest climate change deniers.

Hopefully wherever he is now isn't too hot for him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 10, 2024, 01:52:46 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 10, 2024, 01:47:01 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on July 10, 2024, 12:14:25 pm
James Inhofe, Oklahoma senator and climate-change denier, dies at 89 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/09/james-inhofe-climate-change-dead/)
The long-serving Republican chaired the Armed Services and Environment committees before retiring from the Senate in 2023.

I also read that he was one of the biggest climate change deniers.

Where'd you read that? The 6th word of Sweetcell's post you quoted?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 10, 2024, 02:22:54 pm

Quote from: Julian, White Poet WARLORD on July 10, 2024, 01:52:46 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 10, 2024, 01:47:01 pm
Quote from: sweetcell on July 10, 2024, 12:14:25 pm
James Inhofe, Oklahoma senator and climate-change denier, dies at 89 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/09/james-inhofe-climate-change-dead/)
The long-serving Republican chaired the Armed Services and Environment committees before retiring from the Senate in 2023.

I also read that he was one of the biggest climate change deniers.
Where'd you read that? The 6th word of Sweetcell's post you quoted?

Oh sorry, like I said elsewhere, kind of nearsighted.

I read it elsewhere, yesterday. That's why I didn't read Sweetcell's post that closely.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 10, 2024, 09:43:36 pm

Apparently Trees are dropping on people in dc

Woman Killed By Falling Tree in Garfield Park

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on July 10, 2024, 11:22:26 pm

Lotta people in this town I'd like to see Greg Abbott'd!

Quote from: GetThee2aHatcheryıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 10, 2024, 09:43:36 pm

Apparently Trees are dropping on people in dc

Woman Killed By Falling Tree in Garfield Park

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 11, 2024, 09:29:38 am

Benji Gregory

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 11, 2024, 10:25:14 am

Quote from: hutch on July 11, 2024, 09:29:38 am

Benji Gregory

'Alf' star Benji Gregory found dead inside his car at aged 46

Benji's loved ones told the news outlet that they believe the actor went to the bank to deposit residual checks with his dog and accidentally fell asleep while sitting inside his car. And due to the boiling Arizona summer heat, that can often reach over 100 degrees, he suffered from a fatal heat stroke.

accidentally fell asleep?!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 11, 2024, 10:31:58 am

It's never who we want it to be, is it?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 11, 2024, 10:55:03 am

My brother was named after that guys character on Alf.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on July 11, 2024, 11:28:02 am

With all due respect, the service dog is kinda supposed to take some initiative at some point there

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 11, 2024, 11:51:43 am

Quote from: Mobius on July 11, 2024, 11:28:02 am

With all due respect, the service dog is kinda supposed to take some initiative at some point there

LOL

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 11, 2024, 12:05:20 pm

Shelley Duvall (https://variety.com/2024/film/news/shelley-duvall-dead-the-shining-nashville-1236067312/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on July 11, 2024, 12:20:11 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on July 11, 2024, 12:05:20 pm

Shelley Duvall (https://variety.com/2024/film/news/shelley-duvall-dead-the-shining-nashville-1236067312/)

My sister is named after her character in Robert Altman’s 3 Women. What a bizarre day for the Vanderbilt family.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 13, 2024, 10:57:08 am

Dr. Ruth (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/13/dr-ruth-westheimer-sex-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 13, 2024, 11:13:22 am

Was she actually a Doctor?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 13, 2024, 11:24:55 am

Quote from: hutch on July 13, 2024, 11:13:22 am

Was she actually a Doctor?

Is Lil' Wayne really Lil'?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 13, 2024, 11:30:46 am

Does People magazine really celebrate people?

Enquiring minds want to know!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 13, 2024, 11:35:53 am

What a life

https://dnyuz.com/2024/07/13/ruth-westheimer-the-sex-guru-known-as-dr-ruth-dies-at-96/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 13, 2024, 12:20:35 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 13, 2024, 11:35:53 am

What a life

https://dnyuz.com/2024/07/13/ruth-westheimer-the-sex-guru-known-as-dr-ruth-dies-at-96/

My third favorite Ruth from my youth.

I had three bus drivers when I was in secondary school, two of them women. Both were named Ruth.

Also, in junior high, the study hall monitor was named "Ann." In senior high, the study hall monitor was also named "Ann", but a different person. They shared the SAME last name. That last name is also MY last name (as far as I know, none of us were related, though it's possible the two of them could have been.) My name is not totally uncommon, but it sure ain't as common as Smith or Rodriguez. (If you know it, please respect my privacy and don't type it here). How's that for fucking weird?

But anyway, I digress. Dr. Ruth, a life well lived. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on July 13, 2024, 06:10:25 pm

Richard Simmons??!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 13, 2024, 06:12:29 pm

Sweating to the oldies right now in tribute

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 13, 2024, 06:17:55 pm

Now Paulie can do his movie

My dad had an Uncle Richard

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 13, 2024, 06:26:56 pm

So you were named after Richard Simmons or your Uncle?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 13, 2024, 07:20:19 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 13, 2024, 06:26:56 pm

So you were named after Richard Simmons or your Uncle?

I was named after the guy from Kiss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 13, 2024, 07:23:46 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 13, 2024, 07:20:19 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 13, 2024, 06:26:56 pm
So you were named after Richard Simmons or your Uncle?

I was named after the guy from Kiss.

No wonder your wife sticks by you.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 14, 2024, 09:22:05 am

Shannen Doherty

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on July 14, 2024, 12:23:08 pm

Ravens Jacoby Jones

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/ravens-super-bowl-hero-jacoby-jones-dies-at-40-per-report/ar-BB1pXHmR

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 14, 2024, 12:53:31 pm

I once had a neighbor named Shannon.
I once had a girlfriend named Shannon.
I have a friend who I share a birthday with whose name is Shannon. She's married to a guy named Jones

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 14, 2024, 05:24:49 pm

Jacoby Jones (https://wtop.com/baltimore-ravens/2024/07/jacoby-jones-a-star-of-baltimores-most-recent-super-bowl-title-run-has-died-at-age-40/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on July 15, 2024, 07:35:46 pm

What a pity...

https://x.com/Corey_Comper?s=09

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 17, 2024, 10:24:33 am

James Sikking (https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/james-sikking-dead-hill-street-blues-1236071928/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 18, 2024, 04:12:54 pm

Bob Newhart

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 18, 2024, 04:15:55 pm

Made a great career playing an absolute idiot.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 18, 2024, 04:18:43 pm

were you speaking of this guy?

Lou Dobbs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on July 18, 2024, 04:40:51 pm

Quote from: GetThee2aHatcheryıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 18, 2024, 04:12:54 pm

Bob Newhart

Quote from: hutch on July 18, 2024, 04:15:55 pm

Made a great career playing an absolute idiot.

Quote from: GetThee2aHatcheryıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 18, 2024, 04:18:43 pm

were you speaking of this guy?

Lou Dobbs

Playing is the keyword here.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 21, 2024, 01:43:21 pm

Toumani Diabate

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 22, 2024, 04:25:22 pm

ABDUL Duke Fakir, the last surviving original member of the group the Four Tops, has died at 88.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 22, 2024, 04:46:17 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 21, 2024, 01:43:21 pm

Toumani Diabate

Unfortunately, we still have diabetes.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on July 23, 2024, 08:07:21 pm

John Mayall

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on July 23, 2024, 08:35:10 pm

For absolutely no reason, I just wondered if Neil Diamond is still alive.

Confirmed, he is.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 23, 2024, 09:49:52 pm

Quote from: hutch on July 23, 2024, 08:07:21 pm

John Mayall

Still have John Mayer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on July 25, 2024, 03:25:40 pm

One of my favorite vacation places, Jasper, Alberta.

https://x.com/ryanjespersen/status/1816494189338566866

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on July 25, 2024, 03:43:40 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on July 25, 2024, 03:25:40 pm

One of my favorite vacation places, Jasper, Alberta.

https://x.com/ryanjespersen/status/1816494189338566866

yowza
Fire crews were witnessing 300- to 400-ft flames

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 28, 2024, 07:10:48 am

The Chill’s Martin Phillipps

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 02, 2024, 05:18:00 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on May 25, 2024, 01:50:47 am

Stumpy! (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/24/stumpy-removed-tidal-basin/)

Stumpy lives!

https://wtop.com/dc/2024/08/stumpy-lives-on-after-cuttings-from-iconic-cherry-tree-take/?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 02, 2024, 06:49:36 pm

Quote from: Hatchamaticıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 02, 2024, 05:18:00 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on May 25, 2024, 01:50:47 am
Stumpy! (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/24/stumpy-removed-tidal-basin/)
Stumpy lives!

https://wtop.com/dc/2024/08/stumpy-lives-on-after-cuttings-from-iconic-cherry-tree-take/?

All hail Stumpy Christ!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 06, 2024, 06:51:04 pm

Billy Beane

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 06, 2024, 07:05:34 pm

It's been a long time since we had a really juicy fly drop

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 06, 2024, 07:07:21 pm

Quote from: hutch on August 06, 2024, 06:51:04 pm

Billy Beane

To be clear, this is the Billy Bean sans an “E”.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 06, 2024, 07:17:50 pm

At least we still have Billy Beane?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 06, 2024, 08:17:37 pm

Quote from: Julian, White Poet WARLORD on August 06, 2024, 07:07:21 pm

Quote from: hutch on August 06, 2024, 06:51:04 pm
Billy Beane
To be clear, this is the Billy Bean sans an “E”.

Well, ain’t that the shit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 06, 2024, 09:07:28 pm

Oh no I had the wrong guy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 07, 2024, 09:52:02 am

Quote from: hutch on August 06, 2024, 09:07:28 pm

Oh no I had the wrong guy

One less Bean(e) to count either way.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 09, 2024, 09:53:50 am

Dave Sweetapple

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 09, 2024, 10:13:49 am

Oh man! I saw WITCH last time they came through town. That show cemented my love for Zamrock.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on August 09, 2024, 10:43:18 am

29 years ago today

the day the music died

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 09, 2024, 11:40:27 am

Quote from: Bagley on August 09, 2024, 10:43:18 am

29 years ago today

the day the jam music died

FTFY

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on August 09, 2024, 12:30:02 pm

Chi Chi Rodriguez

(https://media1.tenor.com/m/xbC2MaWuG-4AAAAd/golf-celebrate.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 09, 2024, 12:33:01 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on August 09, 2024, 12:30:02 pm

Chi Chi Rodriguez

(https://media1.tenor.com/m/xbC2MaWuG-4AAAAd/golf-celebrate.gif)

In reading about him over the last day, I was surprised how relatively unsuccessful he was. Only 8 PGA tour wins. Never sniffed a major. As a child, I was under the impression he was one of the biggest names in golf but I guess it was moreso for his personality/showmanship than his actually golf skills.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 09, 2024, 03:51:06 pm

Quote from: Julian, White Poet WARLORD on August 09, 2024, 12:33:01 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on August 09, 2024, 12:30:02 pm
Chi Chi Rodriguez

(https://media1.tenor.com/m/xbC2MaWuG-4AAAAd/golf-celebrate.gif)
In reading about him over the last day, I was surprised how relatively unsuccessful he was. Only 8 PGA tour wins. Never sniffed a major. As a child, I was under the impression he was one of the biggest names in golf but I guess it was moreso for his personality/showmanship than his actually golf skills.

HE'S literally a household name in our mini-golf household.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 11, 2024, 08:57:46 pm

Air from closing ceremony coverage

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 11, 2024, 08:59:12 pm

What happened?

Phoenix were fantastic as always and it looked like Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend made an appearance.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 11, 2024, 09:27:23 pm

Telemondo didn’t do the dirty on Air, but they did cut Funky Squaredance from their feed.. although as my better half said the brief appearance of Air doing Playground Love was a bit dull. It was right before Erza joined them.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 12, 2024, 12:52:50 pm

Charles Cross

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/charles-r-cross-influential-seattle-music-journalist-dead-at-67/

The article doesn't mention it but he started Backstreets magazine which was a huge fanzine of Bruce Springsteen starting in the 80's. Huge source of information pre-internet days.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 12, 2024, 02:05:30 pm

Yes, Wesley Stace aka John Wesley Harding wrote a nice post about Mr. Cross. I wonder how involved if at all he was with the decision to end Backstreets.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 15, 2024, 07:56:08 am

Wally “Famous” Amos

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 15, 2024, 07:56:44 am

Gena Rowlands

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on August 15, 2024, 01:19:54 pm

Greg Kihn

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 15, 2024, 01:43:57 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on August 15, 2024, 01:19:54 pm

Greg Kihn

Oh no …was just listening to I lost on Jeopardy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 15, 2024, 01:48:05 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on August 15, 2024, 01:19:54 pm

Greg Kihn

born in Baltimore, but moved to san fran to start his rock career

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 15, 2024, 04:57:41 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 15, 2023, 07:38:59 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on October 28, 2023, 09:07:22 pm
Matthew Perry (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-28/freinds-star-matthew-perry-dead-at-56)

ketamine, with a side of drowning, coronary artery disease and an opioid.

Disturbing details on Matthew Perry's death investigation, per the the US Attorney's Office & DEA...

* 5 defendants, including 2 doctors & Perry's live-in assistant, have been charged in connection with the actor's death.

* Perry became addicted to ketamine when seeking treatment. He was taken advantage of by doctors who sold him ketamine for thousands of dollars.

* Text messages between the 2 doctors reveal they knew they were taking advantage of Perry: “I wonder how much this moron will pay."

* One of the doctors sold ketamine to Perry's live-in assistant & taught the assistant how to inject Perry with the ketamine, knowing he was not a medical professional.

* Perry then sought to obtain ketamine for less money than from doctors, so he obtained drugs from "street dealers" via his assistant, per the DEA.

* The ketamine that ultimately led to Perry's death was sold by these street dealers. Perry's assistant was the one who injected the ketamine on October 28, 2023 – the day Perry died.

* After Perry’s death was reported in the news, one of the street dealers text the other: “Delete all our messages.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 15, 2024, 07:20:35 pm

Peter Marshall (https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peter-marshall-dead-hollywood-squares-1236107914/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 15, 2024, 07:23:48 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on August 15, 2024, 07:20:35 pm

Peter Marshall (https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peter-marshall-dead-hollywood-squares-1236107914/)

Cock, was he a relative?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 15, 2024, 08:51:49 pm

Quote from: hutch on August 15, 2024, 07:23:48 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on August 15, 2024, 07:20:35 pm
Peter Marshall (https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peter-marshall-dead-hollywood-squares-1236107914/)

Cock, was he a relative?

Nice one

Marshall was born Ralph Pierre LaCock

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 15, 2024, 09:48:45 pm

Quote from: Hatch, guerrilla-poserll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 15, 2024, 08:51:49 pm

Quote from: hutch on August 15, 2024, 07:23:48 pm
Quote from: Justin Tonation on August 15, 2024, 07:20:35 pm
Peter Marshall (https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peter-marshall-dead-hollywood-squares-1236107914/)

Cock, was he a relative?
Nice one

Marshall was born Ralph Pierre LaCock

Talk about being born with your porn name.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 15, 2024, 10:09:59 pm

Jack Russell of Great White

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 15, 2024, 10:24:26 pm

Yes indeed he was. I'll never forget that Cock. One of the good ones. I feel so deflated right now.

Quote from: hutch on August 15, 2024, 07:23:48 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on August 15, 2024, 07:20:35 pm
Peter Marshall (https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peter-marshall-dead-hollywood-squares-1236107914/)

Cock, was he a relative?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on August 16, 2024, 06:56:42 am

My condolences on the loss of your Cock.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 18, 2024, 11:40:00 am

Alain Delon

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on August 19, 2024, 09:50:59 am

Phil Donahue

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on August 19, 2024, 05:48:41 pm

Quote from: grateful on August 19, 2024, 09:50:59 am

Phil Donahue

Will they play the jeopardy final question song before the eulogy begins

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 21, 2024, 09:15:44 pm

Al Attles

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on August 27, 2024, 02:38:41 am

for smackie:

Sven-Goran Eriksson (https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1940527/Sven-Goran-Eriksson-dead-aged-76)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 27, 2024, 09:49:03 pm

Sid "Vicious"...

Eudy.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/27/us/sid-vicious-eudy-pro-wrestling-star-death/index.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on August 30, 2024, 10:36:50 am

Johnny Hockey

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on August 30, 2024, 10:41:45 am

Quote from: Space Freely on August 30, 2024, 10:36:50 am

Johnny Hockey

Sad story. I remember this guy in the NCAA title game just devastating Ferris State that one year.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 30, 2024, 12:38:41 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on August 30, 2024, 10:36:50 am

Johnny Hockey

Read that at first as DC sportscaster Johnny Holiday, thought he had died years ago, but no, he's still alive at 86.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 31, 2024, 01:41:46 pm

Fatman Scoop

https://nypost.com/2024/08/31/entertainment/rapper-fatman-scoop-dead-at-53-after-collapsing-at-concert-in-connecticut/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 03, 2024, 09:07:40 pm

Flies

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 05, 2024, 08:28:23 pm

Rich Homie Quan

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on September 05, 2024, 08:38:59 pm

James Darren. Maybe someone know who he is?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/james-darren-obituary-1.7312238

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 05, 2024, 09:10:55 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on September 05, 2024, 08:38:59 pm

James Darren. Maybe someone know who he is?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/james-darren-obituary-1.7312238

Fidget and TJ Hooker. Meant to post that the other day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 06, 2024, 01:38:02 pm

Sergio Mendes (https://wtop.com/world/2024/09/sergio-mendes-brazilian-bossa-nova-legend-dies-at-83/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 06, 2024, 01:41:55 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on September 06, 2024, 01:38:02 pm

Sergio Mendes (https://wtop.com/world/2024/09/sergio-mendes-brazilian-bossa-nova-legend-dies-at-83/)

Mas Que Nada is one of my favorites
do not listen to the black eyed peas version tho

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 06, 2024, 03:02:50 pm

Quote from: Hatch, guerrilla-poserll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 06, 2024, 01:41:55 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on September 06, 2024, 01:38:02 pm
Sergio Mendes (https://wtop.com/world/2024/09/sergio-mendes-brazilian-bossa-nova-legend-dies-at-83/)
Mas Que Nada is one of my favorites
do not listen to the black eyed peas version tho

Actually that’s a Jorge Ben song.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 07, 2024, 06:46:34 pm

Herbie Flowers

What a Wikipedia intro

Flowers has contributed to recordings by Elton John (Tumbleweed Connection, Madman Across the Water), Camel (tuba on Nude), David Bowie (Space Oddity, Diamond Dogs), Lou Reed (Transformer, including the two prominent basslines of "Walk on the Wild Side"), Melanie (Candles in the Rain), Roy Harper (Bullinamingvase), David Essex (Rock On), Al Kooper (New York City (You're a Woman)), Bryan Ferry (The Bride Stripped Bare), Harry Nilsson (Nilsson Schmilsson, Son of Schmilsson), Cat Stevens (New Masters, Foreigner), Paul McCartney (Give My Regards to Broad Street), George Harrison (Somewhere in England, Gone Troppo, Brainwashed) and Ringo Starr (Stop and Smell the Roses). He also played bass on Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 08, 2024, 12:53:39 am

That’s too bad. I will always associate him with Bowie. I feel these guys never get fair credit for their contributions.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 09, 2024, 08:01:43 am

Mr Greedy
Penguin
Maryland Zoo
33

Left behind 230 descendants.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 09, 2024, 08:34:55 am

I'll be sure to pour one out for Mr Greedy...Legend!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on September 09, 2024, 05:01:28 pm

Darth Vader, voice of.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 10, 2024, 11:53:43 am

Quote from: rich_WDC on September 09, 2024, 05:01:28 pm

Darth Vader, voice of.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_tizN_POMa/?igsh=YXI2bHJ2Y3hiZ2xp

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 10, 2024, 12:56:03 pm

Quote from: rich_WDC on September 09, 2024, 05:01:28 pm

Michigan Football, voice of.

With respects to Carl Grapetine, I have corrected this post for rich_WDC.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on September 11, 2024, 09:54:09 am

Frankie Beverly of Maze, 77

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on September 11, 2024, 05:02:03 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on October 19, 2020, 02:31:53 pm

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ekon887U0AAvit7?format=jpg&name=small) (https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/1317909843005431809)

I don't think this got mentioned yet...

Steve Silberman

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 11, 2024, 05:53:30 pm

Bummer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bombay Chutney on September 12, 2024, 07:25:19 am

Quote from: grateful on September 11, 2024, 05:02:03 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on October 19, 2020, 02:31:53 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ekon887U0AAvit7?format=jpg&name=small) (https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/1317909843005431809)

I don't think this got mentioned yet...

Steve Silberman

That one hurt.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 14, 2024, 02:44:14 pm

Tommy Cash, Johnny's brother

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 16, 2024, 02:41:42 am

Tito Jackson, Rebbie’s brother

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on September 20, 2024, 09:25:12 pm

JD Souther
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13862939/j-d-souther-dead-78-singer-songwriter-linda-ronstadt-eagles.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 23, 2024, 06:36:22 am

Benny Golson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on September 25, 2024, 12:01:27 pm

Cat Glover

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Got Haggis? on September 26, 2024, 08:05:19 am

Rams Head Live Baltimore

(Hey Seth)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on September 26, 2024, 10:57:15 am

Quote from: Got Haggis? on September 26, 2024, 08:05:19 am

Rams Head Live Baltimore

Saw 4 shows there, all in 2007: QOTSA, Social Distortion, Jay-Z and Morrissey. So fond memories of the place

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on September 26, 2024, 11:21:45 am

Rams Head Live??

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 26, 2024, 11:49:07 am

I don’t know how they were making it….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 27, 2024, 09:35:45 am

Maggie Smith

Though we still have lots of Smiths

But not THE Smiths

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 27, 2024, 09:48:25 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 27, 2024, 09:35:45 am

Maggie Smith

She probably saw Megalopolis and lost the will to live.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 27, 2024, 10:03:56 am

Quote from: Space Freely on September 27, 2024, 09:35:45 am

Maggie Smith

Though we still have lots of Smiths

But not THE Smiths

missing two members
(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/457307098_1495654618005556_8750673201919082492_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=_e-Slw3dINEQ7kNvgGmX5vD&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&_nc_gid=APZPnQXKYxeiU_YVhwaYWAm&oh=00_AYAu0qJOmsKT6nRmzu62X0ezraFxGs8EEK8mqVX9VSAKiw&oe=66FC9BD0)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 28, 2024, 11:03:27 am

Hassan Nasrallah

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 29, 2024, 06:59:46 pm

Kris Kristofferson (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/09/29/kris-kristofferson-actor-singer-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 29, 2024, 07:14:40 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on September 29, 2024, 06:59:46 pm

Kris Kristofferson (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/09/29/kris-kristofferson-actor-singer-dead/)

aw man, was just thinking of him as there is a great line that name drops KK on the new nick cave LP

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on September 29, 2024, 08:57:53 pm

Quote from: Hatch, guerrilla-poserll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 29, 2024, 07:14:40 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on September 29, 2024, 06:59:46 pm
Kris Kristofferson (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/09/29/kris-kristofferson-actor-singer-dead/)
aw man, was just thinking of him as there is a great line that name drops on the new nick cave LP

Kristofferson was the kind of guy for whom if he didn't like you, you were probably a piece of shit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 29, 2024, 09:48:10 pm

I just can’t imagine Cave singing that and don’t recall it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on September 29, 2024, 10:48:40 pm

That's right

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYrrzXCWAAArSIR?format=jpg&name=900x900)

Quote from: Justin Tonation on September 29, 2024, 08:57:53 pm

Quote from: Hatch, guerrilla-poserll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 29, 2024, 07:14:40 pm
Quote from: Justin Tonation on September 29, 2024, 06:59:46 pm
Kris Kristofferson (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/09/29/kris-kristofferson-actor-singer-dead/)
aw man, was just thinking of him as there is a great line that name drops on the new nick cave LP

Kristofferson was the kind of guy for whom if he didn't like you, you were probably a piece of shit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 30, 2024, 01:52:10 am

Don’t forget when Sinead got booed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on September 30, 2024, 08:50:59 am

Quote from: hutch on September 29, 2024, 09:48:10 pm

I just can’t imagine Cave singing that and don’t recall it

relisten to frogs on wild god

“In a shirt he hasn’t washed for years “ in a ref to Sunday morning coming down

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on September 30, 2024, 08:53:58 am

That I got..

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on September 30, 2024, 09:07:21 am

yeah, he was the real deal. Also really great: https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/music/what-happened-toby-keith-kris-kristofferson-altercation-story-willie-nelson-s-70th-birthday-explored-wake-country-star-s-death

Quote from: hutch on September 30, 2024, 01:52:10 am

Don’t forget when Sinead got booed

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 30, 2024, 01:12:13 pm

Dikembe Motumbo

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 30, 2024, 01:34:14 pm

Quote from: nkotb on September 30, 2024, 09:07:21 am

yeah, he was the real deal. Also really great: https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/music/what-happened-toby-keith-kris-kristofferson-altercation-story-willie-nelson-s-70th-birthday-explored-wake-country-star-s-death

Quote from: hutch on September 30, 2024, 01:52:10 am
Don’t forget when Sinead got booed

Neat story, but poorly written. When I tried to read it to my wife, she got impatient, started talking over me telling me to get to the point, and flipped me the bird.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on September 30, 2024, 01:43:41 pm

Yeah, i'm sure it was the article that did it

Quote from: Space Freely on September 30, 2024, 01:34:14 pm

Neat story, but poorly written. When I tried to read it to my wife, she got impatient, started talking over me telling me to get to the point, and flipped me the bird.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 30, 2024, 02:04:48 pm

Quote from: nkotb on September 30, 2024, 01:43:41 pm

Yeah, i'm sure it was the article that did it

Quote from: Space Freely on September 30, 2024, 01:34:14 pm
Neat story, but poorly written. When I tried to read it to my wife, she got impatient, started talking over me telling me to get to the point, and flipped me the bird.

You should see her at book readings.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on September 30, 2024, 07:32:08 pm

Pete Rose

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on September 30, 2024, 07:48:38 pm

Quote from: Julian, White Poet WARLORD on September 30, 2024, 07:32:08 pm

Pete Rose

A damn shame he's not in the Hall.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 01, 2024, 12:15:10 am

Yes it’s a damn shame he bet on baseball games where he was a Manager. Repeatedly. Think about how extreme that is….

Also he lied about it…repeatedly

And he admitted to banging a 16 year old girl….repeatedly

It’s hard to feel too sorry for him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 01, 2024, 12:20:31 am

Pete fell.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 01, 2024, 12:58:04 am

Quote from: hutch on October 01, 2024, 12:15:10 am

And he admitted to banging a 16 year old girl….repeatedly

He claims she was 16. She and many others claim the relationship started years earlier and crossed state lines. He’s literally quite lucky he didn’t spend decades in prison.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 01, 2024, 12:20:00 pm

John Ashton, 'Beverly Hills Cop' franchise's grumpy Detective Taggart, dies at 76

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on October 01, 2024, 02:49:14 pm

Frank Fritz - American Pickers

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/frank-fritz-dead-american-pickers-1236161501/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 01, 2024, 03:20:42 pm

John Amos, actor

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 01, 2024, 04:27:09 pm

Well, we do still have John Stamos.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 04, 2024, 03:24:03 pm

Jerry Miller singer and longest lasting original singer with The Untouchables America's first ska band

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 07, 2024, 01:05:14 pm

Legendary bassist, Flea

https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/flea-legendary-bassist-from-alton-dies-76300.cfm (https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/flea-legendary-bassist-from-alton-dies-76300.cfm)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 07, 2024, 01:20:40 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on October 07, 2024, 01:05:14 pm

Legendary bassist, Flea

https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/flea-legendary-bassist-from-alton-dies-76300.cfm (https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/flea-legendary-bassist-from-alton-dies-76300.cfm)

I'm interested in knowing more about Beef Curtains

He remembers being awoken by “blasting bagpipes played by a member of Beef Curtains” after a late night in Omaha, a wake-up call that Flea slept through.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 07, 2024, 02:29:56 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on October 07, 2024, 01:05:14 pm

Legendary bassist, Flea

https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/flea-legendary-bassist-from-alton-dies-76300.cfm (https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/flea-legendary-bassist-from-alton-dies-76300.cfm)

At least we still have legendary bassist, Flea

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 07, 2024, 07:05:47 pm

Cissy Houston

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 07, 2024, 07:15:27 pm

Johan Neeskens

Great great player just overshadowed by Cruyff

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 08, 2024, 09:15:38 pm

Luis Tiant

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 08, 2024, 09:59:53 pm

Nell Smith

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on October 10, 2024, 12:41:52 pm

Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on October 10, 2024, 01:01:48 pm

^ at least we still have ethel... ethel... nope, sorry, all out of ethels. extinction is rough.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 10, 2024, 01:01:57 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on October 10, 2024, 12:41:52 pm

Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert

there was a time that hutch and I were neighbors of her back in the 90s

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 10, 2024, 02:01:55 pm

...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 10, 2024, 03:03:38 pm

OMG, I had no idea the ellipses were even alive, now they are dead, what ever shall I do

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 10, 2024, 03:10:52 pm

Quote from: Multivisti-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 10, 2024, 03:03:38 pm

OMG, I had no idea the ellipses were even alive, now they are dead, what ever shall I do

Night of the Living Ellipses

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 16, 2024, 06:01:58 pm

Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dead at 31 (https://wtop.com/entertainment/2024/10/liam-payne-former-one-direction-member-dead-at-31/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 17, 2024, 07:26:28 am

My mom lives in that Buenos Aires neighborhood but she says she didn’t push him off the balcony.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on October 17, 2024, 04:51:32 pm

Mitzi Gaynor, 93

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 17, 2024, 04:53:10 pm

Quote from: hutch on October 17, 2024, 07:26:28 am

My mom lives in that Buenos Aires neighborhood but she says she didn’t push him off the balcony.

I hear it's "Trendy"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 17, 2024, 05:55:17 pm

Well truth be told it is..it’s called Palermo Hollywood and is 8 blocks from my mom’s place in Palermo. There is also a Palermo SoHo nearby. You get the idea. I saw Rico at a club in Palermo Hollywood.

To me to call something Palermo when it’s 15-20 blocks from the Palermo park (sort of our Central Park) is total bs but marketing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 21, 2024, 02:19:36 pm

Paul Di’Anno: Former Iron Maiden singer dies at 66
(sung on first two albums)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 23, 2024, 01:10:57 am

Fernando Valenzuela (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/10/23/fernando-valenzuela-pitcher-baseball-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 23, 2024, 07:37:16 am

Bad timing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on October 25, 2024, 03:30:49 pm

Phil Lesh

"What do you want me to do
To do for you to see you through?
A box of rain will ease the pain
And love will see you through"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 25, 2024, 03:51:52 pm

Quote from: Blow, me, Joey on October 25, 2024, 03:30:49 pm

Phil Lesh

"What do you want me to do
To do for you to see you through?
A box of rain will ease the pain
And love will see you through"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on October 25, 2024, 04:11:13 pm

😥

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on October 28, 2024, 01:07:04 pm

Cochise from “The Warriors”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on October 28, 2024, 06:30:35 pm

Morrissey

https://x.com/FilmLinc/status/1851025679292215800?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on October 29, 2024, 02:04:35 pm

(https://intheirownleague.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/yngfrnknstn-tg01.jpg?w=1005)

Teri Garr (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/10/29/teri-garr-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on October 29, 2024, 02:08:16 pm

My friend was molested by her. Ironically, he just died about 6 weeks ago himself.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on October 31, 2024, 10:07:54 pm

,,,
(3coMMa$)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 03, 2024, 03:33:19 pm

Kamala the elephant (https://wtop.com/dc/2024/11/kamala-beloved-asian-elephant-at-national-zoo-euthanized-after-failing-health/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 03, 2024, 04:37:53 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 03, 2024, 03:33:19 pm

Kamala the elephant (https://wtop.com/dc/2024/11/kamala-beloved-asian-elephant-at-national-zoo-euthanized-after-failing-health/)

At least we still have Kamala the president...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 03, 2024, 07:06:25 pm

So I have about 76 million as having voted early and/or by mail in ballot which is almost half of total voting last presidential election (155 million).

I am voting Tuesday which will be the first time I vote on election day since moving to Virginia (2012, 2016 and 2020 voted early).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 03, 2024, 08:30:37 pm

Sorry wrong thread

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 04, 2024, 07:18:45 am

Quincy Jones, 91

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 10, 2024, 01:00:11 pm

Bobby Allison

At least he got to see Trump re-elected.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 11, 2024, 12:22:01 am

Lou Donaldson

Saw him live about 15 years ago….great great show

He was 98 so one of the last links to a great era for jazz

I have a record he signed for me somewhere around here

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 12, 2024, 11:07:25 pm

Dorothy Allison

The woman from the Elvis song had gone into hiding.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 14, 2024, 11:38:18 am

Peanut, the social media star squirrel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 14, 2024, 07:48:04 pm

Shel Talmy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: More_Coffee on November 18, 2024, 12:43:38 pm

Malcolm Young

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 18, 2024, 12:47:31 pm

Quote from: More_Coffee on November 18, 2024, 12:43:38 pm

Malcolm Young

we salute you!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 18, 2024, 01:38:33 pm

Quote from: More_Coffee on November 18, 2024, 12:43:38 pm

Malcolm Young

7-Year Anniversary

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: More_Coffee on November 18, 2024, 10:28:04 pm

My bad!!
I just saw AC/DC's tweet. Didn't realize it was an anniversary thing.

A still-dead thread could be useful, if a bit long...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 19, 2024, 06:13:07 am

Vic Flick best known for the twangy riff on the James Bond Theme

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 19, 2024, 10:11:39 am

Arthur Frommer (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/11/18/arthur-frommer-travel-dead/), travel guide author

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 20, 2024, 02:25:58 am

Thomas Kurtz (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/11/19/thomas-kurtz-basic-computer-dead/), BASIC man

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on November 20, 2024, 11:11:43 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 14, 2024, 07:48:04 pm

Shel Talmy

How Shel Talmy created one of the most thrilling sounds in rock (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/11/15/shel-talmy-dead-appreciation/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 21, 2024, 05:50:42 am

Andy Paley, a power pop legend who collaborated with Brian Wilson, produced Jonathan Richman, NRBQ and Jerry Lee Lewis, and wrote songs for SpongeBob SquarePants.

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/andy-paley-brian-wilson-collaborator-spongebob-dead-1236216365/

He was also a staff producer at Sire and worked with Greenberry Woods among many others

This a bit of a bonkers bio

Soon renamed the Sidewinders, the band included future members of The Modern Lovers, including Jerry Harrison, who would go on to become a member of Talking Heads. They were joined by Billy Squier and relocated to New York where they played Max’s Kansas City and signed to RCA Records with Lenny Kaye producing. After the Sidewinders broke up, Paley played on sessions and performance dates with Elliott Murphy, Patti Smith and Jonathan Richman, for whose later recordings Paley would serve as producer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on November 21, 2024, 10:40:45 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 21, 2024, 05:50:42 am

Andy Paley, a power pop legend who collaborated with Brian Wilson, produced Jonathan Richman, NRBQ and Jerry Lee Lewis, and wrote songs for SpongeBob SquarePants.

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/andy-paley-brian-wilson-collaborator-spongebob-dead-1236216365/

He was also a staff producer at Sire and worked with Greenberry Woods among many others

This a bit of a bonkers bio

Soon renamed the Sidewinders, the band included future members of The Modern Lovers, including Jerry Harrison, who would go on to become a member of Talking Heads. They were joined by Billy Squier and relocated to New York where they played Max’s Kansas City and signed to RCA Records with Lenny Kaye producing. After the Sidewinders broke up, Paley played on sessions and performance dates with Elliott Murphy, Patti Smith and Jonathan Richman, for whose later recordings Paley would serve as producer.

With that CV I expected he would have been 80-something but he was only 72.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 21, 2024, 10:50:45 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on November 21, 2024, 10:40:45 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on November 21, 2024, 05:50:42 am
Andy Paley, a power pop legend who collaborated with Brian Wilson, produced Jonathan Richman, NRBQ and Jerry Lee Lewis, and wrote songs for SpongeBob SquarePants.

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/andy-paley-brian-wilson-collaborator-spongebob-dead-1236216365/

He was also a staff producer at Sire and worked with Greenberry Woods among many others

This a bit of a bonkers bio

Soon renamed the Sidewinders, the band included future members of The Modern Lovers, including Jerry Harrison, who would go on to become a member of Talking Heads. They were joined by Billy Squier and relocated to New York where they played Max’s Kansas City and signed to RCA Records with Lenny Kaye producing. After the Sidewinders broke up, Paley played on sessions and performance dates with Elliott Murphy, Patti Smith and Jonathan Richman, for whose later recordings Paley would serve as producer.

With that CV I expected he would have been 80-something but he was only 72.

Leaves behind a wife and twin 12 year olds. It always amazes me when 60 yr old men choose to have kids.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 21, 2024, 12:09:21 pm

Ultimately, men really only have so much “choice” in whether or not to have kids?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on November 21, 2024, 12:13:14 pm

Quote from: Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT on November 21, 2024, 12:09:21 pm

Ultimately, men really only have so much “choice” in whether or not to have kids?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF_dB09IVAI

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on November 21, 2024, 12:13:41 pm

Quote from: Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT on November 21, 2024, 12:09:21 pm

Ultimately, men really only have so much “choice” in whether or not to have kids?

Erm. It takes two.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: More_Coffee on November 21, 2024, 12:37:40 pm

It's hard to judge at 60. Lots of people are reasonably active into their 90s now.

But then, having kids at 90, yeah, that'd be a bit different (though great if everything still works at 90).

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 21, 2024, 01:07:43 pm

Quote from: More_Coffee on November 21, 2024, 12:37:40 pm

It's hard to judge at 60. Lots of people are reasonably active into their 90s now.

But then, having kids at 90, yeah, that'd be a bit different (though great if everything still works at 90).

How sure was the active 90 year old about how his health was going to be when he was 60? At 57, I feel like I'm going to live a lot longer based on my current lifestyle, but what do I know? My dad was dead at 57 and his dad was dead at 52.

And overall, American life expectancy is going down.

Anyway, I did recognize the name. I didn't realize how much great music he had his hands in.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 21, 2024, 01:43:19 pm

Mind your own beeswax

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 21, 2024, 01:52:30 pm

Quote from: grateful on November 21, 2024, 12:13:41 pm

Quote from: Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT on November 21, 2024, 12:09:21 pm
Ultimately, men really only have so much “choice” in whether or not to have kids?

Erm. It takes two.

Correct but you know what I’m saying. There’s a way to terminate a pregnancy and a man cannot (and obviously should not) be able to make that decision for someone else.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 21, 2024, 01:53:05 pm

Quote from: nkotb on November 21, 2024, 12:13:14 pm

Quote from: Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT on November 21, 2024, 12:09:21 pm
Ultimately, men really only have so much “choice” in whether or not to have kids?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF_dB09IVAI

One of my favorite lines from a movie all time. A++.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 21, 2024, 08:34:45 pm

al Pacino had a kid at 84!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 21, 2024, 10:40:14 pm

Quote from: Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 21, 2024, 08:34:45 pm

al Pacino had a kid at 84!

Space wants to get up in his urethra and understand how this happened.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 21, 2024, 11:06:55 pm

Nothing against Andy Paley (RIP) but to call him a legend…come on now….that’s laughable

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 22, 2024, 11:04:57 am

Quote from: hutch on November 21, 2024, 11:06:55 pm

Nothing against Andy Paley (RIP) but to call him a legend…come on now….that’s laughable

Kosmo didn't call him a legend, he called him a "power pop legend." See the difference?

And if you read the article, you saw that Brian Wilson called him a "genius." So there's that.

He was described by Wilson as “the most frighteningly talented person that I’ve met and the greatest musical genius I’ve come across in many years… maybe my whole life.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 22, 2024, 11:28:44 am

for the record Stephen Thomas Erlewine called him a Power Pop Legend, I'm guilty of pilfering on that one. Was going to say he had "well respected" status as a producer. But, writing songs for Spongebob Squarepants = LEGEND.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 22, 2024, 11:39:37 am

True that. Ween are legends…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 22, 2024, 12:33:07 pm

Quote from: Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT on November 21, 2024, 10:40:14 pm

Quote from: Dejecty-hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 21, 2024, 08:34:45 pm
al Pacino had a kid at 84!
Space wants to get up in his urethra and understand how this happened.

I once stood in the urinal next to Jon Langford at a club in Chicago and the rumors are true.

I have no insight into Al Pacino's urethra. Hopefully he's around the help the kid with their AP Stats homework.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 22, 2024, 12:39:31 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 22, 2024, 12:33:07 pm

I once stood in the urinal next to Jon Langford at a club in Chicago and the rumors are true.

As a person who has no earthy idea who Jon Langford is, this is one of the funniest sentences I've ever seen typed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 22, 2024, 12:55:25 pm

Quote from: Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT on November 22, 2024, 12:39:31 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 22, 2024, 12:33:07 pm
I once stood in the urinal next to Jon Langford at a club in Chicago and the rumors are true.
As a person who has no earthy idea who Jon Langford is, this is one of the funniest sentences I've ever seen typed.

Besides being the artist of the art work on my Dogfish Head t shirt and also being a Cynthia Plaster Caster model, he's also the leader of the Mekons, the Waco Brothers, and numerous other music projects.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on November 22, 2024, 12:56:57 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on November 22, 2024, 12:55:25 pm

Quote from: Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT on November 22, 2024, 12:39:31 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on November 22, 2024, 12:33:07 pm
I once stood in the urinal next to Jon Langford at a club in Chicago and the rumors are true.
As a person who has no earthy idea who Jon Langford is, this is one of the funniest sentences I've ever seen typed.

Besides being the artist of the art work on my Dogfish Head t shirt and also being a Cynthia Plaster Caster model, he's also the leader of the Mekons, the Waco Brothers, and numerous other music projects.

Oh man, I didn't want to know. Comedy is gossamer and one should not dissect gossamer.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 22, 2024, 12:57:30 pm

He’s a legend!! Someone said so.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 24, 2024, 07:39:41 am

Chuck Woolery

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on November 24, 2024, 08:35:40 am

Quote from: hutch on November 24, 2024, 07:39:41 am

Chuck Woolery

One less MAGA. RIP.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 24, 2024, 10:12:02 am

Quote from: hutch on November 24, 2024, 07:39:41 am

Chuck Woolery

didn’t you tell me that your family would always watch the Love connection together

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 24, 2024, 12:19:50 pm

Didn’t everybody?

What a show!!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 25, 2024, 01:20:57 pm

Nick Drake 50 years ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on November 25, 2024, 01:24:29 pm

This is how I find out!?!?!?!

Quote from: hutch on November 25, 2024, 01:20:57 pm

Nick Drake 50 years ago.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 25, 2024, 01:30:02 pm

I’m sorry man!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on November 29, 2024, 02:02:59 pm

Actor Julien Arnold dies on stage while performing A Christmas Carol

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on November 29, 2024, 10:10:43 pm

Will Cullen Hart Co-Founder of Elephant6 and member of Olivia Tremor Control

He passed away suddenly today when two new Olivia Tremor Control songs had just been released.

Further details

https://www.facebook.com/100001902709158/posts/27740061178973933/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 30, 2024, 12:51:17 am

Bummer

MS is a bitch….

Will always treasure discovering that first Olivia Tremor Control record

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on November 30, 2024, 02:00:52 pm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Bryar

Wow…nobody checked on him in three weeks?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 04, 2024, 01:07:00 pm

Brian Thompson, CEO UnitedHealthcare

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 04, 2024, 01:12:47 pm

Crazy…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 04, 2024, 01:33:01 pm

holy sprockets... is the US turning into russia?

The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was a “brazen, targeted attack,” NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters Wednesday, noting that the gunman was “lying in wait” for several minutes as he anticipated his intended target.

(https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/1000158817.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill/f_webp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 04, 2024, 01:37:11 pm

If it were Fifth Ave my my money would be on Trump but since it was Sixth Avenue, no clue.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 04, 2024, 01:38:28 pm

Naaah in Russia he would have fallen out of a window in his hotel room

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 04, 2024, 01:46:24 pm

tea is popular, too, for such purposes...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 04, 2024, 02:42:19 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 04, 2024, 01:33:01 pm

holy sprockets... is the US turning into russia?

The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was a “brazen, targeted attack,” NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters Wednesday, noting that the gunman was “lying in wait” for several minutes as he anticipated his intended target.

(https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/1000158817.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill/f_webp)

I mean, isn't this what happened to John Lennon like 40+ years ago?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 04, 2024, 02:47:52 pm

We are a far more violent country than Russia. Sweetcell just letting his anti-Russia sentiments loose.

By the way Sweets, how is Ukraine going? They still going to win?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 04, 2024, 03:26:27 pm

I read an article about Ukraine that said 200,000 conscripts had deserted…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 06, 2024, 06:17:06 pm

Whoever this person is that killed the United Healthcare CEO he seems to have had it all pretty well thought out and stayed remarkably in control under pressure. Not many mistakes…dropping his mask though…

I can’t believe they haven’t found the backpack. That almost makes me think he might have met someone in park who took it from him?

NYC just said they think he left town and have no idea where he went.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 06, 2024, 06:51:04 pm

I have to know what the woman he took the mask off to flirt with at the hostel looked like. It’s the only piece of this story I care about. We have all stopped what we are doing to holla at some shorty, but during an otherwise well-carried out assassination plot? I have to know what she looked like! For science!

I mean shooters gonna shoot their shot but this is next level.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 06, 2024, 08:14:10 pm

They found the backpack!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 06, 2024, 08:15:33 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 06, 2024, 08:14:10 pm

They found the backpack!

Does it have the hostel gal’s headshot in it!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 06, 2024, 08:18:12 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 06, 2024, 08:14:10 pm

They found a backpack!

FTFY

It was unclear if the items were connected to the gunman, but the location was along what might have been a potential escape route as he cycled through Central Park after the shooting early Wednesday morning. (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/nyregion/unitedhealthcare-ceo-gunman-backpack.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on December 07, 2024, 09:24:29 am

By far my favorite article about the killing

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/internet-sleuths-say-wont-help-find-unitedhealthcare-ceo-suspect-rcna183228

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 07, 2024, 11:14:20 am

Yes I just came here to post the link…

Definitely food for thought

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 07, 2024, 11:25:50 am

Quote from: nkotb on December 07, 2024, 09:24:29 am

By far my favorite article about the killing

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/internet-sleuths-shttps://i.imgur.com/N4Cq6R9.jpegay-wont-help-find-unitedhealthcare-ceo-suspect-rcna183228

saw this making the rounds

(https://i.imgur.com/N4Cq6R9.jpeg)

First the Orcas, now the people, not a good time to be a resident of JA

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 07, 2024, 12:32:27 pm

We will be fine. The moats have held this long.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 07, 2024, 06:14:57 pm

Quote from: nkotb on December 07, 2024, 09:24:29 am

By far my favorite article about the killing

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/internet-sleuths-say-wont-help-find-unitedhealthcare-ceo-suspect-rcna183228

the blowback against the health insurance industry has been insane. a number of companies have removed any mention of their leadership and org structure from their websites - they must assume the torch-and-pitchfork crowd can't look up required SEC filings?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 08, 2024, 09:56:49 am

LinkedIn exists as well

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 10, 2024, 02:47:46 pm

Nikki Giovanni

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on December 11, 2024, 01:33:01 pm

The Amazing Kreskin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on December 16, 2024, 04:36:43 pm

Zakir Hussain :'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 17, 2024, 12:47:57 am

this will be meaningful to maybe 4 people on here, but:

Cirka

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 17, 2024, 09:11:34 am

Quote from: sweetcell on December 17, 2024, 12:47:57 am

this will be meaningful to maybe 4 people on here, but:

Cirka

My sincere condolences. A life well lived!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 17, 2024, 09:43:24 am

Quote from: sweetcell on December 17, 2024, 12:47:57 am

this will be meaningful to maybe 4 people on here, but:

Cirka

Sorry for your loss.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 17, 2024, 01:53:49 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on December 17, 2024, 12:47:57 am

this will be meaningful to maybe 4 people on here, but:

Cirka

so half of the people here

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on December 17, 2024, 03:06:53 pm

^ lol

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 18, 2024, 07:48:07 pm

Slim Dunlap

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on December 19, 2024, 06:49:03 pm

Quote from: hutch on December 18, 2024, 07:48:07 pm

Slim Dunlap

I love this performance

https://youtu.be/N5CaagwSYGk

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 21, 2024, 08:24:16 pm

Ricky Henderson

Too young!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 22, 2024, 12:24:23 am

Oh no he was the best!!!

So much fun to watch!!

What a ball player!!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 22, 2024, 01:15:49 pm

Ricky Henderson was an un-duplicatable player. There will never be another. Bummer, man.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 23, 2024, 07:41:20 am

Ms “Le freak”

Alfa Anderson, Chic Lead Vocalist, Dead at 78

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 23, 2024, 10:09:02 am

NOT 37 people on death row

Abolish the death penalty

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 23, 2024, 10:58:15 am

Quote from: SideThatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on December 23, 2024, 10:09:02 am

NOT 37 people on death row

Abolish the death penalty

Flying like flies?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 23, 2024, 02:32:14 pm

Didn’t know Chic had a “lead vocalist “…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 27, 2024, 09:05:09 pm

Greg Gumball

At least we still have his brother Bryant

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 28, 2024, 01:14:30 am

OG Maco

(Posted for Yada while he is away)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on December 28, 2024, 04:33:26 pm

Paul Bamba

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 29, 2024, 05:10:13 pm

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/JimmyCarterPortrait2.jpg/440px-JimmyCarterPortrait2.jpg)

President Jimmy Carter (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/12/29/jimmy-carter-president-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 30, 2024, 02:54:29 am

Charles Dolan, HBO founder, dies at 98 (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/29/charles-dolan-hbo-dead)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on December 30, 2024, 03:04:17 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on December 30, 2024, 02:54:29 am

Charles Dolan, HBO founder, dies at 98 (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/29/charles-dolan-hbo-dead)

Please, this is (something in the general range of) an obituary. Show some respect and use his legal name: Charles Dolan, MAX founder, first of his un-SEO-ability

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on December 30, 2024, 11:02:27 am

Alice (not the one on the Brady Bunch)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on December 30, 2024, 11:08:35 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 30, 2024, 11:02:27 am

Alice (not the one on the Brady Bunch)

Restaurant owner (https://www.opb.org/article/2024/11/25/the-real-alice-of-arlo-guthries-alices-restaurant-dies-at-83/)?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 31, 2024, 07:39:06 pm

Juliet (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/12/31/olivia-hussey-actress-juliet-dies/)

Olivia Hussey, who found teen stardom in ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ dies at 73

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on December 31, 2024, 08:24:20 pm

Quote from: grateful on December 30, 2024, 11:08:35 am

Quote from: Space Freely on December 30, 2024, 11:02:27 am
Alice (not the one on the Brady Bunch)

Restaurant owner (https://www.opb.org/article/2024/11/25/the-real-alice-of-arlo-guthries-alices-restaurant-dies-at-83/)?

Linda Lavin (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/arts/linda-lavin-dead.html), geez guys...

Of the original "Alice" sitcom cast, only Polly Holliday, who played Flo, is still alive. Even Alice's kid is dead.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 03, 2025, 11:48:03 am

Wayne Osmond (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/02/osmonds-wayne-osmond-donny/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 03, 2025, 11:10:39 pm

Brenton Wood, the soul singer and songwriter known for catchy, upbeat hits like 'The Oogum Boogum Song' and 'Gimme Little Sign,' has died at 83.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on January 05, 2025, 04:24:46 pm

The Vivienne. Drag Star ICON and LEGEND.

So sad, he was only 32.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 07, 2025, 09:03:44 am

While we're mourning Jimmy Carter, MAGA will have someone to mourn...

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 07, 2025, 09:11:16 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 07, 2025, 09:03:44 am

While we're mourning Jimmy Carter, MAGA will have someone to mourn...

Jean-Marie Le Pen

I get the point you’re making but the idea that MAGA people would identify, much less like, any French politician (even one they ideologically align with on much) is giving them so so so much credit.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 07, 2025, 09:18:44 am

Quote from: Space Freely on January 07, 2025, 09:03:44 am

While we're mourning Jimmy Carter, MAGA will have someone to mourn...

Jean-Marie Le Pen

well that's Emotional Frostbite (my new band name) knowing Marine is still around

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 07, 2025, 01:45:49 pm

Peter Yarrow.

At least we still have Paul ~~and Mary~~

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on January 07, 2025, 10:30:56 pm

Former Oriole Pitcher Brian Matusz. He was 37. So sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 07, 2025, 10:43:04 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on January 07, 2025, 10:30:56 pm

Former Oriole Pitcher Brian Matusz. He was 37. So sad.

Terrible

😢

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on January 08, 2025, 09:02:46 am

Derrick Ward

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 08, 2025, 11:14:01 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 03, 2025, 11:10:39 pm

Brenton Wood, the soul singer and songwriter known for catchy, upbeat hits like 'The Oogum Boogum Song' and 'Gimme Little Sign,' has died at 83.

Been listening to some of Brenton Woods output recently and "Gimme Little Sign" is seriously stuck in my head at the moment. Stephen Thomas Erlewine once opined

It's hard not to hear Brenton Wood's biggest hit, "Gimme Little Sign," and not be convinced that it very well might be the greatest single ever cut. It relies on no one thing -- the song is slinky, surprising, and seductive, blessed with a perfect production (the organ break in the middle is positively, eerily beautiful) and a wonderful, understated performance by Wood, who proves with his smooth, sure-handed delivery that he is one of the finest soul singers of his generation.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 09, 2025, 10:37:21 pm

Anita Bryant (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/09/anita-bryant-dead/)

Yeah, I thought she was already, too.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 09, 2025, 10:56:08 pm

Quote from: Justin Tonation on January 09, 2025, 10:37:21 pm

Anita Bryant (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/09/anita-bryant-dead/)

Yeah, I thought she was already, too.

And if she was alive, would have thought much older given how long out of the spotlight.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 10, 2025, 10:54:18 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on January 07, 2025, 10:30:56 pm

Former Oriole Pitcher Brian Matusz. He was 37. So sad.

2,000

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 11, 2025, 12:12:19 am

Sam Moore, Half of Dynamic Soul Duo Sam & Dave, Is Dead at 89 (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/arts/music/sam-moore-dead.html)
Mr. Moore and Dave Prater stormed the R&B and pop charts with indelible hits like “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Comin’.”

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 15, 2025, 09:53:14 am

Peter Forrest aka P. Fluid of the band 24-7 Spyz age 64

found beaten to death in an a ambulette we was driving in NYC

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 15, 2025, 10:00:42 am

Damn..that’s cooold

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on January 15, 2025, 10:24:24 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 15, 2025, 09:53:14 am

Peter Forrest aka P. Fluid of the band 24-7 Spyz age 64

found beaten to death in an a ambulette we was driving in NYC

That is awful. One of the first shows I saw at 9:30 was 24-7 Spyz with Lucy Brown opening. Great memory

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 15, 2025, 11:55:07 am

Quote from: Mobius on January 15, 2025, 10:24:24 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 15, 2025, 09:53:14 am
Peter Forrest aka P. Fluid of the band 24-7 Spyz age 64

found beaten to death in an a ambulette we was driving in NYC

That is awful. One of the first shows I saw at 9:30 was 24-7 Spyz with Lucy Brown opening. Great memory

He dropped out of the band after 1990.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on January 15, 2025, 03:57:39 pm

Jeez, this is jogging my memory but that rings a bell . . . there was new singer (and another new member) for that show (in early 1991)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 16, 2025, 12:03:58 pm

Bob Uecker (https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/bob-uecker-dies-at-90-iconic-brewers-broadcaster-called-games-for-54-years-starred-in-major-league/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 16, 2025, 12:25:19 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on January 16, 2025, 12:03:58 pm

Bob Uecker (https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/bob-uecker-dies-at-90-iconic-brewers-broadcaster-called-games-for-54-years-starred-in-major-league/)

Show some respect: it's spelled Euchre.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 16, 2025, 12:44:50 pm

Thought he was already gone,

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 16, 2025, 02:28:02 pm

David Lynch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 16, 2025, 02:33:51 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 16, 2025, 02:28:02 pm

David Lynch

Ugh, my favorite (until recently) living artist. I was very worried with the emphysema and having to vacate for the fires that this would happen. Fuck.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: frippy on January 16, 2025, 02:36:48 pm

This sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on January 16, 2025, 02:37:54 pm

Here, lies, one of the greatest to do the art.

Wow, Bob, Wow.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: frippy on January 16, 2025, 02:38:06 pm

Sad to hear about David Lynch.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 16, 2025, 02:42:32 pm

After Bowie, I said the only two celebrity deaths that could rattle me would be Lynch and Neil Young and I have been profoundly dreading this day since the emphysema announcement last year. Going to go for a walk.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 16, 2025, 03:25:26 pm

Mike Hynson, "Endless Summer" surfer (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/15/mike-hynson-surfer-endless-summer-dies/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on January 16, 2025, 04:46:42 pm

IMO someone like David Lynch shouldn't die

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 16, 2025, 05:05:50 pm

Quote from: nkotb on January 16, 2025, 04:46:42 pm

IMO someone like David Lynch shouldn't die

Did he play in the Jesus Lizard?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on January 16, 2025, 05:13:24 pm

No but David Yow is also on the Shouldn't Die list

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on January 16, 2025, 06:27:24 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 16, 2025, 02:28:02 pm

David Lynch

RIP

Those first two seasons of Twins Peaks were pure genius

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 16, 2025, 07:22:02 pm

Quote from: Bagley on January 16, 2025, 06:27:24 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on January 16, 2025, 02:28:02 pm
David Lynch

RIP

Those first two seasons of Twins Peaks were pure genius

The third one might be the greatest season of television ever created.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on January 17, 2025, 12:10:19 am

Gotta light?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on January 17, 2025, 01:07:42 am

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on January 17, 2025, 12:39:25 pm

Quote from: Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT on January 16, 2025, 07:22:02 pm

Quote from: Bagley on January 16, 2025, 06:27:24 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on January 16, 2025, 02:28:02 pm
David Lynch

RIP

Those first two seasons of Twins Peaks were pure genius
The third one might be the greatest season of television ever created.

Still have the complete series, which I burned on VHS, safely tucked away in my basement

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on January 17, 2025, 12:58:20 pm

Quote from: Bagley on January 17, 2025, 12:39:25 pm

Quote from: Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT on January 16, 2025, 07:22:02 pm
Quote from: Bagley on January 16, 2025, 06:27:24 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on January 16, 2025, 02:28:02 pm
David Lynch

RIP

Those first two seasons of Twins Peaks were pure genius
The third one might be the greatest season of television ever created.

Still have the complete series, which I burned on VHS, safely tucked away in my basement

Grounds for divorce threats in some households.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 17, 2025, 01:18:30 pm

I may or may not still have a copy of the first season of Twin Peaks I dubbed from VHS to BETA removing the commercials

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 17, 2025, 01:29:25 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 17, 2025, 01:18:30 pm

I may or may not still have a copy of the first season of Twin Peaks I dubbed from VHS to BETA removing the commercials

Vansmack is incapacitated by the stroke he just suffered.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on January 17, 2025, 01:46:36 pm

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e98QtGWotv8/mqdefault.jpg)

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 17, 2025, 01:18:30 pm

I may or may not still have a copy of the first season of Twin Peaks I dubbed from VHS to BETA removing the commercials

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 17, 2025, 03:30:24 pm

Quote from: Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT on January 17, 2025, 01:29:25 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 17, 2025, 01:18:30 pm
I may or may not still have a copy of the first season of Twin Peaks I dubbed from VHS to BETA removing the commercials
Vansmack is incapacitated by the stroke he just suffered.

so my takeaway from this is that i should neglect to say i'm currently using Foobar2000 to listen to a CD located in an external drive?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on January 17, 2025, 07:51:56 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 17, 2025, 03:30:24 pm

Quote from: Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT on January 17, 2025, 01:29:25 pm
Quote from: kosmo vinyl on January 17, 2025, 01:18:30 pm
I may or may not still have a copy of the first season of Twin Peaks I dubbed from VHS to BETA removing the commercials
Vansmack is incapacitated by the stroke he just suffered.

so my takeaway from this is that i should neglect to say i'm currently using Foobar2000 to listen to a CD located in an external drive?

The man has a child who is going to grow up without a father!! Why are you doing this!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 20, 2025, 10:45:27 am

Pluto TV is currently streaming Twin Peaks (https://pluto.tv/live-tv/613260e4bdb71c00070d63fa?utm_source=plutotv&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=1000201&utm_content=1000735&utm_content_description=pluto_share&referrer=copy-link) (with commercials) on their "More TV Drama" channel.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 20, 2025, 12:09:22 pm

Cecile Richards

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 20, 2025, 12:31:50 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 20, 2025, 12:09:22 pm

Cecile Richards

though, we still have keef

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 21, 2025, 10:54:06 am

Garth Hudson 87 last living member of The Band

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on January 21, 2025, 11:14:21 am

Jules Feiffer (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/21/jules-feiffer-cartoonist-humorist-pulitzer-dead/), political cartoonist

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on January 21, 2025, 02:24:24 pm

John Sykes, Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy guitarist, dies aged 65 (https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/entertainment/john-sykes-guitarist-dies-intl-scli/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on January 22, 2025, 07:56:53 am

CDepot

We are sad to announce the closing of CDepot. Serving music to Maryland for more than 30 years. We are having a closing sale, 50% off all CDs, DVDs & Blu-rays. 40% off all vinyl. We will be closed permanently at the end of February. We hope you continue to rock on.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 22, 2025, 06:30:18 pm

Barry Goldberg

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on January 30, 2025, 03:03:18 pm

Marianne Faithfull

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on January 30, 2025, 03:39:51 pm

Quote from: hutch on January 30, 2025, 03:03:18 pm

Marianne Faithfull

her role in some of the iconic happenings in the 60s is crazy

In Hickey's 500songs.com podcast (people this is really essential listening if you have not started)

he discusses in detail during the 3 part Sympathy episodes

“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” was written by Jagger alone without Richards, and according to some sources it was inspired by Marianne Faithfull, and was a plea to her to stop using heroin

then later when Brian Jones dies...

Faithfull looked at her own reflection, with her hair cut in a boyish style for her role in the film, and saw Brian Jones’ face staring back at her. She decided to take her own life, and took a massive overdose of sleeping pills.

Luckily, Jagger discovered her in time, and she eventually made a full recovery, but she spent six days in a coma. When she woke up, Jagger was by her bedside, saying he thought he’d lost her. Her reply was “Wild horses couldn’t drag me away”.

allegedly the inspiration for the lyric

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on January 31, 2025, 10:42:21 am

Dick Button (https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/dick-button-the-pioneering-godfather-of-figure-skating-dies-at-95/ar-AA1ybobO?ocid=BingNewsSerp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on February 06, 2025, 03:53:57 pm

Virginia Halas
Bears principal owner Virginia McCaskey has passed away at the age of 102, the team announced today.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 06, 2025, 07:55:49 pm

Irv Gotti

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 08, 2025, 07:04:17 pm

Tony Roberts

Am sad….was so great in Annie Hall

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 09, 2025, 12:31:48 am

Dave Jerden

(Producer of Nothings Shocking)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 09, 2025, 12:07:55 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 09, 2025, 12:31:48 am

Dave Jerden

(Producer of Nothings Shocking)

sadly had no idea who his name was, but his contribution to janes and all of alternative music owes a lot of debt
they were kind of a mess as humans at that time and the production of that album is IMO one of the best
yes it's polished, but I don't think it would have been as accessible if it wasn't
I believe that album was a tipping point in music

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 09, 2025, 03:13:57 pm

Nothing's Shocking is one of my all time favorite albums, like top 10 for sure, and I pretty much hate everything else Perry Farrell has done.

Guess I'm just saying I'm agreeing with whatever props you are giving it.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 09, 2025, 04:24:47 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on February 09, 2025, 03:13:57 pm

Nothing's Shocking is one of my all time favorite albums, like top 10 for sure, and I pretty much hate everything else Perry Farrell has done.

Guess I'm just saying I'm agreeing with whatever props you are giving it.

couldn't agree more
Ritual is decent, but not even in top 250 albums for me, where as NS (and the live album) are definitely top 25 for me
all his solo and other janes work is just meh

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on February 09, 2025, 06:46:17 pm

What a run Dave Jerden had ….

1980: Remain in Light - Talking Heads (engineer, mixing)
1981: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - David Byrne/Brian Eno (engineer)
1983: Future Shock - Herbie Hancock (engineer, mixing)
1984: The Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Red Hot Chili Peppers (engineer)
1988: Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
1989: Mother's Milk - Red Hot Chili Peppers (mixing)
1990: Social Distortion - Social Distortion
1990: Ritual de lo Habitual - Jane's Addiction
1990: Facelift - Alice In Chains
1991: The Reality of My Surroundings - Fishbone
1992: Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell - Social Distortion
1992: Dirt - Alice in Chains

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 09, 2025, 07:10:23 pm

Some of my most favorite albums are on that list that Eno/Byrne album is a legit desert island album and definitely those two SxDX albums

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 13, 2025, 06:22:50 pm

We are slipping

Tom Robbins

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 13, 2025, 06:30:54 pm

At least we still have…

Wait. Is Tim Robbins still alive?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 13, 2025, 09:04:59 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 13, 2025, 06:22:50 pm

Tom Robbins

Still Life with Woodpecker hit me hard for some reason.
I don't even remember the story
but just a feeling of getting up to the top of a ridge and seeing a whole new valley
don't think I read any of his others

Quote from: grateful on February 13, 2025, 06:30:54 pm

At least we still have…

Wait. Is Tim Robbins still alive?

for I second, I thought that is who hutch was refereeing to!
so glad to know he is still with us

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 14, 2025, 01:39:37 pm

at first i thought this was about tony robbins, the square-jawed self-help grifter

(https://www.mensjournal.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MTk2MTM2MzQ5MjQzMTU1NjAx/tony-robbins-e310465e-cae9-4ba9-9b96-9987047f10d8.webp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 14, 2025, 01:47:15 pm

I did think about him

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 18, 2025, 03:41:36 pm

Rick Buckler aged 69
:'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 18, 2025, 03:55:13 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 18, 2025, 03:41:36 pm

69

Nice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 18, 2025, 08:33:00 pm

Quote from: Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT on February 18, 2025, 03:55:13 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on February 18, 2025, 03:41:36 pm
69
Nice.

just for you, jules: i got this a moment ago on my authenticator app:

(https://i.imgur.com/VTKf6rG.png)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 18, 2025, 08:42:32 pm

^^ Nice.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 19, 2025, 12:49:03 pm

The creator of Nutella, Francesco Rivella, has died on Valentine’s Day at the age of 97

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 19, 2025, 12:59:59 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 19, 2025, 12:49:03 pm

The creator of Nutella, Francesco Rivella, has died on Valentine’s Day at the age of 97

I heard there was quite the spread at the wake.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 19, 2025, 02:03:25 pm

More like oldtella, amirite?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 19, 2025, 02:34:08 pm

urite!!!111

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 19, 2025, 02:40:10 pm

this dead man no-tella no tales

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 20, 2025, 01:32:04 pm

Bond…..James Bond

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 20, 2025, 02:06:45 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 20, 2025, 01:32:04 pm

Bond…..James Bond

I think Amazon will exploit the shit out of this franchise, expect a bond movie yearly, maybe even a tv series

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 20, 2025, 02:24:52 pm

Quote from: hAtchsIde lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 20, 2025, 02:06:45 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 20, 2025, 01:32:04 pm
Bond…..James Bond
I think Amazon will exploit the shit out of this franchise, expect a bond movie yearly, maybe even a tv series

I’m down for six seasons and a movie of Moneypenny in Paris as long as no one grows any ill-conceived bangs.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on February 20, 2025, 02:37:02 pm

Quote from: hAtchsIde lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 20, 2025, 02:06:45 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 20, 2025, 01:32:04 pm
Bond…..James Bond
I think Amazon will exploit the shit out of this franchise, expect a bond movie yearly, maybe even a tv series

Goldfinger prequel where we see that Goldfinger is actually a sympathetic character and his plan to raid Fort Knox was in our best interest

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on February 20, 2025, 02:59:34 pm

Or remake the movie except Bond is trying to raid Fort Knox and the villainous government employee is trying to stop him

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 20, 2025, 03:01:38 pm

Oddjob spinoff?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 20, 2025, 03:13:26 pm

I’m hoping Q will get his own franchise

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 20, 2025, 03:14:40 pm

Reality show to pick next Bond girl?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 20, 2025, 03:32:19 pm

Quote from: hAtchsIde lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 20, 2025, 03:13:26 pm

I’m hoping Q will get his own franchise

Whats the bangs situation going to be.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 20, 2025, 04:19:09 pm

Quote from: Mobius on February 20, 2025, 02:59:34 pm

Or remake the movie except Bond is trying to raid Fort Knox and the villainous government employee is trying to stop him

not believable enough (https://www.axios.com/2025/02/20/fort-knox-gold-trump-musk)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 20, 2025, 05:01:09 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 20, 2025, 04:19:09 pm

Quote from: Mobius on February 20, 2025, 02:59:34 pm
Or remake the movie except Bond is trying to raid Fort Knox and the villainous government employee is trying to stop him

not believable enough (https://www.axios.com/2025/02/20/fort-knox-gold-trump-musk)

absosmurfly nuts, this new season of USA SUX

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 20, 2025, 05:19:20 pm

These clowns are going to use every trick in the book to try to fudge the numbers

I wonder why our gold is valued at $40 when market price is like $3000/oz?

I shudder at what these jackasses will do

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 20, 2025, 05:23:24 pm

Saw this and wonder why they were thowing shade on JA endorsed entity

that means the Fort Knox gold has a market value of $434 billion, more than the market value of Europe’s most valuable public company, Tiffany and Louis Vuitton parent LVMH.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 20, 2025, 05:25:47 pm

Quote from: hAtchsIde lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 20, 2025, 05:23:24 pm

Saw this and wonder why they were thowing shade on JA endorsed entity

that means the Fort Knox gold has a market value of $434 billion, more than the market value of Europe’s most valuable public company, Tiffany and Louis Vuitton parent LVMH.

It is declared: we shall summer in Elizabethtown!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 20, 2025, 09:39:13 pm

USPS as an independent agency

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 20, 2025, 09:58:25 pm

Quote from: Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT on February 20, 2025, 05:25:47 pm

Quote from: hAtchsIde lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 20, 2025, 05:23:24 pm
Saw this and wonder why they were thowing shade on JA endorsed entity

that means the Fort Knox gold has a market value of $434 billion, more than the market value of Europe’s most valuable public company, Tiffany and Louis Vuitton parent LVMH.
It is declared: we shall summer in Elizabethtown!

930 forum: come for the just announced shows, stay for the geography lessons

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 20, 2025, 11:39:31 pm

Quote from: hutch on February 20, 2025, 01:32:04 pm

Bond…..James Bond

(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/480979878_1037442701747039_3919182044364420814_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=jtIia5SaJKEQ7kNvgHsPxf1&_nc_oc=Adg8NLRk_LZE-kM2ouQ_FxmHieaHOShH9kBwlYDZ957BAA4Hf1JC0lRFSH9Yia7ruQ8&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&_nc_gid=Aj3VYW-CEnW-cROGAwOYRQ4&oh=00_AYAuVF-pQ74O89Ru33UR6lWOdgLcwl5-0eo2_DxzgCVctg&oe=67BDB963)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 21, 2025, 12:55:30 pm

Jerry “The Iceman” Butler original lead singer of The Impressions aged 85

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 22, 2025, 08:37:11 am

Lynne Marie Stewart

Likely best known as Ms. Yvonne “Most Beautiful Woman in Puppet Land”

(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/peewee/images/e/eb/Tumblr_ldg0n9VaI21qa2rjoo1_500.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on February 22, 2025, 09:29:15 am

It's never anyone we want, is it? I mean Kissinger was the last good one, and I have to read a history book to remember why I should be happy he died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 22, 2025, 10:56:28 am

It’s hard to feel Kissinger got robbed living to a spry 100….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 23, 2025, 04:25:38 pm

Joy Reid on msnbc

Not a fan

Too bad though it feels like anti-Trump voice being silenced

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on February 23, 2025, 05:45:47 pm

we have a belly up thread, for a second I thought she died and they were says nasty things

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 23, 2025, 06:38:55 pm

I couldn’t find it

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 24, 2025, 12:02:28 pm

Roberta Flack

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 24, 2025, 12:44:52 pm

Lynne Marie Stewart, Miss Yvonne on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Dead at 78 (https://www.vulture.com/article/lynne-marie-stewart-pee-wees-playhouse-its-always-sunny-dead.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 24, 2025, 10:23:34 pm

Rough week for fans of soul/funk music

Chris Jasper keyboards and key songwriter for the Isley Brothers and later Isley/Jasper/Isley aged 73 after being diagnosed with cancer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on February 24, 2025, 10:39:54 pm

Not a singer I’m familiar with, but hutch might know of him

Ken Parker

While at Studio One, he recorded singles such as "Choking Kind", "Run Come", and "My Whole World is Falling Down", and an album, Keep Your Eyes on Jesus, followed in 1968. He moved on to work with Duke Reid, who produced hits including "Jimmy Brown", "Help Me Make it Through the Night", and "Kiss an Angel Good Morning". His popularity continued to grow and he recorded for other producers including Bunny Lee ("Guilty"), Rupie Edwards ("Talk About Love"), Byron Lee ("Will the Circle be Unbroken"), Lloyd Charmers ("Queen Majesty"), and Joe Gibbs ("Only Yesterday").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Parker_(musician)?wprov=sfti1#Biography

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 25, 2025, 09:40:48 am

I haven’t bought his compilation on Trojan though I iheld it in my hands many times. I just assumed he would be that light pop reggae which I don’t care for….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on February 26, 2025, 11:01:11 am

Larry Appelbaum, jazz explorer and DJ, dies at 67 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/02/26/larry-appelbaum-wpfw-host-dead/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 26, 2025, 11:50:34 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on February 26, 2025, 11:01:11 am

Larry Appelbaum, jazz explorer and DJ, dies at 67 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/02/26/larry-appelbaum-wpfw-host-dead/)

This is the guy that discovered the Monk/Coltrane live recording about 20 years ago. Was a big story

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 26, 2025, 02:53:44 pm

Buffy’s sister

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on February 26, 2025, 03:05:05 pm

^ Michelle Trachtenberg, of ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ dead at 39 (https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/entertainment/michelle-trachtenberg-death/index.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 26, 2025, 03:38:53 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 26, 2025, 03:05:05 pm

^ Michelle Trachtenberg, of ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ dead at 39 (https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/entertainment/michelle-trachtenberg-death/index.html)

Not going to lie. As a person who still believed he would, at some point in his life, have a brief but fruitful . . . let's say "dalliance" . . . with this person, I'm kinda a mess right now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on February 26, 2025, 03:39:30 pm

TELL JESUS THE BITCH IS BACK will forever live rent free in my head.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on February 27, 2025, 06:32:18 am

Gene Hackman, wife, dog.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on February 27, 2025, 07:18:44 am

Quote from: grateful on February 27, 2025, 06:32:18 am

Gene Hackman, wife, dog.

What news to wake up to.

In an age of McQueen Redford and Newman, Gene Hackman was refreshing. He was perfectly believable in any role and was missed when he retired. Unlike say a Tom Hanks who also has range he didn’t awaken a desire to punch him in the face.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 01, 2025, 11:39:21 am

Quote from: Space Freely on February 22, 2025, 09:29:15 am

It's never anyone we want, is it? I mean Kissinger was the last good one, and I have to read a history book to remember why I should be happy he died.

Ugh

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 01, 2025, 12:06:40 pm

David Johansen

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 01, 2025, 04:34:49 pm

Angie Stone

Killed in a car crash 63

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 01, 2025, 04:50:55 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 01, 2025, 12:06:40 pm

David Johansen

:'(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 01, 2025, 04:52:17 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on March 01, 2025, 04:34:49 pm

Angie Stone

Killed in a car crash 63

OMG.

(Did not realize she was that old or had been in the Sequence)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 02, 2025, 12:15:32 pm

Joey Molland

Last living member of Badfinger has died.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on March 02, 2025, 05:25:00 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 01, 2025, 12:06:40 pm

David Johansen

RIP

NY Dolls Personality Crisis on Midnight Special 1973.

https://youtu.be/nrdqX_auyPc

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 03, 2025, 08:57:34 pm

Carl Dean (Dolly’s husband)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 05, 2025, 12:35:28 pm

Rep. Sylvester Turner, just hours after the SOTU.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 05, 2025, 12:37:09 pm

F’ing Trump

Dude is 👿!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 05, 2025, 12:42:09 pm

It's so cool that he died in office after replacing Sheila Jackson Lee...who died in office.

Quote from: Space Freely on March 05, 2025, 12:35:28 pm

Rep. Sylvester Turner, just hours after the SOTU.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 05, 2025, 12:44:27 pm

Very fitting….even inspiring I would say

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 05, 2025, 02:43:32 pm

Quote from: nkotb on March 05, 2025, 12:42:09 pm

It's so cool that he died in office after replacing Sheila Jackson Lee...who died in office.

Quote from: Space Freely on March 05, 2025, 12:35:28 pm
Rep. Sylvester Turner, just hours after the SOTU.

Yikes I would be nervous to fill that seat

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 05, 2025, 10:01:17 pm

Roy Ayers 84

Also

Friends of Distinction founder, “Grazing In The Grass” singer Harry Elston dies at 86

That one got almost no coverage, even Wikipedia hasn’t been updated

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 06, 2025, 05:48:25 pm

Brian James

Original guitar player with the Damned 76 to 78, later Lords of the New Church and others

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 06, 2025, 07:03:38 pm

Damn

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 07, 2025, 03:43:43 pm

D'Wayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Tone! aged 64

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on March 07, 2025, 03:46:44 pm

Which was D'wayne? Tony!, Toni!, or Tone!?

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on March 07, 2025, 03:43:43 pm

D'Wayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Tone! aged 64

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 07, 2025, 03:57:58 pm

ok i did look this one up but it really just the name of the group.

Originally, the band went by "Tony, Toni, Toné" as a joke, until they realized it "had a nice ring to it"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 07, 2025, 07:23:45 pm

Francisco (Feiwel) Wichter

https://www.clarin.com/sociedad/murio-99-anos-francisco-wichter-ultimo-sobreviviente-lista-schindler_0_uktq7ObM4t.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawI4XuNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWx_ZuGCuur1xOZ5qAPVNjvho1yoDx3L51SxdI9bs0FfzYQaFS-uFANv-w_aem_mHI8fss89J10YnnVSIIzkw#Echobox=1741286221

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on March 07, 2025, 07:28:54 pm

Stealing Tony valor. Despicable

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on March 07, 2025, 03:57:58 pm

Originally, the band went by "Tony, Toni, Toné" as a joke, until they realized it "had a nice ring to it"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 09, 2025, 05:01:15 pm

Bob Rupe, bassist

The Silos (remember them?), Gutterball, Cracker.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 11, 2025, 11:12:42 am

Cocoa Tea

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 11, 2025, 11:19:30 am

Quote from: hutch on March 11, 2025, 11:12:42 am

Cocoa Tea

thankfully we still have cocoa beans
not sure I could handle that disapearing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 11, 2025, 12:18:33 pm

Quote from: hAtchsIde lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 11, 2025, 11:19:30 am

Quote from: hutch on March 11, 2025, 11:12:42 am
Cocoa Tea
thankfully we still have cocoa beans
not sure I could handle that disapearing

you might want to sit down for this one... (https://www.confectionerynews.com/Article/2024/03/26/Future-of-cocoa-under-threat-as-prices-skyrocket-due-to-bean-shortages/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 11, 2025, 02:21:31 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 11, 2025, 12:18:33 pm

Quote from: hAtchsIde lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 11, 2025, 11:19:30 am
Quote from: hutch on March 11, 2025, 11:12:42 am
Cocoa Tea
thankfully we still have cocoa beans
not sure I could handle that disapearing

you might want to sit down for this one... (https://www.confectionerynews.com/Article/2024/03/26/Future-of-cocoa-under-threat-as-prices-skyrocket-due-to-bean-shortages/)

DUDDDDDDDDDDDEEEE!

According to Bloomberg, cocoa beans are more expensive than copper in the commodities market

Sidefi is issuing a BUY on Cocao Beans

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 11, 2025, 02:29:27 pm

Quote from: hAtchsIde lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 11, 2025, 02:21:31 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 11, 2025, 12:18:33 pm
Quote from: hAtchsIde lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on March 11, 2025, 11:19:30 am
Quote from: hutch on March 11, 2025, 11:12:42 am
Cocoa Tea
thankfully we still have cocoa beans
not sure I could handle that disapearing

you might want to sit down for this one... (https://www.confectionerynews.com/Article/2024/03/26/Future-of-cocoa-under-threat-as-prices-skyrocket-due-to-bean-shortages/)
DUDDDDDDDDDDDEEEE!

According to Bloomberg, cocoa beans are more expensive than copper in the commodities market

Sidefi is issuing a BUY on Cocao Beans

the missus works for a global food & bev company, and is a choco-holic, so the imminent demise of the chocolate industry has been a regular topic of conversion/doom-chat in the sweetcell household for a while now. at some point cacao will join the ranks of caviar (someone please notify JA)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 11, 2025, 02:33:25 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on March 11, 2025, 02:29:27 pm

at some point cacao will join the ranks of caviar (someone please notify JA)

We've been stockpiling the purest of beans for years. Every couple of months we all get together to decide what commodity to monopolize and make scarce and who will win the next awards show. What did you think was causing this? Natural market forces!? lol

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 11, 2025, 03:13:26 pm

well, i thought it was climate change, but i've been (prep) schooled!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 11, 2025, 03:16:58 pm

"I've been (finishing) schooled" would've been the better joke but still that's a solid B.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on March 13, 2025, 02:52:26 pm

John Feinstein

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 13, 2025, 05:57:56 pm

Raul Grijalva

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 13, 2025, 05:58:10 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on March 13, 2025, 02:52:26 pm

John Feinstein

What!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 13, 2025, 05:59:30 pm

Quote from: hutch on March 13, 2025, 05:58:10 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on March 13, 2025, 02:52:26 pm
John Feinstein

What!?

He’s deceased — that’s what this thread is for.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 13, 2025, 06:13:14 pm

Yeah I get that…just weird…from natural causes..seemed totally fine on the junkies all last year

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 17, 2025, 09:28:57 pm

Jesse Colin Young, the Youngbloods frontman who sang 'Get Together,' has died at 83.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 22, 2025, 12:00:32 am

an epitaph like this is undeniable proof of a life well lived:

George Foreman, Boxing Champion and Grilling Magnate, Dies at 76 (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/sports/george-foreman-dead.html)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 22, 2025, 12:14:48 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 22, 2025, 12:00:32 am

an epitaph like this is undeniable proof of a life well lived:

George Foreman, Boxing Champion and Grilling Magnate, Dies at 76 (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/sports/george-foreman-dead.html)

Hello, grilling magnate world! That shift you felt? It was Julian entering your gaping opening.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on March 22, 2025, 12:38:33 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 22, 2025, 12:00:32 am

an epitaph like this is undeniable proof of a life well lived:

George Foreman, Boxing Champion and Grilling Magnate, Dies at 76 (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/sports/george-foreman-dead.html)

At least we still have George Foreman, George Foreman, George Foreman, George Foreman, and George Foreman.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on March 22, 2025, 12:52:53 am

That Foreman Grill, changed my life during my 20s.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 22, 2025, 12:59:21 am

Quote from: Blow, me, Joey on March 22, 2025, 12:52:53 am

That Foreman Grill, changed my life during my 20s.

Sexually? Don’t leave us hanging (dong)!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 22, 2025, 12:59:46 am

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 22, 2025, 12:14:48 am

It was Julian entering your gaping opening.

didn't last time you tried something like that result in a restraining order?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on March 22, 2025, 01:00:02 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on March 22, 2025, 12:38:33 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 22, 2025, 12:00:32 am
an epitaph like this is undeniable proof of a life well lived:

George Foreman, Boxing Champion and Grilling Magnate, Dies at 76 (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/sports/george-foreman-dead.html)

At least we still have George Foreman, George Foreman, George Foreman, George Foreman, and George Foreman.

POTM

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 22, 2025, 01:08:23 am

Quote from: sweetcell on March 22, 2025, 12:59:46 am

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on March 22, 2025, 12:14:48 am
It was Julian entering your gaping opening.

didn't last time you tried something like that result in a restraining order?

Girrr,rrr,rrl,lllll.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 24, 2025, 11:32:39 am

Mia Love

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 26, 2025, 07:51:41 pm

Terry Manning producer and engineer at Ardent Studios

https://x.com/ardentstudios/status/1905007794903728314?s=46&t=81bsTFbar0Jl_mHBl9WnuA

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on March 29, 2025, 10:13:00 am

Young Scooter

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on March 29, 2025, 11:38:40 am

Quote from: Yada on March 29, 2025, 10:13:00 am

Young Scooter

On his birthday no less.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on March 30, 2025, 04:00:29 pm

Richard Chamberlan - 90

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on March 30, 2025, 06:35:26 pm

I think we missed Herb Greene

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on March 30, 2025, 07:07:33 pm

Did we get Herb Ritts?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 02, 2025, 01:40:44 am

Val Kilmer (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/04/02/val-kilmer-batman-top-gun-jim-morrison/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 02, 2025, 07:20:01 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 02, 2025, 01:40:44 am

Val Kilmer (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/04/02/val-kilmer-batman-top-gun-jim-morrison/)

such a sad ending
The documentary Val is a great watch

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 02, 2025, 09:26:33 am

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 02, 2025, 01:40:44 am

Val Kilmer (https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/04/02/val-kilmer-batman-top-gun-jim-morrison/)

~~At least we still have Van Morrison~~

whoops

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 04, 2025, 12:18:47 am

Michael Hurley

My only exposure is Yo La tengo cover of Polynesia which is fantastic of course but I been hearing a lot of good things about him for years.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 04, 2025, 04:05:51 pm

Disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died at age 94 (https://wtop.com/national/2025/04/disgraced-former-cardinal-theodore-mccarrick-has-died/)

Anyway, as I was saying, Wawa donuts are surprisingly good.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 04, 2025, 04:49:39 pm

Amadou

What a bummer

https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/pop-culture/amadou-of-malian-blind-music-duo-amadou-mariam-dies-aged-70/ar-AA1CjV5r?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Bagley on April 04, 2025, 04:56:58 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 04, 2025, 04:49:39 pm

Amadou

What a bummer

https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/pop-culture/amadou-of-malian-blind-music-duo-amadou-mariam-dies-aged-70/ar-AA1CjV5r?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Oh no. That' s so sad. Poor Mariam.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 06, 2025, 03:37:22 pm

Dave Allen - Gang of Four original bassist

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 06, 2025, 11:35:26 pm

Dennis the Menace (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jay-north-dead-dennis-the-menace-1236182969/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 07, 2025, 10:15:13 am

Clem Burke (https://www.brooklynvegan.com/clem-burke-the-heartbeat-of-blondie-has-died/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 07, 2025, 10:18:44 am

Oh no. Met him once after a show ….really nice man

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on April 07, 2025, 11:09:42 am

Really sad about Clem. Saw him with Blondie, then saw him again with the Split Squad in a bar in Delaware. He always brought power to what he did...great drummer and seemed like a good guy.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 07, 2025, 01:05:17 pm

Clem was a great follow on the bird site if only because of all the bands he was playing with, sure seemed like he was the busiest man in rock and roll.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 07, 2025, 04:25:03 pm

Dennis the Menace (Jay North).

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/04/06/jay-north-death-dennis-the-menace/82968434007/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 07, 2025, 04:33:28 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on April 07, 2025, 04:25:03 pm

Dennis the Menace (Jay North).

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/04/06/jay-north-death-dennis-the-menace/82968434007/

Quote from: Justin Tonation on April 06, 2025, 11:35:26 pm

Dennis the Menace (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jay-north-dead-dennis-the-menace-1236182969/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 07, 2025, 04:34:13 pm

oops. My bad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 07, 2025, 06:48:31 pm

Thunderclap Newman
3/29/2016

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 07, 2025, 08:23:39 pm

Al Barile

https://www.revolvermag.com/music/al-barile-hardcore-pioneer-and-guitarist-for-ssd-has-died/

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 09, 2025, 03:44:09 pm

Jack Fitzgerald (https://mocoshow.com/2025/04/09/jack-fitzgerald-founder-of-fitzgerald-auto-malls-has-passed-away/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 12, 2025, 07:19:21 am

Max Romeo

https://www.dancehallmag.com/2025/04/11/news/reggae-legend-max-romeo-dead-at-80.html

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 12, 2025, 10:52:44 am

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on April 12, 2025, 07:19:21 am

Max Romeo

https://www.dancehallmag.com/2025/04/11/news/reggae-legend-max-romeo-dead-at-80.html

That’s a big one. Bummer. He actually played the old club!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 14, 2025, 04:15:14 am

Mario Vargas Llosa

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 15, 2025, 01:27:57 pm

Jed the Fish (https://abc7.com/post/jed-fish-gould-longtime-kroq-radio-dj-los-angeles-dies-69/16172227/)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 15, 2025, 02:24:14 pm

Quote from: hutch on April 14, 2025, 04:15:14 am

Mario Vargas Llosa

First married his uncle's sister in law. Then married his first cousin, with whom he had three children. Once punched Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the face.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 15, 2025, 10:19:42 pm

Wink Martindale

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 17, 2025, 02:22:07 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on February 26, 2025, 03:05:05 pm

^ Michelle Trachtenberg, of ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ dead at 39 (https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/entertainment/michelle-trachtenberg-death/index.html)

diabetes complications (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrg6e2xgj6o)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 17, 2025, 03:01:07 pm

That can happen..I knew a once healthy guy who had diabetes and he lost his leg, got cancer like a few times and died at about 52. It just ate him up.

Life can be so cruel.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on April 18, 2025, 09:07:49 am

Elaine Wynn. I,con.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 21, 2025, 05:02:11 am

Pope Francis
https://www.cnn.com/webview/world/live-news/pope-francis-death-04-21-25

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 21, 2025, 05:03:24 am

Yeah what a bummer…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 21, 2025, 05:16:51 am

I woke up about 20 minutes ago like I felt a disturbance of the force.

It was weird as just 14 hours ago was talking about that weird picture of the Pope with Vice President Vance….

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on April 21, 2025, 10:40:08 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 15, 2025, 10:19:42 pm

Wink Martindale

I didn't know he had an ole timey, spoken word career, back in the day.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 21, 2025, 11:13:36 pm

Quote from: walk, on bye on April 21, 2025, 10:40:08 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on April 15, 2025, 10:19:42 pm
Wink Martindale

I didn't know he had an ole timey, spoken word career, back in the day.

He was also a rider for the Pony Express!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 22, 2025, 09:30:59 am

Quote from: off-season santa on April 21, 2025, 11:13:36 pm

Quote from: walk, on bye on April 21, 2025, 10:40:08 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on April 15, 2025, 10:19:42 pm
Wink Martindale

I didn't know he had an ole timey, spoken word career, back in the day.

He was also a rider for the Pony Express!

He's also Michigan's defensive coordinator!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 22, 2025, 11:29:40 am

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 22, 2025, 09:30:59 am

Quote from: off-season santa on April 21, 2025, 11:13:36 pm
Quote from: walk, on bye on April 21, 2025, 10:40:08 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on April 15, 2025, 10:19:42 pm
Wink Martindale

I didn't know he had an ole timey, spoken word career, back in the day.

He was also a rider for the Pony Express!
He's also Michigan's defensive coordinator!

he invented gunpowder!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Justin Tonation on April 22, 2025, 02:09:11 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 22, 2025, 11:29:40 am

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 22, 2025, 09:30:59 am
Quote from: off-season santa on April 21, 2025, 11:13:36 pm
Quote from: walk, on bye on April 21, 2025, 10:40:08 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on April 15, 2025, 10:19:42 pm
Wink Martindale

I didn't know he had an ole timey, spoken word career, back in the day.

He was also a rider for the Pony Express!
He's also Michigan's defensive coordinator!
he invented gunpowder!

He coined "doughnut". The rest is history. It's a shame that Dunkin' has erased him.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 22, 2025, 04:01:01 pm

with all this make wink up history, I did learn something new and moderately interesting

The gameboard, designed by Bob Bishop of Apple Computer, was driven by nine Apple II computers, each one responsible for displaying a single box of the gameboard, and in turn controlled by an Altair 8800 system. It was one of the first uses of computer graphics on a television game show.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 22, 2025, 04:23:36 pm

Made up?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on April 22, 2025, 04:31:54 pm

Gurrrrl, I made nothing up.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 22, 2025, 04:35:07 pm

Michigan’s Defensive coordinator is literally named Wink Martindale. He held Ohio State to 10 points last fall. I have never told a joke in my life.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 22, 2025, 04:51:35 pm

How many Winks Martindale could the world possibly have?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 22, 2025, 05:00:19 pm

Quote from: off-season santa on April 22, 2025, 04:51:35 pm

How many Winks Martindale could the world possibly have?

At least two of consequence.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 22, 2025, 06:39:02 pm

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 22, 2025, 04:35:07 pm

Michigan’s Defensive coordinator is literally named Wink Martindale. He held Ohio State to 10 points last fall. I have never told a joke in my life.

lol
Don "Wink" Martindale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Martindale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Martindale)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on April 22, 2025, 07:52:17 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 22, 2025, 06:39:02 pm

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on April 22, 2025, 04:35:07 pm
Michigan’s Defensive coordinator is literally named Wink Martindale. He held Ohio State to 10 points last fall. I have never told a joke in my life.
lol
Don "Wink" Martindale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Martindale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Martindale)

He may have something, there.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 22, 2025, 08:21:52 pm

Roy Thomas Baker

Queen (including Bohemian Rhapsody) and the Cars producer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 22, 2025, 09:45:36 pm

https://paleofuture.com/blog/2016/11/4/the-guy-from-that-1960s-film-1999-ad-has-endorsed-donald-trump

Maga Wink

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 24, 2025, 06:54:07 am

David Thomas
Pere Ubu and rocket from the tombs

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 24, 2025, 08:20:12 am

Quote from: BarelyHatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 24, 2025, 06:54:07 am

David Thomas
Pere Ubu and rocket from the tombs

Saw Pere Ubu and Miracle Legion open for the Pixies in London, July 1989. Only time I saw any of those bands. I suppose he could have served as a Black Francisco body double.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 24, 2025, 08:36:19 am

I do like Dubhousing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on April 25, 2025, 03:11:28 pm

Lulu Roman

At least we still have poorlulu, who i guess we could refer to as Lulu Scottish.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on April 27, 2025, 08:26:44 am

Bianca Castro AKA Jiggly Caliente, from Rupaul's Drag Race and overall, FUCKING ICON, has joined the creator on April 27, 2025.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on April 28, 2025, 07:57:21 pm

Stan Love - basketball player
But we still have Mike Love - asshole brother

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 28, 2025, 11:03:50 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on April 28, 2025, 07:57:21 pm

Stan Love - basketball player
But we still have Mike Love - asshole brother

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d9/05/23/d90523a84fbd64b9b663e85f1a9d1ef5.jpg)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 29, 2025, 07:41:54 am

Mike Peters

(Unconfirmed but being reported)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on April 29, 2025, 08:43:27 am

Quote from: hutch on April 29, 2025, 07:41:54 am

Mike Peters

(Unconfirmed but being reported)

damn, what a battle this man has waged with cancer
just a short while ago it looked like he'd beat it yet again

His show at the State is a fond memory for me
One of the first bands I saw live (Stonybrook university of all places)

never knew this, but probably good they decided to change the name
started band The Toilets in Rhyl in 1977, after seeing the Sex Pistols play in Chester.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on April 29, 2025, 09:58:11 am

Quote from: hutch on April 29, 2025, 07:41:54 am

Mike Peters

(Unconfirmed but being reported)

I interviewed Mike close to 30 years ago...he was doing a show at the Bayou, and I spent a lot of time with him in his dressing room. He was one of the most alive, vibrant, and kind human beings I've ever met. If you met that guy, he had an immediate and lasting impact on you. He was the real deal. Loved life, loved what he did, and never once seemed ungrateful for a moment of any of it. All these years later, I still remember wondering how someone could be so put together, but also authentic. Because to me that was what struck me...it wasn't an act. That's just who he was. It didn't matter I was a writer for a college paper. He just wanted to make me feel like I was welcome to hang with him and chat. So this does make me very sad. A friend's 23-year-old daughter died last week. And an old school 9:30 employee has terminal brain cancer...I'm just feeling like there's a lot of stuff happening that doesn't seem fair or just. It sucks.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on April 29, 2025, 11:43:48 am

Quote from: hutch on April 29, 2025, 07:41:54 am

Mike Peters

(Unconfirmed but being reported)

now confirmed :(

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: rich_WDC on April 29, 2025, 12:09:41 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 29, 2025, 11:43:48 am

Quote from: hutch on April 29, 2025, 07:41:54 am
Mike Peters

(Unconfirmed but being reported)

now confirmed :(

A short rush of nostalgia for me when seeing him perform at a benefit at Pearl Street in early 2019 since -- besides that '95 Bayou show -- it had been close to thirty years since the heyday of the band. Great, great memories of him from that era.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on April 29, 2025, 10:52:56 pm

Didn’t realize he died from lymphoma

The Alarm for a while seemed ready to conquer the world. A new U2. It didn’t happen. They just plateaued. Same kind of happened with Big Country although I never thought of them as U2-like.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on April 30, 2025, 11:35:59 am

As I recall, in late 1987 there was a ton of prime new (or newish) music from the eras heaviest hitters - U2 Joshua Tree, New Order Substance, Cure Kiss Me Kiss Kiss Me, INXS Kick, REM Document, Smiths Strangeways, Depeche Mode Music for the Masses etc

. . . And the Alarm’s Rain in the Summertime may have been the best song of the time at the time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on April 30, 2025, 04:19:15 pm

Seymour Weiner (https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/seymour-weiner-world-war-ii-vet-and-beloved-mets-fan-dies/ar-AA1DStZ3?ocid=BingNewsSerp)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on April 30, 2025, 04:59:58 pm

Quote from: shemptiness on April 30, 2025, 04:19:15 pm

Seymour Weiner (https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/seymour-weiner-world-war-ii-vet-and-beloved-mets-fan-dies/ar-AA1DStZ3?ocid=BingNewsSerp)

The walky thread is >>>>

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 01, 2025, 08:45:14 am

Andy Bey

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 01, 2025, 08:54:29 am

Damn, why does it always have to be an obscure musician and not a prominent politician or one of their fascist staffers?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on May 01, 2025, 09:01:10 am

(https://y.yarn.co/ac455078-c260-43e8-a072-a17f6714bee8_text.gif)

Quote from: Space Freely on May 01, 2025, 08:54:29 am

Damn, why does it always have to be an obscure musician and not a prominent politician or one of their fascist staffers?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 01, 2025, 07:49:07 pm

Jill Sobule died in a house fire.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 01, 2025, 08:14:14 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 01, 2025, 07:49:07 pm

Jill Sobule died in a house fire.

Ooof

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 01, 2025, 08:16:22 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 01, 2025, 08:14:14 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 01, 2025, 07:49:07 pm
Jill Sobule died in a house fire.

Ooof

Double Ooof.

Her oeuvre always resonated with me deeply as a child of the 90s who has also kissed a girl.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 01, 2025, 08:19:08 pm

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 01, 2025, 08:16:22 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 01, 2025, 08:14:14 pm
Quote from: hutch on May 01, 2025, 07:49:07 pm
Jill Sobule died in a house fire.

Ooof
Double Ooof.

Her oeuvre always resonated with me deeply as a child of the 90s who has also kissed a girl.

I went to her IG page where 48 hrs ago she was posting about a bad back/sciatica which then takes my mind to thinking she was trapped and/or couldn't move to get out of the fire.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 01, 2025, 09:03:32 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 01, 2025, 08:19:08 pm

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 01, 2025, 08:16:22 pm
Quote from: Yada on May 01, 2025, 08:14:14 pm
Quote from: hutch on May 01, 2025, 07:49:07 pm
Jill Sobule died in a house fire.

Ooof
Double Ooof.

Her oeuvre always resonated with me deeply as a child of the 90s who has also kissed a girl.

I went to her IG page where 48 hrs ago she was posting about a bad back/sciatica which then takes my mind to thinking she was trapped and/or couldn't move to get out of the fire.

Guys, we have achieved Triple Ooof.

I repeat: I fear we are at Triple Ooof.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 01, 2025, 09:07:27 pm

Quote from: Yada on May 01, 2025, 08:19:08 pm

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 01, 2025, 08:16:22 pm
Quote from: Yada on May 01, 2025, 08:14:14 pm
Quote from: hutch on May 01, 2025, 07:49:07 pm
Jill Sobule died in a house fire.

Ooof
Double Ooof.

Her oeuvre always resonated with me deeply as a child of the 90s who has also kissed a girl.

I went to her IG page where 48 hrs ago she was posting about a bad back/sciatica which then takes my mind to thinking she was trapped and/or couldn't move to get out of the fire.

She did play Millennium Stage fairly recently.

Edit: Also at Wolftrap ( opening for the Foxx) 4/16 and in Illinois on 4/25.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 02, 2025, 11:03:24 am

Ruth Buzzi.

I don't think we have any more Buzzis.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 02, 2025, 12:32:35 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on May 02, 2025, 11:03:24 am

Ruth Buzzi.

I don't think we have any more Buzzis.

Oh man :(

We barely have any more Ruths!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 02, 2025, 12:43:01 pm

I've already told this story, but I'm old and can say it's cognitive decline causing me to repeat myself.

Growing up, I had two female bus drivers. Both were named Ruth. And my junior high and senior high study hall monitors shared the same first and last name ( same last name as me.)

Patterson Hood has a daughter whose middle name is Ruth. Maybe there's hope with the younger generation.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on May 02, 2025, 03:16:39 pm

It was a yawn-fest the first time you told that story.

Quote from: Space Freely on May 02, 2025, 12:43:01 pm

I've already told this story, but I'm old and can say it's cognitive decline causing me to repeat myself.

Growing up, I had two female bus drivers. Both were named Ruth. And my junior high and senior high study hall monitors shared the same first and last name ( same last name as me.)

Patterson Hood has a daughter whose middle name is Ruth. Maybe there's hope with the younger generation.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 02, 2025, 03:19:26 pm

Seriously

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 04, 2025, 12:26:28 am

Starcadian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 04, 2025, 09:56:44 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on May 02, 2025, 03:16:39 pm

It was a yawn-fest the first time you told that story.

Quote from: Space Freely on May 02, 2025, 12:43:01 pm
I've already told this story, but I'm old and can say it's cognitive decline causing me to repeat myself.

Growing up, I had two female bus drivers. Both were named Ruth. And my junior high and senior high study hall monitors shared the same first and last name ( same last name as me.)

Patterson Hood has a daughter whose middle name is Ruth. Maybe there's hope with the younger generation.

Tell us about yet another boring Billy Strings show.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on May 04, 2025, 10:01:27 am

Nm.

Quote from: Space Freely on May 04, 2025, 09:56:44 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on May 02, 2025, 03:16:39 pm
It was a yawn-fest the first time you told that story.

Quote from: Space Freely on May 02, 2025, 12:43:01 pm
I've already told this story, but I'm old and can say it's cognitive decline causing me to repeat myself.

Growing up, I had two female bus drivers. Both were named Ruth. And my junior high and senior high study hall monitors shared the same first and last name ( same last name as me.)

Patterson Hood has a daughter whose middle name is Ruth. Maybe there's hope with the younger generation.

Tell us about yet another boring Billy Strings show.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 09, 2025, 09:55:30 am

Justice David Souter

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on May 11, 2025, 01:43:40 pm

(https://pa1.aminoapps.com/5954/0b71478560dabe980c58159b24d38cb39c182dad_00.gif)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 13, 2025, 06:54:14 pm

Former Uruguayan President José Mujica

He earned admiration at home and cult status abroad for legalizing marijuana and same-sex marriage, enacting the region’s first sweeping abortion rights law and establishing Uruguay as a leader in alternative energy.

also
As leader of a violent leftist guerrilla group in the 1960s known as the Tupamaros, Mujica robbed banks, planted bombs and abducted businessmen and politicians on Montevideo’s streets in hopes of provoking a popular uprising that would lead to a Cuban-style socialist Uruguay.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 13, 2025, 11:06:52 pm

That’s too bad but he was very ill.

You won’t hear me say that about any other former leftist terrorist.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 14, 2025, 08:44:33 am

Article on Mujica

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j71402z58o

I am very fond of Uruguay. Would be a good place to retire…

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 14, 2025, 02:44:04 pm

that's impressive
He escaped from prison twice

this too
unlike other leaders in the region, he was never accused of corruption or of undermining his country's democracy. (wish we could say the same)

that was a great article, thanks for sharing

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 15, 2025, 12:42:02 pm

Jacky Blacgue - Singer with My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult and member of The Bomb Gang Girlz

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 16, 2025, 02:17:22 pm

Junior Byles

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 16, 2025, 02:26:11 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 16, 2025, 02:17:22 pm

Junior Byles

At least we still have Simone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 16, 2025, 02:30:04 pm

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 16, 2025, 02:26:11 pm

Quote from: hutch on May 16, 2025, 02:17:22 pm
Junior Byles
At least we still have Simone.

I don't think they're related. They spell their last names differently.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 16, 2025, 02:33:51 pm

Quote from: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 16, 2025, 02:30:04 pm

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 16, 2025, 02:26:11 pm
Quote from: hutch on May 16, 2025, 02:17:22 pm
Junior Byles
At least we still have Simone.

I don't think they're related. They spell their last names differently.

Your white privilege is showing.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 20, 2025, 04:16:20 pm

George Wendt away.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 20, 2025, 09:20:27 pm

I did not expect a George Wendt MusicSky crossover today. But he was an acknowledged fan of The Minutemen and appeared in a documentary about Replacement fans.

Cross posting this to the walkie thread

Bill Janovitz member of Buffalo Tom shared this..

At a Buffalo Tom gig at Town & Country in London in the '90s, J Mascis was hanging w/us in the dressing room in his typically laconic way. But then George Wendt popped his head in to say hello, J rose out of his chair and exclaimed, “NORM!” I've never seen him as animated before or since. RIP NORM!

https://bsky.app/profile/billjanovitz.bsky.social/post/3lpmzgjllj22n

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on May 21, 2025, 08:47:51 am

Glenn Soukesian

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 21, 2025, 09:59:42 am

Quote from: walk, on bye on May 21, 2025, 08:47:51 am

Glenn Soukesian

He will be missed.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: walk, on bye on May 21, 2025, 10:03:49 am

Deeply

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on May 21, 2025, 01:22:25 pm

Gerry Connolly, cut down in his prime

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 21, 2025, 01:27:47 pm

That’s not a nice thing to say

May not have been his prime at 75 but he was doing right by his constituents

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on May 21, 2025, 01:36:28 pm

I don't know...seems that not hanging onto an office while you are dying isn't "right" by your constituents.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 21, 2025, 01:40:15 pm

We are all human. People forget that it’s normal as you get old to lie to yourself and think you are better than you are. My dad and Joe Biden are great examples. We are humans not robots

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 21, 2025, 01:48:09 pm

It’s not as if his district is competitive and a MAGA has a chance

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 21, 2025, 01:52:26 pm

Now RBG…don’t get me started

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 21, 2025, 01:57:26 pm

Quote from: nkotb on May 21, 2025, 01:22:25 pm

Gerry Connolly,

I will say, I am happy we had Gerry as he helped create a great Fairfax bike trail that I have spent much time in the last few years exploring
https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/trails/cross-county-trail
a trail over 40 miles long connecting the entire county from one end to the other -- the Gerry Connolly Cross County Trail (GCCCT of Fairfax County, Virginia.)

thanks Gerry for leading the cause on this

Quote from: hutch on May 21, 2025, 01:48:09 pm

It’s not as if his district is competitive and a MAGA has a chance

Democratic Stronghold: The 11th district is located in the affluent suburbs of Northern Virginia, encompassing much of Fairfax County, and has a strong Democratic lean.
he won the seat by 34 percentage points in his last election

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on May 21, 2025, 03:41:27 pm

Right...so he could've easily stepped aside!

Quote from: hutch on May 21, 2025, 01:48:09 pm

It’s not as if his district is competitive and a MAGA has a chance

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on May 21, 2025, 10:11:50 pm

Jim Irsay son of alcoholic piece of shit Robert Irsay.

Now who is gonna overpay for all the iconic music memorabilia?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 22, 2025, 12:01:11 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on May 21, 2025, 10:11:50 pm

Jim Irsay son of alcoholic piece of shit Robert Irsay.

Now who is gonna overpay for all the iconic music memorabilia?

Spoken like a true Baltimore Colts fan!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on May 22, 2025, 07:03:22 am

Truth

Quote from: hutch on May 22, 2025, 12:01:11 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on May 21, 2025, 10:11:50 pm
Jim Irsay son of alcoholic piece of shit Robert Irsay.

Now who is gonna overpay for all the iconic music memorabilia?

Spoken like a true Baltimore Colts fan!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on May 22, 2025, 09:44:21 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on May 22, 2025, 07:03:22 am

Truth

Quote from: hutch on May 22, 2025, 12:01:11 am
Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on May 21, 2025, 10:11:50 pm
Jim Irsay son of alcoholic piece of shit Robert Irsay.

Now who is gonna overpay for all the iconic music memorabilia?

Spoken like a true Baltimore Colts fan!

2,100

Where did he touch you?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on May 22, 2025, 09:53:50 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on May 21, 2025, 10:11:50 pm

Jim Irsay son of alcoholic piece of shit Robert Irsay.

Now who is gonna overpay for all the iconic music memorabilia?

could care less about football, but the second line piqued me

the Jim Irsay Collection, featured iconic items such as:

Guitars:
Kurt Cobain’s Fender Mustang from the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video ($4.6 million)
Jerry Garcia’s custom “Tiger” guitar, played at his final Grateful Dead show
Bob Dylan’s guitar from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where Dylan famously “went electric” ($965,000)
David Gilmour’s black Fender Stratocaster ($3.9 million)
George Harrison’s Gibson SG used on The Beatles’ Revolver album ($567,000)
Ringo Starr’s bass drum from The Beatles’ 1964 Ed Sullivan Show debut ($2 million), and his first Ludwig drum kit ($2.2 million)

seems like the Dylan one he got for a bargain
found in an attic! Dylan tried to get it back unsuccessfully https://www.guitarworld.com/features/bob-dylan-newport-folk-festival-fender-stratocaster

more info here https://www.jimirsaycollection.com/
even did a tour that made a stop in DC in 2021

this one is classic tho
(https://collection.jimirsaycollection.com/internal/media/dispatcher/923/full)
This bass, and its matching fur guitar, were used in the music video ZZ Top's single "Legs" from their album Eliminator (1983).

this is cool and bizarre, but could see appealing to the ticket keepers on the board
tickets (2) to Ford's Theatre from the night of Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination
(https://collection.jimirsaycollection.com/internal/media/dispatcher/1117/full)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on May 22, 2025, 11:58:21 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on May 21, 2025, 10:11:50 pm

Jim Irsay son of alcoholic piece of shit Robert Irsay.

Now who is gonna overpay for all the iconic music memorabilia?

Oh man, I got invited by a friend to one of the concerts he had put together with his "band"...the whole thing was surreal. Kenny Aronoff and Mike Mills and Ann Wilson were performing. Tons of memorabilia, then the "concert" portion involved Irsay coming out and "singing" (my favorite part was when the roadie had to keep checking for the appropriate swivel on the hightop chair he sat on while he was singing)...but there was this video that interrupted the music. It was on some screen behind the band and it was of Irsay, in a hotel room, with some voluptuous gal (who I believe was also a backup singer). In the video she kept asking him "what's wrong Jimmy? Jimmy are you OK?" and he was gazing into a fireplace in the hotel room. Meanwhile he was "singing" something (not reminiscent of the Stooges mind you) and it was something like "this is NO FUN...there's no more FUN...this isn't FUN". My friend was like "what the FUCK are we watching?" and at that point we left. It was really, really odd.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 22, 2025, 12:01:41 pm

Quote from: bearman🐻 on May 22, 2025, 11:58:21 am

Oh man, I got invited by a friend to one of the concerts he had put together with his "band"...the whole thing was surreal. Kenny Aronoff and Mike Mills and Ann Wilson were performing. Tons of memorabilia, then the "concert" portion involved Irsay coming out and "singing" (my favorite part was when the roadie had to keep checking for the appropriate swivel on the hightop chair he sat on while he was singing)...but there was this video that interrupted the music. It was on some screen behind the band and it was of Irsay, in a hotel room, with some voluptuous gal (who I believe was also a backup singer). In the video she kept asking him "what's wrong Jimmy? Jimmy are you OK?" and he was gazing into a fireplace in the hotel room. Meanwhile he was "singing" something (not reminiscent of the Stooges mind you) and it was something like "this is NO FUN...there's no more FUN...this isn't FUN". My friend was like "what the FUCK are we watching?" and at that point we left. It was really, really odd.

This story is amazing. A++

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 22, 2025, 01:53:17 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 21, 2025, 05:02:11 am

Pope Francis
https://www.cnn.com/webview/world/live-news/pope-francis-death-04-21-25

this just in from the Vatican Cardinal sweetcell Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church has been relieved of his duties and deported back to Canada

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 22, 2025, 03:23:46 pm

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on May 22, 2025, 01:53:17 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on April 21, 2025, 05:02:11 am
Pope Francis
https://www.cnn.com/webview/world/live-news/pope-francis-death-04-21-25

this just in from the Vatican Cardinal sweetcell Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church has been relieved of his duties and deported back to Canada

Man, I think if anyone was bookmaking over this, they would've assumed I was the first one getting excommunicated. Could have made a ton with a "FIELD" wager.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 25, 2025, 09:02:27 pm

Phil Robertson. At least we still have Dr. Phil.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 25, 2025, 09:10:06 pm

I wish we didn’t. What a creep.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 26, 2025, 07:22:00 pm

Charles Rangel

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 26, 2025, 10:28:36 pm

Awh man I loved the way he talked…what a character

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 27, 2025, 01:45:30 pm

Rick Derringer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 27, 2025, 05:32:02 pm

“La Bruja” Verón

QEPD

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on May 28, 2025, 10:15:49 am

Didn't realize Derringer was in The McCoys. Also didn't realize he turned into a conservative Christian Maga. I don't feel so bad anymore.

Quote from: hutch on May 27, 2025, 01:45:30 pm

Rick Derringer

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 28, 2025, 10:21:26 am

Just for his producer role on Weird Al Yankovic’s “Eat it” he should have been in the inaugural Rock and roll hall of fame class.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on May 28, 2025, 11:04:02 am

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on May 28, 2025, 10:15:49 am

Didn't realize Derringer was in The McCoys. Also didn't realize he turned into a conservative Christian Maga. I don't feel so bad anymore.

Quote from: hutch on May 27, 2025, 01:45:30 pm
Rick Derringer

Well, at least he's in heaven now.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 29, 2025, 03:56:58 pm

Al Foster

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 29, 2025, 05:10:15 pm

James Lowe - lead singer for the Electric Prunes

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on May 29, 2025, 09:29:12 pm

Terry Draper drummer for Klaatu

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on May 30, 2025, 09:26:56 am

I remember when Klaatu was supposedly the reunited Beatles.

Quote from: kosmo vinyl on May 29, 2025, 09:29:12 pm

Terry Draper drummer for Klaatu

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on May 30, 2025, 09:40:13 am

Wait, they weren’t?!?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 30, 2025, 03:52:26 pm

Hotlips Houlihan

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 30, 2025, 03:53:17 pm

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: shemptiness on May 30, 2025, 04:32:34 pm

Quote from: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on May 30, 2025, 03:52:26 pm

Hotlips Houlihan

The TV show one, not the OG

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 31, 2025, 07:40:03 pm

Étienne-Émile Baulieu.

A great friend and a real G. This guy kept me out of a jam on more than one occasion.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 02, 2025, 10:05:41 am

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on May 31, 2025, 07:40:03 pm

Étienne-Émile Baulieu.

A great friend and a real G. This guy kept me out of a jam on more than one occasion.

LoL

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 02, 2025, 11:58:13 am

John Brenkus

If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, remember that help is available. You can call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, or chat with a counselor online at 988Lifeline.org. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) also offers a free, confidential HelpLine for support and resources.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 02, 2025, 09:30:02 pm

John Barleycorn.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 02, 2025, 09:50:51 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 02, 2025, 09:30:02 pm

John Barleycorn.

must die

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 02, 2025, 10:15:00 pm

Quote from: Blasphemer-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 02, 2025, 09:50:51 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 02, 2025, 09:30:02 pm
John Barleycorn.
must die

Edit: John Redcorn

At least we still have Korn. Or do we not?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 02, 2025, 10:22:49 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 02, 2025, 10:15:00 pm

Quote from: Blasphemer-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 02, 2025, 09:50:51 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on June 02, 2025, 09:30:02 pm
John Barleycorn.
must die

Edit: John Redcorn

At least we still have Korn. Or do we not?

Can confirm: would rather listen to Korn than sit thru an episode of King of the Hill, a show with zero likeable characters.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 03, 2025, 08:15:24 am

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 02, 2025, 10:22:49 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 02, 2025, 10:15:00 pm
Quote from: Blasphemer-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 02, 2025, 09:50:51 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on June 02, 2025, 09:30:02 pm
John Barleycorn.
must die

Edit: John Redcorn

At least we still have Korn. Or do we not?
Can confirm: would rather listen to Korn than sit thru an episode of King of the Hill, a show with zero likeable characters.

Yet you keep coming back to this forum every day!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 03, 2025, 08:38:16 am

Quote from: Space Freely on June 03, 2025, 08:15:24 am

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 02, 2025, 10:22:49 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on June 02, 2025, 10:15:00 pm
Quote from: Blasphemer-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 02, 2025, 09:50:51 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on June 02, 2025, 09:30:02 pm
John Barleycorn.
must die

Edit: John Redcorn

At least we still have Korn. Or do we not?
Can confirm: would rather listen to Korn than sit thru an episode of King of the Hill, a show with zero likeable characters.

Yet you keep coming back to this forum every day!

Ok, that was a quality burn, not HOF worthy, but quality

and FTR, his work on P&R was fantastic
https://youtu.be/i9G2wv2XsKA?si=_WRio9nsRYhwXQGW

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: bearman🐻 on June 03, 2025, 09:30:18 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VwUPNW58Bw
This scene actually always cracked me up...Bobby Hill had some good moments.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 03, 2025, 02:17:58 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 02, 2025, 10:15:00 pm

Quote from: Blasphemer-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 02, 2025, 09:50:51 pm
Quote from: Space Freely on June 02, 2025, 09:30:02 pm
John Barleycorn.
must die

Edit: John Redcorn

At least we still have Korn. Or do we not?

Damn, check out the personal section on his Wiki page. What s tough year.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 03, 2025, 03:26:24 pm

Colin Jerwood frontman for UK punk band Conflict.

not sure I know much about Conflict but apparently they were held in the same regard as CRASS.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 04, 2025, 08:24:20 am

Edmund White

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 07, 2025, 01:12:49 am

https://www.taosnews.com/tempo/piano-man-extraordinaire-bob-andrews-crosses-the-bridge/article_b98bb247-d9ec-50f6-a407-472a74b4b89e.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawKv4FVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFwcmZTZ09QajVONnJXQUhlAR5QqJUFLfEFVgTrWKeUJAjeXtw_VyAPbfnHHjX_svgzOg1wwWi0CPOqJeKSow_aem_BONhXvd4jUX50iNUzQhmXA

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 09, 2025, 03:42:23 pm

Sly Stone

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 09, 2025, 04:10:21 pm

Quote from: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 09, 2025, 03:42:23 pm

Sly Stone

admittedly, i thought he died years ago.

At least we still have Sharon Stone

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 09, 2025, 04:20:25 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 09, 2025, 04:10:21 pm

Quote from: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 09, 2025, 03:42:23 pm
Sly Stone

admittedly, i thought he died years ago.

At least we still have Sharon Stone

We also still have Joss Stone.

And Sly Stallone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 09, 2025, 06:31:05 pm

What’s the Frank Stallone situation? Who can update me?

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 09, 2025, 07:36:00 pm

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 09, 2025, 06:31:05 pm

What’s the Frank Stallone situation? Who can update me?

He is far from over!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on June 09, 2025, 07:51:07 pm

Well everything but his career.

Quote from: hutch on June 09, 2025, 07:36:00 pm

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 09, 2025, 06:31:05 pm
What’s the Frank Stallone situation? Who can update me?

He is far from over!

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 10, 2025, 11:44:52 am

Jonathan Mayers

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 10, 2025, 12:22:34 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 10, 2025, 11:44:52 am

Jonathan Mayers

Bonnaroo co-founder dies one day before festival begins
51
no cause of death announced

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 10, 2025, 12:24:34 pm

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 09, 2025, 06:31:05 pm

What’s the Frank Stallone situation? Who can update me?

nothing new, but did you see his biopic
In 2021, a documentary titled "Stallone: Frank, That Is"

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 10, 2025, 12:42:33 pm

Quote from: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 10, 2025, 12:22:34 pm

Quote from: Yada on June 10, 2025, 11:44:52 am
Jonathan Mayers
Bonnaroo co-founder dies one day before festival begins
51
no cause of death announced

I don't mean to be that guy (my wife accuses me of being autistic when I make what she deems unnecessary corrections), but I think it actually starts in two days (Thursday.)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 10, 2025, 03:41:07 pm

Well that guy, unfortunately is dead, so I hope you are not him

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 11, 2025, 12:52:45 pm

Brian Wilson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on June 11, 2025, 01:15:40 pm

Fuck.

Quote from: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 11, 2025, 12:52:45 pm

Brian Wilson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 11, 2025, 02:04:50 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on June 11, 2025, 01:15:40 pm

Fuck.

Quote from: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 11, 2025, 12:52:45 pm
Brian Wilson

Can't wait until someone shows up and announces he's 82 and therefore you're stupid for having any feelings about an old person who lived a full life passing away.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on June 11, 2025, 02:11:24 pm

It's not tragic or unforeseen. It's just sad.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 11, 2025, 02:18:17 pm

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on June 11, 2025, 02:11:24 pm

It's not tragic or unforeseen. It's just sad.

With each of our hero's passings, our own mortality comes more into view. Yes, sad is the right word.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on June 11, 2025, 03:46:19 pm

BREAKING: Beach Boys singer Mike Love tearfully announces he will no longer be able to sue Brian Wilson.

From internets.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: nkotb on June 11, 2025, 03:52:01 pm

Wrong Beach Boy died IMO

Quote from: Cock Van Der Palm on June 11, 2025, 03:46:19 pm

BREAKING: Beach Boys singer Mike Love tearfully announces he will no longer be able to sue Brian Wilson.

From internets.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Mobius on June 11, 2025, 08:25:18 pm

Quote from: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 09, 2025, 03:42:23 pm

Sly Stone

I’m thinking back to watching Woodstock on PBS as a kid, Saturday night pledge drive centerpiece. The Sly and the Family Stone set. Magical. Truly transcendent. Perfect moment in time.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Yada on June 11, 2025, 08:50:18 pm

Amanda Lewis

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 11, 2025, 09:01:34 pm

Sly was amazing on many levels but he burnt out so fast…and then he was gone…

I am no expert but he seemed to embody a post racial peace and love vibe and hope better than anyone.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 11, 2025, 09:43:20 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 11, 2025, 09:01:34 pm

he seemed to embody a post racial peace and love vibe and hope better than anyone.

100%
he was really on to something...

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: grateful tagle zuppi pizzaboli on June 11, 2025, 09:45:36 pm

Quote from: vinly-Hatch lııllı|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl on June 11, 2025, 09:43:20 pm

Quote from: hutch on June 11, 2025, 09:01:34 pm
he seemed to embody a post racial peace and love vibe and hope better than anyone.
100%
he was really on to something...

Agree with Mr. Vinly

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 12, 2025, 01:06:32 am

Quote from: Yada on June 11, 2025, 08:50:18 pm

Amanda Lewis

*ananda

(however, a buddy of mine is married to an amanda lewis)

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: kosmo vinyl on June 12, 2025, 06:30:41 am

Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas McCarthy

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Space Freely on June 12, 2025, 03:44:47 pm

Chris Robinson

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 12, 2025, 04:47:35 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 12, 2025, 03:44:47 pm

Chris Robinson

Let me save everyone a Google submission: Space is, of course, listing a soap opera actor from decades ago, and giving no context so you’ll default to the Black Crowes guy in your head. He will soon defend this as “not troll behavior” for reasons that we shall soon learn.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 12, 2025, 04:49:38 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 12, 2025, 03:44:47 pm

Chris Robinson

At least we still have Chris Robinson.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 12, 2025, 04:49:49 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 12, 2025, 03:44:47 pm

Chris Robinson

At least we still have Tim Robinson.

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: sweetcell on June 12, 2025, 04:54:57 pm

Quote from: Julian, Hyperpop SLUTFUCK on June 12, 2025, 04:49:49 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 12, 2025, 03:44:47 pm
Chris Robinson
At least we still have Tim Robinson.

we'll always have christopher robin

Title: Re: Dropping Like Flies
Post by: hutch on June 12, 2025, 08:48:03 pm

Quote from: Space Freely on June 12, 2025, 03:44:47 pm

Chris Robinson

Automatic RED card. No need for VAR check.

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