Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

My prayers are with the other Norah Jones.

(Sorry.)

lol

Leslie Cochran, legendary Austin Texas Weirdo

damn, that guy was all over South Congress Ave when I was there 3 years ago.

Jimmy Ellis of the Trammps

Just read that Peter Bergman of the Firesign Theater has died (leukemia).

oh no!

RIP, Mr. Bergman.

Yeah I'm hearing about this as well.

fuck fuck fuck

RIP

Confirmed:

https://www.facebook.com/philip.proctor2/posts/10150620086438752

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150673823910209&id=282668140208

Aw, no. :(

Leonardo Cimino, Obie-winning actor whose films included Moonstruck, Dune, Stardust Memories:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/arts/leonardo-cimino-a-distinctive-actor-dies-at-94.html

Oh bummer. Remember him from V and Moonstruck :(

Yeah, always good to see him pop up in something. That's one long life lived!

And a Normandy landing to boot. That's quite an innings.

Moebius/Jean Giraud

Geez, two of the great sci-fi illustrators of all time in two weeks. ;_;

http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/2012/03/david-doernberg-1967-2012/

Production designer David Doernberg, who brought a sensitive, finely crafted and observant touch to many excellent independent films, died in New York on Friday after a battle with cancer.

Doernberg began his career in the late ’80s/early ’90s working on music videos for bands like Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and Superchunk. He quickly moved into independent features as a propmaster for films by Hal Hartley (Amateur), Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Party Girl) and Eric Schaeffer (If Lucy Fell). Soon after he became a production designer, bookending his career with films by Kelly Reichardt. He designed her 1994 debut film, River of Grass as well as her 2010 period tale of frontier life on the Oregon Trail, Meek’s Cutoff. Other notable credits include Phil Morrison’s Junebug, Alison Maclean’s Jesus’s Son, Morgan J. Freeman’s Desert Blue, Todd Solondz’s Palindromes and Pete Sollett’s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.

I was just looking at Leonard Cimino's imdb entry Friday because he was on a Law and Order rerun.

Bugs Henderson of Mouse & the Traps:

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/10/3800606/bugs-henderson-local-blues-guitar.html

For me, the funniest garage record ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obRy59b21TU

Wow, RIP. Didn't know he was sick.

The story behind "A Public Execution" is pretty funny, and rather Texan. Ronnie "Mouse" Weiss was engaged to this girl who'd moved from Tyler down to Houston. One weekend Weiss' had some cousins from West Texas come in for a visit. One of the cousins was a pretty teenage girl who was seen (near a Dairy Queen or something) riding around with Mouse on his motorcycle (or "two-wheeled pony") by a friend of the fiance. The friend called her up and she wrote Mouse an angry letter ending their relationship.

He wrote the song as a response to the letter, intending to just record it and send her the tape. His producer, Robin Hood Brians, talked him into working it up into the garage standard (and charter Nuggets inclusion) we all know and love today.

Mouse and The Traps actually had a pretty solid and stylistically varied body of work. Big Beat did a real nice comp, The Fraternity Years, back in the 90s.

Tom Murrin, The Alien Comic

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/rip-the-alien-comic_n_1341225.html

RIP, Mouse & the Traps guy

The friend called her up and she wrote Mouse an angry letter ending their relationship. He wrote the song as a response to the letter, intending to just record it and send her the tape.

I feel like "Mouse retreated to his room, dropped acid, and listened to nothing but 'Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?' for two whole weeks" ought to be inserted between those two sentences.

Was-he-or-wasn't-he convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk. His case caused no end of grief among Cleveland's German, Polish, Slovak and Jewish communities.

OMG no way, he's finally dead?!

do not RIP if you are Ivan the Terrible; RIP if this has all been a huge mistake

and i mean HUGE

yeah, his trials have dominated Cleveland news...my whole life?

Richest guy in Thailand and co-founder of Red Bull.

Ulu Grosbard, director of theatre (American Buffalo) and film (Straight Time, True Confessions)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/music/ulu-grosbard-broadway-and-film-director-dies-at-83.html

Tonino Guerra, screenwriter for Antonioni, Fellini, Angelopoulos, Tarkovsky, Rosi

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/tonino-guerra-1920-2012

as mentioned by aero elsewhere, boxing writer Bert Sugar -- would not have guessed he was 'only' 75:

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/story/_/id/7736006/acclaimed-boxing-writer-bert-sugar-dies-cardiac-arrest-75

Just saw that Ulu Grossbard RIP now. Ah well, RIP.

Hilton Kramer:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/arts/design/hilton-kramer-critic-who-championed-modernism-dies-at-84.html?_r=1&ref=arts

adrienne rich, 82

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/03/adrienne-rich.html

really enjoyed the handful of poems of hers i've read, have always meant to investigate her further

oh college lit classes, sigh I loved her for a shining period in my life

v sad

http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm

http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2012/03/28/earl-scruggs-country-music-hall-of-famer-dies-at-age-88/

oh fuck earl scruggs was a titan. rest easy world-changingly great picker.

oh no

I saw him at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass a few years back, he was wonderful

Rich's gazahls are great.

Scruggs and Rich, jammin' in Heaven, I hope.

Was suprised by Adrienne Rich, didnt know she was still with us!

Southern novelist Harry Crews.

Oh booooo that sucks!

Nancy L. Earp, 911 operator who may have talked to the Zodiac killer.

Warren Stevens, character actor who played Doc Ostrow in Forbidden Planet

http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/9036/forbidden-planets-warren-stevens-dies-at-92.html

Sorry for your loss, Dr. Morbius.

according to a FB friend, jamaa fanaka passed away (can't find any obits yet tho) - i missed his films in the LA rebellion screening series that just happened here but 'penitentiary' and 'welcome home, brother charles' are considered blaxploitation classics