Donna Summer! Holy Shit.
http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/17/11745326-donna-summer-dead-at-63
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
:(
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
Carlos Fuenteshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18081034
RIP, Carlos
And RIP, Donna Summer. Man, Booker T was right.
― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
from wfmu's twitter stream:
Pete Seeger, Iconic Songwriter, Found Resting Under Tree Near NY Home: 93Yr-Old Folk Legend Was Serene, Tranquil
so far that's the only mention i've seen. i hope it doesn't mean what i think it means.
― get wolves (get bent), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Sure it wasn't the Onion?
― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
nonononono
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I hope that's doesn't mean what I think it means either
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
WFMU @WFMU@clemmusic No, Pete Seeger was just resting. Hes 93, but for the most part he is perfectly OK. Some rheumatism. A bit of arthritis.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
thank goodness
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
strange thing to report tho? "pete seeger still alive, napping"
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
A variation of the old SNL Franco bit
― Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
― mookieproof, Friday, 18 May 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
Never really got into the Rock And Roll Heaven iconography genre but if somebody made one of those with Duck Dunn, Andrew Love, Levon Helm, Skip Pitts and Donna Summer I would totally use it as a screensaver.
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 May 2012 11:46 (twelve years ago) link
Robin Gibb, apparently.I loved the Bee Gees when I was young :(
― on the road to the twilight zone (doo dah), Sunday, 20 May 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
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― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
noooooo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
I guess we can take comfort in the fact that Spin has provided us with a long list of best guitarists, most of whom won't be going anywhere anytime soon
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
"Jam Master Jay still . . . lives"
― mookieproof, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
aww RIP
― Chris S, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
Score score
― Jeff, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
what a month
― the late great, Monday, 21 May 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
It won't be long before Otis Redding will able to record some new material on Stax Celestial.
― Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 May 2012 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
RIP Led Zeppelin IIhttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-led-zeppelin-ii-dies-0524-20120523,0,1108232.story
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
Love this:
"Since I became Led Zeppelin, my life has improved a thousand fold."
Fuck it. I'm changing my name to In A Silent Way.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
Pathos and lols all at once:
The 64-year-old Zeppelin "climbed the 'Stairway to Heaven'" May 18 at Alton Memorial Hospital, according to a death notice published in newspapers, including the Tribune. He died of a heart attack, his daughter said.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
"I don't want to appear to be some off-the-wall, drug-addict idiot. I just changed my name from the standpoint that I can be a better person than I used to be."
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
i think i actually have a lot of respect for that guy
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
No I do not want to meet your friend named In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, I'm fairly certain I won't like him.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Survived by his wife Custard Pie
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
after reading that article I have formed a short mental list of friends of mine who might be convinced to change their name to "Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game"
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
As of today you can all refer to me as Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
can i call you HOTS for short?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
sure
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
"If he'd become Sabbath Bloody Sabbath instead, he'd have lived to 200" muses Bill Magill
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
But then his soul would belong to Satan.
― nickn, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
worth it imo
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
Hal Jackson, radio personality of 70+ years including pioneering stints at WABC and WBLS, at 96:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/hal-jackson-pioneer-black-radio-dies-96-article-1.1083551
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
paul fussell
― mookieproof, Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
“From the 1950s on,” he wrote in “Doing Battle,” “my presiding emotion was annoyance, often intensifying to virtually disabling anger.”
Patron saint of IA thread?
Somewhere I have Class and BAD. Or at least, I did.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
x-post from the Hal Jackson obit:
"Born in Charleston, S.C., Jackson grew up loving sports and school. He attended Howard University and made his way onto WINX by finding a white company to sponsor him and not telling the station owner who the announcer would be."
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 May 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
Is there an opposite of a RIP thread? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18219795
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Filmmaker Kaneto Shindo (at 100), director of ILX fave Onibaba
http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-kaneto-shindo-1912-2012/
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m527a9FJ0y1qz6f9yo1_r3_500.jpg
rip
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 June 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
RIP Eduard "Mr Trololo" Khil.
― i like slash and i vote (j.lu), Monday, 4 June 2012 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
Dag
― Jeff, Monday, 4 June 2012 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
Ray Bradbury
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
Mars is heaven. RIP
― I don't know what to read so I am reading it here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
Has own RIP thread: R.I.P. Ray Bradbury
i always think it's weird when people post really famous RIPs on this thread when it's pretty certain they're going to get a dedicated RIP thread. or is this thread just supposed to be a comprehensive list of dead celebs? i guess i don't understand what this thread is for.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:57 (twelve years ago) link