Things You Just Don't Care About

and for people who died a long time ago it just seems really silly. "Irving Berlin would have been 150 today...."

I actually like doing those. I usually go with something like "Mozart would have been 400 today, had he lived."

brb gonna listen to "Suspicions"

mozart is like a famous anniversary guy though. there are genuinely famous death dates.

Eh, I don't really mind the dead-person birthday thing. It's the dead-person deathiversary thing that I don't really get, mainly when it's not a round number. I saw a "Charlie Parker died 61 years ago today" post a couple days ago and though, hmmm, maybe save it for his birthday. Or just post "I'm listening to Charlie Parker today." Doesn't have to be because he died an odd number of years ago.

yeah, i don't like those either. death days are sad.

plus, does anyone even remember the day that someone died? do they have a celebdeathapp on their phone?

I always remember when they died more than their birthday.

Like Mel Tormé. He was ... early June of 1999? I remember I was on a roadtrip and it was around the time of the Preakness. Who knows when his birthday was, except maybe Harry Anderson.

June 5, 1999! See, I did remember.

i'm pretty sure i only remember john lennon and princess di. lennon in december because it was john lennon and i remember what month it was for pete's sake. princess di was august which i remember because it was the last time i ever saw my sister alive.

that's about it though.

wait a minute, keith emerson was trolled to death? keith emerson was killed by keith emerson jokes? okay, this i might actually care enough to read about.

Jesus Christ, someone on my facebook timeline wished John Cazale a happy birthday over the weekend. "R.I.P. Gone too soon."

best tribute headline by the way: *Keith Emerson's playing was in stark contrast to my troglodyte brutality*

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/mar/14/bad-seeds-james-sclavunos-keith-emerson-lake-palmer-elp

does anyone even remember the day that someone died?

Yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bereavement_in_Judaism#Annual_remembrances

"Yahrtzeit, יאָרצײַט, means "Time (of) Year" in Yiddish... The word is used by Yiddish speaking Jews, and refers to the anniversary of the day of death of a relative. Yahrtzeit literally means "time of [one] year". It is widely observed, and based on the Jewish tradition that mourners are required to commemorate the death of a relative... The Yahrtzeit usually falls annually on the Hebrew date of the deceased relative's death according to the Hebrew calendar. "

i didn't even know that keith emerson shot himself...i just saw tarkus youtubes on my facebook.

Outic, i made the friend and family exception up above. i know that people mourn their dead. and remember them.

although now i kinda do want to post a picture of bea arthur on my facebook every may 13 (her birthday) and april 25 (her deathday).

oh sorry didn't see that

bea arthur belonged to us all

two days til Jerry Lewis's 90th, fans

https://ww2vintagepinupgirl.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/bea-arthur-marine.jpg

will be sad when rickles goes. jerry not so much. though i do love jerry.

Next year's Bowie remembrances should be interesting for their timing.

"Happy 70th! ... two days later... can't believe it's been a year!"

happy birthday to al jaffee, by the way. 95 yesterday.

RIP our beloved Rozz Williams. April 1 will be the eighteenth anniversary of your all-too-soon departure from us.

oddly enough the anniversary of julius caesar's death in 44 BC is currently trending on facebook

"authoritarianism" as if this is a new thing

john oliver

oh what are you talking about? You're not woke yet to J.O.?

http://i.imgur.com/uARhg0A.jpg
Here's how John Oliver blows the lid off of high tuition costs!

http://i.imgur.com/vNpU3Rp.jpg
You're never going to think about the U.S. Patent Office the same way after this John Oliver explosion!

http://i.imgur.com/la0Xy84.jpg
John Oliver lays out how corporate America is profiting from your desires!

I mean, the world changes each time John Oliver goes on a rant!

it's like my eyes have a never-ending supply of wool and he's just yanking it away

lol pplains

20 years of Placebo

Google doodles

People's bitching and moaning about being exposed to dancers and musicians on the subways. New Yorkers act like their personal space is luxury real estate.

Cuba

doping in sports

Madonna

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

strange thing to say in 2016 when few do about her new music

She's currently touring Australia and doing a few local-media-click-baity things along the way.

^^^ exactly, she's all over the Aus media at the moment and I want her to fuck off

gawker

nirvana

well mostly, I have unplugged and in utero and those are good but I don't care about them as like rock legends

global warming

men's tennis

superman and batman

^^ better than the flash at least

the only underoos i ever got were aquaman, so fuck everyone else

aquaman is cool!
hi john.

All superheroes and films about superheroes.