Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Fuck. to get pancreatitis from drinking too much in your mid-20s seems insane to me. Really sad

I've not seen it, but Netflix had a new documentary about him out a couple of weeks ago? I saw the press release at the time, and it said something about how those close to him sometimes feared he'd be a member of the "club of 27" (dying at 27 like Joplin, Cobain etc).

So then the doc has a happy ending.

jeez louise eric 😳

This will add an undeserved poignancy to 'I Took A Pill In Ibiza'

I follow some Swedish news Twitter accounts because I'm studying the language, and there are comments coming out from the Swedish prime minister and the crown prince and princess and people like that - this is like a full-on national tragedy, it seems.

rip aviici

I'm like 7 months older than he was, it's almost unfathomable to me that in the same time I've been alive, someone else managed to become an incredibly successful performing artist, retire, and (apparently) drink themselves to death. I don't have that much energy.

I have known quite a few people with a boundless energy for the drink and without the distraction of a successful career, who didn't manage to die from it until late 30's/early 40's.

Bix Beiderbecke also managed to drink himself to death at the age of 28, so it's not a unique case

definitely not unique and sometimes other underlying health issues could be a factor.

Considering my own state, I'm in awe at how Avicii managed to die of drinking at 28 tbh. Not in bad faith this, counting every new year as a gift.

a guy from my high school drank himself to death at age 20. it's not impressive.

Seek Brobituary

http://www.tmz.com/2018/04/21/verne-troyer-dead-at-49/

First Ermey, and now Troyer: Bad Week for Guys I Met At Car Shows.

never heard of Avicii, but that's very sad

one should also take in account that Avicii probably didn't sleep much, if he did 800 dj gigs a year at some point. (i mean this combined with excessive alcohol use)

Pamela Gidley, who played Teresa Banks in twin peaks: fire walk with me

oh whoa. RIP

oh no

i am extremely saddened by that. i kind of knew her briefly, though we hadn't talked in an extremely long time. probably since 2005 or something. RIP Pamela...you were a very decent person.

Bob Dorough:

https://www.thewrap.com/bob-dorough-schoolhouse-rock-dies/

Oh :(

I'd never heard of Bob Dorough until I (tried to) read John French's book about his time with Captain Beefheart where he says Beefheart was a fan of his and used to play his records to the band

Norwegian pop art artist Terje Brofos, aka Hariton Pushwagner.

I can't find an article in English as yet, but here's one in Norwegian https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/3jgGBM/Pushwagner-er-dod

https://morgenbladet.no/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/legacy_images/MO200610102240041AR.jpg?itok=bUlu2Rqd

It nearly always registers a bit when these notable people younger than me die, but looking up Verne Troyer at Wikipedia caused an extra level of memento mori, in that he was apparently born on the exact same day as me.

Rick Dickison, who designed the ZX Spectrum keyboard for Sinclair

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/tech/industrial-designer-rick-dickinson-passes-away/1/

Dickinson, rather.

Charles Neville passed away today at age 79. Charles was the second oldest of the four brothers who formed the core of the Neville Brothers. #RestInPeace https://t.co/ulqwsNaBI9

— NOLA Jazz Museum (@nolajazzmuseum) April 26, 2018

Nelson Pereira dos Santos, a key figure in Brazil’s Cinema Novo of the 1960s and 70s, has passed away at the age of eighty-nine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/obituaries/nelson-pereira-dos-santos-89-dies-lifted-brazilian-film.html

‘The Frenchman was tasty’ or whatever it was called, I remember liking. Not sure if I’ve seen anything else.

Believe it is usually translated as How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, but yeah

I don't remember that one very well, but I liked his debut Rio 40 Degrees (or 100 if you're Fahrenheit).

Shah Marai, the chief photographer here for Agence France-Presse, and seven journalists from local TV and radio stations. Six others were among the wounded.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/suicide-bombings-in-kabul-kill-seven-including-a-journalist-rushing-to-the-scene/2018/04/30/88ae0af2-4c31-11e8-b725-92c89fe3ca4c_story.html?utm_term=.89f361ab74fa

KABUL — Just after 8 a.m. Monday, a familiar boom filled the air and rattled windows across the Afghan capital. Local news photographers, reporters and cameramen grabbed their gear and rushed to the scene of the latest suicide bombing in a long and bloody conflict. Though such incidents were never without risk, the journalists were used to covering them — and rather competitive about getting there first.

But about 20 minutes later, when the journalists were gathered watching emergency workers at the bomb site in a high-security official zone, another explosion erupted in their midst. A second suicide bomber, on foot and carrying a press pass and camera, had joined and targeted the very group of people tasked with covering such violence.

https://www.nbcnews.com/slideshow/slain-photojournalist-shah-marai-n870146

Michael Anderson, director of The Dam Busters, Around the World in 80 Days, Logan's Run

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-michael-anderson-obituary-20180428-story.html

So by proxy he directed the last 20 minutes of Star Wars.

Logan's Run is sooooo bad but I love to watch it. The carousel/renewal sequence scared the absolute shit out of me when I was 11.

The martial arts community, in the Washington region and beyond, is mourning the loss of grandmaster Jhoon Rhee. Affectionately known as the "Father of American Taekwondo,” Rhee died Monday morning at age 86.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7PEMGuA6tw

i've never seen The Dam Busters but that will be remedied soon

dj still, who was dj for noise-rap group dalek during the "from filthy tongues..."/"absence" era

https://www.facebook.com/dalekmusic/posts/10156365040039521

Drummer Jabo Starks. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/james-brown-drummer-john-jabo-starks-dead-at-79-w519743

:(((((((((((

Tony Kinman of The Dils, Rank And File, Blackbird
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-tony-kinman-dils-rank-file-obituary-20180503-story.html

critic-filmmaker-Cannes scout Pierre Rissient

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5624-pierre-rissient-man-of-cinema-dies-at-eighty-one

Italian Director Ermanno Olmi

http://variety.com/2018/film/global/ermanno-olmi-dead-dies-tree-of-wooden-clogs-1202800882/amp/

Il Posto is one of my favourite films ever.

George Deukmejian, former California governor (1983-1991)

A strange nonentity from this distance. Governor in my high school into undergrad years, not as overtly hateful as Wilson was later, at least.