Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese WW2 soldier to surrender (after three decades in the jungle).http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25772192
― Madchen, Friday, 17 January 2014 08:12 (ten years ago) link
the dude was insane
― nostormo, Friday, 17 January 2014 12:31 (ten years ago) link
he and similar men inspired many pop culture gags, incl an episode of... Gilligan's Island
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 January 2014 12:59 (ten years ago) link
> the last Japanese WW2 soldier to surrender
that article says there was another one found a few months later
"Mr Onoda was one of the last Japanese soldiers to surrender at the end of World War II.
Private Teruo Nakamura, a soldier from Taiwan who served in the Japanese army, was found growing crops alone on the Indonesian island of Morotai in December 1974."
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:01 (ten years ago) link
a soldier from Taiwan who served in the Japanese army
not Japanese then
― cis het boy (onimo), Friday, 17 January 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
says he was 'from taiwan', doesn't say he was taiwanese. 8)
(and that is a japanese name, not a taiwanese name)
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:30 (ten years ago) link
( drat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Nakamura )
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
( This article is about the soldier. For the jazz bassist, see Teruo Nakamura (musician). For the golfer, see Teruo Nakamura (golfer). )
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
Does it honestly matter, Andy?
― Madchen, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
"calling out a dude by his real name when shit gets heated" thread, RIP 2010 (iirc)
― cis het boy (onimo), Friday, 17 January 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
no, was just interesting reading about it all.
― koogs, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
the brainwash effect of an extreme disciplinary culture
― nostormo, Friday, 17 January 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/16/travis-jackson-points-drummer-and-windian-records-founder-killed-in-collision/
punky and garage-rock sounds drummer and label owner
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 January 2014 15:06 (ten years ago) link
Lord McAlpine: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25792289
― ailsa, Saturday, 18 January 2014 12:38 (ten years ago) link
I'm not sure I can believe that until Sally Bercow tweets about it.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Saturday, 18 January 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
Ha, I expect there are a million twitterers with their fingers poised thinking "hmmm, can I?".
― ailsa, Saturday, 18 January 2014 12:46 (ten years ago) link
A "dedicated supporter of Margaret Thatcher and the Tory party". RIP out of the question then.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 January 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72372000/jpg/_72372821_komla-foa.jpg
Komla Dumor, BBC news presenter, 41 heart attack, unexpected.
― Mark G, Saturday, 18 January 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
Claudio Abbado:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/20/conductor-claudio-abbado-dies-aged-80
One of the best Italian conductors of the modern era.
― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Monday, 20 January 2014 12:09 (ten years ago) link
Steven Fromholz:
http://www.austin360.com/weblogs/austin-music-source/2014/jan/19/steven-fromholz-ground-breaking-austin-songwriter-/
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 January 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
Former NY Congressman Otis Pike
He went to school with my grandmother, and his daughter was my mother's classmate.
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 20 January 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/23/alexandros-alexi-petersen-gentleman-scholar-and-punk-rocker/
Killed in Kabul, Afghanistan in a Taliban attack on a restaurant
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 January 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
This one is more for Chicago folks than anybody...
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2014/01/rip-luis-alcala.html
Luis Alcala, founder and proprietor of the Midwest's largest Western wear emporium, Alcala's Ropa Para Caballeros.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 27 January 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
RIP Señor Alcala. I used to live around the block from his store.
― kate78, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
I've been to Chicago a lot but never was at Alcala's until the last time, that place ruled so much. Someday I'll buy a full ensemble - boots, hat, cowboy suit, scorpion belt buckle, the works.
― joygoat, Monday, 27 January 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
The scorpion belt buckle may be the single most indelible image of that amazing place.
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
A scorpion is on their logo and their sign.
― kate78, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
Oh man I forgot about that, of course. Doesn't the tail move back and forth?
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 01:22 (ten years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 06:48 (ten years ago) link
fuck
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 06:57 (ten years ago) link
94 though... that's a hell of a run.
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 07:15 (ten years ago) link
I don't know that 94 ever calls for "fuck."
Saw him with Arlo G at Carnegie Hall once -- and also on the subway, with his guitar and a bass-fiddle sideman.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 12:15 (ten years ago) link
i can say fuck if I want to, what are you the fuck police wait nvm
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
Luis Avalos, whom is you are old enough you knew on the Electric Company. http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-passings-20140128,0,7327295.story#axzz2rioIStVx
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
aw
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlgiritpmfo
Que en paz descanse
― Wild Mountain Armagideon Thyme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
(Psst: wrong show, wrong Luis.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c53Tz2981KQ
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-aS8IcrR3k
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Noooooo
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 30 January 2014 04:35 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/30/ibrahima-sylla
RIP at 57. Producer of Orchestre Baobab, Salif Keita, Africando and others. Worked on a number of projects that fused Cuban and West African sounds.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
The Mighty Hannibal
http://www.spin.com/#articles/the-mighty-hannibal-dead-74-funk-soul-james-shaw/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6si2esZc2k
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2014 03:42 (ten years ago) link
RIP. You didn't go to that thing at Joe's Pub a few years ago, did you Morbius?
― Wild Mountain Armagideon Thyme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 January 2014 04:58 (ten years ago) link
This thing: http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,4518Where they showed this: http://vimeo.com/6982727
― Wild Mountain Armagideon Thyme (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 31 January 2014 05:00 (ten years ago) link
Close friends with one o those gals, i know theyre tore up about this
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 January 2014 06:55 (ten years ago) link
no, Redd. I could swear I saw TMH play somewhere once though.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2014 12:34 (ten years ago) link
http://clatl.com/cribnotes/archives/2014/01/30/the-mighty-hannibal-rip
Another obit for him
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:17 (ten years ago) link
Miklós Jancsó, prize-winning Hungarian film director (The Red and the White, Red Psalm)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-miklos-jancso-1921-2014
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
Paul Warhola, Andy Warhol's older brother.
― Artichoke, Badger, Cornflower, Daisy (doo dah), Saturday, 1 February 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
Oscar winner Maximilian Schell... apparently directed quite a few decent things, and his Dietrich doc Marlene (an interview in which she refused to be filmed) is my favorite thing he did.
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-maximilian-schell-1930-2014
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 February 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link