betty white died?
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
Dick Clark just HAD to die in 2012. Fuck, maybe the Mayans were right!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Chuck Colson, Nixon-admin detritus. Good fucking riddance.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57418411-503544/former-nixon-aide-chuck-colson-dies-at-80/
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Saturday, 21 April 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Watergate Club in hell nearly complete
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
Don't have a link yet, but the Gram Parsons page on FB is reporting that Chris Etheridge has died.
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
can't find an obit yet but amos vogel reportedly passed away this morning. 'film as a subversive art' was key to my film-fan development (i own 2 copies)
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
more on Vogel... I don't think I've ever seen or heard much about that book. :(
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/amos-vogel-1921-2012
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
it should be in print now (i managed to get a copy off the street from one of the back-of-the-truck booksellers in front of NYU when it wasn't)
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
Pete Fornatale, pioneering deejay at WNEW-FM
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/arts/music/pete-fornatale-a-pioneer-of-fm-rock-dies-at-66.html
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 April 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
david weiss of fischli/weiss
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2012-04-27/david-weiss-of-fischliweiss-has-died/
― madame boo berry (donna rouge), Friday, 27 April 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
This guy was probably going to win Olympic gold this year. :( http://espn.go.com/olympics/swimming/story/_/id/7876459/swimming-world-champ-alexander-dale-oen-norway-dies-arizona-26
― Roz, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
"Skip" Pitts, guitarist on the Isleys' "It's Your Thing" and Hayes' "Theme from Shaft".
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/may/01/stax-music-great-charles-skip-pitts-dies/
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
Don't know if this was noted elsewhere, but Greg Ham, sax/flute player for Men At Work, died a few days ago.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/greg-ham-dies-found-dead-men-at-work-flute-player-314266
― nickn, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
"Skip" Pitts? Oh no. RIP
― Stars on 45 Fell on Alabama (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man, RIP Junior Seau.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/sports/football/junior-seau-famed-nfl-linebacker-dies-at-43-in-apparent-suicide.html?_r=1&hp#
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
oh, as usual I didn't find the other thread: nfl offseason transactions, fired coaches, general nonsense 2012
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
whoa fuck!
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
Adam Yauch...
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
George Lindsey aka Goober Pylehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blQrIySidOA
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 6 May 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
funnier than Gomer IMO
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 May 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
Absolutely.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 7 May 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
RIP Meow
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 7 May 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
Alligator Records says Arkansas bluesman Michael "Iron Man" Burks has died after collapsing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He was 54.
The record label says Burks collapsed Sunday after returning from a European tour. He was pronounced dead at an Atlanta hospital. A spokesman for the record label says Burks died of a heart attack.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
Maurice Sendak ;_;
― on the road to the twilight zone (doo dah), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
Damn. RIP, Maurice.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
oh no
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
if you don't look good (or if you do), he don't look good
http://thelook.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/09/11621751-famed-hairstylist-vidal-sassoon-dead-at-age-84?lite
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons1/300/3001837/14_2009/1a/Vidal_Sassoon.jpg
"You didn't pay them for that, did you?"
― clemenza, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/pixel.gif
― caro's johnson (Eazy), Thursday, 10 May 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
actress Joyce Redman, best remembered for her Tom Jones eating sceme with Albert Finney.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18013687
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
Mort Lindsey, bandleader of Judy at Carnegie Hall and The Merv Griffin Show:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/arts/music/mort-lindsey-musical-director-dies-at-89.html
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Carroll Shelby, racer and car builder
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 May 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
Thought he'd already died. Hm.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 May 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
well, he's dead now.
― ♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 12 May 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago) link
Perhaps more to the point, I finally get onto the Dead Pool scoreboard.
― Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 12 May 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
Filipino comics artist Tony DeZuniga -- http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/05/10/tony-dezuniga-r-i-p/
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Saturday, 12 May 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
Donald "Duck" Dunn, Stax legend, bass player for Booker T & The MGs
http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/cropper.jpg
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 May 2012 06:20 (twelve years ago) link
Oh holy shit noooooo
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Sunday, 13 May 2012 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
:((((((tried in vain to find the scene from blues bros where he says "[incomprehensible garble] to go piss on some gasoline" or something
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Sunday, 13 May 2012 08:57 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBnLgNmB1eM
― how's life, Sunday, 13 May 2012 08:59 (twelve years ago) link
you are a star
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Sunday, 13 May 2012 09:10 (twelve years ago) link
"We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline."
― get wolves (get bent), Sunday, 13 May 2012 10:40 (twelve years ago) link
An amazing bass player and a fantastic guy. If you only know the Blues Brothers, go here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/32187
― Three Word Username, Sunday, 13 May 2012 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
:(
― The Unbassful Serpent (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 May 2012 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
ah hell. RIP Duck Dunn.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 13 May 2012 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
didn't see the talk here before i started a thread. well, he deserves his own.
― arby's, Sunday, 13 May 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/chuck-brown-dies-the-godfather-of-go-go-was-75/2012/05/16/gIQAJAfPUU_story_1.html
RIP Godfather of Go-go Chuck Brown. Will treasure your gogo and your jazz sounds and your warm presentation
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 May 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
Hailed as the President of DC in today's Washington Post
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
wouldn't argue with that at all.
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link